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Leeds United over achieving this season?
04 Mar 2017 09:01 pm, by YorkshireSquare
Leeds United are massively over achieving this season, and its brilliant isn't it? There is always a lot of expectation on the club, why shouldn't there be with our proud history? But very rarely over the past few years have we come anywhere close to delivering on that expectation. We've become used to a lack of serious investment in the squad, chopping and changing uninspiring managers and disappointing league performances. footballbets.tips wouldn't have tipped Leeds to challenge this year but under Garry Monk we have become a different prospect.
Investment in the squad still hasn't been huge but shrewd and key signings have shored up or leaky defence and given us a creative spark in midfield. Bartley and Jansson are the rock on which the team is built, with Rob Green shaky at first but now pulling of match winning saves almost every game. Hernández the creative tick that keeps the team beating and Chris Wood in the form of his life. Even when injuries and suspensions have left the squad thread bear the youngsters have come in and done a job too.
This squad is most definitely greater than the sum of its parts. Compared to some of our rivals it's not the biggest squad nor the most talented but we are performing far better than clubs who have spent millions more this season. There is a spirit of togetherness in the squad that is driving them of to achieve great things what were not expected of them at the start of the year. They work hard, back each other up, put their bodies on the line for each other and for their manager.
People were worried in January when the investment didn't come and those around us did. Sheffield Wednesday alone shelled out to bring in three strikers including the in form Sam Winnall and proven Jordan Rhodes. And fears started to come true when we had our 'blip', defeats to Barnsley, Huddersfield and Cardiff. But that seems to be behind us now after victories against Sheffield Wednesday and Birmingham. It's still competitive at the top but we are still competing. It's fantastic to finally have a Leeds team not only meeting expectations but over achieving and long may it continue.


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When I saw the scoresheet for yesterday's Devils/Hurricanes game, I mostly ran around in circles yelling "Goalie goal!" over and over again. For fans of novelty highlights, goalie goals are up there with unassisted triple plays as one of the rarest and most valuable sporting occurrences.
So you'll imagine my disappointment, quickly replaced by delight, when I saw the play that got Cam Ward only the 12th goal scored by a goalie since they began keeping track. Ward wasn't involved; down a goal late, the Devils pulled their goalie for the extra attacker. Down low, Ilya Kovalchuk tried to slide it out to Adam Henrique at the point, but an errant pass traveled the length of the ice for an empty-netter. Because Ward had just made a save, and was the last Hurricane to touch the puck, he was credited with the goal.
So Ward joins the exclusive club, but not as one of the six goalscoring goalies who actually shot the puck. No one's done that since Evgeni Nabokov in 2002.
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Refreshments will be served. The event is free.
The Ladies Auxiliary to California Pioneers will host its 85th annual card party themed, "You Are My Sunshine" from 1 to 4 p.m. April 3 at The Haggin Museum, 1201 N. Pershing Ave., Stockton.
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Martina McBride is always a reliable resource with tips for staying in shape. I mean, look at her. She has a perfectly slim figure and always looks like a million bucks.
So when Shape magazine asked McBride what her diet and exercise routines are like now, I had to devour every word. And here's what I learned: To be as healthy as McBride, you should eat everything in moderation, walk when you can and do some yoga. It's common sense, and yet, sometimes it helps hearing it from her.
She told the magazine, "Some days I do well and I eat really healthfully, but I don't think we should deprive ourselves of anything, so some days I indulge and give in to cravings. I believe everything in moderation, but breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there." (But she admits that she does crave cheeseburgers every now and then.)
For snacks, McBride chooses fruit, yogurt, cheese, crackers and almonds. And for exercise, she sounds like she does it all. "I just took a little break, so right now I'm starting again a couple of times a week doing cardio and weight training. I do yoga, lunges, crunches, things like that for 40 minutes twice a week," she said. "For cardio I usually do the elliptical, treadmill, or walking. If it's a nice day, I like to walk outside around Radnor Lake."
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1.) What do you do? I am a licensed interior designer and have worked in high-end residential design for 14 years. Recently I launched a website called My Design Secrets to share my knowledge with people who like to decorate their own homes but could benefit from some expert tips and tricks.
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It's definitely been "the road less traveled." After getting my MBA in finance, I worked as a financial analyst, which did not provide me the creative outlet I needed. I went back to design school but I am grateful for my business background because it's been VERY helpful. But honestly, I don't think I am so unusual. As time passes I have met so many people who have totally changed their life's course to arrive at the right spot. I like to say, "You have to break the mold to feed your soul."
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'First Lady of Hong Kong TV' Lily Leung Passes Away at Age 90
Chinese netizens pay their respects to veteran actress Lily Leung Shun-Yin (1929-2019), who passed away on August 13.
While the Hong Kong protests are dominating the headlines, the death of Hong Kong veteran actress Lily Leung Shun-Yin (梁舜燕) has become a top trending topic on social media site Sina Weibo under the hashtag "Hong Kong Actress Liang Shunyan Dies from Illness" (#香港演员梁舜燕病逝#).
The actress was born in Hong Kong in 1929. She starred in dozens of television series, including the first TV drama to be locally broadcasted. She became known as "the first lady of Hong Kong TV."
Leung acted for TVB and other broadcasters. Some of her more well-known roles were those in Kindred Spirit (真情) and Heart of Greed (溏心风暴).
Leung, also nicknamed 'Sister Lily' (Lily姐), passed away on August 13. According to various Chinese media reports, the actress passed peacefully surrounded by family after enduring illness. She was 90 years old.
"I've seen so much of her work," many Weibo netizens say, sharing the favorite roles played by Leung. "I always watched her on TVB while growing up, and will cherish her memory," one commenter wrote.
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Many people express their sadness over the fact that not one but two grand ladies from Hong Kong's 20th-century entertainment era have passed away this month.
"Those people from our memories pass away one by one, and it represents the passing of an era," one Weibo user wrote.
"Two familiar faces and old troupers of Hong Kong drama – I hope they rest in peace."
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How Chinese Kuaishou Rebel 'Pangzai' Became a Twitter King
He's been called a 'Twitter king', but how did the unexpected online fame of this 'Hebei Pangzai' start?
He describes himself as the "inventor of tornado beer drinking style" and as an "ordinary peasant from China." 'Hebei Pangzai' only joined Twitter in August of 2019, but he already has a Twitter following of more than 111.6K.
Although his account is temporarily restricted by Twitter at time of writing ("due to suspicious activity"), his popularity is only growing. Some Twitterers, such as the China twitterer Carl Zha (@CarlZha), are even initiating a "#FreePangzai campaign" to restore the account of the "one true King."
But where and when did the online fame of 'Hebei Pangzai' start?
Let's begin our introduction to Pangzai with one tweet from March of this year, when Twitter user 'Hunnaban Trenchboss' posted a video from Chinese short video app Kuaishou (快手) showing a man – 'Pangzai' – wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette while preparing an incredible mixed drink.
The man in the video smoothly pops the cap off a bottle of beer with a chopstick, pours some in a large jar, then twirls the bottle and propels the rest of the beer in a tornado of force down his throat.
He follows that up by pouring in more beer, some blue liquor, an egg, some Pepsi, and a hefty glass of baijiu – which he dumps in only after lighting it on fire, igniting his finger, and coolly lighting his cigarette. He then chugs the entire concoction in a matter of seconds.
"How do I become as cool as this guy, The Coolest Guy?", the tweet said.
The same video was shared again in August by a few Russian accounts, was retweeted by an American account, and then went completely viral, racking up millions of views and tens of thousands of retweets.
That video has now been viewed almost 12 million times on Twitter, and has inspired tens of thousands of fans who herald him as 'king.'
The man in the video referred to as 'Pangzai' (胖仔, 'chubby dude') is Liu Shichao (刘世超), a 33-year-old farmer and small-time Chinese internet celebrity from a city called Xingtai in Hebei Province.
According to an interview with Technode, he found out about the video on Twitter when some of his new foreign fans opened Chinese social media accounts to find him and tell him about his overnight online fame.
"One message told me that I was a celebrity now in America," he told Technode: "So I chatted with the person [who sent the message] for a whole day, with the help of translation software."
Within two days of his video going viral, Pangzai had figured out how to use a VPN, opened his own Twitter account and started uploading videos.
He even posted a reply on the original viral video to alert everybody to his account.
Since then, Liu 'Pangzai' has amassed over 111,000 followers and has posted many more videos of everything from drinking, to cooking, to exploring his countryside hometown.
But it was the drinking videos specifically that earned him his following, both abroad and in China.
"Pangzai epitomizes the typical Kuaishou account."
Liu began his internet career three years ago on Kuaishou, a Chinese short video app massively popular among China's lower-tier cities and countryside.
In contrast to the polished, celeb-heavy platform Douyin, which is most popular among urban youths, Kuaishou is a platform for the masses. Its users are known for their crazy antics and general disregard for personal safety.
Pangzai epitomizes the typical Kuaishou account. Posting under the handle "Chubby Dude from Hebei" (@河北胖仔), he uploads videos of himself eating and drinking in eye-popping combinations, or sometimes smashing things – from bricks to unopened water bottles – with his bare hands.
Liu also gained notoriety, and a couple hundred thousand followers, from his mastery of the so-called 'beer tornado technique' (小旋风 xiǎo xuànfēng).
According to an interview with the BBC, he peaked at 470,000 followers on Kuaishou and was monetizing his online fame with some 10,000 RMB ($1420) per month.
Unfortunately for Liu, China's Cyberspace Administration announced a crackdown on vulgar and illegal content across multiple social media platforms in spring of 2018, with a focus on Douyin, Kuaishou, and its sister news company Jinri Toutiao. Kuaishou was pulled from app stores until it cleaned up its act.
It is unclear just how many videos and accounts have been removed as a result of the cleanup. We can get a rough idea from an announcement by Kuaishou earlier this year that in March of 2019 alone, it removed an average of over 11,000 videos and blocked almost 1,000 accounts every day.
The result for Liu was that his account was suspended for four months and the majority of his most popular videos, including the one that went viral abroad, were removed for promoting 'unhealthy drinking habits.'
When you look at his Kuaishou account today, you won't see many videos focused solely on baijiu and beer chugging.
The videos that remain on his account do include drinking (and his signature tornado move) but it is always accompanied by eating food or some other activity (such as sitting deep in a field of corn, munching on roast duck and dribbling baijiu down a corn leaf into a glass.)
Liu still has 354,000 followers on Kuaishou. His Chinese fans, like his foreign ones, marvel at his cool and collected manner as he eats and drinks all sorts of disgusting things.
Canned herring features heavily in his most popular recent videos, where he can be seen sipping the juice directly from the can.
"This has to be the most unaffected anyone has ever been by eating canned herring," says one fan. "The flavor is disgusting! 99.9% of people who try this would vomit," another online commenter replies.
"Liu is like many young men from the countryside of Northern China: open, friendly, humble, and genuinely excited to share his life."
This year, Liu seems to have embraced his newfound international stardom with grace and savvy.
He uses Twitter's in-app translation to help him communicate with fans and has been highly interactive on the platform.
Liu 'Pangzai' was also quick to open up a Paypal account and share it with followers, and has recently made YouTube and Instagram accounts to prevent scams pretending to be him. He has also collaborated with a Twitter fan to sell T-shirts online in America.
Many online fans have dubbed him 'king', perhaps the highest praise one can receive on the internet today.
But in contrast to the sunglasses and chill demeanor of his videos, Liu does not appear to be an internet celebrity overly obsessed with being cool.
Instead, he is like many young men from the countryside of Northern China: open, friendly, humble, and genuinely excited to share his life (and drinking habits) with the rest of the world.
After reposting all of his old drinking videos from Kuaishou, Liu started asking Twitter fans what they would like to see from him. Many responded that they wanted more about his life in rural China.
He has since followed up with videos showing him fixing a pipe with his friends, exploring his local market, cooking sweet potatoes, and, of course, a tutorial on how to master the 'tornado beer' technique.
Many have expressed concern for his health in light of his drinking habits, but he has assured everybody that everything he does is "within his ability" and that he doesn't drink like that very often.
Liu is grateful for all the support and praise he has received from abroad. "It's crazy to have all of these foreign friends all of a sudden," he recently said in an interview with Deadspin: "I really have to thank them a lot. If I have a chance I will find them and we can drink together."
Seemingly to that end, Liu has recently organized a party to be held near his hometown in China, exciting fans all over the world and spurring many to apply for passports and visas.
The date is set for December 14, 2019 in Zhuamadian City, Hebei Province; too soon for many to make it, but he promises another party in the spring. There is talk also of organizing a visit for Liu 'Pangzai' to go to America.
"Liu's growing notoriety abroad seems to have flown completely under the radar of the Chinese internet."
Although there are many vloggers like Pangzai in China, he stands out on Twitter as some sort of window into Chinese social media, especially because this online world is usually so separate from the Western realms of social media.
The recent explosive growth of Chinese social media apps such as TikTok has not done much to facilitate this kind of cultural interaction between China and the West.
Although Tiktok is, in fact, a Chinese app (called Douyin 抖音 in China), there are actually two different versions of the same app in mainland China and abroad, meaning that the other 'Pangzais' of the Chinese internet still remain within the social media spheres of the PRC, rarely gaining fame outside of the Great Firewall.
In China, aside from his fans on Kuaishou, Liu's growing notoriety abroad seems to have flown completely under the radar of the Chinese internet. He is mentioned only one or two times across Weibo, and searches for his name and handle on WeChat, Baidu, and various Chinese tech news sites bring up nothing.
Liu is a rare example of genuine soft power coming out of China. A pure, grassroots man of the people with strong cultural appeal who sincerely enjoys sharing his life and his culture with the rest of the world. His tweets are full of affection and appreciation for his fans, as well as frequent prompts for followers to share their own lives and customs of their home countries.
To watch his introduction to Twitter and rise to fame is to see the best of the internet: cultural interaction, genuinely shared delight, and mutual admiration inspired by hilarious antics caught on camera.
His Twitter fans express their hope that Twitter Support will soon lift the temporary ban on their 'Twitter king.' To them, it's perfectly clear: this online king is nowhere near dead, long live Pangzai!
Follow the #FreePangzai hashtag on Twitter.
Update: Panghaizi is out of Twitter jail!
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"Living a Nightmare" – Chinese Beauty Guru Yuya Mika Shares Shocking Story of Domestic Abuse
Famous makeup artist Yuya Mika shared her story in a video that has since gone viral on Weibo.
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Fashion and makeup blogger He Yuyong, better knowns as Yuya (宇芽) or Yuya Mika (@宇芽YUYAMIKA), has gone viral on China's social media platform Weibo for sharing her personal story of suffering domestic abuse at the hands of her ex-partner.
On Monday afternoon, November 25 – which is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – Yuya, a KOL (Key Opinion Leaders/online influencer) who has over 800,000 followers on her Weibo account, wrote: "I'm a victim of domestic violence. The past six months, I feel like I've been living a nightmare. I need to speak up about domestic violence here!"
With her post, Yuya shared a 12-minute documentary-style video in which she tells how she has been abused by her partner of one year, with whom she has now separated.
The short doc does not just tell Yuya's story, it also features the experiences of her former partner's ex-wives, who allegedly also suffered domestic violence at his hands.
Besides the shocking accounts of the women, the video contains also footage of Yuya's ex-boyfriend trying to violently drag her out of an elevator – a moment that was caught on security cameras in August of this year.
Yuya identifies her former boyfriend and abuser as the 44-year-old artist and Weibo blogger 'Toto River' (@沱沱的风魔教), who was married three times before starting a relationship with the famous beauty blogger.
The two met each other through social media, and Yuya initially fell for his talent and kindness. But, as she says, his perfect social media image soon turned out to be nothing but a fake facade, and the nightmare began.
The beauty blogger explains that the domestic violence went hand in hand with mental abuse, with Yuya being brainwashed into believing she was lucky to be with a man such as her boyfriend.
As the abuse became a regular occurrence, Yuya tearfully explains how she sometimes could not work for a week because her face was too bruised for shooting videos.
Yuya also writes on Weibo that she shares her story so that the experiences she and her ex-boyfriend's former wives suffered will not happen to other women, and to warn others from ending up in a similar situation.
Meanwhile, the Weibo account of Yuya's former boyfriend has been closed for comments.
Yuya Mika is not just popular on Weibo and video ap Tiktok. The beauty guru – famous for doing imitation makeup of celebrities and famous icons such as Mona Lisa – also has over 750k fans on her Instagram account and thousands of subscribers on her YouTube Channel, where she posts makeup tutorials.
Yuya is part of the company of Papi Jiang (aka Papi Chan), a Chinese vlogger and comedian who became an internet celebrity in 2016. On Tuesday, the Papi Jiang company also responded to Yuya's video, saying they fully support the makeup artist in coming forward with her story.
At time of writing, Yuya's story has been shared over 425,000 times, with a staggering thread of more than 280,000 comments on Weibo.
Many commenters respond in shock that the tearful woman in the video is actually Yuya, as the makeup artist is usually always smiling and shining in front of the camera. Other Weibo users express their hopes that Yuya's ex-boyfriend will be punished for what he did.
With over 160 million views, the hashtag "Yuya Suffers Domestic Abuse" (#宇芽被家暴#) is now in the top five of most-discussed topics on Weibo.
Over the past few years, the issue of domestic violence has received more attention on Chinese social media, especially since China's first national law against domestic violence came into effect on March 1, 2016. More women have come forward on Chinese social media to share their personal experiences with domestic abuse.
According to Chinese media reports of Tuesday afternoon, local authorities are currently investigating Yuya's story.
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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) wants to
We must keep the promise we made to veterans who have served and sacrificed to defend our nation.
It's time to demand action to #EndTheVABacklog. We must keep the promise we made to veterans who have served and sacrificed to defend our nation. As a country, we must support them with the care and compensation they deserve - not a backlogged process that takes hundreds of days to get critical support.
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Keep the pressure on!
There was no draft to force these men and women to war; they volunteered, putting their lives on the line willingly. To ensure our freedoms in this Country, many were lost, maimed, and/or wounded. Some came back to us with so many emotional scars, they cannot function in society. Whatever we,…Read More
These people put their lives in danger for us. They take risks and they go live a life of danger and insecurity but they do it for a good reason and because they want to support their country and their people. They deserve better and if they need disability attention or medical help then because…Read More
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Demand Capacity Real World Example on Windows Azure
I recently had a fascinating conversation with CoreConnex, a company that has a Financial Analysis dashboard called Corelytics. Corelytics is an Azure based SaaS product with about 1,000 customers supported in 11 countries. Last week Corelytics was announced as the Intuit Application Showcase Grand Prize winner. Intuit has a huge customer base for their QuickBooks accounting system and this award creates an interesting dilemma for Corelytics: like, how do you support a flood of new customers that you were not expecting?
Corelytics uses Azure and they were able to connect to Intuit QuickBooks through the Azure App Fabric. This allows a tight, fast and highly secure integration between the accounting system and the dashboard. But the platform decision wasn't expecting such a big spike in new customers.
But as we all know, whenever you introduce any new product, you have to be ready to service the need – especially if it happens to grow explosively. There's always a curve of introduction, ramp-up, maturity and so on. Sometimes that curve is incredibly quick, and other times it has a different shape – and that's the difficulty. You can't always predict how many people will use your product and when. Not only that, you're not certain when that need will change, or even at what frequency.
As we discussed sales and adoption cycles, they pointed out that one of the reasons they chose to use a platform like Azure was specifically for the elasticity to accommodate an unknown growth rate. With stateless code, the system can handle massive changes in workload automatically – something that is far more difficult with an on-premise or even an Infrastructure as a Service system where you have to build, configure and patch operating systems.
There's a subtle but important point here - the point is you need to be prepared for all possibilities, great and small, before you decide where it needs to live. This is another real-world example of that.


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Ask Noel: How safe is super?
Are superannuation savings more protected from outside influences such as a global financial crisis than say a pension fund? I am 60 years old, working full time with about $400,000 in super. In the GFC I lost about 20 per cent of the paper value of my super. Is there any way of preventing that loss by shifting super to a pension fund before the predicted downturn. And, would my money be protected from fluctuations in a pension fund?
Superannuation is not an asset class like property or shares but merely a vehicle which lets you hold assets in a concessionally taxed environment. Therefore, at least in theory, it should not matter whether you are in accumulation mode or pension mode – the outcome would depend entirely on the asset mix you have chosen. It is true that some pension funds automatically opt for a more conservative asset mix unless the member chooses otherwise. I think your best course of action is to discuss your asset allocation with your adviser and agree on a mix which suits your goals and your risk profile.
My wife and I have family, including grandchildren, in New Zealand. Last year we bought a small house there so we can spend time grandparenting. We are Australian citizens and residents for tax purposes, and we own our own apartment in Sydney. If we sell our NZ home will that trigger capital gains tax in Australia?
As you are Australian residents for tax purposes, any capital gain on assets sold overseas will need to be included in your assessable income in Australia.
I read with great interest your article on women's super and thought you should highlight another barrier unique to married women who have followed tradition and changed their names. I have used two different ''find my super'' services – one I paid $90 – and both came back that I had no missing/inactive super. Having at least six accounts that had not been used for at least six years I was surprised and frustrated. It was later revealed to me that as I had changed my name when I got married and these accounts were in my maiden name they had not been found in the search. I was wondering if the Tax Office data match you mentioned would be able to overcome this barrier that many Australian women are facing.
I'm pleased to report that progress is being made in this vital area. An ATO spokesperson tells me that the Tax Office has now achieved a high level of data matching across the superannuation industry. As a result, it is now able to data match the vast majority of records provided by super funds to individuals and display their super accounts and ATO Online which is available through myGov. The ATO Online service also displays separately any super that has been paid to the ATO as unclaimed monies on an individual's behalf. ATO Online is a free service available to all individuals through their myGov account. Even though the ATO has a sophisticated data matching system to match up personal information provided by super funds to the personal information they hold, in a small number of cases they are not able to do so as a super fund has not reported their super account details to them. It is important to ensure your super fund has your tax file number – you can check to see if they have your TFN by looking at the statements they send you.
When a mortgaged principal home is rented can the interest on the loan during the time the home is rented be claimed as a tax deduction?
It's a general principle that for the interest on a loan to be tax deductible the purpose of that loan must be to buy an income producing asset. But a loan can change character – once your residence is available for rent the interest, and other outgoings such as rates insurance and maintenance become tax-deductible.
I refer to your recent article about claiming a tax deduction for personal contributions to super. I am looking at contributing to my super through salary sacrifice and wasn't aware of the personal contribution option. Is there any financial benefit from doing fortnightly salary sacrifice or a lump sum personal contribution at the end of the financial year.
If you make the contributions by fortnightly salary sacrifice you would be taking advantage of the strategy of dollar cost averaging, and also have the benefit of automatic payments. If you chose to invest in one lump sum, it is possible that financial circumstances could prevent you making a contribution when you wished to do it. My advice would be do it by salary sacrifice – it's then automatic.
- Noel Whittaker is the author of Making Money Made Simple and numerous other books on personal finance.


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text: Most students would not be able to afford law school without some form of financial assistance. The Financial Aid Office at California Western School of Law administers student loans and work-study programs, and also coordinates scholarships awarded by other departments, such as Admissions or Diversity Services. Contact Us Administration Building, First Floor Direct line: (619) 525-7060 Fax: (619) 615-1460 E-mail: email@example.com Our Title IV Federal Institution code, used on the FAFSA form, is G13103. How to Apply For Financial Aid Check financial aid deadline dates: while you may apply for aid after these dates, the full array of aid sources may not still be available if you apply late. Complete a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). The California Western School of Law institution code is G13103 Complete a California Western School of Law Online Financial Aid Application and submit it to the Financial Aid Office. Students must be accepted for admission before they submit an application; instructions on establishing a login will generally be emailed to you within a week of your admission. Follow the additional steps provided on the Financial Aid Checklist Types of Financial Aid Scholarships & Grants - Financial aid that doesn't have to be repaid (unless, for example, you withdraw from school and owe a refund) Loans - Borrowed money for college or career school; you must repay your loans, with interest Work-Study - A work program through which you earn money to help you pay for school Veterans Benefits - Additional Financial Aid may be available to veterans, future military personnel, active duty personnel, or those related to veterans or active duty personnel. Current News Yellow Ribbon Program - California Western will continue its participation in the Yellow Ribbon Program for 2018-2019. This program allows students (an unlimited number for 2018-2019) who receive benefits under the Post-9/11 GI Bill to receive additional tuition assistance. More details, and the 2018-2019 application, are available on our Veterans Benefits web page. Codes of Conduct The California Western School of Law Financial Aid Office pledges to abide by its Codes of Conduct, which can be viewed on a separate page.


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Water and sewer services are both provided by Northshore Utility District. Northshore Utility District is a special purpose water and sewer utility headquartered in Kenmore. The District encompasses more than 11,000 acres in parts of Kenmore, Bothell, Juanita, Totem Lake, Kingsgate, Finn Hill, Lake Forest Park and Kirkland and serves more than 65,000 people.
King County Water District Number 79 was formed in 1947. In 1979, Northeast Lake Washington Sewer District merged with the water district and the combined districts were known as Northeast Lake Washington Sewer and Water District. Based on customer suggestion, the utility was renamed Northshore Utility District in 1992. In October 1998, the District moved to its present location at 6830 NE 185th Street, in Kenmore, Washington.


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My favorite Christmas movie is the 1954 musical "White Christmas," starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.
My favorite Christmas movie is the 1954 musical "White Christmas," starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen.
Oh, I'm old school!
You've probably heard some of the soundtrack's songs even if you haven't seen the film. Hearing the title track on a holiday playlist is no surprise, but "Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)" is less likely to be shuffled with "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" during holiday parties.
Still, it's the one that grabs my heart.
Blessings � including our family, friends and health � are personal to us; sheep, and gifts, aren't.
We really could live without the latest smart phone or tablet � either of which will be obsolete in a few months � but we'd be lost without our loved ones.
So many people have encountered things we cannot begin to imagine. I was reminded of this on Friday while surfing channels for national news.��
The CBS Evening News reported�� on Jackie Turner, a William Jessup University student who posted a Craigslist ad that ultimately "rented" families to orphan adults.
The Sacramento area woman knew, all too well, the need to feel warmth and belonging during the holidays; she had no pleasant childhood memories, she said. "I remember getting locked up and locked in rooms. And I remember getting beatings for stealing food," she told the CBS reporter.
NBC Nightly News reported on some 250,000 civilians in Syrian suburbs who hunger amid civil war. The more fortunate civilians hop on bicycles and pedal quickly to produce enough energy to charge batteries, and they chop firewood to stay warm, Keir Simmons reported.
It's a much different picture from anywhere in the United States.
And it's why, on this day, we should count our blessings instead of gifts.
Evidently, many North Okaloosa residents know a lot about that. They're helping others, and they've inspired me.
Crestview High School students, with help from Davidson Middle School students, collected 3 tons of food and clothes for needy classmates.
Crestview Amvets Post 35 members are delivering free Christmas feasts to needy North Okaloosa families. (I'm writing this on Saturday, before official numbers are in, but if Thanksgiving's deliveries are an indication, they could be helping more than 200 families.)
Justice Livingston, a local 10-year-old, spearheaded an effort to provide toys for more than 40 families this Christmas. (See "Cops for Kids drive benefits 40-plus families," Page A1.)
Baker student Railey Conner denied herself birthday presents Dec. 15 and collected toiletries and other household staples for North Okaloosa nursing homes.
Chesser & Bar Attorneys, with Crestview and Shalimar offices, raised enough money to provide gift cards for nearly 40 teenagers across Crestview and Fort Walton Beach.
Nathan Boyles' Crestview law office and title company delivered more than 65 bags of useful items to Crestview Manor residents.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office, Gordon Martial Arts and the News Bulletin served as official collection sites for Sharing and Caring's Crestview office.
And I know this list is just the tip of a generous Northwest Florida iceberg that includes area churches doubling as cold-weather shelters and soup kitchens.
Yet, more is needed, and nonprofits' volunteers gently remind us that giving opportunities don't end with the winter holidays.
We all have encountered struggles at some point in life, but they likely paled in comparison to the experiences of fellow human beings in impoverished areas.
Even current issues may be trivial compared to numerous North Okaloosans' hunger.
Let's be grateful for the gifts we received today, however large or small, and then remember those who lack life's necessities.
Merry Christmas, North Okaloosa County.
What's your view? Write a letter to the editor or tweet News Bulletin Editor Thomas Boni @cnbeditor.


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Through its dissemination and evolution, the kaftan has acquired different styles, purposes, and names depending on the culture. Most of the time kaftan is worn as a light-weight, loose-fitting garment. The kaftan has served as a symbol of royalty in some cultures and as a symbol of marriage in others during some parts of history. It's high time now… Look Trendy yet Traditional with our wide range of Kaftans that can be worn on both casual and extremely formal occasions, depending on the materials used.
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Interview with Swedish Minister for International Development, Hillevi Maria Engström
Date: Wednesday, November 27, 2013
On 25 November, the Government of Sweden announced additional end-of-year core funding of SEK 70 million (USD 10.66 million) for UN Women. This adds to Sweden's existing contribution of USD 8.68 million – bringing its overall 2013 contribution to approximately USD 19.3 million, and making it the second-highest donor to the organization's core budget. In an interview, Swedish Minister for International Development, Hillevi Maria Engström, explains why her Government believes UN Women's work is such an important priority for its multilateral aid.
Why did the Swedish Government choose to allocate an additional USD 10 million to UN Women?
Gender equality and women's role in development is a particular priority in Swedish development cooperation. Violence against women exists everywhere but girls and women living in poor or conflict-affected countries are particularly vulnerable. Change will never come about if we do not work on a broad front and mobilize international joint forces. We must work together with other like-minded countries and organizations to make a difference.
Why is UN Women the best fit for channeling your development assistance?
The Swedish Government played an active role in the founding of UN Women. The organization has an important and unique mandate in terms of leading and coordinating the entire UN system's gender equality-based work – a mission that we truly value and prioritize. Swedish aid also has a strong focus on results, and UN Women has been able to demonstrate several positive outputs in different activity areas. Earlier this year, Sweden contributed with approximately USD 8.3 million. Since we value UN Women's important work, we will now contribute an additional USD 10 million.
Why is gender equality important to your Government?
Gender equality is in general extremely important to the Swedish Government and especially in the context of development aid. Not only do equal rights between women and men have intrinsic value, but they are also a crucial means to combat poverty.
How do women's empowerment and gender equality feature in your multilateral aid policy?
Gender equality and women's role for development is one of the Swedish Government's primary thematic priorities in development aid. These important rights perspectives are thus integrated into all allocations, interventions and efforts. We channel a big part of our development assistance through multilateral organizations (about 50 per cent). The conditions allow the Swedish Government to systematically advocate and convey its main priorities such as equal rights and women's role in development.
See Tweets of the announcement:
In English: https://twitter.com/SwedenUN/status/405009363623874560
Sweden contributes an additional USD 10.6 million in core support to #UNWomen in 2013. International Day To End #ViolenceagainstWomen!
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49 Degrees: Canadian Pagan Perspectives
Canadian Paganism has a style all its own. Have a look at events, issues, celebrations, people, trends and events north of the border from the eyes of a Canadian Wiccan and Witch.
On Killing *Trigger Warning*
Sobering food for thought -
I have always rejected the idea that TV, movies, video games and other forms of entertainment media cause us to become more violent. I believe that we can face imaginary scenarios without attaching ourselves to them and examine hypothetical situations in ways that encourage us to think.
But I have been reading a book called On Killing by a soldier-psychologist who taught at West Point, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. This book was written in the 90s, after the Gulf War but long before 9-11.
In this book he postulates that much of PTSD suffered by our war veterans - not all, but much of it - is sparked by overcoming the natural human resistance to killing; which is considerable, I am pleased to say. He points out that only about 20% of American WWII soldiers actually killed somebody, and he points out that this ratio is probably typical of every previous war in history. For instance, American Civil War sites repeatedly reveal weapons that were loaded up to a dozen times. Which means that the soldiers loaded the weapons, aimed, but did not actually fire, up to a dozen times.
However in Vietnam, about 90% of the veterans killed someone. The reason that he cites for this is a change in training techniques that involve desensitization and conditioning, to make the training environment as realistic as possible. Soldiers are trained to distance themselves emotionally from their enemy, to become comfortable with the idea of violence, and then to kill without thinking. These techniques make them very effective in combat, but without support to ease them back into the world, and support from their loved ones, they are horribly traumatized. Even those who did not actually pull a trigger share the "diffusion of guilt" and may suffer as if they had.
These training techniques have a filter, however. Soldiers are taught only to shoot whoever have been deemed "the bad guys," and only whom their leaders tell them to shoot.
He then points out that violent movies are desensitizing us to violence in the way that CIA assassins are (or were) trained, and that video games, particularly first-person shooters, condition us to shoot at people in the same way that modern military training techniques train soldiers to shoot at people. He says that one of the problems of Vietnam was that the soldiers were teenagers, led by more teenagers. Unlike other wars, they lacked older, more mature role models to guide them. And statistically, most of us are now raised in single-parent families, usually by single mothers. Our children now mostly grow up without any kind of meaningful interaction from male role models, aside from what they see in the media. And unlike in the military, we are given neither direction nor leadership. We are taught in the media that it's perfectly okay to kill people for revenge, even for minor humiliations.
I don't know for sure that this is true. But I wonder. You see, I don't watch much TV. I especially don't watch the news - though I do read it! And I don't play many video games, especially not first-person shooters. And neither do most of the "metaphysical" types I know. Is it that we sense, subconsciously, that we are being conditioned to become killers, and we reject this conditioning?
I posted a video a few days ago to my Facebook page. A two-year-old girl named Wang Yue was run over by not one, but two vehicles on October 13, 2011; and there can be no doubt that both of the drivers were aware that they had at least hit something. As she lay bleeding on the road for more than seven minutes, at least 18 passers-by skirted around her body, ignoring her. She was eventually taken off the road but she died of her injuries. I'm including the video, but TRIGGER WARNINGS all over the place. I thought it had to be a hoax - but it's not. It's really not. I cried. I hope you do too.
Original footage HERE (more awful than the window below).
A few days ago was the first time I had seen this video. I was horrified. And I asked in all seriousness, "What the hell is the matter with us as a species?" Is this societal conditioning and desensitization the answer?
Lt. Col. Grossman writes that the entertainment industry swears up and down that it cannot influence our behaviour in this way - but marketers pay crazy amounts of money to advertise with these media, with the intention of doing just that. Makes you think, doesn't it?
If so, how do we fix this? Maybe we just need to do it in a more responsible way. Studies indicate that roleplaying gamers tend to react more effectively in real crisis situations. Why? Because we have already visualized such situations in our minds and imagined what we would do. We have seen ourselves doing these things. I saw it in action myself at least once; my household plays tabletop RPGs as our major social activity, and when a car went off the road through the neighbour's front yard onto its roof, it was all of about three minutes before one of us was on the phone to 911, one of us was flagging traffic, and two of us were pulling people out of the car and making sure they were uninjured. This before our neighbours, whose yard this was in, had done more than gone out the front door.
Or perhaps it involves a complete change of attitude. Lt. Col. Grossman believes that "dehumanizing" the enemy is one of the major ways in which military training overcomes human resistance to killing. So the answer might be to "sensitize" us instead by teaching ourselves to be more empathetic to our fellow and sister human beings. The internet may be quite beneficial in this, if we don't fall victim to the "siloizing" that social media encourages (namely, gearing the internet to connect you only to people who already share your views and interests) and make liberal use of Google Translator. Also, I believe we must fight any widespread prejudicial view that allows us to polarize humanity; from racism, to sexism (vs. women, men, the transgendered or gender-queer) to homophobia; up to and including the left/right political divide. In other words, love really might be the answer.
I invite you to consider what I've said. And I ask you to support your war veterans, no matter what your view on war is. We ask them to bear the burden of humanity's darkness. It is not fair that we also make them the scapegoats for a guilt that we all share.
Saturday, 03 May 2014
Military training should be a feminist and a pagan issue. The other day Ted was writing about masculine role models. We need to provide alternatives for our boys to the killing machine they are told is the image of real masculinity. I would also say that warrior gods or goddesses should have no place in our pantheons. If living in harmony with nature is one of our goals, should not living in harmony with all other human beings be another? Either images matter or they don't. (I know this view will not be popular with all pagans, but I hold it deeply in my heart.)
Tuesday, 06 May 2014
For tens of thousands of years, males were conditioned by evolution to be warriors, protectors, and hunters. You're not going to change that by banning video games or movies, and the sort of emasculation-by-shame you preach will serve no purpose other than to make us as a society too weak to resist when we are threatened by more aggressive societies that know the value of strength. There is nothing inherently wrong with strength, and aggressiveness, and the warrior spirit, and there are many Pagans and more Heathens who know this to be true.
I note that the little girl's (tragic) death took place in China, which has for centuries gone down the path of devaluing of the individual in favor of the faceless masses. There is where you should look for reasons why the death of a little girl went unnoticed. When society devalues the individual in favor of the collective, it should be no surprise that people step around a single little girl's bleeding body.
The culprit is the devaluing of the individual as a result of collectivism, not an insensitivity to death by extolling the virtues of warriorhood.
Tuesday, 06 May 2014
"I note that the little girl's (tragic) death took place in China, which has for centuries gone down the path of devaluing of the individual in favor of the faceless masses."
This veers a little close to Sinophobia. Let's not perpetuate stereotypes.
Insofar as the tragedy of the little girl is concerned, the problem of the "bystander effect" is neither culture-specific nor a modern phenomenon. It's actually a pretty well-known idiosyncrasy of human behavior, well-known to psychologists and sociologists.
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The families of three teens killed in a northeast Ohio school shooting have filed a personal injury lawsuit against the school and some of its administrators.
The filing Thursday comes on the second anniversary of the shooting and on the day that the father of one of the slain students was found dead at his home.
Authorities are continuing to investigate the death of 48-year-old Russell King Sr. An investigator says there were no signs of foul play.
A family member found him dead Thursday morning.
King was one of several people who filed the lawsuit against the Chardon school district east of Cleveland.
The school�s superintendent says that he can�t comment on the lawsuit and that the focus has been on supporting the school community on the shooting anniversary.


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Friday, May 7, 2010
A One-(Run-On)-Sentence Post on...Happy Surprises
7 comments:
- Gil Fisher said...
Wish I knew you were in town, could have bought you a beer. I'm not a freak, honest. Then again, maybe you are?
Did you hook up with Ack at least?
Were you out on business? Do you work for Osmington?
- May 7, 2010 at 5:36 PM
- REAN said...
Biggest surprise to me is that Lewis is being used at all.
- May 7, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Lewis just LOOKS like a guy who should be leading off. That's nice.
I know it's early, but what's the thought on when/if the Jays might load up this year? What does the record have to be? What is the timeline?
Does Lance Berkman make sense?
- May 7, 2010 at 7:07 PM
- QJays said...
Yeah - and that 120 OPS+ ... what the heck are they doing trotting this guy out there every night?!
- May 7, 2010 at 10:21 PM
I very much doubt you will see them 'load up' this year. The only way I can see it happening is if we are first in the AL East come the trade deadline.
- May 8, 2010 at 1:48 PM
- REAN said...
Biggest surprise to me is that Lewis is being used at all....
...meaning that I'm surprised 'the manager' even gave him a chance to start:)
- May 8, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- QJays said...
- May 9, 2010 at 1:12 AM


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Selected universities to receive $100,000 grant for creative approaches to moving innovations to the market
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Oct. 27, 2010) – The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today announced the designation of three universities – Carnegie Mellon University, University of Missouri System and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill – as "Kauffman Commercialization Leaders." The award recognizes the selected universities for their creative approaches to help to accelerate the process of bringing student and faculty innovations to market. The Foundation is awarding each university a $100,000 grant for their selected programs or initiatives.
"These universities exhibit a strong commitment to bringing the innovations developed on campuses into the commercial marketplace, which benefits society and ultimately enhances economic growth," said Carl J. Schramm, Kauffman Foundation president and CEO. "We are very pleased to recognize and support their efforts."
The Kauffman Foundation, dedicated to growing economies by advancing entrepreneurship and innovation, developed this new award as a way to shine a spotlight on universities that have developed new models to accelerate the commercialization of technologies developed at the university level.
The programs developed by the Kauffman Commercialization Leaders include:
Carnegie Mellon University
The Project Olympus Commercialization Fellows Program will create a cadre of students who will graduate with skills to move their research ideas from the university to the marketplace. Olympus staff will provide fellows with structured business guidance, incubator space, and connections and visibility through Olympus' networks and events. Fellows will take entrepreneurially oriented courses during their fellowship year on topics including venture capital, business planning and business law.
University of Missouri System
The Student Ownership Rights in Intellectual Property initiative encourages student entrepreneurship and technology commercialization by giving students ownership of their intellectual property. Students may own any copyrightable or patentable works made during their enrollment as a student of the University and will not be required to assign his or her ownership to the University.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Innovation Fellowship Program will provide technical expertise to UNC startup companies. The program will help launch and grow early stage university startups as well as build entrepreneurial talent for the Research Triangle Park region by funding two-year Innovation Fellows to work with fledgling companies.
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private nonpartisan foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation to grow economies and improve human welfare. Through its research and other initiatives, the Kauffman Foundation aims to open young people's eyes to the possibility of entrepreneurship, promote entrepreneurship education, raise awareness of entrepreneurship-friendly policies, and find alternative pathways for the commercialization of new knowledge and technologies. In addition, the Foundation focuses on initiatives in the Kansas City region to advance students' math and science skills, and improve the educational achievement of urban students, including the Ewing Marion Kauffman School, a college preparatory charter school for middle and high school students set to open in 2011. Founded by late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion Kauffman, the Foundation is based in Kansas City, Mo. and has approximately $2 billion in assets. For more information, visit www.kauffman.org, and follow the Foundation on www.twitter.com/kauffmanfdn and www.facebook.com/kauffmanfdn.
Carnegie Mellon (www.cmu.edu) is a private, internationally ranked research university with programs in areas ranging from science, technology and business, to public policy, the humanities and the fine arts. More than 11,000 students in the university's seven schools and colleges benefit from a small student-to-faculty ratio and an education characterized by its focus on creating and implementing solutions for real problems, interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. A global university, Carnegie Mellon's main campus in the United States is in Pittsburgh, Pa. It has campuses in California's Silicon Valley and Qatar, and programs in Asia, Australia, Europe and Mexico. The university is in the midst of a $1 billion fundraising campaign, titled "Inspire Innovation: The Campaign for Carnegie Mellon University," which aims to build its endowment, support faculty, students and innovative research, and enhance the physical campus with equipment and facility improvements.
The University of Missouri System (www.umsystem.edu) is the largest public research university in the state, with more than 70,000 students on four campuses and about 39,000 employees. The university system includes the University of Missouri (in Columbia), the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Missouri University of Science and Technology in Rolla. It has 10 research parks and commercialization sites across the state, and has a small business development program that encompasses 30 offices.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (www.unc.edu) was the nation's first state university to open its doors and the only public university to award degrees in the 18th century. Carolina was chartered on Dec. 11, 1789. Several national publications regularly publish rankings that list the university prominently in categories ranging from academic quality to affordability to diversity to engagement to international presence. Recent highlights include placing 1st among the 100 best U.S. public colleges and universities that offer the best combination of top-flight academics and affordable costs as ranked by Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. Offerings include 77 bachelor's, 109 master's, 66 doctorate and six professional degree programs, with strengths across the health sciences, liberal arts, basic sciences and high-tech programs. On Oct. 12, 2010, the university launched the Innovate@Carolina Campaign, a $125 million drive to make Carolina a world leader in launching university-born ideas for the good of society.
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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet Kay Ryan Joins Living Writers SeriesAuthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning collection The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, will give a reading at Muhlenberg College on October 21, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in Miller Forum, Moyer Hall.
Friday, October 18, 2013 09:52 AM
This event, part of the College's Living Writers series is free and open to the public.
Ryan, United States Poet Laureate from 2008-2010 and 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner, has published several collections of poetry, including The Niagara River, Say Uncle, Elephant Rocks, Flamingo Watching (finalist for both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the Lenore Marshall Prize), Strangely Marked Metal, and Dragon Acts to Dragon Ends (1983).
Her most recent collection, The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, was nominated for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in April, 2011.
In addition to the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Ryan has been awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Union League Poetry Prize, the Maurice English Poetry Award and four Pushcart Prizes. Her work has been selected four times for The Best American Poetry and was included in The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. In 2013, she was the recipient of the Fred Cody Award for Lifetime Achievement in Community and Literature.
Ryan's poems and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Yale Review, Paris Review, The American Scholar, The Threepenny Review and Parnassus, among other journals and anthologies.
Living Writers, established in 1994, is a course offered once every three years that brings six established and emerging writers to Muhlenberg College. The students read their recent works and then interact with the authors directly as they visit campus for a day. The writers come to class, have lunch with students and then give a public reading of their work in the evening.
Future readings will be given by writers Terrance Hayes (11/4), and Chris Ware (11/18).


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Both Hope basketball teams have received pre-season attention on a national level.
Practice for the 2010-11 season begins on Monday, Oct. 18. A special pre-season Midnight Madness featuring both teams at DeVos Fieldhouse will be held Friday, Nov. 5.
The Flying Dutch open their season at home hosting Rochester, Mich. on Tuesday, Nov. 16. The Flying Dutchmen will play their first five games on the road, beginning Tuesday, Nov. 23 at Davenport.
Women's DIII News
The Flying Dutch are ranked second in the pre-season poll of NCAA Division III teams and senior center Carrie Snikkers (Jenison, Mich./Unity Christian HS) has been named the pre-season National Player of the Year. Snikkers a year ago was voted the NCAA Division III State Farm/WBCA Player of the Year by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA)
Top-ranked in the women's poll is Amherst, Mass. MIAA rival Calvin is ranked 19th. A year ago the Flying Dutch finished second in the nation and posted a 32-2 season record. The Flying Dutch are also the pre-season favorite in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) with Calvin and Saint Mary's picked second and third respectively.
Men's DIII News
The Flying Dutchmen are ranked 14th in the pre-season poll of NCAA Division III teams and senior guard Peter Bunn (Lansing, Mich./Lansing Christian HS) has been named an honorable mention pre-season All-American. Bunn was a first team all-conference honoree as a junior.
The top-ranked men's team is defending national champion UW-Stevens Point. Hope is also the pre-season pick to win the championship of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) with Olivet and Calvin picked second and third respectively. No other MIAA team is in the men's pre-season national ranking. The Flying Dutchmen a year ago posted a 21-8 record and advanced to the NCAA championships for the 21st time in school history.


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Some good news today on the injury front, the Cubs have activated Kyuji Fujikawa from the DL and he will join the team in Washington tonight. Rafael Dolis was sent back to Iowa, and Kameron Loe refused his assignment to Iowa so he has been released. Fujikawa, assuming he is healthy should calm down a bullpen that has been shaky to say the least. With the emergence of Kevin Gregg as the new Cubs closer they now have a formidable seventh (Russell) eighth (Fujikawa) and ninth (Gregg). Wouldn't be surprised to see Russell and Fujikawa flipped so that Fuji can ease his way back into the bullpen rotation. On paper at least it looks like the toughest spot for the bullpen will be that middle guy, sixth/seventh innings. Luckily for the Cubs their starting pitching has done a tremendous job of getting the ball to the seventh inning, if they can keep doing that they might start seeing no decisions start turning into wins.
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Man robs house after asking to use phone
ROCKFORD — Police are investigating an armed robbery that took place Thursday night a resident let a man into his home to use the phone.
Police said the man struck up a conversation with the resident outside the home and asked whether he could use the phone. The resident let the man inside. The intruder then pulled a gun on the resident and stole money, two cell phones and a video-game system.
The incident took place about 10:20 p.m.
Rockford police are looking for the culprit, described as a 6-foot-1, 225-pound black man with a scruffy beard between the ages of 25 and 35. He was wearing a black-and-white jacket.
Rockford Register Star
Woman electrocuted while trying to help at crash site
NORTH HENDERSON – A woman was electrocuted Thursday evening while trying to assist the victims of an automobile crash north of North Henderson.
A vehicle occupied by two female juveniles was northbound when the driver lost control of the vehicle and struck a power pole, breaking the pole. The vehicle then rolled and came to a stop on its top.
A woman from rural Alexis, whose name is not being released pending family notification, stopped to assist the girls when she came in contact with power lines from the downed pole. She was killed as a result of the contact.
Both girls in the car were injured and transported to Cottage Hospital.
Galesburg Register-Mail
Lincoln documentary to air on PBS
SPRINGFIELD – A two-hour documentary about Abraham Lincoln, premiering Feb. 11 on PBS, attempts to unpack the myth in search of the man.
The filmmakers assembled a top-notch assortment of scholars and commentators, including two former U.S. presidents. Throughout, these sources interact with the narrator — Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, who travels the country on his quest.
His journey brings him to Springfield, among many other places, where he's allowed to stand next to the presidential museum's holographic-like Abe.
The film, which is available for free on the Internet and was made in honor of Lincoln's bicentennial, is relatively brief compared with other epic historical documentaries.
Executive producer William Grant said the production is based on "Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon," a book by Philip Kunhardt, Peter Kunhardt St. and Peter Kunhardt Jr. The Kunhardts, a well-known family of Lincoln collectors and historians, also run their own production company, which is responsible for several acclaimed historical documentaries.
State Journal-Register
Man convicted of drowning kids asks for new trial
SPRINGFIELD – A man convicted in the drowning deaths of three children is seeking a new trial on grounds his lawyer failed to ask a judge to consider child endangerment as a possible jury decision.
Maurice LaGrone and his former girlfriend Amanda Hamm were accused in the September 2003 drowning deaths of Hamm's children.
LaGrone is serving a life sentence after being convicted of first-degree murder.
In a petition filed in DeWitt County Court, LaGrone argues defense attorney Jeff Justice made a mistake when he didn't seek jury consideration of a lesser charge of child endangerment.
A Feb. 2 hearing is set to review the status of LaGrone's appeal.
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Domestic violence is one of the biggest issues facing – and affecting – women of all ages all over the world – including the US. Domestic violence occurs in every demographic – women of all ethnicities and at every income level are affected by it, as are their families, their friends, their careers and even ultimately their communities – and yet it is still a taboo subject that few very people like to talk about.
Here are some of the figures relating to domestic violence amongst the general female population in the US today. Hard to imagine that something so serious could be "swept under the carpet" so easily isn't it?
- On average the CDC estimates that in the US at least 3 women are murdered by their husbands, significant others or boyfriends every day.
- 1 in 4 women living in the US reported having been the victim of IPV (intimate partner violence) on at least one occasion in their lives.
- According to the CDC, over 300,000 pregnant women suffer domestic abuse at the hands of an intimate partner every year.
- The rate of domestic violence is higher amongst women who fall into the low income category. studies conducted over the last decade have shown that women living in a household with an annual income of $25,000 or less are three times more likely to be the victims of domestic violence than women in a better financial position.
- Victims of PPV are 80% more likely to have a stroke than non victims, 70% more likely to develop heart disease, 70% more likely to abuse alcohol and 60% more likely to suffer from asthma.
With the exception of a small study carried out in 1990 most of the research into domestic violence conducted over the last twenty years has failed to show only real difference in the rate of domestic abuse of women of Latin American birth or descent and that of the general female population. There are however a number of cultural factors that often mean that Latinas react and respond to IPV in a very different way to women of other ethnicities and so in fact do the people around them.
There have been a number of studies however that have been able to demonstrate that the levels of domestic violence within certain Latin American populations are higher than others. These studies have reported the highest levels of domestic violence affect women of Puerto Rican descent, followed by Mexicans and Cubans. The very highest levels of violence have been shown to be committed by US born (not immigrant) Puerto Rican and Mexican males.
What Constitutes Domestic Violence??
Domestic violence is abuse that can be physical or verbal and it is most often a mixture of the two. Many abusers are very adept at convincing their victim, and their victims families, that the abuse is not serious or that it does not occur at all, that the abuse exists only in their victims' imaginations. Upon hearing this continually even the most intelligent and well educated women will often become convinced that the abuse is indeed in some way their fault, that they must have done things to provoke it – as their attacker will usually suggest – and for this reason they do not seek help but look for ways to "change" themselves instead.
Domestic Violence and Latin American Immigrants?
There are special circumstances that can make it even harder for a woman of Latin American descent, especially if she as an immigrant to the US rather than a natural born citizen, to seek help if she is living in a violent situation. In fact one study showed that 48% of the 300 women surveyed reported that their partner's violence against them had increased in frequency and severity since they had come to live in the United States.
Often if a woman is a new immigrant to the US she may not be very comfortable with the level of her English language skills and this is something that many abusers use to their advantage. To prevent too much communication with the world at large an abusive Latin American male will often go to great lengths to make sure that his partner does not get th chance to improve their English skills or get the chance to socialize outside of a small, Spanish speaking circle of family and friends. This kind of isolation is something most abusive males will use no matter what race they are but these language and cultural barriers can make it a far more effective weapon for Latin American men.
There are a number of excellent scholarly works that have been written about the cultural differences that exist within Latin American families that exist that impact domestic violence and you can find links to them in Resources section.


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This is the world in which I want to live. MVS is the future of what I hope can be a instantly connected, educated society. And the craziest thing about it – I just downloaded it. And it works. I cannot wait to show this to my grandpa over spring break and make him crack up with the latest piece of geekery I've acquired.
All joking aside, I adamantly believe this technology will be a mainstay of our mobile lives within a matter of years. As the technology progresses, soon all pieces of media in our physical world will be interactive. Imagine walking down the street and being able to read an entire Wikipedia entry on a statue or engraving you'd never seen before.
Yes, QR codes are everywhere but they are not being used. (Our project will show that) However, this platform of completely open-ended google search based on something in our physical world will be revolutionary.
It is innovation like this that truly makes me giddy to live in today's world.


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