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Home: Hanoi, Vietnam
Major: Economics, with a minor in Government
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Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin?
My high school classmate in Vietnam, Haianh '04, told me that she found this great small liberal arts college called Bowdoin. Before I had the chance to apply, I got a scholarship to study for two years at A-level in the United Kingdom, so I missed going to Bowdoin. After finishing A-level, my next logical step was to go to the London School of Economics. However, after I attended some lectures at LSE in my senior year, I did not like the 400+ students-per-class size and the fact that the school had no campus. I talked to Haianh and decided that Bowdoin, with its small class size and intensive interaction among students and faculty, was definitely what I was looking for.
Why did you choose your major?
My mother, my role model, is a commercial banker, so I grew up thinking I would eventually be like her. When I was in England, I chose to major in Economics, Law, Accounting and Math. So when I moved to Bowdoin, I naturally majored in Economics, and minored in Government. I think economics and government are very closely related to each other, and being able to think critically from both perspectives definitely gives you an edge.
What has been your favorite course at Bowdoin?
In my first year, I took Economics 208, "The Economic History of American Enterprises," with Professor Zorina Khan. In the very first lecture, she spelled out all her requirements and expectations of the course — it sounded unbelievably hard to me at the time. I saw some students walking out of the class, and wondered if I should stay. But I did, and Prof. Khan taught us an intensive and thorough history of how America grew to become the world's biggest economy. We learned how smart pro-business policies stimulated entrepreneurship, and the wave of business consolidation created huge conglomerates, and how their subsequent break-up impacted the economy. It was amazing because I felt that much of what I learned could be applied to Vietnam's economic model. It is like traveling through time — learning how the industrial revolution worked here, how the best practice was applied here, and then being able to travel to lesser-developed countries to integrate some of that knowledge.
Have you engaged in any independent research while at Bowdoin?
I did not do an independent research at Bowdoin but I did one while studying away at American University. My topic was on the controversy of the impact of World Bank's Structural Adjustment Loans on developing economies. It was a great experience since I could visit the World Bank, and several people at the Bank were very willing to provide feedback and data to my study.
Did you study abroad during your time at Bowdoin?
I did the [former] Colby-Bates-Bowdoin consortium program in London, and the Washington semester at American University focusing on economic policy. The CBB experience was great fun — after all, I was going back to London. But I absolutely loved the Washington semester. We had only a couple of classes, two days of doing an internship, and all the rest was spent on visiting think tanks (Heritage Foundation and the Brookings Institution, for example), World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, the Federal Reserve, the Securities Exchange Commission, the IMF, and so many other great places. At Bowdoin, we learn a lot of theory. Here, we see which part of theory could come into play. Everything in D.C. is real, is current, and we were able to be a part of it. Meeting and discussing with respected figures in the economics field or other international realms was challenging but also practical and stimulating. We had the opportunity to sit in and listen to the venerable ex-Chairman of the Fed, Alan Greenspan, discussing the state of the economy. We also visited the Pentagon and the White House.
What are your plans for after graduation?
I interned at Goldman Sachs last summer, which gave me some advantage in securing an offer from a long/short equity hedge fund in New York City. The fund invests primarily in Japan, but also does business outside of Japan. So I hope to get exposure to the Asian equity market. This shall bring me closer to my final plan of returning home, hopefully in a position to contribute to the development of Vietnam's stock market. I have learned that doing business in Asia is very different from the way things are done in America. So besides getting a formal education in the U.S. (B.A. or M.B.A.), I hope lots of exposure to the Asian business world will help me understand how things are done there before I return home to work.
What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience?
If you are still deciding, it would be best to visit the campus, talk to current students, professors, and sit in on several classes that interest you. The one thing I can say is that the skill sets and critical thinking that you learn at Bowdoin through its rigorous academic program and diverse extracurricular activities will help you succeed in any career path afterwards. Four years might seem long, but it flies by very fast. So make the most of your time and your opportunities here at Bowdoin. Challenge and be challenged — go U bears! | <urn:uuid:d29b5f3c-cd73-4d95-9d5a-58502940996f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/archives/students/anh_hong_do_06.shtml | 2013-06-20T08:37:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977312 | 1,155 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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By Amy Nicholson
By Alan Scherstuhl
By Alan Scherstuhl
By Alan Scherstuhl
By Alan Scherstuhl
By Mark Holcombe
By Scott Foundas
By Nick Pinkerton
Richard Linklater's stunning double feature this year—A Scanner Darkly and Fast Food Nation—represents not the supersizing of this always prolific and political American director so much as the ideal opportunity for his audience to engage in another Linklaterian game of comparative pop: positioning same-but-different philosophies opposite one another like facing mirrors, their reflections multiplying to the point of both dizzying revelation and what Scanner vividly defines as the "vague blur."
Double vision abounds on this bill as both films are adaptations: Scanner of the like-titled sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick, the fictional Fast Food of Eric Schlosser's Big Mac-is-murder exposé. And both mark returns to somewhat familiar terrain within the Linklater universe: Scanner to Waking Life's surreally pulsing world of rotoscope animation, and Fast Food, with its narrative track around the periphery of the meat (or "meat") industry, to the roving cyclicality of Slacker, his 1991 debut.
So if the dystopian Scanner equals something like Life plus Dick, what do you get when you drop that tab after having choked down an order of Fast Food's Schlosser-plus-Slacker?
"Ooh," says Linklater excitedly. "You get a pretty creepy vision of our country right now." The nation's other frightening Texan, 45 going on 24, is sitting poolside at his trés chic Cannes hotel in mid-May, comfortably clad in last year's National League Championship jersey and chuckling at the thought of his two line drives to the center of the corporate American void. "Scanner," he says, "is set 'seven years from now,' but that really means right now—the post-9/11 world of surveillance. It's tragic on an individual level, whereas Fast Food is the tragedy of a system or a mindset."
Never merely dark (or any other single thing), these movies work by shifting in shape and tone—not unlike the kaleidoscopic "scramble suit" that Scanner's junkie narc cop Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) wears at the office. The director is something of a shape-shifter himself. After two separate chats with him in Cannes, one ostensibly for each movie (but who could keep them apart?), I find that Linklater can't really be pegged except as someone who lives to blur the lines (Dick would call it "bilateral dysfunction"). Then in August, after another hour of equivocating talk by phone (the transcript below has been assembled from all three conversations), it seems even clearer to me that this American iconoclast defies his nation's monotonously assertive cinema by playfully shrugging at the dialectic, the disconnect, the evocative paradox. He's also very funny.
City Pages: You knew from reading Fast Food Nation that there's "shit in the meat." But did making the movie enlighten you even further? Or depress you even further?
Richard Linklater: Yeah, it did. You can read about the kind of systematic cruelty that goes on every day, but it's something else to actually see it. The only thing that is going to change things is consumer awareness—or caring in the first place. People naturally care about their health, but there are other issues, too. When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle a hundred years ago, he felt the book was going to make people outraged at the conditions of the workers. But what people were most worried about was the crap in their food. So the FDA and other government agencies grew out of that. It's probably similar nowadays: People care about their health and their loved ones' health; they care almost nothing about the workers and the environment and the animals. It is depressing. But at the same time, I have faith in the individual—not at the top of the food chain, so to speak, but the dissatisfied employee underneath. Even at McDonald's.
CP: Do you think the movie can hurt the profits of fast food corporations?
Linklater: I don't know, but their profits definitely went down around the time that the book came out [in 2001]; that was a real low point for fast food as an industry. Now they're back up again big time. All they've done is shifted their market emphasis. The window dressing is that they have more healthy things on their menu—salads and whatnot. So they can say, We're for choice, for consumer freedom. Aren't you for freedom? But of course the salads are not where they make the real money. Whenever middle- and upper-class people become educated about any product and its ill effects—it used to be cigarettes, now it's shitty food—then the corporations start target-marketing poor people and people in other countries who don't have the time or money to be as educated about their health. So there's the 99-cent menu—the dollar cheeseburgers, the cheap stuff. It's amazing that you could get a cheeseburger for a dollar. And that's where the marketing dollars are going. That's the way the tobacco industry went. That's actually the history of a lot of these issues: It's middle-class elites who are telling workers what's best for them and starting revolutions. Lenin wasn't proletariat himself. Most working people are kind of conservative.
CP: So is it weird to have premiered the movie at Cannes or just appropriate?
Linklater: It's both! I walked into a theater with 2,000 people in black tie, which is pretty antithetical to our movie. But I enjoy the disconnect. And I have to see the trajectory of my own life in it. I was that teenage girl [the character of Amber in the movie] who worked at shitty restaurants and didn't know much of anything. And I was an offshore oil worker for two and a half years: I know what it's like to put on the hardhat and the steel-toe boots and be at the absolute bottom of the food chain of a big industry—the expendable labor of an industry.
CP: Do you also identify with Don, the marketing executive [played by Greg Kinnear]?
Linklater: I'm probably closer to him, yeah. Don is like most of us who incorporate disturbing facts into our psyches and then carry on with business as usual. I think we all battle against living in some kind of elitist or cynical denial. I mean, I agree that Guantanamo was horrific, but I didn't take to the streets. I'm busy. I got mouths to feed. I'm "fighting the good fight." I'm guilty of torture, in a way.
CP: Was there pressure from the financers of the movie to have Don "take to the streets" in some way? Or did you feel that pressure yourself?
Linklater: To have Don become radicalized wouldn't seem too real to me. The standard Hollywood narrative is the inspiring tale of a guy who made a difference; that's what the Hollywood narrative is for, and we've all seen it a million times. We wanted to say no to that. In fact, this film doesn't carry through on almost any of its setups [laughs]. That seemed like the right thing to do with this. If the hero in your movie does something to make things better, then you as an audience member feel like you don't have to do anything, you know? Don isn't a hero. He disappears from the narrative altogether; he kind of overstays his welcome. His story is replaced by Amber's story—her coming of age, her new awareness.
CP: Do you think kids have a greater capacity for change?
Linklater: Yeah, they're less attached. But they've got the least means. They don't own media, they can't run ads. They've got all the energy and correct thinking to a large degree, but they don't have any power.
CP: At a lot of schools, they have the choice between McDonald's and Pizza Hut.
Linklater: It's there from the very beginning. All a kid has to do is watch a little bit of TV, drive by a McDonald's, and he's asking for a Happy Meal—with the little toy and all that. It's hard to combat. It's our culture.
CP: Do you think it's possible to break up this insidious, incestuous relationship between public schools and the fast food corporations that get huge contracts to pump this crap into kids nationwide?
Linklater: I don't know. A lot of schools are starting to ban sodas; it has been proven that all the sugar is no good for kids, that it's a big part of the obesity epidemic and diabetes among children. People have demonstrated that there are healthier alternatives—and that those alternatives don't even cost more money. But in the same way that it's convenient for schools to have contracts with KFC or McDonald's or whoever, it's easier for us as consumers not to think about it. I was a kid once—I couldn't wait to get to junior high so I wouldn't have to eat the plate lunches. I could just get my own lunch with a Coke and a Ding-Dong, maybe a sandwich, you know, some white bread and a piece of ham, maybe, and a dessert, some kind of ice cream.
CP: It's funny to consider that you got through it—despite the Ho-Ho and Coke diet. I ate the same way as a kid and I'm, you know, maybe a little damaged, but I'm doing all right.
Linklater: I guess I could say the same: I'm doing okay. But I was a pretty crappy student who was tired all the time, wasn't thinking well, had no sense of priorities. I don't know. I guess you survive. Is it a personality thing? Do some people realize at some point that they're being lied to and want to look for alternatives, whereas other people just go along and toe the party line?
CP: What seems hardest to fight is the convenience of fast food.
Linklater: Yeah, but it's a myth! The only efficient step in that whole chain is your actual purchase. At the drive-thru window—boom—you can have a hamburger in your mouth in two minutes, for 99 cents. But once you fully realize that that's the only efficient element, and you realize that everything else associated with it is kind of a disaster, that it's subsidized by our government and everyone is ignorant of it, then you can have a change. [Fast food] is horrible for the environment; it's certainly horrible for the animals, for the workers, and, ultimately, for you. It's not good for your body.
CP: In different ways, Fast Food Nation and A Scanner Darkly are both about the culture of exploitation and addiction: Fast Food is more about the suppliers, and Scanner is more about the consumer.
Linklater: We're all addicted, aren't we? I'm addicted to various things—to cinema, for example. I don't think those things are going to kill me—or at least not as quickly. Addiction is part of what it means to be human—whether it's addiction to love or sex or travel or whatever. But consumer addiction is something else. Drug or alcohol addiction is the most moving, in a way, because you're trying to transcend something—body chemistry is a huge element of it—but you're trapped in your own body, your own psyche.
CP: Both films have their funny moments for sure, but they're profoundly sad. That kind of duality is the essence of your work: the disconnect, the dialectic, the honest contradiction, the irony. Two truths facing each other without resolution: Maybe it's this, maybe it's that.
Linklater: I go through life with that disconnect. Like, Wow, life is wonderful, beautiful. And then you look again and it's so fucking tragic. Those two can coexist in the same thought; it's not like there are two different genres in the human brain. At the end of Scanner, Bob Arctor is a burnt-out husk [laughs]. It's completely tragic; he's more or less dead. Or maybe he could come back and be a normal person again. I guess it's never over until it's completely over. It might take more than one viewing to figure it out. Hopefully the first time has its rewards, but on a second viewing I know it gets deeper—you see a lot more connections. Right? That's what the human brain does: It makes connections. I'm still finding things [in Scanner], believe it or not, and no one could be closer to it than I am. That's what we do here: We try to make sense of everything that fundamentally doesn't make sense.
CP: American films generally require the filmmaker to be very decisive and clear—no ambiguity allowed.
Linklater: You're supposed to pick a tone and maintain it for audience-satisfying purposes. It's great—it's tonally consistent! It's like we're looking for the kind of consistency in our art that is totally nonexistent in the real world. But if art can ever really reflect the world in all its layers, then that should be the goal. Different works require different things. In terms of Scanner, I just know I shared Dick's "bilateral dysfunction" [laughs]. That was always in his work: the humor along with the darker, tragic elements.
CP: The printed epilogue—which you take pretty much directly from the book—is so poignant, so heartbreaking. You can see that Dick was seeking happiness and couldn't achieve it.
Linklater: In his community, the drug subculture, there can be an exuberant camaraderie. Like he says [in the book], it was fun for a while—but it can turn dark, paranoid, and tragic really fast. He wrote about the toll: The price that he and his friends paid was so much greater than the crime. I thought it was important to include that list of drug casualties in the epilogue because it makes you go, Okay—wow. These are real people. This really happened. When I met with [Dick's] daughters about doing a movie of A Scanner Darkly, one of the things they said is that they didn't want us to be cavalier about the drug use. They said their dad would still be alive today—that he'd still be writing—if it wasn't for drugs.
CP: Do you think happiness is elusive?
Linklater: I just read this thing about happiness. It said that three of the biggest keys to happiness for most people are: first, an occupation that satisfies you in some way; second, a sense of community, not being alienated and sitting in your room; and third, a satisfying sex life—everyone is on [his or her] own there [laughs].
CP: On a larger scale, do you find yourself thinking that things actually need to get worse before they can get better?
Linklater: It has gotten worse [laughs]. It has been this way for a while now: Just when you think it can't get any worse in the United States, it kinda does. Or does it? What are the effects? I mean, do you know anyone who has disappeared without legal rights? That would be the next step, I think—when white, middle-class people with dissenting opinions start disappearing, then we really will be in Soviet Russia or the Nixonian era times x, the combination of those two. I think people are just looking at their watches and saying, Okay, we've got two more years.
CP: There are many ways of disappearing people with dissenting opinions, don't you think?
Linklater: You could say that we're kind of living in a Soviet model now—of media and government being together on one level. But I don't know. Everyone bitches about the media, but we're not quite [in a totalitarian state] yet. The government definitely has its mouthpiece, though. In terms of Fast Food Nation, I came out of the whole experience really admiring the bravery and the sacrifice of a whole lot of people who dedicate their lives to fact-finding and investigative journalism. I really felt a sense of how important that is for the health of our collective human body. Because that's the only check and balance on unopposed power, on a government that owns it all and an industry that owns it all. If they can do away with all criticism or feedback, then they can pursue their agenda further and more efficiently. Their goal is to have no feedback, no accountability. Or if there is accountability, they can label it as "anti-American" or "socialist." The founding fathers were very leery of unchecked power; they went out of their way to check it.
CP: What would you like the Fast Food Nation movie to achieve?
Linklater: You can never prove or predict the cause and effect of anything, whatever its purpose. When The Jungle was published a hundred years ago, they enacted the FDA. But in today's world, we're more likely to see legislation enacted to prevent us from criticizing the way things are. In Texas, it's against the law to criticize an agricultural product—even though this [fast food] industry is potentially harming us. I guess Fast Food Nation would be immune to this law for being "fiction." Or would it? Kind of interesting, isn't it? I mean, can Fox Searchlight enact legislation to prevent you from writing a bad review of my movie?
CP: Uh [laughs]...
Linklater: The times we're living in make for an interesting disconnect. We know that the free market of ideas is sort of under attack, we know there's this orientation of our leaders toward war, toward the corporatization of culture, that there's all this legislation to support it, to harm the environment. We know that corporate culture is at the root of so much of this—but there it sits on the books. And yet you look up the food chain of Fox and you've got Rupert [Murdoch], you've got the Fox Network, and you've got Harper-Collins, which published [Schlosser's] book—so it's an interesting world. The industry is very fluid in a way. At the same time, things are starting to come out about the campaign against [Schlosser's] new book, Chew on This, which is Fast Food Nation for kids: It's being leafleted and picketed by firms that have been hired by the fast food industry. These firms always have names like "The Center for Consumer Freedom." Sounds like such a good idea.
A Scanner Darkly will be released on DVD in December; Fast Food Nation starts Friday at Lagoon Cinema.
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My daughter Brianna went to the Housatonic Waldorf Valley School for Kindergarten which is in Newtown, CT. My girls also attend the camp in Newtown in the summer at the school. Last year, Brianna's class made these beautiful candles with her teachers Isabel and Laura in the Sunflower Classroom.
I pulled the candle out last night after tucking my sweet girls into their beds and knowing that at least 20 mothers only a town over cannot do the same.... I lit it. Alone in silence and cried my eyes out. I remembered that many of the children in Brianna's kindergarten class were reaching 6 years old. I know many of them transitioned to public school like we did. I wondered if any of my daughter's sweet classmates may be among the victims. I remembered the mothers and how we would congregate waiting to pick up our children outside at school... I wondered if any of them waited outside Sandy Hook Elementary yesterday to pick up their child again. And, I prayed they were able to. And then I realized that my irrational mind was trying to rationalize and it really didn't matter if it were parents that I knew or not... because the fact is that there were parents there who did not get their children back. Whether I knew them or not didn't make it less real. My mind was just reaching for anything to make it be farther away from truth.
When I heard the news that there was a shooting the the town next to us, fear ran through my body. I called my mother to come to Connecticut from her work in Westchester to be with me. I had daycare children but I needed to get my girls. At that time, there were false reports of shooters on the loose in a van... I imagined it being terrorists going school to school in our neighborhoods killing children. Anything seemed possible. As horrible as it was, at that time we thought 2 children died. We had absolutely NO comprehension of what really happened. We found that dreaded news out much later.
I got my girls out of school. Parents were crying outside... inside it was somber. Little children did not understand why so many parents were picking them up early. Parents answered with things like "because I love you" or "today seemed like a good day to go home and watch a movie together.". Older children at the middle school knew much more... with access to IPhones, etc. they were already aware of the horror... doors were chained and the blinds were shut tight... and they were not allowed to go outside. I am thankful for the staff and how our school system has communicated with us with numerous phone calls and so much love and sensitivity. But I am saddened that yet another piece of my daughter's innocence was robbed away.
When we got home, I had to sit them down and somehow explain this madness to them in terms they could understand without too much information. Our town is deeply affected, with many friends and adults who have lost someone they know or love. In each restaurant and store, there were people crying. There is no way I could keep the information from them completely. They needed it to come from me before they went back out into the world.
How do you find the words to tell beautiful, innocent souls filled with love and hope and beauty - how do you find the words to tell them that the devil broke into a school only miles away and murdered little children just like them in their classroom? How do you explain terror? How do you tell them something like this yet still somehow make them feel safe in this world?
Somehow my words came. I asked them if they understood what their lock-down drills were for at school. I am so thankful for those drills. Just a week or so ago Maia told me they had one when she was in the bathroom and she went to the teacher's lounge, the closest safe place, rather than wandering the halls because she was taught correctly.
Maia told me she knew the drills were in case a bad person came inside the school and so the children would be kept safe. I told them that something that like is extremely rare and uncommon. Something most people would never see of but sadly one of the very rare times... happened very close to our home. I explained that someone very bad hurt grown ups and children in a Newtown school. And that many children were also kept safe by wonderful teachers who loved them.
They asked me if people died. I said yes. Brianna asked me if there were children that died. I said yes. They asked me how. I told them... sort of. I told them what weapon was used without the details. Brianna asked me if the children were afraid... if they wanted their mommies when the bad man came in their classroom.... Brianna is 6 years old, just like many of those children. Immediately I had visions of those sweet children seeing their friends being slaughtered one by one... I felt the longing that must have went through them the seconds before they died wanting their mommies. But I told Brianna that when people are going to heaven... the angels come down and hold them, they love them and keep them warm and safe. That the warmth from the angels is like a mommy's love times 1000 and there is no sadness or fear at all. Keira worries about the parents who lost children and wants to help them. I do too.
I hope I said the right things. Hopefully not too much. I don't know. I have not been prepared well for this day. In my panic and shock, my previous thoughts of homeschooling came back as the solution. I could homeschool the children and keep them safe. They would be with me always. I resolved to homeschool on Monday.
Then I realized that even homeschooled children go to classes and events without their parents. They go on trains, subways, to malls and movies. They get older and meet friends and go to events together.
So I put my thoughts on gun control. We shouldn't have guns. They should be banned. Their should be stricter regulations. Then we will be safe.
Then I remembered that Connecticut has one of the strictest gun laws in the country. Even if I believe those things, in this particular case it was not the solution either.
Devastation came over me as I realized that there is no solution at all. At that moment, I felt so extremely helpless. I wondered why I didn't think more about this before bringing children into this world. Saying that these things are rare and uncommon is fine when you live far away from a mass killing... but when it happens in your own community... in your own backyard... well, it just doesn't help.
As the night went by, I cried myself to sleep. I woke up a million times and checked on my children. This morning I woke up and for a few moments hoped it was a nightmare. My heart sunk when I realized that so many families could not have possibly slept last night especially if I couldn't. I managed to bring my daughter to choir practice... their choir teacher also teaches first grade in our public elementary school. With red eyes, she told the children that if she breaks down crying to please keep on singing.
So they did.
Now later today, as I hear so many stories of heroes - teachers who hid children and gave their own lives instead like Kaitlin Roig and Victoria Soto. The stories of first responders who must have been fathers themselves who told the children to cover their eyes as they walked out, in a desperate attempt to protect what was left of their innocence.
I then remembered the quote I share often from Mr. Rogers:
“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
So I have begun doing that. It is helping. I see so many people reaching out from across the globe and I remember that the world is MOSTLY good. I received emails from people like David and Lisbeth of Sparkle Stories who wrote:
I just wanted to reach out and send love your way, having learned that you are close to the Newtown area. We are shocked up here and can't imagine what is unfolding in your neighborhood.
I wrote a story last night and recorded it early this morning. We really wanted to offer something small that might be helpful to a town (and state and country) of struggling families. You are welcome to take the story with the blog post or separately and use it as you wish.
We're going to put it on FB but I wanted to email it directly to you.
With great love,
David Sewell McCann
THIS is the world I live in. Goodness and light are still there. Please look for it, even in the darkness. I am trying to.
Then a daycare mom, Erica Rogan, emailed me saying that we should do something... anything. Something to help others look for the light. So here we are. Doing something... good.
We are calling it Look for The Light.
We are calling out asking for stories of goodness, of light, of hope directly related to this tragedy even in your own homes... maybe a sweet story of a child making a picture for someone who is sad in Newtown, maybe a bigger story of a hero in Newtown who went above and beyond.
And we are going to share these stories.. one by one, here on the Little Acorn Learning Blog to remind us all that there is still so much GOODNESS in the world. To do our part to bring it out.
And each night at 7 p.m. as we are doing this - we ask you to light some sort of luminary in a window or front porch, not only to remember those lost but as a symbol of gratitude for the goodness that surrounds us and comforts us all during this time.
Please participate and help us spread light and love around our grieving world. Share a good story, a happy thought, an act of kindness that you have seen in the days and weeks after this horrific event with us and we will share it with the world here on our blog.
To submit a story or share something positive for this project, email us with your contact info and story at firstname.lastname@example.org We hope to receive so many replies that we can hardly fill this space with so much goodness.
Here is a button for you to share this project with your friends, families, blogs, email lists, colleagues and anywhere and everywhere you can so we can remind people that this world is still filled with SO much good. Please just link the button back to this post at http://eileensplace.blogspot.com | <urn:uuid:93adf95e-cecc-4070-92f0-b6b4cfecfaf2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.eileensplace.blogspot.jp/2012/12/look-for-light.html | 2013-06-20T08:38:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985713 | 2,213 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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GLAAD Wraps Up New York People of Color Media Institute
On Sunday, GLAAD wrapped up the 2nd annual National People of Color Media Institute, a training created specifically geared for people of color who are LGBT or LGBT allies.
A phenomenal group of passionate leaders were media trained to speak in national media outlets about issues that impact the lives of LGBT people and their families and trained how to effectively share their stories in the media.
The Institute consisted of a two-day, advanced spokesperson training program where GLAAD staff and key media trainers developed Institute participants in the areas of framing and messaging for on-camera and radio interviews. The experience was transformative. By the end of the training, participants mastered telling their stories along with compelling LGBT-related data. The connections made were just as meaningful.
“While there have been major strides to increase visibility around the stories and issues LGBT people face, far too often the voices, views and faces of LGBT and allied people of color are underrepresented, if represented at all,” said Herndon Graddick, President of GLAAD. “Our community needs to work together to change this. We are extremely proud to host this program which will help our community elevate more voices and celebrate the rich diversity of the community and our allies."
In its first year, GLAAD worked with 30 LGBT and ally advocates through the National People of Color Media Institute. As a result, their stories and views reached millions through national media outlets including National Public Radio (NPR), Black Enterprise, Ebony, as well as community and ethnic media outlets such as El Diario, The Afro and New York Amsterdam News.
To see photos from this year's institute visit GLAAD's Flickr page.
Participants will receive ongoing support, coaching and training from GLAAD staff, including quarterly progress reviews. Our next training will take place in Los Angeles from Friday, July 22 through Sunday, July 24.
This month the United States Supreme Court will issue decisions on two cases critical to marriage equality. GLAAD is working with media outlets and couples around the country to push for marriage. Follow GLAAD for up to date news about the Supreme Court's decision at www.glaad.org/marriage | <urn:uuid:52f18442-58a6-47a3-bb0d-0d8ea221a40b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-wraps-new-york-people-color-media-institute | 2013-06-20T08:51:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964365 | 461 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Regarding the Nasdaq lows - on Stockcharts it does look like November 2008 were the absolute lows but on Yahoo it does show the March lows as being lower
November 20, 2008 = 1316.12
March 9, 2009 = 1268.64http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5EI...=0;logscale=off
Quite right! Strange, I was sure the Nasdaq bottomed out in 2008. But that would suggest the market could drag on a bit further into Q3 as you suggest. Hmm. Interesting. The March low (vs the October/November low that "should" have happened) has certainly thrown a spanner in the works
For what its worth, I am still keeping an eye on the alternative overlay that suggests we might see a top in 4 or 5 weeks, given the recent peak in RSI above 90 (highest reading since 2000).
Good work - that second chart fits the timeline better/exactly with an end of August peak date and a Bradley turn date on June 26, which is also my 'rally from a 4th full moon'
March 11, 2009
July 7, 2009
November 2, 2009
February 28, 2010
June 26, 2010
Could you clarify exactly what you mean by 'non-adjusted' and explain what you've done - I'm intrigued, but don't fully understand!. I think you were also saying about the Nasdaq being a better graph to use for the long wave on the other thread - absolutely. It's amazing how the it compares from 2000 to the 1929 to 1949 Dow and the size of the crash compared to the Dow from 2000.
As for the Nasdaq 2000 vs Nasdaq 2010 comparison, I'm not sure how "valid" this is. What prompted me to look was the recent peak in RSI, the highest since 2000.
On the non-adjusted graph, the time scale is the same on both graphs. On the adjusted graph, I compressed the time scale on the Nasdaq 2000 to match the March low with the recent peak in RSI. This is with the idea that cycles exhibit similar structural characteristics, but can stretch in time?
However, I still think the Nikkei / Nasdaq comparison is the more useful one
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[Haskell-cafe] I love purity, but it's killing me.
bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com
Fri Feb 8 02:09:16 EST 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008, 9:33:35 AM, you wrote:
> The process of converting an expression tree to a graph uses either Eq
> or Ord (either derived or a custom instance) to search and build a set
> of unique nodes to be ordered for execution.
in similar situation, i've added hash field to each node, initialized
by smart constructor:
data Expression = Add Hash Expression Expression | ...
add x y = Add (x*y+1234567) x y
Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
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ALLEN COUNTY, Ind. (www.incnow.tv) --- Establishing ground rules for a highly publicized criminal trial in Allen County.
The date was set Friday for the trial of a troubled Indianapolis police officer who is accused of causing a terrible crash while driving drunk on the job.
This case is big news in Indy, so much so, that they moved it here, in an effort to find a fair and impartial jury.
37-year old David Bisard learned in court that October 15th is his projected trial date.
In August of 2010, he was in his Indianapolis police cruiser with the siren on, when he plowed into the back of three motorcycles stopped at a traffic light.
One of the riders died, while two others were badly hurt.
His blood alcohol level tested more than twice the legal limit.
But because the lab tech that took the sample was not certified to do such work under Indiana law, prosecutors cut back their charges in response to the mishandled evidence.
Recently, charges were boosted again, after the state Supreme Court ruled that the results from a second vial of blood could be used against Bisard.
Bisard kept quiet during the hearing, letting his team of three lawyers do all the talking in court.
Allen Superior Court Criminal Judge John Surbeck set May first and June first deadlines for the attorneys to file key motions and share evidence, hinting he feels this case has dragged on too long in the past.
The discussions Friday suggested the jury will not be kept in seclusion during the trial, and the judge was adamant, he's ready to work long days to make sure the trial doesn't take longer than two and a half weeks once it finally gets started this fall.
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It could happen, Landon Donovan said today.
Sounds like LD may have an easier time fending off the likes of Manchester City’s Gareth Barry, as he did Saturday in Liverpool, than resisting the temptation of not staying in the EPL for good (AP Photo).
Donovan told the Liverpool Echo:
“I’ve been made to feel so welcome and when you’re welcome like that you don’t want to let anyone down. It’s a sharp contrast to how I felt last year when I was at Munich.
“It’s a little more individual and selfish there. Here they make you feel part of a family and you keep going because you don’t want to let anyone down.
“The future is out of my control. I want to enjoy this experience. That means I show up for training and I’m ready. I show up for the game and I’m ready.
“But who knows what will happen in the future. Football’s funny and you never know what could happen.
And who can blame him given the impression he has made so far?
Said Donovan on his Facebook page Sunday: “Good evening from a slightly warmer England! I’ve spent the day resting and recovering from an incredible game last night. That was in the top 5 of the most memorable games in my career. Thank you so much to all the Everton fans for making me feel right at home! It’s been nice to enjoy the victory today but tomorro…w we start preparing for Birmingham in the FA Cup. Goodnight!”
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|A delicious rice seasoned with Creole seasoning and cooked with chopped kale.|
I've been slightly infatuated with kale for a few years now, so when I see a recipe that uses kale in a way that's new to me, I'm always excited to try it. I found this recipe for Spicy Rice and Kale in an old Bon Appetit magazine from February 1999 (and back in those days before kale entered my life I probably wouldn't have given it a second look.) Finding old food trends that I have just caught up with is one reason the bookshelves in my office have piles of old cooking magazines arranged by month! This find from the past turned out to be one of those side dishes that I could have happily eaten a big bowl of for my entire meal, and it's so nutritious and easy to make that I think it's a perfect Meatless Monday dish.
I did use chicken stock when I tried the recipe, but you could easily make this vegan by using vegetable broth instead with no loss of flavor. (You can find more meatless recipes by using the label Meatless Monday or checking Vegetarian Recipes in the recipe index. For Meatless Monday ideas from other bloggers, check Meatless Monday at BlogHer, where I write a weekly post spotlighting one of the fabulous meatless recipe ideas I find around the web.)
Heat the chicken or vegetable stock in a heavy pan with a tight fitting lid, stirring in the Creole seasoning when it starts to simmer.
This photo is a visual aid reminding you that this is cooked covered for 20 minutes on low, then it sits covered for 10 minutes more.
(Makes 4 generous side dish servings; recipe adapted slightly from Spicy Rice and Kale in Bon Appetit, February 1999.)
2 1/4 cups chicken or vegetable stock (or use one can broth and add enough water to make 2 1/4 cups)
1 1/2 tsp. Creole Seasoning (I used Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning which is good but a bit salty, so don't add salt)
1 cup Uncle Ben's Converted Rice (This is the lowest-glycemic type of white rice)
4 oz. chopped kale
Parmesan cheese for serving (optional)
Put the stock or broth into a heavy pot with a tight fitting lid and bring to a simmer. When it starts to simmer, stir in the Creole seasoning.
While the stock is coming to a simmer, wash the kale, cut away any thick center ribs, stack up kale leaves, and chop kale into smallish pieces. As soon as the stock and Creole seasoning are simmering, add the kale all at once and let it wilt for a minute or two in the hot liquid.
Then stir in the rice, bring back to a simmer, turn heat to low, and simmer covered for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, turn off the heat and let the pan sit covered for 10 minutes more. Fluff rice with a fork and serve hot, with Parmesan cheese to sprinkle over if desired.
South Beach Suggestions:
Uncle Ben's Converted Rice is a very low-glycemic type of white rice, due to the converting process which removes some of the starchiness, so this recipe is a perfect side dish or main dish for phase 2 or 3 of the South Beach Diet.
More Delicious Meatless Ideas with Kale:
(Recipes from other blogs not always South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Kale and Romaine Caesar Salad from Kalyn's Kitchen
Vegetarian Lasagna with Kale and Mushroom-Tomato Sauce from Kalyn's Kitchen
Kale Mallung (Sri Lankan Kale with Coconut) from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen
Quinoa with Sauteed Mushrooms and Kale from Use Real Butter
Kale, Mushroom, and Caramelized Onion Breakfast Casserole from The Perfect Pantry
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The story you see on that Best Buy commercial is true: Employee Rachel Muñoz of McAllen, Tex., really did use her customer-service skills and Best Buy's price-match guarantee to persuade a customer calling from Wal-Mart to switch stores. "We're trying to get every customer out there," says Best Buy spokeswoman Lisa Hawks. "And we'll continue to be aggressive on price."
The company's competition has the same idea. What Muñoz's customer might not have known is that Wal-Mart offers its own price-matching policy. Target launched its "low price promise" in July.
Tough times for retailers mean that diligent shoppers can just about pick their price. All three of the big-box retailers' in-store programs work similarly. Best Buy is the only one with a separate online policy.
Still, before you join Muñoz's convert and become a "Best Buyer for life," learn the details. BestBuy.com will match the price of the exact item offered by any of its own stores in your area (prices vary by location). Call 888-237-8289 and let the operator know where you found a lower price.
Best Buy's in-store matching guarantee applies only to offers from local competitors. Be ready to prove your case with an actual clipping of a current local advertisement.
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Bart Jansen, USA TODAY
The Transportation Security Administration will allow travelers to bring small knives, golf clubs and hockey sticks into airline cabins for the first time since 2001, TSA chief John Pistole announced Tuesday.
The change, intended to conform to international rules, will take effect April 25. The announcement came as Pistole spoke to a security conference in New York, and marks the first big loosening of restrictions for carry-on items since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Pistole stressed the importance of risk-based screening, to focus on the biggest threats to aircraft rather than holding everyone to the same security standard.
Security experts such as Kip Hawley, the former head of TSA under former president George W. Bush, have long advocated a less detailed screening of passengers at airport checkpoints, because the hardening of cockpit doors would prevent a terrorist from gaining control of a plane as hijackers did on 9/11.
Razor blades and box cutters, such as those the hijackers used, would still be prohibited.
But the items that will be allowed will more closely match standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization, according to the TSA. The following items will now be allowed:
Knives without a molded grip and with blades that don't lock and are less than 6 centimeters or 2.36 inches.
Novelty-size and toy bats less than 24 inches long and weighing less than 24 ounces.
Billiard cues, ski poles, hockey and lacrosse sticks, and two golf clubs as part of carry-on baggage.
"This is part of an overall risk-based security approach, which allows transportation security officers to better focus their efforts on finding higher-threat items such as explosives," the TSA said in a statement.
But flight attendants blasted the change in policy for endangering passengers and crew members outside the cockpit.
The Flight Attendants Union Coalition, representing nearly 90,000 flight attendants at carriers nationwide, blasted the decision.
"Today's announcement to permit knives back into the aircraft cabin is a poor and shortsighted decision by the TSA," the group said in a statement. "As the last line of defense in the cabin and key aviation partners, we believe that these proposed changes will further endanger the lives of all flight attendants and the passengers we work so hard to keep safe and secure."
Stacy Martin, president of Southwest Airlines' flight-attendants union, Transport Workers Union of America Local 556, called the decision "outrageous."
"This policy was designed to make the lives of TSA staff easier, but not make flights safer," Martin says. "While we agree that a passenger wielding a small knife or swinging a golf club or hockey stick poses less of a threat to the pilot locked in the cockpit, these are real threats to passengers and flight attendants in the passenger cabin." | <urn:uuid:a41f4f3b-dae6-47b9-baf1-50ab63669fea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/367011/0/TSA-to-allow-pocket-knives-aboard-passenger-planes-?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Cbc%7Clarge | 2013-06-20T08:39:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949321 | 584 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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2013 LCI Hamburg, Germany Convention Registration and Hotel Reservations are now closed. Please register onsite at the Hamburg Messe beginning July 5 at 10:00 a.m.
Registration fees onsite are as follows:
Adult: US$150 (euro) 115
Leo Adult: US$50 (euro) 40
Child: US$10 (euro) 8
Euro's only for cash payments. Credit cards will be charged in US dollars. Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover Cards accepted.
Onsite Registration Hours:
Friday - Monday: 10:00 - 17:00
Tuesday: 7:30 - 10:30
EXPRESS REGISTRATION PICK-UP
Thank you for registering in advance for the Lions Clubs International Convention. Your official convention name badge and tickets will be mailed to you. Please bring them with you to Hamburg. Present the Exchange Ticket at the Advance Registration Pickup counter to receive your badge holder, medallion, convention program, and certificate of attendance. The counters will be open at the following location:
Hamburg Messe (HM) – Entrance Level Counters
D-20357 Hamburg, Germany
Advance Registration Counters will be open beginning Thursday, July 4 through Monday, July 8 – 10:00 until 17:00.
If you forget to bring your name badge and exchange ticket with you, please go to the Name Badge Reprint counter at the Hamburg Messe (HM) starting on Friday, July 5 at 10:00 to receive a replacement. Photo identification is required.
Lions Clubs International
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Earlier this evening there were problems on the Facebook side. Many players were getting half screens and it was quite annoying. The obvious work around is to unframe your page but Zynga prevents us from easily unframing. A while back Team Spockholm created what Pistol Pete like to call fake unframing. To get your game into a fake unframed state and thus eliminate half screens, simply use the link below.
To learn more about the Spockholm Mafia Wars (un)framed page, click on the “About this page” link.
There is also a direct link to the Spockholm Fan Page and a convenient list of more helpful links. Stand alone scripts will not run on this page but if you use the Spockholm Mafia Toolbar, that won’t be a problem. For instructions on unframing workarounds, just use the link to the Unframing Guide.
During the half screen issue, Zynga was on top of it and posted the following on their Customer Support Page. In addition of half screens, there were also issues with the request buttons. Everything should be back to normal now. This was a Facebook and not a Zynga issue. | <urn:uuid:3e4bd4d3-276d-4c73-9259-74302a327b8e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mafiawarslootlady.com/2012/04/spockholm-unframed-page.html | 2013-06-20T08:37:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957532 | 247 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
NEW YORK — The Yankees stood in the same situation last week, eyes on the colors of the radar, hoping the weather would hold off long enough to play the first two games of the American League Championship Series as scheduled, without interruption.
And they lucked out.
The expected rain never was a factor as the Yankees took the first two games against the Los Angeles Angels, and Yankees manager Joe Girardi was able to stick to his plan to have ace left-hander CC Sabathia set up to start as many as three games in the best-of-seven series.
But because of yesterday’s rainout — Major League Baseball pulled the plug on the game about 90 minutes before first pitch — the Yankees may have seen their luck take a decided turn.
If the Yankees and Andy Pettitte can’t put away the Angels tonight in Game 6 — the Yankees have a 3-2 series lead — Sabathia will get the call in tomorrow’s Game 7. And if Sabathia helps the Yankees advance to the World Series, he wouldn’t be able to pitch again until Game 3. And for the first time in the playoffs, the Yankees may face life without the luxury of giving their ace the ball to start a series.
"You’d like to be able to set up your pitching," Girardi said. "But if you can’t, you can’t."
In his first three starts of the postseason, Sabathia has shown why the Yankees spent $161 million to sign him last offseason. In two Game 1 starts, he pitched the Yankees to two victories,
setting a standard for the rest of the pitching staff.
"That’s what you have a true No. 1 for," pitching coach Dave Eiland said. "That’s why we got him."
Over the first seven games of the postseason, Yankees starters threw at least six innings while allowing three or fewer runs, the best postseason stretch in club history. Only A.J. Burnett’s Game 5 start broke the string.
Even still, the team’s starters have pitched to a 2.68 ERA while holding opposing hitters to a .210 average. They have struck out 42 hitters while walking just 15.
"I wouldn’t single out one guy,"
outfielder Nick Swisher said. "Our pitchers have done a great job from start to finish."
Said utility man Jerry Hairston Jr.: "We’re confident in all of our guys."
Yet, Sabathia has separated himself from his colleagues. If needed in Game 7, Sabathia will carry with him a staff low 1.19 ERA in three starts. His 20 strikeouts also lead the staff.
"He’s been fantastic for us," Girardi said. "He’s set the tone in his games. He’s went deep into games. He’s rested your bullpen. He’s won games, he’s made quality pitches. He’s shut down the other team."
Sabathia’s starts seem to have become progressively more dominant as the playoffs have unfolded.
He scattered eight hits and two runs, just one earned in 62/3 innings, to lead the Yankees to a 7-2 victory in the American League Division Series. In Game 1 of the ALCS, Sabathia locked the Angels down for eight innings, surrendering just one run on four hits.
His best work may have come on short rest in the Yankees’ 10-1 victory in Game 4.
"It’s important to have him period and it goes beyond him going out there and pitching," Burnett said. "Any time it’s his day, whether it’s the first game, the seventh or the regular season, we’ve got a good chance to win. Just his name itself can do a lot."
Sabathia’s recent stretch of dominance has drawn comparisons to the one he embarked on last season, when the Brewers rode his remarkable stretch run to the playoffs.
Sabathia has been quick all season to point out that his run in 2008 was special, at a higher level than anything he’s experienced since. But after shutting down the Angels in his last start, Sabathia seemed to soften on that stance.
"Every year’s different as I said," he said. "But I felt like I was pretty locked in last year. I feel pretty good right now. I don’t want to jinx anything or say anything I shouldn’t. But I’ve been feeling pretty good."
Said Sabathia: "Like I said, I just want to keep it up, keep it going. Looking forward to the next start."
Of course, when that next start comes could go a long way in determining the Yankees’ postseason fate.
"All we’re concerned about is (tonight)," Eiland said. "Anything after that we’ll deal with that when it happens. We’re not looking past (tonight). We’ll cross those that bridge when we come to it."
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01-21-2007, 06:51 AM #1
Golden Gate School - San Francisco Bay Area
Just wanted to share Golden Gate Schools line up this year.
Matthew Jordan Smith, Frank Cricchio, Jane Conner-ziser, Mark Allen, Vincent Isola, Michael Redford and Gene Higa.
I've gotta tell ya, it's one heck of a lineup... That Matthew Jordan Smith is a regular photographer on America's Next top Model. Talk about high fashion outside of the ppa "look". Anyone seen his book Sephia Dreams? Amazing!
Also, back by popular demand are legends Frank Cricchio, Jane Ziser, Mark Allen and Michael Redford.
Hard core PJ look shooter? Well Gene Higa and Vincent Isola's got what you need. Let me tell ya that Gene's been all over the world capturing weddings and is a feature speaker at WPPI this year.
Anyway's, if your looking for a class why not spend your time with us in San Francisco.
More info: http://www.goldengateschool.com/
BTW: Yes, you do get merits towards your masters (or keeping your CPP) since GGS is an PPA affilate school.
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01-21-2007, 03:50 PM #2Senior Member
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I already have a bunch of classes on my list! Are you going to any?
01-23-2007, 06:37 AM #3
I'm not sure yet but I'm seriously looking at Mathew Jordan smith or maybe Micheal Redford.... or maybe Gene Higa...
Eitherway, I'll be definitely be lurking around the Mills College campus...
01-23-2007, 03:24 PM #4
Golden Gate School is great. I've gone three times. Here is a link to the other Northern California PPA affiliated school. This year it's in Scott's Valley near Santa Cruz.
I'm going here this year.
03-23-2007, 06:23 PM #5
Classes filling up fast!
Just checked with Golden Gate School to see how registrations are doing and it seems that most of the instructors only have a limited number of spaces left.
If your thinking about it, sign up soon before the class closes.
See you there.
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03-23-2007, 09:05 PM #6Senior Member
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- New Jersey
i got out to golden gate about 15 years ago-it was great. i was the only one from the east coast so they made me feel special. gave me a room with the instuctors(my own bath and everything)
i studied with gary silber (what ever happened to gary?) he's a great portrait artist & a good teacher also.
in 2006 went to glip - nice folks in mich. studied with tim & bev waldon -they're the bomb!
my next class will be on painter-but haven't made plans yet. thinking bruce dorn? any sugjestions?
ps: just remembered something about golden gate -got food poisoning-food sucked big time-had the whole vommaria thing going.
probally more info then you needed. sorry
04-12-2007, 04:25 PM #7
04-12-2007, 09:08 PM #8
Do you know when GGS will be in San Francisco proper? Give me an excuse to visit my son and almost daughter-in-law.
04-12-2007, 09:15 PM #9
But the food at Mill College and the setting was great.
And Marc, say "Hey" to Mathew Smith for me. He's a buddy. And a great photographer. I missed him last night on America's Top Model, but heard he was going to be on.Jack Reznicki
04-12-2007, 09:33 PM #10
Betty and I have taught there on three different occasions. We were treated great. It is a well run school. I agree with Jack, the food at Mill College was very good. I gained 3 pounds while I was there.
EdEd Booth, PPA Certified, M Photog.Cr., API, P/BA, F-PPC, S-PPC
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Hillbilly Opry At McGuire’s Family Campground
Hours: 7:30pm to 10:30pm.
Admission: Fee Charged
The Hillbilly Opry features music played by local bluegrass and old-time bands. A small admission fee is charged. There is a café on the grounds and camping with hookups is available.
Call ahead for the schedule as this event occurs sporadically.
Contact: Mike McGuire at 540-674-5561
Website: Event Website
Hillbilly Opry @ facebook.com
Location: McGuire’s Family Campground
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World Championship leader Jenson Button has vowed to push talk about a new Brawn deal for 2010 to the back of his mind, saying his only focus at the moment is keeping his title charge on course.
AUTOSPORT reported last week that Brawn is ready to rewrite the terms of Button's multi-year contract to give the Briton the kind of money deal that will deter him from being tempted by big cash offers from rival outfits. But despite his bosses' pledge, Button says any talk about money or new contractual terms will be ignored for now – because he does not want to get distracted from his on-track efforts.
"It's not something that I'm going to talk to the team about until much later in the season," said Button in Turkey on Thursday. "A lot, lot later in the season. Because I'm having a great time, but I know that it could end very quickly if you take your eye off the ball. So that's not what I'm going to do."
Button says he has not talked to bosses Ross Brawn or Nick Fry about his contractual position, having originally signed a cut-price deal, and has no interest in bringing up the subject yet.
"I haven't spoken to anyone about it," he said. "I've read the articles and that's about it. Even after reading the articles I haven't spoken to the team about it, because I'm not interested. I'm here to race and I don't want to talk about money.
"I don't want to talk about anything else. It's irrelevant at the moment. I've got to concentrate on this weekend, and that's what I've got to do at every race we go to. I'm not thinking about money at all. I was with this team and continued with this team because I thought the car would be competitive, that's all."
Button says he is unmoved by reports that rival teams are forming a queue to try and lure him away from Brawn for next year.
"It obviously looks good when you read it, but I have no interest in discussing anything with anyone at the moment," he said. "I'm very happy, I'm doing what I'm here to do, and that's winning races and leading the championship. I'm not thinking about next year yet."
Although Button has won five of the first six races of the season to emerge as clear favorite for the championship, he thinks that things will be much tougher for his Brawn team in Turkey this weekend.
"I think that the Red Bulls should work quite well here. The car that they had in Barcelona, if they brought that here they would be competitive. We'll have to see if their diffuser makes a difference on this circuit. But they're expected to be competitive and I think they will be.
"If you look at the times in the races previous to Monaco, they were very competitive. You could say that they have been as quick as us; they just haven't got it together over the race weekends. You can't blame KERS cars, I think strategy is important, and a few other things. They haven't had race wins, but I think they're quick enough to fight with us for sure.
"The Ferraris will be quick here, too. I think they've made up ground at every race and they performed very well, especially in Monaco. You can say it's a different type of circuit, but there's a lot of slow speed here and they've got KERS for the drag up the hill, which should help them quite a bit. So those two teams will be strong.
"McLaren I think will be quick for most of the circuit, but I think they'll struggle so much with Turn 8 that maybe they won't be there over a lap time. And Toyota maybe will be competitive because they've reverted to a previous aero package and they'll be quite good at a circuit like this."
Button also thinks talk about an early end to this year's championship is premature – especially because teammate Rubens Barrichello is only 16 points behind him so far.
"I can't see it happening with the way the system is," he said. "We've had six races and I've only got a 16-point lead. It's not a lot. If nothing changed now it would only be two races before the end of the season when I would have won it, and there's so much that's going to happen before then.
"It's definitely not going to be a walk in the park. You can see that by the competitiveness of the other teams. If you look through all the data after the races, their lap times are the same as ours, we've just done the better job on the weekend. But they will get it right, for sure. But hopefully not too often." | <urn:uuid:eb192965-7e54-4b84-98ba-e4ead73b35b6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.racer.com/button-not-distracted-by-future-talk/article/144479/ | 2013-06-20T09:04:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992384 | 995 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Since I am not at the conference this week in Chicago. I figured it might be fitting to take a page from Matt Cutts, and post a step by step how to guide on How To Successfully Scare the Living Daylights Out of an Unassuming Conference Attendee. Speakers have the unique opportunity to not only terrorize their audience but also make their audience laugh at their bad jokes and make them expose secret private identifying information that could be used to reveal their whole network of sites. Quite the advantage a speaker has! Members at Webmasterworld have been discussing this topic and have some ideas on the best ways to scare a conference attendee and ways Google can learn about all your website. So in the conference spirit, here is a revised step by step guide on how to scare a conference attendee:
1. Whois their main site 2. Reverse IP the main site's IP address 3. Whois a random sample of the 50 or so sites being hosted on the same IP 4. If the sample sites have the same private registration with the same registrar and the same nameservers, announce that the person is running all 50 sites. 5. Flash laptop with magic tool but don't reveal anything, say something about "unrelated domains were unnecessary at best and, at worst, possibly harmful to their SERPs." Stare webmaster in the eyes and mumble something again about "dirty spammers".
At this point you will have scared the living daylights out of a conference attendee. Congratulations! Now, pat yourself on the back and move on to the next webmaster. Ebenezer Scrooge could not have been meaner.
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The Sheridan Lady Spartans won the annual Battle on the Blacktop basketball 9th and 10th grade division championship game this past weekend in Buffalo.
Pictured from top left, Kaycen Townsend, Bailey Bard, bottom left, Robbi Ryan and Jamy Shassetz.
This team that has been playing together since 4th grade!!!!! Fun watching the girls.
They play together one weekend a year and it’s like they have played all year together.
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The other team decides to assign projects to different designers, instead of each of them creating their own looks. Hmm. This is coming from a negative place. Christopher seems like he gets it and thrives in a team environment, but the others (mostly Gretchen) seem like they're using the "project" scheme as a way to weed out the work from others that she doesn't deem worthy. She says that they should consider a "winter short," which seems like a real bore coming from her. She adds that the other team is all "cuckoo drama," so they should work on being tailored and clean. A.J. insists that he can clean up his stuff. He tells us that he wouldn't want to make something that stood out too much in the collection. That's very reasonable of him. Everyone ignores Other Michael and he's aware of it. I almost think that winning the last challenge was the worst thing that could have happened to him. Well, there's getting eliminated. That would be worse. Ivy interviews that the real challenge will be making sure that Other Michael does the work that he is supposed to do. Then, we see her tell him that he shouldn't use his immunity as a crutch because they are depending on him. So, Ivy is the mouth this season, yes? I'm ready for her to zip it.
Gretchen dramatically grabs her face with her hands and says that she's so proud of them for working so well and it's blowing her mind. Ivy says that they don't have time for that kind of talk right now. I recently just worked on a project with a group of people and I was talking about those individuals who create problems so that they can solve them and appear to be problem solvers. Instead of, you know, just enduring the rigor of solving the actual inherent problems of the project. My example was someone saying something like, "Hey, that lady over there, don't punch her in the face." And, you're like, "That's insane. I would never just punch someone." But, they're like, "Well, good. Problem SOLVED." Anyway, Ivy's jokey push forward with the meeting there was the only real example, but I'm feeling that from this group. Lots of people desperate to talk when they should maybe listen and tackle the problems that have already been addressed, instead of just listing new problems.
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VALDOSTA, Ga. - Valdosta State football completed its first week of spring practice Monday morning as the Blazers participated in their fourth practice under new head coach David Dean.
The Blazers took the field for their first session under Dean last Wednesday, hitting the field at 7:15 a.m. before returning to the gridiron on Friday morning. Saturday featured the squad's first scrimmage of the spring.
"I thought we had a good scrimmage on Saturday," said Dean after Monday's practice. "Our offense was particularly good. Our timing was great and we really protected the quarterback well so I was pleased with that. Defensively, I was very impressed with our secondary. They made some great tackles and were aggressive. Overall, I was very pleased with the effort put out by the team."
While Dean was pleased with the team's effort as a whole, he also pointed out that several individual had stood out during the first four practices.
"Willie Copeland has really looked good throwing the ball," said Dean. "With a year under his belt in our system, he is really showing confidence in his throws. Jose Garcia has also come in and impressed myself and the rest of the staff. On defense, William Montford has had four great practices."
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Just how impressive was the late Joseph J. Mauro’s service as a city employee?
Mauro, who passed away on Jan. 2 at the age of 86, was employed by the city for 52 years in two vastly different roles. For the first 29 years, he served as a member of the police department; for the remaining 23 years he was the city clerk.
Mauro’s service to the city was publicly celebrated in a resolution adopted by City Council Wednesday night.
“He was a dedicated, faithful city employee and citizen,” Mayor Sal Panto Jr. said upon presenting a framed copy of the resolution to members of Mauro’s family in attendance.
Panto recalled how Mauro greatly helped guide him during his first stint as mayor from 1984-1992.
“He had a remarkable knowledge of the city and helped me learn a lot as a new mayor,” Panto said “I just loved the man.”
Mauro, an Easton native, served in the Navy during World War II in the Pacific Theater.
He began his employment with the city in 1943 when he was appointed to the police department. He was appointed clerk in 1972 and served in that position until his retirement in 1995.
Mauro was active in the community as a church member and volunteer. He was a member of St. Anthony of Padua Church, Fraternal Order of Police and Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He volunteered for various local organizations and was a recipient of the Merit Award from the Easton Lions Club.
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Hello TCGplayers! With Galactic Overlord
finally released and the results of YCS Philadelphia in the books, it’s time to take a look at the impact that Galactic Overlord
Judging from the results, not much has changed. Dino Rabbit continued to show its dominance, claiming a whopping five of the Top 8 slots. Yet Chaos Dragons were able to break through the sea of Rescue Rabbit
s and Inzektor Hornet
s, and emerge victorious, with Feng Chen claiming the first victory for the archetype on North American soil. Inzektors, Wind-Ups, Darkworld, and even a lone Final Countdown
and Chain Burn deck round out the list of top performing decks. So is Championship-level competition heading into Nationals going to be more of the same? Far from it.
Much to people’s chagrin, degenerate “gold-fishing” strategies such as Final Countdown
and Chain Burn gained a new friend in Cardcar D
, increasing consistency and drawing more cards with which to stall or burn. Yet the biggest boon from Galactic Overlord
was given to arguably the game’s favorite monster type, Dragons. With cards like Hieratic Dragon King of Atum
, Gaia Dragon, the Thunder Charger
, Trial and Tribulation
, and an entirely new Dragon archetype, Dragon duelists get many new toys to tinker with. Chaos Dragons has easily been the most talked-about Dragon deck, but this week I'd like to discuss a strategy that almost
got to the top cut. The archetype that brings back tributing in a brand new way, Hieratics!
Introduced in Galactic Overlord
, the Hieratics are a series of Light-attribute Dragon monsters which revolve around tributing to either special summon or destroy cards on the field. Most of the Hieratic effect monsters share a common ability, in that when they are tributed (either from the field or the hand), you're able to special summon a Normal Dragon-type monster from your hand, deck, or graveyard.
This extra summon allows the deck to go into powerful Rank 6 Xyz Monsters like Hieratic Dragon King of Atum
or Photon Strike Bounzer
, through the use of the normal monsters Wattaildragon
and Luster Dragon #2
. The Hieratic strategy is highly explosive, yet can succumb easily to disruption such as Compulsory Evacuation Device
, Effect Veiler
, or Bottomless Trap Hole
. They can also be forced to stop in their tracks due to a timely Maxx “C”.
Many duelists have used the Ninja cards introduced in Order of Chaos,
such as Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo
and Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation
, in order to add some consistency and a toolbox to Hieratics, but I feel that's a sub-optimal way to run the deck. Hieratics are combo-centric, much like Wind-Ups. While Super-Transformation plays are cute and the added toolbox is nice, they don't help accomplish the end goal of the deck. The build I'll be talking about today focuses on spamming Hieratic Dragon King of Atum
, while also keeping the deck as consistent as possible.
So first things first, let’s start with a decklist!
Monsters (The Things You Tribute!)
In order to get the pieces we need to set the combo in motion, we need to dig for the cards! Cardcar D
, a card that has almost exclusively seen play in Chain Burn and Final Countdown
, is perfect for the job. A Hieratic duelist is perfectly happy barely committing to the field, building just the right hand to kill the opponent. Cardcar D
does everything we want: it thins the deck; draws cards; and can bait out opposing Effect Veiler
s early on, in order make sure Su and Atum go off without a hitch. In this build, Cardcar D
is a must at three because of the consistency it provides.
Each of the Hieratic effect monsters are able to bring out a normal Dragon when tributed, but they also have extra uses that shouldn't be ignored. Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit
serves as the Cyber Dragon of the deck, and he's how you'll start most of your combos. While Tefnuit can’t make great use of its 2100 ATK the turn it’s summoned, it frees up your normal summon and paves the way for Hieratic Dragon of Su
. You can also special Tefnuit and regularly tribute summon a Hieratic monster from your hand in order to set the chain in motion. This build runs a playset of Tefnuit in order to see it as often as possible.
Hieratic Dragon of Su
is arguably the best of the Hieratic effect monsters. Why is it the best? Su is able to special summon itself by tributing a Hieratic on the field, immediately triggering the effect to grab a normal Dragon. Su's also level 6, the perfect level for going into Atum (Su is going to be the most common way you Xyz Summon Atum). But what’s so critical is that by tributing a Hieratic monster from your hand, Su can destroy a set card on the field. With that ability, Su can clear pesky backrow cards while also serving as a lightning rod for your opponent’s Effect Veiler
s. Run three Su and never look back.
Tefnuit and Su are special summons, so they never eat up your normal summon for the turn. What do you do with it? Like mentioned previously, you can tribute summon a Level 6 or lower monster from your hand, or you can summon Heiratic Dragon of Eset. Eset is a Level 5 Hieratic which can be normal summoned at the expense of making its ATK 1000 instead of 1900. Eset’s effect gives you the ability to change the level of your face up Hieratics to match a normal dragon (either Wattaildragon
or Luster Dragon #2
), which is helpful when you want to Xyz summon Hieratic Dragon King of Atum
. Eset is usually the best use of your normal summon, and it sets the engine in motion if you're missing Tefnuit; again, definitely run three.
The last Hieratic monster in the main deck, Hieratic Dragon of Nebthet
, is only included as a single copy. This version of the deck is centered around Level 6 Xyz monsters rather than Level 5. Nebthet is able to special summon itself the same way Su can, but the true reason Nebthet is included here - despite its awkwardness - is its ability to let you tribute a Hieratic from your hand or field to destroy a monster your opponent controls, clearing the way for your OTK.
is a must-have this format, so we run the full three copies. While Veiler doesn’t help us get to our combo, it can buy crucial time and disrupt your opponent’s plays. Now that there's no more priority for ignition effects, you're able to put a stop to opposing Rescue Rabbit
and Cardcar D
plays. Veiler is just too good not to run, and it's viable against most decks that are popular for tournament play right now.
Rounding out the set of hand traps, we can run the lone copy of Gorz, the Emissary of Darkness along with two Tragoedia
. Gorz is great at stopping pushes and punishing players for overextending. Tragoedia
does double duty here; not only can it Block Attack
s, but the ability to copy levels can break Xyz plays wide open. Hieratic Duelists normally conserve the cards in their hand, so when Tragoedia
drops, it often brings along a 3000-3600 ATK body with it.
Consistency, consistency, consistency! This is the goal the spell package helps round out, with a full three copies of Pot of Duality
. Since Duality was introduced way back in 2010, slower strategies were given a great tool to fix their hands and lay the groundwork for upcoming turns. This is exactly what a combo deck needs, so Duality fits perfectly. A playset of Hieratic Seal of Convocation
is a must, because whenever an archetype is given its own tutor AND it’s not limited, use it!
A playset of Mystical Space Typhoon
along with Heavy Storm
form the basis of the deck’s spell and trap destruction. Staples in every top deck this format, they're essential at clearing problematic backrow cards like Fiendish Chain
and Safe Zone
, and crucial against debilitating side deck cards like Light-Imprisoning Mirror
and Messenger of Peace
used to be one of the cards that defined the Plant mirror matches of last format, and a well-timed one could win games. It's still just as powerful, but it's fallen out of favor even with the continued popularity - and now new accessibility - of Tour Guide From the Underworld
. What makes E-Con so good in Hieratics over other decks, is that it tributes, which triggers the ability of the Hieratic monsters to special a normal Dragon. Not only does it help you work towards the goal of your deck, you get your opponent’s monster in the process to either swing with, or use for a powerful Xyz summon. Enemy Controller
in the main deck also helps you perform like you’re pre-sided for Chaos Dragons, which can be a difficult matchup for Hieratics due to their big attackers. But just steal their Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
, shut off the Lightpulsar Dragon
soft-lock, and go for game! Enemy Controller
's amazing: definitely run three. It should also be noted that E-Con can help you get around Evolzar Dolkk: you can steal it and force it to negate its own effect to get rid of it, or use it as part of your push.
The spell lineup is rounded out by Monster Reborn
and Dark Hole
, along with Book of Moon
for a bit of protection, but consider this the “flex” spot where you can add in whatever tech you like. I’ve personally been testing Monster Gate
with much success, since hitting anything besides Effect Veiler
is really solid.
One lone Treacherous Trap Hole
brings the main deck to 40 cards. The advantage of running so few traps is that it makes your opponent’s Mystical Space Typhoon
s and Heavy Storm
dead cards in hand, or even better, on the field where they can lock themselves out of Gorz. Treacherous Trap Hole
serves as a great one-of which can clear your opponent’s fields in a pinch. This is another flex spot, so feel free to try your own personal tech picks here if you like.
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Now that we’ve taken care of the main deck, it's time to look to the side!
has quickly become a staple in side decks since Chaos Dragon rose to Championship-level status. The reason for three in the side deck is that it's great not just against Chaos Dragons, but Dino Rabbit and the Hieratic mirror match as well. Dino Rabbit can be a very difficult match-up, since Laggia can shut down a critical Xyz Summon. But with Enemy Controller
to take care of Dolkka, why not just take their Laggia when they feel safe and push through their backrow? Electric Virus
enables so many OTKs and can often give you the Dragon monster you need to fuel your own Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
More hand traps are included in this side deck, with a pair of D.D. Crow
and Battle Fader
. D.D. Crow
is for those pesky Wind-Ups (to stop the Hunter loop) and Inzektor combos. Maxx “C” has also proven to be very successful in this spot as well, and does double duty against the mirror match. Battle Fader
is amazing against Chaos Dragons and the Hieratic mirror, as it buys you a turn so that you can push back even stronger. Swift Scarecrow
is the other hand trap to use in this spot, since it's immune to Solemn Warning
, and you won’t have a monster on the field to clog up your Hieratic Dragon of Tefnuit
exploded at YCS Philadelphia as the go-to card for Chaos Dragons, causing Lightpulsar Dragon
to miss the timing on its effect (Soul Taker does the same thing to Elemental Hero The Shining
, too). Much of the side deck is devoted to Chaos Dragons, but spot removal is always good in a pinch. Soul Taker
is a highly versatile card, because unlike Smashing Ground
, you get to pick the target: it's great if you’re staring down a Wind-Up Zenmaines
and another monster you just want off the field.
is included to protect your Dragons from common side deck cards like Bottomless Trap Hole
and Dimensional Prison
, and can protect your monsters from a timely Torrential Tribute
. Lance also has the versatility of lowering a monster’s ATK, allowing Hieratic you to get over things you wouldn't be able to otherwise.
Finishing off the side deck are three Trap Stun
and one Royal Decree
, but the Decree can be considered a flex spot, and you can use another Forbidden Lance
, Forbidden Chalice
, or other card of your choice if you wish. Trap Stun
is so good: it’s chainable, and doesn't remain on the field (so it can’t be stopped by Mystical Space Typhoon
like Decree can be). The biggest strength of Trap Stun
lies in the fact that it can freeze your opponent’s backrow, locking them out of a Gorz which would otherwise save their life.
Other notable side deck cards are Ojama Trio
and Macro Cosmos
. Trio can clog opposing fields and give your opponent a monster to let you Special Summon Tefnuit. Hieratics can play Macro really effectively, since you can still go off under its effect, while stopping opposing Effect Veiler
s. It's also an all-around good card against Inzektors and Chaos Dragons.
This version of the deck really just wants to sit around and sculpt the perfect hand through means like Pot of Duality
and Cardcar D
, waiting to explode while also disrupting your opponent. You usually want to wait until you have a starting monster (Tefnuit or Esest), and at least two extra Hieratics, normally one being Su, and an Eset to take up your normal summon if you haven’t already used it. This extra bit of security can help you fight through Effect Veiler
s in the case that your initial Hieratic Dragon of Atum gets negated.
Depending on your matchup, you either want to end with a Photon Strike Bounzer
or Number 25: Force Focus
on the field. Photon Strike Bounzer
is great against Inzektors, since they can't activate any of their abilities and are forced to try and use Giga-Mantis and Sword to get over your guys. Force Focus can really hinder Chaos Dragons, since it stops Chaos Sorcerer
, Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon
, and even Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning
(until it attacks, that is).
Also, when you feel you're ready to make a push and take your opponent out, make sure you can! Don’t be afraid to try and start a small combo in order to bait opposing Veilers and backrow cards; this is all so that your final push really is final. So many times, Hieratic Duelists come up short and succumb to a devastating Dark Hole
. Hieratics needs alot of cards in hand to function properly, so once you put them all on the field, you better make that kill: the deck doesn't have the same resiliency to removal like Chaos Dragons have thanks to Lightpulsar Dragon
- Inzektors are normally a good match-up, because not only do you not commit to the field and give them things to blow up with Hornet, Rank 6 Xyz Monsters really put in work against the bugs. Photon Strike Bounzer
can be incredibly difficult for Inzektor Duelists to run over, especially with its 2700 ATK.
- Dino Rabbit falls here as a generally bad matchup, since Laggia and Dolkka can really mess with your combos. But if they're unable to kill you quickly, you can often run opposing Rabbit Duelists out of defensive options and force them to topdeck. Every card you play against Rabbit counts: you need to grind away their cards at as low of an expense to yourself as possible. Chaos Dragons can prove to be difficult Game 1, as your backrow destruction is dead, and their monsters are just big enough that you can’t get over them. Yet cards like Enemy Controller
in the main help alleviate this problem, and once Electric Virus
es and Battle Fader
are brought in from the side, a generally weak matchup turns into a strong one.
- Wind-Ups and Dark World are the bane of Hieratics' existence. Wind-Ups, even though they're another combo deck, can go off a bit faster and deplete your hand, the vital resource for Hieratics. By the time you’re able to restore your hand to push back, you’re too far behind and are susceptible to an OTK. Dark World can also be a horrible matchup, since they attack the hand and disrupt your setup, while also having a recurring 2700-3000 ATK beater in Grapha, Dragon of Dark World. Yet against both decks (well all decks), if you feel you're able to make a substantial push and establish field presence, take it. These match-ups are somewhat alleviated by the side deck, but Effect Veiler
is still your best defense against Wind-Ups, while D.D. Crow
can help take care of Grapha.
I’ve only highlighted one build of Hieratics here, but there are many different avenues of attack that you could take. Tour Guide From the Underworld
works great in here, mostly due to just how powerful she is, as well as her synergy with Enemy Controller
. By adding Tour Guide and Sangan
(in place of Cardcar D
and Pot of Duality
), you can play power cards like Black Luster Soldier and Pot of Avarice
You might also try the Ninja route with Ninja Grandmaster Hanzo
and Ninjitsu Art of Super-Transformation
, to tutor for the Appropriate
Hieratic monster. This build, although a good bit slower and more vulnerable to Veiler, can really help get rid of problematic monsters and immediately get you to the monster you need most.
Both of these strategies up the Dark monster count, so you could even try to add Lightpulsar Dragon
as a boss monster that synergizes nicely with Red-Eyes. Doing so also provides some level of field wipe protection, similar to the strength of Chaos Dragons. Run what build you’re most comfortable with, as each has their own strengths and weaknesses.
Well that’s all I have this week on the Hieratic archetype. Hopefully I was able to successfully give this deck the attention it deserves! Feel free to try out your own tech, since the core build is really flexible. Don't underestimate these Dragons going into Nationals, or you'll be in for a rude awakening. Test hard and prepare well, readers! | <urn:uuid:5d2dac3d-a29d-468d-8a15-3ba9ca89a2fa> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://yugioh.tcgplayer.com/db/article.asp?ID=2797 | 2013-06-20T08:51:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930126 | 4,336 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I spend the bulk of my time at Growing Tree Toys researching and writing about the new products that we put on our website. Like those descriptions of each toy that you see all the product pages. Some of the toys pique my curiosity and I want to learn more.
Recently it happened with the Sushi Slicing Box Play Set from Melissa and Doug. I started reading up on play food and was surprised to discover just how many different developmental benefits pretend play food toys offer kids. I’ve boiled down my findings into 5 wholesome benefits for you to devour! Bon appétit!
1. Self Confidence
When toddlers and preschoolers play with pretend food, they are in charge of their own imaginary worlds. Through their play, they can make sense of emotions and complex situations that they can’t yet express through language. It’s comforting for children to use familiar objects, like food, as they explore any insecurity related to the impermanence of family or care. Because playing with pretend play food imitates real life, it allows kids to get comfortable with a fundamental life skill, further building their self confidence and happiness.
2. Social Skills
Pretend play food is a perfect starting point for group play, because all kids are familiar with food. When toddlers play together with pretend play food, they have to interact and share toys. They also begin to have conversations and build bonds around common interests, such as what foods they each like and dislike.
3. Motor Skills
There are so many ways to use play food and all of them help kids refine their motor skills. Putting play food into pots, arranging it in a display for a pretend sale, slicing it or assembling pretend pizzas will all help children use to practice motor control and dexterity. In my opinion the two best play food sets for developing motor skills are the Cutting Fruit Crate Set and the Sandwich Making Set, both from Melissa and Doug.
4. Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Kids can learn habits through play. When they’re provided with play food that promotes healthy eating habits, like the Wooden Stir Fry Slicing Set, they learn to love and appreciate the foods that are good for their bodies!
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The great thing about pretend play is that you don’t need a toy for absolutely every component of the game. It’s extremely beneficial for kids to use their imaginations to turn different objects into parts of their play. Cooking play food under the couch cushions is thinking symbolically. Children that can use their imaginations in this way, transforming objects with their imaginations, are taking an important step toward learning written language and math. In written language, letters represent sounds and in math, numbers represent amounts. Very cool!
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It’s well known that Machiavelli drew on his own bitter experience of political humiliation and banishment from Florence in concocting his masterpiece of the dark arts of realpolitik, The Prince. This year is the 500th anniversary of those events. What is less well known is the role played in his downfall by a gaggle of young guys who’d had enough of the city’s repressive and illiberal anti-sodomy laws. 2012 may also therefore be the fifth centenary of the first gay direct action. Of course, modern notions of gay identity didn’t exist in the 16th century, but there is something about this story that conjures up the Stonewall protest and the antics of OutRage! or ACT UP in the late 1980s and ’90s.
By way of explanation I need to rewind a decade or so: Florence’s puritanical Republic of 1494 came about through the zeal of a delusional friar, Girolamo Savonarola, whose policies included the original Bonfire of the Vanities and, of course, the demonization of men who had sex with other men. Savonarola demanded the full force of the law be devoted to the prosecution of sodomy, with increased sentences, including a precursor to “three strikes and you’re out.” All this is reminiscent of the Anti-Homosexuality Bill again before the Ugandan Parliament, with repeat convictions defined as aggravated homosexuality (not to be confused with aggravating homosexuals — I’m sure we all know plenty of them), punishable with life.
Savonarola got his comeuppance: He went the way of the vanities in that bonfire. A flicker of a different sort of flame, that of the individual human spirit, burned briefly, leading one city magistrate to exclaim, “Thank God! Now we can sodomize,” but it didn’t catch. The friar might have been dead, yet for the youth of the Street of the Furriers (where haute couture met the bath house), there was no respite. Florence’s beleaguered sodomites remained an easy target for a superficial veneer of moral opprobrium: The anti-sodomy laws were rigidly enforced and, of course, abused. What better way to discredit political opponents, settle feuds, or pursue a vendetta than an allegation of sodomy? As Michael Rocke’s work has shown, through a special magistracy, the aptly named Office of the Night, prosecutions multiplied.
Things had not always been this way. Under the Medici regime, driven from Florence by Savonarola’s evangelical hounds, the culture had been far more liberal in its attitude toward same-sex love. Young men in particular, the main target of the Republic’s witch hunt, must have looked back wistfully to the days of Carnival drag balls and the inclusive caress of the Platonic Academy.
Recent events show that there’s only so much people can take of state-sanctioned repression of fundamental human identity. The end came with an external crisis; as Machiavelli was to write, “Affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without.” In August 1512 the Republic’s backing the wrong horse in the power struggles of the peninsula brought a Papal-Spanish coalition to the city’s gates, led by the sons of that Medici colossus, Lorenzo the Magnificent. On August 31, as the heat of its summer streets began to drive Florence’s terrified citizens indoors, 30 young men met at the palace of the Albizzi family, passing out weapons and stitching diamond rings (a Medici symbol) to their doublets; described as “shady” by one contemporary, they would call themselves the Diamante club (proving that even then diamonds were a girl’s best friend). Their leader was a local 26-year-old pinup, Anton Francesco degli Albizzi, whose smile, according to a later portrait, was as subversive as his politics, and whose family had suffered persecution under the sodomy laws.
As the gang swanned across the piazza to the Palazzo della Signoria, boisterously catcalling that they’d had enough, the stilettos were out — the slim, pointed blade that is. A message had already been smuggled to the Medici brothers that Albizzi would come to collect them that evening. The palace guards were quickly overpowered and the young men strutted through the Great Hall, where Leonardo da Vinci’s recent battle mural was already fading to shadow. Tanked up with 18 years of oppression and with a cry of Palle (loosely translated as “Balls,” another Medici insignia, but, hey ho), they stormed the council chamber.
Piero Soderini, who had been appointed a sort of dictator for life 10 years earlier, started from his chair when these demimonde fifth columnists burst in. Their demands would have made his head spin. Along with Soderini’s instant resignation, Albizzi’s posse required the Signoria to overturn all convictions for sodomy and cancel all sentences, such as exile, imprisonment, fines, and disqualification from political office of those convicted. They also demanded a complete overhaul of the laws governing same-sex sexual conduct.
This is where Machiavelli comes into the story. The architect of Florence’s foreign policy, he had often sneered at the Furrier Street boys’ hankering after the exiled Medici. In danger of being thrown from his office window onto the piazza below if he didn’t comply, Soderini instructed Machiavelli to surrender the city. When he reached the Medici camp, however, he found Albizzi had pre-empted him: There was nothing to negotiate; Soderini had fled, leaving his subordinate isolated. The other departing magistrates refused to grant a general amnesty, but their pro-Medici replacements didn’t forget Diamante support in forging a bloodless coup; within two weeks convictions and sentences were quashed, and within two years sodomy laws were overhauled to make them more “gay-friendly.”
It is tempting to contemplate Machiavelli sitting in exile brooding over how a bunch of queens had got the better of him, but he was smarter than that: He must have recognized that the coup’s leaders had seized their opportunity, using a crisis to score a victory against their persecutors. His conclusion was a balance of oppressive laws, showing he had failed to learn from what ultimately led to the 1512 coup. There are no winners in laws criminalizing identity.
Brucker, G., “Florence and Savonarola: The Intolerable Burden,” Studies in the Italian Renaissance, G. P. Biasin, A. Mancini and N. Perella eds., Naples 1985, pp. 119-33
Cambi, G., Istorie di Giovanni Cambi cittadino fiorentino in Delizie degli erutidi toscani, I. Di San Luigi ed., 24 vols., Florence 1770-1786, vol. 21, p. 252
Filipepi, S., Cronaca, in Scelta di prediche e scritte di fra Girolamo Savonarola, P. Villari and E. Casanova eds., Florence 1898, p. 507
Guicciardini, F., Storie Fiorentine, Novara 1977, p. 138
Hale, J. R., Florence and the Medici: The Pattern of Control, London 1977, pp. 94-95
Rocke, M., Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance Florence, Oxford and New York 1996, pp. 217-21; 228-29
Ruggiero, G., Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self and Society in the Italian Renaissance, John Hopkins, Baltimore 2007, pp. 138-39
Stephens, J., The Fall of the Florentine Republic, 1512-1530, Oxford 1983, p. 58
Strathern, P., The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance, London 2003, p. 261
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There is a lot of different video editing software to choose from. This is not a complete list, but gives some options to choose from.
Final cut http://www.apple.com/finalcutpro/
CyberLink PowerDirector http://www.cyberlink.com/products/powerdirector/overview_en_US.html?&r=1
Microsoft Movie Maker http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/get-movie-maker
Apple iMovie www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Avid FreeDV http://www.avid.com/us/resources/freedv
Creating Brickfilm in Adobe Flash works well as it is set up like a lot of the other programs, include features like onion skinning.
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Love this article. I have been in my rental 7 years after selling my home and I love it. Once you have owned a home that mentality never leaves you, because it's not where u live its how you live. I could not live in a space and never change it. As I change so does my space. In fact, it starts with my space. I firmly believe when you take care of your space you take care of yourself. The fact is even with a mortgage you are still renting until you have that deed in hand. If it is really yours no one can come and take it from you. Perspective!
YOLO: The Renter's Edition
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"In a region where women are stoned, gays are hanged, Christians are persecuted, Israel ... is different.... Of the 300 million Arabs in the Middle East and North Africa, only Israel's Arab citizens enjoy real democratic rights.... Israel is not what is wrong about the Middle East. Israel is what is right about the Middle East."(I love that quotation so much that I have it, of course, on my sidebar.)
How very sad it is, that despite all of the humanitarian, medical, and technological breakthroughs Israel has achieved for the benefit of humankind as a whole, despite it being the first country in the Middle East to enfranchise Arab women, and despite its tolerance of homosexuals in contrast to so many of its neighbours, the motion that "Israel is a Force for Good in the Middle East" was lost in a debate at the Oxford Union last week.
The drip drip drip of media bias and other propaganda has again wrought its mischievous work.
"It’s well nigh impossible to win an Israel debate at a British University, so to achieve nearly 40 per entof the vote is a great achievement."And as one of the most doughty, combative, and energetic of Israel's champions in the United Kingdom, he's in a position to know.
His illuminating account of the debate, dated 1 February, is cross-posted below from the JCBlogs.
Writes Jonathan Hoffman:
'The motion "This House Believes That Israel is a Force For Good in the Middle East" was defeated 132-208 at the Oxford Union Debating Society last night. It was a good debate with none of the drama that has preceded some other Israel debates at the Union. For example in 2007 most of the external speakers pulled out after Norman Finkelstein was disinvited (the motion was "This House Believes that One State is the Only Solution to the Israel Palestine Conflict" and Finkelstein bizarrely was invited to speak against the motion). It was clear from the quality of the debate that a lot of hard work had gone into the evening by Union President Maria Rioumine [for whom see here] and her colleagues.
For the motion were Ella Robertson, a student at Balliol; Alan Mendoza (Director, Henry Jackson Society, replacing Stephen Pollard [editor of the Jewish Chronicle] at very short notice), Richard Perle (Assistant Secretary of Defence under President Reagan), and Lord [David] Trimble (Co-founder of Friends of Israel Initiative and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for helping secure peace in Northern Ireland).
Ghada Karmi, Baroness Jenny Tonge, Anna Baltzer (a pro-Palestinian campaigner in the US), and [gay rights campaigner] Peter Tatchell.
It’s well nigh impossible to win an Israel debate at a British University so to achieve nearly 40 per ceent of the vote is a great achievement. And the speakers for the motion were good.
Ella Robertson spoke about Israel’s contribution to stability in the region, to democracy and liberalism and to the economy of the Middle East.
Alan Mendoza pointed out that Israel produces weapons of peace – for example, Iron Dome, which was possibly the main reason why the Israeli government did not feel obliged to commit ground forces in Operation Pillar of Defence last year. He contrasted Israel’s liberalism with Gaza where students have recently been forced to wear Islamic dress.
Richard Perle suggested that the criticism from the opposition speakers was not criticism of Israel per se but criticism of Israel’s right to defend itself. Israel’s non-aggressive nuclear policy was proved by the fact that Saudi Arabia and Egypt would want a nuclear capability if Iran had one but they have never wanted one to counter Israel’s assumed nuclear capability.
Turkel Committee. Cabinet papers had been made available to the Committee and moreover he had seen that all orders placed with Israeli coordinators by merchants in Gaza had been fulfilled. He said that Palestinian negotiators had failed even to respond to Olmert’s peace offer. If Israel was genuinely bent on enlarging its territory – as the opposition claimed – then it would have annexed Judea and Samaria years ago. When asked if they wanted to join a Palestinian State, Israeli Arabs expressed an overwhelming desire to stay in Israel.
From the opponents of the Motion came the usual fallacies:
From Ghada Karmi
-that the Haganah terrorised Arabs into fleeing in 1948 (wrong – as Efraim Karsh has shown, the majority of the Arab refugees did not flee in response to Jewish forces – the Mayor of Haifa even pleaded with them to stay);
-that Israel has ‘caused four wars’!;
-that Israel takes 80% of the water of Judea and Samaria – not true;
-that Islamic extremism is caused by Israel; nonsense, the Muslim Brotherhood – the first extremist organisation – was founded in 1930Peter Tatchell showed three maps which purported to show that Israel had ‘grabbed land’ but in fact showed that Israel had successfully defended itself three times and had successively moved into more defensible areas. And he said 'Jews deserve a homeland but not at the expense of the indigenous people' – but the fact is that Jews are an 'indigenous people' with practically unbroken presence near Jerusalem for thousands of years.
From Anna Baltzer we got the ‘apartheid’ comparison – she cited some South African Commission which concluded that Israel practises so-called ‘apartheid’. This of course is The Big Lie – otherwise why would most Israeli Arabs say that they would prefer to live in Israel than in a Palestinian State?
Omar Shweiki, a Palestinian, also spoke with passion against the motion from the floor.
Unfortunately there is not time in these debates to unpick some of the falsehoods. It is that – plus media bias plus the naïve perception of the Palestinians as ‘underdogs – which make motions like these so hard to win, however good the pro-Israel speakers. [Emphasis added here and below]
But to get nearly 40 per cent support for Israel at a British university in this day and age is a triumph." | <urn:uuid:27dd601f-6da0-469c-9832-9ff70c91d771> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://daphneanson.blogspot.com/2013/02/amid-oxfords-dreaming-spires-israel.html | 2013-05-18T08:01:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965329 | 1,282 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Gordon Smith, Alhambra
Thu, 19th Apr 2012
Hailed as Britain`s most accurate medium Gordon has been featured in numerous television documentaries including the BBC`s Everyman, "Mediums: Talking With the Dead" 3 part series as well as appearing as an expert guest on various shows such as This Morning, Richard and Judy and the BBC`s Heaven and Earth. click here for web link
Gordon has also presented one of the nation`s favourite paranormal shows, Living TV`s `Most Haunted`, as well as his own series on the Biography Channel. He even managed to find the time to squeeze in a cameo in a Jacki Collins movie, Paris Connections!
He has travelled to many parts of the world to appear before audiences, read for many celebrities, and written numerous books, including Spirit Messenger and The Unbelievable Truth, which have been published to critical acclaim.
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|The Triple Crown Placards|
What I did know was that I was very excited to potentially see history. I don't think I watched the War Emblem or Funny Cide Triple Crown shots, but for some reason the little horse (maybe because he was from Philly - where my family has most of its roots) had me obsessed with watching the race. All afternoon I kept asking the Space Gal what time it was because we couldn't miss the race. I don't remember the name of the bar we were at, just that the owner/bartender was trying to convince us he came up with the "bucket of beer" concept. Whatever. Just give us a bucket of Buds and Bud Lights and turn on the race.
I remember a couple from Kentucky were watching with us (random meeting) and explaining the situation to us. I remember cheering on Smarty and having my heart race as he rounded the turn at the top of the stretch with a four length lead. Then I remember the moan of the crowd (it came right through the television) as Birdstone kept gaining on him before he flew by him in the final 50 yards. It was 26 years back then, but now it's 34 years since Affirmed won the Triple Crown. Since Smarty Jones' Belmont, I've attended five straight, this year will be No. 6. I've come to really appreciate Belmont Park as a race track and I've tried to see something new everytime I'm there.
So what makes it so cool...especially on Belmont Stakes Day?
1. The Triple Crown Placards. With a Triple Crown in play, they roll out the Placards of the silks of the 11 previous Triple Crown winners (see picture above). It's kind of spooky actually, since it's been so long and the connections have to see them out there all day long. I captured that picture on Belmont Stakes Day in 2008 when Big Brown made his attempt at joining the TC club.
2. The Backyard Bands. Last year, the Space Gal and I spent some time listening to some of the backyard banks and relaxed with a cocktail while watching one of the earlier stakes races on the big screens set up throughout the park section.
|The Belmont Bands|
|This one sounds familiar...|
|The Man, the Myth, the Legend|
7. The Belmont Barbershop. Need a trim before the race? Why not...
|Note the Belmont Park cap!|
Honorable Mention: 24 oz. Heinekens (enter at your own risk or I'll Have Another), Food Row (BBQ at its best), The Overall Largess of the Physical Plant and Secretariat Statue in the Paddock.
For those of us out-of-towners who don't frequent Belmont as much there is so much to see and I'm sure I've only touched a tip of the iceberg of the cool things about Belmont. 18 days and counting. | <urn:uuid:54bcc6a7-2a26-44d2-a2d4-50eb1605d00d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://equispace.blogspot.com/2012/05/cool-things-about-belmont-park.html | 2013-05-18T05:49:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977699 | 620 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Reposted from Don’t Get Fooled Again:
Late last week the BBC chose to delete from its website a damning Newsnight investigation into the Trafigura scandal, following legal threats from the company and its controversial lawyers, Carter-Ruck.
Previously, other media outlets including the Times and the Independent, had withdrawn stories about the case, amid concerns that the UK press is choosing to engage in self-censorship, rather than risk a confrontation with such a powerful company in the UK’s archaic and one-sided libel courts.
The BBC is a dominant player within the UK media, and its independence – supposedly guaranteed by the millions it receives from licence-payers each year – is vital both to its public service function and its global reputation.
Freedom of speech means very little without an effective and independent media – if it’s true that the BBC’s independence can so easily be compromised by legal threats, then this sets a very dangerous precedent for the future.
The mainstream UK media has so far assiduously avoided reporting on the BBC’s climbdown. Yet it’s an issue that raises serious questions about the state of press freedom in Britain, at a time of unprecedented attacks on the media.
Sorry about merely reposting Richard Wilson’s words, time was short – but here is a link to the Minton report that Trafigura was so anxious to stop the world from knowing about. | <urn:uuid:171559fc-d0e2-4377-ae57-985b45a18cde> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://eveningperson.wordpress.com/tag/carter-ruck/ | 2013-05-18T08:02:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95818 | 298 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Monster Jam Tickets at the Sun National Bank Center on 01/04/2013 at 07:30 PM
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Today we resume a holiday tradition, the annual Christmas story by Chris Satullo and Tony Auth. This year's story, Certain Poor Shepherds, follows a young Philadelphia woman who befriends and tries to help... | <urn:uuid:fc3df9de-6380-4840-861a-f2e2c4670f27> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://events.nbcphiladelphia.com/trenton/events/monster-jam-/E0-001-045067281-8 | 2013-05-18T06:01:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829832 | 131 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
|18th Nov 2001, 09:56 PM||#1|
Alright. I've been a player of inf for quite awhile now, and consider the best mod I've ever seen.
However, as of late I have been having a severe problem with connectivity. Until maybe a week or two ago, I'd have about 100-150 ping on most servers. I still get the same numbers when pinging them in browser, but the second i join the number scales up continually until it reaches 2 - 4k. Obviously unplayable.
It does this will all servers. It's not my connection, I've tested my bandwidth and it comes up around its usual 100 kbps (I have cable). My friend, who lives a few blocks away, and has the same service, has no problems.
Occasionally the ping will drop into playable ranges, but never for long. I have scanned for viruses, cleaned my hd, and reinstalled both UT and INF. I have never had a problem with the game previously, so I'm guessing its something I installed/removed recently. I've tried running from a restart with anything non-critical disabled using msconfig.
The problem has increasingly gotten worse over the past few days, from usually being playable, to now never being playable. I have no clue whats up with UT/INF. The game doesnt stutter or jerk, I only get extreme delay. No packet loss.
Oh, and other games run fine, including Mechwarrior 4, Diablo 2, StarCraft, and Halflife. Normal UT has the same problem as INF.
Any possible sugestions on what could be causing this problem? Could it be a file I accidentally removed, or something else interfereing.
I doubt it's hardware, since it worked fine until recently, but jic, heres my specs:
AMD Duron 700
192 megs ram
Voodoo 5500 64mb vram (agp)
20 gig hd, 2 partitions (UT is on the windows side... the other is a backup)
Cable modem connected to standard 10/100 ethernet card
I have yet to test it using dialup.
|19th Nov 2001, 10:35 AM||#2|
I only played online once and had a ping of 500. Lousy third-world country!
I think you should reinstall ut and infiltration but: You shoul de-install, delete all and re-install. Donīt do this if you are not sure. I solved a problem doing that. Check if you have set the game to the proper bandwith. (An option in the main menu)
Does the problem started with 2.86 or you could play it and the problem started later?
|19th Nov 2001, 10:43 AM||#3|
I have already uninstalled and reinstalled UT/INF. I have also done this on my second harddisk, with no effect. As for a format, I planned on doing this soon, but I have no system backup (not even an OS disk). Its on that second partition (lousy damn compaq piece of...). As a side node, if anyone can tell me how to format only the one partition, that would be great . All I'm used to doing is F-Disk off the windows disk, then a complete reinstall of OS, drivers, then games.
This just started a week or two ago, all versions of inf worked before this. I don't really remember because at the time it was a minor annoyance fixed by rebooting. Now that doesnt help :/. I've already fiddled with the bandwidth, didn't help with any setting.
This morning it's working fine, so it leaves me to wonder is it's a problem with my isp. However, it seems strange that I should have this problem and my friend, who lives only a few blocks away with the same isp, does not.
I tried switching ethernet cables and modems, to no effect.
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So what do you do when you're in a condo at the beach and it's been pouring down rain for two days? Well, if you're me, and the two days have been recently, you watch the Olympics. A lot of them. I now know, in principle at least, how Greco-Roman wrestling is scored and judged, so if that ever comes up on Jeopardy!, well, that's another few hundred bucks for me, I guess. Anyway, halfway through the 2008 games, here are the Five Things I Like Best About This Year's Olympics So Far:
Michael Phelps kicking ass
A few people, my mom included, have complained to varying degrees about the attention that's being showered upon Phelps this summer as he tries for eight gold medals in a single Olympics. And while the media hype might be a wee bit excessive, I would counter that a) winning more gold medals than anyone in history is still a pretty big deal, and b) if someone has to be getting this attention, I'd much rather it be a genuinely good kid like Phelps who's a team player, works his ass off and only gets attention for a few months every four years than some douchelick like Kobe Bryant who pulls down nearly $20 million a year and still finds stuff to whine and complain about and who gets thousand-word columns written about him if he so much as farts after a big meal. So anyway, good luck, Phelps. And to your teammates, one of whom in particular was primarily responsible for . . .
That French swimmer getting punked in the relay
Alain Bernard, above, is the French swimmer who confidently stated before the Olympics started that the French relay team would "smash" their American counterparts in the 4x100. He's also the guy who, handed a big lead in the last leg of said relay, got smoked by American swimmer Jason Lezak on his way to settling for a silver medal while Team USA picked up the gold. A more perfect karmic outcome you could not have possibly scripted -- other than, perhaps, Team France tying Team Germany for first place, only to have the French Olympic Committee immediately drop all appeals and surrender the gold to the Germans. Let that be a lesson to you, Frenchy.
OK, so she fell on her ass in the floor exercise during the team all-around competition. But it was such a . . . nice ass. We were all thinking it, I just said it, OK? I mean, all things considered, you have to fall on an ass, that's the one you want to be falling on. And the fact that the judges evidently didn't take that into account leads me to wonder if they really were against Team USA all along. Whose side are they on, anyway?
China getting called out for letting that one little girl lip-sync to that other little girl's singing
No offense to my readers in China, but -- wait, what am I saying? There's no way this blog would make it past the Internet censors in China. So I can say without fear of offending any native Chinese people that China is one seriously messed-up country. No, let me walk that back a bit -- they have one seriously messed-up government. These people are going to micromanage the opening ceremonies to the point of shoving 7-year old Yang Peiyi (left) into the shadows so that the supposedly cuter 9-year-old Lin Miaoke (right) could lip-sync to her rendition of the Chinese national anthem? I mean, we are one shallow-ass country here in the U.S. and A., but even we'd never tell a 7-year-old girl her grill is too fucked up for her to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Anyway, as traumatic as I'm sure this must have been, I'm glad for the rest of the world's sake it was brought to light. And I think George W. Bush could probably raise his approval rating five points by offering Miss Peiyi and her family no-strings-attached asylum in the United States. "Come to America," he'd say, "where you succeed based on your talent rather than on your physical appearance. Well, most of the time. There's always the occasional exception *coughHeidiMontagcough*."
People from different countries not killing each other
OK, so there was that unfortunate incident when some random crazy Chinese guy stabbed an American to death in Beijing. But other than that, there haven't been any Russians killing Georgians, Americans killing Iranians, Palestinians killing Israelis, Pakistanis killing Indians, or vice versa to any of those. That, I think, is my favorite thing about the Olympics: People are too busy competing at sports to worry about wanting to blow each other up. I don't know if that's what people mean when they talk about the "Olympic spirit," but it's probably not the worst thing anyone could come up with.
Wow, I feel like everything's right with the world right now. Well, for the next 15 minutes or so, at least. Anyway, here's the iTunes-selected, beach-approved Random Ten:
1. They Might Be Giants, "Istanbul (Not Constantinople)"
2. Gnarls Barkley, "She Knows"
3. Goldie Lookin Chain, "Your Mother's Got a Penis"
4. The Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star"
5. Pet Shop Boys, "E-Mail"
6. Tears for Fears, "Mad World"
7. Q-Tip, "Higher"
8. Duran Duran, "Save a Prayer"
9. Dead Milkmen, "If You Love Someone Set Them On Fire"
10. Johnny Cash, "Orange Blossom Special"
Your turn -- the stuff you've loved (or hated) about the Olympics so far, and your Random Tens, in the comments. | <urn:uuid:11010e71-47b4-4b20-91ce-460635ac6562> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://heyjennyslater.blogspot.com/2008/08/friday-random-ten5-goes-for-gold.html?showComment=1218803820000 | 2013-05-18T05:26:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970942 | 1,236 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Why do people still have bachelor(ette) parties? Like, today, what is demonstrably changing in your day-to-day life after you get married, unless your relationship is completely fucked?
I was going to say people should have pre-baby parties, because that actually turns your social life upside-fucking-down, but women really get boned in that arrangement.
That pun wasn’t intended, but it is glorious and I apologize for nothing.
Because people like to celebrate shit and just need some kinda reason, no matter how flimsy. I don’t give a fuck about no Jesus, but I’ll eat like a king on Christmas and Easter, because it’s more fun than the alternative, which is those days just being ‘Monday’. | <urn:uuid:fe1e1073-4055-4de5-8756-8908e088b926> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://hipstertracker.tumblr.com/ | 2013-05-18T05:48:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950535 | 166 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Directional HDMI cables
October 8, 2008 Leave a comment
We offer HDMI cables from Structured Cable Products that have built-in repeaters. The repeater cables come in lengths of 75 and 100 foot lengths, and preserves the signal quality on long cable runs to the TV or A/V display device. When installing this cable, you must pay attention to which end of the cable goes where. The end labeled “OUTPUT” is connected to the display. Got that? The end labeled “OUTPUT” goes to the display. Take a look at the picture below. Nice, huh?! There it is…OUTPUT.
Unfortunately, there were zero instructions provided with the cables in earlier shipments of the product, and there have been reports of the cable being installed backwards. Not good. The cable won’t work if it’s installed backwards. Home Controls has since then inserted instructions in the product boxes that states the OUTPUT end goes to the display. The manufacturer has also informed me that instructions are now being included with the cables in newer shipments, so there won’t be (or better not be!) any more issues with mis-installed cables.
There you go. Happy HDMI-ing! | <urn:uuid:a7c0b46c-88fe-42ff-b157-4010bc987313> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://homecontrolsblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/directional-hdmi-cables/ | 2013-05-18T06:27:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931744 | 257 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Travel time information plays an important role in transportation and logistics. Much research has been done in the field of travel time prediction in local areas, aiming at accurate short-term predictions based on the current traffic situation and historical data of the area. In contrast, literature on prediction methods for long-range trips in large areas is rare, although it is highly relevant for logistics companies to manage their fleet of vehicles. In this paper, we present a new algorithm for predicting the remaining travel times of long-range trips. It makes use of nonparametric distribution-free regression models, which are applicable only in the presence of a sufficiently large database. Since, in contrast to local areas, such a base is visionary for large areas, we bring into play a dynamic data preparation to artificially enlarge the database. The algorithm also takes into account that routes of long-range trips are not completely given in advance but are rather unknown and subject to change. We illustrate our algorithm by means of simulations and a real-life case study at a German logistics company. The latter shows that, by our algorithm, the average relative error can be halved compared with conventional methods.
Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on (Volume:12 , Issue: 1 )
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anyone who thinks this is real is fucking stupid
…did Gaga really say that? Like. What.
Oh mah gawd.
Adele = <3
….what part of IT IS NOT REAL did you not get lol
hahahahhahahah yes adele tell that cunt!!!!
omfg wow you people just aren’t getting this.
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Bangalore, July 24 (IANS) As India's third largest IT bellwether, Wipro Ltd. too is battling to grow in a volatile currency market with uncertainty writ large due to global slowdown and sovereign debt crisis in Europe.
Though the global software major grew its topline and bottomline in double digits on annualised basis in rupee terms, its net income and revenue from its IT services business slipped sequentially in dollar terms in the first quarter (April-June) of this fiscal (2012-13) from previous quarter (January-March) of last fiscal (FY 2011-12).
As a result, the company Tuesday projected a flat growth of $1.54 billion revenue from its global IT services for the second quarter (July-September) of this fiscal (FY 2013).
"Revenue from our IT services business is expected to be $1.54 billion in second quarter (Q2) and marginally higher (1.3 percent) from $1,496 million ($1.5 billion) posted in first quarter (Q1) of this fiscal (FY 2013) under the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)," the company said in a statement here.
The company posted net profit of Rs.1,580 crore (Rs.15.8 billion) in first quarter, registering 18 percent year-on-year (YoY) growth and 6.7 percent sequentially (quarter-on-quarter) as per the Indian accounting system.
Similarly, consolidated revenue for the quarter under review (Q1) rose 24 percent YoY and 7.9 percent sequentially to Rs.10,653 crore (Rs.106.53 billion), including Rs.8,314 crore (Rs.83.14 billion) from its global IT services.
Under the IFRS, net income for first quarter is $284 million and total income $1.92 billion, including $1.5 billion from IT services.
In dollar terms, net income, however, declined 2.4 percent sequentially from $291 million from previous quarter.
"We have seen high levels of volatility in currencies globally," Wipro chief financial officer Suresh Senapaty said in the statement.
Unlike its peer Infosys Ltd., Wipro does not give annual revenue guidance.
"IT services revenue in dollar terms was impacted by $25 million due to cross-currency volatility," Senapaty pointed out.
IT services business accounts for 78 percent of the company's revenue and 93 percent of its operating income, which at 21 percent in first quarter was one percent lower YoY but fractionally (0.3 percent) higher sequentially from 20.7 percent in previous quarter.
"It today's complex business environment, global corporations are increasingly investing in transformational technology initiatives to improve competitiveness. We see this shift as an opportunity for us to lead this change and help customers differentiate in this fast evolving market," Wipro chairman Azim Premji said in the statement.
The IT services business added 37 clients during first quarter, taking the total number of clients to 919 as against 943 quarter ago and 937 a year ago.
"We have delivered revenues in line with our guidance in a volatile environment. We will continue to build differentiation and invest in technology driven business transformations for our customers as well as rewarding our talent," chief executive T.K. Kurien said.
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Choke, a newly-released movie and winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, features a scene in which one of the supporting characters wears an Information Society t-shirt.
Can you name the character who wore the Information Society t-shirt in the film and describe the t-shirt design?
Choke is now showing in theaters across the US. Check your local listings.
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wellalright: using the washroom and making eye contact with the bug in the corner of the ceiling. thinking things like, “stay where you are. don’t crawl near me. you could die today or we could both walk away from this unscathed, it’s up to you.”
I haven't written a personal post in a long while,...
Well, tomorrow is my last final exam ever at UCLA. After tomorrow, I chill out for a few days until friday when I graduate and have to put on my human suit permanently. Yikes. I have so many mixed emotions about this. It’s so bizarre. I can’t believe it. Four years really does go by so fast… Also, I think I’m officially going to be going to Boulder for Law School in the...
'Rock of Ages' Set For IMAX Run | THR →
popculturebrain: “I really need to see that on a giant screen,” said no one.
Does anyone else lie in bed at 2:30am filled with the crippling fear that they’re never going to accomplish anything in life and fail miserably or is that just me?
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After the attacks on September 11th, 2001 the No. 36 M&M’S car of Ken Schrader went to Dover with only an American Flag design covering the sheetmetal. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the events on 9/11/2001. To recognize those lost on that day, the M&M’S car of Kyle Busch will run the same paint scheme at Richmond. Enjoy these photos and a timelapse video of the car being wrapped in an American Flag.
Kyle Busch made history Friday night in Bristol, TN by winning this 50th NASCAR Nationwide Series win. In doing so he became the first driver to ever achieve the feat. Teammate Joey Logano wasn’t going to let the win go without a battle. Logano chased Busch down with 5 laps to go and races along side him on the final lap, eventually finishing second by 0.019 seconds! Brian Scott rounded out a great night for Joe Gibbs Racing, finishing 10th.
It was clear from the outset of today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Good Sam’s RV Insurance 500 that all three Joe Gibbs Racing entries brought a car capable of winning at Pocono Raceway. Indeed, all three teammates would share the lead through most of the day, but separate late-race incidents would keep each of them from their desired finish. Kyle Busch would lead JGR with a second-place finish, while Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano were forced to settle for 15th and 26th respectively.
Kyle Busch led Joe Gibbs Racing with a 10th-place finish in today’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Meanwhile teammates Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin would finish 25th and 27th respectively as different fuel strategies resulted in a shuffled field. | <urn:uuid:b05a5e50-e72f-4741-a87b-fa29e5c33b8d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://joegibbsracing.com/category/photos/page/4/ | 2013-05-18T08:11:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95242 | 374 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Dan Tolman, a JoS reader, sent in this picture of the Halloween pumpkin at Connecticut's unfortunately-named Yankee New England Real Estate.
Dan says it was carved by "our amazing pumpkin artist" Laura Frenzel of Winchester Center, CT.
There are also several more Red Sox pumpkins here, including Manny Being Mummy! There is also an early shot of the 2008 World Series Champs banner flying high at Fenway. Yes, 2008! | <urn:uuid:8b2c21d2-4a49-4793-b047-eb871fffac4c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://joyofsox.blogspot.com/2007/10/pumpkin.html?showComment=1193847840000 | 2013-05-18T06:46:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952749 | 93 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Shamokin bills county for $1,220 for Clausi's requests
SHAMOKIN - A $1,220 bill was sent from City Hall to Northumberland County commissioners seeking payment of legal costs stemming from Vinny Clausi's request for health care insurance information for Shamokin's elected officials.
The requests under the state's Right-to-Know Law were made via e-mail, mail and fax by Clausi through the commissioners office. With that, City Clerk Steve Bartos said the bill belongs to the county instead of Clausi alone.
In a Feb. 22 letter to the commissioners regarding the bill, Bartos wrote, "Although additional costs were incurred by the city in the way of man hours to process the four requests submitted, we are only seeking repayment of our legal costs at this time."
He requested repayment within 30 days from receipt of the letter.
Clausi says he has no intention of having the county pay.
"I'm not paying no bill," he said Monday. "They can take us to court."
Clausi made Right-to-Know requests on Nov. 13, 14, 27 and Dec. 18. He says he did so as a commissioner on behalf of three city residents who feared retribution if they requested the information themselves, and believes that the information should be made public because it involves public funds.
He sought specific costs for elected officials and their relatives enrolled in the city's health care plan at various intervals dating to 2006. If they waived insurance benefits, Clausi asked if they were compensated with a waiver check.
All four requests for information specific to an individual were denied by Bartos, the city's Right-to-Know officer, on the grounds that the information would violate privacy regulations. Bartos pointed to opinions both by the city's health care provider and a representative of U.S. Health and Human Services that supported his ruling.
Bartos did provide to Clausi aggregate amounts highlighted in city budgets over the past four years, along with general information on benefits offered under the health care plan.
Group benefits for council members, the mayor, controller, solicitor, community development officer and a secretary are lumped into one line item in the 2013 budget, according to Bartos. It totaled $121,901 for health, life and vision.
Both Mayor George Rozinskie and Councilman Michael Snyder declined health benefits in 2012, as told to The News-Item on prior occasions. Rozinskie confirmed Tuesday he also declined health benefits in 2013. Attempts to confirm that with Snyder were unsuccessful.
Bartos also answered Clausi's request for cell phone costs for the mayor and councilmen: the total, including projections for 2013, being $1,187.16 for Rozinskie. No councilmen have cell phone bills paid by the city, according to records included in Bartos' reply.
Clausi appealed the city's last rejection to the state Office of Open Records in December. That's when the city turned to a law firm with which it was already working to assist on the appeal, Barley Snyder of Harrisburg. The firm reviewed privacy regulations and the Right-to-Know Law and advised the city on such. It also filed a response to the appeal outlining an argument for denial. Its invoices for the work totaled $1,220, according to an e-mail to the city from the firm.
Bartos says the law provides avenues to recoup costs related to Right-to-Know requests, and it's city policy to charge for copies, postage and legal fees, but the city has sought only legal fees.
Clausi's appeal eventually was denied by the state due to a filing error, but there have been other cases involving health care cost records for public employees. (See separate story.)
Fellow Commissioner Stephen Bridy has followed Clausi's lead, filing a Right-to-Know request for the same information to the city on Feb. 20. That, too, was denied and was termed a "serial filing" and a "waste" of time and resources by Bartos in his reply letter.
Bridy filed an appeal with the state Tuesday. If it's rejected, Clausi suggested the county could sue the city. "We could get our solicitor to take them to court," he said.
There is an alternative option Clausi could pursue to acquire the information. According to Bartos, Clausi could ask each elected official individually to sign a waiver releasing the information.
Bartos said his office has spent ample time on the requests and responded to each one in detail. "I have more than a full week responding to this; at least 35 hours, at least," he said. | <urn:uuid:955deafb-d9e2-4999-90a6-2c28e616fcb0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newsitem.com/news/shamokin-bills-county-for-1-220-for-clausi-s-requests-1.1458241?localLinksEnabled=false | 2013-05-18T07:20:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970649 | 971 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Self-Care at the Margins: Meals and Meters in Migrants’ Diabetes Tactics
Article first published online: 13 DEC 2012
© 2012 by the American Anthropological Association
Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Volume 26, Issue 4, pages 518–533, December 2012
How to Cite
Guell, C. (2012), Self-Care at the Margins: Meals and Meters in Migrants’ Diabetes Tactics. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 26: 518–533. doi: 10.1111/maq.12005
- Issue published online: 13 DEC 2012
- Article first published online: 13 DEC 2012
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PROVIDENCE— Following a nine-day trial of often graphic testimony, Armando Garcia, 32, with a last known address of 486 Mineral Spring Ave., Pawtucket, was found guilty Thursday of the murder of 30-year-old Brooke Lee Verdoia by a Providence County Superior Court jury.
The jury deliberated for five hours before returning with the verdict, finding Garcia guilty of murder, failure to report a death and driving a motor vehicle without consent of the owner. The trial was presided over by Superior Court Justice Susan E. McGuirl.
According to Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, during the course of the trial, the state proved beyond a reasonable doubt that in the early morning hours of June 25, 2010, Garcia brutally attacked and murdered Verdoia in her home, while her young child slept. Garcia and Verdoia were involved in a romantic relationship at the time.
The evidence proved that Verdoia died from seven separate blunt force trauma injuries and seven stab wounds. After killing her in the living room, Garcia moved her lifeless body to her bedroom, where the State proved he staged a robbery and rape.
During the course of the investigation, Pawtucket Police located Verdoia’s Cadillac Escalade in the vicinity of the home of Garcia’s grandmother. A witness testified that while cleaning the Escalade at the request of the defendant, he saw blood on the interior of the vehicle. Despite the cleaning, blood was found inside the vehicle that was later determined to be Verdoia’s. Police obtained Garcia’s clothes, which also contained blood evidence. Once arrested, Garcia’s gave conflicting accounts to police and finally admitting he killed her.
“October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and I can think of no case more than this to remind us of the tragic consequences of domestic violence,” said Attorney General Kilmartin. “Brooke Verdoia was violently ripped away from her child and her family by a violent man who had no regard for her life. After he bludgeoned her to death, Garcia’s only concern was to cover up his crime as he staged her home and her body to make it appear as a robbery and rape. He was not concerned for the safety of Brooke’s young child, sleeping peacefully just a few feet away. He was not concerned for Brooke’s mother, who found her lifeless body the next day. While today’s verdict does nothing to bring Brooke back to her family, I hope it will serve as a stark reminder that we all need to do more to end domestic violence.”
Pawtucket Police Detectives Donti Rosciti and David Silva led the investigation. Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Criminal Division Stacey Veroni prosecuted the case on behalf of the Department of Attorney General. | <urn:uuid:b286c8b6-87a8-4200-a6e7-42d7da48a0cc> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://pawtuckettimes.com/content/garcia-found-guilty-murdering-girlfriend?quicktabs_2=1 | 2013-05-18T05:13:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973281 | 609 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Rodney to open season on DL
Tigers reliever has tendinitis; no timetable for return
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Fernando Rodney will open the season on the disabled list. How long the Tigers reliever will stay there is the new question.
The Tigers don't have to make a move with Rodney for another week and a half, but they formally announced Tuesday that they will place him on the DL, along with Joel Zumaya, Vance Wilson and Jordan Tata. Combined with the nine roster moves that the team formally made and the absence of reliever Francisco Cruceta, there are now 32 active players on Detroit's Spring Training roster.
Rodney is physically active, of course, but he's not progressing to the point where he has any chance to be ready for Opening Day on March 31. He threw another bullpen session on Tuesday, his third since coming down with right shoulder tendinitis in late February, and the results were not encouraging.
"He's not where we need him to be," pitching coach Chuck Hernandez said.
The session Tuesday lasted about five minutes, which is shorter than his previous two. Rodney threw all fastballs.
"We still haven't broken through," Hernandez continued, "and we're going to re-assess where we're at."
The Tigers will re-evaluate Rodney's throwing program, although the first step will be to give him a couple days off. An MRI exam on the shoulder a couple weeks ago showed no structural damage.
Even if Rodney's bullpen had gone splendidly, it most likely wouldn't have been enough to put him on track for Opening Day, even by Rodney's estimations. With Rodney needing to throw his other pitches off of a mound, then needing to face live hitters, any appearance in a Spring Training game would have come at the very end, if at all.
Tigers officials began the process of picking out a bullpen without Rodney last week, when Leyland said he considered it unlikely Rodney would return. His status leaves the Tigers needing to fill the eighth-inning setup role Rodney was expected to hold down.
Leyland called the loss a blow last week, but he said the Tigers will find a way to move on. They will most likely handle the eighth inning with various relievers according to the situation and the hitters coming up to bat.
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Dr. Regina Benjamin has been appointed by President Barack Obama to be the next Surgeon General. Benjamin says that her hope “is to be America’s doctor”. Check out the announcement from the White House Rose Garden.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor, nominated to the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama will head to hearings today to begin the process of her confirmation. Though RH Reality Check says that “no one expects dramatics”, we’ll see. Conservative politicians, pundits, and lobbyists have called her everything from an activist judge to a racist. Hopefully she will get the same fair treatment that every Supreme Court appointee deserves. Check out the live hearings on C-Span, and let us know your thoughts! Also, check out the live blog. We don’t really know Sotomayor’s legal or personal opinions on the topics of gay rights or abortion, so stay tuned. | <urn:uuid:89e57dd8-7cd0-4fa6-966e-6915b2cdfeb1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://raisingwomensvoices08.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/ | 2013-05-18T05:49:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941628 | 192 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Nina 'Bessy' Pump
These are beautiful. Fit perfectly. Nice heel height for a family wedding in spring. I think they will be very comfortable for the day long celebration and go beautifully with my Lilac silk shift.
Definitely pros and cons
I purchased the black shoes and they are beautiful. These shoes are definitely pointy and I wondered if I would hate that but they look classy and the arch is very sexily designed. I admired them on my feet while I was sitting down, resting, from standing in them a while. They aren't all that comfortable. The toe is narrow and I have a narrow-B width generally. I was surprised that my toes felt absolutely schmushed in this toe bed. I was aware of every step I took and in the background of my mind while I was standing, I felt my feet aching. Nevertheless, I grinned and bared it while dancing. Much to my amazement, not a single blister after an hour or two of rock and roll dancing!
When the shoes first arrived, and I tried them on, I notice that the heel of one shoe kept slipping off my foot. One of my feet is slightly smaller, by a half size. To rectify the slippage, I got a heel insert which I adhered to the shoe just hours before I went out, and it did the job well. My heel never slipped out again.
The next day, my feet were only a little sore and like I said no blisters.
I ordered this shoe in a half size down from what I normally wear, and they fit perfectly. I bought them to wear for my husband's company party and they were very comfortable the entire evening which is unusual for a dress shoe, which is probably due to the lower height. I danced in them all night and didn't feel the need to take them off. They are a quality shoe in both fabric and style.
Ruined my night
I needed shoes to go with an evening gown and bought these in a pinch. I probably should have walked around more in the store. I knew they weren't super comfortable when I first tried them but thought I could tolerate them and maybe break them in. Boy was I wrong! My feet were tore up by the end of the evening. It's hard to explain what is wrong with the fit. My feet are an 8 medium-not wide, not narrow- and most size 8 shoes fit well. These felt tight in the toes, yet slipped around on my heel enough to leave blisters. Just awkwardly made. I was glad to return them! | <urn:uuid:34931a42-bd20-4938-b79a-581aeeeca981> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/nina-bessy-pump/3305188?origin=category | 2013-05-18T07:27:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986106 | 532 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
‘Interact’ is at Top Right on every page:
Click & Type next to the magnifying glass to Search St_uff.
Beneath are 6 White Circles. (from left to right:)
Under this is another row of White Circles.
These are St_uff’s pages on social networking sites. (from left to right:) | <urn:uuid:44c3729c-f67c-4f36-98cc-227cb777e82b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://st.tumblr.com/interact | 2013-05-18T05:25:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87995 | 80 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
3 Steps to Changing Mobile Service Carriers
There comes a time in everyone’s life where he/she decides it’s time to switch mobile carriers. Either the costs are getting too high, you are experiencing low signal strength, or the service you are receiving from the company just isn’t what it used to be.
Deciding where to go from here is the hard part. How do you know if a different carrier will be any better? Is it worth the hassle of changing companies? It can be difficult to make this decision without any knowledge to back it up. Amy Gahran, independent writer and mobile technology enthusiast, explains the three steps you should take if you are thinking of changing mobile carriers:
- Document service problems and compare connection quality.
Record detailed notes about when and where your phone is dropping calls or the connection slows down. This will give you proof to show your current carrier (see step #3), and allow you to compare against other companies. You don’t want to leave one company for one that will be just as bad, if not worse. Recording the problems gives you proof and allows you to see what you need out of your next carrier.
- Research other carrier options.
You want to walk in to the fight being knowledgeable. If you walk in to a carrier with no knowledge about what you want or expect, you may walk out spending more than you ever needed to and being cheated more than you were with your old carrier. Figure out plans they have to offer, which phone really will suit your needs best (not just the newest and most expensive model), and if the service they provide is worth the money. I always suggest asking friends and family what their experience has been with different providers. They usually have some useful information when it comes to comparing.
- Complain to and negotiate with your current carrier.
Take that data you have collected in steps #1 and #2 and bring it to your provider. Show them at least one competitor that has comparable, if not better options for you. This gives you more power and they will work harder to keep you. They may cut down on fees or offer you other fixes for your dropped signal issues.
Gahran also suggests you consider early termination. “Also consider the business value of your connectivity. If your company loses sales or experiences other problems when your mobile connection fails, you might come out ahead by paying an early termination fee and switching carriers.”
It’s never easy making a change, but by following these three steps you will have the knowledge, and therefore the confidence, to get what you need from a mobile carrier.
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TBS and Rhino Records Crack Up the Jukebox with TBS TUNES: FUN TRACKS WISECRACKS
Collection of Power Pop to Tickle the Funny Bone Available from Rhino Records Jan. 10
TBS, television�s �very funny� network, and Rhino Records, the preeminent purveyor of hilarious harmonies, have teamed up for a comedy-rock compilation guaranteed to rock the funny bone. TBS TUNES: FUN TRACKS WISECRACKS, a new CD from Rhino Records, will be available Jan. 10 at regular retail outlets and at www.rhino.com and www.tbs.com for a suggested list price of $18.98.
�Through the use of popular music, specifically songs with a sense of humor, this dynamic compilation allows us to expand TBS�s position as a comedy brand,� said Jennifer Dorian, senior vice president, branding and business development for TBS and TNT. �We are proud to be working with Rhino Records as we find new ways reach comedy lovers.�
TBS TUNES: FUN TRACKS WISECRACKS contains 16 songs recorded between 1980 and 2005 that highlight uproarious tunes from a diverse group of hit-makers, including Devo, Squirrel Nut Zippers, They Might Be Giants, Citizen King, Was (Not Was), Less Than Jake and Wall Of Voodoo.
The collection features the #1 singles �One Week� by Barenaked Ladies, which topped Billboard�s Hot 100 in 1998, and �My Own Worst Enemy� by Lit, which topped Billboard�s Modern Rock chart in 1999. TBS TUNES: FUN TRACKS WISECRACKS also includes the gut/chart-busting tracks �Peaches� by The Presidents Of The United States Of America and �1985� by Grammy� -nominated Bowling For Soup.
Pop hooks and punch lines, TBS TUNES rocks with demented ditties like �Push Th� Little Daisies� from Ween�s 1992 cult classic Pure Guava; plants a tongue firmly in cheek for Cake�s cover of Gloria Gaynor�s 1979 #1 disco anthem �I Will Survive�; plays culture shock for laughs with Wall of Voodoo�s �Mexican Radio� from Stan Ridgway and company�s 1982 album, Call of the West; and gets giddy with The Supersuckers� take on the OutKast smash �Hey Ya!�
The following is the track listing for TBS TUNES: FUN TRACKS WISECRACKS:
1. �1985� � Bowling For Soup
2. �My Own Worst Enemy� � Lit
3. �Whip It� � Devo
4. �Birdhouse In Your Soul� � They Might Be Giants
5. �The Geeks Get The Girls� � American Hi-Fi
6. �Mr. Spock� � Nerf Herder
7. �Walk The Dinosaur� � Was (Not Was)
8. �Hell� � Squirrel Nut Zippers
9. �Push Th� Little Daisies� � Ween
10. �I Will Survive� � Cake
11. �Peaches� � Presidents Of The United States Of America
12. �Mexican Radio� � Wall Of Voodoo
13. �Better Days (And The Bottom Drops Out)� � Citizen King
14. �She�s Gonna Break Soon� � Less Than Jake
15. �One Week� � Barenaked Ladies
16. �Hey Ya!� � Supersuckers
Based in Burbank, California, Warner Music Group�s Rhino Entertainment serves as the central catalog development, licensing, soundtrack, and television marketing area for the corporation. Consisting of Rhino Records, Warner Music Group Soundtracks, Rhino Home Video, Warner Special Products, and WMG�s Television Marketing department, Rhino develops, markets, and promotes both audio and video products from the vast WMG catalog. The division is also responsible for licensing WMG�s music for film, television, and video game uses, and for creating custom premium products. Additionally, Rhino develops soundtrack opportunities for release by WMG labels.
TBS is television�s �very funny� network, serving as home to such hot contemporary comedies as Sex and the City, Everybody Loves Raymond, Family Guy, Seinfeld and Friends; original comedy series and specials, like Daisy Does America and Funniest Commercials of the Year: 2005; blockbuster movies; and hosted movie showcases.
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God created the nature in its finest and purest form. The virgin jungle abound millions of species of countless types and forms.As we know most some pet animals.While the wildlife is so mysterious and magnificent. We do not know the complete range of animals species. while we are living in modern age but we are such busy in materialistic world as honey bee. But It is the man who through his lens brings about the majesty and beauty of the animals and other living forms.Animals which are the most beautiful, attractive and most useful part of this universe, are so innocent. Here in under is a selection of 20 majestic animal portraits that people, both novices and professional photographers have shot in the open jungles of Africa and the close environment of the zoos. You can find here a very innocent cute sparrow but in very last image there is a beautiful image is looking for your interest.
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Nanotechnology is a hypothesized future manufacturing technology which would employ tremendous numbers of tiny robotic arms working together to construct human-scale products. This would come about via planar assembly, where each tiny nanorobot (consisting of perhaps a few million atoms) manufactures a tiny piece of the product, adding it to a main body bit by bit, until something macro-scale is created (for example, a laptop). For a visual example, see the film Productive Nanosystems: from Molecules to Superproducts (warning: file is 86.1MB in size).
How can we make huge numbers of nanorobotic arms? We’d need a reprogrammable nanorobotic arm capable of self-replicating using readily available materials. This will be difficult – at the macro-scale, we’ve made limited progress with such robotic arms. But if we could create such a self-replicator successfully, then we could instruct it to produce many trillions of copies of itself, and then reprogram those copies to work together to make human-sized products. A full “nanofactory” would require quite a bit of internal complexity. As listed by Eric Drexler, parts required would include:
a casing to protect its interior from air, moisture, and dirt inlets for liquid feedstocks to supply molecules for processing molecular sorting mechanisms to purify inputs alignment and binding mechanisms to organize streams of molecules mechanosynthetic devices to process inputs into reactive tools mechanosynthetic devices to apply tools to workpieces mill-style mechanisms to join workpieces into larger blocks programmable mechanisms to join blocks into complex products a port to deliver finished products while protecting the interior space motors to drive moving parts computers to control material flows and assembly mechanisms stored data and programs to direct the computers data communication channels to coordination actions electrical systems to distribute power a cooling system to dissipate waste heat a structural framework to support the casing and internal components
How can we possibly build and control robotic arms and other components at this miniscule scale? Using molecular dynamics, we have accurately modeled tiny motors, shafts, gears, bearings, and more. Scientists have already constructed DNA “walkers”, “nanocars”, molecular circuits, and other basic nanodevices. But putting these components together into something as complex as a nanofactory will take work. Chris Phoenix, Director of Research for CRN, has described some ideas “Design of a Primitive Nanofactory”, a breakthrough paper in the field.
Because of scaling laws, nanofactories will be tremendously productive. Large products, like automobiles, will be fabricated over the course of days or even hours. Large products, like buildings and aircraft carriers, will be built in weeks rather than years. Here is a visual explanation:
© 2004 Eric Drexler.
Smaller robotic arms move faster than larger arms. A product constructed by many tiny arms working together will be built much faster than a product constructed by a single, large robotic arm. This is the advantage of greatly improving the functionality per kilogram of tool. Another advantage of nanotech is atomic precision – you can put each atom exactly where you want it. For example, you can cheaply place carbon atoms in a 3-dimensional matrix of covalent bonds. This is called diamond. Because nanomachines would need to be very rigid to operate effectively, most preliminary designs call for diamond. The first nanofactories will likely be capable of building only diamond products, which will be quite effective for many purposes. These nanofactories will probably be desktop-sized, and theoretically capable of manufacturing their own weight in product in a few hours. (The main limitation is heat dissipation.)
Once you have a reprogrammable nanofactory that builds diamondoid products, you are in business. The blueprints for many common products will be reworked to accommodate all-diamondoid designs, which will be radically more effective than the originals. Stronger, more durable, and so on. This will be of particular interest in military applications, and therein lies the risk. A nanotechnological arms race could lead to our collective demise, or the creation of a global dictatorship. The technological advantage conferred by a successful implementation of nanotechnology would be massive. This technological advantage could be used to greatly expand human freedom or to limit it.
The Center for Responsible Nanotechnology explains these incredibly complex issues in very clear terms. Safe Utilization of Advanced Nanotechnology is a good place to start. For further exploration, there is the CRN blog, “Thirty Essential Nanotechnology Studies”, and Wise-Nano, a collaborative wiki project. Tens or hundreds of thousands of people have had their awareness of the risks and benefits of nanotechnology increased in the past three years due to the actions of CRN. This will increase the probability that the technology is wisely administrated and distributed when it arrives. If you find CRN’s work valuable, consider donating.
The safe implementation of molecular nanotechnology would throw our entire technological and scientific base so far into the future that the quick and effective implementation of SENS would only qualify as a minor subcategory of the potential benefits. Other benefits would include extremely cheap energy, personal transport, manufacturing capabilities, pure water, massively improved agriculture, computing, communications technology… and the list goes on. Conversely, the malicious application of advanced nanotechnology could lead to wars with millions or even billions of deaths. | <urn:uuid:15b2c2e2-8e34-4dad-a488-7594a14fd606> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2006/01/what-are-productive-nanosystems/ | 2013-05-18T06:54:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934027 | 1,125 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Krebs Reggie 6' LeashItem #: KR6
Krebs Reggie 6' Leash
Made in the USA
At Krebs Recycle, they are remaking the way dog leashes are made. Their leashes are fashioned from durable, pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled nylon climbing rope. In fact, they don't recycle rope, they up-cycle it, which is better than recycling because they use the rope in its original form and extend its life by transforming it into a dog leash. There are no carbon-intensive recycling processes to turn the rope into something else. So you get a great leash, the rope stays out of the landfill, and the environment gets a break.
* Made from durable recycled nylon climbing rope
* Rope width falls within 10-10.5 mm range
* 6 foot length
* Heat-shrink tubing protects hand-sewn knot from weather, wear & tear, and dirt
* Swivel snap for easy connection to leash
Because these leashes are made from recycled climbing rope, no two are alike. You may request in the comments section what main color you prefer, but we can not guarantee specific colors.
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A recent article published in the Louisville Courier-Journal titled “Stand Against Mountaintop Removal,” should be commended for the passion and concern displayed by its three co-authors – all sophomores in high school. These students are right to be concerned for the energy and environmental future of a state as beautiful and rich in natural resources as Kentucky, especially when the air quality of our most populated city consistently ranks at the bottom of the nation.
Unfortunately for these students and future leaders of the Bluegrass State, there’s a lot more to be concerned about in Kentucky than just our creeks, mountaintops, and aquatic wildlife. Kentuckians must also worry about this delicate balancing act: what happens when honest efforts to protect Kentucky’s natural habitats end up costing its citizens dearly, and how do we avoid such a road to calamity – a road paved by good intentions?
In recent months, the Environmental Protection Agency has provided a perfectly horrifying example of what can happen when no balance is struck – or even attempted.
Acting in the name of extreme environmentalism – i.e., without reasonable concern for the substantial costs of their eco-friendly edicts – the EPA has unilaterally imposed crippling mandates on coal-fired utility plants and threatened to choke the economic vitality out of Kentucky’s energy sector.
In fact, the EPA’s stance regarding Appalachian coal has become so manically unbalanced that EPA Regional Administrator Al Armendariz actually had to resign this week for his admission of the EPA’s strategy for enforcing its mandates against local dissenters:
“It [is] kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw, and they’d crucify them. And then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”
Armendariz went on to say, “you make examples out of people who are, in this case, not complying with the law … and you hit them as hard as you can” — to act as a “deterrent” to others.
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Brunch at Craigie On Main
BRUNCH SHOULD BE EASYGOING yet decadent, which Craigie on Main does beautifully. From savory (beef-tongue hash) to sweet (rich but fluffy pancakes), it’s worth getting out of bed for — even on a Sunday.
853 Main St., Cambridge, 617-497-5511, craigieonmain.com.
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A federal judge has ruled that Home Depot's attempt to obtain all social-networking posts by a former manager of its Burbank store was overly broad.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Suzanne Segal rejected the company's motion earlier this month, but did rule that Home Depot had the right to some social-networking communications as long as they're between former manager Danielle Mailhoit, who is suing the retailer for discrimination, and any current or former company employees, as long as they are related to her employment or the lawsuit.
She claims she was dismissed due to gender discrimination and because she suffered from vertigo. She claims in her lawsuit that vertigo is physically debilitating, and that the company did not make appropriate accommodations for her condition.
Home Depot has denied Mailhoit's allegations, arguing in court that there were legitimate reasons for letting her go.
Home Depot had requested all photos Mailhoit had posted or in which she was tagged, as well as any profiles or messages, on Internet social-networking sites from October 2005 — the approximate date Mailhoit claims she was first discriminated against — through the present.
In her ruling, Segal cited a federal rule that requires requests for documents be described with “reasonable particularity.”
She also said that while social-networking sites contain information that is available for public view, federal rules do now allow requesting parties “a generalized right to rummage at will through information.”
Stephen Holmes, a Home Depot spokesman, said the ruling was only one part of the trial.
“This was a minor element of the general discovery process,” Holmes said in a statement. “While we believe this was a legitimate request that could have served up relevant facts to counter the plaintiff's claims, we respect the judge's ruling.”
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Blog Posts Tagged "Career Advice"
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Just diagnosed and not sure what to do about work (or anything else)? You aren't alone. For most people, after they've talked to their healthcare team and family and have begun to put a treatment strategy in place, the next concern on their list is work.Continue Reading »
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Administration’s Medicaid Regulations Will Weaken Coverage, Harm States, and Strain Health Care System
Revised March 4, 2008
Over the last year, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a series of Medicaid regulations that could significantly affect health care at the state and local level. These regulations, most of which alter longstanding Medicaid policies, do not require congressional approval. In fact, in some cases Congress has expressly declined to enact the very same changes that HHS is now making through administrative action.
In addition, in December the Administration issued an interim final rule to implement a provision of the 2006 Deficit Reduction Act. The new rule goes well beyond Congress’s intent in that legislation, and does so in ways that will jeopardize access to essential health services.
Taken together, these regulatory changes will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $15 billion over the next five years, based on estimates from the Office of Management and Budget. New estimates from the Congressional Budget Office indicate the reductions would be larger and could equal $21 billion over five years. Most of these costs will simply be shifted to state and local governments, at a time when states have less capacity to absorb added costs given the economic slowdown and their weakening fiscal conditions.
The various regulations restrict how Medicaid pays for hospital services, graduate medical education, outpatient services, school-based health services, services for individuals with disabilities, and case management services. (See the Appendix for details.) While the direct impact will be greatest for Medicaid beneficiaries — particularly children and people with disabilities — the regulations will also have a substantial impact on educational services, the foster care system, and health care services such as trauma care and neonatal intensive care, upon which entire communities rely.
Congress has delayed some of the regulations, but they will soon take effect if Congress does not act swiftly to further postpone implementation. Without such action, states and localities that wish to maintain essential services such as case management for children in foster care and rehabilitation services for people with serious mental illness will be forced to scale back other parts of their budgets. In some cases, states and localities will be forced to cut services for Medicaid beneficiaries or cut payments to hospitals and other health care providers.
Large Costs Will Be Shifted to State and Local Governments
All of the regulations will shift costs to states and localities by limiting federal support for services that have typically been supported partly by federal funds and are widely seen as important and necessary.
For example, one regulation will eliminate all federal matching funds for various Medicaid-related activities designed to help low-income children — such as outreach, enrollment assistance, and health care coordination for these children — if the activities are performed by school personnel. The Administration concedes that these are proper activities in support of Medicaid; it simply does not want to help pay for them any longer when a state Medicaid program contracts with schools to provide them. This is a sharp departure from longstanding Medicaid practice. In fact, in 2000, three federal agencies published a guide to school-based health outreach noting that schools represent the “the single best link” for identifying and enrolling eligible low-income children in public health coverage. It also is inconsistent with statements the Administration issued when vetoing children’s health legislation last year that the Administration wants states to reach and enroll more of the poor children who are eligible for Medicaid but are uninsured.
Another regulation will prohibit states from claiming federal reimbursement for case management performed by child welfare agency workers or their contractors on behalf of children in foster care. These case management activities — which coordinate a child’s health care, educational, and social services — will still have to be provided. But federal Medicaid funds will no longer help to pay for them, even though most children in foster care are eligible for Medicaid and case management is a required service under Medicaid for children who need it.
States will have three options for making up the loss of federal Medicaid funds: 1) cutting back on their Medicaid programs by reducing eligibility (and thereby causing more low-income people to become uninsured), cutting back on health benefits, and/or reducing payments to providers (which already are lower than the payments that providers receive for treating most other patients); 2) cutting back on other state programs and using those funds to replace the lost federal Medicaid dollars; or 3) raising taxes. In states that choose the first option, low-income families, individuals with disabilities, and seniors could be dropped from Medicaid entirely or could face increased out-of-pocket costs or restricted access to providers.
Low-Income Children and People With Disabilities Will Have Fewer Health Care Services
The regulations will have a major impact on Medicaid beneficiaries. For example:
- The regulations will significantly limit Medicaid coverage for rehabilitation services provided to people with serious mental illness. They also will eliminate coverage for rehabilitation services that are “intrinsic elements” of other programs, such as foster care or child welfare. The Administration claims that beneficiaries can get the services they need through these other programs and Medicaid support thus is not necessary. The reality is different. In most cases, the other programs have limited funds and rely on Medicaid to pay for rehabilitative services for Medicaid beneficiaries; without Medicaid funding, many beneficiaries will not receive these needed services.
- The regulations will eliminate coverage for therapeutic foster care, in which children are placed in a private home with foster parents who are specially trained to help them improve a child’s condition. Therapeutic foster care has been proven effective in keeping children with serious emotional disorders out of psychiatric hospitals and residential care.
- The regulations will eliminate coverage for “day habilitation” programs, which are designed to help people with intellectual disabilities (formerly called mental retardation) and other developmental disabilities to acquire the skills they need to live in community-based settings and remain out of institutions.
- By eliminating Medicaid funding for school-based administrative activities, the regulations will likely increase the number of poor children who are eligible for Medicaid but remain uninsured, as well as the number of children with Medicaid coverage who do not get certain health care services they need.
Added Strains on Health System Will Affect Entire Community
The importance of the regulations goes far beyond Medicaid. Their impact will be felt across communities, as essential health care services become strained in a number of areas.
- Most states make supplemental Medicaid payments to public hospitals, both to cover part of the cost of providing care to the uninsured and to help these hospitals maintain services that benefit the entire community, such as neonatal intensive care and burn-treatment units. One of the regulations (in fact, the largest one, in terms of the amount of the federal savings it will produce) will significantly restrict the use of federal funds for this purpose. That will make it considerably harder for public hospitals to continue performing these tasks, even as the number of uninsured people seeking uncompensated care rises due to the economic downturn and mounting unemployment.
- If public hospitals are unable to sustain the level of care they provide to the uninsured, more costs will likely be shifted to private insurance companies, as health care providers raise their prices to recoup a portion of the costs for the uncompensated care they continue to provide. This cost-shifting will prompt further increases in health care premiums that many employers and families already struggle to afford.
- Another regulation will eliminate federal Medicaid funding for the costs of graduate medical education provided by teaching hospitals. This means fewer doctors may be trained, which would place added burdens on the nation’s health care delivery system at a time when the health care needs of an aging population are growing.
Regulations Reflect Ideological Goal of Scaling Back Medicaid
By restricting Medicaid reimbursement in areas such as care coordination, case management, and rehabilitative services, the Administration’s regulations seek to remake Medicaid in the image of commercial insurance that contains significant gaps in coverage for some people with serious health problems. As Diane Rowland, executive director of the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, explains, Medicaid has historically filled certain gaps that exist in Medicare and private health insurance in order “to offer the broad array of services needed by people with severe disabling conditions.”
In addition, Medicaid has always funded services that help low-income beneficiaries access health care services they need. In particular, Medicaid has always provided matching funds for activities that states are required to conduct as part of Medicaid’s Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) program to ensure that low-income children enrolled in Medicaid obtain health care services they need. Some states have contracted with school systems so that school nurses can inform families about EPSDT and help families arrange care for their children. In many states, school staff help coordinate the health care of students, especially those who have special health care needs. The Administration’s regulations eliminate federal matching funds for all of these activities if carried out by school personnel.
Recognizing the imminent harm the regulations pose, Congress acted on a bipartisan basis last year to delay implementation of the regulations concerning school-based and rehabilitation services, hospital payments, and graduate medical education payments. These moratoria will expire, however, within a few months. To prevent the Administration from making an “end run” around Congress to reshape Medicaid in ways that Congress never intended and in some cases expressly rejected, Congress will need to extend these moratoria and enact new moratoria to block the other harmful regulations.
Appendix Overview of Recent Regulations based on Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Cost Estimates
|Eliminates federal funds for outreach, enrollment assistance, coordination of health care services, and related activities by school personnel to enroll more eligible poor children in Medicaid. The rule also would reverse current policy that allows federal funds to be used to transport children to school if the children have special health needs and receive health care services at school.|| |
$635 million FY 2009
|Final rule issued; implementation delayed until 6/30/08 by Congressional action|
|Limits the types of rehabilitative services that states can cover with federal funds, including special instruction and therapy for children and other beneficiaries who have mental illness or developmental disabilities.||$360 million FY 2009 |
$2.5 billion FY 2009-2013
|Delayed by Congressional action 6/30/08|
Targeted Case Management
|Significantly limits federal Medicaid matching funds for case management services, going beyond changes to the Medicaid case management benefit that Congress enacted in the Deficit Reduction Act. The regulation will have a detrimental impact on beneficiaries, especially children in foster care and people with physical or mental disabilities or other chronic health conditions.|| |
$230 million FY 2009
|Interim final rule becomes effective 3/3/08|
|Limits payments to hospitals and other institutions operated by state or local governments to the cost of providing services to Medicaid beneficiaries. Also revises the definition of “providers” for purposes of Medicaid financing.||$790 million FY 2009 |
$5.7 billion FY 2009-2013
|Final rule issued; implementation delayed by Congressional action until 5/25/08|
Graduate Medical Education
|Eliminates federal Medicaid funding for the costs of graduate medical education (GME) provided by teaching hospitals.||$150 million FY 2009 |
$1.8 billion FY 2009-2013
|Delayed by Congressional action until 5/25/08|
Outpatient Clinic and Hospital Facility Services
|Changes the definition of outpatient hospital services to significantly narrow the types of services states can cover under this benefit category, severely restricting reimbursement rates for such services as hospital-based physician services, routine vision services, annual check-ups, and vaccinations.||CMS declined to estimate the impact of this proposed rule due to lack of available data.||Expected to be finalized in early 2008|
|Makes technical changes to provider tax rules that will limit states’ ability to raise federal Medicaid matching funds.|| |
$115 million FY 2009
|Final rule issued; effective 4/22/08|
Departmental Appeal Board Procedures
|Requires the HHS Departmental Appeals Board (DAB) to consider administrative directives, in addition to regulations and the Medicaid statute when making determinations, suggesting that the DAB should apply new interpretations retroactively even when those new interpretations are not required by the underlying law. Also allows the Secretary to overrule decisions of the Board, greatly enhancing Secretarial authority.||CMS determined that this was not a major rule and therefore was not required to provide a cost analysis.|
Source: Estimated federal Medicaid savings from all regulations, other than targeted case management and provider tax, taken from the President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget, Analytical Perspectives, Table 25-6, “Impact of Regulations, Expiring Authorizations, and Other Assumptions in the Baseline,” February 4, 2008. Estimated federal Medicaid savings from targeted case management and provider tax regulations are based on cost estimates of these regulations that the Administration issued in 2007.
The February 29 updated CBO budget baseline assumes the following estimated five-year federal Medicaid savings from these regulations: School-based Services: $4.2 billion; Rehab Services: $1.4 billion; TCM: $2 billion; Hospital Cost-limit: $9 billion; GME: $800 million; Outpatient Hospital Services: $300 million; Provider Tax: $600 million. If finalized, the savings from the Rehab Services, GME and Outpatient Hospital Services rules would be double the figures just cited, because the estimates cited here discount the estimated savings for those regulations by 50 percent, based on CBO’s assumption that there is only a 50 percent probability these regulations will actually be finalized and implemented. CBO has not provided year-by-year estimates of the federal savings from the regulations.
For a detailed discussion of these Medicaid regulations, seeMedicaid: Overview and Impact of New Regulations," Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, January 2008, http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/7739.pdf.
In 2005, the Administration tried — and failed — to persuade Congress to restrict certain rehabilitative services as part of the Deficit Reduction Act in the same way that the Administration has now restricted these very same services. Testimony of Dennis Smith, Senate Committee on Finance, June 28, 2005, at http://www.senate.gov/~finance/hearings/testimony/2005test/DStest062805.pdf In that same year, the Administration’s budget included a legislative proposal that would have limited payments to public hospitals. Congress did not act on that proposal, and the Administration is now attempting to accomplish the same result through a regulation.
For discussion of this interim final rule, see Judith Solomon, “New Medicaid Rules Would Limit Care for Children in Foster Care and People with Disabilities in Ways Congress Did Not Intend,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, revised, February 8, 2008, http://www.cbpp.org/12-21-07health.htm. The National Governors Association recently submitted comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to request that the agency consider revisions to make the interim final rule consistent with congressional intent. Letter from Raymond G. Scheppach, Executive Director, National Governors Association, to Kerry Weems, Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, February 4, 2008.
OMB’s estimate of the federal savings that the regulations would produce are, for all regulations other than targeted case management and provider tax rules, taken from the President’s Fiscal Year 2009 Budget, Analytical Perspectives, Table 25-6, “Impact of Regulations, Expiring Authorizations, and Other Assumptions in the Baseline,” February 4, 2008. Estimated federal savings for the targeted case management and provider tax regulations are based on the cost estimates of these regulations that the Administration issued in 2007.
According to the recently revised Congressional Budget Office budget baseline, the cumulative estimated savings from the regulations are approximately $17 billion over five years (FY 2009 – FY 2013). However, because CBO uses “probabilistic scoring” to reflect the possibility that some of these regulations may not, in fact be finalized and implemented, it has discounted the estimated savings derived from some of these regulations for purposes of its budget baseline. Without this discounting, CBO’s estimate of the savings that would result from implementation of all the regulations is $21.1 billion over five years. Congressional Budget Office, Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Administrative Actions Reflected in CBO’s Baseline, February 29, 2008, at: http://www.cbo.gov/budget/factsheets/2008b/medicaremedicaid.pdf.
The Administration has also recently proposed a new regulation that overhauls administrative appeals, diminishing the likelihood of meaningful review while increasing Secretarial authority in an unprecedented way.
The rules affecting school-based services and rehabilitative services have been delayed until June 30, 2008. Two of the regulations affecting payments to hospitals — the elimination of payments recognizing the costs of graduate medical education and the limits on payments to the costs of providing services — are delayed until May 25, 2008. (See the Appendix for more details.)
See, for example, Maria Glod, “Area Schools Set to Lose Millions Under Medicaid Policy Changes,” The Washington Post, February 3, 2008.
For more details about how Medicaid has contracted with schools for various administrative services and how the new regulation will disrupt this practice, see Judith Solomon and Donna Cohen Ross, “Administration Moves to Eviscerate Efforts to Enroll Uninsured Low-Income Children in Health Coverage Through the Schools: Bipartisan SCHIP Bill Would Temporarily Block Such Action,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, revised October 1, 2007, http://www.cbpp.org/9-17-07health.htm.
United States Department of Health and Human Services,Ready to Learn: A Guide for State Agencies Doing School-Based Outreach for Medicaid and SCHIP," November 2000.
See Judith Solomon, “Administration Moves to Withdraw Key Health Services from Children and Adults With Mental Illness and Other Disabilities,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, revised October 22, 2007, http://www.cbpp.org/9-25-07health.htm.
A recent study by Families USA found that more than one third of the total cost of health care services provided to people without health insurance is paid out-of-pocket by the uninsured themselves. Of the remainder, roughly one-third is reimbursed by a number of government programs, and two-thirds is paid through higher premiums for people with health insurance. See Families USA, “Paying a Premium: The Added Cost of Care for the Uninsured,” June 2005, http://www.familiesusa.org/assets/pdfs/Paying_a_Premium731e.pdf.
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, January 16, 2008.
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The Family Success Initiative is based on programs and services that move families to financial independence by helping them build the will and the means to achieve self-sufficiency. Through workforce development, financial literacy, income supports and educational access, CICF is helping hundreds of families overcome obstacles so they can be more productive, better educated and more successful.
Poverty is frequently a measurement of income, but economist and experts suggest it’s also a measurement of financial capability. Without financial capability (the combination of assets, financial literacy and access to mainstream financial services), generations of low-income families – and entire neighborhoods – are guaranteed lives of poverty and hardship.
To break the cycle of poverty and provide self-sufficiency programs and connected services to move families to financial independence by helping them build the will and the means to succeed.
Historical Context: In 2004, CICF, its affiliates and other partners and donors began a long-term initiative designed to help families become more financially successful. We’re trying to stem the instability in our communities caused by increasing gaps in assets and income, low educational attainment, dangerous behaviors and poor healthcare.
CICF’s objective is to help families overcome the obstacles they face in order to break the cycle of poor results – including hard-working people who consistently cannot meet their family’s basic needs, families unable to save money and are just a paycheck away from losing their homes, or those who are already homeless.
In 2008, CICF became the local partner for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Making Connections Initiative, whose focus is troubled neighborhoods and helping families increase their earnings and assets as a means of improving those neighborhoods.
A Comprehensive Effort For Everyone
CICF focuses financial, human and influence capital to achieve sustainable, and replicable, outcomes for all residents of central Indiana in three areas: Direct Service, Network Support, and Systems/Policy-level Work.
Building Our Community
CICF provides direct services to the people of central Indiana through the Center for Working Families (CWF) model, job preparedness training and placement providers, and programs that increase savings and assets.
A Long-Term Approach To Helping the Working Poor
The Center for Working Families (CWF) is a best practice model that helps low-income families reach financial stability and move up the economic ladder. The Indianapolis Foundation has made a significant investment in the CWF network and provided direct financial support to fund four neighborhood centers that have adopted the CWF model – Southeast Community Services, John H. Boner Community Center, Hawthorne Community Center and Mary Rigg Community Center. Pioneered by The Annie E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore, the CWF model is a comprehensive approach providing a full range of services in one location.
- Gain and maintain employment and increase earnings potential.
- Increase income by helping access public benefits and earned income tax credits.
- Develop financial literacy so individuals have the knowledge and skills to increase long-term assets.
Hawthorne Center for Working Families
A single mother of two, Terri Stinger worked hard to support her family, yet still struggled to make ends meet. In 2004, Terri was forced to file for bankruptcy. Not long after, she began working with a financial coach, a service made possibly through the Hawthorne Community Center. With the help of Hawthorne staff Terri found a job and has since paid off over $2,000 in collection accounts accrued after bankruptcy. Her last credit report showed an improved credit score of 630. And not long ago Terri was approved for a $70,000 mortgage and closed on her home loan in February 2009. Hawthorne’s matched savings program helped Terri save enough to pay closing costs on her new home. Terri also completed a six-week tax certification class in November 2008, and she now volunteers as a tax preparer at Hawthorne Center.
Asset Development – Earn It, Save It, Grow It
Most low-income working families have insufficient assets to weather the emergencies we all face – an unexpected repair, medical cost or other unforeseeable expense. And more than 75 percent of low-income working families are “asset poor” – meaning their household assets cannot finance consumption for three months at the federal income poverty level (A household income of less than $22,050 annually for a family of four according to 2009 poverty guidelines).
The Indianapolis Asset Building Coalition (IABC) is a volunteer coordinating organization comprised of more than 35 financial institutions, community-based organizations and social service providers. Its goal is to increase financial literacy services and improve the financial well being of families in Indianapolis. For the past five years, members of the IABC have provided financial workshops and one-on-one coaching to low-income individuals on how to budget, save money, and grow assets. The Coalition, in partnership with the City of Indianapolis, has also provided free tax preparation services throughout Indianapolis for low-income families.
Network Support To Improve Services
CICF supports a Center for Working Families (CWF) learning network, and a results-tracking database and staff in order to improve the quality of support services and better serve people living in central Indiana.
Is Anyone Better Off? Measuring Results
Technology can help organizations assess their effectiveness – but many face common challenges that can prevent that from happening. For instance, site managers can make programmatic decisions and increase an organization’s capacity to evaluate results when they have accurate data – and know how to use it.
But community-based organizations often don’t have the technology or human resources they need. CICF works with community partners to provide technical assistance and training to partner organizations that adopt performance management and work with a sophisticated database.
This has led to three key achievements:
- Organizations have more capacity than ever to collect detailed “effort and outcomes” data through their frontline staff’s day-to-day activities.
- Organizations have access to detailed, aggregate reports about clients’ efforts and outcomes.
- Organizations now have more predictable variables, processes, and expectations about the role and use of data.
Affecting Policy and Legislative Change
Many of the barriers low-income individuals face as they work to become economically stable need to be dealt with at a macro-level. CICF takes lessons learned from practitioners in the field and shares that information with the public, especially those who influence local and statewide policies.
A Continuum of Supports
CICF has taken multiple steps to develop a deeper understanding of the workforce continuum, including gathering a group of stakeholders with a vested interest in job placement and retention. Discussions with the Marion County Workforce Investment Board and Ivy Tech, our local community college, helped identify the gaps between workers’ skill sets and available employment opportunities. They also helped indentify available funding for training and education, and the need for partnerships to provide holistic supports for low-income individuals. CICF supports partner organizations and the broader community in their work to identify shared results, create/monitor a plan to achieve those results, and enter and organize indicator and performance level data to track progress. All will help us realize our end goal of better-coordinated delivery mechanisms and shared performance measurements.
Learn more about the Family Success Initiative
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Abused and Neglected Children Need You
The guardian ad litem program is recruiting volunteers for nearly 1,000 children and teens who were abused, abandoned or neglected and are in the family courts and the child welfare system. The average time needed is four to six hours a month. Thirty hours of training is required. The first class starts Jan. 8. To schedule an orientation, call (727) 464-6528 or visit www.guardianadlitem6.org.
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A seminar series on sustainable development will kick off a new initiative in "Earth Systems Engineering" by the department of civil, environmental and architectural engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
The first seminar, titled "Designing a Sustainable Future," by William A. Wallace, senior vice president of Ch2M Hill, will be held on Tuesday, March 20, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., in the Engineering Center at CU-Boulder, Room ECCR 245. The seminar is free and open to the public.
Wallace is the leader of Ch2M Hill's sustainable development practice and a recognized expert in the field of environmental management. He has testified before congressional committees on matters of environmental technology and policy, including expediting the cleanup of hazardous waste sites, and has served on advisory committees for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, Department of Energy and other governmental organizations.
The seminar will focus on the need to create a new production model that delivers high-quality goods and services but conserves non-renewable and ecological resources.
The seminar series will continue through the spring and fall semesters, bringing speakers from government, education and industry to campus. An international workshop on Earth Systems Engineering also will bring experts in engineering and the physical, biological and social sciences from around the world to the CU-Boulder campus in October.
One goal of the workshop is to make recommendations on the future course of engineering education, research and practice with respect to the interaction between natural and non-natural systems.
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Transportation taxes hot issue in governor's race
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
OLYMPIA (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna says Washington will need to ask voters to support a tax package to fund the state’s multi-billion dollar transportation needs, but his Democratic counterpart, Jay Inslee, isn’t ready to support any specific financing plan.
McKenna, the state’s attorney general, said that “in the next couple of years,” voters will need to consider a tax package to address the state’s transportation system.
“I don’t know what will be in it yet, it’s too early to say,” McKenna told The Associated Press. “But when it comes to transportation, we’ve always relied on voter-approved revenues to preserve, maintain and improve transportation infrastructure.”
Inslee, a former congressman, wouldn’t say whether he would support sending voters a transportation tax package, saying that much of whatever decision was made would be “dependent upon economic conditions and the rate of recovery of the state economy.”
“I’m not proposing any financing package. I am not proposing any specific method of financing,” he said, but acknowledged that “at some point, our state will to have to figure out some way to finance these mega projects.”
His uncertainty over a plan comes in spite of top Democrats, including Gov. Chris Gregoire, saying major funding is needed for transportation.
A task force last year determined that the state needs billions of dollars of transportation spending over the next decade, and McKenna said there are economic concerns if the state fails to address the needs.
“Transportation infrastructure is one of those areas where you have to keep up,” McKenna said “It’s very detrimental for the economy and job creation if you don’t.”
Voters last approved a gas tax in 2005, but the state is seeing less money from the tax as people drive less and cars become more fuel efficient. Gas tax revenue, which accounts for about two-thirds of the state’s funding of transportation funding when federal gas taxes are included, is projected to fall by more than $5 billion by 2023, according to a report released in December by the Connecting Washington Task Force.
The task force, which comprises people representing business, local government, labor, and environmental groups, warned that without additional money, the state Department of Transportation “cannot preserve the state’s highways and bridges and maintain ferry service at current levels.”
The task force noted that “the number of vehicle miles traveled each year in Washington is projected to reach 60 billion by 2020; annual freight volumes are expected to triple by 2035; and the number of passengers using transit across the state is expected to increase; and transit ridership in the central Puget Sound region alone is expected to grow by 90 percent by 2040.”
The task force said that while $50 billion would be needed to address all of the state’s transportation needs, it recommended $21 billion over the next 10 years “to preserve the transportation system and make strategic investments in the corridors that hold the key to job creation and economic growth.”
When asked specifically whether there needs to be an increase in the gas tax, McKenna said that it would need to be “a combination of a number of sources.”
“I just don’t know what the mix is going to be at this point,” he said, noting that ultimately the Legislature has to approve any plan that would go to the voters.
“Because the revenue sources are not indexed for inflation, you have to go back to voters periodically, if only to keep up with inflation, not to mention other needs,” he said.
Inslee said that in the coming weeks, he would be discussing his ideas on expanding freight mobility access to the state’s ports. He also expressed a concern about the state of the ferry system, saying: “It’s probably right now one of the weakest parts of our system and in the most fragile condition.”
On the issue of tolling, Inslee wouldn’t state a position, but said “I don’t think any of those methods of financing can be taken off the table.”
McKenna said tolls helped build many of the state’s existing transportation facilities and will be necessary to rebuild those same sites, such as the 520 Bridge.
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Six Organizations that Influence Grid Modernization
Take a look at influential organizations that are shaping the landscape of grid modernization, each in their own way.
By Sam Sciacca
In the past two blogs, I’ve outlined many reasons why the consulting-specifying engineer should be involved in the IEEE standards setting process. Today I’d like to point to a handful of other organizations that are shaping the landscape of grid modernization, each in their own way. Some of these organizations may be “sleepers” for the CSE readership – that is, they may be more influential than you suspect – which underscores why I should call attention to them.
For instance, as more equipment is being imported into the United States, that equipment might cite adherence to standards published by the IEC, the International Electrotechnical Commission. Those standards may impact design issues that affect environmental matters, communications, ratings, lifecycle analyses, etc. The CSE may have to determine whether IEC standards are good enough or whether he/she needs to insist on equipment that meets IEEE standards. To make that determination requires the CSE to be familiar with both sets of standards.
Another group impacting the CSE’s professional challenges is the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel, or SGIP. Currently, the SGIP is transitioning from a government-hosted body (through NIST) to a private trade association. The SGIP doesn’t itself set standards, but it vets and catalogues standards that address interoperability. In areas such as communications, renewable resource integration, protocols and other elements that affect interoperability, the SGIP Catalog of Standards presents a centralized repository of documents created by various groups which have demonstrated an aspect of interoperability that is desirable in the industry. Many of the standards I’ve discussed in this blog are cited by the SGIP in this regard.
The SGIP doesn’t reconcile differences among standards – that’s the CSE’s responsibility when approaching substation design – but it does identify gaps in standards and addresses those through a series of Priority Action Plans, or PAPs. That is the mechanism for encouraging various SDOs (standard setting organizations) to address those gaps. For example, IEEE 1815 (DNP3) and 1815.1 (mapping IEC 61850 to IEEE 1815) were both the output of SGIP PAPs.
A number of traditional SDOs and organizations that the CSE is most likely familiar with include the National Electrical Manufacturer’s Association, or NEMA, whose scope includes many of the physical standards that have evolved in the design of a substation – insulator height, physical connections between apparatus, transformer standards, etc.
The National Electrical Code, or NEC, will, of course, come into play for customer-owned substations, which fall under the purview of local building commissions, which may be state-, county- or municipally based. That is, those jurisdictions may adopt NEC standards as established in various years. NEMA hosts a website that provides guidance on this point. The CSE really has to know local regulations. (We discussed related points in my prior blog, “Political and Regulatory Patchwork Governs Interconnection Policies.”)
The National Electric Safety Code, or NESC, frequently gets confused with the National Electric Code. The NESC deals largely with utility-related aspects of transmission and distribution facilities – such as clearances for wires, conductors and cables, the strength and loading of towers, structures and poles, the spacing between conductors, and employer and employee safety. This too is adopted on a state-by-state basis. So the CSE needs to be aware of which version of the NESC governs the installation they’re working on.
For a CSE implementing IEC 61850, there’s the UCAIug, an offshoot of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), whose mission is to recommend conventions, solutions and techniques for interoperability within 61850. Challenges may arise for a CSE who’s trying to get two pieces of equipment from two different vendors to communicate over 61850 and finds that’s not working. The UCAIug is both a technical resource and an arbitrator of sorts, which helps to determine the correct approach to resolve such issues.
Finally, where the CSE is working on a substation that is going to tie-in bulk power (a transmission voltage-level system) from large, distributed generation resources there are rules set by NERC, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. One particular rule of note is the “NERC CIP,” Critical Infrastructure Protection requirements. The CSE might need to develop substation interfaces for a 200- or a 300-megawatt wind plant and NERC CIP requirements may come into play. The first source of information for the CSE would be talking to the utilities on their interconnection policy. (For more, see my prior blog, “Look Under the Hood: IEC 61850 for DER Interconnections.”)
Sam Sciacca is an active senior member in the IEEE and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in the area of utility automation. He has more than 25 years of experience in the domestic and international electrical utility industries. Sciacca serves as the chair of two IEEE working groups that focus on cyber security for electric utilities: the Substations Working Group C1 (P1686) and the Power System Relay Committee Working Group H13 (PC37.240). Sciacca also is president of SCS Consulting.
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Louisiana has dethroned Mississippi for the dubious distinction of unhealthiest state in the nation, according to an annual report issued on December 3, 2008 by the United Health Foundation, the American Public Health Association and the Partnership for Prevention.
Meanwhile, Vermont ranked as the healthiest state.
There is little mystery behind either of these findings. Unfortunately, many Southern states are habitually clustered near the bottom of the rankings, and place similarly high in obesity and rates of smoking, both of which contribute to heart disease and many types of cancer.
Conversely, Vermont’s obesity rate is 22 percent, four points below the national average and nine points below Louisiana’s 31 percent rate. Vermont also has low smoking, child poverty and violent crime rates, and a large number of doctors per capita.
The good news is that no matter where you live, you have more control over your own life and health than you may imagine. In fact, as an Arizonan myself, I would argue that those of us in the southern tier of the U.S. have at least two big health advantages over northerners:
- With our long growing seasons, our backyard organic gardens and local farmers’ markets have fresh produce for nearly the entire year.
- Our milder climate allows more time for outdoor exercise, and a better opportunity for prudent sun exposure that keeps our vitamin D levels in a healthy range.
In short, there is no need for southerners to move, just emulate the lives of those in the healthiest states: eat sensibly, exercise, practice stress reduction and don’t smoke. I assure you, geography is not destiny.
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The Bad Economy Could Make You Fat
It’s sad but true that in hard times people tend to cut back on food spending, switching from higher priced items such as fish, fresh fruits and vegetables to cheaper foods that are high in fat, sugar and refined grains. And the current recession may be having that effect already. Want proof? Last week, Reuters reported that McDonald’s posted a better-than-expected profit in the third quarter of 2008, while Whole Foods Market sales were up only 0.4 percent in the quarter ending in September 2008 (compared to an 8.2 percent rise during the same time period in 2007). There’s ample evidence to show that obesity is generally more prevalent among families with low income than it is among the affluent. However, it is possible to eat healthy, nutrient-rich foods for less money than you may have spent in the past. You may be able to pare your food budget by joining a cooperative, participating in neighborhood gardens or community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs. Check my website for recipes emphasizing beans, winter vegetables, soups and stews. And remember that dollar-for-dollar, foods that you prepare at home generally cost less than meals you get at fast-food restaurants.
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Eat less. That’s the official word from a Brigham Young University study published in the January 2, 2009 American Journal of Health Promotion. Investigators followed 192 middle aged women for three years, gathering information on their lifestyles, health and eating habits. When they analyzed all their data, they found that women who didn’t become more restrained with eating over the three years were 138 percent more likely to have gained a substantial amount of weight – about 6.6 pounds or more. Eating less probably helped those who didn’t gain maintain their original weight because as we get older, our bodies’ energy requirements decline, which means that to stay the same we’ve got to cut back on calories. That means becoming more conscious of our intake. The lead investigator suggested recording what and how much you eat, putting less food on your plate and emphasizing fruits and vegetables. Other experts have noted that to maintain your weight once you reach your mid to late 40s women need approximately 200 fewer calories a day than they did when they were younger.
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Being here on Faithwriter's is probably the most exciting thing I've done in years!!
I'm so glad to finally be stepping out in faith to God's calling on my life.
That first step is a real doozy!! But, I need to get these pearls He has put in my heart to paper.
It IS sooo intimidating to be around all these waaay talented writers and need someone to help me hone my skills.
I need all the help, advise or suggestions I can get; good or bad. I can only get better if I get good constructive criticism and guidance.
Thanks in advance for your help,
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The Masons of California have supported public education since 1850. Scholarships awarded annually by the California Masonic Foundation have enabled thousands of students to attend college.
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Everybody, including me, wants to paint Mourinho as the Dark Lord, the scheming scientist locked in a dungeon in a castle atop a mountain. Due to his playful and sarcastic media mind games, his personality gets depicted in a negative light. Accordingly, we transpose this “abrasive” personality onto his team – if Mourinho is such a downer in press conferences, then surely his Inter play negative catenaccio. Right? Wrong.
Mourinho tried hard to instill a 4-3-3 counterattacking ethos at Inter. He purchased Ricardo Quaresma. He purchased Mancini of Roma fame. Both flopped miserably. So instead, Mourinho offloaded the Swedish and moody winger baggage in favor of Schneijder, Diego Milito, and Samuel E’too. The result? Mourinho, the scheming master of the negative, plays a conventional 4-4-2. Does his team hemorrhage early goals? Yes. Both Chelsea and Barcelona scored at the San Siro. But the spirited remontadas have been a feast of attacking menace.
Both Mourinho’s Chelsea and Inter feasted on the high Barcelona back line, springing the off-sides trap with devastating success. They also refused to get sucked into the Barcelona half, collapsing on the midfield maestros near the halfway line, but never a shade sooner. In summation, the game plan was France v. Spain at the the 2006 World Cup, NOT Italy v. Spain at the 2008 European championships.
I have already criticized the monopoly of the Cule, their stranglehold on the soccer media’s collective imagination. Since when did we place such weighty emphasis on total passes? On passes completed? Should the rules of the game be amended to a timed “monkey in the middle”, whereby goals are a secondary consideration to total passes completed times pass completion percentage? I vote an enthusiastic no, in part because I witnessed with horror the pre-shotclock era of basketball. Shudders.
A dictatorship starts with a shot to the adversary, but establishes power by monopolizing the imaginative realm. Journalists must disappear, editors must flee the country, a watchdog media must be converted into a lapdog. The Cule dynasty has fastened its grip on the press and this realm subtly, twisting the sporting values from goals & athleticism to ten foot passes. When the opposition raises its voice, they are painted as the enemy as the pueblo screams in terror. We must be protected from such infidels! Still, one fundamental doubt arises to the guidance of Barcelona’s Kantian moral compass…
While the success of last season in a sense justified the Cruyff-Dutch-Ideal, on the other hand, doesn’t commitment to an ideal entail sacrifice? Wouldn’t Barcelona’s dedication to the principles of Cruyff be more impressive if they continued to play this way with no success? Many a patriot has sacrificed his own life for the abstract concept of liberty – is patient passing more important than winning?
But why concern yourself with such thoughts? Keep things simple, Buy the Hype. Barcelona =’s pretty, Mourinho =’s negative mad scientist. Every time the Cules complete a pass, set your latte down for a brief round of applause. Every time an Inter defender sticks a tackle or lands a block, hiss in derision or nod in disapproval.
In a way, at the Nou Camp, Barcelona cannot lose. Granted, the result depends upon them and is entirely manageable – they have beat Inter 2-0 before. This time, there will be no travel nor dry pitch to subtly blame.
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Redesigned Macy’s Home to open
By Staff -- Home Textiles Today, 10/22/2004 12:04:00 PM
AVENTURA, Fla. -- The first of two Macy’s Home “redesign” stores is grand-opening here on Wednesday, Oct. 27, at the Aventura Mall, with an unadvertised soft opening taking place this Sunday.
The three-floor unit was until recently a Burdine’s and is located next to a Macy’s. The new store will be a men’s, home and furniture gallery. The men’s gallery opened earlier this week, and today the home merchandise was being transported from the Macy’s store to the new Macy’s Home.
By mid-day, most of the bedding collections had already moved. Still left on the Macy’s floor were most of the bath goods as well as accent rugs and comforter sets. Several bins filled with clearance bedding items -- marked 60 percent off an already reduced price -- were scattered throughout the former home area.
Store officials said the grand opening event Oct. 27 will include special events in all categories and celebrity appearances.
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Today I wanted write about my Top 3 favorite things about Texas in the Fall!
***#1: Festivals I grew up in New Braunfels, TX, which features a prominent "ode to sausage!" (and beer) called Wurstfest. My grandparents have been volunteering since the 70's, my mom went with her friends in high school & I haven't missed a year since middle school.
#2: Football Of course living in a football town, college football totally rules the weekend around here. It's a sight to see an extra 50,000 people pour into town, taking over restaurants and parking spots and the roads! Game day in College Station is electric & it's hard to avoid the excitement.
#3: Chili Ah, chili. Texas chili. All meat, no beans. Tomato rich, and super spicy. That's my preference. My husband made our first pot of the season a week ago, and I was just reminded of how awesome fall is. You can't really beat a good pot of chili, a good beer & some homemade cornbread.
***I know these aren't specific to Texas, but I'm prone to believe we do it a little bit better here ;) Where are you from? And what's your favorite part of fall there? and if it's apple picking, I'm jealous .... the closest apple picking farm is 5+ hours away! Thanks Leeann for letting me guest post ? I hope you guys enjoyed it & will come visit me! | <urn:uuid:e9b34fd9-1ee1-44fb-8825-8e3a12d8f8f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jointhegossip.com/2012/11/guest-post-interpret-as-you-may.html | 2013-05-18T07:19:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961428 | 304 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Bond is back in this tribute to 50 years of 007. He's older now, a bit more human, a bit less agile. But he has lost none of his flair.
American Beauty director Sam Mendes takes on the unenviable task of reorienting the iconic Bond series. The modern-day Bond has the politics of a new world order to contend with, where the bad guys are an unknown entity, neither a nation nor a flag but individuals with their own agendas and personal vendettas.
With the benefit of 22 previous interpretations of a tried and tested formula Mendes takes full advantage, on the 50th anniversary of Ian Fleming's creation, to celebrate half a century of James Bond with an unashamedly sentimental nod to the glory days of 007. Bond's world-weary “international man of mystery” meets the chirpy irreverence of a new era of espionage in a Bond film.
The expectation for charismatic villains in contemporary action movies has been around since the late Heath Ledger's show-stealing turn as The Joker in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. The token Bond villain this time around is played with devilish delight and much vigour by Javier Bardem, a real villain's actor whose portrayal of a remorseless assassin in the Coen brothers’ masterful crime-drama No Country For Old Men is utterly compelling.
In Skyfall, Bardem embodies Raoul Silva (an ex-MI6 agent with a grudge against Judy Dench's inimitable M) with the same deranged yet charming mixture of ruthless determination and psychotic charisma which made Ledger's Joker so malevolent, unsettling as much for their likeability as for their maniacal overtones. His blond hair makes him look a bit like Julian Assange, a nod to the new threats to the world order.
The Bond signature gestures -- saving the world, getting the girl and giving the proverbial middle finger to the authorities -- are put to the test in Skyfall. In a very contemporary setting, MI6 is being investigated by a public inquiry over its increasingly public embarrassments. These include the unBondian gaffe of losing a list of the names of every British undercover operative under its command.
Alongside an ill-disguised contempt in the media for the Golden Age of espionage comes the assertion, from new security minister Gareth Mallory (played by Ralph Fiennes), that dinosaurs like 007 can no longer afford to play blackjack and toss back martinis with impunity. MI6 can no longer operate in the shadows – “There aren't any shadows left!”
In a culture of 24-hour news coverage where security breaches are posted live on YouTube and accountability is king, it's a brave new world for Bond. His licence to kill is revoked pending investigation and he is declared missing in action, presumed dead. When he returns to MI6 he has to pass a physical and psychological competency test. Bond begins to feel like an old dog learning new tricks, in a young man's game.
The new Q, played by fresh-faced newcomer Ben Wishaw is completely at odds with the Desmond Llewelyn-era Q branch with its lethal armoury of implausible but wonderfully inventive gadgets. In its place we have a nod to the silly excesses of the Bond brand with a tongue-in-cheek comparison to the back-to-basics approach of the new generation. “Were you expecting an exploding pen? We don't really go in for that anymore.”
As far as the formulaic innuendo and sexual promiscuity of the Bond brand goes, there is some, but it is pretty tame for the most part. Don’t take my word for it though. The Vatican has come out in favour of the 23rd Bond film giving the film’s more human feel an unprecedented thumbs up calling it "less cliched, less attracted by the pleasures of life, more introspective and more vulnerable physically and psychologically". In an article headlined “007: license to cry” L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s official newspaper, praised Skyfall’s refreshing take on the character as “more human, capable of being moved and of crying: in a word, more real".
There is a reflective feel to Skyfall as Mendes makes sure to keep our feet on the ground (for the most part), coupling the darker elements of the plot with a more revealing glimpse of 007's past and subsequently a more satisfying portrayal of the man behind the cliché. In Skyfall we get to see a vulnerable side to Bond which 50 years of guns, gadgets, girls and cars have glossed over. He is an ageing Bond who is doing his best not to “cock it up”. He makes mistakes, gets shot (twice), manages to get killed (for a while), runs out of bullets, is abandoned by some friends and needs help from others.
The old clichés meet some gentle ribbing but ultimately with affection. You get the impression with Skyfall that this is a new breed of Bond film. It retains the flair of the franchise but brings it up to date. It's Bond, just better.
Ronan Wright blogs about films from Belfast at Filmplicity.
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Barely There by Bali Comfort Revolution Microfiber Seamless Brief
I really like this style and fabric. The briefs are comfortable, and the fabric with its semi open weave has more give/more stretch. I like the way they look too!
May 11, 2013
Great colors, overall fit is fine but absolutely can not wear these because of the crotch, more than 3 1/2 inches. Who needs that much material, by the end of the day I can not wait to get them off since they rub me raw. Bought three colors and all measure that wide...going back to Bali, they measure around 2 inches, just wish they had the color selection that these have.
March 9, 2013
These panties are so soft and comfortable!! They don't ride up and wash well.
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These are so comfortable. I would love to see them in more patterns. Will buy more!
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Sarker, M., A. Sanou, Rachel C. Snow, J. Ganame, and A. Gondos. 2007. "Determinants of HIV counselling and testing participation in a Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission programme in rural Burkina Faso." Tropical Medicine & International Health, 12(12): 1475-1483.
OBJECTIVES To analyse the factors associated with the uptake of HIV counselling, HIV testing and returning for test results in a rural hospital setting in Nouna, Burkina Faso. METHODS Cross sectional survey of 435 pregnant women who visited the district hospital for antenatal care, from July to December 2004. Separate multivariate logistic regression analyses including analysis of reported reasons were performed to identify the factors associated with accepting HIV counselling and testing. RESULTS HIV testing participation was related to discussing HIV screening with the partner (OR 8.36), and the number of antenatal care (ANC) visits already accomplished (OR 2.23). The quality of pre-test counselling was very poor as 42% did not understand the process. The absence of doctors and mismanagement of time for post-test counselling were the main reasons why women did not receive test results. Analysis of participants by discussion status, counselling and test participation revealed that fewer women dropped out at every stage who discussed HIV testing with their partner. CONCLUSION Communication with the partner plays a vital role in the uptake of HIV testing. Encouraging women to engage in a discussion about testing with their partners may be a viable intervention to improve participation. Quality of service needs to be better. | <urn:uuid:c74912b3-5cf7-4b8c-87b7-c8d2e2b9f668> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/abs/5541 | 2013-05-18T05:07:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942723 | 331 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Golden Trout Wilderness June 2011
June 25-28, 2011, nine volunteers from SDFF and 4 "friends and family" hiked into the Golden Trout Wilderness to repair the cattle exclusion fence which protects the spawning grounds on upper Nine Mile Creek.
This year was especially difficult. Each Fall the fence is dropped, then put back up in the Spring, to minimize damage from the heavy snows. Over time the wire became rusted, broken and spliced in many places. "SDFF to the rescue!" We bought 3 miles of new barbed wire with Club conservation funds and USFS mules carried it into the meadow. Stringing new wire was tough work, but coiling up miles of the old rusty stuff was even harder! Keep in mind that this is a wilderness area: no machinery is allowed. It all had to be carried to and from the corral where the mules were loaded. Fence posts holes are dug by hand, "H" braces were hand sawed and the wire was stretched using old fashioned manual wire pullers. The end result was spectacular and the Forest Service was IMPRESSED.
Many thanks to Bruce Bechard, Bruce Michael, Larry Sorensen, Jon Holland, Wayne Johnson, Heidi Brown, her friend Will, Mark Hedderson, his brother John and Paul Costa. They worked hard and all caught a "few fish".
PS Larry defines a few fish as "something over thirty"!
With new wire, the next few years should be much easier.
---Gary Strawn, SDFF Conservation Chair
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I know you do it.
Ok, well maybe you don’t- but I understand if you do, and I am here for you.
Our kids come home from pre-school, elementary school, and heck…sometimes junior high and high school with art projects. In those early years, theres AT LEAST one a day. I see up to 4 in one day with the kiddos I watch! Each one is special in their eyes, and it’s so stinkin cute that it means so much to them! I’m constantly told “I made this for your house, Emily!”. Well. As much as I love those little ones, the colored macaroni and shedding glitter just doesn’t fit into my design scheme at home. But as a mom, I love to keep the art projects I do with my son. We’ve already started a good collection!
I’m becoming a glittered macaroni art hoarder though.
But there is a cure to the common ugly art hoarder!
When your little one is in pre-school and bringing home a few projects a day, have them pick one or two favorites at the end of each week to put into a keepsake box. How much fun is it going to be for them to look back when they’re older? Probably not the craziest fun they’ll have, but sentimental at least for you.
But there’s 10 or so left! Do you throw them away and chance having to tell your son or daughter that their special picture went to a big farm where it can play with other glittery, carb-loaded pictures?
You take a picture of your child holding each one.
Yes, it’s a lot of work in the beginning, but it gets easier as they get older and there’s less projects! You can then print each picture out and make your own simple photo album or heck, even scrapbook it! It will be fun to look back not only at the art, but your child holding it at the age they made it! PLUS. You’re closet doesn’t sneeze glitter at you when you open it to add ANOTHER masterpiece. Bonus. | <urn:uuid:dd6bb4ea-5b09-44af-a0e4-950b38d60d9f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.simplyrealmoms.com/posts/saving-your-childs-art-without-becoming-a-macaroni-hoarder/ | 2013-05-18T07:19:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963351 | 469 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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In bed I like to read:
Six-word memoirs, current reading material, and useless yet self-fulfilling Facebook statuses
My favorite story of all time is:
The Phantom Tollbooth
Right now, I'm reading:
The Turn of the Screw
Latest Memoir (of 28):
Lost the best, found something better.
- Lost the best, found something better.
- Ashton Kutcher has no photography talent.
- Leaving for college not leaving forever.
- Ditched kayaks but gained dad's respect.
- Advil, where are you? I'm sore.
- Went through hell and survived it.
- Summer sunshine gets rid of goosebumps.
- Love for Eddie Money: no control.
- Bringing out new in the used.
- Lost count while counting my blessings.
- Watching Christmas movies out of nostalgia.
- Drove to Lexington for an upset.
- Reading the dictionary to improve "intelligence.".
- I'm mentally photographing what lies ahead.
- Graduation money from unknown family members. | <urn:uuid:3643895f-d0b7-4597-8611-6baed646926a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.smithmag.net/community/people.php/tisfortaylor | 2013-05-18T07:13:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.827039 | 255 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Posted 12 January 2013 - 07:33 PM
RULES - -
How can I join this hatch?
- The minute you see this hatch. If you wanna join this hatch, you just put your first entry in. No need for signing up. (You cannot join after one week!)
What versions are required?
- Only V6 (Music Star) and the TamaGo.
Are photos required?
- No, but they're encouraged.
Without further ado, let's begin!
Posted 12 January 2013 - 07:44 PM
Posted 12 January 2013 - 07:58 PM
Edited by TamaTamatchi, 12 January 2013 - 07:59 PM.
Posted 30 January 2013 - 11:02 PM
It's been a while since I played with a Music Star, been hooked on my ID L for quite some time. My Music Star started up and the egg hatched, it was a girl! I have named her Skylar after a friend of mine who moved away. She's a petitchi and her toy is a mirror and her instrument is a pair of drums. She got sick once already and then I gave her some medicine and then I caught her doing the potty dance so I made her use the bathroom. I played each game once so that all of my skill levels are the same and made her practice a little bit.
Edited by sk1tt135, 30 January 2013 - 11:39 PM.
Posted 31 January 2013 - 01:03 AM
I accidentally reseted so I waited for the egg to hatch and it was I girl. I wanted to name her Samantha even though there is no naming option. I fed her pork and beans and milk. She was happy and I cleaned her poop. I gave her medicine when she was sick and then we visited the park. We met Kilalatchi and they played on the seesaw. She arrived home and pooped and a couple of minutes later she grew into a pretty bellitchi. She was bored so I attached my Shimashimatchi figure and we played a game. She got home and we went to the park again and saw a grippatchi. They played on the slide and a great time. I guess that's it for now...
Posted 31 January 2013 - 11:45 AM
Later on, after my last class I decided to update, Skylar took a bath and her first day of school was awesome, she won in the little jump rope game and a vistor with the envelopes gave her 2 hearts when he showed up. Trying to keep her stress level as low as possible so that I can get the chamametchi as her teen stage, I've never gotten that before. All of her skill levels are about 200ish so far. Tone is 211 rhythm is 203 and original is at 265.
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Yaakov Peri would have fit right in to a John Le Carré novel as a foil to the enigmatic Smiley. Suave, debonair, a true ladies’ man, he could have easily followed a career in music and, in fact, he played trumpet for Jerusalem’s Voice of Israel Orchestra.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1944, Peri entered the Hebrew University upon his release from the IDF. He completed his studies at Tel Aviv University with a joint degree in Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish History. He was recruited by the Shin Bet in 1966, and was trained as a field officer in the Arab sector. In 1987, following the 300 bus incident, he was appointed deputy director of the Shin Bet, and the following year Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir selected him as its head.
The crisis facing the Shin Bet at the time was how to cope with the Intifada, an unprecedented mass uprising in the Occupied Territories. Peri, who had spent years studying and working in the Arab sector, was instrumental in setting up a vast network of informers and collaborators in the early years of Israel’s occupation. Yet despite all this, the sudden eruption of the Intifada came as a complete surprise to him and other senior members of the Shin Bet.
During his tenure, allegations were made about “exceptional practices” at the Shin Bet’s Gaza City interrogation facility. Though an official investigation acquitted Peri, the agents who ran the facility claimed that they had been hung out to dry in order to avoid another public scandal so soon after the 300 bus incident.
Peri left the Shin Bet in 1994. During his six years in office he instituted the conceptual changes necessary to deal with a new political reality in the Middle East, in the wake of the Intifada and Oslo Accords. As a confidante of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, he took part in the delegation that negotiated security agreements with the Palestinians. Despite his position as a spymaster, no one questioned his integrity or fairness. | <urn:uuid:01cf7607-3b01-409f-8479-a2eb0a4f7faf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.thegatekeepersfilm.com/peri-en.html | 2013-05-18T05:33:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982041 | 423 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Czech intelligence officials have knocked down one of the few clear links between al Qaida terrorists and the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein, UPI has learned.
Senior Czech intelligence officials have told their American counterparts that they now have "no confidence" in their earlier report of direct meetings in Prague between Mohammed Atta, leader of the Sept. 11 hijackers and an Iraqi diplomat stationed in Prague who has since been expelled for "activities inconsistent with his diplomatic status."
"Quite simply, we think the source for this story may have invented the meeting that he reported. We can find no corroborative evidence for the meeting and the source has real credibility problems " a high-ranking source close to Czech intelligence told UPI Sunday.
The initial report of the meeting in June 2000 claimed that Atta had met Ahmad al-Ani, an Iraqi intelligence official based in Prague under diplomatic cover, whose movements were being routinely monitored by BIS, the Czech intelligence service. The report also suggested that the Iraqi was probably the source of $100,000 that Atta suddenly obtained to finance the U.S. leg of the terror mission.
The report went on to claim that Atta returned to Prague on April 9 last year on a three-day mission to see al-Ani once more, just two weeks before the majority of the hijack team left Saudi Arabia for the United States. The report was then publicly confirmed by Czech Interior Minister Stanislas Gross, on the basis of the initial assessment of the BIS.
The nearest to a smoking gun connecting Iraq to al Qaida, the Czech report was taken very seriously in Washington, in the face of growing skepticism at the Central Intelligence Agency.
But other influential figures in Washington, including former CIA Director James Woolsey and former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle pursued their own inquiries using their own sources, and have now also been told by high-ranking Czech sources that they no longer stand by the initial report. Perle, in Prague this weekend for a meeting of the Trilateral Commission, was told in person Sunday that the BIS now doubts that any such meeting between Atta and al-Ani in fact took place.
The question of the Czech meeting, and whether it ever happened, is just one aspect of a growing dispute within the George W. Bush administration, with officials close to the White House leaping to conclusions while the CIA remains skeptical. There is a separate argument over Iraq's attempt to smuggle a consignment of specialized aluminium tubes, cited by President Bush as a sign that Iraq was building a gas centrifuge systém to create weapons-grade uranium.
CIA experts doubt whether the tubes in question were suitable for the supposed task, and believe they were intended instead for use in missile engines, still a clear violation of Iraqi commitments to the United Nations, but not necessarily proof of nuclear intent.
"One of the most dangerous things in this business is to start believing a report simply because it fits with your preconceptions and confirms what you always wanted to believe," a Czech intelligence source told UPI.
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- B1 Promotions and TCLEOSE Proficiency Certification Commissioned Officers
- B2 Cash Receipts Control Petty Cash Funds
- B3 Community Trust / Law Enforcement Role and Authority
- B4 Internal Affairs
- B5 Emergency Information File
- B6 Equipment, Supplies, and Reference Sources
- B7 Firearms and Qualification Standards
- B8 Honor Guard/Color Guard
- B9 Immunization Program/Hepatitis B and Tuberculosis Vaccination
- B10 Shift Transfers
- B11 Line of Duty Death
- B12 Off-Duty or Secondary Employment
- B13 Organizational Structure
- B14 Procedures for Overtime Assignment
- B15 Police Service Award
- B16 Psychological Guidance / Assistance
- B17 Release of Information
- B18 Release of Information on Students
- B19 Liability Protection Program
- B20 Review of Fleet Collisions
- B21 Review of Personnel Records
- B22 Serial Accountability for Citations
- B23 Police Chaplain Program
- B24 Temporary Alternative Assignments
- B25 Use of Discretion
- B26 Written Directive System
- B27 Use of Outside Hardware and/or Software
- B28 Early Warning Intervention
- B29 Crime Analysis
- B30 Planning and Research
- B31 Administrative Reporting
- B32 Courtesies to the Flag
- B33 Social Media and Networking
|Title||Administration / Policy B-33|
|Subject||Social Media and Networking|
|Purpose||To establish policy regarding social media.|
|Scope||This directive applies to all personnel.|
Statement of Purpose:
The University of Texas at Austin Police Department endorses the secure use of social media to enhance communication, collaboration, and information exchange. This policy provides guidance on the management, administration and oversight of social media. This policy is not meant to address one particular form of social media; rather social media in general, as advances in technology will occur and new tools will emerge.
- Departmental— Sanctioned Use:
- Departmental staff assigned to monitor post and respond to The University of Texas Police Department social media network sites.
- Officers are encouraged to use social media as an investigative tool when seeking evidence or information about current cases.
- The department has an obligation to include social media sites when conducting background investigations of job candidates.
- Personal Use:
- Employees shall not post, transmit, reproduce, and/or disseminate information to the internet or any other forum (public or private) that would tend to discredit or reflect unfavorably upon the Department or any of the Department’s employees.
- Posting the following types of criminal justice information to social media sites is explicitly prohibited:
- Confidential, sensitive, or copyrighted information to which you have access due to your employment with The University.
- Data from ongoing criminal or administrative investigations.
- Photographs of suspects, arrestee or evidence.
- Personal statements about on-duty incidents.
- Comments related to pending prosecutions.
- Employee’s shall not knowingly or recklessly post false information about the agency, superiors, coworkers, public officials, and others who have a relationship to or with the agency.
- For safety and security reasons, departmental personnel are cautioned if they choose to disclose their employment with this department or to display departmental logos, uniforms, or similar identifying items on social media sites. | <urn:uuid:a505672d-32ed-4b8d-8d43-ddf641ed4bbf> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utexas.edu/police/manual/b33.html | 2013-05-18T07:15:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.825137 | 718 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Aberystwyth and the surrounding area has a variety of attractions to cater for everybody's needs. The area offers activities, exhibitions, arts and crafts through to shows and fairs. If you're looking for something relaxing to do on a Sunday afternoon or an exhilarating adventure you are in the right place!
Aberystwyth Castle is another key attraction. Community groups in Aberystwyth have produced mosaics to celebrate the history of the castle. Some of the most key points in Aberystwyth Castle's history refers to the branve and bloody attacks on the walls. Owain Glyndwr succeeded to capture the castle but lost it again. At one time the castle was used to shape money. Click here for more on Aberystwyth's history.
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Mug shots: Meth takes frightening toll on addicts
Elvis Presley scored his first No. 1 hit, "Heartbreak Hotel," in 1956. His last No. 1 came in 1969 with "Suspicious Minds."
With Jan. 8 marking what would have been Elvis Presley's 78th birthday, remember The King with a look at his life and career and the legacy he left behind.
A 21-year-old Hofstra University junior was fatally shot early Friday in an exchange of gunfire between a suspected home invader and police who came to the house, officials said.
Andrea Rebello lived with her twin sister in an off-campus house in Unio... | <urn:uuid:a0f595ea-caea-4d15-b996-edac2fba109a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wyff4.com/entertainment/-/9323898/394776/-/aiqs9v/-/index.html | 2013-05-18T05:10:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696381249/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092621-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973701 | 141 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Parking facilities authorized — Rental.
The state capitol committee may construct parking facilities for the state capitol adequate to provide parking space for automobiles, said parking facilities to be either of a single level, multiple level, or both, and to be either on one site or more than one site and located either on or in close proximity to the capitol grounds, though not necessarily contiguous thereto. The state capitol committee may select such lands as are necessary therefor and acquire them by purchase or condemnation. As an aid to such selection the committee may cause location, topographical, economic, traffic, and other surveys to be conducted, and for this purpose may utilize the services of existing state agencies, may employ personnel, or may contract for the services of any person, firm or corporation. In selecting the location and plans for the construction of the parking facilities the committee shall consider recommendations of the *director of general administration.
Space in parking facilities may be rented to the officers and employees of the state on a monthly basis at a rental to be determined by the *director of general administration. The state shall not sell gasoline, oil, or any other commodities or perform any services for any vehicles or equipment other than state equipment.
[1977 c 75 § 90; 1965 c 129 § 1; 1955 c 293 § 1.]
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Annika 1 - i had a girl named Annika in my class and i HATED her... so when I hear that name I associate it with her...that's why i really don't like it
Sophia 9 - i LOVE the name, unfortunately, it's sooo popular
Lacie 7 - cute name!
Olivia 3 - not really my taste
Ava 9 - LOVE it, but like sophia, too popular in my opinion
Alexa 5 - it's ok, but i'm not sooo keen on it
Alexiana 5 - same as alexa
Hailey 8 - really pretty name!
Ashley 4 - the name itself is not too bad, but always makes me think of high school movies...the school divas were usually called ashley
Myleigh 10 LOVE LOVE LOVE it!! i always liked the name Miley, but would never use it because i wouldn't want my daughter to be associated with Miley Cyrus!!! But Myleigh is a) a beautiful spelling and b) doesn't make one think she is named after Hannah Montana.
My personal favorite out of all names is Myleigh!! Sophia and Ava too, but they're so popular nowadays So I would go with Myleigh!
Bentley 9 - really cute!
Cayden 10 - LOVE the name!
Shawn 1 - i'd give the names 7 points if it was spelled Sean, but I don't like it spelled like Shawn...which is mainly because there was a guy named Shawn i REEEALLY didn't like
my favorite here would be Cayden followed by Connor and Joshua!
good luck with finding the right name!! I'm struggling too, it's soooo hard!!!
Annika - 3
Sophia - 9 pretty but getting too popular imo
Lacie - 1 really dislike this name
Olivia - 3
Ava - 2 too popular and not overly pretty imo
Alexa - 5
Alexiana - 5
Hailey - 3 too old fashioned
Ashley - 1 dont like uni-sex names
Brianna - 2
Bryanne - 3
Kaylee - 3
Kylie - 3
Madelyn - 8
Kaelyn - 4
Ashlynn - 4
Myleigh - not keen on the spelling prefer Miley
Aaron - 6
Alexander - 8 nice and traditional
Aidan - 2 not a fan of all these names ending in the 'en' sound
Joshua - prefer just josh 7
Dominic - 2
Ryan - 3
Matthew - 4
Connor - 5
Landon - 2
Devin - 2
Nathan - 2
Tyler - 5
Austin - 6
Andrew - 4
Bentley - 8
Cayden - again with the 'en' sound
Shawn - 2
Lucas - 9 love this
dont mean to seem harsh by what i've rated, we must just have completely different taste
Annika - 6
Sophia - 7
Lacie - 8
Olivia - 10 (love this)
Ava - 9
Alexa - 6
Hailey - 5 (only because I know to many ppl called Hayley/hailey)
Kaylee - 10 (my first name so has to get top marks)
Kylie - 7
Kaelyn - 7
Aidan - 10
Lucas -7 **So many beautiful names - Olivia and Joshua are my personal favs***
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
If you are saved – yes, you are called. With a holy calling. If you haven’t found your calling yet, you haven’t spent time with your Bible.
Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, (2 Timothy 1:9 KJV)
When we spend time reading in prayer, we find what God has in mind for us – and each follower of Christ has a calling. While some are similar in nature, none are exactly the same. Some have multiple jobs. Paul wrote, to all of us, and to specific people:
For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day. (2 Timothy 1:12 KJV)
A loving letter from a preacher to a young man he’s mentoring. We can find the same today in many churches – can we find it in our own? Do we expect it only from our preachers? From men who have a way with words?
I pray not.
Every adult in our church can provide guidance for new Christians – especially for teens. And every adult is needed to do so for so many reasons. We are admonished to do so.
For the men: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. (Titus 2:2 KJV)
Truthfully, guys, are you strong in all of these qualities? Are they apparent to the teens in the congregation?
For the ladies, Paul even explains the expected results: The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. (Titus 2:3-5 KJV)
Are we gals living these qualities as well as teaching them? Teen years are difficult. They can be more difficult for a Christian teen determined to respond to peer pressure in a Godly manner. The same holds true for all new Christians as they move from newly baptized and grow with Christ. The active support of these ‘aged’ men and women should be available to them without the asking.
Why do all of this? Among the many answers Paul has written, here are two from the same books:
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. (2 Timothy 4:2 KJV)
Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (Titus 2:13 KJV)
How about a prayer for those who answered His calling:
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: (2 Thessalonians 1:11 KJV) | <urn:uuid:985569de-7186-4cb7-9d8b-8404e5cd1395> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blicktx.blogspot.com/2011/07/are-you-called.html | 2013-05-21T10:06:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699881956/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102441-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967906 | 712 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |