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Passport in Time (P.I.T.), a volunteer program of the USDA Forest Service, accepts volunteers to assist with archaeological survey and excavation on national forest lands. The P.I.T. website lists, by state and by date, projects that are currently accepting volunteers. You can fill out an on-line application. You also can sign up to receive the biannual newsletter P.I.T. Traveler that lists volunteer opportunities. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 800-281-9176.
Crow Canyon Archaeological Research Center in Colorado offers a variety of archaeology education programs for adults, teens, and families. Special courses for educators are aligned with national education standards for the social studies, geography, history and science. Crow Canyon offers one-week summer programs for middle school students and a three week summer program for high school students. Programs include archaeological excavation, laboratory analysis, and southwest prehistory. Call 800-422-8975, extension 146.
Center for American Archeology in Illinois offers summer archaeological training programs for students 14-17 years and an adult research field school, which includes excavation and laboratory analysis. Email firstname.lastname@example.com, or call 618-653-4316.
Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center (MVAC), located at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, conducts research in the upper Mississippi River valley and offers archaeology classes and field schools for teachers and students. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com
Old Pueblo Archaeology Center's field school offers teachers an opportunity to excavate at Marana's Yuma Wash site, where Native Americans of the Hohokam and Salado cultures lived between A.D. 750 and early 1400s. Teacher workshops and programs for children are also available. Contact Allen Dart, Old Pueblo Archaeology Center, P.O. Box 40577, Tucson, AZ 85717-0577; (520) 798-1201; email: email@example.com.
Earthwatch Institute offers short term volunteer opportunities directly assisting scientists in the field. There are opportunities for both educators and students to participate in archaeological field expeditions, and both may apply for education fellowships to support their participation. Call 800-776-0188.
Project Archaeology is a national heritage education program of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, in cooperation with the Montana State University. Project Archaeology workshops are conducted by facilitators who provide training and mentoring to local educators who wish to incorporate archaeology into their classroom teaching. Workshop participants receive the Project Archaeology activity guide Intrigue of the Past, which targets grades 4-7, or the curriculum guide Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter (grades 3-5). Online courses are also offered. The Project Archaeology web site contains contact information for the national office, and for state coordinators.
American Foreign Academic Research (AFAR) was founded by an archaeologist and educator in the Flagler County, Florida Public Schools. This non-profit offers a Maya studies field school for high school students at the Maya sites of Cahal Pech and Baking Pot in the Cayo District of Western Belize.It is open to all high school students through competitive-- but non grade-based-- application process.
Archaeology Fieldwork and Laboratory Opportunities for the Public
Have you always dreamed about participating in a dig, or working in an archaeology lab mending an ancient pot? The web sites you will find here list current opportunities where you can get your hands dirty in archaeology.
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MENLO PARK, CA--(Marketwire - Jul 2, 2012) - Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated ("Corcept") (NASDAQ: CORT), a pharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of severe metabolic and psychiatric disorders, today announced that it has agreed to sell 11,000,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering of common stock. Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC is acting as sole book-running manager and underwriter in the offering. Corcept has also granted to the underwriter a 30-day option to purchase from it up to an additional 1,650,000 shares of its common stock.
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Families of fallen soldiers should not be forgotten.
That's according to Betty Wright, director of Honor and Remember of Kansas.
Families of fallen soldiers should not be forgotten.
That's according to Betty Wright, director of Honor and Remember of Kansas.
Members of the organization took time over the weekend to recognize the family of Army Cpl. Delbert E. Vogeli, the first Leavenworth resident killed in the Korean War.
"This is an opportunity to recognize them and let them know they're not going to be forgotten," Wright said.
During a Saturday ceremony, an Honor and Remember flag was presented to Norma I. Mercer, who is Vogeli's daughter.
Mercer said she was 7 years old when her father was killed.
"He was a jolly guy," she said. "I don't think he ever met any strangers."
Mercer, who traveled from Oklahoma for Saturday's ceremony, said she was proud of her father.
Vogeli, who also was a veteran of World War II, served with 5th Regiment of the 1st Calvary Division in Korea. He suffered shrapnel wounds during an enemy attack Aug. 15, 1950. He died the following day. He was 31, according to an obituary that was published in the Leavenworth Times after his death.
He is buried at Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery.
Honor and Remember of Kansas is the state chapter of an organization that has a mission of placing special Honor and Remember flags into the hands of families of people who were killed while serving their country.
The flag presented Saturday was personalized and included Vogeli's name.
Saturday's ceremony was held at VFW Post 56 in Leavenworth.
A folded American flag also was presented to Mercer during the ceremony. The flag was presented to her by Charles Hagemeister, a Medal of Honor recipient who lives in Leavenworth.
Wright said several medals awarded to Vogeli were, for whatever reason, never presented to him or his family. She said Honor and Remember of Kansas procured the medals for his family.
"It was our pleasure," she said.
Saturday's ceremony also included the reading of the names of Leavenworth County residents who were killed in World War II and the Korean War. The names appear on a plaque that previously had been displayed at Leavenworth City Hall. The plaque was taken down in 2004 because of renovations, but city commissioners recently voted to again have it displayed at City Hall.
City officials loaned the plaque for display during Saturday's ceremony.
"It's been cleaned and polished," Wright said.
After the ceremony, Wright said families can request Honor and Remember flags. Requests involving people from Kansas will be forwarded to the state chapter, which will raise funds for the flags.
The Honor and Remember flag presented during Saturday's ceremony was sponsored by local VFW riders, according to Diana Pitts, assistant director-Gold Star family coordinator for Honor and Remember of Kansas.
More information about the flags can be found at www.honorandremember.org.


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text: Join us for an evening with award-winning Minnesota author David Housewright on Thursday, April 4. David will talk about his novels and his writing experience which includes newspaper reporting, teaching, and owning an advertising agency. His recent titles Curse Of The Jade Lily and The Devil And The Diva are up for the Minnesota Book Award this year. David will be available to sign and sell books after the presentation. This free event will be held at Zion Lutheran Church in the Fellowship Hall, 1200 Hwy 25 S., Buffalo from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. Call the library or register online at griver.org. This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Buffalo Library and the Buffalo Public Library with funding from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


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The weird, wacky weather continued Thursday as the high temperature for Worcester broke the record for the second day in a row, and gusty winds caused property damage and extensive power outages throughout the region.
Wednesday�s high temperature of 56 degrees broke the record of 53 degrees set on Jan. 30, 1938, and Thursday�s high temperature of 59 also recorded at Worcester Regional Airport, topped the record 57 degrees set on Jan. 31, 1988. Thursday�s high temperature was recorded very early, hitting the high 50s after midnight through dawn, and then gradually declined.
�Anything in the 50s (for the end of January) is certainly an anomaly,� said National Weather Service Meteorologist Matt L. Doody, at the Taunton office.
The wind gusts and blustery conditions that started overnight into Thursday caused many trees and tree limbs to fall, including on houses and power lines, as well as a car traveling in Uxbridge Thursday morning. The extremely windy conditions made highway driving especially tricky throughout the morning commute.
The maximum wind gusts for the region reported on the National Weather Service�s website were 64 mph at 4:58 a.m. in Milford, 47 mph at 5:15 a.m. in Charlton, 46 mph at 8:53 in Fitchburg, 55 mph at 9:13 at the Worcester airport and 46 mph at 8:53 a.m. at the Fitchburg airport.
A 30-foot pine tree crashed through the bedroom of Nancy Buffone�s home at 41 Pleasant St. in Grafton about 4:30 a.m. Thursday. No one was injured.
About 6:30 Thursday morning, a 25-year-old Blackstone woman was driving north on Route 146 near Exit 2 in Uxbridge when a felled tree from the median area flew into her 2007 Honda Civic and crushed the roof. The driver, Melissa M. Whiting of Blackstone, suffered head injuries and was taken for treatment to UMass Memorial Medical Center � University Campus in Worcester, according to police.
About 5 a.m., Webster firefighters evacuated adults and children from a two-family building at 4 Snow St. after a tree fell on the roof, according to Fire Chief Brian Hickey. No one was injured.
�The tree hit the roof pretty good,� Chief Hickey said, and also struck the second floor in the back of the building. �Of course, it was pouring rain.�
The town�s building inspector is expected to visit the house to assess structural damage. Homes in Grafton and Uxbridge were hit by toppled trees. There were no injuries.
School in Douglas was canceled because of the weather.
Heavy winds, with downed trees, knocked out power in scattered areas. National Grid reported more than 10,000 customers without service in Worcester County Thursday, with 1,000 outages each in Oxford, Grafton and Millbury. Oxford and Spencer and Hubbardston, once with heavy outages, were close to full power Thursday morning, but 3,800 National Grid customers in Worcester County were still without power early Thursday afternoon.
�Definitely, predominantly weather-related,� said Charlotte McCormack, spokesman for the National Weather Service. �The outages were fairly widespread in Eastern and Central Massachusetts.�
Unitil reported fewer than 200 customers without power in northern Central Massachusetts Thursday morning.
The blustery and windy conditions lasted for much of the day.
�Looks like it will be breezy today,� Mr. Doody said. �And we will certainly feel cooler.�
For the weekend, the high temperatures will be right around freezing, Mr. Doody said, and temperatures will drop into the teens Saturday night.
�So back to the chilly weather,� Mr. Doody said. �But not so cold as a week ago.�


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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A Saudi journalist says he has been banned from writing in a Saudi newspaper after criticizing the Interior Ministry.
Ali al-Elayan wrote on his Twitter account Tuesday that Al-Watan daily has stopped him from writing after publishing his last column, entitled "first message to Mohammed bin Nayef." Prince Mohammed bin Nayef is the Interior Minister.
In his message, he urged the minister to pay attention to the complaints of a large number of citizens about the increasing incidents of theft and burglary of houses and shops.
But al-Elayan said "there is no connection between Prince Mohammed or the Interior Ministry in the ban." He indirectly accused the editor, Talal al-Sheikh, and the editorial board of being behind it.
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Videos: Fedor Is the "Baddest Man on the Planet," Ishii Spars With Randy + More
Fox Sports Net aired their Fedor: The Baddest Man on the Planet documentary special last night, in which "the mystique of Fedor is uncovered," and "the secrets of the world's most dominant fighter are finally revealed." And it was pretty damn entertaining, actually. Maybe not quite on the level of UFC Primetime (second episode airs tonight!), but we do get some insight into Emelianenko's state of mind before and during fights, his shadowy training camp in Stary Oskol, his sado-masochistic bath-house routine, and his uniquely awesome way of trash-talking during grappling sessions. ("The crazy is coming. The crazy is going to happen now. It's coming. Very soon.") Parts 1 and 2 are above, and parts 3-6 can be found at YouTube.com/DirtyFedor.
Below: This Japanese TV clip shows Olympic judo gold-medalist Satoshi Ishii visiting Las Vegas, where he steps into the Octagon for the first time, tries on the UFC's "open-finga-glovos," takes some standup tips from Stephan Bonnar, and gives Randy Couture quite a workout.
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text: |The article by Mannschreck, Kiessewetter, and von Angerer on the differential interactions between enantiomers and biological receptors (1) is the source for this month's Featured Molecules. Included in the molecule collection are all of the molecules described in the paper. In many instances we have included structures of multiple optical isomers of the same molecule so that students can not only see the forms that are active, but those that are less active, inactive, or act in an undesirable manner. These molecules will serve as good practice in determining optical configurations, and will also introduce additional forms of isomerism that students may be less familiar with than they are with R and S. Since multiple enantiomers and diastereomers are provided, students may use these molecules, together with an appropriate computational package, to verify that enantiomers have the same energy while diastereomers do not. The tuberculosis drug ethambutol provides an interesting case as both nitrogen atoms are also chiral as well as the two chiral carbon atoms. A calculation on a given structure will include the effect of that nitrogen chirality, although nitrogen inversion is expected to be quite rapid in this molecule. The conformations for the ethambutol molecules that are included here consider all four chiral atoms and are of the form (CNNC). A reasonable computational exercise would be to find the transition state for nitrogen inversion and the barrier height for that process. The supplemental material that is included with the featured article (1) includes a number of molecules that we will add to the collection as time permits. The result, including enantiomers and diastereomers, will be well over 200 additional molecules. A notice will appear in the JCE Featured Molecules column when this new set of molecules is available in JCE Online.


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Source : http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5618949.htmlResearchers at Cornell University said on Tuesday that they discovered a potentially dangerous security flaw in the popular LimeWire file-sharing software, but that the company has quickly released a fix.
According to Emin Gun Sirer, an assistant professor of computer science, the flaw could allow an intruder to read any file on the hard drive of a person running LimeWire, whether or not it has been deliberately shared with others using the software.
LimeWire Chief Technology Officer Greg Bildson said the Cornell team notified the company of the flaw several weeks ago, and that the software has already been updated and a patch released to users. Any consumers who have not already updated their software should do so as soon as they come online, he added.
"Thankfully, we have no reports of any abuse of these flaws, and we were able to make fixes available quickly," Bildson wrote. "The Cornell researchers have shown again that open-source development is a benefit to finding and fixing these types of flaws."
File-sharing software has been castigated by entertainment companies and politicians for creating security risks for consumers, but typically through ordinary use of the software rather than due to genuine flaws.
Particularly with early versions of file-trading software, new users sometimes accidentally shared the entire contents of their hard drives with the rest of the network. As a result, private information ranging from credit card transactions to banking passwords could be exposed.
After pressure from Congress, most file-sharing programs have installed some warning to people to make it clear which directories are being shared, however.
The flaws in LimeWire, which Bildson said were inadvertently introduced in development last year, potentially would have allowed attackers to access private information without a person's knowledge.
According to Download.com, a software aggregation site owned by News.com publisher CNET Networks, LimeWire has been downloaded more than 42 million times.


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The horn faculty of the Jacobs School of Music runs one of the most comprehensive musical training programs in the world. Renowned for their performances and pedagogy, the faculty share their immeasurable diversity of experience with every student. This makes attending Indiana University an exciting and enlightening experience.
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The 46 horn students of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music are already familiar with the riches this school has to offer: numerous performing opportunities (including six orchestras, three bands, three jazz ensembles, a New Music Ensemble, a Historical Performance Institute, and countless chamber music opportunities) and a comprehensive academic music curriculum, all within a diverse university community.
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We're still more than two months away from the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, but the aftermath of the lottery drawing is always a good time to project which prospects will go to which teams.
Over at ESPN, Gare Joyce has posted his mock draft for the teams that failed to make the playoffs. The Bruins, of course, start their first-round series with Montreal tonight, but they will still pick ninth thanks to the Phil Kessel trade with Toronto.
Joyce has the Bruins picking Prince Albert (WHL) center Mark McNeill. Here's what Joyce writes about McNeill:
A feisty competitor in the Bruins' profile, his upside is an NHL second-line center. Even if Marc Savard comes back, Boston needs a back-up plan. Five years from now, Tyler Seguin and McNeill would look great at a key position on the depth chart.
Joyce obviously has his finger on the pulse of the Bruins' draft record during the reign of general manager Peter Chiarelli. When in doubt, pick a center.
McNeill stands 6-foot-1, 201 pounds. He would easily fit into the "future center" role vacated by '08 No. 1 pick Joe Colborne after the Tomas Kaberle trade and never really embraced by '07 No. 1 pick Zach Hamill, who's a restricted free agent this summer.
The Bruins since Chiarelli came in have yet to draft and develop a defenseman that's reached the NHL.


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Is California's cup half full or half empty?
Is California's cup half full or half empty?
According to the last Field Poll on the state's direction, you'd have to say the cup is at least getting fuller.
Sure, the unemployment rate is 9.8 percent. Yes, we still face massive and expensive problems with public pensions. No doubt fights loom over water and high-speed rail.
But since 2010, the percentage of Californians who say the state is headed in the right direction has quadrupled. Forty-eight percent of those most recently surveyed think the state is on the right track, the highest percentage in six years.
Much of the credit accrues to Gov. Jerry Brown who saw his approval rating jump to 57 percent.
Brown led the fight to pass Proposition 30 in November that increased the sales tax on all, bumped the state income tax on the wealthiest, and shored up the state budget that had been running deficits for years.
Good as his rating is, it's not his personal best. That came in March 1976 - during his 1975-83 years as governor - when his approval rating hit 69 percent.
Lawmakers? Not so good, despite more than tripling their approval rating. Thirty-six percent think the Legislature is doing its job.
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And if you want an example of why the electorate might be fed up with state lawmakers, consider: Assemblywoman Kristin Olsen, R-Modesto, whose district includes south San Joaquin County, was ordered to immediately vacate her office for one that's 25 percent smaller.
The order is in apparent retaliation for her failed effort within the Assembly Republican Caucus to oust its leader, Connie Conway.
Olsen had been seen as a possible Conway successor. Now she can be seen in a 525-square-foot office.
Thinking outside the box, challenging authority and speaking up for constituents are praiseworthy traits for a lawmaker. But not praiseworthy to those charged with enforcing party discipline.
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Lavelle Hawkins is example of how good people can come out of tough circumstances.
The Tennessee Titans receiver was in town last week to help open a learning center adjacent to the Sierra Vista Community Center gym where he spent much of his youth.
The learning center, named in his honor, is an example of Hawkins not forgetting his roots and the importance of being a role model for young people. He donated about $5,000 to outfit the center and Stockton-based Utility Telephone Co. installed the equipment and set up the Internet connection. This isn't the only thing he's done. In December he donated $20,000 in gift cards to Sierra Vista residents and he's also run summer football clinics at Edison High School.
Tim Brown, a Franklin High football standout who now plays for the British Columbia Lions of the Canadian Football League, grew up in Sierra Vista too. He also has donated to the community and helped inspire his friend Hawkins to do the same.
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Even as work continues on a multiyear Interstate 5 construction project through Stockton, Cal Trans has kicked off an equally ambitious Highway 99 improvement project.
The $214 million project will add new interchanges, close others and widen the road from four to six lanes from south of the Crosstown Freeway to Arch-Airport Road.
In the short-term - Cal Trans says the project will take until 2015 - motorists will be inconvenienced. In the long-term, and these projects are built to last decades, it means a safer, less congested highway.
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Here's a new one: the illiterate mayor defense. The attorney for former Bell Mayor Oscar Hernandez, on trial for misappropriating public funds, said during closing arguments last week that his client was so unschooled he didn't realize something was amiss with his $100,000 salary in his city of 35,000 residents. But he had a big heart.
"There are a lot of elected officials who may not be the most scholarly," defense attorney Stanley Friedmand said.
"We had a vice president of the United States who didn't know how to spell potato."
Ouch! Will President George H.W. Bush's vice president, Dan Quayle live that down? After all, that was 21 years ago.
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WOODSTOCK, N.Y., April 19 (UPI) -- Arkansas-born rock musician and actor Levon Helm died in New York Thursday after a long battle with cancer, his family said on his Web site. He was 71.
The online message said Helm "passed peacefully."
"He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates and will be remembered by all he touched as a brilliant musician and a beautiful soul," the message said.
Helm is famous for being a drummer and singer with The Band -- which recorded the hits "The Weight," "Up on Cripple Creek," "Ophelia" and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." The Band was perhaps best known for its 1978 album and Martin Scorsese-directed concert film "The Last Waltz."
Helm also acted in the movies "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," "Shooter," "Smooth Talk," "The Right Stuff," "The Dollmaker," "Feeling Minnesota," "End of the Line," "In the Electric Mist," "Fire Down Below," "Staying Together" and "Coal Miner's Daughter."
Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998 and underwent radiation treatments. The treatments damaged his vocal cords, reducing his deeply soulful country-accented voice to a quiet rasp. He continued recording albums and performing Saturday night Midnight Ramble concerts at his home and studio, known as the Barn, in Woodstock, N.Y., and was still making music up until a few weeks ago.
His family said Tuesday the entertainer was in his final stages of his cancer battle and they asked his fans to pray for him.
He is survived by his daughter Amy and wife Sandy.
Helm, born in Marvell, Ark., performed with Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson in The Band.
He had a solo career after The Band broke up in 1976, reunited with a new version of The Band in 1983 and toured with British musician Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band in 1989.
His 2007 comeback album "Dirt Farmer" earned a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 91 in a list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time in November of that year.
Helm's 2009 "Electric Dirt" album won the first Grammy Award for Best Americana Album in 2010.
The hero of Elton John's 1971 song "Levon" was named after Helm. John also named his son, born Dec. 25, 2010, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John.


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Skip to comments.The Problem Isnt Just Illegal Immigration, Its Legal Immigration, Too
Posted on 04/25/2013 8:17:04 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
The people of Boston are no longer being terrorized by the Marathon bombers, but amnesty supporters sure are.
On CNN's "State of the Union" last weekend, Sen. Lindsey Graham's response to the Boston Marathon bombers being worthless immigrants who hate America -- one of whom the FBI cleared even after being tipped off by Russia -- was to announce: "The fact that we could not track him has to be fixed."
Track him? How about not admitting him as an immigrant?
As if it's a defense, we're told Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (of the Back Bay Tsarnaevs) were disaffected "losers" -- the word used by their own uncle -- who couldn't make it in America. Their father had already returned to Russia. Tamerlan had dropped out of college, been arrested for domestic violence and said he had no American friends. Dzhokhar was failing most of his college courses. All of them were on welfare.
(Dzhokhar was given everything America had to offer, and now he only has one thing in his future to look forward to ... a tenured professorship.)
My thought is, maybe we should consider admitting immigrants who can succeed in America, rather than deadbeats.
But we're not allowed to "discriminate" in favor of immigrants who would be good for America. Instead of helping America, our immigration policies are designed to help other countries solve their internal problems by shipping their losers to us.
The problem isn't just illegal immigration. I would rather have doctors and engineers sneaking into the country than legally arriving ditch-diggers.
Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration act so dramatically altered the kinds of immigrants America admits that, since 1969, about 85 percent of legal immigrants have come from the Third World. They bring Third World levels of poverty, fertility, illegitimacy and domestic violence with them. When they can't make it in America, they simply go on welfare and sometimes strike out at Americans.
In addition to the four dead and more than 100 badly wounded victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, let's consider a few of the many other people who would be alive, but for Kennedy's immigration law:
-- The six Long Island railroad passengers murdered in 1993 by Jamaican immigrant Colin Ferguson. Before the shooting, Ferguson was unemployed, harassing women on subways, repeatedly bringing lawsuits against police and former employers, applying for workman's compensation for fake injuries and blaming all his problems on white people. Whom he then decided to murder.
-- The two people killed outside CIA headquarters in 1993 by Pakistani illegal immigrant Mir Qazi. He had been working as a driver for a courier company. (It's nearly impossible to find an American who can drive.)
-- Christoffer Burmeister, a 27 year-old musician killed in a mass shooting by Palestinian immigrant Ali Hassan Abu Kamal in 1997 at the Empire State Building. Hassan had immigrated to America with his family two months earlier at age 68. (It's a smart move to bring in immigrants just in time to pay them Social Security benefits!)
-- Bill Cosby's son, Ennis, killed in 1997 by 18-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Mikhail Markhasev, who had come to this country with his single mother eight years earlier -- because we were running short on single mothers.
Markhasev, who had a juvenile record, shot Cosby point-blank for taking too long to produce his wallet. He later bragged about killing a "n*gger."
-- The three people murdered at the Appalachian School of Law in 2002 by Nigerian immigrant Peter Odighizuwa, angry at America because he had failed out of law school. At least it's understandable why our immigration policies would favor a 43-year-old law student. It's so hard to get Americans to go to law school these days!
-- The stewardess and passenger murdered by Egyptian immigrant Hesham Mohamed Hadayet when he shot up the El Al ticket counter at the Los Angeles airport in 2002. Hesham, a desperately needed limousine driver, received refugee status in the U.S. because he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Apparently, that's a selling point if you want to immigrate to America.
-- The six men murdered by Mexican immigrant Salvador Tapia at the Windy City Core Supply warehouse in Chicago in 2003, from which he had been fired six months earlier. Tapia was still in this country despite having been arrested at least a dozen times on weapons and assault charges. Only foreign newspapers mentioned that Tapia was an immigrant. American newspapers blamed the gun.
-- The six people killed in northern Wisconsin in 2004 by Hmong immigrant Chai Soua Vang, who shot his victims in the back after being caught trespassing on their property. Minnesota Public Radio later explained that Hmong hunters don't understand American laws about private property, endangered species, or really any laws written in English. It was an unusual offense for a Hmong, whose preferred crime is raping 12- to 14-year-old girls -- as extensively covered in the Fresno Bee and Minneapolis Star Tribune.
-- The five people murdered at the Trolley Square Shopping Mall in Salt Lake City by Bosnian immigrant Sulejman Talovic in 2007. Talovic was a Muslim high school dropout with a juvenile record. No room for you, Swedish doctor. We need resentful Muslims!
-- The 32 people murdered at Virginia Tech in 2007 by Seung-Hui Cho, a South Korean immigrant.
-- The 13 soldiers murdered at Fort Hood in 2009 by "accused" shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, son of Palestinian immigrants. Hasan's parents had operated a restaurant in Roanoke, Va., because where are we going to find Americans to do that?
-- The 13 people killed at the American Civic Association in Binghamton, N.Y., by Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Wong, who became a naturalized citizen two years after being convicted of fraud and forgery in California. Wong was angry that people disrespected him for his poor English skills.
-- Florence Donovan-Gunderson, who was shot along with her husband, and three National Guardsmen in a Carson City IHOP gunned down by Mexican immigrant Eduardo Sencion in 2011.
-- The three people, including a 15-year-old girl, murdered in their home in North Miami by Kesler Dufrene, a Haitian immigrant and convicted felon who had been arrested nine times, but was released when Obama halted deportations to Haiti after the earthquake. Dufrene chose the house at random.
-- The many African-Americans murdered by Hispanic gangs in Los Angeles in the last few years, including Jamiel Shaw Jr., a star football player being recruited by Stanford; Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old eighth-grade student chosen for murder solely because she was black; and Christopher Ash, who witnessed Green's murder.
During the three years from 2010 through 2012, immigrants have committed about a dozen mass murders in this country, not including the 9/11 attack.
The mass murderers were from Afghanistan, South Korea, Vietnam, Haiti, South Africa, Ethiopia and Mexico. None were from Canada or Western Europe.
I don't want to hear about the black crime rate or the Columbine killers. We're talking about immigrants here! There should be ZERO immigrants committing crimes.There should be ZERO immigrants accepting government assistance. There should be ZERO immigrants demanding that we speak their language.
We have no choice about native-born losers. We ought to be able to do something about the people we chose to bring here.
Meanwhile, our government officials just keep singing the praises of "diversity," while expressly excluding skilled immigrants who might be less inclined to become "disaffected" and lash out by killing Americans.
In response to the shooting at Fort Hood, Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr. said: "As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that's worse."
On "Fox News Sunday" this week, former CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden said of the Boston bombing suspects, "We welcome these kinds of folks coming to the United States who want to be contributing American citizens."
Unless, that is, they have a college degree and bright prospects. Those immigrants are prohibited.
Worse than stupid, it's economic treason.
It used to be that,when people came to America, they came to actually better America itself. All the while providing themselves with a better life. I don't see that any longer.
Freeze immigration for five years and weed out the ricks or face more chaos.
The progressive have more than socialism on their minds.
I'm amazed we could even discuss having a discussion about immigration until our borders are air tight. It's lunacy.
Try. "Refugee" immigration needs to scaled waaaaaay back. No reason we should be admitting Moslems, esp. from Iraq, Pakistan, Trashcanistan, the Middle East, Somalia or Africa in general.
On the other hand, Christians from Moslem dominated countries, and whites from Zimbabwe or South Africa should get the Express Lane.
Bump for list of immigrant terrorist murderers. Thanks Ann Coulter.
When Ann is right, she's very right. The federal government could conceivably open the doors wide. There might even be a billion people who'd move here if they had the chance. So it's not enough to say illegal aliens are bad and legal immigrants are good. Even legal immigration needs to be handled wisely so that American interests are served first and foremost. We should be very picky about who and how many we let in, but we're not.
Preferring "professionals" with money won't make them any more likely to be pro-American than ditch diggers. Might get more "professional" spies and more capable terrorists, though. Resuming preference for those who come from our better allies to marry Americans will get more good Americans.
There will be no fiscal conservatism or safety for big shots without moral conservatism.
Yeah, when I saw the headline, I was thinking, "Uh-oh," but her column here is right on the mark.
With all of the concern over illegal immigration, I think most of us turn a blind eye to legal immigration, and she argues very effectively that both are complicit in America's decline, and need complete overhauls.
I can't believe anyone who has a national audience is finally talking publicly about the problem with LEGAL immigration. Usually you only hear a parroting of "I'm all for legal immigration, but we have to do something about illegal immigration" without any qualifier as to the number and type of legal immigrants we want and the horrible effects on our country of the types of legal immigrants we've imported in massive numbers.
Kudos to Coulter.
Lots of problems. Brian Terry and others...here...
535 present their phony solutions, pat each other on the back, and roll in the dough.
Great pics/posts BUMP!
I don't want ANYBODY sneaking into this country. How many Dr. Kevorkians are here right now happily awaiting to implement Obamacare with whatever perverse incentives come down the road with it? They pose a much greater potential threat than the ditch digger.
Not ME!
I want folks who are LAW abiding no matter WHAT kind of job they have!
They kill very few compared to Choosey Mothers.
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With an impressive list of celebrity clients like Sofia Vergara and Kelly Ripa, Oscar Blandi certainly knows all the secrets to a perfect hair day. Whether you're looking to fake your way to voluminous waves or planning that pre-wedding hair routine, he's got you covered with insider tips of the trade. Go ahead and bookmark this for your big day (and every day!)
What's trending right now in bridal hair?
The updo for brides is a classic that I don't think it will ever go out of style. However, I've noticed brides want updos that are more relaxed and romantic.
Favorite products to get hair wedding day ready?
Using a good shampoo and conditioner is key, especially if you have color-treated hair. Make sure that you're using a good quality deep conditioner to keep your hair moist for the big day. Similar to the way you moisturize your skin to keep it looking supple under makeup, do the same thing to your hair.
Also, continue to get regular cuts leading up to the day. Even if you want your hair to be long, you want it to be healthy! My recommendation is every 4-6 weeks for a healthy look.
Any tricks for faking your way to voluminous hair?
Mousse and hairspray are always the best product to the lift the roots and create the illusion of thicker hair - that's what they are created for. I also incorporate a bit of oil in the mix when working with a mousse to soften up the look and make it less rigid so as the day goes on, the hair will fall in a natural way.
The go-to styling tools you swear by?
Rollers or a curling iron, both give the hair good body.
To hairspray or not to hairspray?
Use a mousse or hairspray that doesn't contain too much alcohol (which can result in hair looking "crunchy"), and again mix a little oil with the mousse. The hair will still hold but will have a softer appearance. Trust me, it works!
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Leonardo DiCaprio scrubbed up fairly well for the Golden Globes last night, the shiny pinstripe material was bad but it's nice to see him go for something slightly different.
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Brad Pitt, currently promoting his new film 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' has nabbed the cover of this month's W magazine. Brad stars in a photographic portfolio by Chuck Close and the black-and-white pics are basically Pitt at a few different angles. The covers boasts that this issue is 'The A-List' issue with "the superstar, the hottest directors, the coolest producers 7 the glitziest Hollywood memorials."
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I know there are buses and trains going this route, But i would rather take a taxi if its not too expensive.
Anyone taken the trip by taxi? price?
Taxi: Hua Hin - Cha-Am
Cha-Am, Tha-Yang, Kaeng Krachan, and Petchaburi. Discussion on areas north of Hua Hin.
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What is social capital?
Social capital describes the pattern and intensity of networks among people and the shared values which arise from those networks.
Greater interaction between people generates a greater sense of community spirit.
Definitions of social capital vary, but the main aspects include citizenship, 'neighbourliness', social networks and civic participation.
The definition used by ONS, taken from the Office for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), is 'networks together with shared norms, values and understandings that facilitate co-operation within or among groups'.
Why does social capital matter?
Research has shown that higher levels of social capital are associated with better health, higher educational achievement, better employment outcomes, and lower crime rates.
In other words, those with extensive networks are more likely to be 'housed, healthy, hired and happy'.
All of these areas are of concern to both policy-makers and community members alike.
How do we measure social capital?
There are a number of different aspects to social capital and measuring the level of social capital in communities can be complex.
In many surveys respondents are asked a range of questions that cover a variety of issues. They commonly focus on:
levels of trust - for example, whether individuals trust their neighbours and whether they consider their neighbourhood a place where people help each other
membership - for example, to how many clubs, societies or social groups individuals belong
networks and how much social contact individuals have in their lives - for example, how often individuals see family and friends
What are networks?Formal and informal networks are central to the concept of social capital.
They are defined as the personal relationships which are accumulated when people interact with each other in families, workplaces, neighbourhoods, local associations and a range of informal and formal meeting places.
Different types of social capital can be described in terms of different types of networks:
bonding social capital – describes closer connections between people and is characterised by strong bonds, for example, among family members or among members of the same ethnic group; it is good for 'getting by' in life
bridging social capital – describes more distant connections between people and is characterised by weaker, but more cross-cutting ties, for example, with business associates, acquaintances, friends from different ethnic groups, friends of friends, etc; it is good for 'getting ahead' in life
- linking social capital – describes connections with people in positions of power and is characterised by relations between those within a hierarchy where there are differing levels of power; it is good for accessing support from formal institutions. It is different from bonding and bridging in that it is concerned with relations between people who are not on an equal footing. An example would be a social services agency dealing with an individual, for example, job searching at the Benefits Agency
What are shared norms, values and understandings?
These relate to shared attitudes towards behaviour that are accepted by most individuals/groups as a 'good thing'.
Examples are not parking in a disabled parking space at a supermarket and giving up your seat to someone who needs it more on the bus.
These norms of behaviour are understood by most members of society.
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NHIAA Boys' Hockey Tournament: Memorial burst stuns GuertinBy ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
March 02. 2013 11:02PM
MANCHESTER - Manchester Memorial coach Mark Putney didn't like the look of Saturday night's first period against Bishop Guertin, but he had little to complain about after that.
After falling behind by two goals in the opening 15 minutes, Memorial dominated the final two periods and posted a 4-2 victory in the Division I quarterfinals at JFK Coliseum.
The Crusaders wrestled the lead away by scoring three goals in a 64-second span early in the second period. Sophomore Nick Burgess scored twice for top-seeded Memorial, which also received goals from Ethan Pollock and Brendan Sullivan.
"In the first period we couldn't get any offense going because we were struggling in the defensive zone," Putney said. "We were losing races to the puck. Then we starting getting pucks to the net. It was a good character test."
Goals by Matthew Blais and Fareed Farhat handed eighth-seeded BG a 2-0 lead after one period. Memorial came up empty even though it had a two-man advantage for 1:46 near the end of the first.
It didn't take the Crusaders long to get on the scoreboard in the second, however. Burgess scored his first goal 1:45 into the period, and Pollock tied the game 15 seconds later. Then Sullivan put Memorial in front, 3-2, at 2:49.
"You can't win a game playing 15 minutes," Bishop Guertin coach Gary Bishop said. "They can score in bunches - when you have skilled kids up front you can do that. That three-goal spurt could have happened in the first period."
Burgess capped the scoring when he collected his second goal at 4:13 of the third.
Junior Griffin Scanlon made 38 saves for BG, which advanced by beating Hanover, 2-1, in the first round. Memorial's Josh Jacob stopped 14 shots.
Memorial outshot BG 26-8 over the final two periods.
BG completed its season with a 9-10-1 record. Memorial improved to 15-4-0, and will face fourth-seeded St. Thomas (13-5-1) in Wednesday's semifinals at JFK. St. Thomas extended its season by beating fifth-seeded Trinity, 2-1, Saturday.
Memorial and St. Thomas split two regular-season meetings. St. Thomas won 4-3 in Manchester, and Memorial prevailed 7-4 in Dover.
"They worry me," Putney said. "In that first game we couldn't finish. We sustained pressure in the second game and were a little more fortunate. Hopefully we show up to play."


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India cuts key interest rate to 7.5 percent
MUMBAI, India (AP) — India's central bank lowered its key interest rate by a quarter percentage point Tuesday as it tries to revive stalled growth in Asia's third-largest economy. The announcement was overshadowed by India's minority government losing a coalition partner.
In making its second rate cut in three months, the Reserve Bank of India cited the weakest economic growth in 15 quarters as outweighing inflation fears. High prices, especially for food, still remain a concern and could limit the bank's scope to reduce the rate much below its current 7.5 percent.
"Growth has decelerated significantly, even as inflation remains at a level (that) is not conducive for sustained economic growth," the central bank said in a statement.
The bank's move was eclipsed by the already shaky coalition government losing the support of a key ally. That could add to government instability and delay economic and financial reforms needed to boost growth. The Sensex stock index was down 1 percent.
The government earlier this month estimated the economy grew 4.5 percent in the October-December quarter, down sharply from growth rates near 10 percent earlier in the decade.
While wholesale inflation has been hovering near three-year lows in recent months, the retail consumer price index hit a high of 10.9 percent in February, mostly due to soaring prices for cereals and meat.
The two figures mean the bank is balancing conflicting goals of keeping price increases under control while lowering interest rates to encourage consumer spending and business investment.
Analysts say that even with the recent cuts, lending rates may still be too high to prompt businesses to borrow. The central bank also on Tuesday left the cash reserve ratio for banks untouched Tuesday, after lowering it by a quarter point to 4 percent in January. A lower cash reserve ratio frees up more money for commercial banks to lend.
Businesses applauded Tuesday's cut in the policy repo rate — the interest rate at which commercial banks can borrow from the central bank — but said more action may be needed before banks are encouraged to lower the rates at which they lend to industry.
"We believe this would certainly lend some support to the flagging industrial growth," said Naina Lal Kidwai, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, based in Mumbai.
However, she said that commercial banks are unlikely to cut their own rates in a hurry, mostly because deposit growth of about 12.5 percent still lagged behind credit growth of 15-17 percent.
"The key for industry is for lending rates by banks to come down, but this would happen only when banks are comfortable with deposits," Kidwai said.
India's economy is expanding at its slowest pace in a decade, with gross domestic product predicted to grow as little 5 percent in the fiscal year ending March 31. That's down from 9 percent in early 2011, and it's paired with rising budget and current account deficits that have weakened India's currency.
The government estimates the country needs at least 8 percent growth to create enough new jobs for the 13 million Indians entering the workforce each year.
The finance minister last month unveiled a new budget aimed at trimming the budget deficit and attracting foreign investment.


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The Federal Aviation Administration said it's suspended all employee furloughs and says air traffic facilities will begin returning to regular staffing levels over the next 24 hours.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it's suspended all employee furloughs and says air traffic facilities will begin returning to regular staffing levels over the next 24 hours.
The FAA said in a statement that the air traffic system will resume normal operations by Sunday evening.
The announcement comes a day after Congress passed legislation to allow the agency to withdraw the furloughs — fallout from the $85 billion in automatic-across-the-board spending cuts this spring.
They started to hit air traffic controllers this past week, causing flight delays that left thousands of travelers frustrated and furious.
Republicans accused the Obama administration of forcing the furloughs to raise public pressure on Congress to roll back the budget cuts. The White House complains the FAA fix left the rest of the cuts intact.
The FAA had no choice but to cut $637 million as its share of $85 billion in automatic, government-wide spending cuts that must be achieved by the end of the federal budget year on Sept. 30.
The cuts were required under a law enacted two years ago as the government was approaching its debt limit. Democrats were in favor of raising the debt limit without strings attached so as not to provoke an economic crisis, but Republicans insisted on substantial cuts in exchange. The compromise was to require that every government "program, project and activity" — with some exceptions, like Medicare — be cut equally.
The FAA had reduced the work schedules of nearly all of its 47,000 employees by one day every two weeks, including 15,000 air traffic controllers, as well as thousands of air traffic supervisors, managers and technicians who keep airport towers and radar facility equipment working. That amounted to a 10 percent cut in hours and pay.


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The 42-year-old from Northern Ireland shot an even-par 70 Sunday
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FRISCO – FC Dallas has been keeping an eye on Vancouver as they chase the Whitecaps for the fifth and final playoff spot.
Tonight they will multi-task: keep tabs on the 'Caps and scout their next opponent, Chivas USA.
Vancouver hosts Chivas USA in a Wednesday night match-up at BC Place (9 p.m. CT on MLS Live) and FC Dallas head coach Schellas Hyndman says he and his players will be watching.
"Will they experiment with new players and give them a chance? Maybe a card. Maybe an injury. There's a lot of things we'll be interested in," Hyndman said of Chivas USA.
Hyndman said FCD has already drawn up a game plan that they've been working on in training this week for Chivas USA, so the serious scouting has been done. But the coaching staff will be looking to see if there's any changes or adjustments they might need to make.
The mid-week match is also a potential advantage for FC Dallas.
"Our schedule now is lightening up where we have games once a week. We're starting to find other teams now having games twice a week.," Hyndman said. "Chivas is playing on the road in Vancouver then they get us at home. That's two games to be played in a short window."


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New Hampshire police travel to Boston to honor slain officerBy BENJAMIN C. KLEIN
Union Leader Correspondent
April 24. 2013 11:20AM
About 100 police officers from around southern New Hampshire, including Nashua Police Chief John Seusing, made the somber trek to Boston Wednesday morning to participate in two events honoring fallen MIT officer Sean Collier, who was shot and killed Thursday.
Off-duty and some on-duty officers from the Nashua, Hudson and Merrimack police departments felt compelled to honor Officer Collier, 26, who was shot and killed in his patrol car last week, allegedly by the two brothers wanted for the Boston Marathon bombing.
Today is the first time since last year that many police officers in New Hampshire have worn their dress uniforms to honor a fallen comrade. Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney was slain during a drug raid a little more than a year ago.
Sgt. Randy Dumais of the Nashua Police Department, who could not attend today's services because he is on duty, said every member of the department would go down to Boston if they could. "It is obviously a tragedy anytime an officer is killed in the line of duty," Dumais said.
Early this morning, Nashua officers crowded onto a city bus to travel to Boston, but so many officers arrived that the bus couldn't fit everyone, so several officers drove down in marked units. Along with officers donning their dress uniforms, the department's honor guard was also dispatched to honor Collier at events at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass., and Shriner's Auditorium in Wilmington, Mass.
Sgt. Tad Dionne of the Hudson Police Department said roughly 10 off-duty and on-duty officers from his department traveled to Boston today. Dionne said all officers share a very powerful bond with one another, a bond that in many ways is borne from fear. "Ultimately we all feel that it could be any of one of us, it's dangerous everywhere, there is no safe area, so we feel a real sense of brotherhood."
Dionne added that Hudson also sent their honor guard to honor Collier. "We attend all local funerals. It's obviously a somber mood for the officers, but I think it is important that these things occur. It helps support the families of the slain officers and others involved. It lets them know they that they are not alone," Dumais said.


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Finally, the convention staff has our internet connections up and running. I've felt like a fish out of water, being cut off from the internet. On the other hand, nothing significant has been happening, so it's not as if I would have had anything to report anyway. The action won't really start until tonight, when McCain and Giuliani speak.
In the meantime, for the curious, here is what Bloggers' Corner looks like:
Former Mayor Koch came around and entertained us for a while. He is a delightful guy, and makes great sense when he talks about why he is supporting President Bush. Unfortunately, very few New Yorkers seem to be following his lead. Here is Hizzoner:
Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics and I went looking for the convention floor. This turned out to be more of an expedition than I thought, partly because the security people we approached seemed to think it was a novel request to find a spot from which the floor can be seen. We got there eventually, and here is what the convention floor looks like when the action is just getting underway:
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CARSON, Calif. —The LA Galaxy won their third game of the 2013 preseason, cruising to a 7-2 win over UCLA on Wednesday at The Home Depot Center. [highlights and postgame reaction above]
Charlie Rugg, playing in his first game of the preseason after overcoming a groin injury, scored a pair of second half goals. Sean Franklin, who got the start on the right side of midfield, also scored twice while Michael Stephens, Omar Gonzalez and Hector Jimenez each added individual tallies.
Making the start up front alongside Mike Magee, Jack McBean set up a trio of Galaxy goals, including Michael Stephens' opener in the 13th minute.
READ: McBean, Rugg shine in preseason win
That was the first of four first half goals for the Galaxy as Omar Gonzalez doubled the LA lead in the 29th minute, heading home a Juninho corner kick. Franklin would add a pair of goals in the final five minutes of the half, the second of which came after Magee smartly took a quick freekick, leaving Franklin with the simplest of finishes and sending the Galaxy into the break with a 4-0 lead.
Shortly after the break, Hector Jimenez made it 5-0, finishing a pass from Magee. McBean and Magee each came off following the fifth goal and it was soon 6-0 as Rugg scored his first, heading home a Jimenez corner kick.
Former Galaxy Academy forward Reed Williams cut LA's lead to 6-1 in the 66th minute, only for Rugg to restore his team's six-goal advantage in the 78th minute, heading in a Bryan Gaul cross to make the score 7-1.
Evan Raynr rounded out the scoring in the 82nd minute, tallying UCLA's second goal to give the game its final 7-2 scoreline.
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The Home Depot Center – Carson, Calif.
Scoring Summary:
LA – Michael Stephens (Jack McBean) 13'
LA – Omar Gonzalez (Juninho) 29'
LA – Sean Franklin (Jack McBean) 41'
LA – Sean Franklin (Mike Magee) 45'
LA – Hector Jimenez (Jack McBean) 57'
LA – Charlie Rugg (Hector Jimenez) 64'
UCLA – Reed Williams 66'
LA – Charlie Rugg (Bryan Gaul) 78'
UCLA – Evan Raynr 82'
Misconduct Summary:
LA Galaxy: Brian Perk (Brian Rowe 46'); A.J. DeLaGarza (Kofi Opare 46'), Omar Gonzalez (Matheus Ferreira 46'), Tommy Meyer (Leonardo 46'), Todd Dunivant (Bryan Gaul 46'); Sean Franklin (Paul Arriola 46'), Marcelo Sarvas (Rafael Garcia 46'), Juninho (Hector Jimenez 46'), Michael Stephens (Greg Cochrane 46'); Mike Magee (Andy Reimer 57'), Jack McBean (Charlie Rugg 57').


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In her best-known role as a manipulative man-eater in The Last Seduction, actress Linda Fiorentino had no qualms about tying up her husband and spraying mace in his mouth. Ruthless, yeah, but just as bad is her real-life behavior, alleges a $5 million lawsuit against the actress, which charges her with holding an entire film hostage.
This lawsuit follows a report last month that Fiorentino might be sued for abandoning a starring role in Hudson's Law, a legal drama for CBS.
In the suit filed this week by German production company Art Oko Film, Fiorentino is being blamed for the shelving of the Georgia O'Keefe biopic Till the End of Time, in which she would have played the famous painter.
The production company accuses the actress of refusing to report for rehearsals, makeup, and camera tests and of feigning illness. Instead of reporting to the set, the suit claims, Fiorentino went to a party thrown by Playboy's Christie Hefner in her honor.
The suit charges that the delays caused by Fiorentino's no-shows jeopardized the participation of actor Ben Kingsley, who was set to play O'Keefe's lover, photographer Alfred Stieglitz. The film was finally shut down last August after failed attempts to recast Fiorentino's part, Variety reports.
In March, Variety reported that producers of the Hudson's Law TV pilot were deciding whether to sue the actress after they couldn't locate her to begin work. The role was recast with actress Kyra Sedgwick.
Kevin Smith, who directed Fiorentino in Dogma, has stated that he will never work with the actress again. Whether she will reprise one of her most high-profile roles, that of Agent L in Men in Black, remains to be seen. A Columbia spokesman could not confirm at this point whether Fiorentino is in or out of MIB2.


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Right across the street from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, there is a slew of salons, restaurants, and stores, one being Hayashi . The owner, Kerstin Görling, has an eye for elegant, timeless pieces as well as some pretty bold statement items. The brands you'll find there include Isabel Marant, Marni, MSGM, and Joseph.
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Whether you've decided to formula feed your baby from the start, are supplementing your breast milk with formula, or are switching from breast milk to formula, you're bound to have questions. Here are answers to some common queries about formula feeding.
It's generally recommended that babies be fedwhenever they seemhungry, which is called demand feeding (or feeding on demand) .demand feeding (or feeding on demand)
Most newborns who are formula-fed feed every 2 to 3 hours. As they get bigger and their tummies can hold more milk they usually eat every 3 to 4 hours.
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Despite what youmight think, crying is a late sign of hunger. You should give afeeding before your baby gets so hungry that he or she gets upset and becomes difficult to calm down.
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In the first few weeks, mix2- to 3-ounce (60- to 90-milliliter) bottles for your newborn. Gradually increase this amount as you become familiar with your baby's eating patterns and appetite. Here's a general look at how much your baby may be eating at different stages:newborn 2 months 4 months 6 months
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The 2013 Town of Grand Island budget will have no tax increase after the Town Board made adjustments to budget lines.
At its meeting on Nov. 5, the Town Board voted 5-0 to go back to the drawing board to make more cuts, rather than to pass a budget with an increase. The board subsequently passed a reduced budget at a meeting on Nov. 9
"Although the Town Board had preliminarily agreed to a budget, after further discussion, we though it was prudent to review the budget for alterations," said councilmen Ray Billica and Chris Aronica in a joint statement. "We felt at this time a tax increase was not prudent. With taxes being a major concern, and the fact that the reassessment of Grand Island property will be completed next year, we thought a potential double-barrel impact would not be in the best interest of the taxpayers. We would like to thank the Town Board for agreeing with us and reducing the General Fund tax increase to 0 percent."
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