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With increasing expectations from younger generations that careers be more family-friendly and to help address the predicted physician shortage in coming decades, academic medical centers nationwide are looking for ways to strengthen faculty workplace policies to attract and retain physicians.
A UC Davis School of Medicine study, published in the July 1 print edition of the American Journal of Medicine, has found that career-flexibility policies may be an important strategy to reduce faculty turnover and improve work-life balance.
The UC Davis study found a high level of support for career flexibility policies among both sexes and across generations among UC Davis School of Medicine faculty. However, younger men and older women reported the lowest satisfaction with career policies. The findings provide insights into high-risk groups who may be experiencing work-life balance challenges and could inform efforts to improve faculty career satisfaction.
"To our surprise, faculty of all generations and both genders are supportive of career-flexibility policies ― even if they are unlikely to take advantage of their benefits," said Lydia Pleotis Howell, professor and chair of pathology and laboratory medicine and co-principal investigator of the study along with Amparo Villablanca, professor of cardiovascular medicine. "But also surprising was that younger men and older women were less satisfied than other groups, showing that their needs are not being met."
The study examined data from a detailed 2010 survey of 325 School of Medicine faculty members regarding their attitudes, awareness and use of career-flexibility policies. The analysis divided the faculty by gender and age to correspond with the baby-boomer generation (older than 50) and the Generation-X group (younger than 50). The school has flexible career policies in place that include leave policies for childbirth, adoption and elder care. Opportunities for part-time work, tenure-clock extension and deferral of academic reviews are also available.
Family-friendly policies are expected to mostly be used by young women having children, but even the majority of older men ― 69 percent ― indicated that they might one day make use of the policies. More than 83 percent of faculty in all generations and both sexes reported that such policies enhance their career satisfaction even if they would never use the policies. Respondents indicated that such policies are important for recruiting and retaining faculty, and that they are important for career advancement as well as work-life balance.
In terms of overall satisfaction with flexible career policies, older women and younger men were found to be somewhat less satisfied than their colleagues. Howell and Villablanca plan to pursue possible reasons for these differences in future research. They speculate that young men have higher expectations to be primary breadwinners and advance quickly in their careers, at the same time trying to be more attentive fathers and husbands than men in the previous generation. Unlike young mothers, their colleagues might not be as understanding of the need to give family higher priority. Older women, on the other hand, are often juggling the needs of their young adult children and elderly parents with their career responsibilities.
"It is important to figure out why these groups are more dissatisfied," said Howell. "It is possible that policies can be tailored to better fit their needs."
The Association of American Medical Colleges is predicting a physician shortage in the future, as one in three active physicians is expected to retire by 2020. Academic institutions, which traditionally require long hours and on-call duties, as well as considerable teaching demands and high expectations for research accomplishment, face particular challenges in attracting and keeping faculty. A study conducted at another major academic center that the UC Davis authors cite had a 24 percent average turnover rate in new physician hires, with only 55 percent of initial recruits retained five years later.
Howell believes that the business community has been successful in offering flexible workplace policies to enhance work-life balance without sacrificing excellence and productivity. She thinks academic medical centers can learn from those experiences and apply them to the physician workforce. For example, certain faculty may be able to perform some of their duties from home, using telemedicine technologies and electronic medical records.
"Flexibility has become a strong strategy in other industries to avoid the costs of rapid turnover," said Howell. "Academic medicine may also need to start thinking differently to recruit and retain workers."
Nathan Kuppermann, professor and chair of emergency medicine at UC Davis Health System, used family leave when each of his two daughters was born, but did not do so more recently when he and his wife adopted a toddler.
The difference? "This time around I was running the department and simply couldn't take off," he said.
Kuppermann and his wife, UC Davis pediatric endocrinologist Nicole Glaser, have led workshops on work-life balance especially targeted to two-physician couples. He has found that the use of flexible career policies depends a lot on recognition and encouragement from the department chair. He has also learned that family-friendly efforts go beyond maternity or elder care leave. For example, departments can expect more attendance at faculty meetings by scheduling them during normal working hours, rather than at 7 a.m. or at 5 p.m.
"Younger faculty members especially expect to be able to have more time with their families," said Kuppermann. "They want breakfast with their kids and to pick them up at the end of the day."
Other authors include Laurel A. Beckett and Jasmine Nettiksimmons from the Department of Public Health Sciences at UC Davis.
Funding for the study was provided by the National Institutes of Health (grant number 1R01GM88336-01) in partnership with the Office of Women's Health Research.


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To 'wrack' means to ruin or destroy; it's related to 'wreck'. To 'rack' means to torture someone (esp. on the rack), or to literally or metaphorically stretch and strain something as if on the rack.
Which is the original form of 'nerve-(w)racking' or 'to (w)rack one's brain'?
Either one makes sense in either context. If something is nerve-wracking, it's destroying one's nerves; if it's nerve-racking, said nerves are being strained. Racking one's brain would mean to stretch or strain it to the limits of endurance; wracking one's brain would mean thinking so hard that the brain is wrecked.
I suspect that in each case, one is the original form and the other is the eggcorn, and the correct forms may be different.
The OED cites both "nerve-racking" and "nerve-wracking." The earliest citation for the former is drawn from a Percy Bysshe Shelley letter of 1812; the earliest for the latter is from 1909. So "nerve-wracking" might be an eggcorn from a historical perspective. But these days, Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage gives us the green light for either form: "Nerve-wracking is an established variant of nerve-racking."
Thanks! I wonder how many historical eggcorns can be confirmed. I'd define them as usages that started out incorrect but are accepted today by authorities such as dictionaries.
"Wrack," "rack"—how about "wreck"? This is a quote from one of my students' reports on a concert: "I know from experience that doing a solo is nerve wrecking." From an 18-year-old's perspective, this word makes more sense than either of the other options!
One dictionary definition of wrack is "wreck." And, another definition is "rack." Surely these words have different etymologies, but if one can simply replace a word by another word that allegedly defines it, then it must not be an eggcorn. Right? Well, almost… I would point out that proper usage is largely defined by context. If you find the context where it doesn't make sense to replace "wrack" with "wreck" (or "rack") then you almost have an eggcorn—because you still have to contend with the possibility of a misspelling. To resolve this, you might seek an example with strong contextual clues.
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I've always understood "rack my brain" in the sense of "racking pool balls". That is, you've thoroughly gathered,shaken up everything and put it all back in order to be sure that you haven't missed something.
Given that both "nerve-racking" and "nerve-wracking" appear to be legitimate, this may be another case of what I've called a stealth eggcorn. In effect, the imagery may change, but the spelling remains fixed. It isn't until someone like booboo comes along to explain his interpretation of the imagery that the paradigm shift becomes apparent. For another example of a stealth eggcorn see the posting of "faster and looser."
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Good example, jorkel. That's probably what has gone on here. I will also not drop certain eggcorns from my vocabulary. Since "playing fast and loose with the facts" conveys sloppiness as a result of hurriedness, it is a usefull eggcorn in that the message conveyed is the same as the message received…. Damn, I'm part of the reason for the destruction of our language. Oh well, it was a Frankenstein's monster when it was delivered to me, anyway!
I think you'll find more than one person on this forum—myself included—who completely welcomes the reshaping of language, booboo. More power to you!

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SEATTLE (AP) — Water that built up behind a massive deadly mudslide in Washington state began trickling downstream, reducing the threat of potential flooding along the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River, authorities said Sunday.
The square-mile of mud and debris that killed at least eight people had raised concerns about a possible flash flood downstream of Oso, about 55 miles north of Seattle.
"The danger is much less than it was last night," Steve Thompson, public works director for Snohomish County said at a news briefing Sunday evening.
The river was slowly starting to carve out a new channel, allowing enough water to pass through to relieve pressure behind the debris field, he and others said.
Officials said they don't think the water would suddenly burst, but urged residents living in nearby communities to remain alert.
"There's a small amount coming around the north edge of the slide. It's not alarming, and is allowing the water building behind the dam to settle out a bit," said Bronlea Mishler, a spokeswoman for Snohomish County. "It's flowing fairly slowly, and the on-scene folks have no major concerns."
The National Weather Service said a flash flood watch for Snohomish County was in effect until Monday afternoon. Meanwhile, Gov. Jay Inslee urged residents in nearby communities to remain in a "heightened state of awareness" until things fully stabilize.
Saturday's slide destroyed several dozen homes and blocked about a mile of State Route 530. It also dammed the North Fork of the Stillaguamish River.
Inslee said there were no plans to move the debris blocking the river. "The river will find its way over the days and weeks to come," he said at a news briefing Sunday.
The National Weather Service in Seattle said Sunday afternoon that water is clear as it flows through the new channel, indicating that "we can expect a steady release of water through the blockage rather than any sudden burst or rapid rise."
John Pennington from the Snohomish County Department of Emergency Management said the area where the slide occurred has a history of unstable land. He said a slide also happened there in 2006.
Authorities believe the slide was caused by ground water saturation from recent heavy rainfall.
David Montgomery, an earth and space sciences professor at University of Washington in Seattle, said these deep-seated slides tend to occur from rainfall over months or seasons. "It can raise the water table in a slope and that decrease its stability," he said. "This was a big deep one, a giant slump."
There may be many factors, but "the very wet month of March that we had is clearly a factor," he added. All that rain can raise the groundwater table in a slope and undermine its stability, he said.
The weather service's Brent Bower said Sunday about a quarter- or half-inch of rain is expected in the area Monday night and Tuesday. "It'll make things messy but it's not going to affect the river much," he said.


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Top-seeded Forest shook off some early rust after a nine-day layoff to overwhelm No. 4 seed Lecanto, 5-0, to set up a winner-take-all District 4A-4 championship match with rival Vanguard tonight.
The Wildcats are still undefeated.
Top-seeded Forest shook off some early rust after a nine-day layoff to overwhelm No. 4 seed Lecanto, 5-0, to set up a winner-take-all District 4A-4 championship match with rival Vanguard tonight.
Forest, which ran its record to 19-0-2 on the season, cashed in on three first-half goals, then rode a suffocating defense to the regional round.
Jesse Wear struck for the first of his two goals in the 19th minute when he blasted a shot from just outside the box that caromed off Panther keeper Ryan Stevens and trickled into the right corner of the net.
Wear again found himself in the right spot 11 minutes later when midfielder Jackie Kay's header was batted away. The junior quickly pounced on the rebound, knocking it past an outstretched Stevens for the decisive 2-0 lead.
By the time Kay's free kick found the back of the net just before the half, the outcome had become a mere formality for a Wildcat defense that has allowed just four goals all season.
"We're right where we want to be," said first-year head coach Knox Strawbridge. "Our goal was districts and beyond. We knew it was gonna be a tough game tonight, but we came out, executed the game plan and took care of business.
"We made sure we had everything covered so that, no matter what they threw at us, we'd be ready."
Lecanto, which played a pair of 1-0 games with Forest during the regular season, had no answer for a focused Wildcat squad. The Panthers managed just nine shots – all from outside the box – against keeper Lex Craggs, who notched seven saves en route to the 'Cats' 17th shutout of the season.
A pair of seniors scored second-half goals when Jesse Nieman took a pretty pass from Jimmy Wear and converted a point-blank opportunity for a 4-0 lead in the 65th minute. Reinhardt Switzer added the match's final goal three minutes later.
But the celebration was brief and tame on the Wildcat sideline following the best 21-game stretch in program history as they quickly turned their attention to Vanguard, which handed Forest one of its two ties in a 1-1 affair at Booster Stadium three weeks ago.
Strawbridge may be a rookie coach, but the Forest alumnus knows all about the rivalry between the Knights and the Wildcats. He expects the usual intensity in tonight's showdown.
"(It'll be) a battle, without a doubt," Strawbridge said. "Coach (Tom) Flynn and those Vanguard kids always bring their best, and that's what we want. We want to be the best, so we expect the best from everybody we play. We look forward to it."
VANGUARD 2 SPRINGSTEAD 0: The second-seeded Knights got an early goal from leading scorer Davis Hall, and Richard Gonzalez added some insurance late to propel Vanguard into regional play.
A senior, Hall got the Knights going early when he took a corner kick and quickly converted it into the game's first goal just seven minutes in. From there an aggressive Vanguard defense took over, holding the No. 3 seed Eagles to just five shots on goal.
"We got back into a groove with this game tonight," Flynn said. "We had that one goal (early). I think we could have scored some more – we had plenty of opportunities, but we couldn't get it in the net. That's where we've got to capitalize and get those two- and three-goal leads."
Still down 1-0 with less than 90 seconds to play, Springstead pulled its keeper in a last-ditch effort to force the tie. Instead, freshman Marshall Hall stole a pass and sent it to a streaking Gonzalez for the final margin.
Flynn admits this year's squad – which starts a pair of freshmen alongside numerous underclassmen – may not be his most talented team, but the veteran coach likes the grit they're showing late in the season.
"This is a scrappy team," Flynn said of the 14-4-4 Knights. "They fight to the end. It's a great bunch of kids with a lot of heart. "
Vanguard keeper Thomas Truchement recorded four saves, including a pair of clutch second-half stops to preserve the victory.


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Fox Sports gets US Open in 12-year deal
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Fox Sports is in as the next broadcast partner for the U.S. Open starting in 2015. Johnny Miller appears to be out.
In a surprising announcement Wednesday night, the U.S. Golf Association said it has signed a 12-year multimedia deal with Fox network and Fox Sports 1 to be the domestic broadcast partner for the U.S. Open and other USGA championships.
Though financial terms weren't disclosed, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said the Fox bid was in the neighborhood of $100 million a year, more than double the previous contract. The person wasn't authorized to release details and spoke on condition of anonymity.
NBC Sports had been televising the U.S. Open since 1995 at Shinnecock Hills, with Miller as its shoot-from-the-hip analyst who became as much of the show as the golf itself.
"It was a big bummer," Miller told The Associated Press from his home in Utah. "For some reason, I told Dan Hicks at the U.S. Open this year, 'I don't think we're going to keep the U.S. Open.' I just had a hunch it would be ESPN or Fox that stepped in and made a high bid. I know we tried.
"I feel bad for the USGA in a way that money was more important than basically a good golf crew."
The deal runs through 2026. The first U.S. Open for Fox will be from Chambers Bay outside Seattle.
NBC's last U.S. Open will be next year at Pinehurst No. 2 — the U.S. Women's Open will be played on the same course the following week.
"This is an exciting and remarkable day for the USGA, as our partnership with the Fox Sports is a game-changer for our organization and for the game of golf," USGA President Glen Nager said. "The game is evolving and requires bold and unique approaches on many levels, and Fox shares our vision to seek fresh thinking and innovative ideas to deliver championship golf. This partnership will help us to better lead and serve the game in new and exciting ways."
Along with NBC Sports televising the final two rounds — and two-hour segments on Thursday and Friday — ESPN showed the two opening rounds. NBC is owned by Comcast, which also owns Golf Channel.
"The combination of NBC and Golf Channel will continue to be the dominant voice in golf coverage going forward. We've enjoyed our 19-year relationship with the USGA, and will continue to serve the golf fan every day," NBC Sports Group said in a statement.
ESPN also released a statement, saying: "We've had a rewarding relationship with the USGA. We look forward to televising the U.S. Open and other USGA championships in 2014 and wish them the best in the future."
USGA spokesman Joe Goode said in an email that signing with Fox was not a reflection on NBC or "simply the financials."
"Rather the decision is consistent with our strategy for delivering golf in new and innovative ways, which can be achieved with a partner that has a completely fresh perspective on the game," he said.
Under the deal, Fox Sports will deliver 146 hours of USGA golf. That includes at least 70 hours of its three biggest events — the U.S. Open, U.S. Women's Open and U.S. Senior Open. The other hours will be spent on amateur competitions, such as the U.S. Amateur and the new U.S. National Fourball Championship.
Fox Sports 1, the company's new cable channel, launches Aug. 17. Fox has been aggressively chasing rights to bolster its content, but there weren't a lot of options in the immediate future because of the increasing length of sports deals.
Randy Freer, the co-president and chief operating officer of Fox Sports, said the amateur events give Fox extensive content for its national and regional sports networks and that the deal could bring new viewers to Fox Sports 1.
Freer said it was too early to determine how Fox will cover the events or which announcers it will use.
Miller said it was unlikely he would go to Fox even if offered a chance. He said his contract with NBC runs through 2015.
"It was the highlight of my year of work for me," Miller said. "The U.S. Open has always been the tournament. It's a big bummer for me and Dan Hicks."
Hicks, the NBC's golf anchor, said on Twitter: "Will always love the U.S. Open. It becomes a part of you after so many yrs. Our national championship. What a privilege it has been."
NBC has three FedEx Cup playoff events, the Ryder Cup, the Florida swing and Houston Open leading up to the Masters, and The Players Championship.
"I don't know what they're going to do," Miller said about Fox. "You can't just fall out of a tree and do the U.S. Open. I guess the money was more important than the performance. No way they can step in and do the job we were doing. It's impossible. There's just no way. I wish Fox the very best."
Freer said Fox was "committed to elevating coverage of USGA events on every level, infusing them with a new energy and innovation that will make every championship the best golf event on television."
Freer said Fox would tap into the expertise of David Neal, a former NBC Sports executive hired to lead Fox's World Cup coverage, and that Fox also offers the USGA the opportunity to better differentiate the U.S. Open from the other majors.
"We don't have the past to hold onto," Freer said. "We'll work with the USGA to develop the best possible presentation of golf that we can do."
The PGA Tour has TV contracts with NBC, CBS and Golf Channel locked up through 2021.
The USGA's deal with Fox includes:
— Integrating the network's multiplatform assets, including its upcoming mobile app "Fox Sports Go."
— Elevating the visibility of the USGA's amateur events.
— Transforming U.S. Open week into a "powerful showcase and entertaining celebration" of golf.
— Supporting and highlighting the USGA programs such as the Rules of Golf, equipment standards, handicapping, the USGA Museum and the USGA Green Section.
"This partnership represents a promising new future for both organizations that will be marked by broadcast innovation, new approaches and fresh thinking," USGA executive director Mike Davis said. "We could not be more energized by what we will be able to accomplish together to make golf better, both now and for future generations of players and fans who love the game."
The decision to go with Fox is the latest development for the USGA, which this year has adopted a new rule that bans the anchored stroke used with long putters starting in 2016. It also eliminated the U.S. Amateur Public Links starting in 2015, and it launched a campaign against slow play called, "While We're Young."
The timing was peculiar. It was the second time in five years that the USGA made a major announcement during the PGA Championship — it announced a change in the size and shape of grooves in golf clubs at the 2008 PGA Championship.
The PGA of America was the most outspoken against the USGA's ban on anchored strokes.
"Given the very nature of major media and broadcast deals, they have a way of taking on a life of their own," Goode said in an email. "Rest assured, it was not our intent and it is not our style to disrupt a partner's event."
AP Sports Writer Rachel Cohen contributed to this report.


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Romulus Augustus, nicknamed Romulus Augustulus, was the last emperor of the Roman Empire. His nickname translates to, "Romulus, the Little Augustus," a reference to his young age or small amount of power.
He was put on the throne in 475 by his father, Orestes, a military general, after a coup against the previous Emperor, Julius Nepos. He was deposed in AD 476, after a 'reign' of less than one year, by the Germanic king Odoacer. Odoacer's decision to forego taking the title Emperor marked the end of the Roman Empire in the West. In truth the Empire was only a shell of its former self in its last years, having no real influence outside of Italy.
Little is known of Romulus' later life as the sources are contradictory and unclear. He was either allowed to live well on a yearly allowance from Odoacer or died within a few years.
It should be noted that the East Roman Empire, called the Byzantine Empire continued to rule from Constantinople for almost 1000 more years.


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Monarchs' surge buries HartfordBy IAN CLARK
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 29. 2013 10:40PM
MANCHESTER — A Sunday matinee provided just what the Manchester Monarchs needed to break out of a post-Christmas funk.
The Monarchs jumped out early with three first-period goals, scored a rare power-play goal and broke a two-game losing streak with a 5-2 win over Hartford in front of 4,217 fans at Verizon Wireless Arena.
The AHL-leading Monarchs improved to 22-7-5 and return to action Tuesday night when they host the Providence Bruins at 7 p.m. for the annual New Years's Eve contest with post-game fireworks.
"It was as close to 60 minutes (of effort) as we've been for a long time," said Monarchs head coach Mark Morris. "We've put together some good periods of hockey over this weekend. It was just at the tail end of a couple of them that soured how we look at the weekend in total, but today was a real good bounce-back game for us."
Linden Vey scored a pair of goals for Manchester and Tanner Pearson (three assists) and Jordan Weal (two assists) were the primary dishers on the day.
Rookie goalie J.F. Berube made 25 saves in the win and set a franchise record with his 20th consecutive start. Berube has been the one and only goalie with Martin Jones called up to Los Angeles.
"It should mean a lot," Morris said of the record. "He's filling some pretty big shoes and there's some good goalies that preceded him so to be in the net for that long speaks volumes about how far his game has come and what he's meant to us during this stretch."
Berube said he feels good physically, but staying sharp mentally has been the challenge.
"It's always the mental part (that's harder)," Berube said of the workload. "I'm learning how to deal with it and I think it's going in a good direction. You have to make sure you do the little things that make you ready and keep working hard."
The first-period barrage started at 4:37 when Andy Andreoff netted his sixth goal of the season. Pearson started a two-on-one rush on the right wing with Andreoff trailing in the slot. Pearson hit Andreoff with a saucer pass and Andreoff got the shaft of his stick on it and past Dov Grumet-Morris for the 1-0 lead.
Manchester extended to a 2-0 lead at 6:40 with a nice piece of transition hockey. Nick Shore sent Brian O'Neill into the Hartford zone with a head-man pass and O'Neill put a shot on net that Grumet-Morris kicked out, but right to A.J. Gale for a shot into the open net as he was being taken to the ice.
The Monarchs made it 3-0 with a power-play goal at 14:25. Weal cycled off the left boards and fired a pass to Vey on the right win and Vey finished with a shot off Grumet-Morris' shoulder and into the net. That goal ended Grumet-Morris' day in net.
"(Vey) played with a lot of jump in his step and it was nice to see him playing the way we know he can. He's been a big part of our success, too," Morris said. "We found a little bit of chemistry by putting Andy Andreoff up on the wing and Tanner Pearson moving over to the other side. I think those guys like to play together and it showed."
Manchester pushed the lead to 4-0 at 14:02 of the second period. Vey took a pass from Andrew Bodnarchuk at the blue line, faked a slap shot to deke around Wolf Pack defender Darroll Powe and skated into the left circle before wristing a shot off the left post and in.
Hartford (11-16-4) found some life with a pair of goals within 30 seconds of one another. Jesper Fast broke in alone on Berube and shoveled a backhand shot over Berube's right pad to make it 4-1 at 15:45.
Half a minute later, Marek Hrivik sent a pass from the right wing corner to Danny Syvret in the slot all alone for a shot that beat Berube through traffic and over the shoulder glove-side to make it 4-2.
"We got caught on a line change one time and a little miscommunication shortly after that gave them a couple goals and I thought 'oh, boy, here we go again,'" Morris said. "But it was nice to get that fifth goal to right the ship."
The fifth goal came in the third period when Brandon Kozun wristed a shot past Jeff Malcolm from the right side after a perfect cross-ice pass from Nick Deslauriers at 12:11 to cap the scoring.


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Not a terrible movie. in the actual act she definitely plays the innocent little girl very well, however, needs some work before it actually starts. Also it seemed a little bit too much when she really gets into it. Might want to tone it down a bit in the future, but who knows some people like that. The guy all in all wasn't bad, however, definately needs to work on his English and also He obviously needs to understand the needs of the woman. But a pretty good performance over all. I wouldn't necessarily contribute the failures of any degree to the actors themselves but rather direction of the film itself. You can definitely tell its not professional and im not just talking about the video quality. Good job though cause you must be doing something right with over a million views in such a short several months. Keep it up.
rofl im sorry but i was beating it until she yelled "oooo...it just keeps going in and out" LOL. Im still giggling.
If she say's it feel's good, Then why does she want him to stop? D:
the girl is cute and screamer. anyone know who she is?
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u re going 2 kill he take it easy bor she like it 2 much fuck that pussy bor like u having have 1 in ur life
He looks like the guy from the movie "Christine"
that fucking guy is so retarded...
Whats with the try hard wearing her panties as a headband. He should never make another film again. c- just cuz the chick put up with him.
You used to beat this guy up in HS now he fucks your ex-gf and gets paid. Is this not the funniest shit you have ever seen? I love it!
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This chic has a very hot ass.
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I think i used to beat this guy up in high school...
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She's pretty good but whats with the dude? He's trying to be something he's not: a porn star. What a dweeb! Word of advice: dude, find another profession or you will starve!
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Rustic Snow Day Porch
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- Sippy Cups and Pearls said...
what a cute porch! I have to say, I don't think I could live in a place it doesn't snow. ha. I love the snow so much!! it hasn't snowed here {yet} but I'm patiently waiting!
- November 27, 2012 at 8:37 AM
- Tarabelle said...
Those pillows are so great! I love the ski Chalet one!
- November 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM
- Jaimee @ Craft, Interrupted said...
Beautiful!!! You do fab work girl!
- November 27, 2012 at 9:16 AM
- Four Marrs and One Venus said...
Ok... I am coming over, bundled up and sitting on your porch! It is so so cute and I love what you did with the burlap wreath!! And those burlap Pillows!! Flipped them over- you are GOOD! What a fun porch!! Great job girl!
- November 27, 2012 at 9:30 AM
- The Jenson's said...
It all looks super cute Laurie!
- November 27, 2012 at 11:56 AM
- Jo said...
What a lovely looking porch! Perfect place to have a cuppa
- November 28, 2012 at 3:19 AM
- Colleen said...
I am not sure I realized you were in San Diego.
Looks so pretty out there. love the pillows!
- November 28, 2012 at 11:07 AM
- Reannah @ {Shaped by Grace} said...
Cute! Cute!! I love the pillows! And the banner! And the wreath!! :)How fun! I agree -- I love our 80 degree weather, but snow would be fun - for a day or two! ;o) Great job on your porch Laurie!
- November 28, 2012 at 7:39 PM
- Glamorous Mommy said...
Wow, your porch looks so inviting, I LOVE it!! Visiting from Tatertots and Jello!! Following you now too :)
- November 30, 2012 at 5:37 PM
- The CSI Girl said...
I love this because I am doing my porch the same way. Love the wreath and I wanted to tell you to link it up next week for the Christmas wreath challenge on The CSI Project. The link up starts Wednesday.
Love this!!! I pinned!!!
- December 1, 2012 at 12:24 PM
- Jennifer said...
Love, love it!! Someday I'm gonna get a sled to use on my porch! :)
Featuring this tomorrow girl!
- December 4, 2012 at 11:20 PM
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- Stephanie said...
Do you have a tutorial on how you made the wreath?
- December 10, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- Four Marrs and One Venus said...
You know I love it-- so I gotta share this along with some other wonderful link ups on the Blog tomorrow girl! Merry Christmas to you and your cuties!!
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Steve Moundou-Missi and the Crimson are slated to have four home games televised on NBC Sports this season (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- NBC Sports Network has announced that it will broadcast the Harvard men's basketball road game at Saint Joseph's Nov. 20, as well as the Crimson's home game against Vermont Tuesday, Nov. 27.
The game against the Hawks is now set for an 8 p.m. opening tip.
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Bill Belichick didn't like the ending, the Patriots playing their worst game of the season at the worst possible time while losing at home to the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship.
But he liked what his team accomplished while going 13-5 and advancing to football's final four.
"I give these guys a lot of credit for what they did do and the number of times they did it and the number of times they did it in tough situations," Belichick said last week while closing the door on his 13th season in New England. "Hopefully we can continue to build on that. I don't think anything this year really means too much for next year. Each year is a new year and we start all over again just like everyone else does.
"Some of our younger players will have a little bit more experience. Hopefully that will be a good thing, but that doesn't really count for anything until we go out there and start doing it again. So, we'll start the offseason process of evaluating the team, our schemes, and start putting a team together for next year when those opportunities come."
Here's a look at what the Patriots currently have at each position and what they might be looking to do in terms of retaining or adding players as they refine their roster, which is obviously preferable to the rebuilding process so many franchises are undertaking.
Tom Brady and backup Ryan Mallett both have two years remaining on their contracts. Their roles are established and Mallett, by all accounts, made satisfactory progress in his second season. The Patriots could bring in a low-cost free agent or undrafted rookie — with only five picks in April at the moment, it's hard to envision them using one on a QB — to keep the pressure on Mallett, but overall they're set.
Stevan Ridley established himself as a lead back while fellow sophomore Shane Vereen flashed the talent that led the Patriots to draft him in the second round in 2011. Danny Woodhead is a free agent and the prototypical Patriot. Bringing him back makes sense unless the team believes Vereen can fill the third-down/up-tempo role. Speedster Jeff Demps is a potential gem, at the very least as a kick returner. Brandon Bolden was an effective bruiser back, although he hardly played after getting busted for PEDs. If Pats are permanently down on him look for a replacement to be brought in.
Wes Welker, Julian Edelman, Deion Branch, and Donte' Stallworth are free agents. Welker's situation will be one of the most closely watched across the league in the offseason. Edelman's fate in New England could be tied to Welker's — and vice versa. Stallworth seems a long shot to return while it's a safe bet Branch's next move is retirement. The only certainties here are Brandon Lloyd has two years left on a $12 million deal and Matthew Slater is a receiver in name only. Two names worth watching if Welker walks: the Packers' Greg Jennings and the Chiefs' Dwayne Bowe.
No help needed. Rob Gronkowski, who is the most important player on the team after Brady, and Aaron Hernandez are signed for five and six years, respectively. Michael Hoomanawanui is a restricted free agent. Look for the Patriots to bring the Hoo-man back after a surprisingly strong season in which he displayed continuous improvement. Assuming ex-Giant Jake Ballard fully recovers from ACL surgery, he rounds out the cast. Disappointing Daniel Fells is a candidate to be released.
Left tackle Nate Solder, left guard Logan Mankins and right guard Dan Connolly are all signed for at least two more years while center Ryan Wendell is entering his contract season. Right tackle Sebastian Vollmer, one of the best players in the league at his position, is a free agent who is bound to draw outside interest. Back troubles dating to college make this a tricky situation for the Patriots. They could lose Vollmer to a team willing to go a year or two more than they are. As much as the Patriots like Wendell and Connolly, one has to think finding an interior lineman with a mean streak via the draft or free agency will be on the to-do list. Name to keep an eye on: the Jets' Brandon Moore.
In excellent shape with a core group of Vince Wilfork, Chandler Jones, Kyle Love, Brandon Deaderick and Rob Ninkovich all signed through at least 2013. This group could get an internal boost from Jake Bequette, who contributed little as a rookie but has pass-rushing skills, and Jermaine Cunningham, who figures to (finally) be motivated as he's entering his contract year. The Patriots recently added USC and CFL alum Armon Armstead. It's a signing that has the feel of being a steal. Free agent Trevor Scott could be brought back on another one-year deal. Don't see the Patriots doing much else here.
Jerod Mayo and Dont'a Hightower are locked up for five and three seasons, respectively. Fellow starter Brandon Spikes is entering the final year of his rookie deal. Considering Spikes' checkered first three seasons, it wouldn't be surprising if the Patriots held off on offering him an extension. Dane Fletcher, assuming he's fully healthy after ACL surgery, and core special teamers Tracy White and Niko Koutouvides figure to return on short, low-money contracts. Even considering Ninkovich can play linebacker, the Patriots need to shore up their depth while finding someone who is strong in pass coverage. Name to keep an eye on: the Jaguars' Daryl Smith.
Priority No. 1: Retaining cover corner Aqib Talib. The most logical move would be to franchise him at a cost of $10.6 million and see how things go next year from an off-the-field standpoint before committing to a multiyear deal. (That will also mean losing Welker or signing him for big money.) Priority No. 2: Finding an intimidating safety to pair with centerfielder Devon McCourty. The Patriots could make another run at Dashon Goldson if the 49ers let him walk. Would like to see versatile cornerback Kyle Arrington re-signed. Not so when it comes to regressing safety Patrick Chung. Look for the Patriots, for the 54th straight year, to draft a cornerback in April.
Kicker Stephen Gostkowski has two years remaining on his contract. Punter Zoltan Mesko and long snapper Danny Aiken have one each. Getting something done early with Mesko, who has established himself as one the league's finest in his first three seasons, should be a goal of the Patriots. If Edelman isn't retained, a punt returner is going to be needed. Demps could be the explosive kick returner the Patriots have lacked for years.
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Nov 6, 2008 at 9:42 pm
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Oct 19, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Man! We missed ya at the show! It's about done now right? Do I gotta swing by after work on of these days and throw some redneck wrenches on it? LOL
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Beautiful!!! He so totally earned it!To paraphrase Martin Luther King Jr., here is still hope that one day people will not be judged by their outward, physical appearance or sexual orientation, but by their talents and the content of their character.Except in Texas. I've given up all hope for that state.
Religions need books because they don't have gods.
...What's the connection between being a "drag queen" and having won? Are "drag queens" somehow unable to sing? :S
I don't know, I think (politically and religiously speaking) Kansas is worse than any state. The only positive thing they seem to cling to is wind power (but only because it's a $2 billion Industry).
It's not whether they can or can't sing, but it makes me wonder if the same result would have happened if it he was trying to win the spot to represent the USA. I highly doubt he would have.
See, the difference here is that most USA citizens are bigots, to say the least. Which is not to say Europe doesn't have any. Just that a panel of judges is probably chosen for their impartiality, while voters are just given the ability to vote indiscriminately (when they reach a certain age), even if they're dumber than the average bacterium.
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Living with Enough
Each spring for the last four years, Civic Engagement Day has culminated the year-long exploration of a civic engagement theme at Bluffton. "Living with Enough: Responding to Global Poverty" was the 2010-11 theme, infusing activities in classes, student life programming, Forum presentations, religious life services and other venues.
On April 6, this year's Civic Engagement Day, nearly 40 individuals and groups—primarily students—shared presentations pertinent to the poverty theme with the campus community. Following is a sampling of their work.
Central and South Americas provide perspective
A view from Appalachia
The need next door
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Can restaurants take a bigger bite out of hunger
Central and South Americas provide perspective
Travels in Central and South America have been eye-opening experiences for Christine Amstutz, Haley Keller and Beth Kuntz.
In Nicaragua last fall, Amstutz learned the plight of people affected by a pesticide banned in the United States since 1979. Through food, Keller saw poverty in a new light in Ecuador, and Kuntz experienced the hospitality of the poor both in Mexico and Colombia.
Amstutz, a junior from Cassopolis, Mich., was getting a tour of the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, with other students when they came across a community of people who had set up camp in makeshift tents in a park near a government building. Talking to one of them, she found out the group was protesting—and had been for years—banana-harvesting conditions wrought by the pesticide Nemagon.
Introduced to Nicaragua after it was banned in the U.S., Nemagon has been applied to bananas to protect them from a microscopic worm, improving production. But because it's derived from a chemical that targets the endocrine system, Nemagon has also sickened and killed many Nicaraguans, Amstutz said, quoting the number of dead from the pesticide's effects at more than 2,500.
Ten years ago, the country's National Assembly enacted a law enabling farm workers to sue the food companies that used Nemagon and the chemical companies that provided it. Dole Food Co. and Dow and Shell Chemical companies have been found liable in a Nicaraguan court and ordered to pay $490 million to Nemagon victims, but the companies have challenged the ruling and not paid any damages.
So, years after most banana plantations in the country have ceased to exist, Amstutz said, the people in the park are still seeking compensation, if only for hospital bills they have incurred as victims of the pesticide.
Some of them say the Nicaraguan government has helped them—about half of the site was under construction with government-built concrete-block homes for the people, she noted—but others wonder how helpful the government is actually being in the long run.
"I just feel like these people are given false hope," said Amstutz, who was in Nicaragua as part of a semester abroad for her Spanish major. Most of them just want food and shelter, and are getting by with government aid, she explained, but the multinational corporations still aren't paying and are longtime partners with that same government.
"It just comes down to the power these companies have," Amstutz said. Their liability isn't important to them, she continued, and most consumers don't know, or care, what's happening as long as they keep getting bananas. Eating those bananas supports companies that have hurt people, she said, adding that "these people are in poverty because of the choices we make."
She has written to the chairmen of Dole and Dow, and urges others to do likewise. Some people might say they can't make a difference by themselves, but even sharing information can help create a domino effect, Amstutz said. By raising awareness, added Kuntz, "we can begin to make a difference in one person's life."
In Ecuador last fall for a Bluffton cross-cultural experience, it was food that changed Keller's perspective.
Working with a community ministry through a church in Quito, the capital, she saw the reaction on one trip around the city while distributing food. "It was so amazing to me," she said, recalling homeless residents—sleeping on outside steps and under plastic—who were so grateful for the sandwiches and fruit offered to them. "That really touched me."
For the sophomore from Spencerville, Ohio, "poverty" had meant seeing someone receiving reduced-price lunches at school, the Spanish education major said, admitting she hadn't known what true poverty is.
She got another reminder at a day care center, where some of the children asked for a second sandwich to take home. Realizing it may have been their only wholesome meal of the week, she said "there are people who really know the meaning of living with less."
After transferring to Bluffton in fall 2009, Kuntz, also a Spanish education major, spent last fall at Veracruz University in Xalapa, Mexico. But that wasn't her first experience in Latin America. The previous summer, during two weeks that Kuntz said "changed my life," the junior from Covington, Ohio, was in Colombia with the Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) organization.
Ongoing conflict and human rights violations in Colombia were unnerving, she admitted, noting that the gravity of the commitment to peace in the face of possible danger hit home when she had to sign a liability waiver. But Colombia was her only Spanish-speaking option with CPT, and not only did Kuntz not feel as threatened as she had feared, but she also was enriched by her time with 123 farming families who had been violently forced off their land in 2009 so a palm oil-producing corporation could grow palm trees on it.
"Their lives were overflowing with love and hospitality," she said, recalling their care when she became ill in their remote settlement. She then had a similar experience in Mexico, where she again was welcomed in a foreign land.
"Coming home, it was so important to me to share love and hospitality, too," Kuntz said. "It always strikes me how the people with the least seem to be the most giving."
A view from Appalachia
Coal is still king in West Virginia, Bluffton junior Jennifer Arnold said, but its domination of a "mono-economy" has left poverty in its wake.
Arnold, from Fort Wayne, Ind., saw that firsthand last summer, when she worked in Mennonite Central Committee's Sharing with Appalachian People (SWAP) program in the poorest county in West Virginia, McDowell County, at the state's southern tip. She returned to West Virginia during her spring break in March, helping with an Appalachian community health survey in Coal River, south of Charleston, and is serving with SWAP again this summer.
"SWAP is just there to be with people," said Arnold, noting that while program participants help with housing repairs and other basic needs, their most important task is to get acquainted with residents and listen to their stories while developing "mutually transformational relationships."
Longtime McDowell County residents no doubt have stories to tell. After years of coal mining expansion, its population reached nearly 99,000—one of the highest in the state in 1950—but with increasing mechanization in the mines came decreasing employment, and population. After losing another 19 percent of its residents from 2000-09, the county's 2010 headcount stood at just more than 22,000.
The county's high school graduation rate is about 50 percent, and roughly a third of its people live below the poverty level—about twice the level in Allen County, Ohio, Arnold said. Drawing another comparison, she pointed out that 64 building permits were approved in Allen County in 2008; there were two in McDowell County that year.
Health and safety also remain ongoing concerns in the mining communities, she added. Recalling the April 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners in the Upper Big Branch Mine just north of McDowell County, she said subsequent calls for better mine safety have stalled. Meanwhile, exposure to coal dust continues to contribute to chronic diseases that drive health-care costs higher, she continued. It's estimated that women in coal-mining Appalachia die 15 years younger than other American women, Arnold said, "but that's a hard thing to see when it's your livelihood."
That's been the case for more than a century in West Virginia, the second-largest coal-producing state in the United States, behind only Wyoming. West Virginia still derives 60 percent of its business taxes from the coal industry, which employs about 28,000 in the state, equally divided between underground and above-ground jobs, according to Arnold.
Among the more recent concerns fueled by the industry is blasting of mountaintops for mining purposes. Mountaintop removal contributed to devastating flash floods in McDowell County in 2001 and 2002, she said, explaining that because trees are removed by the blasting as well, there are fewer, or no, leaves left to distribute rainfall that washes away soil.
Like activists who have joined a fight against mountain-top removal, as well as her fellow volunteers in SWAP, Arnold urged her listeners to engage, learn more and open their "ears, hearts and minds" to the conditions in the region.
The need next door
Megan Hargraves didn't have to travel far with her Bluffton degree in social work to find poverty. As a service coordinator for the Hancock County Family First Council's Help Me Grow program, the 2010 graduate sees examples only minutes away.
In one case "closest to my heart," she said, a family of five in which the father works almost 70 hours a week is thousands of dollars in debt due to the youngest child's multiple medical problems. But the infant's mother says "My God's getting me through this" with the aid of, among others, her mother, who helps watch the other children, Hargraves added.
With the family making weekly trips to doctors in Toledo and Columbus, the Help Me Grow program, through Hargraves' home visits, also assists with gas cards. That's because addressing needs of poor children begins with addressing their parents' needs, the Hartville, Ohio, native maintained.
From there, working with poor families requires growth in "cultural competence," such as realizing that some people don't have vacuum cleaners to keep a clean floor for children to play on, she said. It also entails finding ways to help parents relieve the stress that can manifest itself in so many negative ways with children, and create stress in them as well. "Brain development is affected by stress," noted Hargraves, whose early-intervention program aims to promote wellness and development in families, their at-risk children up to age 3 and in parents-to-be.
That includes, when needed, teaching self-sufficiency—in nutrition, problem solving and awareness of resources, for instance—and, in all cases, teaching parents that they, as their children's main caregivers, are also their first teachers.
"It's called early intervention for a reason," Hargraves said, pointing out the dual goal of successful parents who can teach their children and children who will be successful through school, and beyond.
Ministering at the mission
A classmate's experience interested students in Bluffton's Methods of Biblical Interpretation class in conducting a worship service at the City Mission of Findlay. A child's exuberance helped the students connect with their audience there.
"I had gone to the mission for my Issues in Modern America class and have gone ever since," said Tyler Campbell, a senior from Sylvania, Ohio, who was encouraged by his professor, Jeff Gundy, and has been volunteering at the mission for more than eight months. He and Bluffton junior Joshua Bruner, from Wauseon, Ohio, were hired to fill in when a staff member at the mission is sick or on vacation.
That was the impetus for the class trip to Findlay, where students put on a service for residents of the shelter and repeated it for drop-ins who don't live there full time. The class, taught by Dr. Trevor Bechtel, associate professor of religion, chose the narrative from John 4 of Jesus at the well with the Samaritan woman, and led the groups in two songs, "All who are Thirsty" and "As I Went Down to the River to Pray."
"During the first service I was really nervous so I just hid behind my guitar," said Brent Schroeder, a sophomore from Continental, Ohio. "In between the services, I didn't get up to talk to anyone, either. I didn't want to come off as someone of privilege and, since I was scared I would say the wrong thing, I just didn't say anything at all.
"But during the second service, a little child came up and started looking at my guitar, and he changed the atmosphere," Schroeder added. "Soon after dancing around, he would come back to me and I held down the chords while he strummed the guitar."
After the students had worshipped and shared the Samaritan story, they asked the audience three questions: What do you thirst for? What word sticks out to you? What is the gift of God?
"When we asked what the gift of God was, someone from the audience said, 'There is your answer,' meaning the boy. The child became a figure we could all embrace. In that moment, we mutually embraced the joy and curiosity he provided, allowing us to be in community together," Schroeder said.
Can restaurants take a bigger bite out of hunger?
All restaurants, by definition, provide a form of hunger reduction. But corporate strategy students at Bluffton looked into how four of the largest restaurant chains in the United States could extend hunger-reduction efforts for people who can't afford to be paying customers.
While certain assumptions were involved, the students figured that allocating a percentage of short-term investment income or operating costs, along with a 1 percent tax credit for the cause at another corporation, could generate a combined $331.4 million to fight hunger in 2012 alone.
Seniors Jordan Childress and Benjamin Ilnicki estimated that Chipotle Mexican Grill and Darden Restaurants Inc.—which includes Red Lobster and Olive Garden, among other chains—could set aside about $662,000 and $369,000, respectively, by earmarking 25 percent of their short-term investment income.
"Partnering with Food Donation Connection—an organization that manages donation programs for food service companies—individual Chipotle restaurants and franchise owners regularly donate refrigerated beans, rice and other unused food to various agencies," said Childress, from Swanton, Ohio.
But that effort doesn't extend to the corporate level, she continued, saying it would be a good fit with "Food with Integrity," a "green" Chipotle initiative in which the company buys all its food from locally owned farms within 250 miles of its more than 1,000 restaurants.
The expanded hunger-reduction strategy would help Chipotle's reputation as a whole, she reasoned, assuming a resulting "reputation gain" in revenue of .1 percent and, based on financial records from 2008-10, annual revenue growth of 14 percent this year and the next two.
While Darden's net sales were down by 1 percent in 2010, its short-term investment income has been increasing since 2008, and Ilnicki expects that to continue through 2013. With those funds on hand, and in an expansion mode—Darden opened 53 restaurants last year, he said—the company has the opportunity to implement a hunger-reduction strategy, according to the Indianapolis native.
He said that "if they allocate 25 percent of that (investment) income, it can start to make a difference," reaching people not reached before and "planting a seed" in the company about the importance of the hunger issue to Darden's business.
Projecting Darden's annual revenue growth through 2013 at 3 percent, Ilnicki added that a more positive image stemming from its altruism would also help maintain its profitability.
In the students' proposal, the lion's share of the money generated for hunger reduction in 2012 would come from McDonald's (about $301 million) and Yum! Brands ($29.4 million). Yum! is the Louisville, Ky.-based parent company of such chains as KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Long John Silver's.
The McDonald's money would result from diversion of 2 percent of its annual operating costs. Those costs have been decreasing in recent years, but that "can only go so far," noted Zachary Lauck, a junior who projected in his scenario that they will stabilize next year.
Lauck, from Cridersville, Ohio, pointed out that the corporation owns only about 12 percent of all McDonald's restaurants, and most of those are outside the U.S. Most of the roughly 32,500 McDonald's locations worldwide are owned and operated by franchisees, who pay a 4 percent royalty on sales, plus rent on the company-owned buildings, in return for product development, marketing and other support from the corporation, he explained. The owner-operators, he said, also make charitable contributions in their local communities as part of building relationships.
In addition to giving money to hunger reduction, McDonald's corporation could add restaurants in new locales around the globe, noted Lauck, who assumed corporate revenue growth at 1 percent this year and next.
Yum! Brands is heavily involved with hunger-relief programs now, having donated about $60 million since 2007, said Carter Sprunger, a senior from Berne, Ind. But a 1 percent hunger-reduction tax credit, coupled with yearly revenue growth of 5 percent, would produce another nearly $30 million just in 2012, he said.
The students' goal is to see hunger-reduction strategies in place, regardless of the company, according to Lauck. "We want them to recognize the need and then go out and act upon it," he said. "It could impact a lot of people and help fight hunger worldwide."


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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. -- Novelist and Pace University alumna Amanda Cerreto will be reading from her young-adult novel "Fall from Grace" on Tuesday, April 29.
The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 12:15 p.m. in Butcher Suite of the Kessel Student Center on the Pleasantville campus. For entry to the event, use Entance 3 at 861 Bedford Road, Pleasantville.
Cerreto's reading is part of an end-of-semester event to launch the latest issue of Vox Arts and Literary Magazine and the English department's Celebration of Writing.
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We already know that Android is on the path to taking over desktops and laptops, and this new Smart Dock accessory from Samsung proves that point. The Galaxy Smart Dock allows your phone to provide a desktop experience by connecting an HD monitor, external storage device, and USB keyboard and mouse.
The $99 dock features three USB ports, one HDMI port, and 3.5 mm stereo out. This specific dock was designed for the Galaxy Note II, but it appears to also work with the Galaxy S III. We just got a couple Galaxy Note IIs in house to play around with, so we will be sure to pick up this dock and let you know how it performs.
As cool as this dock is, the latest smartphones running Android 4.2 should be able to connect to most devices without wires. The Nexus 4 for example rest on its wireless charging station, send video to a Miracast-enabled display, and connect to a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. This concept has been around awhile, but we are finally approaching the point where an Android phone is "good enough" for basic desktop computing.
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as you know, we have an ex-cop , military trained fugitive, who has no problem shooting at the police, on the loose.
LAPD which claims to be the "most trained police force in the nation" is scared shtless.
LAPD is shooting at women in vans, crashing into cars, performing searches without warrants, trying to find this guy before another police officer doesn't make it to his 100k+ per year pension jackpot.
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D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery
The D-Day Museum was established in 1984 to tell the story of Operation Overlord from its origins in the dark days of 1940 to victory in Normandy in 1944.
The amazing Overlord Embroidery, a modern-day counterpart to the Bayeux Tapestry that tells the dramatic story of the Allied landings in Normandy on 6 June 1944. History comes alive in 34 panels of the magnificent 'Overlord Embroidery'.
Step back in time to scenes of wartime Britain – the 'Home Front', 'Women at War', military equipment, tanks, landing craft, and much more. An archive film show captures the spirit of the wartime years, and the remainder of the extensive displays include tanks, jeeps, a DUKW and a landing craft, as well as smaller items such as maps, photographs and uniforms.
Venue Type:
Daily 10.00-17.30, last entry 17.00
Daily 10.00-17.00, last entry 16.30
Closed: 24-26 December
Single Prices:
Adult £6.50 Senior Citizen £5.50 Child/Student/Leisure Card £4.50
Group Prices:
Adult £5.50 Senior Citizen £5.00 Child £4.50
For details of current admissions charges, please go to www.portsmouthmuseums.co.uk/prices.htm
- Museums Association
Please see our website www.ddaymuseum.co.uk for travel directions.
Additional info
The D-Day Museum is suitable for a wide range of National Curriculum work and a Resource Pack for KS1 and 2 is available for loan.
As part of the NCSU 'Britain since the 1930's' we can offer schools special handling and role play sessions on the Home Front. These handling sessions are chargeable and available during the autumn and spring terms.
The Museum's centrepiece is the Overlord Embroidery. Inspired by the Bayeux Tapestry, it is a moving tribute to the efforts and sacrifices of the Allies in defeating Nazi Germany. The scenes depicted in the Embroidery's 34 panels are vividly described in a multi-language soundguide.
Within the Embroidery gallery is the audio-visual theatre, where archive film footage, music, wartime images and the words of those who lived through it combine to evoke the atmosphere of World War II.
Then in the Museum's displays visitors experience the sights and sounds of Britain at War - the air raid warden's living room in the Blitz, the factory resounding to the strains of 'Music while you work', and troops preparing for D-Day in their forest camp.
The climax of the displays is a dawn to dusk reconstruction of the Allied landings by sea and air on D-Day itself - World War II's 'longest day'.
The last section of the exhibition, 'Portsmouth Memories', features the recorded reminiscences of local men, women and children who experienced life on the Home Front or took part in D-Day.
The final image in the exhibition - a photograph of the rows of gravestones in the war cemetery at Ranville in Normandy - is a reminder of the price of victory, which must never be forgotten.
Collection details
Archives, Costume and Textiles, Land Transport, Maritime, Weapons and War
Key artists and exhibits
- Operation Overlord
- D-Day landings
- Overlord Embroidery
Getting there
Please see our website www.ddaymuseum.co.uk for travel directions.
D-Day Museum and Overlord Embroidery
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Although snow and ice still cover much of the campus, the Dolores School District Design Advisory Team (DAT) is working hard along with the Blythe Group Architectural Firm and KMPC, the Owner's Representative Firm, to have everything and everyone in place to break ground on the school additions and remodels soon after the school year ends. Weekly meetings are being held on Wednesdays at the district office. Public comments and suggestions are encouraged and welcomed. Interested parties should call the district office to find out meeting times as scheduled times may vary. The construction will be financed by the BEST Grant and matching bond that was passed by voters in November. The majority of these projects are being completed to improve health and safety of the students in Dolores Schools.
Currently, the team is meeting with all interested parties (students, teachers, coaches, administrators, parents and community members) to seek their input on the project as outlined in the district's BEST grant application. The major project will be replacing the outdated science and vocational/agricultural building. Early suggestions and input favor a two-story building that will be located between the art/woodshop building and the middle school wing. A two-story building would save space on the already tight campus and leave room for future expansion as needed. Preliminary plans show two middle school science rooms on the main floor along with two other classrooms. The upper floor would house the high school science rooms, labs and additional classroom space. The Vo-Ag shop would be relocated to behind the woodshop. This move will help reduce any noise problems with the shop being next to other classrooms. The open courtyard would remain between the new building and the high school wing. Students would be able to walk indoors between all of the high school and middle school classrooms.
In addition to the major project, three additional secondary builds are included in the scope of the BEST Grant/Bond construction funding. The first project is a complete renovation of the middle school and high school locker rooms. This phase includes installing brand new, separate middle school and high school locker rooms for boys and girls as well as a direct corridor between the auxiliary gym and the main gym.
Project two consists of two new middle school classrooms to be added at the end of the middle school wing with a corridor joining the middle school wing to the music room. This connection will preclude the necessity for students to walk outdoors to music classes. Special care will be taken to insulate the new middle school classrooms against the sounds of the band room.
Project three will include the addition of two elementary classrooms at the end of the K-2 wing and a corridor to join the elementary school to the commons area (lunch room and libraries). This will allow elementary students to walk indoors to lunch and the library. This segment is proving to be especially challenging since the new connection will enclose the courtyard between the main gym and the K-2 wing. The architects and other committee members are examining several options to find an aesthetic and utilitarian solution within budget constraints that will allow large equipment and delivery trucks to enter the courtyard after construction is complete to remove snow, allow deliveries for the kitchen and to empty the grease trap.
Major challenges face the design team as the campus is landlocked on all sides, and they are working to connect diverse buildings with varied ages, roof lines and construction. The campus also sits on a former riverbed. The water table is very high and drainage is extremely difficult. Money was written into the grant to address drainage and exterior safety issues created by falling snow, ice and standing water. Each section of the project is touched by drainage issues.
Design work will continue for the next few months and input will be gladly received by the committee. Work to select a general contractor/construction manager will commence in the next few weeks. Now is the time for community members to share their opinions. Watch for construction updates in the Dolores Star and on the district website www.dolores.k12.co.us.


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For over 70 years, conventional dentistry has considered fluoride, both in public water supplies and dental products, a panacea against tooth decay. Yet does current science support this? A new Cochrane Review, for instance, set out to evaluate evidence of whether fluoride supplements taken during pregnancy help prevent tooth decay in children's primary teeth. Surprisingly […]
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Open-cut sleeves, low V neck tease, and a banded waist, gives you the look of absolute flawlessness. Slits in sleeve detail give you an all-day glam look that can transform in the night's glow. Add our Dara Sole Pumps to polish your look.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans leaders are warning about enacting an 'Obamacare-like' immigration bill.
In a statement after a closed-door meeting of GOP rank and file, the leaders soundly rejected the bipartisan Senate bill that includes a path to citizenship and increased border security. They called that legislation flawed.
Speaker John Boehner and other leaders said the House would take a step-by-step approach to rewriting the nation's immigration laws. They said Obama's recent decision to delay an employer requirement in the health care bill raised concerns among the American people that the administration cannot be trusted to secure the border and enforce the law.


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Karate Champ XL
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The original arcade fighter from Data East comes to the iPad complete with 2 Player Modes (split screen and multi-device wifi/bluetooth). Karate Champ is the very first fighting game and spawned a thousand imitators. One of IGN's Top10 Most Influential Games of all time, and to many the game that embodies what a fighter should be.
Featured in iTunes must-have 'Retro Games' iPhone feature, included in Touch Arcades list of must have apps, and still the only 2 Player Fighter for iPad.
As featured by Apple, IGN, Touch Arcade, SlidetoPlay, CNET, FingerGaming and Pocket Gamer, Karate champ is more than a blast from the past and a must-have for your fighting game / retro collection, Karate Champ is unique for it's use of TWO STICKS NO BUTTONS, VERTICAL screen, and 2 player mode via wifi / bluetooth and NEW 2-Up Splitscreen mode!
This not only makes it unique among the fighting game fraternity but perfectly suited to the iPad from a control perspective, and one of the best 2 player experiences on iTunes.
Features include:
- Dual Arcade Stick Controls (no D-Pad or buttons).
- Vertical orientation (no thumbs covering the action :)
- Virtual arcade cabinet surround and facia
- 1 Player vs CPU over 12 environments
- 2 PLAYER Head to Head SplitScreen Mode
- 2 PLAYERS via Bluetooth and WIFI !!
- all the bonus rounds (including the rampaging bull :)
- all the classic 80's sounds
- Various New User Settings
Super large Character Option
Customise the arcade unit facia
Old school scanlines on/off
- and much much more.
This is no random button masher, it's about skillfully executing perfectly timed karate moves against ever more challenging opponents in your quest to become the one true Karate Champ!
Rebuilt from the ground up for the iPad from the team that bought you the highly acclaimed 'Gesundheit!' and the just released 'Flick Music', Karate Champ is a beloved retro classic without equal.
What's New
Various Perfomance Improvements
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Denny Belau of United Agri Products and Mary Hartney of the Florida Fertilizer and Agri-Chemical Association have been named winners of the Southern Crop Production Association's awards for outstanding service to the industry.
The awards were presented at the association's annual meeting at New Orleans.
Belau, manager of environmental and regulatory services for United Agri Products, was winner of the William C. LaRue Award, presented annually to the person who has done the most to further the goals of the association and the crop protection industry.
"His knowledge and expertise have been invaluable to our industry," said SCPA executive director Ed Duskin.
"His job keeps him very busy, but he still has found time to serve on the Interregional Coordination Council's Transportation and Distribution Committee for the past eight years, and served as its chairman for the past two years.
"Under his direction, in addition to annual updates of the Hazardous Material Shipping Guide and Hazardous Materials Shipping Descriptions — which are widely used by everyone in our industry across the United States — he has been instrumental in formulating a General Awareness training video, which has been made available to everyone at minimum cost."
At United Agri Products, Belau is responsible for developing, implementing, and updating training and testing of the U.S. Department of Transportation program for hazardous materials in the company's chemical, ag chemical, and fertilizer operations. He also manages and provides training tools for the drug and alcohol testing program for 2,200 full-time commercial drivers, develops tools to for training meet OSHA compliance with hazardous communications (HAZCOM) and hazardous waste operations and emergency response (HAZWOPER) programs, manages in-house material safety data sheets (MSDS) programs, and updates outside services. These are required programs that anyone dealing with hazardous materials must follow.
The Don W. Beise Award, SCPA's highest award for service to agriculture and the agricultural chemicals industry by a person outside the association, was presented to Mary Hartney, executive director of the Florida Fertilizer and Agri-Chemical Association.
"In the past year, she has spent many hours in Washington, overseeing and coordinating with industry lobbyists the best representation for our industry," Duskin said. "She has shown great ability in working with the Executive Branch and this summer convinced the Florida governor's staff to support a potentially controversial industry-backed bill.
"We value her leadership not just in working with our member companies, but also for being highly effective in assisting with the Florida congressional delegation.
"She works extremely well with our SCPA state affairs committee and is an active communicator of issues to all parties concerned. Her knowledge and enthusiasm will go a long way toward making sure we maintain a viable industry in the future."
Hartney also serves on the board of directors of the Florida Agricultural Council, the Agricultural Institute, and the Florida Organic Advisory Board. She is an active member of the Agricultural Water Policy Group and the Florida Agricultural Coalition.
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Whitecaps FC 3, Fire 1
Camilo scored two goals six minutes apart to lead the Vancouver
Whitecaps to a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Fire on Sunday.
Camilo leads MLS with 12 goals this season. Second-half
substitute Kekuta Manneh also scored for the Whitecaps (8-7-6) as
they extended their unbeaten streak to a club record six games.
Vancouver overtook the idle Los Angeles Galaxy for third place
in the Western Conference. Chicago (6-9-3) has lost two
"I try to score every time I can, but I'm very happy today to
score," Camilo said. "More important for me, our club is getting
up in the table."
Camilo scored in the 66th and 72nd minutes and Manneh tallied in
the 84th. Vancouver goalkeeper Brad Knighton was denied a second
consecutive shutout as Patrick Nyarko scored a few seconds before
the game ended.
"The first half was a little bit slow," said Whitecaps coach
Martin Rennie. "The tempo wasn't too great from us, and I didn't
think we kept the ball as well as we have been, and we didn't keep
the ball as well as we have been, and we didn't create as many
chances as we have.
"But in the second half, I thought we improved a lot."
Vancouver's offense erupted early in the second half after
struggling to get going in the first 45 minutes.
Kenny Miller had an excellent chance in the 53rd minute, but he
could not get a shot away after taking a Camilo pass from right
flank, instead misfiring as the crowd roared in anticipation of a
In the 60th minute, Chicago's Mike Magee, who entered the game
tied for the league scoring lead, thought he had scored and started
to put his arms up in celebration, but the ball curled wide of the
"Today, obviously, we weren't good with our attacking chances,
and they made the most of theirs," said Magee, who entered the
game tied for the league scoring lead but was held in check.
Six minutes later, Camilo fielded a long punt from Knighton
between Rolfe and Fire teammate Shaun Francis. Then the Brazilian
deked Francis, twisting him inside-out, and put in a low shot.
Knighton earned an assist for the second straight game.
After the goal, Vancouver's Kekuta Manneh knelt down and using
his knee as a stool, polished Camilo's boot with his jersey. Camilo
responded by kissing him on the head.
In the 72nd minute, Camilo got a breakaway only to see Tornaghi
dive and poke the ball away from him. But Camilo quickly retrieved
the ball and, with Chicago players standing around and watching,
rolled a shot past Tornaghi, who evidently was screened.
Notes: Newly-signed Danish goalkeeper David Ousted served as
Knighton's backup. It was the first game for which Ousted was
eligible to suit up after the opening of an international transfer
window. Joe Cannon, 38, who started the season as Vancouver's No. 1
keeper, was a healthy scratch. … Chicago's Daniel Paladin and
Gonzalo Segares were absent due to suspensions. Paladini served the
first of a two-game suspension for a reckless challenge against a
Kansas City player July 7, and Segares was suspended for
yellow-card accumulation. … Whitecaps midfielder Russell Teibert
is back in Vancouver after contracting an illness in Seattle while
he was with Canada's Gold Cup team. But he remained sidelined. The
illness forced Teibert to miss Canada's final two round-robin
games. Had the 20-year-old Niagara Falls, Ont., native been
healthy, he would have missed the Vancouver-Chicago game anyway.
… Chicago No. 1 goalkeeper Sean Johnson was away with the U.S.
team at the Gold Cup. … Vancouver central defender Andy O'Brien,
considered close to returning, sat out again with a hamstring