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The White House said it is "deeply troubled" by the mass death sentence handed down in Egypt on Monday to the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and hundreds of other people.
The ruling by an Egyptian court condemned to death 683 members of the the April 6 Youth Movement and the Muslim Brotherhood, including the group's supreme guide, 70-year-old Mohamed Badie, following a trial that lasted only a eight minutes.
The same judge had sentenced another 529 people to death in a similarly speedy mass trial in March. On Monday, he commuted 492 of those sentences to life in prison and confirmed 39 death sentences.
The Obama administration, which recently signaled it is prepared to reinstate a billion dollar aid package for Egypt, said in a statement on Monday that the verdicts defy the most basic standards of international justice.
"The Egyptian government has the responsibility to ensure that every citizen is afforded due process, including the right to a fair trial in which evidence is clearly presented, and access to an attorney," the statement said.
"While judicial independence is a vital part of democracy, this verdict cannot be reconciled with Egypt's obligations under international human rights law. Egyptian leaders must take a stand against this illogical action and dangerous precedent, recognizing that the repression of peaceful dissent will fuel the instability and radicalization that Egypt says it wishes to prevent."
The White House urged the Egyptian government to end the use of mass trials, reverse the sentences, and guarantee due process.
"A fair and transparent criminal justice system free of intimidation and political retribution is an important part of any democracy, and the Egyptian people deserve no less," the statement said.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy, who is in Washington for a visit this week, invoked the Patriot Act and Guantanamo Bay to counter U.S. criticism of Egypt's crackdown on Brotherhood members and opposition activists.
Despite the mass trials and jailings, Egypt will be beacon of regional intellectualism, Fahmy said on Monday at a forum at the nonprofit Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He said the legal process should be allowed to follow through, and no one should jump to any conclusions yet.
The verdicts are being appealed.
Hannah Allam contributed to this report.


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coltraning wrote:migya wrote:coltraning wrote:TMC wrote:coltraning wrote:Nothing beats face to face, esp. with women.
I didn't say nothing TIES face to face, but yeah, if I had to choose, face to face or some kind of head to head:wink:
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One of my coaches goes through strings way too quickly. He plays with the WIlson Pro Staff 6.1 Mid and BLX Six-One 95. He always breaks in the upper main, where the density of the string pattern is more open. He prefers Gamma TNT 17 strung at 58. This time I decided to try using power pads for additional cushioning. I also suggested he try 16 gauge. Any other advice out there?
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The upper mains? Does he hit a lot of kickers up there? That Gamma TNT 17 just isn't gonna last up there. Well, I suggest a softer poly and use the TNT as a cross in 16 gauge. Kirschbaum Pro Line 2 is good. Gamma Verve has a nice feel. Or I've been using Cyber Blue 17 gauge lately.
I would go 16ga.and probably hybrid or go soft poly. If he breaks the same string or near the same spot always I would try some string savers in that location. I have same racket and full poly lasted much longer that my hybrid set up, week or so vs. a few days max. Off to string up two of mine as well.
Thanks for the feedback. Yes it's the main string, breaking near the top 3rd or 4th cross, not in the sweet spot. I will try both your recommendations.
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Wilma and three other women were comparing notes about the achievements of their sons. Each son had a favorite sport and each was a star player. The boys ranged in age from 10 years old to 13 years old. Determine the full name of each mother, the name of her son, the sport each son played, and how old each son was.
1. Sara Copper's son, who wasn't Brian, didn't play soccer.
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ICDL GCC Foundation, the governing body and certification authority of the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL) program, has recently granted ICDL certification to 69 students of the Azzan Bin Qais Private School in Oman, as part of the Foundation's intensified support for the Omani government's efforts to establish a fully integrated digital society. The event marks ICDL GCC Foundation's move to step up its campaign to promote computer proficiency across the Sultanate's education sector by forging strategic partnerships with local academic institutions and encouraging the adoption of the ICDL standard as a benchmark for digital literacy.
ICDL GCC Foundation lauded Azzan Bin Qais for its continued efforts to introduce computer proficiency courses to its students at all grades. Since its adoption of the ICDL standard in 2004, the school has remained totally committed to providing the necessary tools and equipments needed to upgrade the computer skills and abilities of its students, thereby paving the way for better career opportunities in future.
Mrs. Suad Bint Muhammad Al Muzaffar, Principal, Azzan Bin Qais Private School, said, "Adopting the ICDL standard has allowed us the opportunity of broadening the future career prospects of our students. The program has widely been received by our students and is reflected in the recent awarding of the 69 ICDL certificates to students from various grades. Moreover, Azzan Bin Qais remains steadfast in its commitment to promote IT literacy among its students by enhancing their knowledge in using computers and the internet, enabling them to integrate this knowledge into their daily applications later on. To help complement this, the school is now contemplating on expanding its ICDL program offerings, enabling more students to participate in the program."
The Omani Ministry of Education has mandated the adoption of the ICDL program as an integral part of the IT-based curriculum for students in the 11th grade. According to statistics from the Ministry, the total number of 11th grade students in Oman has reached 55,000, a figure that has been consistent over the past five years. Furthermore, the number of academic institutions that have adopted the ICDL standard continues to increase year after year.
Rania Al Qaisi, Spokesperson, ICDL GCC Foundation, said, "Partner schools like Azzan Bin Qais play a key role in our efforts to promote digital literacy in Oman. The 69 students who have received their certification mark a significant step that leads us closer to our goal of establishing a fully integrated digital society. Adopting the ICDL standard not only provides students with a certificate that recognises their computer knowledge and abilities but also opens their doors to better career and business opportunities in future."
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text: Robots Have a Place Milking Cows on the Dairy October 14, 2013 02:15 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Associated Press Email Investing in robotics can help dairies adapt to a dwindling labor force. By Annie Siebert, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Milking a cow used to require only a bucket and a person unafraid of being kicked in the face. Now, it takes a lot less manpower, but it requires lasers, computers, iPhone apps and computer chips embedded in cows' collars. Kepple's Family Farm in Westmoreland County, Pa., has been using robotic milkers since 2011, when the family sold the rights to some of its 200 acres for Marcellus Shale gas well drilling, pouring the profits into the three milkers, which run about $120,000 a pop. The Kepple family has owned the farm since 1886; it is now run largely by Jim Kepple, his wife Michelle and their son Mike, 21. In addition to the dairy operation, the family also grows corn, soybeans, hay and alfalfa to feed the cows on the 200-acre farm and hundreds of acres of rented farmland nearby. Despite the seemingly never-ending construction of strip malls and chain restaurants in places like North Huntingdon and Hempfield, farming remains the No. 1 industry in Westmoreland County. Commissioner Ted Kopas said farming is "immensely important" to Pennsylvania and Westmoreland County. "The challenge is, everyone likes to eat, but no one wants to farm," he said. Fortunately, he said, family farms have adapted, using technology to replace some of the manpower. Westmoreland County is still dotted with livestock, dairy and crop farms. "The fact that it remains so important shows the agriculture community has adapted to the changing times," Kopas said. High-Tech Milking The Kepples' DeLaval robotic milking machine runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and the computer keeps track of each cow's status — when it was last milked, when it's scheduled to be milked again and how much milk it's likely to produce. Each cow is milked two to four times a day and is identified by a transponder on its collar. The transponders measure when the cows are next due to be milked to their activity level throughout the day. When there's a spike in activity level, that generally means the cow is in heat, and because cows have to give birth to calves to produce milk, knowing when they can become pregnant is important. The first time a cow enters the milker, the computer learns where the cow's teats are located, so with each subsequent milking, the robot knows exactly where it's going so it can milk the cow quickly. On a cool morning in mid-September, some of the Kepple family's 350 cows were queued up to enter the robotic milkers. Cows serenely walked into the robotic milking chamber, where they were fed a molasses-laced feed. "That's what their incentive is," Mike Kepple said. Not that the cows seemed to mind the process. They stood quietly while the robot located their teats using lasers, then washed them with warm water and soap and swabbed them with iodine before attaching hoses to the cows' teats to begin milking. While the cow is being milked, a screen on the milker shows the expected and total yields of milk from that cow. When the cow leaves the chamber, the screen reads, "waiting for cow." The milk then goes into a tank in an adjacent building and is picked up daily to be processed and pasteurized by Colteryahn Dairy in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Carrick. "The milk truck comes every day and picks it up," Mike Kepple said. Jim Kepple said the farm produces about 1,400 gallons of milk a day. He said production went up about 10 percent after the robotic milkers were installed. Everything in the system can be tweaked to suit the family's operation, Jim Kepple said, from how long the robot washes the cows' teats to how long it milks them. If the cow requires medical treatment, he gets an alert on his phone when the cow enters the pen to be milked, Jim Kepple explained. As if on cue, his cell phone rang and he flipped it open. "That's the barn calling me now," he said. Problems crop up with the robots occasionally, but mostly the machines run smoothly. Mike Kepple has an app on his iPhone that allows him to fix remotely problems with the robotic milkers. He was once in Ocean City, Md., with his girlfriend when a problem with the milkers arose. From the beach, he fixed the problem at the farm. The family used to milk cows in a parlor, which required two people. Now, they can milk more cows with fewer people in fewer hours. Mike Kepple said two people used to work from 1:30 to 4 a.m.; now one person checks on the robotic milkers from 3:30 to 4:30 a.m. "We saved a ton of man-hours there," he said. Robots Can't Do Everything When the family had the robotic milkers installed, they also put a "cow brush" in the barn. "They say that they like it and they make more milk," Mike Kepple said as a cow leaned against the coarse-bristled yellow brush. Besides the robotic milkers and brush, a V-shaped cable moves along the rubber floor of the barn and removes manure, "so we don't have to clean the barn, either," Mike Kepple said. He said the rubber floor is softer on the cows' hooves — "They say it's like wearing shoes." He said the biggest breakdown in the two years the family has had the robotic milkers happened when a rat chewed through an electrical wire. And that's one of the things the Kepple family hasn't figured out how to outsource to robots — keeping birds, mice and rats at bay. That task falls to the cats that live throughout the barn — kittens slept in a pile in the hay while adult cats walked along steel rafters high in the barn, and a plastic canister of chili powder, said to ward off rats, was tucked into a space between the robotic milkers. Touring the Milkers On that same day last month, a tour group of county extension agents from across the country stopped at Kepple's Family Farm. They were in town for the National Association of County Agricultural Agents meeting at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown. "It's a professional development thing," said Gary Sheppard, the Penn State Cooperative Extension's district director for Armstrong, Indiana and Westmoreland counties. During the conference, tours of farms throughout the region are arranged for the 2,800 conference attendees. The group's chartered tour bus arrived and promptly got stuck in one of the farm's driveways, and Mike Kepple fetched a chain and hooked it to a tractor to pull the bus out of the mud. Phil Durst, who works with dairy producers in Michigan, marveled at the Kepples' robotic milkers and eagerly pointed out that the robots have an understanding of the anatomy of each cow and have no trouble milking even a "three-quarter cow" -- a cow with three teats instead of four. "The point is," he said, "the machines can handle that." Durst also noted the robots do more than just cut back on manpower. "No matter how hard a cow kicks a robot, it doesn't swear," he said. Back to news


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BAYBORO � The upset-minded Pamlico Hurricanes were clinging to a first-half lead against the top-ranked 1A girls� basketball team.
BAYBORO � The upset-minded Pamlico Hurricanes were clinging to a first-half lead against the top-ranked 1A girls� basketball team.
The momentum was clearly on the side of the Hurricanes.
Then halftime came, and Lejeune star Chatori Major took over.
Major scored 13 points in the third quarter as Lejeune pulled away for a 61-48 victory over Pamlico Friday in Bayboro.
�(Pamlico) is a very good team,� Lejeune coach Kevin Popadines said. �We knew they were going to be tough and we knew they had three very strong players. We tried to prepare the best we could for them and it went our way tonight.
�They put up a good fight.�
Lejeune won both meeting against Pamlico. The Devilpups won 57-39 on Jan. 11.
Major, who will play her college ball at UNC-Asheville, finished with a game-high 34 points. She drained five 3-pointers.
Pamlico (12-5, 6-2 Coastal Plains) took its first lead following a three-point play by point guard Briana Jones in the second quarter. The Hurricanes built one final advantage, 22-20, with 1:02 remaining in the first half.
Major scored the final five points of the half, giving Lejeune a 25-20 lead at the break. The Devilpups (18-0, 8-0) proceeded to outscore Pamlico, 21-9, in the third quarter.
�(Chatori) did very well,� Popadines said. �(Pamlico) was ready for her. They had her checked all game. When we needed a big shot, she came up with it.�
Chryssandra Tatum contributed 11 points and 17 rebounds for Lejeune. La-Auntae Lee and Amber Overton both scored six.
�(Tatum) has done it for us all year long,� Popadines said. �She normally doesn�t get the recognition, and it is a shame, because she steps up and has big games when we need her to.�
DeAndrea Dawson and Laichelle Sparrow each notched 12 points for the Hurricanes. Alazia Whitfield grabbed eight rebounds and had seven steals. Jones scored seven points.
�(Lejeune) is a good team, but I thought we gave them a good run for their money,� Pamlico coach April Rose said. �I wonder how the game would have turned out if we played better in the third quarter.�
Lejeune turned the ball over 20 times, but converted 12 of 16 from the free throw line. Pamlico was out-rebounded, 32-29, and made 12 of its 24 free throw attempts.
Pamlico hosts Jones Senior on Tuesday before wrapping up the regular season at Southwest Onslow. Lejeune travels to Southwest on Tuesday.
Pamlico may get another shot at Lejeune in the Coastal Plains Conference Tournament the following week.
�I think now we know they are human,� Rose said. We have that opportunity to capitalize in all four quarters next time. I thought we looked good on defense tonight, and we had some players step up tonight.�
Pamlico 92, Lejeune 64
BAYBORO � The last time the Pamlico Hurricanes played Lejeune, they were without key players Jermicus Brown and Bradley Bennett.
Pamlico won by one point on Jan. 11.
Brown and Bennett were in the lineup Friday. They combined for 53 points in the Hurricanes� 92-64 win over the Devilpups in Bayboro.
Brown threw down two slams, and finished with 30 points and 11 rebounds. Bennett poured in 23 points, including four 3-pointers.
Knowing Lejeune doesn�t have a dominant big man, the Hurricanes pounded the ball in the paint. Arthur Randall added nine points and eight rebounds, Josiah Simmons scored 10, and Pamlico snagged 39 rebounds.
�We said coming out of the hall that we would like to play like this every night,� said Sadler. �Everybody is getting touches, we are finishing around the basket and making the shots we can make.�
Pamlico (9-10, 4-4 Coastal Plains) took a 22-14 advantage after the first quarter, then extended it to 38-29 by halftime. Bennett�s three-point play put the Hurricanes up by 20 with five minutes remaining.
They closed the game on a 20-12 run.
�(Lejeune) shot the ball well and they have against everybody,� Sadler said. �We knew they didn�t have a post player and they were just going to swing it around until they make a three.
�That�s what kind of kept them in the game.�
Ryan Evans made five 3-pointers and tallied 24 points to pace Lejeune (1-19, 0-8). Dax Sammut scored 12, while Chuckie Murdock and Joe Stone both netted nine points.
The Hurricanes close the regular season with a home game against Jones Senior on Tuesday before traveling to Southwest Onslow on Friday.
Pamlico beat Jones Senior in overtime in the first meeting.
�We have to go against Jones Senior and play our best game of the year,� Sadler said. �They are going to bring it. It�s one of the greatest rivalries in high school basketball.
�It doesn�t matter what the records are, they are going to come in here with one goal, and that�s to beat us. That will make their season.�
Box scores
Lejeune 61, Pamlico 48
LEJEUNE (61): Chatori Major 34, Chryssandra Tatum 11, Amber Overton 6, Nikia Wallace 4, Le-Auntae Lee 6.
PAMLICO (48): Alazia Whitfield 3, Briana Jones 7, Laichelle Sparrow 12, Nylaa Tutt 2, Kenya Midgette 4, DeAndrea Dawson 12, Chelsea Sawyer 5, Ashley Johnson 1, No. 40 2.
Rebounds: Lejeune 32 (Tatum 17); Pamlico 29 (Whitfield 8). 3-pointers: Lejeune 5 (Major 5); Pamlico 1 (Sawyer). Records: Lejeune 18-0, 8-0 Coastal Plains; Pamlico 12-5, 6-2.
Pamlico 92, Pamlico 64
LEJEUNE (64): Ryan Evans 24, Chuckie Murdock 9, C.J. Jackson 4, Joe Stone 9, Dax Sammut 12, Andrew Fellows 3, Martin Ortega 4.
PAMLICO (92): Jermicus Brown 30, Bradley Bennett 23, Terrance Heath 4, Josiah Simmons 10, Cameron Moore 2, Arthur Randall 9, DaQuan Gibbs 6, Jamal Coffey 3.
Rebounds: Lejeune 24 (Jackson 5, Sammut 5); Pamlico 39 (Brown). 3-pointers: Lejeune 8 (Evans 5, Sammut 2, Fellows); Pamlico 5 (Bennett 4, Coffey). Records: Lejeune 1-19, 0-8 Coastal Plains; Pamlico 9-10, 4-4.
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"When has being dishonest ever helped me, or you, or anyone?" – Spencer Hastings
Where is the RV? Can Mona still be trusted? The liars are not sure of the answer to either question, but they are sure of one thing. The masked A assailant is still kill crazy. *cut to the scene of Mona being choked in the car, and Emily jumping in front of said car to save her and Aria*
What a way to start the second episode of the season.
It was the return of Ashley! Back from her extended business trip to New York City, which allowed her to miss the funeral of her once fling Defective Wilden, Hanna's mom is chalk full of secrets and a dusty pair of Manolo Blahnik's. Slowly making her way up the "extremely shady" list, Hanna senses lies after questioning her mother about the mysterious resurfacing of her cell phone recovered from the dead detective's casket. After Hanna expresses how she may go to hell for wishing Wilden would disappear, in true motherly fashion Ashley reassures her that hell isn't a place she wants to be, because she may see Wilden there.
About the nostalgic feeling we got when Ezra was teaching English class, and Aria gazed his way. (Very season one). However the moment was quickly interrupted when we noticed class was over, and Aria was over Ezra. After feeling her small stature is making her an easy target for A, Aria decides it's time to learn how to defend herself in the face of A.
Hello Jake, sexy karate instructor, and new face of the season. After returning to the gym to train with Jake, Aria lets out steam from her breakup, school, and stress in her life with a kiss.
If things weren't looking down for the liars enough, Spencer is reeling from her rejection to U Penn. (Which we firmly believe A played a major part in) and the distance between her and Toby. While working with Mr. Fitz to tighten up her personal statement, we learn just how much four seasons of A has really affected her life, and according to Mr. Fitz, how little college admissions offices care about situations like that.
In an attempt to skip school and clear her mind, Spencer finally notices the way Toby is dodging calls, something she is too familiar with. In true Spencer Hastings fashion she soon gets to the bottom of it, but learns a terrible secret about Toby. SPOILER ALERT. Toby shares with Spencer that while in Radley his mother committed suicide. Toby however is not buying into the story and wants to use A to get to the bottom of it.
Bonus: Spencer also learns Toby is the one who moved the missing RV.
So did Emily get that nasty bruise on her arm all for nothing?
Even though there are no secrets between them, Emily hides the truth about her terrible shoulder injury from Paige. Before her big race against new liars nemesis Shana Emily loads up on pain pills to hide the extent of her injury. Compelled to land the last spot on Stanford's swim team, Emily plans on swimming the match of her life … until she hits her head and his taken out of the pool.
Why are her friends never around in these situations?
Everything begins to fall into place after Hanna meets with Mrs. DiLaurentis Hanna learns that during a brief lunch date with her daughter, Mrs. D was convinced that Alison spent her time away from home with the girls, and not the mysterious group of older friends who were really accompanying her. We also learned why Hanna is really creeped out by Jason DiLaurentis: "He stares at her chest." Thank you Alison, your witty quotes from the grave never fail to amaze us. Mrs. D also gives Hanna a gift, or a pivotal clue to Alison's death … Tippy the talking bird.
Mrs. D promises, he has never spoke about Hanna in her chubby days.
Tippy, offers the girls a major clue into the possible murder of their friend Ali, a whistle that (thanks to Spencer Hastings) sounds just like a telephone number? But which number. After dialing the number with no prevail the girls try another method for decoding the birds cryptic message, but in true "Pretty Little Liars" fashion, Tippy disappears, and was last seen in the end credits being fed a larger bird, and still squeaking the mysterious tone.
I'm sure that is not how nature is supposed to work, and that the hooded A will grow tired of the talking bird, and return him to his rightful liars, hopefully all in one piece.


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BALANCING ACT: What goes around comes around
Staff writer
There is no doubt it is very expensive to raise children these days. Statisticians put the cost of raising one child to adulthood around $235,000, not including college. I am not sure how my husband and I have managed to raise our four children thus far, because I have not seen that kind of money coming into our bank accounts. I am finally at the stage, however, where I am starting to realize a few unexpected dividends from our investment in childrearing.
Unexpectedly, it comes in the way of clothing.
While searching for something warm to wear to work last week, I ended up in one of our two college boys' rooms. A quick closet search resulted in a nice, probably worn only once, sweater. Just looking at it, I could already feel its warmth. In the next room, I found a nice red turtleneck long-sleeved shirt — probably worn, like never — that would be perfect underneath it.
I had my own jeans on and was now luxuriously warm on top, just needed a pair of socks. Hmmm, upstairs in my high school son's room I found some of those warm, compression, hunting socks — perfect.
Now, what shoes? I looked in my junior high daughter's room and found, stuffed back under the bed, that expensive pair of black Nike's she just had to have at the beginning of the school year. I tried them on and they fit! For the life of me, I do not know why they were not on her feet, but for now, they were definitely staying on mine. With pillow-top insoles I felt like I was walking on clouds, and off to work I went.
It was a good day and I found myself thinking often about my children as I wore their clothes. I was so thankful for the times we had to spend that money we never seemed to have enough of on shirts, jeans, socks, shoes, sports gear, hunting equipment, school supplies, art supplies … the list could just go on and on, and still will for a few more years I am sure.
There is a saying, "What goes around, comes around" and I used to think it pertained to bad feelings or deeds. However, in my world of raising children, it has a good connotation: all that money we have spent on our children through the years is starting to come around in wonderful ways. Not only are we very proud of the fine young people our four are turning out to be, I cannot wait to go shopping again in their closets and under their beds when they are not home, or at least not looking.
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Baylor cracks Top 10 in coaches poll, its best start since 1991
Baylor opened at No. 10 in the preseason Amway Coaches Poll released Thursday, the Bears' first preseason football ranking in any poll since the 1991 season.
The placement puts Baylor, an 11-2 team that won last year's Big 12 championship, among the early front-runners in the race to earn one of four berths in the inaugural College Football Playoff bracket, to be released Dec. 7. The first championship game of the playoff era will be played Jan. 12, 2015, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington.
Oklahoma, the No. 3 team in Thursday's poll, is the highest-ranked local or Big 12 team in balloting by the 59 participating coaches. The Sooners also were picked to win this year's Big 12 title by media members who cover the league.
Oklahoma and Baylor were joined in the initial coaches poll by No. 20 Texas A&M, No. 21 Kansas State and No. 24 Texas. Among the unranked teams receiving votes were TCU, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Houston.
In order, the top four teams in Thursday's poll were defending champ Florida State, Alabama, Oklahoma and Oregon. If the preseason rankings are mirrored by members of the CFP selection committee in December, the first-round playoff matchups would be Florida State vs. Oregon and Oklahoma vs. Alabama.
Baylor coach Art Briles is pleased with the Bears' starting point, particularly in a season with playoff ramifications.
"The advantage is that you get on a hot streak and you win your first eight games, the next thing you know, you're No. 2. Might be No. 1," Briles said. "If you're a hot football team and you start 27th, after eight or nine weeks, you're No. 12 or 13. We have a chance to fulfill faster, to get to where we want to get faster, which is getting in the final four this year."


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Does your water taste salty? If you don't live near the ocean or a salt mine and you're wondering how the heck salt got in your water you should know that in most cases what you're tasting is Chloride. Chloride can make its way into your water source several different ways such as, agricultural runoff, wastewater from industries, natural deposits, and road salting. But my guess is that you care less about where it comes from and more about how to get it out of your water. You'll need a reverse osmosis filtration system. RO is the most effective water filtration system and is the only system capable of desalinating water for drinking..
We have a water softener and until yesterday, we had no problems.
Today, however we poured some water…which we also run through a Pur filtering system, and it tasted like salt water.
Is this an indication of a problem with our water softener? It's only about 2-3 years old.
Have recently put in a new well. Upon having the water tested I found out that our water passed all state/federal standards, but the salt content though exceptable is on the high end of exceptable, 39.0. I was wondering if you know if the Brita system in the kitchen faucet would be effective to filter out some of this salt. We do not taste it, but recently I have been diagnosed with high blood pressure and am trying to eliminate as much as I can of the salt that I injest.
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Scoop: AMERICAN DAD on FOX - Sunday, January 12, 2014
AMERICAN DAD follows staunch GOP supporter and CIA agent STAN SMITH (Seth MacFarlane) and the misadventures of his unconventional family in Langley Falls, VA. The series returns this fall for a 10th and final season on FOX.
Stan's blissfully unaware wife, FRANCINE (Wendy Schaal), has an unfaltering loyalty that allows her to turn a blind eye toward Stan's unabashed arrogance. Meanwhile, Stan constantly butts heads with his 18-year-old left-wing activist daughter, HAYLEY (Rachael MacFarlane), who knows just how to push her father's buttons, whether it's by helping the homeless, demanding women's rights or advocating gun control. Hayley's 14-year-old brother is the geeky yet cocky STEVE (Scott Grimes), a kid who spends his time playing video games and obsessing about the opposite sex.
The Smith cabinet is rounded out by two rather unconventional members. There's the sassy and sarcastic space alien ROGER (Seth MacFarlane), who lives in the attic, loves to play dress-up and ran for U.S. President in 2012; and KLAUS (Dee Bradley Baker), an attention-starved goldfish with the brain of a German guy who always throws in his two cents regardless of whether anyone is listening.
This screwball family full of radically different personalities is just trying to figure out how to love and trust one another in a bi-partisan world. And with a guy like Stan in charge of national security, it's guaranteed to be one wacky ride.


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In a move that even someone with zero legal training could have told you was an insanely bad idea, a judge in Pennsylvania went into the online court system and dismissed her own traffic summonses. Judge Kelly Ballentine had two parking tickets from 2010 and a third ticket for expired registration on her BMW sedan that she hadn't paid on time. She was mailed summonses, but instead of dealing with them like a normal person—and like the court insists everyone else does—she just logged onto the court records system and got rid of them. Must be nice...Oh, except it isn't, because she got busted. And now she's facing criminal charges and is out on $25,000 bond, which is probably considerably more than the original three tickets would have run her. Not to mention she'll never work as a judge again, so now she's also out a salary. Probably not even a little late night trip into the court's computers can save her now.
Judge busted for dismissing her own traffic tickets [Reuters]
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5 tech gadgets everyone needs
It may be just me but I get warm and fuzzy inside when I get new gadgets. 2016 brought in a bevy of uber-smart gadgets, all begging you to come play! I'm talking about potential new friends like the new Go Pro Hero 5, Apple MacBook Pro and the DJI Mavic, just to name a few. These little toys make life that much more enjoyable and memorable, upping the fun factor of any occasion and giving you the ability to capture and relive your experiences. Here's the low down on each of my favourites from the past year.
GoPro Hero 6
The new GoPro Hero 5 has 4K resolution, electronic image stabilisation, 2-inch touchscreen display and is waterproof to 10m (33ft without the polycarbonate housing). If you're still not impressed, GoPro has added a new feature that allows you to use voice control to speak to the GoPro, to give instructions like "GoPro start recording". The GoPro has plenty of easy-to-use accessories and mounts that allow for a hands-free experience.
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New MacBook Pro
The biggest and most exciting feature of the new MacBook Pro is the Touch Bar, a multi-touch enabled strip of glass built into the keyboard for instant access to multiple features that are familiar enough to feel as though nothing has changed. The touch bar automatically changes depending on what you're doing on your Mac to show you relevant tools that allow for a more versatile and capable experience.
The MacBook is faster and more powerful than ever before, but it's extraordinarily thinner and lighter. The new system also includes up to 130% faster graphics, a 67% brighter display and it's also 17% thinner. The system comes in a 13-inch and a 15-inch display with the larger model weighing as low as 1.83kg.
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DJI Mavic Pro drone
The DJI Mavic is a small yet powerful drone with a true 4K stabilised camera, an all-new transmission system with a 4.3mi (7km) range, 5 vision sensors and more, all at your fingertips.
The Mavic gives the user a 27 minute flight time, which is 7 minutes more than the new GoPro Karma drone. The Mavic is so tiny it can literally sit conveniently in the palm of your hand – it's one of the smallest retail drones currently on the market. The arms fold back against the body and the propellers fold in half too, allowing the Mavic to fit in any bag making it a small travel companion.
The DJI Mavic has received many positive and well-deserved reviews as the "ultimate drone" from many tech users.
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UE Megaboom wireless speaker
The UE Megaboom has been on the top of speaker lists for the past couple of years now. It has the capability to connect to almost every smart device, no matter what application you choose to stream from. The big seller for me is it can be immersed in water up to one meter deep for up to 30 minutes, which is great for summer.
The speaker has a rechargeable lithium-ion battery for up to 15 hours of battery life and it allows you to pair up to 8 Bluetooth enabled devices; with the capability to connect to two devices at the same time. The UE is also 25% louder than the previous model, ensuring it sounds better and keeps the insides safe from any water.
The speaker also comes with a two year limited warranty for that peace of mind.
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BeatsX wireless earphones
I'm sure you all know how annoying it is when you're going for a run and all you want to do is listen to some fresh jams, but you can't because your headphones keep falling out of your ears. Well, the Powerbeats 3 Wireless earphones are the perfect companion for any sports star.
The earphones have 12 hours of battery life to last you through countless workouts, not to mention the secure-fit earhooks to help with comfort and stability that stops them from falling every 2 seconds. They're also sweat- and water-resistant, which make them super durable. The earphones connect automatically when they are near your iPhone or Apple Watch with Bluetooth connectivity so they're ready to go 100 miles with you.
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The new community center, part of a greater HumanKinetics.com redesign, provides free access to tools and information such as news from international organizations, physical activity program successes, research findings, educational opportunities, job listings, conference and event calendars, grants and funding opportunities and member profiles.
"The ultimate goal of the Active Aging Community Center is advancing the study of active aging and enhancing the delivery of services to older adults worldwide," says Brian Holding, Human Kinetics CEO. Human Kinetics and the International Coalition for Aging and Physical Activity (ICAPA) sponsor the new community center, which is led by a steering committee of industry professionals, including renowned researcher Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, PhD.
"We invite all professionals interested in the active aging field to join us on the site," says Active Aging Community Center director Angela DeMano. "Whether you'd like to report on news and happenings in your area, add conferences to the event calendar or share your work with members of the community, you're very welcomed to log on and join the dialogue."
In addition to the free content, the community center offers additional benefits to premium members through the "AACC+" portion of the site. Benefits to premium members include access to the international Active Aging Forum, product discounts, discounted registration for the 2012 World Congress on Active Aging and access to the new Active Aging Today multimedia journal.
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Please join me on a stop of the Blessed (Candlewick, 2011) tour!
Events that are open to the public are indicated as such on the schedule below!
Also, note that YA authors Mari Mancusi and Daniel Nayeri will be joining me here and there along the way!
Saturday, 1/29/11
2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. BookPeople - launch party with Night School (Blood Coven) author Mari Mancusi (PUBLIC EVENT)
Wear red and black if you're on the side of Evil or blue and black if you're on the side of Good. Bonus points (prize entry) to anyone who dresses up as a vampire, shape shifter, vampire slayer, angel or faerie!
603 North Lamar, Austin, Texas
Sunday, 2/6/11
1 p.m. to 3 p.m. - Books of Wonder - reading/Q&A/signing to public with Another Pan author Daniel Nayeri (PUBLIC EVENT)
18 W. 18th St., New York, N.Y.
Monday, 2/7/11
10 a.m. to 11:34 a.m. Francis Lewis High School
6 p.m. Borders Bookstore - reading/signing (PUBLIC EVENT)
Borders Columbus Circle
10 Columbus Circle, New York, N.Y.
Tuesday, 2/8/11
4 p.m. to 5 p.m. New Brunswick Free Public Library - reading/Q&A/signing (PUBLIC EVENT)
6:20 p.m. to 9 p.m. Rutgers University -- guest lecture, "Materials for Young Adults" -- room 203
School of Communication and Information -- 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, N.J.
Wednesday, 2/9/11
10 a.m. NYPL Mulberry Branch - visit with schools
10 Jersey Street (Between Lafayette & Mulberry Streets) New York, N.Y.
8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. New School Creative Writing Graduate Class - guest lecture
66 West 12th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
Thursday, 2/10/11
11:15 a.m. to 12 p.m. Brooklyn Public Library - Professional Development Day
Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza
4:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. Brooklyn Public Library - Will You Be My Paranormal Valentine Party (with teens)(PUBLIC EVENT)
Central Library, 10 Grand Army Plaza
Friday, 2/11/11
2:15 p.m. to 3 p.m. Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin High School Visit
Little Red School House & Elisabeth Irwin HS, LREI
272 Sixth Avenue, New York, N.Y.
7 p.m. The Voracious Reader - "Will You Be My Paranormal Valentine?" event with Another Pan author Daniel Nayeri (PUBLIC EVENT)
1997 Palmer Avenue, Larchmont, N.Y.
Saturday, 2/12/11
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mercer County Library Event -- West Windsor Branch (PUBLIC EVENT)
333 North Post Road, Princeton Junction, N.J.
6:30 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Cherry Hill, N.J. (Greater Philly area)(PUBLIC EVENT)
911 Haddonfield Road, Cherry Hill, N.J.
Not on the Tour? Attention Event Planners!
It's two YA authors for the price of one! Book now for the 2011-2012 school year and beyond!
"From Classics to Contemporary:" a joint presentation offered by Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of the Tantalize series (inspired by Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897)) and Jennifer Ziegler, author of Sass & Serendipity (inspired by Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (1811)).
The authors will discuss how they were inspired by these classics, why Stoker and Austen's themes are still relevant to teens/YAs today, the ongoing conversation of books over the generations, and much more.
Contact Dayton Bookings for more information and to schedule.
Cynsational Notes
Enter to win the Blessed Grand Prize Giveaway at this post at Blogger or this post at LiveJournal!
reflective conversations, publishing information, writer insights & inspiration, bookseller-librarian-teacher appreciation, children's-YA literature news & author outreach
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Blessed by Cynthia Leitich Smith Central Texas & Northeast U.S. Tour Schedule
2 comments:
- nutschell said...
Wow sounds like a busy but exciting tour! Can't wait to read these books!
- Monday, January 17, 2011 12:31:00 PM
- Cynthia Leitich Smith said...
Thanks, nutschell! I'm looking forward to the tour, and hope you enjoy the Tantalize series! Don't miss Mari, Daniel, and Jenny's novels, too!
- Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:48:00 AM
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In addition to the contests, challenges, daily prompts, and other activities, we've got a new Poetic Trivia question every day in April for National Poetry Month this month. You've got to visit the forums daily to get them all, since the previous question is deleted when a new one is posted. Just to tease those of you who aren't members yet, here's today's question:
April 3rd: This renouned female poet's awards include a Pulitzer Prize nomination, a tony award, Three grammys, the National Medal of Arts, the Lincoln Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.. who is she?
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I had an op-ed on this little scandalette in yesterday's Wall Street Journal, and the Journal people were kind enough to let me post it here:
Two nurses, both aspiring novelists, helped tend British soldiers during World War II. Briony, the protagonist of Ian McEwan's award-winning novel "Atonement," is fictional. The late Lucilla Andrews is real: She became an author, pioneering romantic "hospital fiction," and also wrote a memoir of her war years.
Therein lies the latest plagiarism scandalette to hit the news, sparked by an article in the British press. To be a credible character in a historical novel, Briony had to do the things wartime nurses did, and see the things they saw. It is thus no surprise that Mr. McEwan read Andrews's book when researching his own; and several passages from his book strongly resemble passages from Andrews's memoir.
"Our 'nursing' seldom involved more than dabbing gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on cuts and scratches, lead lotion on bruises and sprains," wrote Andrews (to give one example). "In the way of medical treatments, she had already dabbed gentian violet on ringworm, aquaflavine emulsion on a cut, and painted lead lotion on a bruise. But mostly she was a maid," wrote Mr. McEwan.
Plagiarism? Legally actionable? Ethically reprehensible? Bad manners? Or good research, needed to produce accurate historical fiction?
Plagiarism is easy to condemn but often hard to define. This is partly because the legal rules differ sharply from the ethical ones, and the ethical rules in scholarship, journalism and fiction differ from each other. And it is partly because the rules for using the facts uncovered by writers of history—whether memoirists, historians or contemporaneous journalists—must be different from the rules for using the original phrases that the writers created.
Let's start with the law. It generally bans not plagiarism as such, but rather copyright infringement. (Trademark law might play a role in extreme plagiarism cases, but not in the typical ones.) And copyright infringement is both broader and narrower than what most people see as "plagiarism."
For instance, an author can be held liable under copyright law even when he credits the original source from which he copies. The law concerns itself more with protecting authors' ability to profit from their works than with ensuring credit where credit is due. So if I translate Mr. McEwan's novel into Russian without his permission, trumpeting Mr. McEwan's authorship and saying that I am merely the translator, I am a copyright infringer, though not a plagiarist.
On the other hand, an author is not liable for copying the facts that others have discovered, regardless of whether he gives credit. Copyright law doesn't give authors exclusive rights to facts, because such a monopoly would undermine debate, scholarship and literature. If I write a scholarly legal article that uses without attribution historical facts uncovered by another scholar, my failure to attribute is a serious ethical breach—but not copyright infringement.
So on to professional ethics, which properly differs depending on the profession. Academics have the most stringent obligations. If I write an academic work using, without attribution, facts uncovered by another historian, I commit two sins: First, I falsely claim originality for my own work. Second, I wrongly deny a scholar credit that is important to the scholar's reputation. The academic must therefore scrupulously attribute those facts that others have uncovered, and the long and heavily footnoted format of academic books and articles makes this easy.
But the rules for newspaper articles that mention historical matters are different. Such articles usually don't claim originality of historical research; no reader would assume that snippets of history in an article about modern-day Iraq stem from the journalist's own archival research. The articles do not generally deny historians due professional credit: Scholars get professional respect chiefly based on other scholars' use of their work, not based on citations by reporters. And because space is short, and good journalism often relies on multiple historical sources, newspaper articles can't be expected to acknowledge each historian whose work the journalist used.
The rules for novels are in between. Novelists are similar to journalists, but they do have space at the end of the book to briefly acknowledge the historical works on which they rely, without distracting from the novel's flow. If you've relied substantially on another's work, acknowledging this is the kind thing to do. Omitting the acknowledgment probably isn't unethical; it's not a lie, or the denial of the credit needed for success in the original author's profession. But it isn't very nice.
Yet what about copying not just facts, but also another author's words, either literally or in a close paraphrase? Would a general acknowledgment at the end of the book be enough to justify this? Or is such copying impermissible, at least unless you expressly note it using quotation marks, or by writing "as Lucilla Andrews said"? In academic work, the answer is simple: Quote the original, and insert a footnote at the place you quote it. But what about a novel?
A historical novel, to be accurate, must borrow those words needed to accurately reproduce the historical facts, even when the facts were uncovered by others. If nurses treated ringworm by dabbing gentian violet on it, that's what they did, and novelists must be able to say so. Nor can a novelist note the borrowing using quotation marks and footnotes, as they would interrupt the novel's flow. Writers who strive for factual accuracy must thus remain free to closely paraphrase the factual accounts of others.
On the other hand, when the historian or memoirist depicted the facts in a colorful way that she herself created, the particular words shouldn't be copied, at least without express acknowledgment. A historical novelist is responsible for creating his own colorful descriptions.
So where does this leave Mr. McEwan? Likely not guilty on any of the counts, if the account in the newspaper that first broke the story (the Nov. 26 Daily Mail) is thorough. Mr. McEwan borrowed facts, and those words that accurately described the facts. He is not guilty of copyright infringement, or of taking another's original expression without specific notation. And while he did rely on Andrews's autobiography, his acknowledgments page noted being "indebted" to Andrews and her book. Any such acknowledgment could always be made more prominent; but it appears to have been prominent enough.
More broadly, we should recognize that not all use of another's words requires detailed acknowledgment. Words represent facts; and facts, once revealed, are there to be used, including in novelists' unfootnoted prose.


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Sandusky Lee's Five-Drawer Flat File Cabinet with Open Base protects your valuable blueprints, drawings, artwork and maps from wrinkles and tears, all while providing easy-access storage in one space-saving unit. This heavy-duty welded steel file has hinged paper weights in the drawer fronts and hoods at the rear to keep papers from curling. Nylon ball bearing rollers allow the drawers to glide open and shut with ease. The centered lock system comes with two keys for your convenience. Each drawer holds up to 50 pounds and features two rounded pull handles and a stylish chrome label holder. The file stacks right on the open base for plenty of storage. Choose from several powder-coat paint colors for your Sandusky Lee Five-Drawer Flat File with Open Base.
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I think I've found a bug in the latest CPS for the CS750, but I'd appreciate it if someone else could test to see if they can reproduce the bug.
What appears to be happening is that, if I insert a new group contact into the contacts list, it messes up the TX-Group in every channel whose TX group was below the insert point in the contacts list.
Given that I have exported and imported relatively recently, and I was inserting TG22 at the correct position on the list, this messed up a lot of channels for me.
Could someone else give it a shot (just don't save the configuration before exiting) and let me know if it's reproducible, then we can move on to how to let Connect Systems know of the bug.


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Royals Birthdays – January 5
1974 – Mark Redman (Pitcher – 2006)
1966 – Steve Shifflett (Pitcher – 1992)
1963 – John Davis (Pitcher – 1987)
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Did You Know: In addition to being a pivotal member of the 1985 World Champion Kansas City Royals, Danny Jackson went on to win another World Series with the 1990 Cincinnati Reds and played in the 1993 World Series as a member of the Phildelphia Phillies.
He also lead the National League with 23 wins and 15 complete games with the Reds in 1988 – an outstanding performances that went largely unnoticed because Orel Hershiser was busy breaking Don Drysdale's major league record for consecutive scoreless innings pitched at 59. Jackson finished a distant second in 1988 National League Cy Young voting.


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2010 Champions of Conservation Awards
Coggin Heeringa, Carl Scholz, Kay and Wayne Craig and their son Rudy, and LNRP Director Jim Kettler
The Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership presented its 2010 Champions of Conservation Awards at a reception and ceremony in the Phoenix rooms of the University Union on May 20, 2010.
The honorees were Kay and Wayne Craig, owners and operators of Grassway Organics Farm for Land Use Protection and Habitat Protection through managed rotational grazing.
For Environmental Education and Outreach the winner was Coggin Heeringa, Director of Crossroads in Big Creek in Door County, for promoting environmental education programs for children and adults.
The Champion of Champions Award went to Carl Scholz for his lifelong environmental stewardship in Water Resource Protection.
The program was hosted by Jim Kettler of Lakeshore Natural Resource Partnership, who sponsored the event with Dominion. Campus co-hosts were the Center for Food in Community and Culture, EMBI, and SLO Food Alliance.


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Greene County schools may be growing in population, but that could mean losing state funds designated for small schools.
With the change in the wording of a law, Greene County stands to lose at least $1.5 million anytime from fiscal year 2014-15 and continuing annually..
School Superintendent Patrick Miller discussed the potential shortfall when the county�s Board of Education met with Greene County commissioners on Thursday afternoon.
Miller told both boards there are 3,144 students in grades K-12 � which includes the early college students who attend five years of high school.
�So we're right on that border of losing,� he said in an interview. �We have 3,144 students and we're growing, so I'm nervous. So we would be in danger of losing those funds, which for us is between $1.5 and $1.6 million a year. That is a significant amount for us.�
The original wording of the law automatically allows Small System Supplemental Funding for school districts with fewer than 3,175 students.
In addition, there is a formula for districts with a student population between 3,175 and 4,000 that is based on a county-adjusted property tax base per student if it falls below the average state-adjusted property tax base.
Starting in July, the law will be replaced by allowing only for a set number of students, which is less than 3,200. Greene County�s student population is close to that number now.
Under the current legislation, as long as the county has less than 4,000 students, it would continue to be eligible because of its low tax base. But with the change in the law, next fiscal year the county would have to have less than 3,200 students to be eligible.
�With the change in the eligibility wording for the small school supplemental funding, Greene County Schools is in danger of losing that funding,� Miller said.
The new law goes on to state that if a district becomes ineligible, the funding will be phased out over a period of five years, with each year�s reduction not more than 20 percent of the funds received in this fiscal year.
Small school funds are for classroom-related purposes, such as teacher and assistant teacher salaries, classroom supplies and improving academic performance.
�It's designed to help the small, low-wealth school systems who do not have the tax base that the Wake counties, the Pitt counties, even the Lenoir counties have,� Miller said. �They get lots of advantages that we don't have because of their tax base, and it's meant to offset some of that.�
Miller told the board members he has spoken with the county�s four state legislators.
�(The local legislators) have all agreed to work together and amongst themselves and with others to help us get the language restored so that won't be a problem, because that's a lot of money,� he said.
Board of Education Chairwoman Pat Adams agreed there is a danger to Greene County schools..
�It'd be a nightmare,� she said about the possibility of losing funding.
Miller said he and other school superintendents met with the Small Schools Consortium in Raleigh on Friday.
�That is the No. 1 legislative agenda item for the Small Schools Consortium to get that language restored,� he said.
Copies of the legislation were distributed to all board members.
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Drinking (Just Above) the Bottom Shelf: El Jimador Tequila
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
"I've only been drinking real tequila in a civilized context for a couple of years now."
I noticed my first gray hair the summer I turned 26, and a bad score or more had shown up before I had time to choose between cutting my head off or becoming a distinguished gentleman. I'm glad I didn't resort to decapitation or refinement, because no more gray has shown up in the thousands of years since the first filthy smattering, but I was plenty pissed at the time. I took it as further evidence that I would always be an early bloomer when it comes to the bad stuff and a late-bloomer when it comes to the good, which is a roundabout way of telling you strange angels that I ate my first jailhouse breakfast at age 17, a full year before I ate my first piece of fish. What can I tell you, the Gordons were a meat and potato and crime family.
Which brings us to tequila.
Remember we talked about cheap tequila last week?
Things in the comments got weird, as all tequila experiences must, culminating with me and Kenji's sister eloping to California for the lower prices and greater selection after several commenter-tormenters pointed out that on the East Coast we pay far too much for tequila.
This goes a long way toward explaining why I came so late to tequila appreciation. I've only been drinking real tequila in a civilized context for a couple of years now; prior to that I'd stuck mostly to whatever came out of the margarita slushie machine at the various East Coast burriterias that Californians never tire of reminding us aren't authentic Mexican restaurants.
Yes dears, we know that the fine people of Oaxaca and Bakersfield don't really eat bowls of melted cheese at the beginning of every meal. Suit yourselves and pass the sombrero full of jalapeño sour cream.
So the reason I was tardy to the tequila party is mostly due to geography, with a smaller dose of blame reserved for my poor drinking influences. I don't hang out with any people who regularly drink tequila (for the purposes of this discussion, let's define "regularly" as "constantly"), except for my research assistant and my buddy Charlie.
Charlie was blessed with the sort of complicated life that requires a simple palate, so he's content to fight through whatever tequila got caught in the bottom of the well at the People's Republik in Cambridge. My research assistant, however, enjoys the finer things in life, such as my company and Hornitos, both of which she had in great supply over the summer when we were lucky enough to fall in with a bad crowd of tequila-drinking Bleecker Street bartenders.
But now we are sequestered in Western Massachusetts while she finishes up whatever diploma chase she's gotten mixed up in—something with children, it seems; I hope it's sweatshop management but fear it's coaching or teaching or some similarly low-wage waste of time that has nothing to do with buying me fancy tequila—which means our options and budget are limited.
We can't afford any of the deluxe Van Halen-level stuff she deserves, and we can't find any of the $15 bottles of 100% agave tequila with which California streets are allegedly paved. The least-expensive real tequila at our liquor store is El Jimador 100% Agave Reposado, which goes for $25 per liter.
I got burned by the El Jim last year when my beloved Warehouse Wines and Spirits beat me out of $40 for a pair of plastic-bagged one-liter bottles of something called El Jimador Reposado, an exciting find that turned out to bear the telltale sour-meat stink of tequila produced from anything other than blue agave. (I didn't notice at the time that that version didn't say 100% Agave on the label.) It turns out that the best-selling tequila in Mexico panicked in the face of a few rocky years on the buyer's end of the agave market, and rather than ride it out or raise prices, they adulterated the juice for a while, and what I got was the tail end of their walk on the crappy side.
I'm happy to report that El Jimador is back in honest business. It's more assertive than is generally advisable for bargain booze—and indeed the unaged Blanco version stings my gentle tongue—but with the Reposado, the tough-guy act works. It's a worthy tequila for our humble, thirsty home.
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Getting From Here to There in Dallas County, TX: A Transportation Survey of AARP Members
AARP Member Opinion Research
Transportation plays a major role in helping people stay connected to their communities as well as live an independent life. AARP Texas is a member of the Community Transportation Network, a coalition of public, private, and non-profit organizations in the Greater Dallas Area, assembled to study the transportation needs of people with disabilities and older adults in Dallas County. AARP Texas commissioned a mail survey of AARP members age 60+ residing in Dallas County, Texas, to learn more about their transportation needs and to provide additional information to the coalition on the transportation needs of older adults in Dallas County.
Key Survey Findings
- The most common mode of transportation for all AARP members age 60+ in Dallas County is by car or other vehicle and by driving themselves.
- Most AARP members have public transportation services (public buses or trains) available in their community. However, one in five does not.
- Of members who do have access to public transportation in their community, most can walk to the nearest public transportation stop without driving. However, one in five cannot.
- One in five members has used public transportation (DART or other public transit) in the last six months. The most likely users of public transportation are members age 60-69 and members with low-income (under $20,000).
- Most members are aware that paratransit services exist in Dallas County, and eight percent have used or have a family member who has used these services.
- At least two in three members would find a door-to-door (74%) or a door-through-door (68%) service extremely, very, or somewhat helpful if they needed personal transportation assistance.
This mail survey was conducted during October-December 2009. Two simple random samples were selected from AARP's membership database of members living in Dallas County, Texas: 3,500 AARP members age 60 years and older (county-wide sample) and 1,500 members age 60+ likely to have household income under $20,000 (low-income sample). Each sample was proportionally stratified by three age segments: 60-69, 70-79, and 80+. The sampling error for the larger sample is ±2.7%. For further information, contact Terri Guengerich at 202-434-6306. (39 pages)
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Friends of Chimbote, Chimbote, Peru
February 29th - March 8th, 2020
Friends of Chimbote is a faith-based organization dedicated to supporting programs that improve and transform the lives of the poor of Chimbote, Peru. The needs of the residents of Chimbote are basic: food to eat, shelter from the elements, care when they're sick, jobs to provide for their families, and access to education so their children can build a better future. To respond to these needs, Los Amigos provides the following programs:
- Social programs: Soup kitchens, battered women's shelter, legal advocacy, wellness program, emergency assistance program
- Infrastructure: Home building and repair, garden maintenance
- Health care: Medical, nursing, and dental appointments, medical support services, hospice, hospital partnerships, tuberculosis program
- Economic development: "Dollars for Scholars", micro-lending, Chimbote Computer Services
- Education: Learning support/tutoring program, libraries, kindergartens and daycare, adult learning program
Formerly a thriving resort town and lucrative fishing port, Chimbote was once the most important fishing port in Peru. Known in the 1950s as the "Honeymoon Capital of Peru," Chimbote has been ravaged by decades of economic calamities and dramatic population surges, creating desperate conditions for the city's residents. Today, the city includes a modern center, with paved streets, shops, and a few restaurants and hotels, surrounded by tens of thousands of windowless, woven-reed shacks built in the sand by impoverished residents who have nowhere else to live.
Chimbote today is one of Peru's poorest and most contaminated cities, with outdated fishmeal factories pumping toxins into the air, soil and water.
Today, the overburdened city holds more than 400,000 residents, many of whom live on land on the outskirts of town that is not their own. They struggle through abject poverty and lack access to even the most basic necessities, such as sewer, water or electricity.
With employment that rises and falls on the fortunes of the city's beleaguered fishmeal factories, jobs are exceptionally scarce. In areas where Friends of Chimbote operates, the unemployment or underemployment rate is believed to be as high as 87 percent.
Chimbote's poor have become so accustomed to disease and death that preventive medicine is virtually unknown. Simple daily survival so preoccupies parents that they unintentionally neglect basic health-care practices for infant sons and daughters. The Worldwatch Institute reports that life expectancy in Chimbote is 10 years lower than Peru's national average.
Despite the city's harsh circumstances, Chimbote's story remains one of hope, courage and transformation. The optimism and determination of Chimbote's people stand in stark contrast to the dire conditions in which they live.
What to Expect:
- Cost: Each ABE trip costs $425. This covers a variety of expenses, including food, lodging, travel, service fees, donations, and work supplies. International trips have the added cost of flights, which will be purchased in a group by CSB Campus Ministry. Estimated cost of flights to Chibote, Peru is $1300-$1500. All participants traveling internationally must have a valid passport. Your passport should be valid (not expire) for a minimum of six months after your return. You would have an additional expense if you need to purchase or renew your passport. International destinations may also charge for a tourist card or visa. You are responsible for the cost of any required tourist documents. Participants that are flying to their trip destination are responsible for their own transportation to and from the MSP airport, the cost of any bags they choose to check and any food they choose to purchase (meals are provided for the group once they arrive at their destination). Souvenirs and optional excursions are individual expenses.
- Travel: The group will fly from Minneapoolis to Lima. They will stay in Lima for one night. Then, the group will take a bus to Chimbote.
- Lodging: Participants will stay at the parish in the dormitory style rooms there.
- Food: Participants will eat food prepared by workers in the Parish.
- Work: The work will be varied, based on what the site needs are at the time. In the past, participants have worked in soup kitchens, volunteered at the prevention centers with the children, worked with children with disabilities and taken them to the beach with their families, gone on house visits with the Social Workers, and volunteered in the Clinic. The group can expect to spend time working with ACAF as well as getting to know community members through events. A big part of the trip is also meeting community members of Chimbote; the volunteers from CSB/SJU are always welcomed with open arms and the community members look forward to their visit every year. Meeting the community members could involve attending activities such as a meeting for families who have children with disabilities and attending a meeting with the senior citizens of Chimbote.
- Extra Fun: In the past participants have climbed the mountain to the chapel and/cross at the top and taken the children with disabilities and their families to the beach. Students have also gotten to explore downtown Chimbote at their outdoor mall and flea markets.
- Focus: Learning, solidarity, poverty, cross-cultural awareness, and community
More info: Volunteer Handbook
Interested in applying? Apply here to apply to co-lead, here to apply to participate, and here to apply to advise!
Please note: $100 due with acceptance of a position!
Any questions about this trip can be directed to Alternative Break Experiences at [email protected]