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Course offerings in history are intended to familiarize students with both the American and Western heritage, as well as with some aspects of the history of the non-Western world. The study of history is presented as a means of integrating college experiences and developing certain perceptual and analytical skills. Students are exposed to a broad range of modern historical methodologies, establishing close ties between history and many other academic disciplines.
The study of history is aimed at students who are motivated by diverse goals. It offers excellent preparation for careers in law, civil service, journalism, business, foreign service, museum work, and archives. It also prepares students well to pursue graduate study, including law school.
The history department offers two majors: History and Social Studies.
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The history major provides the opportunity to study a variety of historical topics. Students have considerable choice of courses, and professors encourage majors to take full advantage of the diversity of courses that the department offers. Additionally, the history major provides students with high-level analytical skills that emphasize historical inquiry. Students should note, for example, that the department offers courses that introduce a wide range of methodologies, including oral history, intellectual history, social history, cultural history, and gender history. The major requirements, although minimal, are designed to ensure that all students gain some knowledge of both U.S. and non-U.S. history beyond the introductory level. They also ensure that every student majoring in history has the opportunity to confront a diversity of historical interpretations and acquires practice in designing and executing historical research.
The Social Studies Major
The social studies major is designed for students who plan to become secondary history/social studies educators. This major meets all of the competencies required by the Commonwealth of Virginia for secondary education certification in social studies. In addition to history, areas of study include government, civics, international studies, economics, and geography. This major also emphasizes the nature of historical interpretation and provides the opportunity to pursue independent historical research. In addition to completing the departmental requirements, social studies majors who seek certification in secondary education must complete all secondary professional teacher training courses stipulated in the education section of the current catalog.
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Below is a zip file containing images of the following programs:
Backgammon - Oasis Software
Chess v21 - J. Morrison (Micros) Ltd.
Colossal Cave - Cowen Software Ltd.
(Rescue from) Death's Head Hole - Peaksoft - Includes a small bug fix (the addition of the line and statement 3400 END) .
Dominoes - Oasis Software
Donkey King (aka The King) - Microdeal - Includes all three versions that appear on each side of the tape (on the tape the versions appear in the order of "Donkey1", "Donkey2", then "Donkey3").
Dragonchess - Oasis Software
Drone Datatank - Cable Software Ltd. - Does not include the audio (T.R.O.F.F.) on side two.
Dragon Trek - Salamander Software
Dungeon Raid - Microdeal
El Diablero - Dragon Data Ltd.
Everest - Salamander Software
Fishy Business (Dan Diamond Trilogy - Part 3) - Salamander Software
Football Manager - Addictive Games Ltd.
Golf - Salamander Software
Invader Cube (aka 3D OXO) - Oasis Software - This version does not work on a Dragon 64.
Lionheart - Peaksoft
Madness and the Minotaur - Dragon Data Ltd. - This version contains bugs, do any bug-free Dragon versions exist?
Mansion Adventure 1 - Microdeal
Morbid Mansion - Blaby Computer Games
The Mystery of the Java Star - Shards Software
North Sea Oil - Shards Software
Othello - Oasis Software
Perseus & Andromeda (Mysterious Adventure No. 9) - Channel 8 Software
Pettigrews Diary - Shards Software
Pimania - Automata Ltd. - Does not include the audio on side B. This is an older version of Pimania that does not give you the option of avoiding the double speed poke, instead you have to manually edit lines before running the game. I did have the line numbers written down but I currently don't know the location of this information.
Tim Love's Cricket - Peaksoft - This version does not work on a Dragon 64.
Total Eclipse v1.3 - Fenmar Ltd. trading as Eclipse Computer Games - Earlier versions are known to be bugged (this is not a guarantee that this version is bug free). Also includes the Universe 2 data file which appears on side 2 of the tape. (On side 1 of the tape "TEclipse" is followed by "TE_Uni1".)
Waxworks (Mysterious Adventure No. 11) - Channel 8 Software
Wings of War - Salamander Software
Zotoka - Preston Computer Games - (On the tape the instructions appear on side A, the game on side B.)
Associated with each program is a text file giving various details about each program, including the program's title, loading instructions, and which artifact mode to use in an emulator (if any).
All, with the exception of Wings of War, were created with an old version of DC.exe that stripped out the leaders, so these images have received FIXCAS treatment. Wings of War was created with a version of DC.exe that does not strip out the leaders, and therefore has not had FIXCAS applied. All have been tested with XRoar. (The use of DOS programs to create the images also explains the shortened filenames, which I left unaltered as I was using T3 - the DOS based Dragon emulator - at the time I created the images.)
I have not included the three Mountains of Ket games due to the protection scheme they employ. Both Steve and Ciaran have supplied versions that do not produce the (non-critical) errors that this scheme produces in emulators, see viewtopic.php?f=4&t=201&start=0
Neither have I included the three Exploring Adventures on the Dragon games (Castlemaze, Tunnel, and Underground) because the image of Underground Adventure is not a true image of what is on the tape. Instead, it is an image of a bug fixed Underground Adventure (with rather more fixes than that of Death's Head Hole). I intend to create a true image of Underground and will upload it with the other Exploring Adventures games. Should I also include the bug fixed version with this upload?
I also need to check on the precise layout of the program and data files on the tape for Trivial Crosswords by Quickbeam Software.


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An Antelope Valley landscaper is facing federal child pornography charges after he allegedly took and sent sexually explicit photos of his 3-month-old son to an undercover agent via email.
Investigators say Robert Dale Schrader, 33, of Littlerock, sent the pornographic images last week to an undercover officer in England, who notified U.S. authorities.
"This is one of the youngest, if not the youngest, child pornography victims ever identified in the Los Angeles area," Claude Arnold, special agent in charge for Homeland Security Investigations in L.A., a division of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in a statement.
In his exchanges with the British agent, Schrader discussed his sexual interest in young boys and talked about engaging in sexual activity with his 3-month-old son, according to the federal indictment.
During a search of Schrader's home, hundreds of additional images and video were uncovered, including some involving his son. The boy was taken into protective custody by Department of Children and Family Services. Schrader had sole custody of the little boy, and it is unclear where his mother resides. Schrader and the boy were the only residents of the Littlerock home.
He has been charged with two counts of child pornography. If convicted on both counts, he faces up to 60 years in prison. He is also facing state charges for lewd acts on a minor.


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With each passing year, it seems as if Lehigh Valley-connected filmmakers and actors enliven more and more movies. In 2015, the variety of films featuring area talent was downright staggering.
Locals either starred in or oversaw movies ranging from indies like "While We're Young" and "Life," featuring Allentown natives Amanda Seyfried and Dane DeHaan, respectively, to box-office behemoths like "Furious 7" with Freedom High School grad Dwayne Johnson and "Minions," which was executive produced by Allentown's Chris Renaud.
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Fran Charles joined the Institute in 1992 as a varsity sailing coach and assistant to former sailing master, Hatch Brown. Now, as the fourth Sailing Master since 1935, Charles is responsible for the entire recreational sailing program with over 2,000 members annually developing sailing skills and using the fleet of over 100 boats.
In 2007, Charles was inducted into the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) Hall of Fame and received the Graham Hall Award for Distinguished Service to College Sailing by a Professional. He is a certified umpire for team racing and is often volunteering to officiate at US National and World Championships. Charles's race management skills are sought for junior, national and world level events year in and year out.
Before joining MIT, Charles served as co-director of the Courageous Sailing Center in Boston, which teaches sailing to city children. In 1996 and 1997, he managed the sailing competition for the Massachusetts Special Olympics as well as sponsored multiple clinics, seminars, and competitions for local junior sailors. In 1999, Charles was honored by Mass Bay Sailing with its "Distinguished Service to Yachting" Award.
Charles and his wife, Sue, continue to race competitively together on the winter "frostbite circuits" in New England. Occasionally he competes in the Olympic Star Class and IOD Fleets in Marblehead and Northeast Harbor.


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Rihanna: 777 Tour Begins!
Rihanna's highly anticipated tour, the 777 Tour, has just begun, and JustJared.com is along for the ride!
"About to get on my private plane #PhuckYoG5 #HTC #777tour" the 24-year-old entertainer tweeted, along with a pic.
RiRi invited tons of press members to board the tour plane with her, where she took the intercom into her own hands!
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Portland posts rout of Fisher CatsBy ALLEN LESSELS
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 30. 2013 10:32PM
MANCHESTER — The Sea Dogs apparently like leaving town.
They pounded four Fisher Cat pitchers for 17 hits and Anthony Ranaudo picked up his eighth win of the season, 13-5, at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium on Sunday.
The Sea Dogs had their second-best offensive game of the season, second only to the 18 hits they put up in a 15-4 win against New Hampshire here on May 16. That was a getaway day, too.
The Sea Dogs fell to .500 for the first time since April 19 with a 5-4 loss in the series opener on Thursday night. They bounced back nicely with wins on Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon for their first three-game win streak since late May.
The Fisher Cats fell to 39-43 and play at New Britain tonight.
Sunday's game was a bit of a mound mismatch. The Sea Dogs had Ranaudo, one of Boston's top prospects. The Fisher Cats had Matt Wright, a reliever making his second start of the season in place of Ryan Tepera, who was ill.
Travis Shaw had a towering grand slam in the sixth inning and five runs batted in overall. J.C. Linares came on in the fourth inning for Shannon Wilkerson, who tweaked his leg on the base paths, and had three hits. So did Ryan Dent out of the No. 9 spot in the batting order.
Tony Thomas knocked in four runs and Garin Cecchini, Michael Almanzar, Shaw and Matt Spring each had a pair of hits.
The prolific hitting helped Ranaudo. He struck out the first two batters and the last two batters he faced.
In between, he worked hard for the win. He allowed a season-high nine hits and the five earned runs he gave up were second to the seven he allowed to Erie on June 4.
"It's going to happen," Ranaudo said. "You're not going out there and have your best stuff every time. It's a crazy game. You've just got to keep on an even keel and not get too high or too low."
The Sea Dogs scored at least two runs in four of the first five innings, highlighted by a six-run fourth inning that featured Shaw's towering grand slam to right field. All the runs were unearned in the inning because of a of a Fisher Cat error to open the inning.
The Sea Dogs had not scored in the first inning in the previous three games of the series. They got a pair of runs with two outs in the first on Sunday.
Kevin Ahrens hit a two-run home run and New Hampshire came up with three runs total off Ranaudo to take the lead in the second.
Portland responded with two runs, including a Peter Hissey homer to right field, in the third and then exploded for the six in the fourth to go in front 10-3.


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MACON, Ga. (January 27, 2006) - After picking up a victory at Stetson on Thursday, the Lady Bucs will vie for their second win of the road trip against Mercer on Saturday. The league-leading Lady Bucs have yet to drop an Atlantic Sun contest on the road, while Mercer has been playing tough at home this season, boasting a 5-1 record in Macon. All five wins have come against A-Sun opponents.
About the Game ...
Today's game will match two of the A-Sun top teams, with both ETSU and Mercer coming off conference wins on Thursday night. The Lady Bucs topped Stetson, 61-51, in DeLand, Fla., while the Bears defeated Kennesaw State, 69-55, in Macon. ETSU is currently atop the conference standings at 8-2, while the Bears are sitting in fifth at 6-3. Today's contest will be the first of two this season.
Scouting the Bears ...
Sarah Russell is leading Mercer in both scoring and rebounding, posting 11.6 points, and 7.4 rebounds a night. After Russell, five Bears are averaging six or more points a game, including Courtney Hall, Erin Keller, Tanya Kessenich, and Rosanna Davis. The Bears' three A-Sun losses came against Gardner-Webb, Campbell, and North Florida. Since dropping their first two conference tilts against Campbell and GWU, Mercer has rebounded, winning six of their last seven conference games, including victories over A-Sun powers Florida Atlantic and Belmont. Mercer has been especially tough at home, winning five of their six contests in University Center.
The Series ...The all-time series is knotted at two games apiece, with Mercer picking up the win in the most recent matchup, tallying a 92-65 victory on Dec. 3, 1992.


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Muhammad Ali has one of the most recognizable faces in the world and is such a beloved public persona that George W. Bush personally presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the ultimate honor for an American civilian, in 2005.
It would not have been that many years earlier, however, when, if Bush had thought of Ali at all, it would have been in terms of opprobrium and fury. How had things changed so much in such a short time, and what had Ali done in the first place to earn the scorn of the nation's establishment?
Muhammad Ali movie: A review of the film "The Trials of Muhammad Ali" in the Sept. 27 Calendar section said the film was playing at Laemmle's Royal theater in West L.A. The film is at Laemmle's Music Hall in Beverly Hills.
"The Trials of Muhammad Ali" is a complex and involving documentary that looks deeply into these and related issues, presenting Ali from the unusual point of view of his outside-the-ring religious and political beliefs. It also underlines the point made by writer Robert Lipsyte, who shrewdly notes that "so many ways of looking at him have only to do with us and have nothing to do with him."
Directed by Bill Siegel, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated "The Weather Underground," "Trials" interviews numerous people close to Ali, including his brother Rahman; his second wife, Khalilah Camacho-Ali; former New York Times sportswriter Lipsyte; and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. (Ali, who has Parkinson's disease, is present only in newsreel clips.) Together they present an intriguing portrait of a man who never wavered no matter what the world threw at him. Which was a lot.
"Trials" begins with two clips that underline the often forgotten savagery that Ali faced. The first is a blistering attack delivered by talk show host David Suskind in 1968, calling Ali "a disgrace ... a simplistic fool and a pawn." This is followed immediately by Farrakhan's recollection of Ali's bitter feeling about his place in the American racial landscape.
The film then flashes back to 1960 and then-Cassius Clay's gold medal win in the Rome Olympics and how a wealthy syndicate from his hometown of Louisville, Ky. (the group's only survivor is interviewed), guided his professional life.
Though America was shocked by Clay's conversion to Islam and his decision to change his name, "Trials" makes it clear that this had been a long time coming, starting with a young boy's wondering why Jesus and all the angels were white.
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The film talks to Abdul Rahman Muhammad, who connected the fighter to the Nation of Islam when they met in 1961, and he reinforces that the future Ali was already familiar with the teachings through a celebrated phonograph record made by Farrakhan, "The White Man's Heaven Is the Black Man's Hell."
Perhaps the feistiest interviewee is second wife Camacho-Ali, a schoolgirl when they first met, who tells of tearing up the man's "Cassius Clay" autograph and telling him to come back when he knows who he is.
After surprising the boxing world by defeating Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship in 1964, Clay announced his previous conversion to Islam and that change of name, both of which shocked the sporting world even more.
Given that time has proven how serious and sincere a commitment this conversion was, it's a shock to see how people disregarded it and refused to use the new name.
"I'm no slave," Ali says more than once. "Don't call me by a white man's name."
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Equally unnerving is to hear how Ali took his revenge on boxers who didn't respect him, not only beating but also punishing fighters Floyd Patterson and Ernie Terrell rather than knocking them out.
"You can't be a great fighter without a mean streak," says Lipsyte, adding that the Terrell fight was "a truly terrible moment in boxing history."
Worse was yet to come. At the height of the Vietnam War, Ali's Louisville draft board reclassified him 1A, leading to the boxer's decision to declare himself a conscientious objector because of his Muslim beliefs.
As a result, Ali was stripped of his championship and sentenced to prison. Even though the Supreme Court eventually voided that conviction, Ali was not allowed to fight for 31/2 years, during which time he honed his abilities as a public speaker and lived off the fees.
Ali's faith in Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad never wavered, not even when his mentor Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965. His steadfastness gradually won him regard from people who had earlier been critical, including Martin Luther King Jr., who is seen saying, "Whatever you think of his religion, you have to admire his courage."
After dealing with Ali's 1970 fight with Jerry Quarry, his first after his involuntary hiatus, "Trials" treads lightly on his life to date, talking to one of his daughters, Hana, about what it was like to be the child of a man who considered himself to be "daddy to the world."
Summarizes Lipsyte, "He didn't transcend boxing until he returned to boxing," one of the many paradoxes of a life that requires this gripping second look.
'The Trials of Muhammad Ali'
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Running time: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Playing: At Laemmle's Royal, West Los Angeles
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Menswear designer Aitor Throup shows us around his London studio and relate his unique design philosophy.
Highsnobiety visited one of today's leading menswear designers, Aitor Throup, at his London studio and outfitted his creative space with one of B&O PLAY's most coveted speakers. With one focused on fashion and the other on audio, both take classic design elements and infuse them with simplicity, aesthetics, heritage and quality. To discover the similarities between the two, we visited Throup at his creative studio in London.
Moving from Spain to the UK at the age of 12, Aitor Throup was all but consumed by a passion for football. Surrounded by a new breed of fan in Burnley, Lancashire, Aitor soon developed a passion for labels like Stone Island and C.P. Company, both of whom he would later work for. Fast forward a few decades and Aitor's interest in these products combined with his own passion for drawing earned him a BA in Fashion Design at Manchester Metropolitan University and an MA in Fashion Menswear from the Royal College of Art in London. Although he may still be relatively unknown to the world at large, Aitor is far and away one of the most promising young menswear designers to emerge in the past few years, having designed England's football kit under Umbro in 2009 for the home team and in 2010 for the away games. Featured in these works was the same design philosophy that would bring Aitor to the attention of fashion's most forward-thinking creatives by 2014.
Now, with his debut collection officially on (select) store shelves, Aitor's intricately detailed product development concept has proven the hype built around him over the years to be anything but hot air. As his studio shows, Aitor's fascination with the human anatomy is continuously at the forefront of his creations, with garments manufactured by combining the pragmatism of product design with the endless creativity offered through art. Sketches, sculptures and books line his shelves, providing a reference for what seems to be a way of creation developed out of thin air.
Aitor's interest in music is no secret either, having recently directed the music video for Damon Albarn's "Everyday Robots" and working with Kasabian on their latest album 48:13 alongside the music video for "Eez-eh." With music always acting as an inspiration, he naturally furnishes his creative space with one of the best sounding, best designed products on the market, the BeoPlay A8. Meshing perfectly with the surrounding objects, many of his own creation, the all-in-one music system complements both leaders' impeccable design philosophy.
With a niche carved out in the world of fashion at the ripe age of 34, Aitor has no plans of slowing down and already has his sights set on other creative outlets like film. We'll have to wait and see what he delivers, but for now enjoy a peek into Aitor's London studio above and furnish your place with the best audio gear on the market over at B&O PLAY's online shop.
About Aitor Throup
Origin: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Current Residence: London, England
Aitor Throup worked for seminal Italian menswear labels Stone Islands and C.P. Company before launching his own label in 2006. After years of development, Aitor launched "New Object Research" to much fanfare and acclaim.
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Fluctuating weather presents Chicagoans with a whole slew of problems: Do we dress for 70-degree weather or do we break out the down coat? Do we order our coffees hot or iced? Do we post happy Facebook statuses about how wonderful it is to be alive and wearing shorts in December? Or do we use social media to bemoan the start of our fair city's most wretched weather?
But there's another wrench that gets thrown into the mix when temperatures climb high and fall fast: All this inconsistency forms potholes, the streets' physical reaction to Mother Nature's indecision.
Moisture seeps into pavements – cold weather causes it to freeze, warm weather causes it to thaw. This deteriorates the pavement; along with the stress from vehicular traffic, it causes potholes to form over time.
The flip-flopping weather we've been seeing (almost 70 degrees on Monday and projected temperature in the 30s on Wednesday – seriously, it's not normal) can't be helping. As of Nov. 29 there were 130 pothole repair requests filed, according to the City of Chicago's web site.
It's no secret that potholes are annoying, but according to Jason Jenkins, education specialist at Active Transportation, they can be dangerous as well. They can break the heels of pedestrians' shoes or cause wear and tear to vehicles, but cyclists run the risk of serious crashes or injuries.
Jenkins wouldn't necessarily recommend that bikers stay off the roads, but he suggests taking some additional precautions. It's always important to be aware of what's happening in front of you when biking, but when potholes form, cyclists should alternate their attention between the traffic up ahead and the road itself. "Definitely be on the lookout," he said.
Jenkins also suggests avoiding parts of the road that are covered with snow, water or leaves, as there's no way to determine if potholes are hiding below. "Never ride over what you can't see," he said.
"The good thing about Chicago is it's a big grid," Jenkins said. "If you're on a road with potholes, you can probably alternate your route."
Jenkins said the streets are repaved often and all potholes should be reported to the City of Chicago (call 311 locally.) According to their records, most pothole repairs are completed the day the request is created.
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(CNN) -- Vermont is weighing a bill that could make it the first state to legalize same-sex marriage without being prompted by the courts.
Vermont could become the first state to legalize same-sex marriage without prompting from courts.
The state's House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday afternoon to consider a bill that the Vermont Senate passed Monday by a vote of 26-4.
The House is expected to pass the bill.
Republican Gov. Jim Douglas, however, has said he opposes the bill.
"Governor Douglas agrees with President Obama that marriage is between a man and a woman. He supports Vermont's current civil union law, which provides equal rights, benefits, and responsibilities to Vermonters in civil unions," said the governor's spokeswoman, Dennise Casey.
The governor "believes this bill is a distraction from the important work the legislature needs to do to pass a responsible budget and get our economy going again," Casey added.
It is unclear whether both chambers of the state legislature would vote to override a potential gubernatorial veto.
Vermont made history in 2000 by becoming the first state to approve civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.
Massachusetts and Connecticut are the only states that allow same-sex marriage. Vermont, New Hampshire, and New Jersey allow civil unions for gay and lesbian couples.
Vermont legalized civil unions nine years ago in response to a ruling from its high court.
Nationwide, the issue of same-sex marriage remains highly divisive. A June 2008 CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll found that 44 percent of adult Americans believe gay marriage should be recognized by law as valid; 53 percent are opposed.
The issue took center stage in the nation's largest state last November, when California voters narrowly approved a proposition amending the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. California had been issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples since a May 2008 ruling by the state Supreme Court legalized the unions.
California's high court heard arguments three weeks ago in a case tackling the constitutionality of the controversial ballot proposition. It has not yet issued a decision.
The 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act effectively bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex unions by defining marriage as "a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife" and a spouse as "a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife."
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The Arizona Cardinals will participate in the fourth annual Pat's Run Saturday, April 19. Among the coaches on the team that will be participating will be head coach Ken Whisenhunt, defensive line coach Ron Aiken and defensive assistant Matt Raich. Players participating will be CB Michael Adams, WR Steve Breaston, S Oliver Celestin, S Aaron Francisco, P Dirk Johnson, CB DeMario Minter, WR Sean Morey, WR Jamaica Rector, TE Alex Shor and DL Antonio Smith. The event is a primary fundraising event for the Pat Tilman Foundation which was created in honor of former Cardinals and Arizona State football player.
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UNITED NATIONS — After Secretary of State John F. Kerry sits down Thursday with his Iranian counterpart to start the highest level talks between the two nations in 34 years, negotiators for the two sides are likely to grapple with a highly sensitive issue:
Can the mullahs in Tehran be trusted to enrich uranium — potential nuclear bomb fuel — to even low levels on their own soil?
President Obama and newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani both implicitly raised the question during their addresses Tuesday to world leaders at the annual United Nations General Assembly gathering. It doubtless will come up again Thursday when Kerry meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Rouhani, a relative moderate who has vowed to thaw relations with the West, referred to Iran's "sovereign right" to enrich uranium for power plants and other nonmilitary uses.
Obama was more guarded, saying America respects the "right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy."
Some analysts noted the similar language and speculated that the two governments used back-channel talks to consider a possible route to a deal that would force Iran to give up any bomb-making capabilities but would allow low-level enrichment closely monitored by U.N. nuclear inspectors, just as happens in other countries under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which Iran has signed.
The president has not approved an enrichment deal for Iran, but some analysts believe he used his speech to float a diplomatic trial balloon.
The Obama administration, like the George W. Bush administration, has never publicly affirmed Iran's right to enrich uranium. But as Iran has steadily moved closer to bomb-making capability, and Washington and its allies have sought to stop the process short of going to war, the question has gained urgency.
To advocates, including some current and former Obama administration officials, and some foreign governments, allowing Iran to enrich uranium for energy may be a face-saving way to curtail Iran's broader nuclear ambitions. The West suspects that Iran ultimately aims to build a nuclear weapon, a goal Iran has repeatedly denied.
To skeptics, including the Israeli government and many in Congress, even enrichment of uranium to 5% purity — the level used for civil power plants — would amount to surrender. Iran, they believe, would require the West to ease punitive economic sanctions as part of any deal, and secretly move nuclear work into hidden sites until it reaches bomb-making capability.
"This is not the time to concede domestic enrichment or plutonium reprocessing to the Iranian regime, just because it demands that this is nonnegotiable," said Mark Dubowitz of the pro-sanctions Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Dubowitz said he believes that Obama's U.N. speech "left open the door" for domestic enrichment in Iran. He called that prospect a potential catastrophic mistake given Iran's history of hiding enrichment facilities, destroying evidence and refusing to provide full access to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog.
At least when he was still in the Senate, and head of the Foreign Relations Committee, Kerry disagreed. In an interview with the Financial Times in May 2011, then-Sen. Kerry made it clear that he was open to permitting Iran some limited enrichment, with strong international safeguards, as part of a deal that would forestall war.
"The Bush administration [argument of] no enrichment was ridiculous ... because it seemed so unreasonable to people," Kerry said. "They have a right to peaceful nuclear power and to enrichment in that purpose."
To be sure, both the Obama administration and the Iranian government would face enormous political hurdles at home for that kind of deal. Both Obama and Rouhani must justify any deal to influential leaders and pressure groups that are deeply suspicious of any compromise. Senior members of Congress in both parties are likely to oppose enrichment, for example.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he won't accept any deal with Iran unless Tehran agrees to close its underground enrichment plant at Fordow, end plutonium work that could lead to weapons capability, get rid of all uranium and halt all uranium enrichment. Israel has repeatedly threatened to use military force if necessary to stop the Iranian program.
Russia has been willing to grant Iran some enrichment. Britain and Germany would probably go along if the United States decided it could support some enrichment. The French government has expressed deep misgivings about permitting it.
U.S. officials say Iran must comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions, suspend its nuclear enrichment and resolve U.N. inspectors' questions about its suspected nuclear weapons work.
The officials say once Iran meets those requirements, it will be treated like other signatories of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. But U.S. officials haven't specified what that treatment would entail.
Robert Einhorn, who was part of the administration's inner circle of Iran advisors until May, says he believes a deal could be devised to restrain Iran. But he said it would require intrusive inspections, strict monitoring of Iran's current nuclear complex, safeguards to detect any attempts to build new facilities and other restrictions "just to be in the ballpark of something" that the United States and five other major powers that are negotiating with Iran would accept.
Gary Samore, who was also a member of Obama's small Iran team until February, said the United States doesn't have a clear policy on whether it would accept limited Iranian enrichment "because the Iranians have never agreed to any limits."
As a result, administration officials "have never really had to answer the question," said Samore, now research chief at the Belfer Center at Harvard's Kennedy School.
In Iran this week, the public did not appear in a mood to accept any limits on uranium enrichment.
In Tehran, the reformist daily Shargh captioned its front-page photo of Obama addressing the U.N. General Assembly with the U.S. leader's statement, "We recognize the nuclear energy rights of Iran."
Hamid Reza Taraghi, head of the Islamic Coalition Party's international affairs council, said he was pleased with Rouhani's speech as it "was polite and at the same time uncompromising on revolutionary and Islamic values and expressed the rightful stance of Iran" on its uranium enrichment.
The daily newspaper Donya-e-Eghtesad, or World of Economy, carried on its front page what it said were the highlights of Tuesday's speeches in New York, including Obama's statements that "We do not seek regime change in Iran," and "We recognize the right of the Iranian nation for access to peaceful nuclear energy."
"The simplest way to resolve the nuclear issue is the [West's] recognition of Iran's inalienable right of enrichment," the semiofficial Fars News Agency said in reporting Rouhani's message.
Special correspondent Ramin Mostaghim in Tehran contributed to this report.


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MARYSVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A National Guard major who has said he wanted to adopt a girl from Africa to protect her from rape has been indicted on charges he sexually abused three children, including two of his own.
A grand jury in central Ohio indicted the Marysville man on Monday on charges of rape, sexual battery and gross sexual imposition between 2006 and 2012. The 17-count indictment says he's the father of two of the children but doesn't give his relationship with the third.
The Associated Press isn't naming the 40-year-old man to protect the children's identities.
The man arrived in Kuwait at the end of June for a one-year deployment, Ohio National Guard spokesman James Sims said on Tuesday. The man, who was working as a medical operations officer with the 371st Sustainment Brigade, has been released from duty and is "being sent back to the United States," Sims said.
In a 2008 story in a military publication, the man spoke about his large family and about wanting to adopt a girl to protect her from sexual assault.
Of the three children cited in the indictment, two are in foster care; the third is with her father, who is not the National Guard major.
Up to 11 children lived with the man and his spouse in Marysville, a city of 22,000 residents northwest of Columbus, Marysville Police Department records show.
Police helped with the removal of 11 children from the house last August, according to a police report. Another report shows that three days later police received a report from the county's Children Protective Services division alleging that someone living at the same address as the couple had been sexually abused.
Multiple attempts to reach the man and his spouse by calling them, emailing them and knocking on their door on Tuesday were unsuccessful. Court records don't list an attorney for either. They are scheduled to be arraigned in court Aug. 1.
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The intimidation and obstructing justice charges stem from the couple having intentionally sent one of the children out of the state after the child, who's not one of the victims listed in the indictment, had reported some information, Union County prosecutor David Phillips said. Phillips would not elaborate on the type of information or say to whom it was reported, and he declined to comment on any details of the abuse allegations.
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Dawnelle Pagel brought home a little piece of Christmas. She cut away at a Monterey Pine more than seven feet tall, sawing the trunk back and forth until it fell.
"I did it!" Pagel cheered, exhilarated that she had cut down her very first Christmas tree at Peltzer Pines Christmas Tree Farms in Brea.
Such experiences are becoming rare in Orange County, as more apartments and homes are built to satisfy the area's growing population. The development has made it tough on Christmas tree farmers, who need large plots of land to plant rows of trees that won't get harvested until they're four years old.
Charles Peltzer, 77, started his Christmas tree business nearly 50 years ago in East Anaheim. At its peak, Peltzer Pines Christmas Tree Farms had eight locations in Orange County, but that's been whittled down to just three farms in Irvine, Brea and Silverado.
Increased competition and less open land have hurt his business, Peltzer said. This year, Peltzer will close his Irvine farm because he said his landlord, The Irvine Co., has plans to one day build housing there. Peltzer estimates he might have five or ten more years left on the Brea farm, depending on the economy.
"Land is very, very hard to find for what we do," Peltzer said. "This farm here in Brea is owned by an oil company and when the economy returns, it will be developed into single family residences."
Farming is in Peltzer's blood. His grandparents came to Anaheim as farmers in 1913 and his parents later sold their farm to Walt Disney. The land is part of Disneyland, just about where the Pirates of the Caribbean ride is now.
Peltzer said he doesn't have plans to leave Orange County and when he retires, his family will continue the business.
But his farm is up against significant challenges.
The cost of growing and maintaining the Christmas trees in Orange County isn't cheap. The farm starts with seeds of Monterey Pines and Leyland Cypress and lets them grow a few inches tall at their nursery, said staffer Andrew Miles. Then, Peltzer Pines clears the land at its farms in the spring and plants the saplings, Miles said. Four years later, the trees are ready to be cut down. The trees are trimmed four times a year, to make sure they have their Christmas tree shape.
Peltzer came up with the idea in 1963, when he visited a Christmas tree farm.
"People were standing in a line with a $10 bill in their hand and I (thought), 'I can do that,'" Peltzer said.
But since then, the marketplace has changed, with big box retailers like Home Depot now selling freshly cut Christmas trees at a discount. Home Depot spokesman Stephen Holmes said the retailer expects to sell about 2.5 million trees this year.
A five to six foot tree at Home Depot can sell for $29, Holmes said. A six or seven-foot tree at Peltzer's farm can cost customers at least double that price.
"Once the big box stores came in town, then people's shopping habits changed accordingly, and then, here comes the artificial tree and the quality of the artificial tree is such that their popularity is without question," Peltzer said.
Increased housing hasn't helped either. Orange County has a long history of development driving away agriculture, said Chris Jepsen, president of the Orange County Historical Society.
Orange County once had a lot of citrus trees. But those groves faced a disease called "quick decline," and one solution for farmers was to sell the land to developers, Jepsen said.
"I always joke that eventually Phoenix and Los Angeles is going to meet," Jepsen said. "It's all going to be paved between here and there."
It's no surprise that the number of farms designated for Christmas trees and other short-rotation woody crops have been in decline. In 2007, there were only 322 such farms in the state, a 20 percent decline from five years earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The number of members in the National Christmas Tree Association has also fallen. There were 841 members last year, down 10 percent from 2010, the Chesterfield, Mo.-based association said. Spokesman Rick Dungey said there were a number of factors that could have caused the decline. Dungey said some members dropped out because the association no longer provided a liability insurance policy or they received services from other groups, but other reasons included farmers retiring or choosing to grow a different crop.
But Peltzer believes Orange County can support his business. He feels confident that he will be able to keep farming Christmas trees at his Silverado location, which is owned by OC Parks. His Irvine landlord, the Irvine Co., said it is also helping Peltzer look for another plot of land.
Peltzer expects sales will be equal to what he made last year, but he declined to give more detailed information. After the Irvine farm closes, he doesn't have any plans to open a third location.
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- It is good practice to keep a duplicate copy of your prescription with you.
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The One thing that bothers me most about Days right now if that everyone thinks EJ is such a "Bad" Man. Hell.. if it were not for Sami, he'd have the most laid back life ever!!
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Maybe I'm looking at this all wrong.. But it's the way I see it.
I just thought about this.. being fair.. I know I know.. Sami helped EJ when he was unfairly accused of KILLING Stefano.. But seems he DID voice his appreciation.
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Corn: With the USDA report behind us, the bargain buyers came in as anticipated. Right now, speculative bulls can argue against seeing a 2 billion bushel carryout number and no one can argue for another month. Add in the expected squeeze going on in the May contract, and it became a great day for speculators to rally the old-crop corn allowing the new crop to follow along.
December reached close to 543 resistance while July remained 8 cents short of its 669 resistance. All of this speculative buying was done while a four-day window for planting began Monday. Just about all areas have an open window for planting until Friday to get as much done as possible. Some heat Tuesday with some highs in the 90′s for Iowa should aid in drying to keep this four-day planting pace moving quickly.
Right now, the forecast for rain on Friday looks to drop 1 to 1-1/2″ of rain in limited areas. Monday's forecast update had much less rain in the six- to 10-day and 11- to 15-day forecast. Speculators ran the corn close to resistance on strong volume, which is a bullish sign, but the fundamentals suggest a good planting pace.
Monday certainly looked to have fund buying involved. We have seen funds come in and buy on three different one-day runs lately, but they have yet to back it up with buying after that first day. Funds and other speculators have used up all the available "easy" chart room for a bounce. Now we will see if these buyers want to break resistance and start making a larger move in this market.
Corn bulls have to decide if they want to take out resistance with good planting weather. Bears will certainly defend first resistance in both old and new crop and if taken out will have to hold off for a larger bounce. Corn planting progress came in at 28%, up from 12% last week. The five-year average is 66%…Ryan Ettner
Soybeans: With the monthly WASDE report out of the way, the bull spreaders were back and putting on the spreads in a big way. The May soybean contract continues to be squeezed into its final day of trading, which is Tuesday. The session high for the May contract was $15.27-1/4, which was the highest this contract has traded since the end of September. That price was also the highest price on the continuous chart since November.
The trade will be watching to see if the July contracts will try to make up the $1.03 discount to the May they are currently trading at once the May goes of the board. New-crop beans continue to lag on talk of acres shifting away from corn and into beans due to planting delays. Hangover from Friday's negative new-crop estimates kept the new-crop market down compared to the old-crop contracts. The lack of producer selling due to aggressive planting provided the market with some support. The lack of producer selling continues to keep the cash basis firm.
Planting progress released after the close showed that 6% of this year's crop is in the ground. Last year 43% of the crop had been planted and the five-year average is to have 24% of the crop in the ground. The trade was looking for 8% to 10% of the crop to be planted.
The April NOPA crush will be released Tuesday. The trade is looking for a crush number between 125 and 126 million bushels. If this estimate is correct, the USDA would still be underestimating the amount of beans being crushed. Soybean export inspections came in at 3.351 million bushels, which was within the expected range of 3.0 to 6.0 million bushels. The continued tight cash market should provide support for the old-crop beans while the larger-than-expected U.S. new-crop carry out and projected record world numbers should continue to put pressure on the new-crop contracts…Jim McCormick
- Wheat export inspections were 23.986M bu, which were much better than the estimates ranging from 15.0-19.0M bu.
- USDA expects increased wheat production estimates in the Black Sea region with Russia's production seen at 56 mmt, up from 28 mmt last year.
- The wheat complex finished higher today based on weather concerns and being a follower of the strong corn market. KC wheat led the way as trade is concerned with temperatures reaching the high 80s to low 90s in HRW areas over the next few days.
- Wheat Good-to-Excellent rating came out unchanged this week at 32% for winter wheat. Spring wheat plantings came out at 43% versus the 5 year average of 63% planted. Spring wheat could continue to find support until major planting progress is shown.
- July Minneapolis wheat managed to close above the 65-day MA of 806'3, but will now need a close above the uptrend line to make another move higher… Alex Bassett


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The Wisconsin Innocence Project, a legal education and advocacy project at the University of Wisconsin Law School's Frank J. Remington Center, today announced the formation of a new advisory board.
The board will advise the Wisconsin Innocence Project on case selection criteria, evaluating difficult cases, strengthening advocacy in individual meritorious cases, and evaluating and promoting policy initiatives to improve the criminal justice system.
The new board will include such prominent and respected experts as retired Milwaukee County District Attorney E. Michael McCann and retired Assistant District Attorney Jon Reddin; retired Dane County prosecutors Judy Schwaemle and John Norsetter; Manitowoc County Assistant District Attorney Michael Griesbach; Port Washington Police Chief Richard Thomas; Madison Police Department Capt. Vic Wahl; Marquette law professor Daniel Blinka; State Public Defender Kelli Thompson; and attorneys Stephen Hurley, Dean Strang, Stephen Glynn, Stephen Meyer, Gordon "Chip" Davenport III, James Friedman, and Rebecca Mason, and former exonerated client and now attorney Christopher Ochoa. Additional members may be added to the board.
Keith Findley, a clinical law professor at the UW Law School and co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, says the board will serve an important role.
"The work we do advocating for the wrongly convicted can have profound impact on the lives of the wrongly convicted, victims of crime, and the functioning of the criminal justice system," he says. "To help us chart an effective and appropriate course, we thought it best to bring in experienced and respected actors from across the criminal justice system to ensure full and balanced consideration of the issues we confront."


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Meeting at a Mutual Point in the Middle
The English name of the newspaper, "Triangle," defines its mission. As in a triangle, Israeli and Palestinian students, starting from their different points at the base, should meet at a mutual point in the middle.
The inaugural issue of the newspaper (currently available online at www.triangle.org.il) makes clear that the controversial issues that hamper the relationship between the two sides are approached from a critical standpoint. The main topic of this issue is the portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the media.
The radical bias of Middle East media
"You bloodsuckers, we've had enough of you!" was the title of a piece contributed by Salam Anbatawi, the Palestinian co-publisher of the newspaper. He accuses the media on both sides of focusing on sensation and accounts of violence, of spreading clichéd images of the respective enemy and of ignoring the often unspectacular work of Israeli and Palestinian peace organizations in the process.
Such a reproach is remarkable, since the Palestinian media are well-known for being extremely partisan, making balanced reporting and open criticism of the media equally difficult. The bold Palestinian student also calls for those in leading positions in the media to change their basic attitudes and urges them not to cater to extremists on both sides – whose radical statements and violent actions are aimed at gaining attention through the media – but rather to spurn them.
Their propagandistic phrases, says Anbatawi, should instead be exposed as lies and false belief: This applies as much to claims by the Palestinian Hamas that an Islamic state will soon be founded in Israeli territory as to the goal of some Israeli settlers of forcing the Palestinians out of their homeland.
Each side should acknowledge the other's right to live in dignity and freedom. As a Palestinian, however, Anbatawi applies this above all to putting an end to Israeli occupation.
Information monitored by Israeli military
Ziv Stahl, an Israeli student from Tel Aviv and co-publisher of the Hebrew edition of "Triangle," is no less critical of the way the Israeli media reports on the conflict between the two peoples. He denounces the fact that nearly all information about the Palestinian territories are monitored by the Israeli military. Although the actions of the army are criticized publicly, criticism vanishes as soon as the military counters with arguments of state security.
In this way, the reality of the occupation is kept hidden from the average Israeli citizen – including questions such as: How large is the occupying force? How many roadblocks are there? And what kind of military activities are being routinely carried out which are only reported to the public when something goes wrong?
Like his Palestinian counterpart Anbatawi, the Israeli Stahl calls for a more discriminating media in his country – it is not true, as right-wing politicians claim, that the Israeli media is left-leaning, says Stahl. He says one needs only to examine current reports to see clearly how left-wing demonstrations for peace are given far less attention than rallies of the ultra-right settlers.
Self-critique on both sides
The other articles in the premiere edition of "Triangle" also show an emphasis on self-critique on both sides. Israeli student Noam Shesaf, for example, relates his experiences as a conscientious objector and goes on record as saying that this form of protest against the occupation has failed on the whole.
Palestinian student George Zanayed writes that the solution to the conflict is not dependent on soldiers, but on politicians. Israel's power results from its participation in an "international colonialist alliance" which is, however, opposed by an even greater power: the Palestinian people and their conviction that their cause is just.
The students behind Triangle aim to back up their words with deeds: They plan to enhance the dialogue between young Israelis and Palestinians with activities for peace which will be publicized in the new student newspaper.
Joseph Croitoru
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Translation from German: Mark Rossman
Daniel Barenboim
Musical Diplomacy in the Middle East
Daniel Barenboim uses his music to cross all political and religious boundaries, e.g. by initiating the Israeli-Palestinian music workshop "West-Eastern Divan". Petra Tabeling provides an overview of Barenboim's many highly promising projects.
Soccer Star Abbas Suan
No Arabs, No Goals – Soccer in Israel as a Metaphor
Although the Israeli Arab soccer player Suan is adored as a national hero from Haifa to Tel Aviv, tolerance displayed towards Israel's Arab citizens remains minimal. By Moshe Zimmermann
The Israeli-Palestinian Radio Station "All for Peace"
Promoting Mideast Dialogue on the Airwaves
The idea of a radio station broadcast in both Hebrew and Arabic is without precedence in the Middle East. But this is exactly what a station in Jerusalem has been doing in recent weeks. Joseph Croitoru reports


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This was one draft night where the talk was much more about the players heading out of town than the one the Celtics were bringing to Boston. Through they drafted Kelly Olynyk in the first round, the much bigger deal was a trade that, when finalized, will send Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to the Nets and blow up Boston's roster.
This was one draft night where the talk was much more about the players heading out of town than the one the Celtics were bringing to Boston.
While the Celtics traded up from No. 16 to No. 13 in the first round to select Gonzaga 7-footer Kelly Olynyk, the shadow hovering over the Boston draft was a proposed trade with the Brooklyn Nets that would send Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Jason Terry for a package that includes Reggie Evans, Kris Humphries, Gerald Wallace, one-time Celtic Kris Joseph, a trio of first-round draft picks and other roster filler.
When the deal is finalized – Garnett agreed to waive his no-trade clause and allow the deal to go through Thursday night, but the deal still cannot be completed until July 10 per league rules – the team will be thrown into a rebuilding mode that will have them flush with first-round draft picks for several years to come.
Boston will have its own top choice and the Nets' pick in 2014, its pick and the one it got from the Clippers in the Doc Rivers deal in 2015, and its pick and another from the Nets in 2016 and 2018.
What it will not have are any players left over from the 2008 championship team other than Rajon Rondo.
"Timing is everything," Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge said, while refusing to specifically discuss the Garnett and Pierce trade talks. "It's always easy to say what your plan is, and what you want to do. But you've got to have other teams willing to do things that help you.
"Even if I wanted to (rebuild in the past), I've never really been tempted to. I've never really had the opportunity that was really easy to make a decision. The best thing for the franchise was to continue with the guys that we had. They kept showing signs of having it."
The trade signals the complete overhaul of a team that came within one victory of the NBA Finals one year ago. After the Celtics failed to get out of the first round this spring, Rivers was hesitant to commit to returning to Boston as Ainge weighed whether to move forward with Pierce and Garnett, or overhaul the roster.
But after Rivers was dealt to the Clippers on Monday, talks between the Celtics and Nets caught fire. With the blockbuster, they are left with a very long-term view at making another run to the conference finals and will be hard-pressed to seriously contend for a playoff spot next year.
"I think we're in a much better position than we were when I got here 10 years ago," Ainge said of rebuilding. "I think we can do it now with a lot more speed, a lot less pain."
In Olynyk, the Celtics get a player who emerged in a big way this season after a quiet start to his career at Gonzaga. Olynyk averaged 17.8 points, 7.3 rebounds and 1.1 blocks per game for the Zags. He shot nearly 63 percent from the floor, was named an Associated Press All-American and was a John Wooden Award finalist for a team that went undefeated in the West Coach Conference and finished 32-2 overall.
But what Olynyk has in size, a relatively polished offensive game and a decent shooting touch, he lacks in athleticism. He is not a shot blocker and could make an awkward frontcourt of the future with Jared Sullinger that lacks a true paint deterrent, although Ainge said he envisions Olynyk working well with Sullinger.
"We watched him a lot last year," Ainge said of his pick. "He's a 7-footer who can shoot, pass, think and be a very good complementary player."
The Celtics did not have a second-round pick, but Ainge said he would be active in the pursuit of undrafted free agents after the draft's conclusion.
Scott Souza can be reached at 781-398-8006 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @scott_souza.


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It is actually a play..but I recommend every member of this community to read it. It is called- "Life of Galileo" by Bertolt Brecht...It talks about the debate between religion and science-emperical evidence and blind faith..you must read it..a wonderful read.
I would also recommend 'Mind of God' which is one book I've come to worhsip..a great insightful book into the history of our universe...
The 3rd act of G. B. Shaw's Man and Superman, "Don Juan in Hell" is a great treatment of the Heaven/Hell bullshit.
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ll throw in some comments:
I like Dawkins But I think the God Delusion is one of the most overrated books in relation to atheistic readings. I mean Yes it is a good start but it's like how Watchmen is good start to get into "Good" Comics. SURE it does have merit. But is it the Atheist/Comic Book Bible (respectively) no.
Though related to the idea of non-theistic thinking my picks are (Forgive me I only recently started reading religious criticism voraciously):
God Delusion
Blind Watchmaker
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
God is Not Great
Why am I not a Christian (Yes...A Lecture I know)
I too worship Life of Brian. Its an amazing critique.
I OWN but have not yet read:
God The Failed Hypothesis by Victor J. Stenger
The Dragons of Ede by Carl sagan
And Cosmos By Carl Sagan
I'm also in the process of going through: Cosmos: a Personal Voyage and Through the Wormhole with Morgan freeman
AS WELL As digesting many debates with Hitchens.
I'm super cliche what can I say.
There is a Pastafarian Bible out there, and the Principia Discordia, if you're looking for mock scriptures for comedic value.
As far as Greek philosophies that are non-theistic my favorite is Epicureanism, it's a very wholesome and inspiring humanist philosophy and the Epicureans were always very much egalitarians, they argued philosophy with women and slaves as equals in the Epicurean Gardens which was very progressive even for their times. The most prevalent scripture of the Epicurean movement as the Principal Doctrines of Epicurus.
Then there are the scriptures of Zen Buddhism, which is the most dynamic of all non-theistic spiritualities today. I really like the Dhammapada, which is the Gospel of Siddhartha Buddha. It really is a fountain if virtue. I've had it for years and still read it every now and then.
This may seem odd, but also the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible was apparently written by existentialists, agnostics or people with a philosophical mindset who questioned the afterlife (although they fell short of questioning the existence of God). It's full of practical advise in life and it's the height of the wisdom tradition in the Bible.
Many, Many....
My favorite book on ethical philosophy is GOOD AND EVIL, A New Direction, by Richard Taylor.
For understanding the evidence and theory of evolution, any and all of the books on that subject by Richard Dawkins, and the book WHY EVOLUTION IS TRUE by Jerry A. Coyne. I also strongly recommend YOUR INNER FISH by Neil Shubin.
For an overall view, a "worldview" if you don't mind, all of the books of Carl Sagan since COSMOS. This would include COMET, PALE BLUE DOT, THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD, and TALES OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS.
Politically, My central concern is that we should make all efforts to put human civilization on a sustainable basis. I.E., we should avoid having our civilization collapse (and/or destroy itself fighting over resources on the way down). Between overpopulation, the pollution and depletion of groundwater, the exhaustion of fossil fuels ("Peak Oil"), the continuing degradation and erosion of croplands, the continuing hoarding of nuclear weapons and other WMD's by nations less than stable, and the rising threat of wholesale losses of cropland to climate change, we have many problems which our nation, and some others, are resolutely refusing to address. Two books on climate change I'd recommend would be STORMS OF MY GRANDCHILDREN by James Hansen, and THE WINDS OF CHANGE by Eugene Linden. See also COLLAPSE by Jared Diamond.
Dare I talk about economics? In my foolish youth I started out with Ayn Rand and Libertarianism, which led me to get my B.A. in Economics; so if anyone is interested in that sort of thing, let me recommend PROGRESS AND POVERTY by Henry George, NATURAL CAPITALISM by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, STEADY-STATE ECONOMICS and BEYOND GROWTH by Herman Daly, and (if you can stay awake reading them) ECO-ECONOMY and WORLD ON THE EDGE by Lester R. Brown. (Brown has done great work, if I were King of the World I'd enact his policies wholesale, but his writing style is emotionally flat.)
For fiction, I have a huge collection of science-fiction and fantasy. But if I had to pick one book that was dearest to my heart it would be THERE WILL BE TIME by Poul Anderson. I don't know if it is still in print.
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Hi ladies,
My story is long and convoluted, but I will try to be as succinct as possible. I will start with a bullet point list and go from there :-)
* my wee lady was born Dec 2011 and started nursing from the hour she was born.
* we have a very supportive pediatrician of our co-sleeping, extended breast feeding lifestyle and have been going strong for 18 months now.
* we live in Chicago, notorious for big beautiful "vintage rehabbed" apartments and I did work from home, thereby keeping with a nursing on demand schedule well into the first birthday.
* I started 'fun food time' at around 8 months with our gummy girl (who didn't get her first teeth till 12.5 m). She loves spice and all my weird ethnic foods, but still today is not a huge eater even though she is an adventurous eater.
* Dec 2012, at one year wellness we found out our sweet babe had anemia and an elevated BLL level of 15. This set off a whirlwind of inspectors, city health officials, multiple tests/blood draws, and eventual iron drop regime to help bring the lead levels down fast.
* we immediately removed her from our home, had the holidays, and at the end of January we all moved out, put our stuff in storage, and have been staying with family till we find a healthy and safe home either here in Chicago or elsewhere....which is turning into a fiasco btw (but that's a whole other post).
* we've done a LOT of bouncing around to different grandparents homes in 4 different states and there has been a lot of upheaval. In fact, my partner (and Lil S's dad) just left yesterday on a job (in tv production) to Texas for 4 months while we stay here at his sister's house. She too is on the same job and left yesterday, so it's just me and my babe for a bit.
The one constant through all this, besides having very supportive family and friends, has been me breast feeding our girl. It has brought both of us much needed comfort, relaxation, nutrition for her, and it has been key to keeping me calm and focused during all this rigmarole. We did have me tested back in December, because I was a lactating mom and had lived in that apartment for 5.5 years. MY BLL levels were slightly elevated but not so striking that we needed a course of treatment for me. We did NOT test my breast milk though because we are uninsured and could not afford it.
Our pediatrician (the woman with two kids whom I really trust) asked me if I would forcibly wean if I found out I had elevated levels of lead in my breast milk? Talk about a loaded question. I asked her what she would do in my situation. And she told me that she would continue BFing, because seeing how my BLL levels were did not give her cause for alarm that I was giving my daughter high amounts lead through breast milk. She put me at ease that because we removed her and I so quickly out of the home that any amounts of lead in my breast milk would filter out.
Fortunately my DD's BLL dropped to a 9 in March and we are awaiting results from yesterday's testing.
I guess what I'm looking for here on this board is anyone else who may have gone/is going through something similar. And some support for me. I've been so stressed since Dec and am really good at internalizing it so that I now have stomach issues and have lost a lot of weight-yay! *Sidenote* i love how everyone says how great i look now and asks me how i lost all the weight (i wasnt THAT big to begin with) and i just reply with my snarky "Go get you a lead poisoned kid, months of being vagabonds, and a partner who has to work out of state. It does amazing things for your figure!"
Now I'm getting flack from even friends and family members because lil S is "still breast feeding" and "with all your health issues and her lead poisoning she really should be eating more food shouldn't she?" We just had a trip to the docs yesterday. She's grown 3 in and gained 2.5 lbs since March. She's just not a big chunky toddler. She's on the smaller side (32 in and 22.5 lbs) but she's on her growth curve and gosh darn it, her doctor is not worried so why should everyone else be?
But I am worried. (And here's the real point of my post)
Because I am mom and that's what I do.
I'm worried that she's not getting enough nutrition to help continue filtering the lead out. She goes through days where she will eat anything I put in front of her (especially if there's my spicy homemade salsa on it) and then other days all she wants is "mama milk," or "bop.". We do nurse to sleep at night but not to nap. She does still wake up once a night to nurse (especially if we're doing a 10/11 hr sleep), and she nurses all day -many times throughout the day. We give her some cow and goat milk, have tired homemade coconut milk and almond milk, and I try to make eating fun....but for me it's not...because I am mama and I worry when all she does is throw my food on the floor.
Some people tell me I have to get her on a strict diet and need to wean her immediately. Others tell me I'm doing great and that toddlers can be fussy about eating at this age and "seem to run on only eating air." Others tell me I should watch out for fat intake because lead stores in fat cells...but you need good fats for brain development...so....argh!
So, what say you. What are your thoughts mamas?
I think if we just had a normal situation of a picky eater, that would be one thing. But because we are still healing from lead poisoning I am concerned about our girl's nutritional habits. All of the above goes without saying that our sweet lil S is very active, outgoing, talkative, started walking at 10 months, is emotionally well balanced and secure, attached to mom but completely independent too. She seems like a really healthy and happy kiddo even with all this BS we are going through.
Should I just stop with the worrying and keep going with my intuition? Or should I be concerned that she's not a big eater yet?
Thanks so much if you made it through my whole post.
I know it's a lot to digest. It's been a lot for me to digest since December.
Health, light, and happiness to all of you,


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Nature "Cracking The Koala Code" Scientists track the day-to-day lives of an extended family of koalas in a forest pocket near urban Brisbane, Australia, to unravel what a forest needs to support a healthy population and how these slow-moving creatures react to the surrounding suburbia. Other scientists on St. Bees Island use solar-powered mobile phones to record koala vocalizations and begin to decipher some of the animals' communications.G
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Wild! "Tigers Fighting Back" Across Asia, the fight to save tigers is being waged on many fronts. Leading the charge are three men whose mission is to understand tigers using science. The challenge these biological detectives face is enormous: over the last century tiger numbers have plummeted by 95%. D
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Life On Fire "The Surprise Salmon" In Alaska, North America's highest mountains and most active volcanoes erupt and poison the rivers. Scientists are just beginning to piece together the events of nearly 2,000 years ago when one race of salmon faces the death of its river and is forced back to the open ocean - on an extraordinary adventure.G


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Reviewing the Performance of ACC Teams in Feast Week: Part IPosted by Brad Jenkins (@bradjenk) on November 27th, 2013
After a lackluster start in non-conference play, the ACC has somewhat rebounded with some impressive showings in the early season tournaments so far. In the seven events that have already completed, the ACC has a record of 12-5 (not counting designated home games related to the events, only the neutral court games). That record includes three championships, one runner-up, and two third place finishes. That's a big improvement over recent years, considering that ACC schools have only won five such titles in the previous three seasons combined.
Leading the way was North Carolina, which bounced back from a home loss to Belmont the weekend before to stun #3 Louisville 93-84 in the championship game of the Hall of Fame Tip-Off in Connecticut on Sunday. That followed a 82-72 Tar Heels win over Richmond the day before. Marcus Paige was sensational in his new role as North Carolina's primary perimeter scorer, scoring 58 points in the two contests. He displayed a tremendous shooting touch going 9-of-14 on three-point attempts and 19-of-20 from the free throw line over the weekend.
Similarly, Maryland rebounded from a bad home loss last Sunday to Oregon State, winning the Paradise Jam Tournament title. The Terrapins got to the title game with wins over Marist, 68-43, and Northern Iowa, 80-66. They then beat Providence, 56-52, in Monday's championship game. Dez Wells was selected as the tournament MVP while averaging 15 points and five rebounds over the three games. He was supported by transfer player Evan Smotrycz who scored 20 points against Northern Iowa and had a double-double (13/11) in the finals.


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Snow squalls, ice cause crashes on I-89
January 04. 2013 9:57AM
State police are warning motorists to slow down if traveling this morning on Interstate 89, north of Exit 10, because of "flash snow squalls" and icy roads that have resulted in cars sliding of the highway and some car crashes.
About 9:30 a.m., troopers were dealing with multiple cars off the road and some crashes.
Earlier in the morning, the left lane of I-89 north in New London, just south of Exit 12, was shut down shut down due to an accident.
About 6:30 a.m., a stretch of the highway just north of Exit 14 in Enfield was closed for another crash. It reopened about two hours later after the crash was cleared, according to the state Department of Transportation.
Highway crews are treating the highways but state police said motorists still should slow down.