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So do you think Ron Paul is good? I have some doubts? Please look at the vidoe in the following link...... then comment....
So is Ron Paul somebody you can believe in? Somebody who can make a difference? Maybe even 'change we can believe in'....ring any bells from Obama pre election speeches? In fact, watch this video featuring the beloved Ron Paul. Note his illumiati Masonic hand signals and shakes (including those of his hosts). You see throughout history the people have needed 'somebody' to believe in, somebody to fight their corner, a decoy if you like so that people can sleep at night knowing that there's hope, and to prevent the people rising up against the machine that is the 'manipulative illuminati'. Of course they are going to place people in election processes to cater for all political views, to passify and subdue the people, just incase the fluoride they put in your water doesn't quite work
Look, I can say right now that if ever Ron Paul 'for what ever reason' gets into office then nothing will change. If he wasn't part of the illuminati then he wouldn't be there in the first place, plane and simple. Nobody gets to where he is without being controlled, and there are no 'ifs', 'buts' or maybe's' about that. Democracy's are nothing more than an illusion designed to give 'us the people' a perception on being able to control our own destiny. In fact I watched a film lately called 'The Hunger Games', in that film it was stated by the controling elite that "a little hope is a good thing" for the comon people, but "too much hope is dangerous".......we are just being given our little piece of hope that things can change for the better, it's nothing more than illusion, and the same tactic is repeated over and over again.
Furthermore, Rom Paul is a member of the 'Lambda Chi Alpha' which is a men's 'SECRET FRATERNITY' in North America. Lambda Chi Alpha provides opportunities for academic achievement and leadership, and is a secret fraternity started by a freemason. In addition Ron Paul's wife, Carol Paul, is a member of the Masonic Velasco Order of the Eastern Star, and maintains her membership in the Freeport area lodge. In order to join this entity men must be Master Masons, and women must have specific relationships with Masons. For more see here. More investigation is ongoing into masonic memberships of Ron Paul's daughters.
Ok....some nostalgia, watch some of Obama's somewhat broken promises. What makes Ron Paul any better?...We all need to stand up together as a human race, there are no divides, we the people are one entity, forget 'divide and rule'....come on people.
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4 slices uncooked bacon, cut crosswise into 1/4-inch strips
1 medium onion, cut into small dice
2 large, ripe tomatoes, cored, then cut into large dice (about 2 3/4 cups)
6 large eggs
1/2 cup heavy cream
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Combine the bacon and onion in a large skillet (preferably nonstick) over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, for 6 to 8 minutes, until onion has softened and bacon is crisped and cooked through.
Add the tomatoes; increase heat to medium-high and cook, stirring occasionally, until their juices have evaporated. Mixture should be thick and almost pasty.
Whisk together the eggs and cream in a liquid measuring cup, then pour into bacon-tomato mixture. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 4 to 6 minutes, until eggs are done.
Divide among individual plates and season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately.
Makes 2 to 3 servings.
— Recipe from Jan Cremeans Nelson, of Washington, D.C., finalist in The Washington Post's Top Tomato contest.
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Instagram is giving users a preview of its new Terms of Use, which go into effect on January 16, 2013. The move follows an update of Facebook's policies to allow data sharing between the social network and its newly acquired photo-sharing service.
In addition to providing a clearer description of what kinds of advertising the users can expect, Instagram has outlined its policies on copyrights, dealing with third parties, and suing Instagram.
Here's what you need to do:
- Get ready for some ads starring your friends and you.
Facebook's advertising platform matches friends' faces to products that they've liked on Facebook. Instagram's new policy suggests a similar idea: "To help us to deliver interesting paid or sponsored content or promotions," the policy states, "you agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you."
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It's hard to say what Facebook will do with Instagram over time, so it's wise to store your favorite pictures on your phone or memory card. The "Rights" section of Instagram's policy states: "Instagram is not a backup service and you agree that you will not rely on the Service for the purposes of Content backup or storage."
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Chairman: H.A. Schwettman, Stanford University
The Summer Study began with a week on applications of superconducting surfaces at radio frequencies. Under the able leadership of Alan Schwettman, an easy and informal atmosphere was rapidly achieved and soon a free and vigorous interchange of information was in progress between exponents of various techniques and representatives of the manufacturers whose technology will be essential to progress in this field. The session was dominated by the energetic Stanford group who continually amazed the audience with the scope and daring of their plans.
Following papers were submitted for publication:
The Development of Low Temperature Technology at Stanford and its Relevance to High Energy Physics
H. Alan Schwettman, Stanford University
Q Measurements on Superconducting Cavities at S-Band
H. Hahn, H.J. Halama, and E.H. Foster, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Coupling Losses in Superconducting Cavities
H. Hahn and J. Miller, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Fabrication of Niobium Rf Cavities
R.W. Meyerhoff, Union Carbide Corporation
Fabrication of High Q Superconducting Niobium Cavities
I. Weissman, Varian Associates
Materials Investigation for a Two-Mile Superconducting Accelerator
M.A. Allen and H.A. Hogg, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Characterization of Residual Rf Losses in Superconductors
C.R. Haden, University of Oklahoma
Technetium as a Material for ac Superconductivity Applications
S.H. Autler, NASA Electronics Research Center
Applications of the Fountain Effect in Superfluid Helium
C.M. Lyneis, M.S. McAshan, and H.A. Schwettman, Stanford University
Refrigeration at Temperatures Below the Boiling Point of Helium
S.C. Collins, 500 Incorporated
Rf Amplitude and Phase Stabilization for a Superconducting Linear Accelerator by Feedback Stabilization Techniques
L.R. Suelzle, Stanford University
Particle Motion in a Standing Wave Linear Accelerator
E.E. Chambers, Stanford University
Sample Parameters of a Two-Mile Superconducting Accelerator
R.B. Neal, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Consideration of the Use of Feedback in a Traveling-Wave Superconducting Accelerator
R.B. Neal, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Summary of Recent Investigations of the Karlsruhe Group on Rf Properties of Superconductors and on Applications
W. Jungst, Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe
An Enriched Particle Beam Using Superconducting Rf Deflectors
H.N. Brown, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Design Problems in Superconducting Rf Beam Separators
H.J. Halama, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Superconducting Rf Separator Research at the Rutherford Laboratory
A. Carne, B.G. Brady, and M.J. Newman, Rutherford Laboratory
Beam Optics Design for a 600 MeV Microtron
D.C. Sutton and A.O. Hanson, University of Illinois
High Stability UHF Oscillators using a Superconducting Cavity
F. Biquard, Nguyen Tuong Viet, and A. Septier, Institut d'Electronique, Orsay
Summary of First week of Summer Study
H. Alan Schwettman, Stanford University
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They really are quite the spellbinding little team. Bunny and Una will always however remain my leading ladies in the 'Once a Showgirl' illustrated series.
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Single Target:
Do you actually go up on a boss and try to stack 3 tiger palms before you do any blackout kicks? or do you go up and jab > kick > wait for proc then tiger palm?
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This week I was so excited to get my hands on a vintage Sweet Valley High novel again. It has been 23 years since, aged 11, I collected every single one as they came out, dreaming of what it might be like to be a size six blonde haired Californian twin girl living the all-American lifestyle with a pool in the backyard.
Tragically, just a few years later, I sold my entire prized collection of Sweet Valley High books at a car boot sale. I thought I'd outgrown them. But it turned out I never really left behind that powerful myth of the twins with the perfect American lifestyle, and I've wondered about it ever since.
Power Play (here's the vintage edition for just 1p) was the fourth in the series and it's a classic. Bitchy cheerleader type Jessica gets pitted against goody-goody book-reading twin Elizabeth. If you loved SVH, you'll remember the story - it's almost unbelievable. Robin Wilson is a girl at school who wants to join Pi Beta Alpha, the snobby sorority headed up by Jessica. But Jessica won't let her into the club. The sole reason? Robin's chubby. Horror of horrors!
We then get to the immortal bit that struck shock into so many young girl readers back in the late 80s and early 90s: rich kid and nasty jerk Bruce Patman has agreed to take Robin to the prom in a secret deal with kindly Elizabeth, but when they arrive he leads her to the centre of the dancefloor and announces: "OK, that's it. I brought you to the dance, Tubby. I've got better things to do now. Hey! Anyone want to steer the Queen Mary around the floor tonight? She's all yours!"
How well I remember those lines - their cruelty was seared into me. Liz and her stolid boyfriend Todd rush to the rescue but later on in the novel, there's another classic moment of teen mean girlery - Jessica 'blackballs' Robin at the vote to let her into the sorority.
I remember how to 11-year-old female readers, the ultra-bitchy concept of some poor unpopular person being blackballed was fascinating.
Of course there's a happy ending: guess what, Robin starts jogging around the track every day and loses all the weight! Suddenly she's pretty and oh-so popular - even Bruce is struck dumb by her beauty. Right at the end, Robin is crowned Miss Sweet Valley High.
It's all so crude and clichéd it's beyond ludicrous, but it's a formula that adolescent girls loved (though you have to ask whether the series' obsession with being beautiful and popular scarred a generation for life).
Power Play has the ubiquitous subplot of every SVH novel (in this case how spoilt Lila Fowler starts shoplifting), and, as always, the next novel starts at the end of the book with a nice little cliffhanger, Neighbours-style - suddenly we've moved on from ugly duckling Robin; Jessica's in over her head dating a college guy.
The mystery at the time (back in pre-Google days) was who was behind the books. The covers said 'created by Francine Pascal' but inside it said they were written by someone else (in the case of Power Play, Kate William).
I remember long debates at school about who this Francine Pascal could be and what creating a book but not writing it meant. It turned out Francine Pascal had written some other books for teen girls like Love and Betrayal & Hold The Mayo which were really quite good and much more nuanced than the SVH collection.
The fact was that Pascal masterminded the books and presided over various ghostwriters between 1983 (Double Love, number one) and 1998 (Party Weekend, number 148).
I thought I'd want to read at least two SVH books and had earmarked Pretences (number 44), Showdown (19), or Playing For Keeps (49) to read next, but it turns out that now I'm grown up, the books have thankfully lost their sparkle. I don't want to be Jessica anymore (OK, I do quite want to be Elizabeth).
Or so I thought. My friend's just bought me Sweet Valley Confidential though - a new update about what happened when the twins grew up. And this year, an e-serial, The Sweet Life, came out. It turns out Liz is a star reporter while Jessica's in PR. Lila Fowler's a reality TV star. Jessica's a mom. And Liz got together with Bruce??? Wait a minute - I need to read this.
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(WTNH)– The federal government says Best Buy and several liquidators have been found selling recalled merchandise they either kept on their shelves or got from other sources. And the concern is that some of the products could malfunction and someone could get hurt.
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According to the election year polling data that serves as a constant reflection of what we—as a nation—care about, the economy
consistently ranks at the very top of the list.
No big shock there.
But as you tick down the recitals of what we perceive as our most pressing troubles, nowhere on the list of worries that supposedly rule our voting preferences do we see anything that reflects our concern over the following shameful fact of the American experience—every eighty minutes, each and every single day of the week, a veteran will take his or her own life.
I'm going to write that down again.
Every eighty minutes a veteran will take his or her own life.
So serious is the problem that veterans of our military services now represent 20 percent of all suicides in the United States despite the fact that only 1 percent of Americans have served in the military.
Many of these people will jump in front of a train, put a bullet in their head or take some other way out because the United States of America – that would be you and me – is flat out welching on the deal we make with the people we send off to fight our wars. They promise to put their bodies into these deadly, bloody battles and we, in return, promise to take care of their war related injuries—both physical and mental—when they return.
The veterans are delivering on their promise. We very much are not.
And yet, remarkably, so many of us —including the two candidates who presently seek the office of Commander-In-Chief—continue to feel comfortable thumping our chests and declaring that America is an 'extraordinary' nation among nations, even as we breach agreements with those who were willing to die on foreign soil because we ordered them to do so.
There has been no shortage of well-written articles published by some of the largest media outlets in the country bringing this disaster to our attention. They often appear under a headline containing the words 'national shame' and tell us the story of a veteran who tried to get the care needed only to find that he or she ran short on their ability to 'hang in there' while waiting for an appointment with someone who might be able to help—an appointment we are contractually and morally, obligated to provide.
There are extraordinary non-profit organizations, like the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), who work 24/7 to bring this to our attention as they try to fill in the gap created by our malfeasance by sponsoring suicide hot lines connecting them to veterans in the effort to stem the sickening tide of suicide.
Yet, despite the efforts of the many writers attempting to get us to focus on the problem, and the struggles of the IAVA and others to right this obscene wrong, none of it is enough to compensate for the fact that you and I are, at the end of the day, a bunch of deal breaking, contract breaching welchers who don't care enough about our promises to those who would die for us to view this as a concern worthy of making a pollster's list.


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Local folk-painting artist Panhandle Slim had art on the walls of the Hangfire bar last Saturday night.
The venue was non-smoking and the floors were scrubbed clean for the dozens of children who attended the fundraising art event.
The show was a benefit for local autism group Generation Rescue - donated food and prizes were raffled off from the door admission tickets.
I've been to some other kid-friendly events at the Hangfire - so I was already over the shock of being in a bar with my little son.


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I was born in India (the daughter of missionary parents) and grew up in Kentucky. Which could make for a rather unique accent. However I moved to California when I was 22 and promptly dropped whatever strange way I'd had of speaking. Except I still say "y'all." And if I get around Southerners too long … ooh boy. My husband and I now live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. I have a killer view from my office, as you can see from the photo.
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Here are some awards my novels have won: ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers) Carol Award, three times; Inspirational Readers' Choice; Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice; the Inspy; and Christian Retailers' Best Award (twice). I've finaled in a bunch of others, but remembering them is beyond me.
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July 9, 2010
Recap by Josh Cohen, NBA.com (Box Score .PDF)
East Rutherford, N.J.The New Jersey Nets were patiently waiting for a monster performance from their highly-touted No. 3 draft pick.
And on the final day of the 2010 AirTran Airways Pro Summer League, they got it.
Derrick Favors delivered a tremendous effort and finished with 23 points and 11 rebounds as the Nets (3-2) rolled past the Boston Celtics (1-4), 86-68, on Friday.
Favors, who will turn 19 next week, shot 10-of-17 from the field and added 11 rebounds. The 6-10, 246-pound power forward played just one year at Georgia Tech.
New Jersey shot a blistering 49 percent from the field and out-rebounded Boston by 18.
Brandon Heath contributed 16 points, while Jakim Donaldson scored 15. Terrence Williams played just five minutes, while Damion James sat out.
Luke Harangody led the Celtics with 18 points and Rodney Green chipped in with 12.
Monday: Recap | Box Score | Tuesday: Recap | Box Score
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(Masterpieces of American Fiction)
In Miss Macintosh, My Darling, the first and only novel by Marguerite Young, a young woman embarks on a dreamlike voyage through time and memory in search of her darling childhood nursemaid, Miss Macintosh from What Cheer, Iowa, who has disappeared into the ocean, never to be seen again. Finding herself adrift on a sea of delusion and fantasy, the young woman fervently searches for reality only to discover herself drowning in illusion.
The narrator, Vera Cartwheel, has been reared in a baroque New England seaside house. Her mother, Catherine, an opium addict, is confined to her bed and a world of imaginary visitors when Vera is a small child. In her mother's "horizontal" existence, every object, from chandeliers to medicine bottles, is endowed with life and becomes a welcomed guest along with such notables as Alexander Pope, Lady Mary Montagu, and Lord Byron. Catherine's only real visitor is Joaquin Spitzer, her lawyer, who is also the twin brother of Peron, her dead lover who committed suicide years before. Having known Catherine in earlier years, Mr. Spitzer silently endures unrequited love, patiently sitting in the shadows of her room waiting for Catherine's rare moments of coherence.
Miss Macintosh, hired by Mr. Spitzer as a nursemaid when Vera is seven, is a no-nonsense governess and appears to be the only rational person in Vera's life. She is sensible and common, forthright and normal, and for seven years, she is both nursemaid and teacher. On the night of her fourteenth birthday, Vera enters her nursemaid's room only to discover that Miss Macintosh's reality is far stranger than her mother's opium-induced dream; she is in fact bald, hairless since birth. A surreal scene ensues in which the nursemaid's true...
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March 15, 2012, 1:06 pmBy KJ DELL'ANTONIA
S. is two months pregnant with her second child, and six months into a period of freelancing that's left her and her husband juggling to make ends meet. This week — today, in fact — she has a job interview for a steady, at-home, part-time job at a small company.
So, she asked, should she tell her potential employer that she's expecting?
Most readers shouted a resounding "No!" KAS put it simply: "Do not tell during the interview. When they make you an offer, then you can tell."
AMN offered support from the other side of the interview table:
I just found myself on the other end of this quandary. We hired a woman and essentially minutes after accepting the job she told me she was pregnant. We are a pretty small group (about 15 people) and her maternity leave will end up coming at a crucial time for us this year (she works in a small team of three people). My initial reaction was a little like being slapped/punched (literally I felt pain – and I tried not to show it as I just had a kid in September and totally understand where she is coming from).
Now I'm really glad she didn't tell us. We hired the right person for the right reasons – I hate to think that this would/could have clouded our judgment but you never know…. I say don't tell. This should not have an impact on how they evaluate you. It's a short-term problem — but you are not a short-term employee, right?
And KateNonymous (who, just as an aside, gets bonus points for having one of my favorite commenter monikers) had a sad reason for keeping the news of a pregnancy to yourself under these circumstances: shortly after deciding not to tell a job interviewer that she was pregnant during the interview process, she lost that pregnancy. (KateNonymous, I have been there, with an early stillbirth and a miscarriage, and I am sorry.) "As it turns out," she wrote, "I didn't get the job. But I know it wasn't because I was pregnant. And I'm glad I didn't have to wonder about that, because I've been dealing with enough."
I particularly liked MDS's rallying cry: "Let's USE this law that is supposed to protect us against discrimination!" But Jaybee had an important point, one I missed: "In most states (all, except CA, TN and RI according to my Google search) any employer with less than 15 employees is not required to follow the Pregnancy Discrimination Act." Depending on where S. is, her rights, and her potential employer's rights, will differ.
There were dissenting voices. Eleanor's stepdaughter was recently hired, with relocation expenses and a signing bonus, at seven months pregnant (a moment when not telling would rarely be an option).
This turned out to be a happy situation for all concerned. The lesson is, I believe, that no relationship that starts out with an untruth can ever be really a healthy one. And, I say that as someone whose decades-long career was in Human Resources, where I faced this situation many times.
What I found perhaps most interesting about this quandary is that not one of the few men who commented, and not one of the men I asked privately, supported the idea that openness was more important than looking out for number one. "Don't tell until an offer is accepted," wrote Andrew. "While it's great that you would like to start the relationship on trust, I know of several mothers who would not hire a pregnant woman unless they absolutely had no other person available. You need to protect yourself first."
Women, on the other hand, worried. Even as many of us encouraged S. to keep her news to herself, we were more likely to acknowledge the fears that go along with that decision — that we'll be thought to have "tricked" the employer, or be resented, or considered to have broken an unspoken rule of trust. When I was in this situation, earlier in my career, I told all, to the dismay of both my husband and my father. (I was hired, but laid off shortly after my son was born, mostly because I made a truly awful "Director of Business Development.")
In retrospect, I shouldn't have told, both because it's not expected in the business world, and because it actually, as Anon said, creates a potentially difficult situation. "If I were an employer I would not WANT to know in advance. I would want to feel perfectly free to reject any candidate I did not like without fear that she would come back with accusations that I had discriminated against her because of a pregnancy."
S., whose job interview is this very afternoon, tells me she's now decided "to not talk about my pregnancy until an offer is on the table.
"If an official offer is made," she said, "I'll disclose that I'm about two months along before accepting."
"I can't thank you enough," she writes. "Readers helped me think through the matter not just from an applicant's perspective, but also through the lens of H.R." She's ready, she's comfortable with the decision, and on behalf of all of us, I've already wished her good luck.
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Garmin® Debuts the eTrex Venture®, eTrex Legend™
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Built-in basemaps, city databases and bold colors give these
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Olathe, Kan. - Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd.
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Dec. 9, 2011 Joseph Fritsch, Chairperson Statutory Accounting Principles (E) Working Group National Association of Insurance Commissioners 2301 McGee Street, Suite 800 Kansas City, MO 64108-2604 Re:
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Dear Mr. Fritsch: On behalf of the Joint Committee on Retiree Health and Pension Accounting Committee of the American Academy of Actuaries',1 we appreciate the opportunity to provide comments to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) on the exposure drafts of Statements of Statutory Accounting Principles (SSAP) No. 92 and No. 102, which are intended to replace existing standards governing accounting for pension benefits and postretirement benefits other than pensions (OPEBs). As we previously noted in our letter of Oct. 4, 2010, financial statement users reasonably might expect the "liability" to reflect the qualitative difference between a plan sponsor that has a right to unilaterally change substantive plan provisions and a plan sponsor that does not. For OPEBs in particular, the SSAP No. 14 method, which followed FAS No. 106 (now ASC 715-60) but disregarded the actuarial value of non-vested participants, recognizes this difference more fully than the proposed SSAP No. 92.2 Most plan sponsors that reserve the right to change substantive plan provisions have done so and are likely to continue to do so, particularly if accounting rules create an incentive to do so by recognizing the reduction in liability (due to the rescinded benefits) as an income statement gain. The SSAP No. 14 approach provided less incentive through accounting requirements to make these types of changes. For these reasons, many consider the SSAP No. 14 approach to be a more appropriate measure of the liability associated with commitments made to date than the proposed SSAP No. 92 approach. Under the transition procedure outlined in the exposure drafts, the non-vested participant liability and the previously unrecognized liability for prior service are not required to be immediately included in the net periodic (pension or benefit) cost, but are amortized into later cost. While the choice of amortization 1
The American Academy of Actuaries is a 17,000-member professional association whose mission is to serve the public and the U.S. actuarial profession. The Academy assists public policymakers on all levels by providing leadership, objective expertise, and actuarial advice on risk and financial security issues. The Academy also sets qualification, practice, and professionalism standards for actuaries in the United States. 2 Although this issue is present to a certain extent for pension plans, it is a larger issue for OPEB plan sponsors. Many OPEB sponsors can unilaterally eliminate all of a benefit attributable to past service; pension plan sponsors generally are allowed to eliminate only future increases—due to salary changes—to the benefit attributable to past service.
period is frequently a matter of practicality, we do have some comments about the period chosen in the exposure draft. Paragraph 11 of draft SSAP No. 102 indicates the amortization will be assigned equally "to each expected future period of service for non-vested employees active at the date of the amendment." First, the identification of "non-vested employees" is preferable to an amortization for "each non-vested employee," which was included in an earlier draft. That earlier language, however, still is used in Paragraph 81e of Draft SSAP No. 102 and Paragraphs 37 and 99e of Draft SSAP No. 92. We believe the statements would be clarified and improved by substituting "non-vested employees" in those paragraphs. Second, the future service period for non-vested employees differs from the amortization period prescribed for plan amendments, which is the future period of service of all employees expected to receive a benefit. This difference inadvertently may stretch the expense and balance sheet recognition over a longer period than is permitted under the current SSAPs. For many insurers, the future service period of non-vested employees may have an average greater than that of the entire active employee population. This could be particularly significant in the case of pensions, in which many of the non-vested employees will be relatively young. Depending on the demographic assumptions (especially the termination decrement) in the computation of plan liability, the amortization for this additional liability, which may be relatively small compared to the overall plan liability, could continue for many years after this change in the accounting standard. The problem may be less significant with OPEBs, in which vesting typically is nearer the retirement age, but the potential remains for the amortization period to extend beyond the date at which liability would have been recognized under the current SSAPs. This appears to us to be inconsistent with the intent of the SAPWG. Under the current SSAPs, the liability attributed to the years of service needed to achieve vesting is recognized in full at the end of the vesting period. If the intent of the change is to accelerate recognition of that liability, it would not be consistent with this intent for the amortization of the unrecognized prior service liabilities to extend beyond the date at which the liability would have been recognized under current SSAPs. There are numerous alternatives to accomplish this, some more administratively burdensome than others. We again thank you for your consideration of our comments, and we ask that should you wish to discuss any of them or have any questions, please contact Heather Jerbi, the Academy's senior health policy analyst, at 202.785.7869 or email@example.com. Sincerely,
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Thank you Kelly! I think you have cut the Gordian Knot here! We have really been debating about the definition of accessibility here. Some are equating "accessible" with "understandable" and others with "available". I run into the latter frequently when I talk to other state agencies about if their programs are accessible, and they respond with something like, "Yes, we have locations in every county". This is equivalent with the argument that, "Well your computer CAN get that .GIF file, can't it? See, it IS accessible to you." Accessible means more than available. Unfortunately, the WCAG defines what it means by "web content" but not "accessibility". I think we would be doing the WAI a favor by defining this term a little more explicitly! I'll start us out with a couple of definitions (this needs work)... Accessible: Available and usable with appropriate assistive technology. Accessible: Functional to persons with disabilities by the same means (assistive technology) by which they routinely use their personal computer for other mainstream information technology related activities. I don't like either of these definitions because they are tied too strongly to disability, and don't generically address persons who use text browsers by choice (or for other reasons). At least both definitions get us past the current accessible==understandable bottleneck/misunderstanding/impasse that we are currently at! Both definitions are also less than satisfactory because they don't address how "accessible" is used on the WAI site, where the broader "available" connotation is implied. I am not aware of any formal (dictionary) definition of "accessible" that includes PWD or AT. I like the reference to assistive technology because, as Kelly Ford points out, all current working definitions of "accessibility" (with regard to disability) require (implicitly or explicitly) compatibility with "appropriate accommodations". This definition also neatly gets past the issue with learning disabilities because, as AT improves (to allow general computer use by people with LD), web sites that follow the WCAG (even as currently written) WILL be usable by persons with LD. The advent of HTML marked the first (well, most significant anyway) time that a completely competent computer user with appropriate assistive technology (e.g., a blind person with a screen reader) could encounter insurmountable obstacles (e.g., missing ALT tags), even though s/he had full access to all his hardware and software (i.e., Internet browser). THAT is why the WCAG is needed! Accessible means something different than usable. Accessible means MORE than available. Accessible means LESS than understandable. Bruce Bailey, DORS Webmaster http://www.dors.state.md.us/ ---------- > From: Kelly Ford <email@example.com> > To: email@example.com > Subject: Re: QED & Marshall McLuhan > Date: Friday, June 11, 1999 11:38 AM > > After reading the past several days on this topic, it seems reasonably > obvious to me that something is necessary for some segment of the > population with cognitive disabilities who has the ability to access the > web to understand what they are accessing. What is still not obvious to > me is exactly what that something is. I have a couple other thoughts to > toss into the ring. > > As I mentioned before I am blind. Even the most accessible web site > around will not be available to me without a screen reader or some sort > of talking web browser. I don't think we'd expect that the W3 guidelines > on accessibility would require each web site to build some sort of > self-voicing capability into the site that gives me the flexability and > independence that a screen reader or talking web browser affords. > > I wonder if the solution to the barriers faced by those with cognitive > disabilities falls into the same category. Do we need some sort of > assistive technology that can tailor information to the cognitive ability > of different populations. I realize that such doesn't exist today but > perhaps some sort of translator could be explored. > > To me accessibility has to include some measure of practicality of the > solutions being proposed. Here in the US we don't expect every citizen > to own a TDD to allow someone with a hearing impairment to communicate > with anyone on demand. Instead we all, through a tax on our phone bill, > fund the TDD relay system which allows telephone operators to handle this > task. We don't expect a college professor to give his lecture with his > or her voice and with sign language at the same time. Instead we bring > a trained interpreter or realtime captioning into the lecture. > > None of this is meant to say that solutions at the content level > shouldn't be explored. But what I don't hear is a systematic solution > that I can take to web site developers and say do these things to make > your site accessible to this population. I'd bet that the majority of > people writing content for the web have not clue one about what grade > level their content is written at and how to effectively change it to a > different level as just one example.Received on Friday, 11 June 1999 13:20:28 UTC
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for those who to watch videos from you tube, i did it just a couple minutes ago before diana rikasari x tic tac commercial pop up! and tada you know what. it a kind of a wake up call for me.
this is diana's link dianarikasari's BLOG she's a well-known fashion blogger and also enterpreneur, she own shoes line named Up which is cute and cool at the same time cos whenever we bought a shoes , we will automatically donate Rp5000 for the sake of goodness. so the point actually, in that commercial video diana rikasari said that "as long as you love something just go for it. consistency! when you wanna do something do it seriously, take it seriously" right after the commercial ends. i sit up straight. and think. a lot in a rapid time.
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Most good waiters will suggest -- and many diners eagerly anticipate -- a cocktail to start out a nice dinner. Next week, Bourbon House Seafood & Oyster Bar will host a special dinner where the cocktails keep flowing throughout the meal, along with plenty of commentary from a uniquely qualified source.
The dinner, scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 9, is the latest offing from the New Orleans Bourbon Society (N.O.B.S.), and is part of a trend among restaurateurs, distillers and liquor distributors to encourage the higher-end dining public to embrace booze with their meals as avidly as they do wine.
Bourbon House has been especially fertile ground for such dinners and the home base of N.O.B.S., a group with free and open membership that exists essentially to help promote bourbon appreciation.
The featured guest at Wednesday's event is Jimmy Bedford, master distiller for Jack Daniel's, who will lead a guided tasting of his products through a four-course dinner. Jack is the most famous example of what's known as a Tennessee whiskey and is not, technically speaking, a bourbon. But no matter, the maker of this popular spirit should prove an interesting dining companion and he will be selling autographed bottles of Jack Daniel's to dinner guests. Proceeds from bottle sales will benefit the Southern Food & Beverage Museum.
The cost of the dinner is $70, which includes tax, tip and drinks. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres of oysters, shrimp and seafood salads, followed by dinner at 7 p.m. with such highlights as smoked oyster chowder and wild boar chops. To reserve a seat, call 274-1831
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Mathmos Airswitch lights function with a wave of the hand as infrared beams track movement. We are equally as amused by the colors/shapes of the mouth-blown glass of one style, as we are of the beakers complete with how-to graphics.
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Adrien Broner retained his WBC lightweight title with a TKO of Gavin Rees in the fifth round on Saturday.
In the fifth round, Broner (26-0, 22 KO) caught Rees (37-2-1, 18 KO) with a strong left to the body, which caused Rees to take a knee.
Another series of body and head shots forced Rees into the corner and his trainer waived the white towel with the referee stopping the fight at 2 minutes, 59 seconds.


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6 World War 3 Movies You Hope Never Come True
If the next world war hit there wouldn't be enough time to truly celebrate the end of the world even if you ended up restarting civilization in an abandoned party supply store that you named Fort Colossally Awesome so you should avoid the apocalypse as best you can. Grab some stuffed animals or a reasonably plump friend and bond over the nightmare fuel that are these six World War 3 movies you hope never come true.
"The Road".
The only rose-colored lenses in "The Road" would be ones covered in blood and cannibal scraps. There's no telepathic dog or well-fed survivors enclave somewhere in the mountains in this film, just a sliver of hope and a figurative ton of despair and horror. The discovery of the cannibals' larder is a gripping and terrible scene where the choice between what is right and what will allow them to survive has to be made.
"Dr. Strangelove".
A comedy satire that could easily have become truth with one over zealous soldier on either side, "Dr. Strangelove" is a World War 3 movie you hope against hope that it will never come true. With the plethora of mistakes and misunderstandings, this war movie captures the frightening fallibility behind the creators of nuclear weapons. Krong rides the bomb down having made peace with his death and the death of millions in one damning scene.
"Red Dawn".
If it's up to the high school set to free everyone from the tyranny of an occupying force, America might end up waiting a long while. Once the first student to think Call of Duty is all the training he needed to lead everyone loses the top of his head, people might just rethink their combat readiness and scatter. Plus there's no guarantee that the next high school to lead the revolution would have a decent mascot, for all you know "Chickadees" could be the next rallying battle cry for World War 3. Check out the short but realistic gunfight between an enemy helicopter and a overly optimistic Wolverine.
If you can't avoid World War 3 then at the very least you do not want it kicked off by a kid who's found his way into military computers, aliens or a super villain sure but just not a kid barely past puberty. With a computer in full control and the American military dancing for it "WarGames" shows the dangers of removing emotional thinking from the war equation. As a helicopter chases Broderick and Sheedy, this scene reinforces a very important lesson in life: getting chased by the military is the easiest way to impress someone you like.
"Miracle Mile".
A strange mix of first date and life ending nuclear holocaust, "Miracle Mile" is a World War 3 movie you'd rather not happen. The key to any nuclear attack is enough forewarning so you can gather your friends, load up on food and refreshments and throw a gathering as you watch the world go boom. With this film Harry and Julie and the rest of the world only have an hour or so and even Martha Stewart couldn't throw a big enough party that quickly so it's apocalyptic fail. Harry and Julie's reunion in the elevator lends additional weight to its sense of intimacy as the world has begun to end and they both are still concerned with each other.
Following a town and the preparation for a possible nuclear attack, "Threads" continues on in time as the attack occurs and the survivors are left to deal with the aftermath. Definitely not a World War 3 movie you'd ever want to become reality as it illustrates how many support systems would eventually fail along with a bleak future where food is worth everything and human life isn't worth much at all. The anxiety as the emergency council realizes they are trapped and will have to rely on themselves to get free is a strong scene, showing that you cannot prepare for everything no matter how hard you try.


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Spicy Thai Noodles with Pork and Mint
12 oz rice noodles
1⁄4 cup rice vinegar
3 Tbsp sugar
21⁄2 Tbsp oil
11⁄2 Tbsp lite soy sauce
8 oz pork tenderloin, thinly sliced crosswise, slices cut in half
11⁄2 Tbsp minced garlic
11⁄2 Tbsp grated ginger
1 Tbsp minced seeded serrano chiles
3⁄4 cup halved grape tomatoes
3⁄4 cup shredded carrots
3⁄4 cup sliced scallions
3⁄4 cup slivered fresh mint
Accompaniments: lime wedges and Thai-style chili sauce
1. Soak noodles in warm water to cover 20 minutes until pliable. Drain.
2. Meanwhile in a small bowl mix fish sauce, vinegar, sugar, 11⁄2 Tbsp oil, the soy sauce and 1⁄3 cup water.
3. Heat 1 tsp oil in a large nonstick skillet over high heat. Add pork; stir-fry 2 minutes until lightly browned and cooked through. Remove to a plate with a slotted spoon.
4. Heat remaining oil in skillet. Add garlic, ginger and chiles; stir-fry 30 seconds until fragrant.
5. Add fish sauce mixture and noodles. Cook, stirring, 2 minutes or until noodles soften and wilt. Remove from heat; add pork, tomatoes, and 1⁄2 the carrots, scallions and mint. Toss to mix.
6. Spoon onto platter; sprinkle with remaining carrots, scallions and mint.
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I'm Charlie King. Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
Not everybody can win the Masters. There's only that select one each year. For me, golf instruction is about helping golfers win their Masters, whatever that personal goal may be. It's a distinction that has guided in how we have developed the programming for Reynolds Golf Academy.
I have been fortunate enough to be ranked among the Top 100 Golf Instructors by GOLF Magazine and named to the top instructors lists by GOLF Magazines such as Golf Digest (2000, 2001, 2004) and Athlon Golf's Elite Eight. I joined Reynolds Plantation in March 2006 as director of instruction. I have written two books, "You're NOT Lifting Your Head" (now available at www.reynoldsgolfacademy.com as a free e-book download), and "Golf's Red Zone Challenge" (which will be re-released this spring with 36 additional pages of golf instruction).
After graduating from Tennessee Tech in 1987, I began my golf career in 1988 as an assistant pro, then as a teaching pro at Swing's the Thing Golf Schools at Orange Lake Country Club. In the 1990's, I taught at The Golf Academy of the South where he took great pride in helping students achieve their own dreams in the golf industry. I have been a director of instruction at Tuscawilla Country Club in Winter Springs, Fla., PGA National in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. and Reynolds Plantation. I was teaching professional at Nantucket GC in 2004 and 2005.
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* I've appeared as a guest instructor on Golf Channel's Academy Live.
* Recipient of the prestigious NFPGA Horton Smith Award for contributions to education in 1997 and 2002.
* 17-year member of the PGA of America.
* I write instructional articles for GOLF Magazine, Athlon Golf and for my blog at reynoldsgolfacademy.com.
* I am a featured instructor for the CNN Airport Channel.
I look forward to giving you my outlook on golf and especially golf instruction. 2009 will be what we make out of it.
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Thanks for introducing me to this world. I started reading "The New Rules of PR" and am looking forward to learning. I also enjoy helping my students win their own Masters.
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Confident Apple for 2004by Derrick Story 01/07/2004
What do you do when the whole world is watching and you don't have a killer hardware announcement? You do what Steve did on the opening day of Macworld 2004.
Steve Jobs' first keynote of the year was relaxed, confident, and entertaining. And to me, it was a keynote for Apple in 2004 as much as it was for the Macworld conference.
You might be thinking that the iPod mini isn't exactly chopped liver and qualifies as a major hardware announcement. You're right, it isn't chopped liver. It's cool. It's five fruity flavors in your pocket. But it's an evolution of a revolutionary product. In of itself, the iPod mini isn't a major announcement. Apple is tending the garden, and they are doing so quite well.
Then you could argue that the Xserve G5 isn't really anything to pooh-pooh. And I would say, "Amen brother." The Xserve is Apple's commitment to the small and large enterprise market -- and what a beautiful, smart, powerful commitment it is. And don't forget about the Xserve RAID Steve demoed. Very nice.
Again, evolutionary, not revolutionary. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, nothing worse than having a great idea (iPod, Xserve, etc.) and not fully developing it. Apple is not only coming up with new ideas, but they are also seeing them through. Heck, look at Mac OS X if you want to talk commitment. This is good business.
While I'm standing here in the garden that Apple is tending, I should mention the iLife suite. iPhoto, iDVD, iTunes, and iMovie are all maturing with grace and stability. It's so cool to fire up a new version of a favorite application and not be disgusted by feature bloat, poor performance, and buggy behavior.
I haven't heard the official word either way on this, but it appears that you will have to buy iLife to get the updated versions of iPhoto, etc. No more free downloads apparently. But the entire suite is $49 and that includes a new application that is killer. Personally, I find it hard to complain about that.
But I want to get back to the keynote itself and Apple's momentum for 2004. One of the first things I noticed during the presentation was that it was mostly Steve and a few Apple product managers. The parade of technology CEOs proclaiming their commitment to the Mac platform was diverted to another place and time. Yes, Microsoft did make an appearance to announce Office 2004 for the Mac. And that was certainly the right thing to do. But that's all that was needed. Apple doesn't require validation from fickle companies that would just as easily turn away at the drop of a mouse.
Steve ran most of the demos. And watching him refer to his notes, leg bouncing with excitement as he tried to tame his computer in front of the whole world was exciting. Steve is a rock star, no doubt. But there's something very endearing about him when he sits down at the computer and suddenly becomes you or me trying to make something happen. It takes guts to do that in front of the whole world. And when it works, we can identify with the man on the stage in a very familiar way. If Steve can do it in front of thousands, millions, of people, then I sure as hell can in the privacy of my own office.
It got even better. Steve introduced John Mayer. John has some endearing qualities himself. First of all, he's a guitar player, and the first thing they did was set him down at the keyboard. "John, play a few rifts for us," Steve asked. John's thinking, "Dang, what am I doing playing the keyboard in front of the whole world." But it worked. Again, it was you or me trying to pound out a tune.
The new application, GarageBand was the reason for all this fun. And what a heck of a program it is. Over and over again I heard in the audience, "I want that." You look at it, watch Steve trying to shape a composition with it, and you connect. Not only is the application revolutionary (because average people can actually use it), so was the presentation of it.
Then they got serious. John Mayer picked up the guitar and the room lit up. I cannot describe the enjoyment I felt watching John play, Steve play, and seeing the Mac capture it all. When Steve was getting ready to close the application, "Save it!" was shouted throughout the hall.
I don't know what's going to happen in 2004. I hope it's a good year for the U.S. and all of the world. But I do know that Apple has laid the foundation for a strong 12 months ahead. You can see it on paper, and I could feel it in the Moscone Ballroom yesterday.
Now we need to do our part. We need to take this platform and push it to the very limit. As developers and power users, we can apply the same creativity and confidence to our endeavors that Apple has to its framework.
When Steve introduced the video showing Virginia Tech's supercluster of 1,100 G5s, I thought that this is a perfect example of recognizing the strengths of a platform and leveraging it in a creative way. I would love to see those types of achievements, big and small, come out of our audience. We certainly can add fuel to this fire, and if we do, God knows what we might see this time next year.
Derrick Story is the author of The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers, The Digital Photography Companion, and Digital Photography Hacks, and coauthor of iPhoto: The Missing Manual, with David Pogue. You can follow him on Twitter or visit www.thedigitalstory.com.
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Photo expert? Artist?
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Photo expert? Artist?
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Glad to see the positive view
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MWSF - Yawn
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Keynote and GB
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Analogies considered harmful
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Have your current versions of iPhoto and iMovie stopped working?
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iLife bundled?
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The role of image guidance for surgery of subinsular cavernoma
Navigationsgesteuerte Resektion insulärer Kavernome
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Objective: Surgical treatment of cavernomas arising below the medial insular cortex is especially challenging due to the proximity to the internal capsule and lenticulostriate arteries. We present our technique of image guidance for the surgery of such subinsular cavernomas and assess its clinical usefulness.
Methods: Between 1997 and 2005 we operated on 12 patients harboring a subinsular cavernoma with the guidance of a frameless stereotactic system (BrainLab AG, Munich, Germany). The neuronavigation was used (1) for accurate planning of the craniotomy, (2) for identification of the distal Sylvian fissure and finally (3) for finding the exact site of insular corticotomy. Image guided ultrasonography was used as an additional intraoperative imaging modality. Postoperative clinical and neuroradiological evaluations were performed in each patient.
Results: The navigation system worked properly in all 12 neurosurgical cases. Exact planning of the approach and determination of the ideal trajectory for cavernoma was possible in every case. All cavernomas were readily identified and completely removed using microsurgical technique. No surgical complication occurred, and the postoperative course was uneventful in all patients.
Conclusions: Image guidance during surgery of subinsular cavernomas provides high accuracy for lesion targeting and permits excellent anatomical orientation. Accordingly, safe exposure can be obtained due to a tailored dissection of the Sylvian fissure and minimal insular corticotomy.


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You're in your favorite bar, you're feeling good while hanging out with your buddies, and some newbie walks up to the jukebox. The only thing that's on your mind now is, this jackass better not play a douchey song. We've all been there and mood killing by music has effected all of us at some point or another. Since it's not "PC" to walk up to this jukebox dolt and suggest the he or she doesn't play something awful, we decided to help out the masses. Compiling a list of horrendous songs is always geared to your taste in tunes so instead, we've put together a list of "Five Songs That Are Sure to Clear Out the Bar." You may even want to carry this list around with you because if you choose one of these songs, you're the one responsible for what happens next. (Think pool stick to the head.)
5. Michael Jackson, "You Are Not Alone"
Holy depressing! While this jam by Jackson is meant to be heartfelt and lovely, bumping "You Are Not Alone" in a bar will most definitely lead to dirty looks. And they'll all be given to you. WTF anyone would play a slow and sappy song in a bar is beyond us. The bottom (MJ molesting pun intended) line here is, if you choose to spend your money on this song, you're on your own. You should also probably go home alone.
4. Chris Isaak, "Wicked Game"
So there you are yapping it up, having a good time sipping on happy hour drinks, and talking shit about the work week. Then some asshole decides to pick "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak. Talk about a real wicked game. We're not saying that this tune is a bad one, matter of fact, we think it's actually quite lovely. But the crooning of Isaak in this ditty paired with a crowed bar would most certainly be a terrible idea. Well, unless you were intentionally trying to depress the room. Hey, jerk off. Go cry in your beer at your mommy's house while nestled on her bosom.
3. Baja Men, "Who Let The Dogs Out"
Who the fuck knows why "Who Let The Dogs Out" was popular in 2000 and who in the entire fuck would seriously pay to hear it again in 2014. Sure this one hit wonder by the Baja Man is upbeat enough to keep bar patrons partying but really, NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR THIS SONG! (Yes, we are yelling.) Anyone who puts this song on should be let out abruptly by the bouncer. And no, we don't advocate violence but in this case, we'd possibly be (totally be) cool with it.
2. Taylor Swift, "Fifteen"
Ohhh the irony of playing this Taylor Swift song. What is the irony you ask? First of all, fifteen is too young to be in a bar in the first place, obviously. Second of all, Taylor Swift's music is (hopefully) geared towards a younger crowd (unless they have a fake ID) which means, they are also too young to be in a bar. And third of all, fuck anyone who plays this Taylor Swift song because, yuck. And yes, we think that "yuck" is a valid reason not to play this shitty song. So there.
1. Josh Groban- You Raise Me Up
We wish playing this song on a jukebox didn't have to be addressed at all but since we've seen it featured in one, here we go. The only spirit needed in a bar is a spirit of the unholy kind. And holy shit if you put on this Josh Groban song, may God help you. Need something lifted up? Lift up a glass and make a toast to our humble suggestion. On the real folks, the only places this tune should be played is in your church group, at home, in your car, or at a funeral. Please don't ever feel the need to share it with your fellow bar patrons. Trust us, it'll save you a lot of (deserved) ass kicking's.
See also:
Steve-O Found a Way to Work Manginas Into His Stand-Up Comedy
10 Douchiest Guitarists of All Time
10 Douchiest Drummers of All Time
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McLean High School faculty letter to the community
To protest lagging salaries in Fairfax County, teachers are planning to protest by taking a "work to the rule" action that would limit their activities to what they are contracted to do. The action could affect after-school activities and could halt college recommendations, among many other "extras" teachers provide to students outside of the normal work day. Fairfax County teachers propose cutting 'extras' in protest of lagging salaries
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Guestbook for Francis E. "Frank" Watson
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September 3, 2013 | Jack & Christine Silberman - Auburn, ME -- USA
Ronda & Family;
Jack (Lamey-Wellehan Shoes) and I were saddened to see in the Sun-Journal the passing of Frank.
We send our DEEPEST SYMPATHY and hope all the joys and happy memories will help as time passes to heal the pain of his death.
Chris & Jack Silberman
September 3, 2013 | Brent and Rachel LaFrinea - Poland, Maine -- USA
We miss you frank as a good friend and Neighbor.
September 3, 2013 | Henry (Sonny) Poirier Jr - Upton, MA -- USA
The family of Henry Poirier JR send our condolences. Sorry we will not be able to attend the memorial services -
We extend our deepest Sympathy.
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text: More Bryston gear from the "overdesign, just in case" school of thought. The pictured hulk is the new 1000 Watt 28B-SST mono amplifier. Even when the design goal is to make an amp that can drive any speaker in the world, this seems like overkill. Bryston assures us this beast isn't just brawn; it also gets the nuances right. And with specs like a -115dB noise floor, and total harmonic distortion below 0.001%, we'd believe them. Price is securely in the "if you have to ask..." realm, but you do get the standard 20 year Bryston warranty for your $7500.


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Boosted by WeChat, Tencent's Net Profit Rises 59%
China's Biggest Chatting App Drivers Users to Mobile Games, Paid Services
Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. posted a 59% jump in second-quarter net profit, as its popular chat app helped drive users to its mobile games and paid services.
The operator of China's most widely used mobile instant-messaging service WeChat is on a growth tear, with a second consecutive quarter of profit growth exceeding 50%. Tencent's earnings were bolstered by its large online games business, with mobile games and advertising revenue helping to drive growth.
Company executives said Wednesday on an investor call that Tencent will invest "aggressively" in new in-house and third-party video content, boost its fledgling news portals and continue adding functions to its mobile platforms as the company works to grow its Internet footprint.
"We will continue to grow these platforms," said Martin Lau, Tencent's president. "That will be the horse in front of the cart, and afterward the cart will follow the horse."
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On Wednesday, the Shenzhen-based company said its revenue from social networks increased by 47%, with the number of monthly active WeChat users climbing 57% from a year earlier to 438.2 million.
Revenue growth from smartphone games was brisk in the second quarter, but may be flat in the second half, as priority shifts to user engagement and platform enhancement over revenue growth, the company said.
Tencent said its net profit for the three months ended June 30 rose to 5.84 billion yuan ($947 million) from 3.68 billion yuan a year earlier. This beat analysts' expectations of a second-quarter profit of 5.51 billion yuan, according to Thomson One Analytics. Revenue rose 37% to 19.75 billion yuan from 14.38 billion yuan a year earlier, exceeding analyst expectations of 19.20 billion yuan.
The strong earnings come despite intensifying rivalry with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., which is preparing for what could be the largest technology initial public offering in history. While the two began in different sectors, they have increasingly clashed directly as they battle for dominance in the world's largest Internet market by users.
Tencent's shares fell 0.1% to 133.20 Hong Kong dollars (US$17.18) on Wednesday ahead of the announcement, but its stock has climbed more than 30% since the beginning of the year.
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The popularity of Tencent's online games and messaging platforms has boosted its market capitalization to $159 billion, compared with Facebook Inc.'s $190 billion, and has made it Asia's most valuable Internet company. But that could change after Alibaba's hotly anticipated IPO, which is slated for this fall. Analysts estimate it could raise more than $20 billion and brokerages have put out valuation estimates of more than $200 billion.
Alibaba has moved to chip away at Tencent's mobile dominance in the past year by starting its own instant-messaging service Laiwang. It has also launched mobile games, developed a mobile search service with Beijing-based browser provider UCWeb Inc. and taken a stake in video website Youku Tudou Inc.
Meanwhile, Tencent is trying to challenge Alibaba in e-commerce, with a partnership begun in March with China's No. 2 online retailer JD.com and with its own electronic-payment service. A group including Tencent also gained permission from Chinese regulators in July to open a rare private bank, as the company looks to expand its footprint in financial services.
Tencent executives said Wednesday that its future bank wouldn't compete directly with current ones, but would work with them to identify underserved borrowers using its large store of data.
Online games remain the company's largest business, however, contributing 56% of revenue in the second quarter. Tencent operates online games including "Cross Fire" and "League of Legends," along with games portal QQ Game.