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American Idol has finally announced who will be joining the judging ranks for Season 12 of the talent competition. Singers Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban will get their chance to crush the Hollywood dreams of hopeful singers, Fox announced Sunday.
Minaj and Urban will fill in the empty seats vacated by Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez who are leaving the show after just two seasons. They will join newcomer Mariah Carey and veteran Randy Jackson (yes, Randy Jackson has been a judge since the beginning of time.)
Another veteran Idoler, Ryan Seacrest, will stay on as host.
"I am thrilled about this year's judges panel," Mike Darnell, Fox president of Alternative Entertainment, told Fox News. "With an unparalleled star like Mariah, fan-favorite Randy, chart-toppers like Nicki and Keith and our incomparable host Ryan, we've put together one of the most exciting judging panels around."
Fox made the announcement only hours before the foursome met to start their first audition session Sunday in New York.
USA Today reports that Idol is hoping that the cast shakeup brings the kind of success it saw when former judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler joined in 2010. Ratings rose for the first time in five seasons, says analyst Brad Adgate of ad firm Horizon Media. The ratings dropped significantly last year.
Adgate told USA Today he expects a ratings boost from an initial curiosity factor. "You have three different musical tastes. I think there's something for everyone," he said.
"Country music is a very popular format (and ) it looks like the show is trying to get younger viewers, because both these new judges have an appeal with younger viewers, particularly Nicki Minaj. (American Idol's) median age has risen every season since 2002, when it was launched."
TMZ reports that it was almost curtains for Randy Jackson but he managed to stay on after contract negotiations failed with Latino singer Enrique Iglesias.


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New Year's resolutions for 50 of the biggest names in baseball
Here are 50 New Year's resolutions I'd like to see.
• The Rangers and Adrian Beltre are in talks, but it doesn't appear that anything has been settled yet, despite a report out of the Dominican Republic Sunday that there was a $96-million, six-year deal in place. The Angels and A's are believed to remain interested, but Texas may be leading at the moment.
• The Rangers would have to move Michael Young to first base, DH or another team if they landed Beltre. They have worked to trade Young, and while the Rockies showed strong interest, Young's $16-million annual salary would have to be mitigated in some way with any acquiring team.
• Word is that the Nationals told Zack Greinke they were prepared to give him a lucrative extension of he agreed to become a National. But Greinke, who was so anxious to win now that he is said to have been even contemplating walking out of Royals camp if it came to that, told Washington it wasn't about the money. Greinke didn't believe the Nats were much more ready to win now than the Royals. He is said to be thrilled to be going to the Brewers, who vastly improved their pitching with Shaun Marcum and Greinke.
• By the end, Greinke told the Royals how badly he wanted out, and they were smart to comply. Kansas City did OK to get what they could. Lorenzo Cain is a budding Mike Cameron type, according to one scout, while Alcides Escobar has potential. The pitchers the Royals received, Jake Odorizzi and Jeremy Jeffress are talented but may not wind up as starters, however, according to scouts.
• Carl Pavano may have helped himself by waiting. While the Nationals really weren't very involved earlier, they may need to overpay Pavano now. The Twins also want Pavano to return to Minnesota, where he has thrived the past two years. His turnaround is said to be so stark that he is seen as a leader inside the Twins clubhouse. He is also easily the best pitcher remaining on the free-agent market who has no injury question (though there are still a few other decent ones, like Bruce Chen, Freddy Garcia, Brad Penny, Chris Young, Jeff Francis and Kevin Millwood). In addition to the Twins and Nationals, there are thought to be at least one or two other teams looking at Pavano.
• The Yankees are expecting an answer from Andy Pettitte very soon, perhaps even Monday or Tuesday, as to whether their longtime lefty will retire or return for a 17th season. Teammate Mark Teixeira said last week he believed Pettitte was still leaning toward retiring. However, one other friend of Pettitte's said his family is on board for a return and wouldn't be surprised to see Pettitte come back for another year.
• The Yankees are looking for outfield depth and might consider Andruw Jones as well ex-Yankee Johnny Damon.
• Octavio Dotel's $3.5-million Blue Jays deal will be announced soon after he completes the physical.
• The Red Sox are likely out on Brian Fuentes after adding Hideki Okajima. But Fuentes still has 10 teams with varying degrees of interest, including the Yankees and Rays.
• The Rockies are still trying hard to lock up budding superstar Carlos Gonzalez.


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Chris Mooney notes that McKitrick defended Inhofe's claim that "manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated"
I'm not the only one who has found problems with McKitrick's writings on climate. Robert Grumbine has some comments on another McKitrick paper:
He was fooling around with correlating per capita income with the observed temperature changes. He concluded that the warming was a figment of climatologists imaginations, as there was a correlation between money and warming. 'Obviously' this had to be due to wealth creating the warming in the dataset, rather than any climate change—his conclusion.
Along the way he:
- selected a subset of temperature records
- without using a random method
- without paying attention to spatial distribution
- without ensuring that the records were far enough apart to be independant—ok, I shouldn't say 'he' did it, because he didn't. He blindly took a selection that his student made and which was—to my eyes—distributed quite peculiarly.
- Treated the records as being independant (I know William knows this, but for some other folks: Surface temperature records are correlated across fairly substantial distances—a few hundred km. This is what makes paleoreconstructions possible, and what makes it possible to initialize global numerical weather prediction models with so few observations.)
- Ignored that we do expect, and have reason to expect that the warming will be higher in higher latitudes
- Ignored that the wealthy countries are at higher latitudes
Hence my calling it fooling around rather than work or study. He was, he said, submitting that pile of tripe* to a journal.
*pile of tripe being my term, not his.
His main conclusion was regarding climate change—namely that there isn't any. His secondary conclusion was that climate people studying climate data were idiots. Neither of those is a statement of economics, so my knowledge of economics is irrelevant (though, in matter of fact, it is far greater than his knowledge of climate; this says little, as his displayed level doesn't challenge a bright jr. high student.).
Grumbine's correspondence with McKitrick is here


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THE Civilian Conservation Corps has a new objective as it marches forward in its eighth year. It is national defense. Under the impact of chaotic world conditions threatening the security of the United States, the President and Congress have called upon the Corps to take an active part in the prosecution of the huge new national defense program.
For the present the Corps' contribution will come largely through the training of young men in the maintenance and operation of automotive and mechanized equipment, in auto mechanics at central repair shops, in radio communications, and in other civilian activities useful in national defense. Through this program--largely an intensification of the CCC training activities which have been underway for several years--the Corps can provide thousands of men each year to aid industry and the nation in the advancement of the national defense program.
As fast as the needs of industry and the national defense departments are made known, the Corps will modify its present program to comply to the limit of its ability. If industry wants men with special mechanical training in either the automotive or aviation fields, the Corps is prepared to train them. If the national defense department wants specialists in such fields as communications and operation, maintenance and repair of mechanized or automotive equipment, the Corps will train men in these fields. In short, it will be a huge reservoir of trained man-power upon which industry and the national defense services can draw.
In advancing national defense preparations the Corps will continue and intensify its man-building activities. Since it was organized in April, 1933, the Corps has made men out of hundreds of thousands of undernourished, underdeveloped and inexperienced youngsters. In addition to improving the muscular development and the health of young men, the Corps has toughened them physically, taught them work skills, improved their morale, and taught them love and respect for their country and its government. To date more than two million young men have received such training. It has completed a huge amount of conservation work--work which increases the nation's natural resources assets. In addition, it is an operating institution. It has the equipment, the organization, the experience to succeed in any task asked of it.
At this time, so far as we can foresee now, the addition of national defense tasks will not materially interfere with the advancement of the Corps' conservation program. There are many fields in which for seven years it has been contributing to national defense. It trains radio men, mechanics, cooks, truck drivers, operators of tractors and heavy equipment, photographers, drafting clerks, and experts in the handling of explosives for construction work. It teaches men to build roads, stone and wooden structures, to operate surveying instruments, to build bridges and dams and to do a host of other things of the type done by engineer troops in time of war. It teaches them sanitation, personal hygiene, and safety.
What of the Corps' educational and training program? The Corps today is providing practical job training for enrollees while they are at work. It provides an educational adviser, classrooms, shops, and instructors for all enrollees who wish to take advantage of their off-time to improve their education and develop skills.
The goal of every youth who enters the CCC is a job. Our program is centered around the idea of making each youth capable of getting employment. The entire pattern of camp life is directed toward the end of helping the boy find a useful place in society where he can earn his own living. It can and should take advantage of its unusual opportunities to teach these youths how to work, with hand and brain, how to use tools and equipment available in the camps. It should teach them a sense of responsibility for doing good work, permanent, lasting work--and above all, it should teach them to do an honest day's work.
Those of us in charge of CCC policy should be alert to keep our educational and training programs abreast of the times. In this critical period, I feel the Corps should emphasize its training especially with regard to mechanized units of all types. The Corps affords unusual opportunities for training of this character because it operates daily the largest fleet of peacetime motorized units in the world--a fleet in excess of 40,000 units.
This great fleet, with its daily problems of operation, maintenance and repair, presents a chance for practical training which the Corps will use to the fullest advantage. The Corps operates tractors, jackhammers and other mechanical units. It utilizes tools of almost every description. Camp facilities for sanitation, lighting, and water offer additional training advantages.
The Civilian Conservation Corps also should continue to stress the development of physical hardihood, the inculcation of habits of orderliness, discipline and personal hygiene and good citizenship and love of country. The academic, vocational and job training features of camp life should be directed to turning out good Americans.
Should the CCC be made permanent? My desk is piled high with requests from communities for location of camps. The work projects proposed in our fields, forests, wildlife refuges and parks, would keep the Corps of the present size occupied for from thirty to fifty years. From another angle, each year sees another crop of youths reaching young manhood and a large percentage of them unable to find jobs, either because of employment lag or their own inexperience. Until such time as these youths can be absorbed in private industry, business and agriculture, I believe there is justification for continuance of the CCC. I believe it should be made permanent.
In recent months some criticisms of Corps expenditures have developed. While praising the Corps as a whole, some critics have taken the position that the $1,000 a year which it costs to maintain a young man in the Corps for one year is too high. In this connection the charge is usually made that too large a share of the $1,000 enrollee annual cost goes to civilian personnel. These attacks may be attributed largely to lack of knowledge of how CCC funds are expended, a misapprehension of Corps objectives and Corps accomplishments or policies.
A breakdown of this $1,000 a year enrollee cost figure shows that $790 is expended in the form of real wages for the enrollee and $209.91 for pay of civilians, supplies and equipment. Of the $1,000 total, the enrollee allots home to dependents $264. If this sum is eliminated from the $1,000 item and charged against relief expenditures, the cost of maintaining a boy in the Corps for one year, excepting relief charges, would be $736.
The real wages paid each enrollee, including his $30 a month cash allowance ($22 goes to his dependents) and all other items which he would receive if he were working for a private employer, is $790.09. It is broken down as follows:
The following table shows how the $209.91 is utilized:
The above figures include the pay of the Camp Commander, the project superintendent who supervises the work program, the foremen who supervise directly the work projects, the educational adviser, the camp doctor, the camp chaplain--in short, the men who manage the camps, teach and train the enrollees and look after the health and spiritual welfare of the enrollees.
These figures, based on seven years' operation of the CCC camps, represent the amounts which the Director, the War Department, the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture consider necessary for a proper carrying out of Corps functions. Every cent being expended on the program is needed if our objectives are to be carried out efficiently. It is futile to try to determine whether CCC costs are too high by simply dividing the average number of enrollees into the total appropriations for the year. The big determining factor is to be found in our record of accomplishments. Are we getting our money's worth in terms of trees planted, forests and parks improved, new recreational facilities developed, farms saved from erosion, floods checked? Are we getting value received in better citizens--citizens capable of earning their own living, interested in the welfare of their country and better qualified to aid in its defense? I am confident that on the basis of value received, the Corps is much more than paving its way.
What about the Corps' future work program? In what direction should its energies be directed to best advantage? Whatever suggestions I make in this connection, of course, are subject to modification by the national defense program. The program, as outlined below, is given without reference to possible modifications which national defense considerations might entail.
In considering the Corps' future program, it may be well to recall the original purpose and scope of the CCC, as set down by the President and in Acts of the Congress. These were originally two-fold--unemployment relief and "restoration of the country's depleted resources," as stated in the original Act of 1933. The President himself in his message of March 21, 1933, to the Congress stated: "I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work, not interfering with normal employment, and confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects . . . I call your attention to the fact that this type of work is of definite, practical value, not only through the prevention of great present financial loss, but also as a means of creating future national wealth."
The Act of March 31, 1933, in its opening statement gives as one of the primary purposes of the ECW "to provide for the restoration of the country's depleted natural resources . . . in connection with the forestation of lands belonging to the United States or to the several states which are suitable for timber production, the prevention of forest fires, floods and soil erosion, plant pest and disease control, the construction, maintenance or repair of paths, trails, and fire lanes in the national parks and national forests, and such other work on the public domain, national and state, and government reservations . . ." The Act goes on to authorize conservation work on county, municipal and private lands but with certain definite restrictions.
The Act of 1937 again emphasized conservation and sets up a three-fold program--"to provide employment, to provide vocational training, and to perform 'useful public work in connection with the conservation and development of the natural resources of the United States; its Territories, and insular possessions'." The 1937 Act goes on to say "the employment of the Corps . . . for the protection, restoration, regeneration, improvement, development, utilization, maintenance or enjoyment of the natural resources of lands and waters, and the products thereof, including forests, fish and wildlife . . . including the prevention and control of forest fires, forest tree pests and diseases, soil erosion, and floods."
This latter law established the basic principles under which the Corps functions. On July 1, 1939, the CCC became a unit of the Federal Security Agency. Later, that same year, Congress reaffirmed the Act of June 28, 1937, and said: "The provisions of this Act shall continue July 1, 1943."
In preparing Corps work programs, it must be remembered that the new men who enter the Corps each year are largely young, raw, untrained youths--unskilled, but malleable in the hands of competent camp officials, educational advisers, project superintendents, and foremen. The Corps is constantly teaching new men how to work, for its best men are always leaving to take jobs for which their Corps work has qualified them. The Corps is one of the few institutions in the country which is constantly trying to get rid of its best men. The camps themselves are highly mobile. Built of portable units they can be moved quickly from location to location. Being virtually self-contained units, they can be set up practically anywhere subject, of course, to health restrictions.
The Corps is splendidly fitted for reforestation, erosion control, recreational development and nearly any other kind of conservation work. In my judgment, the Corps should not normally be used on big construction or engineering jobs usually handled by contract. As a rule the CCC should not be used in cities or near large towns where there is a large surplus of unemployed adult laborers.
Naturally, requests have come to the director's office from local groups, and oftentimes commercial bodies, for approval of a very wide variety of projects, some of them quite impracticable, many of them totally unsuited to CCC labor, or totally outside the field of CCC, or even outside the field of conservation of natural resources. Extermination of ragweed throughout the United States, and the elimination of tent caterpillars are typical of such requests for approval.
I do not think the Corps should undertake work projects entailing heavy annual maintenance costs except where ironclad agreements are made to make certain that the area developed will be maintained with non-federal funds. No CCC projects should be undertaken on state or private lands unless the agencies concerned agree to maintain the project after it is completed by the Corps. The Corps should not engage in too much maintenance work even on federal lands. Other things being equal, preference should normally be given to projects which require little or no annual maintenance.
1. Reforestartion
Since 1933, the Corps has planted more than two billion young trees. This is a good beginning but an enormous tree planting program remains to be done. The conservation experts figure there are some 138 million treeless acres of barren or only partly stocked forest land, marginal and submarginal farm and pasture in this country which might well be producing some human benefits. Tree planting is a permanent investment for the future. Tree planting is popular, is sound, is badly needed, and the best part of it is that it requires little or no annual maintenance. CCC enrollees can collect seed, prepare tree nurseries, grow the seedlings, and plant them out where needed--for they have been doing all these things for the past seven years.
2. Forest Improvement
Much timber stand or forest improvement has been done, but there are hundreds of millions of acres of federal and state land untouched.
The removal of decadent, crooked, diseased and "weed" or worthless trees from existing forest stands is worthwhile and permanent improvement of the forest. The pruning of tree limbs would pay in future returns from quality trees. Not only the proper thinning of young forest stands but all this work leaves the forest in better condition than it was, insuring faster growth of better trees, and again--it requires no maintenance.
3. Forest Protection
It is a waste of time and money not to protect forests after they are planted or improved. Forests must be protected from fire, insects, and fungous diseases. The biggest single contribution the CCC has made to conservation has been to forest protection in all of its phases. The function of the Corps, however, should be as an emergency help, to do those things which the regular protective organizations cannot do. The CCC contribution to forest protection has covered a wide field. Protective improvements perhaps have occupied the largest amount of enrollee time--fire lookout towers and cabins, telephone lines and truck trails, fire hazard reduction, fire breaks, store houses and guard cabins, while on fighting forest fires alone, a total of more than five million man-days has been spent. In addition, on millions of acres, the control of many different kinds of injurious forest insects and dangerous tree diseases has been secured. This protection work must be continued. However, a capital investment should be made only following agreement by the respective public and private owners to operate and maintain these protective facilities.
4. Soil Erosion Prevention
The saving from total loss of millions of tons of our best farm soils has been aided greatly by the Corps, largely through sample work on farms and demonstrations by the CCC. Not only has the Corps helped materially in this soil saving, but the enrollees themselves have learned first-hand what conservation of the soil is, and how to conserve it, as well as much about farm land management This is most worthwhile work, from more than one angle; it should be continued.
5. Flood Control
The late director went on record in January, 1938, in an address before the Rivers and Harbors Conference as strongly favoring the use of the CCC in up stream engineering as a part of the long-range national plan for flood control as projected by the Congress in 1936. At that time Mr. Fechner said, in part:
"There is a splendid field and a proper one for the Civilian Conservation Corps to engage in those types of upstream engineering which are a necessary part of the national problem of flood control. Small gullies in denuded mountains, bare treeless areas that need again a forest cover, the building of small ponds and reservoirs near the heads of the smaller tributaries of our great rivers--along with continued forest protection activities--would seem to me to be proper work for the Corps. This is especially true when one considers the type of workers in the Corps--young men full of interest and enthusiasm for the outdoors who can be well taken care of in camps located in isolated mountain areas, individual projects small in themselves but extremely important as a part of the whole problem. Such types of work cannot be contracted for and moreover would have little or no appeal to older, more seasoned workers."
6. Wildlife Restoration
The Corps has already made a large contribution to American wildlife, if in no other way than by the development of many areas, hitherto unusable by wildlife, into suitable habitats, resting and breeding places for birds and migratory waterfowl, and in providing sanctuaries for game animals. They have done many other things, made game censuses, planted food shrubs and trees for game food, and improved many hundreds of streams, lakes and ponds for better fish conditions, as well as built many lakes and ponds. All this is a worthwhile contribution to America's wildlife resources and more needs to be done.
7. Public Range Development
Since April, 1935, the Corps has been assigning camps for the improvement and development of the public range lands of the eleven western states. There are 141,228,423 acres of such lands, much of which needs to be brought back to somewhat of its former carrying capacity for sheep and cattle, horses, goats and forms of wildlife. Development of water including reservoirs, spring developments, waterholes, wells and other watering places, building of drift fences, corrals, and stock appurtenances, stopping range erosion, and actual revegetation of depleted ranges are some of the work done.
These work projects in order to perfect control and use of the range areas are necessarily scattered because concentration of livestock would add to destructive conditions. While the CCC camps may be said to be located in the "wide open spaces," their establishment, administration and maintenance has been satisfactory because of the splendid cooperation of all agencies.
This type of work is worthwhile and needs to be done. It could not be done by contract labor, and probably no other Federal agency is as well fitted to do it as the CCC.
8. Outdoor Recreation
In the park and recreation field the CCC has made its greatest contribution toward the conservation of both natural and human resources. An increase of 100 per cent in state park acreage alone since 1933 has resulted almost entirely from the encouragement to expansion taken by the states from the availability of CCC man-power and funds for development purposes. Several states which had no state parks seven years ago now have areas acquired under this stimulus and are actively cooperating in the nation-wide program for coordinated recreational planning. Others have added to existing areas and brought new parks into their systems.
The CCC has given protection to and developed recreational facilities in federal, state and local areas on a scale which would have been impossible under ordinary circumstances. In national, state, county and metropolitan parks the Corps, under technical supervision of the National Park Service, has carried out forest and soil conservation work, built sanitary and visitor accommodation facilities, constructed bridges, dams and trails, and accomplished numerous jobs providing many essentials for wider and better use of these areas such as trail and historical markers, guard rails, parking areas and bathing facilities.
Extensive recreational facilities have also been provided in national and state forests throughout the country.
In spite of the accomplishments to date, a big program in park work remains ahead for the CCC. The Park, Parkway and Recreational-Area Study, authorized by Congress and now being conducted by the National Park Service cooperatively with other Federal Agencies and the states, is mapping out the future recreational needs of the people of the United States. This study has found present facilities to be inadequate and calls for the provision of extensive additional areas and developments. Because of its experience and proved effectiveness, the CCC will be looked to for continued assistance in this program for many years to come.
Reprinted from AMERICAN FORESTS: The Magazine of The American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C. (July, 1940). Permission granted by American Forests, 1998.


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In one of the longest-running relationships between a North Texas dance company and an arts institution, Contemporary Dance/Fort Worth and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth are putting on their 10th annual Modern Dance Festival over the next three weekends.
The free festival features performances, installations and films, highlighted by a multimedia project that uses as its soundtrack 9 Beet Stretch. It's an experimental work that stretches Beethoven's Ninth Symphony over a 24-hour period without distorting the pitch.
The entire Beet will be played in six four-hour blocks in different parts of the museum during the second and third weeks of the festival as the inspiration for visual art, film imagery and movement.
For example, Austin's Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company will perform a new version of Hamrick's The Big Small in the museum auditorium on July 27. Other participating artists include Minnesota photographer Tim Wilkendorf and the North Texas performance collaborative Sound Culture.
The festival opens July 12-13 with "CD/FW Dance Exchange: A Choreographers Showcase" in the museum lobby. The concerts will feature Seattle soloist Deborah Birrane in regional premieres by Oregon's Joanna Cashman and New Mexico's Debra Knapp; a world premiere by Lonny Joseph Gordon; and premieres by CD/FW members Claudia Orcasitas, Tina Mullone and Jacqueline Todd.
On July 27, the museum will present short films from New York's Dance on Camera Festival, including Folie à deux and Substance: Moloko.
July 12-28 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 3200 Darnell St. Free. 817-738-9215. cdfw.org. themodern.org.
Manuel Mendoza is a Dallas freelance writer. He blogs at dfwdance.wordpress.com.


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Guest columnist Drew Epperley is the founder and editor of WVHooligan.com. His blog covers everything MLS and U.S. Soccer. You can follow him on Twitter @WVHooligan.
The season is down to the final two games. The first up for FC Dallas (9-12-11, 38 points) is the final road trip of the regular season to the Pacific Northwest to face Seattle Sounders FC (14-7-10, 52 points).
Seattle is coming off a nil-nil draw with Real Salt Lake on Wednesday. Defender Zach Scott picked up two yellow cards and forced the Sounders to play a man down for a decent portion of the game.
Dallas hosted the Sounders on Labor Day weekend and the two sides played to a 1-1 draw. Mauro Rosales got Seattle on the board early in the first half before Jackson tied the game up before halftime.
Seattle has already clinched a playoff berth and will be looking to position themselves better with three points while FC Dallas is still in the hunt for the fifth and final playoff spot.
Slowing down Montero and Johnson
One of the surprise picks by US Men's National team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann this past week for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers' roster was Johnson. The first-year Sounder has had a long way back to the national team camp and was rewarded with the call-up thanks to his 14 goals and two assists this season.
Johnson rewarded Klinsmann's faith in him by scoring two goals against Antigua and Barbuda.
Johnson will likely be paired up front with Montero once again for this game. The two have combined well this season and have contributed 27 of Seattle's 48 goals.
Montero has also added six assists of his own this season. A couple weeks ago in the 3-0 win over Portland, he helped cause the game's first goal – an own goal on the Timbers – and showed some feisty play to score one of his own.
The offense will still go from the midfield with Designated Players Christian Tiffert and Rosales leading the charge. Tiffert was big against Portland, terrorizing the back line of the Timbers throughout the game.
Steve Zakuani has started to figure back into the line-up for head coach Sigi Schmid. He's started three games since making his return to the starting line-up against Dallas back in September.
Brad Evans also is a contributing factor in the midfield. The veteran put in a solid outing against the Timbers and was one of the underrated reasons as to why the Sounders came away with a 3-0 score-line.
Alonso gaining Defender of the Year attention
Osvaldo Alonso may finally be getting the respect he deserves. The All-Star defensive midfielder has been making some noise lately for the league's top defender award.
Games like the one against Portland and Salt Lake helped prove his case for that award. Alonso was a calming force in the middle of the field and allowed the defense behind him stay organized for 90 minutes against an arch rival.
Schmid continues to get plenty out of his back four too.
Central defenders Jhon Kennedy Hurtado and Jeff Parke continue to be two of the more underrated defenders in MLS. Full backs Leo Gonzalez and Adam Johansson continue to contribute well in defense and also provide a spark offensively.
Schmid can also turn to left back Marc Burch to fill in. Against Salt Lake he helped spark the defense to a shutout despite being a man down.
Goalkeeper Michael Gspurning has solidified his role as the team's main goalkeeper. He has seven shutouts on the season and has been a big reason in getting the Sounders into the playoffs for a fourth-straight season.
Keys to three points
This is once again a must-win game for FC Dallas. Thankfully the Sounders will be coming into the game on short rest.
By the time the game kicks off, Dallas will know whether or not they need three points or if Vancouver won their game with Portland.
Either way, Dallas has to go all out and get as much out of this game as possible. They'll do so short handed with Julian de Guzman suspended and more than a few usual starters likely out or on the bench with injuries.
The mental mistakes that cost Dallas three points two weeks ago in LA against Chivas USA cannot happen again. Seattle is a good enough team that will capitalize on those mistakes and make Dallas pay for them. Dallas needs to keep it simple and work the ball through the wings.
Allowing David Ferreira and Blas Perez to have big games will be huge. Those two have to carry the charge offensively, while veterans like Daniel Hernandez lead the charge in the defense.
Three points are there for the taking and Dallas has yet to lose in Seattle for a regular season game. The fact remains, Dallas just has to want this game more.


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CONRAD, HENRY W., was born in Montgomery Co., came to Pine Grove about 1819, and built what is now the Mansion House and kept hotel till 1840. He was Prothonotary of Schuylkill kill Co., and served two terms in the Legislature; he was promi- nent and owned quite some property at one time. He had two sons and six daughters; the sons were both ministers of the Luth- eran Church. Sarah wag married to Rev. E. Henry, who preach- ed some 45 years in Pine Grove; Francis Valeria was married to Rev. R. P. Thomas, lived in Ohio then moved to Colorado; Char- lotte was married to William Forrer; Esther was single, and was a great church and Sunday school worker. She was superintend- ent of the Lutheran infant Sunday school for 40 years. She built the house where Robert Irwin now lives. Mary and Catherine were single and died young.
CHRIST, JOHN H., was a farmer at one time, worked in the mines, was conductor on the miners' train for the P. & R. Co.; was a traveling salesman for flour and feed. He had owned quite some property. He had one daughter who is married to Dr. John Sutton.
CHRIST, DR. JACOB, was a prominent physician and sur- geon. He had a large practice and was often called 15 miles to attend the sick. He built the house where his grandson, Harry, now lives. He had six sons and two daughters; Isaac, John, Lewis, Jacob, David, Levi. He was in the war at Baltimore in 1814; David and Levi were in the Civil War; Levi was a doctor and took up his father's practice in 1885. Both died in 1876.
CHRIST, CHARLES, a son of David, was a painter by trade; was clerking for A. T. Felty for some years and is now in the grocery business at the corner of Tulpehocken and Canal streets. He owns quite some property and is married to a Miss Felty.
CHRIST, JOHN M a son of Dr. Jacob Christ, was a wheel- wright by trade, and was at one time in the mercantile business in Tremont; moved back to Pine Grove and bought the property that his son now owns. He had one son and two daughters. One was married to A. K. Francis; Wellington was married to a Miss Morrett; he was a telegraph operator and was train dispatcher for the P. & R. Company at Pine Grove, was also station agent. He is at present in the mercantile business, the firm being Christ & Rehrer in the building where Miller, Filbert & Co. used to have store.
CHRIST, EDWARD, a son of Solomon, was married to Sallie Smeltzer. He was clerk at one time in Miller, Graeff & Co.'s office and in the railroad offices for the P. R. R., afterward engaged in the sale of coal and ice and in the manufacture of fences, farming and raising chickens. He had seven sons and two daugh- ters. Fred is a jeweler and lives in Blackfoot, Idaho; Reiff is a telegraph operator and also lives in Idaho; Guy, Caleb, Stanley and Frank run the business; Harry was a machinist, he died about two years ago; Emily is married and lives in Philadelphia; Claire is at home. Mr. Christ died about a year ago. Fred was in the Spanish American War.
CHRIST, HARRY, a son of Dr. Levi Christ, was born in Pine Grove, was married to Rose Stine, a daughter of Amos Stine. He was at one time in Paxson's store, then in Miller, Filbert & Co.'s store. He is at present in the clothing business, has been for about 23 years, the firm is Christ & Stine. He has been in the school board for some 15 years, has a large circle of friends. He has one son and one daughter, the son is a student at Gettysburg col- lege, the daughter is married.
CHRIST, DAVID, a son of Dr. Jacob Christ, was born in Lebanon Co. Dec. 25, 1827, was a painter by trade, removed with his parents to Pine Grove in infancy, was married to Eliza Saus- ser, had three sons and two daughters; Charles is in the grocery business; Edward is a painter and contractor; Levi died some years ago; Kate is married to John Groh; Amanda died. He was in the Civil War.
CHRISTESON, CAPTAIN H. C. was born March 25, 1825, along the banks of the present Kiel Canal, then under the king- dom of Denmark. He was a sailor for 21 years, attaining to Captain, circumnavigating the globe three successive times; was a spectator at the removal of the remains of Napoleon to Paris, was in California in the gold excitement 1849 and 1857, had a most eventful experience, such as befalls but few mortals. in a great storm in the China Sea he fell from the mast of his ship and shattered the bone in his left leg. Through this he settled in Pine Grove in 1859 and in company with the late Chas. Molly was engaged in the mercantile business in the building now occupied by Joseph Schwalm. Later in 1879 he removed to Suedberg where he built the present store and hotel. He is buried on the Lutheran Cemetery at Pine Grove. He had two sons and three daughters: Charles connected with a firm of Philadelphia; George, an official in the employ of the Missouri Pacific Railroad; Miss Louisa who resides on the old homestead at Suedberg. Charles is the father of Charles M. Christeson, a resident of Pine Grove, who is married to Miss Olive, oldest daughter of John Sutton, the druggist, and is connected with his father in the wholesale business in Phila- delphia.
CHANNELL, PROF. G., was born in Chester Co. He had learned the trade of plastering, then took up the profession of teaching, bad taught school in Bernville, Berks Co., taught in Llewellyn and Minersville, came to Pine Grove in 1871, taught the Pine Grove High school for some 30 odd years, taught the Pt. Carbon High school for 14 years. He was considered one of the best disciplinarians in the county. He has two sons and three daughters: G. Wayne is a Methodist preacher and lives in Ger- mantown, Philadelphia; James, a lawyer, and lives in Pottsville; Jennie lives in Tennessee; Eleanor is married to Edward Spang- ler; Maud was married to Geo. Erb and lives in Philadelphia. Mr. Channell served in the Civil War.
COWDEN, JOHN H., came to Pine Grove in 1852, was agent for the Union Canal Co., had charge of the weigh scales. He was a widower and had one son and one daughter who married Major David Taggart, who was paymaster in the U. S. army. Cowden owned the farm that John Beuchler now has; he went from here to Harrisburg where he died.
CARL, HARRY, was a machinist, came to Pine Grove about 1875, worked for the P. & R. Co. till the shops were closed in 1903, then went to Palo Alto and has been working for the P. & R. He had three sons and three daughters: Harry married to Miss Moy- er, is a barber; John is a machinist and lives in Pottsville; Wil- liam and the three daughters live at home.
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Update: Monday, Aug. 16 at 9:45 p.m.
The Columbia City Council members voted unanimously Monday night to let Columbia voters decide to ban Tasers.
Council members voted No to amending the city code to add a new section pertaining to Tasers and other conducted electrical devices.
However, council members voted Yes to calling special election to consider making it unlawful to use or threaten to use a Taser or other conducted electrical device against any person.
Residents and groups spoke at the meeting Monday night making cases for and against Tasers.
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Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton spoke about different Taser usage policies.
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My anger overode my good sense and I turned angerly to the Dead man on the ground and demanded again of him, "Why didn't you call for help? and why didn't you die if you fell out of an aircraft? Your story is just so..so...so..?"
"Unbelievable?" my visitor from the heavens answered me, "As I have said before, I am already dead. My body was made into that of a Divine Assassin..."
Before we could continue with the living versus the non-living state of his being,..he suddenly snapped his head in the direction from which I had just come.
"Another living female is approaching us," he said tightly and armed his right wrist with his left hand.
Before we could continue with the living versus the non-living state of hs being, he suddenly snapped his head in the direction from which I had come,."A living being is approaching us!"
I took care to shine the flashlight in the direction that the Dead man looked. It's beam shown on a familiar face.
"I see a figure in a deep blue hooded cloak and long blue robes!" the Dead guy intoned, "She must be a Divine Cleric! I will kill her!!'
"Huh?" I squeaked, "Kill her? Why?"
The Dead Man, Kai, again made the swift movement necessary to make the weapon on his right wrist click,.."I told you,..I will kill this person because she is a Divine Cleric!!"
I strained my eyes to see the unfortunate that this Living Dead Man proposed to slaughter in front of my eyes. Hmmmmn! He had said that he was an Assasssin. It was going to be hard enough to explain this "Living Dead man" to the town cop,..let alone an extra dead body,..which mght belong to one of my approaching neighbors or frends!! I suddenly recognized the swaying walk of the short approaching figure!!
"Kill her? Hell no!" I yelped, "That's my "butter and egg lady," Mary Troyer!! No! No! Don't kill her!! A good "butter and egg lady" is hard to find!!"
"She is useful to you?" asked the Assassin, "Isn't she of the Divine Order?"
"No! No!" I answered the Assassin in exasperation, "She is Old Order!!"
As if making me understand that this concern of his was of the greatest importance,..the Dead Man rephrased his question, "Is she a servant of His Divine Shadow?"
Becoming quite frustrated with this whole discussion and fearing for my friend's life, I answered the Assassin with more than just my usual common quiet sense!
"No! No! No!" I screamed at him,.."Mary Troyer is just plain Old Order Amish!! The only thing divine about her is that she makes heavenly Devil's food cake or her Divinity Fudge!!"
"Devil's food cake?" Kai's brow furrowed as he pointed his arm at Mary's chest, "She feeds and sustains the prince of Fire? Then, I MUST kill her!! The Prince of Fire has tormented Xev and Stan many times!"
"Oh my Lord!" I groaned at his misconceptions, "Mary just makes good chocolate cake!! She is against the Devil!! Devil's food cake is a food for human beings..just like you and me!! You like good eats,..don't you?"
"The Dead do not eat!" was the Assassin's only comment as Mary Troyer,..running as fast as her short legs could carry here,..approached us!
As I warily watched, Kai attempted to get to his feet but his legs seemed to give way under him.
Sitting on his fanny in front of me, he looked up in what I would have called a quizzical fashion and managed in a calm sort of way to surprize and puzzle me, "I seem to be out of alighnment. How are you at adjusting..power rods?"
I am not sure what passing fancy made me decide on the folly of helping this stranger, who said that he was dead, and who if he was not lying to me,..was responsible for the blaze, that was taking almost all of Zeke Miller's lumberyard. Maybe, I was bored. Perhaps,..I was just realizing that "bad boys" appealed to me. or maybe,..it was just the over-all sexy way that the guy in black and his handome face and hisl extra long black hair,...done up in a neat bun and braid,..appealed to me.
"Power rods? What are your power rods and where are they located?" I asked the Assassin. For one long moment, he looked at me and then, he stared at the ground.
"Xev was able to re-adjust my power rods when we were at k-Town on Planet Fire," Kai whispered as much to himself as to me.
"That's very nice for Xev!" I growled, "But she is not here right now and maybe we should just call an ambulance for you and take you to the hospital..if you can't move because you are so..."out of alignment!!" How about it?"
"You just don't get it,..do you?" The Assassin looked me full in the face, "I have told you that I am not a living man. I am a chemical machine!"
"O-k! O-k!" I tried a more soothing approach, "But she is not here and maybe we should just call an ambulance for you and have the attendents put you into a nice padded room till Xev gets here!! "
I heard the click of that right wrist weapon and decided to humor him further, "O-k! O-k! Where are your power rods located?"
"My power rods are located...here!" Kai half whispered to me as he pointed to his..crotch!
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I had to get back to Xev. I had to find Xev. Xev was the one,..who kissed me after she escorted me to my cryopod. She was the one,..who wished me," Sweet dreams!"
No matter how many times I told her, "The Dead do not dream!"....she would smile at me and give me a look,..which my memories told me that she valued this "Dark Legend" Assassin beyond his mechanical ability to defend her and protect the life of Stanly Tweedle. I did not regret knowing this Xev of B3K. I had an affinity for her and this compeled me to make sure that she was safe and would still be there for a while to kiss this Divine Assassin..."goodnight."
I stared as coldly as I could at the type thirteen Planet woman, Stanelle. She glared back at me.
For whatever reason and for Xev,..I whispered to her as loudly as I could, "You must remove my breeches and begin to adjust my power rods."
"For the love of Mike!!" she sniffed back at me, "What a come-on!"
"My midline power rods need to be..." I hesitantly begin again.
"Power rods!! Power rods!' she began again..seemingly outraged,.."You mean to tell me that you have more than one?"
Her eyes seemed to bug out slightly when I answered her, "Yes, I have a lot of equipment!!"
"Oh my Lord!!' Stanelle looked at me as if I had suddenly grown the head of a cluster lizard, "You did tell me that you came from outer space!! You were honest enough about that!!'
She gulped loudly and then whispered as if it were her equipment that needed readjusting and not mine, "More than one? I don't think that I want to be involved in that kind of a thing!!!"
I began to see that I was going to have to take what the Living call "desparate measures!!' If this stupid woman would not come over and adjust my power rods,..I would never get out of alighnment in time for..., I was not sure what,..but if Stanelle would not adjust my power rods,..I would be unable to save Xev and Stan from whatever horrors this terrible Type Thirteen planet was going to throw at them!! I would have to take extreme measures. I was going to have to kiss Stanelle.
I didn't want to do it! (The Dead do not want!!) Still,..that would appear to be the only way that I could convince her that she should adjust my rods for me so that I could get back to Xev and Stan to protect them!!
Very few human women can refuse me once they have kissed me and I have kissed quite a few human women and some,..who seemed more than inhuman from their lack of human feelings!! All of them had wanted a piece of me, and kissing them was the best that I could do for them!! Besides,..it has become a habit of mine tp keep score of all of the women that I have kissed by making scratch marks on the inner lining of my cryopod!!
For a while, Stan thought it was a sort of metal parasite that had been eating at the lining of my pod. I had no motivation to tell him that the scratches there are my record of my "love life!!" Even an Assassin has his...secrets!!
Stanelle just stood there in the open field and looked at me. My heightened Assassin senses,..scanning her neurochemistry,..told me that she was VERY much interested in kissing me, but the thought of my multitudinous power rods..frightened her for some reason!! I was begining to think that she had no mechanical aptitude!!
I held up my hand beseechingly to her, "Just one little kiss..even if you don't want to adjust my power rods...."
"How many tongues do you have?" she asked me suspiciously, "Since you are from outer space,..you aren't going to suck out my brain and eat it,..are you?"
"No!" I mutterd to myself, "I'll let Xev do that later!!'
I gave her my "Assassin-beautiful-enough-to-die-for" look." Few human females can resist that!! I glanced up at her provocatively and then,..looked away. This always gets them!!
My quarry came over and knelt down beside me!! I reached over and gasped the nape of her neck and pulled her head over to mine. Her eyes widened as we came face to face.
"You are just so damned beautiful!!" she moaned to me, but turned slightly away, "But you have the breath of...."
"A cluster lizard.." I breathed back at her. It must have numbed her because she did not turn away again as I expertly,..if I do say so myself,..tilted her lips towards mine by gently pressuring her chin and brushed my lips into contact with her's. She groaned as I slid my lips from hers and up to her cheek bones and down to her chin and then,.slowly caressed her neck with my tongue.
Then, I again lifted her mouth slightly,..curving my hand again around the nape of her neck,..so as to put her into the best possible position for the best possible contact between us. She began to shake from the feelings that I knew that I was arousing in her as I could feel her giving into passion of my kiss!
Just as I was mentally scratching up another score on the inside of my cryopod, an irritating voice screeched out, "What in the world are you doing there,..Stanelle?? Down there in the cow poop and kissing that complete stranger? Remember! You are a married woman!!"
I was so shook,..I lost control of my brace and it popped out!! Talk about a bad misalighnment!!


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Johannesburg, South Africa, 2009/12/18 - GE South African Technologies (GESAT), GE Transportations entity in South Africa, announced today that it has signed a landmark contract with Transnet Limited to supply Transnet Freight Rail (TFR) with 100 locomotives (NYSE: GE). NYSE: GE
TFR is South Africa's state-owned rail freight logistics utility; Transnet Limited is its parent company. Ten of the locomotives will be manufactured in Erie and Grove City, USA and 90 will be manufactured locally at Transnet Rail Engineerings site in South Africa with kits provided by GE Transportation.
We are pleased that GE is helping drive South Africa towards a lead manufacturing economy by localizing the production of locomotives in South Africa. We look forward to sharing some of our global success with Transnet and thus jointly expanding our regional footprint, said Lorenzo Simonelli, President and CEO of GE Transportation. GEs extensive knowledge in localizing locomotive assembly can be witnessed in some of the worlds leading developing economies such as China, Brazil and Kazakhstan. Each of our global manufacturing sites has been specifically customized in line with customer and country requirements and capabilities. We worked closely with Transnet Rail Engineering to develop a comprehensive localization plan that complements local strengths and transfers world-class skills and technology where applicable.
In December 2008, GE Transportation signed an agreement with one of South Africas foremost Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE) companies, Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC), to establish the subsidiary GE South Africa Technologies (Pty) Limited (GESAT), allowing the company to more actively participate in South Africa's social and economic transformation in the rail industry.
Commenting on the announcement of this contract, Tshidi Madima, Executive Director of the MIC stated, We are delighted that GESAT has been successful in winning this Transnet Freight Rail contract as this is an excellent example of the type of participation in the South African economy that was anticipated in the creation of GESAT 12 months ago.
GEs model C30ACi, the first AC diesel electric locomotive to be introduced to sub-Saharan Africa, will have an engine that delivers 3,300 Gross HorsePower (GHP) using an electronic fuel-injection system that automatically supplies the exact amount of fuel needed for optimal engine efficiency. The locomotives will also feature GEs unique AC propulsion technology and dynamic braking. The addition of these new locomotives, which will be used to haul freight and coal, will decrease life-cycle costs, improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. The first locomotives and kits are scheduled to be delivered in early 2011; locomotive assembly in country, with kits from Erie and engines from Grove City, should begin at the end of 2010.
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A trusted partner and supplier to the rail and mining industries in South Africa, GE Transportation has an installed base of some 1,200 GE locomotives in Africa including approximately 900 in South Africa.
In 2008, GE Transportation took South Africas Western Cape Orex line to the next level with the longest production train in the world, made possible through the LOCOTROL technology solution. This distributed power system - a first in South Africa - allows longer, safer trains on the critical Western Cape Saldanha Bay iron ore export line. Orex is the only heavy-haul iron-ore railway line in South Africa and the second-longest iron-ore railway line in the world at some 861 kilometers. It feeds the port of Saldanha Bay, for export to a global market hungry for South African iron ore. Until now, the carrying capacity of the line itself has been a major barrier to increasing economy-boosting iron ore exports.
GE Transportation has a long and successful history of operations and activities throughout Africa. As a global technology leader in transportation, GE Transportation is committed to help delivering world-class transportation, infrastructure development, and technology solutions a key prerequisite for sustainable economic growth. GE Transportation has a presence on the African continent with recent locomotive sales in Nigeria and Egypt.
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Personally, if I was trying to ask someone a question in a parking lot and that person is yelling at me AND is preparing to draw a weapon, I don't care how legitimate my need is, I'm walking away. For all I know, you're a psycho who is incapable of being reasoned with by anyone. I'm not looking to get in a shooting battle with anyone if I have the opportunity to avoid it.
As for me being threatened... As I've stated in previous posts, a man 40 yards away who says he wants to speak to you is not high on my threat radar. Hell. I just walked my dog in a park where, in previous times, a man used to circuit, yelling obscenities at the top of his lungs. He just became part of the scenery. This evening, walking out of the park, I could hear the local druggies discussing things in pitch darkness, 20 yards up the hill from me. Do I draw a weapon then? (Actually, I can't since I'd need to have at least 3 documented instances of threats to my life in order to be even considered for a CCW in my fair state.)
So what would I do? I'd follow the law in my jurisdiction and retreat away from the perceived threat. I don't care if I'm the one running away, even if I do have a gun. I don't mind looking foolish if I can avoid using deadly force and all the legal headaches that accompanies it. If they don't clearly demonstrate an attempt to take my life, I'm not allowed to use deadly force, even in my home until all avenues of retreat are closed to me. That being said, if I'm awakened by someone who breaks down my door, sets off the alarm and STILL keeps coming upstairs, I'll be waiting with my weapon, unlike one of my neighbors who had that happened to her in July and was killed.
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Police: Child finds gun in car, shoots self in Kroger parking lot
A 3-year-old was hospitalized Friday after accidentally shot himself inside a vehicle in a grocery store parking lot in Troy.
The toddler was in the front seat of the family car around 1:45 when he found his mom's gun. He picked it up and it somehow went off and shot the Rochester Hills boy in the leg. He was taken to a nearby hospital and is listed in stable condition. According to Troy Police Capt. Bob Redmond, he is expected to be okay.
"The mother and her two sons had been in Kroger shopping, when they came out the 4-year-old climbed into the into backseat of the car," Redmond said.
Police said the boy was in the front seat while his 10-year-old brother helped mom load groceries into the trunk at the Kroger at South Blvd and Crooks. The young boy reached into the front center console, took out his mom's 9 MM handgun and shot himself. Police say the bullet exited his thigh.
"He pulled the trigger on the gun, shooting himself in the upper right area, (it) exited out the right thigh," Redmond said.
Police say several people in the busy lot reported hearing the gunshot. One of those was a retired Warren police officer who was walking by. He immediately ran over to help.
"Having the right people at the scene at the right time is always a plus for us. In this case, having a good witness to have," Redmond said.
Police say the little boy's mother is a CPL holder. They said she's devastated by what happened and is by her son's side in the hospital but could face serious charges.
"The purpose of a CPL is so you can carry a handgun, then carry it. Don't store it in a car."
Police are still questioning her. She could face charges of careless, reckless, or negligent use of a firearm.
Troy Police initially told FOX 2 the child was left alone in the vehicle while the parent went inside, but no longer believe that is what happened.


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I just heard about these music classes in Prospect Park offered by Free Spirits Music. They look like fun and are pretty affordable too.
Free Spirits Music just released a lineup of summer music classes In Prospect Park and they are offering A Child Grows readers come join the fun!
At our Saturday morning "Songwriting Circles" in Prospect Park, kids 7-12 will write an entire song in our hour-long session! Any kid who loves to sing, is interested in guitar, or wants to write a song is invited to be a part of the creative journey under the sun. As a group, we'll use different musical skills to explore the songwriting process.
Our weekday "Toddler Music In The Parks" is an artistic flow of songs, nursery rhymes, stories, and movement for 18 months – 4 years. With interactive themes like "A Day at the Beach" or "Farm Animals," each 45-minute class evolves from the child's world and include vocal play, animal sounds, rhythms, and lots of fun. Scarves, stickers, shaky eggs, rhythm sticks, and instruments will be explored! And of course, every child gets a chance to play the guitar at the end of class.
A little bit about us: Our goal at Free Spirits Music is to awaken artistic passion and understand the creative process while creating a community of like-minded young musicians. By using rock and pop music as our vehicle, we've created a community of fun, friendship, and safety that encourages personal and musical growth for everyone who enters it. Simply put, we change lives through music. And equally important, we seriously rock out and have a great time doing it.
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Lakers GM Upset About What He Calls False Trade Rumors
Jun 25, 4:16 AM (ET)
By JOHN NADEL
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) - General manager Mitch Kupchak freely admits the Los Angeles Lakers might make significant roster changes this summer - no surprise considering how poorly they fared last season.
But he says nothing being reported recently is true.
"Without getting into great detail, every trade I've heard about has been completely inaccurate," Kupchak said Friday. "Somebody should pay for that. I don't know where they originate. So many people get their feelings hurt."
Kupchak referred to the subjects of those reports.
"I'm on the phone. I would suspect there's going to be change on our roster," he said. "(But) it's unlikely that anything will happen (before Tuesday's NBA draft). I don't anticipate anything will happen at this time."
Kupchak acknowledged he's talked with several teams, saying, "That's what happens when you win 34 games."
But, he added: "I don't come in here every day thinking I've got to get a deal done. If it makes basketball and business sense, that's something we'll try to do."
The Lakers have three picks in the two-round draft - the 10th, 37th and 39th overall selections. They've been rumored to be trading up and down, with several players mentioned in potential deals - mostly on Internet sites.
"There's three or four a day for the last week," said John Black, the Lakers' executive director of public relations. "They're all bogus. The fans read all that stuff and they get all excited. It doesn't happen, and they're all disappointed, they're all let down.
"I think the whole team's been traded, including Kobe (Bryant)."
Black called it "irresponsible journalism."
"It's degenerated every year that I've been here," he said.
Assuming the Lakers don't make a trade before the draft, Kupchak said he doesn't expect their first-round draft choice to make a major contribution, much less be a starter.
"I think it's unlikely any player drafted 10th through 20th will make an immediate impact," he said. "Hopefully, he can play a little bit."
Kupchak also said he didn't believe the Lakers will choose a high school player in the first round, but didn't rule it out.
"You roll the dice a little bit more," he said. "And, of course, you're not going to get productivity for two or three years."
Kupchak said the Lakers brought in around 55 players for pre-draft workouts - around twice as many as usual. He pointed to the fact that they have three picks in this draft instead of the usual two, with the No. 10 selection much higher than their first choice has been in several years.
"Plus, we had more time to do it this year," he said with a thin smile, referring to the fact that the Lakers failed to make the playoffs for just the second time since 1976.
So much for the Bender to LA rumors. Now Walsh, Bird, and Kupchak have termed them untrue.


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What is the best route to Alternative Certification?
Because each route is designed differently, each one fits different situations. You will need to look over the information about each route to see which one is the best for you. Our most popular route, and where most people find the best fit is Option 6.
Where can I get a list of the colleges or universities offering Option 6?
Go to http://www.epsb.ky.gov/certification/approvedlist.asp. The programs offered are also included on this website.
Do I have to have a job offer to apply for certification through an alternative route?
It depends on the route through which you are seeking certification. For Options 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 the answer is YES. Options 3 and 7 do not require a job offer.
How can I get a job offer without certification?
The school districts across Kentucky are aware of the Alternative Routes to Certification programs. Tell the district when you apply that you are pursuing an alternative route. If they are interested in you as a serious candidate for the job opening, they will work with you to complete the appropriate forms.
Can I get a certification application form from the EPSB for my alternative route?
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Lapsang souchong additions
I've never tried Lapsang, but from how it's described, sounds like it would be tasty as the liquid when making rice or in a relatively simple soup like miso
I tried some today and almost threw it up lol I took a video of it lol www.facebook.com/erinstea I will NOT be trying it again. You guys are crazy lol
Here are some short information about Lapsang souchong: it is a famous Chinese black tea, which originally produced from Wuyi, Fujian, China. Due to the process of smoke roast, it has a black color for tea leaves, but in deep red when brewed. The premium or representative of Lapsang souchong are Jin Jun Mei(金骏眉), Yin Jun Mei(银骏眉) respectively. Except for its high aroma, mellow taste, the biggest characteristic for Lapsang souchong maybe its strong smokey. So if you can't stand this particular flavor, this is may not your cups!
I cook with tea frequently and I make savory Tea Eggs from time to time and Soy Sauce is used in the tea for them, I've used Lapsang Souchong for my eggs a few times and they were actually the best. I have a good recipe if any one wants to try them, they are quick easy and tastes great, and look really cool for easter too.
I love the smoke! I had some yesterday at a local tea house and wished for a piece if dark chocolate or dry salty aged goat cheese would have been heaven! If the smoke is too much for you the second steep is better.


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Elixir of Ancient Knowledge
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- Elixir of Ancient Knowledge
- Binds to Battle.net account
- Use: Increases experience gain by 300% for 1 hour. Does not work for players above level 84.
- "A faint whispering can be heard from the bottle."
Elixir of Ancient Knowledge is a bind to account item that increases the player's experience gained by 300% for 1 hour.
Dropped by the pandarian champion Krol the Blade in Dread Wastes. Additionally, the Archiereus of Flame at Ordon Sanctuary on the Timeless Isle may drop it as well.
- Cannot be used by players above level 84.
- Does not persist through death.
- Experience buff stacks with rested and heirloom experience bonuses.
Patches and hotfixes
- Hotfix (2013-10-02): "The following bind-on-pickup items are no longer able to be traded between players: [Burden of Eternity], [Reins of the Thundering Onyx Cloud Serpent], [Cauterizing Core], [Falling Flame], [Golden Moss], [Giant Purse of Timeless Coins], [Ash-Covered Horn], and [Elixir of Ancient Knowledge]."
- Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Achievement criteria added.
- Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Added.


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NEW YORK (Sep. 20)
Sen. Herbert H. Lehman will devote himself to efforts in behalf of civil rights and other issues when he retires from the United States Senate at the end of this year, he revealed here yesterday. Sen. Lehman spoke at a luncheon given in his honor by the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Sen. Lehman was given the Weizmann Award of Merit in recognition of his long term interest in the Institute. Other recipients were Dorothy Schiff, publisher of the New York Post, Joseph M. Mazer, Morris Ginsberg, Max Doft, William Rubin, Herman P. Taubman and Dr. G. M. Rogoff.
Abraham Feinberg, president of the American Committee for the Institute, announced that the Institute's annual dinner, marking the 82nd anniversary of the birth of the late Dr. Chaim Weizmann would be held Nov. 27 and is expected to bring the Institute $500,000. Meyer W. Weisgal, chairman of the Institute's executive council, outlined the activities and scope of the Institute.


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