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The American Antinuclear Movement
Paul Rubinson
Spanning countries across the globe, the antinuclear movement was the combined effort of millions of people to challenge the superpowers' reliance on nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Encompassing an array of tactics, from radical dissent to public protest to opposition within the government, this movement succeeded in constraining the arms race and helping to make the use of nuclear weapons politically unacceptable. Antinuclear activists were critical to the establishment of arms control treaties, although they failed to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, as anticommunists, national security officials, and proponents of nuclear deterrence within the United States and Soviet Union actively opposed the movement. Opposition to nuclear weapons evolved in tandem with the Cold War and the arms race, leading to a rapid decline in antinuclear activism after the Cold War ended.
American Foreign Policy and the Space Race
Teasel Muir-Harmony
The Soviet Union's successful launch of the first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957, captured global attention and achieved the initial victory in what would soon become known as the space race. This impressive technological feat and its broader implications for Soviet missile capability rattled the confidence of the American public and challenged the credibility of U.S. leadership abroad. With the U.S.S.R.'s launch of Sputnik, and then later the first human spaceflight in 1961, U.S. policymakers feared that the public and political leaders around the world would view communism as a viable and even more dynamic alternative to capitalism, tilting the global balance of power away from the United States and towards the Soviet Union.
Reactions to Sputnik confirmed what members of the U.S. National Security Council had predicted: the image of scientific and technological superiority had very real, far-reaching geopolitical consequences. By signaling Soviet technological and military prowess, Sputnik solidified the link between space exploration and national prestige, setting a course for nationally funded space exploration for years to come. For over a decade, both the Soviet Union and the United States funneled significant financial and personnel resources into achieving impressive firsts in space, as part of a larger effort to win alliances in the Cold War contest for global influence.
From a U.S. vantage point, the space race culminated in the first Moon landing in July 1969. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy proposed Project Apollo, a lunar exploration program, as a tactic for restoring U.S. prestige in the wake of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight and the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion. To achieve Kennedy's goal of sending a man to the Moon and returning him safely back to Earth by the end of the decade, the United States mobilized a workforce in the hundreds of thousands. Project Apollo became the most expensive government funded civilian engineering program in U.S. history, at one point stretching to more than 4 percent of the federal budget. The United States' substantial investment in winning the space race reveals the significant status of soft power in American foreign policy strategy during the Cold War.
American Radio and Technological Transformation from Invention to Broadcasting, 1900–1945
Michael A. Krysko
Radio debuted as a wireless alternative to telegraphy in the late 19th century. At its inception, wireless technology could only transmit signals and was incapable of broadcasting actual voices. During the 1920s, however, it transformed into a medium primarily identified as one used for entertainment and informational broadcasting. The commercialization of American broadcasting, which included the establishment of national networks and reliance on advertising to generate revenue, became the so-called American system of broadcasting. This transformation demonstrates how technology is shaped by the dynamic forces of the society in which it is embedded. Broadcasting's aural attributes also engaged listeners in a way that distinguished it from other forms of mass media. Cognitive processes triggered by the disembodied voices and sounds emanating from radio's loudspeakers illustrate how listeners, grounded in particular social, cultural, economic, and political contexts, made sense of and understood the content with which they were engaged. Through the 1940s, difficulties in expanding the international radio presence of the United States further highlight the significance of surrounding contexts in shaping the technology and in promoting (or discouraging) listener engagement with programing content.
Childbirth and Breastfeeding in 20th-Century America
Jessica Martucci
By the end of the 19th century, the medical specialties of gynecology and obstetrics established a new trend in women's healthcare. In the 20th century, more and more American mothers gave birth under the care of a university-trained physician. The transition from laboring and delivering with the assistance of female family, neighbors, and midwives to giving birth under medical supervision is one of the most defining shifts in the history of childbirth. By the 1940s, the majority of American mothers no longer expected to give birth at home, but instead traveled to hospitals, where they sought reassurance from medical experts as well as access to pain-relieving drugs and life-saving technologies. Infant feeding followed a similar trajectory. Traditionally, infant feeding in the West had been synonymous with breastfeeding, although alternatives such as wet nursing and the use of animal milks and broths had existed as well. By the early 20th century, the experiences of women changed in relation to sweeping historical shifts in immigration, urbanization, and industrialization, and so too did their abilities and interests in breastfeeding. Scientific study of infant feeding yielded increasingly safer substitutes for breastfeeding, and by the 1960s fewer than 1 in 5 mothers breastfed. In the 1940s and 1950s, however, mothers began to organize and to resist the medical management of childbirth and infant feeding. The formation of childbirth education groups helped spread information about natural childbirth methods and the first dedicated breastfeeding support organization, La Leche League, formed in 1956. By the 1970s, the trend toward medicalized childbirth and infant feeding that had defined the first half of the century was in significant flux. By the end of the 20th century, efforts to harmonize women's interests in more "natural" motherhood experiences with the existing medical system led to renewed interest in midwifery, home birth, and birth centers. Despite the cultural shift in favor of fewer medical interventions, rates of cesarean sections climbed to new heights by the end of the 1990s. Similarly, although pressures on mothers to breastfeed mounted by the end of the century, the practice itself increasingly relied upon the use of technologies such as the breast pump. By the close of the century, women's agency in pursuing more natural options proceeded in tension with the technological, social, medical, and political systems that continued to shape their options.
Contagious Disease and Public Health in the American City
Daniel Wilson
Contagious diseases have long posed a public health challenge for cities, going back to the ancient world. Diseases traveled over trade routes from one city to another. Cities were also crowded and often dirty, ideal conditions for the transmission of infectious disease. The Europeans who settled North America quickly established cities, especially seaports, and contagious diseases soon followed. By the late 17th century, ports like Boston, New York, and Philadelphia experienced occasional epidemics, especially smallpox and yellow fever, usually introduced from incoming ships. Public health officials tried to prevent contagious diseases from entering the ports, most often by establishing a quarantine. These quarantines were occasionally effective, but more often the disease escaped into the cities. By the 18th century, city officials recognized an association between dirty cities and epidemic diseases. The appearance of a contagious disease usually occasioned a concerted effort to clean streets and remove garbage. These efforts by the early 19th century gave rise to sanitary reform to prevent infectious diseases. Sanitary reform went beyond cleaning streets and removing garbage, to ensuring clean water supplies and effective sewage removal. By the end of the century, sanitary reform had done much to clean the cities and reduce the incidence of contagious disease. In the 20th century, public health programs introduced two new tools to public health: vaccination and antibiotics. First used against smallpox, scientists developed vaccinations against numerous other infectious viral diseases and reduced their incidence substantially. Finally, the development of antibiotics against bacterial infections in the mid-20th century enabled physicians to cure infected individuals. Contagious disease remains a problem—witness AIDS—and public health authorities still rely on quarantine, sanitary reform, vaccination, and antibiotics to keep urban populations healthy.
Energy in American History
Aaron Sachs
Energy systems have played a significant role in U.S. history; some scholars claim that they have determined a number of other developments. From the colonial period to the present, Americans have shifted from depending largely on wood and their own bodies, as well as the labor of draft animals; to harnessing water power; to building steam engines; to extracting fossil fuels—first coal and then oil; to distributing electrical power through a grid. Each shift has been accompanied by a number of other striking changes, especially in the modern period associated with fossil fuels. By the late 19th century, in part thanks to new energy systems, Americans were embracing industrialization, urbanization, consumerism, and, in a common contemporary phrase, "the annihilation of space and time." Today, in the era of climate change, the focus tends to be on the production or supply side of energy systems, but a historical perspective reminds us to consider the consumption or demand side as well. Just as important as the striking of oil in Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, was the development of new assumptions about how much energy people needed to sustain their lives and how much work they could be expected to do. Clearly, Americans are still grappling with the question of whether their society's heavy investment in coal- and petroleum-based energy systems has been worthwhile.
The Environment in the Atomic Age
Rachel Rothschild
The development of nuclear technology had a profound influence on the global environment following the Second World War, with ramifications for scientific research, the modern environmental movement, and conceptualizations of pollution more broadly. Government sponsorship of studies on nuclear fallout and waste dramatically reconfigured the field of ecology, leading to the widespread adoption of the ecosystem concept and new understandings of food webs as well as biogeochemical cycles. These scientific endeavors of the atomic age came to play a key role in the formation of environmental research to address a variety of pollution problems in industrialized countries. Concern about invisible radiation served as a foundation for new ways of thinking about chemical risks for activists like Rachel Carson and Barry Commoner as well as many scientists, government officials, and the broader public. Their reservations were not unwarranted, as nuclear weapons and waste resulted in radioactive contamination of the environment around nuclear-testing sites and especially fuel-production facilities. Scholars date the start of the "Anthropocene" period, during which human activity began to have substantial effects on the environment, variously from the beginning of human farming roughly 8,000 years ago to the emergence of industrialism in the 19th century. But all agree that the advent of nuclear weapons and power has dramatically changed the potential for environmental alterations. Our ongoing attempts to harness the benefits of the atomic age while lessening its negative impacts will need to confront the substantial environmental and public-health issues that have plagued nuclear technology since its inception.
Food in 19th-Century American Cities
Cindy R. Lobel
Over the course of the 19th century, American cities developed from small seaports and trading posts to large metropolises. Not surprisingly, foodways and other areas of daily life changed accordingly. In 1800, the dietary habits of urban Americans were similar to those of the colonial period. Food provisioning was very local. Farmers, hunters, fishermen, and dairymen from a few miles away brought food by rowboats and ferryboats and by horse carts to centralized public markets within established cities. Dietary options were seasonal as well as regional. Few public dining options existed outside of taverns, which offered lodging as well as food. Most Americans, even in urban areas, ate their meals at home, which in many cases were attached to their workshops, countinghouses, and offices.
These patterns changed significantly over the course of the19th century, thanks largely to demographic changes and technological developments. By the turn of the 20th century, urban Americans relied on a food-supply system that was highly centralized and in the throes of industrialization. Cities developed complex restaurant sectors, and majority immigrant populations dramatically shaped and reshaped cosmopolitan food cultures. Furthermore, with growing populations, lax regulation, and corrupt political practices in many cities, issues arose periodically concerning the safety of the food supply. In sum, the roots of today's urban food systems were laid down over the course of the 19th century.
Industry, Commerce, and Urbanization in the United States, 1790–1870
David Schley
The eighty years from 1790 to 1870 were marked by dramatic economic and demographic changes in the United States. Cities in this period grew faster than the country as a whole, drawing migrants from the countryside and immigrants from overseas. This dynamism stemmed from cities' roles as spearheads of commercial change and sites of new forms of production. Internal improvements such as canals and railroads expanded urban hinterlands in the early republic, while urban institutions such as banks facilitated market exchange. Both of these worked to the advantage of urban manufacturers. By paying low wages to workers performing repetitive tasks, manufacturers enlarged the market for their products but also engendered opposition from a workforce internally divided along lines of sex and race, and at times slavery and freedom. The Civil War affirmed the legitimacy of wage labor and enhanced the power of corporations, setting the stage for the postwar growth of large-scale, mechanized industry.
Infrastructure: Mass Transit in 19th- and 20th-Century Urban America
Jay Young
Mass transit has been part of the urban scene in the United States since the early 19th century. Regular steam ferry service began in New York City in the early 1810s and horse-drawn omnibuses plied city streets starting in the late 1820s. Expanding networks of horse railways emerged by the mid-19th century. The electric streetcar became the dominant mass transit vehicle a half century later. During this era, mass transit had a significant impact on American urban development. Mass transit's importance in the lives of most Americans started to decline with the growth of automobile ownership in the 1920s, except for a temporary rise in transit ridership during World War II. In the 1960s, congressional subsidies began to reinvigorate mass transit and heavy-rail systems opened in several cities, followed by light rail systems in several others in the next decades. Today concerns about environmental sustainability and urban revitalization have stimulated renewed interest in the benefits of mass transit.
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Rollin Township board needs to reappoint Olis Burch
Rollin Township board needs to reappoint Olis Burch
To the editor,
I am pleased with the article in last Saturday's Telegram. ("Replacement on board disputed," Jan. 11). However, there are some additional points to be made.
First, the stated reason for replacing Mr. Burch in order to equal out the representatives by areas is incorrect. Michigan Planning Enabling Act, PA 33 of 2008 states that a member of the planning commission is to represent the entire township. It does NOT call for or require representation from various areas of the township. It suggests membership from different groups like business, education, etc.
Secondly, why no consideration for the planning commission's 6-0 vote to endorse both Walt Miller and Olis Burch, with Mr. Burch absent taking care of an ill relative? I am told it was never mentioned to the Rollin Board. Obviously, it was not considered. The same as never consulting with chairwomen Nancy Nichols. By the way, Mrs. Nichols is the former chairwomen of the Lenawee County Board of Commissioners.
Thirdly, in December of 2013, I and other candidates were interviewed for appointment to the planning commission. No interviews were held this year!
Fourth and last, please remember the Rollin Township Board FORGOT to reappoint Mr. Walt Miller at its December meeting. How did this happen? I will let you decide!
The bottom line is Mr. Olis Burch, one of the most knowledgeable members of our board and its vice-chair, needs to be reappointed!
Come on Rollin Township Board, do the right thing!
Jim Driskill
Lenawee County Commissioner, District Three

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Grand Theft Auto IV Multiplayer
|Multiplayer Basics
|General Tips
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|Co-op Missions
|You know the drill: kill or be killed. Each time you kill someone, you earn $100; whoever has the most cash at the end wins. Thankfully, you don't lose money for being killed by another player; however, you will lose $100 for deaths by any other means, such as by drowning, explosions, cops, etc. In addition, fallen foes drop additional cash that can be collected for another $10-$20, but act fast before someone else grabs the stash.
|Mafiya Work
Become Kenny Petrovic's lackey in a race against your opponents to complete the tasks he assigns. He'll contact everyone simultaneously with the same objective, which will then appear on your radar. The objectives range from killing specific targets, destroying objects, stealing specific cars, collecting a particular item, or escorting a target.
You'll typically earn $500 for each completed objective, while any additional kills will net you $100. If an objective provides you with two possible outcomes (such as steal or destroy a vehicle), the more difficult option (steal, in this case) will earn you a bit more moolah.
|Car Jack City
Hijacking cars is the name of the game. The cars will be marked on your radar as either a blue or green square; the blue ones are normal cars, while the green ones contain drugs, and are worth more. Sometimes the cars are guarded by a thug or two—it's generally in your best interest to wipe them out before hopping in, as they can quickly dwindle your health.
After stealing a car, a yellow marker will appear on your radar, showing the drop-off location. Carefully maneuver around the city toward that location to receive your reward, but remember, the amount of money you earn decreases as your car takes damage (unless the car is full of drugs, in which case damage doesn't matter).
If you spot a yellow marker on your radar, but you didn't steal a vehicle, that means someone else did. At this point you have a few options: Track them down and either steal or destroy their car or wait for them to complete the objective and go for the next car. If you manage to steal their vehicle, you can then deliver it yourself for the reward, but if you destroy it, then no one will get the reward. On the other hand, if you're too far from your opponent, it may just be best to let them have it, while you wait for the next car to appear.
A straight-up race that'll take you across town through a series of checkpoints. You can't exit your vehicle at all in this mode (unlike GTA's Race), nor can use weapons of any kind. This is just a straight-up race, baby.
As you race, you'll have to drive through the yellow checkpoints that appear; if you miss one, you had better go back, otherwise you won't be able to complete the race. In addition, if you're racing using helicopters, it can be tricky triggering the checkpoints. Make sure to check out your radar to find an arrow showing whether the next checkpoint is above or below you.
|GTA Race
Now this is what we're taking about. Like with Race, your ultimate goal is to drive through the various checkpoints, but now you can collect weapon and health power-ups by driving over them. After someone has been killed, they'll respawn next to one of the game's slowest vehicles: the faggio.
|Cops 'n Crooks
So the name pretty much gives this one away. In short, the players are divided into two teams: One consisting of cops, the other robbers. The goal of the robbers is to help the boss (or themselves, depending on the game mode) reach the getaway car, while it's up to the cops to stop that from happening. To make things a little bit more unfair, the cops can always see where the robbers are on their radar, but not visa-versa. Even worse, the crooks always start off on foot, while the cops already start with a police car. And to top things off, everyone has infinite lives...except for those who must reach the getaway vehicle (either just the boss, or all of the crooks, depending on game mode) who only have one—ouch.
|Turf War
If you've ever played King of the Hill, then you know the deal. After being split into teams, your goal is to take control of as many of the turf spots (marked on your radar) as possible. You can gain control of a turf spot by standing inside the designated area; the more people on your team standing there, the faster you'll gain control. Once you've gained control, you'll begin earning money—the key to victory. The more turf spots you possess, the more money you'll earn.
Of course, while this is happening, you'll have to defend your turf spots from opponents, as well as try to reclaim the ones that they currently possess.
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February 25, 2013 07:30 ET
DENVER, COLORADO--(Marketwire - Feb. 25, 2013) -
Bellhaven Copper & Gold Inc. (TSX VENTURE:BHV) ("Bellhaven" or the "Company") announces that it has over-subscribed the $1.7M non-brokered private placement financing announced on February 15, 2013 (the "Offering"). The Company has raised $1.8M through the issuance of 15,652,173 units (the "Units") at a price of $0.115 per Unit.
Pursuant to the agreement and private placement announced on October 26, 2011, IAMGOLD Corporation has been the largest shareholder in Bellhaven; and it has certain rights that include maintaining its equity position in the Company. IAMGOLD has chosen to exercise that right and subscribed for 2,173,913 Units of this Offering.
Each Unit consists of one common share ("Common Share") and one-half of one Common Share purchase warrant ("Warrant") of Bellhaven. Each full Warrant entitles the holder to acquire one Common Share of the Company's stock for $0.15 for a period of 36 months following this closing date. The Warrants are also subject to acceleration terms governing their exercise. In addition to the statutory hold period expiring June 22, 2013, most of the securities issued pursuant to the Offering will be subject to an escrow period of 24 months from this date, subject to acceleration in certain circumstances. The securities will be released from escrow if, after the initial four month hold period, the Company's stock trades above $0.50 for twenty consecutive days. The IAMGOLD securities are not subject to escrow, but will be subject to the statutory hold period expiring June 22, 2013.
Patrick Highsmith, Bellhaven's CEO, commented on the financing:
"We are very pleased to close this financing and welcome on board quality new investors. The extended hold period and other terms of this financing align the interests of new investors, current shareholders, and the Company as a whole. It is also significant that IAMGOLD reaffirmed its strategic position in Bellhaven by joining this financing. The infusion of cash from quality long investors and the backing of strategic partners enable us to focus on execution; and we are doing just that."
The proceeds of the Offering will be used for exploration and general working capital purposes. The Company has paid a finder's fee in regards to a portion of this private placement in the amount of 6% in cash and 6% in finder's warrants of the proceeds resulting from introduction of the parties. The holder of each finder's warrant will be entitled to purchase one Common Share of the Company's stock for $0.115 for a period of up to 36 months from today's date. The finder's warrants are non-transferable while the underlying shares are subject to the statutory hold period expiring June 22, 2013.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any of the securities in the United States. The securities will not be registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, (the "U.S. Securities Act") or any state securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to or for the account or benefit of a U.S. person (as defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act) unless registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state securities laws or an exemption from such registration is available.
About Bellhaven
Bellhaven Copper & Gold Inc. is a Canadian-listed (TSX VENTURE:BHV) exploration company exploring for gold and copper in Panama and Colombia. The Company's objective is to be a leader in responsible gold and copper development in Panama and Colombia. Bellhaven will focus on discovery, acquisition, and development of high-quality resources in a safe and responsible manner for the benefit of all of its stakeholders.
The Company's flagship project is the La Mina porphyry gold-(copper) project in the Middle Cauca belt of Colombia. In July 2012, the Company increased the mineral resource inventory at the La Mina Project by 60% with the announcement of an inferred resource at Middle Zone. The total La Mina resource now includes 1.6 Moz gold and 419 million pounds of copper (or 2.55 Moz gold equivalent) contained in 79.87 million tonnes averaging 0.62 g/t Au, 0.24% Cu, or a gold equivalent grade of 1.0 g/t (based on a 0.30 g/t Au cutoff grade). The Company is currently seeking to grow these resources through ongoing exploration on the La Mina concession. For more information regarding Bellhaven, please visit our website at www.bellhavencg.com.
On behalf of the board of directors,
R. Patrick Highsmith, Chief Executive Officer
Statements in this press release, other than purely historical information, including statements relating to the Company's future plans and objectives or expected results, may include forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on numerous assumptions and are subject to all of the risks and uncertainties inherent in resource exploration and development. As a result, actual results may vary materially from those described in the forward-looking statements.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Bellhaven Copper & Gold Inc.Nico WellsCorporate CommunicationsNorth America: +1-303-470-8700, ext 24Contact in Panama:Bellhaven Copper & Gold Inc.Julio BenedettiPresident/DirectorInt'l No: +507-226-3967www.bellhavencg.com
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In most cases, I'm a terribly traditional cook. If there is a longer, slower, more manual way to do something, almost invariably I will prefer it. But even I push tradition aside when I find an alternative that is not only easier but also tastes as good or better.
Which brings me to polenta, a dish that is about as traditional as Italian cooking gets (I know one terrific cook in the Piedmont who keeps a wood-burning stove in her very modern kitchen that is used only for its preparation). But 15 years ago, cookbook author Paula Wolfert called to say that she had found a terrific shortcut — in a cookbook by Michele Anna Jordan, who, it turns out, discovered it on the back of a bag of polenta.
As someone who was always exploring ways to avoid the constant stirring that polenta seems to require, I was skeptical. But there's no arguing with the results: Mix water, cornmeal and salt, and bake without disturbing, stir and then bake a little longer. The result? Perfect, deeply flavored polenta. Since then, what had been an occasional luxury has become a weekend staple.
Can there be anything better on a chilly night than a big bowl of polenta topped with a ragù with sausage and short ribs? Well, yes, actually. Lately I've been trying a new twist on polenta. Instead of making it in a pot, I use a gratin dish and then, once the polenta is cooked, I strew over some toppings and return it to the oven for one last bake.
The beauty of it is that you can make so many great toppings in the hour or so the polenta is baking. One of my favorites, inspired by an idea from Yotam Ottolenghi's "Plenty," is to sauté mushrooms and arrange them over the top along with shredded Fontina cheese. Or you can make a quick tomato sauce, studded with browned cubes of pancetta. I've made this the simple way — with just onions and garlic — but I find that adding diced carrots and celery gives a sweeter, more rounded flavor to the sauce.
One word of advice: Even stores that should know better will sometimes sell finely ground cornmeal as "polenta." It's not. The flavor is more bitter and the texture is stiffer. You want coarsely ground meal.
My favorite brand comes from the Bay Area producer Golden Pheasant (they're also the source for the baked polenta technique). It's available at Southern California Vons supermarkets as well as a few other places. Or try Bob's Red Mill product, which is labeled "corn grits: also known as polenta."
Considering how easy it is to make, and how delicious, it's an investment worth making.


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Good morning! How has your week been going? How's June treating you? Are you getting in lots of pictures? I hope so because the designers have some great kits that are begging for pictures! Camping and hiking, templates, Father's Day, so many goodies, so much fun!
Before I show you the new goodies (and the new designer), I've chosen a few layouts to show off, using June 2014 {Designer's Choice} buffet and this month's Monthly Mix, "That's My Guy".
Created by melissavt. I love the splatter behind the picture!
Created by Lisa. I love the mask. The squares at the bottom really add to the layout.
Created by melissavt. I love all the squares and layers. Great pictures and use of word arts.
Before I start with the beautiful kits and products that the designers have created for you, I just have to share this awesome news with you, a new Welcome Wagon kit has been released! If you do not know about our Welcome Wagon area, you should go check it out right away! Once you register in the forum, you will have access to the Welcome Wagon area. The designers create wonderful goodies and give them to you for FREE! The Welcome Wagon has been up and running, for over a year, so our designers are changing their goodies! New goodies, Free goodies!
Today, you're being given a new lovely gift by SandyPie Creations!
Remember, when you spend $10 in the store, you get a great grab bag!
Have you heard about the big sale going on at Gingerscraps? LOTS of products on sale, for the last time, before they're retired and no longer available! Make sure you check it out, before it's too late!
Kit: https://store.gingerscraps.net/Visit-A-Park-full-kit.html
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Bragbook: https://store.gingerscraps.net/One-Crazy-Kid-Bragbook-by-Trixie-Scraps-Designs.html
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For IC&I customers, Markham's Waterworks Division provides: support services to builders/contractors for new & existing construction; commissioning of new water mains; and utility locate services.
Markham sells water in bulk at current water rate plus 10% through one of the two automated bulk water sales stations located at 555 Miller Avenue and 7956 Old 9th Line. A key fob is required and it can be purchased at 8100 Warden Avenue Environmental Services Department office. Commercial water suppliers or contractors can hook up to the water station at Miller Avenue 24 hours a day, while at 9th Line Monday to Friday from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm only. Access to the station requires customers to have a 75 mm (3 inch) female end cam-couple hose assemble to enable hook up (customer to supply their own hose).
Fire hydrants are another source of bulk water. The use of a hydrant requires a hydrant meter permit which can be obtained from the City. Water purchased from a fire hydrant is sold at the same rate as the automated water station. Please contact Markham's Contact Centre at 905-475-4862.
The use of a fire hydrant without a permit is illegal and can cause damage to the hydrant, as well as allowing potential contaminants to enter our drinking water.
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Weekly links February 28: Malaria not so bad after all, people don't mind if you only give stuff to their neighbors, and more…
- Reminder: Today (Friday 28th) is the deadline for submissions to the World Bank's ABCDE conference. While the title of the conference is "The Role of Theory in Development Economics", they are looking for a broad range of "papers on innovative ways that analytical and deductive methods, as well as issues of methodology such as the use of randomizations, can be used in development.".
- On the IDB Development that Works blog, a discussion of how randomization was done in public for a water project in Bolivia: ""Dear fellow companions, the municipality of Sica Sica has changed. Things are no longer like they used to be. Today, with you all, we will select (beneficiaries) in a transparent manner, without the Mayor or the Municipal Council selecting the beneficiaries according to their preferences."…Those words set up the tone of what was to come, a thorough defense of random assignment through public lottery as a just and equal mechanism to allocate program resources."
- An update on the ultra-poor graduation pilots from the CGAP blog: Yale Economics Professor Dean Karlan shared findings from six of the randomized controlled evaluations being conducted to evaluate the CGAP-Ford graduation pilot sites
- GiveDirectly reports on an experiment it did to assess whether "saturation" or giving almost everyone in a village grants reduces tension and leads to less gaming than their current approach of targeting only those with thatched roofs. It didn't.
- The long-term (since 1500!) effects of Malaria – Georgetown Public Policy review summarizes new work by David Weil and Emilio Depetris-Chauvin: "Using the prevalence of sickle cell anemia (which provides some immunity against malaria) derived from historical records, they estimate malarial severity to create an index for the malaria burden in the past. They then model its impact on development in sub-Saharan Africa, the region with the highest prevalence of malaria today…." With the rather controversial finding that "areas with high malaria burdens are more likely to have high population density, prosperous local communities, and complex settlement patterns. One explanation for this, as the authors explain, is "malaria deaths are relatively low cost… there was little to no negative impact on economic development, mostly because many of the deaths were among young children who couldn't contribute to an area's development and in whom limited community resources had been invested relative to adults"
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Cairo: Egyptian security officials say authorities have confiscated trucks carrying explosive warheads and a variety of small-arms ammunition smuggled from Libya.
They say authorities seized the pick-up trucks, carrying some 108 warheads for Soviet-designed Grad rockets, near Marsa Matrouh, 430 kilometers (270 miles) northwest of Cairo on the Mediterranean coast. Suspected smugglers had fled the scene.
Officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren`t authorised to brief reporters.
A flood of weapons from Libya has added to security concerns in Egypt, where police have yet to fully return to their duties since last year`s uprising.
Smuggled weapons often fall into the hands of Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula, or pass via underground tunnels to the Gaza Strip, where combat between Hamas militants and Israel is currently ongoing.


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Asus EN8800GT TOP Review
When looking for a video card there are several types of users. There are the people that look only at the price, the intermediate gamer that wants the high-end cards, but has to settle somewhere in the middle and finally, the all-out 'must have the latest and greatest' card on the planet, regardless of cost. While there are are some cards that fall higher on the scale than the 8800GT series of video cards, there are not really that many. This makes the 8800GT fall right into the bread-basket of the intermediate gamer, as well as the higher-end crowd. Able to play many of todays DX10 games at high settings with acceptable frame rates, the G92 8800GT is that card that everyone wants from a cost/performance perspective.
The EN8800GT TOP from Asus, is just one of the G92 8800GT cards on the market. What sets it apart from the crowd? The Asus EN8800GT TOP is the "Top Overclocking Performance" version - the highest performance version Asus sell of this series. Featuring GPU core clock speeds of 700MHZ and GDDR3 memory speeds of 1010MHz, these clock speeds represent increases of 100MHz on the core and 110MHz on the memory over stock speeds. In addition, this card uses what Asus calls the "Glacinator" cooling solution to keep both the GPU core and memory cool. What's so special about this design? Asus clams it keeps the GPU seven degrees Celsius cooler than a stock reference solution. Let's see just how these features impact the performance of this 8800GT video card.
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The Asus EN8800GT TOP version comes in a fairly large package. The front panel of the box highlights the fact that this card comes with the full version of Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts, one of the newest DX 10 games currently available. Additional items highlighted, are the fact that this card is the TOP (Top Overclocking Performance) model. What this means is that this is the manufacturers factory direct overclocked model, where the GPU and memory clock speeds have been increased from the baseline 600MHz on the core to 700MHz and the memory clock speeds have been increased from 900MHz to 1000MHz - both substantial gains from stock speeds. The back of the box lists the additional 'Powerful' features, as well as the benefits of the bundled software. The front of the box has a flip-up tab that highlights the benefits of the Gamer OSD overclocking tool and provides information about the game, 'Company of Heroes'.
The EN8800GT comes in a foam block that protects the card on all sides. The documentation and accessories are bundled into the right-hand side of the box. A full foam enclosure is so much better than some of the other methods manufacturers use to package their cards.
The bundle of accessories in this package includes the Company of Hereos Opposing Fronts disk, a driver disk,a disk containing the manual, a quick setup guide, a dual 4 pin Molex to 6 pin PCIe adapter, DVI to VGA adapter, S-Video to composite adapter and a handy carrying case for your CDs and DVDs.


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Does this world belong to us or do we belong to this world?
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There was a time when all people in the world were trying to conquer it and rule over it. In other words they were trying to make the world "theirs." Many of us today believe that man has improved since then, but have we really?
We still treat the world as if something is ours alone and we will do whatever we want with it. We still use (actually exploit) resources as though they were made only for our consumption. It's high time we realise that this world, our Mother Earth, was not made for us alone but rather we were made to fit into this world. In other words, Mother Earth does not belong to us but instead we belong to her and this "ownership" has some responsibilities linked to it.
We cannot leave this world in a state that is worse than what it was when we entered it. Here comes the importance of sustainable development. Our future generations should at least be able to live a life that is as good as ours if not better. So let us join hands in promoting and exercising sustainable development.


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Teasmade Alarm Clock Wakes You Up to Tea
Mornings are not our favorite time of the day. Often when the alarm clock rings there is nothing that we are less interesting in than getting out of bed. A great alarm clock can help with not only waking us up, but also in helping to get the day off to a great start.We have seen and blogged about some interesting alarm clocks before, like the Nature Lover's and voice controlled Moshi alarm clock, this alarm clock boasts a little something extra.
A remake of a classic product that has been around for over 70 years, the Teasmade not only functions as a nifty alarm clock, it also brews you a fine cup of tea. Made by Swan, the Teasmade is an alarm clock with a built in rapid water boiling function that allows you to wake to a fresh pot of a tea.
To use the Teasmade, you put tea bag into the pot the night before, fill the kettle with water, and then set the alarm. Incredibly simple and easy, we wonder why we do not see more of these in stores.
The clean design of the Teasmade would blend well in any modern home and we like its small footprint and cute LCD face. We imagine that waking up on cold rainy days would be all that much more pleasant with a fresh cup of tea at our bedside....oh how we would love a Teasmade!
Since this is a remake of a product that has been around for quite some time, we would love to hear from readers who have any experience with a Teasmade. Have you ever used a Teasmade?
The Teasmade STM100N2 sells for about $88. For more information, check out Swan.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Lipscomb men's cross country team made a statement Saturday morning, winning the Vanderbilt Invite by 15 points at Percy Warner Park.
The Bisons finished with 95 total points as Mississippi State tallied 110 and fellow Atlantic Sun foe East Tennessee State received 112 points.
"That was a lot of fun," Bill Taylor, director of cross country and track and field, said. "Coach (Daniel) Goetz told them to go out slower and I think they took him more literal than he intended. We were kind of scared early and about a mile into the race, our pack was in about 100th place.
"I scooted up the course, and was going to let the guys know how far behind they were at the two-mile mark, but by the time they got there they had surged hard. It was an incredible response to an early mistake, the kind of adjustment great teams make."
Freshman Juan Gonzalez led the Purple and Gold with a 14th place finish crossing the line in 25.31.31.
"Juan ran an amazing freshman 8K debut," Taylor said. "25:31 on our course is incredible. This is a very tough course and set the school course record today."
Sophomore Daniel Gardner was just behind Gonzalez in 15th place with a time of 25.32.39. Freshman Christian Freeman crossed the line in 25.34.30, good for 18th place.
"Daniel has had major allergy problems this week, but went for it and ran an amazing race," Taylor said. "Christian also ran a terrific freshman 8K, despite cross training the past two weeks with a light foot injury."
The remaining top seven for Lipscomb was Tim Muller in 22nd, John Kingstedt 26th and Isaiah Greer 28th.
"I could go on and on," Taylor said. "We just loved the fight these guys put up and we are excited because we can get so much better.
"We had six guys run faster than any Lipscomb guy has run our home course before. I really think the sky is the limit for this men's team. Today was a big day in the program's history. We need to build on it."
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West Texas Centers wins award recognizing safety
West Texas Center employees drive more than 75,000 miles a month in rural West Texas providing care to more than 3,200 people.Their superior record of safety earned West Texas Centers the Betty Hardwick Excellence in Risk Management Award presented by the Texas Council Risk Management Fund."Betty (Hardwick) had a high passion for good risk management and she would be most proud of (West Texas) center for their accomplishment," said Greg Womack, Program Executive Texas Council Risk Management Fund.The Texas Council Risk Management Fund is a self-insurance pool formed by the Texas Council of Community Centers providing workers' compensation, liability and property coverage programs for its member centers. The Texas Council of Community Centers provides an organization through which 39 Community Centers can work together as a public system serving Texans with mental illness, intellectual developmental disabilities, and chemical dependency.Of the 39 Community Centers, 29 belong to the Texas Council Risk Management Fund, Womack said."This award is data driven," Womack said. "It's the top award that the fund presents on an annual basis.""We look at workers compensation, liability and property loss, claims experience. It's an overall blend of everything that we do within the fund and when we look at all the claims experience it suggests that the center is doing better than any of the other centers when it comes to their claims experience.""Especially considering the number of miles they drive, that the center would be on top in respect to overall claims experience the center is to be highly commended for that."The award was presented to West Texas Centers CEO Shelley Smith, LMSW, and Chief Financial Officer Guy White during the 28th Annual Texas Council Conference held June 26-28 in Dallas."This center is recognized for demonstrating superior safety and loss prevention practices as reflected in its loss record with the workers' compensation, liability and property programs," Smith said. "I am proud of so many things that our employees do and this shows that they take safety very seriously.""It's remarkable that we have had little loss for the amount of driving we do whether it is in our personal vehicles or West Texas Centers vehicles," Smith said. "This speaks to the type of people we have employed across our 23-county region."The Texas Council Risk Management Fund is governed by a nine-member Board of Trustees elected by the community centers. West Texas Centers Trustee Van L.York sits on the Texas Council Risk Management Fund Board of Trustees."We were very excited to be recognized for achieving such a clean record in the area of risk management," said Minnie Gonzalez, West Texas Centers Risk Management Director. "The award speaks highly of how our Center operates business on a day-to-day basis."West Texas Centers serves people with behavioral and developmental disabilities along with an Early Childhood Intervention program and their families in Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Fisher, Gaines, Garza, Glasscock, Howard, Kent, Loving, Martin, Mitchell, Nolan, Reeves, Runnels, Scurry, Terrell, Terry, Upton, Ward, Winkler and Yoakum counties.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Sep 2012 22:41 UTC, submitted by Hiev
"This is an introductory overview post for the Linux Graphics Stack, and how it currently all fits together. I initially wrote it for myself after having conversations with people like Owen Taylor, Ray Strode and Adam Jackson about this stack. I had to go back to them every month or so and learn the stuff from the ground up all over again, as I had forgotten every single piece. I asked them for a good high-level overview document so I could stop bothering them. They didn't know of any. I started this one. It has been reviewed by Adam Jackson and David Airlie, both of whom work on this exact stack." Introductory or no, still pretty detailed.
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Sometimes you need diversity, for those times Linux is a perfect fit. Sometimes you don't, for those occasions OSX or Windows may that better tool.
As usual: use the correct tool for the problem at hand, not the other way around. If you want Linux to be like OS or Windows, then get Windows or OSX.
Linux great strength is its open nature and customization/options, that is also its biggest weakness. There are products/projects that are enabled by Linux, which would be impossible using proprietary closed systems, and of course viceversa also applies.


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New and innovative of restaurant interior design trends designed by Lifeforms Studio is very beautiful and attractive the guest. Absolutely, this olive and earth luxury restaurant interior layout can be perfect for home interior decorating ideas. With good food and elegant comfortable interior design can make people feel relax to have dinner or lunch. This luxury restaurant design use 1800sq ft areas with an eclectic palette of modern materials and bright colors to display the traditional essences found within the Mediterranean region. The addition of central features like the Lifeforms bespoke designed tables furniture, big playful wall graphics decor and garden balcony has resulted in a stylish and rich interior. For more detail about this modern luxury restaurant interior design with photos gallery, visit the architecture designer website here.
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Nov. 15, 2007
The Bisons were looking to bounce back after a disappointing trip to Iowa in which they lost to both Centenary College and Winston-Salem State. However, they could not find their first win of the season on Thursday night in the First Shot Exempt Tournament on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University.
The Bisons were defeated by the Mountaineers of Appalachian State 81-58 to fall to 0-3 on the season while Appalachian State improved to 1-1.
Both teams were coming off of loses and looking to improve. The Mountaineers had been beaten by Charlotte on Monday night 84-78.
Appalachian State took an early lead with a jump shot by Jeremy Clayton at the 18:54 mark of the first half. Thomas Pfaff would answer with two points of his own to tie the game at two.
However the Mountaineers stretched the lead out to nine points with another jump shot by Jeremy Clayton. This came with 13:10 left in the first half. Clayton had 14 points and 10 rebounds in the win over the Bisons.
Lipscomb would not go away quietly in the first half. Thanks to three pointers by both LaKory Daniels and Michael Lusk the Bisons pulled within three points with 11:12 to play in the first half.
The Mountaineers would continue to lead the Bisons up until the 5:20 mark of the first half. Daniels drained a three to give Lipscomb a 22-21 advantage over Appalachian State. It would wind up being the Bisons only lead of the game.
Appalachian State went on what proved to be a game changing 9-0 run to stretch their lead out to eight with 2:50 left to play in the first half.
At half time the Bisons trailed the Mountaineers 36-27
Simms had 13 points and Donte Minter had 8 points going into the locker room for half time for Appalachian State.
Pfaff led the Bisons with eight points at the end of the first half.
The second half belonged to the Mountaineers who went on an 8-3 run to start the half.
"We have got to be better defensively," said coach Scott Sanderson. "We were not good defensively at all in the second half."
Appalachian State took advantage of the Bisons poor second half defense by increasing their lead to 19 on a layup by Donald Simms with 12:10 to play in the half.
The Mountaineers would not look back as they rolled to an 81-58 victory over the Bisons.
Simms led all scorers with 20 points. Eduardo Bermudez backed him up with 16 points of his own.
Pfaff was one rebound shy of a double-double. He had 14 points and nine rebounds. Eddie Ard shot a dismal 2-15 from the field and ended up with only seven points. Freshman Adnan Hodzic had his best night of the season with 10 points and three rebounds.
Appalachian State shot 49 percent from the field. Lipscomb turned the ball over eighteen times and shot 34 percent from the field.
After the game Coach Sanderson said, "We can't focus on winning and losing right now. We have to focus on getting better."
The Bisons fall to 0-3 on the year. Appalachian State is 1-1
The Bisons next action is on Friday night in the second round of the First Shot Exempt Tournament when they take on the MTSU Blue Raiders. There will be no radio coverage on the Lipscomb Radio Network. On Saturday night the Bisons will finish the tournament by playin San Jose State. This game can be heard on the Lipscomb Radio Network directly following Memphis football.
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Christmas is over and I hope everyone had a wonderful day with loved ones – and that you got everything you wanted – and more – from Santa! We will be starting a new year very soon and most of us will be starting to think about our new year's resolutions.
New Year's resolutions can range in size. Some people decide to go all out and overhaul their image or lose a lot of weight, while some people just choose little changes such as cutting down on coffee consumption or making an effort to apply sunscreen each day. I know that especially in the last month or two I have been indulging a little too much in Christmas treats and fast food on the go, so my resolution is to clean up my eating.
Getting into a proper daily skin care routine is a fairly easy thing to do and puts you in the right direction when choosing to take care of your body and skin. Visit our website at www.zenmed.com and we will do all the work in choosing the best skincare routine for you! Simply fill in our questionnaire and you will receive a custom regime specially formulated by our team of experts. We offer systems ranging from basic skin care to specialty skin care issues such as acne and rosacea and none of our systems require a lot of time or too many steps.
Whatever your new year's resolutions are – best of luck, and remember with a little determination you can stick to it!


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American crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) are a shy and reclusive species. They live in coastal areas throughout the Caribbean, and occur at the northern end of their range in south Florida. They live in brackish or saltwater areas, and can be found in ponds, coves, and creeks in mangrove swamps. They are occasionally being encountered inland in freshwater areas of the SE Florida coast as a result of the extensive canal system.Like alligators, crocodiles are ectothermic, meaning they rely on external sources of heat to regulate their body temperature. Crocodiles control their body temperature by basking in the sun, or moving to areas with warmer or cooler air or water temperatures.A basking crocodile may be surprised by an approaching person and quickly (and noisily) enter the water. This behavior might startle the person, but it should not be misunderstood. Crocodiles would normally enter the water quietly; splashing away indicates that the crocodile is frightened.Crocodiles can also be seen sunning with their mouths open, or "gaping." This behavior is also related to regulating their body temperature, and does not mean that the crocodile is acting aggressively toward people.
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Some may consider this to be a hybrid of 191 and 230. Whatever you want to consider it, its better then 191.
This leak does not come with any EXE file, all we had were the files itself. So BBCrackman has created an installer. In order for this to work successfully you need to have 126.96.36.199 installed ON your PC. Does not have to be on your phone but it HAS to be installed on your PC. If you have ever installed one of his hybrids, you would know it usually works, you select the OS folder you want to install it to (so the files get copied over them). Same exact procedure.
1. If you do not already, install 188.8.131.52 onto your computer. - AFTER INSTALL, REMOVE QUINCY/RIM TOOLS
Click here to download 18.104.22.168
2. Run the installer for the 188.8.131.52.
3. You will want to select the 22.214.171.124 folder as the destination folder to write to. This destination may be different for some but the majority will be located at :
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4. Then hit next and it will 'confirm' your destination folder, then you hit next and the files will be copied into that folder.
5. Then run Apploader and you are done! I did notice that the "connecting to device" phase took a while.
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Happiness Lesson for Today: Letting Go!
By Maureen Healy
Happiness means learning how to let-go. It may be letting go of a relationship that didn't work, or career that isn't panning out. Sometimes we find ourselves hanging on for dear life and when the truth is that it is only in the miracle of letting-go that things can change. I speak from experience. I have done the normal human dance of hanging on to something or someone so tight that we miss other opportunities for real happiness.
But with time, I have learned how to genuinely move through life with more ease. I take lessons from all of these caterpillars around that have to let-go of their hairy bodies to become the beautiful butterflies they are destined to become. Yes, it's a little corny analogy but it's true for me – and true for you.
So today, I am sharing 5 Happiness Tips around Letting Go!
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We want our kids to feel the freedom to act a little silly sometimes.
After their Christmas Program practice a year and a half ago, I picked up G and Little Missy as kids flowed past me to their own parents. In the midst of the semi-melee, one of the directors (also a friend of mine) said that during practice, when the rest of the group had descended into giggling chaos, my two kids stood quietly among the noise, ready to get further instructions from the adults.
Then at one of G's first basketball practices this winter, Hubby watched the rest of G's team horse around and wrestle like boys do, but our son stood quietly, ready to get further instructions from his coaches.
At school, neither G nor Little Missy have had to move their pin down ever, which means that they've never been reprimanded strongly enough to move their clothes pin from the "behaving" to the "misbehaving" side of the classroom chart.
This is not a column wherein I pat myself on the back for stellar parenting. This is a column wherein I tell you that Hubby and I have ongoing conversations about how maybe we've drilled The Fear into them too strongly. Because we want our kids to feel the freedom to act a little silly sometimes.
The Christmas Program incident a year and a half ago made me proud but also made me wonder for the first time if our kids were too scared to occasionally be silly. Then G's basketball practice nearly confirmed it.
So I've been watching them, listening closely to their stories, trying to learn whether they're still running wild on the playground with friends, whether they giggle at lunch, or whether they're standing on the sidelines, watching all the fun.
I've joked to Hubby that we need the Gene Hackman character from "The Royal Tenenbaums" to come inject a little ornery into our kids: we need someone to run with them past the "No Running" sign onto their makeshift diving board and into the water; we need someone to sneak them onto the back of garbage trucks for a drive around the city. You know, ornery things that don't hurt anyone.
And Hubby and I would click our tongues and shake our heads in response as we'd say, "Well, don't do that again," but we'd really be glad that there's some good-natured spunk in our children.
Because Hubby and I want our kids to behave, to have the confidence to stand quietly among the rabble when it's time, but we also want our kids to run and scream on the playground and horse around with their friends.
The balance, you guys, the balance is what we're seeking for them. And if that isn't hard to find.


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Skyline Conference Golf Championship
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Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's golf team shot a school-record 289 in the first round of the Skyline Conference Championship at the Bethpage State Park - Red Course and lead St. Joseph's College by 37 strokes.
Senior Adam Larkin (Bellmore, N.Y.) and sophomore Scott Sessions (Pleasantville, N.Y.) are tied for first place after posting 1-over par 71's for the Rams. Sophomore Chris Brosi (Stony Brook, N.Y.), who is in third place, eagled the 16th hole and had a birdie on 18 for an opening round of 73. Senior Rich Kelly (Oceanside, N.Y.) is in fourth place after carding a 4-over 74, while junior Matt Pollock (Northport, N.Y.) recorded a first round 77.
The Sage Colleges (327) are in third place and both Mount Saint Mary and Purchase are tied for fourth with team-totals of 329.
The Rams begin play in tomorrow's final round at 9:40 a.m. The winning team receives the Skyline Conference's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division III Championships held at Grandover Resort in Greensboro, N.C. on May 13-16.
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Scientology 8-8008
By L. Ron HubbardHardcover
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The complete description of the behavior and potentials of a thetan , and textbook for the Philadelphia Doctorate Course and The Factors: Admiration & the Renaissance of Beingness lectures. As L. Ron Hubbard said, the book's title serves to fix in the mind of the individual a route by which he can rehabilitate himself, his abilities, his ethics and his goals—the attainment of infinity (8) by the reduction of the apparent infinity (8) of the MEST universe to zero (0) and the increase of the apparent zero (0) of one's own universe to infinity (8). Condensed herein are more than 80,000 hours of investigation, with a summarization and amplification of every breakthrough to date—and the full significance of those discoveries form the new vantage point of Operating Thetan.
It's seemingly everywhere, enforcing its command on every being, awaiting with pain any disobedience to its laws and commands—enforcing a constant struggle to survive for one and all: The MEST universe. Yet…it's not even there…it's only an agreed-upon "reality"…it's only an illusion.
Welcome to actuality. For if Dianetics is the owner's manual of the human mind, then Scientology 8-8008 is the owner's manual of you. Contained herein is the anatomy, character and unlimited potentials of a thetan:
- An overview of all previous books and their discoveries—all of them from the new vantage of 8-8008
- The anatomy of Space, Energy and Time—and how they have everything to do with the ability to Be, Do and Have
- The Table of Related Experiences—charting every type of cycle-of-action in the physical universe and in experience
- Perception—its relationship to energy and its rehabilitation through handling blackness
- The Chart of Attitudes—every column, its relationship to a being and the route upward through postulates alone
- The Factors—summation of the considerations and examinations of the human spirit and material universe
- Viewpoints, Dimension Points, Anchor Points—their very fundamental role in existence itself, for without them there would be none
- Universes—definition, description and anatomy…of all three
- And the means to disagree with the MEST universe and break its illusion—Creative, Postulate, Rising Scale, Give and Take and Certainty Processing
Here, then, is L. Ron Hubbard's epic journey—ransacking facsimiles on the whole track to expose the illusory "truth" of the MEST universe and the means to reduce its power to zero and increase one's own universe…to infinity.
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Carol Pinchefsky contemplates commercial skipping DVRs, and other tales of really good technology that vanished, in 7 Awesome Bits of Tech That Just Freakin' Disappeared. As Pinchefsky writes: "...It got me thinking about awesome technology that we somehow ditched. The airship? Awesome. Slide rules? Awesome awesome. Mir Space Station? Boss-level awesome. And now just thinking about wristwatches with calculators makes me suffer a sense of short-term nostalgia (as in Douglas Coupland's Generation X). Here are some of the coolest features and products that we've lost along the way to 2012.
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Soul Kiss Cocktail (No. 1)
1/6 Orange Juice. (1/2 oz Orange Juice)
1/6 Dubonnet. (1/2 oz Dubonnet Rouge)
1/3 French Vermouth. (1 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (1 oz Carpano Antica Vermouth)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
What a name, eh? We happened to be listening to Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings new CD while listening to this, if there is more appropriate music for mixing a "Soul Kiss", I don't know what it is.
Most importantly, should you order this cocktail during the next Savoy Night at Alembic Bar, May 23rd, 2010? You could certainly do worse, and I think especially with the Punt e Mes we play with at Alembic this will be a rocking choice. It is not a super stiff drink, more of a slow start to the evening or something to even your keel after a couple big drinks. Nice and tasty, though.
This post is one in a series documenting my ongoing effort to make all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book, starting at the first, Abbey, and ending at the last, Zed.


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When the end draws near and prospects darken, and polls solidify in the wrong direction, and the base sinks lower than the toenail clippings of a Galapagos turtle, does the practiced political operative give up? No sir, they whip out their secret weapon. Not the candidate's spouse. The real ace up the sleeve -- The October Surprise.
Every campaign has one. Or more. It's a piece of opposition research stashed away for a rainy day. For safe-keeping, behind glass, like a fire axe: "Open in the event of impending doom." Something so incendiary it's concealed in an asbestos-lined box buried deep in the back of the campaign manager's underwear drawer.
A last-minute revelation guaranteed to rip the skin off the opponent's slick exterior and expose him or her to be the morally bereft, fire-breathing extremist everyone was secretly afraid they were. Then again, it could be a tax cut or lavish promise or a grandstanding, self-inflating shot of adrenaline. "You never suspected I was this good, did you?"
Even front-runners need to be prepared. After all, one good October Surprise deserves another.
"They pull a knife. You pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago Way. And that's how you get Romney."
The October Surprise is the joker in the American electoral deck of cards. Dealt under the table and below the belt. After minds have been made up and money spent, a well-played OS can turn a game around quicker than three crews of NFL replacement refs. Here's a sample of the sort of shenanigans we can expect in the coming month.
OCTOBER 8: Barack Obama announces a deal with Jamba Juice to place coupons for free fruit smoothies on the backs of all 1040 forms.
OCTOBER 11: Immediately after vice presidential debate, Joe Biden disappears for rest of campaign. Nobody, including family and personal staff, notices. The police don't suspect foul play. Then again, they don't rule it out either.
OCTOBER 13: Mitt Romney vows, if elected, to write a $250 personal check to every man, woman and child in America. Fox News calls this a game changer.
OCTOBER 15: Donald Trump unveils a cave painting in Provence, France that portrays a figure that looks eerily like Barack Obama descending from what appears to be a space ship.
OCTOBER 18: On way to a rally in Langley, Va., Barack Obama stops motorcade to run into burning building, saving 3-year-old twins.
OCTOBER 19: Inspired by Larry Ellison's purchase of the Hawaiian Island of Lanai, the Koch brothers offer $200 billion for Ohio. As is.
OCTOBER 21: On the way to church, Romney personally beats off masked bullies who are attempting to impale a litter of puppies with nail guns. Shar Pei puppies. The cutest kind.
OCTOBER 24: Blurry YouTube video surfaces showing Barack Obama chain smoking cigarettes in the loading bay of a Toledo convention center before a fund raiser.
OCTOBER 28: The State Comptroller of Ohio announces the Koch brothers sale cannot go through due to the fact that George Soros has already acquired 60 percent of the state.
OCTOBER 30: The LA Times releases grainy time-lapse photographic evidence of Mitt Romney at a Portsmouth, N.H. coffee shop downing three triple espressos.
The New York Times says five-time Emmy- nominated comedian and writer Will Durst "is quite possibly the best political comic working in the country today." E-mail Will at email@example.com.


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Ecosystem Restoration & Management
What is Ecosystem Restoration?
When you visit a park and reflect on the trees, rocks, landscapes, and incredible views, you are viewing and appreciating ecosystems. Ecosystems are collections of plants, animals, and micro-organisms interacting among themselves and with their habitat. While most ecosystems are hard to define and draw rigid boundaries around, scientists characterize them by their rock and soil types, by water features such as streams and ponds, and by the common plant and animal species which make their homes within these areas.
What is Ecosystem Management?
Ecosystem management brings an integrated perspective to natural resource management. It takes a "big-picture" approach, replacing short term, single species management with multi-species, long-term and large-scale approaches. For example, instead of managing for deer and elk to maximize viewing opportunities, the National Park Service manages for the entire ecosystem, considering not only deer, elk and other herbivore populations, but also vegetation, water flow, and predators and rare species. Ecosystem management also recognizes the influence of natural disturbances such as fire and windstorms, accepting that natural ecosystems are dynamic and change over time.
Why do we need to restore ecosystems in National Parks?
Logging, grazing, mining, and other human activities have left a legacy of non-native vegetation, eroded soils, and altered fire patterns in our national parks. Some former park management techniques, such as fire suppression and elimination of predators, have led to declines in the integrity of the original ecosystems. In addition, invasive species, pollution, and climate change continuously threaten these systems.
The goal of ecosystem restoration is not to replace a static picture of the past. Instead, the National Park Service works to remove the barriers to ecosystem recovery. These barriers include biological or chemical contaminants, drained wetlands, channelized rivers, alteration of fire patterns, or lack of species to re-populate areas of parks. Whole-ecosystem approaches to management ensure not only the survival of species and scenic vistas, but also allows these systems to continuously evolve and change.


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As an undrafted rookie, Keron Henry isn't the sort to take much for granted. So as his Saints teammates spent part of the summer shopping for houses and lining up places to rent in and around New Orleans, Henry put his own residential search off until he could be more certain he'd need it.
"I was just starting to think about getting a place," Henry said Friday. "I would have done it in the next couple of weeks."
Henry, of course, knows he was one of the lucky ones. Only his plans were destroyed.
With Hurricane Katrina having ripped through New Orleans, leaving the city uninhabitable for citizens and NFL teams alike, Henry and the Saints were trying to balance the horror of the tragedy, the loss of many of their own homes and the pales-in-comparison prospect of playing an entire season on the road.
The closest they'll have to a home for the foreseeable future is a downtown San Antonio hotel. Most of the players arrived at their new headquarters on buses at 5:30 Friday morning, about six hours after a 13-6 preseason loss to the Oakland Raiders in California.
Many of the Saints players and staffers had family members with them by Friday afternoon. And while just about everyone found it difficult to focus on football, those who had called New Orleans home for many years were particularly shaken.
"There are guys who had a lot invested in that city, in terms of time and friends and people," said third-year tight end Zachary Hilton, who grew up in Maryland. "All of us took it hard, but I think some of those guys took a little harder."
The Saints also are struggling to get a clear picture of what the future holds for the team. They will play their season opener in Carolina on Sept. 11, and on Friday the league announced that their home opener against the New York Giants, scheduled for Sept. 18, will be moved to East Rutherford, N.J.
But just because there aren't any games planned at the Alamodome doesn't mean the Saints won't be in San Antonio for a while. Due to the hotel rooms and practice facilities available, the Saints could use the city as a home base all season long.
Already on Friday, there were signs pointing to a possible extended stay. A team of about eight Saints staffers went to the team's offices and training facility in Metairie, La., near New Orleans to load three 40-foot trucks with computers, athletic equipment and other supplies to bring back to San Antonio. Players who brought families with them were told to at least consider enrolling children in area schools.
Thus far, though, the only thing the Saints know for sure is that they will stay in their hotel and hold practices at the SASD Spring Sports Complex until they leave for Carolina next Saturday. Whether or not they return here has not been decided.
"They told us this was the best place for us to be right now," Henry said. "But we have no idea how long we're going to be here."
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The Hebrew Bible, or the Tanakh (as it's called in Hebrew), was written almost exclusively in the land of Israel and serves as the foundational document of Judaism. Judaism as depicted in the Bible focuses on life in the land of Israel and, despite the destruction of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem in 70 C.E. by the Romans and the subsequent forced exile of most Jews from the land, the land of Israel always remained central to Judaism and Jewish identity.
During the almost 2,000 years of exile from Israel until modern technology and political circumstances made a mass return feasible, Judaism continued to see its life in the diaspora bound up with a future in the ancient homeland. Since so much of those 2,000 years in the diaspora included much persecution of Jews, the attachment to the modern State of Israel as a haven for the Jewish people is particularly strong.
About four months ago, I made reservations on El Al Israel Airlines to visit Israel for two weeks from July 20 to Aug. 3rd. At the time, of course, I had no idea that I would be there during a war. The primary purpose of my trip was to see family and friends because it had been eight years since my previous visit.
The first time I had been to Israel, I was 8 years old and arrived by ship from New York, a trip similarly planned around family. My parents were from Poland, and of those few family members who survived the Holocaust, most of them lived in Israel. Between my first and current trip, I had lived in Israel for five years and visited on a number of other occasions.
What you experience inside Israel is very different from what one is exposed to in the media outside its borders. At the same time, while inside Israel you have exposure to how the world media covers the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.
Tragically, the peoples of this region are not strangers to war and violence. Almost every day I was in Tel Aviv, the sirens warning of incoming missiles sounded. We had 90 seconds to go to the closest shelter. We ran to the shelter and waited until we heard the explosions of the "Iron Dome" intercepting the incoming missiles. The louder the sound of the explosion upon impact, the closer the missile was to where we were. There were other times during the day when we would hear the explosions of interception without having heard a siren because the missiles were not coming in to Tel Aviv itself, but rather toward smaller cities around it. But we could still hear the intercepted missiles explode. After the explosions we heard from our shelters, we'd wait for the debris to land, because the debris of missiles caused serious injuries.
Afterward, life continued mostly as usual, at least in the cities not closest to the borders. While watching the news about the situation in Gaza, which completely preoccupied the Israeli channels, during the course of the broadcasts you would hear announcements interjected over the news programs of where in the country sirens warning of incoming missiles were going off.
The closer you live to Gaza, the less time you have to run to shelters. The people in Sderot, for example, which is right near the border, have 10 or 15 seconds. They've been living like that since Israel left Gaza in 2005, Hamas violently took power, and thousands and thousands of missiles have been launched.
Throughout Israel, when houses are constructed, they're built with shelters. I went out to dinner with my cousin and she looked around to ascertain where we would run if the sirens went off during our meal. We were eating in a popular Arab-run restaurant on a main thoroughfare in Tel Aviv. The next night I was walking with another cousin on a pedestrian walkway on top of the Carmel mountain section of Haifa with a view of the Haifa harbor, the Mediterranean and the coastline to the north, and we would hear young Israeli Jews speaking Hebrew and young Israeli Arabs speaking Arabic. From this depiction you might think that peace reigned in the Middle East, but, in truth, everyone was very aware of the conflict.
In Israel in "normal" times, there is always an enormous amount of political debate with many parties represented in the Israeli Knesset (Israel's Parliament) from Communist and far left Zionist parties and Arab Israeli parties to centrist parties, religious parties, and right wing Zionist parties.
In contrast to earlier times, when you might find half a million people united behind Peace Now protesting the government's policies in the West Bank and Gaza, now the Jewish population was unusually united in seeing Hamas as holding the Palestinian people hostage, using civilians as human shields, building tunnels to invade Israel instead of using those materials for schools and shelters, etc. As Israeli citizens were well aware of the tragic death of innocent civilians, they saw this as the result of cynical policies of Hamas that valued martyrdom of its populace over saving lives by regularly using civilians as shields for their combatants.
It is hard not to lose hope in a solution to a conflict that has continued for over 80 years. But another thing that foreign media neglects is the over 100 organizations in Israel working on reconciliation between Israel and Palestine. The voices of moderation and mutual recognition too often get drowned out in the media by the extremists, but there are people on both sides of the borders who work toward fulfilling the vision of the prophet who walked the land of Israel over 2600 years ago declaring that "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they study war anymore."
Rabbi Mark Elber, Temple Beth El, Fall River