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Who made this project possible?
exactly is this project?
When is the
project carried out?
Where is
the project carried out?
Why was this
project started?
How is the
project to be conducted?
How was
the matching done?
How do I
find out what abortion mill has been matched with my parish?
The current project is sponsored by Priests for Life, and was
originally designed by Fr. Frank Pavone. Through his constant visits to parishes
nationwide, and his interaction with grassroots pro-life activists, Fr. Frank
noticed how many parishes are invigorated when they focus pro-life activity on
the local killing centers. With the help of the Priests for Life staff, he
therefore matched the remaining abortion mills with the Catholic parishes
Life Dynamics, Inc., has provided the database of freestanding
abortion mills that are remaining in our nation, and keeps it up to date.
Click here to see a database of the nation's existing abortion mills.
This project is an application of the spiritual power of
the Church against the demonic power of the abortion industry. Abortion
doesn't just happen. Specific people carry it out in specific places. Likewise,
the Church, which opposes abortion, has specific places where its people gather,
pray, learn what is right, and find the strength to do it.
Obviously, all of us throughout the nation are responsible for
praying and working for an end to abortion throughout the nation, and the
closing of every mill in the nation. With this project, however, the very
big effort of "the Church" ending "abortion" gets translated into a
particular gathering of the Church, a parish, ending the killing at a
particular abortion mill close by. This effort increases the focus by which
the energy of people in the parish can be channeled. It also provides simple
ways that everyone in the parish -- whether young or old, healthy or sick,
mobile or homebound -- can direct their prayers
for an end to abortion. The success of the project, furthermore, is quite
The project increases the sense of responsibility that the
People of God have for ending abortion. In a form of "spiritual adoption," which
has been carried out for a long time in reference to individual unborn children,
the entire parish, as a community, "adopts" the abortion mill, all the babies
who are brought there, the mothers and fathers, the employees and volunteers,
and all who help the mill to function.
The spiritual battle inherent in this project should not be
underestimated. One former abortion mill security guard said to a pro-life
leader that the mill was "a church -- a place of worship." Ginette Paris, a
pro-abortion author, actually wrote a book called "The Sacrament of Abortion,"
calling this procedure a sacred sacrifice to the goddess Artemis. Some have
bumper stickers that say "Abortion is a woman's rite," and it is no
secret that witchcraft is sometimes carried out inside abortion clinics. The
lining up of the parishes with the mills is a face-off between the false church
and the true Church; between the false god, who transforms suffering into
violence, and the true God, who transforms violence into suffering; between the
innocent blood of babies that cries out for vengeance, and the innocent Blood of
Christ that cries out for mercy; between those who make a covenant with death,
saying "This is my body, even if the baby dies," and those who renew the
everlasting covenant of Life, saying, "This
is My Body, given up for you, that you may live forever."
Our Lord told us that the gates of hell will not prevail
against the Church. It is the Church that takes the initiative, storming the
gates of sin with the power of grace, the gates of falsehood with the power of
truth, and the gates of death with the power of life. And the gates will not
The matching of the abortion mills and the parishes was done
in May of 2003. In some places, parishes had already "adopted" abortion mills to
pray and work for their conversion and closing. To the degree that we were aware
of those situations, we followed that matching in the current list.
Prayer and action on this project is now carried out by the
local parishes, any time of the week and as constantly as they can. The project
will be complete when every last abortion mill has closed its doors.
The two key places in the project are, of course, the parish
Church and the abortion mill. In the Church, prayers and Masses are offered for
the conversion and closing of the mill. At the mill itself, prayer vigils,
accompanied by sidewalk counseling, street preaching, and leafleting, can be
conducted by the clergy, parishioners and others in the community.
The home, of course, is a third place where the project
advances by means of family prayer and discussion.
Taking the step of matching the parishes to the mills makes
our prayer to end abortion much more concrete and specific. It drives home the
point that the killing of children is taking place in specific places, at
specifically scheduled times. In some cases, these places are within one's
own parish boundaries -- an important fact, given the pastoral
responsibility that priests and bishops have for all those within their
parish or diocese.
Often, the members of a parish -- and even its clergy -- are
not aware of the location of the nearest abortuaries. This project makes them
aware, and helps to spread that awareness to the wider community as activities
are planned for the purposes of converting and closing the killing center.
Abortion is a local phenomenon. In this perspective,
ending abortion can seem much more realistic and achievable. Having the abortion
mill's staff quit working there, having mothers change their minds about
aborting their babies, and causing the place to close, are very measurable,
tangible results.
While Priests for Life can offer many suggestions, it is up to
the individual parish, under the leadership of its pastor, to fashion its unique
response and activities. The number of things that can be done is practically
One simple element that can unite all the parishes in this
effort is the
prayer that has been composed for the closing of the abortion mill. This
prayer can be distributed within the parish on special holy cards, printed in
the bulletin, recited at Mass or after Mass, used in the parish school, prayed
at home, and so forth.
Parishioners and clergy can likewise go to the abortion mill
for prayerful vigils, perhaps conducted in collaboration with other parishes
that are praying for the same mill. These vigils can take many forms, such as
that carried out by the
Helpers of God's Precious Infants. Parishioners can be trained as
sidewalk counselors.
Contact Helpers of God's Precious Infants:
Msgr. Philip J. Reilly, Executive Director
In Residence at:
The Monastery Of The Precious Blood
5300 Ft. Hamilton Parkway
Brooklyn, N. Y. 11219
Telephone (718) 853-2789
Parishes may want to carry out the "Prodigal Project," by
which leaflets, written by former abortionists, are given to the abortion mill
workers as they come to or leave the mill. This simple activity has succeeded in
leading some people out of the abortion industry.
Parishes may want to start the "Gabriel
Project" or some other form of pregnancy resource assistance, inviting
people who are tempted to abort their child to come to the loving help of the
Church rather than to the abortionists' instruments of death.
A form of
"conscientious objection" can be encouraged whereby professionals in the
community refuse to provide any kind of service to the abortion mill. Businesses
should sever all ties with the killing centers, and in cases where service
contracts are in place, individual workers can exercise their right to refuse to
violate their conscience.
The United States Catholic bishops, in their
Pastoral Plan for Pro-life Activities, ask that a
petition for a Culture of Life be prayed at every Mass. The parish can
therefore incorporate the prayer for the conversion and closing of the abortion
mill into these daily prayers.
Another pastoral aspect of this project is the outreach of
dialogue with those who work in the abortion mill and administer it. Priests for
Life provides specific guidance in how to reach out to these individuals.
First of all, the matching was done only with free-standing
abortion mills, of which there are slightly more than 700 in the United
States. It should be noted that these are not the only places where surgical
abortions are occurring. This matching does not take into account those
hospitals that commit abortions (though only a small percentage of them do so),
nor does it identify all the doctors' offices where abortions are done, often
secretly. If parishes are aware of these additional killing centers, they are
certainly urged to incorporate them into their prayers and actions as they also
carry out this specific project linking them to an abortion mill.
The matching follows, for the most part, state and diocesan
boundaries. With a few exceptions, abortion mills within the same diocese
were chosen for the parishes in that diocese. This was done to emphasize the
spiritual unity and responsibility of the local diocesan Church for what happens
within its boundaries.
Within a diocese, the zip code of the abortion mill was
compared to the zip codes of the nearby parishes. Most abortion mills are
concentrated in large cities. This means that within the city boundaries, fewer
parishes are covering more mills. The further out from the city one goes, the
pattern becomes one of many parishes in the same area covering a single abortion
mill, which may not necessarily be close.
In some cases, there may be an abortion mill closer to a
parish than the mill that was matched to it. By all means, for this or for
any other reason, a parish may
indicate to us by email
its desire to change the abortion mill for which it is specially assigned, and
we will be happy to change that indication on this listing. It is
impossible to know all the local situations which, in some instances, may
indicate that such a change makes more sense.
We would like to hear from every parish, indicating a
confirmation that it will pray and work for the closing of the mill that has
been matched to it, or indicating a desire to change the mill to which it has
been matched. Moreover, we would like to hear of the activities being conducted,
and of the successes that we are confident the Lord of Life will bestow upon our
How do I find out what abortion mill has been matched with my
Open the states page by clicking here.
Then click on the name of your state. You will see the names of the abortion
mills in that state, with a grouping of parishes listed under each one. Use the
Search and Find function on your computer to locate, on that page, the name of
your parish. (Note: If your parish is in the diocese of Steubenville, OH, you
need to click on Pennsylvania, since you have been matched with abortion mills
in the Pittsburgh area.)
Special notice: Receive Fr. Frank Pavone's bi-weekly pro-life commentary
via email, free of charge, so that you can keep informed of developments such as
this special project. Request the column at


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Vaccination of Cattle to Reduce Public Health Risk of E. coli O157 Featured in the Canadian Journal of Public Health Français
Feb 28, 2013, 17:00 ET
-Bioniche Food Safety being renamed to Bioniche One Health-
BELLEVILLE, ON, Feb. 28, 2013 /CNW/ - Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC) (ASX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that the latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Public Health features an article about the importance of reducing the public health risk of Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157 by immunizing cattle.
The article, by Dr. Glenn G. Smith et al, discusses the fact that many new and emerging diseases of humans are zoonotic, meaning that they can be transmitted from animals to humans. It noted that there are many different strains of E. coli that live in the human intestine and cause no disease. However, one Enterohemorrhagic E. coli serotype, O157, which often resides in cattle, releases toxins that can cause severe illness in humans. Only a small number (fewer than 10 bacteria) are required to cause serious human illness. The article notes that, while there are numerous verotoxigenic E. coli serotypes, O157 is the strain most frequently associated with human illness in Canada. In addition to outbreaks caused by contaminated meat, human exposure to E. coli O157 is regularly traced to contaminated fruits and vegetables; unpasteurized milk and fruit juice; potable and recreational water such as lakes, rivers and streams; and animals at fairs, exhibitions and petting zoos (through direct contact).
The article notes that E. coli O157 colonizes in the intestines of cattle and has not been associated with clinical disease of the carrier animal. The bacterium is shed in the feces, and manure from beef and dairy farms, used as a fertilizer for crops, is a source of contamination for the general environment as well as for surface and ground water.
The article discusses human infection from E. coli O157, noting that symptoms of primary illness begin 3-10 days after infection with E. coli O157 bacteria and range from diarrhea and fever to severe bloody diarrhea to Haemolytic Uremic Syndrome and death. Long-term studies following patients infected with E. coli O157 have documented secondary illnesses due to hypertension, cardiovascular and kidney disease as well as arthritis.
The article points out that many steps have been taken along the farm-to-fork continuum to reduce the risk of infection from E. coli O157, such as consumer education about food handling practices, better retail and transport refrigeration, test and hold procedures at the processing stage, and hide washes and carcass pasteurization during harvest. The article states that, currently, little is being done on the farm to reduce E. coli O157 prevalence prior to harvest. As part of a multiple-hurdle approach, more can be done at this stage to further reduce the public health risk of illness due to E. coli O157, including cattle vaccination.
The article notes that published data show immunization of cattle can decrease the April to October E. coli O157 seasonal prevalence spike.. Data also show that cattle vaccination decreases shedding of E. coli O157, which reduces the risk of human illness. By reducing colonization and shedding, vaccination also reduces the probability for environmental transmission of E. coli O157 within commercial farm operations, thus gradually limiting the re-infection cycle within the herd. Modeling by Matthews et al predicts that interventions aimed at preventing high bacterial loads could be highly effective strategies for reducing prevalence of E. coli O157.
The article concludes that cattle are routinely immunized against common bovine pathogens to prevent infection and disease. Incorporation of this additional vaccine to reduce a public health risk would easily fit into existing herd health management protocols within all production systems. The majority of reported outbreaks with verotoxigenic E. coli are due to the O157 serotype. Evidence indicates that other serotypes such as O26, O111, O103, O121, O45 and O145 also contribute to human illness. Data clearly show that vaccination of cattle with the E. coli O157 Type III protein vaccine decreases E. coli O157 shedding.
"In spite of all of the compelling evidence, our Econiche® cattle vaccine against E. coli O157 which is fully registered and available in Canada at $3 per dose, is only receiving limited uptake by Canadian cattle producers," said Mr. Rick Culbert, President of Bioniche One Health (formerly Bioniche Food Safety). "Published scientific studies show that this vaccine reduces the shedding of E. coli O157 and several modelling studies have been done demonstrating that human health risk from this pathogen would be reduced through cattle vaccination."
Bioniche One Health
The Company is changing the name of its Food Safety division to "Bioniche One Health" to reflect its focus on developing vaccines and therapeutic solutions to zoonotic pathogens, including Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157, which have animal reservoirs, but also have a direct impact on public health and the environment.
Bioniche One Health is responsible for researching, developing, manufacturing and marketing veterinary biopharmaceutical products to improve public health and the environment. The leading initiative for this division has been the development and commercialization of a cattle vaccine to reduce the spread of the E. coli O157 bacterium, which can be deadly to humans. The vaccine - Econiche® - is fully registered in Canada, is approved for importation into Australia, and has received Special Treatment Certificate authorization for UK veterinary surgeons to use on visitor open farms.
About Bioniche Life Sciences Inc.
Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. is a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development, manufacturing, and marketing of proprietary and innovative products for human and animal health markets worldwide. The fully-integrated company employs more than 200 skilled personnel and has three operating divisions: Human Health, Animal Health, and One Health. The Company's primary goal is to develop and commercialize products that advance human or animal health and increase shareholder value.
For more information, please visit www.Bioniche.com.
Except for historical information, this news release may contain forward-looking statements that reflect the Company's current expectation regarding future events. These forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties, which may cause, but are not limited to, changing market conditions, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies, the establishment of corporate alliances, the impact of competitive products and pricing, new product development, uncertainties related to the regulatory approval process, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's ongoing quarterly and annual reporting.
SOURCE: Bioniche Life Sciences Inc.
For further information:
Jennifer Shea, Vice-President, Communications, Investor & Government Relations
Bioniche Life Sciences Inc.
Telephone: (613) 966-8058; from Australia: 0011 1 613-966-8058
Cell: (613) 391-2097; from Australia: 0011 1 613-391-2097
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AfriGeneas Free Persons of Color Forum
Wed 01-09 Chat - Public Libraries & Genealogy
Wed 01-09 Chat - Public Libraries & Genealogy
Dr. Dee Palmer Woodtor, Ph.D. writes in her book 'Finding A Place Called Home':
"...Public libraries in small towns often maintain genealogical collections that beginners will find very useful. Major libraries in larger cities may maintain nationally recognized genealogical collections like the New York Public Library, the Detroit Public Library, the Newberry Library, or the DAR Library in Washington, D.C...(pg 54)."
We'll chat about what research materials you can find at the library and how they may lead to your Ancestors!
It's possible that you will get more information there then on the Internet!
So trek down to your local public library branch (if you can, take a kid with you) and re-new that library card. It's free, a tremendous bargain!
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This thread is established for players who wish to create a new forum for a game/campaign that they have planned. I do request that you start a thread in the Adventurer's Guild and fish for players before requesting a forum. I'd rather not create a forum that is never used. Even if you have only one person who is joining your story, that should be fine.
If a game forum is inactive for three months or longer, it will be moved into the Game Archives. If there is desire to return to the game setting later, it can be recovered from the archives.
Only members in good standing are able to request Game Forums. Typically that means they have to have at least 100 posts and have participated in other games previously. Exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis.
One exception would be linking to your account on another roleplaying forum so that we see that you will stick with the setting. We do not want to create forums for someone that is going to be here for a week and abandon us.
Those wishing to start a setting without the minimum requirements or without providing a link to their profile elsewhere are welcome to begin a setting here in the Adventures Guild. Once the setting is established, it will earn its own forum and the current thread will be moved into it.
Feel free to invite people from other sites to join your setting. We always need more members.
Are you moving an existing setting here, let us know. We may be able to retrieve your previous thread and place it in the archive.
Copy the form below into your post and please answer all the questions.
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The Campaign/Game Name will be the name used for the forum.
The Brief Description is a brief description of the campaign/game setting that will appear beneath the forum name. Please no more than two or three sentences.
GMs is where you would list yourself and/or any other players that would have GM status over the forum. A forum does not have to have a GM, if it is more community game oriented. If, on the other hand, you want to have more control over your setting, assign yourself as GM. Leaving this blank assumes no GM.
Number of Confirmed Players means players aside from yourself. You should have a couple new players if you want to start a game, but can open a forum with as little as one new player (aside from yourself).


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Two years after the national Dwightmare began, it has finally come to an end.
Howard agreed to join the Rockets yesterday, capping a two-year process that saw him hold several teams hostage while he repeatedly waffled in his decision-making.
After the news was initially reported by USA Today, Howard later changed his Twitter avatar to a painting of him in a Rockets uniform and put out a tweet making the decision official.
"I've decided to become a member of the Houston Rockets," Howard said in the tweet. "I feel it's the best place for me and I am really excited about joining the Rockets and I'm looking forward to a great season. I want to thank the fans in Los Angeles and wish them the best."
Howard's decision to join the Rockets, spurning the Lakers — who he played for last year after being acquired in a four-team trade with the Magic last summer — and rejecting overtures from the Mavericks, Warriors and Hawks, means he will play alongside budding superstar guard James Harden in Houston, immediately transforming the Rockets into one of the league's elite teams.
Howard's decision to leave the Lakers — and leave a fifth year and an extra $30 million guaranteed on the table — is a crushing blow for the franchise, which had acquired him last summer in the hopes of making him the foundation of the next era in the team's illustrious history with Kobe Bryant nearing the end of his career.
Now, however, it remains to be seen if the Lakers can even be competitive for a playoff spot in the loaded Western Conference next season, especially with Bryant still recovering from a torn Achilles tendon he suffered just before the end of the regular season. The best course for the Lakers may be to sacrifice next season and try to finish as high in the loaded 2014 Draft Lottery as possible before entering next summer with plenty of money to spend. That would allow them to chase potential free agents LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade.
This also marks the second straight summer the Mavericks have struck out on landing a marquee free agent to pair with aging superstar Dirk Nowitzki. The Mavs missed out on Dallas native Deron Williams — who re-signed with the Nets last July — and now Howard. Those disappointments followed owner Mark Cuban willingly blowing up the 2011 title team to maintain future salary cap flexibility.
After the Mavericks were informed of Howard's decision, Cuban tweeted, "Time to get back to work. The Mavs are back open for business." He later proved that was the case when Dallas agreed to a four-year, $29 million deal with free agent point guard Jose Calderon.
Though the Warriors came up short in the Howard sweepstakes, it was far from a bad day for them after they agreed to a four-year, $48 million deal with versatile swingman Andre Iguodala. One of the league's best wing defenders and a capable ball handler, Iguodala averaged 13.0 points, 5.4 assists and 5.3 rebounds for the Nuggets last season.
The move leaves Golden State with the potential for a devastating small-ball lineup of Iguodala, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Harrison Barnes and Andrew Bogut, in addition to David Lee, after making it to the Western Conference Semifinals last season.
In order to free up the cap room to sign Iguodala, Golden State sent Richard Jefferson, Brandon Rush and Andris Biedrins to Utah — all were in the final year of their contract and will be paid roughly $25 million next season — along with 2014 and 2017 first-round picks in exchange for the unguaranteed contract of guard Kevin Murphy.
The Hawks made two signings after the Howard news became official, coming to agreements with power forward Paul Millsap and small forward DeMarre Carroll — both of whom played for the Jazz last season.
* In other signings, Matt Barnes returned to the Clippers, agreeing to a three-year deal for $11 million, and O.J. Mayo agreed to a three-year deal worth $24 million to go to Milwaukee and play for the Bucks.
In other signings yesterday, Matt Barnes returned to the Clippers, agreeing to a three-year deal for $11 million, while O.J. Mayo agreed to a three-year deal worth $24 million with the Bucks.


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Music Library Endowed Fund
The purpose of the Endowment is to provide long-term support for the University of Washington Music Library for purchase of materials in all formats: artwork, furniture, equipment, preservation, conservation, programs, and activities focusing on music.
Betty L. Wagner, Architecture and Urban Planning Librarian, established Performing Arts Endowments in February of 2003 to encourage others to contribute to this fund to create three individual library endowments for the performing arts: Dance, Drama, and Music. The Music Library Endowed Fund was established in July 2004 from this and many other matching donations.
Betty graduated from the UW School of Librarianship on June 9, 1951 and began her appointment as head of the Architecture Library on June 11 of the same year. When the original endowment was created, Betty stated, "This is my first and only professional position and is likely to be my last. One of the thrills of working in an academic environment is working both with the students that we serve and the students who work for us. Working with young people is the next best thing to a fountain of youth."
Betty retired in June 2004, after 53 years of exemplary service to the Architecture and Urban Planning Library, the University Libraries, and the University of Washington.


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In Principles of Manufacturing, students are introduced to knowledge and skills used in the proper application of principles of manufacturing. The study of manufacturing technology allows students to reinforce, apply, and transfer academic knowledge and skills to a variety of interesting and...
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Scope and Sequence: Principles of Manufacturing
CTE TEKS - Implemented 2017-2018, adopted in 2015Principles of Manufacturing course scope and sequence within the Manufacturing Career Cluster® summarizes the content to be taught, and one possible order for teaching the units of instruction. A brief description of each unit and the...
- Resource ID: 19469
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In this lesson, students will learn the impact of mass production in increasing the efficiency of manufacturing. The students will be able to create a paper towel holder using mass production techniques.
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Worley Engineering
2018-09-18 09:34:19
How to handle a dominating client?
Thanks for the interesting article. From my experience, i've encountered number of client who likes to dominate the contract administration and project execution process. Does anyone know if there are any case studied that i reference and also share my opinion?


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String Of Bombings Kill 101, Injure 200 In Pakistan
Violence against Pakistani Shia Muslims is rising and some communities are living in a state of siege, a human rights group said on Friday, warning that sectarian violence will only get worse a day after 114 people were killed in bombings.
Most of the deaths were caused by twin attacks in the western city of Quetta, near the Afghan border, the worst violence against Shias in decades.
"Last year was the bloodiest year for Shias in living memory," said Ali Dayan Hasan of Pakistan Human Rights Watch. "More than 400 were killed and if yesterday's attack is any indication, its just going to get worse."
Eighty-two 82 people were killed and 121 wounded in Quetta when a suicide bomber targeted a snooker club and a car bomb blew up nearby 10 minutes later. Nine police and 20 rescue workers were among those killed in the second blast.
"It was like doomsday. Bodies were lying everywhere," said police officer Mir Zubair Mehmood Mehmood.
The banned Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility for the attack in a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood where the residents are ethnic Hazaras.
The bombings underscored the myriad threats Pakistani security forces face from homegrown Sunni extremist groups, the Taliban insurgency in the northwest and the less well-known Baloch insurgency in the southwest.
The LeJ wants to impose a Sunni theocracy in U.S.-allied Pakistan by stoking Sunni-Shi'ite violence. It bombs religious processions and shoots civilians in the type of attacks that pushed countries like Iraq close to civil war.
LeJ leader Malik Ishaq was released last year after spending 14 years in jail in connection with dozens of murder and terrorism cases.
The roughly 500,000-strong Shia Hazara community in Quetta are routinely hunted by extremist groups because their ethnically distinct features make them an easy target, said Dayan of Human Rights Watch.
"They live in a state of siege. Stepping out of the ghetto means risking death," said Dayan. "Everyone has failed them - the security services, the government, the judiciary."
Earlier in the day, a separate bomb killed 11 people in Quetta's crowded main market.
The United Baloch Army claimed responsibility for that blast. The group is one of several fighting for independence for Balochistan, an arid, impoverished region with substantial gas, copper and gold reserves.
Quetta is the capital of Balochistan, a province that constitutes just under half of Pakistan's territory and is home to about 8 million of the country's population of 180 million.
In a separate attack in Mingora, the largest city in Swat valley, at least 21 people were killed when an explosion targeted a public gathering of residents who had come to listen to a religious leader.
No one claimed responsibility for that bombing. Swat has been under army rule since a military offensive expelled the Taliban in 2009.
The Taliban insurgency in the northwest has launched a string of attacks in recent weeks, including a suicide attack on Peshawar airport, the kidnap and execution of 21 paramilitary forces and a suicide attack killing a leading politician.
Sectarian attacks in Pakistan have risen even as overall deaths from militant violence have fallen over the past two years. But Pakistan's security forces and its overburdened justice system are still struggling to cope.
Human rights groups say the government must investigate whether some of the groups have links to elements within Pakistan's security services.
The LeJ has had historically close ties to elements in the Pakistani security forces, who see the group as an ally in any potential war with neighboring India.


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VLT Auxiliary Telescope *
Contrary to other large astronomical telescopes, the VLT was designed from the beginning with the use of interferometry as a major goal. The VLT Interferometer (VLTI) combines starlight captured by two or three 8.2- VLT Unit Telescopes, dramatically increasing the spatial resolution and showing fine details of a large variety of celestial objects. However, most of the time the large telescopes are used for other research purposes. They are therefore only available for interferometric observations during a limited number of nights every year. Thus, in order to exploit the VLTI each night and to achieve the full potential of this unique setup, some other (smaller), dedicated telescopes were included into the overall VLT concept. These telescopes, known as the VLTI Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs), are mounted on tracks and can be placed at precisely defined "parking" observing positions on the observatory platform. From these positions, their light beams are fed into the same common focal point via a complex system of reflecting mirrors mounted in an underground system of tunnels. The Auxiliary Telescopes are real technological jewels. They are placed in ultra-compact enclosures, complete with all necessary electronics, an air conditioning system and cooling liquid for thermal control, compressed air for enclosure seals, a hydraulic plant for opening the dome shells, etc. Each AT is also fitted with a transporter that lifts the telescope and relocates it from one station to another. It moves around with its own housing on the top of Paranal, almost like a snail.
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DENVER (AP) -- Colorado Avalanche coach Joe Sacco was fired on Sunday after the team missed the playoffs for the third straight season.
The Avs never got on track in the lockout-shortened season and finished last in the Western Conference.
Sacco was in his fourth season in charge of Colorado and wound up with a 130-134-30 mark. He had one year left on his contract.
"The organization believes a change of leadership behind the bench is needed going forward," general manager Greg Sherman said in a release. "Joe has worked for this franchise for eight seasons and he is a dedicated and hard-working coach. We appreciate all he has done and wish him the best in the future."
The Avs will soon begin their search for a replacement.
Sacco spent two seasons in charge of the organization's American Hockey League affiliate squad, the Lake Erie Monsters, before taking over the Avs in 2009 after the firing of Tony Granato.
A former NHL player, Sacco preached a fast-paced style and it served the youthful Avalanche well in his first season as the team earned a postseason spot. He was even a finalist for the NHL's coach of the year.
But Colorado couldn't duplicate that success.
Moments after a 3-1 loss to Minnesota on Saturday to close out the regular season, Sacco was asked about his future, saying, "We're certainly headed in the right direction."
His team was committed to his up-tempo philosophy. Matt Duchene recently said that Sacco's message was still getting across.
"We've all played the system he's put in place to the best of our ability. We've all worked at it," said Duchene, who finished tied with P.A. Parenteau for the team scoring lead with 43 points. "We're all still buying in and working."
Sacco will be back on the bench later this week when he leads the U.S. squad at the world championships. He will even take several Avalanche players with him, including Paul Stastny and Erik Johnson.


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Get Rachel McAdams's Chic Topknot With Tips Straight From Her Stylist
You know that effortless topknot you love to wear to the grocery store or the gym? Last night, Rachel McAdams proved that you can play up that casual look for any occasion — even the red carpet. "I love a topknot, and I'm so happy this trend is sticking around; they're young, cool, and supermodern," said celebrity stylist Mark Townsend, who created the style.
To get this look at home, start by spritzing your roots with Dove Refresh+Care Dry Shampoo ($5) for added texture. Pull your hair into a ponytail just in front of the crown and use Sally Hershberger Genius Spray Wax ($15) on the length of the pony. Next, twist hair around the base of the elastic, tucking in ends and securing with bobby pins. Townsend recommends crisscrossing the pins to secure and spraying them with dry shampoo. The starch in the product takes away the shine, making them less noticeable and also giving them a tighter grip. After pulling out a few flyaways and adding a satin ribbon, Rachel was set for an evening out. You'll never underestimate the glamour of a topknot again.


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Police find body Of "best man" missing after Hudson River boat crash
NEW YORK -- The body of the "best man" killed when a speedboat carrying six members of an upcoming wedding party smashed into a barge on the Hudson River on Friday night was found in the river on Sunday, Rockland County Sheriff William Barbera said.
Mark Lennon, 30, who was to be the best man in the Aug. 10 wedding, was killed along with a woman believed to be the bride, said county Sheriff William Barbera.
The sheriff's office said the boat hit a construction barge anchored below the Tappan Zee Bridge, part of the New York State Thruway and a major transportation link across the Hudson River about 25 miles (40 km) north of Midtown Manhattan.
The body of a woman was pulled from the water on Saturday by crews searching for two people missing after the accident, Barbera said.
Barbera would not confirm local media reports that gave her name as fiance Lindsey Stewart, 30.
Lennon was found at around 11 a.m. local time one mile south of the riverside town of Piermont, which is just south of the bridge.
The driver of the boat, Jojo John, 35, had consumed alcohol and was "intoxicated" at the time of the crash, Barbera said.
John was charged with one count of vehicular manslaughter and three counts of second-degree vehicular assault and remains in custody at a local hospital.
Three others were taken to area hospitals, authorities said.
Barbera said that the night was clear but very dark "because there was less than a full moon."
"But there were lights on the barge," he said.
Despite suffering serious head injuries, Stewart's fiance, Brian Bond, called 911 at 10:41 p.m., saying that the speedboat had struck an object south of the bridge, according to CNN.
The rescue was "delayed because he was unsure of where he was," Barbera said.
According to media reports, the couple had been friends since childhood in the suburbs north of New York City and went to the same church in the town of Pearl River, several miles west of the Hudson.
The New York State Thruway Authority is conducting a review of safety procedures on the Hudson River, Brian Conybeare, special advisor to Governor Andrew Cuomo, said in a release.
Tappan Zee Constructors, the company doing the bridge project, said the barges were properly lit on Friday night when the accident occurred.


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5 Strategies for Marketing on the iPad
Just 22% of the top 50 retailers in the country have an iPad app. Yet the iPad is the fastest-growing consumer computing device on the planet. Why haven't brands embraced it as quickly as they have the iPhone?
Clearly, brands have been slow to launch apps for this device – and other tablets – for a combination of reasons. Many marketers have already sunk millions into creating iPhone apps and assume these apps will works just fine on the iPad. Sometimes, this strategy works. After all, some apps offer an almost identical experience on the iPhone as the iPad. But to really get maximum marketing impact, brands do need to create iPad-specific apps that take advantage of the tablet's larger screen and tap into the unique frame of mind of an iPad user.
There are some hurdles to overcome, like where to start, and whether a brand should go with a native app, a web-based app, or a hybrid app? The short answer is that a lot of this depends on the company. But there are some basic best practices to keep in mind when coming up with how to market your business on the iPad. Here are five tips.
1. Content is King, Context is Queen
People are only interested in the things they are interested in. This means marketers should use the iPad to reach target audiences based on their specific interests. The first step is to not create a one-size-fits-all app and then flood app users with tons of irrelevant content. Instead, plan for user segmentation so the content you deliver to individual users appeals to their interests, needs, and wants. It's the same segmentation methodology brands are using for email marketing, just applied into the iTunes distribution model. Aside from letting users choose what type of content they want to view, always give them ways to revise their selections.
2. Invest in the Right User Experience
You can create fantastic content, but if users have a bad app experience, they won't continue to launch the app. That's why it's critical to invest in UX testing as you develop iPad apps. Take a look at how Flipboard created a great user experience for content aggregation, or how an iPad app like Collarbone displays content and photography.
3. Focus on the Long Term
An iPad app is like a baby: It needs constant care and feeding. You can't launch it and forget it. Invest in maintenance, content updates, testing, and optimization. The best way to ensure your iPad publishing app gains and maintain users is to create an editorial team much like magazines do. Hire writers, photographers, videographers, editors, and other creative types to constantly focus on it. They can be freelancers or contractors, or in-house, but everyone must meet regular deadlines. And there will always be iOS updates, so ensure you continue to optimize your app in that way as well.
4. Open the Door to Adjacency
Consumers may love your brand, but they also love other brands. Think about other, non-competitive companies also in your category. These partners can help enlarge the audience for your app if you keep them close. iPad publishing apps are a great potential advertising platform for partner brands. For example, if you develop a monthly iPad magazine full of branded content, let adjacent brands advertise within your iPad magazine to generate increased partnerships and/or ad revenue.
5. Get Your App Found
Consumers don't just stumble upon apps. You know you'll have to promote your iPad app. The question is how best to do it among your target audience. One of the best ways to promote apps is through links in paid advertising. For example, tag or promote the brand's iPad app in print, TV, and display ads. But brands can also gain an audience for their app by promoting it through in-store signage and kiosks, search engine marketing, and social media. The North Face experiences a spike in downloads for their Snow Report and Trailhead apps each time they are featured in a print ad.
The iPad may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for marketers. Brands that can win hearts and minds on the tablet will be ready for the major shift away from the laptop and PC that's sure to happen in the next decade.
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Converting kid to vegan?
I need some help here from fellow vegan moms.
I am a single mom who works full time. My son goes to daycare full time and has since he was 1. He is 4 now. I recently converted to veganism, but haven't converted my son yet. He eats vegan at home, but not at daycare or at his father's house.
Now there is nothing I can do about his father's house, he is going to eat all the nasty Sh*** that his father feeds him. I have no choice in that, it isn't worth fighting about. That is only every other weekend.
What I do have a choice is daycare. He does eat the daycare food, but I mandate that he drinks soymilk instead of cow's milk while there. This has always been so. But he eats meat while there, and whatever dairy is in the food. What I was doing is taking my time with the transition. At home we only eat vegan, I only eat vegan. I was going to establish the habit of eating a vegan diet, get comfortable with it before worrying about what my son eats at daycare.
But something is beginning to happen I didn't anticipate. My son isn't eating at home much anymore. He used to eat like crazy at home, but now he is beginning to only eat light meals, but when he goes to daycare he pigs out on meat and the crap they serve there! His teacher told me today that yesterday he had 3 servings of chicken and noodles, and last night he didn't eat any dinner at all at home! And this morning he hardly ate anything, but as soon as he got to daycare he told his teacher that he was hungry (they serve breakfast, usually a bready thing but I am sure it has eggs and dairy).
Now maybe it is just a phase? I was thinking about packing his lunch, but doing it slowly. Maybe next week I will just pack Monday's lunch, and the rest of the week will be daycare's food? Just to see how he handles eating something different then the other kids when he has always eaten what everybody else eats.
How would you handle it? Should I even worry about it?
Hi there,
My son is now 6 1/2 years old and has been vegan since birth. Like you, I work full-time and have a shared custody arrangement with my son's father (every other weekend and one other day per week). When my son began nursery school I simply packed his lunches every day and still do even though his elementary school has a lunch program. I also keep vegan snacks on hand at his school (fruit leathers, mixed nuts, and the occassional Clif or Luna bar). If there is a special occassion (birthdays, class parties, etc) that means that the students would receive special treats like cakes or cookies then I just bring in a special item for my son or take him for frozen "yogurt" after school (where we live has many dairy-free sorbet options).
I don't know what your custody arrangment is but you should be able to tell the daycare that as of this day forward that your son is not to have any meat/dairy/egg/whatever. They need to abide by your instruction as long as you offer him a nutritionally-balanced meal each day. I would recommend picking out a fun bento-style lunchbox with your son so that he feels involved in the process and then make him the most enticing meals that you can throughout the week. My son has 2 lunchpails: one has a thermos and 2 smaller containers for soups and other hot meals (such as beans and rice or vegetable dumplings) and the other is a metal "tiffin" which is good for pizza and sandwiches. Having 2 lunchpails also means that I don't have to wash the same one every day.
Good luck! And feel free to message me directly if you have questions or just need some more support.
Best to you,
Use Kalliste Soap on them. Its a great way for them to start to become accustomed to the vegan lifestyle. Kalliste is 100% organic and vegan. After they get old enough they will be so used to using the soap it will be habbit. This is one of many ways to lead your children torwards the vegan lifestyle without forcing them.


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Complete package to create a chunky knit throw yourself – silver grey – 10 micron (organic wool).
What do you think when you see all those beautiful throws? That's what you want too! Would you like to get started yourself instead of buying an already made plaid? This is also possible, it is great fun and not difficult to do. Especially with the right and finest materials, a good instruction and a nice label to really finish your homemade chunky knit throw.
There are different colors and sizes available. There's something available for every taste. The price differs per size and per quality.
For example, taupe grey is a basic wool of 27 microns, which is an excellent quality to work with. If you go for mega soft (organic certified) merino wool of 19 microns, the price is a little higher. In short, the higher the price, the higher the quality of the wool. You can feel this on your skin and see how long your plaid remains beautiful.
Merinowol is a beautiful but fragile natural product. The quality and maintenance of the wool largely determines how long your plaid remains beautiful. WolletjeBol is also available for advice about care and maintenance of your wool product.
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Students who specialize in public interest law and policy pursue an innovative and rigorous curriculum, which educates and trains them to engage in sophisticated representation of traditionally under-served individuals, communities and interests while enabling them to refine their own career goals.
This Specialization is at the center of UCLA Law's pioneering David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, which offers students a rich community of dedicated peers, faculty, administrators, and deeply connected alumni. Beyond the Specialization's formal coursework requirements, the Epstein Program provides an array of opportunities for students to hear from and engage leading public interest practitioners and scholars, work on current policy problems and become involved in public interest activities within and outside of the law school.
The Program has consistently defined "public interest" broadly, as any and all interests underrepresented by the private market, including the interests of the poor and ethnic minorities, unpopular causes across the political spectrum, and undervalued stakes in the common good (such as the environment). Epstein Program students vary in age, experience, political viewpoint, and educational and social background and contribute significantly to the law school's intellectually rich learning environment. The Program faculty represent diverse scholarly and pedagogical perspectives and offer rich experience and expertise as public interest litigators and advocates, applied policy experts, and distinguished scholars and teachers. Students in the Program also receive guidance, support and counsel from experienced administrators and Program alumni, who remain deeply engaged with the Program.
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A rescue plan for the five Democratic Republic of Congo sites inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger will be the focus of today's high-level meeting organized by the Congolese authorities and UNESCO.
IUCN, which is the independent advisory body to the World Heritage Committee on natural sites, urges not only the DRC government and the international community, but also the extractive industries to combine efforts to stop the ongoing deterioration of these exceptional sites.
DR Congo is the only country in Africa with five natural sites on the World Heritage List. One by one, these sites were put on the Danger List at the request of the DRC, starting in the mid 90s due to civil war, widespread poaching and deforestation.
Virunga, Garamba, Kahuzi-Biega, Salonga National Parks and the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, are home to a unique range of flora and fauna including the Mountain Gorilla, the Okapi - a forest giraffe only found in DRC - and the near-extinct Northern White Rhino. The Congo basin forests are also the second largest forest block in the world after the Amazon.
"The world's most precious natural sites are often the most vulnerable," says Aimé Nianogo, Director of IUCN's Central and West Africa Programme. "Now we have a chance to make a difference and we should grasp it, otherwise we risk losing not only emblematic species, but entire forest ecosystems, which provide the products and services necessary for the survival of 30 million people in Central Africa."
IUCN, which is responsible for the evaluation and monitoring of these sites since the inscription of Virunga in 1979, has noted that while the situation in some of the sites, such as Okapi,has improved, other sites, such as Virunga, home of the Mountain Gorilla, are facing new threats like the ones from oil and gas exploration.
"The five World Heritage sites in DRC are of global importance, and need a global response to their critical situation - a stronger political committment by the government of DRC and the international community is crucial if we are to save these exceptional sites on which so many people depend," says Nianogo.
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Arctic Wolf Networks is trying to address the problem many security techs have of receiving too many false-positive incident alerts to respond to effectively.
The company is offering a security service made up of its home-grown SIEM in the cloud backed by security engineers who filter out the security-event noise and trigger alerts only when they come across incidents actually worth investigating further.
The company is four years old but just last year started serving up its service – AWN Cyber-SOC - that quickly analyzes security data from a range of other security devices.
The SIEM is backed by a staff of about 20 security engineers who keep an eye on the anomalies identified by the platform and sort out those that are security events worthy of on-site investigation by customers' own security techs, says said Brian NeSmith, Arctic Wolf co-founder and CEO.
He says each customer is assigned to a particular engineer, so that person will develop an understanding over time of that customer's unique challenges. The engineers also recommend tweaks to other security devices such as antivirus and firewalls in order to tighten up defenses.
The goal is to reduce false positives. "They claim zero false positives because of the human analyst attention prior to alerting the customers," says David Monahan, an analyst with Enterprise Management Associates. "Since people make mistakes, let's say 99% of false positives are isolated and removed before being passed on to the customer as an alert."
NeSmith says the AWN Cyber-SOC service typically flags as few as one incident every few weeks from among thousands of detected events, drastically reducing the number of events to follow up with. AWN Cyber-SOC can take in feeds from customers' existing security gear and sort through them as well with the same goal in mind.
The company is trying to make the service more attractive by requiring just month-to-month commitments from customers and charging no installation fee. Cost is a big factor in making the service attractive, Monahan says. The price is $3 to $7 per employee per month for the service, the company says, which might be attractive to mid-size companies that don't have the resources to provide the same coverage in-house.
UPDATE: From Arctic Wolf, "Pricing for the service is based on the number of employees, servers and locations and starts at $5,000 per month for an annual contract."
Rolled up into the monthly fee is threat intelligence analysis, vulnerability assessment, and security architecture and design services, says Monahan, as well as incident response services. "The scope of the engagement here is undoubtedly less than you would get from a FireEye Mandiant team but you also aren't paying anything near that level of cost," Monahan says.
The company claims customers can be up and running in less than an hour, and that's "unheard of," Monahan says, but the reason is it can offer the month-by-month contracts. He says on-site SIEMs take months to get configured and working, and require a lot of tuning in order to function properly.
AWN Cyber-Soc is a SIEM service the company hosts in the Amazon Web Services cloud.
Customers install a sensor appliance on the network exit point that collects HTTP and DNS. The device includes an IDS.
The company runs a security operations center in Waterloo, Canada, because it's home to the University of Waterloo, where qualified tech graduates provide a reliable pool of prospective employees. It also runs a SOC in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Before starting Arctic Wolf, NeSmith was CEO of enterprise security firm Blue Coat that had Fortune 500 clients. He says he recognized the need for similar protection for smaller companies that lack the budget to provide comprehensive security on their own.
Arctic Wolf has $27.2 million in venture funding, and claims more than 100 customers.


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Logan taking steady approach to recovery
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Rockies left-hander Boone Logan is taking a measured preparation approach in gearing up for the season after undergoing surgery to remove bone chips from his throwing elbow during the offseason.
Logan, who signed for three years and $16.5 million after pitching the last four seasons with the Yankees, threw a 30-pitch, touch-and-feel bullpen Friday, using his fastballs and changeups. But he hasn't thrown 100 percent. He'll begin a long-toss program this week to stretch the arm. It's not clear when he'll pitch in Cactus League games.
Last season, Logan went 5-2 with a 3.23 ERA in 61 games, but was in pain throughout the year. It also bothered him in 2012, but he led the American League with 80 appearances and went 7-2 with a 3.74 ERA.
"As long as I don't have any setbacks, if it keeps progressing, I'm not worried about it at all," Logan said.
Logan will need to be at full health. With the Yankees, he was used often in left-on-left matchups, but the Rockies want him available for full innings. That means he'll have to employ his changeup -- a pitch he had to be careful with when dealing with a bone spur and the chips in the elbow. He could barely rotate his arm, and he held off on offspeed pitches in warmups and just hoped they'd be there during the game.
"Now, I can prepare myself for a full inning," Logan said. "I can prepare for the seventh inning or the eighth inning, knowing that I'll have my own inning for the most part. I'm sure, too, there are situational times that I'll go in, because we have live arms at the end of the game."
Logan, 29, became familiar with Bill Geivett, the Rockies' senior vice president of Major League operations, during golf tournaments in his native San Antonio honoring Mike Coolbaugh, the late Rockies Double-A coach who was killed when hit in the neck by a line drive during a game. Logan appreciated the fact the Rockies didn't back off their free agency offer even though Logan had surgery.
"They said, 'We want you over here, we like your makeup, we like how you are as a person in the clubhouse,'" Logan said. "That meant a lot to me, and their confidence in me to have my own inning. Feeling love like that and having the opportunity to not let them down is going to be a little pressure on me, because I don't want to let anybody down. But I'm happy for the opportunity."
Rockies manager Walt Weiss said, "He hasn't had any issues, and we're encouraged where he's at."


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Jennifer Lawrence beat out scores of young actresses for the kick-ass lead role of Katniss Everdeen in this month's The Hunger Games (and landed at number one on your hottest-celebs list). In her interview with Willa Paskin, she tells us whose team (Gale or Peeta) she's really on, whose death in the movie hit her the hardest and why she can't stand it when actors complain. Read on for a sneak peek!
The Kentucky-born Lawrence, who was nominated for an Academy Award last year for her gritty work in Winter's Bone, knows that her life is about to change. Big-time. The Hunger Games is being heralded as the next Twilight, with all of the box office expectations that entails. But instead of vampires, this story has a fight-to-the-death reality show, political conspiracies and the brutal deaths of small children. In other words, Lawrence isn't just playing the next Bella Swan; she's also playing the next Jason Bourne.
In the weeks leading up to the release of the film, Lawrence, who laughs often and quickly—at herself as much as everything else—has intentionally been taking it easy, hanging out with her friends, surfing, going grocery shopping and mentally preparing for what's to come. May the odds be ever in her favor.
GLAMOUR: So, are you ready?
JENNIFER LAWRENCE: I feel like I'm in the eye of the hurricane right now. I just recently started cleaning like I'm insane, and I'm starting to think it's my anxiety over the movie. I think it's a bit like, "I'm just cleaning the refrigerator handle. The movie's not coming out. I'm going to clean it spotless, and then my life will not change." It's just scary. I feel like I got a ticket to go to another planet and I'm moving there and there's no turning back, and I don't know if I'm going to like that other planet or have friends there. It's daunting.
GLAMOUR: But you thought about all of this before you took the job, right?
JENNIFER LAWRENCE: I gave myself three days. I knew from reading the books that I loved The Hunger Games. I just didn't know if it was worth changing my life for. I'm at a peaceful place right now. The people who used to ignore me at parties, now they're nice to me and kissing my ass. But nobody's staked outside of my house. I wanted to make sure that when I said yes, I wouldn't regret it. And I don't regret it. I would have said no because I was scared, and then I would have been that bitter actress telling my grandkids, "I'm the one that turned it down."
GLAMOUR: Being very famous does seem crazy-making….
JENNIFER LAWRENCE: In some ways, it's a hard life, but it's a great professional life. I'm doing what I love, and then I get months and months of rest. I have a lot of money for a 21-year-old. I can't stand it when actors complain.
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Les cartels de drogues mexicains s'installent en Amérique centrale
By Katherine Corcoran, Associated Press
On a steamy, late-summer day near the Salvadoran coast, more than 100 police working an intelligence tip scoured a near-vacant cattle ranch the size of 42 Manhattan blocks.
Using probes and backhoes, they unearthed two plastic storage drums packed with U.S. dollars. It took three days to count the $20s, $50s and $100s — which added up to more than $10 million. A third barrel was excavated a week later from beneath a patio in an upscale San Salvador suburb, for a total of $14.5 million.
Though questions remain, the stash may be Mexican drug cartel money. One of the two Guatemalan ranch owners allegedly had ties to the leader of a Guatemalan branch of Mexico's Gulf Cartel, who is serving a 31-year sentence for drug trafficking in the U.S.
Mexican drug cartels now operate virtually uninhibited in their Central American backyard. U.S.-supported crackdowns in Mexico and Colombia have only pushed traffickers into a region where corruption is rampant, borders lack even minimal immigration control and local gangs provide a ready-made infrastructure for organized crime.
"The cartels are clear on the possibilities for using El Salvador as a place to launder money or to transport it south to pay for their drugs," National Police deputy director Howard Cotto told The Associated Press in an interview.
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More importantly, ever since President Obama created our nation's fourth major entitlement program — Obamacare — Democrats in Congress have stopped budgeting entirely. Since Obamacare became law, the Democratic Senate has not produced a single budget.
Since Democrats refuse to produce a coherent plan on how the federal government should spend the American people's money, the debt limit is the only mechanism that House Republicans now have to hold them accountable. To relinquish that power by caving into Obama's demands that the debt limit must be raised without concessions would be a dereliction of duty and a failure of Congress to exercise its constitutional power of the purse.
For now, the Federal Reserve and foreigners are still willing to lend us as much money as we want almost for free. But that will not always be the case. Western Civilization has always been suspicious of debt. "Just as the rich rule the poor, so the borrower is servant to the lender," Proverbs 22:7 reads.


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Snooki Wants More Money To Do Dancing With The Stars?
Ok, so this girl is seriously getting on my every nerve!!! One minute Snooki is doing the show and the next she or someone in her camp are saying she's not dancing. Now, Hollywood Life is reporting that Snooki is holding out for more MONEY!!! Come on! If true, why should Dancing With The Stars pay her more money? She should be lucky she's getting any money at all or the "attention".
If this rumor comes true, this will be like "Bristol Palin" all over again for me. I will still watch the show. I love it and one person will never chase me off. But, come on!!
This is a NIGHTMARE! *CRIES* 😯
Thanks for letting me rant! lol Here is more from Hollywood Life;
"They are still trying to make the deal with Snooki," our source dishes. "She was verbally in, but has yet to sign anything. She has been very concerned with the schedule and what she will be paid."
With the season 13 premiere of DWTS just around the corner on Sept. 19, ABC is in a rush to finalize the cast as soon as possible. After all, they have to start rehearsing, plus, the cast is being announced Aug. 29 during the Bachelor Pad.
Adds our insider, "The producers are confident that she will still join the show, but if she continues to hold out, they have people that will fill her spot. They always overcast the show."


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Niagara has a long history of nursing education with a proud legacy of successful and engaged alumni. Accredited by the New York State Department of Education and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), Niagara's School of Nursing is proud to offer three different degree programs:
- Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Nursing (4-Year Degree)
- RN-to-B.S. Completion Program (Post-Associate Degree)
- Accelerated B.S. in Nursing (1-Year Post-Baccalaureate Degree)
The bachelor of science is the preferred educational degree for nursing, providing nurses with a wide range of opportunities in the field.
Niagara's nursing programs focus on preparing nurses who internalize and integrate the professional nursing paradigm of critical analysis and problem solving, healthcare leadership and management, communication and research utilization, community-based care and the values of respect for human dignity and ethical decision-making related to the scope of professional nursing practice. Our goal is to educate nurses who, upon completion of the program, have been prepared to lead, manage and deliver outstanding professional comprehensive nursing care in any healthcare setting. The programs use active learning strategies and strive to be flexible and accessible for the adult learners.
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Nursing (4-Year Degree)
Niagara's traditional four-year nursing degree program, preparing a young man/woman for a career in professional nursing, will be spread across the eight-semester plan of study. Nursing is a practice-oriented major, so clinical courses at healthcare agencies will be an integral part of the program.
Niagara's program is approved by New York State Education Department, which is necessary for you to take the NYS RN licensing examination (NCLEX) upon graduation.
RN-to-B.S. Completion Program (Post-Associate Degree)
The bachelor of science completion program for nurses builds on the foundation acquired in an associate degree or diploma nursing program. Core nursing courses focus on critical thinking, information literacy and communication in healthcare; ethical decision-making; evidence-based practice; and leadership/administration. A final internship with preceptor guidance allows students to internalize and integrate the educational experience. Internships are selected specifically for each student's area of interest. General education courses, which support and expand learning, are tailored to student interests.
Accelerated B.S. in Nursing (1-Year Post-Baccalaureate Degree)
Students who have a bachelor's degree already and have fulfilled the prerequisite courses can enter Niagara University's accelerated 1-year bachelor's degree professional nurse preparation program.
Our accelerated program began in May 2012, for persons interested in a career as a professional registered nurse, who have already received a bachelor's degree in another major from an accredited university/college. This program will be one year in duration, full time, across summer, fall and spring semesters. Included will be both theoretical courses and clinical courses. Class size will be kept small to foster student success.
Niagara's program is approved by New York State Education Department, which is needed for you to take the NYS RN licensing examination (NCLEX) upon graduation.
The baccalaureate degree in nursing at Niagara University is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, 655 K Street, NW, Suite 750, Washington, DC 20001, 202.887.6791.


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For the LA Galaxy, Saturday's home game against the Philadelphia Union can't come soon enough.
The match won't only be played in a much more comfortable setting than last time, but it will help the team move forward after a scoreless draw in Kansas City, which was the Galaxy's worst match of the young 2010 MLS season.
"Admittedly we played poorly on Saturday," Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said after training on Tuesday. "Despite the fact that you can complain about the field and it was a little slick and everything else, we weren't good. There's no question about it. We have to get better this week like it is every week and be prepared to play a better game on Saturday."
While the Galaxy were shut out for the first time on the season, and needed a stellar goalkeeping performance from Donovan Ricketts not to lose, the club still was able to pull out a point from the encounter.
Still, it's a place Arena won't be too disappointed not to have to visit anymore this year.
"You don't ever want to play on that field in a game I think that means a lot because there is so much out of your control, it's tough," Arena said. "It's a tough venue to play in. I'm happy it's out of the way and we're out of there fairly untarnished. We didn't play well so we need to accept that fact and move on from there."
This weekend's match may be the exact opposite of the Wizards encounter. Instead of a team that had given up just one goal in three games and were tough to beat thus far this season, the Galaxy will welcome a squad of players still trying to sort themselves out as a team.
Philadelphia have only ever played four regular-season games, and have lost three of them. Worse, the Union's defense is yielding a load of goals as the first-year team has allowed at least two goals in each game, the last of which was a 2-1 loss at New York on Saturday.
With the Galaxy coming off a shutout then, does Arena feel the offense must take advantage of a weakened opponent?
"I don't think we look at it that way," said Arena, who attributed the Union's defensive woes on other things. "They've had some difficult situations in their first four games where they've had red cards, and they've played with 10 players for significant minutes in two games and therefore lost those players in the next game but it hasn't been easy for them."
And even though Philadelphia have won only one regular-season game ever, the Galaxy likely won't go into the match overconfident.
"My observation with watching Philly play New York was that they outplayed them for 90 minutes and fell short," Arena said. "They're a good team. I was very impressed with what I saw out of Philly against Red Bull on Saturday."


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Italy has a particular connection with women. In one way, women are revered, so much in the South that the ancient cult of the Goddess, Diana, et. al., has controlled the cultural creep through the millenniae. It only takes a little stroll through a church or coming upon one of the many country shrines to Mary (Athena, Diana,etc) to know the prime energy force of humanity is driven through the female energy.
On the other hand, women are treated like lesser citizens at best, whores at worse. It is only recently that the widespread practice of honor killings has stopped, or ceased being reported.
I never knew my Calabrese grandfather. Supposedly from Reggio, he fathered five children with my grandmother and then went on to start another family(s?), some say simultaneously, in the New World.
By the time my grandmother came to America in the early 1900's she arrived in time for my grandfather to steep back in. She had four more pregnancies and the fifth child, my uncle, still lives in Texas. Somewhere in California there is a half-uncle who is the same age, if he is still alive. But why would we even know? It wasn't like my grandfather shared the information. Why would he? A serial husband and father? Possibly a bigamist, a caricature of the wandering eye Italian male, spreading his seed from the sea to shiny sea of America, courtesy of the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe.
Once back at the source, I was given another perspective. Perhaps Calabria is like all the rest of the places in Italy, and Arabia, Afghanistan and any number of places where the male factor dominates.
Oddly we found out about the grandmother's village while shopping for ladies underwear in the suburbs of Cosenza. I was wandering around a wine shop. The clerks were busy watching two televisions, one with a soccer game and the other with the grape harvest report from Campania to Sicily. I couldn't determine which one they were more focused on. Meanwhile, my wife went in to a lingerie shop and was determined to ask anyone and everyone if they had ever heard of the town called Bucita. Over a pair of pink panties the clerk was showing her, the subject came up. And sure enough, this clerk knew exactly where Bucita was. And it was so ordained - we were off to see the home village.
It would be a few days before we would arrive to Bucita. The brick ovens were firing up, the ripe figs gathered and wrapped with the fig leaves before they would be delivered to the harvest ovens to make a winter's worth of preserved figs. Already we could smell the fragrant aromas floating down from the hills surrounding Cosenza, mixing in with the diesel smoke and the seafood market, the wild herbs, the cumin, the hot little peppers. The earth was in full bloom, harvesting her load of scrumptious bounty, mixing in with the bypass of civilization. It was all very exhilarating. Little did we know what awaited us up in the hills.
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Date: Sunday September 23
Distance: 50mile and 100mile
Website: www.fourshires.com
The ride started on the edge of Moreton-in-Marsh but soon we were in open gently undulating countryside – even passing the historic Four Shires Stone, where the four counties of Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire used to meet before boundary changes in 1931.
With participants a nice mix of North Cotswold CC members, CFC supporters and unattached local riders, a mutually supportive 'Blitz Spirit' formed in the face of rapidly deteriorating conditions.
While we could all appreciate the quaint cottages rolling past, longer-range sightseeing soon became tricky.
As the route headed up to the Cotswold Ridge, hardy riders had the option to break off and head on the 100-mile route, while the rest decided 50 was plenty in the circumstances.
More classic English villages came and went, before one final climb and then a soggy descent back to base.
In truth, while it was a shame the extreme weather upset things, that's often when you see the best of people. From the organisers to the riders, this was the very zenith of cycling spirit. And this year the sun will shine.
Website: www.fourshires.com
Total ascent: 50-mile route: 600m; 100-mile route: 1,050m
Terrain: Nice flat first 20 miles before things ramp up a little.
Best bit: Whizzing through beautiful Cotswold villages.
Worst bit: It was just a tad damp.
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Although at the time of going to press the 2013 event wasn't listed on the website, we've just had news that it's all set to go ahead on September 22. Entries cost £18-£22 (50/100miles).
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Should you care that Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel resigned yesterday?
Investors apparently think so, sending the company's shares down 3.5% when the S&P 500 rose 0.2%
But I'm not so sure that investors should be putting that much stock in who the CEO is at Target
For example, most have an image of the CEO as a kind of "white knight" who can ride his horse into a crisis and save the day. This expectation has certainly dogged Steinhafel in the wake of revelations last December of a huge credit card data breach at his company. For instance, when in January the company revealed that the breach was even larger than initially thought, he was roundly criticized.
But he would also have been taken to task if his company in December had chosen not to reveal anything about the data breach, on the grounds that its full extent was not yet known.
But the point of my column is not to defend Steinhafel from criticism. My point, instead, is that the hyper-focus on a company's CEO is misplaced.
In fact, according to Rakesh Khurana, a professor of leadership development at Harvard Business School, a corporation's internal culture "exerts a far greater longer-term influence on the company's success" than a CEO. "Large-scale statistical studies have failed to find any direct causal link between CEOs and firm performance," he told me.
Culture, of course, is notoriously difficult to quantify. But one academic study found that a good measure of corporate culture is responsiveness to shareholder concerns — as measured by the presence or absence of governance structures that enable or prevent shareholders to effect change. That study, by Andrew Metrick of Yale University, Paul Gompers of Harvard University and Joy Ishii of Stanford University, found that the shares of companies that were most responsive to shareholders gained an average of 8.5% more per year than companies that were the least responsive.
Investors who take this study's conclusions to heart should therefore be focusing on Target's corporate culture and governance rather than Steinhafel's resignation or who the company might choose as his successor.
I'm not holding my breath, however. Analyzing corporate culture is hard work. And, as Khurana said, the news media "fixates the public's attention on the personal characteristics of leaders at the expense of serious analysis of events."
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Fay Roseman, PhD joined Barry University in January 2000 after earning her Master's degree in Social Work at New York University and her PhD in Social Work at Barry University. Dr. Roseman's clinical practice in New York and Florida specialized in working with issues of divorce, adoption, GLBT and other non-traditional families. She is a Master Practitioner for the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI©) and in the Murphy-Meisgeier Type Indicator for Children (MMTIC©) as well as a Certified Practitioner for the Step III MBTI©. Dr. Roseman teaches career counseling, human growth and development and group counseling.


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"Automaton Transfusion" director Steven C. Miller talks about his entry for the new "After Dark Originals" line, "Scream of the Banshee". Starring Lauren Holly, the film is described as an old school monster movie and hopes to be the anchor to the new addition to the "After Dark 8 Films to Die For" family.
I'm sure you've been waiting for the return of the lesser known Duff sister Haley to the big screen. Worry no more as Haley Duff is in talks to star in the upcoming thriller "Cousin Sarah", a story of somebody's weird cousin moving to town where unexplained events start happening. Here's hoping her already signed co-star Jason Mewes lands the title roll of 'Cousin Sarah'.
The official plot details for Kevin Smith's upcoming "Red State" have appeared online and it looks passable! Centered around a Fred Phelps like evangelist, the movie hopes to show a new kind of 'extreme fundamentalism'.
Are you a big fan of Netflix and their handy streaming video service? Get ready to like it even more as the company has struck a deal with Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM Studios. Quite simply, there's going to be even more fun stuff to watch while wasting time at work!
An Auckland woman left her infant in the bath in hopes that he would drown, due to her claims of being unable to cope with two children. After pulling his body from the bath, she made sure to login to Facebook and do some web surfing before bothering to tell her husband that their baby had died.
A British woman on vacation in the Swiss Alps decided it would be fun to take a tour of the Gorges Alpins, a popular route that is traversed by rope bridges and zip lines. The group had a lot of fun until the woman decided she didn't need to use the safety rope used for braking on the zip lines and slammed face first into the side of a cliff, killing her instantly.
1772 - The summit of Papandayan volcano in West Java suddenly implodes, unleashing a catastrophic debris avalanche which blankets an area of 250 square km. Tumbling boulders flatten 40 villages and their 2,957 inhabitants.


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July 31 2013 - June 21, 1949
Newburgh, NY
Sandy Stewart, of Newburgh, NY, passed away on Wednesday July 31 2013 at Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel, NY. She was 64.
The daughter of the late James D. and Arline Reep Phillips, she was born on June 21, 1949 in Liberty, NY.
Sandy is survived by her son, Keith Karchner of New Paltz, NY; her sister, Roberta Schroder and her husband, Michael of Garden City, NY; her grandson, Spencer Goldstein; her niece, Allison Schroder and her nephew, Jared Schroder.
Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 12 Noon on Monday, August 5th at Ramsay's Funeral Home, 3534 State Rt. 55, Kauneonga Lake, NY. Burial will take place at Evergreen Cemetery, Route 17B, Bethel, NY.
Funeral arrangements by Ramsay's Funeral Homes Inc. Kauneonga Lake, NY; to send an online condolence to the family, please visit www.ramsaysfuneralhome.com.


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Loyola at a Glance Faculty/Staff Newsletter
Famous armless guitarist performs as part of Loyola Week
October 26, 2012
The Jesuit Center at Loyola University New Orleans presents "A Night of Hope," a concert by inspirational Catholic musician and speaker Tony Melendez, a Nicaraguan guitarist and vocalist born without arms and with a club foot. The concert, part of Loyola Week's Centennial celebrations, takes place Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 6 p.m. in Louis J. Roussel Performance Hall. Reserved tickets are $10, $5 for Loyola faculty, staff and students. Group tickets are also available. For tickets, visit www.etix.com. For more information, visit http://mm.loyno.edu/jesuit-center/night-hope-tony-melendez or call 504-865-2304.
Melendez was born without arms due to complications from his mother being prescribed thalidomide, a drug used to help calm morning sickness during pregnancy. He was brought to the Los Angeles area from Nicaragua to be fitted with artificial arms. He wore them until he was 10, when he disposed of them. "I didn't feel comfortable," Melendez explained, "I could use my feet so much more."
Despite his disability, Melendez started experimenting with different instruments in high school, including a push button organ, harmonica and guitar. Around this time, he also began writing his own songs and became involved with the Catholic Church, and even considered becoming a priest.
Demand for his skills as a guitarist and composer for Masses and church-related events increased. In 1987, Melendez caught the attention of someone organizing activities for the visit of Pope John Paul II and accepted an invitation to perform for him.
Since then, Melendez has traveled across the United States and 40 foreign countries, making countless television appearances, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, The 700 Club, Robert Schuller, and various prime-time network specials. He also performed at the 1989 World Series, where he sang the national anthem for the fifth game of the series. Melendez has had the opportunity to give four additional performances for the pope, twice in the Vatican and once in the pope's homeland of Poland, and in Denver, Colo. for World Youth Day 1993.
Melendez has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including special commendations from President Reagan, the state of California, Variety Clubs of America, Very Special Arts, the city of Los Angeles, and countless other civic and charitable organizations. He also received the first annual Inspirational Hero Award from the NFL Alumni Association at Super Bowl XXIII in Miami. In 1989, Melendez wrote his best-selling autobiography, "A Gift of Hope," and recorded his first album, a collection of contemporary Christian songs, "Never Be the Same," which resulted in nominations for Best New Artist of the Year from Cashbox Magazine and the Gospel Music Association.
The first week of November marks Loyola Week, a series of events, activities and exhibits that celebrate the rich Jesuit heritage of Loyola University New Orleans. The week of activities will run Sunday, Nov. 4 to Saturday, Nov. 10, and is presented by the Jesuit Center and the Student Government Association.
For more information, contact the Jesuit Center at 504-865-2304 or email@example.com.
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Ford's adding voice control for Android and Blackberry apps like Pandora to their SYNC in-car infotainment system. Now the only risk in "thumbing up" a Dave Matthews Band song while driving is to your cred. But where's the iPhone control?
The Microsoft-based system doesn't support the iPhone yet for app control, despite the phone's popularity. The iPhone still works for other features, such as streaming music, but Apple users will have to reach down and fool with it by hand if they want to read their Twitter stream. Or maybe they can suck it up and focus on the road for a few minutes and wait to see what @BoringFriend23 thought about the new @SurferBlood video.
Demonstrations of how the system works in the next three videos.