text:
Click to Enlarge; Mouse Over to Zoom
Contact a sales agent to assist you with your purchase.
Protect your batting practice pitchers with this portable L-screen.
Turns either way to accommodate left and right-handed hurlers.
Black powder coated tubular steel frame ensures season after season
of dependable performance. Net snaps into place for easy setup.
Our staff are available to answer any questions you may have about this item.
(based on 2 reviews)
Ratings Distribution
5 Stars
4 Stars
3 Stars
2 Stars
1 Stars
Reviewed by 2 customers
Sort by
Displaying reviews 1-2
Back to top
Easy to use
By Rudabaugh
from Dayton, OH
About Me Enthusiast
Best Uses
Good product has already saved our batting practice pitcher a number of times
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Was this review helpful? Yes / No
- You may also flag this review
Good screen for the money
By Coach
from Castle Rock, CO
Works well for our 10 year old team. [...]
Copy and send this link to your friends.
Or share the link with your contacts using:
Just click an icon to sharewith your friends.


text:
Teen killed, friend hurt in Hill District shooting
Dejour Gadsden shot to death on White Hill Drive
A teenager was killed and another person was hospitalized in a shooting in the Hill District late Saturday night, Pittsburgh police said.
The Allegheny County medical examiner identified Dejour Gadsden, 17, of McKeesport, as the person who died in the shooting on White Hill Drive.
The second victim is expected to recover from her injuries, police said. She has not been identified.
Police say she reported that three men, wearing black masks, went inside her home and started shooting. Gadsden's body was discovered in a courtyard.
Gadsden was a student in the McKeesport School District and had recently enrolled in the cyber online program.
"Dejour was very well liked with his peers and his siblings," said Mark Holtzman, prinicpal at McKeesport High School. "He was always at athletic events and different activities."
Grief counselors spent the morning at the school helping students deal with the tragedy. Holtzman says Gadsden is the third student in the district who died this year as a result of a violent crime.
"It's a frustrating and unfortunate situation. A lot of times you get students who are crying and upset and very emotional," Holtzman said.
Police were called to the Hill District apartment complex just after 11:50 p.m. Saturday.
City homicide detectives were seen walking around the crime scene on Sunday morning. They have not publicly named any suspects or discussed a possible motive yet.
The surviving victim is recovering at an area hospital with a gunshot wound to the right buttock.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
In any case, does anybody have any pizza-related questions they would like to see tested? Thanks,Craig
After Robyn posted the straight sourdough english muffin recipe, and "we" know that the ischa starter that you cultivate/propigate can produce non sour tasting pizzas, how about this: I wanna know which ingredient that you feed the starter makes it more acidic/sourdoughish. So we have the regular starter fed with 50/50 flour water, two others you will need to feed an extreme 70/30 or 30/70 flour/water meal. Cultivate them a week, whatever. Let the boys make the muffins with the 3 starters and let's see which one is the most mild, and the one most sour. Of course they feed them, but you will not reveal to them which one is which the day of the muffin makin'.?
How many slices the average 5th/7th grader can eat before puking?
Just spitballing here...You could do something examining the role salt plays in regulating fermentation. Change the amount of salt and see if it changes how long it takes a dough to double in size or something like that. You could also do it with sugar and compare how it effects regular commercial yeast vs. an osmotolerant strain(SAF Gold or similar).
Craig,I am just throwing this idea out. I played around with real milk kefir grains. They look like little cauliflower heads. You use milk to ferment them. They are very ancient, and were used back in Marco Polo days. He wrote about them in his diaries. You can make many things out of milk kefir (drinks, smoothies, yogurt, cheeses, etc.) and it even leavens dough, but slower than the Ischia starter. I paid about 20.00 for my milk kefir grains. They could then be compared with how the Ischia starter ferments dough. I would still have frozen milk kefir grains, but when my fridge went out, I threw them away by mistake. I let the fermenting milk kefir grains out at room temperature for many days and the resulting milk kefir never went bad. The one dough I cold ferment for about 30 days and the dough and pizza were okay. Milk kefir is supposed to be very healthy to drink.
Norma,Is it an effective way to preserve milk?
I was actually wondering how hot the pizza actually gets during baking.


text:
- Font:
- +
- -
DUBLIN — Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary insisted Thursday he's serious about making passengers pay for the right to relieve themselves on flights — and is flush with interest in the idea of mounting credit card-operated toilets.
Don't miss these Travel stories
Lords of the gourd compete for Punkin Chunkin honors
With teams using more than 100 unique apparatuses to launch globular projectiles a half-mile or more, the 27th annual World Championship Punkin Chunkin event is our pick as November's Weird Festival of the Month.
- Airports, airlines work hard to return your lost items
- Expert: Tourist hordes threaten Sistine Chapel's art
- MGM Grand wants Las Vegas guests to Stay Well
- Report: Airlines collecting $36.1B in fees this year
- Lords of the gourd compete for Punkin Chunkin honors
O'Leary, whose Dublin-based airline has pioneered the practice of filling air travel with extra charges, divided opinion last week by suggesting that his next target would be coin-operated toilets. Aviation analysts and the traveling public alike couldn't tell whether O'Leary — a cut-throat operator with an entertainingly bombastic style — was poking fun at his own reputation.
The Ryanair boss told a dumfounded Dublin press conference Thursday the days of the unlocked potty are indeed numbered.
"Eventually it's going to happen. It's just we can't do it at the moment because we don't have a mechanism for charging you," he said.
O'Leary said he has asked engineers at U.S. aircraft maker Boeing — which supplies Ryanair's entire fleet of 737-800s — to design toilets with doors that open only if you swipe a valid credit card through the locking mechanism. He conceded that his earlier idea, to make them coin-operated, wouldn't work in part because Ryanair operates heavily in areas using both the euro and British pound.
"We have looked into this before, and the problem is Boeing can't come up with a mechanism on the toilet door to take coins," he said. "We're suggesting they go back and look at a mechanism where you'd swipe the credit card for a quid (British pound) on the toilet door. They've gone off to look at that. ... We are serious."
He didn't seek to soften the impression that Ryanair was happy to make its passengers suffer.
"Most people would go to the loo (toilet) before they get on the plane, or they hold it until they land. You would only have to deal with the people who absolutely have to go," he said.
One positive effect, he said, would be to "reduce an awful lot of the unnecessary visits to the toilet that (expletive) so many passengers off."
It could also become the next serious money-maker at Ryanair, already Europe's most profitable and aggressively expanding airline. O'Leary estimates if 20 percent of passengers pay 1 pound to use the restroom, this would generate 15 million pounds annually — which he characterizes as future "fare savings to the traveling public."
Ryanair is famous for offering officially "free" flights that end up costing 50 euros or more once fees for check-in, luggage and on-line payment are applied. On board, the airline hawks bingo cards and duty free goods on short-hop flights that can last barely an hour. It offers no snacks or drinks for free, not even tap water.
© 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
Goat Farmer's Market Canvas Tote From The Coin Laundry
Show your friends something beautiful, and enjoy the original artwork yourself, with this Be Like Flowers Samsung phone case from Tiny Quail.
You'll love this pretty phone case featuring vibrant red and white flowers on a clear background.
We want you to enjoy your mobile phone case for a VERY long time, so we finish all our phone case products with a tough anti-scratch clear coat!
Available for Samsung Galaxy S8, S8 Plus, S9, S9 Plus. Free Shipping in the U.S.
Other Cell Phone Case Info: Detailed and vibrant UV printing, combo soft TPU hard acrylic back shell cover case to protect your investment, scratch resistant coating, protective, shockproof, anti-slip.
Note: Products usually ship from our shop within 3 days


text:
Duraflex® – Cobra R Hood
Does your company stock a Duraflex® – Cobra R Hood? If you have this product in stock (or a similar product) why not trade it, fund it or discount it to advertise on CarSponsors.com, the fastest growing car enthusiast sponsorship platform in the world! Your product is our preferred commodity although you can also just … Read more Duraflex® – Cobra R Hood


text:
Tomato & Basil Soup (V)
With fresh cream, chives and baked rolls.
Vegan option available (VE)
Circle Way East, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff, South Glamorgan, CF23 9PD 029 2054 9866
Open today: Opening Hours: (Monday) Closed (Tuesday) Closed (Wednesday) Closed (Thursday) Closed (Friday) Closed (Saturday) Closed (Sunday) Closed
From traditional turkey with all the trimmings to your Harvester favourites with a seasonal twist plus all the exciting evenings spent with friends and family — we've got all the finest festive flavours for you to enjoy at Harvester.
Find out more about Christmas 2020 at Harvester in summer, but for now, why not take a look at our delicious Festive Menu from last year to see what we have in store for you this year!
Or, you can sign up and we'll keep you updated on all our offers for the 2020 Festive Season!
At Harvester, we want to make it easier for families to eat better together, which means providing you with the nutritional and allergen-related information you need to make the right choices for you and your family.
Click the link above to view our Allergen information, this will open in a new tab. Some dishes may not be available in all sites.
Please ensure that you refer to the onsite allergen guide on each visit to confirm that nothing has changed.


text:
Still No Road Sweep
Last five road games, Phillies pitchers had a 0.41 ERA, allowing two runs in 44 innings until Doc gave up three in seven innings on Wednesday afternoon. Then, the bullpen's seven scoreless innings streak came to a screeching halt.
Miami's sleepy offense awoke with six runs off three relievers in the eighth inning putting a one-run game out of reach.
Phillies were primed for their first three-game sweep on the road but came up short. Instead, they settled for two of three for the fourth time since the trade deadline.
They've had one three-game sweep at home, Milwaukee starting on July 23. The current road trip takes the Phillies to Milwaukee for four starting Thursday night. Bernie Brewer would love to pay back Phillie Phanatic.
Down On The Farm
Lehigh Valley was a 4-1 winner at Buffalo behind RHS Jonathan Pettibone (3-0), 1 run, 7 innings, 6 strikeouts, 2-2 as a hitter, double, RBI. Combined between AA and AAA, 12-7, winning last 5. 15th save for RHR Phillippe Aumont. C Sebastian Valle, 3-4. In Pettibone's 3 wins, Valle is 5-11, 2 homers, 6 RBI.
Reading dropped a 6-5 decision at Tampa despite another homer for 1B Darin Ruf. He's homered in 5 straight games, hitting 6, boosting season total to 29. During August, he has 21 hits, 11 being homers. 3B Cody Asche stretched his hitting streak to 11 games. RH Julio Rodriguez, pitching in relief, fanned 7 in 3 scoreless innings.
Clearwater won its fourth in a row, 9-0, at Tampa. LHS Mario Hollands (4-1), 6 innings, 5 hits, 7 strikeouts. RF Anthony Hewitt, 2-4, 2 RBI. DH Chris Duffy, 3-5.
Lakewood dropped its third in a row, 3-0, at Augusta.
Williamsport was blanked by Batavia, 5-0. Loser RH Ulises Joaquin (1-2), 6 innings, 5 hits, 2 unearned runs, 5 strikeouts.
Gulf Coast League Phillies were defeated by the host Tigers, 7-4. RF Andrew Pullin, 2-4, double, 2 RBI. LHR Yoel Mecias, 4 innings, 3 hits, 4 strikeouts.
August 16, 1977: Phillies extend their longest winning streak of the century to 13 games with a 7-5 decision in Montreal. The Phils hadn't won that many in a row since 1892.
August 16, 1984: 2B Juan Samuel hits 16th triple, a new rookie record for the Phillies. CF Von Hayes joins Samuel with 30plus steals, first for Phillies in 72 years. Cubs win, 65, in Chicago.
More Phlashbacks and other Alumni news, notes and photos are available at www.phillies.com/alumni.


text:
You know that feeling sometimes, that those of us in our 20s or 30s get about our college days? We'll look back and think, "Man, those were the best days of my life." And that's kind of a sad thought, that you're already done with the best and most fun years you'll ever have. WOW players get like that about certain tiers – I hear it about Kara, about Sunwell, about Ulduar. Myself, I've always felt that way about Tier 11. Tier 11 was wonderful, but it was wonderful to me in an increasingly bittersweet way. I felt that the game had slowly changed since then. I wasn't sure whether to be sad, or angry… but I spent most of 2011 and 2012 fairly convinced that I would never again see a tier I liked quite as much.
I was wrong. Tier 14 was absolutely fantastic.
Now that I am 16/16H and Anafielle the Fearless, I'd like to look back on this tier's content. What follows are some memories of each of our 16 encounters in the chronological order that Something Wicked progressed through them on 25 Heroic.
Stone Guard
I might have loved T11, but not everyone felt the same way. Someone once told me that the lack of a 'starter boss' was a serious flaw in T11 – the first bosses (Halfus, Omnotron, and Magmaw) were all too complicated. They frustrated poor raiders who'd just entered the instance. The first boss needed to be a total pushover so that raids would get some free loot before they moved along. In particular, a council fight as the first boss was completely inappropriate; there are simply too many different abilities involved.
Seriously? But it was true: T12 and T13 brought us Shannox and Morchok! Ugh. Pull the boss, and a couple minutes later they would politely gift your raid with epics. I figured this was simply how the first boss would always work moving forward. Sad to just write off the first boss each tier…
How wrong I was to doubt. When we pulled Stone Guard, and I realized it was half Omnotron and half Halfus, plus some totally new stuff like tiles and some kind of taunt trade for positioning… you can imagine that I was very surprised and pleased.
I wouldn't call Stone Guard difficult, but they were certainly tricky. This fight had a lot of moving parts. So it's a good thing that our tanks Omegal (@MysticalOS on twitter) and Shiramune, as well as half our healing team, tested absolutely everything on the MOP Beta extensively and thoroughly both to help Omegal build working DBM timers as well as to learn the fights. That experience was invaluable.
See, I don't actually know how Stone Guard works. I am fairly certain that no one in Something Wicked knew how that taunt trade worked except Shiramune, but he had it figured out, and called out everything so clearly that screwing anything up would have been much more impressive than actually doing it right. Thus Something Wicked was carried to our first heroic kill by our DK tank (as usual).
Stone Guard also cemented my love affair with Hand of Purity and with our entire, re-designed talent tree. Paladins really came out ahead in MOP; it's blindingly obvious the designers like us best. They really should try to be more fair.
We actually took out SG so quickly that we also managed Feng in that first week of heroics, slipping into the US top 30. Getting two heroic kills in the first week of heroics in 463 gear remains a favorite raiding memory of mine. I know a lot of people complained about the click bug. I don't know what kind of magic Omegal and Shira managed, but with a combination of addons, UI reloads and beta practice, we made it happen.
I liked Feng. I admired his design. I thought it was rather cool to pull each of the 4 phases and learn them one by one before putting them all together in order to push the kill – Moshne called him the "Choose your own adventure" boss. It made the encounter a lot easier, but that was perfectly acceptable for the 2nd heroic of 16. If this was how the designers were going to build a starter heroic boss, I felt that said promising things about the 14 fights we had left to go.
I don't know if I should have, but I rather liked this fight. When we did this (kill dated October 26th), you still had to maintain 6 minutes of straight cooldown coverage on the tanks; sadly gear has made this now unnecessary. Our paladins took care of the whole thing with Clemency and careful organization. I find that kind of thing really fun – I love using my paladin utility. Being a DPS check that ret looked decent on also helped.
I wanted to like Elegon. This fight was almost cool. I'll give it a C, but an A for effort and for looks. Elegon just wasn't that impressive as a DPS check; honestly, Garajal was tighter. The problem was the sparks: any tighter and he would have required Spine type stacking. As it was, the DPS check was just too loose to really present a serious challenge. It was a very pretty fight, though; I'll give it that.
Spirit Kings
Before I talk about this fight, let's pause and discuss the reset problem first. I don't care what order you wanted – everyone reset for their chosen order. It made pulling this massively unpleasant, which is a shame since actually doing it was fantastic. SK was arguably the best fight of the tier, and it's really too bad that first couple dozen guilds that saw this had to put up with the resetting. The fact that Blizzard cemented the order for the BL / Vodka race and yet refused to do it for the rest of us, leaving the peons to reset over and over for a couple more weeks, was just insulting. At least the order was eventually fixed, long after we had it killed. In the meantime, we got an amusing video out of it.
Setting that aside, this fight was just fantastic. My first thought when I pulled this: "Oh my god… they get it. The designers really get it." Raiders in general loved Spirit Kings. I don't think I really need to explain why. If you liked Omnotron, you liked this fight.
Blade Lord Tayak
I thought this fight was a little boring, despite how amusing it was to fail on tornadoes (even with a bubble cheat) and to watch other people fail. It was the first fight of the tier that I hadn't really been all that excited to pull. As a ret, his out-of-melee-range specials were pretty annoying to deal with. But he wasn't a bad fight, I just didn't love it. Bonus points for being a fight with a mechanic paladins could break.
Wind Lord Meljarak
Let's get this out of the way: this fight was easy. It was laughably, hilariously easy. I think we killed it in 10 pulls, and 9 of them were Stampede breaking the CC. But that's ok; there seems to always be one fight in a long tier that – oops! – is actually simpler on heroic than on normal. It happens. And I rather liked pulling Wind Lord in general, because I get to cleave on this fight and cleave is fun! Also the burn phase! Since doing this fight is actually a little enjoyable while farming through HOF, I forgive this one its ease.
Will of the Emperor
I really don't mean to get into the 10m argument here, but it's impossible to avoid while discussing this fight. 10 mans, you did some hard shit this tier, I have respect for the tuning on both difficulties. There were a lot of really difficult fights for you.
Will was not one of them. Pull counts were (briefly) public before Blizzard paniced and subsequently hid them once more, and so we knew: Will 10 was taking less than half the time Will 25 was, across the board. As a result, that MSV realm first Feat of Strength was well within reach of anyone who could put a relatively organized 10 man together. Meanwhile, we were facing one of the hardest organizational and logistical challenges we'd ever seen before. In retrospect, adjusting for gear at each time we pulled, I think this was the second hardest fight in T14.
As a 12 hour, 3 night place, Something Wicked has not been a realm first guild before; either a 5 night guild or a 10 man guild had always beaten us before. But this one, this was the first one reasonably within reach for us, and we knew there were several 10 mans that were going to give us a fight for it.
I can't tell you how much we wanted it. How frustrating it was to watch 10s pull it on the evenings we don't raid. How awful it was to wipe within 5% and then stop, one Sunday, because it was already 12 CST and we just can't pull past our end time. And then that nerve wracking, desperate Monday and Tuesday watching streams and stalking logs. Fortunately, when we all decide to play right, we kick ass at minor challenges like organization and precise play. On December 5th, for the first time in my history as a hardcore raider, I knew what it was like to see server first spam with my name in it. We had managed Realm First MSV, we'd done it on 25 (of course), and we'd done it on our normal 12 hour raiding schedule.
The excitement… it was incredible. Probably my favorite raiding memory ever.
As for the fight itself, I respected that fight. It required very clean, very organized play from start to finish. It was a puzzle piece type of encounter where every part had to fit neatly together. The only part I didn't like about that fight was my stupid job – I hate Strength tanking. I want to dance!
This fight was more than a bit frustrating as melee. Am I the only one who was completely driven nuts by the hitbox on the legs? I got into the habit of turning my back to the leg and DPSing into thin air, because I knew the game actually thought my target was in front of me even though the pixels on my screen would disagree.
Amber Shaper Unsok (I tanked)
Our warrior tank Omega really enjoys figuring out how boss fights work mechanically – a couple million of you benefit from this, if you use DBM. While the rest of the raid actually worked on this encounter, he and I spent our time on Unsok amusing ourselves trying to figure out how to control which tank was targeted by Unsok's Reshape Life. The goal of this was to maneuver it such that our DK tank Shiramune was stuck in the 4th and permanent construct, since he is by far our raid's best player. He makes a mistake roughly on the average of once every century; when he does make any kind of error, we all start nervously looking for other signs of the apocalypse. And so Omega and I sat down to try and get Shira into the construct as much as possible, with or without his permission. We tried threat games, positioning games, and even stood in fire because for a couple of pulls Omega was quite convinced it was health based. This plan backfired, of course, and somehow I personally ended up in the fucking thing on just about every pull.
I really liked this fight. I thought the vehicle worked pretty well, as crazy as it is to say that I enjoyed a vehicle fight. I liked the strategy we eventually came up with, in particular that it was a little bit different from the usual manner of doing this encounter. The construct is a little frustrating and tricky, and there is a hint of T11 AC – like "hope that X people don't get the construct" when you pull it, but overall it never really harmed my enjoyment of the fight which was rather challenging and satisfying from start to finish. I actually didn't mind being in the construct as much as I claimed, either.
Side note: This fight and SK are the two most frustrating fights to wipe on farm. Not that we ever wipe on farm.
Lei Shi
A fairly nondescript execution check. We
24 manned 23 manned (Moshne corrected me upon reading this; we only had 23) our second kill of this fight, which really drove home how little DPS check there really is here. Pretty boring. This fight gets bonus points in my book though for requiring Paladin raid utility. I like that stuff.
Imperial Vizier Zorlok
I LOVED this fight. Am I the only one? I really, really enjoyed it. I think that Attenuation on this fight and the Will H Dance are my two absolute favorite mechanics of the whole tier. We had to strat around a convert in the third phase as well, which was perhaps frustrating, but also interesting. Although I have to say, the double Attenuations at the end suck.
The strategy for this fight was quite intricate, and there were several different ways in which guilds chose to meet the positioning requirements. This remains one of my favorite fights of the tier. Rather like Will, I respected this fight. This was also the sketchiest and yet most hilarious first-kill of the tier for us.
I'm really pretty bad, and I was challenged by the interrupt rotation that we had to maintain on Asani. I can't be the only one. My raid leader wanted to reach through the computer and personally throttle each and every melee, particularly on those 2nd and 3rd kills when we sometimes failed miserably at hitting our interrupt keybinds despite two separate WeakAuras we all had telling us how to play. Sorry, Moshne. But this was still a good fight. Melee need a kick in the ass sometimes.
Empress Shekzeer (I tanked this too)
Phase 3 really should have been harder. It was actually a bit disappointing to kill this as soon as we had the adds down; I think our very first Phase 3 pull was a kill. However, the rest was pretty fun – from getting the Fields down in the first phase to pulling the adds together in the second phase. Even as the bitch tank (the reaver tank) I still chain cooldowns to keep myself alive on this. This fight was pretty good, but it could have been so much better.
You know, as a hybrid, I actually liked this fight on normal. The RNG on heroic, though, really drove me up a wall. I got so fucking tired of watching adds spawn on top of beams. We wiped so much in phase 1 with such short wipe recovery that the entire raid ended up with 2 minute rez timers, prompting Moshne to comment on our collective badness as a raid: "We're dying so much, the game has us confused with a Sha pug." We finally managed to blow up the right beams, but my enjoyment of this fight was permanently soured. Doing millions of healing as a ret paladin with ES and FOL is really cool, though.
Sha of Fear (I tanked this)
I am completely unapologetic about stalking the armories of players in competing guilds, particularly tanks to make sure I'm not playing my offspec like a bad. And so I remember seeing Kihra, main tank of Temerity, gemmed mastery long ago and scratched my head at the time trying to figure out why, since I was sure he was usually geared control. Once we hit Sha, I figured it out myself, and also realized I was going to thoroughly enjoy all 17 minutes of this crazy long fight we had to cap off the tier. I've Absalom and Kihra both to thank for releasing epic boss-crotch paladin POV videos for me, and for giving me excellent advice- occasionally different advice – which helped me a lot on a fight that make me possibly the most nervous in my offspec.
I'm not sure if there's any moment in this whole tier quite as epic as watching Sha put up Dread Thrash, then submerge, then come back up across the room, then pause to cast yet another special, and then meander slowly across the expanse back at me… with the Dread Thrash buff still up … while I spam SOTR to try and get it up before the melee & also figure out if I'm putting his fat ass in the right place in the room…. Other memorable moments would include hitting AD and taunting off another tank with Dread Thrash still up, or tanking while Naked and Afraid, both of which happened more often than I'd expected. This was not a boring tank fight.
DPS is fun, but there's really nothing quite as epic as being the tank sometimes.
Although it wasn't perfect, I liked this fight a lot. Sure, I thought the Lei Shi haste buff was stupid design. And maybe it should have a couple minutes shorter. Also, Blizzard, really? Did you just forget to design the Dread Expanse, or what? But overall, I thought it was pretty compelling with a couple challenging pieces that were also enjoyable to actually do. It definitely felt like a good challenge to cap off a long and varied 16 boss raid tier.
The last time I wrote a tier retrospective, my opinion was not entirely positive. T13 hurt. It wasn't a short hurt, like a knife wound. It was a long, slow acid burn which from December 2011 through August 2012 ate away at the joy and excitement of raiding. It's really very difficult to describe how the entire second half of Cataclysm affected my feelings on the game, but the effect was not positive.
I felt guilty. I believed that other people in the game were having fun, and I felt bad begrudging them that. But I was convinced that WOW was moving in a direction which was better, maybe, for the majority of its subscribers … but which was simply less enjoyable for me. This is a really sad thought. I want everyone to have fun, but does it have to come at the expense of my own fun?
Thank you, T14, for convincing me that this doesn't have to be true. I really feel like this was a strong tier for raiders. I have loved every bit of this tier from our first week in normals, through Sha Heroic progression. So many fights were like little nods to fights we had seen and loved before. It was far from perfect – I'm not in love with every single fight we saw, as you can tell! – but it was really, really fun, and a wild five month ride to 16/16H.
Watcher and the rest: loved it overall. Now, make sure T15 has more of the same, but even better!
Recruitment: Something Wicked is a 12 hour, 3 night guild raiding Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 8 to 12 CST. We ended Tier 14 at 16/16H ranked US 47 for 25 mans. We are recruiting mages, warlocks, and paladin healers!


text:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Physical education got the nod on Capitol Hill as Congress finalized a 20 percent increase in funding for the Physical Education for Progress (PEP) program.
The bottom line for the increase in spending is that $60 million in 2003 will be provided in grants to local school districts and community organizations. The PEP funding was $50 million in 2002 and $5 million in 2001.
The PEP grant funds are used to purchase fitness and sports equipment and to train teachers in innovative physical education programs. In the two years since the program was initiated, the PEP program has provided treadmills, heart rate monitors, inline skates, climbing walls, ski equipment, fitness assessment technology, as well as a wide range of traditional sports equipment.
"Securing funding for the PEP program is the top legislative priority for SGMA International and P.E.4LIFE," said SGMA International's Tom Cove, vice president for government affairs.
"This represents a great success and shows what the sporting goods industry can do when it works toward a unified goal. The fact that Congress increased PEP funding from $5 million to $50 million to $60 million shows that this is a critically important initiative for our country, as well as a great program for the sports industry."
This effort was also supported by NASPE, thousands of P.E. instructors and advocates across the country, IHRSA, NCPPA, the American Heart Association, as well as many others.
"This is outstanding news," said Anne Flannery, executive director of P.E.4LIFE.
"The increased investment into the PEP program confirms that Congress views physical education as a key part of any solution to the epidemic obesity crisis among our nation's children."
Applications from local schools will be accepted by the U. S. Department of Education beginning this month. The PEP grants will be awarded in September.


text:
It was the 20th win of the season for the Lady Bisons, matching the program record set last season. That total also included three victories in the Atlantic Sun Tournament.
"We're still a young program and smaller milestones for us are huge as far as recruiting and as far as establishing who we are," said Lady Bisons coach Brandon Rosenthal. "It gets harder every year to reach your goals."
Rosenthal credited the character of his team for overcoming some unexpected rough spots on the way to another 20-win season.
"For our players to put together the season they have already is just phenomenal," said Rosenthal. "Dean Webb, the Belmont coach, and I have talked about this. It doesn't sound like a lot, but when you realize what you have to go through to get 20 wins in a regular season then it is an awesome achievement.
"It is a goal every year for us for the program to grow. You can't foretell the unexpected things. It is how teams respond and I am proud of how our players have responded time after time this year."
The Lady Bisons won by scores of 25-17, 25-20 and 25-17.
Next week the Lady Bisons head to Mercer's campus in Macon, Ga., to defend their Atlantic Sun Tournament Championship. The Lady Bisons are the No. 1 seed and have earned a bye in the quarterfinals. They will play in the semifinals round Friday. The championship game is scheduled for Saturday.
It was the third 3-0 match sweep in a row for the Lady Bisons and their fourth in the last five games. They have won 11 matches by 3-0 scores this season.
"We hit a part of the season where I didn't think we played well at all through four matches," said Rosenthal. "We won three and lost to Tennessee State. That's when we had a heart-to-heart to the team. We had to refocus. We did some things that grabbed their attention and got back on track.
"Going into the tournament you want to build. We started talking about building three weeks ago. I think we finished the regular season at a good pace."
Senior libero Jessica Turner was honored on "Senior" Day. She also was recognized for reaching the 1,000-dig total for her career. Turner reached the milestone Nov. 11 in a match against ETSU.
Turner made 17 digs in her final game in front of a home crowd. She was one of the first recruits for Rosenthal.
"Jess has been truly instrumental in the success of this program," said Rosenthal. "We have asked her to play many roles in her four years, but she has never backed down from a challenge and she has always put her team first.
"I have coached Jess since 17-year-old club volleyball, and it has been an awesome opportunity to watch her grow as a player and a person. Jessica's success is a tribute to her dedication and work ethic. She has been a steady force in this program and she will be dearly missed."
For the match setter Jake Pease added 13 digs and also made 33 assists.
Middle blocker Alex Kelly made 14 kills and added a .480 hitting percentage.
"Jake really set the pace for us," said Rosenthal. "There were some pretty gutty performances.
"Our middles did a fantastic job. I thought our passing was tremendous throughout the match."
Libby Hansch made 10 kills to lead Mercer. Claire Tucker made a match-high 24 digs. Karen Dorris made 17 digs.
The Lady Bisons are taking Sunday and Monday off. They will practice Tuesday in Nashville. They will travel to Kennesaw State Wednesday and work out there. They will be in Macon on Thursday for the banquet and the first match of the tournament.
"We want to keep the team fresh," said Rosenthal.


text:
This is great. On Sept. 15, 1986, Mike Laga, one of those light-hitting Cardinals players whom St. Louis fans are always applauding for moving the runners over, supposedly knocked a foul ball clear out of the old Busch Stadium. Because we have all lost our capacity for wonder, this feat has lately gone in for a bit of Snopesing, but at last the folks at Joe Sports Fan have unearthed video evidence—from an old Mets highlight tape, of all things. I love that Cardinals fans give Laga a standing ovation (even if they probably gave him standing ovations for lining out sharply to second), and I love that not even the presence of Tim McCarver ("Remarkable!") can ruin the moment.
Finally, video of the infamous Mike Laga foul ball... [Joe Sports Fan]


text:
Funds appropriated to the Office of Personnel Management for the purpose of this chapter may be allocated by the Office to any agency conducting demonstration projects or assisting the Office in conducting such projects. Funds so allocated shall remain available for such period as may be specified in appropriation Acts. No contract shall be entered into under this chapter unless the contract has been provided for in advance in appropriation Acts.
(Added Pub. L. 95–454, title VI, § 601(a), Oct. 13, 1978, 92 Stat. 1188.)


text:
Project Ceres is a collaboration between the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN), the Agriculture Network Information Collaborative (AgNIC), and CRL. The project sponsors are awarding funding for small projects that preserve print materials essential to the study of the history and economics of agriculture and make those materials accessible through digitization.
Sixteen institutions will each receive $3,125 to digitize and preserve important resources:
- Auburn University: Digitization of the 1820–1945 History of Alabama Agriculture and Rural Life
- Dalhousie University: Maritime Students Agriculturalist Digitization and Preservation Project
- Colorado State University: Preservation of Colorado Agriculture Literature, Supplemental Colorado Experiment Station Publications
- University of Idaho: Idaho's Agricultural History Online: Digitizing The Idaho Forester and Extension's Current Information Series
- Kansas State University: Digitization of the Kansas Farmer, 1863-1954
- Michigan State University: Grange Visitor 1875–1896 Digitization Project
- University of Minnesota: Preserving Knowledge Transfer: Digitizing Minnesota's Historical Agricultural Serials and Series
- Mississippi State University: Digitization of Archival Mississippi State University Experiment Station Bulletins
- Missouri State University: History of Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station in Documents
- University of Nebraska at Lincoln: Preserving Nebraska's Agricultural History: The Research Bulletins of the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
- New Mexico State University: Digitization of Historical Agricultural Records (NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station publications)
- North Dakota State University: Digitizing North Dakota Farm Research for the NDSU Institutional Repository
- The Ohio State University: Reformatting of Ohio State University's Mimeograph Bulletin Series and Economics and Sociology Occasional Working Paper Series
- Purdue University: Digitization of Purdue Agricultural Publications (1910–1922)
- Washington State University: Digitizing Washington State University Extension Bulletins 1913–
- University of Wisconsin-Madison: Beekeeping Serials from the Charles C. Miller Memorial Apicultural Collection.
Projects will be completed by August 2014.
The digital products will be available to researchers through local institutional repositories, and through the AgNIC catalog.
Information about the preservation of the print originals will be available through PAPR, CRL's Print Archives Preservation Registry. The site will feature holdings and condition information down to the issue level as well as information about the facility and environmental conditions in which the material is kept.
The committee members:
- Amy Paster, Chair, Penn State
- Cristina Caminita, Louisiana State
- Diana Farmer, Kansas State
- Melanie Gardner, NAL
- Allison Level, Colorado State
- Rob McGeachin, Texas A & M
- Joy Paulson, Cornell
surveyed the major agriculture libraries and participants of the USAIN microfilming program to see how much of this material had been digitized or further preserved after the initial phases of the longstanding microfilming program. The committee then developed guidelines and proposal forms for the Ceres project and publicized it to colleagues at agriculture libraries who were members of USAIN, AgNIC, or CRL. The committee then reviewed submitted proposals to determine which projects would be funded.
For more information on Project Ceres, see the project page on the CRL website.


text:
Actress/reality TV star Coco is pregnant and expecting her first child with husband Ice-T. The "Law &Order: SVU" star is already the proud dad to two kids from a previous relationship.
The couple confirmed the happy news Monday via Twitter. "The news is out. YES. We"re having a baby. The model and author then shared a photo of her tiny baby bump from the upcoming talk show's set, writing, "I'm pregnant!!! Yah!! Ice & I are so excited! I announced it Friday on our new talkshow which airs Aug 3rd."
The Hollywood couple will explore the talk-show world when they begin a three-week test run of "Ice and Coco" on select Fox stations in August.
"Three words to describe our show would be real, crazy and funky," Ice-T, 57, shared in a promo. "This show reflects our life. It will be hip, pop culture, fashion, everything."
U.S. & World
While fans have witnessed the Hollywood pair spoil their dogs including Spartacus and Maximus, they've also witnessed the twosome discuss the possibility of expanding their family with kids.
"There's a lot of peer pressure for me," Coco, 36, once revealed to E! News. "It's not just my family that's giving it, it's the world...When the time's right, I will."
Ice-T added, "At the end of the day, it's Coco's call. She puts in the order and I can do the deed."
PHOTOS: Ice-T and Coco's cutest moments as a couple
[NATL] Top Entertainment Photos: Best of the American Music Awards, and More
After all, this is coming from an actor who admitted to seeing "Fifty Shades of Grey" with his leading lady. And that's why we love these two.
"I don't want to be like those 80-year-old women with no one around them," Coco shared with E! News a couple years back. "I want to have something I gave birth to early in life and be like, 'You can help me out now!'"
As Coco begins her pregnancy journey, the former E! reality star also has a major project to work on with her husband.
PHOTOS: Celebrity couples we love and admire
--Reporting by Holly Passalaqua


text:
dolginow necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 562 diseños de 94 diseñadores freelance.
Richard Dolgin - Private Jeweler
After running a brick and mortar retail store for 25 years, my father is servicing his best clients from a professional office environment and continuing to be active in the industry through his professional blog and website. For three generations in Kansas City, our family has been a fixture in the retail space beginning with a little showroom which my grandfather started in 1928 on Main Street.
The idea for the new venture is simple - Apple Genius Bar meets jewelry services (clean/check, repair, custom design, appraisals). Our emphasis is on service through 1-on-1 appointments booked online. Simple services like clean and check and minor repair will be done while the client waits.
Our target audience is a sophisticated, upscale retail jewelry customer who is savvy and understands good design. He/she is the type of person who does a fair amount of online research before making an offline purchase and uses several tools (word of mouth, third party reviews and retailer websites) to decide where to purchase. Our clients are busy, so they appreciate simple, understated design that delivers what they need without too much fuss.
Our online presence will be geographic neutral as should any logo designs, but our office will be based in an upscale suburb of Kansas City. Residents of the Kansas City area who have been in the area 30+ years will recognize the Dolgin's name, but it will be unknown to the 25-35 demographic. So without knowing Richard Dolgin - the logo needs to let the audience know that this is jewelry related.
Here are some other brands targeting the same audience online:
Here are some of the other upscale retail jewelry brands in Kansas City:
You can also learn more about our history and (now closed) retail store here:
We'd love to have you help us take a step forward in design from the above.
Our clients need to see the logo and immediately recognize the name and know that it's related to jewelry, either through an icon (such as a diamond) and/or through the words 'Private Jeweler'.
We also need to create a trusted, communicable and exciting brand that fits within the traditional design of jewelry logos (see above) but takes a subtle step forward through font choice, color and/or icon imagery. Our logo has to be more interesting and modern than traditional jewelry stores. We believe our service oriented website and one-on-one appointment approach will be refreshing for people tired of flashy, high pressure sales people, boring run-of-the-mill merchandise and crappy on-going service.
We must make the current retail and online players look like tired boring brands. Creatively weave in the key practical elements of what we do - diamond sales, appraisals, repairs, on-going service - as well as blending both our creative custom design work and emphasis on professional, 1-on-1 service and you're close to hitting the mark.
A dash of bright color is great, as are some of the common design cues seen recently in the online space - thin, simple text; bold, simple, iconic designs; 'glass' layers (Photoshop elliptical marquee tool); subtle reflections, shadows and gradients. We are looking for something classy but cool that displays well online and offline.
You must deliver in the artwork is a Illustrator/Photoshop format that can be resized without loss.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


text:
Making a call with hidden caller identification
Turning caller identification on my mobile phone on or off
Copying contacts between my SIM and my mobile phone
Sending pictures and video clips from my mobile phone
Setting an alarm on my mobile phone
Want to change the phone lock code for your mobile phone? It's easy, but you need to turn on the phone lock code before you can change the phone lock code.
Find "Screen lock"
Slide two fingers down the display starting from the top edge of your mobile phone.
Tap SETTINGS.
Tap Security.
Tap Screen lock.
Change phone lock code
Key in your phone lock code
Tap the required phone lock code.
Follow the instructions on the display to change the phone lock code.
Return to the home screen
Tap the home icon to return to the home screen.
Tap anywhere to dismiss
Share this article via email! Just fill in these details and the characters in the box.
Fields marked with * are mandatory.


text:
For the Dolores River Boating Advocates, nothing is quite as important as water.
Not only does it provide the thrills of white water rafting down the beautiful Lower Dolores River, but it also provides life: life to fish, animals and us.
The group recently donated the movie "Watershed" to the Dolores Public Library, a movie that features the importance of the Colorado River, its tributaries and the resource it provides all of us and is rapidly becoming increasingly popular in demand.
"There is a lot of pressure on the Colorado River," said Jay Loschert, program coordinator for the Dolores River Boating Advocates.
The group felt so strongly about the movie, which is narrated by Robert Redford, that the board members donated their personal money to purchase a public copy of the movie to donate to the library. They also scheduled a screening of the movie on Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. in the library to start a discussion on the movie.
The film, which is produced by Redford the Redford Center, highlights the Colorado River system and features some local people, such as Dan James of James Ranch in Durango.
Loschert hopes the film will spark debates about how to conserve water and get locals thinking about their water usage.
"The board is really interested in exploring and discussing climate change," Loschert said.
Loschert has invited some of the people that appeared in the movie to take part in the discussion following the screening.
"It raises more questions than answers which is good for each community has to deal with these changes individually," Loschert said.
Loschert said he has always been frugal with his water, but after learning about the Colorado River and the wetlands that used to cover Mexico before the river started to run dry in Mexico, he believes he will change his ways a bit.
"I'm pretty frugal with my water, but I don't think I will water my grass as much this year," he said.


text:
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
OK, both of you die and let us know what happens.
That quote is actualy very witty, Celdur. I suggest you use that in your signature.
Sam is basically right, he's just cranky.
Page created in 0.061 seconds with 21 queries.


text:
General District Court
General District Court
There is a general district court in each city and county in Virginia. The general district court handles traffic violations, hears minor criminal cases known as misdemeanors, and conducts preliminary hearings for more serious criminal cases called felonies.
General district courts have exclusive authority to hear civil cases with claims of $4,500 or less and share authority with the circuit courts to hear cases with claims between $4,500 and $25,000. Examples of civil cases are landlord and tenant disputes, contract disputes and personal injury actions. See the General District Courts Informational Pamphlet for more information.
Contact Information
- All District Courts
- Individual General District Court Homepages
- Map of Virginia's Judicial Circuits and Districts
Case Status and Information
- General District Court Case Information
Online access to the case management system for general district courts. Cases may be searched using name, case number, or hearing date.
- General District Court Civil Filing Fee Calculation
Calculates the fee to file a civil action in general district court by locality
Pay Traffic Tickets and Other Offenses
- Assistance with Protective Orders (I-CAN!)
- Drug Treatment Courts
- Foreign Language Services
- Mediation
- Court-Appointed Counsel Procedures & Guidelines Manual
- Court-Appointed Counsel Eligibility
- District Court Forms Manual
- District Court Judges' Benchbook
- General District Court Manual
Resources and Reference Materials
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Provides basic information about the requirements of the ADA as they pertain to Virginia's Judicial System, including how to request an accommodation.
- Code of Virginia
- Commonwealth of Virginia Agency Web sites
- General District Courts Informational Pamphlet
- Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia
- Small Claims Court Procedures
- Virginia Courthouse Facility Guidelines


text:
Safer, cheaper building blocks for future anti-HIV and cancer drugs
A team of researchers from KU Leuven, in Belgium, has developed an economical, reliable and heavy metal-free chemical reaction that yields fully functional 1,2,3-triazoles. Triazoles are chemical compounds that can be used as building blocks for more complex chemical compounds, including pharmaceutical drugs.
Leveraging the compound's surprisingly stable structure, drug developers have successfully used 1,2,3-triazoles as building blocks in various anti-HIV, anti-cancer and anti-bacterial drugs. But efforts to synthesize the compound have been hampered by one serious hurdle: they depend on harmful heavy metals to work, and this severely limits their biological applications.
In new experiments reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, Dr. Joice Thomas, Prof. Dr. Wim Dehaen and their team at KU Leuven's Molecular Design and Synthesis lab confirm for the first time that 1,2,3-triazoles can be synthesized through a metal-free, three-component reaction using readily available ingredients.
"We were able to develop a reaction that provided a good yield, high regioselectivity and easy access to diversely functionalized 1,2,3-triazoles," says corresponding author Prof. Dr. Wim Dehaen. "In other words, the reaction produces plenty of the compounds we're looking for, does so reliably without unwanted or unexpected outcomes, and does this in a way that makes it easy for us to isolate the compound. This makes our method highly desirable."
"Moving forward, we will focus on expanding the chemistry developed here to other new reactions while also exploring their possible applications in pharmaceutical as well as supra-molecular sciences," says lead author Dr. Joice Thomas.
Explore further


text:
Scarlett Johansson
"I have no time for social media"
Scarlett Johansson
Model, singer, Hollywood star and advertising icon: All of these and more, Scarlett Johansson talks about sci-fi and action movies, and her love of popcorn
Ms. Johansson, Given some of your role choices in recent years – in films like Marvel's The Avengers, Her, Under the Skin, Lucy and Ghost in the Shell – do you have a special preference for sci-fi and fantasy movies?
No, not really. There are lots of good science fiction stories, but I wouldn't say I'm a particular sci-fi fan. The fact that I've made so many films in this genre is a reflection on the trend and the times we're living in.
Escapism from the present?
We live in a world in which we have to question and redefine our identity as a race of people. We are still looking for our place in this digital age and have to see how we cope with its technical advances. This is an issue that also comes up in the films, of course. I only realized how much experience I have with it when I was working alongside Juliette Binoche on Ghost in the Shell. For her, everything was totally new, and she had to get into it and all the techie jargon. And I found myself saying: Welcome to my world!
I meet my friends in real life, not online
Artificial intelligence is often the buzzword when the future of the human race comes up. Have you ever worked with robotics and stuff like that?
I have played an AI, which has probably given me a unique perspective in some ways. But it's super abstract. I don't have any practical experience. To be honest, I'm blissfully detached from technology.
Was that a conscious decision?
Technology is simply not my thing. It has never interested me. In fact, moving over to the iPhone from the Blackberry was a five-year process for me. Maybe that's because I like tactile things that I can hold in my hand. The more virtual things get, the less I like it. I don't have a social media presence, for example.
Are you skeptical about technical advancements?
I'm not afraid of technical progress, it's just not me. I mean, technology can be really helpful, obviously, and some advances are bettering humankind. At what cost, I guess, is the other side of the coin.
Coming back to Ghost in the Shell, which isn't just futuristic but action packed, as well, how important is the physical side of a role?
It's not high up on the priority list, but it does matter. Ghost in the Shell has a lot of action in it and I took on the responsibility of doing a lot of the stunt work myself.
Is it scary?
I think there's an element of fear when you do anything that is really challenging physically, but that's part of what makes the action interesting to watch, and it drives you to really nail it.
You must be used to these kinds of scenes by now …
I certainly have a basis. Thanks to my role as Black Widow, I have done a lot of fight choreography and weapons handling. For Ghost in the Shell, I had to have a certain level of tactical competence that I didn't necessarily have. So I trained a lot with various weapons specialists and police officers. My program also included Thai boxing. Generally, though, I found the psychological side of the role trickier than the physicality.
Why was that?
To put it simply, I play a cyborg with a human brain. Getting the balance right is tricky: The character can't be robotic, exactly, and unfeeling, but she's not human, either. For me as an actor, it has been very challenging to express emotions like loneliness and fear without being able to show them.
You, your husband, Romain Dauriac, and your daughter have a second home in Paris, France, where you opened a popcorn store in 2016. How did that come about?
Romain and I both came up with the idea. When we were first dating, he kept seeing me with a huge tin of different flavored popcorn, and his reaction was: "What's this?" In France, popcorn comes in small bags and is sprinkled with either salt or sugar. I thought we ought to bring the others flavors to the people.
No sooner said than done?
It started off as a kind of fun idea, and now we have a really functioning shop. It's nice to have a business in Paris, too. Romain's sister runs the store, but when I'm in Paris, I love popping in and serving many surprised people, and getting free popcorn all the time!
What's your favorite flavor?
I'm a big fan of the Chicago mix, a cheddar and maple combo, which is funny in Paris! I think the sweet and salty combo is probably a very American idea. It may be a while before the French get a taste for it.


text: Tonight ESPN brings you a match-up of teams whose fans are pissed with their lives, their teams, and the fact that it's only October and they're already prepared to start discussing next year's football season. What's the most surprising thing about both teams so far this season? How godawful the offenses have been. West Virginia averaging 22.2 points a game while Auburn checks in at a robust 19.1. Both in the top ten at some point early in September, they've vanished from the polls entirely. A solid segment of each fan base wants their coach fired, and now they're coming to you live from Morgantown/Deadwood for Thursday night football. College football truly does not get any better. Except when it does. If there is any member of either fan base who feels confident about what's going to happen in this game, he's already drunk on his granddaddy's moonshine.After a 3-0 start, Auburn has lost 3 of 4. The lone victory during this stretch was a 14-12 win over Tennessee. After this win every Auburn fan looked like they'd just witnessed an execution. Since October began Auburn has lost on the road at Vanderbilt for the first time since 1955 (that's before Rosa Parks began the Montgomery bus boycott if you're keeping score) and at home to Arkansas. In between these losses Tommy Tuberville fired offensive coordinator Tony Franklin. As Octobers go Tuberville's ranks right up there with...Bill Stewart's September. The favored Mountaineers opened up the season with a win over Villanova before getting trounced by East Carolina 24-3. They then went out to Colorado and lost a Thursday night road game. Making West Virginia's quest for 4 consecutive 11 win seasons dead-on-Stewart-arrival. New head coach Bill Stewart was burned and hanged in the streets of Morgantown. And if you live in West Virgina and witnessed one of these mock executions, admit it, you went home and turned on the news to make sure Stewart was being burned and hanged in effigy and not in reality. Since these tumultuous hangings and burnings West Virginia has run off three straight home wins over Syracuse, Rutgers, and Marshall. Mountaineer fans remain unmoved. What's going to decide this game? Can Auburn's defensive line stifle the West Virginia running game. Pat White's only thrown for 590 yards, but he's finally healthy. But Auburn's first year defensive coordinator, Paul Rhoads, is heading back to the scene of his BCS crime last year, when his Pittsburgh defense knocked West Virginia out of the national championship game. No matter what happens it seems likely that at some point one of these teams will score a touchdown. If either team can manage, be still my beating heart, two touchdowns, then an offensive explosion has occurred. Don't believe me? The over/under on this game is 38. And you should take the under. Back in August this looked like a huge mid-season out-of-conference match-up of top 10 teams from the Big East and the SEC. Now? Now, it just looks like a fist fight between two fat girls over the grease left over in the corn on the cob tray.


text:
jonlabo necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 41 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Quantum Tech Resumes
QuantumTechResumes is a professional resume writing service and has been in business since 2002. J.M Auron, the CEO of Quantum Tech Resumes, is a professional writer who has been writing resumes, cover letter, and follows up letters for people who are looking to make the quantum jump to the next level in their career. J.M.'s passion for helping people in the tech industry shows in his personal one on one service. His focus on the tech industry has helped clients move their careers forward.
Focus on people in the technology industry (solution architects, user experience, development managers, etc.) who can see the big picture and still get in weeds when needed. We focus on people in their upper 20s to 40s who are moving up in their career. They have a clear career path, are energetic, solution oriented, and have proven results.
Our target audience would go to the 100k websites (The Technology Ladders, 6figurejobs, etc.) when looking to make the next jump in their career. Our audience is not looking for a lateral move but looking to take it to the next level.
We are a professional technical resume writing service and are looking to redesign our website. The website needs to be clean, simple, and professional. It should be modern and fit with our logo. The logo itself is either a solid white color if it appears on a dark background or a solid color if it appears on a white/light background (please see the logo attachments in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop for examples). It should look like it can command a premium price but still be approachable by professionals who want to take their career to the next level.
Feel free to take liberty with the layout of the content in order to fit the design. Just because the wireframes and functional specifications say that is how it should be displayed is the right way. All we really need is a solid looking page design that can be used for all pages and icons / images for the three packages.
The footer is designed to be a blown out footer. It should be highly visible but still subtle. It sounds like an oxymoron but it is a possible to have an eye catching footer that is no longer a second thought of page design.


text:
The Florida Lottery announces that Benjamin Fonseca Jr. 52, of Hilo, HI, claimed a $1 million top prize in the 50X THE CASH Scratch-Off game at Florida Lottery headquarters in Tallahassee.
Fonseca chose to receive the winnings in a one-time, lump-sum payment of $800,000. He purchased his winning Scratch-Off ticket at Publix, located at 125 E. Merritt Island Causeway in Merritt Island.
The $10 game, 50X THE CASH, offered eight top prizes of $1 million. Two of these top prizes remain to be won. The overall odds of winning are one in 3.46.
Filed under: aloha, Announcements, Big Island, Economy, Hawaii, Hawaiian, Hilo, National Affairs | Tagged: Benjamin Fonseca Jr., Florida Lottery | 4 Comments »


text:
Euroclassics 1:400 Metallmodell mit Fahrwerk
We look forward to seeing you again. Kind regards, Your Airmail Flugzeugmodelle Team.
Dear customers
We love to share our common hobby with you! That's why Airmail is now actively present on social media channels. Through Instagram, Facebook and Twitter we frequently provide you with new content, such as great pictures of our airplane models or interesting background information on our store. We're looking forward to your likes and comments:


text:
We decided that the original was a bit long and flowery, so we decided to write our own letter to King George today to tell him how we feel:
Dear King of England,
Stop doing everything to us because some taxes are stupid. We want to be our own country and we want a say in this. We want a vote. You're not our king any more. We don't want you here. Go on and take another country, not ours!
And so off to war we go!
The Declaration of Independence - rewritten by an 8yo
Discuss Greece or ancient Rome - or maybe the history of the United States.
Moderators: Theodore, elliemaejune
2 posts • Page 1 of 1
The Declaration of Independence - rewritten by an 8yo
"The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."
- M. Montessori
Proud non-member of the HSLDA
- M. Montessori
Proud non-member of the HSLDA
- User
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Thu Dec 08, 2011 8:00 am
- Location: Los Angeles
2 posts • Page 1 of 1
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests


text:
By Noreen Giga, KF 14, Peru
Founded in 1986, Prisma is celebrating 25 years of bringing "financial services and non-financial services to disadvantaged communities in order to strengthen them, and promote sustainable social and economic development." And the credit branch of Prisma, Microfinanzas Prisma, formed in 1994 is celebrating 17 years of reaching Peru's urban and rural poor.
Microfinanzas Prisma extends throughout Peru with a total of 15 agencies and 10 offices in the country.
I have had the opportunity to visit 5 of these agencies during my fellowship and have been impressed with the extent to which Prisma really does reach the urban and rural poor. Close to 70% of Prisma's clients in the rural and urban sectors are living below Peru's national poverty line.
Prisma provides services to clients like Rosa, who lives on the outskirts of Lima and has used her loans to switch careers from washing clothes to opening up a restaurant in her house.
And to clients like Loyda, who runs a small store in a marginalized area of Lima.
But Prisma does not just focus on clients that live within a certain distance of a city as some microfinance organizations due to cut down on operational costs, they reach clients that live high up in the mountains or deep in the jungles of Peru.
Prisma has brought services to clients like Lilia who lives up in the mountains 4 hours outside of Huancayo. Her loan has helped her buy more young cows to increase her dairy production.
And to clients like Freddy, a widower who is supporting his four sons. With his loan he has been able increase the quality of his coffee production with the fertilizers he bought.
These services are made possible because of the hard working loan officers that Prisma employs. Such as Rosa, who works in the jungle of Chanchamayo and spends her nights and weekends visiting clients who live deep in the central jungle of Peru.
About a month ago Prisma asked me to record the office voice mail message in English (that is right, I am famous! Just dial long distance to Peru: (51)(1) 616 5500 and mark number 2 for English and you will hear me!). I remember saying "Welcome to Prisma, 25 years working where the need is greatest." That statement could not be more true. And Microfinanzas Prisma, working 17 years where the need is greatest, has helped turn dreams into realities for clients living in the rural and urban areas of Peru.
Congratulations Prisma! Here is to another 25 years of bringing financial and social services to clients throughout Peru!
Noreen is in her last week as a Kiva Fellow with Microfinanzas Prisma. Take a moment to join MFP's lending team and support their hard working staff and clients.
Previous Field Updates from Noreen Giga:
Is it ever too late to follow your dream?
What was your last business trip like?


text:
Ricoh Announces the Pentax K-3
Ricoh announces the debut of the Pentax K-3, a prosumer DSLR with some pretty outstanding specs. The K-3 becomes the flagship DSLR in Ricoh's lineup. The Pentax K-3 boasts a 24 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, 8.3 fps continuous shooting, selectable (on/off) anti-aliasing (AA) filter, and dual card slots.
"Ricoh Imaging has made an investment to ensure that our product lineup features the most complete and capable APS-C offering in our history," said Jim Malcolm, Executive Vice President, Ricoh Imaging. "This goal was realized with the introduction of the K-3. Its unmatched feature set and revolutionary technology set a benchmark of excellence that raises the bar for the entire APS-C category."
The K-3's selectable AA filter allows photographers to toggle the functionality on or off by using the Pentax Shake Reduction mechanism. Also new to the Pentax K-3 is the FLU SDHC memory card that delivers wireless connectivity to a compatible PC or connected device. Photographers will be able to release the shutter, shift the AF sensor point, and check images recorded on the card using any connected device with a web browser. And, thanks to its SD card-based, internal placement the Pentax K-3 retains its weather-resistant, moisture-tight capabilities with no protruding devices preventing door closure.
The K-3 also features an enhanced video recording including the ability to change from still image to video recording with the flip of a switch to capture full HD movie recording in H.264 format. The K-3 comes equipped with a headphone terminal and stereo mic terminal for external microphone connection. The user can also adjust the audio recording level manually and monitor sound levels during recording. In addition to a variety of creative special-effect modes, the K-3 also provides an upgraded interval movie mode, which captures a series of 4K-resolution movie clips (3840 x 2160 pixels) at a fixed interval.


text:
- Details
- Specs
- Reviews
- What's Included
This locking cable is perfect for applications where you need to keep your HDMI cable securely in place at all times. Folding tabs are located at the top and bottom of the plug for multiple mounting options. If your display is on a moving platform or has limited space, this is the cable for you! The tough tabs will make sure your cable never becomes unplugged unless you remove it. For an added level of durability, the cable sheath is made with braided nylon.
This cable is also available in the following configurations:
Specifications Manufacturer Hall Research Manufacturer Product No. C-HDMI-L-35 UPC 722301541470
- 1x - Locking HDMI cable
- 1x - Locking HDMI cable


text:
|You are here: Uni home page »
|Up a level
Teviotdale, Wilma, Clancy, David, Fisher, Roy and Hill, Pat (2017) Group work and undergraduate accounting students: a Bourdieusian analysis. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 22 (3). pp. 334-354. ISSN 1359-6748
Hill, Pat and Tinker, Amanda (2013) Integrating Learning Development into the Student Experience. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 5. ISSN 1759667X
Hill, Pat, Tinker, Amanda and Catterall, Stephen (2010) From Deficiency to Development: the evolution of academic skills provision at one UK university. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (2). ISSN 1759667X
Abdullah, Fazil, Ward, Rupert, Catterall, Stephen, Hill, Pat and Wilson, David (2013) An investigation of the factors that influence engagement with CPD within e-portfolios used for accredited Higher Education course. In: Proceedings of Computing and Engineering Annual Researchers' Conference 2013 : CEARC'13. University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, pp. 80-86. ISBN 9781862181212
Hill, Pat and Tinker, Amanda (2017) Academic skills provision and learning development: situation, synergy and sustainability. In: Exploring Academic Skills Provision at UK HIgher Education Institutions, 23 April 2017, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. (Unpublished)
Tinker, Amanda and Hill, Pat (2015) Curriculum Collaboration: Combining Strengths to Develop Student Learning. In: ALDinHE 2015: The Learning Development Conference, 30th March – 1st April 2015, Southampton Solent University.
Tinker, Amanda and Hill, Pat (2014) Learning journeys: sharing resources for embedding progressive learning development. In: 11th ALDinHE Conference: Learning Development Spaces and Places, 14th -16th April 2014, University of Huddersfield.
Drozynska, Anna, Hill, Pat, Jabbar, Abdul, Ireland, Chris and Woods, Philip (2013) Analysing feedback on written assignments to produce reusable audiovisual feedback. In: Teaching Writing Across Languages and Cultures, 7th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, 27-29 June 2013, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. (Submitted)
Bailey, Rowan, Tinker, Amanda and Hill, Pat (2013) Ensuring Progression in Learning Development. In: 10th ALDinHE Conference 2013: Celebrating Learning Development, 25th – 27th March 2013, Plymouth University, UK. (Unpublished)
Hill, Pat and Tinker, Amanda (2011) Embedding skills: what does it mean to learning developers, lecturers and students? In: 8th ALDinHE Conference. "Engaging Students - Engaging Learning", 18-20 April 2011, Queen's University, Belfast. (Unpublished)
Hill, Pat (2010) Horses for Courses. In: 7th LDHEN Symposium "Celebrating Partnerships in Learning", 29-31 March 2010, Nottingham Trent University. (Unpublished)
Hill, Pat (2009) Invisible writing. In: European Association for Teachers of Academic Writing (EATAW) 2009 Conference, 30th June-2nd July 2009, Coventry University. (Unpublished)
Hill, Pat and Mullen, Jane (2007) Writing Skills - An integrated approach. In: 4th LDHEN Symposium: "How do students engage with learning?", 12 April 2007, Bournemouth University. (Unpublished)
Hill, Pat and Mullen, Jane (2007) To embed or not to embed – that is the question. In: The Study Skills Conundrum, 26th April 2007, Bournemouth. (Unpublished)
Hill, Pat and Mullen, Jane (2007) Writing Skills - An integrated approach. In: 4th LDHEN Symposium: "How do students engage with learning?", 12 April 2007, Bournemouth University. (Unpublished)
Hill, Pat (2004) What do students really want from higher education?: but will it get me more marks? In: The Eleventh International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning, 27th-30th June 2004, Centro De Convenciones Pedagogicas De Cojimar, Havana, Cuba.
Hill, Pat (2004) Am I being a pedant when I say that acknowledging my students different literacy practices won't get them a job? In: WDHE 2004: Valuing and Evaluating Writing in HE, 11th-12th May 2004, Sheffield Hallam University.
Hill, Pat (2001) Feedback on feedback. In: Teaching Writing in Higher Education, 26th-27th March 2001, Warwick University.
University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH Copyright and Disclaimer All rights reserved ©


text:
Author Unknown
There were two discernible moments in last night's Vice Presidential debate that I thought were the most telling and most important moments we've seen in the two confrontations between the Obama-Biden and Romney-Ryan tickets. It wasn't Congressman Ryan's brilliant swipe at Vice President Biden's long history of gaffes. It wasn't Biden's blistering attack on Romney's 47% comment or his rock-solid defense of the Administration's tax plan, in which he pointed out that 97% of small business owners don't make more than $250,000 per year. These were all interesting moments, although by my own standards of debate – cultivated from four years of competing in high school and three years of coaching in college – Biden won the arguments.
But the moment I'm referring to was more important than all of that. I get that this election is about jobs and the economy in the minds of voters so I don't use 'important' to mean 'election-altering'. I mean that for progressive-minded people, organizers, and activists in this country, these two moments told us a lot more about the country we live in and the policies we organize against than anything said on the campaign trail.
The two moments I'm referring to were the Libyan embassy question at the beginning of the debate and the Syria question near the end.
First on Libya: Ryan targeted the Obama Administration for not labeling the embassy attack as "terrorism" earlier and not being prepared. Biden countered by saying that Ryan's budget had cut security funding for embassies by millions of dollars and short-changed the staff there. Romney and Ryan clearly want to win this election, so why do they – let alone the supposedly "free" and "investigative" press – not point out the obvious: NATO, under the direction of the Obama administration, funded, armed, and brought to power the same Libyan 'rebels' that attacked the US embassy in Benghazi on September 11th.
We can quibble as to whether or not the attackers were literally "the same rebels," but NATO commanders and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton all admitted that a large section of the rebels that they supported in Libya last year were members of al-Qaeda or other Islamist extremists. When NATO was criminally murdering Libyans through their bombing campaigns, they didn't distinguish between "good rebels" and "bad rebels." They armed the rebellion by any means necessary – the rebellion that systematically lynched black African migrants; the rebellion that attacked hospitals and schools for children with Down-syndrome; the rebellion that, with NATO's air strikes, killed more civilians than Libya's national army; the rebellion that sodomized and murdered Colonel Muammar Qaddafi without trial; and ultimately the rebellion that was directed on the ground by al-Qaeda and Islamist militants.
Qaddafi was a bulwark against radical Islamists, much like Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Al-Qaeda committed terrorist attacks against Libyan targets and Qaddafi showed no tolerance for their indiscriminate violence, so much so that he opportunistically joined the war on terror in 2005. Just as it doesn't matter in Syria today, though, Washington's short-term interests in acquiring oil overrode any possible problem they had with materially supporting the same people that attacked the US on 9/11. The Obama administration knew it and they did it anyway.
So fast-forward to 9/11 in 2012. Al-Qaeda attacks the US embassy in Libya right after receiving aid from the US and NATO in 2011. With the amount of support they received, there is a good chance that the same weapons used to breach the embassy were provided by the US, much like how many of the same arms given to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan by the US in the 1980s are now used by the Afghani resistance against US troops today.
Why doesn't Romney or Ryan bring this up? Why don't they hammer Obama and Biden on the biggest hole of all in the White House's sketchy narrative on the embassy attack? Even in catering to the racist and Islamophobic base of the Republican Party, why don't they point out that the Obama administration, in this case, literally armed al-Qaeda and Islamist extremists?
The answer is because they don't fundamentally disagree on what happened in Libya. Republican or Democrat, neither one of them has an interest in laying the real question before the American people: Why did we bomb the hell out of Libya and arm our so-called enemy against a government that didn't threaten the United States? Outside of the Ron Paul clique, nary a critical word was thrown at the President for the crimes his administration committed against the Libyan people.
The two parties can posture all they want over tax policies or Medicare reform, but let's make one thing clear: When the rubber hits the road and we're talking about dropping bombs on civilian targets that suck the oxygen out of a mother's lungs before her and her child are charred by the flames; when we're talking about black African migrants who are strung up on light poles and disemboweled because of the color of their skin; when we're talking about a school, where children with Down-syndrome go to learn and are cared for every day, being obliterated by firebombs; when we're talking about real people dying – who you and I will probably never meet – the two candidates are one and the same.
Isn't that deeply unsettling? I have conversations with Obama supporters to whom I bring this up and they dismiss it out of fear that it might play into Romney being elected. They then proceed to lecture me on how there are differences between the candidate's domestic policies. And then for the closer, they turn these concerns on their head and ask me why I care so much about foreign policy when there are people hurting in this country.
I just grow weary of it, folks. I get that Romney's policies on a lot of economic and social issues are more reactionary than Obama's – although I would follow it up by saying, "Not by much. They're both reactionaries." What I don't get is the national chauvinism that pervades the lesser-of-two-evils progressive community that writes off foreign policy as if it's some separate sphere to evaluate candidates.
The mother charred by fire from NATO's death machines in Libya doesn't care that Obama's tax policy only affects 3% of small businesses. Frankly, she doesn't even care that Romney's policy will raise taxes on workers in this country. She was living a normal life with her family, raising her children, working a productive job, and putting food on the table in one form of another until her country was invaded. Violence was committed against her, and it was done in the name of the United States – violence, for no honest reason; violence, for no positive outcome; violence, completely divorced from any semblance of justice; violence, that even the most opportunistic and hateful critics of the President in this country cannot condemn, especially at the Vice Presidential debate.
For the hanged black migrant, for the dead Libyan infant, for the wounded Syrian bus driver, and for any oppressed person around the world, this election is literally meaningless and tonight's debate proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Now someone's ready to protest, "But we're not Libyans. We're not Syrians. We're Americans who live in this country and have to deal with the consequences of this election." Yes we are. And if those consequences guide progressives to vote to defeat Romney – however they think they can best do that in their respective states – they should absolutely do so.
But I want people to understand that there is only one way to vote for the President and not have Libyan and Syrian blood on your hands: Resistance. Whether Obama or Romney win on the evening on November 6th, progressives must issue a declaration of independence, not just from both parties but from the entire system of imperialism. We have to commit to organizing our communities, our workplaces, our classrooms, and our places of worship to resist the attacks that come down on us and on oppressed people around the world. We have to build a new movement – not an anti-war movement like we saw under Bush, but an anti-imperialist movement that recognizes that the crimes perpetrated on the Libyans are made possible by the crimes committed against workers and oppressed people in this country, and vice versa.
That's all anti-imperialism is. It takes the anti-war movement and joins it with the battle against budget cuts, the fight against bosses on the shop floor, the struggle to keep collective bargaining rights, the campaigns for affordable public education, and the continued war against racism, national oppression, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and every other phobia that oppresses people here and around the world. It recognizes that the struggle of Libyan freedom fighters against NATO and the Islamist rebels is intertwined with the struggles that we wage here in the US against anti-union laws, foreclosures, budget cuts, racist violence, and attacks on women's rights.
Imperialism is a system that oppresses people domestically to commit untold horrors against entire nations internationally. And it's a system we have to fight and dismantle if we're serious about wanting freedom in our lifetime.
Clearly it won't happen through the ballot box. The Vice Presidential debate showed us that. If we hope to achieve that freedom, we have to fight for it in the streets.
Lincoln, Assad & the Vice Presidential Debate
Now onto Syria: The second moment that stood out to me in last night's Vice Presidential debate was downright awkward and embarrassing for Ryan. Trying desperately to distinguish the Romney campaign's position on Syria from Obama's position, he fumbled around and could not answer the moderator's question, which was, "What would you do differently?" About all he could muster was the flaccid jab at the Obama administration for calling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "a reformer."
Except Obama never said that, and neither did Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for that matter. Clinton made a statement in March 2011 that "many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer," but her agenda was the same as Romney and Ryan's from the beginning: Use the civil unrest, which later became a civil war, to topple the Syrian government at any cost.
All things considered, Biden knocked it out of the ballpark in terms of honesty. He noted that the US hasn't worked through the UN on the question of Syria, having never endorsed or accepted Kofi Annan's peace plan, and began aiding the so-called "rebels" directly in the early stages of the civil war. He candidly admitted that the US was completely aligned with the oppressive Turkish government and the reactionary Saudi and Qatari monarchies, all of whom are funneling arms – most likely provided by the United States – to the Syrian "rebels." About the only thing he left out in his effort to bolster the Obama administration's "Tough on Assad" credentials was the White House's announcement last week to put troops on the Jordanian border with Syria.
For their part, neither candidate endorsed a US military operation in Syria under the current conditions. I take this to mean that both tickets understand how unpopular the idea of another war is with voters, which by extension means that the Syrian government has at least until December to put down the rebellion before the threat of a Libya-style NATO intervention comes back on the table. This is the good news.
The bad news is that both candidates agreed to a disturbing caveat, stated not-so-eloquently by Ryan: "Well, we agree with the same red line, actually, they do on chemical weapons, but not putting American troops in, other than to secure those chemical weapons." If there's one thing that the past two Presidents have taught this generation about justifications for this type of preemptive war, it is that a targeted government doesn't have to have actual weapons (Iraq) or plan to use them on the population (Libya) to still launch full-scale military operations. What Biden and Ryan – and ultimately Obama and Romney – are really saying is that they won't exercise military force until after November 6th.
Realize too that when Ryan said, "[our strategy with Syria] means like embargoes and sanctions and overflights, those are things that don't put American troops on the ground," he is talking directly about the type of intervention that NATO launched in Libya. Save for some military advisors, US troops were not "on the ground" in Libya in the same way they are today in Afghanistan. It's horrifying, of course, that drone and aerial warfare allows the US to victimize thousands of people without having to weigh the consequences of physical risk. There are no longer any counter-weights or human cost calculations that go into setting up no-fly zones, which Ryan calls "overflights."
Between Libya and Syria – and Afghanistan and Iraq, despite how Biden may have postured to pretend like he didn't vote to put the same two wars "on credit cards," like Ryan did – we have to admit that we don't have a choice in the US Presidential elections. If you even have a semblance of sympathy for the women, men, and children who will bear the full brunt of war in these countries, then you have to admit that there's nothing democratic about the choice that voters will make on November 6th. The candidates are in full agreement that the United States should continue to build its empire, declare war on smaller nations for their resources, and do so in the most brutal and efficient manner possible. This is one area – probably the most major area, if we are honest with ourselves as human beings – where there is literally no difference between a second-term President Obama and a President Romney.
Immediately after the debate, CNN aired the second trailer for the new Steven Spielberg film, Lincoln, which has Daniel Day-Lewis portraying the Great Emancipator himself, President Abraham Lincoln. The juxtaposition of both candidates' characterization of Assad "turning guns on his own people" coupled with this exciting movie trailer hit me pretty hard. Most Americans in 2012 revere Lincoln as a national hero, and the film's Thanksgiving release date all but guarantees it will be the movie event of 2012.
But why is that? Most people in the 21st century view the American Civil War as a totally just war and condemn slavery as an institution – though it should be noted that a disturbing number of reactionary Republican lawmakers are beginning to come out as slavery apologists – but it wasn't always seen that way. Neither was Lincoln enshrined as "the Great Emancipator" by mainstream American canon until relatively recently (read: the last forty years).
For a large portion of the country, Lincoln was remembered as a brutal tyrant who "turned guns on his own people" and grossly violated their constitutional rights. He was remembered as a radical who forcibly expropriated the "property" of the rich – namely slaves – and waged a brutal civil war on the American people. His unwillingness to compromise on the issue was not touted as a virtue as it is today; rather it was seen as the stubbornness of a dictator whose decisions cost hundreds of thousands of Americans their lives. He was seen as divisive, conniving, and wicked by a large section of the country.
Most Americans probably do not think of it this way, but a great number of atrocities were committed during the Civil War, and by no means were they limited to the racists in the Confederacy. Thousands of people – many of whom never owned slaves – were put into prison camps, forced to work without pay, starved, took ill, and died. For the first two years of the war, the Union Army, under the direction of the scoundral George McClellan, refused to liberate slaves in the South, leaving them under the bondage of the white slaveowners. Not least of these victims were the freed slaves, who received second-class treatment when they were allowed to join the Union Army and received unequal compensation.
Indeed, Lincoln's policies and military draft program were so divisive that they led to massive riots in the North that left hundreds dead, most of whom were black residents targeted by racist pogroms. The media was not silent on these matters either. The Chicago Times in 1863 was topped with the headline, "DICTATOR PROCLAIMED, for the Proclamation can never be carried out except under the iron rule of the worst kind of despotism."
But here's the simple and undeniable truth: Lincoln was a hero, the Union was on the right side of history, and the American Civil War was not just justifiable, but necessary and honorable. As Americans in 2012, most of us wouldn't think twice about making that judgment because we instinctively understand that slavery was a wicked instrument of oppression and the Confederacy was an evil empire seeking its preservation and expansion. All of Lincoln and the Union Army's actions that were viewed as tyrannical by some people in 1860 are worthy of praise in 2012 because we understand what the conflict meant to oppressed people; so worthy of praise that a legendary director and actor are teaming up for a film honoring President Lincoln.
This should all sound familiar in the context of Syria: Here we have a leader, a President no less, waging a civil war to hold the country together. Opposite him and the Syrian Army is an unholy alliance of neo-liberals seeking to sell Syria's resources and labor to the West at a profit, militants of al-Qaeda, and other radical Islamists. Assad fights for secular government against theocratic tyranny; he fights for a self-determined Syria against a puppet regime that will prostitute the Syrian people to Western corporations; he fights for an independent country in a region occupied and dominated by the United States and Israel; and now he fights for the self-determination of the Kurdish people in the northern part of Syria.
That last point is particularly salient in the comparison with Lincoln. The Syrian government has by no means consistently stood for Kurdish self-determination or nationhood, and Kurds have in the past faced oppression in Syria. Similarly, the United States government was the chief perpetrator in the crime of slavery against the black Africans kidnapped from their homes to work under the whip in North America. However, just as Lincoln realized that the question of winning the American Civil War was inseparable from the question of emancipation, Assad realizes that winning the Syrian Civil War is impossible without Kurdish independence. And just as the Union Army could not have won the war without the emancipated and slaves liberating themselves, Assad will have the Kurds to thank if he succeeds in putting down the rebellion.
When the Vice Presidents talked last night about the possibility of intervening in Syria, it made me think of the Trent Affair during the Civil War. Oligarchs in France and Britain considered intervening on behalf of the Confederacy. Though the countries were officially neutral, they engaged the Confederacy on possibly intervening on their behalf in the American Civil War and were only dissuaded by the Union victory at Antietam.
As an American, would you have tolerated British or French intervention in the American Civil War, especially on behalf of the Confederacy? I wouldn't have. Most of us would like to say we would have supported President Lincoln, but I think all of us could agree that foreign intervention would have been wrong.
President Assad will be remembered by Syrians much in the same way President Lincoln is by Americans. Both leaders are fighting a civil war to hold their country together in the face of threats of foreign intervention – in Assad's case, this is a more likely and greater threat than it was for the Union – and basic questions of freedom and oppression are at stake in the war's outcome. From every indicator, a majority of the Syrian people supports the government, and it's only a small band of traitors calling for military intervention.
As progressives, I don't think it's sufficient to just call for "Hands Off Syria." That's a start, of course, but in 21st century hindsight, "Hands Off America" would have fallen drastically short in 1862. Anti-imperialism means doing what we can to stop the government we live under from violently attacking another nation, but it is also a call to support those forces who are on the right side of history; those forces who find themselves struggling for independence and liberation; those forces who are most threatened by the kind of slaughter we witnessed in Libya last year. And those forces are President Assad and the Syrian people.
When people go to watch Spielberg's film in November, voters will have already elected a new President. Last night's debate showed us that the election won't determine what happens in Syria because both sides are in agreement. Two factors can turn the tide, though: The first is an overwhelming victory for the Syrian people against the terrorist rebellion. And though I pray that happens, we need to begin exercising the second factor: American resistance to war with Syria.
Note: *The following article was originally published as a Facebook Note, then republished on Red Ant Liberation Army. The moderators at RALA have been asked not to link back to the original, nor to include the author's name, thus Red Hammer is unable to provide either.


text:
Proceeds to benefit LCC Foundation Scholarship Program
Nine local �celebrities� will be dealing cards and directing games at tonight�s inaugural Lenoir Community College Foundation Casino Night.
Tickets for tonight�s event are $50 per person, which includes admission to the event, beverages and hors d�oeuvres, gaming floor and silent auction registration number. All proceeds benefit the LCC Foundation Scholarship Program.
The local celebrity dealers are:
n Debbie Chused, Coastal Connections Marketing
n Bill Ellis, Kinston/Lenoir County Recreation Department Director
n Nick Harvey, Rochelle Middle School principal
n John Marston, Northeastern Mutual Insurance
n Bobby Merritt, Kinston City Councilman and LCC Director of Customized Industry Training
n Ed Mills, LCC Dean of Student Services (retired)
n B.J. Murphy, Kinston Mayor
n Tony Sears, Kinston City Manager
n Bobby Taylor, owner/operator of Greene Ridge Racquet Club of Snow Hill
Prizes for the evening include an Apple iPad ($350 value), golf package ($500 value), two $500 cash prizes, VIP bluegrass package featuring Gene Watson and Rhonda Vincent ($250 value), and a set of Michelin tires ($600 value).
Other prizes include a tennis package, dinner with a DJ from the WRNS Morning Team, a makeover package, a weekend at the beach, horse riding lessons, teeth whitening session, a photo session and 11X14 portrait, half-day charter fishing trip, free rent for your event at the Culinary Arts Center at LCC, a month personal self-defense class at Stroud�s School of Martial Arts (including uniform), a Valentine package featuring dinner at The Chef and the Farmer and dessert at The Peppered Cupcake and flowers, two sets of pearls and dinner at Lou Lou�s Oyster Bar and more.
For more information about tonight�s Lenoir Community College Foundation Casino Night, contact LCC Director of Institutional Advancement Jeanne Kennedy at 252-233-6812.


text:
Suit Up! The Nanosuit is a one-size-fits-all killing machine, transforming the user into the ultimate weapon. Play as Prophet, and choose your own method of tactical warfare against the alien Ceph in the Urban Jungle of New York City.
Click to create and send a link using your email application