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LAKEVILLE, MA — In a continuing effort to provide the best wireless service for local residents in Plymouth County, Verizon Wireless has activated a new cell site. The new site increases high-speed wireless data coverage and capacity along Routes 79, 105, and 18 in Lakeville, Massachusetts, as well as the surrounding area.
Verizon Wireless has invested more than $45 billion since it was formed to increase the coverage and capacity of its national network and to add new services like BroadbandAccess and V CAST. Regionally the company has invested nearly $2.2 billion into its New England network, including over $292 million in 2007 alone. As a result of these investments, every Verizon Wireless cell site in New England offers wireless broadband connectivity.
BroadbandAccess offers computer users the nation's most reliable high-speed wireless mobile broadband network, operating at average upload speeds between 500 and 800 kbps, and download speeds between 600 kbps and 1.4 mbps over Verizon Wireless' EV-DO Revision A network. V CAST brings video clips of TV shows, music on demand and other multimedia services to wireless phones.
Strong demand for Verizon Wireless services continued during the first quarter of 2008 as the company added 1.5 million net new customers and, for the fourteenth consecutive quarter, reported the lowest customer turnover (highest customer loyalty) rate in the wireless industry.
The company's "nation's most reliable wireless network" reputation is based on network studies performed by real-life test men and test women throughout the country. Nationally, these test men and women drive 90 specially equipped vehicles almost 1,000,000 miles annually on Interstate, U.S. and state highways as well as major roads and surface streets in high-population areas, based upon U.S. Census counts, to confirm that voice calls and data connections are successful on the first attempt and stay connected. Vehicles are equipped with computers that automatically make more than three million voice call attempts and more than 16 million data tests annually on Verizon Wireless' network and the networks of other carriers.
About Verizon WirelessVerizon Wireless operates the nation's most reliable wireless voice and data network, serving 67.2 million customers. Headquartered in Basking Ridge, N.J., with 69,000 employees nationwide, Verizon Wireless is a joint venture of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) and Vodafone (NYSE and LSE: VOD). For more information, go to: www.verizonwireless.com. To preview and request broadcast-quality video footage and high-resolution stills of Verizon Wireless operations, log on to the Verizon Wireless Multimedia Library at www.verizonwireless.com/multimedia.####


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Just War as Christian Discipleship – Part 1
I recently finished reading Daniel M. Bell Jr.'s excellent little book, Just War as Christian Discipleship: Recentering the Tradition in the Church rather than the State. And while I have neither the time nor the inclination to write a full review, I figured I would post more than a few excerpts here over the next few days and weeks.
Bell's book isn't perfect, and there are a few areas where I think we are left with more questions than answers, but overall it is a very good introduction to just war history, theory, and practice from a distinctively Christian perspective, and its benefits and usefulness far outweigh its flaws.
While Bell avoids partisan debates for the most part he pulls no punches in speaking straightforwardly about what justice demands in the Christian tradition as it developed from the Augustine and the fathers (modified from Plato and the Greeks) through to Aquinas, Vitoria, and Grotius in the early modern period.it is an excellent introduction to the Just War tradition from a distinctively Christian perspective, and its strengths are much more prominent than its weaknesses.
After a brief history of Just War thinking, and making an important distinction between modern, secular, just war theory, what he calls Just War as public policy checklist or Just War (PPC), and Just War as Christian discipleship or Just War (CD), Bell asks the question, "Has there ever been a just war?"
Such is the history, in brief, of the just war tradition since its adoption and adaptation by Christianity. What the history reflects is that war is not one thing always and forever, that it is no necessarily and inevitably "hell" as Sherman and others would have it. To the contrary, it is a human practice and as such is capable of being waged in different ways, from the highly ritualized and almost game-like wars of medieval chivalry that were minimally lethal (my favorite example being a yearlong war involving one thousand knights in the 1127 CE during which five died, four of those being the result of accidents), to the limited wars of attrition of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to the total wars that characterized significant wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
At the outset of this chapter, the question was raised as to whether war could ever be just. Both pacifists and realists suggest the answer is no. While the historical overview suggests that war need not be total, it does not provide an entirely satisfactory answer to the question of whether war can in fact be just. By itself it does not refute the skeptics. These skeptics sometimes pose the question of just war in a more pointed manner by asking, Has there ever been a just war?
Such a question threatens to plunge us into the midst of the culture wars and the ideological battles of the current moment. After all, there is no shortage of persons willing to proclaim this or that war just or unjust in a manner that appears to be driven more by the political fortunes of the moment than by any deep familiarity with the just war tradition. From the longer perspective of history, there are historians of war and of just war who have argue that there have indeed been just wars.
From a Christian theological perspective, however, the question of whether there has ever been a just war is largely beside the point. From the standpoint of the Christian moral life, it is the wrong question. After all, the Christian moral life does not depend on whether that life has ever been lived faithfully before or not. If Christians are called to be a just war people by God then the proper response to that call is not to step back and ask, Has anyone else done it before us? Rather, even if it means going forth like Abram and his family into the unknown and unprecedented (Heb. 11:8), the proper, faithful response is to discern how our life should be so ordered in response to that call that we might be a people who wage war or refrain from waging war in accord with the precepts of just war. In other words, the proper response to the call to just war is not, Has it been done before? but, How then should we order our live so that we might respond to the call faithfully?
Perhaps the misguided nature of the question will be clearer if we put a similar challenge to another facet of the Christian life. Take, for example, the Ten Commandments. We might ask if there has ever been a Christian community that has embodied them perfectly? Has there ever been a Christian church that has succeeded in living out even one of them perfectly? Or take the Great Commandment that we love God and our neighbor. Has there ever been a church that has followed that commandment without flaw or failure? That the answer to these questions is no does not in itself render the commandments invalid, irrelevant, or unrealistic. That the Christian church has displayed and in the course of its life continues to terrible failures with regard to both love of God and of neighbor does not abolish that calling or erase the reality of that love in its life. That we miss the mark, that we continue to struggle with sin, does not diminish either the high calling to or the reality of holiness and virtue in the life of the church. Our failure as a people does not disprove God's call; neither does our repeated failure establish that we are not in fact capable of accepting and embodying that call. All of this means that even if one could definitively show that the church had never even once embodied the just war discipline in war, that in itself would not prove that just war was neither the church's calling nor a real possibility in its life.


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Big scorpions are definitely intimidating in their own right, but ask anyone who hails from the southwest and they'll set you straight: it's the little ones you have to look out for.
It's the tiniest of these pincer-wielding critters that scutter their way undetected into your shoes, the pile of laundry that you haphazardly dumped on your bedroom floor, or the woodpile that you've been storing in the side yard. And worst of all? The smallest scorpion species are often the most venomous.
Which is why we should all count ourselves fortunate that the newly identified species of scorpion pictured up top — dubbed Wernerius inyoensis by UNLV doctoral candidate Matthew Graham — makes its home in the deserts of Death Valley National Park, far from your freshly laundered undies. Measuring just over half an inch long, W. inyoensis is downright tiny, and while Graham and his colleagues make no mention of how venomous its sting is in the paper describing the new species, you just know this little bugger would make a home out of your shoes in no time if given the chance.
The new species is described in the latest issue of ZooKeys.
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You can't take two steps in the world these days without having your image captured. Everywhere you turn there are people with cellphone cameras, traffic cameras, Google Streetview vehicles. How can we remain anonymous in this digital age? Why, with digital camouflage, of course. Enter Pixelhead.
The brainchild of artist Martin Backes, Pixelhead is a soft, form-fitting balaclava that covers your head with a digitized version of German Secretary of the Interior Thomas de Maizière, making it perhaps the easiest and least humiliating way to have a German government official on your head, though don't quote me on that; I'm no government official wearing expert.
Pixelhead effectively makes you another faceless drone amidst a sea of faceless drones, only you'll be the only one not being identified as the guy peeing in the alley in that one Google Streetview picture. They'll just blame it on Thomas de Maizière, or one of the combatants in the 1990 arcade classic Pit Fighter.
This is a much more effective and safe method for avoiding being photographed than my plan, which involved getting a full body tattoo of myself two centimeters to the left so I always look blurry.
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Selling With Substance
Selling With Substance is a blog site. The content helps people understand the psychology of effective selling.
The Selling With Substance blog is specifically targeted towards people who aren't professional salespeople, but who still need to sell to be successful in their careers and wish to build a sales competency into their skillset. Attorneys, consultants, accountants, personal trainers, and other professional services positions are the primary target market.
I will also offer targeted training and coaching services and a DVD series, and will provide speaking and keynote engagements as well.
Images should be modern and professional. This is a sales curriculum designed for non-salespeople, so I intend the branding to NOT represent pushy, manipulative, disingenuous, or otherwise typical sales behavior.
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In poker, a player wins through one of two strategies: by having the best hand outright or bluffing his way to victory.
More times than not, players with potentially winning hands never collect the pot because of the victor's ability to pull off strategy number two, a shrewd psychological ploy that allows a player to maximize his resources because of timing, discipline and nerve. It's a risky approach because if the bluff is called too many times and found to be without merit, then the player utilizing this technique loses all advantages and quickly becomes marginalized. On the other hand, if the strategist succeeds, he may be able to pull off miraculous outcomes through guile as a substitute for financial resources.
Which takes us to the political poker game between Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman. It's a high stakes game, with reign over California for the next four years serving as the final pot. Clearly, the players have different resources and different strategies.
In this game, the largely self-funded Meg Whitman clearly has financial dominance. The latest data show that she is badly outspending Brown. Since January 1 of this year, Whitman has spent about $364,000 per day; Brown has spent a total of $633,000 for the entire seven plus months. It's not by accident. To date, Whitman has self-funded $91 million of the $109 million raised by her campaign. Brown has been aided by about $7 million from various independent expenditures. Still, no matter how you cut it, the campaign spending to date is about as one-sided as it gets.
Whitman is attempting to win this game by raising the stakes in every hand to the point of making the election a one-player contest. She hopes to hike the ante to such a level that Brown will be rendered uncompetitive, and therefore the loser. It's what one does with financial resources. For his part, Brown is attempting to win the game by employing guile as a replacement for capital. As such, he has to be careful about when he plays a hand and when he doesn't. So far, Brown has played little, with nary so much as a single television or radio ad. Instead, he has chosen to save his resources for later in the campaign season when the pots will grow with the approach of election day. In place of money, Brown has remained visible through announcements in his post as attorney general, on line releases of campaign positions, and countless appearances at neutral venues where Whitman has been absent. It's what a poker player does when he's watching his undersized resources.
Incredibly, Brown's strategy may be working, at least to the point of preventing a Whitman runaway. The latest polls have Brown with a 3 point lead over Whitman. That's a statistical tie in the eyes of the pollsters, still it shows that the Brown strategy has life. It's not only left Whitman supporters asking "$109 million for this?" but it has emboldened the Brown camp to continue with its strategy. Meanwhile, has squirreled away more than $23 million, which has been collected during the year--an amount that leaves him with twice as much money as Whitman at this point in the campaign.
Meanwhile, back at the poker table, Meg Whitman must invest more funds to stay in the game--potentially as much as $100 million more between now and November 2nd. Another player might well withdraw in the face of such resources, but why should Jerry Brown? If he's held her to a draw or better to this point, he may surprise a lot of people with his poker playing at the end of the game.
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Welcome to O-Pro, our newest e-newsletter for oncology professionals, expanding on our very successful Nursing e-News to include all members of the oncology team. This quarterly newsletter provides resources to aid your clinical practice and a forum to learn from and share with other members of the interdisciplinary team. Submissions and content suggestions are more than welcomed! Please use the link at the bottom to forward this eNews to a friend.
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DAVE HILL, A 13-TIME PGA Tour winner who died this week at the age of 74, was called the Don Rickles of the golf tour by Sports Illustrated because of his outspokenness and derogatory comments. A solid performer who won the Vardon Trophy in 1969 and played on three U.S. Ryder Cup teams, Hill was a frequent tour leader in two categories: fines and suspensions.
The most famous instance was in 1970 when the U.S. Open was played at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. Hill finished second to England's Tony Jacklin, who cruised to a seven-shot victory.
Did Hill like the course? Maybe they shouldn't have asked. All those pros who recently criticized Cog Hill during the BMW Championship have nothing on golf's Don Rickles.
When asked what he thought of the course, Hill said, "I'm still looking for it." When asked what Hazeltine needed, he said it only lacked "80 acres of corn and a few cows. They ruined a good farm when they built this course."
Hill also said that famed course architect Robert Trent Jones had the blueprints upside down when he built Hazeltine. If Hill had won the U.S. Open, he reportedly planned to ride a tractor on the golf course, trophy in hand. He was fined $150 by commissioner Joe Dey for "criticism that tends to ridicule and demean the club."
With Nick Seitz, Hill wrote his book Teed Off in the late 1970s. He won six times on the Champions Tour and later praised Hazeltine after its 1990 redesign in advance of the 1991 U.S. Open won by Payne Stewart.
−The Armchair Golfer
Friday, September 30
Dave Hill, 1937-2011
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When I think of Dave Hill, the word "acerbic" comes to mind. He was certainly a unique individual and those of us in the golfing world not in his cross hairs will miss him.
- GolfWorld118.com said...
Hill might be very rude to the builders of famed courses, but we had to commit that what he had said was true. No matter what the past was, the golfer has now gone. I think we will miss him.
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Celtic and Rangers fans watch the derby together at Alex Riches' pub
My goal was to remove the stigma attached to one of Europe's oldest local derbies, the "Old Firm" games between Celtic and Rangers. Everyone associates those games with violence; it was no different here. This area has always had a lot of Celtic bars because we are right on the route from the city center to Celtic Park. That's why many people would avoid us on match days for fear of fighting between rival fans.
So I tried to create a friendly atmosphere at The Winged Ox –even on match days and for fans of both teams. Our pub is located in a former church, Saint Luke's, which is now a great venue in Glasgow's East End, with space for concerts, art and comedy nights.
We started showing the derbies here eight years ago and introduced a strict no-colors policy (no team tops, scarves or caps) from the outset. Also, we have a strong security team on the door and inside. I wanted to show Old Firm games in an open, family-friendly environment, and it worked. We always have a large female crowd and children, too. Some 200 people come for Old Firm games and then we sell over 1000 pints of beer.
It's hard to maintain our friendly values. Every derby calls for renewed vigilance; it's the only way. I have worked hard on this concept over the years, especially on convincing our neighbors that this is a quiet, friendly place to watch the derby. They know that now. I have got to know many of our guests and am proud to have built up such a strong but good crowd for these fiercely contested games.
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As an individual or as part of a team undertake Training Needs Analysis and Instructional Design during bid, development and support phases of the training lifecycle within agreed timescales and budget.
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Robert2 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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I'm an entrepreneur that builds websites centered around a single topic (in this case online education) to educate people about that topic and to make some money through advertising.
Prospective college students or people in their 20s and 30s who are looking to improve their career prospects with a degree or career certification. They want to improve their lot in life but need guidance in the next step in their career. Typically they will have a steady job that doesn't pay well enough and would like to expand their income opportunities by going back to school for career field like nursing, culinary arts, or business.
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Designs that I like:
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I'm calling this mini quilt "Tissu Francais de Beauville" Not very creative, but all of the fabric, except the French General solid tan backing, is from the Beauville linen factory in France.
Not too bad, huh? I should probably dirty mine up a little? LOL
Here's a few close ups of some strange little creatures.
Have a wonderful night and stay safe! I'll be back in 2016!!


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Maura Tierney is doing well in her fight against cancer, her former executive producer at upcoming NBC show "Parenthood," told reporters on Sunday.
"She's doing well… She's doing really good," Jason Katims, who is executive producing the show along with Ron Howard, told reporters at the Television Critics Association panel on Sunday in Pasadena. "She's in treatment and I spoke to her a few weeks ago and she's doing good."
As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, last September, an NBC rep announced that Maura would be exiting "Parenthood" as she continued to undergo treatment for breast cancer. Show production had previously been postponed to allow for the star's medical evaluation. Lauren Graham, formerly of "Gilmore Girls," was later cast in the role.
When asked about taking on a part previously held by another actress, Lauren said she was cast fast when Maura decided to step down over her health concerns.
"I never did see the original pilot. It all just happened really quickly… I knew what everybody knew about what was happening," Lauren said, referring to Maura's situation.
But Lauren said the material made stepping into the role easy, as did the cast, which includes former "Six Feet Under" star Peter Krause and Craig T. Nelson.
"It just was as simple as it was so moving, so simple [and] I was so impressed by the [caliber] of people involved," Lauren said. "It was a very unusual situation, but everybody made me feel really nice."
When asked, however, if any thought had been given to bringing Maura back in a guest role, Jason said they were focusing on getting the show to air.
"No, we're at the point where we're really just launching the show… We're shooting the first couple of episodes," he added.
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Polar extremes
Every spring a large number of wealthy tourists invade a Russian research camp at the North Pole – to brake records, have adventures and take selfies on the ice.
Mr. Montag, our photographer, and I are drifting across the polar sea on a large ice floe, and are about to open our next can of Russian beer. Is it the fourth or the fifth? We have stopped counting, but are still among the more sober people around here – at least, we feel we are. Most of our fellow travelers are having champagne – the good stuff from Bollinger – very old, very pricy scotch, or just high-end cognac.
The heated cafeteria tent is filled with a strong smell of sweat, due to the 50 marathon runners who have all squeezed into the place and are now celebrating reaching the finish line. They consume huge quantities of gummy bears and tell each other how hard it has been. I joined them earlier for ten kilometers of the way, just for fun, and running was indeed difficult. Then again, running is always difficult, especially in the snow and wearing winter boots, but the air was refreshingly cool and clear. What's more, anyone, who has ever jogged along Hamburg's Alster River on a Sunday afternoon knows that the real difficulty is avoiding the pedestrians, who insist on walking four abreast, without colliding with racing bikes.
We are at the 89th parallel, in the Camp Barneo polar station. It is the last outpost of civilization, approximately 100 kilometers from the North Pole – the top of the world. Dozens of generations of adventurers and researchers, and countless expeditions, have yearned to reach it before us. The American explorer Robert Edwin Peary claimed to have been the first to reach the pole in 1909, despite Frederick Cook insisting he had reached it the year before. The race to the Pole is today staged in the form of the North Pole Marathon, which is held annually in April. These days the region, which is among our planet's remotest and most inhospitable, is accessible to everyone – including us. Tour operators like the Russian Special Travel Club take you there and back in only three days, weather permitting, for a price starting at 16,900 euros. So sign your medical evacuation policy, and off you go: from Hamburg via Copenhagen and Oslo to Longyearbyen, and on to Camp Barneo.
I have no idea what time it is. The sun never sets and there is constant daylight. The clocks show Moscow time. Around us there is nothing but icy desolation and polar bears. Having said that, the only polar bear we have actually seen so far was towering over the entrance to the local supermarket in Longyearbyen, Svalbard – and it was definitely stuffed. I do not think that a polar bear would voluntarily approach the camp, although this is a story the staff love to tell visitors. I suspect they only do this so that people do not wander out of the camp and fall into cracks in the ice. These crevasses are much more dangerous than polar bears.
The station's live-in physician, Stanislav Boyarsky, is more impressive than these stories. His hands are twice as big as mine and he boasts a belly that he could hoist onto a tabletop. He is the scion of a famous family of Russian polar researchers and has been Camp Barneo's physician since it was first set up in 2002. Boyarsky always carries a thermos flask of home-brewed tea with him, which contains "lots of fire vodka." He offers me a cup.
When he is not at the North Pole, he works as a surgeon at a suburban hospital in St. Petersburg, stitching victims of motorcycle accidents back together. When I talk to him, he comes across as very kind, even gentle. The only consultation of his that I witness goes very well: he sticks an adhesive bandage on a blister that has developed on a marathon runner's foot.
Outside, three scientists are freezing their hands off while attempting to drill a hole into the ice. The hole is important for climate science, they explain. They want to lower a probe to measure the salinity, currents and temperature under the ice. On a large pile of snow next to them, a woman called Diana is posing for photographs, in a bikini and fur boots. She is from Phoenix, Arizona and has already displayed a proclivity for hitching up her top in front of the other passengers on the plane ride over. She can afford to – both in terms of her figure and financially. Her boyfriend is grinning and taking photographs. He is 20 years her senior, so maybe he is the one who has bankrolled this trip. A female scientist looks up briefly and shakes her head. Not because she thinks it is strange that Diana strips down to her bikini in temperatures of minus 23 centigrade, she says, but because she does not understand what some people spend their money on.
Chechen paratroopers also live in the camp. Most of the time, they just sit in their tent. They emerge only occasionally to march around in their camouflage gear brandishing their polar-proof machine guns. They line up ten meters away from their tent. Attention! Then they go back inside. It is just a drill, the North Pole does not belong to any country, so any government can send troops there. Because of the billions of tons of oil and natural gas located around the North Pole, a number of nations have lodged claims for all or part of the region. The U.S., Norway, Canada and Denmark all want a slice of the pie. But apart from the Chechens, I do not encounter any other military personnel. In 2007, a Russian mini-submarine is said to have planted a small Russian flag in a titanium capsule on the seafloor 4,261 meters below us, to mark the territory. Naturally, no one can see it from up here.
When rumors started circulating that Chechen soldiers had traveled here via Norway, disguised as tourists, the Independent Barents Observer proclaimed a threat to national security: "Cuban Missile Crisis at the North Pole!" And when the Chechen president Ramsan Kadyrow, a dictator and torturer, promised his "heroes a triumphant welcome home" on Instagram, and praised their "unlimited potential," peace and quiet at the North Pole seemed to have come to an end. Flights were cancelled or rescheduled, airspace clearances withdrawn. That is why it took us so long to finally fly up here. Every day, we were told that we would be taking off, only to be informed it was not going to happen after all. A large crack in the icy landing strip was the official reason given each time. Those who want to go to the North Pole have to have a lot of patience, I thought at the time. Now I think it was all because of the Chechens.
You have to give the soldiers some credit, though: The runway on the ice has indeed broken apart four times already, and they helped to repair it every time. Probably, because they also wanted to be able to get back home quickly.
Once, we almost landed on such a crack. It would have torn the plane apart, but the pilot pulled up at the last minute. One of the female marathon runners from the U.S. excitedly shared her unsolicited take on the situation: God was trying to tell us something. She exclaimed that he was yelling: "Don't go there!" I would have loved to yell back that it was more likely climate change was trying to tell us something. For example, that too many people in the U.S. leave their pickup trucks running – including the air-conditioning – while they shop at the organic supermarket, so that their car is nice and cool when they collapse back into it. God has nothing to do with that.
Officially, the North Pole does not belong to any country, but many nations have a keen interest in the natural resources said to be located there
To me the true heroes are the parachutists, who construct the whole camp, only to dismantle it again a month later. They are dropped off above the ice floe with their tools, two bulldozers and supplies. They have to gather together all the materials and spend days flattening the ice with the aid of shovels and icepicks, until the runway can be smoothed out with bulldozers.
That can take up to a week and is extremely exhausting. After this, it is the pilots' turn to fly back and forth, bringing with them the rest of the materials for the camp, and finally, the tourists. The pilots do not really want to mingle with the latter, which is why they are staying in another encampment a safe distance away.
Every time yet another flight is cancelled or rescheduled at short notice, someone will talk about the "the expedition-like character" of a trip to the North Pole. The biggest journey into the unknown, however, was the food. I did not dare try it. Instead, I exclusively consumed the marathon runners' cereal bars and gummy bears, which they left behind on the tables in the cafeteria tent, before setting off for their eight-hour circular run in the snow. To this day, I admire the courage our photographer displayed when he tucked into the beige meaty gruel. His face was unforgettable. Most of the visitors only stay for a short time. Having conquered the North Pole, they fly back to Longyearbyen and dine at the Sheraton. The cafeteria would also have driven Ivan Papanin to despair. In 1937, the arctic pioneer was the commander of the Soviet "North Pole 1" station, the predecessor to Camp Barneo. "Those who want to spend the winter at the North Pole must eat like in Moscow's finest restaurants," he demanded at the time. Papanin managed to take 450 pounds of caviar with him. His attempts to squeeze a live pig onto the overloaded plane were less successful. He and his team of three, plus a dog called "Happy," conducted research for nine months in the station on the drift ice, until an icebreaker took them on board off the coast of Greenland. Despite there still being supplies for another six months, Papanin had lost a third of his body weight in the cold, leaving him weighing only 60 kilos.
The only thing I find more frightening than the food is the fact that the Arctic is in the process of melting. Victor Serov also finds this disquieting. He is one of two managers in charge of the station. I totally buy that he is a serious polar scientist. He really means it when he says – with pathos in his voice – that the North Pole is unpredictable and that you never know what will happen next.
This year, he says, it has been a difficult season. The winter temperatures were unusually warm, causing frequent cracks in the icy runway. And then there were the Chechen paratroopers and the geopolitical squabbles – but he does not mention those, of course. Serov works as an expedition leader for the Russian Geographical Society, who are the official operators of Camp Barneo. It is a good job; he only misses his wife, he says. Nevertheless, he wouldn't like to vacation here. Somewhere warm would be more to his liking – the French Riviera, perhaps.
William MacPherson from London and his two sons walk past. He tells me – probably because I just happen to there not doing anything particularly important – that he finds everything here pretty surreal. He and his boys skiied for three days before finally reaching the pole where he thought they would be alone. He couldn't have been more wrong! There was quite a bit going on: Two Britons were planning to go up in a hot air balloon to break some record or other. In the camp things are no better. In fact, just now, Captain America jogs past. MacPherson cannot quite believe that either.
The comic book hero's actual name is Douglas White and he is a clerk from Tampa, Florida. His costume is hardly aerodynamic. It takes him six hours and 25 minutes to complete the course, which is enough for him to come eighth among the men. A small number of other runners has donned a costume, too, but most of them are doing the run for charity: for cancer research, war veterans or landmine victims.
This is the runners' justification for being here. I suspect, however, that they would also like to brag about it on Facebook. And indeed, some do exactly that.
Six hours and several cans of beer later, Montag and I have actually reached the geographic north pole. The icy desert looks exactly like at the camp – just without the camp: white and flat.We got here in 40 minutes by helicopter. A little girl was crying for most of the flight because she found the whole thing exhausting and boring. She is the only child among the visitors to the Pole. Her parents look somewhat sheepish.
Those who don't take risks never get to drink champagne
At the North Pole itself, people are dancing in a circle holding hands. I do not notice at first, because I am busy recording a message for 7th graders at a Hamburg high school. It is only later when I watch the video that I see the circle of people in all-weather jackets dancing around the iron rod that marks the North Pole. Around the world in a few leaps, crossing all degrees of longitude and 24 time zones. A lifelong dream fulfilled. A man scatters the ashes of his father. Many toast the occasion – with champagne and hip flasks probably containing expensive scotch. We are at the top of the world, so it is all downhill from here. The next evening, back in Hamburg, it finally gets dark.
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It Pays to Be Friends with Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey
Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey has a bad habit of croonyism and cooking up special government deals for his friends. Sadly, for the Lt. Governor, it's business as usual.
News Channel 4 has the most recent story:
Legislative Staffers Get Raises During Freeze
Those Given Pay Hikes Worked For Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey
The I-Team found Lt. Gov. and Speaker of the Senate Ron Ramsey approved pay hikes for 18 senate staffers last fiscal year at the same time both former Gov. Phil Bredesen and the Legislature didn't allow raises for the other 42,825 employees of the state.
They even sent state workers a letter letting them know raises were not possible because of state budget constraints.
So how did these staffers get raises?
Records obtained by the I-Team show the staffers got what's called a "classification upgrade." That's when a raise is given to keep a salary competitive.
These staffers didn't get a promotion. They didn't receive more schooling to earn a higher salary. They just got it because Ramsey felt they deserved it.
"There's nothing wrong with that — nothing," said Ramsey.
"Do you think the rest of state workers, when they learn of these classification upgrades, will feel that way?" asked I-Team reporter Caroline Moses.
"I do," Ramsey said.
Not long ago, Ramsey was caught with his hand in the taxpayer cookie jar on behalf of his rich friend. The Daily News Journal broke the story, but their archives have covered up the story. The Knoxville News Sentinel blogged about it though.
Ramsey seeks to reduce friend's property taxes
Murfreesboro's Daily News Journal had a great real-estate scoop this week:
A developer with 187 acres of vacant land off Medical Center Parkway would get a $273,058 tax break if proposed legislation by Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey were the law today.
Ramsey's bill would cap appraisal increases on vacant land at 25 percent …
Ramsey, an East Tennessee Republican, said he came up with the idea after learning his friend and constituent C.M. Gatton of Bristol faces the higher tax bill based on land in Murfreesboro he owns that was recently reappraised at about $30 million …
If (the assessor's) value remains in place, Gatton faces an annual tax bill of about $282,758 for both commercial and residential land. That's in addition to city taxes owed on the property.
"Nobody can afford that," Ramsey said during a phone interview this past week.
The Daily News Journal was none too happy with Ramsey's legislative meddling:
Editorial: Lt. Gov.'s tax break bill unfair to county
12:00 AM, Apr. 14, 2011
But Ramsey, who admitted he came up with the idea for the bill after learning about Gatton's situation, wants to help his friend even more. Under his proposed legislation, the reappraisal would only raise the value of Gatton's land to $1.6 million, resulting in an annual tax bill of $9,701.
"It's not fair," Boner told The Daily News Journal. "I'm not against a rich man making millions, but he still has to pay his fair share of taxes. … If they pass this law, it's not going to be good to anybody. It's going to cost the county billions in assessed value. It will be millions in tax dollars.
"Somebody is going to make up the difference."
And that "somebody," Boner refers to, is the rest of us taxpayers.
More than lost revenue, this bill is just plain wrong and an abuse of office by the lieutenant governor. It is a favor for a friend that could have far-reaching effects on our county's strained coffers as well as those of others.
Ramsey's legislation has not moved through the General Assembly's committee process, and we hope it never does.


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NEW YORK RANGERS at NEW JERSEY DEVILS
Wednesday, Dec. 29, 7:00 p.m.
Prudential Center • Newark, NJ
Rangers: 21-14-2 (44 pts)
Devils: 9-24-2 (20 pts)
* All information through NHL games on Dec. 27TOMORROW'S GAME:
The Rangers will begin a three-game road trip tomorrow, Dec. 29, when they face-off against the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center (7:00 p.m.). The Blueshirts currently rank third in the Atlantic Division standings, and sixth in the Eastern Conference, with a record of 21-14-2 (44 pts). The Rangers enter tomorrow's contest having defeated the New York Islanders, 7-2, on Monday at Madison Square Garden to improve to 14-7-1 in their last 22 games, and have earned a point in eight of their last 11 games at MSG (7-3-1). The Devils enter the contest with a 9-24-2 (20 pts) record to rank 15th in the Eastern Conference, and have lost nine of their last 10 games including each of their last five. Following tomorrow's contest, the Rangers will continue their three-game road trip when they face-off against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday, Jan. 1, at St. Pete Times Forum (7:30 p.m.), in the first game of a back-to-back set.
Prior to tomorrow's game, the Blueshirts' morning skate is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. at the Prudential Center.
* Schedule and availability subject to change
- TV: MSG Network
6:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show with Bill Pidto and Ron Duguay
7:00 p.m. – Rangers at Devils
Broadcasters: Sam Rosen (Play-By-Play), Joe Micheletti (Analyst), John Giannone (In-Game Reporter)
- Radio: 1050 ESPN Radio and newyorkrangers.com
6:30 p.m. – Rangers Pre-Game Show with Don LaGreca
7:00 p.m. – Rangers at Devils
Broadcasters: Kenny Albert (Play-By-Play), Dave Maloney (Analyst)
RANGERS vs. DEVILS:
- All-Time: 96-80-27-5 overall (53-28-20-2 at home, 43-52-7-3 on the road)
- 2010-11: Tonight is the third of six meetings this season, and the second at Prudential Center. New York is 2-0-0 thus far, including a 1-0-0 mark on the road following a 3-0 win at New Jersey on Nov. 5.
- Last Season: New York was 3-2-1 overall and 2-1-0 on the road. Five of their six meetings were decided by two goals or less, including three that were decided by one goal and two that required the shootout.
- The Rangers rank third with a 12-6-0 (24 pts) record on the road; the Devils rank 30th with a 5-10-2 (12 pts) mark at home
- The Rangers are 7-4-0 vs. the Atlantic Division; the Devils are 1-7-0 against the Atlantic Division
- Henrik Lundqvist is 20-7-5 with a 1.83 goals against average and five shutouts in 32 career games vs. the Devils; Martin Biron is 8-15-2-2 with a 3.20 goals against average and two shutouts in 29 career contests vs. the Devils
- Chris Drury leads the Rangers with 13 goals, 13 assists and 26 points in 39 career regular season contests vs. the Devils
- New York lists no former Devils on their roster
- New Jersey lists no former Rangers on their roster
The Blueshirts have posted a plus-seven rating on special teams (PPG+SHG minus PPGA+SHGA) this season, which is tied for eighth in the league.
- Power Play: The Rangers tallied two goals in four power play opportunities (5:57) on Monday vs. the Islanders, and have now registered a goal in eight of the last 11 games (9-40, 22.5% over the span). New York ranks 14th overall (24-135, 17.8%) and 11th on the road (12-62, 19.4%). The Rangers are 1-5 (5:01) in five-on-three situations (last – 11/24 at TBL), and 0-2 (2:23) when four-on-three (last – 12/3 vs. NYI). Shorthanded goals allowed (2): 11/20 at MIN (Cullen); 12/5 vs. OTT (Kelly).
- Penalty Killing: The Blueshirts held the Islanders scoreless in two shorthanded situations (4:00) on Monday at MSG, and are now 64-74 (86.5%) over the last 25 games. New York ranks 13th overall (104-127, 81.9%) and is tied for 13th on the road (57-70, 81.4%). The Rangers are 4-6 (5:08) in three-on-five situations (last – 10/30 at TOR), and 4-6 (2:41) when three-on-four (last – 11/15 at PIT). Shorthanded goals for (8): 10/9 at BUF (Dubinsky); 11/5 at NJD (Dubinsky); 11/15 at PIT (Staal); 11/24 at TBL (Boyle); 11/26 at FLA (Prust); 12/5 vs. OTT (Prust); 12/12 vs. WSH (Staal); 12/16 vs. PHX (Prust).
- Four-on-Four: New York did not skate in a four-on-four situation on Monday vs. the Islanders, and are now plus-three in 28, four-on-four situations (51:15). Four-on-four goals for (4): 10/18 vs. COL (Frolov); 11/11 vs. BUF (Anisimov); 11/15 at PIT (Callahan); 12/12 vs. WSH (Callahan). Four-on-four goals allowed (1): 10/15 vs. TOR (Kessel).
The Rangers own a record of 15-5-2 vs. the Devils since the start of the 2007-08 season, including a 7-3-1 mark at New Jersey during the stretch, dating back to a 2-0 win on Oct. 25, 2007. Henrik Lundqvist, who has started in each of the Rangers' last 27 meetings with the Devils, has registered a 2.08 goals against average, .927 save percentage and five shutouts in the 22-game stretch.
Henrik Lundqvist has faced-off against Martin Brodeur in 27 career regular season contests, posting a record of 18-4-5 with a 1.72 goals against average, .938 save percentage and four shutouts over the span.
The Blueshirts were credited with a season-high, 52 shots in their 7-2 win vs. the Islanders on Monday, their most since they registered 57 shots vs. the Islanders on Mar. 5, 2007 (2-1 win). The Rangers tied their season-high for most shots in a period with 18 in each of the first two periods, and their 36 shots through two periods is the most since recording 37 shots through two vs. Washington on Oct. 12, 2007 (20 in the first, 17 in the second in a 3-1 win). The Blueshirts' 32-shot advantage over the Islanders on Monday (52-20) is tied for the second largest in the NHL this season, behind St. Louis' 39-shot advantage over Anaheim on Oct. 11 (53-14).
Thursday's shootout vs. Tampa Bay lasted 11 rounds, which is tied for the sixth longest in NHL history and longest since Mar. 27, 2010 (Detroit defeated Nashville in 11 rounds). The 11-round shootout is the third longest in Rangers history behind their NHL record 15-round shootout on Nov. 26, 2005 vs. Washington (3-2, 4-3 in the shootout) and a 13-round shootout at Philadelphia on Oct. 7, 2006 (5-4, 1-0 in the shootout), which stands as the longest one-goal shootout in NHL history. Henrik Lundqvist was in net for all three contests, posting a 2-1 record and stopping a combined 34 of 39 shots for a .872 save percentage.
The Rangers registered their 20th win of the season with a 4-3 shootout win vs. Phoenix on Dec. 16, reaching the mark in just 34 games which is tied for 12th fastest in franchise history (full list below).
- 28 (1993-94)
- 29 (1971-72)
- 30 (1941-42)
- 31 (1939-40, 1970-71)
- 32 (2005-06)
- 33 (1938-39, 1972-73, 1991-92, 1995-96, 2008-09)
- 34 (1937-38, 2010-11)
Compared to last season, the Blueshirts have shown a three wins, five points improvement, having tallied 12 more goals (including a four-goal improvement while shorthanded) while allowing six fewer goals against through 37 games.
The Rangers completed their ninth of 18 back-to-back sets with a 4-3 shootout win vs. Phoenix on Dec. 16. The Blueshirts improved to 9-0-0 (4-0-0 at home, 5-0-0 on the road) in the second game of back-to-backs this season, having out-scored their opponent, 31-9, in those games. Over the last two seasons, New York is 18-2-2 in the back-end of back-to-back sets, including a 8-1-1 mark at MSG and 10-1-1 on the road over the span.
The Blueshirts have started games off strong this season, tallying the first goal of the game in 22 of their 37 games and posting a record of 16-5-1 in those contests. The Rangers own a record of 10-1-1 when leading after the first period, having out-scored their opponent, 27-21, in the opening frame.
The Rangers have had 13 different players credited with at least one game winning goal this season which is tied with Washington for the most in the NHL.
The Rangers currently lead the NHL with 1,058 hits and rank second with 599 blocked shots. Ryan Callahan ranked second in the league with 128 hits and led all NHL forwards with 40 blocked shots prior to his injury on Dec. 15, while Dan Girardi currently leads the league with 106 blocked shots and Brian Boyle ranks 12th in the NHL with 104 hits.
- The Rangers lead the league in shorthanded goals (eight), are tied for fifth in wins (21), ninth in points (44), seventh in goals (115), and rank seventh with a plus-18 goal differential
- Henrik Lundqvist is 8-4-1 with a 1.89 goals against average, a .929 save percentage and three shutouts in his last 13 games
- Derek Stepan enters the game with a four-game goal streak (four goals), and has registered 17 points (eight goals, nine assists) in the last 21
- Brian Boyle has recorded 10 points (three goals, seven assists) in the last 10 games
- Chris Drury has tallied four assists in the last four games
- Brandon Dubinsky has registered 10 points (three goals, seven assists) in the last 11 games
- Alex Frolov has tallied five points (two goals, three assists) in the last six games
- Marc Staal has tallied 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in the last 15 games, including six points (two goals, four assists) in the last seven
- Dan Girardi has recorded five points (one goal, four assists) in the last six games
- Artem Anisimov has recorded five points (two goals, three assists) in the last six games
Four Rangers' prospects are competing at the 2011 World Junior Championship in Buffalo, New York. Chris Kreider and Ryan Bourque are making their second appearance with Team USA, having both been members of last year's gold medal-winning team. Roman Horak is also making his second appearance with the Czech Republic, while Jesper Fasth is making his first appearance for Sweden at the elite tournament.
- Dan Girardi: 1 point from 100 NHL career
- Alex Frolov: 3 points from 400 NHL career
- Brandon Dubinsky: 7 assists from 100 NHL career
- Henrik Lundqvist: 8 wins from 200 NHL career
- Mats Zuccarello: 1st career NHL game (12/23 vs. TBL)
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- Vinny Prospal (IR on Sept. 24/knee surgery on Oct. 18, 6-8 weeks) – 37
- Derek Boogaard (injured shoulder on Dec. 9) – 7
- Ryan Callahan (broken hand on Dec. 15) – 4
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.--February 22, 2013: EnergyLogic, the foremost leader and manufacturer of waste oil heating technology and MacroAir's authorized supplier for the automotive market, and MacroAir, the inventors of the high volume, low speed fan, have announced the winner of this year's NADA drawing for an HVLS fan.
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Mark Ehlers:"I would probably pick the donkey because it can be useful."
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John and Ann Betar
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John and Ann Betar were selected winners of the 2013 Longest Married Couples Project run by Worldwide Marriage Encounter, a faith-based marriage enrichment organization. They are parishioners and founding members of St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
John Betar and Ann Shawah were from the same Syrian community in Bridgeport. John Betar immigrated to America in 1921 with his brother and settled with their father in Bridgeport, Connecticut. After completing grammar school, he took a job peddling fruit in Grenwich and would drive Ann Shawah and her friends to school. Though Ann had been promised to a man twenty years her senior in an arranged marriage, she fell in love with John and they eloped in Harrison, New York, on November 25, 1932 at the ages of 21 and 17.
In 1938, John Betar opened a the grocery store Betar's Market in the south end of Bridgeport, with Ann a housewife. They raised five children. In their later years, Ann discovered a talent for painting with oils and watercolor and their favorite passtime became cooking soup together. Their family has grown to fourteen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
On November 25, 2012, John and Ann Betar celebrated their eightieth wedding anniversary at St. Nicholas Antiochian Church in Bridgeport. They were 101 and 97, respectively.
Longest Married Couple Project
In a press release dated January 29, 2013, faith-based marriage enrichment organization Worldwide Marriage Encounter selected John and Ann Betar as winning the third annual Longest Married Couple Project. The Betars are not the statistically longest married couple in America, but were rather hand selected from a group of nominees submitted to the organization. They were officially recognized on February 9 in a ceremony held by WWME coordinators Diane and Dick Baumbach at the home of Betar grandchild Heather Mitchell in Fairfield.
Proclamations were issued to the Betars by President Barack Obama, Connecticut Governer Dannel Malloy, the US House of Representatives, and WWME. Prizes included a personalized Bible, a lighthouse, and figurine entitled "Endless Love", which encompass the Christian tennats of Faith, Hope, and Love. Following this event, they were recognized nationally from TV hosts such as David Letterman to Kelly Ripa.
- 2013 Longest Married Couple Winners Announced! WWME Press Release. January 29, 2013.
- Couple Celebrates 80th Wedding Anniversary, Shares Secrets to Lasting Marriage Sher, Lauren. ABC News. November 20, 2012.
- 'Longest married couple' lives in Fairfield CT Post. February 7, 2013.
- Fairfielders' 80-year marriage a record, group proclaims CT Post. February 7, 2013.
- Best and the rest of the past week CT Post. February 7, 2013.
- Blizzard no barrier to honors for Fairfielders' 80-year marriage Barone, Meg. CT Post. February 13, 2013.
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" A UK couple had their three foster children taken away after social workers decided that the couple's support for the supposedly "racist" policies of the UK Independence Party (Ukip) made them "unsuitable" caregivers, The Telegraph reports.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Ukip, it's the conservative wing of British politics. If you want an understanding of the group's principles, look no further than Nigel Farage, founding member and party leader:
"It is total and utter failure. This ship, the euro Titanic has now hit the iceberg and sadly there simply aren't enough life boats," said Farage, an infamously skeptical critic of the eurozone, to the European Parliament.
The Ukip advocates lower taxes, limited government, freer markets, and immigration reform. However, to certain social workers in the Labour-controlled Rotherham borough, supporting the above makes you an "unsuitable" foster parent.
The parents claim they were made to feel like criminals and that they had a "black mark" on them for supporting the conservative group. And now it has culminated in the loss of their foster children, one boy and two girls. "
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- Ukip fury over foster children move (standard.co.uk)
- You: Row over Ukip foster parents' children removed by social workers (guardian.co.uk)
- Ukip fury after foster children removed from family who are party members (independent.co.uk)
- Council defends taking foster children away from UKIP members – Telegraph.co.uk (telegraph.co.uk)
- Investigation launched into why couple's foster children were taken from them 'after they joined Ukip' (dailymail.co.uk)
- Fury as Rotherham council takes children from foster parents because they're in Ukip (yorkshirepost.co.uk)
- UK couple had foster children taken away by council on grounds they were members of 'racist' UKIP party – @Telegraph (telegraph.co.uk)


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More Player Movements
Back room of the Phillies clubhouse was empty and now it is filling up with luggage, etc., for the return trip north. Clubhouse crew will be loading a rig on Friday morning. Friday's a night game in Tampa against the Yankees.
Saturday's the last Bright House Field game of the spring. Florida spring training ends on Sunday at Orlando (Braves). Time flew by this year.
For today's game with the Rays, five minor leaguers walked from the Complex: INF Miguel Abreu, C John Suomi, Ps Gabreil Arias, Garrett Claypool and B. J. Rosenberg.
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Monday and Tuesday nights are the On-Deck Series at Citizens Bank Park. The Pirates will be in town.
Then, both teams (separate airplanes) will head for Pittsburgh and start of the regular season at PNC Park, 1:35 p.m., April 5.
Player Movements
**C Erik Kratz was optioned to Lehigh Valley this morning and INF Tim Kennelly was returned to the Complex.
**Minor leagues released on Wednesday: Cs Nolan Clark, Cody Fick, Chabriel Pizarro; OF Luis Amaro; Ps Eric Pettis and Matt Way.
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Jim Eisenreich (OF, 1993-96)
"My first opening day was 1982 with the Twins in the first regular season game ever played in the Metrodome. Some 30-plus family member and friends were there. I grew up an hour north of Minneapolis so it was a very special day in many ways, even though I was hitless in three at-bats."
More Alumni memories can be found at www.phillies.com/alumni.
New features on the Alumni page include an obit on Dennis Bennett and Phillies Phlashback.
Prayers go out to Pete Mackanin, whose mother passed away and Shane Victorino, wh lost his grandfather.


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This is the official forum for A Gathering of Crows, a horror anthology written by Ed Dunphy and drawn by artists such as Andrew Kudelka, Adam McDaniel and Richard Lattimore. Most of the stories are unconnected 8 page short stories, although a few longer pieces are planned. For the near future, a new story will begin every 2 weeks and run a page a day for 8 days, so it should post as MTuWThFSaSuM, followed by 6 days without new pages, then the next story should begin on the next Monday.
These stories are NOT for kids. They contain gore, violence, strong language and some pretty disturbing scenes.
They are intended for entertainment purposes only, and do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of the writer or artists. In other words, we don't want anyone emulating the behaviour in these stories, okay?
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There's just something about adding a little shimmer to a simple updo, and James Pecis for Bumble and Bumble pulled it off effortlessly with his take for Honor's Spring 2013 collection. Showing that just a touch of embellishment can add a big dose of style, the Bumble and Bumble teamed tucked rhinestones into double French braids playing off the "human anatomy" theme of the collection. It looks like I'm going to be trying this come spring. Who's with me? —by The Budget Babe Correspondent, Megan Zietz
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UH School of Social Work receives OHA grantUniversity of Hawaiʻi
School of Social Work
HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi School of Social Work was awarded a $51,207 grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) to assist in the planning and hosting of the 2007 conference, "Indigenous Voices in Social Work: Not Lost in Translation," planned for June 4-7, 2007 at the Makaha Resort on the Waianae coast. This inaugural conference is already attracting the attention of indigenous practitioners, scholars, and researchers from North America, Canada, Hawaiʻi and from Asian and Pacific Island countries such as Aotearoa, Australia, Fiji, Guam, Malaysia and Taiwan.
The purpose of the conference is to question and explore the changing contours of social work and affirm the importance of indigenous and cultural processes in reshaping conventionally held western notions of research, education, and practice. The conference represents the culmination of two years of planning by the School of Social Work's kupuna council, educators and researchers, as well as Hawaiian social workers, cultural practitioners, and indigenous social work leaders from around the globe.
"OHA's support for this conference recognizes and reaffirms the valued role social workers play in improving the social, economic, cultural and spiritual lives and conditions of Hawaiian families and communities," said Jon Matsuoka, Dean of UH Mānoa's School of Social Work.
"Delegates will have the opportunity to share, honor and exchange knowledge and traditions in healing and alleviating problems affecting indigenous peoples including those of family violence, child neglect and abuse, substance abuse, psychological and social impacts of natural disasters, and in learning about positive ways to strengthen communities and implement culturally appropriate research," added planning committee co-chairs Drs. Lana Kaʻopua and Peter Mataira, who applied for the grant.
Conference organizers hope this gathering will lead to a greater strengthening among indigenous social workers and promote ongoing gatherings of this type.
The OHA grant will also be used in part to provide assistance and scholarship funds to Native Hawaiians and to support conference activities. For more information, contact the School of Social Work's office at (808) 956-7182 or visit the conference Web site at http://vrchawaii.org/IVSW/index.html.
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KnifeH (aka: Nife, Nifey) is a furry artist from Sweden who currently resides in The Netherlands.
Nife's artwork mainly involves pinups of his own characters, mostly females. To this known date, he only has one male character that he has ever officially created, which is his own fursona. Although he is inactive due to busy work and life, he tends to upload artwork when the possibility strikes.
Nife's fursona is a dragon of unknown type, colored fully green with the exception of a blue/light-blue underbelly which reaches from his collarbones to the tip of his tail and some yellow zig-zag marks on his back to his tail. He have 2 yellow marks on each cheek and his upper limbs and lower limbs are colored in a dark green color. His hair is brown and very spiky with a short length of hair at the back of his head. His tail also have this feature, but tends to be longer and in a more feathery look.
Nife tends to switch between male and female, and vise-versa, depending on the artist's preference.
Other characters noticeable that he has created are Kiira (unknown species which has a combination of a dragon and a fox), Kiyo (dragon) and Thea (mixture between a dragon and some unknown feline creature). All of them are female.
Nife currently works as a IT specialist in a senior/mentor position. He's engaged to Tak. He has a few online brothers and sisters as well (Katsuke Saito, MN XenX, Metal-Renamon and Kaeko).
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A House Republican has decided to stoke the fires of a recent controversy by inviting the rodeo clown who wore a mask of President Barack Obama to appear in his state.
The Missouri State Fair drew heavy criticism recently for its decision to feature a rodeo clown wearing a President Barack Obama mask. What really seemed to upset people was the crowd reaction to the Obama rodeo clown, as he encouraged a bull to chase him.
The strong reaction prompted the state fair to ban the Obama mask-wearing clown from future events.
However in a statement released Wednesday, Texas Republican Steve Stockman said that any rodeo in his state would be proud to have the banned clown perform.
"Liberals want to bronco-bust dissent. But Texans value speech, even if it's speech they don't agree with," Stockman said. "From Molly Ivins to Louie Gohmert and every opinion between, Texans value free and open political speech."
"I'm sure any rodeo in Texas would be proud to have performers," he said.
A White House spokesman who hails from Missouri weighed in on Wednesday, saying the mask-wearing rodeo act tarnished the reputation of his home state.
"I can tell you, as a native Missourian, it's certainly not one of the finer moments for our state and not the way that I like to see our state mentioned in the news," deputy White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters.
The Missouri State Fair has not released the name of the clown who wore the Obama mask. So it remains unclear if he was attempting to make a disrespectful political statement about the president or was simply going with an easy approach to working up the rodeo crowd.
On his congressional website, Stockman evoked liberal organizer Saul Alinsky in an attempt to tie the rodeo clown ban directly to Obama.
"The liberal reaction is straight out of Alinsky," Stockman said in a statement. "They want to crush dissent by isolating and polarizing anyone who questions Obama, even if it's a rodeo clown with a harmless gag."
"No one tried to personally destroy the rodeo clown who wore a George H.W. Bush mask," he said.


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Sometimes we call L, "Weasel." I know, it's a goofy nickname. But there it is.
I wanted to make a plush weasel for her birthday, and I got excited about it, so I'm way early. This is a pretty simple pattern. I used some old blankets so they're really soft and cuddly. (And who doesn't want to cuddle with a weasel?)
I used the last of my wool stuffing in three of the weasels, and I used polyfil with the rest. I've decided to stop using wool, but I was disappointed a bit with the poly-fil. It isn't as firm and doesn't hold the shape as well, although it is nice and squishy. You can see the difference in these two weasels. The white one's face is pointy, and his legs are firm; the brown one's face is puffier, and his lays splay out a bit. I've ordered some cotton, and I'm eager to work with it, but I was too eager to finish these to wait for the cotton to arrive.
Also, I'm adding 6 weasels to the shop right now, and don't forget about the EARTHLINGS coupon code (40% off!) available through Friday, April 1st. Go watch the movie!