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It's official. A Kentucky man, accused of robbing banks in six states, will be coming back to the bluegrass state.
Tony Artrip waived extradition at a hearing in Pittsburgh. He was arrested there on Monday after a standoff with police.
Artrip escaped from the Grant County Jail in June and was featured on the U.S. Marshal's 15 Most Wanted list.
Marshals say he'll be brought back to Lexington to face federal robbery and escape charges.
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) - Asked if he was happy Monday afternoon, UK coach John Calipari said he was. "Yeah, team's making progress, team's making progress and that's all I can ask." Coming off Saturday's 75-53 win over Auburn, Kentucky heads to Alabama Tuesday night.
After beating Tennessee last week, Calipari said his team wasn't going to "whomp" anybody. Things changed as the Cats face the challenge of playing 4 out of 5 games on the road. "It was hard to imagine," Calipari said Monday. At Auburn, Kentucky showed the intensity and teamwork to dominate and he liked the chest-bumping his team showed Saturday night. "It's hard to chest-bump when you're getting sand kicked in your face, you're getting thrown to the floor and they're grabbing balls out of your hand."
Nerlens Noel was named SEC Freshman of the Week for his play against Tennessee and Auburn. Noel averaged 11 points, 9 rebounds and 6.5 blocked shots in the two games. The 6-10 big man saw progress over the weekend. "Just beating them by that much, I mean, definitely know we're capable of it. Especially the execution down the stretch, we know we're capable of being a disciplined team when we need it."
Calipari singled out Archie Goodwin for his performance against the Tigers. "Archie Goodwin played the best game hes played all year, why? Because he didn't take eight bad shots. If he had made two free throws that he missed, he would have scored almost as many as he scores, taking all those bad shots."
Kentucky is likely to again be without freshman Willie Cauley-Stein. Cauley-Stein missed Saturday's game after undergoing undergoing a procedure on his knee. Tipoff for Kentucky-Alabama is 9:00 p.m. The game will be televised by ESPN.
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HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. (AP) - Firefighters say a Highland Heights boy and girl saved their mother's life when their house burned early Monday.
Liam Ostendorf is 9 years old and his sister Olivia is 13. They were awake playing video games and watching TV at 3 a.m. when they smelled smoke.
Olivia looked out the window and saw flames, presumably coming from the basement. The two woke their mother and all three got out of the house safely.
The Kentucky Enquirer reports () firefighters arrived quickly, but the house already was engulfed in flames.
The Ostendorfs lost everything.
Mother Carla Ostendorf said it was "heartbreaking" to have lost family photos and things her children had made over the years. But she is thankful for her children's quick actions.
Ostendorf said, "They're my little heroes."
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ATLANTA (AP) - Authorities say 29 students and two adults have been taken to hospitals after 500 students were evacuated from an Atlanta elementary school amid concerns about carbon monoxide in the building.
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It's the start of a new school year, and safety is a top priority.
School's been out for the summer, but now it is time for students to head back to class, meaning lots more cars will pack Highway 25E twice a day.
"It's nerve-wracking the first day," said Darrell York.
York is a bus driver. He's been driving for many years.
"My first bus stop will be up here in a minute," said York.
Day one of the school year means a few empty seats though.
"the first day a lot of parents bring them," said York.
With buses on the road and cars lining up, that adds up to extra traffic on the highway.
"Everyone needs to slow down, and everybody needs to watch out especially in this time of year," said Margie Hensley, a grandparent.
Hensley said she worries about people speeding down Highway 25E.
"Use caution when they enter a school zone - reduce their speed," said Shane Jacobs, with Kentucky State Police.
Police said many people do not realize that school is back in session.
And school leaders point out traffic tends to remain tied up until families get in a routine.
"Be patient with us. There is a lot of traffic in the afternoon and morning," said Greg Wilson, Principal of Bell Central School.
That's a sure sign that lots of precious cargo could be crossing the road right in front of you.
Police said over the next month they will be checking speed in these school zones.
School leaders in Bell County conduct safety training at the beginning of the year with some of the youngest students to make sure they know how to safely get on and off the bus.
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Camden, NJ (AP via USA Today) --, local.
Sexual relationships between teachers and students are not uncommon, but what distinguished the alleged events at as the according to Camden County Prosecutor Warren Faulk.
"These charges constitute individual personal, moral, legal and ethical failure," Faulk said at a news conference Thursday..
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
The slick, ladylike uniform takes an unexpected turn..
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Anyone traveling with a Virgo need not wear a watch, since the Virgin has an internal (and external) clock which hums to perfection.. Better yet, call it a rhythm, for hitting the road with these folks will be a delicious mix of sightseeing, knowledge-gathering and good, clean fun.
And heaven help the one who upsets this apple cart! Virgos love this sense of order, thank you very much, meticulously planning their trips well in advance. These folks want to experience as many things as possible and will try and fit in all in on every trip, the better to get their money's worth. The major museums would certainly be visited in Florence, while the best Cajun bets would be savored in The Big Easy.
Looks count, too, which is why the Virgin's luggage is always nice and the day's attire is both clean and pressed. Although they enjoy traveling with a partner, Virgos are also perfectly happy to hit the road alone. Whatever the case, it will be a sensible journey!
Discover Daily Illumination -- a great tarot reading to start or end each day. Click here for a free sample from Astrology.com.
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DOVER, Del. (AP) - State lawmakers are gathering in Dover to convene a new legislative session. The 147th session of the Delaware General Assembly..
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Intersection Segment | Dick and Lou Talk Florida Committee Assignments
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
By: Mark Simpson
January 9, 2013 | WMFE - U-S Representative John Mica was a strong advocate of SunRail and other Central Florida projects as chairman of the congressional Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Now Mica's moving to the Government Operations Subcommittee.
This week on Intersection 90.7's Mark Simpson talked with political commentators Dick Batchelor and Lou Frey about the subcommittee.
Lou Frey led off.
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A new study backs up the idea that if you smile, you'll live longer.
For the study, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine's Institute for Aging Research developed a questionnaire to identify personality traits in adults from 95 to 107 years old.
They found that those who live longest tended to have a positive attitude for life and a willingness to express emotion, rather than bottle it up.
Researchers said that causes less stress and gets people on the right track to living better.
The researchers said the study indicates that genes are not the only determining factor in how long someone lives.
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REMEMBER LOS ALAMOS
Not so fast, Wen Ho Lee
Trulock: He deserved to be on suspect list, 'given his track record'
Wen Ho Lee may have been able to avoid more serious charges of injuring the U.S. and
aiding a foreign nation by pleading
guilty to one felony count of mishandling classified nuclear data, but
the former Los Alamos scientist still has a lot of explaining to do,
says the former Energy Department counterintelligence chief who
originally put Lee on a list of spy suspects.
Lee was caught downloading codes covering the entire history of the
U.S. nuclear weapons program — including valuable testing data — from
a secret lab network, and copying them onto 10 portable computer tapes.
Seven of them are still missing.
The plea deal, struck yesterday, removed the more serious charges
against Lee, now free from jail, accusing him of stealing secret nuclear
data with the intent of harming the U.S.
In exchange, Lee must now, finally, tell U.S. prosecutors and FBI
national security agents why he copied such highly sensitive
information, and what he’s done with the missing tapes.
Lee’s supporters cheered the plea bargain as vindication for the
ethnic-Chinese computer scientist. They claim it’s proof the FBI never
really had a case against him and targeted him only because of his race.
But Notra Trulock, the former head of Energy counterspying, insists
the government in fact did have a strong case — but bungled it.
“This case went to the FBI in 1996. It has been their case since that
time. They simply did not pursue it with any real vigor or conviction,”
Trulock told WorldNetDaily. “So it’s no surprise” that the Lee case fell
apart.
Chinese army intelligence stole design secrets to every nuclear
warhead deployed in the U.S. arsenal, including the prized W-88
mini-warhead developed at Los Alamos. Much of the espionage, in fact,
occurred at Los Alamos.
The U.S. intelligence community first discovered the devastating
espionage in 1995. Much of it took place at the U.S. weapons labs over
the past three decades, but mostly during the ’90s.
Trulock says it’s a “complete travesty” that, after five years on the
case, the Clinton administration has still not been able to get to the
bottom of the spying.
As for Lee, Trulock says he was not investigated just because of his
race, but because of his “track record.”
“I don’t know if Lee is guilty or not; that was for a jury to
decide,” he said. “He was on our original list (of a dozen suspects). To
not put him on (the list) would have been negligent, given his track
record.”
The national media have never fully reported the FBI’s case for
probable cause, when in 1997 it asked the Justice Department for a
warrant to electronically monitor Lee and search his computer. In an
extremely rare refusal, Attorney General Janet Reno turned the
FBI down cold — not once but twice.
As a result, Lee not only stayed on the job, but was promoted and
given access to even more secret data, allowing him the time and
opportunity to download and remove from the lab the equivalent of
400,000 pages of data.
In the FBI’s original request, Lee’s “track record” is exposed.
Agents suspected Lee had ample opportunity to leak secrets about U.S.
nuclear warheads, including the W-88, during numerous contacts that he
and his China-born wife, Sylvia, had with key Chinese officials.
The information compiled by the FBI in support of its warrant
application and presented to Reno included the following (according to a
1999 report released jointly by Sens. Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman):
- “DOE (Department of Energy) counterintelligence and weapons
experts had concluded that there was a great probability that the W-88
information had been compromised between 1984 and 1988 at the nuclear
weapons division of the Los Alamos
laboratory.
- “It was standard PRC (People’s Republic of China) intelligence
tradecraft to focus particularly upon targeting and recruitment of
ethnic Chinese living in foreign countries (e.g., Chinese-Americans).
- (Los Alamos National Laboratory), since they ‘have better
access than PRC intelligence personnel to scientists and other
counterparts at the United States National Laboratories.’
- “Sylvia Lee (Wen Ho Lee’s wife and a former Los Alamos employee) co-workers.
- “In 1986, Wen Ho Lee and his wife traveled to China on LANL
business to deliver a paper on nuclear weapons-related science to a
symposium in Beijing. He visited the Chinese laboratory — the Institute
for Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) — that
designs the PRC’s nuclear weapons.
- “The Lees visited the PRC — the IAPCM — on LANL business again
in 1988.
- “It was standard PRC intelligence tradecraft, when targeting
ethnic Chinese living overseas, to encourage travel to the ‘homeland’ –. FBI agents speculated that this payment might
have been for tickets for an unreported side trip across the border into
the PRC.
- “Though Wen Ho Lee had visited IAPCM in both 1986 and 1988 and
had filed ‘contact reports’ claiming to recount all of the Chinese
scientists he met there, he had failed to disclose certain information
that the FBI deemed significant.
- “Wen Ho Lee worked on specialized computer codes at Los Alamos –
so-called ‘legacy codes’ related to nuclear testing data — that were a
particular target for Chinese intelligence.
- “The FBI learned that during a visit to Los Alamos by scientists
from IAPCM, Lee had discussed certain unclassified (but weapons-related) ‘Lag. (The FBI closed this investigation of Lee in 1984.)
- “The FBI, as noted above, had begun another investigation into
Lee in the early 1990s, before the W-88 compromise came to light. This
investigation was based upon an FBI investigative lead that could
reasonably be interpreted to indicate that Lee had provided significant
assistance to the PRC.
- “The FBI obtained a copy of a note on IAPCM letterhead dated 1987
listing three LANL reports by their laboratory publication number. On
this note, in English, was a handwritten comment to ‘Linda’ saying
‘(t)he Deputy Director of this Institute asked for)
these paper(s). His name is Dr. Zheng Shaotang. Please check if they are
unclassified and send to them. Thanks a lot. Sylvia Lee.’”
Lee’s release has also given critics of the bipartisan Cox
Commission, which investigated and exposed the Chinese espionage, more
ammunition. They reason that if the case against the allegedly lead
Chinese spy crumbled, then maybe there’s not much to the reports of
Chinese spying, either.
But Trulock isn’t swayed, arguing that it wasn’t just the Cox report
that came to such conclusions.
“Remember that the 1999 Intelligence Community Damage Assessment
declared that the Chinese had acquired nuclear weapons design
information,” he said. “Maybe these critics know something the IC
doesn’t.”
Related stories:
FBI fishes Senate e-mail for Trulock
Pooch main suspect in Trulock burglary
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Congratulations: The rest of your 2008 paychecks belong to you and your family. Enjoy!
Oh, you didn’t hear?
The “mainstream” media probably didn’t tell you, but July 16 was this year’s “Cost of Government Day.” As Americans for Tax Reform notes, that’s the date on which the average American has paid his share of the financial burden imposed by the spending and regulation that occurs on the federal, state and local levels.
And just think: It only took you a little over half a year to do it.
I wish I could say things are improving on the government-cost front, but they’re not. This year’s date is four days later than it was in 2007 (July 12), and 17 days later than the “Cost of Government Day” notched as recently as 2000. In fact, COGD has fallen later than July 16 only four other times since 1977.
Something’s clearly out of whack. And we know what it is – the free-spending ways of our elected officials in Washington. As Americans for Tax Reform notes in its report on Cost of Government Day, “The driving factor for this development is the fact that all components of the cost of government – federal spending, state and local spending, and regulation – are now increasing faster than national income.”
Unfortunately, the solution isn’t merely to get politicians to stop spending like teenagers equipped with their parents’ credit cards (although that would help). The fact is, the amount of money spent by Washington is already on track – automatically, without politicians lifting a finger – to go through the roof in the years ahead.
The reason? Our national entitlement programs are set to expand rapidly. According to researchers at The Heritage Foundation:
These middle-class retirement programs, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, will cause federal spending to jump by half, from 20 percent of the economy to 30 percent by 2035. This tsunami of spending is a major threat to limited government because it runs on autopilot pre-empted.
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(RNN) – The time may have come to determine how the devastation on the East Coast compares to hostage negotiations or skeletons in a candidate's closet.
For nearly half a century of presidential elections, people have been on the lookout for the October Surprise – a noteworthy event in the days leading up to the election that could possibly affect the outcome.
This year the biggest factor on Election Day could be Hurricane Sandy, which has killed dozens of people so far and threatens to leave countless people without power through next week.
The storm is still causing destruction as it moves farther inland and is leaving unanswered question as well as leveled buildings: How will people vote if there is still no power in their area? Will they even have the motivation to vote after dealing with destroyed property, injuries or death? If there is significant decrease in poll turnout, how will it affect the popular vote?
But the biggest speculation right now is whether Congress will exercise its power to set an alternate date for the election. The answer is "not likely."
"I think that's pretty difficult to expect," said Geoffrey Skelley, political analyst for the University of Virginia Center for Politics. "It could happen, but basically every state in the country would have to agree to go along with it, which might be difficult to pull off. That's the question were going to have to address in the next couple days."
Several states also have non-federal elections scheduled for Nov. 6, so changing the date for the presidential election is more complicated than just passing legislation on Capitol Hill.
Generally, the effect of an October Surprise is negligible, if not totally concocted in people's minds, depending on what side they're on.
One example is the 2000 race between Republican candidate George W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore.
Although Bush won the electoral vote 271-266, he lost the popular vote by more than a half million, the first time a winning candidate had lost the popular vote since 1888.
Days before the election, former Maine Democratic gubernatorial candidate Thomas J. Connolly said that Bush was arrested for drunk driving in that state nearly 25 years earlier.
Bush confirmed the arrest soon after, but controversy surrounding the voting and subsequent recount in Florida – where Bush's brother, Jeb, served as governor at the time – quickly overshadowed any previous news regarding the race.
"The 2000 announcement didn't cost Bush the election, but it certainly cost him the margin," presidential historian Richard Norton Smith told ABC News in an interview. "It could not have gotten any closer than it did."
Four years later with the events of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks still fresh on Americans' minds, Osama bin Laden released a tape in late October with this message: "Any state that does not mess with our security has naturally guaranteed its own security."
Between Oct. 31 and Election Day in 2004, Bush went from a virtual tie with Democratic challenger John Kerry to a victory margin of more than 3 million in the popular vote.
Events surrounding the 1980 election roused speculation that the campaign of the winning candidate, Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, struck a deal with the Iran government to let 52 American hostages go. Incumbent president Jimmy Carter appeared to have held favorable negotiations for the release of the prisoners, but as Election Day came and passed they were still in Iranian custody.
Reagan won the election, and Iran released the hostages minutes after his inauguration.
The Reagan-Carter race is perhaps the most infamous case of an October Surprise, but the term dates back further.
The issue came up in 1968, and the term came into more widespread use during the 1972 election.
The U.S. had realistic hopes the Vietnam War would end in the early 1970s, and the war drew high disapproval from a large number of Americans. Henry Kissinger, the national security advisor for Republican president Richard Nixon, announced the administration's belief of imminent peace almost two weeks before the 1972 election. The following January, Nixon was taking the oath for his second term in office, and active military action in Vietnam had ended.
Four years earlier, Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Richard Nixon were the primary contenders for office while the Vietnam War was still raging. Accusations arose that negotiations broke down because of political football played by both sides, especially Nixon's campaign, and he comfortably won the electoral vote despite a close race in the popular vote.
Hurricane Sandy is a bit different, however. This is an event no one has control over, and there is no doubt or speculation that this storm will have a dramatic effect on millions of American lives.
It is generally good not to read too much into the effect of an October Surprise, Skelley said, especially because so many of the theories result from accusations from people primarily on the losing side.
"There always will be people that think something happened because it was politically expedient for one side or the other," Skelley said. "But I think in a lot of cases it's just dumb luck or bad timing, depending on what side you're on. It's good to not oversell the idea of an October surprise. There are probably cases where things were done for political reasons, but sometimes that's out of control of people who are actors in the play."
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Call it a crisp or call it a crumble, it's one of the best food ideas to ever have come out of merry old England. It is simple to prepare, involves enough steps to keep children interested, and uses no choppers or blenders. In the words of a central New York mom, "It was easy to cook and clean up, too." Lynda Hannan of Cincinnati reported, "This was great served slightly warm, and I have to say it was mighty tasty cold from the fridge the next morning. . . . Enough of these evil desserts!! This one was totally delicious-- I just scraped the last bit out of the pan and it did a fast vanishing act!"
What You Need:
Filling:
Topping:
What to Do:
First, of course, gather your berries. This can be from your freezer or from the field. The latter is best done early in the morning before the sun gets too high and everybody is still fresh and full of vigor. Blackberries and peaches tend to ripen at about the same time which may allow for two-team harvesting. There is nothing quite like coming into an orchard of ripe peaches: Smell permeates the air; Flies buzz around the fallen fruit; Kids run around, indulging on the fresh treats.
Blackberries on the other hand require a more circumspect approach. They are picked with great care because their thorns are a point to be reckoned with, the flies of the orchards are more likely to bees and running is greatly discouraged.
Obviously the other option is to go to the market and buy these items. Mom LaClair says, "It is soccer season, no time!" and as Beth W. discovered," I was unable to find frozen blackberries, so we used blueberries."
However you come by them, please wash them gently. Even if you pick the berries deep in the back woods, the occasional pebble is an unwelcome surprise and, well, pesticides are everywhere.
The adult on board should peel, pit and slice or chunk the peaches, although a Nebraska mom says "four boys used butter knives and this was just fine. I was comfortable with them using these and they were sharp enough to cut though the peaches." The youngsters may combine the sugar, flour and cinnamon and then mix it with the fruits. Christine, age 4, "loved stirring and eating as she went." If your are using particularly juicy fruit, you will need to add a tad more flour to bind. The mixing is best done gently as whole berries are preferable, so caution the younger children against beating the mixture, a natural tendency. This concoction must somehow get into the baking dish-- pour it, spoon it, scoop it by hand, do whatever makes you most comfortable.
The topping comes next. With a fork or pastry cutter, blend the flour into the butter until it becomes the consistency of peameal or very coarse corn meal. Blend in brown sugar, small amounts at a time. Remember to hold back the nuts and oatmeal or they will become a fragment of their former selves and loose the crunchy chewy texture that is the essence of the 'crisp / crumble'. They are added last and the whole goopy thing is laid to rest on top of the fruit mixture.
The adult may then slide the dish into a 350 degree oven for about 45 minutes or until the crisp browns and the fruit bubbles.
Because of the high natural sugar content, cool down for quite a while, until just warm. Then ladle into a bowl and serve with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream." The cooling was hard. They were ready to taste their masterpiece, but they waited...the consensus was deeee-lish!," declared Beth W on this final stage. Notes:
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Fatal Cheltenham Fire
It broke out around 11:00pm Thursday at the Melrose Shopping Center in Cheltenham.
It apparently started with a small explosion at a beauty supply store, where the dead person was found. That store and one next to it were gutted.
No names have been released, but authorities believe that the dead man was a security guard at the beauty supply store and that he called 911 to report the fire.
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(B home improvements that you can do for the love of spring - and the love of your biggest investment:
Add/replace a skylight
Abundant natural light and fresh air are among the joys of spring, and replacing an old, energy-inefficient skylight, or adding one where none existed before, is a great way to welcome sunlight and spring.
From a practical standpoint, installing an Energy Star-qualified skylight like those made by VELUX America can help you control heating, cooling and lighting costs in your home. Replacing an older, less efficient skylight with a new solar-powered, fresh-air skylight, with a rain sensor, can also ensure your home stays protected from spring showers. You can also choose solar powered blinds for even more energy efficiency, and both are eligible for a 30 percent federal tax credit. To learn more about energy-efficient skylights, visit or energystar.gov.
Add/improve a deck
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How would it make you feel if you knew that someone was praying for you every single day? What difference would it make to your life?
Read on… as I am going to suggest a wonderful way for there to be someone on this earth who will pray for you every single day of your life!
A Truth to Remember
Before I proceed, I just have to stop and remind you of one incredible truth. If you belong to the Father; if your soul has been saved, and His Spirit lives within you, then you can rest assured that you are being prayed for 24/7! Romans 8:26-27 and Hebrews 7:25 assures you of that. What a relief, comfort, and joy to grasp this reality!
Well, here’s an idea… It’s simple!
Ask 7 people in your life to pray for you
Assign each person a day of the week
And there you have it – Full prayer coverage 365 days a year!
Not a bad deal is it?
Is this a One Way Street?
There is not only a lot in this for you. There are precious advantages in it for your praying friends too!
By praying for you regularly, your friend/family member will:
- Directly be fulfilling the command given in Galations 6:2, “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
- Be motivated to have prayer time – Having someone to pray for, inevitably leads to other people and needs to bring before the Lord.
- Receive prayer too! As you thank God for your friend in your prayers, they will have the blessing of your supplications too (1 Thessalonians 1:2)
- Tick 5 “one another” boxes stated in 1 Thessalonians alone! Your friend’s prayers will be beautifully encompassed in covering their bases of increasing their love for others (1 Thessalonians 1:3, 3:12, 4:9), encouraging others and building them up (1 Thessalonians 5:11), and seeking to do good to others (1 Thessalonian 5:15),
You see, this is a win/win situation.
“No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.”- Charles Spurgeon (click to tweet that)
And you, my dear friend, will be reaping the eternal benefits of the prayers of the saints!
Make it a Blessing
Here are some practical tips to foster the prayer support with those who lovingly agree to pray for you:
- Send a weekly or monthly update with your prayer needs, life struggles, and spiritual challenges. You can of course be as personal and detailed as you feel at liberty to be, however, keep in mind that the more specific you are, the more specifically your prayer partner will be able to pray for you.
- Encourage your prayer partners regularly with answers to their prayers that you experience in your life! And you will be blessed to have the Lord answer their prayers.
- Send your prayer partners a note, card, or even an email once in a while to sincerely thank them for having the heart, taking the time, and caring enough to pray for you.
- Offer to pray for your prayer partners too! When you get to talk with them, or as they respond to your prayer request updates by email, seize the opportunity to take a genuine interest in their lives, and ask them how you can be praying for them. This is a guaranteed way of growing in your relationship with your sister, and forming a special bond that may deepen your friendship for years to come.
Word of warning to you, my friend
This exercise will require you to humble yourself.
Your prayer partners are not going to want to receive the likes of the following prayer requests:
- Please pray for my neighbour’s dying cat.
- Please pray for my husband to change in every area
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- Please pray for world peace.
Uh uh!!! We’re talking personal, specific, and humble-myself requests, for example:
- I have been struggling with vegging in front of the TV for hours each day. Please pray that God would grant me the discipline to invest my time wisely in His Word, and in the works that He has prepared in advance for me to walk in (Ephesian 2:10).
- I am so confused about my future. I really need God to develop the fruit of patience in me while I wait on Him to reveal whether He would like me to pursue Step A or Step B as my next step.
- I have been lashing out at my children recently, and feel irritability and anger surging inside my heart. Please pray that I would be self-controlled, and that God would grant me the humility to apologize to my children for the way I have been behaving towards them.
We’re talking humility… Try it – it’s freeing!!! (tweet!)
So… do you believe this idea would work in your own life? What would keep you from approaching 7 people and getting this undertaking on the road?
A good place to start would be by sending this post to some friends, or sharing the post on Twitter or Facebook. Maybe you’ll even get some volunteers to pray for you instantly!
What a great idea! Now I’ll need to find 7 people…7 prayer warriors
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Thanks! I’m sure there will be prayer warriors waiting in long lines to get to pray for you, my sister!
God bless you… Let me know how it goes…
I adore this idea! I have just tweeted asking for girls to join me in this.
That’s great, Ruth! I’m sure there will be some gals jumping at the opportunity to serve you in this way! Love your enthusiasm! God bless you precious sis!
I’ve got a group of people that we mutually pray for one another. We live around the country. It’s encouraging. This is a great idea. Praying for others does build humility. Thanks for the challenge.
That’s wonderful to hear, Brenda! Praying has no geographical boundaries, so it’s wonderful to be able to connect with others by praying for them, and serving them in that way! God bless you and thank you for your excellent comments on the Women Abiding blog! Appreciate your involvement in this community so much…
This is a great idea, but I am not sure I feel comfortable asking people to do that.. Off topic – how do you get the verses to show up as “hoverable links”?
Hi Rachel. I understand regarding your hesitation to ask folks to pray for you. But don’t forget, it is more blessed to give than to receive, and many people would most likely feel very honoured to be able to bless you by praying for you.
Regarding the links, it’s a WordPress plugin, but you may be able to have it work on Blogger too. Here is their website:
God bless you!
Found you through “Inspire Me Monday”. I LOVE this idea!! I do have lovely people who pray for me and I can definitely feel the prayers of others on my behalf. I similarly pray for others, but usually in times of crisis. I am going to pray about who to approach about this…and offer to be each others “prayer partners”.
I would love to have you visit my blog and read my story of trials and blessings through my “thorn in my side”, temporal lobe epilepsy. I have a positive, God-given outlook. I blog about my faith, my family and how much fun I have along the way, even though I am battling this life changing illness. Look forward to connecting with you!
~joy!
Vicky
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Thank you so much, Vicky! I did go to your website and spent a long time browsing and reading. What a beautiful testimony and attitude you have, in the midst of your trials. A true shining example to us all! May the Lord continue to work in your life, and draw you and your precious family closer to Himself day after day! God bless you my sweet sister…
Good idea. I personally think I’d be too scatterbrained to remember to pray each Tuesday, for example. I’d myself praying on Wednesday half the weeks and them there would be that horrid week I look at the calendar and go “it’s Friday”. I need the intensity of something like the Bible in 90 days to forge through my weakness with consistency.
Thanks for linking up with More than this Monday!
I understand, Pamela. I guess whoever you will be praying for would be very happy to just get a general “I’ll be praying for you during the week” kinda commitment, and of course among those folks that you ask, there will be those who will remember to pray for you on the days that they committed to. This isn’t meant to be a set in stone formula. The main thing is that we are praying for one another, and the blessing and encouragement that that brings… Thanks for your comment!
This is an awesome idea, so well explained! Not to get past that vulnerability thing…
Thanks so much for your encouragement, Laura! May the Lord help us all to be vulnerable to those whom He brings along our path. God bless you, my sister!
It is amazing to be reminded that Jesus prays for us 24/7 as he said he would do.
Always is, to me too… So humbling and astounding! xoxo
I pray as God places people on my heart. My family of course and others too. I am not sure I can ask someone to pray for me, I just know some do anyway.
That’s great, Nancy. This idea should be no means be a “law.” I’m sure it is very encouraging to know that there are already folks praying for you simply because they love and care for you. God bless you today and always!
I can think of two friends right off the bat that I would like to include in my prayer group. Both are from my church. One moved away last November with her family to Michigan. The other will be moving in a couple of weeks with her family to the other side of the state. We used to do play dates for the kids and crafting nights for us moms.
The rest may be a stretch for my introverted personality, but I know that with God, all things are possible!
Following from Matrimonial Monday.
Thanks for sharing, LuAnn. What you could do is possibly have those friends with whom you feel comfortable pray for you a couple of times each per week, and possibly fill up other days with family members. God has given you your personality, and I pray that He will bring people along your path that would be overjoyed to find that you are seeking prayer partners…Thanks for sharing…
I’ve also found that praying for people like this generates a real concern and love for them in our heart, so it really enhances friendships.
I have found that too, Loren. Prayer definitely moves people together, partly because we share more personal aspects of our lives with those who pray for us, knowing that they will take those to the Lord in prayer. Thank you for your comment!
I’ve done things similar to this with friends over the years. Prayer CHANGES lives! Thanks so much for sharing this excellent challenge!!
Totally agree, Kate! Really appreciate you stopping by. I think if we truly realised how amazingly the Lord answers every prayer, we would all pray alot more! Blessings!
I love the power of prayer
Amazing, isn’t it, Susan! It’s so incredible, and we will only comprehend the full extent of it when we are in Heaven with our Lord, I’m sure. God bless you!
An older woman had my name on a post-it on her bathroom mirror – she prayed for me without me asking. She sent went home to be with the Lord – and her daughter wanted me to come by – she had a mirror full of post-its. A loving heart reaches out to pray – I’m learning to do that. I now have post-its on my bathroom mirror:)
What a beautiful story! Thank you so much for sharing. I do believe that we will only know once we get to heaven all the prayers that were offered up on our behalf, and it will be so wonderful to realize that there were faithful ones who helped us walk on this earth in this way. God bless you and thank you again for sharing…
Thank you Tahila. This was a real blessing!! I wrote the Bible references down, so good!! I will pray for you every day!!
Awwww… Thank you, Judith! You are such a wonderful friend that I am growing to love and care for deeply. What a blessing the internet is (at times
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Love your thoughts for praying for others & having them pray for us! Oh how ever more as the day approached, do we need intercessors, people willing to take the time and lift each others hearts up to God.
UNITED in Him,
Jen
Absolutely, Jen! We need each other, and definitely more so, as you wisely stated, as the darkness gets darker, and as The day approaches! May our Lord find us faithful in this area, and lifting each other up before Him… Love it when you stop by!
This is a wonderful idea. So true and so simple. Why haven’t I thought of it. I loved this. I need to find me some prayer warriors. This really was great. Thank you for posting it.
Have a wonderful week,
Sherry
Thanks, Sherry! I’m so glad that you liked the idea, and I pray a blessing to many. Thank you so much for stopping by!
Thank you for entering again at “Tell Me a Story.” This is a unique idea to have others pray for you and you for them. I am happy that Jesus is on the throne praying for us all that our faith fail NOT.
Amen! Yes, we are never without prayer, which is truly a joy and a comfort! God bless you…
This is such a wonderful idea! I’m going to start praying to see who I should ask. Thank you. Thanks for linking up at Family Fun Friday at Please stop by this Friday to see if your post was featured.
Best Wishes, Monica
Blessings in your search for faithful prayer partners, Monica… Thanks for stopping by and taking these words to heart..
What a great post! – So True
Thanks for sharing! I needed this.
Great to hear. May God bless you richly, Trinity!
Hi There, I am in a place in my life where i am happy for any prayer! And the thing is… I don’t “feel” any different, but I KNOW in the heavenlies, God is working things for my good. His word says so. Prayer is awesome to receive, but it is also a huge blessing to give! Great post, great reminder of the responsibilities that come with praying. Thanks for linking up and I look forward to seeing you there again next week
God bless
Tracy
Thank you for sharing so openly and honestly, Tracy. I don’t know of one person on the earth who doesn’t at one stage of their lives or another need prayer more desperately than at other times. We need each other, and especially to pray for one another on a regular basis, not to mention during times of drought and heartache in our lives… So much appreciate you sharing… xoxox
What a wonderful gift and commitment that would be. I’m imagining getting a year’s worth of prayer coverage for Christmas! From 7 friends together.
Now THAT would make a fantastic gift (a bit hard to wrap though
) But one definitely worth working on… Loved your comment, Helene. Thanks so much!
I have a list of people *I* pray for daily, and I can tell you it’s changed *my* life! I have one very dear friend who prays for me and my family daily, and she’s the first person I call with a prayer request – such a blessing!
How wonderful to hear this, Mary. It really affirms the idea I’ve presented in this post, and encourages me to be faithful in praying for others… God bless you!
Lovely idea. There was a time when I was more organized in my prayer life, lifting up a different close friend and family member each day of the week. Good reminder to consider that again. Also, something that greatly ministers to me is when a friend stops right in the middle of conversation to lift a concern up to God for me. I want to do that more often as well.
Absolutely, Darcy! The beauty of prayer is that it can be done anywhere, any time! Praise God that He is always available, attentive, and loving! Blessings to you, and thank you so much for stopping by womenabiding.com. Really appreciate that!!
I love this idea. Prayer is so important and we could definitely use more of it – both being the recipient and the giver. Thanks for sharing this with Desire to Inspire at A Royal Daughter.
Can never have too much prayer! And reciprocating the blessing is always welcome… Although I guess the Bible says it’s more blessed to give than to receive… so praying for others would probably be even MORE blessed than being prayed for!
Blessings to you…
I think this is a wonderful idea! I like the idea of being covered in prayer all year round
Thanks!
So do I!!! Talk about a life-changing move in the right direction, huh?! Thanks for your comment, Sarah!
This is excellent! This would be a great project of a women’s ministry group. THANKS!
Absolutely! What a cool idea, Kathleen. There are probably umpteen ways in which to implement this prayer-project… God bless you!
Hi Tehila! So glad you dropped by and linked up! I love this post and your blog! Christians must realize that we are to follow Christ’s example of having a servant’s heart! Thank you for reminding us of this most important lesson! Looking forward to reading more from you! Have a blessed week!
Michell @Prowess and Pearls
Thanks Michell! What a blessing you are, and appreciate your words of wisdom! God bless you my sister!
What a fantastic idea!!! Visiting from Doing You Well link up!!!
Thanks Chris! God bless you… Thanks for stopping by…
Love this plan for prayer! I will be applying this in a few areas of ministry as well. Love it!
Sounds great, Heather! Keep up the great work for our Lord!
Tehila, I couldn’t NOT click on your link at Faith Barista, with such an awesome title. Then I came over here and saw the title of your blog–equally awesome:) I enjoyed reading this post. Such great specific ideas. Thank you!
Mandy! You brought such a huge smile to my face with this comment!!! What a hunny you are!
God bless you sis!
well said, sweet sister. Prayer is so vital. Great ideas on how to have accountability.
Keep up the God work.
Thank you so much for your encouragement, Lori. Accountability is a great way to summarise this post! Appreciate your insight!
You make an excellent point about honesty and humility in our requests for prayer—for prayer that goes deeper than the superficial. But just because of this openness, I can understand Rachel’s reluctance. I have transparently shared the kinds of things you mention with certain people only to have them used against me later, and in twisted form. If this happens with people you think you know and feel safe with, it can certainly make it hard to entrust such “secrets” to people you know even less well. A close and trustworthy prayer partner friend is indeed a beautiful blessing! This makes me aware of my need to BE one!
Sylvia, I am so sorry about your hurtful experience. And of course you are right. We do need to be wise and cautious about who we open up to. May the Lord grant us all much discernment and guidance as we seek those with whom to share our lives… Amen!
This is a great post!
I have three very special ladies in my life right now who regularly pray for me (and vice versa!). It has been the biggest blessing in my life over the past number of months. I know they would say the same thing.
We have seen repeatedly how faithful our God is to answer prayer. Thanks for sharing this
Hey Rachael! I really appreciate you sharing your experience of having prayer partners and how the Lord uses it in the lives of His saints! God bless you… you are an example to us all…
what a neat idea! I’m so glad you shared it with me today on my FB page!! <3
Thanks Paula! Blessings and know that you are always so welcome here…
Prayer definitely changes things. Thank you for sharing your good ideas.
Blessings,
Charlotte
Thanks for stopping by, Charlotte! God bless you my dear sister…
This is such an encouraging post! I’m so glad you linked it up to Playdates with God this week. Looking for my prayer warriors now. Such good words.
Thanks Laura! Prayer warriors are indeed a great blessing and encouragement in life! Blessings to you…
Hi,
I am following you on Scripture and a Snapshot. Great advice on prayer partners. I am in 3 groups who pray for each other. It is a wonderful experience. I also run a group blog called Under the Cover of Prayer.
Blessings to you this day,
Janis
Thank you for sharing, Janis! How wonderful that you are already privileged enough to enjoy and blessed by this group of prayer. May God continue to enrich and use you all in each other’s lives! Blessings to you…
What a great idea that was beautifully written. I would love for you to come share these on my weekly link up that just went live for the week.
Thanks so much for your encouragement! God bless you…
Such a great reminder to plug into prayer with others.Thanks for linking up at Family Fun Friday!
Sincerely,
Monica
It is great idea.
Have a great day.
Nan
Thanks, Nan! God bless you…
Hi Tehila,
Wonderfully encouraging post! I am passionate about prayer. I will be sharing your post.
Thanks for linking up at Scattering the Stones.
Thanks so much, Anita! I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that they are “passionate about prayer” and it really blessed my heart that you shared that! God bless you my sister…
Beautiful. I wish I was at a point to humble myself, but I struggle with it because of my past. Thank you for reminding me of my need.
We don’t have to bare all to everyone. We can open up to those who have earned our trust, and who we know will keep what we tell them to themselves, and lift our needs before the Lord. May God continue to bless and heal you for your wounds, dear April.
I also love this idea! My struggle will be finding 7 prayer warriors. I wonder if I would be good at being one. (thanks for making me think on that one) I have to say though, my favorite part of this post was the title, Warning: Don’t Read if Your Life is Perfect! In a world of facebook and twitter status updates that make you feel like you must be doing something wrong because you have not “arrived” even your title was refreshing. I am SO far from perfect, I felt right at home here.
Thanks for this post and for linking up with me at What He’s Done Wednesday!
Thanks so much, Sarah. The titles of my post sometimes take me as long as writing the writing of it to think of!
Glad you felt at home. I’ve given up pretenses of a perfect life a long time ago, and only dwell with those who can be real! God bless you my dear sister!
These are some really great ideas, and I love how you are telling people to be specific, because it does help others to know how to pray for them.
I also laughed out loud when you put the “pray for my husband to change” one out there, because I’ve heard that one before too, lol! Yes, some husbands need to change, but oftentimes He changes the wife instead while He continues to work in the husband’s life as well!
This is a great exercise in prayer! Mountains have been moved by a prayer!
-Karen
This is great…wonderful…uplifting!
On top of that, I love the way you wrote it out kind of like an advertisement. Now, to humble myself… Ha!
Blessings to you and thanks for linking up!
Mrs. Sarah Coller
Isn’t it odd that the greatest weapon we have to fight the enemy is so simple? But, as you said, it is mighty and takes courage to be honest. Blessings upon you and this idea for those who read it!
Visiting from The Grand Social. The power of prayer is a wonderful thing. This is a great idea.
That was a wonderful point to bring up! Thanks for the post.
Terrific post. I always learn something interesting on different blogs every day of the week. Thanks for sharing!
I truly believe in the power of prayer! The good Lord hears and answers our prayers. What a blessing to have in our lives. Thanks for sharing with Share Your Cup.
hugs,
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We've come up with four steps to get you started on raising money to support your participation in Women's Worlds 2011. This is by no means a comprehensive fundraising guide, rather, some ideas to inspire you instead of thinking WW 2011 is beyond your reach.
Let's face it – whether you are a young person seeking donations for the first time or someone who has fundraised before – asking for money can be uncomfortable and intimidating. Our best advice is to be prepared and don't be disheartened when someone does say no because someone else will say yes. For ideas on how to be at ease when asking for money, check out this handy resource.
Use steps #1 and #2 below to help build confidence through clarity of goals, then tackle whichever aspects of #3 and #4 feel most comfortable to you.
Please feel free to contact us with any questions about expenses related to participation in WW 2011: [email protected]
Happy fundraising!
The answers may seem obvious and varied to you, but pinpointing exactly how attending WW 2011 will benefit you and/or your work will both help identify appropriate sources of funding AND sharpen your pitch. Practice your spiel on close friends and family first, then broaden your reach when you feel more empowered.
Use this template to figure out how much you need to raise:
Check the congress website for accommodation and travel options in February 2011.
Now that you know why you want to come to WW 2011 and how much it will cost you, the next step is to solicit donations. We suggest you:
- performance or open stage concert
- movie, trivia, or game night
- billiards or bowling tournament with a donated prize
- dinner, brunch, or tea party with donated food
People will be more inclined to support you if they feel energy and momentum around your fundraising drive. Here are some ideas for creating a buzz:
Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training
Girls Action Foundation
RebELLEs
Help with letter writing, with tips and templates:
Over 30 different forms of fundraising letters, from event ticket selling to requesting silent auction items:
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Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 9:28am EST
Two basketball teammates who talk about the Stanford Women's Basketball games and women's sports issues, among other things.
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The Stanford Women’s Basketball team traveled across the Bay Tuesday to Haas Pavilion to take on Cal. By a quirk of the schedule, Cal will return the favor at Maples on Sunday. Both coaches will be studying this game to get ready for the next. Let’s look at what the teams did, and did not, do well.
Things Stanford did well:
When Stanford’s Chiney Ogwumike was double teamed, people cut to the basket and made themselves available for a pass. A memorable play was Toni Kokenis cutting weakside and was wide open and Chiney got her the ball where she could score.
Things Stanford did not do well:
When Chiney was double teamed, people stood around and did not cut to the basket. In one replay (and thanks to the Pac-12 Channel for televising) four, count ‘em four white-jerseyed players were on Chiney and not one black jersey cut to the basket or got in a passing lane to help her. She Shot off balance and missed. Stanford did this against UConn with disastrous results.
Chiney Ogwumike gets quadrupled-teamed (AP Photo/Ben Margot)Things Cal did not do well:
Shoot the three. They were 2-21, or 9% completion rate. So they were good at taking the three, it was the making part they had trouble with.
Things Stanford did not do well:
Shoot the three. They were 0-8. Guess they stopped trying after missing so many. Stanford’s completion rate was 0%, and you don’t have to be Stanford grad to know 9% is better than none.
Things Cal did well:
Rebound
Thing Stanford did not do well:
Rebound
Cal won the rebounding battle 45-31, and was 21-5 on the offensive end. Cal scored 22 points off of second (and third) chances. Yikes.
Things Cal did well:
They drove to the basket to try to score or draw contact and a foul. And if they missed, they seemed to always get the rebound (see rebounds, above). They were very good at these two things, the driving in and the rebounding. They were very good for 3 /4 of the game, and then they stopped driving in. They weren’t making threes, so they stopped driving in and therefore could not get a rebound on an un-taken shot. C and R are sure Cal Coach Lindsey Gottleib is going to look at the game film and not make that mistake twice when they meet less than a week later on Sunday.
Things Cal should have done well:
So Cal breaks out their new and improved vaulted press. They get a steal and a basket, and then don’t try it again for 10 whole minutes (Not sure how many minutes between, but why not press every time?) Well, when they did press again, Stanford easily passed to the half court line, and unlike the UConn game, they took the ball straight to the basket without waiting for the defense to catch up. The result an easy lay up. Now Cal is 1-1 on the press. But they stop trying it until the final minute. C and R are still scratching their heads about that decision. And will Gottleib rethink that for Sunday?
Things Stanford did well:
Their defense held Cal to zero baskets in 9 minutes, really 11 minutes (think Cal got one point off of a free throw in there). This started around the 13-minute mark until the 2 and a half minute mark, and broke the game open. Stanford won 62-51. The game was a seesaw, back and forth affair before that Cal drought. Was it Cal not sticking to their game plan or Stanford’s really tough defense? Maybe a little of both.
Things Stanford did not do well:
Run their offense. We still don’t understand their very static and predictable offense, where one person seems to move at a time. And when there was a shot, not many rebounders, or even no one at all to rebound (see rebounds, above).
Things Stanford did well:
Stanford guard Amber Orrrrange driving in and pulling up for jumpers was very timely. She did that extremely well to the tune of 15 points. Guard Toni Kokenis, back after an unspecified illness, also did this to a lesser degree and contributed seven points. Chiney scored 26 points on 11-16 shooting, but for the second game in a row, did not rebound well, getting six. Could it be teams are more hyper-focused in her and vehemently boxing her out, and boxing her out well? Probably. Tinkle scored eight with only four rebounds, and she needs to step up both if other teams are going to be keying on Chiney and if Stanford wants to be successful in the long run.
Okay, when putting pen to paper (or computer to…bytes?) most writers will try to think, was there one play that broke open the game? And sometimes you can’t really point to one definite moment that turned the game. And sometimes you can. For this game, the pivotal moment came when Stanford had the ball out of bounds at the half court line and two seconds on the shot clock.
Now, last year, whenever the shot clock was three seconds or under and the ball was out of bounds under their basket, Stanford had this standing play where Nneka Ogwumike would shuffle around the key looking like she was lost and as soon as the ball was handed to the out of bounds person, she would whip her body around and the ball would be lobbed in the air to her position and she would jump, catch, and shot all in one motion without touching the ground. There only about one other player in women’s college ball who can do that, and her name is Chiney Ogwumike.
So what do you do when Nneka’s not available or say, graduates? Why, you go to Chiney. Except, the ball was not out of bounds under the basket. It was 40 feet away from the basket. So Jos Tinkle grabs the ball and HEAVES it towards the Stanford basket. It probably was supposed to be a lob to Chiney but it hits the backboard. It banks off the backboard hard to a waiting Chiney. Three Cal players are surrounding her but are so stunned they barely get their hands up a when she catches it and takes it to the basket. The lay up goes in AND she gets the foul call (Although she missed the free throw, and mark that down under things Stanford did not do well as a team, going 10-18 from the free throw line). Still. That quirky, risky play broke Cal’s spirit. Plus, Cal had just missed an easy lap up in transition. So, yeah, that was the turning point. That probably won’t happen on Sunday… or ever. Stanford head coach Tara Van Derveer confirmed that when after the game she said, “that one was a lucky play” and “let’s be honest, we didn’t diagram that one.”
Stanford extended their Pac-12 streak to 81 games. Can they make it 82? It will be a rare opportunity to see how each coach responds to the game just played when the two teams meet on Sunday.
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VTCD workshop ready for work
Building at the new workshop for students at the Vocational Training Centre for the Deaf in Ghona, Tanzania, is now finished, with only water harvesting and solar panels to go on now. Great news for the students – they are looking forward to having more shelter from the hot sun and heavy rain, and better facilities [...]
“Wonderful training”
“This has been wonderful training for us. I have learnt how I can take care of a deaf child, how I can communicate with deaf children properly, and that deaf children need to be encouraged to go to school for learning.” Just one of the positive reports we have had from parents who have been [...]
Toys for Malawi
The special needs resource centre in Malawi, Mzuzu, will soon be getting new furniture and toys to stimulate the children’s enjoyment and learning, thanks to the generosity of The Toy Trust and donations in memory of David Bond. Thank you.
Tanzania new workshop progress
Work is getting going again at the new workshop for students at the Vocational Centre for the Deaf, Ghona, Tanzania, following a delay caused by a shortage of timber. When complete the new workshop will have solar panels and water harvesting tanks, with capacity for more students to learn work skills. Some lessons currently take [...]
Comic Relief – two year extension
Great news for Malawi. Thanks to Comic Relief we are going to be able to continue our valuable work in northern Malawi for another two years. This is a project to develop and extend the work we have already done to discover “hidden” deaf children and make sure that communities, families and teachers cherish and [...]
Brother love – learning sign language
This little Ugandan boy is practicing sign language – so he can communicate with his deaf brother and deaf sister. For the first time his family are able to do all the things we take for granted, laugh together, play together, and even argue!
New shoes for Boniface
Boniface has just graduated from the pre-school for the deaf to the primary school in Kampala, Uganda. He won these shoes for being the best time-keeper in his class. His mother had moved the whole family so that Boniface could get to school – and now she and his brother are learning sign language. We [...]
Now Molly is “free and happy”
We are hearing great news from our successful Comic Relief project in Malawi. The mother of Molly did not believe her daughter had any chance of achieving anything and had kept her hidden away. After family training her mother understood her potential and it resulted in Molly enjoying being in school and for the first [...]
David Bond
We were sorry to hear of the death of Woodford founder member, David Bond. On our news page you can read our tribute to him from our Chairman, Rod Clark.
70 people appeal
Our friend Frank from Zambia Deaf Youth and Women (ZDYW) has arranged for a donation of computers for their planned new training centre, where they hope to be able to train deaf youngsters and deaf women in IT. He just needs to raise £350.00 by mid February to pay for transporting the computers, or there is a danger [...]
Woodford is a UK based charity working to improve the lives of deaf children and young people around the world.
Woodford is currently supporting projects in sub-Saharan Africa – Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Deaf children in sub-Saharan Africa are some of the most vulnerable and marginalised children in the world – living without communication, financial security or protection:
- at very high risk of sexual abuse and of contracting HIV/AIDS.
- likely be rejected by their community and even their family, hidden away because of fears and superstitions about deafness.
- probably not in school or going on to training.
- likely to be dependent for the rest of their life, lacking the skills or communication needed to earn a living.
We believe in a world where these children are valued, cherished and nurtured. Our simple programmes and activities show families, teachers, health workers and communities how to transform the young lives of children such as Tom*.
He was orphaned before his first birthday when his parents died of HIV/AIDS. He was adopted by a neighbouring family, but when they discovered that he had a hearing impairment they forced him to live outside with farm animals. They believed that he must be cursed. Tom lived like that for the next six years. Then one of the projects that Woodford supports found him and brought him into a loving home. He is now attending school and learning sign language.
Our office is based in Shrewsbury in the UK, and our projects always involve local people, community groups, schools, local and international organisations and governments in the countries we are working in.
*Tom’s name has been changed to protect his identityTop
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Understanding Religious and Constitutional Rights with Jay Sekulow
There are just a few people in our planet that have devoted their life to the service of humanity, whether it is through social services or fighting for constitutional rights. Jay Sekulow, a humble & dedicated Chief Counsel working in one of the most prestigious law firms in the United States – The American Center for Law and Justice, is one such name. He has proved with his immense contribution in the field of law that the most important things required to work for the benefits of others are –The right attitude, an in-depth knowledge and soulful courage.
Mr. Sekulow completed doctorate in American Legal History and has been honored several times throughout his career. He was named in some of the most important and prominent lists of successful people, like-:
- In the year 1994 - The most prolific attorney in America
- In the year 1997 - Dedicated legal public servant
- One of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by National Law Journal
He knows the real power of education, thus he never hesitates to impart his immense knowledge to the young law students and guide them through his various successful case histories and law-practicing experience. He has a strong hold on the belief that guiding a common person about his rights is the only solution to eradicate discrimination and injustice in the community. For practically implementing this revolutionary idea, he started his weekly, national call-in radio program as well as he has accepted guests request from various TV programs.
Mr. Sekulow has expertise in defending religious liberty, constitutional freedom and tax cases. Twelve of his most important, religious and civil cases that were argued in the Supreme Court are the learning experience for the upcoming talent. He relates himself well to the immigrants and is ever ready to fight for their constitutional and religious rights. He believes that freedom of speech must be practiced in all spheres; according to him, young people must be allowed to share their thoughts and views in every nation’s political system.
In his busy schedule, he always manages to extract time to educate law professionals like Assistant United States Attorneys, Federal, State & Local Litigators and many others that are already serving on reputed posts. Jay Sekulow is also a member of the Supreme Court Historical Society, serving on its Board of Trustees.
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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth.). But the Slavo-Lettic branch is also divided into two, Slavic and Lettish; the Armenian is better separated from the Iranian, in which it has been generally included; and the Albanian is now regarded as belonging to the family, and an independent branchlet.
- n. A member of one of the races speaking the Indo-European languages; an Aryan.
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- n. A major language family which includes many of the native languages of Europe, Western Asia and India, with notable Indic, Iranian and European sub-branches.
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- Coined in 1813 by Sir Thomas Young, from Indo- + European, relating to the geographical extremes in India and Europe (which was valid before the discovery of Tocharian languages in the early 20th century). (Wiktionary)
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“Our crowded shot comprises the group of languages called Indo-European, claiming the largest number of speakers of any family of languages in the world.”
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Simon & Schuster: The Great Experiment
“Although surrounded by Indo-European languages, Basque appears to be related to none of them.”
Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!
“Just as the roots of shirt extend back into earliest layers of Indo-European languages, there are similarly related words from the root *kar-, a variant of *sker-, in the Italic branch of the Indo-European language tree.”
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“Among the extinct descendants of Indo-European are two well-attested main branches, Anatolian including Hittite and Tocharian.”
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“In the Celtic branch of the Indo-European tree there is Welsh seren and Breton steredenn.”
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“The language was thought to be unrelated to Indo-European until the Czech linguist Bedřich Hrozný deciphered the cuneiform markings.”
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“Once-new technologies, such as the wheel and the plow, moved, along with Indo-European languages and cultures, toward distant locales across the Eurasian landmass at an average rate of about one kilometer per year.”
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having a large head, like a buffalo's; dull; stupid; foolish. Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, III. 3.
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- adj. obsolete Having a large head, like a buffalo's.
- adj. obsolete dull; stupid; blundering
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.
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“Little William James Henry all the way from his tiny New England hamlet, leaning out the window of that jostling taxi with his little mouth agape, as goggle-eyed as the most buffle-headed bumpkin fresh from the sticks, marveling with bald astonishment at the architectural triumphs of the avenue that dwarfed anything he had ever seen in the confines of the Massachusetts countryside, taller than the tallest church steeple.”
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Tangible things that define a culture
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Prolagus See also carpet-bag, the way it is spelled in Anne of Green Gables. Dec 22, 2008
BrainyBabe At the beginning of "Mary Poppins", the eponymous nanny is unpacking her ~, and her new little charge, upon learning what it was called, asks her if it was of or for carpet. Mary Poppins then performs the first of her tricks. Dec 22, 2008
BrainyBabe A bag made of carpet. A relatively lightweight alternative to cumbersome trunks. Hence easy travel, hence carpetbagger. Dec 22, 2008
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“However, Mr. Netanyahu rejected recommendations to term the marauding attackers as "terrorists," likening them instead to left-wing Israeli protesters who participate in demonstrations with Palestinians against settlements and the Israeli army.”
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As seen in the latest Under Armour commercial
Virtually everybody who's somebody uses the VertiMax!. VertiMax includes a waist belt, hip flexor harness (2), hand straps (2), and training DVD.
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Analyst-Customer Value Management (Outbound),Lagos.
Purpose-Churn & Retention
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First degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
Expert knowledge of competitive environment, consumer trends and trade practices in the industry.
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SEARCH IN BRIEF
Ash Sakula have won the Eco-town Terrace open design competition for a terrace of prototype carbon-neutral houses in the Eco-town of Whitehill Bordon, in Hampshire. The competition, which attracted fifty four initial submissions, sought to create an exemplar for sustainable housing on a challenging site at the entrance to the town. Designs were to be capable of replication on other sites in the town, and to achieve the highest possible standards of environmental sustainability. cross laminated timber and clad in sweet chestnut shingles and lime render on wood fibre insulation.
Ash Sakula's team included Structural Engineer Stockley, M&E Engineer Michael Popper, CSH Assessor Eight Associates, and Cost Consultant KMCS. Other shortlisted teams were Proctor and Matthews, Bere Associates, Letts Wheeler and White Arkitekter.
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As a preliminary investigation into intra-population variation in venom proteins in the prairie rattlesnake, Crotalus v. viridis, we analyzed a small number (11) of venom samples from extreme western Texas and adjoining New Mexico by electrophoresis and Western blotting methods. A monoclonal antibody raised against hemorrhagic toxin in C. atrox venom (CA-P-8) recognized all the venoms, but none was recognized by a monoclonal antibody raised against a hemorrhagic toxin in C. m. molossus venom (CMM-1). All the venoms were recognized by an anti-L-amino acid oxidase (CSS20) monoclonal antibody, but none was recognized by an anti-Mojave toxin antibody (CSS12). An antibody (AF5) against a protease in C. s. scutulatus venom that inactivates complement recognized all the venoms except the venom from one young snake. The principal individual venom differences were in the amounts of various venom components, although qualitative differences were noted. The principal similarities lie in the molecular weights of most of the venom proteins. Intrapopulational mobility differences were more pronounced in venom proteins separated by isoelectric focusing and PAGE without SDS and 2-mercaptoethanol.
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A planet of cities
by Michael LaFond
The planet we live on is an urbanized one, rapidly changing as billions of people migrate towards cities. And while sustainable development is a global challenge, it calls for local responses: not any one particular technology or ideology will save the entire planet, but rather diversified, urban R&D labs with many tens of thousands of (networked) local alternatives. While our planetary challenges are often environmental and technical, they are above all else cultural and urban. And if our cities are to be sustainable - if they are to produce more joy than suffering – they need to be as creative as they are energy efficient.
Artists, such as Beuys, architects like Hundertwasser, and activists and designers of all sorts have key roles to play in opening our eyes to new options, as well as in creating transformational environments and communicating experiences. As a civil society, we have to intensify our search for locally appropriate, flexible systems and solutions. I would like to describe a culture of sustainable urban development being explored in Berlin through the initiative experimentcity, which I coordinate with a wide range of partners.
Creative Urban Housing
A culture of sustainable urban development entails lifestyle changes, and a focus on possibilities found in projects such as cooperative housing and other solutions which approach global transformation through local initiatives. Even at a local level, we can each do much more than just recycle and separate our trash. We can bigger steps such as collectively implementing decentralized energy and water systems and more importantly, get on with processes of neighborhood organizing and networking. Our urban creative classes have the task (and privilege!) of reorganizing ourselves, and of exploring more efficient and enjoyable ways of living and working together. For those ready to do more than buy health food, or choose a bike over a car, cooperative housing projects offer opportunities to directly participate in the design of buildings and spaces, and to work with others to achieve synergies of energy, water, transportation systems, and other infrastructures. The emerging culture of sustainability must go beyond the purely private choices involved in consuming and voting and learning how to create communities to collective changes across entire cities, based on new understandings of communication and cooperation.
In this urbanized world we can’t expect (and we shouldn’t want) our governments to manage and take care of everything, nor should we count on the corporations to save us with ever more intelligent products and technologies. A sustainable path is one largely built and maintained by cultural creatives and civil society. This does not mean a crude deregulation or a neo-liberalism but rather a readjustment of incentives and regulations, for example making urban land available to initiatives capable of demonstrating various aspects of sustainable development. New forms of cooperation among civil society, government and business can work toward developing housing alternatives that produce more energy than they consume, using the sun, wind and rainwater, need virtually no heating system other than passive design, and consume no new land, but rather recycle existing urban land and buildings. All of this is driven not just by motivation to “save the environment” but at least as importantly to “save money,” to find more identity and meaning, and to live in an environment where we don't need to worry about being along in old age, or unsupported as a working parent.
The vision is not entirely a new one, at least not in Berlin, which over the last decades has supported the building of several hundred participatory projects.
Berlin
This post ideological city of millions where I have been living and working for many years is one of many “shrinking cities” found in Germany and elsewhere. We have the challenges and opportunities found in non-growing economies and declining and aging populations. Fewer children and a vanishing industry have blessed us with a seemingly endless supply of abandoned land and buildings.
Our Mayor likes to describe our city as being “poor but sexy.” Investors are staying away and while sky-rocketing city debts have paralyzed local government, we are fortunately seeing an increasing number of cultural creatives here, who among other things are pioneering methods for redeveloping idle real estate for, among other things, cooperative housing alternatives.
In the context of a post iron-curtain Berlin, I offer experimentcity not as “the global solution,” but rather as a regional approach to sustainability, with a cultural perspective potentially interesting for urban pioneers in other communities around the globe. The following is an overview the experimentcity vision, emphasizing innovation in the participatory design and management of housing.
id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability
id22 (the Institute which I direct) studies, networks and publicizes communicative initiatives such as experimentcity. The institute has been housed for some time in Berlin’s ufaFabrik, which itself arose out of a squatter arrangement in the abandoned UFA film studios in 1979. Sometimes laws beg to be broken (in the name of sustainability!). The creative spirit of the ufaFabrik, dating back to the German expressionists of the 1920s with films such as Lang’s Metropolis, has thus been built upon as a demonstration of the cultural dimensions of sustainability. The ufaFabrik is a fantastic example of the local integration of culture and ecology, combining a cooperative residential community with a variety of projects and businesses including an international cultural center, organic bakery and natural foods store, alternative children’s “Free School", guest house, and children’s farm and neighborhood center. The ufaFabrik collects and uses rainwater, manages solar panels and co-generation motors to produce and sell energy to the power utility, and has ecologically renovated its dozen or so buildings. Its work was recognized in 2004 by the UN Habitat Program as a Best Practice for improving the living environment.
The ufaFabrik was born out of the “alternative” movements of the 1970s -- the most spectacular of a couple hundred building occupations in West Berlin -- many years before Agenda 21 and sustainable development got wide public attention. While many of the other Berlin projects founded in those years have long since quieted down, the ufaFabrik has been around long enough to now be joined by a younger wave of housing initiatives emerging in Berlin in recent years.
A type of cooperative housing project rapidly gaining attention in Berlin is the “Building Community” (Baugemeinschaft), of which there are a few dozen currently being planned and built.
MARIE
In September, 2007 I will be moving into the “MARIE”, which is one example of a “Building Community.” Since 2005, about twenty-two families and households have been cooperatively planning the future homes and workplaces there. This new ecological building, located on the edge of the urban MARIE Park in the Berlin District of Prenzlauer Berg, will have its own co-generation energy and heating system in the basement, a green roof with community terrace and solar panels, rainwater harvesting systems, a community garden with meeting space, as well as a physical therapy and wellness center. No new parking spaces will be created for cars, but we will have about forty covered bike spaces in the garden, and space for another forty bikes in the basement. Unlike its 1970s ancestor, there is nothing illegal about this project. To the contrary, we can see with projects like this that environmental technologies and cooperative structures have been mainstreamed and now draw encouragement, rather than scoffing and laughter, from bankers, politicians, and funding programs from local to EU levels.
The next years
The hundreds of housing alternatives realized in the last decades in Berlin are currently being surveyed and published through the experimentcity internet platform, linked with a database of thousands of similar initiatives at the German federal level.
Such projects are, in the global perspective, small steps, but when networked, they amount to real impact, as demonstration models from which to learn and build. Slowly but surely the top-down structures and linear systems that exploit natural resources and produce excessive waste are being replaced with more participatory, decentralized and attractive urban infrastructures. Is it all moving fast enough? The next decades will show us…
By 2010 we estimate that about 30.000 people or 1% of Berlin’s population of more than 3 million will be living in a total of about 600 cooperative housing projects emerging since 1990. Such projects are expected to amount to more than 10% of the new housing construction in the inner-city in the next years. By 2020 we predict about 5% of the city’s residents to be involved in around 3000 projects, adding up to about 150,000 people. As the inhabitants of such housing alternatives tend to be engaged not just in their own buildings but also in the surrounding neighborhood and city, we expect to see sustainable, cultural processes take big steps forward in the next years in Berlin.
While designing and managing our own housing isn’t easy, it is doable, and it provides us with living R&D centers -- building blocks in the larger project of the sustainable redesign of our cities. In the end, we have the challenge of saving as many of our natural resources as possible, in the process saving ourselves and together creating a culture of sustainability.
For more information see: and, email: institute[at]id22[dot]de
image: ufaFabrik: Culture + Ecology
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Professor Pippa Norris of Harvard’s Kennedy School, is focused on “Cosmopolitan.
To study this, Norris has looked at the export of cultural goods, especially movies, television shows, radio shows and audio recordings. There’s a strong, linear relationship between cultural export and import - while a few nations like the US export a lot of culture and import comparatively little, in general it’s more common to see rich nations import and export a lot of culture, and to see poor countries import and export very little. (Her statistics cover only formal markets - obviously, there’s lots of black market content import that isn’t visible in these statistics.)
American cultural export has expanded over recent decades, and we now take for granted the idea that some countries are likely to dominate cultural discourse. There’s four possible outcomes to this situation:
- A convergence around American and Western culture and values. In this scenario, we’d expect to see minority groups lose their cultural heritage. Norris offers Bhutan as a country that disconnected rather than face this cultural loss, and has seen social changes come about since connecting to the internet and television in 1999.
- Polarization. In this scenario, we might see people encounter American culture and reject it based on its clash with traditional values.
- Hybridization. Cultures encounter one another and there’s a mutual exchange of ideas. The result is something like California cuisine - a little bit French, a little Italian, a little Mexican and a whole lot mixed up.
- The Firewall model. Cultural exports have expanded, but they only impact on cultural diversity if they cross four barriers. They’ve got to be accepted via “trade integration”, they’ve got to be permitted in an environment of media freedom, they need to reach audiences which may not have access to media through digital divides, and most critically, they need to cross cultural barriers. “You’ve learned values from your family, so you’re not always going to absorb these outside influences - you’re going to have some resistance to them.”
To test which of these models might apply, Norris looks at the World Values Survey and looks for relationships between questions about media use and those about national identity and trust in outsiders. Her expectation is that countries that are more connected to others - countries which rank highly on her “cosmopolitanism index” - will have greater trust in outsiders and a less strong sense of nationalism. In addition she expects a “cross-level interaction effect”, where people who live in globalized societies and experience a wide range of media will have an especially strong trust in outsiders and especially weak nationalistic characteristics.
For the most part, this turns out to be true. There’s a loose fit between cosmopolitanism and trust in outsiders, and parochial nations turn out to be less trusting of outsiders. The outliers are especially interesting - the Netherlands, which is extremely cosmopolitan, shows only moderate trust in outsiders. Norris speculates that this is a reaction to recent tensions around Muslim immigrant populations in the Netherlands, referencing the Theo Van Gogh murder. She points to a similar pattern in Germany, where tensions with Turkish immigrants may keep connection high and trust of outsiders only moderate.
For these models to be effective, Norris tells us, we need to control a wide variety of factors. Youth, she explains, tend to be more trusting that the elderly. The better educated one is, the more trusting of outsiders one tends to be. Controlling for these factors, she sees a positive correlation between cosmopolitanism and trust in outsiders, and a similar correlation between news media use and trust. There’s an amplification effect in the case of media users in cosmopolitan societies - they’re especially trusting of outsiders, less likely to be strongly nationalistic, and more likely to feel like they are citizens of the world.
She explains that there’s need for more work on the topic. Some nations have stronger nationalistic tendencies than others - behavior that’s common in the US, like flying the national flag, would be considered provocative in the UK. The fact that nationalism has different baselines in different countries makes comparison difficult. There’s a problem with self-selection biases and media use - people who consume media may be the people most curious and interested in the outside world. And it’s hard to find data sources that accurately show cultural transmission in new media - the ITU and the UN track total internet users, but don’t have good statistics on whether people are encountering information outside their home countries. (I’m hoping to do some thinking on this topic and see if I can point the good professor in the right direction.)
I thought it was a fascinating talk, though I would offer two cautions. I don’t think it’s possible to accurately analyze cultural influence in developing nations by looking at import and export statistics. In very poor African countries, kids in isolated villages are watching pirated DVDs from the US on the one television in town, often powered by an auto battery. Cultural influence is much broader than financial influence. Second, I question whether nationalism and cosmopolitanism are actually opposed. In my experience working on Global Voices, I’ve met a large number of people who are fiercely proud of their homelands and also excited about being citizens of the world. I’d love to see a way of measuring openness that doesn’t unfairly demonize nationalism in the process.
This piece originally appeared on Ethan Zuckerman's personal blog, My Heart's In Accra.
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Worst Policy Principles and Early Warnings
Today’s share of resources and wealth is deeply unequal, and participation and freedom of choice are undermined. The impact is psychological as well as physical. People are insecure, conflicts are prolonged, and nature is exploited.
Working from the basis of 7 Future Just Policy Principles, laws and policies threatening Future Justice can be easily identified. In order to prevent conditions causing future injustice and insecurity we not only issue social taboos, but also recommend to repeal or amend laws that
Scrutinising existing policies and issuing “early warnings” when policies systematically aggravate injustice, insecurity and biodiversity depletion has an important preventive effect: destroying ecosystems and communities risks creating conditions that make crimes against future generations not only possible but even likely.
Yet, the urgency for quick and widespread change also means we have to defend Future Justice by tightening accountability and enforcement.
Accountability and enforcement
Our societies operate on the assumption that those who break the rules are to be held accountable for their actions. Even in a system based on respect, dignity and mutual trust, there will be times when policies and laws to promote Future Justice will not be adopted, implemented, or will be ignored - by individuals, companies and governments. When this happens, there will need to be ways to enforce the laws, to recognise the interests of future generations legally, and to hold those responsible to account.
There are a number of ways to do this:
Crimes against Future Generations
The initiative of creating crimes against future generations grew from discussions held by the World Future Council Commission on Future Justice on the need to develop new laws and policies guaranteeing human security, ecological integrity, and social equity in the interest of future generations. The development of the concept and a definition of crimes against future generations for the International Criminal Court were commissioned to Sébastien Jodoin, CISDL Lead Counsel. This process included expert workshops, consultations and meetings organised by the World Future Council and the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law with leading international judges and lawyers from 2007 to 2010.
The resulting definition of Crimes against Future Generations under international law builds upon a number of principles and developments in international law and policy on sustainable development, environment, human rights and international crime. It refers to criminal actions not already proscribed by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court as crimes against humanity, war crimes, or crimes of genocide.
It encompasses serious violations of economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights committed with knowledge of the substantial likelihood of their severe consequences on the long-term health, safety, or means of survival of any identifiable group or collectively. This definition was adopted by the entire World Future Council on November 7, 2010 and is now the basis for a public Campaign to End Crimes against Future Generations.
The World Future Council also continues to work on the foundational level of the Future Justice agenda and seeks to influence the way we think and act by engaging with experts and advocates in international law and policy. A related academic book on the links between sustainable development and international criminal law, with many contributors from all over the world, is forthcoming.
Read here about the Ecocide campaign, a similar initiative working to introduce a proposed law against ecocide. Ecocide is the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such an extent that peaceful enjoyment by the inhabitants of that territory has been or will be severely diminished.
The practice of bottom-trawling is a good example where we do not need to wait for such a crime to be committed. We have a clear warning of the possibility of that crime, and we need to do all we can now to prevent the threat to the oceans that this practice entails.
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Social Climbing in the Bedroom
A strong cast, elegant costume and production design, and a moving original score can't save a film built upon an uninspired foundation. This has been proven numerous times, and it is proven once again here.
Based on a celebrated French novel first published in 1885 and first adapted for the screen in the thirties, the film stars Robert Pattinson in an arresting performance as Georges, a destitute soldier who has come to Paris to earn or steal his fortune. A chance encounter with a former brother-in-arms from a campaign in northwestern Africa, a man who is now a respected journalist and editor, begins Georges' journey. He enters exclusive, refined spheres populated by Paris' most powerful figures. Presenting himself as dangerous and romantic, he seduces several aristocratic women, including Madeleine (Uma Thurman, in fine form and as beautiful as ever), his friend's sharp, talented, and political wife, and they in turn help him rise in prominence, but how much can he achieve before disaster befalls him?
It is obvious throughout this film represents a severe, mechanical reduction of a much longer and richer novel. Important events come fast and furious, often without connective tissue or a sense of momentum. Most unfortunate is the fact there are several interesting concepts at play (a strong-willed wife using her husband's influence and position to convey thoughts she cannot express in public herself due to constricting gender roles, for example, or a nineteenth-century example of the press and the government conspiring to start a profitable foreign war), but none are given the time they deserve. Quantity reigns supreme over quality.
Most of the characters feel either interchangeable (Georges' scheming male rivals) or inconsistent (a lover played by Kristin Scott Thomas whose actions seem determined by specific requirements of the plot from scene to scene rather than her own mind), and heightened instances of political conflict, sexual desire, and, in the end, personal vengeance do not electrify as intended.
Only one third-act scene has complex and genuine power, one in which Georges explains his single-minded, often cruel pursuit of influence and opulence by describing a childhood defined by hunger and despair and then saying with wild-eyed conviction, "There is no next life, and I intend to live." It is a shame then this second-rate film, undeserving of its dedicated cast and top-notch technical craftsmen, shows us the surface details of several events in this man's singular life, but denies us sustained insight into the intense longings and torments driving him and also those felt by the individuals he seduces and destroys.
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In perusing WoW.com on my normal Monday morning shift, I tend to always follow Spiritual Guidance, usually when it’s headed up by Dawn Moore. Although I tend to go back and forth on my agreement with her, I’ve noticed that she’s taken an approach to encouraging people to participate more in PvP. YES! With the thrill of this expansion coming to a close, there are a variety of ways to continue to enjoy this game, one of which is PvP.
Why am I so excited for this, you ask? Well, I’m an avid PvP’er. One of my favorite things to do is grab some guildies, and utilize the Random Battleground Queue until I’m blue in the face. I particularly love Warsong Gulch, which makes me pretty excited for the upcoming “Twin Peaks” battleground. Here’s the poop on what you stand to gain from becoming more active in PvP:
- Increased Wintergrasp / Vault of Archavon Time: People consistently complain about how Wintergrasp is broken on their server. Although I agree to a certain extent, a team of skilled, team-oriented PvP’ers has the potential to overcome any short-comings (**COUGH** Scale vehicle damage with Tenacity **COUGH**).
- Off-set Gear: Although I don’t miss the days of “Welfare Epics” by any means, I am a fan of utilizing some PvP pieces until you get that PvE piece you want. Sure, resilience does no good in PvE, but you can use that Wrathful Gladiator’s Cloak of Salvation until you get the frosties for your Drape of the Violet Tower or you get that Greatcloak of the Turned Champion to finally drop off of 25-man Saurfang.
- Deeper Class Knowledge: By starting to play your class in a different environment, you start to learn things you may not have considered before. The ability to change your focus and style as a player gains a lot of respect from someone like me.
However…
Although Dawn does a great job of laying out the basics, let me make it clear that I think it’s a bad idea to grind out Emblems of Triumph to get your PvP gear. Sure, if you have them sitting your bag, by all means, spend them. I know from experience how frustrating it is to go into battlegrounds wearing nothing but your PvE gear. Let’s take a look at what you stand to gain by going the “Honor” route:
Gear Progression
First and foremost, I really enjoy the feeling of accomplishment of getting to spend my honor points on a new piece of gear. I’m currently gearing up my Resto PvP set for my Shaman, and although I’ll toss some Triumphs at it, if I have them, most of my gear is coming from Honor. I liken it to working out hard in a gym and seeing the results build, instead of sitting plugged into one of those ab-shock deals while I watch the Blackhawks annihilate the Flyers in Game 5 (I had to). You feel the hard work, hence the payoff is more rewarding.
Second, as you add pieces over time, you realize which stats you need and which ones you don’t need. When I was building my Discipline PvP set, I initially went for mostly +Crit pieces so I could proc Inspiration and Divine Aegis. I realized halfway through that I was burning mana like an oil spill from an irresponsible foreign oil company. I switched it up and started getting more MP5 and Spirit on my gear. Especially if you’re a healer, you have the choice of some caster DPS gear (except for the Paladin), which will be laden with more haste and crit. Once you discover your play style, you’ll figure how to tweak your gear. If you grind dungeons for all the badges for the Furious set, you may find that you’re too heavy on a stat that doesn’t do you much good, or that you’re lacking in one that you really need.
An option to consider while getting battle-ready is checking out the crafted pieces that are available. They’re relatively cheap to make, and you’ll probably be helping out someone’s profession in the meantime. They all involve more than just the standard Head/Chest/Legs/Gloves/Shoulders combination. You can use these to get your boots, bracers or waist piece squared away. Here’s a couple examples:
Frostsavage Battlegear - Although it lacks any kind of mana regen, it still is better than nothing.
Eviscerator’s Battlegear - Obviously for melee classes like the Druid and Rogue.
Ornate Saronite Battlegear - The Healadin equivalent.
These give you good starting points to bounce off from. Remember, you’re generally focusing on different stats than a normal PvE set.
A Different Style
Have you ever played one spec for SO long, and then decided to switch it up and play a completely different spec? Say you went from Resto to Balance, or from Holy to Shadow, or Resto to Elemental. Is it the same playstyle? Obviously not. Sure, it may not be much of an adjustment, but think of PvP in the same manner.
On my Shaman, I know very well that I’ll be dropping different totems depending upon who I’m facing. I switch up my weapon imbues as Enhancement, and I pay much closer attention to my Earthbind Totem, Grounding Totem, and Stoneclaw Totem. Those get little to no attention in raids.
On my Discipline Priest, I learned the ability to turn and burst an opponent, when I’m used to healing. I started to utilize different heals like Binding Heal in order to keep myself and a teammate alive.
If you’re stuck in randoms just doing what you normally do (I call the “Mental AFK”), then you’re not learning the intracacies of your class and spec, especially with how easy it is to outgear heroics now. Go through your spec talent by talent and see what will help you and what won’t. A talent you worship in PvE may not be worth it in PvP. It’s okay to toss it to the side to get a little more utility.
Become Team-Oriented
Contrary to popular belief, not all PvP is based on killing the other player. You may be able to put out some good DPS, but do you know how to peel a melee off of a healer? Do you know how to pinpoint the enemy healer and not just kill him but lock him down so he’s useless? Do you know what strengths your class has against certain other classes? Do you have the ability to support the rest of the team, instead of trying to be highest DPS or get the most Killing Blows?
That’s what the benefit of actually being in the battleground gives you. You end up learning that in order to hold bases in Arathi Basin or Eye of the Storm, you have to stand on or near the flag/node. Fighting in the roads generally does nothing. You also learn the value of defending those nodes, instead of just being part of the roaming Zerg group.
These lessons all come with time, but I think it’s imperative that you learn them while you’re in the thick of it. Once you learn how much easier it is to take out a group once the healer is down, you’ll encourage others to do the same. You’ll figure out that there will be players that try to peel you off the flag in Arathi Basin so a Rogue or Druid can ninja the node.
You’ll simply become a stronger player, not only in PvP but in PvE as well. PvP can help you avoid tunnel vision and enable you to help out other parts of the raid when you feel you can. There’s only so much you can learn from doing heroics and raids over and over. Spend the time in some battlegrounds, and I think you’ll be amazed what you can learn.
**Disclaimers: No, I’m not a 2400 Arena player. Yes, I’ve been PvPing since Burning Crusade. Yes, I understand there are exceptions to everything. Yes, I’m a Blackhawks fan of the fair-weather nature. No, I don’t think it’s too soon to insult BP for their pollution of our waters.**
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Live Tournament Updates
Break
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
Players are on a 15 minute break.Sorted In: Gulf Coast Poker Championship, Beau Rivage, Season VI
08:37 PM, 09/06/07
Danny Wong Busts (but at least the lighting is good)
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
08:32 PM, 09/06/07
Mark Seif vs. Jared Hamby
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
After a flop of A
9
3
, Jared 'Waco Kid' Hamby bets 3,775 from the small blind (possibly in the dark), Mark Seif raises from the button to 10,275, and Hamby thinks a bit before he calls. The turn card is the 10
, and both players quickly check. The river card is the 2
, Hamby checks, Seif bets 10,000, and Hamby calls.
Seif shows A
9
for top two pair on the flop, and Hamby flips over A
K
for top pair, top kicker. Mark Seif wins the pot.
After the hand, Seif is up to 98,000 in chips, while Hamby drops to about 39,900.
08:29 PM, 09/06/07
Cloutier Takes Down a Monster
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
T.J. Cloutier bets 1,800 and seat two makes the call. The flop rolls out 10
5
4
and seat two bets 4,000. Cloutier raises an additional 10,000 and seat two makes the call. The turn brings the 2
and seat two bets 10,000. Cloutier pushes all in and seat two goes into the tank. He thinks for a long period of time, while a group of players surround the table to see what happens. Seat two eventually folds and Cloutier takes down one of the largest pots of day one uncontested. As he collects his chips Cloutier says, "I flopped two pair, so I reraised you with 5-4."
08:29 PM, 09/06/07
Vanessa Rousso
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
08:25 PM, 09/06/07
Two Busts
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
"Miami" John Cernuto and Yosh Nakano have busted out of the tournament.Sorted In: Gulf Coast Poker Championship, Beau Rivage, Season VI
08:21 PM, 09/06/07
Mimi Tran Doubles Up
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
On a flop of A
9
6
Mimi Tran moves all in and is called by her opponent who shows A
J
. Tran shows 6
6
and is way ahead. The turn brings the worst possible card for Tran with the J
, giving her opponent more outs. But the river is the K
and Tran doubles up to about 13,000 in chips.
08:05 PM, 09/06/07
"Gentleman" John Gale Eliminated
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
John Gale and Mark Seif get it all in preflop and Gale holds A-K to Seif's pocket kings. The board blanks out for Gale and he is eliminated from the tournament.Sorted In: Gulf Coast Poker Championship, Beau Rivage, Season VI
08:00 PM, 09/06/07
Mike Matusow Eliminated
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
With the flop showing K
9
7
and about 3,000 already in the pot, Mike Matusow bets 2,000, and his opponent thinks for a while before he raises to about 7,000. Matusow moves all in for about 13,775, and his opponent pauses before he calls with K
J
-- top pair, jack kicker. Matusow flips over 9
7
for bottom two pair, and he'd need it to hold up to stay alive.
The turn card is the Q
, and the river card is the -- K
. Matusow's opponent rivers trips to win the pot and eliminate Mike Matusow from the tournament.
Of course, with Matusow, it didn't end there.
Matusow: "I knew you had that hand. But I actually put you on king-queen, so I thought you were a bit better than you were."
Then, to the rest of the table: "He's lucky I didn't have a set there. I had the worst hand he could hope for, and I was still ahead."
And finally, as he was leaving: "That's what I waited eight hours for."
08:00 PM, 09/06/07
Laydown Bonanza
Level 25: 80,000-160,000, 20,000 ante
Steve Sung bets 1,500 and seat five raises to 3,500. The flops rolls out 10
7
5
and seat five bets 7,500. Sung goes into the tank for a moment and after deciding he didn't want to risk over half his stack on the call threw pocket jacks faceup into the muck.
On the very next hand one table over. Seat two bets 500 and Chad Brown calls. On a flop of K
9
8
Brown bets 1,200 and seat two calls. The 6
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Bo Diddley Interview
Tuesday, 27 November 2012 | Art Schuna
I interviewed Bo Diddley in 2006 prior to a concert appearance here in Madison. He had a lot to say about his career and the music industry. Not all of it good. Click on the title above to hear the interview.
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Presenting the winners of the 2008 Worthington Libraries Teen Poetry and Short Story Competition. Katherine Lipetz, the third place winner for high school poetry, reads "Misguiding Myself."
If you pulled the knife out
And let me bleed
Would that be showing me mercy?
Some would say
I'm at fault
Some wouldn't care
Fascist tapestry
Weaved just for me
Here to keep me warm
As the blood fills the water
Hard to see what it used to be
Always foolish little me
My trust slipping out from under me
Falling into the black abyss
I become suspicious
Losing everything I love
Because I have to feel this way
Can't find what I'm looking for
I wish I could go back
To before all this happened
When life was perfect, when I was happy
Fading light
End of the night
Best and worst way to approach my life
Katherine Lipetz
3rd Place, High School Poetry
2008 Worthington Libraries Teen Poetry and Short Story Competition
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A Kanawha County man accused of fathering three of his grandchildren was in court on Monday.
Charles Shamblin, 56, was arraigned on incest, sexual abuse, and sexual assault charges.
State Police said Shamblin abused his daughter for more than 10 years.
DNA samples also revealed Shamblin fathered her three children, troopers said.
Shamblin's trial has been scheduled for October 15.
His defense attorney requested a competency hearing and said Shamblin cannot read or write.
He's in the South Central Regional Jail with bail set at $100,000.
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Did the regulatory certainty gas producers received with December 2011's Horizontal Well Control Act spur activity?
It's hard to say, because prices plunged at the same time: from $4 per million British thermal units in mid-2011, all the way under $2/mmBtu by April 2012. Many producers pulled back in self defense, with Chesapeake Energy Corp. announcing in January that it would cut drilling by nearly half and some others following in kind.
Prices recovered a little through the year, hovering in the low $3s in mid-December.
The state's Marcellus production had been rising steadily and steeply, up from 1 million thousand cubic feet, or mcf, in December 2009, to 5 million mcf in December 2010 and 16 million in December 2011. But while 2012 production numbers won't be available until the second quarter of 2013, other signs of change and growth have been noticeable.
Production and infrastructure
Number one West Virginia shale gas producer Chesapeake had to scale back activities even beyond drilling in 2012 due to financial problems. The company sold its midstream assets in the Marcellus Shale and other plays in December.
But number two producer Antero Resources of Denver, which was gaining on Chesapeake's production in 2011, continued to expand, announcing in December that it would build a 50,000-square foot Marcellus headquarters in Bridgeport. And even as Chesapeake shed its Marcellus midstream operations, EQT Corp. announced in December that it would sell its distribution arm, Equitable Gas Co., in order to focus on production and midstream in the region.
Midstream infrastructure grew. New processing capacity came online to separate liquids from gas — for example, MarkWest Energy Partners' facilities in Doddridge and Wetzel counties. Dominion's Appalachian Gateway Project to carry gas from northern West Virginia Marcellus fields came into service, and its major new fractionation plant at Natrium, which will separate the natural gas liquids from each other, will start up in early 2013.
On the subject of infrastructure, questions about the maintenance and inspection of pipelines crossing the state may get more attention following this month's explosion at a Columbia Gas Transmission pipeline in Sissonville.
Tax revenues and jobs
Even with production rising, low gas prices have hurt oil and gas severance tax collections. Revenues distributed to local counties dipped in 2010 and have not yet fully rebounded in 2012: from a 2009 total of $8.4 million to just $6 million in 2010, $6.1 million in 2011 and $7.3 million in 2012. Better news ahead, perhaps: The West Virginia Center for Budget and Policy wrote in December that projections show those numbers rising each year to nearly $30 million in 2035.
How many jobs? Five years into the development of the Marcellus, it remains one of the big open questions. After much public dialogue, the Legislature chose in December 2011 not to require companies to report their in-state and out-of-state employment numbers.
Here's one way to think about it. The state's first Marcellus well started to flow in December 2007. For the following four years, from 2008 to 2011, employment in core oil and gas sectors rose by less than 1,000 in the state, WorkForce West Virginia reported in November.
Then, a study funded by the industry and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and released in December reported that "unconventional oil and gas" — in West Virginia, that's essentially the Marcellus — supported almost 12,000 jobs in the state in 2012. But it also reported that, nationwide, about a quarter of jobs in unconventional oil and gas are "direct" industry jobs. That would be 3,000 jobs in 2012 and a significant leap from the 1,000 created from 2008 to 2011. Concerns that the better jobs may be going to out-of-state workers remain unanswered.
Coming up
After years of wrangling, lawmakers expressed Marcellus fatigue following their December 2011 achievement.
But some issues are yet to be resolved — among them, surface owner rights. A Doddridge County surface owner, in one court case, argued that he should have the right to appeal a well permit the state Department of Environmental Protection had issued EQT on his property. The state Supreme Court ruled in November that state code, which offers only after-the-fact remedy to surface owners, is outdated and that the Legislature should revisit it.
Finally, studies mandated by the Horizontal Well Control Act are coming due. The DEP has to report to the Legislature by Dec. 31 on whether location restrictions for horizontal wells are sufficient given the noise, light, dust and air emissions and by Jan. 1 on the safety of pits and impoundments. It also has to report by July 1, 2013, on whether further regulation of air pollution from well sites is needed to protect human health and environment, on rules regarding drilling in karst terrain, and on wellbore casing and cementing standards.
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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) _ Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York will be the principal commencement speaker at the University of Notre Dame in May and receive an honorary degree.
Dolan is considered a candidate to succeed Pope Benedict XVI. He's the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and one of the best known religious figures in the U.S..
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Redskins- Giants Tailgating Recipe: NY Strip Fiorentina
10.19.2012 / Blog Posts Recipes
NY strips and add the sauce when the steaks are done. At Dinner Matters, we usually pair this with a creamy parmesan polenta, but it's versatile enough to go with potato salad. And while you've got the grill still hot, throw on some sliced zucchini for an easy side dish.
NY Strip Fiorentina
4 (1 1/2 inch-thick) NY strip steaks
Ingredients:
1 tbsp fresh rosemary, finely chopped
1 tbsp lemon zest
2 garlic cloves finely chopped
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Preparation:
1.Pre-heat grill.
2. Season steaks on both sides with coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper.
3. Grill steaks to desired doneness, 4 to 5 minutes per side for medium-rare. Remove steaks and let rest 5 minutes.
4. Meanwhile, put the garlic, rosemary, lemon zest in a small bowl. Add the balsamic vinegar and olive oil, and mix (This can be prepared ahead of time).
5. Once the meat has rested, pour the mixture over the steaks.
Enjoy and get ready for kickoff!
Samantha Malone McCormack: General Manager, Dinner Matters, LLC; DinnerMatters.net/
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WowDB (previously called "Wowdb") is a World of Warcraft information database originally created by Curse. The site design was "very much inspired by Wowhead."[2] Sometime in late 2010, Curse decided to close Wowdb. In their closure message, they refer visitors to their guild site, Wowstead, MMO Champion's WoW DB, and Wowtal.com MMO Champion's WoW Talent Calculator.
Around late June 2011, the notice was replaced by a 403 - Forbidden status[3] which lasted until at least late July 2012.
At some point in 2012, MMO Champion's logo appeared on a new apparently rejuvenated version of the DB, but it didn't seem to be running on the same backend as MMO Champion's DB. It had some content beta. Boubouille of MMO Champion detailed the development efforts of the new version in his blog in late March 2012.[4]
At some point around late August 2012, WoWDB got its own logo, replacing the MMO Champion logo.
Advanced tooltips
On April 18th, 2012, a new feature was announced: advanced tooltips. They're basically the same thing as regular tooltips but with more information when possible.
References
- ^ a b As of 14-Mar-2013.
- ^ Eliah Hecht 2007-02-04. Curse launches oddly familiar WoW database (Update 2). Retrieved on 2007-02-28.
- ^ 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.. Web.Archive.org. Retrieved on 2011-06-29.
- ^ Boubouille 2012-03-23. WoWDB and Ongoing Development. FluffyFrench blog. Archived from the original on 2012-05-29.
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I love the tile size choices! Wonderful implementation right there. Never thought I would pay for a weather app but this developer deserves to be rewarded. Can I assume the paid version doesn't have ads?
Jonathan Petr says:
You know it would just be killer if they had a way to play those HD videos on the live tile... .
Hiiiiiiiii says:
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Hiiiiiiiii says:
I am not saing it's lacking, it's just not a must have
Redspeed93 says:?
Correction the app launches in 1.5 sec according the the developer. And Daniel question, do people in east coast get faster update numbers in marketplace live tile because I didn't see any number change there here in west coast.
GoodThings2Life says:
Yes, I'm told they are working on the lockscreen features for a future release. :)
In the meantime, it's a GREAT update. I've been previewing it for a few weeks now and love the speed on the 920.
ChadWilliams23 says:
Best weather app I've used....loving it on my 920
ousooner314 says:
Regarding "notifications for severe weather", are these push/toast notifications? This is essential when we have severe weather around here.
Its not the toast notification, but for better or worse, it shows you from the live tile with exclamation on the right top side of the tile.
ousooner314 says:
Bummer.. toast/push notifications are ideal when tornado warnings are issued. mate, noticed music can't be listened to while opening the app any chance this can be fixed whip still using the HD animations in the future?
Darth Lord says:
$1.49...ouch..
Seriously?
AlwaysHedged says:
Your time must be worth much less....
philharmonik says:.
Majin_Static says:
Now I just need a update for metro tube and all my live tiles will be the correct resolution
lordofthereef says:
You seriously can't spend that extra $0.50 that's probably on the floor in your house? Cheapskate ássfucker
lordofthereef says:!
HighDefEdition says:
Thanks for the review. For now I'll just add it to my ever growing list of must have Windows Phone apps. Still waiting on the Samsung ATIV S to make the switch from my beloved Galaxy SIII.
HTC 8x - App runs fine looks great.. only issue. LiveTile just a colour themed square in large format.. static image for normal and small tiles...
ggonzalez777 says:
This worked like charm!!!?
downhillrider says:
hmm i went to buy it and it tells me i already purchased it, im guessing on my 1st gen wp. awesome.
ggonzalez777?
chataddicted says:
Plz some one tell me what is the best weather apps in wp7?? Im currently using accu weather. I want a weather apps that update live tile every 1 hr very efficiently..... Plz help... :(
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cybermoose89 says:
I think they should do it make a new awesome windows phone android not to troll frankly sucks lol
Hisham Ahmed says:
You can pick on Android as long as u wish,bro.This is a WP site, so welcome to heaven :-)
12Danny123 says:
Glad they are joining WP. Their WP. Will sell very well in china
PolishHitta says:
Lenovo, one of the most reliable laptop manufacturers make a windows phone? Im interested
Hamoodi Josef says:
I'm a big fan of Lenovo, if they create a Windows Phone i'll find it extremely hard not to buy. Please bring one and give it nice minimilistic styling like their new Laptop ranges!
Imperial Dynamics says:
Lenovo will probably introduce the first Intel-based Windows Phone
AgentVinod says:
Good news
pizzalovinhulk says:
Lenovo is the best in computer hardware they would make an indestructible phone
WanderingTraveler says:
Considering what my brothers can do to my laptop, and that it survived this long, I can believe that.
Though, Nokia was first when it came to indestructible phones. Still have a 3210 that works perfectly.
KrazyKatz64 says:
Think mobile...
This name suit the rugged and all black mobile phone.
7yrs ago when I had my first sigh on Thinkpad X60, I told myself, no other brand will replace my notebook. If there is a ThinkPhone, I will sure give it a.
inside man 55 says:
I think Lenovo would be a formidable partner. I heard somewhere they produce a range of handsets for the Chinese market.
Alexei Humeniy Jacobs says:
Yes, please. I was very dissapointed the ThinkPad Tablet didn't had a Microsoft OS option.
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IEvil IMonkey says:
At last
daedalus_x304 says:
Finally the BBC have come to their senses. Just need one for WinRT/8
Maybe they will release a Win8 App at the same time seeing Channel 4 and 5 both have there catchup apps in the Win8 store. That's what may have spurred them onto make a dedicated app and if you are writing an app for Win 8 you may as well add the little bit of extra work to make it WP8 compatable.
andrewkeith5 says:
I certainly hope so - personally I don't like watching videos on a smartphone - the screen is just too small, but I'd love to have a proper app for iPlayer on Windows 8...
Your concepts are not clear. Watching a video on a 4" screen phone, 18" away from your face is the same as watching a 45" tv 12 feet away. Its actually better when your phone has a HD screen. Only approximating here guys.
Whilst a metro app for iPlayer would be great, I was watching iPlayer, via the web, on my RT fine on Saturday. I was watching Match of the Day live without any trouble, I must admit I was surprised at just how well it was working, flawless and looks gorgeous on the Surface screen.
daedalus_x304 says:
Although the website is fine it would be nice to have an that let you download like the desktop (non-metro) one
This is great news for us Brits. Now we need to start nagging Sky to get their SkyGo app on the platform. Those two apps would sway a lot of UK potential users.
fancyabrew says:
+1 for skygo. Typical media loveies think the world revolves around apple. Also need iPlayer on RT
adrian1338 says:
do i need sky for sky go or is it like iplayer "you should not watch this without license"
Yes, you need to be a Sky subscriber to use SkyGo. You can also only watch on it channels that you actually subscribe to.
adrian1338 says:
Well we have a skybox in house with all the anytime fun - i guess i will have to check sky go out. Could i get the Subscribernumber out of the box or do i have to find written stuff from sky?
Yup, the BBC IT department is stuff fulled of Hipster Apple lovin' nerds and Linux fanboys. They can't tie their own shoelaces.
You only have to have some knowledge of the fact they've had to oursource much of their IT cos their inhouse saps are hopeless, but public owned bodies are very often like this. Lifer jobsworths who contribute very little but noone can get rid of 'em.
I'm more hopeful a commercial entity like Sky will at some stage come to the WP party, and they would do it with help from MS with free dev or joint marketing. The BBC was an uphill cultural battle I should imagine, so this is actually more significant in my book.
Sharpmango says:
Edit - thid comment was written in response to a now deleted comment.Lol, if you don't pay the tv license, you have zero grounds to complain. I love the BBC for what it brings to British broadcasting. It is one of the central features of UK culture and peoples feelings for them should considerably transcend whether they have a WP app or not. Having said that, this is great news and will further help the UK WP market.
UltimateKGB says:
4od is what U want, government owned and not for profit
walter1832 says:
You know who to whoo hoo!
So MS paid them, and the best they could do was a website wrapped by a live tile and not an actual real full app? And it takes months to finish?
Better than nothing I suppose
Isn't the iOS version of the iPlayer app also limitted to the mobile site with some iOS chrome around it? The point is that the mobile site does not work on WP devices at all right now. Them pushing through this app means we will finally get access to iPlayer on WP devices which is what we've been calling for BBC to do for a couple of years now.
Seeing as Channel 4 and 5 both have on demand apps in the Win8 store I'm suprised they haven't released WP8 apps yet seeing as it only takes a bit of extra coding.
Daniel_H_UK says:
About time, time for us to 'persude' Sky to release Sky Go for Windows Phone 7x and 8 devices next
danWP7allday says:
+1000
senbobaggins says:
Ha ha that's a sudden turnaround
Reading the source article they state that they made iPlayer available on the Blackberry Z10 before any Windows Phone - what's that all about..
Zeroplanetz says:
how about i boycotte there (i) player cause i have windows not apple untill they pay me to use there service? lol if only
a website shortcut? you mean like Microsoft and Google partnered for a youtube experience?
its a start but a native app is what makes the difference between an enjoyable experience and a cluncky one.
Jason Snowden says:
Great news and i so wish Sky Go were next! Also, will the WP BBC app allow download for offline play?
This is obviously great news. However im not that excited. As you cannot download shows its use is limited. If im in my house ill watch iPlayer on the Xbox. If im on a train or plane then the signal isn't good enough so you need an offline mode. Great to see platform support but of little use until it gets iOS like downloads.
I put a complaint into the bbc about the lack of support for windows phone a week ago. Maybe they are listening to people now. Great to see the bbc producing something
nickengineer says:
I been complaining to and generally bitching about BBC lack of WP support for months and months. Looks like it was your email that tipped the balance. Excellent work chap.
And still people bitch about MS not doing enough to get the big name apps (mainly shelling out $$$).
But they have been doing it all along and continue to do it. There real reason some of those other big names (like we all don't know I'm talking about Instagram and Pandora) haven't taken the $$$ is because their management doesn't like MS or they are trying to extort an unreasonable amount of monetary compensation.
bbennett40 says:
Yay for those in the UK! I'm jealous! :-)
darknight_247 says:
Boom... My mind is blown. About time really. It will probably be like the last android version, that was just a web interface.... Wasn't great but it wasn't awful.
WP seems to be picking up steam.. Banking, games, fitness and now big tv apps, never had a doubt :P
Tiago Lopes says:
US people probably don't get this but this is the big one. As soon as something gets iplayer, its mainstream.
This is huge. Even if it doesn't scratch the ankles of other OS' apps, this means WP is now going somewhere. Its the watermark.
Having been around when it hit ios, this is the one that made the kids go 'oooooh'
inside man 55 says:
Thanks for clearing this up. So wp8 has arrived in Britain? Congrats to y'all. :-)
Paladinleeds says:
Yes it has hit. And it has hit with a mahoosive thud!
Unless I'm mistaken, how is this really that much of a big deal? Being able to download episodes for viewing offline is in my opinion the killer feature. Being able to stream on WIFI is meh - i'm almost always near a better equipped device in those circumstances.
The lack of a native app, in the same way as YouTube, is depressing.
It's a big deal because up until last week the BBC were saying that they wouldn't be releasing anything for Windows Phone because of 2 things: 1 was the playback technology used by MS which was incompatible with the current BBC standards and 2 was scale - they didn't feel there were enough users to justify the spend.
Also, this will act as a virtuous circle; the BBC release an app (web browser) so people who wouldn't have bought a Windows Phone now consider it. The BBC can track how many users of the service use WP devices and as that number goes up the chances of a native app increase. Meanwhile Sky will see the traffic that the BBC are getting and decide that they want a piece of that pie and then behold, we have a SkyGo app within months.
This is good news and a very, very big deal.
stiflingcobra says:
I just hope its better than the Android version. Picture quality on that is super rubbish...
Why don't the bbc just make the content available and then let the community write the app? This is a public body. Give us API's and content, we'll write the apps.
Why is channel 4 and 5 so much better at this. Why is Iplayer avail on xbox but not WP? This is a fail for MS not making some unified player stack.
That is all.
Even though this doesn't effect me since I'm in the US. Still glad to see more major apps come to WP.
I can't wait for the day instagram, Pandora, and many others finally hit the WP AND W8/RT store.
lipper2000 says:
What does this really mean?
I'm guessing that it means that they have agreed to work with MS to develop the player to work without the requirement of the current codecs BBC use...
I think it is a bigger deal than what BB is getting as they are just basically giving BB a website link as they can play flash inherently.
duncan0622 says:
I don't understand, is it a app that able to play mutiple media files likes mp4? Or it is just simply for user to play BBc video?
Besides, is it only available for uk consumer?
darknight_247 says:
Yeah its just uk bbc content. The content we get is due to the national tv licence we pay for monthly/yearly.
ChazTyldsley says:
Great news for the platform! Although I'd never sit there watching tv shows on a small phone screen, I'm glad it's coming for people that want it.
Iskassasya says:
YAY
danWP7allday says:
HALLELUJAH. This might just stop me migrating :))
Good news and kudos to MS for, it seems, pushing this forward. Who knows, maybe the BBC will realise that their fixation with all things Apple is soooo 2010, one of these years. A proper app would be nice though...particularly for WinRT with download/offline viewing function. Perhaps someone should remind Auntie Beeb that their iPlayer would never have taken off witthout the Windows platform in the first place.
Does anyone else think its kinda sad that one of the largest media corporations in the world had to steal the branding for their online media from Apple
pLUSpISTOL says:
This makes me happy. Now Sky, ITV and Channel 4 please lol.
Microsoftjunkie says:
how can we get live tile support without a dedicated app. is this new and why havent wdbsites done this already?
It is a dedicated app. It is just that the UI for selecting and finding programmes is the iPlayer mobile website (Internet Explorer is embedded in the app as a "control"). When you tap on a link for a video stream, the BBC Media Player code that is included in the app takes over.
Whats kinda interesting (and might be where Microsoft have got involved) is that on other platforms this thing called the BBC Media Player is implemented in Adobe AIR. Which doesn't work on Windows Phone. So its had to be re-implemented in Silverlight (since it works on WP7 as well). So I bet that MS have offered to do most of this coding/port for the BBC, thats what the deal is.
Oh, and BTW this is not about codecs, this is about the "streaming transport" system. iPlayer uses h.264 for its codec which Windows Phone can handle already.
SunithMandalia says:
have you guys read that blog post properly, it doesn't say they are releasing an app for Windows Phone, it says they are enabling the mobile site to work with Windows Phone, which is why it will work through the live tile, as the live tile will just be a shortcut.
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Still good news, but an app would be better, as i'd prefer to have the bbc iplayer radio app
Its an app, sort of. The confusion is because the Beeb are talking about "wrapping" the iPlayer website:
By wrapping the iPlayer mobile website together with its proprietary Media Player plug-in, the broadcaster can offer access to streamed feeds of its material
So its an app, that has the "BBC Media Player" code in it, and also embeds the Internet Explorer code, but it turns the URL bar off. Open the app, and it displays the embedded IE, and loads the iPlayer mobile site. Tap on a link for a video stream, and it then switches to the "Media Player" part of the app.
Its quite similar to how they implemented iPlayer on Series 60 3rd Ed devices. It just means the UI for finding and searching for programs isn't native "Modern UI" but a webpage.
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About bloody time. I'm thoroughly nauseated by the way the BBC supports Apple as if they held major stock in the company, but has been totally dismissive of the WP ecosystem. I know it's economically motivated as everything is but it genuinely grates when you see them developing and releasing all manner of obscure Apple apps when they could divert that resource to supporting other OS users - who have already paid their tv license and would appreciate the much deserved support!
If by "economically motivated" you mean that the BBC has a finite budget, and they have to target "platforms" that will reach as many license fee payers as possible for the amount of expenditure involved, then yes, its economically motivated. Windows Phone only broke the 10% market share level in the UK in the last month or so, and yet because WP cannot use any of their existing delivery technologies (HTTP Live Streaming, and Adobe AIR in particular) it would have been just as expensive to implement as an iPhone app. And then that Windows Phone marketshare is partially fragmented (if your app needs a feature not available through Silverlight, thats goodbye to WP7 users).
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2 Steps to Driving Traffic to Your WordPress Blog with Twitter
I am a huge fan of Twitter — not because I think it’s a great social media network for keeping up with my friends but because it (a) is a great place to network with your readers and likeminded bloggers and (b) can be a great source of targeted referrals to your site.
There’s a lot to love about the blue bird. You can use Twitter to quickly and easily reach out to your blog’s readers. If you don’t have any readers yet, you can use Twitter to build a following out of nothing. And when it comes to utilizing effective techniques and plugins to boost visitors to WordPress blogs, Twitter is by far my preferred option.
With the above in mind, in this post I want to show you some of the ways in which I use Twitter to drive traffic to my blog.
Step 1: Building a Following
This first step isn’t WordPress specific — it should be followed by anyone looking to build a following on Twitter. However, you will need to build a sizeable following before you can take advantage of the techniques and plugins in step 2, so it only seems right that I point you in the right direction before getting onto the good stuff.
I have written a great deal about building a Twitter following in the past as it is something that I have had some success with — through 2012 I grew my own profile from around 500 followers to over 9,000. This may not be particularly impressive compared to the likes of Barack Obama or Lady Gaga, but they had a huge brand to build upon — I did not.
So if you are in a similar situation and want to know what you can do to grow a following, check out the following posts to get started:
Step 2: Driving Traffic to Your Site
Once you have some followers you can start to think about how to drive them (and others) to your site. I’m assuming that you’ve got the basic stuff down pat; like linking to your site from your Twitter profile and so on:
With all that out of the way your strategy should be based upon two concepts.
1st Concept: Sharing Your Content Effectively
Merely hitting Publish on your latest blog post and getting on with your day isn’t going to result in anything more than a trickle of visitors (unless you are already running a well-established blog). You need to put the hard yards into promoting your content. One such avenue for sharing your content is of course social media, and more specifically, Twitter.
The first thing you should bear in mind is that it is perfectly acceptable to share each new blog post you publish more than once. So long as you are not only using your profile to promote your own content, very few of your followers are going to mind if you promote new posts two or three times, with each tweet spaced out reasonably. This also means that your post gets exposure across multiple time zones.
I have recently started using an excellent WordPress plugin which makes the process of tweeting out new posts extremely simple (automatic, in fact) — WordTwit. Whilst there is a free version I would heartily recommend that you go pro, which enables you to automatically schedule multiple tweets of the same post. With this plugin you hit Publish and it tweets out your new post automatically — you don’t need to lift a finger. There are also a bunch of additional features such as tweeting to multiple accounts, custom hashtags, and much more.
So that’s new posts taken care of, but what about your old stuff? If you are publishing evergreen content then posts that you published six months ago should be just as relevant today as they were then. Manually tweeting out old content can be a real chore, so instead turn to a plugin like Tweetily, which automatically and periodically tweets out old content via your Twitter profile.
Those are the two plugins I recommend for sharing your content via Twitter effectively. Once you have these bases covered your Twitter followers will regularly be encouraged to check your blog out. However, make sure that all of this self-promotion is consistently interspersed with useful third party content and other unique tweets.
2nd Concept: Making it Easy for People to Share Your Content
With the above measures in place Twitter should now drive a good flow of traffic to your site. However, those visitors are your Twitter followers — the next step is to find people who aren’t currently following you and drive them to your site. The best way to do this is to get your existing readers to do the hard work for you by sharing your content.
With that in mind, the key is to make sharing (1) easy and (2) inviting — easy in that people can share content in just a couple of clicks, inviting in that they actually feel compelled to share your content.
Lets start with making sharing easy. Whilst there are a huge number of popular social sharing plugins available (I’ve tried most of them), my number one recommendation is Digg Digg. It is free, well featured, lightweight and developed by the awesome guys at Buffer (if you’ve not heard of that app, you should definitely check it out). With Digg Digg installed and correctly set up, your readers will always have the option to share.
Digg Digg in action on my blog.
Once you’ve made sharing easy, you want to focus on making it inviting. Creating great content is obviously a great start, but that’s not all you can do. Ultimately people want to tweet something interesting, and a post’s headline is not always particularly compelling. With that in mind, I like to embed pre-populated tweets within my posts, like this:
The link…
…and the pre-populated tweet.
An interesting snippet of text followed by a link back to your post — what could be simpler?
I couldn’t find a plugin that let me easily create such links so me and a friend made one — it’s called Easy Tweet Embed. The key to best utilizing the plugin (and therefore increasing shares of your content) is to include interesting pre-populated tweets so people can send out great content to their followers with just a couple of clicks. I have found that famous quotes and your own pearls of wisdom attract a lot of sharing action. Whenever I include pre-populated tweets within a post I tend to find that the number of tweets increases by 20-40% or even more.
Four Plugins = Much More Traffic
I have mentioned four plugins above, of which only one is premium. These are all I use to drive traffic to my site from Twitter and they work very well for me.
However, if you have any additional suggestions (be it specific techniques or plugins) as to how people might drive even more traffic to their site via Twitter, please let us know in the comments section below!
Thanks for sharing Tom. I’ve definitely used Twitter a lot in the past to build-up traffic. I’m sure many remember the days when I had a “tweet to download” button for my freebies. Used correctly, twitter can be a great way to get some extra exposure for your site.
My pleasure AJ! I’ve used “Tweet to Download” myself too in the past — that’s another good strategy (although not one I really utilize these days).
Love this post! Your information is so straightforward and valuable. Going to check out Digg Digg now!
Hey Melissa,
No problem at all — enjoy Digg Digg!
Cheers,
Tom
Nice post! One thing: WordPress now allows easy embedding of tweets in posts just by pasting in the URL, like you can do with YouTube videos. This is enabled via the oEmbed API. So a plugin isn’t needed to get embeddable tweets, unless I misunderstood what the goal of the plugin is.
Hey Miriam,
WordPress allows you to embed published tweets within blog post. Easy Tweet Embed allows you to embed a link to a pre-populated tweet that people can send out via their own account.
Cheers,
Tom
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JAMES FRANCO has opened up about his crush on SPIDER-MAN co-star KIRSTEN DUNST, revealing it led to tense times on set between himself and her."
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Mezzo-soprano
Mar season 2012-13 Marietta Simpson sings as Queenie in Showboat with Houston Grand Opera, as soloist in Mahler's Symphony No. 3 with Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra under Carlos-Miguel Prieto, and in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Her 2011-12 season included singing as soloist in Messiah with the United States Naval Academy, and in Bruckner's Te Deum and Tippett's A Child of Our Time, both with Collegiate Chorale. Recentueck.
Other highlights include Maria in Porgy and Bess in a return to Lyric Opera of Chicago;; as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra in an evening of opera arias and spirituals; with both the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Nashville and received her Master's Degree in Music from the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is currently an associate professor of voice at Indiana University.
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I can smell it now … the gravy, the sweet potato casserole, the yeast rolls, and the turkey. I look forward to Thanksgiving every year, not just because I can eat lots of yummy foods that someone else cooks for me, but because it is usually the first time I get to see family since the summer.
In the midst of traveling, cooking, and shopping, I hope you will find a few moments to spend with your family and work on some fun, simple crafts over Thanksgiving.
Just a few ideas to involve your kids over the holiday before we get started on the crafts: Have them decorate the tablecloth while you cook. Ask them to draw and write about Thanksgiving and family. Or let the older children prepare a simple dish without your help.
And the crafts:
Turkey Day Shirt/Onesie
This first craft was inspired by a dear friend of mine who always thinks of amazing ideas. You will need a blank, solid colored shirt or onesie (any color is fine, but we used white), a sheet of brown felt, 2 small googly eyes, 2 different colors of wide ribbon (we used blue and pink), 3 different colors of slightly smaller in width ribbon (we used green, orange, and pink plaid), and an even smaller in width ribbon (we used green again with an embellishment). Try and vary the textures and patterns if you are more creative!
Cut the brown felt into one small circle for the head and one larger circle for the body. Cut two small strips of the orange ribbon and glue them to the back of the larger circle for the feet. Cut a small triangle out of the orange ribbon and glue on the smaller circle for the beak. Glue two googly eyes on the smaller circle. Glue the smaller circle to the top of the larger circle. Now, when cutting the ribbon, cut all pieces to the same length, but your length may be different from mine or any others. This is not exact science!
Eyeball your shirt or onesie to determine how long the ribbon pieces need to be. We used roughly 6-7 inches for a onesie. Cut 2 pieces of the pink ribbon, 3 pieces of the blue ribbon, 4 pieces of the orange ribbon, 2 pieces of the green ribbon, 2 pieces of the pink plaid ribbon, and 2 pieces of the green ribbon with embellishments. Fold each ribbon and glue the two open ends together before gluing to the back of the felt. Start with the larger pieces of ribbon and work your way down. Use the picture as guide for where each color should be. Glue the entire turkey to the shirt or onesie. Cut a small piece of the green ribbon with embellishments and tie into a small bow (optional). Glue the bow onto the side of the smaller circle. Use any color ribbon you would like so that anyone can wear it! It is your design.
Family Tree
Take a walk outside and have your kids gather many different leaves that are colorful and interesting. Have them pick at least one that will be used as their leaf. Use a large piece of brown construction paper and cut out a tree trunk (be creative!). Cut out smaller pieces of the brown paper to use as branches, vary the lengths and widths. Glue the branches around the top of the tree trunk. Remember, this tree can be as small or as large as you want. Have the children determine which leaf they found would represent each member of your family. Feel free to include cousins, aunts, grandparents, uncles, or even special guests that will be coming over for Thanksgiving dinner. Carefully use a marker or sharpie to write their name on the leaf (be gentle). Glue the leaves around the tree and display for everyone to see!
Harvest Necklace
You will need a large needle (parental supervision), dried fruit, pieces of orange peel, popped corn, and string or fishing line. Measure out the length of line that you need to fit the necklace over your child’s head. Thread the needle and string the popcorn and other items along the line using any pattern you desire. After wearing for the day, have your child add a bit of peanut butter to the pieces and hang on a tree outside for the birds.
A Splash of Fall Color
This craft is for all you moms and dads who are brave enough to attempt the mess! Lay out a large, white bed sheet or tablecloth outside. Pour fall colors of paint into plastic bowls (reds, oranges, yellows, browns, and greens). Maybe add a few bowls of glitter, googly eyes, tinsel, or cut outs. Set out a few paint brushes. Let your child make hand print turkeys, mix the colors to make new ones, or just sit back and watch them explore their creativity. This is a great activity to pass the time while waiting for your turkey to finish cooking. It is also a wonderful sensory activity that your child will love! Let them guide the play, just be a watchful eye. Hey, it might turn out so well that you decide to use it as the tablecloth for dinner.
I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving full of great food, family and friends, and most importantly fun!
Amber is the stay-at-home mom of a baby, a full-time graduate student at N.C. State and a part-time photographer. She lives with her family in Garner. She shares crafts here on Go Ask Mom once or twice a month.
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Goldsboro, N.C. — An 27-year-old LaGrange man broke into the Emeritus at the Pines senior living center in Goldsboro late Friday and fired shots at an interior door while looking for a staff member, Goldsboro police said Saturday.
Waylon Britt Thompson, of 254 Beston Dr., broke the glass on the facility's front door around 11 p.m. and fired birdshot at a door and wall, police said. He was looking for his ex-girlfriend, who is a staff member at the community.
Goldsboro police and Wayne County deputies responded to a 911 call, but Thompson left the facility before they arrived.
No one was injured in the incident, but Trisha Capps, executive director of the center, said Goldsboro police and Wayne County sheriff's deputies evacuated staff from the building.
Residents were not evacuated during the incident, Capps said.
Thompson was arrested at his home following the incident and faces charges of breaking and entering, firing into an occupied structure, domestic assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
He was in the Wayne Count jail Saturday under a $60,000 secured bond..
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Rocky Mount, N.C. — The USA South Athletic Conference will have a new home for the majority of their spring sports championships.
In an announcement Thursday, the USA South and the city of Rocky Mount said that the USA South Spring Sports Festivals will be held April 11-14 2013 in Rocky Mount, Wilson and Zebulon.
Spring sports participating in the championships include baseball, softball, women’s lacrosse, men’s golf and both men’s and women’s tennis who will play at the new facility on the North Carolina Wesleyan college campus.
The US South is made up of 12 schools, 11 of which will compete in the first year of the championships.
Member schools in the conference are Averett University, Christopher Newport University, Ferrum College, Greensboro College, LaGrange College, Mary Baldwin College, Maryville College, Meredith College, Methodist University, NC Wesleyan College, Piedmont College and William Peace University.
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Tonight we remember a broadcasting businessman.
J.B. Fuqua died Wednesday at age 87 from complications with bronchitis.
It's a rags to riches story: Fuqua made his first million starting Augusta's WJBF-TV.
He went on to turn Atlanta's Fuqua Industries into a multi-billion dollar conglomerate.
Fuqua founded WGAC radio station. He also served as a state lawmaker and chairman of the state democratic party.
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Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2012
AIKEN, S.C. -- The suspect in a hit-and-run on Tuesday night has been arrested and charged with felony DUI.
Anthony Ray Martin of North Carolina is being held in the Aiken County Detention Center and is also charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in great bodily injury.
The 27-year-old was allegedly driving southbound on Whiskey Road when he crossed the center line and hit a moped.
The moped driver, 47-year-old Tammy Lynn Mitchell, was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.
Witnesses say they saw Martin speeding away after the accident.
The accident happened around 10:30 p.m. near Boardman Road.
The Aiken Department of Public Safety Accident Reconstruction Team is investigating the accident.
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Ring of Honor live event (Norfolk, Va. at Norfolk Scope Exhibition Center)
Report By Matt and Belinda Elliot and ProWrestling.net
The Norfolk Scope Exhibition Center is a small building in the Scope complex. About 350 fans showed up. There was a meet and greet with World Champion Davey Richards and TV Champion Jay Lethal. You could get a signed 8X10 advised us that he had a staph infection and was not cleared to wrestle. Eddie was scheduled to wrestle Mike Bennett.
1. Kenny King pinned Andy “Right Leg” Ridge.
2. Mike Bennett pinned Grizzly Redwood.
3. Kevin Steen pinned Adam Cole.
4. The Briscoes successfully defended the ROH World Tag Team Championships against Caprice Coleman and Cedric Alexander. This was originally advertised on TV as Briscoes vs. All Night Express but was changed due to Rhett Titus’s injury.
Intermission
5. Team A1 defeated World’s Greatest Tag Team by disqualification. Team A1 were Zach and Jeff – I don’t know… some local indy guys. A lot of fans seemed to know who they were as the only people who had a large amount of streamers thrown at them were this team. The ring announcer was not ROH’s regular ring announcer. Rather, it was a local indy heel manager named Neal Sharkey. I go to local indy shows sometimes and had seen these guys before but they never really left much of an impression.
Before the match, Haas and Benjamin did a promo saying they had wrestled all over the world and they shouldn’t have to wrestle in the Norfolk Scope’s garage. Great line. The building did kind of look like a garage. The match was basically a squash. Haas and Benjamin kept going for pins but then lifting their opponents’ his full entourage) defeated ROH TV Champion Jay Lethal in a Proving Ground match. Ciampa won with only a few seconds left before the time limit expired so Ciampa will get a title shot at some point.
7. Davey Richards and Kyle O’Reilly defeated Roderick Strong and Michael Elgin (w/Truth Martini). Great match!
Notes: We bought our tickets before even one match was announced so we could be in attendance at ROH’s Norfolk debut. We regretted it as soon as they announced the matches. match with the Briscoes, and Coleman and Alexander were announced as their replacements. Had we waited until the matches were announced, we probably would not have purchased tickets.
Having said that though, had we not gone, we would have missed a very good card filled with an entire roster who worked hard and with matches that all ranged from acceptable to awesome (main event). I'm not sure the crowd was big enough to bring ROH back regularly, but the show was very enjoyable.
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[Malaysiakini] MACC man claims that Teoh a likely accomplice
This is the standard of MACC. They fail to convict anyone from PR since 16 July 2009, but now they are making all sorts of unfair and biased allegation against my friend who does not have a chance to defend or speak for himself in RCI...
~S Pathmawathy
DAP political secretary Teoh Beng Hock had “elements of an accomplice”, said a Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) officer in his testimony at the royal commission of inquiry on the former's cause of death.
MACC Selangor investigations unit head Hairul Ilham Hamzah, in agreeing with Bar Council lawyer Cheow Wee's suggestion, said this was the reason Teoh was brought in by MACC officers for questioning.
“He (Teoh) was escorted to the MACC office although he was not a suspect. Were there any indications that he could have been an accomplice?” asked Cheow, to which Hairul agreed.
The royal commission is inquiring into Teoh's death. He was found dead on July 16, 2009 on the fifth floor landing of the Plaza Masalam building which used to house the MACC headquarters on the 14th floor.
Teoh was called in on July 15, 2009 for questioning by the MACC, which was probing his employer Seri Kembangan assemblyperson Ean Yong Hian Wah for alleged misappropriation of state funds.
'Trained to use psychological tactics'
Prior to this, the MACC officer told the panel that every enforcement officer is required to undergo three or six months basic training upon joining the MACC.
“We are trained to ensure witnesses are comfortable and that they would cooperate willingly,” said Hairul.
Cheow asked on the interview techniques taught and Hairul answered that they use methods to evoke “emotions of sadness or guilt”.
“We are trained to use psychological tactics when interrogating suspects,” he explained.
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Sugar Shock
"The next big plague: Insulin resistance. It could bring down our entire health system unless people learn to save themselves" -David Ewing Duncan
An interesting 4 page article about sugar and what it is doing to your body. Download the PDF below.
Avocadoes
Avocados are a surprisingly complete food, with fourteen minerals to stimulate growth, including iron and copper for your blood. The sodium and potassium in avocados keeps your body chemically balanced, and their low sugar content make them an ideal fruit for diabetics. Vitamins in avocados include A, several B-complex, C, and E, as well as phosphorus and magnesium. They're also a great source of antioxidants like vitamins E and C.
The Poor Potato...
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Did you know?
Health Concerns about Dairy Products
Many Americans, including some vegetarians, still consume substantial amounts of dairy products-and government policies still promote them-despite scientific evidence that questions their health benefits and indicates their potential health risks.
When to eat organic--Pesticide count
Here is a list of fruit and vegetables and the pesticide load found in each:
1. Peaches (worst) 100
2. Apples 89
3. Sweet Bell Peppers 86
4. Celery 85
Soy good for you?
I started out looking for all the benefits of adding soy to your diet but have come up with nothing but nasty stuff:
Bananas... who knew?
Cheap and highly nutritious!
Wild or farm raised fish?
The term ocean-raised means the same as farm-raised (the term was changed for marketing purposes).
Farm raised salmon are fed food colouring to give their flesh a nice pink colour. Farm-raised fish are higher in mercury and are administered more antibiotics than any other form of livestock because they are more prone to disease from over-crowded conditions. Farm-raised fish are infested with sea lice, 30,000 times more than their wild neighbours. When they escape their pens they wreak havoc with the health of their counterparts.
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Recovery from catastrophic injuries takes time and tenacity, patience and perseverance, but competitive athletes in every sport who are wired like Peavy and Rose routinely come back as good as ever thanks to modern medicine.
Eventually, no reason exists why Rose cannot recapture his ability and the imagination of Bulls fans. What makes the injury so hard for those fans to accept is the knowledge that this Bulls team was built to win a championship this year, and who knows what the roster will look like when Rose returns?
Projecting Rose to eventually regain his MVP form takes a smaller leap of faith than predicting the Bulls immediately will return to NBA title contender status. As one respected longtime sports doctor told me Sunday, the greatest challenge facing Rose might be as daunting emotionally as physically.
By now ACL reconstruction surgery tends to be routine, but rehabilitation can be a dark, lonely place. This wasn't the type of solitude Rose talked about seeking in a recent GQ cover story, but it is the reality that awaits him.
"There's not a kid I've been around that's mentally tougher than Derrick Rose," Bulls general manager Gar Forman said Sunday. "Our belief and his belief is that he will come back stronger than ever."
Experience should make Rose educated enough in the next phase of his career to avoid hurling his body into midair with regularity. Emphasis on perimeter shooting could make Rose more accurate from 3-point range so he can penetrate less and protect his body more. His effort will be as familiar as his No. 1 jersey.
"We know everyone wants an answer for why and fans can be eager to look for blame, which is natural, (but) the reality is bad injuries happen in sports and unfortunately this happened in our city, to our franchise and to one of the finest role models we've ever been around," Bulls vice president of operations John Paxson said. "I feel so badly for Derrick, but this very well could be what defines his greatness going forward."
Indeed this very well could reveal how tough the kid from Englewood truly is — as well as test the resourcefulness of the Bulls organization.
Consider every payroll and personnel decision Forman and Paxson have made since Rose's arrival pointed to winning with the current roster mix of ability and chemistry typically seen on championship teams.
In the offseason, while Rose rehabs, the Bulls front office will face tough decisions on contract options for key players on the NBA's deepest bench: C.J. Watson, Kyle Korver and Ronnie Brewer. Starters Rip Hamilton and Carlos Boozer won't be any younger the next time Rose suits up. Ramifications of Rose's injury mean the supporting cast that welcomes Rose back might be different — and less supportive.
"It's not a death sentence for him or our team," coach Tom Thibodeau told reporters at the Berto Center.
Staying positive and focused, Thibodeau seemed unfazed by criticism he received for having Rose in the game with a 12-point lead and 1 minute, 22 seconds left. Forman sounded more flabbergasted by the backlash in a phone conversation.
"It's a playoff game!" Forman said. "There absolutely was no issue with us."
Two highly respected sports physicians told me nobody should blame Thibodeau or NBA Commissioner David Stern for a compressed regular-season schedule that took a physical toll. Nobody should blame Rose's five previous injuries that one doctor reasoned had "no correlation" to tearing an ACL. Nobody should blame Adidas, as a rogue Nike designer suggested on Twitter, or a curse on Chicago athletes.
Sometimes, there is nobody to blame but the basketball gods.
"It's a freak deal," Forman said. "It could have happened the first or last minute of the game. It could have happened at practice. It happened, but we still have enough to get it done."
If the Bulls somehow do, I kidded Forman that Thibodeau could name his price in upcoming contract negotiations.
Forman laughed out loud.
At least he still could.
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No reason Bulls' Rose can't recapture magic
Forman: 'Our belief and his belief is that he will come back stronger than ever'
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Kim Hinken, of Edgewater, Md., holds the marriage license she obtained Thursday in Anne Arundel County Circuit in Annapolis, to marry her same-sex partner, Adrianne Eathorne. It was the first day same-sex couples could get a Maryland marriage license, which will be effective Jan. 1, when the law takes effect. Hinken, pictured in the courthouse chapel, was the first person to get a same-sex marriage license in Anne Arundel County.
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Maryland officials agreed Wednesday to buy the historic Annapolis post office building from the U.S. Postal Service for use as part of the government complex surrounding the State House. Without dissent, the three-member Board of Public Works agreed to...
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Maryland seeks historic status for Fort Carroll
When she thinks of Fort Carroll, the abandoned 19th-century military installation in the Patapsco River, Beverly Eisenberg thinks of her grandfather — and of duckpin bowling balls. She visited the six-sided artificial island as a little girl, just...
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City, county officials consider options for structures near new [email protected] construction of the new Washington County Free Library is nearing completion, an unknown factor of the overall project has caught the eye of some City of Hagerstown officials. At the rear of the library site on the corner of South Potomac and...
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Hope Restaurant, food trucks and Eggwhites Catering make state???s sparkling dining listCrime and Safety - Sun-Sentinel?? The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation???s weekly??findings for food vendors that have a history of two or more clean inspection reports was released today. Among the businesses to win the designation:?? Hope Restaurant at...
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Boca Raton's Meet Me on the Promenade is city's first fully sponsored large-scale eventPalm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsBoca Raton's Meet Me on the Promenade event this weekend will cost almost $200,000 to produce, but not a dime of it came from the city's coffers. The event will showcase the city's newly remodeled Palmetto Park Road area, and......
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Boca man declines raffle fraudster???s offerCrime and Safety - Sun-Sentinel?? The alarm bell went off for Howard Brofman this week when a caller told him he won a 2010 Merecedez Benz in a contest. The caller said he worked for??the Better Business Bureau. ???I think he was reading from an old script,??? said Brofman, 83, a...
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Nicki Minaj looks fierce on the cover of the April edition of Elle, which did a "makeunder" that toned down her usual colorful look. Inside, she talks about childhood bullies, women in business and her plans for world domination. [Elle]
But, just like the rest of us, she can get stuck in traffic. Which apparently is what happened to her on Wednesday, when she showed up 13 minutes late to a live taping of "American Idol," after reportedly being jammed up on L.A.'s notorious 405 Freeway. The show started without her. [Daily News]
The Hollywood Reporter issued its list of the 25 most powerful stylists in Hollywood, and maybe the most surprising news is that Rachel Zoe only came in at No. 3. She is arguably the best known of the bunch, but she also had two Oscar-night snafus: Client Anne Hathaway swapped her chosen Valentino at the last minute for a Prada gown with darts that accented two spots on her chest and got the Twitterverse in an uproar, and Jennifer Lawrence tripped on the hem of her Dior haute couture ballgown. (Nonetheless, Zoe said, “every girl on the planet dreams of wearing a dress like that once in her lifetime.")
First place was taken by Leslie Fremar, whose clients include Julianne Moore, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson and Jennifer Connelly. Coming in second was Petra Flannery, whose client roster boasts Zoe Saldana, Claire Danes, Emma Stone, Mila Kunis, Megan Fox and Faith Hill. [Hollywood Reporter]
The Council of Fashion Designers of America announced a slew of nominees for this year's awards, which are to be presented June 3. Vera Wang is to receive this year's Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award, and Oscar de la Renta the Founder's Award. Riccardo Tisci is to receive the International Award. [CFDA]
Meanwhile, the Style Coalition on Wednesday handed out the fourth Fashion 2.0 awards, which recognize achievements in the virtual world as voted on by the public. Marc Jacobs was named best Facebook and top innovator, and Saks took awards for best blog by a fashion brand and best website. @DKNY was honored with having the best Twitter for the fourth straight year. The Visionary Award was presented to Rent the Runway founders Jennifer Hyman and Jenny Fleiss. [WWD]
Alicia Keys is wearing clothes from a number of designers on her Set the World on Fire tour, which started last week. They include Akris, Michael Kors, Hervé Léger and Maison Michel. [WWD]
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By Dan Meade
(WORLDNOW) -- Gordon Gekko has long been the image of the typical titan of Wall Street but it turns out that Ebenezer Scrooge may be a more accurate stereotype: Deseret News has released a ranking of America's richest communities cross-referenced with how much, or little, those who live there give to charity. Seven of the 10 stingiest counties were in the Greater New York area.
Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Dallas round out the top five metro areas deemed the most Scrooge-like, meaning that the image of the big city being a cold and harsh place to live may in fact be true. To compile this list, Deseret News compared adjusted gross income (AGI) vs. charitable donations data listed on 2008 income tax returns on a ZIP code by ZIP code basis. Going through their 50-county least charitable listing the contribution percentage of AGI in these counties ranged from as low as 1.3% in Manhattan's 10014 to as "high" as 4.4% in Beverly Hills' 90210.
Perhaps to goad the big city big wigs to be more charitable, Deseret News has also released a ranking of the most charitable cities. The 50 most open-hearted cities are spread out through the country, with many of them located in the South. More than simple "Southern hospitality" may be at play here. The three most charitable cities -- Tulsa, Okla. (Oral Roberts University), Collegedale, Tenn. (Southern Adventist University) and Alpine, Utah (Brigham Young University) -- are all located near large schools with a religious focus.
It should be noted that The Big Apple isn't totally rotten to its core. Buried within data is the fact that Manhattan's 10111 ZIP code gave 6.6% of its income to charity. Perhaps New York's modern-day Scrooges aren't so bad after all.
Dan Meade is the Money editor for Worldnow. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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Art to Illuminate Wiltshire.
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Sometimes criticised as overly romantic and nostalgic, Tanner, a Quaker and pacifist saw the mechanisation and intensified cultivation of modern farming as an act of violence against Nature – he railed against ‘the craze for insecticides’. In 1930 he became a permanent member of the teaching staff at Ivy Lane School in Chippenham and achieved highly memorable work with the children there, as well as working as an H.M. Inspector of Schools in various counties.
When he retired he continued to produce etchings, often composites of various local places and scenes – he completed 27 works before his death. If you are interested in looking at some of his art then visit the Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Devizes or the Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre, although please phone before your visit to enable access to the work.
During World War II Tanner, and his wife Heather, ‘adopted’ a young Jewish refugee from Germany, Dietrich Hanff, whose family was murdered by the Nazis and who came to live with them in Wiltshire after being held as an enemy alien in Lancashire and the Isle of Man. Within the collection of Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre, can be found three oil paintings produced by other victims of war. A painting of Chippenham High Street was made by Karel Wellens, a Belgium refugee from the First World War and a view of Chippenham Town Bridge is by Y Takayama, a Japanese prisoner of war from Burma in 1947. The third oil, of Studley Sawmills near Calne, was painted on a cotton bed sheet by A Perione, an Italian prisoner of war, in May 1946.
Perione eventually went home to Italy but not before painting some of his fellow POW’s who stayed in Chippenham and married local girls. If you know of any of his paintings, please contact Chippenham Museum.
The Public Catalogue Foundation
The Public Catalogue Foundation is a registered charity set up to create a complete record of the United Kingdom's national collection of oil, tempera and acrylic paintings and make this accessible to the public. Many museums from Wiltshire have taken part in this exercise and the oil paintings mentioned above from Chippenham Museum and Heritage Centre can be accessed on this site, hosted by the BBC. Eleven paintings are featured from the Athelstan Museum in Malmesbury, which is holding a new exhibition of these oils, along with the opportunity to ‘tag’ each painting with comments from visitors. This tagging enables people to write comments about each painting on to a luggage label and pinning the tags below the individual art work. Perhaps this image from Athelstan Museum may give you some inspiration!
Jacqui Ramsay
Conservation & Museums Advisory Service
- Tags: art, Athelstan Museum, Chippenham, Devizes, Edward Kilvert, Francis Kilvert, Ivy Lane School, Malmesbury, prisoner of war, Public Catalogue Foundation, Quaker, refugee, Robin Tanner, sawmill, Studley, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Heritage Museum, WWII
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The state says the fall 2012 Michigan Education Assessment Program tests show student gains for reading, mathematics and writing in all grades.
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Each year, the Washington State Department of Transportation, during its Public Transportation Conference, participates with the transportation community in acknowledging and honoring the state's outstanding public transportation employees. This program is an effort to support the exceptional individuals committed to serving the citizens of Washington State.
Through this effort, WSDOT and the agencies, organizations and companies representing the transportation community acknowledge the importance of individuals in our collective efforts to provide an effective and balanced transportation system in the State of Washington. It is people like those honored here that make the transportation system work.
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WSU CAREER. JUNIOR (2007-08): Outdoor - Reached NCAA Provisional Qualifying mark with PR javelin toss of 143-4 (43.68m) at Cougar Invitational Meet (4/26/08, Pullman)...took 16th at Pac-10 Championships with throw of 40.28m / 132-2.
SOPHOMORE (2006-07): Outdoor - Threw javelin PR distance of 42.97m/141-0 at Cougar Invite (4/21/07, Pullman)...mark is 10th-best in WSU women's javelin history.
FRESHMAN (2005-06): Outdoor - Best javelin throw was distance of 39.10m/ 128-3 at the Cougar Invitational (4/22/06, Pullman).
HIGH SCHOOL CAREER. Earned eight varsity letters at Arlington High...four as a wing/post player in basketball for coach Corey Gibb...four in track for coach Judd Hunter...captained both teams as a junior and senior...qualified for state as a freshman...sophomore year won the district javelin title and finished third at state 4A meet...as a junior repeated as district champ...finished second in state meet...senior year won district javelin title for third time...finished third in state 4A championships.
PERSONAL. Born in July 1987 at New Territories, Yuen Long, Hong Kong, China...father Glenn is a dispatcher/trucker...mother Jenny...brothers Kevin and Cameron...majoring in psychology at WSU.
McCORMACK'S WSU BEST
Javelin - 43.68m / 143-4 (2008)
PAC-10 CHAMPIONSHIPS PERFORMANCE
2008 Javelin 16th 40.28m / 132-2
PAC-10 CHAMPIONSHIPS PERFORMANCE
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War Crimes
Hearing on Bradley Manning’s pre-trial confinement concludes
By Naomi Spencer, December 12, 2012
Manning was arrested May 26, 2010, accused of the largest leak of classified military and government documents in history while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.
Bradley Manning speaks on abuse
By Naomi Spencer, December 1, 2012
Accused whistleblower Bradley Manning told the military court of sleep deprivation, isolation, and torment by guards.
Psychiatrists testify on military mistreatment of Bradley Manning
By Naomi Spencer, November 30, 2012
Psychiatrists testified Wednesday that recommendations to end Manning’s solitary confinement were ignored.
Bradley Manning testifies on his detention
By Naomi Spencer, November 30, 2012
Bradley Manning took the stand to speak on his pre-trial detention Thursday. It was the first public statement from the accused whistleblower in over two years.
Report highlights UN “failure” in Sri Lanka
By Sujeewa Amaranath, November 29, 2012
The lessons drawn from the report are aimed at fashioning the UN into a more effective tool of imperialist intervention.
Bradley Manning hearing focuses on unlawful pre-trial punishment
By Naomi Spencer, November 28, 2012
The Army’s pre-trial hearing resumed Tuesday against Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.
US criticises Sri Lanka at UN Human Rights Council
By Sujeewa Amaranath, November 13, 2012
The US and India want Colombo to distance itself from Beijing in order to advance their strategic and economic interests in South Asia.
US Army hearing begins into March 2012 Afghan atrocity
By Naomi Spencer, November 10, 2012
Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of carrying out a massacre of Afghan civilians, faces 16 counts of murder.
UN human rights officials visit Sri Lanka
By Sampath Perera, September 24, 2012
The government’s invitation to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is a message to Washington that it wants closer ties to the US.
Italian right wing honours fascist war criminal
By Marianne Arens, August 22, 2012
An Italian town has erected a monument to the notorious fascist, Rodolfo Graziani.
Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary arrested in Budapest
By Markus Salzmann, July 23, 2012
The 97-year-old is accused of being involved in the murder of 16,000 Hungarian Jews during the Second World War.
British court rejects WikiLeaks editor’s final extradition appeal
By Mike Head, June 15, 2012
As a result of yesterday’s UK Supreme Court ruling, Julian Assange could be forcibly removed to Sweden as early as June 28.
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Ricky Smyrnes' co-defendant took the stand during day four of testimony in the death penalty case against him, telling jurors about the jealous love triangle between Smyrnes, his then-girlfriend and co-defendant Angela Marinucci, and victim Jennifer Daugherty.
Amber Meidinger, 23, testified she was not offered a plea deal in exchange for her testimony, and her reason for testifying was "to tell the jury and the family the truth of what happened."
Meidinger's attorney, Amy Keim, was present for her testimony, but her previous attorney, Emily Smarto, was not. In an order of the court filed Wednesday, Judge Rita Hathaway excused Smarto from Meidinger's case. The order does not list a reason why.
Meidinger testified she and then-boyfriend and co-defendant Melvin Knight met Smyrnes on Feb. 8, 2010 after she and Knight had been staying at a Greensburg-area hotel. Knight and Smyrnes knew each other after meeting previously in jail. Meidinger was pregnant with Knight's child at the time all three met up. Smyrnes offered Meidinger and Knight to stay at his apartment at 428 N. Pennsylvania Avenue in Greensburg. Daugherty and Marinucci were present at the time Smyrnes invited them over, Meidinger testified.
Meidinger went on to testify that Daugherty told her she was going to "marry Ricky," and this enraged Marinucci, who said she was Smyrnes' girlfriend despite being married to Karena Smyrnes at the time. Meidinger testified she, Knight, Smyrnes, Marinucci and Daugherty went to the apartment where they met with co-defendants Peggy Miller and Robert Masters.
After a series of events where Daugherty asked Smyrnes to "sleep with her" and Marinucci made statements that Smyrnes had better not be near Daugherty, Meidinger testified Smyrnes called a "family meeting" on Feb. 9, 2010. During that meeting, he questioned the group if Daugherty would be a good mother. He asked Daugherty the same and she replied that she would read to her child and take them places. Meidinger went on to say that Smyrnes said "she wasn't like normal people... more or less on the lines she was retarded."
She testified Daugherty got a shower and during that time, she, Knight, Masters and Miller rifled through Daugherty's purse, stealing money, a cell phone and gift cards. Meidinger added she poured mouthwash into Daugherty's purse and overnight bag. When Daugherty got out of the shower, she asked what happened to her purse and who stole her money. At that time, Meidinger testified Knight said he had her money and that she was to go to the store to buy him cigarettes with it. Daugherty protested at first saying that money was to be used for her bus fare back home, but eventually she agreed to buy Knight cigarettes and left the apartment.
When Westmoreland County Assistant District Attorney Chuck Washburn questioned Meidinger as to why everyone was doing this to Daugherty, Meidinger replied, "Ricky had said he wanted to embarrass Jen." It was during this response that Meidinger began to cry on the witness stand.
She went on to say when Daugherty returned to the apartment, Knight and Smyrnes began hitting her in the head with empty pop bottles. Daugherty thought it was funny at first, but then asked them to stop. It was then, Meidinger testified, Daugherty called Knight a "bastard," and Knight held Daugherty up against the wall and choked her. Meidinger told jurors she asked Knight to stop, and he did.
After this incident, Marinucci returned to the apartment after having left earlier. Meidinger testified she and Marinucci corner Daugherty in the bathroom where Marinucci confronts her about wanting to have a relationship with Smyrnes. Daugherty denied doing anything wrong, and Marinucci pushed Daugherty into a towel rack, Meidinger testified. She said she then asked Daugherty if she was interested in Knight, and before Daugherty could answer, she pushed her into the towel rack. Meidinger said this happened three times and Daugherty's head hit the towel rack each time. She testified Daugherty said, crying, "What did I do? I didn't do anything."
It was at this point, Meidinger testified, Knight took Daugherty to the living room where Marinucci poured a bottle of water over Daugherty's head and Knight and Smyrnes dumped oatmeal and spices on her head. Daugherty said her eyes were burning, and Smyrnes told her to take a shower because she smelled badly.
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If - 13 cover the prerequisites to College Algebra. Tutorials 14 on cover the College Algebra concepts.
Tutorial 1: How to Succeed in a Math Class
Tutorial 2: Integer Exponents
Tutorial 3: Scientific Notation
Tutorial 4: Radicals
Tutorial 5: Rational Exponents
Tutorial 6: Polynomials
Tutorial 7: Factoring Polynomials
Tutorial 8: Simplifying Rational Expressions
Tutorial 9: Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions
Tutorial 10: Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions
Tutorial 11: Complex Rational Expressions
Tutorial 12: Complex Numbers
Tutorial 13: Practice Test on Tutorials 2 - 12
Tutorial 14: Linear Equation in One Variable
Tutorial 15: Equations with Rational Expressions
Tutorial 16: Formulas and Applications
Tutorial 17: Quadratic Equations
Tutorial 18: Solving Polynomial Equations by Factoring
Tutorial 19: Radical Equations and Equations Involving Rational Exponents
Tutorial 20: Equations that are Quadratic in Form
Tutorial 21: Absolute Value Equations
Tutorial 22: Linear Inequalities
Tutorial 23A: Quadratic Inequalities
Tutorial 23B: Rational Inequalities
Tutorial 24: Practice Test on Tutorials 14 - 23
Tutorial 25: Slope of a Line
Tutorial 26: Equations of Lines
Tutorial 27: Graphing Lines
Tutorial 28: Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
Tutorial 29: Circles
Tutorial 30: Introduction to Functions
Tutorial 30B: Operations with Functions
Tutorial 31: Graphs of Functions, Part I
(Graphing functions by plotting points)
Tutorial 32: Graphs of Functions, Part II
(Domain/Range, Vertical Line Test, Increasing/Decreasing/Constant Functions, Even/Odd Functions, and Greatest Integer Function)
Tutorial 32B: Inverse Functions
Tutorial 33: Practice Test on Tutorials 25 - 32
Tutorial 34: Graphs of Quadratic Functions
Tutorial 35: Graphs of Polynomial Functions
Tutorial 36: Long Division
Tutorial 37: Synthetic Division and the Remainder and Factor Theorems
Tutorial 38: Zeros of Polynomial Functions, Part I
(Rational Zero Theorem and Descartes's Rule of Signs)
Tutorial 39: Zeros of Polynomial Functions, Part II
Tutorial 40: Graphs of Rational Functions
Tutorial 41: Practice Test on Tutorials 34 - 40
Tutorial 42: Exponential Functions
Tutorial 43: Logarithmic Functions
Tutorial 44: Logarithmic Properties
Tutorial 45: Exponential Equations
Tutorial 46: Logarithmic Equations
Tutorial 47: Modeling with Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Tutorial 48: Practice Test on Tutorials 42 - 47
Tutorial 49: Solving Systems of Linear Equations in Two Variables
Tutorial 50: Solving Systems of Linear Equations in Three Variables
Tutorial 51: Systems of Linear Equations and Problem Solving
Tutorial 52: Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations in Two Variables
Tutorial 53: Practice Test on Tutorials 49 - 52
Tutorial 54A: Sequences
Tutorial 54B: Series
Tutorial 54C: Arithmetic Sequences and Series
Tutorial 54D: Geometric Sequences and Series
Tutorial 54: The Binomial Theorem
Tutorial 55: The Fundamental Counting Principle
Tutorial 56: Permutations
Tutorial 57: Combinations
Tutorial 58: Probability
Tutorial 59: Practice Test on Tutorials 54A - 58.
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Published : Friday, 23 Apr 2010, 12:14 PM EDT
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - News 10 is honoring teachers in the Wabash Valley with a 2010 Golden Apple Award.
As we salute this year's Golden Apple Award winners, we travel to Edgewood High School in Elletsville Indiana
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SOURCE Numerex Corp
ATLANTA, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Numerex Corp (NASDAQ: NMRX), a leading provider of on-demand and interactive machine-to-machine (M2M) enterprise solutions, announced today the purchase of the assets and business of AVIDwireless, including intellectual property and know-how, that will support the development of Numerex next-generation M2M platforms and managed services.
AVIDwireless established a solid reputation in the M2M industry with regard to innovative and carrier-grade engineering solutions to enterprise. Customers served by AVIDwireless typically require rapid development of mobile and M2M applications to manage complex, interdependent multi-device industrial M2M deployments, which need on-site intelligence and equipment management as well as reporting, alerting, and alarming protocols.
Ease-of-use and rapid deployment are key attributes of AVIDwireless development initiatives that are provided through plug-and-play wireless remote control and monitoring solutions. These include smart devices, such as the intelligent wireless controller AVIDdirector®, integrated with the flexible AVIDdirector M2M Application Framework, and are ideally suited for a variety of Numerex managed services programs. Also, Numerex will benefit from a mature and proven set of embedded hardware and software platforms that are both versatile and robust, with a track record of successful technical execution spanning many years.
"This transaction gives us access to an extensive Java-based library of device applications, drivers, portal and platform manager on which to build our various technological enhancements centered on Numerex FAST®, our Service Delivery Platform," said Dr. Jeffrey O. Smith, Chief Innovation and Technology Officer of Numerex. "The AVIDwireless team will be joining an already highly talented pool of technical professionals to add development platform and application framework capabilities that optimize the customer experience."
In addition, AVIDwireless brings to Numerex a talented team of engineers, technicians, and project management professionals who have efficiently and effectively delivered a host of M2M solutions. AVIDwireless's expertise and technologies have been implemented in several attractive M2M market segments such as oil field site management systems; intelligent tracking; wireless temperature monitoring; wireless tank and well monitoring; and intermodal system and asset tracking.
The acquisition of AVIDwireless will have minimal financial impact to Numerex in the first year of operations. In addition to intellectual property and know-how, the Company received AVIDwireless's product lines, certain prior art, and several customer contracts.:
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SOURCE: David Consulting Group
Survey results indicate widespread use of sizing across industries and regions, as well as overall predominance of function points
Malvern, PA (PRWEB) February 12, 2013
David Consulting Group (), a leading international software development consulting firm, surveyed companies worldwide to provide a better understanding of how and why function points are being used today. An industry leader in function point sizing, David Consulting Group conducted this survey to garner quantitative information regarding organizations’ experiences with functional sizing in relation to application development.
Survey Methodology and Sample
Survey results were generated based on a combination of electronic survey completions, interviews and a historical analysis of DCG’s function point customer data.
Survey respondents spanned industries, including Service (25%), Finance (22%), Government (16%), Manufacturing (10%), Telecom (8%), Software (7%), Aerospace (4%) and more. In addition, respondents covered the globe: North America (42%), Europe (29%), Asia (15%), South America (10%) and Australia (1%).
Survey Results
Overall, the survey results showcase the widespread use of sizing – ninety-eight percent of the respondents have performed application development sizing at some point. In addition, a majority of the respondents have been sizing for three or more years for projects (69%) or applications (58%).
Other key takeaways from the survey include:
Analysis
“The results of the survey indicate that sizing is more than a trend, it’s here to stay; increasingly, more and more companies, across industries, are applying some form of sizing measure to both applications and projects,” said David Herron, Vice President of Software Performance Management. “While overall use of sizing is growing, we advocate that these companies expand their use of the sizing metric, as well as further protect their investment by ensuring the accuracy of their sizing data with audits and the use of automated, commercial tools for data management.”
Listen to David Herron discuss the presentation highlights.
For more information about the survey or Function Points, contact David Herron.
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BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian warplanes pounded opposition strongholds around Damascus and in the north Wednesday as President Bashar Assad's forces intensified airstrikes following the failure of a U.N.-backed cease-fire, activists said.
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WILDOMAR, CA (CBS Los Angeles) - A Riverside county teacher has been removed from her classroom after a mother complained to the school district about her child being ordered to go into a cardboard box.
The child attends Ronald Reagan Elementary School in Wildomar, just south of Lake Elsinore.
"My child was abused, said Kim Rollins, who had difficulty containing her frustration when discussing what happened to her 10-year-old son, Sage, at school.
"A special needs child that gets put in a box, I just can't comprehend it. How humiliating," she said.
Kim's son was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, a few years ago.
"He can't even handle whispering of children, a ticking clock, these are like loud gongs to him," she said.
An Individual Education Plan (IEP) was developed by educators at Ronald Reagan Elementary to help Sage in an inclusive classroom. It involves having a "quiet place" to go, like his bedroom at home.
But it was not until Sage came home asking for a pair a scissors to decorate his box, that Kim learned what his "quiet place" was.
"The day they brought the box in and all the children told him about the box was very humiliating for him," she said.
Kim said that Sage's teacher also used the box as a form of punishment, which confused him further.
"I've asked specifically if she told him to go into the box, like 'get in the box' and she did two times," Kim said.
Kim and her attorney filed a governmental claim alleging discrimination.
"The teacher was bullying him and allowing other students to bully him," Attorney Jack Anthony said.
Representatives from Lake Elsinore School could not speak specifically about the pending case, but said that there are 36 other students with special needs at the school, some of whom also have quiet places.
"Tents are used, boxes are used, sometimes a desk with a blanket over it can be used as a quiet area," said Mark Dennis of Lake Elsinore School.
Dennis said the cardboard appliance box was similar to one we found in an education catalog.
But experts we spoke with suggested that a box may not be appropriate for a 10 year old and hat quiet places should be place where other children in the classroom also go.
The school and experts agree that a quiet place should never be used as punishment.
"Self-elect meaning that the student voluntarily chooses when to pull away from the stimulus of the classroom," Dennis said.
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WebMD Medical News
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Kathleen Doheny
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Laura J. Martin, MD
Sept. 30, 2010 (Long Beach, Calif.) -- After having incontinence surgery, women report spending much less money on products and services to manage their symptoms than they did before surgery, a study shows.
They save more than $500 a year, researchers found.
The cost savings are not unexpected, says researcher Leslee Subak, MD, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco who presented her findings at the annual meeting of the American Urogynecologic Society in Long Beach, Calif.
"It makes sense," Subak tells WebMD, as women with fewer incontinence episodes don't have to buy products used for symptom management, such as pads, as often. "As your incontinence improves, you spend less money on incontinence care."
Aside from her study, she doesn't think anyone has put a number on the savings everyone suspected would occur. And the number may be higher than anyone thought, she says.
"The amount they saved was $560 per woman, per year," she says, citing the average savings. "I thought that was a lot of money. Incontinence is really expensive."
For the study, Subak and her colleagues polled 491 women, average age 53, who were participating in a study called the Stress Incontinence Surgical Treatment Efficacy Trial (SISTEr).
More than 13 million Americans have urinary incontinence. Stress urinary incontinence, one type, describes a loss of urine that occurs with activities that increase pressure on the abdomen, such as exercising, sneezing, or laughing.
The women in the study reported their out-of-pocket expenses for managing incontinence symptoms -- at the start of the study and then 24 months after surgery.
They reported on costs of supplies such as pads and adult diapers, as well as fees for additional laundry and dry cleaning needed each week due to incontinence episodes.
The more their episodes of incontinence declined, the more their costs declined, says Subak, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, reproductive sciences, epidemiology, and urology at University of California, San Francisco.
At the study start, women spent an average of about $750 a year. Two years after surgery they spent an average of $190, or $560 less, Subak says. Before incontinence surgery, the average number of incontinence episodes a week was 23, but that declined by 86% two years later, to about three episodes.
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(WUSA) -- Twitter announced on Friday afternoon that approximately 250,000 of its users were hacked by an unknown source.
Developers of the social media giant said they caught the hackers during a "live attack," and were able to stop the attack before any more damage could be done.
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CHESAPEAKE - A man was killed when fire swept through his home in Chesapeake late Sunday.
George H. Paio, 67, was found dead inside a bedroom of the one-story home on Indiana Avenue around 10:00 p.m.
Paio is a former Chesapeake police officer who retired in 1995, according to officials.
When crews arrived they found smoke and flames coming from two windows in the home.
Capt. Scott Saunders says the fire was contained to a bedroom, where Paio was found, but he was not in bed.
Saunders adds that a dog was found alive outside and managed to escape despite all the smoke in the house.
The home, which sustained fire damage to one bedroom and smoke damage throughout did not appear to have any operating smoke detectors.
Officials say the cause of the fire appears to be accidental, possibly related to combustibles too close to a candle.
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MOUNTAIN GOLD BAND with DARIN COOPER: 7 to 10 p.m. Adults $5. Students free. Elk River Community Center, 1047 Main St., Elkview. call 304-965-3722.
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BLUEFIELD, W.Va. -- Bluefield officials are preparing to tear down more dilapidated structures.
Six buildings will meet the wrecking ball next week if the weather is favorable.
The demolitions are part of an ongoing effort to rid the city of blighted property.
City manager Jim Ferguson tells the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that about 400 structures have been demolished since 2004. Another 100 structures will be torn down by the end of 2014.
City building inspector Gerald Steele says structures targeted for demolition are beyond reasonable repair.
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That was an appropriate place to put all the new gun permits right beside of the weddings and divorces because I'm sure many of those people will die by the guns that were bought by those idiots.
Please get rid of Leonard Pitts. He is nothing but a troublemaking person.
There is no mystery on why the Mountaineers went from playing in the Final Four three years ago to basically zero this year. It's one simple reason and nobody will have the guts to say it. Huggins is not recruiting.
Why can't our government take $10 from everyone that gets a government check, from everyone that gets food stamps or anything else provided by the government? Take $10 for those who don't take anything from the government. ... Put all this money in a pool and the debt would be down in less than a year.
I heard a radio show bemoaning the fact that many people are unable to go to West Virginia football games. ... Well, ever look at the cost of it? For one person it's over $100 for gasoline, meals, tickets.
When I see the number of people asking and receiving gun permits, it tells us something. People are afraid of our government and people are afraid of their neighbors. We are living in a state of fear.
Why is it when budget cuts are necessary we always look at the bottom of a totem pole for a reduction? Most of our money problems result in the cabbage disease. That's where the head is being larger than the stalk. The heads refuse to be considered for any cuts or reductions.
Sunday article headline reads "Republican Party going the way of the Whigs." The headline ought to read "America, by its leftist policies, going the way of the socialist Europe and shambles economically."
Shame on you Multifest board of directors for having people come out Saturday night to listen to the mess that you fed us where no questions were allowed to be asked. How dare you ask the community for their assistance when you don't want to tell the community what your future plans are.
Does anyone really take Rush Limbaugh seriously? Come on.
It is sad that any school employee can't see that many children have parents who aren't very well educated themselves. Perhaps this good person could get together a few meetings with stay-at-home moms and pleasantly help them understand how they can help their children be better prepared.
I seen in the paper today where they're wanting to cut back on peoples' Social Security checks. Why don't they cut back on their big salaries each year? That way they'd have enough to pay us. We worked and earned every dime we get.
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Reaction to the Death of Bill Stewart
By Michael Fragale for WVUsports.com
May 21, 2012 04:40 PM
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West Virginia Director of Athletics Oliver Luck
“Coach Stewart was a rock-solid West Virginian and a true Mountaineer. His enthusiasm and passion for his state’s flagship University was infectious. We join all Mountaineers in mourning his passing.”
West Virginia University Football coach Dana Holgorsen
"Like all of us in the West Virginia community, I am shocked and saddened by the passing of Coach Stewart. The State of West Virginia, our University and our football program has lost a true Mountaineer who gave his native state university a decade of coaching service and a lifetime of guidance and inspiration to thousands of young men over a 33-year career. Though Coach Stewart achieved many great milestones on the field, we will most remember his kindness and compassion. Our football family expresses our deepest sympathy to Karen, Blaine and the extended Stewart family."
West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin
"Coach Stewart brought a new found pride to the Mountaineer faithful as he led the football team in both competition and character. Joanne and I are deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Coach Stewart and offer our sympathies to his family. Together, we ask that Mountaineers everywhere keep the Stewart family in your thoughts and prayers during this sad time."
Former West Virginia football coach Don Nehlen
“I’m very saddened. I hired Bill in my last year when I was close to retiring. Bill was such a great Mountaineer and a great addition to our staff. It was a terrific hire -- he did a great job not only for me, but for Rich and as a head coach. Bill was such a great husband and a great father. Bill Stewart was a great Mountaineer. My heart goes out to Karen and Blaine.”
Cheryl Jones, RN, director of WVU Children’s Hospital and a friend of the Stewart family
“Coach Stewart meant the world to all of us at WVU Children’s Hospital. He was selfless of his time and always had the children’s best interest at heart.. He brought the players over before every home game and always stayed longer than expected. He was a great friend to Children’s Hospital and was truly an ambassador between WVU Athletics and WVU Children’s Hospital.
His strong character, values and kind manner lifted one’s spirit. He will be missed by all who knew him and his friends in Children’s Hospital. My prayers are with Karen and Blaine during this very difficult time.”
Running Back Steve Slaton
"A true gentleman, friend, man, coach, teacher, husband, etc., is how I view Coach Bill Stewart. I'm at a loss. Mountaineer Nation has lost one of it's biggest fans. My prayers are with the entire Stewart family."
Athletic Director Emeritus Ed Pastilong
“Billy was a wonderful family man and my sympathies go out to the entire Stewart family. He loved his wife Karen and son Blaine, he loved God and he was a tremendous human being devoted to the profession of coaching and teaching. He was a true West Virginian and led WVU to a great Fiesta Bowl victory over Oklahoma, which is still the most significant win in school history. He won 28 games in three years, and recruited some excellent student-athletes, and I will never forget how he loved the Ohio Valley and his New Martinsville heritage.”
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources says applications are available for the 2012 limited permit antlerless deer season
Officials say limited permit areas provide antlerless deer hunting in areas of the state where wildlife biologists have determined that limited numbers of antlerless deer permits are necessary to meet management objectives.
The lands include the Elk River and Upper Mud River wildlife management areas, the Calvin Price state forest, as well as national forest land in Tucker County and portions of Clay, Fayette, Nicholas, Pocahontas and Webster counties.
Applications for these limited antlerless deer hunting licenses must be received by Aug. 24. More information is available at.
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Odile Coco
Photo By Lauren McCarthy
Walking in her first New York Fashion Week, Dutch newcomer Odile Coco has been nabbing some big shows — DKNY, Erin by Erin Fetherston, Jenni Kayne — despite a few mishaps with the MTA. “A couple of times I’ve ended up in Queens instead of Times Square,” the leggy 19-year-old says. “I don’t know Queens and I’m sure it’s quite nice, but I don’t feel comfortable walking around in my heels there.” Coco, who switched to Muse Model Management just three weeks ago, managed to grab the right train in between shows to talk all things fashion week.
WWD: This is your first New York Fashion Week — how did you go from the Netherlands to New York?
Odile Coco: My sister [Marthe van Stuijvenberg] was a model. I went to her first test shoot, and the photographer was like, “Jump in.” It’s funny because we’re total opposites. I’m sort of narrow, and my sister is like a goddess — all the guys stare at her. There was never a rivalry between us because we’re in such different markets. I was doing CosmoGirl when she was doing Cosmopolitan. She never did fashion week, so she’s really happy for me. She is studying to be a primary school teacher now.
WWD: What’s your first impression of the city?
OC: I actually posted on Facebook the other day, “There are so many weird people in NYC.” I’ve had random people in the street just be like, “Oh, you look like a model,” and take my photograph. When I’m on the streets, I don’t even think about that. For castings I do, but for the rest of the world, I don’t care. But I’ve seen tutus, sneakers, red wigs. And that’s what you see at the presentations when you’re standing there for a half hour. I people-watch, for sure.
WWD: Any problems fitting everything in with such a chaotic schedule?
OC: Yesterday I was doing the presentation for Gregory Parkinson, and the hair and makeup was quite dramatic. My hair was massively back-combed, and I had pink on my cheeks up to my forehead. Right after that, I had to go to the DKNY casting. They like hair down, simple and nice. How am I doing that? First I just tied it in a bun, but then I tried to brush it out, and it was a mess. But whatever, they still liked me. My friend Julia [Step] told me that once she went to Calvin Klein with, like, green jelly in her hair, so that made me feel better.
WWD: Have you made friends with any models?
OC: I’ve met some girls, and I already knew some, like Melissa Tammerijn. Our boyfriends are best friends, so she’s been mentoring me. We just bumped into each other at Narciso Rodriguez [casting], so she was giving me advice. Some models, like Freja [Beha] — that would be awesome. Nimue [Smit] and Daphne [Groeneveld], they’re my age, and I find them so cool because they’ve done it all. I’ve met some really cool people. Alex Ludwig, who is in “The Hunger Games,” was part of an Abercrombie shoot I did. I saw the trailer and was like, “huh, I remember him.”
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Darren Aranofsky, Rachel Weisz, Mick Jagger and L'wren Scott
Photo By Stephane Feugere
Elizabeth Banks and Charles Finch
Photo By Stephane Feugere
An intimate group of Hollywood heavyweights gathered on the upper terrace of the Hôtel du Cap Eden Roc Saturday night to toast the good life—and Charles Finch’s newspaper, Finch’s Quarterly Review.
Producer Lawrence Bender, ICM head Jeff Berg, WMA’s Cassian Elwes, Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Ralph Fiennes joined the festival’s Renaissance man for an intimate dinner.
And though all the yachts docked in the sea below would suggest otherwise, Harvey Weinstein said that this year’s festival has been low key. “There have been 10 less parties every night here this year, which is a great thing,” said the producer, before greeting Rachel Weisz, who was wearing Marchesa.
Elizabeth Banks, who’s been in the spotlight here as one of L’Oréal Paris’ new spokeswomen, shivered near a heat lamp, while Jagger was busy shrugging off rumors that he was due to sing at a party this week. Cannes, he said, was never really the Rolling Stones’ style anyway. “It’s the sort of thing we avoided, really, I don’t really have any memories of coming down here in the Brigitte Bardot days and all that,” he drawled.
A wet-haired Matthew Modine, who earlier had been for a dip in the sea, had the air of a young boy on a summer holiday. “I was playing tennis with Charles earlier, they have these wonderful clay courts here which is such a gentler way to play,” he beamed.
Nearby, Fiennes chatted about his next role in the remake of “Clash of the Titans,” in which he’ll play Hades. “The god of the underworld,” he said, with an impish glint. “My costume will look like it’s been buried underground for a long time.”
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