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No news outlet offers more thorough coverage of the issues than Fox News. Rather than just telling people there's a problem with weight scrutiny in the media, yesterday they showed them by running an interview with Growing Pains actress Tracey Gold about her struggle with anorexia directly above a slideshow titled, "Pregnant Or Burrito Grande?" on the entertainment section of the network's website.
They've now added a few posts between the two items, but Media Matters got a screen shot. There's nothing like watching a video in which Gold discusses weighing 80 pounds and laments how young actresses are attacked if they're not stick thin, then flipping to a post that reads, "In Hollywood, it's hard to keep track of who's expecting a kid and who just looks like she's eating for two."


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BBQ MAGIC it's in the "RUB"
By Brent Walton
Get out your grill and clean up last year's gunk that you were going to get done over the winter after that big Labor Day shindig last year. Well it's May and it's National Barbeque Month that means Time to get your Que on!
This year I wanted to let you know a few secrets to the true "BBQ MAGIC" and get you off to a great year of grilling. In the "Smokey World of BBQ" the spice blends or seasonings are called "RUBS". It is no more than a few spices carefully crafted in just the right amounts and then sprinkled or "RUBBED" onto your meat and any other foods like potato's, vegetables and the like. Applied correctly this "rub" will take your ordinary items to extraordinary. Here in lies the "BBQ MAGIC".
We will start with salt, really not a spice by definition, but a flavor enhancer. Salt is one of the four or five flavors your taste buds recognize, sweet, sour, salty and bitter. The fifth being recently recognized as "umami" or "savoryness" a brothy kind of flavor. Salt is used many ways for many things besides food in which it is a key ingredient. Most salt in America contains Iodine, maybe you have seen "Iodized salt" it was put into the salt to help make sure we got enough of the iodine that prevented many debilitating diseases in the early 20th century. Salts without iodine are readily available. There are many choices and types like kosher salt, rock salt and many variations of sea salt as well as typical table salt.
Next Item you need is pepper. Pepper is obtained from the vine "PIPER NIGRUM". It is still called the King of Spices and is the most traded spice in the world. So valuable at one time in history that it was worth more than gold by weight and its peppercorns exchanged as a currency. Pepper is the third most used ingredient used in recipes behind water and salt.
With our salt &pepper now start to add a few more spices to suite our taste. When it comes to building your super secret signature spice "rub" make sure each ingredient brings something to the table. What I mean here is do not add ingredients so it sounds so sophisticated and complicated." I have 23 ingredients in my rub" yeah and it will taste like a spice wreck. Your rub needs to compliment your food not confuse it. Really "fusion" is not what you want in a seasoning blend. You can always make different rubs for different things. Because it is good on Tri-Tip it might not be the best choice for lets say an Asian fish dish. The natural spice to try next is Garlic-with the addition of garlic you have the traditional "SANTA MARIA STYLE" seasoning that is so popular on Tri-Tip. Salt & Pepper, Garlic so simple and so good. Things that would be a good additional fit would be Onion salt, celery salt; with just those five ingredients you would have a good basic rub. To add the BBQ twist lets try some Chili powder or some of the spicy chili peppers like a little Cayenne or Chipotle. Be careful here not to overpower the rub with spicy ingredients. Paprika is another good ingredient, more for the nice red color it would add and not so much for the minimal flavor it brings. You want all the ingredients working together to deliver a "flavor Package". You can experiment. See what you like. There are many spices to choose from, dry mustard, allspice, ginger, cumin to name a few.
Herbs are another ingredient you can add, again be careful here as herbs tend to overpower the rest of your rub. Popular herbs would be rosemary, thyme, sage, basil, oregano and the like. I do not ad herbs to my rubs as they tend to burn easily. If I want an herb flavor I would add fresh herbs to the dish at the end of the cooking process.
The other ingredient popular to rubs would be "Sugars". They bring balance to the salts and add carmelization to the meats and other dishes. Carmelization is when the sugars burn a little and it has a great flavor to really enhance some dishes, especially pork. Sugar comes in many forms colors and grinds. Most popular for a rub is brown sugar as it has a touch of molasses in it so it brings some flavor to the rub. Plain white and turbinado or raw sugars can be used as well.
So let's get busy and make that BBQ MAGIC. Remember to keep it simple and there is no one secret ingredient that has not been tried before. Believe me on that one! I'm going to leave you with a couple solid rub packages that you can try and or build from.
Once you have your signature"BBQ MAGIC" it will separate you from those ordinary backyard barbeque drones and you will be the King on your block. It's good to be the King! Use it wisely, use it liberally, and use it often. Have a great BBQ season!
¼ cup Salt/kosher salt/sea salt ¼ cup salt/kosher salt/ sea salt
3 tablespoons black pepper 3 tablespoons black pepper
2 tablespoons garlic powder 1 tablespoon white pepper
1 tablespoon onion powder ¼ cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon celery salt ¼ cup paprika
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (*optional) 2 tablespoons chili powder
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At the end of a work week, cancer patients and their caregivers may find TGIF an appropriate mantra because a day has been created especially for them at TMC.
At the end of a work week, cancer patients and their caregivers may find TGIF an appropriate mantra because a day has been created especially for them at TMC.
It's all spelled out in the event's name — Feel Good Friday at Thomasville Medical Center.
It's a day when cancer patients can forget about the disease — if only for a short time — and enjoy being fed and generally pampered.
TMC's oncology program coordinator Elizabeth Parnell organized the free event that comes about every third Friday each month. The program debuted Jan. 18.
"And what happened?" Parnell says with a smile, thinking back to the first event. "We had three inches of snow ... but we still had 14 people to show up for our first program."
Community volunteers offer various services on Feel Good Friday to participants — those suffering from cancer or who have survived the disease — who may indulge in such things as manicures, hair care, massages and even making crafts.
"Patient comments I heard at our first event were that they really enjoyed the initial program, and they were so glad there was somewhere local for them to go," Parnell said.
"We had a nice lunch, and we gave away door prizes every 30 minutes."
Parnell emphasizes that the program is also open to the participants' favorite caregivers.
"A lot of times they are left in a waiting room for a period of time. But, they are right there with the patient for long periods of time. We want them to come and enjoy the festivities, too."
Parnell, a High Point native, joined TMC's oncology program in October of this past year after working for nearly 14 years at Forsyth Medical Center. She is also an oncology nurse and formerly worked in that capacity at the hospital in Winston-Salem.
The Feel Good Friday idea, she said, was actually developed about 10 years ago by cancer volunteers. Forsyth initiated the program some years ago. Parnell brought it to TMC.
"Cancer stays in the back of the mind, even for those who have survived cancer," Parnell notes. "This is a time they can get away from their medical treatments of their diagnosis and enjoy themselves."
One of the volunteers on the first night was Heather Ashby, who owns Southern Comfort Massage in High Point.
Ashby gave her time and services as a licensed massage therapist and brought along her massage chair. She became involved in volunteering with cancer patients some time ago when a close friend died from the disease. Her friend had supported her as she pursued her massage therapy license. Ashby says she saw firsthand how the disease takes its toll and wanted to do something to help others who were suffering.
"A massage was one of the few things to help her relax and make her feel better," Ashby said of her late friend.
"Cancer patients go through a lot. Caregivers being there for them and helping them do all the things they need, or just being there emotionally for them is important. The disease takes its toll.
"If I can help them, even if it's just with a 10-minute chair massage, to relax … that's my goal."
Ashby said the participants at the first TMC program seemed to enjoy the massages. "We didn't have a great turnout because of the weather, but it seemed to make their day."
The program, which takes place at the hospital's Senior Link room, runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each third Friday in the month. Those who would like to participant are asked to call 474-3231 and are welcome to float in and out or stay for the full four hours. "It would be great if they did," Parnell adds.
The TMC program is in need of more volunteers. Anyone interested may call 474-3231.
The next date for the program is Feb. 15. "And the weather is going to be beautiful," Parnell predicts.
The American Cancer Society offers a similar program, though more focused on those who may need assistance with physical tasks. That contact number is (800) 277-2345.
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Ark. Senate OKs unemployment testing, benefit cut
Ark. Senate OKs unemployment testing, benefit cut
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Senate has approved proposals to cut the maximum unemployment benefits the state pays out and to subject some unemployment recipients to random drug testing
The Senate voted 19-12 Monday and approved the bill by Republican Sen. Bart Hester of Cave City. It would cut the maximum weekly benefits Arkansas pays from $451 to $325. Hester says the state's benefits are much higher than surrounding states, but Democrats criticized the move as unfair to unemployed workers.
The Senate also approved a bill by Republican Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson of Benton that would require unemployment recipients to agree to submit to random drug testing. Hutchinson has said the testing would cost the state less than $30,000 a year to administer. Hutchinson's proposal passed on a 25-5 vote.


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New home for Pontiac woman a dream come true WITH VIDEO
Ever since her divorce, a Pontiac woman wanted to be able to stand on her own two feet by owning a house.
Habitat For Humanity made that dream come true for Vicky Benson and her family this past July, and that is what she is thankful for this Thanksgiving and holiday season.
"It was an awesome feeling, it was a blessing," said Benson, a Radiology Filmclerk at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester Hills. "I had tried several times in the past to get a habitat home and after I got divorced. I wanted to get on my own two feet -- it was a blessing."
Benson has a daughter, a 3-year-old granddaughter and her fiancé's daughter who will also be enjoying the house, especially this holiday season.
For the first time, Benson will be cooking Thanksgiving dinner for her family and friends in her own home. She used to live in an apartment, where it was too small.
Watch a report on the new home for a Pontiac woman during today's News at Noon.
"It's exciting, it really is," Benson said. "They get a chance to see how well I cook and just to have company there and be able to sit and relax in my home."
Tim Ruggles, CEO of Habitat for Humanity of Oakland County, said there have been 19 families in Oakland County placed in Habitat homes this year -- all in time for the holidays, which he says are a time for celebration for the families.
"(The homeowners feel) intense gratitude for having the opportunity to work with Habitat as a partner so they can have their children in a stable environment when children are involved," Ruggles said.
Benson's granddaughter loves the house and playing in the yard. The house allows for her to be loud, and not have to worry about the neighbors as much as in an apartment.
"It really means for me, ownership -- something I can honestly say is mine," Benson said. "I can have my grandbaby in the house ... and not disturb the neighbors (like in an apartment)."
The experience of getting a Habitat home varies, but it is usually a positive thing. The home provides a stable life for the homeowner and their family for years to come, Ruggles said.
They have achieved a huge milestone that is going to affect the rest of their life, Ruggles added.
Ruggles recently got in touch with the first Oakland County Habitat homeowner, whose life has positive since she got her home.
Doreen Marquis moved into her home several years ago, and it has allowed to children to receive college degrees, as well as herself.
A stable home is what allows people to reach their full potential, Ruggles said. Habitat provides a no profit mortgage and the homes are energy efficient -- which means lower utility bills.
There are many things Benson is thankful for this year, and the house has been greatly positive in her life.
"I'm thankful for my health insurance, still blessed to have my parents ... I'm thankful for this opportunity to actually have people at my house for Thanksgiving, something that has never been done," Benson said.
The Habitat for Humanity program has built and renovated more than158 homes in Oakland County for families. The program received at least 700 applications this year, and seven of those are on a waiting list.
All homeowners must put in 300 work hours when their house is being built or renovated.
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Apple will launch a cheap, unsubsidised iPhone in 2014 as it seeks to conquer the Chinese market, according to one analyst.
Gene Munster reckons that the company would be wise to launch a $200 (UK£125, AUD$191) iPhone handset due to the unwillingness of mobile operators in the far east to subsidise the current models.
Networks around the world take a heavy hit each time a subscriber picks the iPhone in the hope of making the money back over a two-year contract.
It doesn't work that way in China, meaning that anyone who wants an iPhone needs to buy it outright.
Halting Android's dominance
Business Insider, reporting the note from Munster, said it would be wise for Apple to create a new version of the iPhone for this market, rather than heavily discounting the previous models.
Munster asserts that a cheaper iPhone would allow Apple to grow its pitiful market share in China, where Android currently dominates.
However, it would take a major change in philosophy at Cupertino for Apple to consider launching a cheap handset.
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Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have agreeably given we Earthlings a pretty good idea of what our Milky Way galaxy would look like, were we looking at it from the depths of intergalactic space.
The ESO describes its snap of NGC 6744 as "almost a picture postcard" of our home, featuring "striking spiral arms wrapping around a dense, elongated nucleus and a dusty disc":
NGC 6744 is actually almost twice the 100,000 light-year width of the Milky Way, and extends "about two-thirds the width of the full Moon" across the Earthly heavens. ESO describes it as "one of the most beautiful objects in the southern sky".
The impressive photo was grabbed by "the Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2 metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile". ESO elaborates: The picture was created from exposures taken through four different filters that passed blue, yellow-green and red light and the glow coming from hydrogen gas. These are shown in this picture as blue, green, orange and red, respectively." ®


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Inside Dell's Deal: A Tale of Woe
The battle for Dell has captivated the business and tech world for weeks now. Heard on the Street's Rolfe Winkler offers a look inside Dell's deal-making. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... oh to be a fly on the wall in Dell's merger negotiations I'm Ralf Winkler from Heard on the Street ... well now we can make out the merger proxy that was published by Dell special committee today ... to earn seventy five pages of well ... really it's talking about ... the blow by blow of how they came to an agreement with the relate to sell the company for thirteen sixty five a share ... and ... it talks about why that's ok and the reason they're willing to pay the devil and take that money ... there's a lot this company needs to do to get itself on track to use to invest in the PC business needs higher salesman ... it means basically to execute a plan that could take ... another three to five years to really bear fruit ... can take a lot of time with all that investment maybe it's not can be something the public market share listing I like too much ... hence a take private deal ... will those public market shareholders ... really agree with this document ... will see ...


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This collection of more than 300 titles was selected to support Ohio's Learning Standards for 4th and 5th grade.
Scholastic's Storia is a collection of eBooks that helps teachers track students' reading and comprehension progress. With funding from the Ohio Department of Education, INFOhio worked with Scholastic to license a subset of Storia School Edition. The 300+ books included in the collection are hand selected to support Ohio's Learning Standards.
If you did not receive an email from Scholastic that included your access code, request a teacher access code from INFOhio. You will receive an email from INFOhio with the code that you can use to Register for Storia School Edition, set up your class, and assign books.
INFOhio currently offers BookFlix for grades K-3. The Storia collection is the next step in providing eBooks for Ohio schools.
People within a school who work with 4th and 5th graders can request a Storia access code. Literacy coaches and librarians are obvious choices. However, they will want to coordinate Storia access with the fourth and fifth grade teachers so that a student does not have more than one Storia account, which would dilute reading improvement data.
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text: Home > Business Falling CEO confidence sets scene for anxious Davos Reuters Posted at Jan 23 2013 09:15 AM | Updated as of Jan 23 2013 05:15 PM Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn DAVOS, Switzerland - Chief executives are less optimistic about short-term growth prospects for their companies than a year ago, according to a survey that offers a reality check on rising stock markets. Business leaders and policymakers are meeting in Davos in cautious mood, with much of Europe in recession, growth in China and India slowing, and a hoped-for U.S. recovery yet to prove itself. The annual PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of 1,330 chief executives found only 36 percent were "very confident" of their firm's prospects for revenue growth in the next 12 months, down from 40 percent a year ago. It is the second consecutive year of falling confidence. Latin America was the only region to buck the global trend, according to the report published on Tuesday as 2,500 delegates, including 1,600 business leaders, gathered in the Swiss Alps for the annual World Economic Forum. Unsurprisingly, European CEOs were the most pessimistic, with just 22 percent very confident of growth, down from 27 percent last year. Confidence in North America also fell to 33 percent from 42 percent, while Asia slipped to 36 percent from 42 percent. Even business leaders in Africa - now widely touted as the next high-growth region - were less upbeat than a year ago. "CEOs see a global economy that is reluctant to recover and that clearly impacts how they think about their own companies' prospects," said Dennis Nally, chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers International. "They are running their businesses cautiously, not really prepared to make any significant investments or additions to headcounts until they can get some more clarity." Companies have responded to tough times by managing operations more tightly. That means cost cutting remains a priority and ambitious investment projects, including big acquisitions, are off the agenda for now. Continuing uncertainty over economic growth tops the list of CEO concerns, with the problems caused by governments running unsustainable fiscal deficits ranking second. Other issues also keeping company managers awake at night include concerns about excessive regulation and the instability of capital markets. The prevailing business mood paints a bleak picture for job prospects, with only 45 percent of CEOs planning to recruit in 2013 - down from 51 percent in 2012 - while 23 percent intend to reduce the size of their workforce. Share Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Business,Top Stories,CEO,Switzerland,Davos Read More: CEO Switzerland Davos


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Puig returns to field; Mattingly downplays weight
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Yasiel Puig returned to the field Saturday after missing two days of workouts with a bruised leg, which somehow got the media to asking Dodgers manager Don Mattingly about his right fielder's weight.
Mattingly said Puig reported to camp around 245 pounds, or 20 pounds heavier than he ended last season, but the manager said he wasn't overly worried, sort of.
"Honestly, I'm not that concerned," said Mattingly. "I've been in a lot of camps, you watch everybody. He ended up at 225 and maybe that was too light. Anything with Yasiel is a big deal. We understand that. I don't think there's a huge alarm going off. You just pay attention."
Mattingly said he still intends to bat Puig leadoff most of the time because "he's dynamic, and quite honestly, he hasn't proven himself to be an RBI guy. You need to be calm in those situations to hit in the middle. You watch Adrian [Gonzalez] and Hanley [Ramirez], they're calm and that's probably experience. Up top, he'll get more at-bats. I think he likes batting there."
Mattingly said he also plans to play Puig and Andre Ethier in more positions than just right field and center field, respectively. Ethier figures to be the primary center fielder for as long as Matt Kemp is sidelined.


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"American Horror Story" mastermind Ryan Murphy will be teaming up with "Apollo 18" co-writer Brian Miller for a super hot super new Sci-Fi flick for Sony. The project is currently untitled, there's no director selected and details of the film have yet to be released. Sooooo... How's your day going so far? Did you watch "The Bad Girls Club" last night? Man what a crazy start, huh?
Get excited folks, Universal has picked up the rights to a new found footage flick titled "Thirteen" which focuses on the topic of possession. I for one applaud the good people at Universal for their not-rocking-the-boatness. If they made some crazy movie based off of a new idea no one had ever seen, well I might not be able to control myself in the theater. This way I know what I'm getting and I'll be able to relax. Thank you again, Universal.
Relativity Media and The Weinstein Company have apparently settled their differences of "The Crow" remake out of court and appear to be moving forward with the project. It's amazing to me that of all the movies that get tied up in legal problems the one film they pick to set aside their differences for is "The Crow". Thank you?
I have no idea what dubstep is but I know I hate it, a lot. I also have no idea who Jake Hoffman and Nikki Reed are either but apparently they're going to star in a new dubstep horror flick titled "Snap". I honestly don't even know what I just wrote there. Reed will play a social worker who finds herself drawn into the exciting world of dubstep. I don't know, it turns out she's a nut bag or something. I'm so lost right now.


text: Pulse-pounding action meets cosmic horror in this exciting collection from the rising stars of the New Cthulhuiana. Steel your nerves, reach into your weapons locker, and tie tight your running shoes as humanity takes up arms against the monsters and gods of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Above all, remember to count your bullets…you may need the last one for yourself.


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Could someone explain how giving me a tax cut is socialism, but giving Wall Street $1 trillion isn't?
Could someone explain how giving me a tax cut is socialism, but giving Wall Street $1 trillion isn't?
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Final fan fare
After 11 successful iterations of the "numbers series", as Japanese gamers have dubbed the franchise, anyone would be forgiven for expecting number 12 to be more of the same.
It is different, some would argue radically so, with a major reworking of the battle system and approach to storytelling. Yet at the same time it is comfortingly familiar to even the most purist Final Fantasy fan.
A new gambit
The biggest departure is the battle system; there are no frustrating random encounters in FFXII. Taking inspiration from their online endeavours, Square Enix has developed a new mechanism that will be instantly familiar to fans of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing games, like EverQuest or World of Warcraft.
There is no transition into combat - in fact there is no world map movement at all - instead you journey though a gorgeous fully realised 3D environments. When you attack, you simply walk within range and strike but run the risk of attracting other, nearby monsters to the melee. Elegantly simple, this new system breathes a sense of life and deeper realism into the game.
A red arc is drawn between the monster and the party member they're attacking, a blue arc between your characters and the foes they're targeting and a green arc between characters healing. These simple visual clues make combat incredibly intuitive, letting you understand, plan and react to the situations at a glance.
Turn sequences have been replaced with Action bars, with different abilities taking a set period of time to activate, making combat feel faster and more natural. Gone too is the need to repetitively select "attack" and your target from the battle system menu.
The coup de grace of this new approach is the introduction of Gambits, hierarchies of responses you can set for each individual party member, effectively tweaking the game's AI to suit your style and technique.
From offensive Gambits like Attack > Foe: party leader's target to defensive strategies like Cure > Ally: HP < 70%, a myriad of actions can be assigned, enabling you to sit back and watch a melee unfold, switch between characters to make tweaks and adjustments or switch off Gambits to take full control.
License to...
The progression of your characters is more freeform than previous games, being more in tune with Final Fantasy Tactics on PS2. Each character has a License board, much like a chess board, of potential abilities to choose from - magicks, technicks, weapons, armour...
Each character begins with a few unlocked squares and the potential to buy abilities from the surrounding vertical and horizontal board spaces. With each new License purchased, via points gained through defeating monsters and overcoming obstacles, new options are revealed.
See with new eyes
These changes are major departures from previous iterations but the biggest departure by far is FFXII's storyline. Without spoiling any of the drama it is safe to say that the creative team at Square Enix has taken it's tried and tested plot devices and thrown them out.
It is not one boy's journey to save a doomed world but rather a blend of themes within a highly charged political environment. This brave new Ivalice resonates on a level with our modern world.
Yes, there are orphans in this story and at the very beginning your first impressions are though the eyes of Vaan, a young rebel running the streets of Dalmasca. However, instead of seeing the tale from his perspective, he soon becomes part of a larger ensemble cast offering a range of different viewpoints.
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The battle system and character progression has changed, while the familiar story format is gone. So what makes this Final Fantasy?
Familiar elements are present from the iconic Chocobos, Moogles and Viera, and the orphans already mentioned to high visual production values and a stunning orchestral score.
Each version of Final Fantasy has seen new characters, exploring new worlds and an improved battle system, the tone of each woven together by these familiar threads. In FFXII the imagination and development of the characters, world setting and system is plainly far greater than ever before, but it is still Final Fantasy.
As the final instalment to be released for PlayStation 2, their venture has paid off for both fans and newcomers. Final Fantasy XII is by far the best release in the numbers series and arguably the best roleplaying game on PlayStation 2.
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Your plan is dead. No your plan is dead.
Those were the messages exchanged by the Senate and House over the past 24 hours, and the events of Saturday left the debt crisis no closer to resolution.
In fact, it appeared to be getting further away.
The House met in a rare Saturday session for no reason but to tell the Senate it had no interest in the solution that chamber has been considering since last night. On Friday night, the Senate began a series of procedural moves toward a plan of its own after voting, 59 to 41, to reject the one sent over by the House — a plan Speaker John Boehner had spent 72 hours jamming through his recalcitrant chamber.
On Saturday, the House voted on a hastily drafted bill based on what it believed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was pushing in the Senate. The House turned thumbs down on that bill, 246 to 173. So there.
House Republicans were clearly stung by the snub the Senate had given their own work, which took Speaker John Boehner three days of extraordinary maneuvering and last-minute rewrites to pass. Even when he did win a bare 218 majority of the 435 members, he had nary a single Democrat on board and 22 of his own party stalwarts said no.
On the Senate side, Boehner's handiwork was nixed by six conservative Republicans who stood with the Tea Party in saying no to raising the debt ceiling.
No one expected any of those six to help Reid and his 53 Democrats (and independents) reach the 60 votes they would need to stop the filibuster of the Democratic plan in the Senate. But Reid clearly hoped some of the other Republicans might come over just to find some kind of way forward.
That hope, too, was dashed on Saturday, when the Senate GOP delivered a letter signed by all but four of their number. The letter told Reid to forget about any help from 43 of the 47 Republicans in the chamber. The leader was at least two votes shy of the minimum to keep his own plan alive.
It should be noted that the plans being pushed by the two parties are not worlds apart. Neither has revenue increases of any kind. Both would cut the deficit by more than $2 trillion over 10 years and raise the debt ceiling by a roughly commensurate amount.
But the Republican plan also included a requirement that both House and Senate adopt an amendment to the Constitution requiring a balanced budget, a feat that would require two-thirds in both chambers. Absent such a feat, the debt ceiling would be reached again in January. The difficulty of passing a constitutional amendment opposed by a majority in the Senate makes it tantamount to a permanent debt ceiling that would be reached by the end of this calendar year.
So the negotiations, if they can be called that, have run aground yet again on an issue no one had expected to be part of the final deal — or even the later rounds of talks. President Obama said in his radio address Saturday that it was time for House Republicans to compromise, rather than continuing to widen the gap between the two sides. The Saturday vote on the House's notion of the Senate plan showed how well that idea was playing in the GOP ranks.
Tonight, Reid had hoped to hold a crucial cloture vote in the wee hours of Sunday to break the logjam and get close to actual consideration of his actual plan. He was ready to alter his plan to lure GOP votes. With that hope appearing to be vain, the need for a cloture vote may be moot. Or Reid may yet proceed with it.
Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi went to the White House at midafternoon on Saturday. Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were to confer with the president later in the day.
With the prospect of default now just a few days away, most Americans are still averting their eyes from the astonishing spectacle in Washington. But that may not be possible much longer.
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SHERRILL -- This year, when Colleen English thought about what she wanted for her 10th birthday, she knew exactly what she was going to ask for -- donations to the KEYS Program.
Colleen came up with the idea after volunteering at the KEYS Program with her mother, Patricia English.
The two have helped organize care packages sent to children battling cancer and other illnesses. The KEYS Program also donates to victims of Hurricane Sandy and survivors from the school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.
The program also reaches out to those who are suffering by using music therapy.
"I'm donating because they bring music to people in need," Colleen said.
Colleen Bennett, founder of the KEYS Program in Sherrill, started the program in 1994 in memory of her father, Charles Blair, who died of cancer. She said her mission is to bring comfort and hope to children who are battling cancer
"We do that through our bedside performances and also through our care packages," Bennett said. "The care packages include an album of music along with a stuffed animal, an education booklet, and a book."
The cost of each care package is $25. Any monetary donation is helpful.
Bennett said music often consoled her father through his treatments while suffering from cancer.
"We really want to just bring them some peace and some comfort," she said. "I'm not a doctor and I can't help someone prevent cancer, but we sure can use our gift of music to help bring them through that journey and provide support for them."
And this isn't the first time Colleen has opted out of her birthday presents.
Last year, instead of getting gifts on Dec. 30, she received items to give to the Rome Humane Society and the Wanderers' Rest Humane Association in Canastota.
Her mother credits Colleen's selfless attitude to the community service she has grown up with.
"She's a junior Girl Scout, my husband and I are both in the fire department," English said. "She has helped with chicken barbeques and she just understands the importance of volunteering."
Colleen mentioned that when she was in the hospital for eye surgery in October 2012, she remembers feeling homesick.
"It hurt after and I wanted to go home," she said. "But my friends made a pillow for me."
She explained that by donating to the KEYS Program, she hopes to comfort others who may have felt the same way she did while in the hospital.
But Colleen was adamant that she didn't feel slighted in the least that her friends aren't giving her birthday presents again this year, and her mother agreed.
"I think this will help her to become a more well-rounded person, to understand how to help others, to not be selfish and to think of others," English said.
Colleen's actions have even inspired some of her friends to give up their birthday presents, too. Two other girls asked for donations to an animal shelter and an orphanage.
"I felt good because they were doing the same thing as me and helping more people," Colleen English said.
She added that she will be one of the featured singers on the music album this year, singing "Shalom Chaverim," meaning "peace, friends, until we meet again."
Colleen also said she will continue to ask for donations to different organizations each year for her birthday.
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By SHOSHANA WALTER on August 14, 2012 – 12:01 a.m. PDT
Department has given state incorrect data for years
The San Francisco Police Department has underreported the arrest rates of the city's two largest minority groups for years, misclassifying Latino arrestees as "white" and Asian arrestees as "other," The Bay Citizen has learned.
The state has been publishing the erroneous statistics in a report called "Crime in California" since at least 1999, when the state Department of Justice first began posting the data online.
Because of the misclassifications, the department and federal and state officials have no accurate record of how often minorities are arrested in the city, creating skewed statistics and leading to widespread concern among local civil rights groups.
According to the reported data, African Americans are arrested at a much higher rate than whites. But by misclassifying Latinos, the department has inflated the number of whites arrested, indicating that the gap between the arrest rates for whites and blacks is even wider.
Over the years, concerns about racial profiling in the city's African American and Latino communities have sparked city hearings and policy changes. Accurate, credible crime statistics were supposed to be a way to hold the department accountable. In 1999, the Police Commission ordered the police department to begin tracking racial data from all traffic stops. But disciplinary records show many officers still fail to fill out such tracking forms. And the misclassifications of Latino and Asian arrestees suggest other problems persist.
"This is just extremely troubling," said Francisco Ugarte, senior immigration attorney at the San Francisco Immigrant Legal and Education Network. "If San Francisco is effectively unable to categorize those in the city being arrested, that would undermine our ability to monitor police practices – particularly in San Francisco, with such a huge Latino population."
The Bay Citizen discovered the discrepancies after the California Department of Justice released the crime statistics for the year 2010 in June.
According to that report, 8,198 African Americans and 9,151 whites were arrested in San Francisco in 2010, along with 316 Hispanic adults and nine Hispanic juveniles. About 2,800 arrests are listed under "other."
The Hispanic arrest figures included in the report come from other agencies in San Francisco, such as the California Highway Patrol, that have the authority to make arrests in the city but don't share the police department's antiquated computer system. Those numbers have fluctuated over the years, from a high of 705 Hispanic arrests in 2000 to a low of 283 Hispanic arrests in 2005.
San Francisco police commanders acknowledge that some of those statistics are incorrect.
"We have certainly made more than 300 arrests in the Hispanic community," said Deputy Chief Lyn Tomioka. "I look at that number as a police officer and I can tell that it is inaccurate."
Police officers mark whether an individual is Latino or Asian on arrest reports, but Tomioka and other department officials blamed an outdated computer system for the inaccuracies. Installed in 1972, the system lists three categories for identifying arrestees by race: blacks, whites and other. Although the department could calculate the numbers manually, officers have been identifying Latinos as "white" and Asians as "other" in the computer system for years.
"You're making it sound like officers choose to do this. It's what the system has available to the officers to put in," Tomioka said.
She said she did not know when the department began misclassifying arrestees but said it does not plan on "looking back at those statistics."
The police department has no idea if any of the statistics it reports to the state are accurate, according to Susan Giffin, its chief technology officer.
"Not only can we not tell you if the numbers are right, we really can't articulate what the problems are, or if there are problems," Giffin said.
By law, the police department is required to report crime and arrest statistics to the California Department of Justice each month. The state attorney general's office and the FBI publish the data in their annual crime reports. The statistics also have been used in countless studies on racial disparities and trends in arrest rates.
When asked whether the Department of Justice expects law enforcement agencies to report accurate information to the state attorney general's office, spokesman Nicholas Pacilio said the office had no comment.
Although California law states that the attorney general's office is required to "periodically review" the numbers and "make recommendations for changes" on data collection techniques, the department could not provide the last date of its review by publication time.
The FBI did not respond to requests for comment.
San Francisco civil rights advocates said they were stunned to hear that the police department was misclassifying Latino and Asian arrestees as "white" and "other." African Americans make up 6 percent of the population but account for 40 percent of all arrests. According to the misclassified statistics, Latinos, who constitute 15 percent of the city's population, account for 1.5 percent of all arrests. At nearly 36 percent, Asians have become the second-largest demographic group in San Francisco, behind whites. But the statistics reported under "other" provide no indication of how often Asians are arrested in the city.
"Oh, my goodness; I had no idea," Lorena Melgarejo, director of community organizing at the Central American Resource Center, said of the police department's misclassified arrests. "The police department says the community's trust is very important to them. If they are underreporting numbers, they are basically making it impossible for us to understand what is really happening."
Angela Chan, a member of the San Francisco Police Commission and an attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, said: "This data should and must be accurate."
"The fact that our technology is outdated is the reason for a lot of things," she said. "If there's an issue, it needs to be solved."
The problem is just one of many related to the department's outdated technology. The San Francisco controller's office concluded in January that the police department's public and internal crime reports frequently conflict with the reports the department sends to the FBI, not because of "underlying crime trends," but because of "disparate data sources." Prior to 2010, when it hired Giffin as chief technology officer, the police department had spent close to $20 million on failed attempts to bring its technology up to date.
The controller's office is reviewing the department's technology issues at the request of Police Chief Greg Suhr. But its new crime data warehouse will do nothing to correct the arrest report errors, according to Giffin. The system is currently designed to house incident and crime reports, not arrest data.
Two years ago, Queens College sociology professor Harry Levine co-wrote a widely distributed study about discrepancies in marijuana arrests in California. He and other researchers found that Latinos were twice as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession as whites. But he did not include San Francisco in the analysis, he said, because the arrest rate for Latinos looked "a little screwy."
Accurate data provides "a way of seeing who it is that is being systematically given preference or systematically excluded," Levine said. "In terms of making a fairer, more just, more equal world, it is good to know what powerful institutions are doing."


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Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:49 pm
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Would you like to visit the land inside Earth, the civilization living there?
What do you think about it?
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I think a good explanation to this is the idea of an intelligence, like the sun,
beeing this planet. Like a "seperate" councious entity, "having" earth like its body,
wisely housing all the inhabitants. That would explain all this logically, like the constant healing of the planet,
the way a rock, dust and air pulsate with beeing. Our "big" brother is looking after us.
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Hello dear friends
by all these phenomena I am thinking of stories I have read about parallel worlds which exist beside our material world. When I worked as a research medium we did get the answer from our spiritual guides that there are so many of these worlds, but normally we cannot see them. My spiritual guides showed me often such worlds when I was in trance and my Reading-Leader, Peter, asked them question, which I answered in the function as medium. Peter Kirchner has of all these readings protocols.
I am sure, that nearly every of us, has had a contact to one of these worlds in his life, but most of us does not notice it.
Yes, this world within the earth is real - it is a real parallel world. Perhaps the voyage expedition will find it, I wish them that luck, then they can tell us all about their exiting experience, and I will be fascinated again about the immensity of the creation and I will believe it.
Then comes another voyage expedition and they will not be successful in finding the whole through one comes into the other dimension ? and the realists of our earth are once more convinced that all that is a fairytale or a lie.
I try to translate two of these stories:
Dislocation of space and time
J. Michell and R.J.M. Rickard: "the world puts full miracles", Eccon Verl., 1977
Laura Jean Daniels told the Columnist Joyce hailing horn in the Dearborn presses (Michigian, 10.Mai 1973), she went one evening to the late shift on deserted roads home and had a look up to the moon as she again its urban environment wanted to regard, it had disappeared! There were no longer the even going IGP slats, and I went along a with clinkers paved way. No houses stood on both sides, but about l00 meters before me I recognized a straw-covered small house... the night smelled heavily after roses and goat-leaves.
When I followed the way closer that brought me to the house, I saw two people sitting in the garden, a man and a woman in very old-fashionable clothes. The two were obviously fall in love very much, embraced themselves, and I could recognize the face expression of the woman.
While I still asked myself, how I should become apparent, a small dog approached yapping on me:
It trembled at the whole body. The man looked up and called the dog too, and he stopped barking. Nevertheless, I felt somehow that the man could not see me; I smelled the flowers and felt the handle of the garden door under my hand.
While I still considered, what I should do, I turned me after the way, on which I had come and saw - again my road!
But I felt still the handle in my hand. I saw again to the small house ?but it had disappeared.
I stood on open road, completely in the proximity of my entry door. The house, the lovers and the small dog had disappeared.
In the middle in the empty area without all life
(strange experiencing of a dimension change)
J.P.L. Chapman, Poole, Dorset, English one. out: The other world, Vol.((1967), P. 696
One spring morning 1956 I awaked with a raving snowstorm. I knew that this storm would grieve my wife, because she had flower decorations for a charity celebration to arrange.
The snow melted soon; however, surely it would have had unfavourable effect on some tender spring flowers.
For instance a half mile far away from our house is a broad main street, richly border zoned with trees and Rhododendron bushes. Beside an enormous block of flats there were still three very large vacant properties. In the course of the years natural growth had these properties partly over-rampantly grown.
My wife suggested looking there for flower-bushes which she needed for the meeting.
We entered the mentioned building sites; where my wife soon a large, cherry tree discovered, in the midst of the undergrowth and began to break off some bloom-carried branches.
I told her, she might have called me, if I could help her, and walked away. We have seen also bundles of primroses we had seen still in the near and that had surprised us that these had been able to prosper here on this place.
During the time my wife was busy at the cherry tree, I had stopped, in order to throw a view of the neighbouring dwelling houses and then on the primroses. When I up-looked again, the dwelling house had disappeared! But everything else seemed completely normally.
The amazingness of my experience came up to my consciousness, it differed so much from of my likewise odd, but used visits to other dimensions in the sleep.
Suddenly and on a dramatic way also the remaining environment changed, i.e.: a tremendous, nearly empty area surrounded me. Nevertheless, I did not loose orientation, because the sunshine gave me the impression of reality.
Would I find out of that different dimension from that presently/immediately ever again? The "exit" had with my "in steps" to be identical, I thought.
In order mean to mark my location, I bored two crossed sticks into the soil. Then I went into the direction, where the dwelling house had to be - and beyond that! I did not reach houses, no road, no traffic - everything resembled more to an all sides opened enormous area without a trace of lives.
Now I deliberated myself suddenly that my wife might have been procured. I decreased/went back the considerable distance to the crossed sticks.
When I called loud my wife, she answered: "as you frightened me! Where were you? I called and searched, but could not find you however!"
I calmed her down with the excuse, to have made "a small experiment".
My wife suggested scanning again the whole place before we away-went with our cherry blossom branches. Thus I had still one more opportunity to employ investigations.
Everything seemed to be "normal" again. The dwelling house was at its old place. The shrubs, trees and plants were again visible. But was there strangeness: the soil, on which I had been, did not carry traces. I could see my footprints in the direction of the dwelling house, but they ended suddenly, as if I had dissolved here in air. In addition the traces of my way back began just as suddenly!
Thus I ask myself: "was I actually in another dimension?
(Source: "Psychic News" NR 1824 od. 1024?, over. of E.M. of grains)
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does it gives any news from the past exploration to the North Pole?
As I can see all voyages are cancelled, but why?
There are also no reports to read about the past voyages. There are just reports from the 19th century:
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Does anybody know about a way to get there without visiting the Earth Poles? I think I read
somewhere on this site
that entry points to Hollow Earth exist in every big city. There's also something about "
New Germany
" which seems to have a secret connection with "outer" Germany. But the entry points are probably protected by the governments. Another weird idea would be teleportation or asking for entrance through means of telepathy
. But I'm not able to do that.
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I can tell you that several disinformators/funny people, we can call them, I was able to penetrate and chuck away, were doing massive Agharta-related well-poisoning, that means distorting the truth, whatever that is, in order to create confusion, derail, desprestige the matter, etc., but this is done taking true elements, so that a way to prevent success in that operation is blissful lack of belief or disbelief and sheer ignoring. You can simply say that, as of today, no normal person can tell which side in the great cosmic clash of light and dark the real or supposed insiders are on.
What you say about New Germany has been there for a long time, it is very important in esoteric hitlerism, and I found it incredibly silly when I found texts around about the admiral Byrd's expedition when the part of the approaching flying aircraft showing swastikas had been erased or changed. I can tell you the extremely intriguing book "The Golden Thread", by Miguel Serrano, actually mentions in passing the list of places for alternative entrances to Shambalah, and not meaning today's real or supposed underground networks, rather meaning special concrete cities.
I learnt that way of one of these entrances and went physically there, after studying the place. It is a cave in a peculiar mountain with a lot of stories and mythology about it; locally this piece of information about going "that" deep are not to be found, but stories about "dragons" and communicating to another distant cave, and old accounts of early explorers centuries ago reading "nobody found a bottom".
Modernly a team of espeleologists went there to stop the nonsense about the cave. And the fact is that descending the main well some 30 m, not difficult to do for anyone in good shape, a little room seems to be blinded with all the stones and rubbish that visitors have thrown from above down the tubes throughout the centuries.
They agreed that indeed these four factors tell us it should continue:
1. legends and stories
2. early accounts
3. geology of the area and disposition of the rock layers
4. water coming down find drainage
I spent as much time inside the cave as I could in hopes of stoping my noises in the ear, hallmark of the vibrational survivors of today, to no avail, but a Dutch expatriate I met there in the mountain increased my feeling of indeed something weird going on because he told me a few years previous a baby had been found abandoned inside the cave. Peculiar. I made my mind to, if some tourist poked their nose in the entrance, I would make a noise, and, if they would ask "who is there", I would answer cavernously THE DRAAAAGON
My intuition tells: let's focus on inedia. From there maybe we get something else, and we dont need our physical bodies to go to the cave and take all the stones out. Clue: listen carefully to a Mount Athos monk video in youtube mentioning inedia without really never having heard that word, and the real reason why he knows that and what it is really happening in the world. You suggest something in the same direction I see.
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Hi tomasblanco,
thanks for your reply. You gave me a lot of completely new hints and information I didn't know about. I find the story about your visit to the cave very interesting. You know much more about the Hollow Earth and related topics than me so I'm not sure what I can answer to you.
If your intuition tells you we should focus on Inedia, it might be right and there could be more to it. With me it's been a bit different: After fasting/dieting a lot for years, my intuition finally told me to stop and eat normal again. I'm not really sure what Inedia really means: Is it nothing special (you just don't eat anymore ... not much else will really change in your life) or will something happen if you do it for a certain time (psychic abilities, enlightenment, expanded consciousness, etc.)? After trying things for a while I gave up my thinking that through fasting or Inedia something great will happen. But sometimes the wish for longer fasting comes back because I'm curious to know how it is to fast for weeks or months and what happens inside the mind and body during that time.
I need to look up the video on the Mount Athos monk you mentioned. Which suggestion of mine do you mean?
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You're welcome, and thanks to you.
Dont take me too seriously, I like to write for entertainment sometimes in a speculative suggestive manner when really I dont really know what I am talking about
My real point was: beware of disinformation. Stories of a "Sanat Kumara" reigning inside and being our boss are... let's put it this way, bad taste.
But really these little trips in search of entrances to Shamballah are more like little pilgrimages, it is the meaning that you give it in your imagination. Mine was very minor, but the man I told you, Miguel Serrano, actually organized a trip to Antarctica. A little phrase I liked in his account, (misquoting from memory) "our ship was not a great thing, I did not know everything, BUT MY PSYCHIC ANTENNAS WERE WIDE OPEN". Well understood I view most people as either lost in illusions, or the illusionists, growing a bit tired of the game.
The interview of the monk I was refering was this :
the Portuguese version I found first with beautiful music
dont worry about it, it is not a great thing and probably boring, but I liked it
what it´s important is that he agrees with Steve Torrence that what moves the body is consciousness (he calls it God), and he suggests (I believe) he knows what is happening, because he sojourns outside the body (his language, "I ve been closer to God than you") -another field to be careful in, I've detected many "funny people" as I call them; just: beware.
About your deciding against inedia no problem; I confess I find it disappointing anytime someone says something along those lines or comes back I suppose the classic "we are all different" is in order; it is possible we have some kind of inborn inclination to this as to anything else; my experience goes right in the opposite direction, of full increasing meaning
if you say you dont see the point in it, it's fine
only remember is supposed to be a forum about inedia
, I am perfectly happy so extremely few people can do it, care about it, it is not official and disbelieved; the situation could not be more comfortable and intellectually/spiritually juicy.
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With the advent of the Flat Earth model in -I believe- true alternative research circles (with their ridiculing paralel pseudo-ones) , a word is in order.
Inner Earth theory, or largely the idea that planets are all hollow with a small sun inside, would explain equally well their justified complain that there is not a single non-fake picture of the earth from outside space, and that no streaming camera is offering live images in spite of allegedly gillions of satellites out there.
However, my point that many "funny", and I am sorry I cant explain this, but I have my methods and a history of being deceived and developing eyes for the funny people, I was saying "funny people" had been moving the Shamballah story, strongly makes me believe it is a second layer of deception to cover the flat earth, a sort of "controlled opposition"-theory to couple with the by-default ball earth view.
It is to be noted that Admiral Byrd didnt say anything that suggested a "going inward"in his journey beyond Antarctica, really the narrative is just as good for a "going beyond". And the aircraft of the people he found had the sun symbol swastika, and the flat earthers have this insight of the ball earth as a whole collective mind manipulation going to the core of all metaphysical and religious assumptions in which, by diverting the focal point to the sun (which does not mean He is unimportant at all) everything in minds and hearts is quite literally put upside down...being all part of the black magick we are all immersed in, e.g. control of reality through control of the human mind.
Equally, I know, because I ve first-hand "suffered" it, the same patterns have happened in the most geocentric thing of all, astrology, which one day may turn out to be the most true science of all...
Something I have to say: the prospect of escaping "sideways" and physically instead of up or interdimensionally is so encouraging, BUT... I am convinced, beyond Antarctica you will enter either territory of our controllers, or someone indiferent to our plight, i.e. no good or too much of an escape anyway.
At any rate, it is an intellectual adventure no truly educated man can refuse at this point, if only to exercise one's imagination.
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I am a 19 yr old student new to all these ideas. I made the transformation $X(z)=\sum_{n=1}^\infty z^n/n^2$. Therefore $X(1)=\pi^2/6$ as we all know (it is $\zeta(2)$). To calculate $X(1)$, I integrated $$\frac{Y(z)}{z}=\sum_{n=1}^\infty \frac{z^{n-1}}{n} $$ between 0 to 1;
We all know $Y(z)=-\log(1-z)$; so doing integral of $Y(z)/z$ from 0 to 1, I get
$$X(1)=\int_0^1\ln\frac{z}{z-1}dz$$ that is $\pi^2/6$; Now integrating $X(z)/z$ between 0 to 1, I get $\sum_{n=1}^\infty 1/n^3$;
therefore performing that integral I get $\sum1/n^3$ as $$\int_0^1 \frac{(\log x)^2 dx}{1-x};$$ which Iam unable to do.
So can anyone give an idea of how to find $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty\frac1{n^3}=\zeta(3)=\int_0^1 \frac{(\log x)^2 dx}{1-x};$$ given $$\zeta(2)=\int_0^1 \frac{\log x\ dx}{1-x}=\frac{\pi^2}{6}.$$ Please take time to read all these things and help me out by giving some suggestion.


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The post season opened on a very positive note for Emmetsburg on Wednesday night with a 41-0 shutout of Ridge View. The win set up a second round matchup between the Gaels of Fort Dodge St. Edmonds on Monday, Oct. 29, at Duane Twait Field in Emmetsburg.
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- Ridge View would get the ball and earn a first down by penalty that would allow them to work down to the E-Hawk 13. The Raptors' Ryan Garthoff put the ball in the air, but the E-Hawks' Nick Schany read the play and jumped up to intercept the pass at the goal line. Schany pulled the orb in and took off upfield, getting some blocks and returning the stolen pass 72 yards before being brought down at the Raptors' 28 yard line with 8:25 to go in the quarter.
The E-Hawks quickly worked toward the goal line and Wellik would score off a six yard run with 5:50 to go in the quarter. Merwald added the kick for a 14-0 lead as the E-Hawks had dodged a bullet.
Ridge View would go three downs and then punt on their possession as Emmetsburg took over and began marching downfield once again.
It wouldn't take long for Andrew Wellik to ply his craft again as he scored off a 13 yard run with :45 to go in the quarter. Merwald's kick gave the E-Hawks a 21-0 lead to close out the first quarter.
The Raptors would turn the ball over on downs early in the second quarter, setting the E-Hawks up near mid-field.
Starting at their own 42 yard line, Emmetsburg struck quickly, starting with a 29-yard reception by Nick Schany that brought the E-Hawks down to the Raptor's six yard line. On the next play, Austin McCartan burst through the line to score the six-yard touchdown with 10:17 to go in the half. Merwald's kick was good, making the score 28-0 with plenty of football to be played.
Once again the Raptors took over and tried to drive through the air, but once again, the E-Hawk defense stepped up big to stop the Raptors cold.
Jake Jackson tracked the play on first down and picked off a pass at the Raptors' 32 yard line and returned it to the end zone for the pick-six with 9:25 to play in the half. A bad snap would kill the PAT, making the score 34-0, but the E-Hawks weren't quite done.
Ridge View would get the ball and with the benefit of a holding call against the E-Hawks, got a first down, only to be forced to punt facing fourth and 15 at their 42 with 7:06 to go in the half. The punt was shanked and Emmetsburg recovered at their own 46.
Once again, the offense took over and started working downfield until Cody Henderson took a handoff and raced 33 yards for a score with 4:48 to go in the half. Nick Merwald put the PAT?through the uprights for the 41-0 lead that would carry to the intermission.
With the 35-point rule in effect to start the second half with the continuous clock, the E-Hawk varsity started the second half kicking to the Raptors. Ridge View started a series, only to have their third pass of the night intercepted, this time by Brady Christensen, who returned it to the Ridge View 13 yard line.
Head Coach Mike Dunlap sent the second team offense out at that point, and the reserves, led by Brandon Elbert and running of Allen Jensen, Mitch Petersen and Greg Wesley, got the ball to the five yard line before turning the ball over on downs.
Ridge View left their starters in the game and tried to move the ball, but were forced to punt.
Emmetsburg got the ball back at the Raptors' 28 yard line but once again were stopped by the Ridge View defense and a penalty for an illegal receiver downfield.
Ridge View would go three and out against the E-Hawks' reserve defense and gave the ball back after a punt to close out the third quarter with Emmetsburg still holding the 41-0 lead.
The final quarter opened with the E-Hawks facing a third and nine at the Raptors' 39. The E-Hawks would come up short on the fourth down and turned the ball over on downs.
Ridge View would go to the air once again, but for the fourth time in the game, Emmetsburg's defense came up with an interception. This time, Brandon Elbert would steal the throw and returned it 25 yards to the Raptors' 25 yard line with 7:00 to play in the game.
But once again, the E-Hawk offense would stall out and turn the ball over on downs to the Raptors. As a steady rain began falling with time winding down, the Raptors would try to mount a final drive, but would turn the ball over on downs a final time. Emmetsburg would take over and ran the clock out as the rain came pouring down to end the contest with the 41-0 shutout.
The E-Hawks would roll to 287 rushing yards in the win, while the Raptors gained 75 yards on the ground.
Andrew Wellik broke the 2,000 yard rushing mark for the season with his 155 yards off 15 carries in the win. Jake Jackson added 46 yards on four rushes, while Cody Henderson ran four times for 37 yards. Austin McCartan added three carries for 15 yards, with Allen Jensen running eight times to gain 18 yards.
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Jake Jackson completed one of two passes for 29 yards and Brandon Elbert attempted one pass.
All told, Emmetsburg racked up 316 total offensive yards while Ridge View had 117 total yards.
For the Emmetsburg defense, Greg Wesley would make 10 tackles in the contest, along with a quarterback sack. Jake Jackson made five tackles and intercepted a pass for a 32 yard return. Brandon Elbert added two tackles with a interception and 25 yard return. Nick Schany had two tackles and a pass interception with 72 yard return and Brady Christensen made one tackle and added a pass interception for a 26 yard return.


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Abby, she's making me crazy. Should I record her for a few hours and play it back? Unless I do, she won't believe she does it. By the end of the week, I can hardly speak to her. Please help. — TORTURED IN ORANGE, CALIF.
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Your co-worker may be unaware that she makes these sounds. Instead of criticizing her, perhaps you should mention this to her. I don't think you need to make any recordings.
If the noise is distracting others in the office, a group of you should approach a supervisor about it. If not, then I'd recommend earphones for you.
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