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Unionville >> It was time to get down and dirty at the Plantation Field as nearly 5,000 people came out for the 2014 Mudderella PA Aug. 16.
The event, part of eight held across the United States and the United Kingdom, challenged women of all ages to a 12-obstacle mud run, not to mention the miles of running and walking between them all, which took the participants across the entire expanse of the field.
"My expectation was that I was going to die," said Denise Baylor, 42, of Danville, Pennsylvania. "I didn't know that I was actually going to be able to finish it and do all the obstacles. I was a little concerned that I would have to cheat on some of them, but I feel I really did own my strong today by being able to finish every obstacle and the whole course."
She didn't do it alone, as friend Sheila Kramer, who turns 40 in two weeks, also made the three-hour trek to do it by her side.
"We had a bunch of people starting out saying they were going to do this and we're the only two," Kramer said. "To do it together was pretty encouraging."
They were just two of the hundreds of women — and some men, who had to be invited by a lady — who turned out for the event.
States across the mid-Atlantic, including Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio and Washington, D.C., were represented by participants to support the cause.
Mudderella, which is roughly five to seven miles long with muddy obstacles in between, is designed by women to "own your strong" and empower women to take pride in their strength inside and out.
Mudderella is partners with Futures Without Violence, a national non-profit organization trying to prevent and put an end to domestic violence by developing innovative programs and policies.
Anyone who signed up to partake in Mudderella was also encouraged to raise money for Futures Without Violence and by the end, over $42,000 was collected.
Kramer and Baylor went through with the run to empower themselves, as the motto says.
"(We wanted) to own our strength," Kramer said. "It's our first mud run and first official run. Our whole goal was to finish it. We did every obstacle and finished."
It didn't come without some struggles, of course, but they did have fun along the way.
"My favorite obstacle was the water," Kramer said. "I don't know if it was because it was fun or because it was over."
The two have been training together since they live close to each other.
"I've been training since April," Baylor said. "I would definitely do this again. It's awesome."
Now, the duo from Danville can look back with pride at everything they accomplished and how they proved to each other and themselves their strength.
"It was very trying and you really did have to own your strong," Kramer said. "We had to encourage each other. We're the only two on our team because everybody else backed out. It's been very rewarding."
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The cuisine of Catalonia
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Catalonia, maximum expression of culinary character
As with nearly all cultures, Catalonian cooking has great character. Its innovative cooking often looking back to history for inspiration. Although ultimately Mediterranean, Catalonia has been influenced by various cultures over the centuries: the Greeks, Romans, the Italians in the eighteenth century and the French have all left their mark on this complex cuisine. Catalonia has absorbed the best of each country and created a culinary package which forms part of the popular wisdom of the region.
The Catalonian cuisine uses the same ingredients as in other Mediterranean regions: tomatoes, garlic, fresh herbs, olive oil (particularly those of the Denomination of Origin Garrigues and Siurana, prepared using the variety of olive called the "arbequina"), onions, cod… The traveller is sometimes reminded of dishes from Provence, Rosellon, Naples or Sicily: cities which invaded the Kingdom of Aragon of which modern Catalonia formed part.
Varied cuisine In any case, to understand the gastronomy of this region the visitor must keep in mind that Catalonia has various cuisines: sea cuisine at the Costa Brava, sea and mountain cuisine at Ampurdán, mountain cuisine in the Pyrenees of Lerida, the remarkable cuisine of the valley of Arán and Cerdanya in the Pyrenees of Girona and yet another type of cuisine on the coast of Tarragona, etc. Logically, each region has its own recipes and ingredients. If the sea urchins, rock fish and seafood casseroles called "suquets" tempt all visitors to the Costa Brava harbours, the wild variety of wild mushrooms are the passion of entire Catalonia during the autumn months, especially in the forests of Lleida. The combinations of seafood with inland products (rabbit with lobster and snails, chicken with crayfish, etc.) surprise all visitors to Girona, the eating ritual of "calçots" (small flavoursome green onions grilled on a flaming barbecue) and the intensity of a good "allioli" (garlic sauce) will never disappoint the traveller passing through the villages in Tarragona. Rice is also eaten throughout Catalonia and one seafood dish which is relatively recent despite its popularity is the "fideuá" (made with noodles). The various Catalonian sausages ("fuet", "llonganisa", "butifarra") or emblematic dishes such as the "esqueixada" or "escalivada" (mixed vegetable stews) are more examples of Catalonian cuisine.
Influence from the capital Within this delicious culinary offer, Barcelona has always acted as the capital, becoming the best place to taste recipes from all over Catalonia. It was in Barcelona where the bourgeois adopted and improved country fare and all popular cooking can now be found in the endless amount of restaurants which make Barcelona one of the best gastronomy centres in Spain. One of the great attractions of the Catalonian capital is its unique market, "La Boquería", which dates back to medieval times and still preserves its original structure and is, without doubt, one of the most attractive markets in Europe. The "colmados", authentic specialist shops which were originally established to sell deep-sea products, demonstrate the sophisticated gastronomical taste of the locals. But Catalonian cooking is by no means the preserve of Barcelona. Top restaurants can be found throughout the region, to such an extent that a few of the most praised eating houses in Spain are found in small towns in inland Catalonia, such as El Bulli, managed by Ferran Adrià –who is considered the most creative chef of the last few decades–, together with Rosas (Girona) and El Racó de Can Fabes, managed by Santi Santamaria –a master in the modern interpretation of traditional Catalonian cuisine–, in Sant Celoni (Barcelona). Both have been awarded the top qualification of three stars by the prestigious Michelin Guide (and three suns by the CAMPSA Guide) which in its 2002 edition has highlighted many other Catalonian restaurants: El Celler de Can Roca (Girona), Sant Pau (Sant Pol de Mar), L'Esguard (Sant Andreu de Llavaneres), Gaig (Barcelona), Jordi Parramon (Vic), La Cuina de San Simon (Tossa de Mar)... All have been awarded suns by the CAMPSA Guide.
A toast to its wines Another activity which reflects the Catalonian dynamism is the wine industry. There are eleven different Denominations of Origin, due to the varied landscapes of the region. Catalonia has both large production regions such as Penedés and small and more specialised regions, such as Conca de Barberá, Alella and Pla de Bages. With this wine heritage, Catalonia is capable of producing fresh, light white wines, powerful red wines and classical rosé wines; light internationally recognised red wines and sparkling wines which are exported world-wide and have the Denomination Cava, the best natural sparkling wine in the world, together with French champagne. Historically speaking, the Catalonian vineyard basically produced red wines until the production of cava at the end of the nineteenth century was increased, thereby boosting the production of three other local varieties at the same time: Xarel·lo, Macabeo and Parellada. The last great success of Catalonian viticulture has been the recognition of the D.O. Priorat, an area which produces powerful and complex reds from Garnacha and Cariñena grapes which are considered as among the best in the world. The example of Priorat has served to recognise other Catalonion D.O.s, such as Falset, Tarragona, Empordà-Costa Brava and Montsant (the last one). Recently, the D.O. Catalunya has been created for local products throughout Catalonia.
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Sarah Jessica Parker has said Sex And The City's women were much more supportive of each other than the current crop of TV stars.
The actress, who played Carrie Bradshaw said she was proud of how her character and those of her co-stars treated each other in the long-running HBO series.
Asked why people loved Carrie so much, she said: "She was a really good friend. That's why they can forgive those very apparent flaws and selfishnesses. She was a deeply devoted friend, and I think women really respond to that kind of connection.
"I think we all want it, we all work towards having it, and we're not always the very best friends we can be... It's kind of surprising to say, but in a way [Sex And The City] was a more innocent time.
"I think so much reality television - and the women that dominate culture today - are pretty unfriendly towards one another. They use language that's really objectionable and cruel and not supportive. I like to remember that Carrie and the other woman in Sex And The City were really nice to each other."


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Chris Paul at Carmelo Anthony's wedding: "We'll form our own Big 3"
Even at his own wedding, Carmelo Anthony couldn't escape talk of his contract.
Anthony, who wed T.V. personality LaLa Vazquez at a restaurant in New York City over the weekend, watched a toast by New Orleans Hornets' guard Chris Paul take the news.
According to the New York Post, Paul allegedly toasted "We'll form our own Big 3" — in reference to himself, Anthony and the newest member of the Knicks, Amare Stoudemire. This, of course, on the heels of the party of three in South Beach.
Though a source told The Denver Post that Anthony, 26, is close to accepting a 3-year, $65 million extension, his current contract would make him a free agent in the summer of 2011.
Elsewhere at the nuptials, LeBron James was booed.
Also among the 300 guests:
Justin Timberlake, Spike Lee, Serena Williams, Ludacris, Kelly Rowland, Kim Kardashian, Ciara, Khloe Kardashian and husband Lamar Odom.
Their 3-year-old son, Kiyan, was the ring-bearer. Here are a few pictures from the wedding.


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Since I started this blog over two and a half years ago, I've really enjoyed some of the things it brought me. First and foremost of those was the opportunity to interact with other Twins fans and bloggers. And, unfortunately, that's what I'll miss most about this blog: the platform it gave me to engage the conversation in more than 140 characters and in more depth than I could in the comments section of other blogs. This is, in all likelihood, the last post on Call to the 'Pen (and yes, I'm insisting on using the apostrophe all the way to the bitter end).
When I published the first post on Call to the 'Pen, a diatribe about why I dislike Manny Ramirez, I had just finished my first year of law school. I was working as a research assistant for a professor who mostly wanted me to update her website. I had been married for just over 11 months and had lived in the DC area for the same amount of time. I couldn't believe Al Franken was seriously running for Senate. But most importantly, I though I had something somewhat important to say about the Twins.
Some things don't change, though. I'm still married, but now I know that my wife has the patience of a saint to put up with a law student and then an unemployed lawyer. I'm out here in DC for at least a while longer. I'm still a huge Twins fan. I still can't believe Al Franken is a Senator. But in a good way.
Most of that has changed now. I graduated from Georgetown Law in May 2010, and passed the Virginia bar exam just about two months later. I've struggled through the job market; I'm on my third job since then, and even it will end in September. I'm currently employed as a law clerk, and I work an average of 12 hours a day. I don't update any websites anymore. I have a dog, which prompted a couple posts. I don't have any more free time; I haven't watched a full Twins game yet this season. I didn't make it up to Baltimore when the Twins were there. But, most importantly for the purposes of this site, I don't feel like I have anything important to add to the Twins discussion.
There are a few things that led to the decision to shut down the blog. I'll lay them out below in pleasing bullet-point format:
- I haven't posted since last August 9, and at no point during that time did I feel like I wanted to post.
- I feel like somehow the Twins blogosphere has gotten more petty, more jerky. I don't know if I've had anything to do with that, but I've definitely had it affect me.
- I have a wife and a dog that I like a whole lot, and I see little enough of them without feeling like I need to watch a baseball game so I can either write or tweet about it later.
- No time – I haven't set a lineup on either of my fantasy teams in two weeks; I haven't done much of anything for fun in nearly as long.
- The Twins, as a team, have done a whole lot of things to piss me off in the last six months, not the least of which was the recent release of Pat Neshek. While I haven't stopped liking the Twins and the recent month of poor play isn't a driving factor in my decision (Hell, I've been working so many hours I don't have the slightest idea what their record is or who's pitching on a given day), I don't feel much desire to invest in a team that seems to be motivated to get rid of every player I enjoy watching (starting with Craig Breslow a year ago). Petty, but true.
So, that's that. I will miss the times this blog has brought me, as well as the great people it put me in contact with. I'll miss messing with the interwebs, like I did regarding the great Joe Mauer's Beard escapade a season ago, and I'll almost miss the constant hate mail I got from people whenever I (constructively) criticized Joe Nathan or Joesus himself. But all good things must come to an end.
I'll still be around, and, who knows, maybe I'll
kidnap someone and take over their blog for a day guest post somewhere else if I feel I have something to say, but this is the end for this blog.
I'll still be on Twitter and Facebook, but don't be shocked if my Twitter handle changes at some point in the future because I won't have the connection with this blog anymore. If anyone I've interacted with over the years of this blog's existence is ever in the DC area, consider this a standing invitation to get together for dinner or a drink.
So, thanks, everyone. Thanks for accepting me into your community, and pretending my half-baked ideas had some merit, even though I flat-out refused to engage in real statistical analysis. Thanks for the comments, the criticism, and 30,000 visitors, most from people I have never met. Thanks, basically, for being awesome.
Peace out… and Win Twins.
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Brewers liked Ike, but not at Mets' price
PITTSBURGH -- Ike Davis, the power-hitting first baseman linked to the Brewers all winter in trade rumors, made his Pirates debut against the Brewers on Saturday night at PNC Park.
The Brewers ultimately signed veterans Mark Reynolds and Lyle Overbay to fill first base, but not before general managers Doug Melvin of Milwaukee and Sandy Alderson of the New York Mets spoke multiple times about Davis, beginning at the November General Managers Meetings and extending past the Winter Meetings in December.
The sides never got close to executing a trade, according to Brewers assistant GM Gord Ash.
"We talked, but their 'asks' were well beyond what we were willing to do," Ash said.
The request was always a young starting pitcher, including 25-year-old right-hander Tyler Thornburg. The Brewers declined because Thornburg was ticketed for their starting rotation at the time.
He was ultimately bumped when the Brewers signed free-agent starter Matt Garza, but Thornburg has thrived in the bullpen, retiring 21 consecutive batters over seven outings before Andrew McCutchen connected for an RBI double in the Brewers' win on Friday.
On Saturday, Davis was wearing No. 15 for the Pirates, batting sixth.
"How about that?" Milwaukee manager Ron Roenicke said. "It's a good opportunity for him. I don't know what the Mets were doing over there, how much Ike was going to play, but he was a guy Doug talked to me quite a bit about.
"He'd be pretty interesting for anybody, I'd think. I don't know what happened last year; I just read in the paper that he had an oblique thing going on [in 2013, when Davis' numbers were way down]. And if that was it, he should bounce back. He's a good defender, and from what I understand, he's well-liked on the team, so there's a lot of things to like about him."


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Australia, China Plan Joint Military Exercises
In a bid to boost influence across the region, Australia has agreed to joint military operations with China. The WSJ's Andrew Critchlow talks about what impact this move may have.
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Death Row: A View from the Cheap Seats
. . .when you personally pass Jimi's age or John's, or Buddy's or Elvis', you realise just how fleetingly they basked in the limelight, and how briefly the candle of your own existence flairs then flickers.
Kurt Cobain
Witnessed Blakey's final drum roll and Miles' curtain call1; from "Nothing Prepared Me for You"
Heard the last words of Ian Curtis
Saw Keith Moon before the fall
Gave the last rites to Tim Buckley as he wailed his final breath
Caught Jaco's fading rhythms
On the precipice of death
Death has been not so much a motif in the rock 'n' roll concerto as a fully blown theme; recurring through most, if not all, of its movements. But I must qualify that. I am talking about early death: artists snatched from the land of the living by excess, by the bullet, by the crumpling of crippled steel in speeding motor cars or burning airplanes. Mortality � life's far from imaginary friend � stalks the hallways of popular song in a curious reversal of the Faustian myth: you make a deal with the devil's music and then stand an even chance of shortening your time on the planet.
These thoughts come to mind when another significant figure joins the pantheon of the missing. Joe Strummer, dead at 50, outlived Holly and Hendrix, Sam Cooke and Jim Morrison, Marvin Gaye and Ian Curtis, Cobain and Michael Hutchence. But still, the Clash frontman's demise came as a bolt from the blue.
I suppose, as the rock generations expand to include grandfathers and great grandmothers, as we all get older, the very notion of old age itself changes. Once regarded as the ephemeral music of adolescence, pop, in all its many forms, now forms the soundtrack to lives both young and old. Rock and soul, country and reggae, disco and rap, are all utilised to remind us of our youth and also psychologically slow down the processes that may condemn us to the retirement home or the walled community.
When we're young, life appears to have an almost eternal quality � and there's a definite down-side to that. Nothing ever happens quickly enough. Everything means waiting: for alcohol, for sex, for love, for money, for liberty, for self-fulfilment. Youth employs rock and pop to crystallize those as-yet-thwarted, aspirations. The singers we cling to embody and express the very frustrations we are experiencing. Then we accelerate to adulthood and quickly realise that the scenery around us is flying by all too rapidly.
Then there is time's other trick. There won't be many nu metal adolescents who caught the news about Strummer and don't think he'd enjoyed an innings of near Methuselah proportions. Their feelings about the late Clash man were probably as distant as mine were when I first read about young casualties like Robert Johnson and George Gershwin from the pre-war years. They might all be giants, but they are extinct giants, lost in the Jurassic mist.
I recall when Lennon fell, I was in my mid-20s and thought that he'd not actually had a bad run, an outstanding life over a whole four decades. However, when you personally pass Jimi's age or John's, or Buddy's or Elvis', you realise just how fleetingly they basked in the limelight, and how briefly the candle of your own existence flairs then flickers.
In 1997 when my mother died � and losing a parent is as fierce a reminder of your own temporary state as you require � I wrote a song which, in part, reflected on a number of the late, great music-makers whose paths had crossed with mine over a quarter of a century. Recorded in 2001, "Nothing Prepared Me for You"* gathers fragments of memory, and few are more potent than recollections of great live performances.
Strummer's passing raised those spectres once more. It brought back my first ever concert � the Who at the Odeon Cinema in Manchester in 1971 with Moon � in full fury. It raised an image of Richard Manuel on a Wembley Stadium stage in 1974 with the Band, supporting Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. I thought of Tim Buckley at Knebworth in 1975. It made me think of Joy Division's Ian Curtis at the Band on the Wall or the Factory in Manchester in 1979, and of Marvin Gaye at the Apollo Theatre in the same city in 1980. I remembered Jaco Pastorius at the Palace Theatre in 1981, Art Blakey at the International in 1987 and Miles Davis at the same Apollo in 1989.
Such wallowing, though, may be too morbid, too maudlin. Death comes to us all and to turn it into the only illuminating beacon of rock history is perhaps a mistake. After all, rock is also about survival. For every Eddie Cochran there is an Iggy Pop, for every Phil Ochs there is a Bob Dylan, for every Sid Vicious there is a Lou Reed, for every Patsy Cline there is a Johnny Cash, for every Janis Joplin there is a Joni Mitchell, for every Tupac Shakur there is a Snoop Dogg, for every Layne Staley there is a Chris Cornell.
For as bright an illustration as any of rock's drive in life, we need go no further than that enduring quintet of David Bowie, Elton John, Keith Richards, Rod Stewart and Ozzy Osbourne. They're still striving, still thriving � reminding us all that even over-indulgence � in wine, women and worse, doesn't necessarily ensure that the Grim Reaper has made an early appointment for all the best rock 'n' roll stars in his diary of the damned.
*Note to our readers: "Nothing Prepared Me for You" is part of a four song CD, entitled The Loft Space Demos, written and recorded by Simon Warner. The Loft Space Demos was available in a limited run. The song has been performed probably a dozen times in venues from Yorkshire to Scotland, and once during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.


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Gay men will be hitting the gym for months just to prepare.
More DJs, an underwear party, and men in Speedos as far as the eye can see. Billed as 'the biggest spring break for gay in America,' the White Party returns to Palm Springs in April, it was announced Wednesday.
The event, put on by Los Angeles promoter Jeffrey Sanker, is set for April 9-12 at the Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel, event spokesman Phil Lobel said.
Promoters have billed the weekend bash as having the biggest line-up of international DJs in the White Party's history.
The DJs will include the Freemasons, Spain's Chus+Ceballos, the United Kingdom's Moto Blanco, along with Chi Chi La Rue, Tony Moran, Wayne G and Manny Lehman.
The event will kick off Friday, April 9, with a pool party at the Renaissance followed by a "Boxers or Briefs Underwear Party" at 9 p.m. in the hotel's grand ballroom.
A second pool party is set for Saturday, with the finale, "White Party 2010 Electrified," set for 9 p.m. at the Palm Springs Convention Center. The weekend wraps up with a final pool party on Sunday and the T-Dance party.
Weekend passes for the event are on sale online.


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Mudit Sachdev, Standard & Poor's
Martin Hampel, Standard & Poor's
Standard & Poor's makes extensive use of quantitative models in many ways, including analyzing market conditions, forecasting stress scenarios, supporting credit analysis, and evaluating pricing for complex debt instruments. One important aspect of ensuring model quality is rigorous ongoing validation, particularly for models that are recalibrated daily. This presentation provides an overview of a framework deployed at S&P that incorporates MATLAB to produce and analyze daily validation reports. The credit default swap–based Market Derived Signals model is introduced briefly, and the corresponding automated framework for daily validation of model output is discussed. Additional reports that allow for time series analysis of model behavior over a specified time period are also considered. We briefly describe a dashboard currently under development that automatically evaluates the validation output and provides a compact display of the information. Finally, we provide an overview of the technical infrastructure that was built to support the engine that drives the validation framework.
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ArcelorMittal Bremen places order for SKF customised electromechanical actuators
2014 January 16, 09:00 CET
Gothenburg, Sweden, 16 January 2014: ArcelorMittal Bremen GmbH has chosen SKF to customise and supply 30 electromechanical actuators for use in the continuous casting of steel. The order is one of the biggest for a mechatronics solution that SKF Germany has ever received from a customer in the metals industry.
Karsten Faust, Area Director, SKF Industrial Market, Regional Sales and Service, North Europe, added, "Having worked closely with ArcelorMittal on many successful projects involving our bearing and service platforms, we are very pleased to have this opportunity to demonstrate the value that our mechatronics solutions can deliver."
Carsten Albers, Project Manager, ArcelorMittal Bremen, commented, "We needed to have a very compact solution that would enable us to be very accurate and reliable in adjusting the width of our output steel. We chose to work with SKF on this project because the company has strong technical knowledge and understands our business and the application."
An actuator is a type of motor for moving or controlling a mechanism or system. Actuators used in the mould narrow-face adjustment operation in continuous casting must perform efficiently, despite working in an extremely hot and harsh environment. SKF's electromechanical actuators offer a flexible yet reliable actuator solution.
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SKF is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems, and services which include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training. SKF is represented in more than 130 countries and has around 15,000 distributor locations worldwide. Annual sales in 2012 were SEK 64,575 million and the number of employees was 46,775. www.skf.com
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Are you worried your burger is not really happening right now? What if the burger you're eating is a bit 'last week'? Imagine if you sat down in your latest burger hotspot, only to find you've been duped, and you're actually sitting in a chain restaurant, thinly disguised as the latest thing, complete with tattooed staff, factory lighting and retro packaging?
Do not fear, my handy quiz will make sure you know exactly where you are on the burger cool scale.
1. Did you hear about your burger
a/ On the specials board at your local Geronimo pub?
b/ In ES mag top ten burger list?
c/ On twitter, RT'd by Chris Pople?
2. Are you eating it
a/ In a restaurant staffed by Australians?
b/ In a 2 day residency pop-up at a trendy pub?
c/ Near an old caravan at the side of the road after being anonymously tipped off?
3. Is the bun
a/ A supermarket bap?
b/ A poppyseed bun?
c/ A light Normandy butter brioche artisan bun, baked by hand, in-house, that morning?
4. Is the patty
a/ 100% ground beef?
b/ Home ground selected cuts, hand sourced from local suppliers?
c/ Fucking meat, man, cooked bloody. Eat it and feel your southern roots, cowboy!
4. Is it served
a/ On a plate, with a galvanised steel bucket of chips?
b/ In an ironic mass-produced takeaway style brown cardboard box, with the (still independent and proud) logo on the front?
c/ On the back of a naked stripper?
5. In it, is there
a/ A selection of salad, cheese and ketchup?
b/ Pulled pork, 'slaw', & your own selection of cheese (you went for American, to be authentic)?
c/ Maybe some vodka pickled jalepenos, half a bottle of tabasco, some cocaine?
6. To wash it down, you drank
a/ A glass of Pinot Grigio.
b/ A bottle of American craft beer.
c/ Neat bourbon.
7. Did you pay?
a/ You got it discounted at a 2 for one lunch deal from Bookatable.
b/ Of course, for you and your hipster date!
c/ Did you fuck.
Mostly As:
Your burger is a burger loser, a patty square about as cool as Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Go to Gourmet Burger Kitchen.
Mostly Bs
Your burger is a burger wannabe. A blatant ligger, a groupie. It thinks it knows what's happening but it's a long way til the front of the queue. Stick to Byron.
Mostly Cs
Congratulations! You've got 100% fully qualified bad-ass Burger elite. You've probably just got back from New York, where you ate secret off the menu shit that would make Burgerac weep. I won't even tell you where to go, as it's still a concept in the mind of someone way cooler than me.


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Season and Spirit: Magickal Adventures Around the Wheel of the Year
The Wheel of the Year is the engine that drives NeoPagan practice. Explore thw magick of the season beyond the Eight Great Sabbats.
New Year, New Moon, New Day
I don't make New Year's resolutions. I never really have. As a kid I was intrigued with all the lip service this idea got, but I noticed that no one ever discussed what actually became of the resolutions they made at the beginning of the year. And then it was never a surprise how quickly people joked that they had broken them. Making resolutions seemed, quite frankly, futile. So I never make any resolutions. Nor do I panic about making all kinds of plans and commitments right on New Years Eve and Day. A New Year needs a few weeks to start unfolding itself and revealing what it is.
Traditions abound about how New Year's Eve and Day should be best spent, to ensure a new year's worth of blessings and prosperity. Special foods are prepared to ensure prosperity (black eyed peas & collards, grapes, baked fish, are a few examples), and folk magic spells are still passed down through the generations. In my own family, right after we watched the ball drop in Time Square, we'd throw a big pot of water out the front door onto the lawn, to carry all the past year's ills and troubles with it. The innate sense of freshness, renewal and change that is associated with the Winter Solstice and its different iterations , is also reflected in the magic of the turning of the calendar year.
At New Year's we get an opportunity to move forward and let go of what weighs us down, and to bring into our lives greater joy and fulfillment. Like any act of magick, we prepare the space by cleansing it, and then invite our desired "guests" into the space we have cleared. It's a good idea to clear one' space psychically from time to time, and New Years is an excellent time to do energetic and psychic housekeeping in your home space. After cleaning the house, you clean away psychic junk by smudging your space with sage, sweet grass or incense. You can charge salt water and flick it all around to dispel negativity lingering in the space. Rooms can be cleared sonically as well, thru chanting, singing or by ringing temple bells. And of course, by stating your intention: I clear this space of all negative and unwelcome energies. Keeping that thought in mind as well as saying it aloud while you smudge or asperge amplifies the intention.
Once the space is cleared, clear the space inside your self! A good ritual bath or shower for the New Year can be a wonderful way to renew yourself. You can add salt to your bath or wash your hair with salt water to really clear out the psychic gunk out. Wearing new clean clothes, new jewelry, and cologne all help us breathe into our own renewal. Take some time to get quiet, create sacred space in whatever way feels best to you, and consider what you want out of the coming year. What do you want to accomplish, how do you want to feel? Map out all the things you want for the year, all the things you want toe experience or accomplish. Use a journal and a wall calendar to lay it all out. Consider if your plans seem too busy and ambitious, or not challenging enough? Is there enough fun in all the work? Is there enough challenge in it? Get it down on paper somehow, through journaling or making art. I always make a collage which carries my intentions and intuitions of the coming year. Don't worry that these plans are set in stone. Anything can happen to derail the best laid plans, but the time spent alone laying out the year's work can be create a wonderful guide for the coming months and an ongoing support in achieving your intentions. You can refer to this through the year, and amend plans as needed.
Today being the New Moon, the possibilities and adventure or the New Year seem very close. Not only can we set intentions for the coming lunation, but for the whole year. With 5 planets in Capricorn today, it seems very appropriate to lay out our work, to see where we need to commit, and where we need to let go. Whatever transformations we wished to bring about in our lives, whatever we want to manifest for ourselves, there is no better night than tonight for conjuring these possibilities and for starting to move towards our goals and desires. Having let go of the past, being clear in mind and body, we are part of the promise of the New Year. It's a clean slate again. It's a mystery to approach with curiosity and an opportunity to create something beautiful. Pure magick!
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Have you ever noticed a comment on Twitter where someone used the hashtag #1stworldproblems. People use it when they're complaining about something incredibly petty, usually when some incredible convenience is disrupted. Here's an example.
So frustrated. It's taking like five whole second for pages to load on my computer today. #1stworldproblems.
Get the gist? Well, there's an immense #1stworldproblem happening at some Starbucks right now. The Wall Street Journal reports on what it's calling a "Halloween Horror Story." At some stores, Starbucks has a shortage of the sauce that is used to make the limited-time-only customer favorite, Pumpkin Spice Latte. The company says "there is no widespread scarcity of the sauce used to make the drink, though they acknowledge shortages at some stores due to infrequent deliveries."
Silly as it may be, this is big enough news for the Wall Street Journal and other major news outlets to give prominent coverage to, so I figure there's a need here. I wonder if people realize that they can make their own pumpkin spice latte at home. There are lots of recipes floating around on the internet, and some of them even contain pumpkin. The Starbucks' version does not contain any actual pumpkin. This video shows how to make pumpkin spice lattes:
Earlier this week, I wrote about why we sometimes think that cooking is so hard. After watching that video, do you think making your own pumpkin spice latte will be difficult? It will take less time than getting your car, heading to Starbucks, waiting in line, and buying one from the coffee shop.
You can also control the ingredients that go into your latte. Think about it: if Starbucks isn't putting pumpkin into its pumpkin spice latte, what are they putting in it? You can use organic coffee, organic milk, your own pumpkin puree, pumpkin pie spices that you make yourself, and homemade whipped cream. You may never want one that's store-made again.


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As the Battle on Installation 04 rages on between the Covenant and UNSC forces, an evil so terrible lies silently in slumber. In the pursuit of knowledge and power, the Covenant unleash a force that even they fear. As Containment Facilities across Alpha Halo are breached, one in particular is at the forefront of this. On a lone island in the middle of Installation 04's many seas, a facility unlike the others contains something that will make the Flood thousands of times more formidable to combat. A Gravemind lies dormant deep inside the recesses of this vault. The Battle for Installation 04 is about to reach its pinnacle.
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Paolo Di Canio's debut match as Sunderland boss ended in defeat as Chelsea returned to the top four of the Barclays Premier League with a third successive win at Stamford Bridge.
The build up to Di Canio's first match as successor to Martin O'Neill was overshadowed by debate over the controversial Italian's character after his 2005 statement proclaiming to be a "fascist but not a racist" and he could not prevent Sunderland's winless run extending to nine games.
Chelsea trailed at half-time to Cesar Azpilicueta's own goal, but Matt Kilgallon deflected into his own net following a surging run by substitute Fernando Torres and Branislav Ivanovic directed a David Luiz shot into the Sunderland goal to put the Blues in front after 55 minutes.
It proved to be the winner as Chelsea, who beat Manchester United on Monday and Rubin Kazan on Thursday, returned above Tottenham on goal difference and into third place.
The Blues' attention now turns to Thursday's trip to Moscow for their Europa League quarter-final second leg with Rubin before next weekend's FA Cup semi-final with Manchester City at Wembley, while next for Sunderland is a Tyne-Wear derby at Newcastle.
Di Canio's appointment sparked former Foreign Secretary David Miliband's resignation as vice-chairman of Sunderland and ignited much conjecture, with the former West Ham forward on Wednesday belatedly insisting he does not support "the ideology of fascism".
Former managers, team-mates and opponents praised Di Canio's character, but former goalkeeper Shaka Hislop, who played alongside him at Upton Park, called for a clarification of his views.
Di Canio, who was met warmly by Chelsea captain John Terry before kick-off, was given seven games to ensure Premier League survival.
He made three changes from O'Neill's last match in charge - last weekend's loss to Manchester United - with Connor Wickham, Sebastian Larsson and Kilgallon drafted in.
Chelsea's quest in the remaining weeks of the season is no less important than Sunderland's: to secure a return to the Champions League, after their defence of the trophy ended at the first hurdle and prompted Rafael Benitez's appointment.
Arsenal's win yesterday, coupled with the loss at Southampton last weekend, meant the Blues had slipped out of the top four prior to kick-off.
In a scrappy first half the hosts looked like a team playing their fourth game in nine days and struggled to test Simon Mignolet.Chelsea were awarded just a corner when the ball hit Kilgallon on the arm during an aerial challenge with Demba Ba - one of the Blues' five changes from Thursday night.
Sunderland were playing on the counter attack and Stephane Sessegnon found Adam Johnson, whose curling shot was blocked by Luiz before Craig Gardner was booked for a scissor-like late lunge on Ba. It might have been red.
The combination of the muscular Wickham and livewire Sessegnon caused trouble for Luiz and Ivanovic, while Johnson was enjoying his afternoon against Ryan Bertrand, but Sunderland could not test Petr Cech as Chelsea often scrambled to recover in defence.
Eden Hazard's tame header from Oscar's cross was easily saved by Mignolet, before Sunderland broke and claimed a 45th-minute corner when Luiz deflected Wickham's shot wide.
Johnson's set-piece was flicked on by John O'Shea and Azpilicueta could only deflect the ball into his own net.
Having been animated throughout, pacing in his technical area, Di Canio's celebration was muted.
Torres came on at half-time for Ba, whose movement was limited after Gardner's challenge, and his first act led to Chelsea's equaliser.
Buoyed by his double against Rubin Kazan, Torres scythed in off the left wing and found Oscar, who, for once, lost control of the ball as Mignolet raced to meet him.
The ball ricocheted off the goalkeeper and hit Kilgallon before spinning into the far corner.
Chelsea also benefited from good fortune for their second after 55 minutes.
Azpilicueta's long-range effort deflected out for a corner and Wickham failed to clear. Luiz struck a low shot which Ivanovic cleverly turned in with a back-heel.
The relief was palpable as the Blues fans sang in support of their rejuvenated team.
Hazard headed over from an Oscar cross before Gardner caught Luiz as another meaty tackle left a Chelsea player requiring treatment.Benitez was anxious enough to tell Terry to warm up, but Luiz continued.
Another moment of worry for Chelsea came when Johnson went by Mikel and curled a shot around the post.
Di Canio urged his men on and introduced James McClean for the ineffective Larsson, while Wickham was left dazed after he was caught by a Luiz elbow and required treatment.
Di Canio's former West Ham team-mate Frank Lampard was introduced for the final skirmishes but Sunderland could not find an equaliser.
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Jamie Moyer and 10 Other Athletes Who Defied Age to Achieve Greatness
In a game on Tuesday night, Rockies' pitcher Jamie Moyer, 49, became the oldest major league pitcher to earn a win. "It's a great night for the Rockies, as far as winning a baseball game. But it's an historic night for one tremendous human being," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said after the game.
Athletes in all sports have long tried to hold on for years after their primes are over, with mixed results. Here's a look at 10 athletes who have in recent years proven the opposition wrong while racking up some amazing feats:
Moyer isn't baseball's first journeyman, and he won't be the last. At the age of 40 last August Jim Thome became the oldest player to join the 600 home run club. What was so noteworthy about the moment was how little excitement Thome expressed. He was surely proud of his achievement, but he was at the ballpark that night for one purpose: to help win the game for his team.
After decades of showing elusive moves on the court, Steve Nash appears to finally be slowing down a bit, though it's hard to tell. Over the past two seasons, Nash became the oldest player to lead the NBA in assists, and then broke his own record the following year. He's slotted now, at 38, to finish second in the league behind Rajon Rondo this year. His consistency is most amazing, as he's averaged just about 11 dishes per game every season since he returned to the Suns in 2004.
In 2010, while a member of the Indianapolis Colts, then 42-year-old kicker Matt Stover became the oldest player in Super Bowl history. "It's been a ride, to say the least," Stover said. It was probably fate that delivered him there after reliable Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri had to have arthroscopic surgery on his right knee that created an opening for Stover to step in.
Last June, 43-year-old Mark Recchi became the oldest player to ever score a goal in the Stanley Cup final as he led the Bruins to a Stanley Cup win. He didn't show any signs of slowing down, netting 10 points in 13 games during the playoffs. Shortly afterward, Recchi announced his retirement, a happy man. "It's the end for me," he said. "This is the last time I get the chance," he said.
Tom Watson took home first place at the Senior PGA Championship in May 2011 at the age of 61, making him the oldest person to win a major on the senior tour. "Obviously, it never ceases to be enjoyable, winning a golf tournament," he said. "I'll go back and think about this tournament. If this is the last tournament I ever win, it's not a bad one to win." Other golfers marveled at how long and steady Watson's career has been. Consider Watson among the most surprised. "Lo and behold, I started making good swings again," he said.
On some rare occasions, a soccer player will outlast his critics and prove he still has some gas left in his tank. For Brad Friedel, that satisfaction came in February 2011 when he became the oldest player to take the field for Aston Villa. But it was all business for him. "We're not paid to go out and get records — unless it means winning trophies. Age is just a number. I don't think about it, I just go by how I feel," he said. Now 41, Friedel plays for the Tottenham Hotspur and is the Premier League record holder for most consecutive appearances with 304.
There's no doubt that Roger Federer has lost a step in recent years, but in November he became the oldest player to win the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals. That's significant for the 30-year-old because it was the last tournament of the season, and it allowed Federer to carry a winning streak of 17 matches into this spring. "I couldn't be more happy and I couldn't be more exhausted," he said after the match.
Bernard Hopkins achieved the unthinkable in May 2011 when he became the oldest fighter to win a major world championship, after he took home the WBC light heavyweight title. Hopkins, 46, beat Jean Pascal to bring his career record to 52-5-2. He eclipsed George Foreman's previous record by roughly six months. "I won't retire until I'm 50," Hopkins said after the match.
In July 2010, Merlene Ottey, at age 50, became the oldest athlete to compete at the European Championships after she anchored Slovenia's 400 women's relay team. But the team finished 7th in that heat, ending her run She has 29 medals from her time at major competitions,which includes seven Olympic Games. Perhaps most impressive is the bronze medal she took home at the 1992 Barcelona Games when she was 32 years old.
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We might see history made in 2016 at the Olympic Games, if Japanese equestrian Hiroshi Hoketsu gets his way. He's expected to compete at the London Olympics this summer at the ripe old age of 71, and he's hoping to break the all-time mark for oldest athlete at the next one. "I will go on as long as it is possible — physically and as far as circumstances permit," Hoketsu, who became in 2008 the oldest Japanese athlete to attend any Olympics, said. To break the all-time mark, though, he'll likely have to replace his horse, Whisper, who's gotten too old to compete.


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Temporal analogues make use of climatic information from the past as an analogue for possible future climate (Webb and Wigley, 1985; Pittock, 1993). They are of two types: palaeo-climatic analogues and instrumentally based analogues.
Palaeoclimatic analogues are based on reconstructions of past climate from fossil evidence, such as plant or animal remains and sedimentary deposits. Two periods have received particular attention (Budyko, 1989; Shabalova and Können, 1995): the mid-Holocene (about 5 to 6 ky BP2) and the Last (Eemian) Interglacial (about 120 to 130 ky BP). During these periods, mean global temperatures were as warm as or warmer than today (see Chapter 2, Section 2.4.4), perhaps resembling temperatures anticipated during the 21st century. Palaeoclimatic analogues have been adopted extensively in the former Soviet Union (e.g., Frenzel et al., 1992; Velichko et al., 1995a,b; Anisimov and Nelson, 1996), as well as elsewhere (e.g., Kellogg and Schware, 1981; Pittock and Salinger, 1982). The major disadvantage of using palaeoclimatic analogues for climate scenarios is that the causes of past changes in climate (e.g., variations in the Earth's orbit about the Sun; continental configuration) are different from those posited for the enhanced greenhouse effect, and the resulting regional and seasonal patterns of climate change may be quite different (Crowley, 1990; Mitchell, 1990). There are also large uncertainties about the quality of many palaeoclimatic reconstructions (Covey, 1995). However, these scenarios remain useful for providing insights about the vulnerability of systems to abrupt climate change (e.g., Severinghaus et al., 1998) and to past El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) extremes (e.g., Fagan, 1999; Rodbell et al., 1999). They also can provide valuable information for testing the ability of climate models to reproduce past climate fluctuations (see Chapter 8).
Periods of observed global scale warmth during the historical period have also been used as analogues of a greenhouse gas induced warmer world (Wigley et al., 1980). Such scenarios are usually constructed by estimating the difference between the regional climate during the warm period and that of the long-term average or a similarly selected cold period (e.g., Lough et al., 1983). An alternative approach is to select the past period on the basis not only of the observed climatic conditions but also of the recorded impacts (e.g., Warrick, 1984; Williams et al., 1988; Rosenberg et al., 1993; Lapin et al., 1995). A further method employs observed atmospheric circulation patterns as analogues (e.g., Wilby et al., 1994). The advantage of the analogue approach is that the changes in climate were actually observed and so, by definition, are internally consistent and physically plausible. Moreover, the approach can yield useful insights into past sensitivity and adaptation to climatic variations (Magalhães and Glantz, 1992). The major objection to these analogues is that climate anomalies during the past century have been fairly minor compared to anticipated future changes, and in many cases the anomalies were probably associated with naturally occurring changes in atmospheric circulation rather than changes in greenhouse gas concentrations (e.g., Glantz, 1988; Pittock, 1989).
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The highest-profile neo-Nazi murder trial in Germany in decades opened Monday amid tight security and intense media interest, with the five accused appearing in public for the first time since their arrest more than a year ago.
Police erected security barriers in anticipation of possible protests by far-right extremist groups, while hundreds of reporters queued outside the Munich courthouse in the hope of gaining one of the few available seats in the packed courtroom for the start of a trial scheduled to last for more than a year.
The main defendant is Beate Zschaepe, 38, accused by prosecutor of complicity in the murder of eight Turks, a Greek and a policewoman between 2000 and 2007. If convicted she faces life imprisonment.
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Zschaepe is also accused of involvement in at least two bombings and 15 bank robberies carried out by her accomplices Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Boenhardt, who died in an apparent murder-suicide in November 2011. The judges allowed Zschaepe's face to be filmed as she entered the court in a dark suit, her arms folded, before turning her back to the cameras.
Four male defendants are accused of assisting the self-styled National Socialist Underground in various ways:
— Ralf Wohlleben, 38, and Carsten Schultze, 33, are accused of being accessories to murder in the killing of the nine men. Prosecutors allege that they supplied the trio with the weapons and silencers used in the killings.
— Andre Eminger, 33, is accused of being an accessory in two of the bank robberies and in a 2001 bombing in Cologne's old town. He is also accused of two counts of supporting a terrorist organization.
— Holger Gerlach, 39, is accused of three counts of supporting a terrorist organization.
Like Zschaepe, the co-defendants were known to German authorities before the existence of the self-styled National Socialist Underground came to light. Many in Germany have asked how the country's well-funded security services, with their network of informants in the far-right scene, could have overlooked the group's existence for so long. For years, police suspected the immigrant victims of being involved with foreign gangs linked to gambling and drugs.
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We're coming to you live from my living room, where days have been taken off from work, and the big-screen is flickering to life.
Of course, we missed the beginning of today's action, due to my four-month-old son's need to eat and have his diaper changed. He just doesn't get it.
Anyway, while the RTC crew has things covered from the various arenas, I'll take you through the best two days in sports in the same way as 99% of America: from the couch. We apologize in advance for the baby vomit smell or if the crying drowns out Verne Lundquist.
The plan is to focus less on Xs and Os, and more on the broadcast, announcers, commercials and coaches' hairpieces. You know, the important stuff. If this works out, we'll be back for a look at the night session later this evening.
And yes, I know I'm not Bill Simmons. I make way more money than him, anyway.
1:28 p.m.: We're early in the second half of Murray State-Colorado State. I've been watching for a while, but had my hands tied with baby bottles and burp rags.
1:30: Love starting with Lundquist and Raftery. To be honest, I don't have a problem with nearly any of the CBS announcing crews. But I mean come on, who doesn't love Raftery. They both do a good job making it seem like they knew ANYTHING about either of these teams before yesterday.
1:31: Am I the only one who is bothered by these generic black/natural courts the NCAA insists on installing now at every site? There was something cool about immediately knowing which site you were watching. Every time they show "The Shot", I take pride in recognizing the Spectrum floor. I could tell you instantly that Tyus Edney's memorable dash was in Boise, because of the garish floor they had there. This just seems so sterile. It's … it's so … NCAA.
1:40: Colorado State can shoot threes, but I feel like this is going to just slowly drift away from them. Murray State should not have been a 6 seed anyway.
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BRIDGEPORT -- At the age of 79, Harry Weichsel's memory isn't what it used to be, but two dates are just unforgettable.
On July 24, 1942, his uncle was murdered in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Two months later, on Sept. 29, 1942, his grandparents were killed in a gas chamber in the Treblinka death camp in his native Germany.
"Those dates remain indelibly etched in my memory," the Bridgeport resident told a group of more than 100 Central High School students Thursday during a Holocaust Remembrance ceremony at the school.
Weischel was joined at the school by the mayor of the German town he escaped from as a child. A Realtor, Weischel was born in Wetter, Germany, in 1933, the year Adolf Hitler came to power.
He was just 5 years old on Nov. 9-10, 1938, or Kristallnacht, a night defined by the sound of broken glass that marked the Nazi destruction of Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues and the brutal attack against Jews.
Weichsel survived unscathed, wrapped in a quilt by his grandparents and hidden under a bed.
"You've probably read the story of Anne Frank," he said. "Well my stories are not that different from hers except I didn't end up in the gas chamber or a concentration camp."
After placing Weichsel in an orphanage when she went into hiding, his mother managed to get them both onto a boat headed for the U.S. in 1941. Asked by a student if it was an easy transition, Weichsel replied, "It was a hopeless and it was a frightening life until I landed on these beautiful shores in America."
"My first vision of America was a fruit stand when we first came off the boat," he added, noting that the colorful fruit was a welcome sight after eating mostly potatoes for so long.
The students also heard from Kai-Uwe Spanka, mayor of Wetter, Germany.
Spanka, who has been in the city all week, showed the students a video tour of the synagogue and cemetery defiled by Nazis during the Holocaust. The synagogue was restored in 2005 and is now used as a community center and museum.
Hanging on one of its walls is a proclamation issued in 2008 by Bridgeport Mayor Bill Finch, who attended Thursday's assembly. Weichsel's longtime friend, Finch issued the proclamation for the small town's decision to restore the space and help the town move past its violent history. Even now, Spanka said, facing the past is difficult.
He noted it was difficult for him to address the congregation at Rodeph Shalom, a synanogue on Park Avenue, on Sunday because many Holocaust survivors still harbor anger at Germany.
Flanked by Spanka, Weichsel and Central Principal Stephen Anderson, Finch lit white candles and told the students to keep the "light of knowledge lit." He reminded them numerous times that each new generation is responsible for ensuring the mistakes of the past are not repeated.
The high schoolers also saw a video produced by the National Holocaust Memorial Museum titled "Never Again: Heeding the Warning Signs." They sat still and wide-eyed during the story of how the entire world watched as the Nazis forced Jews to sell their businesses, closed Jewish schools, created laws to control them, herded them like animals into concentration camps and, ultimately, tortured and killed millions.
"In your lifetime we've had horrible genocides on the continent of Africa, in Darfur and Sudan," Finch said. "Genocide touches each one of us here in Bridgeport whether we like it or not." Finch told them.
One of the students at the assembly, Jose Lopez, a junior at the school, said he has a family member who lived in Germany in the 1930s. Her brother was taken by force to serve as a soldier during the Holocaust. She never heard from him again.
Freshman Ishrat Saboor called the ceremony "sentimental" and said it drove home recent efforts by school officials to focus on safety and gun-control issues. "I think it's actually really awesome we got to learn the history," the 14-year-old said.
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