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Jun 2, 2012 06:12 AM misswim wrote:
Jenn- I remember feeling exactly the way you do. Do what you can every day, and you will slowly but surely feel stronger. I am 6 months PFC and my fitness level now surpasses pre-diagnosis. Have faith :) And come here to us, we'll keep you going.
Heidi, I really love Chalean Extreme. I've decided to do the whole 12 week program. I did it once before, pre-diagnosis, and lost about 15 lbs and gained great muscle tone. Of course then I over ate and gained it back, but I digress...... luckily I am very disciplined about that now.
I like it alot because the workouts are shorter, with heavier weights, and the cardio is very athletic, lots of drills and intervals, it never gets boring. And there are two modifiers in every dvd so there is always a lower intensity option. It is also great that you can use a resistance band instead of weights if you prefer. I am a big fan of Beachbody, the company that puts this program out. They also do P90X, and the other I love, Les Mills Pump, but they literally have an in home program for everyone. :)
Speaking of Chalean, doing Burn Circuit 1. Then we are going to watch our son play drums in the band in the famous "Strolling of the Heifers" (yup, it is a cow parade) parade. It is POURING here but the show must go on. At last years parade I was 10 days past surgery, drains still in, and it was awful. Glad I am feeling well and will be enjoying this one! Have a great day girls :)
Jun 2, 2012 07:14 AM ruthbru wrote:
Jenn, every little walk you do will help you bounce back faster. Sending hugs, the rest will come!
misswim, I'm sure the cow parade will be very moo-ving, rain or not .....
Just had my pre-'race' oatmeal, sunny but cool. Even though I am just walking, I am kind of excited because I haven't done a group thing like this for decades. It's a Runner's World sanctioned event and a local TV station tapes the whole thing and plays it over and over again on a replay channel, so I think I better comb my hair and slap on a little mascara before I leave (probably not the warm up activities of a true athlete???). They'll give us a shirt, but I will wear The Voices to the venue. Love to you all!!!!
Jun 2, 2012 07:47 AM orangemat wrote:
Have a great race, Ruth!
Jun 2, 2012 07:47 AM badger wrote:
welcome back Jenn, keep at it, slow but sure, you WILL get it back.
Good luck today, Ruth!
Misswim, today is Cows on the Concourse in Madison to celebrate June Dairy Month
I won't head there today, it's an hour+ drive and I see enough of Mad-Town Mon-Fri.
Have a good weekend, ladies, I'm headed out for a walk soon. ((hugs)) to all
Jun 2, 2012 07:53 AM NatsFan wrote:
Go Ruth!!! And you'll look fabulous showing up in your sisterhood shirt! Jenn - I also remember feeling just the way you do and thinking that I'd never feel good again. I've told the story before of my absolute nadir during chemo - I wanted to get a can of seltzer out of the fridge - it was one of the few things that could lessen that horrible chemo taste. I got off the couch and walked the 20 feet to the fridge. And stood there. I could not muster up enough strength to pull open the door, reach in and lift up that can, close the door, and pop the pop top on the can. I just couldn't do it - I was that weak and fatigued. I made my way back to the sofa, plopped down and waited for dh to come in so I could ask him. That was 4 years ago, and the memory is still vivid. Your strength does come back - just do what you can when you can and be good to yourself. Misswim - the cow parade sounds like fun. And it marks a milestone of how far you've come in a year.
I'm finally starting to climb out of the fatigue pit I dug for myself when I overdid it last weekend - went for a 2 mile run this morning. Geez, I hate the AI fatigue!
Jun 2, 2012 05:20 PM badger wrote:
hi all, walked a lot today, over 12,000 steps, and may go walk some more after reading this:
Exercise: Powering Up www.nature.com/nature/journal/...
Love the last paragraph:
Breast cancer treatment can leave women feeling fatigued, depressed and powerless. Difficult as those feelings can be, they're not necessarily a barrier to exercising, says Jones, who adds that women are eager to participate in his trials. "Exercise is something that gives control back to the individual. It's something women can do for themselves that is not only likely to lower their risk of recurrence but also makes them feel better. It's very powerful."
Jun 2, 2012 08:38 PM Wonderland wrote:
Good evening all. Just got back from eating out with my dh, dd, and her good friend.We had lots of laughter which is good for the soul.
badger: I also really liked the last paragraph. Thanks for sharing.
Ruth: Please report in! We all want to know how your race was this morning! I like your pre-race preparations.
Thank-you everyone for your responses about my beautiful SIL. Her sodium is no longer critical and she left the hospital yesterday. She has COPD and 3 years ago was on a respiratory for a month. It was horrible. When she was taken off the respiratory she said her thumb under her nail hurt. Then the nail fell off and never grew back. She went to doctors and they really thought it was an infection. Finally last summer, the decision was made to remove the top part of her thumb. That's when the melanoma was found. We were all shocked. She had the entire thumb removed plus a few nodes (one was positive). There are so few treatments for melanoma. Her PET last summer was clear. No treatment. Now she was melanoma on her tender lungs and is taking a chemo that was just approved last summer for the disease. She's had 2 treatments out of the 4. While in the hospital she had scans and the chemo appears to be working! We are so excited!
I walked/ran at the park last night and tonight. Today has been refreshing with cool temperatures. That always helps.
Jun 2, 2012 09:33 PM, edited Jun 2, 2012 11:34 PM by ruthbru
Hi All! It took me about three hours to figure out how to post this picture. Whatever they did with the new format; Piscasa is way different than before.....and I still can't figure out how to make it bigger without it getting distorted. GRRR!
Anyway, the Running of the Pink was fabulous!!! About 500 people total in three events: a 5K walk, 5K run and a 10K; some serious high school, college and adult runners, others were kids, and families out with with their dogs or babies in strollers. So there was a real mix of people in a festive mood and a gorgeous, sunny, cool (not cold) day. I had a lump in my throat when the gun went off and they sent us walkers out to the strains of the theme from Rocky. Partly because I was so glad to be alive and well and able to do this, and partly because the Rocky movie back in the mid-70s was the movie that got me and a friend into exercising in the first place (by a strange coincidence, that friend is also a BC survivor and indeed walked in the race strolling her new baby granddaughter). When we took off, one of my team members (a runner recovering from knee surgery) started walking at a pretty brisk pace, so another lady and I decided to stick with her, and we ended up coming in 7th/8th/9th in the walk (the only walkers ahead of us were teenagers who were jogging most of the time)...so pretty good for three old lady school teachers! My actual time was 41:02, which I think is fast since Esther said it would take 46-50 minutes.
Jun 2, 2012 11:29 PM hbcheryl wrote:
Ruth you are amazing, you did so well, isn't it funny how songs take us back instantly. Wonderland good to hear your SIL is doing well. Misswim hope the weather cleared it sounds like a fun parade. Welcome back Jenn it will get better, and we're here if you need mootivation (that was for Misswim and Badger)
Well I've been good and I've been bad, last couple of days I have done my classes both spin and combat but I had "one of those nights" last night and finally at 4am I took a sleeping pill so I woke up at 7.55, thought well I could get out of bed brush my teeth and be 10 minutes late for class (gym is only a 5 minute drive) but I just turned over and slept till 10.30am and have just had myself a lazy day.
Jun 3, 2012 12:19 AM NWArtLady wrote:
Wonderland, glad your SIL is back home. Sending good thoughts to you, her and your family!
I remember feeling the way you do Jenn, but know that your strength and endurance will return. I finished chemo December 30, 2011, Radiation in the beginning of March, 2012 and I am feeling so much better now. I am dragon boating and even competed last weekend! The ladies on my boat keep commenting on how much stronger I am getting. Slowly but surely I am working my way back to health and I know you will too. Stay warm this winter!
2 dog walks today + 2 hours of dragon boating
Jun 3, 2012 06:30 AM Heidihill wrote:
Thanks for the pic, Ruth. What a great time (both quantity and quality) you had!
Did some rowing for 3K yesterday. Ran walked 4K today, including week 7, Day 2.
Jun 3, 2012 07:54 AM Neeners815 wrote:
Hi everyone - I hope it's OK for me to post here. I'm starting rads tomorrow, but I've started trying to get back into exercising (walking for now) because I read that it can really help with the fatigue. I've walked the past three days. Today I plan to do some mall walking. I'm also really trying to drink a lot more water.
Jun 3, 2012 07:59 AM Adey wrote:
Welcome Neeners! I'm relatively new here too. Let's keep moving. (c:
Jun 3, 2012 08:20 AM joyh1109 wrote:
Good to read everybody's posts. Ruth - great picture and great time on the race!
Did Day 1 Week 2 of C25K and it's going well. I've figured out a new route since my neighborhood is so hilly. So far I've mapped a 2 mile run that is for the most part on an even surface. I'm excited to keep going with the program.
Jun 3, 2012 09:17 AM badger wrote:
Good morning ladies and welcome Neeners815.
I got out and walked for an hour this morning.
Great pic, Ruth and attawoman on race time!
Wonderland, good news about your SIL, keeping you all in my thoughts & prayers.
Scrub & Sculpt is on the agenda for me today.
Jun 3, 2012 06:29 PM ruthbru wrote:
some lawn work, 15 minutes toning & a 45 minute walk (at a somewhat slower pace because I was a little sore this morning). I was walking on this nature path close to my house & when I came around a bend a deer was standing right in the middle of the path. We were both suprised and both jumped at the same time, kind of cool!
Jun 3, 2012 07:48 PM misswim wrote:
Went to my usual Sunday night 2 hour master vinyasa yoga class. I am whooped!
Despite the rain, the Heifer parade was great. My son did a great job playing the drums in the band and was a real trooper!
Jun 3, 2012 09:01 PM ruthbru wrote:
Chicago-Bound people, did the e-mail I sent you (twice) go through? My e-mail account has been weird tonight (perhaps because I was almost out of power and didn't realize it). Ah, the joys of technology!
Jun 3, 2012 09:57 PM cfdr wrote:
I got results from my thyroid test back. My thyroid is fine, but my B12 is low! My doctor wants me to come in for more tests to see if I can get by with supplements or need injections. I'm not vegetarian so this is a surprise to me. But if low B12 is the key to my fatigue, I will be thrilled! I have become so wary of overdoing exercise and ending up fatigued. Crossing my fingers this will be the magic cure.
Jun 3, 2012 10:11 PM Wonderland wrote:
cdfr: I know a couple of people who have monthly B12 shots. Good luck with your additional tests to see if you need shots or only supplements. Glad your thyroid is fine.
I wasn't able to walk today as I had a funeral to attend. Plan to get a walk in tomorrow before my night meeting. Now that I've written it, I have to do it!
Good news: Ruth is coming to NC this month and I get to have dinner with her! PLUS cfdr may be able to join us! I'm so looking forward to it!
Jun 4, 2012 01:19 AM NWArtLady wrote:
Welcome Neeners815! A short, daily walk while doing rads will make such a difference in your healing. Keep us posted!
Did my Nordic dog walk as usual, but took a longer, more difficult route that includes some stairs I haven't been able to do in a long time! Getting stronger.
Jun 4, 2012 04:40 AM Jennt28 wrote:
Yesterday hubby and I walked about 3km in the rain as my start back into fitness. It was soooo hard for my muscles and it really wasn't a hard route... Hubby came with me as I am nervous about going out by myself since I still have a bit of this pneumonitis and have just started Herceptin. I can't believe that 5 months of BC has turned me into such a nervous person :-(
Today (Monday here) I headed out by myself since everyone was at work or school. I actually managed to go about 3.5km but it seemed harder than yesterday...
Tomorrow I have my rads planning CT scan and tatoos appointment. Should be interesting since the pneumonitis and any damage it has caused will show up. If I do have permanent lung damage we will have to reassess the benefit of me having the rads since they will cause a small degree of lung damage...
Jun 4, 2012 04:56 AM Ginger48 wrote:
Cfdr- I get monthly b-12 shots and it helped so much with my exhaustion. Did they also check vitamin D? That was low for me too. You will feel better when you get the shots.
Jun 4, 2012 07:54 AM Belinda977 wrote:
Bummed....I was getting my walking on and now I have a complication. I feel like I am back at square one. Praying today the doc says walking won't be a problem. I have a hematoma that caused my incision to open slightly. It's good that its draining but not sure if they will want me exercising. I just want to run again! And soon!
Jun 4, 2012 08:07 AM Heidihill wrote:
Hoping there are no lasting scars from pneumonitis, Jenn. Sorry for the latest obstacle, Belinda.
Did Week 7, Day 3.
Jun 4, 2012 08:17 AM cfdr wrote:
Going in for my follow-up tomorrow on the B12 labs. I don't think they tested vitamin D; I'll ask if that should be part of the follow-up. I take calcium/D3 and get lots of sun (with sunscreen of course! I've already had one basal carcinoma) but if D3 deficiency can be a problem with absorption (as can B12) then it's worth checking out. I am actually excited to go to the doctor if it means there is hope for this fatigue!
Jun 4, 2012 08:33 AM NatsFan wrote:
2 mile "Nats Walk" yesterday from the parking lot to our seats and back, then 2 mile run this morning. Gotta get back on track. I've slacked off using loseit.com for a couple of weeks and the scale shows it. I have a feeling the Wednesday Weigh In is not going to be pretty.
Ruth - cool on seeing the deer - sounds like you both were equally startled.
As for Vit D - my onc is really big on making sure my levels are good - she says there's beginning to be a lot of evidence that maintaining adequate Vit D levels can help reduce recurrance in addition to the other benefits. I don't think I've ever had B12 tested. I have my annual physical in a few weeks - I might bring that up. | <urn:uuid:02730b0c-5848-46bc-a7cf-387162b90fb3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://community.breastcancer.org/forum/58/topic/741082?page=368 | 2013-05-23T18:32:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976687 | 3,785 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
AN AUSTRALIAN Islamic cleric has told his male followers it is permissable that they force their wives to have sex and hit them if they are disobedient.I just love that lecture title, "Keys to a Successful Marriage."
Melbourne's self-styled cleric Samir Abu Hamza said despite Australian rape laws it was impossible for a man to rape his wife even if she refused to have sex with him.
In a recorded lecture entitled "The Keys to a Successful Marriage'', delivered to his male worshippers but now broadcast on the internet and viewed by several thousand people, Hamza said Islamic law allowed men to hit their wives as a last resort but they were not to make them bleed or become bruised.
He said under Islamic law, as described in a Koranic verse, it was a man's right to demand sex from his wife whenever he felt like it.
"If the husband was to ask her for a sexual relationship and she is preparing the bread on the stove she must leave it and come and respond to her husband, she must respond,'' Hamza told his male followers on the video sermon.
He then mocked Australia's criminal laws which required consent for sex to be lawful.
"In this country if the husband wants to sleep with his wife and she does not want to and she hasn't got a sickness or whatever, there is nothing wrong with her she just does not feel like it, and he ends up sleeping with her by force ... it is known to be as rape.
"Amazing, how can a person rape his wife?'' Hamza asked.
Despite concerns about his preachings being raised by female members of the Islamic community, Hamza yesterday stood by his comments and blamed controversy caused by them on a hidden zionist agenda run by the media.
Questioned about his teachings, Hamza said a wife was allowed to be hit on the hand or leg, but "of course, not on the head''.
He said if a Muslim wife disobeyed her husband, such as continuing to go out when requested not to, she was able to be subjected to moderate physical punishment.
"It's like sometimes when a person smacks a child, it's like `shape up','' he said yesterday.
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YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO -- Speaking in a heavily Democratic area of Ohio Saturday morning, Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan attacked how President Barack Obama’s administration is dealing with China.
GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney and VP nominee Paul Ryan continue to campaign in Ohio this weekend, hoping to gain ground on President Obama in the crucial swing state. NBC's Ron Mott reports.
“The administration had their eighth chance to label China a currency manipulator – it's due in two days – they say they are going to push this deadline off until after the election. That’s eight opportunities to say, ‘you know what, play fair with us, trade with us fairly,’” Ryan told the crowd at Youngstown State University, implying the decision to delay release was political.
On Friday, the U.S. Treasury announced it would delay putting out a regular report on foreign exchange – including whether to name China a currency manipulator – until after the Nov. 6 election.
Ryan told the crowd in the heavily manufacturing Buckeye State that a Mitt Romney administration would not tolerate China stealing American jobs and property rights -- a topic the VP nominee frequently talks about on the campaign trail.
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) during the vice presidential debate at Centre College Oct. 11, 2012, in Danville, Ky.
“We are going to stop this kind of cheating from occurring, if people are manipulating our currency, we are going to say that ‘they are manipulating our currency.’ If they are stealing our products, we are going to say ‘stop stealing our products or else you have consequences.’ That’s a big deal. That takes our jobs,” he said.
According to the independent fact-checking website, that 2 million jobs lost number “is unrelated to currency manipulation. It is an International Trade Commission estimate of jobs that could be created if China enforced U.S. intellectual property rights.”
Asked about the accuracy of the claim, Ryan’s spokesman, Michael Steel, said “a lost job is a lost job.”
Obama campaign spokesman Danny Kanner wrote in a statement: “Congressman Ryan’s tough rhetoric can’t hide the fact that Mitt Romney will never crack down on China’s cheating – just look at his record. When President Obama stood up to China on behalf of American tire workers, Romney called it ‘decidedly bad for the nation.’”
Campaigning later Saturday afternoon in conservative southeastern Ohio, Romney, too, hammered President Obama for what he said was a failure to get tough on China, implying the administration was making a political consideration in holding off on labeling China as a currency manipulator.
"Over the past several years, the president’s failed to call China a currency manipulator. He had the occasion on Friday to come out with that official designation," Romney said at a rally in Portsmouth, Ohio. "Do you know what they said? We’re not going to make any determination until after the election. Let me tell you on day one of my administration I will label China a currency manipulator, we gotta get those jobs back and get trade to be fair."
During his 17th public event in the battleground state of Ohio, Ryan continued hammering home the GOP message on China: “You don’t want to put your country in the position where you have to borrow all this money from another country to pay for your government. This compromises our sovereignty, it compromises our independence, its harming our economy and we need to put a stop to this. It's making – it's a huge problem we need to deal with.”
Following the town hall, Ryan and his family stopped by a local soup kitchen and helped wash dishes.
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This afternoon, I had a chance to participate in a conference call hosted by NBC/Universal with Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky (Executive Producer) of the Who Do You Think You Are? television series premiering on March 5, 2010. And I actually was able to speak with both Lisa and Dan! And without embarassing myself!
The call was open to mostly media contacts and journalists so that we could get more information about the show, the series, the production factors etc.
Before I get to my question, here are some interesting tidbits from the call:
- The producers began with a list of approximately 75 potential celebrities
- This list was whittled down to about 15 celebrities
- Out of the 15 celebrities there was one scheduling conflict and the other seven did not produce stories compelling enough for television
- The term “alternative reality” was used to describe the concept of television documentary as entertainment
- While the BBC version of WDYTYA has 59 minutes without interruption, the US version has roughly 40 minutes with frequent breaks; in addition, a US television show has “breaks, recaps, and coming-ups” which can often detract from the documentary format
One of the most interesting comments during the call, in my opinion, was made early on by Lisa Kudrow when she was asked how it felt to be standing in the same places where her ancestors lived and where they died. She stated that doing so, “doesn’t allow you to keep an emotional distance” so you are forced to process your feeling and emotions about that portion of family history.
As for my question: I told Lisa and Dan that the genealogy blogging community was so excited about WDYTYA that many of us might spontaneously combust before March 5th. And then I asked if they believed that WDYTYA could be the Roots of the 21st century and have the same impact. Both of them believed that this series could have that impact and Dan added that as he and others watched each episode, “it became addictive.”
Let’s hope that WDYTYA is addictive to a wide spectrum of television viewers in the US. Genealogy and family history are happy addictions after all, right?
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I have a huge weakness for visually stunning foods. I have a huge weakness for visually stunning anything. This, of course, is a snotty way of saying: I like pretty things. That’s right; I and some 99% of the world’s population suffer from this affliction. I don’t know about those 99% but I often (too often) base my purchases on the pretty factor. I bought my laptop because I thought it was pretty and I was convinced that its prettiness will encourage me to work on it often. If I had a car, I’d most likely go for pretty and I would ignore all other specs (is that what you call them? specs?). I am a master at finding and purchasing pretty and sometimes very impractical items (which is a big no-no in Germany, where to be practical is the highest of virtues). There is only one exception to my pretty rule: husbands… Those I like to be handsome, not pretty. But when it comes to cooking, I go back to pretty. Choosing what to cook next, involves leafing through my cookbooks and staring at luscious photographs, then looking at the recipe and evaluating the “will it be a pain in the ass to make” factor (henceforth referred to as the PITA factor). So, when I saw these zucchini rolls, I immediately thought they looked gorgeous and were composed of all the things I liked. The only problem was that, like many pretty things, they were very impractical to make. Let me rephrase, on a 1-10 PITA scale, they were a solid 7.5. But they looked so good and I’m just so unabashedly impractical. | <urn:uuid:7a18c2b8-2261-45f3-94b6-6eab0b8fc181> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kitchencrush.com/tag/mint/ | 2013-05-23T18:44:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982681 | 358 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Steroid-related meningitis cases rise to 47
Dr. Robert Latham, chief of medicine at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tenn., is interviewed on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, in Nashville. Latham said a fifth person has died in a growing outbreak of a rare form of meningitis that has sickened more than two dozen people in five U.S. states. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
(AP)—As the tally from a deadly meningitis outbreak rose Friday, health officials identified the medical clinics across the country that received steroid shots for back pain now linked to the illnesses.
Authorities took the step to help identify everyone who may have gotten sick—or may still get sick—in the outbreak.
"All patients who may have received these medications need to be tracked down immediately," said Dr. Benjamin Park of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It is possible that if patients with infection are identified soon and put on appropriate antifungal therapy, lives may be saved," he said in a statement.
The CDC said the number of cases of the rare fungal meningitis reached nearly 50 cases, and spread to a seventh state Friday. The number of deaths in the outbreak remained at five.
Investigators have focused on a steroid medication made by a specialty pharmacy in Massachusetts. All the outbreak patients had gotten shots of the steroid for back pain, a common treatment, and inspectors found at least one sealed vial contaminated with fungus.
On Friday, officials said they have found fungal infections in nine sick patients. They weren't able to identify what types of fungus in every one of those patients, but did distinguish at least two types—Aspergillus and Exserohilum.
In all, 47 people have contracted fungal meningitis, the CDC said. Michigan became the seventh state to report cases, with four. Tennessee's cases now total 29; Virginia, six; Indiana, 3; two each in Maryland and Florida and one in North Carolina.
Three people have died in Tennessee and one in Virginia and Maryland.
Dr. Lucy Wilson, left, chief of surveillance, infection protection and outbreak response with the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, speaks during a news conference in Baltimore, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012, about response efforts to an outbreak of meningitis that may be linked to steroid injections. Two cases of the illness, one fatal, have been reported in Maryland. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)The first known case in the meningitis outbreak was diagnosed about two weeks ago in Tennessee, and the steroid was recalled last week by the pharmacy, New England Compounding Center in Framingham, Massachusetts.
About 17,700 single-dose vials of the steroid were covered in the recall. On Friday, the government released the names of about 75 facilities in 23 states that got recalled doses between July and September.
It's not clear how many were sent to clinics, how many were used, or even whether everyone who got one will get sick. Once infected, it can take as long as a month for symptoms to appear.
At the prompting of government officials, clinics are notifying all the patients who got shots from the recalled lots.
"There's a massive effort to contact all the patients," said Marsha Thiel, the chief executive officer of MAPS, a company that owns surgery center clinics in Minnesota.
She added, "If there's any question at all, they're being directed to go to their physician."
As a precaution, the Food and Drug Administration urged doctors not to use any of the company's products, and released a list Friday that included other steroids, anesthetics and a blood pressure medicine. The company, which is now closed, said in a statement Thursday that despite the FDA warning, "there is no indication of any potential issues with other products."
The steroid is known as preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate, which the compounding pharmacy creates by combining a powder with a liquid.
There are FDA-approved versions of the drug, sold by the brand name Depo-Medrol, in good supply. So patients who need the medicine should not encounter a shortage, the FDA said Friday.
Most of the anxiety now involves patients who got steroid shots for back pain and are worried about becoming seriously ill.
"Our phone is ringing off the hook this morning. Patients are calling. Of course, they're concerned," said Paulette Fry, practice manager at Wellspring Pain Solutions in Columbus, Indiana, about 40 miles south of Indianapolis. She said the clinic was sending out letters to about 300 patients who received spinal injections with the drug.
Meningitis is an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms include severe headache, nausea, dizziness and fever.
Fungal meningitis is not contagious like the more common forms. The types of fungus linked to the outbreak are all around, but very rarely causes illness. Fungal meningitis is treated with high-dose antifungal medications, usually given intravenously in a hospital.
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[SC-Help] Re: SDK / Integration Docs?
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> I am writing an application and I would like to include SpamCop lookup
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information in an email header and find the email
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where the email originated.
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A prize-winning author recalls her parents’ lives in Normandy before and after World War II
A Man’s Place. By Annie Ernaux. Ballantine, 103 pp., varied prices, paperback. A Woman’s Story. By Annie Ernaux. Seven Stories, 96 pp., $8.95, paperback. Both translated from the French by Tanya Leslie.
By Janice Harayda
Annie Ernaux’s spare autobiographical books are remarkable for many things. One of them is their brevity. They typically have fewer than 100 pages, yet are so rich in perception that they have earned the status of modern classics in France.
In the U.S. Ernaux’s reputation rests largely on two books about her parents that are often described as autobiographical novels but resemble high stylized memoirs. Both are partly about how sex roles and social class shaped the lives of residents of a village in Normandy in the decades before and after World War II. They are also about how Ernaux, at once grateful for and alienated from her background, felt “torn between two identities” after she received the university education that her parents lacked.
A Man’s Place is about the life and sudden death of her father, a shopkeeper and café owner whom people called “simple” or “humble” but who had a complexity suggested by a telling incident: “One day he said to me proudly: ‘I have never given you cause for shame.” The sequel, A Woman’s Story, is similarly brief and evocative but, because of its subject, may hold more appeal for Americans.
After her husband’s death, Ernaux’s mother developed the disease the French call la maladie d’Alzheimer and suffered alternately from confusion and a terrified comprehension of her plight. She remembered that she had to turn off the light when she left a room but forgot how to do it, so “she climbed onto a chair and tried to unscrew the bulb.”
Ernaux describes all of this with an austere restraint reminiscent of the best work of Muriel Spark, always providing just enough detail to suggest greater depths. She tells us that her mother, as her Alzheimer’s become worse, wrote to a friend, “Dear Paulette, I am still lost in my world of darkness.”
Best line: From A Woman’s Story: “Books were the only things she handled with care,” Ernaux says of her mother. “She washed her hands before touching them.”
Worst line: Tanya Leslie’s translations capture well the stylistic purity of Ernaux’s prose. But her use of a conspicuously British English at times results in sentences that break the French mood, such as this line from A Man’s Place: “Ah here comes the lass.”
Published: 1993 (Ballantine paperback of A Man’s Place). 2003 (Seven Stories paperback of A Woman’s Story www.sevenstories.com/book/?GCOI=58322100333250).
Furthermore: A Man’s Place won the Prix Renaudot, the French equivalent of the Pulitzer. Ernaux lives in France. A Woman’s Story was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Janice Harayda is an award-winning journalist been the book columnist for Glamour, book editor of the Plain Dealer and a vice-president of the National Book Critics Circle www.bookcritics.org. She would like to expand One-Minute Book Reviews to include podcasts, broadcasts and other services, such as online book discussion groups or forums in “real time,” and is looking for a home for this blog that would make it possible to provide these.
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Donald W. Pfaff
|Donald W. Pfaff, PhD|
Donald W. Pfaff, Ph.D., professor and head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, is a brain scientist who uses neuroanatomical, neurochemical and neurophysiological methods to study the cellular mechanisms by which the brain controls behavior. His laboratory’s research has proceeded through four steps to demonstrate how steroid hormone effects on nerve cells can direct natural, instinctive behaviors.
First, Pfaff is known for discovering exact cellular targets for steroid hormones in the brain. A system of hypothalamic and limbic forebrain neurons with sex hormone receptors, discovered in rodents, was later found to be present in species ranging from fish through primates. This hormone-sensitive system apparently is a general feature of the vertebrate brain. His lab recently found that “knocking out” the gene for the estrogen receptor in animals prevents female reproductive behavior. Surprisingly, that single gene deletion resulted both in masculinizing female animals and, counterintuitively, feminizing males’ behavior.
Secondly, his lab at Rockefeller then worked out the neural circuitry for hormone-dependent female reproductive behavior, the first behavior circuit elucidated for any mammal. Third, he and his colleagues demonstrated several genes that are “turned on” by estrogens in the forebrain. Fourth, in turn, their gene products facilitate reproductive behavior. For example, the induction of one of them, the gene for the progesterone receptor, showed that the hormone estrogen could turn on another transcription factor important, in turn, for behavioral control. Regulated gene expression in the brain participates in the control of behavior.
Taken together, these four advances proved that specific chemicals acting in specific parts of the brain could determine individual behavioral responses.
While two genetic transcription factors, estrogen receptor and progesterone receptor, cooperate with each other to promote reproductive behavior, another transcription factor, thyroid hormone receptor, actually interferes with estrogenic actions. Seasonal environmental changes, raising thyroid hormone levels, can block reproductive behaviors when they would be biologically inappropriate.
In an experiment that lent support to the concept of the “unity of the body,” Pfaff found that the nervous system protein GnRH promotes reproductive behavior as well as directing the pituitary to stimulate the ovaries and testes. This action of GnRH renders instinctive behaviors congruent with the physiology of reproductive organs elsewhere in the body
Pfaff’s lab subsequently discovered that GnRH-producing neurons are not actually born in the brain as other neurons are. Instead, during embryonic development, they are born in the olfactory epithelium. Once born, they migrate up the nose and into the forebrain. In humans, interruption of that migration, especially in men, causes a state in which the body does not produce adequate amounts of the sex hormone testosterone. This hypogonadal state is associated with a loss of libido.
In 2003, Pfaff received an NIH MERIT Award for the study of generalized arousal, responsible for activating all behavioral responses.. His team formulated the first operational definition of nervous system arousal, enabling scientists to measure arousal quantitatively in laboratory animals, as well as in human beings. In humans, deficits in arousal contribute to such cognitive problems as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism and Alzheimer's disease. Erosion of arousal also may account for some of the mental difficulties that people face as they age. Understanding generalized arousal may help scientists develop pharmacological methods to enhance alertness during the day and sleep at night. Analyzing the mechanisms of arousal may also lead to a more precise anesthesiology.
Pfaff has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of how the administration of sex hormones can affect health. Pfaff’s lab recently showed that giving hormone doses in pulses, rather than as a steady exposure, may maximize the benefits and limit the side effects now associated with hormone therapies. By giving estrogen replacement to the rats, the scientists studied the actions of the hormone at the level of the brain cell's protective outer membrane, and inside the nucleus where the cell's DNA is housed. They found that both the membrane and the DNA pathways are crucial, with one facilitating the other, in triggering hormone-dependent gene expression and female mating behavior. By limiting the estrogen exposure of to short pulses, the total dose can be kept much smaller than with steady delivery, and therefore some of the negative effects will be reduced.
Born in Rochester, N.Y., on December 9, 1939, he received the A.B. degree magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1961 and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965. He held a National Merit Scholarship, Harvard National Scholarship, Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, MIT President's Award Fellowship, National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellowship and National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Pfaff joined The Rockefeller University in 1966 as a postdoctoral fellow. He was named assistant professor in 1969, associate professor in 1971, granted tenure in 1973 and promoted to full professor in 1978.
He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He also is a member of several scientific organizations related to studies of the central nervous system.
He is the author of Estrogens and Brain Function (Springer, 1980), Drive: Neurobiological and Molecular Mechanisms of Sexual Motivation (MIT Press, 1999), Brain Arousal and Information Theory (Harvard University Press, 2005) and The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule (Dana Press, 2007). He has edited The Physiological Bases of Motivation (1982), Ethical Questions in Brain and Behavior (1984), Genetic Influences on the Nervous System (CRC Press, 1999) and Hormones, Brain and Behavior (5 volumes, Academic Press, 2002). He also is on the editorial boards of several scientific journals.
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“Drive” is a highly desired aspect in most dog sports, whether your area of interest is agility, flyball, herding, hunting, coursing, or something else. Sport and performance dog handlers specifically look for “high drive” puppies and work to build their puppy’s drive further through tug, chase, and other games. Arousal and excitement are considered signs of a talented dog who will go far.
But there’s a dark side to this drive building, one that negatively impacts the performance of many otherwise talented dogs in their chosen sport. Here’s the thing: arousal and drive are not one and the same.
So often, I’m told about a “high drive” dog who is in actuality just frantic. “Drive” refers to focused commitment to a specific goal. A dog who ping pongs from one distraction to another without truly “locking on” to anything is not in drive, she’s simply distracted. Arousal is not drive, and high drive dogs do not necessarily show high arousal or excitement.
Consider Layla, a dog with high prey drive. If Layla finds a chipmunk in the backyard, she chases it up the downspout of my rain gutter. If I don’t interrupt her and bring her inside, she then pulls that chunk of gutter pipe off the house and carries it into the center of the yard (chipmunk inside). She stands or crouches, staring intently at the gutter pipe. This can go on for hours. If she moves at all, it will only be slight muscle trembling in her back legs. When the chipmunk inevitably ventures out, thinking that the coast is clear, Layla grabs it, quickly killing and eating it.
No one who watches Layla catch a chipmunk could have any doubt that she is intently focused on her task. When she’s working a chipmunk, she has laser focus on catching and killing it, and the rest of the world fades into the background. She doesn’t allow herself to become distracted by my other dogs, people walking past, or even other prey, such as the squirrel in the tree or the bunny outside the fence. This is an example of true drive.
Trying to build your dog’s drive by increasing her excitement may work really well if she’s naturally focused on and motivated by the task at hand. However, getting an excited but distractible dog further aroused is not only unlikely to make him more talented at the sport of your choice, it’s likely to make matters worse. The more aroused and frantic the dog becomes, the harder it gets for him to think.
If you truly want to increase your dog’s drive, work on his focus and on making the task at hand highly motivating. While Layla and Dobby came to me naturally motivated by toys and play, my youngest dog, Mischief, had very low drive for these activities. Now a year old, she will work very hard with intense focus, heeling for the chance to play tug or chase. She does this because I’ve made these things very fun and rewarding for her. Getting her excited without giving her something to focus that excitement on just results in a frustrated, bitey, barky dog and does nothing to increase her drive.
The take home message, regardless of which sport or activity you do with your dog, is clear. Select a dog who will naturally want to participate in your chosen sport. Whether you go to a breeder or rescue a dog, don’t confuse hyperactivity or franticness with drive. And once you bring home your new partner, nurture that dog’s focus and make working with you fun.
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Apr 26, 2002, 4:24 PM
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automating keyboard commands with Setupsup
i am writing a program which opens a webpage and copies the data on the wepage into a notepad. i want to use the menu functions of the explorere window to Select All and copy and then paste the contents to the notepad.
i have written the program using LWP and Setupsup modules. i can get the webpage but the selectall-copy-paste is not working.
can anybody tell the right way to do it,
thanks a lot,
use win32::Setupsup qw(WaitForAnyWindow GetWindowProperties SendKeys);
Win32::OLE::CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application.1",$ie) || die "CreateObject: $!";
WaitForAnyWindow("*-Microsoft Internet Explorer", \my $window, 60_000,500);
GetWindowProperties($windows,['rect'], \my %hash);
SendKeys($window, '\alt+\E\alt-\A', 1);
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May 9, 2012
Montgomery feels he can be a perfect fit in SDSU's 3-3-5
Compton (Calif.) Dominguez cornerback Kalan Montgomery, a top SDSU target in the secondary, feels he can be a perfect fit in the 3-3-5.
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STATESBORO – Tom Kleinlein, deputy athletic director at Kent State University, was introduced Monday evening as Georgia Southern University’s new athletic director, concluding a national search.
During remarks at a news conference to announce Kleinlein’s appointment, Georgia Southern President Brooks Keel described the Kleinlein as someone who not only understands the competitive and business aspects of managing a growing athletics department, but also the focus on academics.
“Tom Kleinlein brings a great deal of experience and enthusiasm to Georgia Southern University," Keel said. "Our goal is to make sure that our student-athletes not only win on the field, but in the classroom. We’re excited to welcome Tom and his family to the Eagle Nation and I am confident he will lead our athletic teams and department to the next level, both on and off the field.”
Kleinlein said: “I am very excited to join the Eagle Nation and am honored to serve as Georgia Southern University’s athletic director. This job can be summed up in one word: opportunity. The tradition and success that Georgia Southern has become so well known for will serve as the foundation as we build for the future. I am looking forward to working with President Keel, the university’s leadership, our coaches, staff and student-athletes and I am looking forward to meeting all of our fans, alumni, sponsors and donors.”
Kleinlein joined Kent State in 2010 and was responsible for the management of the athletic department’s revenue generation component and coordinated the department’s efforts with institutional advancement, enrollment management and student affairs. He also served as the direct sport supervisor for football along with men’s and women’s basketball while directing many of the day-to-day operations of the department.
He led the university’s relationship with IMG College, the marketing department, ticket office, facilities, strength and conditioning and game day management operations.
Prior to joining Kent State, he served as associate athlete director for football under head coach Dennis Erickson at Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz. from 2005-10. Earlier in his career, he served as assistant athletic director for football operations at Rutgers University. Prior to that, he worked at his alma mater, Wake Forest University, as an academic counselor and then assistant director of football operations.
A four-year letter winner as an offensive lineman at Wake Forest, he earned a bachelor’s degree in history. He later earned a master’s in education curriculum and instruction from Arizona State. He and his wife, Tara, have two sons – Austin and Mason.
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Stabilo Pencils (2) Ferby Pencils (3) Textile Paint (4) Fluorescent Pink Japanese Washi Tape (5) Sakura Gelly Roll Fluorescent Pen (6) Color Dots
Neon is in fashion these days from J Crew to Gap. Not like the 80's neon but more refined and used as accents. I also have an attraction to neon when it comes to arts and craft supplies. These are a few items that I love to use. They are definitely neon and make fun accents to my illustrations and collages. Now, if only I can find "neon" bakers twine...I will be happy. Does anyone know of a source? | <urn:uuid:5a86e2b0-60d1-4bc5-8442-dd9b774d3da6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://seeemmcee.blogspot.com/2011/04/neon-love.html | 2013-05-23T18:57:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952996 | 144 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Two conferences are wooing Miami Athletic Director Paul Dee, whose decision—stay in the Big East or bolt for the ACC—could shake up the college sports landscape | <urn:uuid:23331c7c-35a0-4b2b-b799-994a1432012a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/topic/article/Miami_Hurricanes/1900-01-01/2100-12-31/mdd/11/284/index.htm | 2013-05-23T19:06:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.854194 | 221 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
In the family tree of Major League Baseball, there are plenty of fathers and sons who have played the game at its highest level. There are just three families, however, that have played it through three generations -- the Bells, the Boones and now the Hairstons.
04/14/2011 11:48 AM ET
Scott Hairston continues tradition
Utility man learned game from grandfather, father
By Hal Bock / MLBPLAYERS.com
"And one day," outfielder Scott Hairston of the New York Mets said, "we might have a fourth one."
Landon Hairston, 5, and his brother, Dallas, 3, are a bit removed from the prospect stage, but both boys know their father is a Major League player. And they also know about their uncle Jerry, an outfielder with the Washington Nationals, and their cousin Jackson, who is also 5 years old.
Before too very long, the kids will learn their baseball lineage from their fathers. They'll hear all about how it began with their great grandfather, Sam Hairston. Scott remembers learning about the game that way.
"We had many conversations before he died," Scott said. "Times were tough when he played in the '40s and '50s."
Sam Hairston was a catcher, restricted by baseball to play in the Negro Leagues with teams like the Birmingham Black Barons and Indianapolis Clowns. They traveled by bus, stayed in rundown rooming houses and ate where they could at a time when players of color were not embraced by baseball.
In 1951, four years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, Sam Hairston broke the color barrier for the Chicago White Sox. He appeared in just a handful of games, his only taste of big league ball as a player. But it was the beginning of a 40-year career as a scout and coach in the White Sox organization, and it was in that role that he signed his son, Jerry Hairston Sr., as a fourth-round selection in the 1970 MLB First-Year Player Draft.
"My grandfather always expressed a love for the game," Scott said. "All who knew him said he was a great man. He always said you have to treat the game with respect."
Sam Hairston passed that approach on to his sons. Jerry reached the Majors in 1973 with the White Sox and after a year with Pittsburgh, he was sold to Durango of the Mexican League. After four seasons on the fringes of professional ball, well-removed from the Majors, he returned to the White Sox in 1981 as a valuable utility player. He led the American League in pinch hits for three straight seasons and taught some important lessons to his own sons, future Major Leaguers Scott and Jerry Jr.
"My father is very much like my grandfather," Scott said. "He always said, `Remember who you are. Be yourself. Don't be somebody else.' I keep that in mind every day."
The brothers Hairston grew up, understandably competitive, wondering what it would be like to play together. "We have a third brother, Justin, who played college ball," Scott said. "I was the peacemaker."
Jerry Jr., four years older than Scott, reached the Majors with Baltimore in 1999. There were stops with the Chicago Cubs, Texas, Cincinnati and the New York Yankees before he signed with San Diego in 2010. At last, there was a reunion with Scott, who had logged time with Arizona and Oakland as well as the Padres.
"It was very cool to be together for that season," Scott said. "It was something we always thought about as kids."
After one year together with the Padres, the brothers Hairston went their separate ways again, Jerry signing with the Nationals and Scott with the Mets. Both occupy similar roles as valuable bats off the bench, continuing the Major League legacy for the third generation of ball-playing Hairstons.
And for the future, perhaps a fourth.
"Maybe one day," Scott said, smiling broadly. "We'll see."
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Can't find a properly shaped hoop for your Dickens Faire outfit? Need a little more poof in that Halloween costume? Does your wedding dress need some support? Make your own custom hoop skirt!
In this workshop. you'll design and create your own one-of-a-kind hoop skirt suitable for historical reenactments, fashion runways, Steampunk conventions and more. The method used in this class will work for any type of round hoop, whether cone shaped, bell shaped or even an undulating shape. Make your hoop short or long, wide or narrow; it's all up to you! This workshop will only cover round style hoops; bustle/hoop combos, elliptical hoops and panniers cannot be created with this method.
We'll teach you how to draft a pattern customized to your needs, then walk you through turning that pattern into reality. You'll use high quality spring steel to give your skirt the strength and support it needs to withstand whatever you throw at it. When you're done, you'll walk (or swish) away with a finished hoop skirt
Basic sewing knowledge is required for this class.
Actual workshop is 6 hours in length. There will be a 1 hour break for lunch.
Please note: This is not a Safety and Basic Use (SBU) class. Workshops utilize TechShop’s equipment, and all shop rules still apply – unless you have passed the required safety course(s), your instructor will assist you on the machine.
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Best of 2012: Temple Terrace Elects New Mayor, Council Members
We’re reviewing 2012 by highlighting our most memorable stories from each month of the year. In November, residents elected Frank Chillura as mayor and Grant Rimbey and Eddie Vance as their new City Council members.
As 2012 comes to a close, Temple Terrace Patch is taking a look back at the year that was.
In November, Frank Chillura replaced Joe Affronti as mayor, and Grant Rimbey and Eddie Vance replaced Ron Govin and Mary Jane Neale as City Council members.
Affronti and Govin had reached their term limits and could not be re-elected. Neale ran for re-election but lost by a slim margin.
Read more here:
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Daughter of a KING , up there, my GOD.
Fun loving, vibrant, and a daije from Zim.
Spell bound by the sound of music and the rhythm of beats.
I wear what I want, when I want, how I want.
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When Madison Minton was six months old, her parents noticed that her breathing was frequently labored. Now in second grade, the child is on eight medications for asthma and other pulmonary ailments.
“Madison’s situation is typical,” says Deborah Payne, Energy and Health Coordinator of the Kentucky Environmental Foundation. “People in Eastern Kentucky often don’t have the financial capacity to move away so they live with the consequences of being downwind of a coal processing plant. This means that Madison is exposed to high quantities of dust every single day.”
Payne calls coal mining “one piece of the birth defect puzzle” and says that at every stage, coal is problematic, from its extraction, to its processing, transport, and eventual burning. “At each step there are negative health consequences for adults, children, and fetal life,” she continues.
And it’s gotten worse. As mountaintop removal [MTR] has horned-in on underground mining, the health maladies of residents of eastern Kentucky, southwest Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and southwest West Virginia—Appalachia—have begun to pile up.
Here’s why. MTR requires the use of explosives to reach coal streams, a process that makes it even more perilous than underground mining. According to Physicians for Social Responsibility [PSR], MTR blasts release selenium, iron, and aluminum into the air. Selenium is particularly hazardous, PSR says, because it accumulates in tissue where it can cause circulatory, kidney, liver, and nerve damage.
But that’s not all: Later, chemically treated liquids are used to wash the coal and, more often than not, this brew ends up in groundwater. Even more frightening, a group called Appalachian Mountain Advocates estimates that when the time comes to turn coal into electricity, arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury -- in the form of coal ash -- gets spewed into the oxygen we breathe and the water we drink.
Not surpringly, this hasn’t fazed the coal companies. In fact, by all accounts, MTR has been a boon for them, allowing the removal of two-and-a-half times more coal per hour than traditional underground mining. Already, the rush to extract -- four million tons a year is taken from each coal-rich county -- has cleared nearly 2200 square miles of forests, reduced 470 mountain summits to rubble, buried 2000 miles of streams, and damaged the ecosystems needed by fish and wildlife.
Still, it is the human toll that is causing the lion’s share of brow furrowing. A first-of-its-kind study released in June 1011 -- “The Association Between Mountaintop Mining and Birth Defects Among Live Births in Appalachia, 1996-2003” -- brought six scientists together to analyze more than 1.8 million hospital birth records for the central portion of the region.
Their findings should jolt both advocates of reproductive justice and those who purport to support the right to life. Indeed, the scientists were cautious, recognizing that most birth defects come from a mix of genetic and environmental factors. Nonetheless, in areas where MTR is used, health abnormalities -- including spina bifida, heart, lung, and genital malformations, cleft palate, hydrocephalus, and club feet -- greatly exceeded defects in non-MTR areas: 235 per 10,000 versus 144. The study also found that living in an area with mountaintop removal increases the chance of having a child with a circulatory defect by 181 percent.
Adults, researchers say, also suffer. Numerous health surveys have confirmed that adults living in areas where there is mountaintop removal have significantly more illnesses than others of comparable age -- with high rates of diabetes, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, asthma, liver disease, hypertension, heart problems, and kidney failure. Factor in poverty -- which affects nearly a third of Appalachia’s residents -- and it’s hard not to despair.
Despite these realities, scientists say that they still have a lot to learn about the risks associated with MTR. “We have not yet investigated the health of pregnant women,” says Dr. Michael Hendryx, Director of the West Virginia Rural Health Research Center. “We know that at certain times during pregnancy there is a greater risk of toxins passing through the placenta. That has to be studied. Throughout Appalachia we hear stories about kids developing cancer at early ages, having asthma and other serious respiratory symptoms, getting frequent rashes and skin blisters. We also hear about kids with digestive and dental problems, kids losing their adult teeth while they’re teenagers. If they drink water from a well that water is usually not treated and we suspect that it is tainted by chemicals that come off a mining site and then rot their teeth. Other people have different kinds of air-related problems. In some places people have to wipe a thick layer of coal dust-- it comes from the processing plants--off their furniture every day or two. The health problems vary depending on what people are exposed to -- but they need to be documented and then analyzed.”
That said, some facts are incontrovertible: For one, coal-mining communities experience significantly more birth defects than communities where mining doesn’t occur. Secondly, adults living in MTR districts are, on average, sicker than adults who live elsewhere.
So what to do? Coal is currently responsible for generating almost half of the electricity used in the US, something that is unlikely to change unless viable alternatives are developed. At the same time, the companies that see coal as a cheap and abundant fossil fuel need to be reminded that here is nothing cheap about human health.
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Gamers will wield a butterfly design-inspired sword and an arsenal of guns to decimate waves of ungodly enemies in the not-too-distant future.
NeverDead begins in the waking hours of peace and calm, when the world is under threat of being consumed by a demonic plague. Centuries have passed since the world succumbed to an unforeseen shadow of evil, and a hero was made an immortal by demons. These demons have risen once again in the present day causing unrelenting mayhem reinforced by destructible environments within the game. Now using his immortalic regenerative powers re-assembling his own body to evade death, the hero carries out the only salvation the world will know, for he is Never Dead.
"Never Dead," the official song sharing Konami's video game title, will appear on Megadeth's 13th album, which the band is currently recording.
"The members of Megadeth are speed-metal music pioneers with a world renowned reputation for producing song catalogs with original and progressive lyrics," said Shinji Hirano, President of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. "The NeverDead soundtrack is an example of pure imagination and it fully captures the essence of our game. We're proud to have such a distinctive band associated with our title."
Megadeth have sold over 25 million albums worldwide, with five consecutive albums being certified Platinum or multi-Platinum in the United States and have garnered nine Grammy nominations under their belt. "
'Never Dead' was written specifically for the game, and the song's lyrics and concept fit perfectly with its transcendental nature," said Madelyn Scarpulla, Senior Vice President of Marketing & Creative Services for Roadrunner Records. "Megadeth and Roadrunner are both looking forward to the mutually beneficial marketing partnership we have established with Konami with the launch of NeverDead and Megadeth's new album coming this fall."
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When video of Mitt Romney talked about the government-dependent "47 percent" was posted, lots of conservative bloggers rejoiced. Not all Republicans joined in. The way Republicans and conservatives split over the line fits into a pattern: the people who liked it are those who have to, like Mitt Romney, or freshmen members of Congress. Those who are ambivalent are the politicians with ties to Romney's campaign but races of their own to win. Those who hate it are Republicans from liberal states or those who quit politics for the punditry business.
View: The '47 Percent' Line Was Great
Mitt Romney. Romney has an op-ed in USA Today headlined, "Romney: I'll deliver recovery, not dependency." He writes, "Under President Obama, we have a stagnant economy that fosters government dependency. My policies will create a growing economy that fosters upward mobility." In an interview with Fox News yesterday, Romney stood by his "inelegant" remarks.
Romney's campaign manager Matt Rhoades sent out a memo to supporters saying, "As the choice voters face comes into greater focus, the different visions that Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have for America are becoming more sharply defined."
The Drudge Report released a 14-year-old video showing Obama saying he believes in redistribution, and Romney's campaign is holding events in 13 states to try to get local news to write about the video, Politico's James Hohmann reports.
- "I think it’s an opportunity [for Romney and vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan] to explain what opportunity, liberty and what conservatism is about — which is about giving everybody an opportunity," Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas. told Politico's Politico's Jake Sherman and Seung Min Kim.
- "Our Tax Code is a mess, those who don’t pay taxes range from the very poor to the very rich and we have a president who believes in an activist entitlement government that is financially unsustainable," Republican Rep. Dennis Ross of Florida told Politico. "The concern underlying Mr. Romney’s statement, I believe, is one shared by many hardworking Americans who bought homes they could afford, pay taxes to a government that is ripping them off and see debt piled onto their kids yet are daily told they don’t do their fair share for their fellow man."
RedState's Erick Erickson, Tuesday. "Conservatives Agree: Romney’s Right," he wrote.
View: The '47 Percent' Line Was Meh.
Running mate Paul Ryan. "He was obviously inarticulate in making this point," Ryan said in a Nevada radio interview. He should have said it in another way, "that's for sure."
RedState's Erick Erickson, Wedneday. "Even conservatives like me who don't think this is as damaging as a lot of people say, have to concede the remark was really inarticulate at best and really dumb," he said on CNN.
Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah. "In the age of 24-hour news cycles, this is going to get a few hours, but by the time we move onto more important things later in the week, it will have come and gone," he told Politico.
Karl Rove. "I think he’s better served saying, 'I've said what I said, I'm worried about [the] culture of dependency and that's why I've got [a] plan for the middle class' and just go to that," Rove told Politico's Jonathan Martin and Maggie Haberman and Anna Palmer. But "you’ve got to be careful about that number," Rove said, because it includes old folks on Social Security.
View: The '47 Percent' Line Was Horrible
- "You win by making people feel like you understand their problems -- his gaffe this week made that more difficult," former Bush communications director Nicolle Wallace said on Good Morning America Wednesday. "They have to stop being hostage to their own mistakes."
- "This is a deeply cynical view of America," former Bush aide Mark McKinnon writes at The Daily Beast. "Not to mention wrong. And it’s a long way from the compassionate conservatism that welcomed more Americans into the Republican Party under President George W. Bush." He notes that Michelle Obama said in her convention speech that a presidency "reveals who you are." McKinnon says, "mark me down as one Republican not happy with what is being revealed about Mitt Romney."
Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown. "That’s not the way I view the world. As someone who grew up in tough circumstances, I know that being on public assistance is not a spot that anyone wants to be in. Too many people today who want to work are being forced into public assistance for lack of jobs," Brown told The Hill.
Connecticut candidate for Senate Linda McMahon. She released a statement saying, "I disagree with Governor Romney’s insinuation that 47% of Americans believe they are victims who must depend on the government for their care. I know that the vast majority of those who rely on government are not in that situation because they want to be."
The Wall Street Journal's editorial page. The editorial imagines what Romney should have said: "You've probably also heard some people—some even in my own party—divide Americans between 'makers' and 'takers.' As if half the country wants to live off the other half. I've never believed that." Romney should sneak the speech past his advisers, because "a man as smart as the former CEO of Bain Capital can give a better speech on taxes and dependency than he delivered at that fundraiser. If he can't, he'll lose, and he'll deserve to."
Peggy Noonan. It's "Time for an Intervention," she writes. On a super-deep level, too. "What should Mitt Romney do now? He should peer deep into the abyss." | <urn:uuid:48472b5d-a107-4c0d-8a27-8cdde091de2f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alamogordonews.com/politics-national/?third_party=how-the-gop-divides-over-romneys-remarks | 2013-05-23T19:06:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976127 | 1,227 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming sci-fi action adventure Pacific Rim has...
Cake Pulls ‘Monkeyface’
Kids’ entertainment specialist CAKE has been appointed worldwide distributor for hit animated gross-out comedy Fleabag Monkeyface (52 x 11, kids 7-12) which will be available at the MIPTV market next month. CAKE can be found at stand R30.18 and will also be offering Let’s Go Pocoyo, Plankton Invasion and Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
Fleabag Monkeyface, co-produced by Sparky Animation, Impossible Kids, Editude Pictures and Walker Productions and based on characters created by award-winning writers duo Knife and Packer, has been a top performer on its parent channel CITV since launching last December. The fast-paced comedy follows the adventures of Fleabag Monkeyface–a half-monkey, half-boy—and his creators Gene and Gerald. Each episode shows the trio presenting the latest episode of their hit TV series “Gross Out TV” in which they reveal their latest disgusting discoveries—all the while evading the plots of the evil Dr. Dirk Spamflex and his sidekick Deathbeak.
“We’re excited to add Sparky Animation, Impossible Kids, Editude Pictures and Walker Productions to the group of producers we work with,” said CAKE CEO & Creative Director Tom van Waveren. “The show looks great and puts a smile on your face – and we know the market will respond to that.” | <urn:uuid:4293f920-fd40-4d15-867a-dc33ff8d9ffe> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/cake-pulls-monkeyface/ | 2013-05-23T19:05:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923335 | 331 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Faculty Art Exhibition
Armstrong Art Faculty 2011 Exhibit
|When:||September 12th through September 30th|
|Where:||Fine Arts Gallery|
|Admission:||free admission, no tickets necessary|
About this event:
Enjoy a veritable collage of photography, ceramics, painting, digital design, mixed media and so much more.
Join our faculty for a gallery reception at 5:30 p.m., Friday, September 16th.
Armstrong Fine Arts Gallery
Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., weekdays
Admission is free.
Call 344.2801 from noon to 3 p.m., weekdays, for information. | <urn:uuid:88983d5a-cc28-4da7-87fe-f4db412c9fff> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.armstrong.edu/Liberal_Arts/music/amt_faculty_art_exhibition | 2013-05-23T18:30:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.878732 | 148 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Meet Dawn Fotopulos – Your Small Business Coach
Dawn Fotopulos is the founder of BestSmallBizHelp.com and a successful business woman who has helped thousands of small businesses thrive. Dawn’s goal is to empower small business owners and solopreneurs to meet their full potential. Small businesses are the lifeblood of any economy and the engine of innovation. Dawn understands how daunting it can be to run a small business and this is why she developed a series of short small business training videos that will take you through all the steps necessary in developing a successful small business!”
Dawn M. Fotopulos has launched over eighty profitable businesses and product lines in the financial services, consumer products, real estate development, high technology and non-profit sectors.
Best Small Biz Help.com
Ms. Fotopulos has been holding seminars for small business owners for over fifteen years first at Citibank and now through Best Small Biz Help.com, a division of DF Consulting, Inc. The content of those seminars is now online in our exclusive video training library available 24/7. These short courses simplify and focus the entrepreneur on only what they need to build a sustainable enterprise. The mission of Small Biz Help.com is to help small business owners increase profits with existing resources in every economic environment. Every client who has taken the firm’s advice has improved profitability. In the 1990’s, Ms. Fotopulos joined Citibank as Vice President in the Consumer Bank where she ran the Marketing Group for Corporate Card Products, the fastest growing and most profitable product line in the institution at that time. In Citibank’s branch network, she successfully turned around failing businesses and launched branch-based seminars to drive revenues. Ms. Fotopulos has moderated for The New York Times Small Business Summit Conference on “Thriving In A Tough Economy.” She has appeared on MSNBC as a specialty guest on “Your Business,” MSNBC.com Small Business Tips, and has been quoted in PINK Magazine. Ms. Fotopulos is the Turnaround Specialist on Forbes.com Small Business Exchange “Ask the Expert.” Ms. Fotopulos holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University (dean’s list) and a Masters Degree in Business Administration in Management (with distinction) from The Stern School of New York University. She has been a visiting speaker at Columbia Business School, an adjunct professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, a certified facilitator for the Kaufmann Fast Track Program for Entrepreneurs, and currently, is a full time faculty member in Business at The King’s College in New York City. Ms. Fotopulos regularly attracts standing room only audiences for her talks and waiting lists for her classes.
Speaking Topics Include
- “Accounting for the Number-Phobic” – (Accounting Basics)
- “Never Compete on Price Again” – (Market Strategy)
- “The Three R’s of Megaprofits” – (Business Management)
- “Never Sell Anything and Make A Fortune” – (Sales Strategy)
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Before the results, I would like to say thankyou to all the entrants, and all of you will have already or will recieve a fan request from me. I will get on to the prizes ASAP.
Below are all the contestants who wrote stories along with the name and link for the entry. Please check every single one of them out! You never know what you might find in their writing that will click with you!
Picture 1) Madison Connor-Beneath the Castle Walls
Picture 3) fresh spirits-A Kiss Forever
Picture 10)commander218-Legend of the Dark Crystal
Picture 12) Raining Skittles-A Great Fairie Life(Ican't get the pic to work!Sorry Skittles!)
Picture 14) angellynn-HER LAST SONG
Picture 15) MusicalGal13-Liquid Fire
Picture 20) smileyfication-Liquid Flame
So, the results are as follows...
IN 3RD PLACE.............
COMMANDER128-LEGEND OF THE DARK CRYSTAL
Wow!A great novel with great potential to be continued some day! Ireally reccomend it to any lover of the strange and mysterious with a dash of fantasy thrown in!
IN JOINT SECOND PLAC EARE.......
Ihonestly could not decide between you. Your stories were both amazing and Itruly loved them. I like the interpretation of the picture that MusicalGal came up with, and the strange element of the story that SmileyFication came up with. Well done to you both!
And of course, the one you've all been waiting for....
1ST PLACE GOES TO.....
*Seriously long drum roll*
*The drums still going!*
*Omg you stupid drum will you shut up and let me get on with it! Thank you!....*
MADISON CONNOR-BENEATH THE CASTLE WALLS
Ireally loved this it was truly amazing and one of the best stories that I've ever read! Ireally like your interpretation and use of the picture and the story line. This really had novel potential-maybe you should consider it! Well done, a really well deserved 1st place!
Well then! I feel horrid about the fact I had to choose, if I could I would've given you all a place! But alas, Ivowed to judge the contest, and so Ihave.
And please know all of you have made my way onto my mental priority reading list. Anything that you want me to read, just drop me a comment on my page.
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The Boonville Pirates soccer team may have missed the playoffs after losing to top-seeded Southern Boone of Ashland 2-1 in the semifinal round of the district playoffs in Fulton.
But if you consider that Southern Boone is still playing today, the one-point loss against the Eagles looks better and better each day.
While closing out the season at 6-17 overall and 1-11 in the North Central Missouri Conference, the Pirates appear to be raising a few eyebrows after landing three players on the Class 1 District 7 All-District Team.
Junior Nathan Green and sophomore Tyler Drew were both selected to the first-team in the district while senior Eric Warren was a honorable-mention all-district selection.
Boonville soccer coach Tim Brown said even though the Pirates were the youngest varsity team around while starting at least seven sophomores in every match this season but one, they still managed to finish with a record of 6-17 overall, which is the most victories ever in a season at Boonville.
"We also had some other records set this year: we scored the most goals in a season as a team with 42; we had our first ever 20 goal scorer; we won two matches in a row for the first time; we won an away conference match for the first time; and we recorded our first-ever district shutout," stated Brown.
Drew, two-year starter, led the team in every offensive category this season. Brown said Drew had 116 shot attempts, 65 shots on goal, seven assists and 23 goals in 23 matches and started the new single-season record for the boys program; the previous record was 16 goals. He also became the first Pirate striker to make the all-conference team, Brown said.
As for Green, Brown said in his opinion Nathan is the most underrated goalkeeper around.
"He consistently keeps the team in matches," Brown said. "Unfortunately, he is surrounded by inexperienced defenders, so the 10 miraculous saves he makes every match are overshadowed by the three goals he allows on the approximately 20 close-range shots per game he faces."
As for Warren, who transferred to Boonville two weeks into the season, Brown said he had no idea what to do with Eric. "Incredibly athletic and full of confidence, Eric eventually found his home at left back, and we were glad to have him, if only for one season," Brown said.
Other first-team selections were: Hayden Salmons, Price Meentemeyer, Nate Sapp, Landon Bartel, Calvin Bill and Jacon Moore of Southern Boone; Jesus Gonzalez, Patricio Herrera, Jose O. Garcia and Jose "Greg" Reding of Missouri Military Academy; and Jakob Hull and Trevor Neal of Fulton; and Allen Rodriquez of Montgomery County.
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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc
Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc
Pfizer Inc. (PFE), the world’s largest drugmaker, failed to win U.S. regulators’ approval of its drug to treat TTR-FAP, a rare and deadly genetic disorder affecting 8,000 people worldwide.
The Food and Drug Administration asked for a second clinical trial showing the effectiveness of tafamidis meglumine, New York-based Pfizer said today in a statement. The pill would be the first approved treatment in the U.S. for TTR-FAP, or Transthyretin Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy.
TTR-FAP robs patients of the use of their limbs from the feet upwards, and as their digestive system turns against them, they waste away and die in about a decade. In Europe, the drug was approved in November for sale under the name Vyndaqel. Pfizer estimates there are 3,000 U.S. patients.
“TTR-FAP is a relentless and debilitating disease. We understand the urgent need within the patient community and stand firmly behind this innovative medicine,” Yvonne Greenstreet, senior vice president and head of medicines development group for Pfizer’s Specialty Care Business Unit, said in the company’s statement. “It is our intention to request a meeting as soon as possible with the agency in order to discuss a potential path forward.”
Tafamidis works by locking down transthyretin, a protein made by the liver. In healthy people, the protein holds together. In those with TTR-FAP, it breaks apart, forming toxic plaques that attack the body’s longest nerves, paralyzing limbs and ruining the digestive system.
The current treatment is a liver transplant -- the organ produces the problematic protein and a new one can extend patients’ lives.
Analysts haven’t estimated a market for the medicines. Pfizer declined to comment on its European or potential U.S. sales.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ALNY), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, also has a drug in early trials to treat TTR-FAP. Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ISIS), based in Carlsbad, California, and London-based GlaxoSmithKline Plc have teamed to develop a treatment.
The Alnylam and Isis drugs stop production of the transthyretin protein, said Rodney Falk, director of Boston- based Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s program for cardiac amyloidosis, a related disease where patients’ heart muscles are damaged.
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tell me what you think...Something different on pg 31
When I checked my caller ID I and saw my girl Stacy's number flash on the screen I was happy to have something to remove me from the boredom of my otherwise normal day.
"Hey girl, what's up?"
"Not much girl, are we still on for tomorrow night?" she asked.
"Yeah, should be. I'm getting a pedicure and a haircut before we go though. When are we heading out? Are you picking me up?"
"I'll go with you for the pedi." She laughed as she admitted, "God, I need one too! I'll pick you up; I figured we'd head out around 8 and get something to eat. Then we can go from there."
"All right, girl, I'll pick you up around 1 for the pedi," I agreed.
I hung up the phone thoughtfully. She might get us in all kinds of trouble, but going out with Stacey was always fun, amazing, and even downright fucking hot.
It was probably because I hadn't had a chance to go out with Stacy in a while, or maybe because I'd heard so many good things about the club, but I woke up feeling like Saturday was going to be a very good day. Even though it wasn't how I wanted to spend my morning, I decided to clean up my house. Sometimes Stacy needed a place to crash when the vodka got the better of her. Of course, another, better, reason was in the back of my mind. Maybe I wouldn't be coming back alone.
nce my hair was done I looked in the mirror critically.
"What do you think?" I asked.
Stacy leaned over the back of the chair and her green eyes met my brown ones in the mirror as she examined the stylist's work
"Looks good," she said finally. "You look hot!" She brushed her own brown hair away from her face and said, "I wish I'd taken the time to do something with all this!"
"Girl you have the volume I wish I had." I chuckled at her. "Leave it down and when you blow dry your hair adds some curls not a lot but some and I think it'll be all you need." I grinned at Stacy and the stylist just nodded in agreement.
As we finished with the salon we went over the mall. We browsed around at the stores and looking at eye candy. I spotted a new store in the mall and said "what the hell why not" to myself.
"Stace lets go in this store. I got a feeling I will find THE OUTFIT for tonight." I looked at her. She nodded in agreement as we walked in the store.
"Welcome to the Rave, How can I help you?" A cute petite blonde around mid 20's asking when we walked in.
"I'm looking for an outfit to go out tonight and I want it to be the outfit if you catch my drift." I smiled at her.
"I understand completely. My name is Shawna and I'll being helping you. Come this way and I'll get a fitting room ready for you and your friend. Then I'll gather some outfits and you can try them on." I nodded and said "Sure."
Stacy and I walked to the fitting room. The fitting room was huge. I had a couch and a table with water and snacks. I raised an eyebrow toward Stacy and she shrugged her shoulders. I started to undress while I was waiting on Shawna. I looked at Stacy I always knew she was always a pretty girl. Not that I haven't thought about experiencing some girl on girl action because I would do Stacy in a second. She was taller than me compare to my 5'3 she was 5'6. She wasn't as curvy as I am, but she had nice set tits on her. If I remember correctly full B cup compare to my DD. She had sandy brown hair that volume that I was extremely jealous off, but she always through it up in a ponytail because of her job. I had nice wide hips with a desirable ass as the men called it. Stacy had a cute bubble butt but not much of one. We were complete opposites of each other. That's probably why we were such good friends.
"Here you go; I brought a strapless bra too. If you need anything just holla at me." Shawna said as she was walking out the door. I went through all the dresses and I thought I wasn't going to find the one but the last dress I put on I looked at myself in the mirror and I knew this was it.
"Damn girl that is the OUTFIT if you know what I mean." Stacy was wide eyed and walking around me.
"You think so?" I asked her. I felt confident but I needed the assurance from my best friend. She was just nodding her head. I put my clothes back on and went and saw Shawna at check out and said this is the dress.
"I have some amazing shoes to go with this dress, if you are interested." Shawna suggested.
I looked at Stacy and I thought real quick of my shoes at home and realized none would go with the outfit. "That would be great Shawna. I'm an 8.5 in shoes." I told her. She walked to the back of the store and came back with some amazing shoes. She gave me the total. We left that mall. I dropped Stace off at home and said quick bye that I would see her later.
It was 5:30 by the time we were done with our shopping. I poured some vodka and downed it in one shot as I savored the burn of the liquor down my throat. It was a little early, but I wanted to take my time and look my best so I headed up the stairs to start getting ready.
I filled my tub with warm water and sank down with a sigh of pleasure. I poured some mango bath wash onto my loofah and began to soap myself as I inhaled the delicious, fruity scent. I shave my appealing legs and, of course under arms. Once I finished I reached in the water felt my wet, smooth shaven pussy. It was still nice and soft. I teased myself pinching my clit while twisting my nipples with the other hand. I wouldn't cum but I wanted to be more than a tease tonight. I will be bringing someone home. Oh yes I was. . I got out and lathered up in my favorite lotion. I left my hair alone since it was styled for tonight. I looked at my clock it read 650. I got on with my makeup. I was going to take my time and do it right. I was going to smokin hot!! As I finished I heard the doorbell.
I yelled come in. "Where ya at hooker" I laughed.
"Back here Stacy." She walked in the bedroom as I finished with my makeup.
"Damn girl you aren't ready yet." I laughed at Stacy.
"Chill girl I just have to put my clothes on and I'm ready." I told Stace.
"Well hurry up I'm hungry and I'm ready to party and find some hot men!!" Stace told me while she was doing a dance move.
"Me too honey" me too I whispered. I pulled out my new black tube top dress that I had bought earlier. I had pulled out my stripper silver sparkle shoes with some silver hoops and my favorite charm necklace.
"Damn girl I never seen you look this hot before." Stace said to me with a smirk on her face.
"Whatever Stacy you have seen me dressed like this." I told her.
"No way, No huh honey." She said while shaking her head.
"Oh shut up and let's go eat since you are starving." I told her as I grabbed my purse and keys. I locked up and head out for a fun night.
When we got to Zone, of course we had to stand in line. I could feel the base from the dance music throbbing in my veins. I could also feel myself getting impatient; I really wanted to get out there on the floor. I wanted to dance, to flirt, to touch, and tease.
Once we got closer I saw that I knew the bouncer. His name was Jake and I hadn't seen him in forever. I couldn't help but smile at the thought of seeing him again.
Stacy and I stepped up.
"ID's please," he said, all business.
"Hey Jake, how are you?" I asked as I handed mine over.
He glanced at me briefly and then looked again. "Liz? Is that you?"
"The one and only," I teased.
He gave me a huge hug and then pulled back to look at me once more. "Wow girl," he said with an appreciative smile. "You look...wow!"
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From World Politics Watch: How the Media Partnered With Hezbollah: Harvard's Cautionary Report.
While the war between Israel and Hezbollah raged in Lebanon and Israel last summer, it became clear that media coverage had itself started to play an important role in determining the ultimate outcome of that war. It seemed clear that news coverage would affect the course of the conflict. And it quickly transpired that Hezbollah would become the beneficiary of the media's manipulation.
A close examination of the media's role during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon comes now from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, in an analysis of the war published in a paper whose subtitle should give pause to journalists covering international conflict: "The Israeli-Hezbollah War of 2006: The Media as a Weapon in Asymmetrical Conflict." Marvin Kalb, of Harvard's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, methodically traces the transformation of the media "from objective observer to fiery advocate." Kalb painstakingly details how Hezbollah exercised absolute control over how journalists portrayed its side of the conflict, while Israel became "victimized by its own openness."
In commenting on the report, Charles Johnson notes:
It’s interesting that in an age of obsessive media focus on scandals, no wire service or newspaper has ever followed up on that story in any real way. Adnan Hajj seemed to simply vanish off the face of the earth; no interviews, no photos of him, no investigations, nothing; just that one statement where he claimed his fakery was to “remove dust.”
For blowing the whistle on Hizballah’s manipulation of Reuters, LGF was smeared by numerous leftists; the diversionary tactics ranged from personal attacks to attempts to minimize the importance of the faked photos.
Now the Harvard Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, hardly a bastion of neocon wingnut thinking, has issued a paper that absolutely skewers the media for their outrageously biased and terrorist-enabling behavior. Maybe this will be a little harder for them to ignore
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Jason Ryan Dorsey, author of Graduate to Your Perfect Job, takes his initial ideas a few steps further in My Reality Check Bounced!: The Twentysomething's Guide to Cashing In On Your Real-World Dreams, a book that claims to offer its readers the strategies they need to open up a world of opportunities.
I have no doubt that any number of readers will pick up this book and instantly recognize themselves between the covers. Members of a whole generation of young adults who are “running hard but getting nowhere” will be pleased to see their frustrations
and disillusionments in print, and more than eager to learn of some solutions to their problems.
Dorsey manages to stay slightly ahead of the curve by adding to the usual platitudes and catchphrases (“authentic self,” “finding your passion”) more meaningful and practical specifics: fill-in-the-blank questions that are helpful and thought-provoking; instant actions that readers can move on immediately; and strategies that lean toward the unusual – the 10-second self-commercial, for example – that could produce major, real-world benefits.
He also moves beyond the overly familiar and helps readers to see things from unique perspectives. His idea of needing/building a Future Picture (a goal, in other words) isn’t all that new, but the way he breaks them down into ”snapshots” – Family, Purpose, Career,
and Personal – then probes each of them in more detail enables most readers to be able to connect somewhere within those four categories.
The applications of the issues and ideas he discusses are seen in the numerous profiles of young adults peppered throughout the book.
The number of case stories in the book – one for almost every point that is mentioned – seems a bit excessive. Toward the end, the abundance of these real-world scenarios seems forced,
making all of them a bit less believable. However, I can see how other readers might enjoy having a clear example of the follow through for each idea presented.
The approaches that Dorsey touts range from the simple and obvious – checking the phone book to see what other opportunities are booming right now, or having business cards made so that people will take you seriously – to the more taxing and less easily understood – his chapters on fears
and excuses and how best to manage them both are intriguing and present a lot of information that most books, focused solely on getting rich or making it big, would have ignored.
That My Reality Check Bounced! is written by a twenty-something high achiever who has real-world experience coaching young adults to better positions (in their lives, as well as their careers) carries a lot of weight. The friendly tone
and ‘get on the ball!’ advice would probably seem condescending had it been written by anyone too much older. Dorsey, who
has clearly put in the time and researched the current issues facing “adultlescents”, manages it well.
He makes readers understand how much their everyday choices influence the overall course of their lives. He shows that success is not just about your age or education level.
It’s also about being able to plan, being able to communicate clearly, having concrete goals,
and networking. Doing the research, taking care of your whole self, being mentored and persevering in the face of adversity or doubts. And because his focus isn’t so narrow that he only talks about getting a good job or landing the right career, he is better able to help each reader try to achieve their individual dreams.
Do I think that there are limits to personal responsibility that Dorsey doesn’t address in this book? Certainly. And that it fell a little short of the cure-all the book blurbs would like to you believe it is? Definitely. But I also think Jason Ryan Dorsey provides a stimulating resource that many a ‘boomeranger’ will find helpful in their search for a better life. | <urn:uuid:d7c7261f-d522-4e5c-bac8-2ebb3572c7d8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.curledup.com/realityc.htm | 2013-05-23T19:06:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968828 | 830 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Purnell to present homemade music in Pennsylvania
Long before we learned how to download music from the Internet, people knew how to make music out of whatever raw materials were available. Nowadays, we can reduce, reuse and recycle to make beautiful music from throwaway items like soda pop bottles and toilet paper rolls.
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U.S. Department of Labor
Employment Standards Administration
Office of Labor-Management Standards
Boston District Office
JFK Federal Building
Boston, MA 02203
(617)624-6690 Fax: (617)624-6606
April 27, 2009
Ms. Michelle Armstrong, President
United Nurses and Allied Professional Local 5068
501 Great Road, Suite 204
N. Smithfield, RI 02896
LM number: 543-456
Case Number: ||||||||||
Dear Ms. Armstrong:
This office has recently completed an audit of UNAP Local 5068 under the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to determine your organization’s compliance with the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). As discussed during the exit interview with Treasurer Claire Romblad on 04/23/09, the following problems were disclosed during the CAP. The matters listed below are not an exhaustive list of all possible problem areas since the audit conducted was limited in scope.
Record Keeping Violations
Title II of the LMRDA establishes certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements. Section 206 requires, among other things, that labor organizations maintain adequate records for at least five years by which each receipt and disbursement of funds, as well as all account balances, can be verified, explained, and clarified. As a general rule, labor organizations must maintain all records used or received in the course of union business.
For disbursements, this includes not only original bills, invoices, receipts, vouchers, and applicable resolutions, but also documentation showing the nature of the union business requiring the disbursement, the goods or services received, and the identity of the recipient(s) of the goods or services. In most instances, this documentation requirement can be satisfied with a sufficiently descriptive expense receipt or invoice. If an expense receipt is not sufficiently descriptive, a union officer or employee should write a note on it providing the additional information. For money it receives, the labor organization must keep at least one record showing the date, amount, purpose, and source of that money. The labor organization must also retain bank records for all accounts.
The audit of Local 5068’s 2008 records revealed the following recordkeeping violation:
UNAP Local 5068 did not retain adequate documentation for expenses paid in association with the union’s annual party held on March 7, 2008. Specifically, the union did not produce receipt documentation for $475.00 in payments made for this event. An example of a disbursement that lacked adequate documentation is found in check # |||, dated 02/20/09 for $375.00, made to |||| |||||| |||| ||||||.
As previously noted above, labor organizations must retain original receipts, bills, and vouchers for all disbursements. The president and treasurer (or corresponding principal officers) of your union, who are required to sign your union’s LM report, are responsible for properly maintaining union records.
Based on your assurance that Local 5068 will retain adequate documentation in the future, OLMS will take no further enforcement action at this time regarding the above violations.
The audit disclosed a violation of LMRDA Section 201(b), which requires labor organizations to file annual financial reports accurately disclosing their financial condition and operations. The Labor Organization Annual Report LM-3 filed by Local 5086 for fiscal year ending 06/30/08 was deficient in that or deficient in the following areas:
1) Disbursements to Officers (LM-3)
Local 5068 did not report the names of some officers and the total amounts of payments to them or on their behalf in Item 24 (All Officers and Disbursements to Officers). An example of this is found in check # |||, dated 03/03/08, to executive council member Lisa Butera. The union must report in Item 24 all persons who held office during the year, regardless of whether they received any payments from the union. The union also failed to report that former treasurer |||||||| |||||| held office during the audit year.
The union must report most direct disbursements to Local 5068 officers and some indirect disbursements made on behalf of its officers in Item 24. A "direct disbursement" to an officer is a payment made to an officer in the form of cash, property, goods, services, or other things of value. See the instructions for Item 24 for a discussion of certain direct disbursements to officers that do not have to be reported in Item 24. An "indirect disbursement" to an officer is a payment to another party (including a credit card company) for cash, property, goods, services, or other things of value received by or on behalf of an officer. However, indirect disbursements for temporary lodging (such as a union check issued to a hotel) or for transportation by a public carrier (such as an airline) for an officer traveling on union business should be reported in Item 48 (Office and Administrative Expense).
2) Total Receipts
It appears that Local 5068 did not accurately report the amount of total receipts for the fiscal year ending 06/30/08 in Item 44 (Total Receipts). The total receipts were under-reported by at least $3,127.86.
3) Total Disbursements
It appears that Local 5068 did not accurately report the amount of total disbursements made for the fiscal year ending 06/30/08 in Item 55. The total disbursements were under-reported by at least $29.00.
Local 5068 must file an amended Form LM-3 for fiscal year ending 06/30/08, to correct the deficient items discussed above. Investigator ||||| provided you with a blank form and instructions, and advised you that the reporting forms and instructions are available on the OLMS website (www.olms.dol.gov). The amended Form LM-3 should be submitted to this office at the above address as soon as possible, but not later than 05/15/09. Before filing, review the report thoroughly to be sure it is complete, accurate, and signed properly with original signatures.
1. Duplicate Receipts
Members of Local 5086 pay some dues directly to the union. Union employees record dues payments in the union’s receipts journal, but they do not issue receipts to dues payers. OLMS recommends that Local 5068 use a duplicate receipt system where the union issues original pre-numbered receipts to all members who make payments directly to the union and retains copies of those receipts. A duplicate receipt system is an effective internal control because it ensures that a record is created of income which is not otherwise easily verifiable. If more than one duplicate receipt book is in use, the union should maintain a log to identify each book, the series of receipt numbers in each book, and to whom each book is assigned.
I want to extend my personal appreciation to UNAP Local 5068 for the cooperation and courtesy extended during this compliance audit. I strongly recommend that you make sure this letter and the compliance assistance materials provided to you are passed on to future officers. If we can provide any additional assistance, please do not hesitate to call.
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National Drinking Water Database
Whorton Mobile Home Park Utilities - Lubbock, TX
Serves 45 people
Dibromoacetic acidDibromoacetic acid is a disinfection byproduct regulated by EPA as one of five haloacetic acids that are formed when chlorine, chloramines or other disinfectants react with organic and inorganic matter in water.
Testing History-Tested -Detected -Over Health Guidelines -Over Legal Limit*
|Dibromoacetic acidDibromoacetic acid is a disinfection byproduct regulated by EPA as one of five haloacetic acids that are formed when chlorine, chloramines or other disinfectants react with organic and inorganic matter in water.||0.18 ppb|
|NOTE: Each dot in the above graph represents one month.|
* Water utilities are noted as exceeding the legal limit if any test is above the maximum contaminant level (MCL). Most MCLs are based on annual averages so exceeding the MCL for one test does not necessarily indicate that the system is out of compliance.
Health Based and Legal Limits for Dibromoacetic acid
Health Based Limits for Dibromoacetic acid
|Maximum Contaminant Limit (MCL)||The enforceable standard which defines the highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to health-based limits (Maximum Contaminant Level Goals, or MCLGs) as feasible using the best available analytical and treatment technologies and taking cost into consideration. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.||60 ppb|
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About the ChamberThe Farmingville Hills Chamber of Commerce was incorporated in January of 2011. It is a 501(c)(6) volunteer organization. The Farmingville Hills Chamber of Commerce, Inc. was formed to advance the general welfare and prosperity of the Farmingville area so that its citizens and its business community shall prosper. The Chamber is focused on bolstering business by increasing sales, creating brand awareness, and creating loyal customers, and will instill pride within its members and local citizens.
2012January - Congressman Tim Bishop spoke to the membership about what he is doing in government and what issues are presently pertaining to local business owners. Also, at the first meeting of the second year, the Chamber introduced its new membership benefit package.
February - Sachem Public Library's Director, Judith Willner and Head of Reference, Lynne Kennedy explained how to use the Library as a great information resource. Courtesy of the Sachem Public Library, the Chamber now provides you with a Business Resource Center.
March - We hosted Marketing March Madness. It was a FREE event where the Chamber expressed the importance of marketing and how it contributes to the success of businesses and nonprofit organizations. 5 marketing professionals were on hand to discuss the different options available.
April - At our monthly meeting at The Flaming Hearth, students from Lynwood Elementary School. They announced an event they were having to discuss the 7 highly effective habits.
May - The monthly meeting was held at J&C 68 Restaurant. The guest speaker was Cindy O'Connell, Sachem East High School Transition Liaison. The educational speaker was AnnMarie Horn, Green Today Health Tomorrow.
June - The monthly meeting was held at Cupcake Girlz. This was the last meeting prior to the summer break. The Chamber discussed with meeting attendees, the Dining & Dancing event on July 12th and the 1st Annual Farmingvile Street Fair on August 26th.
July - We presented Dining and Dancing: The music of Something, Long Island's only acoustic band.
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[Black & Beige]
In 1899, troublesome teenager Pearl Hart (age 17) left her hometown in Ontario for the Wild West. While in Tucson, Pearl fell in love with a mustachioed shyster named Joe Boot, and together they formed a successful mugging duo. After finding out that her mother had a serious illness and needed money, Pearl set her sights on bigger game and became the first stagecoach robber in Arizona. After getting caught napping by the Sheriff, Pearl was sentenced to 5 years of hard time in an all men's penitentiary - making her not only the first woman to go to prison in Arizona, but the first to get pregnant in prison! She was released afterwards due to the fact that her two cell mates were the former Governor and a Minister. Using soft dusty leathers with an ankle buckled strap on a 2.5" Fellowship-hi heel and tunite Bellevue sole, this Mary Jane is sure to get you in and out of trouble.
Kate from our Los Angeles store says:
The Pearl Hart is an easy fit. It runs true to size, and have an average width - comfortable for all!
80 reviews so far... write yours!
Posted by kathy from NH:
I bought the pink/yellow colorway and found that the actual colors are slightly darker/richer than they appear to my eye on the website. It makes me like them even more. I went up 1/2 size for the perfect fit. I LOVE the NYC store and always have the best time when I go there. My nine year old son even loves it. The sales people are incredibly helpful and always lots of fun. I tend to bond with other shoppers too. It's just a magical place like no other shoe store on the planet.
Posted by Kara from Halifax, NS:
I love these shoes so much I own them in three colours and I'm always tempted to buy more. They are the perfect height if you have to do a little walking through your day and still look super awesome. The vintage look appeals to my personal aesthetic. They fit true to size in my experience, although I did by the open-toe pair (no longer available) a half size up.
Posted by J Austin:
Got the Pearl Harts in yellow and pink. They are cute as hell. The yellow shades toward a peachy orange, and goes beautifully with the dress I bought them for. I usually get a 7 in Fluevogs, and these work for me in a 7.
Posted by Christine from Kitchener, ON:
I fell in love with the pearl harts in dusty rose and cream immediately and knew they would have to be my first fluevogs. That colour combo is I irresistible! I found the dusty rose colour much darker and richer than the website shows; it's truly a deep dusty rose not light pink. The shoes are gorgeous. I found they fit narrow across the ball of my foot and went up a size from my full reg. shoe size in it. I still can't get over them. They're like candy.
Posted by Sharon from Sacramento:
Perfect as always
Had to have these in the pink/cream! So pretty. Normally wear 8.5, but got these in a 9. Thanks to the staff at the Grant St. store. A little hard to get your feet in at first, but patience is a virtue! These are so worth it.
Posted by Winki from Idaho:
The rose shade is a little lighter on my screen than it is in person. I was a bit surprised but not disappointed. This is my first patent pair in Fluevogs and they might take a bit of getting used to. Fairly certain I will only wear them on dressy occasions. I love my dusty lavender and cream in this style; such a cute little turned up rounded toe adds spunk and wiggle room! :-D
I got these in olive in a size 12, which is my regular shoe size but is sometimes a little snug for me in Fluevogs. These shoes are definitely a real 12! Long enough though quite a bit narrow for me. I had them stretched by a shoe repair guy and now they're dreamy! :-B
Highly recommended for the long of foot. The olive color is awesome!
Posted by Lori Gadzala from Ottawa, Canada:
Comfy dancing shoes!
Tried these on at the Toronto store, hemmed and hawed and finally went up a half size to 10 from my normal 9.5. I have the black and ivory and they are very versatile. I bought these because my husband and I started ballroom dancing lessons, and the cross-strap and sensible-yet-dainty heel is perfect for gliding across the floor. But I also wear them for business meetings with pants, out for dinner in skirts, even to my sister's wedding in a black and white dress! Second pair of Fluevogs and a great choice for business folks who have to walk a lot - or for dancers!
Pearl loves being at my house, and I love Pearl! Mine are burgundy footbed with black trim/straps. These shoes get compliments whenever I walk out of the house. They're dressy, funky, and comfortable. Very comfortable. I consistently wear a 6.5 in my vogs and these are perfect. I do have to use a shoe horn to get them on, because one cross is fixed, with elastic. It was a bit of a knack to get them on the first time. It was really tight at first, but it's loosening up nicely, so it's easier each time. Once on, they are a dream to wear from the first!
Posted by Karen from Ottawa:
Love these but...
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21" Corona ® Commercial-grade Professional Loppers
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Lightweight, extremely durable Corona ® loppers have fully heat-treated forged steel alloy blades cut effortlessly and are resharpenable and replaceable. Precision-machined, self-aligning pivot bolt keeps the tool in-line for life. Model features blade with nonstick PTFE coating for reduced cutting resistance. Lightweight, high-strength aluminum handles with cushion bumpers. 21" overall length and 1-1/2" cutting capacity. Imported.
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By Ginger Jarvis
Greene Publishing, Inc.
The divisive topic of a children’s home drew about 60 Madison County residents to the United Methodist Coop- erative Ministries Center on Jan. 12. The session, sometimes contentious, allowed questions and comments about the possibility of a United Methodist Children’s Home being located in Madison County.
Rev. Bob Laidlaw, pastor of Madison First United Methodist Church, served as emcee for the event. Laidlaw is a member of the 35-person Board of Trustees for the UM Children’s Home in Enterprise, Assisting Laidlaw with answering questions were Mike Cummings, Director of Family Philanthropy for the UMCH; Rev. John Gill, Community Development Coordinator; Mark Nelson, Development Officer; and Dr. Steve Batson of Albany, Ga., whose company carried out a feasibility study in the area in 2011.
The board had been considering adding a facility in North Florida, and the chance to do so came in the form of a land gift from Billy and Diane Sullivan and their daughter, Beth. The Sullivans offered a 120-acre site bounded by Daylily and Dogwood roads off Dusty Miller Road in the northeast section of the county. Another family offered the funds to construct the first building on the site.
Some residents of that area, however, were strongly opposed to the home in their neighborhood. Several of them (including a person from Jacksonville and another from central Florida) cited points such as these: (1) the possibility of widening the road into the area; (2) unsupervised children running rampant in the area and damaging property; (3) the presence of the children curtailing burns and aerial spraying; (4) property owners were not notified of the plan until surveyors came to the area; (5) increased traffic and noise; (6) taxpayer burden placed on schools; and (7) taxpayer burden for infrastructure to serve the home. One resident said, “This will impact our lives and our children’s lives.“ Another stated, “We don’t want no (sic) change.”
Preston Mathews of Lee stated that he and his wife were houseparents at the Enterprise campus for four years. “The children are constantly supervised. The footprint of the children does not make a big difference,” he said.
Cummings assured the group that the UMCH des not yet own any property in Madison County. He added, “I have spent the day at the Barksdale Farm with the idea that we might use that location. If you know of any other property available, please let me know.”
Laidlaw assured the group that the proposed home is not a juvenile-detention facility with barbed wire and guards.
Batson said that the feasibility study by Cargill Associates centered around funding sources for the home. He interviewed people from Madison County, Tallahassee, and Jacksonville; the home would serve Madison, Suwannee, and Taylor counties.
Andy Barnes, Chief Financial Officer of the Madison County School District, explained that the children would have little impact on school funding due to state funding rules. Cummings added, “Most of these children are enrolled in Madison County schools. We will be serving children who are already here.”
Questioned about the numbers of children involved, Cummings said that the first two houses would have space for 20 children and their houseparents. Daily employees would include office personnel, therapists, and a chaplain to serve the chapel. “Our children go to church every Sunday,” he explained.
Gill said that he will install a foster-parent office in Madison, where children can be placed with Christian families.
Regarding infrastructure costs, Cumming explained that the United Methodist Church pays all those costs, as any other non-profit would do. He said, “No taxpayer money is involved.”
He closed by asking, “What does God want us to do to start this ministry? Remember that the King of Kings is in charge.”
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Louis Vuitton, Muhammad Ali And Mos Def. Hmm...
Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def) channels his inner Mohammed Ali, delivering Ali's speeches like the champ himself, inside the ring for Louis Vuitton. Why? I have no idea, but it's provocative.
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The Canadiens got a third-period goal from Tomas Plekanec, redirecting a point shot by rookie Jarred Tinordi, and then held the for a 2-1 win.
It was their fifth win in a row, matching the team’s season high.
The Canadiens have 19 wins in 28 games. They are 10-2-2 on the road.
New Jersey had 18 shots in the third period, but Carey Price was spectacular.
In winning his 15th game, Price made 32 saves.
The win lifted the Canadiens past Pittsburgh and Boston into first place in the Eastern Conference.
The lofty status won’t last: the Bruins and Penguins play Sunday afternoon.
Tinordi played 14:48, picked up his first NHL point and ended the game plus-2.
Colby Armstrong’s first goal of the season gave the Canadiens an early lead – the 21st time they’ve scored first in 28 games.
But Peter Harrold’s first, on a second-period power play, tied the game. | <urn:uuid:83a9c94f-c922-4cc1-9c94-03c5f0211228> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.hockeyinsideout.com/boone/liveblog-canadiens-at-devils-2/comment-page-2 | 2013-05-23T18:32:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956846 | 224 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
(Mary Schmitt Boyer) Based on everything I'm hearing, I would be surprised if the season started before January. As for Sessions, I'm not sure if the organization has made up its mind to trade him. I think the team is intrigued by playing any two of these point guards together. If a move is made, I would expect an attempt to get more scoring and athleticism on the wings.
HoopsVibe's Very Quick Call: Once again, his spot seems at risk.
Ramon Sessions is a solid third guard and spot starter, however, he has the unfortunate habit of joining teams who are stocked in the backcourt.
For instance, he left Milwaukee because the Bucks had Brandon Jennings and Luke Ridnour at the one-spot. Minnesota deemed him expendable with Jonny Flynn, Ridnour (again), and Ricky Rubio's eventual migration from Spain.
So, the Wolves dealt him to the lowly Cleveland Cavaliers. And it seemed he finally had a home and regular minutes.
The Cavaliers acquired Baron Davis at the trade deadline, assuming the remaining two years and $29 million on his contract, while Kyrie Irving was drafted first overall and anointed The Future.
Both are point guards. It would seem Sessions will get his minutes playing next to Davis and Irving -or he won't get minutes at all.
And the Cavaliers will likely be listening to any or all offers for the nomadic guard.
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This week I am really delighted to be able to give you a condensed version of Gary Shilling's latest INSIGHT newsletter for your Outside the Box. Each month I really look forward to getting Gary's latest thoughts on the economy and investing. Last year in his forecast issue he suggested 13 investment...
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Word of the Day
Fossick FAH-sik (verb) To search about; rummage; to search for by or as if by rummaging; ferret out -www.merriam-webster.com
Website of the Day
Pearl Harbor attack
Today is the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Head to this site to see videos, read eyewitness accounts and much more.
Number to Know
8: The number of Santa's original reindeer. Rudolph wasn’t created until about 100 years after the others.
This Day in History
Dec. 7, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the U.S. Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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Basketball legend Larry Bird (56)
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Toyota's electric RAV4 will save on gas. But it'll cost you.
Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday the electric RAV4 will cost $49,800 when it goes on sale this summer. That's more than double the starting price of the gas version.
The electric version of the popular SUV will go around 100 miles on a charge.
It also widens the choices for U.S. buyers. Until now, the only electrics on the market were small cars like the Nissan Leaf and high-end sports cars from Tesla. Tesla designed and built the electric RAV4's battery.
But the high price could limit sales. The electric RAV4 costs $14,600 more than the Leaf.
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I just add this weapon to my arsenal and once again Sknote's plugins are amazing. This strip comp sounds very "solid" and precise. It can add a smooth attack or some serious punch to your sound plus the saturation knob which add some thickness. The EQ part is also really interesting and easy to tame even if it has a lot of parameters : "Tube" emulations, "Solid" emu, and many filter types. Actually this strip (like other Sknote's stuff) has that voodoo which seems to be able to make everything sounds right really fast. If you're still sceptical, you can ask for a demo by mailing directly Sknote, the guy behind the brand is really responsive and seriously takes feedback into account. Ok enough talks...just grab these beauties ! | <urn:uuid:f4ac5b1f-32f9-4d40-b869-0effbaa2795b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.kvraudio.com/product/stripbus-by-sknote/mykvr | 2013-05-23T18:30:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957397 | 160 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Hey everyone, how's your week going so far? Today I'm going to take a break from the 31 Day Challenge to post my first tutorial! I apologize ahead of time for any poor photography or instructions, I'm new to this. I'd like to note that my friend Chelsea is serving as the hand model for this tutorial, so a big thanks to her for waiting patiently as I took photos along the way!
White nail polish (I used OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, but any white should work fine.)
Transfer Film, I used Grafix Rub-Onz Transfer Film which can be found in some stores (there's a store finder on their website) or you can order them off Amazon.
Coin or Popsicle stick
To start, paint your nails white. Wait for them to dry completely.
The Grafix Rub-Onz Transfer Film comes with two different sheets of paper. On the left is the transfer film, which is more transparent than the adhesive film shown on the right. You'll want to print on the transfer film, so put the adhesive film aside for now.
Copy this image into a Word or other word processing document. Next, you'll want to adjust the size of the image so it will actually fit on your nail. If you're using Microsoft Word, you can right click and then select "Size and Position" and adjust the pictures dimensions to a height of 0.53" and a width of 0.67". Note that these are the dimensions I used for my nails and this tutorial, however, you may need a larger size if your nails are longer. I suggest experimenting on regular printer paper to find the right size for you, although the dimensions I used will work for most people.
Copy the image until you get ten copies. Be sure to remove margins from your document so that the designs print in the corner and you don't waste as much transfer film. Here's what mine looked like when it was ready to print. Adjust your printer settings so that it's set to print high quality and on photo paper. The transfer film has two sides, one that is shiny and one that is matte. It's difficult to see, but if you check carefully you can see the contrast between the two. Be sure to print on the matte side of the paper. If you accidentally print on the wrong side, worry not, the ink will come right off!
If you've printed on the right side, this is what your transfer film should look like.
Take the adhesive film you put aside earlier and cut out a piece that is slightly larger than the cut out design strip from the previous step. I placed my design cut out on top of the adhesive film to make sure I cut a larger piece.
At this point, you should have two cut outs, one with the designs and a larger one from the adhesive film.
Take the adhesive film strip, and peel the two layers of the paper completely apart. There should be a clear sticky part and a non-sticky white paper part. Sandwich your design between these two layers of the adhesive film strip, placing the clear layer on top and the paper layer on bottom.
Your "decal sandwich" should look something like this.
Take a coin and rub it along the decal sandwich to get rid of any air bubbles. Don't worry if the white paper on the back falls off at this point, as it is no longer necessary.
Once you've gotten the air bubbles out, cut out your decals completely into their ten individual squares. If the white part on the very back hasn't fallen off yet, remove it now to avoid confusion on the next step.
You should have ten of these squares now, one for each nail. This next part can be a little tricky. You'll need to peel off the top clear layer from the square. Be sure not to peel off the more opaque layer on the back, or your decals won't be sticky!
Now, apply the decal to your finger nail. As long as you don't push down on it, you should be able to readjust the position of the decal. Once you have it in the desired position, press down on the decal to lay it flat on the nail. Once it's suck to the nail, peel off the back layer.
Now you should have the design on your nail, as well as a bunch of places around your skin that you don't want it. Boo.
I carefully used cuticle nippers to cut off the parts of the decal that were on the skin/cuticles. Be very careful when you do this, don't tear your cuticles apart! If you're having a hard time with this method, I found that simply using my finger nail to peel off the part I didn't want and using the nippers to just trim off the little bits that remained worked as well.
After you've removed most of the unwanted decal, use a brush dipped in acetone (similar to the way you would normally clean up the cuticle area) to remove the tiny unwanted bits that may still remain.
Once you're satisfied with the shape of the decal, apply a generous amount of top coat. For Chelsea's nails, I only needed one coat of top coat because her smaller nails led to less wrinkling during application. For the nails pictured at the beginning of the post, however, I had to use about three to get it looking smooth.
Yay! Zelda nail! Now repeat this process for the rest of your nails and you'll have your own Legend of Zelda manicure!
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Recent polls from Reuters/Zogby, Gallup and Rasmussen revealed that a majority of Americans support increased domestic oil drilling and refining, yet many in the news media have continued to find fault with that approach.
Instead of reporting the issue in a neutral manner, the media have promoted the views of environmentalists, complained that it would take “years” until more oil is available, and misled the public about so-called “idle” oil fields already leased to companies by the government.
On the “Today” show June 23, NBC’s Ann Curry even asked Newsweek’s Howard Fineman whether supporting offshore drilling would result in a voter “backlash” against Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
“Could his strategy with offshore oil drilling hurt him with independents? I mean, is there a possibility that he faces a possible backlash, giving the Democrats an opportunity to tie him even more to George Bush?” said Curry.
Fineman and Curry never mentioned the Reuters/Zogby poll that found 59.6 percent of Americans surveyed “favor government efforts to boost domestic drilling and refinery construction,” according to a June 18 Reuters report.
CBS “Evening News” stacked its story against drilling on the very night the poll came out. That night correspondent Bill Whitaker cited “bipartisan” opposition to offshore drilling “in California, which suffered a devastating oil spill from a rig off Santa Barbara in 1969.” But he didn’t balance his own story evenly with proponents and opponents; instead he promoted the “green” views of environmentalists and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Proponents of opening up currently restricted areas to offshore drilling argue that technology has made tremendous strides since the 1969 Santa Barbara incident and is much more environmentally friendly. Cathy Landry of the American Petroleum Institute told the Business & Media Institute that since 1980, only .001 percent has been spilled of the 1.4 million barrels of oil produced daily. She was citing the Minerals Management Services, a U.S. agency that oversees offshore drilling.
USA Today embraced alternative energy on June 13, calling it “a surefire way to cut fuel costs,” but downplayed increased domestic oil production with its sidebar headline: “Drilling more helps – a little.”
Industry representatives also say that how long it takes to produce oil is a “silly” argument and that the claim of “idle” leases is a “fallacy.” According to API, leases are listed as “nonproducing” throughout the lengthy exploration phases that are necessary to determine whether oil exists in the area in commercial quantity.
CBS “Early Show” co-host Harry Smith touted the idea of a four-day work week to ease drivers’ costs, but allowed his interviewee Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) to dismiss the idea of more drilling.
“Another bad idea,” said Richardson. “One-track mind. Drill, drill, drill.” Instead of countering Richardson’s remarks himself or supplying the counterargument from an expert, Smith merely told Richardson “you sound a little bit like when you used to be a presidential candidate.”
CNN also let Richardson give his two cents on the June 22 “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” on the issue rather than consulting non-political energy experts. Politicians on both sides were interviewed about McCain and Obama’s energy plans. Richardson’s discussion of oil drilling lasted more than seven-and-a-half minutes. A taped segment later in the program included the CEO of Chevron but focused on oil executives “in the hot seat.” It was less than two minutes long. The only economist included in the oil drilling debate was Clinton administration official Robert Reich.
Missing the ‘Trend’
“Today” wanted to know “which candidate is more in touch with the voters on energy,” so Ann Curry asked NBC analyst and Newsweek senior Washington correspondent Howard Fineman on June 23.
“Well, according to our poll it’s Obama, but the McCain forces think they’ve got a winner here [with offshore drilling] and they’re gonna pursue it,” replied Fineman.
Fineman even praised Newsweek polling (discussing an overall poll about Obama and McCain) when he told Curry “we have a tendency sometimes to pick up on a trend before others do.”
But Curry and Fineman missed the obvious “trend” that Reuters/Zogby found in its June 12-14 poll. According to a June 18 Reuters report, 59.6 percent of Americans surveyed actually support more domestic drilling and refinery construction.
The San Francisco Chronicle also reported on June 23 that “a recent Gallup poll found that 57 percent of Americans would support drilling in offshore or wilderness areas that are currently off-limits to drilling.”
“Frank Newport, the poll’s editor in chief, contends that Republicans’ push for more drilling is now ‘generally in sync with majority American public opinion,’” said the Chronicle.
Networks Split on Offshore Coverage
ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows all broadcast stories about outer continental shelf oil drilling on June 18.
All three networks talked to left-wing environmentalists and Democrats opposed to repealing the ban, but at least “World News” and “Nightly News” gave “equal time” to proponents of offshore drilling, according to a June 19 CyberAlert from the Media Research Center.
CBS “Evening News” however “quickly deteriorated into a brief against the proposal with opponents and those saying it would do nothing to lower prices getting twice as many soundbites (4) as supporters (2),” wrote the MRC’s Brent Baker.
That report from Bill Whitaker cited Schwarzenegger and environmentalists who oppose the plan and concluded that “California is largely green.” It also included University of California professor Severin Borenstein who said, “Even if we approved oil drilling off the coast today, it would have no effect on the price of oil and no effect on the price we're paying for gasoline for five or 10 years.”
At least both ABC and NBC included expert opinions to the contrary. NBC quoted energy analyst Daniel Yergin of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, who said it “would send a psychological message to the world oil market which would affect prices before any of that new oil actually started to arrive.”
It Will Take Too Long, So Let’s Never Get Started
Torn from a procrastinator’s page-a-day calendar, one theme in media coverage of offshore drilling was that it would simply be too long before that supply became available. Another was that the price impact would be “insignificant.”
Media using the gas price talking point are in sync with Obama’s presidential campaign. Obama opposes drilling and, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Obama also insists ending the drilling ban would have little effect on gas prices.”
Citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the June 23 San Francisco Chronicle said it if the moratorium on offshore drilling were lifted, it would take “until 2017 before oil began to flow.” “The agency estimated that U.S. oil production would increase by 7 percent – about 200,000 barrels a day – by 2030, which it said would have an ‘insignificant’ impact on oil prices.” The June 19 New York Times made the same point.
Even so, domestic supply isn’t the only factor affecting gas prices. As Yergin said, it could “send a psychological message to the world oil market.”
And what’s the alternative – what does investing in alternative energy do for gas prices?
According to Fortune magazine, it would mean costlier fossil fuels in the meantime.
“[T]o encourage a transition toward alternatives, Obama favors legislation that would make fossil fuel more expensive. Doesn’t that mean more pain to come under an Obama presidency?” said the Fortune profile of Obama on June 23.
“‘There is no doubt that in the short term, adapting to this new energy economy is going to carry some costs,’” replied Obama.
Former Democratic presidential candidate and former energy secretary Bill Richardson also has been saying drilling would take too long, on CBS and in multiple CNN reports recently.
“You can’t drill your way out of the problem. Now it’s offshore where it’s going to take years, 10 years to start getting some of the oil out of the ocean,” complained Richardson on “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” June 22. Presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama has also used this talking point.
A report from the Interior Department cited by CNSNews.com on June 10 showed that there are about “139 billion barrels of undiscovered oil on U.S. territory, onshore and offshore combined, much of it restricted from extraction because of environmental regulations.”
Cathy Landry of API said that the “10-year” argument is “silly.” “You can’t say that. It’s a silly argument. Ten years from now we’ll be even worse off that we are now if don’t do anything,” said Landry. “If we had opened the OCS [outer continental shelf] 10 years ago we wouldn’t be in this problem.”
In addition to CNN, Gov. Richardson appeared on the June 18 “Early Show” on CBS. He bluntly expressed his opposition to offshore drilling – and the “10-year” argument – without opposition from another guest or co-host Harry Smith.
“Another bad idea. It’s going to take 10 years to fully get that oil out of the ocean. It’s a fragile ecosystem,” said Richardson. “[T]his president, all he wants to do is drill, drill, drill. There’s very little on conservation, on fuel efficiency for vehicles. Just last week the Congress failed to pass a solar tax credit. Give more incentives to renewable energy.”
“Early Show” co-host Harry Smith didn’t challenge Richardson’s position, consult any other expert, or point out that renewable energy will also be time-consuming and costly.
According to the June 22 USA Today , “Many of the solutions lawmakers are proposing — from drilling in the Alaskan wilderness to boosting the use of renewable energy — would take years or even decades to have an impact.”
And developing new technologies takes money in addition to time.
According to the June 23 Denver Post, “Oil would need to hit $150 to $200 a barrel and stay there before private investment moves heavily into alternative fuels and transportation, said John Kilduff, energy analyst at MF Global in New York.”
Creating alternatives to oil and gas isn’t as simple as flipping a switch or passing a mandate. Biofuels requirements for corn-based ethanol have already caused food inflation and global food riots.
Another alternative energy being touted as the “answer” is cellulosic ethanol . But even the left-leaning environmental Web site Grist.org has said, “A quiet consensus seems to be forming among people you'd think would know the facts on the ground: cellulosic ethanol, touted as five years away from viability for decades now, may never be viable. ” (emphasis added by Grist)
As for solar and other renewable sources like wind power that the media promote, Duke Energy spokesman Tom Shiel told BMI that both have serious disadvantages: the sources are inconsistent (the sun goes down and the wind stops blowing) and currently we don’t have the technology to store the power on a large scale.
Another common criticism of offshore exploration and oil drilling in the news was the Democratic talking point that companies have enough drilling area already. Politicians have claimed oil companies aren’t using the land or ocean they have access to, though industry representatives say that it is untrue.
Bill Whitaker used that argument in his June 18 anti-drilling report for CBS: “Democrats say oil companies haven’t yet drilled on some 68 million acres offshore and on that they’ve already leased.”
The Wall Street Journal repeated it on June 19: “Democrats have sought to reframe the debate over drilling by arguing that it is possible to increase domestic oil production without opening new lands. They point out that the industry already has access to tens of millions of acres believed to contain oil and gas, but are producing on only about a quarter of that.”
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., attacked oil and gas companies in a CNN “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” appearance June 15.
“They’re [oil and gas companies] not drilling. They like the status quo. They like the way things are going,” said Van Hollen. He also promoted “use it or lose it” legislation that would take back leases from oil and gas companies if companies aren’t drilling.
Blitzer did challenge the point, but neither CBS nor the Journal story pointed out how misleading that argument was. Red Cavaney, president and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute, wrote an op-ed for the Journal on June 20 exposing the argument’s flaws.
“[C]laims of ‘idle’ leases are a diversionary feint,” said Cavaney. “A company bids for and buys a lease because it believes there is a possibility that it may yield enough oil or natural gas to make the cost of the lease, and the costs of exploration and production, commercially viable. The U.S. government received $3.7 billion from company bids in a single lease sale in March 2008.”
According to Cavaney leases are listed as “nonproducing” throughout the exploration and evaluation phases and even as delineation wells are drilled, permits are obtained and production facilities are installed. “There is nothing ‘idle’ about it,” said Cavaney.
Cavaney continued, “Exploration is time consuming, very costly and involves a great deal of risk … For exploration to take place, our companies need access to the areas – offshore and onshore – that we know have the potential to produce the oil and natural gas consumers will need.”
An editorial from Investor’s Business Daily also tackled the issue on June 18. During the exploration period, oil companies “have to weave their way through a labyrinth of environmental rules that Congress has imposed on them, plus defend themselves against bogus legal attacks from green extremists,” it said.
‘We have to change’
Rather than give an even-handed report on increasing oil supply, many journalists continued to push the “green” theme, calling alternative energies “a surefire way to cut fuel costs” and saying that a fuel other than gasoline would be “a welcome relief,” despite the trillions of dollars and years that may take.
USA Today called alternatives the “key to the future” on June 13, citing flex fuels, cellulosic ethanol and hybrid vehicles. The article did indicate the higher cost of corn-based ethanol and admitted cellulosic ethanol is “at least several years away,” but didn’t say it might never be “viable.”
Solar energy also has its flaws according to Severin Borenstein, the same professor CBS included as opposition to offshore drilling. The UC-Berkeley professor said in a February 20 press release that solar photovoltaic (PV) technology is “exciting,” “but the current technology is not economic.”
“We are throwing money away by installing the current solar PV technology,” said Borenstein. He advocated state and federal governments dedicate more money to research rather than subsidizing “residential” solar panel installation.
Still, journalists have been enthusiastic about non-oil energy sources.
“Everybody knows we are an oil economy, but we have to change,” said Tom Foreman, host of CNN’s “This Week in Politics,” on June 22. CNN senior business correspondent Ali Velshi joined the discussion and mentioned Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.), who has called for “a new Manhattan Project” for alternative energy.
Forbes isn’t the only one promoting the idea that alternative energy should take on the urgency of the atomic bomb – others including Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and economist Dr. Stephen Leeb have also used the term “Manhattan Project.”
NBC “Nightly News” consulted CNBC’s Erin Burnett on June 22. Burnett acknowledged the supply problem saying “a lot of people want oil, and we don’t seem to have enough.” But she never mentioned increasing domestic supply by allowing offshore or ANWR oil exploration.
Instead, Burnett said, “We have to take our lumps, pay these prices and invest aggressively in alternative fuels that we can have right here in the United States of America. We get 15 percent of our power from right now from nuclear energy. We could dramatically increase that. We have other sources as well that are plentiful here at home like wind, like coal. We need to invest in those.” | <urn:uuid:c755b702-d6b1-430c-816d-3c1d0c0c1edc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mrc.org/print/articles/media-try-cool-down-oil-drilling-fever | 2013-05-23T18:53:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962143 | 3,739 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Recipe from Deborah Russell of Ala.
- 2 16 oz. cans hominy, drained
- 8 oz. sour cream
- 1 4 oz. can chopped green chiles, drained
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Combine all ingredients in a 2 quart casserole. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 45 minutes until bubbly and brown. | <urn:uuid:39ea7dcd-8d99-405a-936e-8d78b2caf217> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.myfoxdfw.com/story/5004899/hominy-casserole | 2013-05-23T18:45:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.773948 | 73 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Clayton County Board of Commissioners opened the door for new economic development in the Mountain View area Tuesday by carving its own tax allocation district, or TAD, out of an existing district in the northwestern corner of the county.
The commissioners voted unanimously to break the Tax Allocation District No. 2 Northwest Clayton, which was created in 2008, into two new districts at a business meeting.
Officially, the existing No. 2 district was terminated so the new districts, known as Tax Allocation District No. 4 Northwest Clayton, and Tax Allocation District No. 5, Mountain View could be created.
Effectively, what we were doing is ... splitting that [old No. 2 district], Interim County Attorney Jack Hancock told commissioners during a public, pre-meeting presentation. This resolution will add some area that ought to have been included, but, apparently, under the old resolution was not ...
Breaking Mountain View off from the previously existing TAD for the countys northwestern region would create more emphasis on generating economic development in an area that county Economic Development Director Grant Wainscott has said has some potential for economic growth. Wainscott was not present at Tuesdays commission meeting.
The region is near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airports forthcoming Maynard H. Jackson, Jr. International Terminal, which will open access to the airport from Interstate 75. Earlier this year, it was announced that automotive maker, Porsche, was moving its North American headquarters near the airport and the Mountain View area.
The National Museum of Commercial Aviation is also expected to build a permanent facility in the area.
Hancock explained that TADs, such as the two created this week, are designed to create incentives that can be used to attract new businesses to a designated area.
It creates the opportunity for the establishment of a tax base level, and for the use of additional revenues over and above that base level, to be used for incentives for businesses that locate in that area, the attorney said. He added that the distribution of those incentives would have to be approved by the commission on an individual basis.
The tax base level for the new northwest Clayton County TAD is $143.2 million, while the base level for the Mountain View TAD is $73.18 million, according to the resolution approved by commissioners on Tuesday.
The resolution said the Northwest Clayton Redevelopment Area has not been subject to growth and development through private enterprise, and would not reasonably be anticipated to be developed without the approval of the amendments to the Northwest Clayton Redevelopment Plan.
Hancock said the recommendation to redraw the TAD boundaries came from a recent review of the existing TADs.
The resolution also states that the split is expected to enhance property values in the area. The new districts are set to exist for 30 years.
Not everyone was pleased with the decision to split the TAD, however. Rex resident, Rev. Lisa T. Smith, asked county officials to publicly explain who might be getting the incentives provided by the TAD.
Who are these individuals that will be receiving the incentives and the benefits? Smith asked.
Hancock replied: We dont know that at this time, because the developments have not yet begun. Its an opportunity district.
Smith also argued that the public was left out of the loop on discussions about splitting the TAD, until the commission publicized a public hearing on the issue. The public hearing took place during this weeks commission meeting, just before commissioners voted on approving the TAD resolution.
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The older I get, the more my favorite part of the Academy Awards every year is the teary-eyed tribute to all the famous screen legends who passed away during the preceding twelve months. The montage of glitterati greatness on the “In Memoriam” segment not only provides a much-needed respite from self-absorbed acceptance speeches and tedious dance numbers, it evokes a flood of memories and emotions as viewers pause to remember the movie makers who have touched us all.
Similarly, the closure of a favorite restaurant gives diners pause to reflect on meals we’ve had at restaurants gone, but not forgotten. Even in booming economic times, restaurants have a higher mortality rate than most, if not all, businesses. It’s the natural order of the restaurant business that not all restaurants are destined to survive. Closures aren’t always the consequence of an economic malaise. Nearly thirty percent of restaurants close within their first year of operation.
So why a dour diatribe instead of my usual effusive celebration of a restaurant I just visited? Ravioli Italian Kitchen, we found out, will be closed for good on Friday, September 1st, 2012. Launched in November, 2011, Ravioli demonstrated promise and potential, but was never able to consistently draw in the types of crowds needed to succeed over a long term. Ravioli joins a number of chain and independent restaurants which have failed in The 25 Way, a contemporary mixed office and retail environment with good exposure to I-25.
Ravioli Italian Kitchen has many of the elements and attributes of a restaurant which should have succeeded. Owner Kathy Punya has a proven track record of success with her Sushi King restaurant enterprise throughout the metropolitan area. Its The 25 Way storefront is functional, attractive and inviting. The menu is diverse and interesting with housemade pastas and desserts a plenty as well as made-to-order cooking. Service is friendly and attentive. With staunch competition for disposable dollars, these factors were apparently not enough. Perhaps in another time and place…
True to the name on the marquee, the Ravioli Italian Kitchen menu does showcase ravioli, the traditional Italian pasta dish made of pasta dough stuffed with filling. Diners have their choice of sauce: Alfredo, marinara, green chile-jalapeño, basil, pesto, ancho cream, mushroom cream, vino blanco, Arribiata and meat sauce. Ravioli fillings are lobster, cheese, beef and portobello. The ravioli are made in-house as are other Italian pastas.
The menu holds no real surprises and is sectioned logically: appetizers, salads, soups, pasta, entrees, ravioli, “on the lighter side” and desserts. It’s not an especially innovative Italian menu, so the difference-maker here has to be execution–the quality of ingredients, their preparation, how they’re presented, the authenticity of the dishes and how they’re delivered. It’s in execution (lack thereof) that Urbanspoon reviewers have rated Ravioli poorly. Our inaugural experience was a mix of highlights and low spots, the latter of which could be remedied with time and attention. Alas, Ravioli Italian Kitchen won’t be given a second chance.
The appetizer menu has some de rigueur standards such as calamari fritti, fried mozzarella cheese and fried zucchini. As with many Italian restaurants, an antipasto is also offered, but this one is presented just a bit differently. It’s in the form of three skewers of black and green olives, slices of salami, pepperoni, mozzarella cheese and grape tomatoes served with toasted bread, artichokes, buttercrisp crackers and an olive tapenade. As antipastos go, this one is a nice mix of vegetable to meat though a greater diversity of cheese would have made it even better.
All entrees are served with a side salad (cucumbers, tomatoes, julienne carrots and mixed greens) with several salad dressings from which to choose. A housemade berry vinaigrette, the color of beets, has a balanced flavor of fruitiness and sweetness. The blue cheese dressing has a plethora of veiny blue cheese crumbles and is both thick and redolent with the flavor of blue cheese and not some thick mayo-base.
One entree not standard at most Italian restaurants is Ravioli’s pork and fennel ragu. Now, if you’re thinking Ragu as in the ubiquitous bottled-and-heated spaghetti and pasta sauce, remedial Italian Cuisine 101 is in dire need. Ragu, derived from the French word “ragout” which translates to “stew,” is actually any sauce to which meat is added. Ravioli’s pork and fennel ragu uses ground pork which is slow-cooked with rosemary, fennel, pancetta and finely chopped vegetables (such as carrots and celery) and served with a bucatini pasta, a long, hollow Italian pasta that resembles a thick spaghetti. The best aspects of this dish are, of course, the pancetta, an Italian cured meat made from pork belly and the fennel with its sweet anise-like flavor.
Years ago when we lived in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Fridays were, for about six consecutive months, carbonara night at Salvetti’s Italian Grill. Never before and not since have we had carbonara quite that good or quite that rich. How good and how rich? It was so good you couldn’t stop eating it even though you knew you’d literally be sick afterwards. The spaghetti carbonara at Ravioli’s isn’t nearly that rich. It’s not even in the same ballpark. Pancetta, Parmesan and egg are tossed together to form a mildly creamy sauce, but it’s not creamy enough. Nor is there enough pancetta (is there ever?).
Desserts include a number of unique offerings such as a cinnamon apple and pear “pizza” (apple compote topped with sweetened ricotta, fresh pears and caramel sauce) and a blueberry citrus calzone (citrus blueberry reduction spread on nutella and ricotta cheese). Perhaps the latter dessert is where the carbonara’s richness went. Also available are such standards as Tiramisu and cannoli. The cannoli shells are dipped in chocolate then rolled in crushed almonds while the filling is a mix of sweetened ricotta, candied orange and mini chocolate chips. It’s not as sweet as some cannoli tends to be. Neither is the tiramisu which is moist and redolent with a mellow coffee flavor.
The Ravioli Italian Kitchen will soon be referred to in a past tense terms and will be relegated to the “Gone But Not Forgotten” menu of this blog. It’s a restaurant at which memories have been made, hopefully mostly good ones. Duke City diners, especially those who count it among their favorites, still have nearly a week to add to those memories. Others of us who haven’t yet visited Ravioli can still do so before it’s too late. | <urn:uuid:63a2a524-b2d0-4eb1-af0f-71ea9b14b486> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.nmgastronome.com/blog/?m=20120825 | 2013-05-23T19:05:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948638 | 1,545 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
BANZAI PIPELINE, HAWAII - High scoring rides - one for and one against - decided the fate of two Orange County surfers during the first round of the $450,000 Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy Irons held at the famous Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore of the Oahu. The event is the 10th and final contest in the Association of Surfing Professional's top-tier World Championship Tour.
Kolohe Andino of San Clemente charged down the face of a 10-foot wave to overtake Tyler Newton, 21, of Kauai and move on to round two. The 18-year-old will face Brett Simpson of Huntington Beach, whose tour ranking gave him an automatic bye in the first round.
For updates on Pipe Masters and other surfing news, check out Laylan Connelly's surfing coverage in the Register and online at orangecounty.com
Pat Gudauskas, 27, also from San Clemente, started the day "on the bubble" – with a low World Tour ranking that could send him back to what is effectively the top minor league of surfing in 2013.
"Pat really needs to win to make sure he's back next year," said Al Hunt, a longtime tour manager with the Association of Surfing Professionals.
Gudauskas took on veteran Shane Dorian, 40, from the Big Island in Hawaii. Gudauskas led at times during their 40-minute two-man heat. Most surfers choose to surf Pipeline, the left break where the contest takes place. But Dorian opted several times to surf the right break at Pipeline, known as "Backdoor," racking up a series of strong scores. Dorian scored a 9.17 on one wave – the top single ride score for the day by any surfer -- forcing Gudauskas to take a chance on large waves, hoping to make up ground with a spectacular scoring ride.
But the punishing surf did not reward Gudauskas, who was hammered by wipeouts. Dorian had his share of tough rides, at one point being crushed by a wave that snapped a favorite board he called his "Old Faithful."
Gudauskas must now await the final results of the Pipeline contest to see where he ends up in the complicated scoring system, but it's all but certain not to be good news.
The heavy surf caused spectacular wipeouts and broken boards throughout the day. The Banzai Pipeline is especially treacherous because it is a near-shore reef break. At spots the water is just three feet deep.
Pipe Masters is the third and final leg of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, which includes events in nearby Haleiwa and Sunset Beach. Pipe Masters started in 1971 with just $1,000 in contest money put up by Continental Airlines. The Triple Crown is celebrating 30 years this year, with over $1 million in total prize money. The winner will also receive a Harley Davidson motorcycle and $10,000 Nixon watch.
The competition continues Sunday. Under the rules of Pipe Masters, the contest must conclude no later than Dec. 20.
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The Pope and one of his top cardinals were taking a long train ride one day. The Pope was doing a crossword puzzle, and the cardinal was reading the Bible. Suddenly the Pope asked the cardinal,
“What’s a four letter word for ‘woman” ending in u,n,t?”
The startled cardinal stammered for a bit, then said,
“Uh, er, aunt! Yes, aunt!”
“Oh, of course,” said the Pope, “Got an eraser?”
Patrick and Kevin were digging up the road outside the brothel when they noticed the vicar approaching in a hurry before ducking into the entrance.
“Did yer see that?” said Patrick. “The dirty Protestant minister sneaking in for his share of sin. What a hypocrite!”
After about twenty minutes they see a rabbi make a swift entry into the brothel.
“Didja see that?” said Kevin, “the Jews are no better.”
About an hour went by when they spotted Father McGuire hurry in to the brothel.
“Kevin,”said Patrick, “take off your hat. One of those poor girls must be dying in there.”
The Pope and Casanova arrived at Heaven on the same cloud. While the Pope hung around the gates meeting and greeting a few friends Casanova went straight in. When the Pope entered he bumped into Casanova at the reception and said:
“I want nothing more than to kneel at the feet of the Virgin Mary. Do you know where I can find her?”
Casanova said, “Yes, but you are too late Father!”
One priest says to the other.
“Do you think the Pope will ever allow priests to marry?”
“Not in our time”, replied his colleague, “maybe in our children’s time.”
Patrick had always wanted to marry a virgin so he chose a girl who had attended convent school all her life. In the lobby of the hotel in which they were to spend their wedding night they passed the bar and the bride was surprised to see so many single women there. “I’m afraid they are prostitutes,” said Patrick and was delighted to hear her next question: “What’s a prostitute?” she asked.
“A prostitute,” said Patrick with disdain, “is a woman who will go to bed with any man for money.” “Really,” said the bride with amazement, “the priests only gave us lollies.”
Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame was exploring new ways to advertise. He phoned Vatican City and asked to speak to the Pope, indicating that he would like to make a sizable donation.
“Hello, my son,” said the Pope.
“Hello, your Holiness,” said the Colonel. “I am calling because I would like to make a generous donation to the Church.
“How nice! Why don’t you send it in the mail?” said the Pope.
“You want me to send a hundred million dollars in the mail?”
“One hundred million dollars!!! Of course not. My representatives can visit you at your convenience. Bless you my son!”
“But there is one little string attached” said the Colonel.
“You know that part in the Lord’s prayer where you say ‘Give us this daily bread’? I’d like that changed to ‘Give us this day our daily chicken’.”
“Oh, I see…” The Pope covers the phone and asks the cardinal attending him, “How long do we still have on that Hi-Fibre bread contract?”
Before coming to Islam I used to be a typical Western whore, that’s right, a slut!! I worked in a place where there were men and would wear short dresses, make up and clothing which revealed my arms and neck. I would even shake hands with the men and I dated my husband before we were married! I would go out of the house without my husband and even attend parties where alcohol was served and where men and women would mingle.
Recently my family and I have finally seen the light and heeded Allah’s call. I burned all my miniskirts, make up and books other than the Koran and poured the vintage wine and French perfume down the toilet. It nearly took all day to burn my collection of Cleo, Dolly and Cosmo magazines which date from the seventies.
We then rushed down to the nearest mosque and declared the Shahada. On the way back we stopped at a fabric wholesale outlet and I purchased 50 meters of thick, black fabric so that I can fully cover my offending body, face and hair in accordance to Allah’s law. I would not want to drive all the men in the neighborhood mad with desire and cause them to want to commit adultery!
All my son’s computer games, Pokemon cards and PS2 have also been burned, now he only watches Jihad videos, the ones showing the beheadings of the infidels are his favourites. We plan to sent him off to Saudi Arabia so that he can learn how to beat his wife correctly and be taught to recite the Koran in Arabic – so that Allah can understand him! He is thirteen years old, just the right age, any older and we would risk losing him to the Western decadent culture. We took our eleven year-old daughter out of school (luckily we got her out before they started the sex education classes) to marry her off to a good Muslim man – a mature man in the car export business with three other wives. That way she will be kept busy with household chores, yearly pregnancies and would be less likely to be corrupted by Western immorality. She will be getting her first period in her husband’s house – the way Allah intended.
My husband is on the lookout for three more wives so that ALL his needs will be fully catered for, while I am having my monthly pollution or recovering from the Koran-sanctioned beatings – sex can be awkward when your legs are in plaster and your jaws are held together with wires. He already approached the neighbors and asked if he could have their nine-year old daughter – that way he can guarantee that he will be getting a virgin, free from AIDS and be less likely to be tempted by Satan to commit adultery. Unfortunately the neighbors do not understand about Islam and have called the police, my husband is now under investigation. It’s terrible how the decadent Western society has no respect for the law of Allah and how Muslims are discriminated against when they want to practice their religion and culture. Satan is found everywhere: human rights conferences, refuges for battered wives, schools that teach evolution and sex education, police stations, video shops, nightclubs - just to name a few.
Two houses away from us live a family of unbelieving Vietnamese who persist with burning incense for their idols which are housed in a miniature shrine in their front veranda. We tried in vain to convince them to destroy those evil statues, one night we sent my son to sneak over and smash them up – the statues – he ended up being chased away by the husband who shouted insults at us in Vietnamese.
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Category → Game Review
Most Valuable Player
Will Bynum scored 23 points 10 shots. In a game few others cared, it’s tempting to say the pending free agent was playing for his next contract, but that wasn’t the case. Bynum plays hard every moment of every game.
That was… uninspired
Neither team had the mental focus to show proper form on their jump shots (combining to shoot 28 percent outside the restricted area) or the physical willingness to defend the interior (allowing a combined 70 percent shooting in the restricted area).
Mirza Teletovic adjusted his shoe while the Pistons took one free throw of one, allowing Andre Drummond to swoop in for the rebound and putback dunk.
|Greg Monroe, C 37 MIN | 10-14 FG | 7-7 FT | 16 REB | 4 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 2 TO | 27 PTS | +17
Monroe has owned the 76ers, averaging 22.7 points, 13.7 points and 4.3 assists in three games against them this season.
|Andre Drummond, C 33 MIN | 2-4 FG | 1-4 FT | 8 REB | 0 AST | 2 STL | 1 BLK | 3 TO | 5 PTS | -3
This was far from Drummond’s best game, but he’s so athletic, he still made several positive plays. That’s certainly an upgrade from Jason Maxiell‘s no-show starts.
|Brandon Knight, PG 31 MIN | 5-16 FG | 0-0 FT | 2 REB | 4 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 12 PTS | +9
Knight, to his credit, eased his way into this game. He began by making a couple quality, but high percentage, passes and then worked for good shots. But as the game progressed, Knight drifted back into the player who took poor care of the ball and bad shots.
|Rodney Stuckey, PG 33 MIN | 3-9 FG | 0-0 FT | 4 REB | 6 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 8 PTS | +13
Stuckey was clearly the point guard at the get-go, but he still deferred to Knight. At a certain point, he can’t just blame Lawrence Frank for taking the ball out of his hands. Stuckey has been more passive this season.
|Kyle Singler, SG 31 MIN | 6-11 FG | 2-2 FT | 5 REB | 0 AST | 3 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 16 PTS | +18
Singler hadn’t scored this much in 11 games, but tonight was a reminder he’s still better than Middleton right now.
|Jonas Jerebko, PF 20 MIN | 3-7 FG | 3-4 FT | 2 REB | 2 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 1 TO | 9 PTS | +12
A Jerebko that is good every other game is definite progress from earlier in the season.
|Charlie Villanueva, PF 6 MIN | 0-1 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 0 PTS | -10
We know Villanueva isn’t defending or rebounding, but when he’s not even shooting, what’s the point?
|Khris Middleton, SF 16 MIN | 4-7 FG | 1-1 FT | 2 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 10 PTS | -6
Middleton is definitely getting more comfortable on both ends of the court. He’s still behind Singler, but the gap might be narrowing. (I say "might," because Middleton hasn’t shown his improvement over a large enough and meaningful enough sample.)
|Will Bynum, PG 25 MIN | 8-13 FG | 4-4 FT | 3 REB | 6 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 22 PTS | +4
Bynum is finishing the season on a high note and making sure he gets paid this summer. Good for him. He deserves one more multi-year contract.
|Kim English, SG 9 MIN | 0-1 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 0 PTS | -14
English was a glaringly bad -14 in nine minutes, but I think this was one of many times single-game plus-minus misleads. English didn’t really do anything wrong, other than play six of his minutes with Villanueva. The rookie just happened to be on the court when Detroit missed shots and Philadelphia made them. That said, English didn’t do anything to positively impact the game, either.
Frank stuck with Drummond long enough to let the rookie foul out, and really, he gave everyone who played a chance to show their ability. Some took advantage. Some didn’t.
|Greg Monroe, C 32 MIN | 4-9 FG | 4-4 FT | 6 REB | 4 AST | 4 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 12 PTS | +10Monroe’s offense wasn’t needed much tonight, but Monroe had a nice all-around game, particularly with his quick hands defensively, coming up with four steals against the sometimes overly aggressive Charlotte frontcourt.|
|Andre Drummond, C 28 MIN | 7-13 FG | 1-4 FT | 9 REB | 0 AST | 2 STL | 1 BLK | 5 TO | 15 PTS | +4By Drummond’s standards, it wasn’t his best game. But you look at is final numbers and … well, there’s not a whole lot to complain about, save for the five turnovers, a few of which were simply Drummond being a tad too aggressive on offense. Drummond had a couple of highlight plays and filled up the statsheet, like he does every night.|
|Brandon Knight, PG 34 MIN | 6-9 FG | 4-6 FT | 7 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 5 TO | 19 PTS | +6Knight was aggressive offensively and helped on the boards. He also had five turnovers and didn’t always play great defense when he was matched up with Kemba Walker, but those points are relatively minor in a game that he’s making shots in.|
|Rodney Stuckey, PG 26 MIN | 1-7 FG | 1-1 FT | 2 REB | 9 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 4 PTS | +8Stuckey shot poorly, but he distributed the ball well, took good care of the ball and helped force Gerald Henderson into a poor shooting performance.|
|Kyle Singler, SG 22 MIN | 4-6 FG | 0-0 FT | 6 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 10 PTS | -2Singler is typically about average. When his shots are falling, like they were tonight, and he’s rebounding (six boards in 22 minutes), he’s a useful player to have on the court even with his limitations.|
|Jonas Jerebko, PF 28 MIN | 9-18 FG | 1-1 FT | 8 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 1 TO | 21 PTS | +17Jerebko’s late-season surge continues to be one of the few good developments for the Pistons late in the season. Hopefully, he carries this into the offseason, works on that 3-pointer some more and comes into next season able to give productive minutes like these at both forward spots.|
|Charlie Villanueva, PF 7 MIN | 2-2 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 0 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 6 PTS | +7Villanueva barely played, but he made shots in the few minutes he saw the court. That’s about all you can ask for from him at this point.|
|Khris Middleton, SF 26 MIN | 4-8 FG | 0-0 FT | 3 REB | 4 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 1 TO | 9 PTS | +22Middleton, along with Jerebko, continues to impress with his late season minutes. He’s a real candidate for a rotation spot next season if he can take his performance down the stretch into the offseason.|
|Will Bynum, PG 27 MIN | 5-10 FG | 4-4 FT | 3 REB | 10 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 4 TO | 15 PTS | +15Bynum’s production and flashiness (including an amazing lob to a cutting Jerebko in traffic in the first half) was appreciated as always. He, like most of Detroit’s players, got sloppy with his passes and picked up four turnovers. That’s rather nitpicky, though, when he’s otherwise pretty productive.|
|Kim English, SG 10 MIN | 1-1 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 2 PTS | +11English made a shot, but otherwise didn’t do much in his 10 minutes to distinguish himself one way or the other.|
|Lawrence FrankFrank continues to give big minutes to young players down the stretch, a welcome change from how he handled the rotation last season. On a going nowhere team, that’s all you can ask for from the coach.|
|Greg Monroe, C 38 MIN | 10-18 FG | 3-5 FT | 8 REB | 4 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 23 PTS | +19
Monroe can pass in tight spaces, and that will be key to making a pairing with Andre Drummond work. Half of Monroe’s assists tonight went to Drummond. Monroe is definitely trying to make the combination work, taking three mid-range shots with Drummond on the court (all misses) and none with Drummond on the bench.
|Andre Drummond, C 34 MIN | 10-11 FG | 9-17 FT | 11 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 29 PTS | +3
Drummond very effectively uses his wide frame, good hands and explosive leaping ability to create dunk opportunities in Detroit’s half-court offense. He’s getting to the point where he can get and convert those looks, even in traffic, which is important for playing with Monroe. Drummond’s career-high scoring output was boosted by Cleveland’s decision to intentionally foul him late in the game, but he came through with his fourth-best single-game free-throw percentage.
|Brandon Knight, PG 35 MIN | 2-11 FG | 3-3 FT | 4 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 7 PTS | +8
After efficiently scoring 25 and 20 points in his last two games, Knight once again struggled to shoot well. He hasn’t scored more than 10 points in three straight games since a run that began Feb. 20.
|Rodney Stuckey, PG 37 MIN | 5-8 FG | 6-9 FT | 1 REB | 7 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 18 PTS | +19
Since March 31, Stuckey is averaging 20 points, five assists and two turnovers per game. He’s finally turning the corner. Right? … Right? … Hello? … Is anyone still reading?
|Kyle Singler, SG 27 MIN | 1-7 FG | 5-6 FT | 5 REB | 0 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 7 PTS | +28
Singler looked off, both in putting himself in position to shoot and in shooting.
|Jonas Jerebko, PF 17 MIN | 2-5 FG | 1-2 FT | 1 REB | 2 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 5 PTS | +2
Jerebko was very active tonight, and that’s why what has become an off night for him was still better than most of his early-season performances.
|Charlie Villanueva, PF 6 MIN | 0-3 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 0 TO | 0 PTS | -13
Defensive. Disaster. It’s very difficult to hide a big man defensively, and that’s what really limits Villanueva’s value. It’s almost impossible to devise a defensive scheme that will prevent opponents from attacking him.
|Khris Middleton, SF 21 MIN | 3-6 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 6 PTS | -21
Middleton definitely looks more comfortable and confident lately. Hopefully, this is the first major step in him becoming a rotation-caliber player by next season.
|Will Bynum, PG 21 MIN | 7-10 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 3 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 16 PTS | -1
Bynum hadn’t heated up like this since mid-March. Barring an exception performance in either direction during the Pistons’ final three games, tonight will be a nice reminder heading into free agency of what he can do.
|Kim English, SG 3 MIN | 0-1 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 0 PTS | -9
Unless the Pistons see something in English’s on-ball defense he hasn’t shown in games, it’s increasingly difficult to envision him returning next year.
Kudos to Frank for giving Drummond and Monroe 26 minutes together. Offensively, they balanced each other, even though they shared a tight space. Defensively, they had a few issues, but I think those were more related to Tristan Thompson going off than a fundamental problem related to them playing together.
Frank leaving Drummond on the court when Cleveland intentionally fouled in the fourth quarter also worked, though it won’t every night unless Drummond boosts his free-throw percentage.The Pistons scored 1.286 points per possession when Cleveland intentionally fouled Drummond(not counting Thompson’s boneheaded/tanktastic decision to foul him inside two minutes, which resulted in two Stuckey free throws and the ball). The NBA’s top offense scores 1.103 points per possession, and coming off free throws, Detroit’s defense has an opportunity to set.
|Greg Monroe, C 32 MIN | 5-11 FG | 1-2 FT | 7 REB | 7 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 11 PTS | +2He came sneakily close to a triple-double with seven rebounds and seven assists to go with 11 points, but he quietly played a good game. He and Drummond weren’t great on defense, a rusty Joakim Noah and an active Carlos Boozer carved them up, but both teamed well on the boards and within the offense.|
|Andre Drummond, C 20 MIN | 1-2 FG | 1-2 FT | 10 REB | 0 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 3 PTS | -3He’s still awesome, still über-athletic, but also still a 19-year-old rookie with 56 career games. Foul trouble plagued his minutes more than the minutes limit did, but in those minutes he was a force on the glass. Drummond, Monroe and Jerebko’s play on the boards has been a huge reason for the Pistons’ success the last four games.|
|Brandon Knight, PG 37 MIN | 7-12 FG | 5-7 FT | 2 REB | 5 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 20 PTS | +10Was there anything better than seeing Knight not only frustrate Nate Robinson defensively, but also take it right at him on offense, too? Tonight was a night where, quite frankly, Knight looked like he knew what he wanted to do on offense. The switch from point guard to shooting guard is mainly a mentality thing, and tonight he had a confident scorer’s mentality — something he struggles with, at times.|
|Rodney Stuckey, PG 36 MIN | 5-12 FG | 3-3 FT | 2 REB | 5 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 14 PTS | +7Stuckey continued his strong end of season surge, this time in a supplementary role. Last time around in Chicago, he was the Pistons only scoring option for most of the game, but tonight he found a way to facilitate and score while taking a backseat to Knight.|
|Kyle Singler, SG 21 MIN | 3-6 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 0 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 0 TO | 8 PTS | -2Jonas Jerebko’s strong night cut into Singler’s playing time, but when he was out there, he played under control. That’s kind of his thing: even when things go wrong, Singler seems to always keep his composure. It’s nice to see from a rookie.|
|Jonas Jerebko, PF 27 MIN | 7-8 FG | 2-2 FT | 9 REB | 0 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 17 PTS | +16This is the Jerebko that had people excited during his rookie season. He was efficient, he was active and killed it on the boards. I once had a basketball coach once who said that he loved guys with dirty knees because they weren’t afraid to get on the floor and make a play — that’s the kind of rebounding, effort player Jerebko has, and can, thrive as.|
|Charlie Villanueva, PF 15 MIN | 5-11 FG | 0-0 FT | 4 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 1 TO | 12 PTS | +11:Cue fans viciously slandering Charlie V and the Pistons because he played well in a Pistons win, ruining the team’s attempt to tank for a top-4 pick that may or may not be any better than a top-6 pick:|
|Khris Middleton, SF 33 MIN | 4-7 FG | 0-0 FT | 3 REB | 2 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 10 PTS | +19This guy may be better than we thought. It took him ¾ of the season — and Lawrence Frank’s extended leave — to work his way into the rotation, but he’s been surprisingly solid since. In his last handful of games, he’s been good for eight points and three boards on 13-for-21 shooting. Everyone loves Kim English, but Khris Middleton is the one you should love to see on the floor.|
|Viacheslav Kravtsov, C 1 MIN | 0-0 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 0 PTS | +1“Good job, good effort!”|
|Will Bynum, PG 17 MIN | 2-4 FG | 0-1 FT | 2 REB | 5 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 4 PTS | +8There are two vastly different forms of Will Bynum, Good Will and Bad Will. Good Will, the one who scores from a variety of angles and throws a million successful alley-oops, is one of the most entertaining players in the NBA. Bad Will, shoots way too much and turns it over more than he makes a shot, is one of the least. Tonight, you got a bit of both.|
|Kim English, SG 1 MIN | 0-0 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 0 PTS | +1“I AM THE HUMAN VICTORY CIGAR! SEE YA LATER LOSING STREAK TO THE BULLS,” said Kim English, I think.|
|Lawrence FrankThe Pistons offense was clicking without Jose Calderon and part of that is a credit to Frank. He still has to find a way to get Brandon Knight more comfortable moving without the ball, but he rode the bench in the second quarter to some success and appeared to have Monroe working to get the ball to cutters — which led to his seven assists. It’s been a rough year from Frank, but in the last five games, he’s really done a solid job.|
|Greg Monroe, C 39 MIN | 11-22 FG | 2-3 FT | 17 REB | 3 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 6 TO | 24 PTS | +3Monroe has averaged 18.3 points, 13.2 rebounds on 59 percent shooting in six games against Boston over the last two seasons. Tonight he was great offensively and on the boards, but he also turned it over, partially because he gets the ball too far from the basket, and the Celtics double him hard late in possessions. But he wasn’t bad defensively, either, especially on the times he switched out on Paul Pierce or Jeff Green.|
|Andre Drummond, C 21 MIN | 4-6 FG | 0-3 FT | 9 REB | 1 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 8 PTS | -10The only reason the Pistons had any business being in this game was because Drummond and Monroe dominated the undermanned Celtics frontcourt on the offensive glass. Drummond’s bounce definitely hasn’t been hindered since his return from the back injury — unfortunately his free throw shooting since returning (1-for-12) is still turrible.|
|Brandon Knight, PG 37 MIN | 2-10 FG | 2-2 FT | 3 REB | 4 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 7 PTS | +3I don’t even know how to describe this. Some days it looks like Knight’s lost because he doesn’t have the ball in his hands, then he gets a night like tonight where he and Stuckey are the ONLY ball handlers and this happens. Defense wasn’t bad, but the offense, topped off by missing a wide-open layup in the final minutes, oye, it wasn’t pretty.|
|Rodney Stuckey, PG 37 MIN | 5-16 FG | 11-15 FT | 2 REB | 4 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 0 TO | 22 PTS | -13You know who hates losing games late in the season when teams are jockeying for draft position? Stuckey. He’s always had a knack for finishing the year strong (outside last season) and that’s been no different with this year’s late-March, early-April run. Hopefully next year’s April starting shooting guard — heck, or small forward — is someone like, say, Andre Igoudala, and not Rodney Stuckey?|
|Kyle Singler, SG 25 MIN | 3-7 FG | 1-2 FT | 5 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 7 PTS | -6The Celtics packed the house in a game against the Pistons, isn’t that cool to see in an NBA arena the Pistons are playing in? Anyways, Singler was one of the few Pistons murdered on defense by Jeff Green. There was much blood, much effort, but very little result on the part of Singler.|
|Jonas Jerebko, PF 27 MIN | 6-10 FG | 5-5 FT | 5 REB | 1 AST | 3 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 19 PTS | +5He was also a member of the “let’s try to defend Jeff Green” club. Tonight wasn’t a great one on that side of the ball for Jerebko, but he was again productive on offense. He’s moving without the ball and taking what the defense — or extra pass — gives him.|
|Charlie Villanueva, PF 23 MIN | 2-17 FG | 0-0 FT | 9 REB | 5 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 4 PTS | +1F- is the grade I’d give if I could. I don’t get why he plays big fourth quarter minutes. I don’t get how he’s still so out of shape. I don’t get why he’s playing over Drummond in the fourth (ok, I do, the minute limit), and I don’t get how he goes from missing an open-ish 3-pointer with a minute left to completely not guarding Jeff Green, who made the dagger 3-pointer on the ensuing possession. Brittany Griner would have helped more tonight.|
|Khris Middleton, SF 23 MIN | 1-2 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 1 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 2 PTS | -3He tries, you have to give him that. Middleton’s not a great defender, but he gets some steals and when he gets open shots, he’s proven he’s capable of making some. Too bad he’s stuck out there most nights with black holes like Stuckey and Charlie V.|
|Kim English, SG 7 MIN | 0-3 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 0 PTS | -5He was a non-factor, but he did find a way to crank up a 3-point attempt, which is good, I guess, considering that’s what he’s out there to do?|
He’s feeling the rest of our pain with the Andre Drummond minutes limit, but overall he’s done a decent job getting guys in positions to succeed this week. He can’t control two of his rotation guys shooting a combined 3-for-27. I still don’t understand how Charlie V missed the potentially game-tying 3-pointer in the final 50 seconds. That play, along with the previous one for Monroe, were the best late-game plays Frank has drawn up all season.
|Greg Monroe, C 38 MIN | 10-18 FG | 4-4 FT | 4 REB | 4 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 0 TO | 24 PTS | +10
Monroe played as effectively as he typically does in his good games, but his form was a bit more polished. He made most of his shots outside the restricted area, and he even shot 2-for-2 outside the paint. Monroe hadn’t had this many assists without a turnover this season.
|Andre Drummond, C 20 MIN | 2-5 FG | 0-2 FT | 4 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 4 PTS | -9
Drummond didn’t have his his usual energy. Maybe his lack of stamina after sitting for so long is catching up to him.
|Jose Calderon, PG 43 MIN | 8-12 FG | 2-3 FT | 1 REB | 9 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 19 PTS | +11
Calderon has one of the best shooting strokes in the league, and he could take advantage of it as much as he did tonight more often. Best of all, he didn’t stop running the offense to score his most points since before Valentine’s Day. Raptors fans gave Calderon multiple standing ovations in his return to Toronto, where he spent his first 7.5 seasons. Calderon even headed toward the home locker room at halftime before realizing his mistake and reversing course. He’s an excellent player, and that’s why the Raptors miss him on the court. He’s also a class act, and that’s why Raptors fans miss him in every respect.
|Brandon Knight, PG 29 MIN | 2-8 FG | 0-0 FT | 4 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 2 TO | 5 PTS | -5
DeMar DeRozan is more physically mature than Knight, and the Raptors guard used that advantage to score at times tonight. DeRozan isn’t efficient enough to really make Knight pay, but this game shows how much adding a little muscle this offseason could help Knight defensively.
|Kyle Singler, SG 19 MIN | 1-5 FG | 2-2 FT | 1 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 5 PTS | -9
Rudy Gay is a gifted scorer, and he used all his moves on Singler, who struggled to disrupt Gay in even the slightest.
|Jonas Jerebko, PF 28 MIN | 6-8 FG | 3-4 FT | 6 REB | 3 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 15 PTS | +19
Jerebko really upgraded the perimeter defense behind Singler. Jerebko played exactly how I’ve been hope he would all season: hustling, rebounding and defending. When he’s not trying to be the alpha scorer, he’s still one of the league’s best off-the-bench role players.
|Khris Middleton, SF 25 MIN | 5-6 FG | 0-0 FT | 4 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 11 PTS | +16
Middleton displayed a body control I hadn’t seen from him before. He’s had a higher field-goal percentage only once before (a 1-for-1 game), and he pulled it off by twisting and leaning through traffic to make several shots.
|Rodney Stuckey, PG 28 MIN | 7-10 FG | 1-2 FT | 4 REB | 6 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 18 PTS | +17
Stuckey dribbled the air out of the ball as usual, but he can still be very effective when playing that way. The question about Stuckey is not whether he’s any good. He is. The question is whether he’s good enough for a team to thrive when allowing him to play the high-usage role that suits him best.
Frank often plays the starters together or the reserves together for long stretches of the second half if either unit is playing well. A problem with that strategy is subpar players on one unit get to play at the expense of superior players on the other unit just because their linemates are doing well. It’s a bit more difficult to mix and match players and determine which will click well in unorthodox lineups, but good coaches do it. Tonight, Frank did it. Behind a Calderon-Stuckey-Middleton-Jerebko-Monroe lineup, which was +13 in 13 minutes, the Pistons befuddled the Raptors, going on 13-0 and 10-0 runs in the fourth quarter.
Most Valuable Player
Rudy Gay. Gay, deservedly, has a reputation as an inefficient shooter, but he didn’t live up to it tonight. Gay had scored this much (34 points) six times before, but he’d always needed at least four more shots to get there than the 18 he took tonight.
Andre Drummond returns, Brandon Knight re-injured ankle and breaks nose, Pistons lose big in front of another home crowd
|Greg Monroe, C 30 MIN | 3-11 FG | 5-6 FT | 13 REB | 5 AST | 0 STL | 2 BLK | 3 TO | 11 PTS | -16Monroe was solid on the glass and decent in the passing game, but he struggled with his shot and … well … let’s just not talk about the interior defense on Amir Johnson and Jonas Valanciunas tonight.|
|Andre Drummond, C 19 MIN | 8-10 FG | 1-4 FT | 4 REB | 0 AST | 2 STL | 2 BLK | 2 TO | 17 PTS | -7Drummond’s defense wasn’t great, either, but he scored around the basket, he blocked shots, he rebounded and he didn’t look all that rusty considering he’s missed the last 22 games.|
|Jose Calderon, PG 31 MIN | 3-7 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 7 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 3 TO | 8 PTS | -16Calderon wasn’t as sharp as we’ve seen him in other games, but for once, I can compliment his defense. He helped hold Kyle Lowry to a quiet game.|
|Brandon Knight, PG 26 MIN | 1-4 FG | 2-3 FT | 0 REB | 3 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 4 PTS | -24The bad news: Knight appeared to re-injure the ankle that caused him to miss games earlier this month. He also broke his nose. The good news: our grades tool now has the option for us to give ‘incompletes’ for players who are forced to leave due to injury. The bad news: Knight played a lot too poorly for too long in this game for me to to consider using the incomplete for the first time. Hopefully the Pistons didn’t rush Knight back too soon and hopefully his injury is not serious.|
|Kyle Singler, SG 33 MIN | 5-12 FG | 2-4 FT | 6 REB | 2 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 13 PTS | -15Same story with Singler — he was overmatched defensively against Toronto’s quick wings, but he hit open jumpers, rebounded and made enough hustle plays to make him among the better players on the court for the Pistons on a night when most of his teammates struggled.|
|Jonas Jerebko, PF 28 MIN | 9-14 FG | 2-2 FT | 5 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 20 PTS | -6Other than Drummond’s return, Jerebko was the lone bright spot for the Pistons. He was active offensively, moved without the ball well and, if he can (finally) add a consistent 3-point shot in the offseason, he’ll head into next season as a reliable rotation player again.|
|Jason Maxiell, PF 13 MIN | 0-3 FG | 0-0 FT | 2 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 0 PTS | -11Maxiell’s role was finally reduced, and if this had happened earlier in the season, perhaps Maxiell’s production wouldn’t have fallen off a cliff. All parties would’ve been better off with Maxiell in a smaller role much sooner than the last week of March.|
|Khris Middleton, SF 8 MIN | 0-4 FG | 2-2 FT | 0 REB | 3 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 2 PTS | +10Middleton didn’t make a shot and continues his slump since he had a brief stretch where he looked like he was ready to carve out a backup role down the stretch.|
|Viacheslav Kravtsov, C 6 MIN | 0-1 FG | 1-2 FT | 1 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 1 PTS | +6Kravtsov played a few cursory minutes and was his usual — big and awkward, but seemingly trying really hard.|
|Rodney Stuckey, PG 25 MIN | 0-3 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 3 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 0 PTS | -10An all-too-familiar scene this season — Stuckey playing significant minutes while barely making any kind of positive contribution to the game.|
|Kim English, SG 21 MIN | 2-7 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 6 PTS | +4English played a decent amount of minutes and shot 2-for-5 from three. On this night, that’s enough to make him one of the top players the Pistons put on the court.|
Frank immediately starting Drummond in his return from injury is enough to get him a (barely) passing grade on a night when his team looked awful in just about every way.
J.J. Barea dashed past Jose Calderon on the perimeter. Charlie Villanueva flashed high above the 3-point line to defend a screen Barea never used, and Jason Maxiell stood flat-footed near the free-throw line before turning around too late to catch a streaking Barea, who made a layup.
“Lawrence Frank wants a timeout. He may talk about the help,” Pistons broadcaster George Blaha said. “Wasn’t that a great movie?”
|Jason Maxiell, PF 22 MIN | 7-13 FG | 0-0 FT | 4 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 0 TO | 14 PTS | -3If Maxiell stops shooting so many mid range jumpers and gets to the bucket more, he shoots better? What a novel idea! I wish someone would have thought of that before!|
|Greg Monroe, C 29 MIN | 2-11 FG | 2-2 FT | 9 REB | 8 AST | 2 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 6 PTS | 0This was a tough game for Monroe. His 2-11 from the field was not a misleading stat. He forced so many bad shots against competition that he should be clearly better than (Byron Mullens, Bismack Biyombo and Josh McRoberts). His defense was average, but again, he was playing against some of the worst starting big men in the league.|
|Jose Calderon, PG 30 MIN | 4-8 FG | 0-0 FT | 1 REB | 6 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 11 PTS | -8Calderon had another solid night. He was good shooting from outside, but probably could’ve gotten the ball inside a bit more (he did to his teammates, but took no shots in the paint himself). He had six assists, but probably could’ve gotten more if the big men could get all of their shots to go down. His defense wasn’t great, but Kemba Walker is a hard player to stop.|
|Brandon Knight, PG 37 MIN | 4-10 FG | 1-2 FT | 6 REB | 4 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 5 TO | 10 PTS | 0In his first game back from his ankle injury, Brandon Knight was a disaster. He played a lot of minutes (a lot at point guard late in the game), but turned the ball over too much and shot very poorly. (16.5% from three). The only saving grace tonight for Knight was his stellar defense (see: Dan’s last post about Knight’s underrated defense).|
|Kyle Singler, SG 28 MIN | 2-6 FG | 2-2 FT | 7 REB | 2 AST | 1 STL | 1 BLK | 2 TO | 6 PTS | -7Singler wasn’t too involved tonight, but when he was, he didn’t shoot too well and got in foul trouble. His defense was nothing too great, but he didn’t look lost.|
|Charlie Villanueva, PF 20 MIN | 7-13 FG | 0-0 FT | 4 REB | 0 AST | 1 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 18 PTS | +7Villanueva basically split time at power forward tonight with Jason Maxiell,and did about just as well in every facet of the game except for shooting, where he was good tonight long range. Oh, also, he had a monster dunk late in the fourth quarter.|
|Jonas Jerebko, PF 22 MIN | 3-6 FG | 2-4 FT | 3 REB | 2 AST | 4 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 8 PTS | -2Since the Pistons gave up on their season, Jerebko has been finding himself in the rotation more, and tonight was no different. Jerebko logged solid minutes but wasn’t very involved, shooting at a mediocre percentage and getting eight points.|
|Khris Middleton, SF 16 MIN | 2-3 FG | 2-2 FT | 4 REB | 0 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 0 TO | 6 PTS | +10Middleton has been finding himself playing a lot since the Pistons began tanking as well. Tonight he had six points and played surprisingly well on defense, forcing a lot of misses and turnovers.|
|Will Bynum, PG 6 MIN | 0-1 FG | 0-0 FT | 0 REB | 1 AST | 0 STL | 0 BLK | 1 TO | 0 PTS | +1Unfortunately, Will Bynum didn’t play after the 5:35 mark in the second quarter due to his lingering hand injury. He didn’t really make an impact in his six minutes on the floor.|
|Rodney Stuckey, PG 30 MIN | 5-8 FG | 1-2 FT | 2 REB | 8 AST | 0 STL | 1 BLK | 5 TO | 13 PTS | +7Stuckey was expecting his minutes to go back down after Knight returned from his injury, but that was not the case. He played a lot tonight and shot well, but the best part of his game was the way he ran the offense. He has eight assists and was spreading the ball around very nicely.|
|Lawrence FrankFrank coached the Pistons to a win and did a nice job managing the team in crunch time, but it was against the Bobcats. It would have been nice to see Kravtsov and English log some playing time instead of Bynum and Stuckey. It was good to see him get Jerebko and Middleton some rotation time, however.| | <urn:uuid:824d778a-4619-4668-8778-5d9926af2fa8> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.pistonpowered.com/category/game-review/ | 2013-05-23T18:31:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962282 | 9,111 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
is a time measurement in emergency cardiac care (ECC), specifically in the treatment of ST segment elevation myocardial infarction
(or STEMI). The interval starts with the patient's arrival in the emergency department
, and ends when a catheter guidewire crosses the culprit lesion in the cardiac cath lab
. Because of the adage that "time is muscle", meaning that delays in treating a myocardial infarction increase the likelihood and amount of cardiac muscle
damage due to localised hypoxia
, ACC/AHA guidelines recommend a door-to-balloon interval of no more than 90 minutes. Currently fewer than half of STEMI patients receive reperfusion with primary percutaneous coronary intervention
within the guideline-recommended timeframe. It has become a core quality measure for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Improving door-to-balloon times
Door to Balloon (D2B) Initiative
The benefit of prompt, expertly performed primary percutaneous coronary intervention over thrombolytic therapy for acute ST elevation myocardial infarction is now well established. Few hospitals can provide PCI within the 90 minute interval, which prompted the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to launch a national Door to Balloon (D2B) Initiative in November 2006. The D2B Alliance seeks to "take the extraordinary performance of a few hospitals and make it the ordinary performance of every hospital." Over 800 hospitals have joined the D2B Alliance as of March 16, 2007.
The D2B Alliance advocates six key evidence-based strategies and one optional strategy to help reduce door-to-balloon times:
- ED physician activates the cath lab
- Single-call activation system activates the cath lab
- Cath lab team is available within 20-30 minutes
- Prompt data feedback
- Senior management commitment
- Team based approach
- (Optional) Prehospital 12 lead ECG activates the cath lab
On May 30, 2007, the American Heart Association
launched 'Mission: Lifeline', a "community-based initiative aimed at quickly activating the appropriate chain of events critical to opening a blocked artery to the heart that is causing a heart attack." It is seen as complementary to the ACC's D2B Initiative. The program will concentrate on patient education to make the public more aware of the signs of a heart attack and the importance of calling 9-1-1
for emergency medical services
(EMS) for transport to the hospital. In addition, the program will attempt to improve the diagnosis of STEMI patients by EMS personnel. According to Alice Jacobs, MD, who led the work group that addressed STEMI systems, when patients arrive at non-PCI hospitals they will stay on the EMS stretcher with paramedics in attendance while a determination is made as to whether or not the patient will be transferred. For walk-in STEMI patients at non-PCI hospitals, EMS calls to transfer the patient to a PCI hospital should be handled with the same urgency as a 9-1-1 call.
Although incorporating a prehospital 12 lead ECG into critical pathways for STEMI patients is listed as an optional strategy by the D2B Alliance, the fastest median door-to-balloon times have been achieved by hospitals with paramedics who perform 12 lead ECGs in the field. EMS can play a key role in reducing the first-medical-contact-to-balloon time, sometimes referred to as EMS-to-balloon (E2B) time, by performing a 12 lead ECG in the field and using this information to triage the patient to the most appropriate medical facility.
Depending on how the prehospital 12 lead ECG program is structured, the 12 lead ECG can be transmitted to the receiving hospital for physician interpretation, interpreted on-site by appropriately trained paramedics, or interpreted on-site by paramedics with the help of computerized interpretive algorithms. Some EMS systems utilize a combination of all three methods. Prior notification of an in-bound STEMI patient enables time saving decisions to be made prior to the patient's arrival. This may include a "cardiac alert" or "STEMI alert" that calls in off duty personnel in areas where the cardiac cath lab is not staffed 24 hours a day. The 30-30-30 rule takes the goal of achieving a 90 minute door-to-balloon time and divides it into three equal time segments. Each STEMI care provider (EMS, the emergency department, and the cardiac cath lab) has 30 minutes to complete its assigned tasks and seamlessly "hand off" the STEMI patient to the next provider. In some locations, the emergency department may be bypassed altogether.
Common themes in hospitals achieving rapid door-to-balloon times
Bradley et al. (Circulation 2006) performed a qualitative analysis of 11 hospitals in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction that had median door-to-ballon times = or < 90 minutes. They identified 8 themes that were present in all 11 hospitals:
- An explicit goal of reducing door-to-balloon times
- Visible support of senior management
- Innovative, standardized protocols
- Flexibility in implementing standardized protocols
- Uncompromising individual clinical leaders
- Collaborative interdisciplinary teams
- Data feedback to monitor progress and identify problems or successes
- Organizational culture that fostered persistence despite challenges and setbacks
Criteria for an ideal primary PCI center
Granger et al. (Circulation 2007) identified the following criteria of an ideal primary PCI center.
- Primary PCI is the routine treatment for eligible STEMI patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Primary PCI is performed as soon as possible
- Institution is capable of providing supportive care to STEMI patients and handling complications
- Written commitment by hospital administration to support the program
- Identifies physician director for PCI program
- Creates multidisciplinary group that includes input from all relevant stakeholders, including cardiology, emergency medicine, nursing, and EMS
- Institution designs and implements a continuing education program
- For institution without on-site surgical backup, there is a written agreement with tertiary institution and EMS to provide for rapid transfer of STEMI patients when needed
- Interventional cardiologists meet ACC/AHA criteria for competence
- Interventional cardiologists participate in, and are responsive to formal on-call schedule
- Minimum of 36 primary PCI procedures and 400 total PCI procedures annually
- Program is described in a "manual of operations" that is compliant with ACC/AHA guidelines
- Mechanisms for monitoring program performance and ongoing quality improvement activities
Other features of ideal system
- Robust data collection and feedback including door-to-balloon time, first door-to-balloon time (for transferred patients), and the proportion of eligible patients receiving some form of reperfusion therapy
- Earliest possible activation of the cardiac cath lab, based on prehospital ECG whenever possible, and direct referral to PCI-hospital based on field diagnosis of STEMI
- Standardized ED protocols for STEMI management
- Single phone call activation of cath lab that does not depend on cardiologist interpretation of ECG
Gaps and barriers to timely access to primary PCI
Granger et al. (Circulation 2007) identified the following barriers to timely access to primary PCI.
- Busy PCI hospitals may have to divert patients
- Significant delays in ED diagnosis of STEMI may occur, particularly when patient does not arrive by EMS
- Manpower and financial considerations may prevent smaller PCI programs from providing primary PCI for STEMI 24 hours a day
- Reimbursement for optimal coordination of STEMI patients needs to be realigned to reflect performance
- In most PCI centers, cath lab staff is off-site during off hours, requiring a mandate that staff report with 20-30 minutes of cath lab activation
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- "Hospitals Join to Speed Care After Heart Attacks," The New York Times, November 13, 2006. Accessed July 3, 2007.
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Andy Espinoza Accepted Into 2009 Salon International
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Andy Espinoza Accepted Into Salon International 2009
Ringling College Illustration major Andy Espinoza's painting "Bellisimo" has been accepted into Salon International 2009 opening April 21 at the Greenhouse Gallery in San Antonio, Texas.
The juried Salon competition, founded and sponsored by the Greenhouse Gallery, is a professional exhibition of oil paintings seeking and promoting artistic excellence and offers $30,000 in total prizes for winning entries.
Accepted paintings for the 2009 exhibit will be judged by Daniel E. Greene, N.A. who is considered one of the foremost realist painters of our time. Prizes will be presented to winning artists at an awards banquet on April 10. | <urn:uuid:563544b7-ddf7-45a1-9b52-c5035adce251> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ringling.edu/connect/news-events/honors-awards/andy-espinoza-accepted-into-2009-salon-international/?nomobileredirect=http%3Activ-aidstudent | 2013-05-23T18:51:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925177 | 176 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
He's a writer: A rhyme writer as well as a news writer.
"I always knew I would be in the media business... that's where my heart is," says Que, a graduate of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, PA. Que began his career in journalism in 1999 at KYW News radio 1060AM in Philadelphia. After several years working as a production assistant at the all-news CBS station, Que - real name Quintin Cliett - started writing news stories for CW Philly Wakeup News and CBS-3 Eyewitness News. Currently, he is a writer and editor at KYW News Radio, but the demanding news watch never stopped him from inking his rap projects on his spare time.
In 2003, Que met female DJ/producer Mz. Deluxx and the two started what would become a long-term working relationship. Their admiration for each other's craft prompted the pair to create a number of songs, which would be kept under wraps for years until recently.
"I have a keen sense of great music," says the Philadelphia native. "I really enjoy the oldies; my dad put me on to that." Speaking about his love for hip-hop, Q says "rappers like Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Kool G Rap, Run-DMC, Tupac, and MC Lyte ignited that spark in me to make me want to rhyme.” Que’s lyrics are all clean, which is done purposely. “I'm bringing that good clean rap back. For example, Paid and Full - one of the first hip-hop classics - and the lyrics were clean, but meannn! I'm just trying to open that lane back up so anybody can listen to my music and not write me off simply because I use profanity and talk about guns or drugs. You'll have to come up with a better reason. You'll have to really critique my music."
Currently, Que is working on his debut project with Mz. Deluxx to be released under the up and coming Philadelphia-born independent music label Columbia 215 Entertainment. Que’s first single is expected to drop in November, 2009.
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St. Thomas University, a Catholic university located in Miami, is home to international students from 60 nations around the world. The 2,436 students who make up our undergraduate population provide global and national insights that make their four years here a truly enriching academic experience.
In today’s complex and increasingly diverse world, the University believes that the best education is one that broadens a student’s capacity to reason, to think, and to make critical judgments in a wide range of areas. The foundation for that achievement is the University’s scholars and researchers - the full-time professors who make up the faculty. The kinship between teachers and students is one of the hallmarks of a St. Thomas University education.
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Blog Page Template Restrictions
I just launched a new website for my dodgeball league in NYC (bigappledodgeball.com) using the Metro Theme, and it looks fab.
Here's the issue...
When I create a page and apply the standard Blog Page Template, it will only grab posts that are categorized as "News."
What I'd like:
1. A page where all posts, regardless of category, are posted.
2. A page where only posts categorized a different way are posted.
I suspect the issue to be in these lines of code (lines 15 and 17 in the file page_blog.php). I've played around and tried a few different things, but I can't seem to figure it out.
<?php $blog_cat_1 = get_option('metro_blog_cat_1'); $blog_cat_1_num = get_option('metro_blog_cat_1_num'); if(!$blog_cat_1) $blog_cat_1 = 1; //setting a default ?>
<?php $page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1; query_posts("cat=".$blog_cat_1."&showposts=".$blog _cat_1_num."&paged=$page"); while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?> | <urn:uuid:b3ee12ac-343c-4b0f-8fbb-f5e0cb43f206> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.studiopress.com/support/showpost.php?p=50833&postcount=1 | 2013-05-23T18:33:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.681634 | 304 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
How can I install ESM CLI with out installing entire ESM manager ? I tried installing ESM console only but it doesn't have ESM CLI .
check the install guide, this will install ESM console silently
setup.exe /s /v"/qn /l*v \"%TEMP%\SymantecESMConsoleInstall.log\"
INSTALLDIR=\"C:\Program Files\Symantec\Enterprise Security Manager\"
ADDLOCAL=ESMConsole EXECUTEACTION=INSTALL EDITCONSOLEUSERNAME=ESM
Help Link: http://www.symantec.com/business/support/overview.jsp?pid=54619
Hi Pete ,
I'm looking for ESM command line interface . I think the above solution you gave is for installing ESM console silently (using command).
CLI is used to get the information, config and policy setting without use of UI. As far i know it does not help to install the modules.
I think I haven't put it clear, my scenario is this
I 'm doing an automation and wanted to use ESM CLI to get the details of the agents from different ESM managers inorder to do that I want to install ESM CLI in my system how can I install ESM CLI.
there is no seperate install. you need to browse to the path and use the esmc command for cli . The commands can be got from user guide
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As the New Year’s approaches, here’s a look at some of the last beers I’ll have in 2012.
I’ll start with the best of the bunch – the Sierra Nevada Narwhal Imperial Stout. I tried this for the first time last night and really enjoyed it.
The Narwhal comes in at a hefty 10.2 percent ABV. It has a touch of booze on the nose, and you definitely get a little heat when you drink it, but it does not detract from how good this beer really is.
The dominant smell is roasted coffee, and that continues on into the taste. Along with the roasted coffee you get some nice dark chocolate undertones with a hint of vanilla in the finish.
It is a full-bodied, yet smooth brew. Narwhal is definitely worth seeking out.
Next up is Victory Brewing Company’s Red Thunder. The Red Thunder is a Baltic porter fermented in red wine barrels.
I love a good Baltic porter and wish more breweries attempted them. Victory’s Baltic Thunder is a fantastic example of the style, and the Red Thunder tops it.
The red wine gives the beer a tartness you don’t normally get in a Baltic porter, and then blends well with the slight roasty chocolate flavors you get in the porter.
Although based on the Baltic Thunder, this is a totally new beer that I really enjoyed.
Another good stout that has recently been released is Baxter Brewing Company’s Phantom Punch Winter Stout.
This 6.8 percent canned stout is extremely easy to drink. There’s a lot of coffee flavor, but there is some chocolate as well, and the vanilla beans used while brewing really comes through. There is a touch of hops in the finish.
If you like a good stout that isn’t an imperial, this is one I would recommend.
Next up is another Imperial Stout, this one’s Leinenkugel’s Big Eddy Russian Imperial Stout.
This beer was just missing something for me. It had the flavors you come to expect from an imperial stout, such as coffee and chocolate, but there is not one flavor that stands out and makes you take notice.
It’s certainly not a bad beer, but one that stands firmly in the middle of the pack.
Another beer that falls in the middle of the road for its style is the brand new Narragansett Brewery’s Private Stock Imperial India Pale Ale.
This is Narragansett’s biggest beer, at 8.6 percent. It’s not a bad beer, but it reminds me of double IPAs from about 10 years ago when brewers just added a bunch of hops, forgetting about balance.
The citrusy hoppy flavor dominates any of the malt sweetness. If Narragansett dialed up the malt backbone to balance this beer, it could have been truly good.
Finally, something a little different – the Downeast Ciderhouse Cranberry Blend.
For anyone who reads this blog, you know I’m a fan of a good cider, and Downeast’s original cider is one of the absolute best made in New England.
The Cranberry Blend is also a treat. I’m not a huge fan of cranberries, but the cranberries add a tartness to the cider that makes you want to take sip after sip. It’s a refreshing treat and if you’re a fan of cider I can’t imagine you not liking this one. | <urn:uuid:a202a96c-3021-468d-8af7-d5f6b0b0132b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.therecordherald.com/article/20121228/BLOGS/312289989/0/features | 2013-05-23T18:37:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937585 | 743 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The Christopher North House Hotel
6 Gloucester Place, Edinburgh EH3 6EF, Scotland, UK
The Mermaid Chip Shop
Tony and best-selling crime author Ian Rankin have a lunch of deep-fried ribs at The Mermaid Chip Shop, a local favorite for anything deep-fried, including haggis and king rib.
43-45 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6, United Kingdom
Tony visits one of Edinburgh's best restaurants. At the Michelin-Star-awarded The Kitchin, Tom Kitchin seeks to take traditional Scottish ingredients and elevate them to new levels.
78 Commercial St., Edinburgh, EH6 6LX
6 Frith Street, Soho Square, London W1D 3JA, UK
The Cock Tavern
Tony joins two Smithfield Market butchers at 6 a.m. for the Butcher's Breakfast at the Cock Tavern. The meal consists of a pint, eggs, black pudding, calf's liver and deviled kidneys.
London Central Markets, London, EC1A 9LH
St. John Bread and Wine
Tony visits friend and fellow chef Fergus Henderson at St. John Bread and Wine, Fergus' newest restaurant. Tony enjoys roasted bone marrow with toasted bread, stewed pig's head with bacon and blood cake.
94-96 Commercial St., London E1 6LZ
The Yew Tree (Outside of London)
Tony and Marco Pierre White sit down to dinner at The Yew Tree Inn is a place to have fun and experiment with new twists on old classics. Offerings include quail eggs with hollandaise sauce, roast venison and pan-roasted partridge with bacon.
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I was not feeling the best when I arrived in Pai, but Darling made my day brighter in a moment. The welcome was so amazing! The dorm rooms are simple but good. The terraces are amazing for hanging out with other travelers. Darling was very nice and helpful. There is free wifi and a computer which you can use. Good... More
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In the past 10 years, four California cities have embraced ranked-choice voting, the system of computerized runoff elections that boosters say streamlines and reforms local politics.
Almost as soon as the new systems were in place, critics began trying to roll ranked-choice voting back.
Opponents are ready to go back at it this week. Tomorrow officials in San Francisco are scheduled to consider measures that would modify the new high-tech voting system. The Oakland City Council was asked to consider a measure tomorrow that would have abolished rank-choice voting entirely in that city. But Mayor Jean Quan blocked it from coming before the council, said Terry Reilly, a former San Jose election official and a ranked-choice voting opponent.
In a ranked-choice election, voters get three weighted choices for each office on the ballot. If no candidate wins 50 percent of the first-choice votes, a computerized "instant runoff" is held to select the winner.
Proponents, led by San Francisco political writer
argue that the system increases voter turnout, stanches the flow of special interest money into politics and encourages high-minded, positive campaigns.
But critics, say it confuses - and thus disenfranchises - many voters, especially members of racial minorities.
Whatever happens this week, opponents said they intend to keep hammering away until ranked-choice voting is replaced with the system that has been in place for decades in most cities - conventional runoff elections held weeks or months after the initial vote.
"I just don't see any way ranked-choice voting is going to sustain itself over the near future," said Tony Santos, former mayor of San Leandro, a third California city that has adopted the system. (Berkeley is the other one.)
Santos is a former advocate of ranked-choice voting who turned against it after he was beaten in a ranked-choice election in 2010. Since then, he has campaigned around the country against the system. Voters' distaste for it grows with every election, he claims.
"Most voters don't like it and don't understand it," he said. "Most people just want to vote for one candidate - people just are not used to ranking candidates in this country."
In San Francisco, ranked-choice voting was enacted in 2002 with the backing of the city's progressives, who saw it as a check on the money power of downtown interests.
That decision has made San Francisco "a national leader in elections," Rob Ritchie, leader of Fairvote, a nonprofit that promotes ranked-choice voting, wrote earlier this year. The system has "contributed to election of the most diverse Board of Supervisors in the nation," he wrote.
Complaints about the system's complexity flared during the 2007 mayor's race, when even then-Mayor Gavin Newsom, the winner, said he didn't understand how the system worked.
In the 2011 mayor's race, which was won easily by acting Mayor Ed Lee, critics said the system didn't live up to its other promises: Turnout was the worst in decades, they noted, and there was heavy spending by independent soft money committees.
Worse, complained Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, the ranked-choice dynamic makes it more difficult for voters to scrutinize candidates. | <urn:uuid:64c3f107-43d9-4d33-a70f-ba68fcdb8e8b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jul/16/in-two-bay-area-cities-critics-tackle-ranked/ | 2013-05-23T18:44:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977561 | 666 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Minimum wage hike: the pros and cons
Posted at: 02/12/2013 5:06 PM
| Updated at: 02/14/2013 12:26 PM
By: Ray Levato | WHEC.com
News10NBC is looking at another part of the governor's budget that will affect you. Will the cost of raising minimum wage be passed on to you? Will it mean fewer jobs or will it cause some jobs to be lost?
Is raising the minimum wage a good idea? Recent polls show a majority of New Yorkers favor the idea, but small business says it could result in having to either layoff workers or raise prices.
Who would a hike in the minimum wage help? People like Cynthia Lynch who lives at the YWCA because she can't afford rent for an apartment.
News10NBC's Ray Levato said, “What would an extra $1.50 an hour mean?”
Cynthia Lynch said, “That will probably help us with RG&E, busing for people who take the bus. People who have cars, $1.50 more for their gas.”
News10NBC also spoke with two workers who just got a raise so they're now just above the minimum wage.
Joel Deleon said, “It'll mean like $20 more in your pocket. Maybe more than that, right? $7.25 to $8.75, maybe like $30 or $40 more dollars in your pocket. It's just better.”
Jordan Hanley said, “I'm in college full-time so I don't have the money to pay for books and my expenses, my car loan and my gas, so it's hard.”
Tim Mason, Small Business Council, said, “Something's going to have to give based upon that increase of 20%.”
Tim Mason speaks for the Small Business Council of the Rochester Business Alliance. He says it's not that employers don't want their employees to earn more, but that they haven't had time to plan for a significant increase in their labor costs.
Mason said, “Think of your own household. If you found out tomorrow that your expenses were going to go up, something is going to have to give. What could that be? Hiring minimum wage employees. They may have to look at that and not hire any more or certainly cut back on their minimum wage employees.”
The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics says in 2011 about 199,000 workers in New York earned the minimum wage or lower.That's about five percent of the total state's hourly workforce.
Levato said, “What about prices? Do businesses pass this along to customers in a price increase?”
Mason said, “In a tough economy, the last thing we want to do is pass this cost along to our consumers. But it's going to have to come from somewhere.”
A group called the Women's National Law Center says raising the minimum wage is good for the economy, but small business says this could take money away they could invest in their businesses and hurt retirees who are trying to supplement their income or young people learning job skills.
The boost in minimum wage would add another $45 to $60 a week based on the hours they work. The last time the federal minimum wage went up was in 2009 to the current $7.25 and hour. New York went along that year as well. That was the last of three steps of the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007. | <urn:uuid:5ee6714d-d560-4014-be48-24a909387d49> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.whec.com/news/stories/s2929387.shtml | 2013-05-23T18:39:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979402 | 734 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
When Thurgood Marshall retired from the U.S. Supreme Court in June 1991, a reporter asked him what were the medical reasons that contributed to his leaving the bench -- and its lifetime appointment -- after serving for nearly 25 years. He was his usual blunt self.
"What's wrong with me?" Marshall said at the packed news conference. "I'm old. I'm getting old and falling apart."
When the news broke this week that Pope Benedict XVI was stepping down as the spiritual leader of 1.2 billion Roman Catholics because of his concerns about being able to do the job, many began to speculate that there were other reasons for the decision.
We have become accustomed to a pope dying in office. That's not a surprise. It has been nearly 600 years since the last pope, Gregory XII, quit in 1415.
Even though the job of pope is a lifetime appointment, frankly, it is selfish of any individual to hold on to the job for dear life, knowing full well they don't have the capacity to do the job.
"Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me," according to a statement from Pope Benedict released by the Vatican.
Whether we want to be honest or not, it was sad to watch the decline of Pope John Paul II. He was a vibrant figure when he became pope in 1978, traveling the world and spreading the gospel to anyone who would listen. But toward the end of his life in 2005, he was barely able to move or talk, clearly worn down by significant health challenges.
Any leader who respects the organization they serve should have the common sense to know when it's time to say goodbye. We've seen countless examples of CEOs, pastors, politicians and others hang on and on to a position of power, hurting the very people they were elected or chosen to serve.
It takes considerable courage for anyone to step away from the power bestowed upon them by a position, as well as the trappings that come with it.
I'll leave it to others to try to figure out other reasons behind the resignation. But we should at least acknowledge the value of an ego-less decision that reflects humility and concern about the very institution the pope pledged his life to. | <urn:uuid:28b94942-0d35-4ce0-8ee8-c36d50a5d3aa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wisn.com/news/national/Martin-Pope-shows-leadership-by-resigning/-/9373390/18577272/-/12mghu/-/index.html | 2013-05-23T19:07:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988474 | 481 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Supreme Court says Justice Wil Schroder has a brain tumor and will retire.
The announcement Thursday said Schroder, 66, wanted to focus on his health and spend more time with family.
Schroder of Fort Mitchell was elected to the Supreme Court in 2006 for the 6th District, which encompasses and 21-county area. Before that, he served on the Kentucky Court of Appeals and as a trial judge in Kenton District Court.
Media reported Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr. said in a statement that Schroder was "highly ethical" and brought a "sharp intellect and meticulous approach" to his work.
Leigh Ann Hiatt, a spokeswoman for the Administrative Office of the Courts, says Gov. Steve Beshear will appoint a replacement after getting a recommendation from the judicial nominating commission.
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Imaginary Foundation Networked Grey Tee Shirt
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Make connections with body and mind in the Networked tee shirt from Imaginary Foundation. The Networked tee is an all silver grey standard fit tee shirt with an intricate custom graphic on the front. The Networked graphic on this Imaginary Foundation tee shirt shows a figure diminishing into particles that disperse and reconnect in a network of possibilities. The Networked tee has a crew neck, short sleeves, and a graphic that will keep you thinking. | <urn:uuid:f8803edf-aa9d-4e87-81a2-13cb17bf6503> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.zumiez.com/imaginary-foundation-networked-grey-tee-shirt.html | 2013-05-23T18:33:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703682988/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112802-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91645 | 103 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
It's so hard staying FAAABULOUS with all this dirt!
I'm ready for my closeup, Mr deMille..!
I feel prettyOh so prettyI feel pretty and witty and bright,And I pitty any girl who isn't me tonight.
the heisman committee immediately regretted its decision after reassigning reggie bush's 2005 trophy to a local bicycle racer.
And Crosshandsand JAZZ HANDS!
"Chariots Of Fire-Take 403-and action!"..."Cut! Someone get the Boston cream pie off his face!" "And AGAIN!"
I'm a princess!
Dancing with the stars, here I come!
The talent portion of this year's pageant got a little weird...
Look what I can do!
"HOLD UP EVERYBODY! There's a mother duck and 7 little ducklings crossing the course . . . but, damn, they look delicious!"
What do you mean there are no style points? I thought this was Synchronized Cross
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This is a blog celebrating the beauty of the ampersand, one is posted each day. (Click the ampersand to go to the
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HEALING GARDEN PRAYER SERVICE AND DEDICATION
Thursday, June 9, 10 a.m.
Chicago, IL (June 9, 2011) – Francis Cardinal George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago, will preside at a Prayer Service in Holy Family Church, 1080 West Roosevelt Road in Chicago, followed by the dedication of the newly constructed Healing Garden of the Archdiocese of Chicago, created as a place of prayer and healing for victim-survivors of clerical, sexual abuse, their families and the greater Catholic Church.
The idea of the garden came from clergy abuse victims, priests and Office for the Protection of Children and Youth staff members, and was approved by Cardinal George. A Healing Garden Planning Committee, comprised of four victim‐survivors, two diocesan priests and staff members from the Office for the Protection of Children and Youth, has been instrumental in the design and execution of the Healing Garden, the initial construction of which began in November 2010.
A focal point of the Healing Garden is the sculpture, Circle of Love, depicting the Holy Family that is a gift of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth.
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For awhile it was fun to go to Progressive websites and stir the statist pot with talk of limits on government power and free markets, but now it's getting creepy. The degree to which much of the Left has accepted a fascist type of statism is troubling -- it's beginning to border on totalitarianism. I'm not sure if it's a result of brainwashing, or if there's a need to be taken care of by a State that has replaced the Christian God. Maybe people need the comfort of a powerful entity which can trump the unpredictability of the market -- as more and more people are told that competition in the job market is unfair and based on advantages which can't be overcome, they see themselves as victims and the market as evil.
Many Americans have grown up in an anti-capitalist environment that offers the possibility of existing outside the labor force, a world in which the political is primary, and government arrangements can use and control capitalism to support those who choose alternate lifestyles to the workaday world in the private realm. More and more people are outside the labor force, disdainful of the market, and fewer people are paying for the cost of government programs which support these people. We appear to be in a transitional period in which we have to throw off the parasites intent on expanding the welfare state to create options to working for a living. Under the guise of caring for the poor and the downtrodden, progressives are capitalizing on the welfare state to expand government benefits to make it possible to live fairly comfortable without a job, or to secure a government job in which competition doesn't factor in and performance is not important. Of course this can't continue -- Greece is an example, if we need one. But we don't need an example, because common economic sense tells us it won't work. | <urn:uuid:292b19b6-a696-44d4-91b1-ff04c1bdf76a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://bonzai.squarespace.com/blog/2012/7/14/its-not-funny-anymore.html | 2013-05-26T03:02:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974826 | 364 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel is conveniently located just five minutes from the city center and a few miles from the M.R. Stefanika Airport Bratislava.The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Bratislava is attached to Bratislava`s new Ondrej Nepala ice hockey stadium and sports/tennis complex.
The new Doubeltree by Hilton Hotel Bratislava holds the largest meeting and conference center facility in Bratislava. The Doubeltree hotel is also a great place for guests to start their eastern Europe traveling adventure.
- Indoor Heated Pool
- Saunas (dry and steam)
- In-room Dining
- Fitness Facility
- Large meeting/conference rooms
- 32in TV
- MP3 Alarm Clock
- Luxury bathroom with seperate tub
- Wireless Internet Access
- Work/Desk Area
The Doubeltree by Hilton Hotel Bratislava offers guests an incredible feast at Toscany located in the hotel and offers delicious Italian cuisine. If guests wish to branch off to something new they can saunter over to the Opus, the perfect venue for guests to socialize and enjoy an international menu and a range of fine wines.
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Paul Vick - What are some Visual Basic optimization tips?
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Can you make your Visual Basic.NET applications perform even faster? Since Paul is on the VB team, we thought we'd ask him for some tips.
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One of Dr. M’s favorite TV shows is a series on the House and Garden Network called House Hunters. I take pains not to deride my wife’s viewing preferences, lest she rejoin with the fact that I’ve watched the same Law and Order episode twelve times. Of course, that’s different. I’m not really re-watching the episodes, I’m re-evaluating the legal arguments, which is an entirely different thing.
Anyone buying that?
Here’s how House Hunters works. A couple is looking for a place to live, sometimes in an American city, sometimes in more exotic places, like in Costa Rica, or Rome. A local real estate agent offers them three possibilities to check out, and at the end, the “house hunters” pick one of them.
That’s the whole show.
No sarcasm intended – though a little may have trickled in on its own – House Hunters can be pretty suspenseful. Every episode is skillfully constructed so that each property provides the prospective buyers with deal-clinching or deal-breaking pluses and minuses, over which the couple “Ooooh’s” and “Aw’s” as they’re shown about the premises.
“The living room is so spacious.”
“But the deck faces a condemned neighborhood.”
“The kitchen has all the amenities.”
“But the second bedroom is kind of small. I thought it was a walk-in closet.”
“The kids are going to love this swimming pool.”
“Yes, but there’s no fence around it. They’ll drown.”
Though perhaps not scintillating, House Hunters has a way of holding your interest. (Especially considering what else in on.)
We stick around to see what they’ll finally choose: The “cookie-cutter” condo with the magnificent ocean view? Or the less expensive “fixer-upper” with unlimited “upside potential”?
“When we return, we’ll find out which home Todd and Isabel have chosen to make their own?”
Be honest, now. Who wouldn’t return for that?
Okay, so that’s the prototype.
Now here’s my version.
Recently, our cardiologist gave us the names of several surgeons, all of whom (just like the realtor and their houses) he thinks are just what we’re looking for. What happens now is that we meet with each of these surgeons, and in the end, we decide which one of them will repair my heart valve.
Do you see what I’m going for here?
It’s exactly the same show. The format is identical, except instead of houses, we’re choosing a heart surgeon. It seems perfect for the Medical Channel.
Tell me what you think of this title:
Maybe I should try a prototype right here on the blog. After every interview with a heart surgeon, I’ll give you my impressions of how things went, the pluses and the minuses. Who knows? Maybe I’ll let you vote on which surgeon I should pick. (But weighted, so that my vote counts for more. Come on. It’s my heart.)
I don’t know about you, but I’m smelling a hit here.
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Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Archdiocese of Urbino
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Archdiocese of Urbino
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Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Italy. The city of Urbino is situated on a hill between the valleys of the Metaurus and Foglia, in a mountainous but well-cultivated country. The cathedral, near the ducal palace, was designed by Count Federico da Montefeltre; but was completely transformed in the nineteenth century, as the cupola added in the sixteenth century and a large portion of the edifice were ruined in 1789. Some valuable pictures are still preserved there, a "Last Supper" and a "San Sebastiano of Barocci" in the sacristy, the "Scourging" by Pier della Francesca, in the oratory of the crypt a "Pietà" of Giovanni da Bologna. Other churches; S. Francesco (completed in 1350), partly Roman, partly Gothic, contains exquisite sculptures of Constantino Trappola, paintings by Barocci, Procaccini, and others. S. Dominico (1365), originally Gothic, but completely transformed in 1732; over the main door is a high relief of Lucca della Robbia. S. Agostino was also Gothic. The frescoes in the oratory of S. Giovanni Battista by Jacopo and Lorenzo Sanseverino, including a "Crucifixion", are important in the history of painting: S. Spirito (standards of Luca Signorelli), S. Bernardino (Bramante), S. Giuseppe (Adoration of the Magi, a relief by Brandini). The ducal palace was erected by Duke Federico, with Luciano di Laurana (1447) as architect; illustrious sculptors and painters were engaged to adorn it, but many of their works are now in foreign museums. Among those remaining are the statue of Duke Federico; the carvings on the edges of the doors, windows, and chimney-pieces; paintings by Margaritone, Antonio da Ferrara ("Crucifixion", "Baptism of Christ"), Paolo Uccello ("Profanation of the Host"), Giusto di Grand ("Last Supper"), Giovanni Santi, Raphael's father ("Timoteo Viti"); Titian ("Resurrection"). The duke's study, with its magnificent inlaid door and its ceiling, contains two oratories. The Castracane palace has an important collection of paintings. Urbino has a university with faculties of law, mathematico-physics, and a school of pharmacy and obstetrics, and a hospital founded in 1265. Urbino is the native place of Bartolommeo Carusi, theologian and professor at Bologna and Paris; Federico Commandini (1509), mathematician; Bernardini Baldi (seventeenth century), poet; Ludovio della Vernaccia (thirteenth century), poet; Laura Battiferri-Ammanati (seventeenth century), poet; the archeologist, Mgr. Fabretti (1619); the painters, Raffaello Sanzio and Federico Barocci; Bramante and Genga, father and son, architects; the sculptor, Federico Brandani, and Clement XI.
Urbino is the ancient Urbinum Mataurense, a Roman municipium. The city and its environs are rich in inscriptions, one of which is certainly Christian. Urbino was held by the Goths, but was captured by Belisarius (538). Under Pepin it became part of the pontifical domain. By the eleventh century it had a commune. Becoming the capital of the counts of Montefeltre, it increased in importance. In 1213 Bonconte di Montefeltro was elected podestà of Urbino. The Urbinese rebelled, formed an alliance with the commune of Rimini (1228), and by 1234 were masters of the city. He and his descendants were leaders of the Ghibellines of the Marches and the Romagna. Montefeltrano succeeded (1214-55), and Guido (1255-86 and 1293-6). Boniface VIII absolved him from censures and employed him against Palestrina and the Colonna. Federico I (1296-1322) increased his domains by taking from the Holy See Fano, Osimo, Recanati, Gubbio, Spoleto, and Assisi. His exorbitant taxes led to his murder, and the city recognized the papal supremacy. But in 1323 his son Nolfo (1323-59) was proclaimed lord of Urbino. In 1355, on the coming of Cardinal Albornoz, the papal sovereignty was again recognized, but not without loss of territory. Federico II was entirely despoiled. His son, Antonio (1377-1403), profited by the rebellion of the Marches and Umbria against the Holy see (1375) to restore his authority in Urbino. Guido Antonio (1403-43) was appointed by Martin V (1419) ruler of the Duchy of Spoleto, and carried on war against Braccio di Montone with varying fortune. Oddo Antonio, after a few months' government, was assassinated for his crimes. The Urbanese then offered the lordship to Federico III (1444-82), the illegitimate son of Guido Antonio, a pupil of Vittorino da Feltre's school and a lover of art. Under him Urbino became the resort of the brightest minds of the Renaissance. He was implicated in the wars against Sigismondo Malatesta, the pope, Rene of Anjou, and Florence. Sixtus IV conferred on him the title of Duke of Urbino (1474). Guidubaldo I (1492-1508) escaped by flight the plots of Caesar Borgia. He adopted Francesco Maria della Rovere (1508-38), his sister's child, and thus the signoria of Sinigaglia was united to Urbino. He aided Julius II in reconquering the Romagna. Leo X deprived him of his territory, which was given to Lorenzo de' Medici, and later to Giovanni Maria Varano (1516-21). On Leo's death Federico III reascended the throne. The internal government was almost entirely in the hands of duchess Eleonora Gonzaga. Guidubaldo II (1538-74), by his marriage with Giullia di Varano, obtained the Ducy of Camerino, which he had to cede in 1539 to Paul III for 60,000 scudi. In 1572 the Urbinese rebelled against taxation, but were suppressed. Francesco Maria II (1574-1631) endeavoured to reduce the taxes imposed by his father. In 1606 and 1626 he withdrew from the government to study natural sciences, and appointed a commission of eight to rule. On the assassination of his only son, Federico Ubaldo, in 1624, he placed his domains under the Holy See.
The first known bishop of Urbino is Leontius, to whom St. Gregory entrusted the Diocese of Rimini (592). Other bishops: Theodoricus, who in 1021 transferred the cathedral within the city (the ancient cathedral was outside); Blessed Mainardo (1057). Under Bishops Egidio (1288) and Carrado, O. S. A. (1309), Blessed Pelnigotto, a Franciscan Tertiary and Blessed Clare of Rimini lived in the city. Marco Boncioni, O. P. (1342); Fra Bartolommeo Carusi, O. S. A. (1347), theologians. Under Francesco, O. Min. (1379), the hermitage of the Gerolamini on Monte Cesana was established; Oddone Colonna (1380), later Martin V; Gian Pietro Arrivabeni (1491), learned writer and restorer of discipline; Cardinal Gregorio Cortese, O. S. B. (1542); Felice Tiranni (1551), reformer of religious life. In 1563 Pius IV made the see metropolitan, with the suffragans, Cagli, Sinigaglia, Pesaro, Forssombrone, Montefeltro, and Gubbio. Under Antonio Giannotti (1578) the seminary was opened; Ascanio Maffei (1646) restored many churches; Ignazio Ranaldi, oratorian (1819), restored the discipline of the seminary and the religious orders. The archdiocese has now, as suffragans, S. Angelo in Vado, Cagli, and Pergola, Fossambrone, Pesaro, Senigallia; it contains 99 parishes; 32,600 inhabitants; 130 secular and regular priests; 1 house of religious (men); 4 convents of nuns; 4 educational institutions for boys and 2 for girls.
CAPPELLETTI, Le chiese d' Italia, III (Venice, 1845); LIPPARINI, Urbino in Italia artistica, VI (Bergamo, 1907); UGOLINO, Storia dei conti e dei duchi di Urbino (Florence, 1859); ALBANI, Memorie concernenti la citta di Urbino (Rome, 1724); GUERRINI, Degli womini illustri di Urbino (Urbino, 1879); DENNISTOWN, Memories of the Dukes of Urbino illustrating the arms, arts, and literature of Italy from 1440 to 1630 (London, 1851); DELABORDE, Les ducs et la cour d'Urbino in revue des Deux Mondes, II (1851), 393-440. | <urn:uuid:8343a3dc-30f8-4a88-9215-0253c3a9fc0b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Archdiocese_of_Urbino | 2013-05-26T03:09:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923951 | 2,163 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Oh my, what a thing to be known for. Gabriola is mentioned in Macleans: Who’s suing whom.
British Columbia: Residents on Gabriola Island sued a local shooting range, claiming the level of noise from the Gabriola Rod, Gun and Conservation Club is atwar-zonelevels. The amount of money being sought has not been disclosed, but the suit also names the B.C. government, which has a 30-year lease agreement with the club.
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Chelsey Andrews, of the Paper Mama Andrews, had a horrible medical emergency giving birth in 2009. Because of that, she doesn’t want to risk another pregnancy; but she needs another baby. What to do? Why, do what everyone else does when they want another child – ask the internet to pay for it, of course!
My husband and I have been wanting to start our journey to surrogacy for a while, but we recently learned our insurance will not cover this. We will have to cover 100% of the costs…
I know for a fact we will have another child. Whether it’s by surrogacy, or adoption, we will have a brother or sister for our kiddo. Both are a ton of money. Goodness. Sooooooo, that brings me to my Go Fund Me. It’s a site dedicated to raising money for people/situations/whatever. I set up a page to begin raising money for surrogacy.
Yes, Chelsey has created a GoFundMe page asking for $55,000 in order to pay for a surrogate to carry her second child. I mean, this is just what you do these days when you can’t afford to get another kid – ask the planet to pony up and fund the expansion of your family, right? Hooray internets!
The Karamazov Idea, not pretentious sounding at all, wants you gals to know what men really think of your tats and piercings. And according to the “23 year old man” who claims to “read a lot”, having tattoos and piercings means men think you are “loose” and “*likely* diseased”:
Women, let me tell you something that your friends and many guys will not. Your tattoos are ugly. We do not like them. We respect you less for them. We think you’re a pawn without a sense of solidarity in a world that pressures you to conform. Even if we’re not conscious of this belief, we hold it. Men who gush about the sexiness of girls with tattoos do this because they are culturally trained to do so.
That’s right, ladies – not only do men dislike cardigan wearing feminists, they also hate body modification. According to this gentleman, men hate tattoos especially, because “it’s where another man left his mark on you” and they are “primarily a symbol of prostitutes”:
The fact that women with tattoos and piercings are exceptionally easy to conquer sexually with minimal effort always gets contested despite the universal anecdotal evidence to the contrary.
Of course it’s ok when men get tattoos, an opinion this fellow qualifies by saying “It’s not fair, but neither is child leukemia or Cystic Fibrosis.”
He ends this delightful piece of slut assignment by warning you women that you will “lower your social value by having one and limit your choice of potential suitors”. Thanks for the knowledge, good sir! It’s always nice to know that even in the 21st century a woman’s primary concern should still be whether a man will approve of them.
Andrea Francis, has a blog, has a caring and thoughtful blog post up in response to the Oklahoma City tornado tragedy. In a nutshell, she wants to know wtf is wrong with people who live in “disaster zones”:
With all the modern technology we have, instead of using it to avoid places we know are susceptible to disaster we try to come up with ways of living in disaster zones. But nature is still winning.
Is it really that hard to move?
After seeing all the images from Oklahoma today I feel a bit frustrated that people continue to live in tornado belts, active volcanic areas and hurricane zones.
Saying “Humans create enough of a mess…without having to plant ourselves deliberately in situations very likely to have disastrous consequences on the things we care about”, Andy also provides a list of reasons why idiot humans purposely live in parts of the world where nature ruins lives. This list includes adrenaline addiction, inability to remember the last disaster, and “invented identity”. She closes this sensitive response to a regional disaster with these comforting words:
I live in a part of the world where there are no volcanos, no landslides, no earthquakes, no sandstorms, no blizzards, no hurricanes. I’ve never had to worry that these things will happen. Why would I want to live in a place that could kill me easily?
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Watching Kites the other night, there were times I felt so embarrassed, exposed, and squeamish that I couldn’t bear to look at the screen. I had nothing at stake with this movie, not the investment of emotional interest, not even mild curiosity. This was because of my unshakable belief before the movie’s release that Kites was destined to fail. So my reactions confused me. Bad movies are usually enjoyable. What was so different about this one? Until I began writing this short piece, I had no idea.
My certainty about the movie’s fate grew with each round fired by the pre-release publicity. When Hrithik Roshan danced to an audience in one song, they were amazed by his moves. When he jumped up and lingered there, the background went white with blazing flashbulbs. His open shirt fluttered in the wind, revealing a body that has been exposed a hundred times before. I came away with nothing but the message its makers wanted to convey: Kites had a story, and that story was Roshan.
Most of us have our vehicles. A good gig. A profitable association. The things we ride on in life. But a movie as a vehicle doesn’t sit easy with me, especially a movie meant to be a vehicle into Hollywood. From Roshan’s first mumble to his final heartbroken leap, Kites’ purpose was to enshrine what was most beautiful about him. Whether men died around him, or true love struck, the camera remained on his face in a way parents making baby videos will recognize. In this way Kites was like a father’s message to the world: Here is my son. Take good care of him.
Well, that’s how I would have seen it if it rang true. This was a vehicle. I felt squeamish because there was nothing I could say or do. This wasn’t a movie. It was nothing. It was a modeling portfolio. It was lazy and assumed so much.
Roshan said that Indian audiences were “putting it down” instead of “nurturing this new passion that has conquered so many new markets”. He said that Kites was like pasta to biryani-fed Indians. What does this talk remind you of? To me he sounds eerily similar to men who explain markets through trends and buzzwords, men who have a reason for everything.
Does this talk come easily because actors sit at this intersection of art and commerce? I don’t know. I excused myself from a job interview once soon after my interviewer, an editor, spoke to me about the publication’s brand perception and its verticals. I know these things are important, but I’m conflicted. I walked out because I wanted to write.
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Mobile pastoralists the world over are the subject of an unusually large number of myths and misconceptions. These misconceptions have led to inadequate, often hostile, development policies and interventions which have erected major barriers to sustainable land management and have entrenched pastoral poverty. In order to achieve the twin goals of WISP, rangeland environmental sustainability and pastoral poverty reduction, it is therefore necessary to overcome anti-pastoral prejudice and bring an end to damaging policy and practice.
In recent years there has been a growing consensus that pastoral poverty is rooted in the social, economic and political marginalisation of pastoralists. It is widely accepted that in rangelande environments, mobility is a pre-requisite for effective natural resource use, and it is understood that failure to support mobility of pastoralists has resulted in service delivery failure. Yet the underlying, and usually under recognized, reality is that pastoralism is also a conservation strategy that can make best use of rangelands both in space (in terms of accessing extensive ranges) and time (making best use of seasonal grazing). Questions remain unanswered over the role that pastoralists could play in conservation, given a more supportive policy and legal environment. WISP will contribute to closing this knowledge gap through a series of studies by national partners and sharing of best practice from the development and environment sectors.
It is important to note however that the project neither supports “turning the clock back” nor “freezing” pastoralists in their current state. Tremendous losses of rangelands have occurred in the past, which simply negates such a strategy. Whatever the future of pastoralism, it has been shaped by many distinctive twentieth century influences, which confound a return to some prior or imagined condition. Such influences include, for example, losses of prime grazing land to cultivation, gazetting of pastoral lands for conservation and political, economic and social marginalization. It is possible nonetheless to ensure that appropriate policies, legal mechanisms, and support systems are in place to enable pastoralists to enhance the economic, social and ecological sustainability of their livelihoods. WISP’s role is to facilitate this process by gathering and managing knowledge, developing advocacy tools, building capacity to influence policy, supporting advocacy processes and networking to enhance learning and strengthen policy debate. | <urn:uuid:be16d578-2aea-4bcb-af04-344b5edaa58f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://iucn.org/wisp/whatwisp/why_a_global_initiative_on_pastoralism_/ | 2013-05-26T02:41:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948042 | 460 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Julie DeHarty is going to New York to participate in the Stephen Siller Tunnel To Towers Run/Walk. The walk/run that honors the memory of NY firefighter Stephen Siller who lost his life to help those in need on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Make a contribution on Julie DeHarty’s fundraising page HERE.
On September 11th, firefighter Stephen Siller was on his way to play golf with his brothers on that bright clear day when his scanner told of the first plane hitting the Twin Towers. He returned to Squad 1 to get his gear, then took his final heroic steps to the World Trade Center. When Stephen drove his truck to the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, it was already closed to traffic . With sixty pounds of gear strapped to his back, he ran through the Tunnel, hoping to meet up with his own company, Squad 1.
The Run/Walk is approximately 5K or 3.1 Miles
Date: Sunday, September 25th, 2011
Start Time: 9:30 AM
Location of Race: Brooklyn side of the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, New York City, NY
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Middle Class: This campaign is for you
As they prepared for tonight’s presidential debate, President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney no doubt have had an image seared onto their brains, and perhaps onto their note cards: The scowling American middle class is sitting there, restlessly watching, drumming fingers on the table, waiting to hear the next class-saving promise.
Obama says he wants “to build an economy from the middle out, not the top down.” Romney has a “Plan for a Stronger Middle Class.” Vice President Joe Biden defended his aggressive debate performance as doing what comes naturally to “a fighter for the middle class.” But U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan warned during the same debate, “Watch out, middle class. The [Obama] tax bill is coming to you.”
The Center for American Progress, a liberal think-tank, compiled “5 Charts on the State of the Middle Class,” from sources including the U.S. Census Bureau, the Economic Policy Institute and several liberal economists.
The charts demonstrate the following:
• Median household income has declined over the past decade, after a 20-year period of stagnation.
• In the past 44 years, the share of the nation’s income going to the middle 60 percent of households has dropped from 52 percent to 46.5 percent.
• Compared with 1970, 8 percent fewer households are earning middle-class incomes.
• Despite stagnant incomes, the costs of some essentials of a middle-class lifestyle and career have increased rapidly, especially housing and a college education.
• In 1989, the typical family had a debt load equaling 58 percent of annual income. By 2010 debt was 154 percent of annual income.
The reasons for this apparent decline are as multi-faceted and complex as the reasons for a change in the weather. But the candidates say the solution is simple: Make changes in the income tax code, and the prospects for the middle class will improve. But what changes? The two campaigns point in opposite directions.
The 2012 election is “a make or break moment for the middle class,” according to Obama. Raising taxes on the wealthy while holding the line on tax increases on everyone else is how Obama plans to meet that moment. The middle class needs more government programs that can be paid for only by higher taxes on the wealthy, Obama says. The wealthy can afford it, Obama says, because their share of the nation’s income has increased.
Conservatives have criticized Obama’s plan, calling it “income redistribution.” His comment to “Joe the Plumber” in 2008 that “when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody” became Exhibit A in the charge by conservatives that Obama was, deep down, a socialist. Because socialism historically has generated less robust growth and less wealth, Romney and other conservatives have dismissed Obama’s prescriptions as “doubling down on failure,” especially given the weak economic results since he took office.
However, Obama’s idea of using the tax system to redistribute wealth seems to be making a comeback among some economists, who see the growing gap between the wealthy and everyone else in America as a persistent feature of the current economic phase.
Obama’s idea is to use revenues from higher tax rates on the wealthy to pay for expanded government services that he believes will foster greater wealth for the middle class, including education, as well as improvements to transportation, roads, bridges, broadband and green energy. But it’s not clear whether additional government expenditures will be enough to overcome more than a decade of middle-class stagnation.
In last week’s debate, Ryan challenged Obama’s theory, saying that any plan to boost government spending based on raising taxes only on the wealthy would come up short of revenues. As a result, Ryan said, middle-class Americans would also end up having to pay higher taxes, negating the supposed benefits of government spending on their behalf.
Romney and Ryan’s plans hearken back to the ideas that animated the presidency of Ronald Reagan, with the same focus on lowering taxes to boost economic growth, which produces more and better-paying jobs.
Some parts of Romney’s plan echo Obama’s, particularly his emphasis on education and job skill development. Romney shares Reagan’s concern that too much business regulation has hampered growth. He sees potential new wealth for the United States by drilling for more oil and gas in the United States.
But Romney’s primary tool is the tax code – a 20 percent, across-the-board income tax rate cut, combined with a cut in corporate tax rates, as well as a continuation of the Bush-era tax rate cuts.
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Would you believe I am still sick? This is the worst cold ever.
BUT I am done my classes and I only have a few things to finish up before I am done school forever! I am going to celebrate by playing video games all day and partying all night.
Here are some comics I read this week.
The end of "Batman R.I.P." and what a long, crazy trip it's been. I've seen the "Batman BRB" jokes floating around that internet. That's pretty funny. Or, maybe, "Batman WTF?" I actually found this particular issue to be surprisingly fluid, for the most part. I don't think this storyline needed all the mass media attention it received. And it completely failed as a cross-over, as far as I'm concerned. Neither Detective, Nightwing nor Robin seemed to tie into Batman in any notable way.
I liked the Batman R.I.P. storyline, though. I don't know if I understood it, but I liked it. I just think people who don't regularly read comics who are picking up this issue because it made the news are going to be very dissapointed and confused.
Captain America #44
Do you know why Bucky is awesome? Because he is two super heroes! When he's got a job to do that's too dirty for Captain America, he switch to Winter Soldier. This issue shows that off nicely.
I am loving this Lady Bullseye storyline. I'm glad that we finally get some Matt Murdock reaction to the revelation that Elektra is a Skrull. And I am glad that we get some characters like Danny Rand and Master Ito kicking around for levity. Plus Dakota is still awesome. And not dead yet...will she shake the "sleeping with Matt Murdock" curse? I hope so.
I think this was James Robinson's best issue of Superman so far. The voices seemed a lot better, whereas before it just sounded like a bunch of James Robinsons conversing with each other. I always like Renato Guedes art, too, especially when he's drawing Supergirl.
Wonder Woman #26
I'm really glad that DC not only has the perfect person writing Wonder Woman (Gail Simone), but they also have the perfect person drawing this title (Aaron Lopresti). This issue launches a new storyline that looks like it's going to be fantastic. | <urn:uuid:3d02c31d-b7f2-4f65-b246-0a529ff71b7e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://livingbetweenwednesdays.blogspot.com/2008/11/this-weeks-haul-we-hardly-knew-ye.html?showComment=1227979980000 | 2013-05-26T03:03:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967136 | 501 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
functionality and comfort before looks. Prior to buying colourful panniers and covering the bike with flower garlands, make sure the saddle position and handlebar height are properly adjusted for your proportions and postural preference. You may be surprised how much just that factor alone can change the "personality" of the bicycle. And this, in turn, will better inform subsequent aesthetic choices.
lug outlining, hand-painting small panels, or even painting your own designs along the entire frame. In Europe I see bicycles hand-painted with flowers, polka-dots, zebra stripes, peace symbols, lady bugs, and all sorts of other simple motifs. A paint pen for lug outlining will set you back around $2. Enamel paint will cost around $6 for a small can.
[image via Boston Retrowheelmen]
4. Explore ways to trade and barter with other bicycle owners. The components you no longer want might be just what another person is looking for, and vice-versa. This is considerably more affordable than buying everything new, and can yield interesting results. I acquired some of my best stuff via trades, including saddles, dress guards, a rack, and even an entire bicycle! | <urn:uuid:795a08c7-d645-4f5d-bdcd-5a6da56583cb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://lovelybike.blogspot.com/2010/10/making-bicycle-your-own.html?showComment=1287949508447 | 2013-05-26T02:56:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928624 | 253 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
[Cz-health-sci] Memory articles: structure
gareth.leng at ed.ac.uk
Wed Mar 18 14:54:53 CDT 2009
Yes, but to some extent we have to work with this; people write about
their passions and we have to use that constructively - and it's
really hard to construct good top level articles, they need a very
considerable investment. Memory is something I know something about -
but at just one level - the cellular mechanisms involved. Linking the
neuroscience to the psychology is like building a bridge across the
Atlantic - and just as vulnerable to continental drift.
PTSD I feel a bit more comfortable about - the editor of ''Stress'' is
in the next office to me and is one of my oldest friends. So I
suggessted it knowing that I could probably keep it sane within my
approximate expertise. It's a well defined syndrome with a solid
focussed body of research around it. I can work on [[Stress]] as a
higher level field to it.
I think recovered memory can be fine - see the guidelines on the
external links s page that really define quite tightly the accepted
view, along with the bibliography ssummaries. Recovered memory is NOT
a scientific issue, there's no science tahts relevant, it's just a
legal issue and a therapy practice issue - very important for both.
But really there is no science there.
Quoting Howard Berkowitz <hcberkowitz at hotmail.com>:
> We don't seem to have a top-level structure about memory in the
> neurologic sense, although there's more on computer memory. For an
> assortment of reason, I think we need a top-level one, with various
> subarticles on types and pathologies. I'm a bit disturbed with a
> bottom-up approach that seems to be starting with the controversial
> issue of recovered memory, an article which blurs into PTSD and
> legal issues.
> Obviously, the neuroscientists among us are better qualified for the
> broad view. I'd be delighted if we just started with a good solid
> Memory/Related Articles pages, with appropriate disambiguation of
> Memory (biomedical term), to disambiguate from the many kinds of
> computer memory (e.g., RAM, ROM, CAM, TCAM, EEPROM, etc.) as well as
> things such as "memory of water".
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105 F.3d 796
UNITED STATES of America, Appellee,
John A. CARROZZELLA, Defendant-Appellant.
No. 435, Docket 96-1215.
United States Court of Appeals,
Argued Oct. 23, 1996.
Decided Jan. 15, 1997.
F. Timothy McNamara, Hartford, Connecticut, for Defendant-Appellant.
Nora R. Dannehy, Assistant United States Attorney, D.Connecticut, New Haven, Connecticut, (Christopher F. Droney, United States Attorney, of counsel), for Appellee.
Before VAN GRAAFEILAND, WINTER and JACOBS, Circuit Judges.
WINTER, Circuit Judge:
John A. Carrozzella appeals from a sentence of, inter alia, 110 months imprisonment imposed by Judge Thompson after Carrozzella pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, and to three counts of mail fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1341. On appeal Carrozzella challenges: (i) a two-level enhancement of offense level for violation of a judicial process under Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) based on his filing of false accounts with a Connecticut probate court; (ii) a four-level enhancement under Guidelines § 3B1.1(a) for being an organizer or leader or organizer of "otherwise extensive" criminal activity; and (iii) a loss calculation of over $10 million, resulting in an enhancement of 15 levels under Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(1)(P). For the reasons set forth below, we reverse the enhancement under Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B), remand the enhancement under Section 3B1.1(a) for further findings, and affirm the calculation of loss.
Carrozzella was an attorney in Wallingford, Connecticut, at one time in a partnership with Thomas J. Richardson and later in a solo practice. Carrozzella induced individuals, often clients of his law firm, to entrust money to him for investment. The government suggests that misrepresentations, particularly regarding tax-free income, induced some victims to turn over the funds. Carrozzella maintains that the investors knew that they were putting money into discretionary accounts, although he appears to have promised fixed rates of return.
Carrozzella invested the money in real estate, stocks, and bonds. The investments were in his name or in the name of partnerships in which he was involved. Carrozzella controlled all pertinent checking and savings accounts and all pertinent recordkeeping. It appears that some of the accounts in which the investment funds were kept and disbursed also were used for the law firm's revenues and disbursements.
Beginning at least as early as 1987, the investments began to perform poorly and were lost or significantly diminished. All agree that Carrozzella committed fraud in reports concerning the performance of the investments. Instead of disclosing their perilous state, Carrozzella represented that the investments were doing well in monthly letters to the investors. He also continued to solicit new funds notwithstanding the investments' depressed state because he needed fresh money for the scheme to continue. Some investors had directed that their "interest" not be reinvested. Periodic payments of "interest" had to be made to them lest they demand return of the principal, actions that would likely have caused the scheme to collapse. There were also real estate taxes and mortgage payments to be made. Carrozzella may also have paid off gambling debts. He therefore continued to persuade clients and others to entrust new money to him, right up until days before he resigned from the bar.
Carrozzella also filed false accounts with Connecticut probate courts. For example, in 1989, he represented to the father of a client that he would establish a trust to hold funds from a judgment received by the client for serious injuries suffered in an automobile accident. Carrozzella used the money to purchase real estate in his own name or in the name of partnerships in which he was involved and to make interest payments to prior investors. In June 1995, Carrozzella submitted to a Connecticut probate court an account in which he stated under oath that the trust contained $830,379.72 for distribution. The statement was wrong by some $830,379.72. Similarly, on May 3, 1995, Carrozzella had submitted an account to a probate court for another trust of which he was a fiduciary, stating under oath that a trust contained $345,316.04. That statement was wrong by some $345,316.04.
According to the presentence report as adopted by the district court, Thomas Richardson, Carrozzella's law partner, was aware of the scheme and participated in it. According to the report, Carrozzella also used the "unknowing services" of a personal secretary, three firm secretaries, and a bookkeeper. At the hearing on Carrozzella's objections to the presentence report, the prosecutor suggested that the bookkeeper was a knowing participant who had been given immunity. Apart from the statement itself, there is no factual basis for that assertion in the record. We may infer that the bookkeeper was aware of Carrozzella's investments on behalf of others and of the investments' perilous state. However, the record does not disclose whether she was informed of Carrozzella's fraudulently sanguine reports to investors. If she was so informed, the inference that she had to have known of the falsity of those representations would be overwhelming. The district court found that there were three knowing participants--apparently Carrozzella, Richardson, and the bookkeeper--and that Carrozzella also used the services of employees of the law firm, an accounting firm, stockbrokers, and partners in various real estate ventures in carrying out the fraud.
At a hearing on Carrozzella's objections to the presentence report, Richard Finkel, a forensic accountant, estimated the amount of loss due to Carrozzella's scheme. The accountant testified that in his opinion the amount of money initially entrusted to Carrozzella--the "opening balance"--was $8,001,125.34. The accountant determined that subsequent deposits by clients amounted to $5,041,124.01 and that their withdrawals totalled $4,451,139.75. In calculating the loss, the district court relied upon our decision in United States v. Brach, 942 F.2d 141 (2d Cir.1991), holding that sums returned to victims are not to be subtracted from the amount wrongfully taken. Using that approach, the loss would be some $13 million plus. However, the court also noted that an additional $1.7 million was lost in amounts Carrozzella handled for trusts, estates, and conservatorships. The court therefore concluded that a loss between $10 million and $20 million had occurred.
The district court concluded, inter alia, that Carrozzella should receive: (i) a two-level upward adjustment under Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) for "abuse" of the Connecticut probate court's process based on the false accounts to that court, (ii) a four-level upward adjustment under Guidelines § 3B1.1(a) for having been the leader or organizer of a criminal activity that was "otherwise extensive," and (iii) an enhancement of 15 levels under Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(1)(P) for a loss of over $10 million.
A. Violation of Judicial Process
Carrozzella argues that the district court erred in applying a two-level enhancement under Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) for "violation of any judicial or administrative order, injunction, decree, or process not addressed elsewhere in the guidelines." It is conceded that Carrozzella violated no court order, injunction, or decree directed specifically to him in filing false accounts with a Connecticut probate court. Nevertheless, the district court concluded that Carrozzella's conduct fell within Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) because it constituted an "abuse" and "violation" of the Connecticut probate "process." We disagree.
Carrozzella's conduct does not fit at all comfortably within Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(3)(B). We note initially that the term "abuse" of process used by the district court is not found in that Section. The Section adjusts the offense level only for a "violation of any judicial ... process." The term "abuse" of process, which the district court used interchangeably with "violations" appears to have crept into the lexicon of Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) through cases in other circuits involving bankruptcy fraud. See United States v. Lloyd, 947 F.2d 339, 340 (8th Cir.1991) (per curiam); see also United States v. Michalek, 54 F.3d 325, 331-32 (7th Cir.1995); United States v. Bellew, 35 F.3d 518, 519 (11th Cir.1994) (per curiam). We discuss these cases below and note at this point only that use of the term "abuse" for purposes of Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) is worth reexamining before it is uncritically adopted by us.
"Abuse of judicial process" seems to us a term that encompasses a far greater range of conduct than does the term "violation of any judicial process." "Abuse of process" includes any serious misuse of judicial or administrative proceedings intended to inflict unnecessary costs or delay on an adversary or to confer undeserved advantages on the actor. It would include baseless complaints, motions, or defenses. It might also, but not inexorably, encompass fraudulent filings in, or representations to, courts or agencies. False accounts to probate courts, false filings with the Securities Exchange Commission, and even false tax returns filed with the Internal Revenue Service might qualify as abuses of judicial or administrative processes.
The term "violation of any judicial process"--the actual Guidelines language--seems considerably narrower. "Violation" strongly suggests the existence of a command or warning followed by disobedience. This analysis in turn suggests that the term "process"--the command or warning violated--is used, not in the sense of legal proceedings generally, but in the sense of a command or order to a specific party, such as a summons or execution issued in a particular action. See Bryan A. Garner, A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage 698 (2d ed.1995). See also Second Circuit Local Rule § 0.19 ("All process of this court....") This narrower reading of Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) is also consistent with the general practice--known as ejusdem generis--of construing general language in an enumeration of more specific things in a way that limits the general language to the same class of things enumerated. See Garner at 308. In the present circumstances, the word "process" follows "injunction, order, [or] decree" and is most easily read in the narrower sense of a command or order issued to a specific person or party.
Moreover, the Commentary to Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) strongly supports the narrower reading. It states that "[a] defendant who has been subject to civil or administrative proceedings for the same or similar fraudulent conduct demonstrates aggravated criminal intent and is deserving of additional punishment for not conforming with the requirements of judicial process or orders issued by federal, state, or local administrative agencies." Guidelines § 2F1.1 Background. The examples given of conduct addressed elsewhere in the Guidelines are also limited to orders specifically directed to a defendant. The Commentary thus reinforces the view that the enhancement in question applies to fraud defendants only when they commit their fraud in the face of some type of official warning or order directed specifically to them.
Turning to the present case, Carrozzella's filing of false accounts with a probate court might well fall within the broader "abuse of process" view but would not seem to fall within the narrower view of a "violation of process." To be sure, Carrozzella violated a command not to file false accounts, but the command was a rule applicable to all trustees and not specifically directed to him.
Our doubt on this matter need not be fully resolved, however--no matter how great our skepticism--because the failure of Carrozzella's conduct to fit comfortably within Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) reveals a fatal problem with imposing that Section's two-level adjustment. That Section applies only to a "violation of any judicial or administrative order, injunction, decree, or process not addressed elsewhere in the guidelines." Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) (emphasis added).
In our view, Carrozzella's conduct in filing false probate accounts is "addressed elsewhere" because it fits quite comfortably within Guidelines § 3B1.3. Section 3B1.3 provides that "[i]f the defendant abused a position of public or private trust, or used a special skill, in a manner that significantly facilitated the commission or concealment of the offense, increase by 2 levels." Carrozzella's fraud as a trustee in submitting false accounts to the probate court seems to fit squarely within this provision. His position as a trustee in the probate court was characterized by precisely the type of discretion and consequent lack of supervision that the commentary to the guideline sets out as the key feature of a position of trust. Guidelines § 3B1.3 Application Note 1. Compare United States v. Jolly, 102 F.3d 46 (2d Cir.1996); United States v. Broderson, 67 F.3d 452 (2d Cir.1995). The accounts he filed were a standard part of a fiduciary's responsibility. Whether his relationship to the probate court and trust beneficiaries was one of public or private trust--or a hybrid--is not relevant because the Section covers both. Because Carrozzella's conduct is well within the heartland of the conduct addressed by Section 3B1.3 and fits only very doubtfully within Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B), we hold that it is "addressed elsewhere." Although it does not affect our conclusion that the false probate accounts were not a violation of a judicial process, we do note that Carrozzella received--and does not challenge--an enhancement under Section 3B1.3.1
We find nothing in our caselaw that undermines our conclusion that Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) does not call for an enhancement based on Carrozzella's conduct. See United States v. Deutsch, 987 F.2d 878, 885-86 (2d Cir.1993) (violation of judicial order forbidding defendant from holding himself out as attorney); United States v. Probber, No. 94 Civ. 2027(RPP), 1994 WL 376083 * 1 (S.D.N.Y.1994) (violation of judicial order that a defendant cease fraudulent activity).
Our only concern regarding contrary decisions are the decisions in other circuits that have held that a Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) enhancement may be based upon bankruptcy fraud involving the concealing of assets. See United States v. Michalek, 54 F.3d 325, 331-32 (7th Cir.1995); United States v. Bellew, 35 F.3d 518, 519 (11th Cir.1994) (per curiam); United States v. Lloyd, 947 F.2d 339, 340 (8th Cir.1991) (per curiam); see also United States v. Gunderson, 55 F.3d 1328, 1332-33 (7th Cir.1995). As noted above, the theory of these cases is that bankruptcy fraud is an "abuse of process." Although we agree that such fraud may fall within that term in light of the automatic stay that freezes creditors from pursuing assets, it is, as we have noted, quite difficult to fit such conduct within the actual language of Section 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) or to match it with the accompanying commentary and examples. We do not reach the issue, however, because, unlike Carrozzella's conduct, bankruptcy fraud is not addressed by the Guidelines provisions relating to abuse of a position of trust. Trust and discretion are not accorded debtors in bankruptcy by their creditors, and bankruptcy proceedings are indeed adversarial. The bankruptcy fraud cases are, therefore, distinguishable, and we do not reach the questions of whether they should be adopted in this circuit.
B. Leadership of an "Otherwise Extensive" Criminal Activity
Carrozzella also argues that the district court incorrectly imposed a four-level enhancement under Guidelines § 3B1.1(a) for his being an organizer or leader of an extensive criminal activity. Although he does not challenge his organizer or leadership role, he argues that his criminal activity was not "otherwise extensive" within the meaning of that Section. We agree that the district court relied upon too broad a test for extensiveness.
Sentencing Guidelines § 3B1.1(a) provides a four-level increase in offense level "[i]f the defendant was an organizer or leader of a criminal activity that involved five or more participants or was otherwise extensive." Organizers or leaders of non-extensive criminal activities are subject only to the two-level enhancement of Guidelines § 3B1.1(c). (Carrozzella concedes that at least this two-level enhancement is appropriate.) Application Note 1 explains that "[a] 'participant' is a person who is criminally responsible for the commission of the offense, but need not have been convicted." Guidelines § 3B1.1. Because the government does not dispute that the number of criminal participants in this case was under five, any application of Guidelines § 3B1.1(a) must rest on Carrozzella's criminal activity having been "otherwise extensive."
As to what is "otherwise extensive," Application Note 3 states that "[i]n assessing whether an organization is 'otherwise extensive,' all persons involved during the course of the entire offense are to be considered. Thus a fraud that involved only three participants but used the unknowing services of many outsiders could be considered extensive." Id. In United States v. Liebman, 40 F.3d 544 (2d Cir.1994), we concluded that "in using the term 'organization' in the commentary, the drafters did not intend to restrict the scope of the guideline to structured enterprises. It is more likely that they chose the word as a term of convenience, to denote any association of people involved in criminal activity." 40 F.3d at 549. Consonant with this view, the background commentary states that the adjustments in Guidelines § 3B1.1 are "based upon the size of a criminal organization (i.e., the number of participants in the offense) and the degree to which the defendant was responsible for committing the offense." Guidelines § 3B1.1 Background. This commentary and our decision in Liebman indicate that an adjustment under Guidelines § 3B1.1 is based primarily on the number of people involved, criminally and noncriminally, rather than on other possible indices of the extensiveness of the activity. See also United States v. Boula, 932 F.2d 651, 654 (7th Cir.1991); cf. United States v. Tai, 41 F.3d 1170, 1175 (7th Cir.1994) (district courts "still free to examine factors in addition to headcount"); United States v. McKenzie, 922 F.2d 1323, 1329 (7th Cir.) (cross-country trips and numerosity of transactions considered in extensiveness calculus) cert. denied, 502 U.S. 854, 112 S.Ct. 163, 116 L.Ed.2d 127 (1991).
In limiting Section 3B1.1 primarily to head counting or analysis analogous to that, we carry out the intent of the Commission. So narrowed, of course, the term "extensive" is a not entirely accurate description of the characteristics of a defendant's criminal conduct that leads to a Section 3B1.1(a) enhancement. However, many characteristics that might ordinarily be considered evidence of "extensive" activity are dealt with elsewhere in the Guidelines. For example, in fraud cases, the base offense level can be raised according to the amount of loss, the extent of planning, and the number of victims. Guidelines § 2F1.1. Further adjustments can be made according to the vulnerability of the victim, § 3A1.1, the defendant's role, §§ 3B1.1, 3B1.2, and abuse of a position of trust, § 3B1.3. These factors all arguably relate to the "extensiveness" of a defendant's criminal activity, and, excluding the two-level enhancement for violation of judicial process discussed above and the net addition of two levels discussed here, these factors led to a 23 level enhancement in Carrozzella's case. Hypothetically, at least, there are factors other than head counting that are not weighed elsewhere in the Guidelines (e.g., the use of multiple identities by the defendant) which may be properly considered in the "otherwise extensive" determination. Moreover, it is possible that some factors considered elsewhere in the Guidelines might still be properly counted towards "extensiveness" in cases where the defendant's conduct so far exceeds the contemplation of the otherwise applicable Guideline (e.g., a crime resulting in a $10 billion loss that is enhanced under Guidelines § 2F1.1 as being "[m]ore than $80,000,000").
Section 3B1.1 is, therefore, not so much about extensiveness in a colloquial sense as about the size of the organization in terms of persons involved that a defendant "organize[d]" or "le[d]." It is one of two provisions--Section 3B1.2 being the other--that are designed in part to allocate culpability among defendants according to the size of the criminal organization and the relative significance or insignificance of the role played by each in it. See Guidelines § 3B1.1 Background. These Sections also reflect the view that supervisors and managers in large organizations may be more dangerous and more likely to recidivate, id., whereas the distinction between leaders and underlings is of less importance in smaller, less-structured organizations, id.
In the instant matter, Carrozzella does not dispute that he was "an organizer or leader" in his fraudulent scheme and therefore subject to a two-level enhancement under Section 3B1.1(c). Rather, he objects to the four-level enhancement for being "an organizer or leader" of a criminal activity that involved five or more participants or was otherwise extensive under Section 3B1.1(a).
Determining whether there were five or more knowing participants is the relatively easy task of determining how many individuals were criminally responsible for the offense. See Section 3B1.1 Application Note 1. Determining whether an organization is "otherwise extensive" in headcount terms is more difficult. The term is not well defined in the Guidelines. We are told only that the sentencing court must consider "all persons involved" and that "a fraud that involved only three participants but used the unknowing services of many outsiders could be considered extensive." Id. at Application Note 3. This guidance is of limited aid because "us[ing] the services of ... outsiders" has no evident limit save the absurdity of counting a gas station attendant who fuels the family car that days later carries the defendant to the scene of criminal acts. Even short of the absurd, the difficulties are exacerbated where, as here, the organization in question was a firm that engaged in legitimate activities while supporting a fraudulent scheme.
From caselaw we know that not every otherwise lawful activity directed by a defendant to further criminal activity, no matter how minimally, leads inexorably to counting the persons involved as unknowing participants for purposes of Section 3B1.1(a). Rather, the "otherwise extensive" language is deemed an alternative to finding five criminally responsible participants. In rejecting an argument that "otherwise extensive" is a lesser requirement than five knowing participants, the court in United States v. Tai, 41 F.3d 1170 (7th Cir.1994), noted that, "[g]iven the Sections's five participant prong, it would be anomalous to conclude that the presence of five individuals--not all of whom are participants--warranted an increase. At the very least, Section 3B1.1's 'otherwise extensive' prong demands a showing that an activity is the functional equivalent of an activity involving five or more participants." 41 F.3d at 1174; see also United States v. Mohammad, 53 F.3d 1426, 1436-37 (7th Cir.1995) (quoting Tai ). We follow these decisions.
In determining whether a criminal activity is "otherwise extensive" as the functional equivalent of one involving five or more knowing participants, we believe that the following must be determined by the sentencing court:
(i) the number of knowing participants;(ii) the number of unknowing participants whose activities were organized or led by the defendant with specific criminal intent;
(iii) the extent to which the services of the unknowing participants were peculiar and necessary to the criminal scheme.
The number of knowing participants, (i), is clearly relevant because a criminal scheme with four knowing participants that is aided by unknowing participants is more likely to be "otherwise extensive" than a scheme with a single knowing participant.
The number of unknowing participants who were organized or led with specific criminal intent, (ii), is necessary to separate out service providers who facilitate a particular defendant's criminal activities but are not the functional equivalent of knowing participants. Salespeople who unknowingly conveyed fraudulent misrepresentations at a defendant's request are on an entirely different footing from the taxi driver who brought a leader of the fraudulent scheme to work on a single occasion. The organization of, and direction given to, the salespeople is done with the specific intent of causing victims to be deceived into parting with their money. The direction to the taxi driver will usually be given without any such specific intent. For another example, the services of bank employees who facilitate the activities of a money launderer are on a different footing from those who establish accounts and accept deposits from persons who acquired the money illegally. See United States v. Allibhai, 939 F.2d 244, 252-53 (5th Cir.1991), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 1072, 112 S.Ct. 967, 117 L.Ed.2d 133 (1992); see also United States v. Patasnik, 89 F.3d 63, 68-69 (use of lawyer, accountant, and loan brokers to carry out advance fee loan scam).
Finally, the nature of the services provided, (iii), will separate out the residue of incidental services by unknowing participants that are not the functional equivalent of knowing participation. A perpetrator anxious to close a fraudulent deal may occasionally have the crime in mind when hailing a cab to hurry to a meeting with victims. Even so, the taxi driver should not be counted. Lawful services that are not peculiarly tailored and necessary to a particular crime but are fungible with others generally available to the public are not the functional equivalent of knowing participation. To hold otherwise would sweep within Section 3B1.1(a) activity that is far less culpable than organizing and leading five knowing participants.
A final word. Section 3B1.1(a) does not specify the number of unknowing participants that would cause criminal activity to be deemed "otherwise extensive." Given that failure, we believe that more than a head-count of unknowing participants is needed to determine that an activity was "otherwise extensive" under the functional equivalence test. The use of unknowing participants to carry out a criminal activity may be more inefficient than the use of knowing participants. The need to conceal the true nature of the scheme from the former, for example, may limit the tasks for which they are suitable. Moreover, even if their participation falls within factors (ii) and (iii), it may still only minimally further the criminal activity. The extent of harm and degree of culpability in organizing or leading five unknowing participants may thus be less than in the case of organizing or leading five knowing participants. In no way, therefore, do we preclude a sentencing court from deciding in a particular case that organizing and leading five unknowing participants was not the functional equivalent of organizing or leading five knowing participants. Rather, in determining whether an activity was "otherwise extensive," a sentencing court may take into account the role and performance as well as the number of unknowing participants.
Turning to the present matter, the district court found Carrozzella's scheme "otherwise extensive"
because of a combination of factors, namely: One, that in addition to the three participants who were criminally responsible, the services of other employees of the law firm, an accounting firm and stockbrokers were used to carry out the scheme, and eight individuals who were not participants were involved as partners in real estate investments; two, that the fraud continued over a period of many years, from at least 1987 to June of 1995; three, that it involved a large number of investors; and four, that the scheme to defraud the investors or clients was sophisticated, involving the mailing of monthly letters to some of the investors misrepresenting the status of their investment.
We believe that these findings do not suffice to support the enhancement under Section 3B1.1(a) and that a remand for further findings and resentencing is necessary. First, the court took into account impermissible factors. The number of clients defrauded and the sophistication of the scheme are the subject of Section 2F1.1 and not permissibly considered under Section 3B1.1(a), for reasons discussed above. These matters should, therefore, have been excluded from consideration. Moreover, while the duration of a scheme may have some relevance to its extensiveness, it also substantially overlaps with the amount of loss under Section 2F1.1(b)(1). On remand, the district court should, therefore, reexamine the weight to be given to the duration of the scheme.
With regard to the quantity and quality of the services of unknowing participants in Carrozzella's scheme, we must remand for reconsideration by the district court, in light of the present discussion. It is not disputed that the one-time law partner, Richardson, was a knowing participant. The bookkeeper was described by the presentence report as an innocent participant but by the prosecutor as having been granted immunity because she was knowingly involved. The role of other firm employees, the accounting firm, and the stockbrokers is even more obscure. Finally, we have no idea of the roles played by the partners in the real estate ventures.
We therefore remand to the district court for more specific findings in accord with this opinion.
C. Loss Calculation
Finally, Carrozzella challenges the calculation of the loss as being over $10,000,000, resulting in a 15-level increase, rather than a 14-level increase, in his offense level under Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(1). Carrozzella argues that the loss should be calculated as no greater than the "ending balance amount," i.e., $8,591,109.60. He derives that amount by subtracting from the total known deposits--$13,042,249.35 ($8,001,125.34, the opening balance, plus $5,041,124.01, later deposits)--repayments in the amount of $4,451,139.75. We disagree.
We have held that loss in fraud cases includes the amount of property taken, even if all or part has been returned. See United States v. Mucciante, 21 F.3d 1228, 1238 (2d Cir.), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 949, 115 S.Ct. 361, 130 L.Ed.2d 315 (1994); United States v. Arjoon, 964 F.2d 167, 172 (2d Cir.1992); United States v. Brach, 942 F.2d 141, 143 (2d Cir.1991); see also United States v. Shaw, 3 F.3d 311, 313 (9th Cir.1993); United States v. Rayborn, 957 F.2d 841, 844 (11th Cir.1992). But see, e.g., United States v. Bailey, 975 F.2d 1028, 1031 (4th Cir.1992) (loss is amount of "actual" harm to victim); United States v. Kopp, 951 F.2d 521, 535-36 (3d Cir.1991) (same). One reason for this rule is that, as in Carrozzella's case, the return of money as interest or other income is often necessary for the scheme to continue. A finding of loss in excess of $13 million is, therefore, not clearly erroneous. Moreover, the district court also found--and Carrozzella is silent about this finding--that $1.7 million entrusted to Carrozzella for estates, trusts, or conservatorships was lost. Even if the amount returned should have been subtracted from the $13 million, therefore, the loss would still exceed $10 million. In fact a finding of a loss in excess of $14.7 million would not have been clearly erroneous.
For the foregoing reasons, we reverse the two-level adjustment for violation of the probate process under Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(3)(B). We remand for further findings the four-level enhancement for organization and leadership of an "otherwise extensive" criminal activity under Guidelines § 3B1.1(a). After making such findings the district court will decide whether to apply the four-level enhancement of Guidelines § 3B1.1(a) or the two-level enhancement of Guidelines § 3B1.1(c). We affirm the 15level upward adjustment under Guidelines § 2F1.1(b) for a loss of over $10,000,000.
Our view is supported by the parallel analysis used to detect impermissible double counting. It is true that the prohibition on double counting is not violated " 'where a single act is relevant to two dimensions of the Guidelines analysis.' " United States v. Rappaport, 999 F.2d 57, 60 (2d Cir.1993) (quoting United States v. Campbell, 967 F.2d 20, 25 (2d Cir.1992)); see also United States v. Then, 56 F.3d 464, 466 (2d Cir.1995) (no impermissible double counting in denial of credit for acceptance of responsibility and enhancement for obstruction of justice). Separate enhancements are not duplicative when they "reflect[ ] different facets of the defendant's conduct." Rappaport, 999 F.2d at 60 (2d Cir.1993) (finding leading and planning to be disparate aspects of criminal conduct)
However, double-counting analysis is not solely a determination of whether different Guidelines sections embody overlapping but different elements. How a defendant falls under a particular guideline is also relevant to double-counting analysis. For example, in United States v. Hudson, 972 F.2d 504 (2d Cir.1992), we held that if an object--in that case a car--would constitute a dangerous weapon only when put to a particular use, it would be impermissible double counting to impose an increase for using a dangerous weapon in addition to an increase for aggravated assault. Id. at 507. We noted:
The incremental adjustment schedule of § 2A2.2, see 2A2.2(b)(1)-(4), is, therefore, only appropriate for situations involving inherently dangerous weapons, because under the Guidelines a defendant could be sentenced at the base level for carrying a firearm while committing an assault. Where an ordinary object is implicated, as was the case here, it is the use of the object as a weapon that makes the offense an aggravated assault, and it is the use of this weapon which also requires a four-level enhancement pursuant to U.S.S.G. § 2A2.2(b). This two-fold upward adjustment for the use of a weapon constitutes impermissible double counting.
Id. Similarly, in United States v. Greenfield, 44 F.3d 1141, 1146 (2d Cir.1995), we rejected double enhancements for a defendant's leadership role and for more than minimal planning where the leadership-role enhancement would have to be based solely on extensive planning in connection with the criminal scheme.
In the present case, abuse of the probate process and abuse of public trust are arguably different facets of Carrozzella's conduct but, if how a defendant's conduct is covered by Guidelines § 2F1.1(b)(3)(B) is relevant, then an abuse of the probate process is very similar to abuse of trust. Although one can abuse the probate process without abusing a position of trust and, conversely, abuse a position of trust without abusing a probate process, one cannot abuse the probate process in the way Carrozzella did without abusing a position of trust. | <urn:uuid:d3ef47c3-708f-4ab0-bc81-6a3bcc6ea84b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://openjurist.org/105/f3d/796 | 2013-05-26T02:56:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945185 | 7,976 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
damn it, hit submit too soon, meant to correct where i say the Wii is 1 generation behind the next gen, not that it's behind the 360 & PS3.
Try again? If you looked at the link you referenced, it talks about the Wii. This article is about the Wii U. Two different consoles.
It didn't survive against the XBox 360 and PS3
The Wii U is 1 generation ahead of the 360 & PS3, so why are you comparing the Wii U to consoles 2 generations ahead of it? We don't even have it's generation of consoles out yet, besides it.
So I thought you were talking about the Wii (even considered you meant the gamecube) even though it's only 1 generation behind the 360 & PS3.
Unless you are thinking that the Wii, Xbox 360 & PS3 aren't the same generation? Then you don't know what you are talking about. They are the same generation.
So, my bad on missing your point, but your wording really thru me off.
I would be extremely happy of being able to play the next Mario on something else than a Nintendo console. I bought the Wii just for Super Mario Wii, I loved the game, but now I have a white piece of plastic doing nothing underneath my TV.
It's not going to happen, but it would be very nice.
I bought my Wii to play emulators on it.
Anyways, Nintendo isn't going to get out of the hardware business. They are really successful at it. Sometimes they put out flops (Virtual Boy), sometimes gimmicks don't pay off (3DS), and sometimes the software isn't there. But here's the problem with Game Developers. They are greedy, stupid, and really fucking lazy. Instead of making the best game they can for each platform, they try to make 1 game that works on all platforms. Since the Wii U is a bit underpowered compared to the Xbox One and PS4 (and computers), developers don't want to make games for it, because it will require a little more work. Sort of like when the port console games to the PC they make it work, just barely. Not surprisingly you'll find mouse controls barely work, you can't adjust video settings, FoV is screwed up, etc. I'm sure most of you PC gamers know exactly what I'm talking about. Sometimes they fix it, lots of time they don't care.
What Nintendo needs to do is get more In House Developers, like back in the day, to make some great games.
It didn't survive against the XBox 360 and PS3
Wow, either the fanboys are out, or a lot of stupid is going around.
That's a simple list and you'll find that the Wii has sold about 20 Million more consoles then the Xbox 360 & PS3.
Checked other links and those numbers seem accurate.
You do understand what I am saying? More people bought a Wii. Pretty good for a console you claimed didn't survive.
in about 2-4 years the next console will hit the market, and all the fanboys will be over the new thing once again.
consume, dont think.
Except it was 7 years between consoles this last round. No wonder you posted as a coward.
I was told I used too much bandwidth on a 6mbps DSL line. No warning, just turned it off. Got them to turn it back on, which a week later they shut it down and told me to go elsewhere. So I did. While I didn't do 77TB of data in a month, apparently I hit 1.5TB on my highest month. Which I don't find to be that much, not for someone who spends 16 hours a day on his computer at home.
Anyways, now i have a much faster internet and supposed to have a cap of 450gb a month.
Guess no one will be renting Xbox One games either. I know back in the day I'd rent games I'd be thinking about buying.
But then, maybe no one rents games anymore. Well, we know they won't be renting Xbox One games.
"In a free market"... What utter BS. "Finders keepers" is a fine argument for the schoolyard, but it's moral value is negligible. Ownership rights come with responibilities, especially ownership rights to unique resources. If a party decides to take ownership of something with the sole purpose of ransoming it to an owner who will actually use it, that is not "free market" - it's exploitation.
"Free market" only works when the market is actually free. Ransoming a unique resource is not the free market in action.
So you saying it's illegal to buy property with the intent of selling it to someone else for a profit? Really?
Maybe now they will stop thinking of Cell Phones as a "trusted" device. It's not really. Very easy to lose, very easy to steal, and it's supposed to be a trusted source for two factor authorization?
In a move unlike a patent troll, he asks for the companies to help him with his legal fund. Until now, he shared it for free, but with a 50m legal defense cost and the USA Government charging him, the question is, where will he take it from here?"
Let's all pretend the last 80+ years of science didn't happen and we live under Newton's ideas of how everything behaved. Who's in?
I'm sure some of the various religions will be glad to join your thinking (if they aren't already there).
I guess no one will be renting Xbox One games to check out anymore, since the "used disk" fee will pop up.
I'm firmly in the single-player, offline-only game-play camp
So what you're saying is that you're prefer masturbation, over getting involved with other people... Anti-socialism, we get it, this is
tbh, I prefer masturbating on people.
4 cores + HT is the most that Intel offers for desktops at the moment
Nope. Intel offer 6 core desktop CPUs.
remembering that until late last year Intel's mobile i7 CPUs didn't even support more than 4GB
Oh really? Well my 2011 laptop with a Core i7 2630QM and 16GB of RAM disagree. You are a liar.
What else is there for physical media?
Flash and download.
What were you planning to put on it?
Games, at about 12-25GB each. Movies, at about 5GB each. Music, at about 300MB per album. Photos, at about 5MB each. Apps, which will vary.
Hey, dumbass. It's 2013, and you are quoting a 2011 laptop? Seriously? You are stupid.
Funny how my 500$ pc i bought last year is unable to play any games i have on xbox. And when it does they usually run and look like shit.
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At eight months pregnant, Kourtney Kardashian is concerned over gaining too much pregnancy weight. She shouldn’t worry too much as she’ll never be bigger than Kim’s ass. And by that I mean two things. The first being, it is physically impossible for Kourtney to bigger than Kim’s ass. The second is my slang approach to Kourtney’s fame never amounting to Kim’s. “She’ll never be bigga than Kim’s ass!”. Word, son. Kourtney told E! News,
“I weigh myself everyday. I’ve gained 26 pounds since getting pregnant, except I gained three pounds since yesterday.”
I had no idea Kourtney was pregnant. This whole time I thought Khloe and her monster stomach were making red carpet appearances every other weekend. So there’s three Kardashian sisters, you say? Henceforth, I shall refer to them as Ass, Beast, and Whore. They’re interchangeable and this way, my news will always be accurate. Always. | <urn:uuid:abab54db-ab01-4d53-aece-ff97cac58092> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theblemish.com/2009/11/kourtney-watches-her-weight-fails/ | 2013-05-26T02:49:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706499548/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121459-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971288 | 232 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |