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Max Armstrong and Orion Samuelson open this week's show talking about the weather with Agricultural Meteorologist Greg Soulje, who predicted this wet spring. Bill Northey, under secretary of agriculture, shared insights on the spring flooding, neighbors helping neighbors and the support farmers will get to help out. Max and Orion talk markets with Tommy Grisafi, Advance Trading Co., starting with the impact of China, including the concern over that country's swine herd.
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Max Armstrong and Orion Samuelson continue their market conversation with Tommy Grisafi, Advance Trading. In Colby Agtech, Chad Colby travels to Washington, D.C., to learn about tissue chips which may be used to develop new drugs without testing in humans or animals. Max shares a report on the fight against weed resistance from Syngenta and Bobby Bachman, Syngenta, talks about Tavium Plus VaporGrip which offers residual control.
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Max Armstrong and Orion Samuelson talk with Farm Broadcaster Brian Winnekins, WRDN Radio, Durand, Wis., who talks about issues facing farmers in that part of the country. Chad Colby talks with Jason Webster from Precision Planting to enhance planter performance.
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Max Armstrong and Orion Samuelson open this segment with a report on cover crops as part of the Plan Smart, Grow Smart series from BASF. In the report, Max visits with Justin Rahn, Mt. Carroll, Ill., about the extra value of cover crops for producers. Ag Meteorologist Greg Soulje looks at weather for the week ahead.
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Ag Meteorologist Greg Soulje offers his extended look at the weather including his four-week forecast.
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The complete account request information is available on AccountRequests page, here is a short version.
Create a bug on http://bugs.freedesktop.org for product "freedesktop.org", component "New Accounts", named "Request for account for ooo-build" containing the following information:
- real name
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- RSA SSH public key Add kendy at suse cz to the CC:, so that I can approve your request.
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If you don't have one yet, do:
gpg --gen-key # choose default values everywhere it asks you anything gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --send-keys 0xTHEIDENTIFICATION # to send it to the server gpg --export -a <your email address> # that's what you should send me
And keep your private key secure!
We also need you to be reasonably connected to the GPG network, so please find someone who can sign your key - you'll probably have to do this in person.
RSA SSH key
You probably want to have a special key for the freedesktop.org account. To create it:
ssh-keygen -t rsa -f ~/.ssh/yourname-fdo # send ~/.ssh/yourname-fdo.pub to me # edit your ~/.ssh/config to contain: Host *.freedesktop.org User yourusername IdentityFile ~/.ssh/yourname-fdo
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I'm not expert in Middle East policy, but it seems to me that if the whole world knew about Tel Aviv's Star Wars crawl escalator, Israel and its neighbors would live together in eternal peace—because it is amazing.
Sure, it's only part of the intro crawl, but it's part of the Star Wars intro crawl on an escalator. If you use an escalator today, I have a feeling it won't be adorned with the intro crawl to any movie, let alone Star Wars. No, it'll probably just be plain black, and you'll stand on it, nervously glance at your shoelaces to make sure they won't get stuck, and then walk off on the floor above. [Daily What]


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The Chicago Cubs did not offer a 2020 contract to shortstop Addison Russell, making the 2016 All-Star a free agent one year after he was suspended for violating Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy.
The Chicago Cubs did not offer a 2020 contract to shortstop Addison Russell on Monday, making the 2016 All-Star a free agent one year after he was suspended for violating Major League Baseball's domestic violence policy.
Russell was banned for 40 games last offseason after a series of allegations made by ex-wife Melisa Reidy. The 25-year-old returned to the Cubs in May and batted a career-low .237 with nine homers, 23 RBIs and a .699 OPS.
Russell earned $4 million in 2019 and was likely to gain a raise in arbitration, probably to around $5 million.
"We decided to non-tender Addison Russell today simply because the role we expected him to play for the 2020 Cubs was inconsistent with how he would have been treated in the salary arbitration process," Cubs executive Theo Epstein said in a statement.
MLB began an investigation in 2017 after allegations against Russell first became public. Reidy published a blog post last September describing more detailed allegations, including years of physical and emotional abuse. Less than 12 hours later, MLB announced Russell had been put on leave under its domestic violence policy. He accepted the suspension on Oct. 3.
Russell received a mixed welcome from fans at Wrigley Field and was booed often on the road after serving his suspension. He said in February that he was accountable for his past actions and apologized for "the hurt and the pain" he caused.
Epstein said at the time that Russell's return was "not a finish line" but said "there has been progress." He praised Russell's progress Monday.
"He has lived up to his promise to put in the important self-improvement work necessary off the field and has shown growth as a person, as a partner, as a parent and as a citizen," Epstein said. "We hope and believe that Addison's work and growth will continue, and we have offered our continued support of him and his family, including Melisa."
The Cubs also agreed to a one-year deal with right-hander Jharel Cotton and failed to offer a contract to left-hander Danny Hultzen before the tender deadline. Hultzen, the second-overall pick in the 2011 amateur draft, overcame numerous injuries to make his major league debut in 2019. He pitched 3 1/3 scoreless innings over six appearances.
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LAKE FOREST, Ill. >> Tiger Woods was involved in another rules violation Friday in the BMW Championship, this time getting the two-shot penalty before he left the golf course.
Video evidence indicated that his golf ball moved ever so slightly as Woods was removing a twig from an area under the trees behind the first green at Conway Farms. What made this case unusual is that the video was taken by a videographer working for PGA Tour Entertainment, and the infraction was noticed by someone editing the film.
Slugger White, vice president of competition at the PGA Tour, stopped Woods before he signed for a 70. Woods didn't believe the ball moved out of its position, and White said the world's No. 1 player still wasn't convinced after watching the video.
"He said he didn't feel he could see that," White said. "I felt like that was OK, but the ball did move."
That turned a double bogey on No. 1 into a quadruple-bogey 8. It turned his 70 into a 72. Instead of being five shots behind Brandt Snedeker and Jim Furyk — the sixth player in PGA Tour history with a 59 — Woods was seven shots back going into the weekend.
And then it got even worse. Those two shots put him in the same pairing Saturday with Sergio Garcia, who got into a verbal battle with Woods at The Players Championship this year that ended badly when the Spaniard jokingly said he would have Woods over for dinner at the U.S. Open and serve him fried chicken.
They have not played together since that dispute.
Woods did not stop for comment after reviewing the tape.
At the Masters this year, Woods was tied for the lead late in the second round when his wedge to the par-5 15th hole hit the flag and caromed into the water. He dropped a yard or so behind his original position to avoid hitting the flag and escaped with bogey. Only later was it discovered that he took the wrong drop option and should have been penalized two shots.
Augusta National issued the penalty, but allowed him to stay in the tournament even though Woods signed for the wrong score. Augusta National cited Rule 33-7 that allows a committee to waive disqualification for an incorrect scorecard, which led to passionate debate whether he was getting special treatment. The club said it was aware of the violation, but chose not to have Woods review it before he signed his card.
Unlike the incident at the Masters, a television viewer did not call in the possible infraction. White said a freelance camera man working for the tour captured it on video. An editor at headquarters going over the footage thought there was movement of the ball and notified the PGA Tour.
The film was sent over to tour officials on site at Conway Farms, and it was reviewed at the tournament before bringing in Woods for consultation.
The movement was slight, though it appears to have moved down when Woods touches a small branch to the right of the golf ball, and it doesn't appear to return to its original position. White said Woods could not have seen that from his position looking down at the top of the ball.
Woods accepted his two-shot penalty at the Masters when he became aware of his bad drop. Friday was different. Even after looking at the video, Woods wasn't convinced the ball moved from its position.
"He knew there was movement there, but it's like (he) was very adamant that it oscillated — it stayed there," White said. "But this video was at the site, and the ball did in fact move."
Asked to describe Woods' reaction, White said, "He was a little disbelieving. How's that?'"
It was the third time this year Woods was given a two-shot penalty for a rules violation. At his first event of the season in Abu Dhabi, he took relief from an imbedded lie in a sandy area covered with vines. It was determined that relief was not allowed in the sand. He was docked two shots before signing his card, and it caused him to miss the cut.


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Poorer Childhoods, More Colds as Adults?
The new study included about 150 healthy people, aged 18 to 55, who were asked if their parents owned their family's home when the participants were aged 18 or younger. The volunteers were then exposed to a cold virus, and followed to see if they developed a cold.
People who grew up in poorer families -- indicated by fewer years that their parents were homeowners -- were more likely to develop a cold, the investigators found. Specifically, the volunteers' chances of catching a cold increased by 9 percent for each year their parents were not homeowners while the participants were growing up.
Further study showed that participants who grew up in poorer families had shorter telomeres than their wealthier peers. Telomeres are protective cap-like protein complexes at the end of chromosomes. They function in much the same way that the plastic tips at the ends of a shoelace protect the lace from unraveling.
Having shorter telomeres has been linked to the early onset of illnesses, such as cardiovascular disease and cancer; death in older adults; and increased susceptibility to infectious diseases in young to middle-aged adults.
"[The findings provide] valuable insight into how our childhood environments can influence our adult health," study author Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, said in a university news release.
The study was published in the November issue of the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity.
"We have found initial evidence for a biological explanation of the importance of childhood experiences on adult health," Cohen said. "The association we found in young and midlife adults suggests why those raised by parents of relatively low [social and economic] status may be at increased risk for disease throughout adulthood."
Although the study found an association between economic status in childhood and susceptibility to catching a cold in adulthood, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
More information
The University of Utah has more about telomeres.
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Two men have been charged in connection with a shooting last week at a Chicago park that injured 13 people, including a 3-year-old boy, Chicago officials announced Monday night.
Authorities say Bryon Champ, 21, and Kewane Gatewood, 20, were charged with attempted murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the shooting Thursday at Cornell Square Park on Chicago's southwest side. The suspects' home towns were not revealed.
Chicago Police detectives investigate the scene where a number of people, including a 3-year-old child, were shot in a city park on the south side of Chicago, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Credit: AP
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said that while the two played significant roles in the shooting, neither is believed to have pulled the trigger.
"Chicago Police detectives continue to work tirelessly to solve this case and hold the criminals who committed this senseless act of violence last Thursday night responsible for their actions," McCarthy said in a statement. "These charges are just the beginning, and this investigation remains ongoing at this time."
Champ has previous weapons charges. He was convicted in July 2012 on charges of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon and sentenced to Cook County Jail's boot camp. Champ is a documented gang member, according to authorities.
"To truly address violence for the long-term we need state and federal laws that keep illegal guns out of our communities and provide real punishment for the criminals who use them," McCarthy said. He added that a three-year mandatory minimum sentence for illegal gun possession and truth in sentencing for gun crimes in Illinois is needed.
Authorities say as many as three people opened fire Thursday on a basketball court in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. Among those injured were 3-year-old Deonta Howard, who is recovering from surgery after being shot near an ear, along with two teenagers.
The shooting returned Chicago's gun violence problem to the nation's consciousness.
The assailants fired more than a dozen rounds from an assault-style rifle, police have said. They believe the shooting was gang-related, as several gang members were injured, although it's not yet clear who the intended target was.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel rode along with police officers late Sunday in particularly violent city neighborhoods.
Emanuel has made curbing violence a high priority, allowing the police department to spend millions of dollars in overtime to saturate high-crime areas with hundreds of additional officers.
Through Sept. 15, police say they've recorded 306 murders and 1,402 shooting incidents this year. That's down 20 and 22 percent, respectively, from the same period in 2012. Police say overall violent crime is down about 15 percent, according to new figures released Monday.


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Five Ways Obama Can Get His Groove Back In 2014
Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — Even with no real scandal and only one demonstrable policy blunder, the health care rollout, President Barack Obama had a miserable 2013 as his public standing plummeted. History suggests it is tough for a second-term president to rebound. Here are five ways Obama could defy those odds.
Open up the wagons: Ingrained habits are hard to change, and the 52-year-old incumbent isn't going to transform himself. Still, he may appreciate how much his insularity hurt him last year. Over the past month, there have been three important additions to the White House ranks: John Podesta, a former chief of staff in Bill Clinton's administration, who, other than Jim Baker in Ronald Reagan's administration, was the most effective occupant of that position; plus Phil Schiliro, as health care advisor, and Katie Fallon, who starts as congressional liaison, both with considerable credibility.
Will the president listen to them in the crunch? It will be instructive to see whether Podesta will be limited to energy and environmental matters, as the White House initially suggested, or has a wide-ranging portfolio. One encouraging sign, some Democrats say, is that White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough realizes the value of broadening the inner circle.
Mend health care: The president and Democrats are paying a huge price for the dreadful rollout of the Affordable Care Act and HealthCare.gov. The goal of 7 million enrollees by April 1 is beyond reach. There must, however, be a substantial number — say 5 million, with a quarter of those young people — to keep the support of the insurance industry and prevent an explosion in premiums.
Obama had to enlist an expert to fix the website. The critical question in 2014 will be whether a chief executive is tapped to run the entire program. If White House resistance persists, look for more problems and controversies that will make the website screwups seem tame.
Go on the offensive: On health care, the best the White House can do is to neutralize the issue. The president's camp knows it needs to put the Republicans on the defensive elsewhere: by pushing an extension of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless and raising the minimum wage. The president also plans to emphasize the one issue that scares mainstream Republicans, immigration reform, which House conservatives threaten to kill.
The improving economy affords the president an opportunity to challenge Republicans on income inequality. Critics will yell about class warfare. Yet the incongruity of the recovery — good for the well-to-do, not so good for the working class — is beyond dispute, as was well documented recently by Steven Rattner, a former Wall Street executive and Obama's automobile-industry rescue czar.
Beyond the water's edge: One of the few bright spots for Team Obama last year was Secretary of State John Kerry. Like most second-term presidents, Obama views geopolitical achievements as a way to burnish his legacy.
A nuclear deal with the Iranians would be one such success; less likely, though conceivable, is genuine progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front. Foreign policy achievements, however, rarely elevate a second-term president's popularity. Failure with Iran or a conflict in the South China Sea could undermine him further.
Luck: Events beyond a president's control can shape his destiny. Last year's deal over Syria's chemical-weapons stockpile was more due to luck, with the unexpected help of Russia, than skill. The outcome was much better than the alternatives. Obama may not be so lucky next time.
The economy, as always, will be critical. With the Republican-controlled House, the president is devoid of realistic policy options to accelerate growth. But the psychology and perceptions may matter a lot.
The odds remain against a real recovery for the president. If most of the boxes above are checked off, or if the not-so-loyal Republican opposition reverts to self-destruction, Obama's good fortune may continue.
Albert R. Hunt is a Bloomberg View columnist.
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USN-3169-2 Linux kernel (Xenial HWE) vulnerabilities
Affected VMware Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- Vulnerable Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells listed here.
- Pivotal products using stemcells prior to these updated versions are vulnerable to this issue.
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
- The Cloud Foundry team recommends upgrading BOSH stemcells listed here.
- Upgrade Pivotal products using older stemcells to new versions using the new stemcells mentioned above. On the Pivotal Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information.
- Releases that have fixed this issue include:
- PCF Operations Manager: 1.6.28, 1.7.22, 1.8.14
- PCF Elastic Runtime: 1.6.64, 1.7.46, 1.8.27
- MySQL for PCF: 1.6.23, 1.7.23, 1.8.2
- RabbitMQ for PCF: 1.5.24, 1.6.15, 1.7.10
- Redis for PCF: 1.5.27
- Push Notification for PCF: 1.5.8
- PCF Metrics: 1.0.23
- Ops Metrics / JMX Bridge: 1.6.28
- Spring Cloud Services for PCF: 1.0.20, 1.1.11, 1.2.7, 1.3.3
- Single Sign-On for PCF: 1.0.22
- A fix is not yet available for a stable version of 3312.x PCF Elastic Runtime & PCF Operations Manager will be released with a new 3312.x stemcell when it is available. This notice will be updated when the releases are available.
Special Note for 1.7.x, 1.8.x & 1.9.x Ops Manager Deployments
The 1.7.x, 1.8.x and 1.9.x release line of Ops Manager includes a new feature that allows tile stemcells to "float", which will allow Operators to update their Ops Manager deployment once rather than installing all new Services product releases. If you upgrade one Service tile in Ops Manager 1.7.x, 1.8.x or 1.9.x with the newly released stemcell, all tiles will automatically upgrade. For more information about the floating stemcell feature, refer to this document.


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Webster Donates $200,000 to Nutrition Center Project
BATON ROUGE – Former LSU standout and current New York Giants defensive back Corey Webster has donated $200,000 to the Tiger Athletic Foundation dedicated to the building of the proposed Nutrition Center for Student-Athletes.
Webster, a member of LSU's 2003 National Championship team, will be honored during pre-game activities on Saturday when LSU hosts Florida in Tiger Stadium.
Webster's donation, one of the largest of its kind by a former LSU student-athlete, marks the start of cooperative efforts by the Corey Webster Foundation and TAF designed to create "a culture and tradition of giving" by former LSU student-athletes.
"Corey's generosity and the example he has set with his gift will be the catalyst for fundraising efforts among former LSU student-athletes," LSU Vice-Chancellor and Director of Athletics Joe Alleva said. "With Corey on board to help promote the Nutrition Center, our hope is that other former student-athletes will see the value in giving back to their University and get on board."
"Athletes have a platform that permits us to bring attention to causes that are often overlooked and to people who are in need," Webster said. "Individually, a lot of us have our own ways of giving back, but I know that there is power in numbers and together we can make even bigger changes to not only help incoming student-athletes, like we were, but to help people outside the gates of LSU as well."
When Webster presented this groundbreaking initiative to the LSU Athletic Department, head football coach Les Miles and TAF, they were thrilled to develop a partnership.
"About two years ago (athletic trainer) Shelly Mullenix and (assistant athletic director) Sharon Lewis approached me about giving back to support athletic facilities, primarily the Nutrition Center," Webster said. "They planted the seed in my head first, and with the support of (athletic trainer) Jack Marucci, my foundation's board of directors, and Theo Williams and General Richard at TAF, we were able to bring the idea to fruition."
General Ron Richard, President and CEO of Tiger Athletic Foundation commended Webster for setting the example for all student-athletes at LSU.
"By supporting the Nutrition Center and spearheading efforts to create a culture and tradition of giving among former student-athletes, Corey has made the relationship between LSU and its former student-athletes even stronger," Richard said. " The mantra of 'Once a Tiger, Always a Tiger' can now carry not just sentimental weight but a tangible one that will be felt amongst the former, current and future student-athletes at LSU, as well as the surrounding community."
The primary mission of the Corey Webster Foundation is to enhance the quality of life for adolescents throughout the Southeast Louisiana area through programs and initiatives that drive the importance of success by motivating, inspiring, and empowering the next generation of leaders and volunteers. For more information on how you can support the foundation, please visit the Foundation's website http://coreywebsterfoundation.org/ or contact Sevetri Wilson at email@example.com.
To find out more about the Nutrition Center for Student Athletes, please visit Tiger Athletic Foundation's website: www.lsutaf.org/NutritionCenterForStudentAthletes.


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LDL apheresis is a nonsurgical therapy that removes low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol from a patient's blood. During LDL apheresis, the plasma portion of the blood, which contains cholesterol, is separated and run through a machine that removes the LDL.
The Apheresis Program at UC San Diego Health is the only therapeutic LDL apheresis program in San Diego County.
LDL are often referred to as "bad cholesterol." LDL circulates through the bloodstream and collects on artery walls, eventually causing plaque and
atherosclerosis. High levels of LDL can cause serious health problems, such as cardiovascular disease. Read more about cholesterol at the
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Most people with high cholesterol levels can be treated using a combination of diet, exercise and medications. Some people with severely high cholesterol levels do not respond to medications or have harmful reactions to medications.
Teen with dangerously high cholesterol saved by apheresis technology
People who have high LDL levels who can't take medication can benefit from LDL apheresis. At UC San Diego Health, most people treated with LDL apheresis have:
Anyone aged 14 and older can be treated at UC San Diego Health's LDL apheresis program.
Familial Hypercholesterolemia is a rare genetic disorder characterized by high levels of LDL, or bad cholesterol. If untreated, 50 percent of FH patients can experience cardiac and vascular illness by the age of 55, or potentially much younger for more severe cases.
Studies have shown that LDL apheresis can lower LDL cholesterol approximately 70 to 83 percent after a single treatment. The liver will continue to produce LDL following treatment, but it will take approximately two weeks to return to baseline levels. To maintain lowest possible LDL levels over time, patients will typically require treatment every two weeks. Continuing a heart healthy diet and any cholesterol lowering medications can help increase the time in between treatments.
Low blood pressure is the most common adverse reaction associated with LDL apheresis, and in U.S. clinical trials this occurred in less than one percent of patients. Other uncommon side effects include nausea, flushing, lightheadedness and discomfort at the needle site. Side effects are more common in patients taking ACE inhibitors; please let the apheresis doctor know if you are taking this type of medication.
All UC San Diego Health hospitals provide inpatient apheresis.


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Lloyd E. Fox Jr., 68, of Cape Coral, FL, died on January 30, 2011, at Hope Hospice, Cape Coral, FL.
He was born Dec. 14, 1942, in Rochester, Pa., a child of Lloyd E. and Carol Elaine (Messerly) Fox Sr. A resident of Cape Coral for the past 6 years, he previously lived on Fort Myers Beach moving there from Madison, Ohio. Lloyd graduated from Hopewell High School, Aliquippa, Pa., received his BS from Youngstown State University and his Master's from Kent State University and was a veteran in the U.S. Army. Lloyd was employed by the Madison Local School District, Madison, Ohio, for 28 years, first as a math teacher, then a principal and when he retired he was the assistant superintendent of the school system. In the Fort Myers area, he was a member and past commander of the Fort Myers Beach Yacht Club and a member of the Moose, the American Legion and the VFW.
He is survived by his wife of 45 years, E. Judee (Welch) Fox; his children, Lorie L. (Philip) VanWinkle of Fort Myers, FL and Lloyd Edward (Tracy) Fox of Mentor, Ohio; five grandchildren, his mother, Carol E. Fox of Aliquippa, Pa. and his brothers, Daryl K. (Carol) Fox of Coraopolis, Pa., Leland Fox of Madison, Ohio and David (Patty) Fox of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Funeral service will be private.
In lieu of flowers, memorial gifts may be sent to Life Link, 409 Bayshore Blvd., Tampa, FL 33606.
Friends may sign the guest book at www.horizonfunerals.com


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What drew my eye to this bike was the fantastically curly lugs.
I thought for a second it might be a Hetchins, down on its luck, spray painted and locked in front of REI. The (spray?) paint job obscured any labels, but I did notice this stamp in the chromed rear dropout:
Anyway, I'm a sucker for Chromed forks and chainstays, and I'm glad I stopped, if only for the history lesson.


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What do you think of the Pope resigning? Yes, I know a lot jokes are circulating today and this might be considered a cheap shot.
But my first reaction was one of surprise – does his employment contract require only 2 weeks notice? Bloody hell, in New Zealand such short notice is usually reserved for casual labour.
I sort of expected far more notice – after all his job description did include infallibility, and a direct line with his god. And the clothing allowance must have been huge. I suspect the golden parachute in his severance clause is also pretty big.
My second reaction to the news was – is Benny a secret member of the Clergy Project. That's a confidential on-line community for active and former clergy who have lost their supernatural beliefs. The community provides moral support and helps them with the huge adjustments resignation might require. After all, their former job required very few skills.
Saw this photograph on Facebook which suggests he might be:
Credit: Shannon Phipps.
Mind you, the Onion accepts the public excuse of advancing age. In today's article Resigning Pope No Longer Has Strength To Lead Church Backward they say the Pope has:
concluded that his declining faculties left him unable to helm the Church's ambitious regressive agenda and guide the faith's one billion global followers on their steady march away from modernity and cultural advancement.
"It is with sadness, but steadfast conviction, that I announce I am no longer capable of impeding social progress with the energy and endurance that is required of the highest ministry in the Roman Catholic Church," Benedict reportedly said in Latin to the Vatican's highest cardinals. "While I'm proud of the strides the Church has made over the past eight years, from thwarting AIDS-prevention efforts in Africa to failing to punish or even admit to decades of sexual abuse of children at the hands of clergy, it has become evident to me that, in this rapidly evolving world, I now lack the capacity to continue guiding this faith back centuries."
"Thus, I must step down from the papacy," he added. "But let me assure every member of the Church that the Vatican's commitment to narrow-mindedness and social obstruction will long live on after my departure."


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Goal of Florida soccer program to help special-needs
The conclusion of the World Cup has not ended soccer fever, especially among smaller fans.
Oscar Amuz, a passionate soccer trainer born in Uruguay, is devoted, body and soul, to Hope for Autism, United for Soccer Foundation, also know as Autism Soccer, an organization he founded last year in Florida to teach the basics of soccer to about 120 children with autism, Down syndrome and other special needs.
"My children learn to share. They learn the day-to-day contact with other children," Amuz said. "For a regular child, kicking a ball is simple. But I have children for whom kicking a ball is a miracle. To want to play soccer is in itself a miracle."
Amuz, who focused on teaching the children how to control the ball and kick it toward the goal, said the classes are essential to strengthen participants' self-esteem, motor coordination, concentration and social interaction with other children.
Though there is a schedule for each class, Amuz said that it's hardly ever followed. With his group of children there must be flexibility to deal with the unexpected.
Jacob Hamoui, a 6-year-old who was diagnosed with autism at age 3, began the program in October. The soccer classes, his mother Ayme Hamoui said, have helped him "extraordinarily."
"During the first class, he would not let go of my husband," Hamoui said. "In the second class he wanted to participate, but if my husband moved away, he would stop. In the third class, he went by himself but we had to remain in his visual field. Today, when he went in through the door, he turned around and said, 'Bye, Mama!'"
The most evident improvements that Hamoui has seen in her son are his balance and motor control.
"He was a child who had no coordination. He would start walking and, without any obstacle in front of him, he would stumble or wobble against a wall. Since he has been in the program, it hasn't happened again. He has balance and feels safe," said Hamoui.
"To work with these children you have to have a heart, but you also have to treat them as normal children. Sometimes we harm them when we try to overprotect them, because we don't let them experiment," Hamoui said. "Oscar is the type of person who pushes them, but you can tell he does it with the best of intentions. And they respond."
Hamoui also said that Jacob has been able to make friends in the class, and that he talks about his classmates when he is getting ready for soccer class.
Naiara González, a 3-year-old girl, also attended a recent class, though not because she has a disability. Her mother, Luz González, brings her to class so that the girl can learn to interact and understand children who are different from her.
"Many children reject special children because they have physical and mental differences," González said. "I bring my girl to practices to be in that atmosphere so that she doesn't end up being one of those children who reject."
Amuz charges $50 a month per child to pay for balls and uniforms, but he said that if a parent lacks the resources, he lets them enter the program anyway. Donations to Autism Soccer can be made through their sponsor, the American Autism Association.
Amuz's motivation is to give an opportunity to all children to play and participate, regardless of the disabilities or limitations they may have.
"These children are difficult," Amuz said. "They can kick you, claw you and bite you. But, in the end, they are children. And for the parents, the fact that someone would tell their child: 'You are important to me, come play with me even though you may fail a thousand times,' is what counts. They deserve everything."


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The iPad makes for a great writing and drawing surface, and Bamboo Paper is an app that knows it. While it was designed by Wacom to work with their iPad stylus, you can use it with any capacitive stylus or just your finger.
Bamboo Paper is not complicated to use. You only get one notebook, but you get as many notes as you want and three different styles of paper (lined, blank, and grid). You can also change the color of your notebook, email the entire thing as a PDF (my favorite feature), or print it out using AirPrint. You can do these things with individual pages as well, plus you can save any page to your iPad's photo library.
While this is definitely not an app made for complex drawing, you do have a few pen tip widths and colors to choose from. You can undo and redo pretty much everything you write/draw, and you can bookmark pages so you remember they're important. Navigation is pretty simplistic, in that you just have buttons to move you back and forth. This is fine for a few notes, but when you have many it could get to be a problem. If there are three features Bamboo Paper could use, it's multiple notebooks, the ability to name note pages, and a table of contents page for each notebook. Solving these problems would make Bamboo Paper pretty awesome, but it still does a good job when you need a simple, hand-written digital notebook.
Bamboo Paper | iTunes App Store via App of the Day
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Because I stayed up late trying to finish up a batch, I ended up forgetting to set the alarm. The only reason I wake up is because Dog is running something fierce in his dreams again, maybe looking to catch uncatchable tennis balls. The final blow comes when he kicks me directly in the kidney, making my leg jerk up so that I almost kick him in the face. "You're lucky I love you, you furry son-of-a-bitch." He gives me a look that tells me to go screw myself and yawns in my face. "Jerk." It's past ten and I don't want to hear crap about missing more classes, so I don't bother to do anything except brush my teeth and throw on some semi-clean clothes. My skin is probably combustible by this point anyway, so showering won't make any difference. Then again, maybe I would get lucky and catch fire at some point throughout the day. At least that would lighten things up. Hardy har har. Ain't I clever? No surprise. The Stooges are already waiting for me in the parking lot when I get to school. Twitching more than usual, Sam Anderson looks like he's about to pick out the last of his hairs from his head. I guess that's why he cut it so short to begin with. And I swear if Ryan Fuller's face breaks out anymore, FEMA will have to declare him a natural disaster area. I can see the signs and yellow caution tape now. Warning: Standing too close to this junkie may cause you to go blind from his ugliness. And that's the thing about meth; it makes you ugly, but not just on the outside. We all end up ugly on the outside eventually (don't get me started about western standards of beauty) but crank makes you ugly on the inside, like evil stepsister ugly. So ugly that I almost forget when we all used to be friends; Sam, Ryan, Luke, and me, before Mom left and Frank started using, and all that other shit. Maybe meth makes it easier to forget. I don't know. I must have become too weird for them to hang out with. At least until I had something else to offer them, something that helps Sam and Ryan make weight for wrestling and help Luke make the money for the car he wanted. Then suddenly I'm their best friend again. Poof! Presto! Alakazam! Even that didn't last long, because now their eyes bug, and they itch, and twitch. They bug, itch, twitch and they sell. They sell for me. I know it isn't smart to shit where you eat, but I keep everything in-check by keeping them in-check. I mean, I don't even have to pay them; they work for product, for Christ's sake. I make them their own batch, battered down and diluted so I get the most use out of them for my buck—so to speak. If anything ever did happen, if they ever did turn me in to save their own asses, all anybody would see is a few strung out losers with a story. It would be my word against theirs. And on paper I'm an honor roll student who has never bothered anyone. Then there are other ways of getting rid of evidence should I ever need it, so I'm not too worried about The Stooge aspect of business. I know instantly when I see them that they must be hurting. In a way it's funny, these guys have no concept of self-control, and they always end up bingeing on what I bring them. Half the time, they want even more than what our original arrangement dedicated and I have to remind them that they'll have to pay me on top of working for me. "McKay! McKay!" Before I can even get out of my truck, Luke is all over me, practically jumping on the windshield like Dog used to do when he was younger. But when I give him the look, he simmers down a bit and backs off. I thinking figure people are watching us from the windows. I know they aren't, but I still can't help but think it. "Dude, how ya been?" I look around, and because the school day is half-over and the parking lot is deserted, but I don't want to risk a security guard finding us out here, I hold them off a little longer. "I'm not giving you anything." "Dude, we're starting to feel the pain here." As if I cared. Then Anderson makes that whiny sound in the back of his throat and Ryan is scratching at the sores that have formed on his arms over the last few weeks and I am thinking: college, college, college. Out, out, out. So I dangle a possibility in front of them.
Friday, August 30, 2013
A Dark Road by Amanda Lance {release day}
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Last week, I saw a cardiologist. This week, I will see a pulmonologist. I already have a family practice doctor, an ophthalmologist, an endocrinologist, a podiatrist (who does ankles, too), a dentist, an orthopedist, and a rehabilitation doctor. In my time, I've also had an infectious diseases doc. Oh, and there's the OB/GYN doc, which I try not to think about.
At the rate I'm going, I soon will have a doctor for each part of my body.
Most are self-explanatory — like the family practice doc, endocrinologist, ophthalmologist, and dentist. And that one I don't like to think about.
My family practice doc will tell you he doesn't "do" diabetes. Besides, I had the endocrinologist before I hired my family practice doc. At least he admitted he wasn't up to my level on diabetes: The others I'd seen not only didn't admit it, but one yelled at me when I corrected him on something. I have heard my family practice doc speak on diabetes and he's not bad at all. It's mainly the insulin pump that throws him.
Why do I see an ophthalmologist instead of an optometrist for my eyes? I already knew him, he's good — and he has diabetes, so he stays pretty current on the relationship between diabetes and eye problems. I like doctors with diabetes.
A good dentist is also important, given the connection between diabetes and gum disease. My dentist's office also tends to nag me when it's time for me to visit the hygienist. I do need that nagging: I'd rather get a root canal than have my teeth cleaned. As far as I'm concerned, there's a definite "yuck!" factor to having my teeth cleaned.
My podiatrist saved my foot. Literally. I had complained of foot pain to a former (let me emphasize the word "former") podiatrist who brushed it off as "you're a diabetic." I had broken bones in my foot from a fall down some steps. I had to have two surgeries to have some nerves removed. Then I had a bunion and hammer toe taken care of…which led to a bone infection, a podiatrist who took care of the problem without whacking my foot off, and an infectious control doc who whomped up the right mixture of antibiotics.
The rehab doc? He's from two shoulder impingements. Both shoulders. At the same time. The symptoms include pain — severe pain if you reach too far — and loss of motion. Not fun. Rehab wasn't, either, but the problem is (mostly) gone after however many years. I still have some issues doing things like scratching my back or reaching around to unhook my bra. Back-scratchers and husbands do come in handy.
The orthopedist is because one of these days I'm going to have my knee(s) replaced. At the moment, I don't think I'm in any kind of shape for rehab, so he's on hold for now.
So why the cardiologist and pulmonologist? I went to my family practice doc complaining of edema in my legs and some difficulty breathing when I did something really physical — like walking from one room to the next. I'd blamed the shortness of breath on my bad knees and the resultant pain and difficulty in walking. But it could be something else, right?
The family practice doc sent me for an echocardiogram and stress test. The next day, I got a call saying the cardiologist wanted to see me. On the plus side, the cardiologist did not want me to check into the hospital. Also, the appointment was for more than a week out.
On the minus side, the cardiologist thinks I may have some reduced blood flow in a small portion of my heart. It was a bit inconclusive in the pictures. (I really do need to lose weight.) He'd like to do a heart catheterization…but I'm too ticklish. Really. I was about to laugh myself off the table as he was trying to find the artery. He was laughing. The nurse was laughing. We were all having a grand ol' time — except that only one of us was being tickled to death. The other people in the clinic were probably dying to hear the joke that made everybody laugh so hard. But, hey, I'm always happy to bring joy to others' lives. (I am also happy I'd gone to the bathroom right before that.)
Anyway, he decided I should see a pulmonologist to rule out lung problems, and we would go from there.
In the end, I may still be laughing myself off a table in the cath lab, but not yet.
To add to all of that, I write about health issues for the local newspaper and have interviewed most of these doctors. As I told the cardiologist the other day, "I liked it better when I was the one in charge."
I appreciate all of my doctors. They've helped keep me kicking with all of my senses intact. I just hope I don't have to add any more to my growing list.


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text: When I was a little girl, I used to follow (or possibly chase!) my grandparents' dog around chanting, "Drink your water puppy! Drink your water puppy!" I also thought this particular dog — a regal Irish Setter named Barney — was a pony and as such, I would often try to ride him. That dog hated me. But, to this day, my parents and grandparents still remind me of my little chant. I suppose it was memorable. Or, more likely, extremely annoying! Now that I'm a parent myself, I'm sure the sing-songy, relentless voice of a kid stuck on repeat saying "Drink your water puppy!" wasn't exactly music to the ears! With that said, I think I was on to something. At a very early age, I apparently recognized how important it is to "drink your water" and today, I am singing that same little chant to the little people in our house. And if I had a puppy, I'm sure I'd remind him too. Why? Because I've learned the hard way what happens when your children don't drink enough water. They don't poop. And that, my friends, is no good at all.


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Summit Media Just Gave Its Logo A Makeover
(Above) Summit Media's old logo, which features a page being turned.
Summit Media launches its new logo today to signify the growing importance of its digital properties to its overall media portfolio.
Summit's 15 websites reach an average of 22 million unique viewers monthly, making it the leading lifestyle digital network in the country. Sixteen million of that audience comes from the Philippines, representing 27% of the country's total internet population.
"Our old logo no longer represents the company's ambitions of being a multi-platform player with a focus on digital," says Summit Media president Lisa Gokongwei-Cheng. "We are clearly dominant in print but many people do not realize that we are also a significant player in digital and billboards."
"No matter what platform, whether print, events, digital, or billboards," Gokongwei-Cheng adds, "Summit Media will continue entertaining, inspiring, and engaging audiences with excellent content, with the purpose of enhancing people's lives."
The new logo was designed by Plus63 Design Co., a local design studio that has done commercial work for CITEM, Monde-Nissin, and Procter & Gamble, besides work for international publications like Wired, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. Its co-founder Dan Matutina's work has been featured in The Washington Post's 2016 List of Best Illustrations.
The New Logo, Explained
Symbolically, the triangle signifies creativity, harmony, balance, progression, and action. When it points upwards, it conveys ambition and ascension—and in this case, a reflection of how the company values the constant climb towards excellence, symbolized by the triangle's apex or summit. The triangle symbolizes Delta, the fourth letter in the Greek alphabet, which means change, mirroring the company's dynamic direction and progressive nature, but rooted to the ground with a strong and stable foundation coming from years of expertise and mastery.
That this triangle is equilateral also signifies the harmony of its points, or the company's three pillars—its People, Audience, and Advertisers. The color red connotes passion, the strongest driving force in everything the company does. Red is intense, grabs attention, stimulates energy, and evokes strong emotions. The triangle logo's color gradiation through the four unequal sub-triangles demonstrates the range of platforms in the ever-changing media landscape.
Summit Media is a major player in Philippine lifestyle media with leading positions in websites, magazines, books, and billboards.


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Elan Kitchens is a London based kitchen design studio specialising in German made LEICHT Kitchens. We design, supply and install kitchens all over London and South East England.
Our London showroom has a fantastic team of experienced designers who take their time learning about all our clients' needs, hopes and desires for creating their dream kitchen. It takes time to design the perfect kitchen and our dedicated team certainly take pride in making sure our clients every detail is considered and met. We always aim to provide a very high standard of service, based upon our principals of professionalism, honesty, and design knowledge.
Elan Kitchens are suppliers of the premium LEICHT kitchen brand. Leicht develop exclusive kitchens oriented to the market and to the customer's desires. Kitchen lovers can surpass themselves with a LEICHT kitchen as there are no limits to individual kitchen planning. With our innovative planning components and flexible modules, kitchens can be developed to suit your own personal vision.
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Davis, Stuart
Davis, Stuart, 1894–1964, American painter, b. Philadelphia, studied with Robert Henri in New York City. At the age of 19 he did drawings and covers for The Masses and exhibited in the Armory Show. One of the early jazz enthusiasts, Davis is often said to have incorporated its exciting tempos into the vibrant patterns of his paintings. In the 1920s the influence of cubism became apparent in his work. He painted the famous Eggbeater series in an attempt to avoid the depiction of natural objects and instead to create an art of abstract forms and planes. During the 1930s he was active in the Artists' Congress, editing Art Front. Davis was an articulate spokesman for abstract art. Among his canvases in numerous museums are Visa (Mus. of Modern Art, New York City); Colonial Cubism (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis); and Midi (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.).
See biography by E. C. Goosen (1959); study ed. by D. Kelder (1971).
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Comic book series : Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
Artist: Matt Wagner
Writer: Gaiman, Neil
Publisher: Vertigo
Midnight Days
artist: Matt Wagner
Writer: Gaiman, Neil
series: Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days
publisher: Vertigo
publish date: 15-08-2016
language: English
coloring: full color
pages: 176: Hard Cover
An award-winning comic book writer and a best-selling novelist, Neil Gaiman is considered one of the most talented and imaginative modern-day authors. An amazing storyteller who weaves intricate plots into thought-provoking tales, Gaiman is credited with expanding the comic book medium into other literary genres. Providing tantalizing glimpses into the fantastical worlds he would create and nurture, NEIL GAIMAN'S MIDNIGHT DAYS collects some of the accomplished author's earliest work. Included in these never-before-reprinted and original publications are entertaining tales featuring the Golden Age Sandman, Morpheus, the Swamp Thing, and John Constantine.


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No Surprise There…
We all knew that it was going to happen. We started off interleague play this weekend at home against the Mariners, and we got nothing doing. We got swept, bang bang bang.
Not surprising at all.
We only scored two runs in the entire series. We had three errors. We got a good amount of hits, but obviously it wasn't enough to score any runs.
At the beginning of the season, the hitting was horrible and the pitching was really okay. But now, the pitching has been infected with the disease of the hitters, and we have absolutely no hope.
Here's the records of our five starting pitchers:
- Mat Latos: 1-6
- Clayton Richard: 2-5
- Tim Stauffer: 0-3
- Dustin Moseley: 1-6
- Aaron Harang: 5-2
Aaron's the only one who's had any bit of a chance against some good teams. Props to him, but look at the rest of our starting pitching. It's so bad!!
It's not entirely the pitchers' fault, though. Moseley had put out many, many good outings, but you can't win when you don't have run support.
In case anyone was interested, the Padres' record is 19-28 and we're 8.5 games behind San Francisco. Yeah, we've got a ways to go, but with the way we're playing, I'm sure we'll be able to get those games back in about 200 years.
The Cardinals are coming in to Petco for three games. They're 28-20 and on top of their division. Oh boy.


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This is my Alice's Boots knitting pattern.
These boots are quick and easy to make with stunning results. You can actually see the boot growing on your needles.
The knitting pattern provides full instructions for 3 womens sizes S (uk 3-5), M (uk 5-7) and L (uk 7-9) and there are step by step photos to help you throughout. They are worked flat in any chunky (bulky, 12ply) yarn of your choice on normal 5 mm needles.
This fabulous knitting pattern is available to buy here as an immediate pdf download.
Alice's Boots knitting pattern by madmonkeyknits
This is my Alice's Boots knitting pattern.


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ANN ARBOR, MI – A stunning new development has come to light surrounding allegations of public corruption over the sale of Farmington Public Schools (FPS) property to the Islamic Cultural Association (ICA). On Wednesday, August 8th, Reverend Bruce D. Burwell, Senior Pastor of Light of the World Christian Center in West Bloomfield, read aloud a prepared statement on how the person in charge of FPS properties told him the property was not for sale when he expressed an interest in purchasing it for his church. FPS subsequently sold the vacant Eagle Elementary school property to the Islamic Cultural Association.
Video of Pastor Burwell's statement to huge crowd at Wednesday event
Pastor Burwell told the audience "how odd it was that in these bad economic times that the Farmington Hills School District would not be jumping at the chance to sell one of their buildings to an interested buyer" and "how odd it was that if they were seriously trying to sell the building, why did they not have a for sale sign up." He concluded his remarks by saying that "there is no doubt in my mind that something is going on."
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Pastor Burwell's prepared statement has been forwarded to Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette to consider as part of the request by the Thomas More Law Center that he empanel a citizens grand jury to investigate the allegations of corruption.
Pastor Burwell's revelations are the latest in a series of allegations that FPS engaged in a NO-BID, secret backroom transaction with the Islamic Cultural Association while at the same time it was telling interested buyers that the vacant property was not for sale. Pastor Burwell's statement was delivered to a packed community briefing last night to discuss the basis for the allegations of corruption and the legal issues surrounding a civil lawsuit already filed against the school district.
In June 2012, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), an Ann-Arbor based national public interest law firm, submitted a 22-page Statement of Allegations against the suburban school district to the Attorney General requesting that a citizens grand jury be convened to pierce "the fog of corruption"' that has descended upon FPS surrounding this highly irregular and controversial sale.
Click here to read the 22-page Summary of Allegations
Records submitted to the Attorney General's office included more than 400 pages of documentation supporting the TMLC allegations that FPS disregarded the recommendations of its own legal council, a specially convened internal committee and district residents in steamrolling through the secretly negotiated no-bid, below-market sale of valuable public property.
TMLC became involved in the case when it learned that according to the real estate broker who represented ICA in the purchase of Eagle Elementary, ICA owns and operates the HUDA, an Islamic school in the Village of Franklin, Michigan. The Council of Islamic Organizations of Michigan, reports that ICA shares direct ties to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the North American Islamic Trust, Inc. (NAIT), both of which were named as unindicted co-conspirators/joint venturers in U.S. v. Holy Land Found. For Relief Dev. (HLF), the largest terrorism funding trial in U.S. history. Federal prosecutors proved that HLF worked closely with the U.S. designated terrorist organization Hamas to fund terrorist activities.
Among allegations of corruption, the TMLC filing details the district's representations to several parties that Eagle Elementary School was not for sale and was slated for demolition. All the while, records show, the district had discriminatorily granted exclusive consideration to and protected the bid of the ICA, with whom it was negotiating for months behind closed doors.
All citizens who value public transparency and accountability should welcome an independent grand jury investigation into this public school system scandal that has cost the students and taxpayers so dearly. At a press conference yesterday, Attorney General Schuette reminded all: "Public service is not a game." We couldn't agree more. And nowhere is it more important to assure integrity than in our public school systems.
The Thomas More Law Center defends and promotes America's Judeo-Christian heritage and moral values, as well as a strong national defense and an independent and sovereign United States of America. The Law Center accomplishes its mission through litigation, education, and related activities. It does not charge for its services. The Law Center is supported by contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations, and is recognized by the IRS as a section 501(c)(3) organization. You may reach the Thomas More Law Center at (734) 827-2001 or visit our website at www.thomasmore.org.


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Can't we just get along? Believe what you want
DETROIT LAKES - A religion is a set of beliefs and practices often organized around supernatural and moral claims, and often codified as prayer, ritual and religious law.
DETROIT LAKES - A religion is a set of beliefs and practices often organized around supernatural and moral claims, and often codified as prayer, ritual and religious law.
Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.
There are many, many different religious beliefs in this world of ours. To me, I like to preach about religious tolerance. Religion is obviously a very important part of our lives.
I just would like to point out that we are all human, regardless of our beliefs. No one has the right to tell someone else they are going to hell for they're beliefs. That would be very hypocritical and controversial to the beliefs of most religions. I mean, do they not all preach about forgiveness and tolerance anyway?
My personal take on the wide-open world of religion is that they are all right in some way, shape or form. I mean if you take a serious look at each of the religions, aren't they all just saying the same thing?
Three of the largest religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism, all stem from the same person. Abraham, the father of Isaac (Judaism and Christianity), and Ishmael (Islam), in short, they all have the same God. The problem is each of those religions believes that the others are worshiping incorrectly.
What right do they have to say that the other is wrong? Why can they not all just agree to disagree? It is unfortunate that we live in a world where something as small as religion can be the root of many horrors in the world. It is unfortunate that in this world there are those who think holy war should be waged.
It is unfortunate that people such as the gay community should be prosecuted because some book says they are immoral.
I also personally think we all believe in the same values anyway. I think the interpretation of God is changed in each region because each set of beliefs evolved in a different area and culture. As I stated before, many of the core values are the same anyway. The changes are adjusted for each culture.
Religion started as an explanation to the unexplainable. Before science had evolved, people began to question the world around them. They believed anything that happened was the will of the Gods. Many of the current religions were not even alive 5,000 years ago. So who's to say religion won't evolve again into something else.
I believe there is a supreme being that crafted the universe. I just personally think it's not plausible for such a being to be humanized in any way. To me, God is a child with an ant farm. He is watching down on the universe and overseeing. He gave freewill and is allowing us to choose our own fate and our own destinies.
Whether you are Christian, Islamic, Hindu, Chinese Universist, Buddhist, Ethnoreligionist, Neoreligionist, Sikh, Jewish, Spiritist, Bahais, Confucianist, Jain, Shintoist, Taoist, Zoroastrian, Atheist or none of the above, I don't care. Believe in what you want, just do no chastise other people for what or who they believe in.
Christopher Damlo is a senior at Detroit Lakes High School.


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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (September 29, 2011) – The ETSU women's tennis team will travel to Winston-Salem, N.C. this weekend to compete in the Wake Forest Invitational inside the Demon Deacons' newly built Wake Forest Tennis Complex.
The tournament, consisting of six singles and six doubles flights, begins on Friday, September 30, at 9 a.m. and will conclude with finals play on Sunday, October 2.
16 teams will take part in the weekend festivities, which include Davidson, Virginia Tech, Radford, Winthrop, Missouri, UNC Greensboro, Campbell, West Virginia, Richmond, Marshall, Virginia, Louisville, UNC Wilmington, Virginia Commonwealth and host Wake Forest.
Senior Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) will represent the Bucs in the singles A draw, competing against Virginia Tech's Shannon Betts in opening round play. The rest of the singles draws will see senior Marine Wieliczko (Rouen, France) in the B flight, senior Karina Kedzo (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) in the C flight, junior Diana Navrostska (Lviv, Ukraine) in the D flight, sophomore Giulia Andreazza (Balneario, Camboriu) in the E flight and freshman Jessica Brumit (Elizabethton, Tenn.) in the F flight.
Jaime and Kedzo will team up to compete in the doubles A draw, with a first round match against Wake Forest's Duncan and Cutillo. Wieliczko and Navrostska will face a team of Demon Deacons in the B doubles flight, and Brumit and Andreazza will battle through the C flight.
This will be the Buccaneers third fall tournament of the season, having won six singles and four doubles titles through two tournaments so far.
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Coming as no surprise, Capcom today announced that it shipped 4 million copies of Resident Evil 5 in under a week, calling the game "the biggest launch of any title in the series." We stress "shipped," but you can bet retailer stock will translate to consumer sell-through sooner rather than later.
The company noted that life-to-date sales for the entire franchise totals more than 40 million copies worldwide, which is quite the achievement. If the sales numbers even come close to matching the number of games the company has shipped, Capcom is going to add a few more notches to the Resident Evil belt.
Given Resident Evil's commercial appeal, Capcom was quick to conclude that it will continue to exploit the series through the likes of more "movies, animation, publications, cell phone games, merchandise, and various other applications."


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The New Yorker, October 14, 1961 P. 52
Miss Jean Brodie was an unusual teacher at the Marcia Blaine School for girls, in Edinburgh. Her pupils were called the Brodie set and were vastly informed on a lot of subjects irrelevant to the authorized curriculum. This is the story of one of her sets, tracing their lives from age 12 to 18, & indicating how their adult lives went. Miss Brodie, who always said of herself that she was in her prime, was in love with Mr. Lloyd, the art master, but he was married, so she gave him up. Instead she had a love affair with Mr. Lowther, the music master. He tired of her & married Miss Lockhart, the science teacher. After that, Miss Brodie concentrated on the eventuality of a love affair between Rose, one of her set, who modelled for Mr. Lloyd. She derived a vicarious pleasure from this. She confided in Sandy, another member of her set. Sandy was the one who had the love affair with Mr. Lloyd, & later became a Catholic, which was her lover's religion, and still later became a nun. It was Sandy, too, who betrayed Miss Brodie to the school authorities. She told them, not of the teacher's misconduct, but that she was sympathetic to Fascism, which was quite true. This was sufficient at this particular time, to casue her dismissal from the school.


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An event in C# is a mechanism that allows an object to inform client code about something that happened inside the object that the other code might care about.
For example, you might have a Dog object that raises a Barked event whenever someone calls the dog's Bark method. Your code can be notified whenever the dog barks.
In .NET, we say that the Dog object raises the Barked event. The logging code handles the Barked event in a method known as an event handler.
Events in C# implement something known as the Publish/Subscribe pattern. The Dog class publishes information about when the dog barks and the logging code subscribes to that information.
This is also known as the Observer pattern. The logging code observes the Dog object and the Dog object notifies any observers whenever the dog barks.


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Giáo Hội Tin Lành (Hệphái Mệnô-nít), Vietnam
The Vietnam Mennonite Mission began its witness in 1957 when James and Arlene Krupp Stauffer and Everett and Margaret Glick Metzler went to Saigon under the Eastern Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities (Mennonite Church). The first baptism occurred in 1961. A large student center was developed in Saigon, and a fellowship group met there. As missionary personnel increased, witness was begun in Gia Dinh (1964) and Can Tho (1970). A congregation emerged in 1965 in Gia Dinh, the provincial capital adjoining Saigon (which was incorporated with Saigon into Ho Chi Minh City in 1975). The Gia Dinh community center offered extensive educational, social, and medical services, supported partially by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). After the destructive 1968 street fighting, several hundred families were helped in rebuilding their homes. Tran Xuan Quang was ordained pastor in March 1969 and a new church center dedicated in 1973. Many members were active in social ministries at the center and in the community.
The church became autonomous in 1973 with the formation of Giáo-Hội Tin Lành (Hệphái Mệnô-nít) (Evangelical Church [Mennonite Branch]). Total church membership in 1975 was 152. The Giáo Hội Tin Lành Mennonite Viêt Nam, as it was called in 2003 had 26 congregations with 1100 members.
All the missionary personnel left Vietnam during the revolutionary military activity in April 1975. Pastor Quang had gone to Lancaster, PA to attend a mission conference in March, and stayed in the United States. James Klassen (MCC) encouraged the Saigon and Gia Dinh congregations until he left in April 1976. All the Mennonite Church properties were confiscated. Some members left the country; others returned to the countryside. After the revolution the Mennonite congregation in Gia Dinh joined with other churches in Tin Lành Thông Nhút (United Evangelicals), but little was heard about this movement after its leader died in 1976. In 1988 a Mennonite leader, Nguyen Quang Trung, reported 30 Mennonite families. They had been active in congregations of the Hội Thánh Tin Lành Viêt-Nam (Evangelical Church of Vietnam) and were planning to resume their own meetings for Bible study, fellowship, and worship.
Former members of the Mennonite church in Vietnam were (1987) giving leadership to Vietnamese churches in Philadelphia, Sacramento, and Honolulu.
Klassen, James R. Jimshoes in Vietnam. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1986.
Martin, Luke S. "An Evaluation of a Generation of Mennonite Mission, Service, and Peacemaking in Vietnam, 1954-1976.' a Vietnam Study Project commissioned by MCC, MCC Peace Section, and EMBMC, 1977.
Metzler, James E. From Saigon to Shalom. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1985.
Mennonite World Conference. "MWC - 2003 Asia/Pacific Mennonite & Brethren in Christ Churches:" Accessed 27 January 2006. <http://www.mwc-cmm.org/Directory/asiapacific.html>.
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Martin, Luke S. "Giáo Hội Tin Lành (Hệphái Mệnô-nít), Vietnam." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1987. Web. 24 Mar 2023. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gi%C3%A1o_H%E1%BB%99i_Tin_L%C3%A0nh_(H%E1%BB%87ph%C3%A1i_M%E1%BB%87n%C3%B4-n%C3%ADt),_Vietnam&oldid=91922.
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Martin, Luke S. (1987). Giáo Hội Tin Lành (Hệphái Mệnô-nít), Vietnam. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 24 March 2023, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gi%C3%A1o_H%E1%BB%99i_Tin_L%C3%A0nh_(H%E1%BB%87ph%C3%A1i_M%E1%BB%87n%C3%B4-n%C3%ADt),_Vietnam&oldid=91922.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 5, p. 341. All rights reserved.
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EPA to Scrutinize Environmental Impact of Bisphenol A
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a number of actions to address the potential effects of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in the manufacture of a wide range of consumer and industrial products.
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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a number of actions to address the potential effects of bisphenol A (BPA), a chemical used in the manufacture of a wide range of consumer and industrial products. The BPA action plan released today focuses on the environmental impacts of BPA and will look to add BPA to EPA's list of chemicals of concern and require testing related to environmental effects. These actions are part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson's comprehensive effort to strengthen the agency's chemical management program and assure the safety of chemicals.
In January 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it had some concerns about the potential human health impacts of BPA and it would study the potential effects and ways to reduce exposure to BPA in food packaging.
"We share FDA's concern about the potential health impacts from BPA," said Steve Owens, assistant administrator of EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. "Both EPA and FDA, and many other agencies are moving forward to fully assess the environmental and health impacts to ensure that the full range of BPA's possible impacts are examined."
Food packaging represents the most obvious source of BPA exposure to people and is regulated by FDA. Unlike FDA, EPA has authority over the potential environmental impacts of BPA. Releases of BPA to the environment exceed 1 million pounds per year. BPA has caused reproductive and developmental effects in animal studies and may also affect the endocrine system. The EPA action plan on the environmental impacts of BPA includes:
- Adding BPA to the chemical concern list on the basis of potential environmental effects.
- Requiring information on concentrations of BPA in surface water, ground water, and drinking water to determine if BPA may be present at levels of potential concern.
- Requiring manufacturers to provide test data to assist the agency in evaluating its possible impacts, including long-term effects on growth, reproduction, and development in aquatic organisms and wildlife.
- Using EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE) program to look for ways to reduce unnecessary exposures, including assessing substitutes, while additional studies continue.
- And, continuing to evaluate the potential disproportionate impact on children and other sub-populations through exposure from non-food packaging uses.
EPA is working closely with FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on research to better assess and evaluate the potential health consequences of BPA exposures, including health concerns from non-food packaging exposures that fall outside of the FDA's reach but within EPA's regulatory authority. Based on what this new research shows, EPA will consider possible regulatory actions to address health impacts from these other exposures.
In December, EPA announced that it will, for the first time, use its authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to list chemicals that may present an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment. The decision to list chemicals signals EPA's concern about the risks that the listed chemicals may pose and the agency's intention to address those risks. These actions are part of the agency's efforts to strengthen EPA's chemical management program, utilizing current authorities to the fullest extent possible, while continuing to encourage legislative reform of TSCA, which has not been updated since 1976 and is in need of reform.
More information on EPA's BPA action plan: http://www.epa.gov/oppt/existingchemicals/pubs/actionplans/bpa.html


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Marine who disappeared in Iraq in 2004 is back in US custody
Marine who disappeared in Iraq in 2004 is back in US custody
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July 19, 2004: In this file photo USMC Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun prepares himself as he waits to make a statement to a large crowd of media outside the gates to USMC Base Quantico, Va. Nearly 10 years ago Hassoun was declared a deserter after allegedly faking his own kidnapping in Iraq, then reappeared and was to face charges. But he disappeared again in 2005, has now turned himself in to U.S. authorities, and is being flown to the U.S. Sunday, June 29, 2014, from an undisclosed Mideast location.AP/File
WASHINGTON – A Marine who was declared a deserter nearly 10 years ago after disappearing in Iraq and then returning to the U.S. claiming he had been kidnapped, only to disappear again, is back in U.S. custody, officials said Sunday.
Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, 34, turned himself in and was being flown Sunday from an undisclosed location in the Middle East to Norfolk, Va. He is to be moved Monday to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, according to a spokesman, Capt. Eric Flanagan.
Maj. Gen. Raymond Fox, commander of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force at Lejeune, will determine whether to court martial Hassoun.
Hassoun disappeared from his unit in Iraq's western desert in June 2004. The following month he turned up unharmed in Beirut, Lebanon and blamed his disappearance on Islamic extremist kidnappers. He was returned to Lejeune and was about to face the military equivalent of a grand jury hearing when he disappeared again.
Flanagan, said the Hassoun case is unrelated to the matter of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who disappeared from his post in eastern Afghanistan in June 2009 under unexplained circumstances. Members of Bergdahl's unit have said he walked away on his own and should face desertion charges.
The Bergdahl case triggered a flood of controversy in part because of questions about the deal the U.S. struck with the Taliban to gain his release May 31, after five years in captivity, in exchange for freeing five senior Taliban commanders from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Bergdahl has not commented publicly on the circumstances of his disappearance and the Army has made no charges against him.
It is unclear where Hassoun, 34, has spent the past nine years after disappearing during a visit with relatives in Utah in December 2004. Nor is it known why he chose to turn himself in now. He was born in Lebanon and is a naturalized American citizen.
He enlisted in the Marine Corps in January 2002 and was trained as a motor vehicle operator. At the time of his disappearance from a Marine camp in Fallujah in western Iraq in June 2004 he was serving as an Arabic translator.
That was a particularly difficult year for the Marines in Iraq. In April they launched an offensive to retake Fallujah from Islamic extremists but were ordered to pull back, only to launch a second offensive in November that succeeded in regaining control of the city but at the expense of dozens of Marine lives.
Seven days after his June 2004 disappearance, a photo of a blindfolded Hassoun with a sword poised above his head turned up on Al-Jazeera television. A group called the National Islamic Resistance/1920 Revolution Brigade claimed to be holding him captive.
On July 8, 2004, Hassoun contacted American officials in Beirut, Lebanon, claiming to have been kidnapped. He was returned to the U.S. and eventually to Camp Lejeune. After a Navy investigation, the military charged Hassoun with desertion, loss of government property, theft of a military firearm for allegedly leaving the Fallujah camp with a 9 mm service pistol, and theft of a Humvee.
Shortly after his return to the U.S., Hassoun said in a public statement that he had been captured by insurgents in Iraq and was still a loyal Marine. "I did not desert my post," he told reporters. "I was captured and held against my will by anti-coalition forces for 19 days. This was a very difficult and challenging time for me."
In the initial months following his return to Lejeune, Hassoun was not held in confinement because charges had not yet been brought against him. He was considered non-deployable until the case was resolved, but he was allowed to make personal trips.
A January 2005 hearing on the matter was canceled when Hassoun failed to return to Camp Lejeune from his Utah visit. His commanders then officially classified him as a deserter, authorizing civilian police to apprehend him.
A short time later Hassoun was been placed on a Navy list of "most wanted" fugitives. A mug shot of him appeared on a Navy criminal justice Web site, which claimed the missing corporal used the alias "Jafar."
In a February 2005 interview with the Associated Press in Salt Lake City, Hassoun's brother, Mohamad, said Wassef Ali Hassoun was a victim of anti-Muslim bias in the U.S. military. The Marine Corps denied this.
The brother also said the pressure of facing desertion charges was partly to blame for Hassoun's decision to flee while in Utah.
"Instead of them giving him medals and making him feel good about his service and what he was doing for his country, they gave him an Article 32," Hassoun said of the military court proceedings that his brother was to have faced in January 2005.
Family members have said they last saw him on Dec. 29, 2004.
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It's tough getting a game console for Christmas, because, sometimes, you get the wrong one.
Given that the PS4 and Xbox One were two of the hottest gifts for this year's holiday, Twitter is now full of people talking about the consoles. In many cases, they're talking rather grumpily about the console they actually wanted.
Warning: strong language!
If you're one of these poor unfortunate souls, hang in there and look for the bright side:
It seems there may be an epidemic of runaways soon, if these tweets are anything to go by. Of course, this is also an excellent example of Poe's Law in action, since it's hard to tell which of these tweets are making fun of the others:
We hope you had a happy holiday, everyone! At least, a happier one than some of these folks did!


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