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Boasts About Textbook Alignment to Common Core a 'Sham,' Say Researchers
From guest blogger Benjamin Herold, cross-posted from Digital Education
Los Angeles
Claims from publishers that traditional instructional materials are aligned to Common Core State Standards are largely a "sham," say two researchers who have conducted extensive reviews of classroom textbooks, but the jury is still out on the new wave of digital curricula hitting the market.
"Non-traditional and new-media resources hold a great deal of promise," said Morgan Polikoff, an assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California. But districts' mantra should be "don't trust, and still verify" any claims of common-core alignment, he said.
Polikoff and William Schmidt, the co-director of the education policy center at Michigan State University, gave a presentation on textbooks and the new standards, now adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, at a seminar here hosted by the Education Writers Association. Both have conducted exhaustive reviews of the extent to which traditional textbooks are aligned to new standards, and they are in the early stages of similar research into digital materials.
Schmidt blasted the publishers of widely used paper textbooks as "snake-oil salesmen" who "tell poor districts and teachers [their textbooks] line up to" the common core.
His team analyzed 40-50 textbooks covering first through ninth grades—books that are used by roughly 60 percent of U.S. school children—that were purportedly aligned to the new standards.
"Page by page, paragraph by paragraph," many were identical to the old, pre-standards textbooks, he said.
Polikoff, meanwhile, analyzed a number of textbooks, including three major-publisher 4th grade math textbooks that are used in Florida and claim to be "common-core aligned."
The books, he found, were "only modestly aligned to the common core" and "systematically failed to reach the higher levels of cognitive demand" called for in the standards. From 15 to 20 percent of the material covered in the books was not tied to grade-level common-core standards, and most of the books failed to cover between 10 and 15 percent of the content in the standards. The books were about 60 percent to 70 percent identical to their earlier, pre-common-core versions, Polikoff found.
Textbook publishers generally don't want to do thorough, meaningful revisions to accommodate the new standards, the researchers said, because such work is expensive and difficult.
Schmidt framed the textbook problem as just one of several challenges looming over the implementation of the common core. Teachers—many of whom support, but don't understand, the new standards, he said—tend to teach what is in their textbooks, his research has found. When that material doesn't match what's in the standards, it's a big problem.
Many of the same questions and fears apply to new digital instructional materials, said Polikoff.
"My hope is that materials created after [adoption of] the common core would be better than textbooks that have basically been modified," he said, but no systematic research has yet been conducted.
In the near term, the growing number of one-off digital instructional materials being curated on online platforms such as Share My Lesson could play an important role in helping educators plug the common-core holes left by traditional textbook publishers, Polikoff said.
But the real promise of the common core, at least in math, argued Schmidt, is finally having "coherent" standards that focus on high-level conceptual understanding. For the time being, he said, neither individual digital lessons nor adapted versions of traditional paper textbooks are likely to fulfill that goal, and there don't yet appear to be any comprehensive year-long digital curricula ready to do so either.
"Don't spend your money until [instructional materials] arrive that actually fully line up" with the new standards, Schmidt said he advises districts.


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- 18 large dried figs (preferably Greek)
- 18 1/2-inch cubes feta cheese
- 18 thin slices pastourma, prosciutto, or bresaola
- 18 large fresh sage leaves
- 18 large toothpicks
- Extra-virgin olive oil
Recipe Preparation
Using small sharp knife, cut stem from top of each fig, then cut straight down from top center to make 3/4-inch-deep, 1/2-inch-long slit in fig. Fill slit in each fig with cube of feta cheese, then press opening closed. Place 1 slice of pastourma on work surface; top with sage leaf. Place stuffed fig at 1 end and roll up to enclose fig. Secure with toothpick. Repeat with remaining pastourma, sage, and figs. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead.
Arrange on plate, cover tightly with plastic wrap, and chill. Let stand at room temperature 1 hour before continuing. Pour enough oil into large skillet to cover bottom. Heat over medium-high heat. Add figs. Cook until pastourma begins to crisp, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to large platter. Serve warm.

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Brown, Hallie Q.
|GEORGIANA FRANCES PUTNAM -- Born 1839, Salem, Massachusetts -- Died 1914, Worcester, Massachusetts
Miss Putnam was a daughter of George Putnam of Boston and Jane Clark of Hubbardstown, Mass. Her girlhood was passed in Salem where she enjoyed all the educational advantages available to the youth of her generation. Also, she grew up under marked salutary home influences. In that home plain living and high thinking were conspicuous. There the formative hand of an intellectual mother laid an indelible impress upon a family who responded to her touch almost automatically. They adored her, reverenced her; she moulded and manipulated them wisely and with a view to making them self-reliant, persistent and able to discriminate between filmy illusions and laudable ambitions. The children early arrived at a realization of life's responsibilities, becoming practical without being made sordid or narrow. They were a serious family but never dull or pessimistic. While the girls of their set who were entering womanhood were inclined to the notion that labor outside the pale of home was degrading, the Putnam sisters anticipated with enthusiasm a near future when they could attempt to be self-sustaining with the ultimate end of arriving at positions of confidence affording both dignity and competence. Animated by this spirit of independence each girl who reached maturity made her mark and became a vitalizing factor in the community where she settled.
Georgiana became a superior woman, physically and mentally. Though not a beauty she had a distinguished
Upon attaining her majority, Miss Putnam left Salem for New York, resolved to take up teaching, a pursuit she had decided upon as most agreeable to her. At that time no special hard or fast restrictions impeded anyone who fancied the routine work of the "little red school house." Between that wooden edifice and the massive structure housing a common school of today lies a long, long distance, stretching far out of sight on one hand and farther out of sight on the other. This lengthened way is outlined not only by the lapse of time but by an evolution from arbitrary rote and unscientific practice to normal rational procedure having for its aim the judicious guidance of a pupil while directing that pupil's own efforts toward self-education.
At the start of her professional career, Miss Putnam was like Mrs. Tompkins-Garnet, an assistant in the old Williamsburg caste school. A friendship sprang up between these two women which lasted from prior to the opening of the Civil War till the demise of the latter in 1911. The points of likeness between the two were few, the points of contrast, many; some things and thought they had in common however, which appreciably affected their respective futures. Each had a deep interest in the general well being of a child; believed that a normal child should develop normally, and that the days of youth and adolescence should be the habit forming period and that it was the special duty of a teacher to supplement the parent's effort to see that a child acquired those habits recognized by all as forming the base of a life of usefulness and contentment. So, though neither was a trained instructor in the formal sense of the term, each from the beginning was of far different sort than pedagogues of the Ichabod Crane variety. The flowering
Like Mrs. Garnet, in the fullness of time, Mrs. Putnam "arrived." From assistant she became a "head of department" and later a principal of an independent primary school. In this highest position she was a model supervisor. She learned to understand and respect the relation between chief and subordinate; to see that at one and the same time, they are conservative yet elastic, formal though confidential. When race and color discrimination became a thing of the past in matters of public education, and colored schools were merged into public schools, a final promotion to an assistant principalship in a large Broklyn grammar school found Miss Putnam both waiting and ready. In this extended sphere of activity she knew just what to do and how to perform the responsible task of assimilating the diverse nationalities that comprise the rank and file in a cosmopolitan school. She was well prepared to help her teachers to help themselves to become familiarized with school routine and to catch the spirit underlying the effort; making it fruitful and vigorous. To the last day of her active service Miss Putnam kept in close touch with the multiplied affairs, administrative and executive, attached to the satisfactory oversight of hundreds of pupils. She particularly and practically demonstrated that scientific teaching discriminates between unity and uniformity; that a teacher should possess something above and beyond book learning and a minimum of culture. Of a speculative, philosophic turn of mind, she weighed and tested
The period of Miss Putnam's coming to New York and settling in Brooklyn, just acrosos the river was prior to 1865. The number of colored people in the locality was then comparatively small. Slavery in the state had long been abolished and none living there had any practical knowledge of it, nor were any of its after effects especially apparent. Being an epoch before the large influx of immigrants, the strenuous life was unknown, habits were simple and restrained, desires were limited and there was work enough for every worker. Tasks were undertaken leisurely and all were contended with small gains. Gradually as the population increased, the era of hustling and competition was launched, an economic revolution ensured in which old ways were swamped and the weaker worker as usual went to the wall. The radical changes so affected all sorts of business that the days for making money with a limited capital ceased to be. While it lasted many colored men and women acquired property in lands and houses, were able to accumulate savings and invest them judiciously. Their material prosperity was genuine if not extensive. A competence brought luxury and reasonably availed afforded comfort and satisfaction. Our women in New York included not a few engaged in widely differing trades and professions, each of whom was an ornament to her sex. With many of these, Georgiana Putnam come more or less in contact. Sarah Ennalls, Fanny Tompkins and Eliza Richards deserve special
When the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect, Miss Putnam was young, yet mature enough to understand the delirium of joy that seized her people. It was like what the Israelites felt when they started out to leave Egypt all unconscious of what was awaiting farther on. Till 1863, colored people in the free states toiled, lived, had ambitions for themselves, made sacrifices for their children very much after the fashion of other Americans not colored. But at no time could the incubus that weighted them be wholly ignored. Emancipation accomplished, they naturally looked forward to a future in which they could thrive and expand under the sanctity of law; be protected and sheltered in the exercise of those citizen rights upon the concession of which the fate of the republic had hinged. The gradual revelation of the true inwardness of the actual state of things dismayed many, disheartened not a few. Still the majority of thinking persons with tightening of lips and squaring of shoulders met the plain indecisions of deferred hope with a composure almost amounting to stoicism. These could discern a practical policy, that of aiming to stand erect under the most disabling conditions, that of attempting to advance in the face of apparently insuperable obstacles. They were sustained by the conviction that to live life faithfully, if not fully, lies within the power of every self-respecting individual. Georgiana Putnam was one who understood this and applied it and the life she developed during a lengthy series of busy fruitful years was rich and enduring in its aspiration and its accomplishment.
In the retirement of advanced age, hampered by physical


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68 FR 203 pg. 60147 - Requested Administrative Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws
Type: NOTICEVolume: 68Number: 203Page: 60147
Docket number: [Docket Number: MARAD 2003 16323]
FR document: [FR Doc. 03-26451 Filed 10-20-03; 8:45 am]
Agency: Transportation Department
Sub Agency: Maritime Administration
Official PDF Version: PDF Version
Maritime Administration
[Docket Number: MARAD 2003 16323]
Requested Administrative Waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws
Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.
Invitation for public comments on a requested administrative waiver of the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel JUSTICE.
As authorized by Public Law 105-383 and Public Law 107-295, the Secretary of Transportation, as represented by the Maritime Administration (MARAD), is authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.-build requirement of the coastwise laws under certain circumstances. A request for such a waiver has been received by MARAD. The vessel, and a brief description of the proposed service, is listed below. The complete application is given in DOT docket 2003-16323 at http://dms.dot.gov. Interested parties may comment on the effect this action may have on U.S. vessel builders or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.-flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in accordance with Public Law 105-383 and MARAD's regulations at 46 CFR Part 388 (68 FR 23084; April 30, 2003), that the issuance of the waiver will have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.-vessel builder or a business that uses U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a waiver will not be granted. Comments should refer to the docket number of this notice and the vessel name in order for MARAD to properly consider the comments. Comments should also state the commenter's interest in the waiver application, and address the waiver criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD's regulations at 46 CFR Part 388.
Submit comments on or before November 20, 2003.
Comments should refer to docket number MARAD-2003 16323. Written comments may be submitted by hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL-401, Department of Transportation, 400 7th St., SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001. You may also send comments electronically via the Internet at http://dmses.dot.gov/submit/. All comments will become part of this docket and will be available for inspection and copying at the above address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., E.T., Monday through Friday, except federal holidays. An electronic version of this document and all documents entered into this docket is available on the World Wide Web at http://dms.dot.gov.
Michael Hokana, U.S. Department of Transportation, Maritime Administration, MAR-830 Room 7201, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202-366-0760.
As described by the applicant the intended service of the vessel JUSTICE is:
Intended Use: "Passenger Charters."
Geographic Region: "Chesapeake Bay to Florida Coasts and Bahamas."
Dated: October 15, 2003.
By order of the Maritime Administrator.
Joel C. Richard,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 03-26451 Filed 10-20-03; 8:45 am]


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By Patrick Cronin
The Hampton Union, Tuesday, December 4, 2012
[The following article is courtesy of the Hampton Union and Seacoast Online.]
Rev. Deborah Knolton, third from left, looks on as associate conference minister Rev. Richard Slater, center, gives thanks before the start of the groundbreaking ceremony at the First Congregational Church in Hampton on Sunday.
[Cheryl Senter photo]
HAMPTON -- After singing a verse from the biblical song "The Wise Man Built His House," several shovels went into the ground Sunday, signaling the start of a $1.1 million renovation project at the First Congregational Church in Hampton.
"We have been talking about this for several years but now it feels real," said Rev. Deborah Knowlton, who said the project was "commissioned by the spirit of God."
The official groundbreaking ceremony took place in front of the church at 127 Winnacunnet Road after Sunday morning's service. The million-dollar project includes constructing new Sunday school classrooms and adding accessibility to the building, which dates back to around the 1840s. The goal is to complete the project to coincide with the church and town's 375th anniversary.
Knowlton said the last major renovation done at the church was over 50 years ago and one family donated money to build an addition. But this time, she said, everyone played a part in raising the money.
"Everybody has taken responsibility in making it better, more accessible and welcoming for people of all ages and stages of faith," Knowlton said.
David Weatherby, co-chairman of the building fundraising committee, said they started talks about doing renovations in 2006.
Originally, the group put together a wish list of the work they would like to see done totaling $2.2 million. Realizing that fundraising goal may be out of reach, they scaled the list down to a figure that was manageable.
Weatherby said they kicked off fundraising efforts in January of 2012 and by the end of June they had already collected $852,000 in pledges.
Weatherby said the project is long over due. "Much of the building hasn't been touched in 50 years except for cosmetics," said Weatherby.
Weatherby said the project calls for making the church more accessible by having a central corridor beginning at the ramped chapel entrance and ending near the current church office. It would connect the church, chapel, God's Baby Closet, classrooms, the church office and the nursery. An elevator would be adjacent to the corridor.
"We want to make it more accessible, not just for the church but for the community," said Weatherby, who noted many organizations use the church.
The plan also includes bringing back three classrooms that were removed in the basement due to problems with moisture and mold. Weatherby said the new classroom will aid their Sunday school program, where they hope to attract new families into the parish.
Liz Webster said the fundraising efforts for the project brought the church closer together. A year ago some said the campaign was impossible but with a little faith, she said their vision finally becoming a reality.
"It's exciting for me, not just about the amount of money raised, but the effort that went into it," Webster said. "We came so close to our goal and the money we did raise is going to take care of the needs of the church."
Children of the church were also excited about the project, many wearing plastic hard hats during the ceremony. Prior to the ceremony, they made posters on why the project was so important to them.
"We need more space for new members and the activities we do," wrote Charlie Gasperoni.
"I think the change at the church is going to be great for our community," wrote another.
Selectmen Chairman Rick Griffin, who attended the groundbreaking, said this church is an important part of the town's history. The First Congregational Church and the town was founded by the Rev. Stephen Bachiler in October 1638.
"The (church) does so many great things for the community and (this project) shows you what can be done if everybody works together," said Griffin. "We need more of this in Hampton."
Weatherby said the project should be completed by the middle of May just in time for the church and the town's 375th anniversary.
"This will hopefully allow us to continue for hundreds of more years," Weatherby said.
Peter Middleton of Martini Northern Inc. helps get ready for the groundbreaking ceremony at the First Congregational Church on Sunday.
[Cheryl Senter photo]


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UnNews:New Year upon us, death one year closer
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
31 December 2006
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The Earth -- On this, the final day of the year 2006, people all across the globe are gathering to commemorate Death's certain, inexorable march across the plane of time by hailing the passing of another year. Ushering in the skeletal visage with cardboard hats, streamers, and a gigantic illuminated ball moving down a pole, perhaps signifying the light of human life being impaled by Death's sinister pike, revelers in New York City engage in a Bacchanalian orgy of lights, sounds, colors, and feelings, eliciting those words of wisdom: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die."
Party-goer Melissa Thompson, when informed of Death's inevitable overtaking of her life's trajectory responded with a mirthful laugh, saying "By the time he gets here, I'll already be drunk! Plus, it's solely man's domain to determine his fate. Outside forces of existence and reality are merely expressions of human sensory perception, and when that sensory perception is no longer here, I'll melt away into the aether."
Others shared Melissa's jubilant feelings, if not her hopeful attitude. Said compatriot Tom Lickvin, "I'm getting a good buzz right about now, but I'll be totally pissed if Death comes before I get with Melissa! Plus, I know that when I day, I'll be reincarnated, hopefully as Melissa's lascivious twin sister in the next life."
In sharp contrast with the ebullient outflowing seen in New York, many across the country are taking a more somber tone. "I'm going to die," said Kansian Marty Jones, dispassionately, resolutely, mirthlessly. He reiterated, in a stilting tone: "I...am....going....to....die." Seemingly depressed with the recent passage of yet another sorrowful, gray year, Marty Jones, and many like him, take a dim view of the incessant dance of death. Local Pastor Geneva Butane said the New Year was an excellent opportunity to 'get closer to God'. He said that the so-called "existential anguish" seen around the country could only be alleviated by a helpful does of Spiritual Guidance. But what does he know, he's going to die too.
Death "Countdown to Death" CNN, December 30, 2006


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It's been awhile! I'm lazy to blog. lol
Life's ok, except my 2 favorite team is out of the World Cup. Damn. England and Japan FTW. Don't even get me started on the 2nd England goal. =/
Other than that, lifes been really good. lol.
Been listening to Perfume these days, thanks to my colleague Ivan, who's been pumping me with Perfume media. XD
I hate techno, I really do, but I can accept their songs even though some of them does hurt my head. lol Plus they're cute so it's ok. XD
Gotta go sleep now as it's 11:36 now. BAI!
P/S: My colleague bought me the Ding Dang! (The one I'm holding in the pic) LOL.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Ding Dang
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
My Heart Died a little
When I saw this. One of my favourite store. Gone.
It's the comic store that I go often since I decided to start buying comics, which was 5 years ago, I started to buy BLEACH.
First it was one book. Then it was 4. Then it was 5. At once. lol
So weeks ago I wanted to buy comics because there was this guy in the same elevator with me having the latest book of BLEACH.
But as I went to the store, it wasn't open. So was the next day, and the day after.
Then today when I see this.... My heart crushed.
Goodbye beloved comic shop. =(
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Papa on the father's day gift! LOL
That's right, I named my giant bear Papa. <3 Coz it's huge and warm and it's cute like my dad.
Told my parents about it and my dad was like "so qin qie(not sure about the direct translate of this word but it's kinda like close and warm. I think. lol) this name!"
I love my Papa! (Bear and human. lol)
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Had a family photoshoot yesterday.
Thanks Kame for borrowing me the graduation robe!
P/S: The lady in the shop ask if we are twins and we was like wtf? lol
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Happy Father's Day!
Father's Day gift from me and my sis to our dad.
It looks awesome right? I thought so. lol. Blew it up myself - for 1 hours +. lol. The air pump wasn't working well for me.
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Saturday, June 19, 2010
My Big Day
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Sunday, June 13, 2010
TC 1st Bowling Tournament
We did not win. lol
There were 72 teams and 4 of them were from my department. (ISD) Whatever, Lovelife, Memory and the last minute formed, Newbie.
I'm in Whatever. lol
Our plan was to group the people who is good at bowling in one group so that there could actually be a chance of winning. And I was in that good bowler team(Whatever) when I'm not good at it. lol
Well, at least I was the girl with the highest score.
Was. lol. The last minute formed team's girl player was amazing at bowling. D:
72 teams played, only 15 can get through the semifinals.
And to my surprise(not sure whether izit the training that helped), Team Whatever and Team Newbie got through. LOL. And I got more than 100! LOL usually I'd get 70+.
Even though we did not win top 3, the awesome girl player from Team Newbie got 2nd place in MVP female. She scored more than 150. LOL. Better than anyone of us(including guys).
Oh oh and we got a hamper from the lucky draw. LOL.
Wonderful day it was. I had so much fun. xD
OH my parents came to watch me play the first round! Glad they came coz I was on fire! LOL XD Loves!
Hope there's more of these event coming in the future. =3
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Bowling Tournament
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Friday, June 11, 2010
Dumpling Festival Event
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Lunch - Ayamas
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Saturday, June 5, 2010
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Wedding Lunch
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Wedding Lunch!
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Handcrafted Soaps, Bath Bombs, Lotions, Beard Oil, Beard Balm and so much more!
Thank you so much for stopping by! We are located in China Grove, North Carolina and we make all of our bath and body products right here in our store. We use only natural ingredients in all our amazingly scented items. Come in and feel free to take a sniff of any one of our beautifully handcrafted soaps, bath bombs, body sprays, lotion, bath salts and so much more! We even have a huge selection of beard oils, beard balms, shave soaps, mustache wax and more for the gentlemen too! We also carry certified, pure therapeutic grade essential oils, diffusers and diffuser jewelry too. If your partial to wax melts, we've got a whole selection of those and warmers too!
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Las Vegas cab driver Gerardo Gamboa thought someone left a bag of chocolates in the back seat of his vehicle. Turns out, the abandoned paper bag held $300,000 in cash.
Now, Gamboa is winning honors for honesty after turning in the money Monday. The cash was returned to an unidentified poker player.
For his honesty, Yellow Checker Star Transportation named Gamboa its driver of the year and rewarded him with $1,000 and a dinner for two at an exclusive restaurant, the Las Vegas Sun reports.
Gamboa picked up the player Monday morning and took him to Palms Place, a casino resort. The passenger gave him a $5 tip.
At Gamboa's next stop, a doorman removed the bag from the back seat, put it on the passenger seat and suggested it was probably a bag of chocolate, before a new passenger got in.
At a traffic light, Gamboa looked inside the bag and discovered the money.
'I told my passenger, 'You are my witness on this,' and then I immediately called my dispatcher,' he said.
Once the owner's identity was verified, Yellow Checker Star return the money over to the player. After the poker player got Gamboa's contact information, he said he planned to reward the honest driver.
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The Cross & the Pen: Stones of Witness
- Eva Marie Everson Contributing Writer
- 2004 19 Feb
Welcome to "The Cross & the Pen," Crosswalk.com's author-to-author interview column. I haven't had the honor of meeting Dr. Stewart Custer, author and photographer of one of the most beautiful books I've ever seen.This past July, while attending a booksellers trade show, I was perusing an aisle when I came upon a display of Stones of Witness (BJU Press). So impressive is this work that I came to a complete halt and began to scan its pages. For someone who has just visited Israel and who loves the Holy Land so much, it brought back wonderful memories. For those who have not had the opportunity to go, it's the next best thing to going there!
As soon as I could, I contacted BJU Press for my personal copy ... then sought out Dr. Custer. Recently, we chatted about the book, the Holy Land, and photography. Wanna listen in?
Eva: Dr. Custer, before we begin talking about your book, would you share a little of your background with my readers?
Dr. Custer: The Lord called me to preach; I went to Bob Jones University to study; got a BA, MA. & Ph.D.; taught Bible, Greek, Theology; became chairman of the Division of Bible; recently retired after 43 years of teaching.
Eva: Wow, that's a long time. Okay ... your book is a collection of photographs, maps, etc. taken over the course of leading eight tours to the Holy Land. What drew you there the first time?
Dr. Custer: The University asked me to organize the tour; I laid out the itinerary and every time varied the route so that we would see other parts of the Holy Land; we got to see places that tourists never see, such as the great well at Gibeon, near Ramallah.
Eva: What is the biblical significance of the great well?
Dr. Custer: The great well at Gibeon was the place that Joab & Abner met & had a contest of champions that turned into civil war (II Sam. 2:12-17); Joab and his men won for David. Today Ramallah is also a war zone.
Eva: I visited Israel last year as a journalist. Before I left, those who had gone before me said, "If you go once, it won't be enough." Quite honestly, I thought: No, once will be enough. Now I'm here to tell you, once is NOT enough! Why do you think that is?
Dr. Custer: Someone who has been blessed by a tour to the Holy Land will go back every chance he gets.
Eva: But why do you think that is?
Dr. Custer: To stand at the place in which some Biblical experience happened is a deeply moving experience. When you stand at the Shepherd's Fields at Bethlehem and realize that somewhere around that field the angel appeared to the shepherds, the reality of that event is forever stamped upon your memory. We always read the Christmas story in Luke 2 at that place.
Eva: I have to agree with you. I know that, for me, reading the Bible changed after I saw the places where the event actually took place. When did the idea to do this picture book come to you? Tell me a little about how it went from thought to completion.
Dr. Custer: Most people cannot afford a trip to the Holy Land. I tried to organize the book like a tour, going up the coast, across the Galilean hills, around the Sea of Galilee, through Samaria to Jerusalem, and all the way down to the Red Sea. It gives the reader the impression of a guided tour.
Eva: Indeed it does! Your photographs are beautiful! For those who love photography, tell me a little about the camera you used, etc.
Dr. Custer: I used a Minolta single lens reflex, then went to a digital camera; now a Kodak 290.
Eva: Okay, here's my story. When I went to Israel I was one of six journalists. One or two had those throw away camera. A few had digital cameras. Mine was a Canon EOS 630 with interchangeable lenses, which I drug around in a wheeled backpack. Each shot was carefully determined and some things I just couldn't quite capture on film – though I certainly tried. I took a lot of ribbing about dragging the camera around, but in the end, my photographs are fabulous! Naturally I have one special photo, which is my favorite. What about you? Out of all the photos in the book, which is your favorite?
Dr. Custer: It's hard to pick just one. Of the places, the sacred steps on page 99, up to the palace of Caiphas; there you get the effect of walking where Jesus walked. Now there is an iron railing around them and you can't walk them. Of the people, the porter walking along carrying a refrigerator on his back, on page 113, was a shock to see. They are incredibly strong.
Eva: (Now I have to go back and revisit that photo!) Epiphany moments seem to come constantly while traveling in the Land of the Bible. What about for you? Any special moments? Moments that changed you?
Dr. Custer: I arrange the tour to be at the Chapel of the Beatitudes on a Sunday. We have a church service on the balcony overlooking the Sea of Galilee (pp. 44-45). People will often have tears running down their cheeks as they realize that it is the place that heard the precious words of the Sermon on the Mount for the very first time. Gordon's Calvary is also such a place. You can see the empty tomb and realize that the Lord Jesus Christ lives, triumphant over death.
Eva: Dr. Custer, the Bible tells us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Would you say a prayer for Israel?
Dr. Custer: May God grant that peace will come to Jerusalem and that the Prince of peace may be accepted as the Savior of the world. Amen.
Award-winning national speaker, Eva Marie Everson is the author of Shadow of Dreams, Summon the Shadows and the recently released and highly anticipated Shadows of Light. She can be contacted for comments or for speaking engagement bookings at www.EvaMarieEverson.com.


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Trisha Yearwood's 'Southern Kitchen' Returns to Food Network October 20
Trisha Yearwood's hit cooking series, 'Southern Kitchen,' will make its next premiere on the Food Network in October, returning for a second straight season after a successful first run.
Like in the first season, 'Trisha's Southern Kitchen' will showcase Yearwood whipping up more of her fabulous family-inspired recipes, ranging from Southern Brunches to Sunday Suppers and tasty dishes to enjoy over the holidays. In addition to the food tips, Yearwood will also share more of her cherished stories while she cooks.
Yearwood's friends and family — including her husband, Garth Brooks — will stop into her Oklahoma kitchen from time-to-time throughout the 13 all-new episodes. In that one particular show, Brooks and Yearwood cook up some of the dishes they love making together, like their special Black Bean Lasagna and Miss Mickey's Peanut Butter Balls.
"I'm so excited for Season 2. Sharing my family recipes and having the people I love most by my side is such a joy," Yearwood says. "This show celebrates what living life to the fullest is all about, and it's so gratifying to return to Food Network for a new season."
'Trisha's Southern Kitchen' will premiere on Saturday, Oct. 20 on the Food Network. Click here for local listings.


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Dear Emuna,
Since my daughter had her very first baby (she now has three), I have tried to be helpful and advise her in ways that would make her life easier. However she decided that most of my advice was out of date and, since she is a pediatrician, she felt she knew better. Unfortunately, now that the children are 10, 8 and 4 years old, she is struggling to do her job part time and to control their disobedience, bad table manners and fights each night over homework, dinner, and bedtime.
I watch with great sadness the stress that my daughter is under. If I try to help or if she sees me managing the children well (because I am much stricter), she becomes aggressive with me. Her husband is also very soft with them and most of the time leaves the discipline to my daughter.
How can I make her understand that I only want the best for her and that my managing the children isn't about trying to prove that she is a bad mother or that I am trying to say I told you so? That is what she believes and it causes big arguments. All I want is for the children to be happy and to know what behavior is acceptable and what isn't. I want to see a peaceful house and my daughter less hassled.
- A Truly Caring Mom
Dear Mom Who Means Well,
I believe you when you say that "all you want is for the children to be happy." I believe you when you say that you "want to see a peaceful house and my daughter less hassled." The problem is I also believe you when you say that you want your grandchildren to "know what behavior is acceptable and what isn't."
And therein lies the problem. Your daughter doesn't want your advice. She has made that very clear. She has also made it clear that every time you try to give her advice or act against her wishes, she gets angry. Yet you still continue down this destructive path.
Perhaps you are right. Perhaps their lenience has led to disobedient children. But perhaps you are wrong and there is another cause entirely. Either way, it is irrelevant.
Your daughter is a grown woman, capable of making her own choices and clearly desirous of doing so.
You may really want what's best for her, but that's certainly not how she experiences it. She hears only constant criticism and attack. I'm guessing that makes you a less than desired guest.
My best advice is (ironically) to stop giving advice. It's not your job. And stop trying to manage your grandchildren's behavior. That's not your job either. You had your time; this is hers.
You have one job now – for your daughter, your son-in-law, and your grandchildren – and you should be grateful. It's a job that's a lot easier and more hassle-free than the one you have taken on.
Just give them constant love and support; ONLY love and ONLY support. You might even to be surprised to find that it makes more of a difference than anything else.
Dear Emuna,
My good friend is going through "secondary infertility". She mentioned it once, but we don't talk about it. I am expecting my third child and I want to know how to approach the subject. Do I say anything to her, or just let her figure it out and deal with it in her own way. It pains me a lot to know that she and so many others are going through infertility issues and I would hate to do anything to make it harder. What is the best way to approach the situation?
- Sensitive Friend
Dear Sensitive Friend,
Firstly, I recommend this aish.com article which deals with this issue to both of you.
In addition, I don't believe it makes for deep relationships if you ignore the proverbial "elephant in the room". On the other hand, you are correct in wanting to be sensitive.
I think it's a mark of friendship to raise the topic at a private, quiet time and let her know you're available to talk about it if she wants to. She should neither feel pressured to reveal her thoughts or stifled. You should communicate that you are interested but you don't want to pressure and the ball is in her court. It's a delicate middle road.
Additionally, you can't hide something you have that you know she would want very much, be it a job, a husband or a pregnancy. Since they can't be hidden anyway, you only deepen her pain by making her the last to know. You heighten her sense of "otherness" but not treating her normally.
You should continue to confide in her but tact and sensitivity demand that it not be a constant topic of conversation. How nauseated you feel, how hard it is to cope, the traumas of sibling rivalry – these issues should probably stay off the table. Your desire (need?) to vent is outweighed by the pain it will cause.
As with all speech, common sense and sensitivity should be your guide.
Dear Emuna,
I was just wondering how you always know the right answer to so many different people's different issues. If a friend or relative asks me my advice, I am always unsure how to answer appropriately and fairly and you are just so good at it!
-- Your Biggest Fan
Dear New Best Friend,
It's nice to have a fan and I really appreciate your kind words. However, if you read through the responses to many of my answers, you will soon see that not everyone agrees with you – or me. I guess that makes life more interesting (and certainly provides entertainment for my children!)
However, I do have one important tip for advice giving. The more uncertainty you have about an issue, the more humility you have about the topic, the better your advice will be. It sounds paradoxical but it's true. With age, comes wisdom. Or, as our sages say, "Fifty is the age for advice." I speculate that this is because we are less clear of what's right, less eager to state our opinions with absolute certainty, more aware of the complexities of individual psyches and family dynamics.
We are also less willing to give potentially life-altering advice – leave him, marry her, remove those children from the home – since we realize we don't have the full picture or that we will not be the ones to bear the consequences. Not to mention the fact that the responsibility for someone else's life is a serious and awesome one not to be shouldered lightly. Who really knows what's better for another human being? That's the Almighty's domain.
I look back on my 25 year-old self who "knew everything" (or better yet my 16 year-old self) and laugh ruefully. The only thing I know for sure now is that I don't have all the answers.


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RoTK XIII Announced! Screenshots and Release Date (Dec 10)
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omgomgomg though tbh the gameplay screenshots do not look that impressing to me. I'm glad they're bringing back a fashionable map with a battle system that looks a lot like the Nobunaga's Ambition they also announced.


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Comcast Argues for Time Warner Cable Deal
Cable Operator, in Government Filing, Says Ample Competition Exists in Video, Broadband Markets
Comcast Corp. on Tuesday submitted a lengthy document to federal regulators to justify its $45 billion proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable. But its filing also had the effect of showing the many ways in which the combined entity could use its leverage over both cable lines and programming to pressure competitors.
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RWPaint is a free image and animation editor focused on bloggers and other people who work with pictures and animations online. Notable features include:Support of layers with styles.Import and export of .psd, .xcf, .pdn formats with layers and in case of Photoshop also with some styles (is there any other non-Adobe image editor that imports layer styles?).Many drawing tools (pencil, image brush, rectangle, ellipse, lasso, polygon, flood fill), and photo-retouching tools (red eye remover, clone, shape-shifter (liquify-like) tool).All basic image effects (shadow, fill, outline, bevel, glow, exposure adjustments, content-aware resizing, colorize, shift hue) and some less usual ones like displace or environment mapping. Plus a javascript interface for custom filter creation.Decent gif optimizer.Animation <-> filmstrip conversions.-vlastimil (October 09, 2011, 05:02 PM)
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'Tis the season to be busy, and for some of us, that's six-places-at-one-time busy. So when it comes to saving time when holiday shopping, yet still buying gifts that are thoughtful for friends and loved ones, we're all ears. Struggling through crowded malls and long lines at the register will test anyone's cheerful holiday spirit.
If you want to keep your spirits bright this holiday season, try some of these helpful time saving gift tips for holiday shopping:
Every efficient holiday begins with a list. Make a gift list of everyone you're shopping for and ideas of what they might like.
- When you must venture out into the madness of holiday mall shopping, try planning your stops to maximize time. Write them down if necessary. There's nothing like crisscrossing town a few times to wish you'd taken this step earlier.
- Want to shop in your pajamas? Go online. Consider sending those on your list an Amazon.com Gift Card, along with a thoughtful, personalized Blue Mountain eCard. Not only will it let you skip the crowds, the lines and the usual bedlam of holiday shopping, but the person receiving it gets to choose from literally millions of items.
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A friend of mine showed me an ad for Constant Contact the other day. It's an email marketing tool with some great applications for certain businesses. I was just struck by the name – Constant Contact. The idea made me shiver.
Constant Contact – is that healthy? Do we want that with anyone? We all love our children. We all like to be in regular contact with them. But constant? When they wake up in the middle of then night, we are usually not excited by the opportunity for further closeness.
Even our spouses. How many couples go a little crazy upon retirement? All of the sudden the husband, who was typically out all day, is constantly underfoot. "What are you doing now?" "How about now?" I don't even like it when my husband's office is closed for the day. And I've already warned him not to even consider retirement!
And that's with our nearest and dearest. Nowadays we have the opportunity to be in constant contact with everyone we know or have ever known -- our whole extended family, including long lost relatives, all our work colleagues including our boss, people we went to college with, people we went to high school with, elementary school, even our first grade teacher…
Do we really want this?
I don't mean to sound anti-social. Sometimes it's nice to catch up with an old friend. My husband recently called his fourth grade teacher to say thank you (she pretended to remember him!). It's nice to know the access is there.
But sometimes the constant contact, the unceasing noise leads to a loss -- a loss of downtime, a loss of thinking, a loss of processing, a loss of introspection.
There is no time left to figure out who we are or where we want to go. There is no time to evaluate our old goals and determine fresh ones. There is no opportunity to examine our relationships and see if they're thriving or if they require improvement (they usually do!). There's no time to appreciate the good we have, the gifts the Almighty has given us.
I don't think constant contact is a good thing. We all need a little quiet space. We need to make a spiritual accounting and create new plans for growth. We need to think about our friendships, our marriages, our children. We need to evaluate our career choices and options. We need to stop and enjoy the beauty around us.
In fact I plan to do just that in one minute. Just as soon as I check my emails…


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"If you've been sick for 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, and you've been to all kind of doctors and you can't seem to get well, these people are desperate to find what might be the key to helping them," says Tom Klaber. "For some of them, XMRV could be just the thing."
Klaber, a principal at Santa Rosa consulting company Bridge Medicine & Health, has been instrumental in bringing Dr. Judy Mikovits to Sonoma County. Mikovits is the lead author of a 2009 paper published in Science Magazine showing that more than 70 percent of patients diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome also tested positive for XMRV, a human retrovirus discovered in 2006. One of only three known retroviruses (HIV being another), the discovery may hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of many illnesses, including prostrate cancer, fatigue, lymphoma, multiple sclerosis and autism.
Like medical theatrics straight out of a Michael Crichton novel, certain groups have challenged Mikovits' claim that strong associations can be made between XMRV and cancer or other neuroimmune diseases. A study in England purported to find none of the retrovirus in blood samples, a claim later discredited when it was revealed that the researchers had used an entirely different method of testing from the original.
"[Mikovit's paper] really upset a lot of apple carts," says Klaber. "There were people with cherished beliefs about the cause of chronic fatigue were not happy. Ego, greed, prestige and power is as rampant in academia as anywhere else."
Klaber encourages anyone suffering from chronic or debilitating illness to attend the public talk. "Significant numbers of people have chronic illness and just can't feel happy," he says. "XMRV is obviously playing a role for many of these people."
Find out more about XMRV when Dr. Judy Mikovits speaks on Monday, Jan. 17, at the Friedman Center. 4676 Mayette Ave. 2pm. Free. 707.396.5835.


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What do lions and tigers and jaguars see when they look in the mirror? Judging by the reactions of some of these cats at Tampa's Big Cat Rescue animal sanctuary, it's something pretty scary. What exactly makes a lion jump like that? Maybe he's having a bad mane day.
I'm not sure what prompted the cat handlers to tease their kitties with mirrors for our amusement, but it's pretty interesting to watch the different reactions. The smaller cats seem to dig seeing themselves much more than the larger guys, and several cats are very curious about what the mirror is. But not that lion. Nothing is going to make him take that long hard look in the mirror.
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The former deputy fiscal officer must pay back $370,000
A former northeast Ohio library executive won't go to prison but she will have to pay back nearly $370,000 embezzled in library fees and overdue book fines.
The Akron Beacon Journal reports that 55-year-old Theresa M. Karm pleaded guilty to one felony count of aggravated theft and was sentenced Wednesday.
A judge gave the former deputy fiscal officer of the Cuyahoga Falls Library a three-year suspended prison sentence, five years of probation and ordered her to pay $369,848 in restitution.
The case came to light in March when Karm was fired. Police said a three-month investigation uncovered a lengthy series of financial discrepancies.
Karm is accused of stealing the money in small amounts, beginning in 2007, for such things as printer fees and overdue book fines.


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You can now configure Dell's latest netbook with a 1366x768 screen, which is big enough to handle 720p vids. No word on the other supposedly forthcoming extras, though.
We understand that a built-in TV tuner and a six-cell battery are still somewhere, brewing, waiting to rear their heads. The up-res screen will run you an extra $35, which would be a wise investment to make. [Dell - thanks, Jeff!]


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The devil really may be in the details.
The owners of a Ridgewood, N.J., home were eager to sell because they had already bought another place. After a couple of months went by without an offer, they cut the price and stripped the outdated paneling from one room. But buyers weren't biting, and they thought they knew why: Their street address was 666 — which some Christians believe is a sign of the devil, based on a biblical passage.
So the homeowners got the address changed to 668, and the place sold.
It was just one example of how seemingly minor issues can make — or break — real estate transactions. In most cases, there are only a couple of big-picture items that sellers can control when they put their homes on the market: the home's condition and its price. For that reason, sellers are usually urged to set a competitive asking price and spruce up the property by painting, refinishing hardwood floors and upgrading the landscaping.
But sometimes, unexpected or oddball details — not always in a homeowner's control — can be the difference between success and failure.
"A home purchase is a very emotional thing," said Beth Freed, an agent with Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty in Ridgewood. "If you feel at home, for one reason or another, that very often is all it takes."
Jeana Cowie, listing agent on the Ridgewood house that used to be No. 666, said she was surprised when people commented that the address might be a problem. One buyer at an open house told her it was a "weird number."
To change the address, the homeowner went to Village Hall; each town has its own procedure for this, but usually the tax assessor has to be consulted to make sure there's no conflict with another address. Emergency services and the U.S. Postal Service must also be notified.
"I don't want to say that 668 sold the house," Cowie said. But she thinks it helped.
Hedy Weiss, a Coldwell Banker agent in Franklin Lakes, N.J., also closed a sale after the homeowner changed the address. The house was on a corner in Franklin Lakes, facing a busy street, but also had an entrance on the side street.
"Because people could see it was on a main street, a lot of people didn't pursue it," she said. The homeowner had the address changed to the side street.
"We started getting more showings with the new address," Weiss said.
Within two months, the house was sold.
Freed says one of her home sellers got a boost when the village lowered the speed limit on the street to 25 mph. Suddenly, the property became more attractive to families with young children, and it sold soon after.
Other numbers also can make a difference. Some agents have favorite pricing tricks. Orly Steinberg, a Coldwell Banker agent in Ridgewood, for example, ends her prices in "888." She started doing it 20 years ago, to catch the eye of agents paging through big multiple listing books. She wanted to be listed just ahead of the agents pricing their listings at more common numbers using 9s — for example, pricing a home at $299,888, instead of $299,900. Over time, it became her signature; her license plate even reads "SOLD888."
"It gets you a little bit more attention, which is what you want," Steinberg said. Later, she discovered that 8 is a lucky number in Chinese culture.
For that reason, 8s are included in 20 percent of the asking prices in real estate markets with a large Asian population, the real estate website Trulia recently reported. (And 13 is uncommon in prices everywhere, Trulia says.)
While many buyers are turned off by wallpaper, Freed has seen it help close a deal. Real estate agents usually tell sellers to remove wallpaper and paint the room a neutral color, and that's Freed's typical advice.
"If you've ever tried taking it down, it's really disgusting," Freed said. "People do not want to do it, and they think it costs a fortune to (pay someone to) do it."
But when she and her husband sold their own house years ago, they left up the ballerina wallpaper in their daughter's room. The buyers' daughter loved it, and Freed thinks that was a factor in the family's decision to purchase.
She saw that happen another time with a listing that had been on the market for nine months.
"A buyer came in and saw the same wallpaper she had just put up in her current house," Freed said. "She saw it as a sign from above that this house was meant for her. They bought the house."
Often, small issues will squelch a deal rather than seal it. New Jersey real estate agent Angele Ekert was involved in a sale where everything was fine until the home inspection. The buyers spotted mice in the attic, and that was the end of that.
"That turned the buyers off completely, even though mice can easily be remedied," she said.
Another one of her deals fell through years ago, when the buyer discovered that someone had died in the house.
Ruby Kaplan of Vera & Nechama Real Estate in Teaneck, N.J., says a sale in that town almost fell apart over a backyard swing set. The buyer thought the swings should be included in the sale, but the sellers wanted to take the swings to their new home. Kaplan says she persuaded the seller to leave the swing set behind, since moving it would cost money and antagonize the buyers.
Freed recalls a $1 million sale that almost collapsed because the buyer and seller couldn't agree on who would pay $500 to remove a tree that the home inspector said was dying.
"That was fun," she said. In the end, she said, the buyer paid.
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Ten of Swords
Protect yourself while the storm rages and focus on rebuilding after it passes.
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General Meaning
The Ten of this suit represents finality, the end of something. As is easy to grasp from the picture in many decks, there is no hope for revival here. A limit has been reached, a line has been crossed and there is no turning back. In some situations this may be felt as a tragic loss, but it often brings with it a paradoxical sense of release and closure. The waiting and wondering are over. There is no more ambiguity. You can rightly let go and move on, as there is no more progress to be made here.
Emotionally and psychologically, this card appears when one is exhausted and used up, burnt out by the effort of caring and responding and trying to make a difference. When a person feels this way, they have reached burnout and can no longer be held responsible for anything, and therefore can be forgiven for caving in or ceding the fight. The simple instructions are: "Go no further along these lines!"
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The Ten of Swords is reversed suggests that you may have been over-dramatizing your predicament. In an attempt to get sympathy and understanding from others, you have begun to believe your own stories and excuses.
Ask yourself what you would do if there were no one around to sympathize with you. Would you be making a faster recovery? If you reframe your situation to emphasize the chance to start fresh, things won't seem so bad. Consider the possibility that you are indulging in drama; take a more accurate look at your situation.
In the Advice Positon
The Ten of Swords in this position advises that you lay low for a while. Don't make a move. Keep yourself as safe as possible until the drama, even the possible trauma, plays itself out. Once the turmoil dies down, then you can assess the damage and start to make repairs. The situation can be compared to a hurricane moving through the neighborhood. You can't be sure whether it is going to pass over a corner of the field or whether it is going to slam into your house.
In the face of such unpredictability, protect yourself, hope for the best and wait it out. Sometimes, an extreme turn of events serves as a pressure relief valve for all the unexpressed and unresolved energy that had been building up. Trust the process even though things may seem pretty drastic right now.
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Sadr and Vahdati detail how stoning sentences are inextricably linked with gender discrimination under Iranian law. The detail this discrimination with regards to: legalized forced marriage and denial of divorce rights, punishments for sexual acts outside of marriage (for women), discriminatory judicial system, and discrimination in the practice of the stoning punishment itself. Because of these discriminatory policies, women make up most of the victims of stoning.
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Quinton "Rampage" Jackson said he can start chatting with potential suitors in the next week or so, but wherever the former UFC champion ends up, he wants to feel a sense of appreciation.
The 34-year-old fighting vet recently announced his split where the UFC, where he recently suffered a decision loss to fellow light heavyweight Glover Teixeira for his third straight defeat.
The UFC is still the biggest game in town, and in the U.S., only Bellator MMA is close to a viable option. With a hefty pricetag, though, Jackson is unlikely to be affordable to most regional or upstart international promotions.
Jackson (32-11 MMA, 7-5 UFC), though, recently told SiriusXM's "The Abe Kanan Show" he just wants to ensure he gets the appreciation he deserves.
"I just want to be with an organization that's going to treat me right," he said on Thursday. "I've been fighting for 12 long years. I just feel like I've done a lot for this sport, and I just feel like it's time for the sport to take care of me. I've been taking care of the sport.
"I've been putting a lot of butts in chairs. I've been trying to be entertaining, and I feel like I put my body on the line. I've been fighting injured for like the last six fights. I feel like I've put my body on the line for this sport, and I think it's time for this sport to have my back a little bit."
Jackson, a longtime PRIDE fighter, ultimately went 7-5 in the UFC. As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) recently reported, he made nearly $16 million during his time in the UFC, according to company president Dana White. But his constant clashes with UFC officials in recent years, as well as a high-profile arrest in 2008 for two felonies related to hit and run and evading police, turned the relationship sour. Jackson also launched an acting career that took away from his time in the cage, which drew some ire from White.
Jackson, though, said he's still committed to the sport.
"Any organization out there, if they want to have my back and treat me like the way I feel I should be treated, I'll go and hype up their shows," he said. "That's what I do. I get people interested.
"I don't need to fight. My kids are secure, and my family is secure. I don't need to fight, but I like to entertain people. I still feel like I have something to prove still."
In addition to Teixeira, Jackson also suffered recent losses to Ryan Bader and Jon Jones. He said the Bader defeat, which came during an early-2012 show in Japan, was especially frustrating. Jackson, who lost every round of the fight, also said it contributed to his reasoning for splitting with the UFC.
"That's why I have no respect for Ryan Bader. He sucks," Jackson said. "I told the guy, 'Come on.' He knew I was injured. I didn't make weight. I told him, 'Listen, man. I ain't going to beat around (the bush). Everybody knows I like to keep it real. Just make it an exciting fight.'
"I didn't care about winning or losing the fight. I love Japan. I love the fans there. I wanted an exciting fight. But yeah, that's what these guys are doing. That's one reason I don't want to be a part of the UFC. See, these guys in the UFC care more about winning and getting the W than putting on a show. But at the same time, I don't blame them because if you lose two times in a row in the UFC, you can be out of there. They're just protecting their careers."


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Should Yeardley Love's apartment come with a warning?
A report by the Charlottesville Newsplex suggests that landlord Woodard Properties re-rented the apartment of slain UVA student Yeardley Love with no warning to the new occupants about the place's tragic history. This raises intriguing questions about crime, memory, and real estate. Then Hook reporter Lindsay Barnes examined the real estate aftermath of heinous crime in an article he penned in the wake of the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech's Norris Hall.
Hook Senior Editor Courteney Stuart also addressed this issue in a story after the murder of Jayne McGowan.
Story updated 10:33am with link to Jayne McGowan article.
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I may be one tough dude but I do believe in angels. While camping in a campground with a common bathroom one morning I got up before my wife and 6 year old daughter and was tending the breakfast fire. My wife got up next and headed straight down the path toward the bathroom. The campground was still except for my wife and I, then my daughter got up, came out of the tent rubbing the sleep from her eyes, looked down the path at her mother, turned to me and said "That man is guiding mommy" Of course this alarmed me so I looked and could see no other campers awake anywhere in the campground just my wife walking alone down the path. I asked my daughter to repeat what she had said and she then said, "That man is guiding mommy, you know dad, the man that died in the car accident"
I related the story to my wife and she reminded me that her uncle with whom she was very close had died two months previous in a car accident.
...random people who without a doubt signed the lease WAY before May and, unless they spent the past 3 months on another planet, figured out that this was indeed the apartment they were moving into without the landlord having to tell them directly.
I say build a nice above ground garden on the property or a planter of some sort with perenials in it, put a marker near it that says simply "Loves Garden" and I bet it will be tended by someone who cares for many years.
I understand. Although I don't go through life "looking for areas with a rich complement of energies",I do go through life paying attention and being generally observant. Those who do, WILL notice unsual occurances in some buildings, and places, even modern ones. For example, at Short Pump Wal Mart shopping center, someone clearly tapped me on the left shoulder as I and kids walked into the Radio Shack, and no one was there when I looked back.
This is a recent structure, but there is some residual energy there.
What's the big deal unless you believe that "Amityville Horror"-style cursed houses actually exist?
@S Jones...sorry don't believe in "ghosts" as such...I do believe that some places, buildings, etc can retain residual energy (sometimes negative)....but as far as E.A. Poe...ghost on the bridge? what bridge? Am I missing something?
What was with the guy on the local news on TV pounding on the apartment door to talk to the new tenant. What has the new tenant done to show that they agree to have their address or possibly their face put on TV? What good comes of them reminding the whole town of the address, in case anyone wants to come check it out and harass the new tenant too? There should be a warning about this apartment all right...a warning that small town media will be going through your garbage on any slow news day.
@manbearpig: "booooo!!"Š.hmmm, it's quite a leap to assume that those of us who are skeptical of the premise of this article must be sleepwalking through life and waiting for our favorite TV show (South Park, of course!). I'm sure there are many skeptics (a la Michael Shermer) who could argue that people who believe in ââ?¬Å?lingering vibes" are sleepwalking through life and failing to think critically about what is and what isn't verifiable natural phenomena."
I haven't read Michael Shermer, but my experiences in reading skeptics' rebuttles to various "woo-woo" subjects is that they couldn't argue their way out of a paper bag. Not one skeptic I've ever read or listened to could provide an intelligent, fallacy-free, point-by-point debunking that *definitively disproved* various woo-woo subjects. Not one. So I doubt that Michael Shermer is going to be any different, whoever he is.
And quite the contrary - those who feel/sense lingering vibes are the antithesis of somebody sleepwalking through life, looking for their next beer and waiting for their favorite TV show or sports game. They're the ones who are actually paying attention to what's going on and sensing what others are too distracted to notice. I was an atheist skeptic when I did the requisite tour of Alcatraz on a trip to San Francisco back in the 90s. But you want to talk "lingering vibes" then take a walk into one of the five isolation cells that are open for the public. I had no flipping clue when I walked into it. I wound up fleeing the island, quite literally, afterwards. There's more to the story than that, but that's the gist. I'm not here to get into one of the infamous Hook Back and Forth Debates that go on for 100 posts. I'm just here because I saw people laughing off the idea about disclosing information to prospective renters/buyers in the wake of a murder (or suicide.) Personal experience has shown me on several occasions, not just with Alcatraz, that the concept of "lingering vibes" is very real, whether somebody chooses to believe in it or not. And if somebody can't feel these things, even if their mind is trying to be closed off to it (the way I was back in the 90s when I went through my atheist phase) then I don't know what to say to them other than that they must be sleepwalking through life to not feel the things that others can so clearly feel.
A story about the non disclosure of a past event that stirs the imagination with hauntings and such versus a story about attention ho's wanting their 15 minutes of fame. Tough one.
Woah! Boooo! you got my attention...Alcatraz???? I can see where you might of had feelings of lingering vibes there. Scary, violent place.
But to all, my wish is that the residual "negative energy" everyone seems to be afraid to be lingering, disapates with the ending of GH's trial.....as far as whether the new tenants should have been made aware...unless it's a real estate law issue (which has been a few years since I went through the course so I would have to look it up), the only issue would be the morality of the landlord and whether he/she would feel the necessity of making the information available.
HAHAHA! "Vibes linger?!" So, like you won't walk by the courthouse where the slave auctions were held for fear you might be stripped naked, chained to a post, and sold off by ghosts?
Interesting that most responses are to laugh this off like it's no big deal. You all just keep sleepwalking through life, waiting in ernest for your favorite TV show to come on and rooting for your favorite sports teams. Sorry to say but there is a valid reason to be concerned, and "Yeardley haunting the place" isn't actually it. It has to do with the residual vibes that linger. For those who aren't intuitive and sensitive and will laugh this off, like I said, go back to rooting for your favorite sports teams and watching your favorite TV shows and guzzling your beer. zzzzzzz. I would want to know if I'm sleeping in a room where an enraged guy kicked in a door then beat up his young girlfriend then repeatedly slammed her head into the wall until she died. You know, I think I'd want to know that something like that happened in that exact spot where I'm standing...and where I might even be putting my own bed. You don't live in the same exact spot where something like that happened. And you don't put your own bed on top of or near where that occurred. Sorry if people don't seem to understand this. Vibes linger. It has nothing to do with "Yeardley Love's ghost." And where vibes linger, other stuff can be drawn in.
I totally agree Yes. Slow news day?
@ What? - Exactly. It brings to mind room 118 of the Quality Inn. I'm wondering, do they still actually rent that room out in light of what transpired there? If so, did they replace the bed? If I was the motel owner I'm not sure what I'd do in that instance. Probably nail the room up and never use it again.
All the murders, rapes, attacks in Cville-- does each location have a tag to inform those that follow
Give me a break
Call me silly, but I think parts of the road where people have been killed should be closed off for a period of time proportional to the violence involved. Shrines offset on the road verges just aren't enough to ward off the palpable disturbance and taniwahs involved here.
Booooo!, it's not a skeptic's job to definitively disprove an idea. It's the job of one with a "woo-woo" idea to offer evidence that supports his or her claim, and to offer evidence that may be examined/tested by others.
I really just wanted to call attention to your huge leap that paints non-belivers of "woo-woo" ideas with such a broad stroke. Besides, there are so many "woo-woo" ideas in sports, it's ridiculous.
Anyway, it's clear we part ways on this point and I agree there's no need to get into a protracted debate. You'll be happy to know that I asked my wife if there were any ghosts in our house when we moved in. She said no.
"..it would be refereshing if the news media focused on stories of individuals making a difference in the community, transforming lives, ..."
@ jeezlouise
No more "boring" than yet-another Yeardley Love "story" fabricated out of nothingness in order to fill space.
Why not just demolish the entire building and turn it into a shrine? If Morgan Harringon can have a shrine dedicated to her memory on a bridge, Yeardley Love deserves no less a tribute.
Better still -- and continuing on-point -- it would be refereshing if the news media focused on stories of individuals making a difference in the community, transforming lives, engaging in philanthropy to improve this wearisome world. Surely they are equally deserving of memorials, tributes and attention?
booooo!!....hmmm, it's quite a leap to assume that those of us who are skeptical of the premise of this article must be sleepwalking through life and waiting for our favorite TV show (South Park, of course!). I'm sure there are many skeptics (a la Michael Shermer) who could argue that people who believe in "lingering vibes" are sleepwalking through life and failing to think critically about what is and what isn't verifiable natural phenomena.
Morgan Harrington has a shrine because she is like the 1000th girl in the area who ended up dead with the case unsolved. if LE were as incompetent in our area, we would put up a shrine too in order to remind everyone that there is a killer in the area who remains at large and will probably kill again.
The difference between you and me is that I wasn't looking for anything. I didn't "want to see" anything. I was just some tourist when I had my experience at Alcatraz, totally immersed in my atheist phase, and thinking it would just be this fun way to pass the afternoon. You know, go on a tour of this super famous and historical place. Then it happened. I've since done research online and found that I'm apparently not the only one who's had an experience like that at Alcatraz. But at that time I didn't know. And I certainly wasn't looking.
Some people are looking, but they find nothing. Others aren't, and yet they find it.
Also, if you were actually reading the exchange you would have seen that it was already clarified that the issue is not about "spirits."
A lease doesnt promise nothing bad ever happened there. What if someone was killed 100 years ago? Then it's just a cool fact to tell people. But if it was last year...well, then there are "residual vibes"...booooooooooooo!!!!! Residual vibes=haunted=tooth fairy=imaginary. This is such a nonstory. In other news, I spilled the milk at breakfast but my cat helped clean it up. Photos at 11.
In this day and age, that would probably be a selling point sad as that may sound.
Those who do not know the past are . . . Hey this is the town that tore down the house where artist Georgia O'Keefe lived and first learned to paint in what became her distinctive style--not far from the Love Murder apartment. So instead of accomplishments, we want to make architectural history out of murders? The coal tower has seen two murders, a rape and a suicide within recent memory. Should we put up a sign: crime-o-rama, and charge admission?
I think some of you are missing the point. This article was not written about the hauntings of YL.
It is about disclosing the information of a brutal murder happening just months earlier to the new tenants.
And yes, if I unknowingly rented this apartment I would be upset. I would want to see a list of the new items in the apartment ie carpet, blinds, paint, doors, bathroom items.
This isn't years later we are discussing. This JUST happened. He should have been honest.
Had the new residents raised the issue and attempted to get out of the lease I would hope the landlord would be reasonable and perhaps make some accomodations, however, the circumstances were out of the landlord's control and they are under no obligation to do so if the lease was already signed. I haven't heard particularly good things about that particular company. I'm told my apartment building downtown is haunted, but haven't had any run-ins.
In NC the real estate agents have to tell you if a place is supposedly haunted. I am not positive, but I think they have to tell you if it is a place that had been a crime scene. I would have asked the question about being haunted and possibly asked if anyone had died in the place. To some people it does make a difference. I would not want to live in a place that someone was brutally murdered. Of course, I could not even feel at peace at my parents home after they died. Some people's senses are much more intense than others. And, yes, I do believe in spirits since I stayed at a friends home years ago and found out it was haunted through the actions of the spirit. But, we should be more afraid of the mean people we share this earth with than the spirits that taunt us.
No--what, a warning that if GH gets out of the clink and you happen to be the reincarnation of YL who happens to live in this apartment that events will unfold in a certain way? What would the warning be, really? I could imagine a disclosure as opposed to a "warning", but I doubt landlords are under any obligation to disclose previous crimes that occured on their properties.
Of course not. The only persons who will be haunted from this grizzly murder are GH and those that didn't step up and help Love when they had the chance, not some random people who happen to rent the apartment.
Right, Yeardly is haunting the place...get a life! I certainly hope this girl is resting peacefully! Hook try to find some REAL news!
Wow, they call her a "Diet Coke angel" on another article on here. Is it putting too fine a point on it to call that some really "saccharine" journalism? No disrespect to Yeardley at all...just...wow...diet coke angel?! Are you serious?!
Wow! Try reading an article before you comment. Her teammates called her that.
When I moved into my 100+ year old house in Charlottesville, the women next door came calling to say, " do you know what has happened here", then proceeded to tell me that 2 former owners had committed suicide, one on the living room couch and one in the backyard. Her next remark is what truly stunned me " and I wonder if there will be a third ?" Fastforward multiple decades, all present occupants, at last report, alive and well, at least, for now.
In all honesty, I think it would be difficult if not impossible, to avoid living in homes where something sad or violent happened. In Europe, for example, there are homes that are hundreds of years old and where people unquestionably died, possibly violently.
This said, there are people who can enter a place and feel deeply unsettled and uncomfortable being there. Sometimes this is because an energy based imprint may be left of a difficult or tragic event. It doesn't really explain how some of us become ill in a place where something awful WILL occur. I have felt this way about the Tower of London in 1971 and 2000. I could not enter some of the areas on the tour. I felt profoundly unsettled to the point of nausea at the World Trade Center in 1977 as well,long before the losses of so many.
Once, as my husband and I were househunting, we looked at a lovely home, which also disturbed me. We passed on it.
I don't know that disclosing that a tragic event actually occured within the confines of a particular apartment or building is necessary. I would always encourage anyone to enter a home they are considering renting or buying, and see how they feel. If they can't even imagine closing their eyes and sleeping there, or showering, then they should keep looking. Realtors know this.
There is only one circumstance where I think advance knowledge might be helpful. For example, if a drug kingpin for the Eastern US were gunned down on his porch, and Bank of America foreclosed afterward and sold the house at low cost, the people moving in should know that they could have other drug kingpin visitors who may not have heard that the the former owner is gone. The new owners should have this information so that they may evaluate the cost of added security (perhaps a system) that they might not otherwise have needed.
if they gave me a good break on the rent, i'd put my kid in there in a heartbeat. no problem.
As much as we would probably want to know such a thing from a prospective landlord, I don't believe there is any legal obligation for them to do so.
Boooo...I went to Savannah looking for ghosts in the most haunted city and didn't see or feel any "lingering vibes"...and I wanted to see things move, lights flicker and footprints down the old wooden stairs...
Death happens, and it is everywhere. I doubt the new tenants will have any issues other than drive by lookers interested in where she was murdered. Death is a natural occurance and even in a case of murder, life goes on for those of us left behind. If someone is scared of spirits, perhaps they have their own demons to exercise.


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Charley Steiner to be inducted into National Radio Hall of Fame
The NRHOF will honor the Dodger broadcaster as part of the Class of 2013
LOS ANGELES -- Dodger Broadcaster Charley Steiner will be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2013, announced today by the National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago, Ill.
The black-tie ceremony, hosted by broadcast icon Larry King, will take place on Nov. 9. Steiner, along with seven others, will be honored at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. Jim Bohannon of Dial Global Networks will be the announcer for the ceremony.
The other inductees are Steve Dahl and Garry Meier (Chicago), Blair Garner (Nashville), John Lanigan (Cleveland), Paul W. Smith (Detroit), Eddie "Piolín" Sotelo (Los Angeles) and Powel Crosley Jr. (Cincinnati & Sarasota).
Steiner, a four-time Emmy winner, is in the middle of his ninth season as play-by-play announcer for the Dodgers, calling all the games for the club on AM 570 Fox Sports LA. Prior to joining the Dodgers, Steiner spent three seasons (2002-04) on the New York Yankees' radio broadcast team. Before joining the Yankees, the New York native spent 14 years at ESPN, where, among many assignments, he anchored SportsCenter and did play-by-play for Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio.
The Dodger play-by-play man began his professional broadcasting career in 1969 at WIRL Radio in Peoria, Ill. and graduated from Bradley University in 1971. In 2010, Steiner delivered the commencement address at his alma mater and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree.
Previous sportscasting inductees into the National Radio Hall of Fame include Dodger Hall of Fame broadcasters Vin Scully and Red Barber, Mel Allen, Marty Brennaman, Jack Buck, Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Harry Kalas, Ronald Reagan and Bob Uecker.
Tickets to the 21st annual gala are available online at www.radiohof.org