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The Accelerated Expansion of the Universe is Not As Sound As We Think, Physicists Say
Let's slow down a bit.
Dom GaleonOctober 23rd 2016
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CHALLENGING ACCELERATED EXPANSION
The theory the universe has been expanding at an increasing rate, first proposed in the late 1990s, is now facing a new round of criticism by a team of scientists from Oxford University's Department of Physics.
The theory of an accelerated expansion was developed by analyzing Type Ia supernovae (thermonuclear explosion of dying stars) via the Hubble Space Telescope. It put a strange substance called dark energy — the alleged driver of this accelerated expansion — into the limelight.
Now, the Oxford team led by Professor Subir Sarkar, a fellow at the Neils Bohr Institute, is challenging this Nobel-winning idea. After analyzing a catalog of 740 Type Ia supernovae, ten times more than the original 1990s sample size, the researchers said the accelerated expansion theory falls short of scientific accuracy, according to the study published in Scientific Reports.
"The evidence for accelerated expansion is, at most, what physicists call '3 sigma'," Sukar said, according to Phys.org. "This is far short of the '5 sigma' standard required to claim a discovery of fundamental significance."
Sarkar said other evidence suggesting an accelerating universe, like the cosmic microwave background, were all made under the framework of an assumed and unobserved model.
CHALLENGING PREVIOUS ASSUMPTIONS
The research shows data more consistent with the theory of expansion at a constant rate. It's a bold claim, one that questions many of the theories we currently hold about the nature of the universe, including what we know about dark energy (which is already so little, to begin with).
Expansion simulation. Credits: Heitmann et. al.
"A more sophisticated theoretical framework accounting for the observation that the universe is not exactly homogeneous and that its matter content may not behave as an ideal gas — two key assumptions of standard cosmology — may well be able to account for all observations without requiring dark energy," Sarkar said, according to Phys.org.
Such is the way of science: Theories are created and new theories are formed as a result of better technology and fresher data.
Editor's Note: The title of this article has been updated to more clearly reflect the nature of the peer review article.
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Eight cheetah cubs born at St. Louis Zoo
1 year 6 months 1 week ago Wednesday, January 03 2018 Jan 3, 2018 Wednesday, January 03, 2018 5:41:00 PM CST January 03, 2018 in News
By: Lindsey Fafoglia, KOMU 8 Digital Producer
ST. LOUIS - Three male and five female cheetah cubs made history at the Saint Louis Zoo.
The cubs were born at the River's Edge Cheetah Breeding Center on November 26. This is the first time a female cheetah has reared eight cubs in more than 430 litters documented by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The average litter is three to four cubs.
The mother, Bingwa, and her cubs are healthy and doing well, and will remain in a private maternity den for the next couple of months, the zoo said.
The first few months of life are critical for newborn cheetahs.
The cheetah care team said 4-year-old Bingwa, which means "champion" in Swahili, is a great mother.
"She has quickly become adept at caring for her very large litter of cubs — grooming, nursing and caring for them attentively," said Steve Bircher, curator of mammals/carnivores at the Saint Louis Zoo.
Videos of the cubs are racking up tens of thousands of views on the zoo's Facebook page.
Facebook users are showing their excitement over the cubs in the comments.
One user, Mary Jo Stearns, said of Bingwa, "She is an extraordinary mother as this feat is very rare. Having eight cubs is one thing, taking care of all eight is a whole other level! Congratulations to everyone, especially Mom."
Pauletta Vickery said "Beautiful, love that they are secluded and safe.."
Many users said they can't wait to take a trip to the zoo this spring and summer.
"My favorite animal at the zoo gave birth to babies!!!! We are going when they are able to be seen!" Heather Munzert said.
Bingwa is on loan to the Saint Louis Zoo from Wildlife Safari in Winston, Oregon. The cub's 9-year-old father Jason is from White Oak Conservation in Yulee, Florida.
The zoo said the cubs are a result of a breeding recommendation from the Association of Zoos and Aquarium's Cheetah Species Survival Plan. The program's purpose is to manage a genetically healthy population of cheetahs in North American zoos, a press release said.
Currently, there are less than 10,000 cheetahs in Africa, and less than 100 in Iran. Cheetahs have gone extinct in at least 13 countries over the past 50 years, mostly due to human conflict, interspecific competition and a lack of genetic diversity.

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Change has to start with us
By Mitchell Glockling
Every kid has certain expectations about life after high school. We graduate and have this mindset that we're going to go see the world, make this nation a better place, party hard until we need to settle down.
I've been told that the years after high school until your mid-20s are the years when you can have fun; after that, we need to step up and take responsibility.
That's the mindset of most teenagers and young adults these days. But I don't know if I agree with that. To me, being mature doesn't mean you miss out on fun. Taking responsibility for our actions in the here and now, as opposed to skating through life — being an example to the younger generation about how to have fun without mayhem — shouldn't that be our goal?
I know that isn't necessarily the outlook others of my generation have, but that's not the point. Our grandparents partied hard, and why not? It was a time of free love, peace, happiness and Woodstock. Our parents grew up with stock markets, cocaine, crack and Bill Clinton.
We get meth, molly, MDMA, ecstasy and Wiz Khalifa. But we're also teaching the younger generations, the 11- to 14-year-olds — and even younger — that it's OK to do drugs. We have allowed, and even encouraged, the propensity for people to do drugs, to riot and have the craziest nights of their lives. We strive to rival Project X in our raves, our bonfire parties, our kickbacks. Where has that taken us?
We've gone from the most prosperous nation to a landmass of obese, fast-food addicts. We've let our children grow up without parents; let our schools and towns get overrun by gangs and turf wars. Our nation, the land of the free and home of the brave, is now the land of the poor and home of the apathetic.
Change has to start with us, the generation of tomorrow. We need to be the ones who decide that shirking responsibility until we have no choice isn't the road we want to take. Because it isn't just about us — it's about the kids coming up on our heels, the children a lot of us already have.
How can we, as humans, as a people who say that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are inalienable rights, not allow the next generation a community that makes those values possible? I know that it's hard, really difficult in fact, to let go of our partying ways, but when we have this responsibility, this sacred obligation to give those who come behind us a shot at joy, who then are we to refuse? We can't in good conscience say that all we have to live for is our own selfish desires.
Let's make a change people, starting with ourselves. Who else is there?
Mitchell Glockling lives in Medford.


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Iggy and Azealia: Good and Evil In Black and White
The coin has two sides. (Left: Revolve Clothing; Right: Jason Nocito/Spin Magazine)
I've spilled virtual ink on Iggy Azalea, Azealia Banks, and their complicated relationship to each other and to music before. Twice in fact. But that was back in 2012, during this particular play's first act. It looked like both were poised for big success and that we were destined to witness even more episodes of The Flora Wars because of it. But that was only half right.
Thus far, commercial competitiveness hasn't been a defining element of the relationship between these two at all; it's been the overwhelming unevenness of it. A month after Iggy's debut album "The New Classic" dropped in April 2014, she was already standing toe-to-toe with the Beatles as the second artist in history to simultaneously occupy the #1 and #2 spots on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. The album itself wasn't exactly a blockbuster, but it debuted at #3 and has gone on to sell over 420K units in the U.S. alone as of early December 2014 (and that's before counting the "Reclassified" reissue). Meanwhile, Azealia's first official album finally made a surprise landing on November 6, 2014 and lo, the critical acclaim rained down in buckets…but sales have not. It entered the Billboard 200 at #30, selling 11K or so albums in the U.S., and if its second week sales of about 4K were any clue, it won't be setting any records unless Black Jesus decides to grant Ms. Banks a holiday miracle.
"Black Twitter" (whatever that means) would like you to believe that Azealia is a 21st century lovechild of Nina Simone and Moms Mabley, while Iggy is just a cultural appropriator, an interloper looking to make several million fast-twerking bucks off of hip-hop culture. On the other hand, there are those who cast Iggy as a beautifully enchanted, fat-bottomed elf (the Tolkien variety, not the Christmas variety) from the Outback, who made her mark in a highly competitive genre despite being the wrong race and sex, and despite torrents of venom spewed her way by a rabidly envious, tragically wasted talent in the form of the Great Serpent, Azealia Banks.
The truth is that they're both wrong.
We all know that Vanilla Ice was a pretender who hid behind a papier-mâché street resume and hi-top fade, but can we really say the same thing about Iggy? I've never heard of her misrepresenting who she is or where she's from, in any sense of the words, as an attempt to gain acceptance or recognition. If you want to argue that because Iggy raps in an accent that is uncharacteristic of her race or where she's from that she's faking the funk, I'll kindly ask you to pop in a Dana Dane tape or stream some French Montana and have a sofa's worth of seats. Iggy grew up listening to black American rappers, so she raps like a black American rapper. Simple mathematics.
Then there's the unspoken implication that talent is the deciding factor for whether someone gets an unrestricted pass into the Halls of Blackness. J. Cole's recent words aside, very few black folks have anything to say about Eminem or Justin Timberlake. Of course, Eminem and J.T. happen to be top-class artists, and I'm not suggesting that Iggy is in their league. With that said, let's be real: as a professional rapper, the woman is at least average.
I enjoy the hell out of "Work" and even as far back as "Pu$$y," her talent was obvious. If her tracks were movies, maybe they wouldn't be "Mad Max" yet, but cats are trying desperately to throw her in the discount bin with "Crocodile Dundee II," and dude, that's just wrong. I can think of multiple currently hot rappers who I'd rank like 13.7 levels below Iggy. (Cough. Migos. Cough. Young Thug.) The fact that there are constant rumors swirling that her mentor T.I. writes most/all of her lyrics, despite any real proof, should be a strong testament to her skill. Yet the hate persists.
And Iggy's biggest hater is her nemesis, Azealia. She certainly not lonely though, 'cause over the years Ms. Banks has gotten into more beef than a top-class Wagyu stud. I mean, the woman is firece, fiery, and flamboyant, and woe to he who trips her wire. She's bickered with what seems to be a never-ending cavalcade of other artists and industry insiders, most importantly Interscope—which had been her major label home since 2012—before they dropped her in the summer of 2014, prior to even releasing her album. The woman has burned more bridges than the Luftwaffe, and as I've said before, she just seems so damned mean.
Then, last week, Azealia did an interview on Hot 97 where she articulated the frustrations that led to her most recent attack against Iggy. During the conversation, she talked about the latter's silence in the wake of recent police violence and her view that it reflects a general lack of true concern for black people on Iggy's part, despite an avowed love for their cultural artifacts. Overall, she lent a powerful voice to the sense that despite a general consensus that she and other black women like her are tremendously talented, many seem happy to ignore their contributions to culture.
"When they give these Grammys out, all it says to white kids is: 'Oh yeah, you're great, you're amazing, you can do whatever you put your mind to.' And it says to black kids: 'You don't have shit. You don't own shit, not even the shit you created for yourself.' And it makes me upset."
Her teary emotional breakdown inadvertently exposed the depth of the wounds that she's been nursing these last few years as a black woman in her early 20s, trying to navigate the landscape of an industry built on the immolation of your kind and the appropriation of its gifts. Despite being a thirtysomething black American man, I understood her plight in a deeply personal way, without ever having walked specifically in those mesh, platform wedge boots. There's an undeniable truth to her recognition that there's been a consistent effort to mine black cultural talent, refine and repackage it for white audiences, then enjoy the fruits of that appropriation.
Still, I wasn't ready to lay the blame for that at Iggy's feet…and Iggy wasn't ready to accept it. Instead, she pointed at Azealia's "piss poor attitude" as the cause for her inability to capitalize on critical success. With uncharacteristic bellicose gusto, she went on taunting Azealia: "Make it racial! make it political! Make it whatever but I guarantee it won't make you likable & THATS why ur crying on the radio."
The truth is that they're both right.
It's easy to look at the two artists' mismatched outcomes and see a classic good vs. evil struggle in progress. The simplicity of a story with a well-defined hero and villain can be seductive—it's worked nicely as the foundation for mountains of myths, fairy tales, and movies, and it makes for effortless moralizing—but the best modern storytellers understand that real life isn't always so simple. They know that the boundary separating hero and villain is often blurred, if it exists at all. And it's actually there, in that moral no man's land, that we find Iggy Azalea, Azealia Banks, their allies, and their armies, engaged in a pop cultural proxy war for control of black identity in general and black female expression in particular. The ones funding the war on both sides are the millions of white fans who prop up an exploitative system, most of whom are just young, dumb teenagers, woefully and sometimes willfully ignorant of the real cost of the album that they just downloaded, even if they jacked it for free.
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After Ferguson, Is Violence An Answer?
50 years later and we're still holding the same signs. (Credit: Wiley Price/St. Louis American)
For my initial commentary on the killing of Michael Brown, see my earlier piece, "No Escape: The Realities of Living with Police Violence."
I watched the post grand jury decision protests in Ferguson morph into a riot on live television, and by the time a police cruiser went up in flames my blood was boiling. I was afraid, but there was more than a little excitement coursing through me, too. I could hear the part of me that I usually don't bring to dinner parties whispering, "Take this to Clayton. Take it to Ladue. Take it to the suburbs that white folks actually care about." And it was that small, dark prayer that led me directly to a question: Can violence in any way help Black America in its struggle for justice?
As those thoughts crawled around my head, I tried to squash them. They embarrassed me. I knew that, one way or another, rioting would inevitably produce innocent victims. Still, I'll be damned if watching it all unfold didn't make me feel alive on a day in which the central message appeared to be that, at any moment, I could be killed with impunity. After a few hours though, I made an uneasy peace with that surprising sense of vitality. In so doing, I realized that I was actually entertaining the possibility, no matter how distasteful or remote, that rioting might have a role to play.
A protest is a sternly written letter to the management. 21st century America is immune to them. You can march until your feet bleed, but unless you and your faithful companions are playing bagpipes or holding a string with a colossal, inflated cartoon character at the end, you will most likely fail to capture the American imagination. Violence, however, seems to work like a bloody charm. It's in our national DNA.
In 1773, a group of American patriots demonstrated their displeasure with a certain British tax policy by dumping what would be the equivalent of over $1.7 MM in corporate property into Boston Harbor. Less than 100 years later, 11 southern states snatched a page from their colonial forbearer's playbook and took up arms against the U.S. government, resulting in 620,000 deaths and an estimated $1.5 B loss in Southern physical capital alone (not to mention the billions in other direct and indirect costs on both sides), and that's in 1860 dollars: it would be more like $39 B today. The slavers lost, but they'd made their point, and after a few short years they succeeded in resetting the clock on their social and political dominance of Southern life. Fast forward one more century and the American Civil Rights Movement, the very campaign created to counter the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, was relying on violence for its effectiveness, too. Oh, it's unequivocally true that Martin Luther King, Jr. appealed for non-violent action by protestors, but he knew very well that every blow from a policeman's baton in Selma was worth 10,000 renditions of "We Shall Overcome" on national television. Police held those nightsticks, but they were King's weapons.
I realize that burning and looting, even if executed in a tactically sound way, is a far cry from the noble social jujitsu that King et al. practiced. I'm not attempting to suggest otherwise. I am, however, suggesting that they both spring from a recognition that the only means of affecting change in a corrupt system is to dismantle it, either in whole or part. That process is chaotic and violent by its very nature.
If you believe that a solid proportion of your fellow citizens are aligned with your cause, no matter how quiet they may be, you might be encouraged to press forward with less aggressive displays of frustration, hopeful that those demonstrations will turn silent supporters into active advocates. On the other hand, if you find that despite crying out until your voice is a memory, most of your neighbors are either apathetic about your cause or worse, antagonistic, it becomes more difficult to trust that signs and songs will save the day.
And it in fact, it does seem as if we've reached a point at which learning that unarmed black people are being beaten, gassed, and killed, even when the acts are perpetrated on camera, no longer elicits a sympathetic response from much of White America. Case in point, only 15% of whites agree that Darren Wilson should've been charged with murder for the killing of Michael Brown—not convicted, mind you, charged—as opposed to 59% of blacks. Then, just nine days after the Ferguson grand jury's decision, we were told that Eric Garner's killer wouldn't be prosecuted either, despite the fact that millions of us watched the life get choked out of him needlessly, over and over again on YouTube and the news. How can you find common ground with someone when you apparently live in entirely separate dimensions?
Here's to hoping that this image is the first word in an answer to my question. (Credit: Johnny Nguyen)
It should be apparent that I have no answers to present here. I don't fancy myself a revolutionary. I'm certainly not foolhardy enough to think that any sustained violent interaction with the police or other authorities would ever lead to the establishment of a somehow more just regime in our country. And I'm loath to picture an America where destructive clashes with the powers that be become as common here as they are in…well, much of the world touched by European colonialism. Yet I now find it difficult to rid myself of this question of violence, and I'm a thirty-something MBA who's a product of prep school and the Ivy League.
Many of the people in my circle share similar pedigrees, and I've been shocked at the number of them who've almost squealed in agreement when I've relayed my dismaying thoughts about the Ferguson riots. We are not disaffected urban youth with nothing to lose. Not by a long shot. We've got careers, and summer shares, and kids. And still, here we are, basking in the televised glow of a burning cop car, asking ourselves whether launching a brick through a window might bring us at least some small measure of psychological relief. It's a question we don't want to ask, but it's becoming difficult to avoid. And that should scare America to death.
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Tagged as Ferguson, protests, riots, violence


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Box office: Final How to Train Your Dragon soars toward franchise best with $55.5M
February 24, 2019, 10:39 AM ET
By Josh Weiss
The Hidden World, DreamWorks' third and final installment to its wildly popular How to Train Your Dragon franchise, is flying toward great heights with a $55.5 million during its first weekend at the box office. Along with early Fandango screenings, the total stands at $58 million.
This is the best opening for any entry in the animated series. When it comes to foreign markets (the movie began to open in other countries last month), the threequel has almost taken in $300 million.
For comparison, the first movie made just over $43 million during its first weekend in 2010 while the sequel made a little over $49 million four years later. In terms of international sales, the global ticket sales from the first two installments equal more than $1 billion, a figure that will only grow with The Hidden World.
Written and directed by the maker of the last two films, Dean DeBlois, the trilogy capper based on Cressida Cowell's kids' books of the name, finds Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) and Toothless facing off against the dreaded dragon hunter, Grimmel (F. Murray Abraham).
The antagonist is interested in finding the Hidden World, a place where dragons of all kinds live in peace and harmony, prompting Hiccup, and Astrid (America Ferrera), and the rest of Berk to get there first. There's also the plot point of Toothless finding love after discovering a female and white-scaled Night Fury, which Astrid dubs a "Light Fury."
Jonah Hill (Snotlout), Cate Blanchett (Valka), Gerard Butler (Stoick), Craig Ferguson (Gobber), Kristen Wiig (Ruffnut), Christopher Mintz-Plasse (Fishlegs), and even Game of Thrones' Kit Harington (Eret) round out the all-star voice cast.
Now in its second week in theaters, Alita: Battle Angel has been knocked down to the No. 2 spot with $12 million, a 60% drop. Domestically, the James Cameron-produced, Robert Rodriguez-directed project has nabbed $60 million.
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part should take the third spot with $10 million during its third week at the box office. That will bring the animated sequel's domestic total up to $84 million and its global total up to $117 million.
Isn't It Romantic is on track for the fourth spot with $7.5 million.
Credit: 20th Century Fox & Warner Bros. Pictures
(via The Hollywood Reporter, Variety & Box Office Mojo)
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Frontier Homestead State Park Museum is pleased to announce a special exhibit by the Southern Utah Watercolor Society (SUWS). The public is invited to an artist's reception on Saturday July 11th, from 2:00–4:00 p.m. The reception is free to the public. Following the reception, the regular entrance fee applies. SUWS also encourages those in the community with a passion for water media painting, or a desire to learn to come meet the artists and learn more about the watercolor society. SUWS-Cedar City Chapter has been busy this year working together to bring new and interesting programs, demonstrations, and plein air events to Cedar City.
SUWS holds monthly meetings/programs on the third Monday of the month and are free to the public. For more information about the exhibit, or the Southern Utah Watercolor Society, please contact SUWS President Larry Laskowski via email at larrylas@gmail.com.
The exhibit will continue at Frontier Homestead through August 30.


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BackBack HomeGraveyard - Innocence & Decadence [2LP]
Graveyard - Innocence & Decadence [2LP]
SKU: 727361356415Categories: analog, Latest Arrivals, Music, NEW PRODUCTS
Lost In Confusion
Don't Take Us For Fools
Blue Soul
Submarine Blues
As The Years Pass By, The Hours Bend
Right Is Wrong
Satan's Finest
Gothenburg, Sweden is generally known for producing five (sub)genres of heavy music: Death metal (see: Opeth, Grave, Entombed), melodeath (i.e. At The Gates, In Flames, Arch Enemy, etc.), grindcore (Nasum, Meshuggah, Regurgitate), thrash (The Crown, The Haunted), and doom metal (Candlemass, Katatonia). But even though they share doom metal's love of Black Sabbath and Pentagram, Graveyard does not fall into any one of these subsets. No, this foursome actually has a lot more in common with the tags "throwback hard rock" and "nostalgic stoner metal." I suppose the term "stoner rock" applies here too, but Graveyard seems like something more than just heavy riffing and a warm, fuzzy groove.
For the most part, though, this is an album that adheres to two types of song: Hard rockers ("Lost In Confusion," "Don't Take Us For Fools," "Submarine Blues," "Right Is Wrong," and "Satan's Finest") and melodic, psychedelic near-ballads ("Thin Line," "Blue Soul," and "As The Years Pass By, The Hours Bend"). Of the hard rocking fare, "Lost In Confusion," which is a heavy and big-riff rawker full of meaty, Sabbath-y licks, probably stands out the most.
All that said, this is for the stoners.


A Follow Spot: Jumping Into June!
When June hits, we usually begin to talk about summer theater options. This year, it feels a lot more like early spring around here, not summer, but I guess we'll cope. And I hope all the outdoor theater people have umbrellas!
Two notes about June that are different from previous years: The mainstage plays at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival won't start till July and the University of Illinois has benched its summer rep completely. But don't fret -- you'll still find plenty of June options to entertain you.
An Australian movie called The Sapphires is currently playing at Champaign's Art Theatre Co-op. Its "girl group goes to Vietnam" sounds a bit like Dreamgirls meets The Commitments meets Shirley Lauro's A Piece of My Heart, except not sad. Inspired by "an incredible true story," The Sapphires involves a girl group of aboriginal sisters from a small, remote mission town who take their act into the middle of a war to entertain American troops. Chris O'Dowd (The IT Crowd, Bridesmaids, Family Tree) plays their well-meaning manager, while Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, Shari Sebbens and Miranda Tapsell are the Sapphires. Check out the trailer here. The Art has The Sapphires scheduled for performances tonight through Thursday at 7:30 pm.
Eureka College continues the Central Illinois Stage Combat workshop through June 7, plus Eureka's new high school play competition is underway, with a July 1 deadline. They're looking for ten-minute plays written by high school playwrights, with six winning scripts to be performed by Eureka College in conjunction with the Peoria Live Theatre League.
And speaking of ten-minute plays... Heartland Theatre's very popular annual 10-Minute Play Festival, this year centered on plays with packages, parcels and presents front and center, opens this Thursday, June 6, with a special pay-what-you-can preview performance. The festival continues through June 30, with all the details on the eight winning 10-minute plays here and the schedule of performances here. Call 309-452-8709 to reserve tickets.
Although Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors and Failure: A Love Story don't start till July, the Illinois Shakespeare Festival will offer its Theatre for Young Audiences choice -- The Magical Mind of Billy Shakespeare, written by artistic director Kevin Rich -- on Wednesdays and Saturdays throughout June. Performances will take place either on the grounds of Ewing Manor, the Bloomington Farmers Market, Lincoln Park or the Children's Discovery Museum. The Improvised Shakespeare Company will also perform their spur-of-the-moment Shakespearean hijinks at 8 pm on June 6 and 13 in the theatre at Ewing Manor. More information on all the Festival goings-on is available here.
And even though U of I is no longer in the summer rep business, Urbana's Station Theatre is. You can see Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts and something called Evil Dead the Musical this month, with performances from June 6-15 for Donuts, directed by Thom Schnarre, and June 27 to July 13 for the Evil Dead, whose spoofy musical adventures will be directed by Aaron Kaplan for the Station. Click here for all the details.
New Route Theatre presents Dael Orlandersmith's The Gimmick from June 7 to 16, complete with a very nice "gimmick" of their own -- librarians and teachers get in free! New Route artistic director Don Shandrow directs local favorite Jennifer Rusk as Alexis, a young girl struggling with the life she's been handed, which includes an alcoholic mother and a very bad neighborhood. But Alexis's world is opened up by a librarian who reaches out to her. And that's why librarians and teachers get free admission to this play! The Gimmick will be presented at the McLean County YWCA located at the corner of Hershey and Empire. Call 309-660-2275 or visit New Route's Facebook page for details.
Area students will come out to play at the Connie Link Memorial Ampitheatre when Normal Parks and Recreation's summer musical season begins June 13. This year's June offering is The Secret Garden, a beautiful musical based on the children's book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, with book and lyrics by Marsha Norman and music by Lucy Simon (Carly Simon's sister). Normal's cast includes Caroline McKenzie as Mary Lennox, the girl who discovers the magical garden, Ryan Groves as her uncle, Archibad Craven, and Zachary Mikel as her cousin Colin. For news about Normal Parks and Rec and their summer shows, check out their Facebook page here.
The Champaign-Urbana Theatre Company offers its summer student production of Urinetown from June 13 to 23 at the Parkland College Theatre in Champaign. Quinn Murphy stars as our hero, Bobby Strong, with Jenna Conway and Kate Meyers sharing the role of his sweet and adorable love interest Hope Cladwell. Urinetown is a very funny, very pointed satirical show, showing a neo-Brechtian dystopic world where water is scarce and "it is a privilege to pee." You can check out the whole cast list here and check in on the CUTC Urinetown blog here.
Also coming to movie theaters this Friday: Joss Whedon's black and white film of "Much Ado About Nothing"! So far I haven't been able to discover exactly which theaters are participating in its "limited release"; but I'm going to keep searching.


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Here's a brief summary of last Friday's federal government offensive against online gambling.
Federal prosecutors brought fraud and-money laundering charges against the three largest online poker sites: Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars, and Absolute Poker. The government also seized their domain names, terminating their presence online–until they obtain another domain name.
All three sites are located outside the U.S. Full Tilt is based in Alderney (an island in the English Channel and part of the U.K., ) PokerStars is on the Isle of Man, and Absolute Poker is in Costa Rica.
According to the Wall Street Journal online poker sites last year took in about $16 billion in wagers from about 1.8 million U.S. residents who play poker online.
The legal environment is online poker is hardly clear. Disagreement exists over whether poker and blackjack are even illegal under federal anti-gaming laws, since some argue they are games of skill, not chance.
Last fall the State of Kentucky convinced a trial court judge to order the seizure of 141 domain names belonging to Internet gambling sites (see posts here and here). The judge ruled that the domain names were gaming devices under state law. This week the Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned the trial court's seizure order, holding that "it stretches credulity to conclude that a series of numbers of Internet address, can be said to constitute 'a machine or any mechanical or other device . . . designed and manufactured primarily for use in connection with gambling." The Court of Appeals declined reading "domain names" into the relevant Kentucky statute. Citizen Law Media Project has a more detailed post about the Court of Appeals decision.
Kentucky's attempt to seize the names is motivated by money, not morality; the state believes the gaming sites "drained money away from Kentucky's legitimate gambling." The state announced that it will appeal the Court of the Appeals decision to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Consider what transferring the domain names to the state means. A user anywhere in the world who types, say, wildjack.com into his web browser will be directed not to http://www.wildjack.co.uk/?bTag= but to a Kentucky .gov subdomain bearing notice that the site has been seized. It won't matter whether online gaming is legal where the user resides–he will not be able to access the site. If Wildjack.com does not find a way to block Kentucky residents it will be forced out of business. Domain name seizure would become a highly effective method for local governments to force their law on the world.


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You may look forward to careers such as apprentice level jobs as painters or metal repairers in shops.
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You will gain the knowledge and hands-on experience to start your career in the automotive collision repair industry. Learn about metal and plastic repair, Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMAW), Metal Inert Gas (MIG) welding, vehicle disassembly/reassembly, estimate reading, coolant removal/replacement, and A/C discharge/recharge and industry terminology. National certifications through I-CAR (Inter-Industry Conference on Auto Collision Repair) for the following: Non-Structural Technician ProLevel 1, Refinish Technician ProLevel 1.


Welcome our editor for the fiction and non fiction submissions: René Saldaña, Jr. We believe that René is particularly suited to this anthology and are honored to have him join us.
René Saldaña, Jr., fiction editor of the anthology ¡Juventud!: Growing Up On the Border, is the author of several books for young adults and children, among them The Jumping Tree, Finding Our Way: Stories, The Whole Sky Full of Stars, A Good Long Way, and Dancing with the Devil. He is an associate professor of Language and Literacy in the College of Education at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX, where he lives with his wife and kids.
El Zarape Press, in conjunction with Barrio Poet Productions, announces a call for submissions for a special anthology: Twenty, in response to the tragic shootings of innocent children and educators at Newtown, Connecticut on Dec. 14, 2012.
Through this anthology, we hope to explore the nation's grieving process (from denial and depression to anger then acceptance) and seek to publish work by poets and writers of all walks, who interpret both the tragedy and its aftermath from a range of perspectives. Let's talk about anger, about guns, about the media, politics. Let's talk about children, yours and ours and theirs, of innocence and violence in our culture. Let's talk about hope and hopelessness, about growing, about healing (is it possible?). We are looking for essays, short fiction, poetry: personal reflections that engage these conversations in creative and innovative ways, either directly or indirectly.
Submit up to three poems, a work of fiction or nonfiction via e-mail to barriopoetproductions@gmail.com. Include a cover letter listing the genre and title of your works as well as a short biography (100 word limit).
Submissions are blind, meaning your name should not appear on any page of the work itself, only the cover letter.
The length limit for poetry is 35 lines per poem.
Works of fiction and nonfiction should not be longer than 4,000 words.
Send a $7 payment along with a SASE (larger than 6″ by 9″) to Twenty: 1413 Jay Ave. McAllen, TX 78504. Include $2 pre-paid postage if you'd like to receive a copy of the book. Make checks out to Art That Heals Inc. Proceeds will be donated to the Newtown community and we will encourage readings across the country upon publication.
We will have a rolling deadline– once we have enough work, we plan to close submissions. Please submit work as soon as you are able.
Artists: please submit 300 d.p.i. photographs as .jpeg files of black-and-white work: simple drawings, silhouettes, photographs. These will be printed inside a 6″ by 9″ perfect-bound book.
Daniel García Ordaz, a.k.a. The Poet Mariachi, teaches English at McAllen Memorial High School and is the author of You Know What I'm Sayin'? He is a former journalist and is also a founder of the Rio Grande Valley International Poetry Festival. Daniel was one of five writers and the only poet selected to participate in the Texas Latino Voices project in 2009. He has been a featured poet at the Dallas International Book Fair and has been a featured speaker at conferences. He conducts workshops on poetry and creative thinking.
Edward Vidaurre, born in East L.A., has been published in La Bloga, the Valley International Poetry Festival anthology, Boundless 2011, 2012 and 2013, Interstice 2012, 2013, La Noria Literary Journal and Writers of the Rio Grande. His poem, "Lorca in the Barrio," which was published in Along the River 2 by VAO Publishing, has been nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. His first book of poetry I Took My Barrio On A Road Trip (Slough Press 2013) is coming out soon. Vidaurre is the founder of Pasta, Poetry and Vino and Barrio Poet Productions.
José Chapa published his first book of poems, Pájaros de Pólvora, at the age of 18. His work has been featured in a number of Mexican literary journals, and is included in three anthologies. He presently resides in McAllen, Texas.
Katherine Hoerth is the author of three poetry books: The Garden Uprooted (Slough Press, 2013) and two chapbooks titled Among the Mariposas (Mouthfeel Press, 2010) and The Garden of Dresses (Mouthfeel Press, 2012). Her work has been published in journals including Rattle, Boxcar, and Front Porch and she has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Katherine teaches writing at the University of Texas Pan American and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor of Fifth Wednesday Journal.


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No-cost safety training on various topics is offered throughout the North Country!.
Any of these topics and more are also available on-site at your facility on a limited basis. Email Aviva Gold for details.
If you are outside of Jefferson, St. Lawrence and Lewis Counties we can still offer you safety training! Contact Steve Lockwood for details.
George Mauch leads most of the safety training below. George spent more than thirty years in manfuacturing in various positions throughout GM and other companies. His safety qualifications include training and implementation of safe work practices, rolling out new safety initiatives, job hazard analysis, what's-wrong-with-this-picture, pre-task planning, take two, team board implementation and related safety metrics, fork truck/hoist inspection, lead role in accident investigation, root cause analysis and report out, and involvement in various plant safety steering committees relating to safety improvements and new equipment/process installations from a safety perspective.
Does your business require safety training in topics not covered here? Let us know and we will try to add them for future sessions. We may also be able to connect you with the resources you need.
Businesses spend $170 billion a year on costs associated with occupational injuries and illnesses -- expenditures that come straight out of company profits. Be sure you're OSHA compliant for your industry every year.
CITEC partners with the Jefferson County IDA, the St Lawrence County IDA and Naturally Lewis to provide training on many important safety topics at no charge. The season runs from September through June, and courses are offered at various times in Jefferson, Lewis and St Lawrence Counties. Details for this season are posted below.
Any of these topics and more are also available on-site at your facility on a limited basis in those counties through this program. Email Aviva Gold for details.
The North Country Chamber of Commerce also covers safety training throughout Clinton, Essex and Franklin Counties. Details are available at this link.
Below is the training schedule for this season. CITEC can also customize these topics to meet the specific needs of your business or industry. If you don't see a topic you need covered at your workplace, please let us know. We may have an in house expert or be able to connect you with the right resource. Registration links are below.
Building and Grounds crews have a wide variety of safety needs including general safety, good housekeeping, proper lifting, fire extinguishers, machine safety, power tool safety, chemical safety, mowers, ladders, vehicles, and more. This training covers the basics and creates awareness in employees to go more in-depth as their workplace needs dictate.
Investigating a worksite incident—a fatality, injury, illness, or close call —provides employers and workers the opportunity to identify hazards in their operations and shortcomings in their safety and health programs. Most importantly, it enables employers and workers to identify and implement the corrective actions necessary to prevent future incidents.
Because back injuries are so common, it is imperative that employees learn safe lifting and proper back care. This course covers basic spine anatomy, body mechanics, and posture that can lead to injury, safe back stretching and exercises, and best practices to prevent injury. But back injuries aren't the only injuries we can prevent through awareness. Ensuring safe ergonomics is the best way to prevent accidents as well as long-term repetitive motion injuries.
Electrical safety in the workplace is extremely important. This training focuses on workplace electrical safety and the application of industry-accepted standards to effectively manage arc flash and other electrical shock hazards. The training provides guidance on applying safe work practices to your daily electrical maintenance tasks.
The following topics were offered earlier in the season. They are availabel for on-site training at any time.
Supervisors juggle the intersection of quality, production and safety. This short seminar covers topics including developing and building a safety culture, managing performance issues, pre-job planning tools, accident investigation, safety training, and more.
Employers with effective safety and health training programs benefit from fewer workplace injuries and claims, better employee morale, and lower insurance premiums. This course covers steps needed to create a culture of safety in an organization including determining what kind of safety training is required, identifying safety training goals and objectives, developing and delivering appropriate safety training, forming safety committees, and program evaluation.
Confined space training is crucial for your company if you have manholes, tranches, vaults, ducts, boilers, vessels, storage tanks, pits, crawl spaces or other unique confined spaces where your employees will need to enter to perform work. Topics include hazard recognition, work practices, atmospheric monitoring, and rescue and emergency requirements.
The only way to minimize the effects of an emergency that requires evacuation is to have a plan that every employee understands. This training covers the basic components of that plan as well as OSHA requirements. Fire Protection covers fire extinguisher use and maintenance, indoor material storage, ignition hazards, open yard storage; flammable liquids, gases and explosive mixtures. And, while not a common occurrence, there were 136 active shooter incidents in the US in 2016 and that number continues to rise. This course covers best options for surviving an active shooter incident as well as ways employers can prepare for such incidents.
Effective identification and control of hazardous energy will not only save your company money, it may also save a worker's life. Data from OSHA estimates that non-compliance with LOTO causes 120 fatalities and more than 50,000 injuries each year. Improper machine guarding also makes OSHA's top ten each year. Make sure your workers understand how to work safely around machinery.
Many OSHA standards require employers to provide personal protective equipment to protect employees from job related injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. This training will cover basic regulations as well as how to properly use and maintain PPE. Workers who use respirators as part of their job responsibilities should take this training which covers the proper selection and use of respiratory protection, fit testing, respirator care and maintenance, and OSHA compliance.
The 10-Hour General Industry Outreach Training Program provides an entry-level worker general awareness on recognizing and preventing hazards in a general industry setting. Participants receive the OSHA DOL General Industry Outreach card upon completion of the course. Topics include hazard identification, avoidance, control, and prevention, fall protection, emergency action plans, fire prevention, PPE, hazard communication, and more. The topics will be adjusted to both meet OSHA standards as well as fit the needs of course participants.
A list of available topics is available here.
This program is presented through a colaboration of Jefferson County Economic Developement, the Lewis County Office of Planning and Economic Development, the St. Lawrence County Industrial Development Agency and CITEC Business Solutions with funding provided by New York State Occupational Safety and Health Hazard Abatement Board through the OSH T + E Fund.
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Health-Promotion Practices of Young Black Women at Risk for Diabetes
Vanessa W. Jefferson, Gail D. Melkus, Geralyn R. Spollett
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the health-promoting practices of young black women at risk for type 2 diabetes. METHODS The sample consisted of 30 black women from an urban area who had a history of gestational diabetes and/or a first-degree relative with diabetes. Participants completed the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II Survey and an interview. Both were used to categorize health-promoting practices, exercise, diet, knowledge of diabetes prevention, and general health. RESULTS Demographic information and interview revealed a propensity towards obesity, despite education and income levels. The results for the Lifestyle II Survey showed a higher average total score for healthy nutrition than physical activity, which were inconsistent with the qualitative data obtained by interview. Fifty percent stated that they exercised as a general health-promoting behavior. Self-reported daily caloric, fiber, and fat intake was high to moderate; 60% reported initiating diet modifications secondary to a desire to lose weight or for medical problems; and 26% reported receiving information on diabetes prevention from a healthcare provider. CONCLUSIONS A systematic approach of planning and actively incorporating health-promoting activities into one's lifestyle as a young adult may protect or delay the onset of diabetes and prevent complications.
The Diabetes Educator
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Jefferson, V. W., Melkus, G. D., & Spollett, G. R. (2000). Health-Promotion Practices of Young Black Women at Risk for Diabetes. The Diabetes Educator, 26(2), 295-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/014572170002600210
Health-Promotion Practices of Young Black Women at Risk for Diabetes. / Jefferson, Vanessa W.; Melkus, Gail D.; Spollett, Geralyn R.
In: The Diabetes Educator, Vol. 26, No. 2, 03.2000, p. 295-302.
Jefferson, VW, Melkus, GD & Spollett, GR 2000, 'Health-Promotion Practices of Young Black Women at Risk for Diabetes', The Diabetes Educator, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 295-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/014572170002600210
Jefferson VW, Melkus GD, Spollett GR. Health-Promotion Practices of Young Black Women at Risk for Diabetes. The Diabetes Educator. 2000 Mar;26(2):295-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/014572170002600210
Jefferson, Vanessa W. ; Melkus, Gail D. ; Spollett, Geralyn R. / Health-Promotion Practices of Young Black Women at Risk for Diabetes. In: The Diabetes Educator. 2000 ; Vol. 26, No. 2. pp. 295-302.
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Nuclear & Coal Energy Are The Least Popular in U.S.
Nearly half of U.S. adults oppose increasing the country's number of nuclear energy facilities
The U.S. should keep existing nuclear plants online but not build any new facilities, 1 in 3 adults thinks.
16% believe the U.S. should continue the operation of existing nuclear plants and construct new reactors.
29% view nuclear power favorably and 49% view it unfavorably, rendering it the most controversial source of electricity other than coal.
In general, this hierarchy of preferred power sources tracks the results of another survey, asking respondents which source they would select if they had control over where their utility provider had the power to operate their house or apartment. At 44%, solar was by far the most common, followed by natural gas (18%), wind (10%), nuclear (4%), hydrology (3%), and coal (1%). Nineteen percent said no preference was given to them.
But waste storage appears to be a sticking point, especially when close to home, for the 699 respondents who said they would support raising the number of nuclear facilities. One notable energy source that was left off this survey is geothermal.
Asked if they will endorse the disposal of spent nuclear fuel in the vicinity of their own cities, 50 miles is the minimum distance that receives more endorse (47%) than opposition (43%), although the error margin for this community is 4 points. Sixty-three percent would favor the storage within 100 miles of the spent fuel, while 25 percent would feel the same about it being stored within 5 miles.
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HVAC systems are often overlooked by homeowners until something goes wrong; however, there are a variety of reasons why it pays to have them, and your air ducts, cleaned regularly.
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Long term exposure to these conditions can result in allergies, asthma, and even respiratory infections.
Here at ServiceMaster Kwik Restore, we utilize state-of-the-art equipment and methodologies to fully clean your air ducts and HVAC system as a whole. This means lower energy costs for you, as well as cleaner air for you and your loved ones.
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Pro Football Talk
Texans hope Jadeveon Clowney has already had as many injuries "as he needs to have"
Posted by Josh Alper on June 26, 2016, 12:01 PM EDT
When the Texans took linebacker Jadeveon Clowney with the first overall pick of the 2014 draft, their hope was that he'd team with defensive end J.J. Watt to lift the team's defense to the top of the league.
Injuries have kept that from happening. Clowney has missed 15 regular season games and last year's playoff loss to the Chiefs because of a variety of injuries, leaving his potential unfulfilled as he heads into his third season.
Linebackers coach Mike Vrabel said that he saw increased resolve from Clowney on the field and in the classroom during this year's offseason program, something that he believes Clowney needs to make a bigger impact for the Texans in 2016. That can't happen unless he's healthy, of course, and there's not much that General Manager Rick Smith and the rest of the team can do but hope that's the case.
"When he's been on the field, he's been pretty disruptive, pretty impactful," Smith said, via the Houston Chronicle. "It's just that he has suffered some injuries, which you would hope is that he's already had as many as he needs to have, right? Just from a standpoint of luck, hopefully the guy has had his share of injuries and he will have an opportunity to play for an extended amount of time because I think what you see, when you see him on the field, you see productive play. He's going to work at that. Some of those injuries it's not like he's getting hurt because he's not working. The nature of the injuries he's had are not such that it's an indicator of the guy's not being conditioned or ready to play. It's just the nature of the game. Hopefully, he's had his share of them and he'll be on the field consistently."
There were flashes of good play for Clowney last season, but missing Week 17 and the playoff loss meant the year ended on another down note and the questions about his durability remain firmly in place. Should they still be in place after the 2016 season, the Texans' hopefulness may give away to resignation that Clowney's health won't allow him to make good on their expectations.
26 responses to "Texans hope Jadeveon Clowney has already had as many injuries "as he needs to have""
jlmd17 says:
Bust!
thetooloftools says:
Fat and slow makes for injuries when you are out of shape.
This guy should be breaking players in 1/2 but he has no desire to be dominant.
What will inspire him?
Only he knows that.
Teddy2Tready says:
Health/Injuries are one of those things players cannot control completely. They can take preventative measures as best as they can, but even the best fall victim to them.
I hope Clowney can get it right, because there is no doubt about his talent. Watching a healthy Watt/Clowney for a few years would be fun.
–Not a Texans Fan
patsfan4lifesbchamps says:
He is a bust.
whenwilliteverend says:
Don't be surprised if it's the same thing this year. I'm sure he'll sprain his ankle on a yardline and miss half the year. Then in 2017 he'll play the entire year because he'll want them to pick up the fifth-year option. Then he'll be motivated again until they give him a contract like Suh got then he'll play two games a year. The only thing that motivates this guy is money and once he has it you can forget about getting anything out of him.
peytonmanningsforehead says:
Thank you Texans for taking CLOWNey.
Signed, Raiders fans everywhere.
abninf says:
When he's been on the field he been average. His college coach warned everyone about his laziness. He wants free time to play with his toys his millions of dollars got him.
igornathanhiggers says:
Now we know why he was dogging it in College the year he was coming out….
What he did to South Carolina — telling the ole ball coach whether he'd play or for how long — should've been a huge red flag to every team…..but of course a sucker is born every minute and I hope the Texans suffer every year they pay him until they "get it"…
Sometimes the armchair GM is right! Every one of us saw Jadaveon for the Clown he is, cept The idiots in Houston….who by the way just paid a journey man Qb to franchise QB money to validate how stupid they really are…
tigershark0052 says:
What a wasted first overall pick.
granadafan says:
With Clowney, signing him to long contracts is a terrible risk. Sign him to 2 year contracts max so he'll finally be motivated to play hard.
kevco1956 says:
Lazy & not committed, just a plain loser
illogicalvoicesinmyhead says:
SEC , LOL
backintheday99 says:
Some people are just injury prone. I am one of them. Threw 91 at 17 and didn't get it back until I was 27. Something always broken or whatever.
For every pitcher you see on TV there are quite a few more who just got hurt along the way. For some, it is always something. Don't blame him, it's just life…
jackedupboonie says:
It's easy to say more busts come out of the SEC, but when a conference produces the most NFL players, it's going to have more of everything.
flsnupe says:
People posting lazy an uncommitted can't read I guess, since the article stressed his commitment to getting better this Summer
oscarxray says:
The poor field condition with the uneven seams is what got Clowney injured and it was a known problem for years.Did Bob McNair ever get that fixed?
mazenblue says:
His best play was in college when he went unblocked up the hole and hit a linemen heads up. lol. He's been riding that play for a long time.
vegaskid21 says:
Dude made 1 perfect play in college and hasn't done crap since, except get hurt. Bust!
weepingjebus says:
He has been disruptive, just to his own team.
Comfortably Numb says:
Clowney = Bosworth.
Both totally overhyped.
runningoutofboundsisforgringos says:
Bust Von Busterburgh
ReligionIsForIdiots says:
Everyone with a brain knew this guy was going to be a catastrophic bust. The fact that his number one highlight was a hit where he was blocked by anyone was all you needed to know about him.
slick50ks says:
Bosworth actually did some things in the league before he got hurt. Clowney is a never was. And probably a never will be.
wattsupwiththatwattsupwiththat says:
Clowney was a known commodity WAAAAY before his hit vs Michigan
htowntexan says:
He is one one of the biggest busts of all time, but the fact that many people said he was going to be a bust going into the draft, makes him the single worst pick in NFL history.
dagator8888 says:
The Clown had three sacks his senior year. Pundits kept making excuses for him. He was great at the underwear Olympics, but is not a good football player. What makes it worse is that he has no heart. Only year he may produce is contract year.


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Cashin's Field project in Nevada City secures funding
Housing Housing |
John Orona
jorona@theunion.com
Nevada City's affordable housing project Cashin's Field cleared a major hurdle Wednesday, receiving nearly $26 million in tax credit funding that will allow the development to move forward.
The California Tax Credit Allocation Committee awarded funding to the project, set for 170 Ridge Road, after it initially hit a snag when it wasn't approved for the funding it expected in October. If the commission hadn't reconsidered the allocation, developers would have had to wait until March for another chance at funding.
"Nevada City has been in need of affordable housing for an extremely long time," Nevada City Mayor Erin Minett said in a news release. "The community, city and council are in total support of this project and are ecstatic about the 51 affordable housing units that are coming into the community. Today's funding approval was a definite win for Nevada City. We are all excited to see this project moving forward."
At the Wednesday committee meeting, developer Laurie Doyle addressed concerns that the site was previously home to sulpheret works from the city's mining history that could have left behind toxic substances. Doyle said the developers have executed a voluntary clean up agreement with the state Department of Toxic Substance Control (DTSC) to test the site for heavy metals, and expects a conclusion in the coming weeks.
"The results will then be submitted to the DTSC as a preliminary endangerment assessment report. The DTSC will review the report and, provided that no evidence of mining is encountered, is expected to issue a site certification letter," Doyle said. "If there is any indication of mining activities, we will work with DTSC to address them."
The Grass Valley Planning Commission on Tuesday approved a 5.6-acre, 108-unit housing development on the 400 block of East Bennett Street. The four building, three-story complex will also include a clubhouse, pool, playground, 1.5 acres of walking trails, and solar arrays on the carports and buildings.
According to Community Development Director Tom Last, the project is one of several — such as the Brunswick Commons site — that are now largely just awaiting developers to move forward.
"We've approved projects on Ridge Road and Bennett," Last said. "It's really all in the developers' courts now."
To contact Staff Writer John Orona, email jorona@theunion.com or call 530-477-4229.
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There are four branches of Lady M in the United States, three of which are in New York and the other is in Los Angeles, and two in Singapore. Opened last September, the 1st branch at Marina Square's Dining Edition on the 2nd floor has no kitchen space (cakes are apparently too complicated to be prepared with the limited countertop space and instead delivered daily from its central kitchen). The 2nd, a late-night joint, opened recently at One Fullerton. According to the website, it prides itself on creating the freshest and finest cakes and confectionery delights. Combining French pastry techniques with Japanese etiquette of precision, they are handmade following recipes refined over the years to provide the highest quality in taste and appearance. It is known as the original creator of the well-known mille crêpe cake with 20 layers of paper-thin handmade crepe interspersed with light pastry cream – vanilla, chocolate, citron, coconut, green tea, marron and strawberry.
Last Sunday, my dining companions and I had late lunch at Hamanoya and were still in the vicinity when it was time for afternoon tea. So I queued behind a group of people and could not believe that the two guys, who joined after me, were brought to their table before anyone even bothered asking me the number of seats I needed. Definitely marred my 1st impression of Lady M, but we decided to still try and see if its food could make up for the poor service. And lack of chairs as empty tables were beckoning to those in the queue. Wanted to try Tarte a La Mangue, shortbread crust filled with passion fruit curd and topped with thinly-sliced ripe mangoes, but it was not in season as the mangoes were not sweet. Tarte Aux Fruits (shortbread crust with almond financier base, vanilla custard and fresh fruits) would have been the closest alternative but my dining companion, also here for the 1st time, was eyeing Green Tea Mousse – green tea sponge layered with cream and crumb sprinkles.
In the end, we settled for its favourites – Checkers and Strawberry Shortcake, while another dining companion ordered Green Tea Mille Crêpes. Checkers is a vanilla and chocolate sponge cake arranged so its side profile resembled a checkerboard, though the lines were not distinct in the slice we were served so it looked more like a mess. This is the only chocolate item on the menu, and I liked the rich bitter-sweet chocolate ganache it was covered with. Strawberry shortcake, a vanilla sponge cake layered with strawberry in whipped cream, was not as light and fluffy as others I have tried and nothing to rave about or fault. Green Tea Mille Crêpes was too creamy for my liking with a bitter aftertaste from the fine matcha powder. Argh! For the dining companion who ordered this and has tried its signature Vanilla Mille Crêpes before, the latter was better. My bad experience with its service, coupled with the overpriced and mediocre food, meant I would not be back. Overrated and not worth queuing.
Update: The branch at Marina Square has since closed. It can still be found at Orchard Central and Westgate.


Research-practice partnerships, long-term mutually beneficial formalized collaborations between education researchers and practitioners are a promising strategy for producing more relevant research, improving the use of research evidence in decision-making, and engaging both researchers and practitioners to tackle problems of practice. Although promising, research-practice partnerships are challenging to create and difficult to maintain. The National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships (NNERPP) aims to help facilitate these partnerships and advance education research and practice.
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As GreaterMSP and other regional partnerships would portend, there is a value to connecting across neighborhoods and locality for greater cooperation and collaboration. The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Community Development Department will be hosting the second event in their Connecting to Market Series: Neighborhoods and Housing Markets later this month. The topic of comprehensive community development in the metropolitan context will consider the implications of the foreclosure crisis and the pattern of distress on future development throughout the Twin Cities region. See the agenda below and consider attending to become a part of the effort to create a stronger regional and district in the years to come!
12:15 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.