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Bolshoi Ballet Director Victim of Acid Attack
(MOSCOW) -- The artistic director of the world renowned Bolshoi Ballet was the victim of a vicious acid attack in central Moscow that may stem from rifts within the dance company.
Russian news reports say Sergei Filin was walking home on Thursday night when a masked assailant threw acid on his face and ran off.
Filin, 43, is said to be in stable condition, but the attack left him with third degree burns across his face. Doctors are scrambling to save his eyesight. He is scheduled to undergo surgery and is expected to be flown to Belgium for further treatment. Russian news reports say he will require plastic surgery and that recovery could take months.
Filin was a star ballet dancer with the Bolshoi company before becoming artistic director in 2011. Investigators have suggested that internal theater politics may be behind the attack. In a statement, the Bolshoi Theater said he had been the subject of an intimidation campaign in recent months. According to RIA Novosti, his car tires were slashed, he received threatening phone calls, and there were attempts to hack into his Facebook account.
So far no suspects have been apprehended. RIA Novosti reports that, if caught, they face up to eight years in prison.
The Bolshoi Theater is one of the most prestigious in Moscow, having opened its doors for the first time in 1825. In 2011 it re-opened after a six year renovation that cost an estimated $681 million.
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CIA wants them to store it for eternity. FTC wants them to get rid of it ASAP. Make up your mind, The Government!
There is no need to wonder whether the FTC rules would apply to the CIA or FBI or IRS or any other government agency. And don't bother worrying about it either, citizen, unless you have something to hide...
CIA wants them to store it for eternity. FTC wants them to get rid of it ASAP. Make up your mind, The Government!
Yes, the idea that the "gubbermint" is not some massively interconnected single entity which is hell bent on controlling all your lives and actually is a group of loosely connected group of small individual entities with their own needs and agenda's is uncomfortable to some people.
Back in the bad old days of apartheid, South African's white minority advocated that foreign companies follow a policy known as "constructive engagement" - it's pretty much analogous to what Microsoft is asking the FTC to do now with regards to user privacy.
"Don't punish us, because we really REALLY intend to be good in the long run..."
That's it, we're boned.
Which doesn't jive with the fact that Bing has a better privacy policy than Google. Bing anonymizes IP logs after 6 months. Google after 9 months.
I believe the reason IPs are logged at all is because of a legal requirement - but I don't know exactly what that requirement is.
Those records apply to information generated inside the company, and to a lesser degree to customer information.
ISP-type information is not specifically covered, as it is a special case.
I can be in favor of the gov protecting consumers, but I don't get what is so inherently evil about these companies storing the data that I give them for a long time.
Typically, when I let them have the data I figured they would, at the very least, use it to pick which ads to show me and I really don't mind that.
In my opinion, the real privacy problems lie elsewhere, e.g.
- Selling or sharing my data without proper consent.
- Collecting it without my consent.
- 'Forcing' or tricking me into allowing them to collect my data. For example, if I agree to iTunes terms of service for the iPhone then I'm agreeing to let Apple collect data about my precise location. To me these are too unrelated, and I don't really have any choice.
So, I think this issue is how they collect it and what they do with it, not how many years they store it.
Cost. All of that storage hardware and administrating its library costs money. They will simply pass the cost down to the consumer. YEY Goverment!!! **retarded clapping**
e-credibility: the non-guaranteeable likelihood that the electronic data you're seeing is genuine rather than somebody's made-up crap. - Karl Lehenbauer

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Nineteen golfers assembled at the Jackson Valley Golf Club for an 18 hole round. After completing play 5 teams were contesting for the top spots having one golfer whose name was randomly drawn assigned to a second team to fill out even foursomes.
Finishing first was the team of Les Yokom, Butch Joint, Al Muck and Jeff Wagner with a score of 211 (sum of the three lowest scores). Following in second place was the squad of Roger Kolpien, Phil Young, Trenny Jordan and Todd Swanson with a total of 212. Winning the money for third was the crew of Gary Farley, Leroy Vahl, Gary Nash and John Barone with a 216.
The fourth place went to Dick Kurek, Glen Eck, Jim Sudal and Leroy Vahl with the sum of 218. Fifth spot was awarded to the crew of Mel Allen, Keith Rothwell, Sam Arcadipane and Vinny Paternosh who got a lot more exercise than the other four teams with a whopping 232. They must have thought there was to be a booby prize.
Skins were won by Todd Swanson, Phil Young, Gary Farley and Jim Sudal. Closest to the pin payouts went to Farley on No. 8 and to Muck on No. 15.
Swanson and Muck had a low gross of 88 while low net of 69 was achieved by Joint.
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Suky Apartment
Hostel Suky is my new hostel. It has few apartments and multiple rooms. Big and comfort rooms, we have twin rooms, double rooms, triple bed rooms, quad rooms. I can take up to 15 people. We also offer en suite and private rooms and shared wc. Rooms have a beautiful view, big and clean, linen and towels are included and other services you require. For example if you are going on a short trip we can take care of your luggage. Safe rooms and a safe neighborhood, peaceful and quiet. If you are coming with a car you have a free parking.
For people who need visas, i will not guarantee for your coming to Croatia.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Apartment Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- Air Conditioning
- Airport Transfers
- Bicycle parking
- Cash Only
- Child Friendly
- Free City Maps
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Internet Access
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Microwave
- Parking
- Pet Friendly
- Taxes included
- Towels Included
- Washing Machine
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 2 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Check out is at 10 am. Rooms are ready in 11 am.
Cancellation policy
2 days before the check in time
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If you are coming to the airport we can pick you up, for a amount of 250 kunas (taxi costs 300) if you want me to pick you up you have to call me to arrange the transport, call me on 00385 91 925 4004.
If you are coming with a bus or a train we can pick you up for 50 kunas.
You can also come with a bus from BAZAR, you take number 18 for 3 bus stops, you enter in the bus on the left side.
You can also come on foot following the map of the Split city, which you can get in the OFFICE TOURIST BIRO.
You can even take a taxi in the center and tell to take you to my address
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Hostel Suky is my new hostel. It has few apartments, multiple rooms. Beautiful views and accommodation's, it is located not far from the center, it is near some of the most beautiful beaches and cultural centers. Old part of the town center is near and it is filled with cultural buildings and places to visit and culturally educate your self.
We are also located near the 'night life' places like the 'Bačvice' complex which is a beach with many discos and cafe bars,,restaurants and bars and sports center like tennis court and tracking stages, pools... Split by it´s self is a city of youth and fun combined with cultural facilities.
A lot of islands are located near too so organized trips are possible, the islands are full of 'must see' beaches and intact nature combined with historical buildings and plenty night life.
Also in Split there is a famous Riva, filled with cafe bars and places to go out which includes restaurants and Dioklecians palace which is 1700 years old and it is filled with night life, churches, cafe bars, bars.


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On Tuesday I reported to you that Dolphins offensive coordinator Mike Sherman had a career chat with his players and implored them to overcome the difficulties of the past couple of weeks and make their sons proud.
It was Sherman's way, I guess, of challenging his players.
Well, I challenge Mike Sherman to make necessary corrections and make fans proud -- because the offense the Dolphins have been putting on tape for much of this season, and particularly lately, simply isn't good enough.
The Dolphins are averaging 19.2 points per game this season. That is 25th in the NFL.
That is the worst mark in the AFC East so far.
That is worse than a season ago when Miami averaged what we all considered an unacceptable 20.6 points per game.
The Dolphins have not scored a touchdown in six quarters.
The Dolphins are tied with Kansas City for the fewest passing TDs in the NFL (6) so far this season.
This is not good. Fact is, it is terrible because the Dolphins haven't exactly been playing stellar competition. The hard part of the schedule is coming up, believe it or not, after the Buffalo game.
"I think it's just a lot of things that we just have to execute better," Sherman said. "It's typical coach talk. We've got to execute a lot better. We've got to not have penalties. Not turn the ball over. Those things all play a part in it. Got to have good plays. I've got to call good plays -- make sure they're the ones that apply specifically to that defense.
"There's a lot of reasons, which we have to get fixed. There's no question. This is unacceptable."
I cringe at the idea that Miami still has to play against the San Francisco and Seattle defenses.
The situation is frustrating because generally the Miami defense and special teams have been good enough, with the exception of the last two losses to Indianapolis and Tennessee, to provide Miami with a winning team.
So the offense needs to hop on its horse and giddyup.
The Bills, Thursday night's opponent, provide an opportunity. The Bills, to put it diplomatically, stink on defense.
They give up more points (31.7) per game than any other NFL team. They are dead last in the NFL in rushing yards allowed per game. Combined, they allow 410 yards per game on the ground and through the air and that's 31st of 32 teams.
So the Bills are possibly a prescription for what ails the Dolphins offense.
Of course, I kind of thought that last week before the Tennessee game.


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October 27, 2011 marks the 20th anniversary of Game 7 of the 1991 World Series between the Minnesota Twins and the Atlanta Braves.
Regarded as one of the best World Series in baseball history and one of the most memorable games in World Series history, Game 7 on October 27, 1991 featured a game-winning base hit from one of Columbia's own, Gene Larkin.
Minnesota's Jack Morris and Atlanta's John Smoltz started on the mound and dueled brilliantly over the first seven innings as the game remained scoreless until the bottom of the 10th inning.
In the 10th, The Twins loaded the bases with one out against Atlanta reliever Alejandro Pena. After Jarvis Brown had pinch run for Chili Davis earlier in the game, Twins manager Tom Kelly sent up Larkin to hit for Brown.
"I can tell you how I felt going to the batter's box," Larkin said to Baseball Digest in 2002. "I was very nervous. My knees were kind of shaking. I remember saying to myself, 'Hit the first strike.' I didn't want the umpire to dictate whether it was a strike or not."
Larkin did hit the first strike. The sweet-swinging left-handed hitter drove the first pitch from Pena the other way into left center field, over the heads of the drawn-in outfielders. The Metrodome crowd went beserk and the Twins won the final game of an epic World Series.
A Long Island native, Larkin graduated from Columbia in 1984. In 40 games that season, he batted .429, belted 19 home runs, drove in 62 runs and netted 133 total bases. The American College Baseball Coaches Association voted him first team All-America.
Larkin was drafted in the 20th round by the Twins that year. He never hit below .302 in three minor league seasons, and played seven years in the majors with the Twins. He earned two World Series rings, in 1987 and that magical season in 1991.


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Sweet Talk
by Elisa Bosley
Baking with natural sweeteners will make you one smart cookie
The mere sight of cookie cutters and mixing bowls is enough to sweeten anyone's day. The reason is simple: There's nothing like a homemade cookie straight from the oven to transform an ordinary afternoon into one filled with anticipation, warmth and joy. Yet many forgo these rewarding, easy eats because of that notorious culinary bugaboo: processed sugar.
Americans consume a lot of the white stuff — mostly from refined sugar added to almost every manufactured food we buy. Because the refining process strips cane sugar clean, all that remain are empty calories that provide no nutrients, overexcite the nervous system and blunt the appetite for more subtle flavors.
So what's a cookie-lover to do? Fortunately, options abound. Using fresh, unrefined ingredients and a few natural sugar alternatives, you can create delectable treats to please both palate and conscience. "People don't have to desert dessert to eat healthy," agrees Mary McCarty, author of Sweet & Natural (St. Martin's Press). "It's important to have a good repertoire of natural desserts, which is a big part of maintaining a healthy diet."
So go ahead: Get your hand caught in the cookie jar with these naturally sweet ideas.
- Cardamom Cookies
- Red Hot Peanut Butter Cookies
- Coconut Macaroons
- Orange-Lemon Meringues
- Soy Milk Truffles


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Children's Village Holiday Toy Drive 2013
'Tis the season of giving and Children's Village is doing something fun along with Dutch Bros. From November 25th through December 3rd, for every donated toy you drop off at Dutch Bros. Coffee on 65th and Nob Hill, they'll hook you up with a free coffee of your choice!
to make it a very merry Christmas for kids in Yakima, they ask that the toys should be around the $10 price range. You can also drop them off at Children's Village on 38th and Kern in Yakima.
This is in conjunction with the Children's Village 'Parent to Parent' program where they throw a Christmas party annually for the families of children with special needs who receive services through Children's Village.
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(AP) - The New York Jets have signed quarterback Geno Smith, their second-round draft pick, to a four-year contract that is worth about $5 million.
Smith, drafted 39th overall after an unexpected slide out of the first round in April, is competing with incumbent Mark Sanchez for the starting quarterback job. The signing Monday was announced by the team, which still has its two first-round picks - cornerback Dee Milliner and defensive lineman Sheldon Richardson - unsigned.
The Jets' veteran players report for training camp in Cortland, N.Y., on Thursday, but rookies are reporting Monday at the team's facility in Florham Park, N.J.
Smith and Sanchez are competing in what has been called by team officials an "open competition," and neither noticeably outperformed the other in minicamp last month.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)


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Bryan McLain is entering his twelth season as head coach and his 21st overall with the baseball program at Georgia Southwestern. He is coming off a 13-34 season in 2015.
In McLain's eleven years as head coach at GSW, he has enjoyed much success with the program, highlighted by being named Georgia Dugout Club's NAIA Coach of the Year in 2005. Under McLain's leadership the Hurricanes have advanced to two NAIA regional tournaments, produced several Academic and All-Conference players - as well as two Honorable Mention All-Americans - and this past season delivered its first NCAA Peach Belt All-Conference Player. In 2010 his Hurricanes finished runner-up in the Peach Belt Conference tournament in their fourth season of NCAA Division II competition.
Prior to taking over the helm of the Canes, McLain spent nine seasons as an assistant coach. From 1996-2000, he served as the hitting and outfield coach, as well as recruiting coordinator for Bill Haywood. For four seasons, 2001-2004, under Barry Davis, McLain took over the pitching staff and developed it into one of the best staffs in NAIA baseball, while establishing many individuals and team pitching records. During that time, the Hurricanes had two pitchers earn first team All-Region honors with one being named NAIA National Player of the Year. As an assistant, McLain was an integral part of three regional appearances and three conference championships.
Bryan also has a wealth of playing experience. He was an All-American outfielder at the University of West Georgia and played one year in the Frontier League (Independent) in 1993. He played his first two collegiate seasons at South Georgia College after graduating from Tift County High School.
Bryan and his wife, Carmen, are the proud parents of twin daughters, Bailey and Carley.


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Zolfo woman hurt in single car wreck
A Zolfo Springs woman was injured Saturday in a single-car crash on State Route 66 west of Nursery Road.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Dominique L. Sanchez, 25, was initially listed in critical condition following the wreck but as of Monday she was upgraded to stable. The crash occurred around 3:50 a.m. when a 2007 Lincoln, heading west on State Route 66, left the roadway and entered a ditch next to the south shoulder. The car then collided with a culvert and became airborne, turning over several times before colliding with another culvert facing east.


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An explosion and fire at a house in northern India killed eight people yesterday, including six members of a family who were making firecrackers for the festival of Diwali, a media report said.
The incident happened in the town of Yaqoobpur in Uttar Pradesh state, the Press Trust of India news agency said, quoting deputy superintendent of police Ashok Kumar Singh.
A loud explosion was heard after the firecrackers caught fire, killing eight on the spot and injuring 12 others, it added.
The crackers were being manufactured illegally ahead of Diwali, the festival of lights when Indians celebrate by letting off fireworks.
In September a major fire at a fireworks factory in southern India killed 38 people.
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I didn't quite follow why you said "stop pumping if the property starts to flood up" but apart from that it seems to me that what you want is a bilge pump with the float switch used to set the level you want to hold the water at.
If the area outside the pond is already flooded, what that means is that any water that is pumped out of the pond will ultimately just flow back into the pond, which is why it's better to just stop and wait until the water drains out a little before we start pumping again.
I'm thinking of the issues regarding a physical float switch. Will it work correctly in a body of water as big as a pond?
Now I'm a little unclear what you're trying to achieve. If you're simply pumping the pond out to the surrounding land, couldn't you simply install an overflow pipe?
I think I follow you now. I suggest using a float switch in the pond set to turn the pump off at the 'low' level, and a float switch at the municipal output set to turn the pump off at the 'high' level, and a third override switch to turn the pump off when heavy rain is not expected. You could control this override switch manually. If you can tolerate a wired solution then you can get this working without any electronicsw at all - just the three switches wired in series with the pump.
If you come up with a weather prediction system you're willing to trust, I expect it would run on the PC. You could replace the manual override switch with a relay (power switch tail, X10 outlet etc) controlled from the PC via an Arduino. If the weather prediction system seems to work, you might choose to turn the whole system off manually during seasons where you think heavy rain is unlikely and want to avoid dumping your precious irrigation water due to a forecasting error.


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Submission + - John MaCafee Reveals Himself As Mastermind Social Engineer (whoismcafee.com)
paysonwelch writes: "Wow, all I can say is wow. It's hard to believe but I wouldn't put it past McAfee he seems incredibly resilient. His latest blog post details his complex spy network that he used to tap information into the higher echelon of the Belizean government. He might consider a new career as a movie producer, this blog post is enthralling. Here is an excerpt: I purchased 75 cheap laptop computers and, with trusted help, intalled invisible keystroke logging software on all of them — the kind that calls home (to me) and disgorges the text files. I began giving these away as presents to select people — government employees, police officers, Cabinet Minister's assistants, girlfriends of powerful men, boyfriends of powerful women."


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Homosexuals - Equal Rights?
Recently a friend and I had a long discussion about the appropriateness of homosexuals as teachers and rabbis, etc., and on how Judaism should deal with homosexuality in general. It seems that there is a conflict between the need to provide equal rights to homosexuals, while not promoting homosexuality too much. Where should we draw the line?
Whatever the case, shouldn't Judaism be accepting of homosexuals as congregants, even if it does not feel entirely comfortable with homosexual behavior?
The Aish Rabbi Replies:
One of the best-known biblical verses is Leviticus 18:22 which states that male homosexuality is incorrect behavior. Does the preponderance of homosexual activity prove that the Torah laws should not apply to them?
God knows human beings very well. He created them. He didn't make a blunder that now needs to be corrected by erasing verses in the Torah.
It is axiomatic that Judaism legislates only acts, not orientations. A desire for lobster dinner is not a violation of Kashrut laws, only the dinner is. The same is true with homosexuality.
Absolutely, homosexuals have the same rights as any human being. Judaism looks negatively at homosexual activity, but not at the homosexual. He is as beloved in God's eyes as any other Jew, and is as responsible as any Jew is in all the mitzvot. He is obligated to achieve life's goals by directing his life toward spiritual growth, sanctity and perfection of his character – no less than is any other Jew.
For each of us in our own areas, the test is harder, but we all need to overcome our drives. Imagine a "kleptomaniac" who could only find fulfillment by stealing from other people. How would society respond? Although we'd be sympathetic and concerned for the individual, we still would not be able to tolerate behavior that goes against the Torah.
But to officially sanction and condone homosexuality? For 3,300 years, Torah - in its totality - has made the Jewish people the most accomplished nation on Earth. We "revise" its laws at our peril.


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Allen Iverson and Richard Hamilton combined for 15 of Detroit's 17 points in overtime and the Pistons rallied for a 126-121 overtime win over the injury-plagued Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night.
Hamilton finished with 38 points, a career high as a reserve,
and Iverson added 27 points and nine assists to give the Pistons
their second straight gritty win after a 3-10 stretch. Rasheed
Wallace scored 27 points and Antonio McDyess had 16.
This one came down to the wire, twice.
Former Wolf Pack star Ramon Sessions scored 20 of his career-high 44 in the fourth quarter and overtime and put Milwaukee up for the
final time when he hit two free throws that made it 121-120 with 46 seconds left.
But Iverson answered when he stepped back on a drive and hit a
14-footer. Newly acquired Keith Bogans missed a 15-footer for the
Bucks with 15 seconds to play, and Hamilton hit two free throws to
make it 124-121.
The Bucks' last chance to tie ended when Richard Jefferson, who
finished with 16 points, missed a 3-pointer from the corner with
6.2 seconds left and Hamilton added two more free throws to end it.
Charlie Villaneuva scored 33 points and Charlie Bell had 10
points for Milwaukee.
Sessions, the starting point guard because Luke Ridnour will
miss the next four weeks with a broken right thumb, kept the Bucks
ahead despite also missing Michael Redd (knee) and Andrew Bogut
(back) to long-term injuries.
Sessions, who finished with 12 assists and never had more than
25 points in a game before, gave Milwaukee a 102-96 lead with 3:46
to play by weaving past three defenders and converting a
three-point play after his layup.
But Detroit came back because of Hamilton, who hit two jumpers
in a row to give the Pistons a 109-108 lead with 26 seconds left.
Sessions drove to the basket and was fouled, hitting the second of
two to tie the game, but both teams squandered opportunities to win
First McDyess was called for an offensive foul with 9.6 seconds
left, then Bell threw a pass away to Tayshaun Prince that led to
Hamilton missing an open 17-footer in transition as time expired.
Prince finished with seven points, nine assists and 13 rebounds.
Milwaukee, which trailed by 13 points in the first half, quickly
worked out its kinks to take a lead heading into the fourth with
new players like Bogans filling much bigger roles.
Bogans, acquired on Thursday from Orlando for Tyronn Lue,
couldn't participate in the morning shootaround because he hadn't
officially been cleared to play. After he was cleared, he came out
a few hours early to learn what he could and ended up playing 25
Redd said the swelling in his left knee had gone down
and a date for his surgery will be scheduled early next week. Redd
tore ligaments in the knee in a Jan. 24 win against Sacramento and
is out for the season.
Bogut said Thursday he'd miss eight weeks.
Prince played in his 500th career game, including every one this season.
Bogans, originally drafted by the Bucks in 2003 in the second round
but traded to Orlando, made his Milwaukee debut with 57 seconds
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Beauty Is In The Colors
"In the middle of all the holiday madness,� concludes Clairol Colormaster, Veron, "spend a little extra time to make sure you are the most fabulous person at any party!�
(The winning look)
No little black dress for the holidays this year.Â
Fashion and beauty are making a bold leap back into the spotlight, with a strong emphasis on hot color as a sizzling accent. Daywear focuses on skinny pants topped with bigger, longer tops or thin layers of camis and cropped tops over longer shirts.
Evening and party time holiday looks feature a softer, more feminine outline, with a slightly fuller skirt and perhaps an empire waistline. While earth tones of soft grays, browns, greens and off-white dominate, the bold colors of the season are the royal shades of red and purple.
"Women ask me all the time if they can be a redhead and still wear red for the holidays,� says Clairol Colormaster Veron Thornhill, whose artistic work has appeared in off-Broadway shows, fashion events, and national magazines. "Of course you can! There are so many shades of red today that you can create your own color palette to make you the star of any holiday celebration. Opt for a rich shade like Textures & Tones Cherrywood, which gives brilliant moisture rich color with longer-lasting results and amazing shine. If you decide to go for all-out glam, pull your hair into a loose updo, but be sure to let some strands escape to give you that longer silhouette. If your hair is long, go for pure romance, letting your hair hang full and loose around your shoulders. If your hair is short, try a smooth bob if your hair is relaxed, or let your natural curls dazzle!�
Last but not least, add some glitzy accessories to pump up your star power, she adds. Gold, semi-precious stones, ruffles and lace are all hot right now. Just remember to choose one or two accessories to keep your look chic, sleek, and not overdone. "In the middle of all the holiday madness,� concludes Veron, "spend a little extra time to make sure you are the most fabulous person at any party!�
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Warriors edge Clippers in scrappy game, 105-103
Updated 6:53 pm, Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Both sides refuse to call it a rivalry.
Call it whatever you want: The Warriors and Clippers don't like each other.
They played nicely for three quarters in the NBA's Christmas nightcap and then generally mauled each other in between crunch-time heroics during the final period of the Warriors' 105-103 victory in front of the 52nd consecutive sellout crowd at Oracle Arena.
"It was a tough, hard-fought game, but I still believe it's not a rivalry, because neither one of us has done anything," Warriors head coach Mark Jackson said. "It's just two teams playing with an edge and competing against one another."
Clippers head coach Doc Rivers had a much different take after his team led by as many as 13 points and did not trail in the first half.
"I don't think it was us tonight, honestly," Rivers said. "I think we were kicking their butts, and they went to something else."
Draymond Green and Blake Griffin were involved in a dustup as they headed to their respective benches between the third and fourth quarters. Griffin was called for a technical foul, and Green was ejected with a flagrant foul-2.
Two minutes, 17 seconds into the fourth quarter, Griffin got tangled with Andrew Bogut near the basket. Griffin was ejected for his second technical, and Bogut picked up a technical to go with a flagrant foul-1.
"When you look at it, I didn't do anything, and I got thrown out of the game," said Griffin, who finished with 20 points and 14 rebounds. "To me, it's cowardly basketball."
The teams eventually got back to basketball - for the most part.
Chris Paul and Stephen Curry went back and forth for a highly entertaining minute and a half. Curry gave the Warriors 101-99 and 103-101 leads, but Paul answered each time. He had a layup that tied it 101-101 and two free throws to make it 103-103 with 1:36 left.
Harrison Barnes (14 points) got into the act with 1:09 on the clock, swishing a two free throws to put the Warriors ahead 105-103, but Andre Iguodala failed to seal the victory when he missed both foul shots with 9.3 seconds left. Klay Thompson blocked Paul's layup attempt with one second left, and then Thompson contested Jamal Crawford's missed three-point try at the buzzer.
Bogut ripped the ball out of Paul's hands after the game, leading to one more bit of barking between the teams as they headed to their postgame locker rooms. They play again in Oakland on Jan. 30 and in Los Angeles on March 12.
"We like them. Merry Christmas," Jackson joked. "It's just physical basketball, so we don't get caught up in that. ... It's good, old-fashioned basketball between two teams that are playing for something."
The Clippers (20-10) had won a conference-leading 82.4 percent of their games against other teams from the West. The Warriors (17-13) had won 52 percent of their games against the pre-eminent conference.
They needed a signature win, and they played like it in a signature game - being selected to play on Christmas for the third time in the past four years after taking off the holiday for 26 seasons.
David Lee had 23 points and 13 rebounds, and Bogut added 10 points and 14 rebounds as the big men each grabbed double-digit rebounds for the 10th consecutive game. No teammates had accomplished the feat since Rich Kelley and Truck Robinson of the New Orleans Jazz in 1978.
Thompson finished with 23 points on a stellar defensive night, and Curry added 15 points, 11 assists and six rebounds on an off-shooting night. The point guard started 2-of-13 from the floor, before making three of his final four shots.
O'Neal update: Backup center Jermaine O'Neal, who was back with the Warriors for the first time since Dec. 13 surgery to repair ligaments in his right wrist, said he'll have a cast that stretches from his wrist to his elbow and includes steel rods removed Thursday.
Though he said the damage was worse than doctors expected, O'Neal promised to be back on the court before the season's end. He said he'll be "aggressive" in his rehabilitation and will stay in Oakland to start therapy during the team's upcoming seven-game road trip.
Rusty Simmons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @Rusty_SFChron


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Famous media lawyer James C. Goodale (who I was lucky enough to meet when I was a summer associate at his law firm in New York in 1999), has written a provocative piece for the Daily Beast that I think is worth a read: Is Obama Worse For Press Freedom Than Nixon?
Goodale argues that Barack Obama's campaign to stamp out leaks is trampling on the freedom of the press. He notes that the Obama administration has obtained more indictments of leakers – a total of six – than any other American president. (That's a factoid I found somewhat surprising.)
To avoid making bad history, Goodale urges the Obama administration to drop any effort to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange under a theory that the conspired with the Army's Bradley Manning to violate the Espionage Act. Doing so would breathe life into a legal theory that Goodale calls "extremely dangerous to freedom of the press."
Such a prosecution, Goodale explains, "would only require that Manning agreed with Assange to leak information. This would be far easier to prove than trying to prove Assange, in fact, violated the Espionage Act." Going there would "put in jeopardy the gathering of national security information by any reporter and so criminalize the newsgathering process."


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Game Preview: Barton vs. Cobras
Game Date: February 11, 2011
Tip-off Scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte
Live Stats: www.cokercobras.com
HARTSVILLE, S.C. – The Coker Cobras men's basketball team will play conference foe the Barton College Bulldogs, as they look to continue on their hot streak. Coker is currently on a three-game winning streak.
Coker at Limestone: 76-53 (W)
Coker at Belmont Abbey: 79-66 (W)
Erskine at Coker: 46-38 (W)
Coker College
Home: 5-3, 4-2
Road: 3-6, 2-4
Neutral: 0-2
2009-10 vs. Barton: 1-1
PPG: Tom Wright (14.2)
RPG: Liam Kyle (7.6)
Assists: Delonte Doles (70)
Steals: Tom Wright (25)
FG%: Tom Wright (50.3)
FT%: Tom Wright (72.9)
Coker will be playing in Charlotte, NC for their game against Barton at the Time Warner Cable Arena, home of the Charlotte Bobcats. Coker is on a hot streak as they have won their last three conference games. The three-game streak includes two games on the road.
Home: 4-3, 3-3
Away: 6-5, 4-3
Neutral: 2-1
2009-10 vs. Coker: 1-1
PPG: Jaren Haley (15.9)
RPG: LJ Dunn (9.6)
Assists: Gerald Boston (84)
Steals: Jaren Haley (50)
FG%: LJ Dunn (52.8)
FT%: Gerald Boston (83.5)
Barton lost their last match to St. Andrews (103-88). Before the loss to St. Andrews, Barton had won its previous two games. The Bulldogs will look to improve on their 12-9 record as they play under NBA lights in Charlotte, NC against the Cobras.
Tip-off is scheduled for 2:30 pm at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, NC.


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BEIJING (Caixin Online) — Urbanization has been a hot-button topic since the Communist Party's 18th National Congress in November, as it has been identified as the most important public policy direction for the new government.
What policy-makers noticed is that urbanization might hold the key for the next phase of development. In 2011, the country's urbanization rate hit 51.27%. This means that for the first time in history, more of China's population lives in cities than in rural areas.
The core of urbanization lies not only in large-scale city building and expansion of industrial parks, but also in the great migration of people from farm villages into cities.
In 2011, the total number of migrant workers moving into cities hit 253 million. The reasons are simple: There are more opportunities, a more comfortable life, better education, better hospitals, more convenient communications and more cultural diversity in cities. And there is more money, too.
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The Chinese rural per capita income in 2011 was 6,977 yuan ($1,118), much lower than even the per capita disposable income in urban areas that year, 21,810 yuan USDCNY, -0.0251% For these reasons, most rural migrants never plan to return to their villages.
Without plans to turn rural workers into urban citizens, urbanization can only become yet another round of massive land grabbing and city-building that has happened around the country for the last decade.
This will create more people without roots who can neither integrate with their new urban environment nor return to their village. The next phase will no longer be only urbanization of the land, but of people.
Locked land
Many migrants enter cities as low-end laborers. The first thing they lack upon arrival is enough money to set themselves up in the city. Their most important possession — land — cannot be used in their process of turning into an urban dweller.
Under the current land system, farmers have use rights of two kinds of land. The first is land contracted out for agricultural production, and the second is land needed to construct a homestead. The ownership for both of these parcels is held by the village collective.
The Contracting of Rural Land Law of 2003 for the first time gave farmers the legal guarantee of contracted use right for 30 years, and it also allowed them to transfer contracted land, transfer titles of land and rent land.
On the other hand, the sale and rental of homesteading land has long been legally restricted. Only if the village collective agrees can a farmer transfer his title, but then only within the village, never on the open market. The property rights of Chinese farmers have thus been confined within their land.
For farmers living near urban areas, the value of their land has grown as cities have expanded. The single method available to these peasants to legally profit from their land is to sell it to the government.
The law stipulates that any land demarcated for urban expansion is the property of the state. Only after peasant land has been expropriated by the government can commercial properties be built upon. In this monopolistic market, city governments buy land cheap and sell high, making massive profits in the transaction.
The low remuneration for expropriated land has come under intense scrutiny of late.
Huang Xiaohu, vice chair of the China Land Science Society, said that when the government takes agricultural land, whether it is slated for a construction of a building for public services or for commercial projects, its original users are compensated based on a multiple of the agricultural output of the plot, not the market price of the land. Prices are fixed by the government, and peasants have no say.
Excessively low compensation for land has become the source of heated conflict. In 2011, approximately half of all collective incidents were set off by local governments forcing people off of their land.
Excessively low land compensation costs have also been a cause of the low efficiency of urban development.
Huang said that as the low costs of expropriating rural land made the government unwilling to tackle urban land with development potential, which involves more expensive spending on relocation. The result is expanding cities — the per capita land area in Chinese cities was 134 in 2008, or 14% larger than in 2008.
"The result of expanding [cities] is wasted or poorly used land," said Huang, who thinks that urban expansion has resulted not only in the waste of arable land, but also in water scarcity, pressure on electrical grids, environmental pollution, urban areas overrunning into surrounding wilderness and other problems.
Land problem also exist in rural villages.
The urbanization process can solve China's traditional problem of many people and little land. Academics have often described the happy future of farm villages and agricultural development: as excess labor transitions into cities, land will become continuously concentrated in the hands of professional farmers, who will systematize and modernize their operations.
Some farmers, say those academics, will use their modernized operations to climb into the middle class.
But that is not how things are really going.
"Family farms in some regions are indeed becoming appropriately systematized," said Liu Shouying, a researcher in the Rural Department of the State Council's Development Research Center.
In most of the regions Liu has researched, however, peasants who migrate to cities tend to give their land to their parents or other family members to maintain small-scale cultivation. "They do not dare to give [the land] to outsiders," Liu said.
Behind this mentality is a lack of protection of farmers' use rights. They worry that once land is used by stranger, or temporarily under the guardianship of village collective organizations, the original user won't be able to get it back, even if they return home to farm on it.
Reforming the land system has become a common discussion topic at executive meetings of the State Council following the 18th party congress.
The draft Amendments to the Land Management Act that has already been discussed in State Council executive meetings aims to increase compensation for land reclamations. Revisions to the Land Contracting Law have been moved ahead on the official agenda. Officials now intend to make the right to contract out land "permanent."
Liu said that the ultimate direction of reforms to the land expropriation system will include fair compensation for land taken; taxation mechanisms that act to balance the differential distribution of income; and increasing the level of cooperation between farmers and the government, i.e. using part of expropriated land to construct municipal infrastructure, and part of it to sell at profit.
Farmers should be allowed to use the rest of their land for non-agricultural development, so they can directly benefit from urbanization. Also, land contracting rights and land operations rights, which allow commercial activities on the land, should be legally separated, and farmers should be granted the permanent right to contract out their land.
Dysfunctional protections
In principle, when a farmer enters a city and takes up work, he should then be allowed entry into that city's social welfare system. The reality is that he isn't.
According to a 2012 report published by the National Population and Family Planning Commission, 25.8% of the population is self-employed. Whether they own a small mom-and-pop store with no employees, run a small hawker stand or do part-time work, in theory they should be allowed access to the local social security system as working citizens.
However, many local governments still throw up numerous hurdles in the way of migrant workers with informal jobs based on the fact that their hukou, or household registration, not belong to the city.
Governments in other places establish independent commercial insurance systems specifically for migrant workers, but the fees tend to be high.
Take for example a hypothetical migrant laborer who sets up a hawker stall in the historical city of Xi'an, Shanxi Province.
Let's say his monthly profits equal the city's legally mandated minimum wage of 860 yuan. Under the "complete coverage" welfare system, he can pay from his own pocket to participate in Xi'an's urban retirement pension and medical insurance system.
The base number used by insurance is the local average monthly salary, calculated now at 3,473 yuan a month. So for our hypothetical hawker to access pensions and medical insurance, he would have to pay 448 yuan per month, or 52% of his income.
"This has led to a 'regressive' fee payments," said vice director of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management Bai Chong'en. According to Bai, the lower one's income, the higher the proportion of that income that is required for insurance, and the higher base fees are, the heavier the burden on the payers.
In total, 66.2% of migrant laborers are formal employs, and their employers are required to pay part of their insurances coverage, which many usually try to avoid.
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In China, three-quarters of migrant workers are employed by private or family-owned businesses. According to the Population and Family Planning Commission 2012 report, fewer than 40% of individual business owners sign labor contracts with their employees.
Only 51% of all migrant laborers sign fixed-term labor contracts. Without a contract, they have no access to social security. The reason for the scarcity of contracts is that many employers wish to reduce costs by not providing insurance. Social security costs that the employer need to shoulder can run as high as 42% of an employee's salary.
According to statistics from the National Population and Family Planning Commission, fewer than 20% of migrant laborers enrolled in urban laborer retirement pension programs, and only 24% have medical insurance.
Marginalization of services
For migrant workers, what's even more worrisome than the shortcomings of the insurance network is the disappearance of the communities in which they live.
When they move into cities, migrants' top choices for housing are so-called urban villages, or slums, and basement apartments. Their communities are cheap and crude, but they're close to places of work, and they allow migrants to establish a base. Once they have their base, they can look for better opportunities and save enough money to embrace the city life.
Even so, Chinese municipal governments are unwilling to throw down the funds necessary to improve the public amenities for these outsiders. In fact, they're more likely to drive migrants away from their shantytowns and tear them down than they are to extend a helping hand.
From Beijing to Shanghai, Chongqing to Shenzhen, the most common urban management strategy is to eliminate "slums", either to clear the way for real estate development, to improve the city's appearance, or out of concern for public security.
Under many demolition policies, the original owners with an urban housing registration are often compensated for their property and provided with welfare housing. But the renters get nothing.
Municipal governments are now beginning to consider public rental housing as an alternative to low-end rental properties. Most of those rental properties are not, however, available to people without a local hukou. Even those which are available to non-locals are generally offered first to large corporations to house their employees. This is done to attract more business to the city.
"Low-end laborers" without local housing registration are almost completely overlooked by local public services. In some cases, they are even outright excluded from community improvement targets. Renters have no right to formally complain when the housing they rent is demolished.
Many low-income migrants are forced to move further and further into the suburbs as their lodgings are repeatedly demolished. And wherever they go, they are not welcomed by local authorities.
In the minds of most, their living conditions are squalid: muddy streets, dirty water flowing out of the gutters, haphazardly spliced power cables for stealing electricity, illegal flyers, rampant crime and dens of vice. Behind this scene are rampant egregious shortcomings in public services.
Working class sorrows
The most appalling shortcoming remains education.
Current educational resources, which are allocated based on numbers of officially registered children, are nowhere near sufficient to handle the children of migrants. This has led to the emergence of numerous unregistered "black kindergartens" and "black schools," which provide simple and crude self-service education to migrant children.
Data from the National Population and Family Planning Commission indicate that in 2010 as many as 31% of children drift outside of the public school system.
Research from Stanford University's Rural Education Action Project indicates that the quality of education provided in schools for the children of migrants is even worse than in farm villages. And if that weren't enough, these schools are constantly under threat of government demolition or being forcibly shut down.
Under such conditions, it isn't possible for them to consider long-term growth or to improve the quality of education.
Under current policies, there is no way for the children of migrants to climb the social ladder through education.
Caixin investigations found that approximately one-third of urban students from migrant families opt to return to their family's home in fifth or sixth grade, or in middle school, to continue their education.
But home is not always sweet. Returned students who successfully test into universities are few and far between.
One reason for that is that students who return home generally have to board in school dormitories due to the lack of parental care, which is a difficult transition for children accustomed to city life, and this affects their studies.
Another reason is the uneven distribution of university enrollment quotas that favors cities. The probability that a student will continue onto higher education drops off markedly once they return to their family's rural home.
As the children of migrant workers aren't allowed access to urban high schools, most of them end up giving up any aspirations of attending university. In some cities, migrant children now have access to vocational schooling.
In Beijing and Shanghai, approximately one-third of children choose to attend a vocational high school to graduate with a professional skill. Between 20% and 30% of students choose to discontinue their studies and start working in the cities.
For children who grew up in rural areas, there is an absence of home education while their parents seek work in cities.
Between 2002 and 2010, the total amount spent on education in China grew from 548.003 billion yuan to 2 trillion yuan. The majority of the new increases were allocated to rural education.
Nevertheless, universal and free education isn't guaranteed to be high-quality education. Most notably in the "education centers" of poor mountain regions of the northwest, where conditions are harsh and pay is low, it is difficult to hire qualified teachers. Some have difficulties teaching even basic curriculum.
In order to provide more resources to those schools and increase the quality of their education, the Ministry of Education in 2001 began a policy of "removing education centers and integrating rural schools" in order to give more balance to the distribution of educational resources.
This policy, however, has recently come under scrutiny. The safety concerns arising from long-distance school attendance and the high costs of boarding young students offset the benefits of free education.
In addition, data compiled by Stanford University professor and co-director of Stanford's REAP program Scott Rozelle indicate that the tuition rates of Chinese public high schools are the highest in the world.
The high barriers to entry into high schools add onto the opportunity costs of being a migrant laborer. Now more and more middle school students decide to drop out. Rozelle's team investigated 46 schools in poor regions of the northwest in 2009 and 2010. It discovered that 25% or more of students in those regions discontinue schooling after completing middle school.
The government hasn't increased funding to ordinary middle schools in rural areas, nor has it established any policies to subsidize students in those areas. Their answer has been to open up a great number of vocational schools for rural students.
The quality of education received in rural vocational schools, however, is poor, certainly insufficient to afford rural students upward social mobility. Lately as there have been shortages of migrant labor in many cities, many vocational schools have sent their students to "learn on the job" in factories — some on government orders.
The work they are assigned is as strenuous as that performed by ordinary workers, but they are given lower wages and less labor protection than ordinary workers.
Paying for remorms
Since, at present, the majority of public services like education, medical services and retirement pensions are funded by local governments, there is fervent debate over how many urban public services should be allocated to rurally registered migrants.
Without a doubt, existing urban residents are concerned over the influx of rural migrants and the strain they place on public services.
Zheng Xinye, professor of economics at Renmin University, analyzed data from the Ministry of Finance from 2010 and found that in Beijing per capita government expenditures on public service in 2010 were 21,600 yuan, if only counting citizens with local Beijing registrations. That figure dropped to 13,900 yuan, when all permanent residents, including migrant laborers, were included.
There are costs to be borne if migrants are to enjoy the same level of public service as registered citizens.
Zheng learned that from the perspective of urban investments, for every newly "urbanized person," a city must add 889.5 yuan in investments for services such as water, gas, heat, roads, transit, waste water treatment, greening and sanitation.
University of Washington geography professor Chen Jinyong calculated that if every year one percent of China's migrant workers — approximately 15 million people — became registered citizens of the cities in which they work, annual fiscal expenditures would increase by about 45 billion yuan.
For a long time, the major barrier to entry into Chinese cities has been the hukou system. Since 2008, central government has pushed forward reforms to the hukou system. Nevertheless, there have been many problems impeding this intention as local governments have the power to establish requirements for entry into local registration.
Officials generally desire to attract "high-end skilled workers", those with high levels of education, useful skills or healthy bank accounts. At the same time, they attempt to keep out "low-end" workers. But current labor shortages are concentrated in low-tech industries.
Such administrative discrimination hasn't helped governments reach any policy goals, but has rather only succeeded in further worsening the plight of "low-end" workers.
Precisely for this reason, local governments prefer to have land in exchange for services, that is, farmers give up their land to the government but receive urban benefits. However, the central government sees this as an infringement of the property rights of farmers and called it off.
A World Bank report suggests that the central government and local governments shoulder the fiscal burden of reforms. When migrants come from outside the province in which they work, the report suggests the central government bear the burden. When they migrate within their province, the report suggests the provincial government bear the burden.
For China to have genuine urbanization, the major question remains how to allow migrant laborers and their children to integrate with their new urban homes. China needs a brand new plan in order to shift the focus of urbanization from the land to the people.
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Pedestrian Dialogue in GTA III
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This page documents pedestrian dialogue featured in Grand Theft Auto III.
- This is the Army!
- Kill him!
- I wanna kill him!
- Do we get medals for this?
- Take the enemy down!
- Shoot him! SHOOT HIM!
- This is a WAR!
- Damn civilians!
- I love my job!
Ammu-Nation Clerk
- You want a licence?
- No funny business.
- I don't need to see any ID; you look trustworthy.
- Let's go to strip club.
Columbian Cartel
Being Car Jacked
- It's MY car, idiot!
- He taking my car!
- My car!
- You're going to pay for that!
Crashing Into Another Vehicle
- Watch the wheels, gringo!
- You're going to pay for THIS!
- You cannot drive dude!
- You want the chainsaw, gringo?
- I'm going to kill you.
- You're gonna be sorry...
- You're a big dumb Yankee boy!
- Run or die!
- You're a brave man, huh?
- It's no problem to kill you.
- You move, big man?!
- F.B.I.! Stop!
- I'll kill you!
- You're making Rosco mad!
- I'm gonna kill you!
- They'll rape him.
- This is the F.B.I.!
- Stop right there!
- I'm an old lady for Christ's sake...
- Hey!
- Get off!
- Oh No, Not My Wheels!
- That's my Mummy's car!
- That's my company car!
- Stop!
- Leave me alone!
- Sure, sure, TAKE IT!
- My mother's my sister.
- In the navy!
- People kill people.
- Haven't you got respect for your elders?
- I'm gonna get a gun.
- HEY! He hit me!
- Theres a place you can go.
- You look like my daughter.
- What are you doing in there? Giving birth?
- Guns don't kill people.
- Get me a doughnut. I'm hungry.
- Call the YMCA.
- You can sail the seven seas.
- I'm gonna get my face plucked!
- This is my cab!
- Get in the back! AHHH!!
- Mo money, mo problems!
- You talking to me?
- We will open fire!
- Police! Freeze!
- This is the police, stop!
- Take him out!
- He's over there!
- This is the LCPD!
- Police!
- Don't move a muscle!
- Comply!
Southside Hoods
Being Car Jacked
- Hey man, I just bought that!
- Not my wheels!
- That's my wheels!
- Man, I just stole this!
Crashing Into Another Vehicle
- It's PANCAKE time!
- Next stop, you're dead!
- I see the world of pain!
- You're a dead man!
- Let's go, cracka!
- Yo, check it out!
- You got a problem?
- I'm gonna bust your ass!
- I'm gonna bust your head!
- You know who you messin' wit?!
- Check out the featherweight!
- It's ass-whoopin' time!
- You call that driving? (after almost being run down)
- Mo' money, mo' problem.
- I'm about to kick ass so bad!
- Hey, get your eyes checked! (after almost being run down)
- Explain!
- Somebody call a medic! (fighting)
- I see pain in your future! (fighting)
- And the winner by K.O. is...! (fighting)
Police Helicopter
- Did you read a manual for this thing?
- You got nowhere to run boy!
- You're gonna need some help!
- Co-Pilot: We're gonna kill you!
Pilot: You can't say that, it's not in the book!


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- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons minced shallots
- 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
- 10 ounces button mushrooms, wiped clean, stemmed, and finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground white pepper
- 2 1/2 tablespoons dry white wine
- 4 Cornish hens, about 1 1/4 pounds each
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 8 strips bacon, blanched
- 4 sprigs thyme, for garnish
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- In a medium skillet, melt the butter over medium-high heat. Add the shallots and garlic and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds. Add the mushrooms, 1/4 teaspoon of the salt, and white pepper, reduce the heat to medium, and cook, stirring, until all the liquid has evaporated and the mushrooms begin to caramelize, about 12 minutes. Add the wine and cook, stirring to deglaze the pan, until all the liquid has evaporated. Remove from the heat and let cool before using.
- With your fingers, gently lift and loosen the skin from the hens' breasts to make a pocket. Spread about 2 tablespoons of the mushroom duxelle over each breast and pull the skin back into place. Season the hens, inside and out, with the remaining 3/4 teaspoon salt and the black pepper. Wrap each hen with 2 strips of bacon, crossing over the breast to cover.
- Place the hens breast side up in a roasting pan and roast until the juices run clear and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the thigh registers 180 degrees F, about 45 minutes. Remove from the oven and serve.
Recipe Details
- Source: Emeril Live EM0214
- Dish Type: Entree
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... need i say more. Who in their right mind would make anything with a broadcom chip.
Indeed. The choice by the RPi-team was utterly stupid and can only be attributed to incompetence. I mean, a computer aimed at education, and then you cannot publish the full datasheet? That is just insane!
Personally, I also found the official forum overrun with people with big egos and small skills and a lot more techno-mysticism than actual engineering. It is no surprise that the RPi is such a badly designed device. Basically all competitors are significantly superior.
Get a Beagle Bone Black. It is about $10 more, but you get a good design, the full specs and nobody is lying to you and you have none of the reliability issues the RPi suffers from.
As good as the BBB is, the layout sucks. My beef is the micro HDMI port is so close to the only USB port that thumb drives or fat USB plus interfere with the HDMI plug. If you have a previous gen BBB with the 2GB eMMC, the new Debian distro leaves you with 60 MB free space. The Angstrom distro is dead. So you have to boot from the SD card.
But the biggest benefit is the external memory bus for FPGA connectivity. But that disables the HDMI port as the ports are shared on the SoC.
I wish they would add more USB ports, move the HDMI port and if possible, move to an SoC that does not sacrifice the HDMI for the external memory bus. Overall it blows away the RPI.
I have a couple RPis and they are fun for out-of-the-box projects like RetroPi, but it's a BBB that I trust to run my 3.25hp router around my CNC table at 200in/min. Though, recently with the work going into MachineKit [machinekit.io] that's pretty much an out-of-the-box project too.
RPi had quite a bit of energy in the community to begin with and that momentum still persists and give a bit of an advantage to them in project development, but that will only go
Would you mind tell me who are the competitors? I am pretty interested in alternative products if any at a competitive price.
I'm personally a fan of Olimex's boards. They're open hardware, and tend to have superior boards to the RPi at only slightly higher prices. E.g. their entry level board (details here [olimex.com]) is £28 versus about £20 for a RPi model A. It has a much faster processor (1GHz superscalar Cortex A8 vs 700MHz previous-generation single-dispatch ARM11, so probably about twice as fast), more GPIOs (74 pins vs RPi's 26), USB-OTG, audio-in, RTC, plus uses a processor that does not rely on an undocumented propri
Dream on. The Beagle Board, for example is from 2008 and fas fully open from the start. The Cubieboard is from 2012, same time as the RPi.
they're claiming all the micro board successeses, but don't want others cloning.
you know what they are really doing? working _for_ the resources they are resources to.
the broadcom chip is stupid and it is stupid to make a clone with it. if you're cloning something clone the bbb.. or at least something capable of _decently_ driving a cnc or 3d printer(pi is shit for that, even if there's a proof of concept of doing it worse than 8 bit atmel..).
The choice [of a Broadcom SoC] by the RPi-team was utterly stupid and can only be attributed to incompetence.
Well, Eben Upton's job working for Broadcom was probably a factor there... Personally, I'd trace the idea back before he had that job - I recall a discussion about the Gameboy Advance developer kit in the summer of 2002, and the lack of affordable programmable devices at the time. I suspect he'd have had a real struggle getting anywhere close to the Pi's target price without getting discounted access to the Broadcom SoC he used, though. I haven't spoken to him recently, but my impression was that far from "RPi Foundation pressed Broadcom to stop selling BCM2835 to competing projects" as claimed, it was more "Eben twisted arms and got Broadcom to give RPF a special cut-price deal so they could afford it".
If anyone were to bring out a rival device from a "significantly superior" competitor, I'd be delighted to see it - and I suspect most if not all of the RPF people would too, since it wasn't about making money by selling lots of systems. (Of course, Broadcom didn't buy up the remains of ARM's parent company for nothing, so I'd be surprised to see something much better from a rival!) I was happy to see the Pi being ARM based, as a fan of ARM as far back as the ARM2 I first programmed, but I'm also happy to see rivals like the MIPS32 one mentioned recently: I like ARM, but I also like having a choice of platform, both hardware and software!
Anything that has the full MCU datasheet published is significantly superior. Get a Beagle Bone Black for example.
What is the name of this MIPS32 board you speak of?
The choice by the RPi-team was utterly stupid and can only be attributed to incompetence.
Are you a moron?
Oh, sorry, yes, you are a moron.
The RPi team are Broadcom you idiot.
You confuse knowledge and intelligence. That makes you and "idiot" and a "moron", but not me. Nice fail.
I mean, a computer aimed at education, and then you cannot publish the full datasheet?
Considering that all the computers in use at the time the RPi was introduced were proprietary and didn't come with a datasheet it doesn't sound that crazy. The RPi is designed to get children interesting in programming and a bit of electronics, not teach them about low level CPU architecture or how to interface with a hardware UART. That's advanced stuff and there are platforms that cater to it. The Pi is there to get you started cheaply and doing some interesting and useful stuff.
Most of the kids who learn
There's a wide and robust SoC community out there. You people who keep pushing the Pi in our faces are doing a disservice to the larger progressive community.
I used to work at Sun Microsystems and had to deal with Broadcom chips in the servers. In order to get access to Hardware Reference Manuals, I almost was compelled to sign away rights to my 1st *and* 2nd born. Broadcom does not want anyone to be able to write drivers to their hardware ever, unless you pay them a huge royalty.
Indeed. And if you look at the competing chips, for example from Ti (e.g. on the Beagle Bone black), you have the full, detailed datasheet after a minute of web-searching. Broadcom chips have no place in "open" hardware.
Sure, I agree with this bad attitude toward hardware hackers and low-level software developers. However, this board has still a place in the OS. I don't believe the original initiative from Raspberry Pi Foundation was to provide an open hardware platform at all. It was all about providing a cheap solution to encourage coding skills development early in school. From this point of view, Linux was a natural choice given it costs nothing. Open hardware was not a concern since you do not expect youngsters to hac
That is just my point: They FAILED to publish the full GPIO specs! How demented is that?
The TI datasheets are not really "full". They are quite extensive, but there are large parts they leave out too.
Well, first I have not found any "large parts they leave out" so far, and second, the RPi datasheet "excerpts" are missing things as fundamental as the full GPIO specs. TI does no such utter BS.
I think th SGX part (which may be anything from completely irrelevant to critically important) is probably due to licensing conditions and not really TIs fault. It does suck though.
- The GPU documentation, but I've never seen the SGX documentation in any SoC TRM, or for any other GPU
Some documentation [broadcom.com] is available for the GPU in the Raspberry Pi.
That's because they target different markets. Texas parts do more in hardware, and thus much of their operation is "secret" as in to figure it out you would have to reverse engineer at the transistor level. They also cost more.
Broadcom parts target the very low cost end of the market by doing things in software to save silicon. They are also a bit more cutting edge so there are more trade secrets in there to start with. Software is very easy to analyze and anyone writing their own drivers will need document
I've worked with Broadcom chips in some circumstances in my job as an embedded software engineer. It's seldom been pleasant.
They won't even talk to a little player, or anyone else who is unlikely to place an order for large numbers of chips. I know of tier-2 telecommunications equipment companies - well-known names - who were turned down by Broadcom. Even if you are a big player, technical support is even harder to get. They make you sign NDAs for every little thing. I saw this becoming an issue with the Raspberry Pi when it came out a few years ago as there was no documentation for the graphics hardware.
It's just the way they do business. I think they're about volume rather than margin. They're not even vaguely interested in enthusiasts or small scale jobs.
My favourite supplier is Freescale. They make almost all their documentation and software public, and you can buy their chips singly in the channel if you want. I have a suspicion that Intel (who are showing in interest in this market) and Atmel would probably also be very helpful.
Best advice to a small project like this is very much as follows : don't bother with Broadcom. They don't want your business.
I can corroborate most of this. Broadcom wants to know they're going to make their money before they commit to anything, so to get their attention, you've got to drop a lot of money up front or commit to huge quantities. They really aren't into the whole goodwill/loss-leader efforts for catching the smaller customers.
I can't really blame them for this, but it makes them a pain in the ass to work with if you can't do either of those.
Small volumes aren't loss-leaders here, they're higher margin!
Nobody is asking any of the chip companies to do loss-leaders, just to be willing to sell. Most companies are coming around and dealing with customers of all sizes now. They're usually not developing new chips for this market, just selling their existing chips to whoever wants them.
Broadcom needs to know a lot about you and have you sign a bunch of NDAs before they'll even take your money. Your money is NOT as good as someone elses, to them.
They won't even talk to a little player, or anyone else who is unlikely to place an order for large numbers of chips.
They need to realize that big players start out as little players. I remember seeing an interview of Steve Jobs, and he was asked why they used the 6502 in the original Apple. He listed several technical advantages of the 6502, and then said that none of those factors had anything to with their decision. They used the 6502 because Motorola had given Woz a free sample.
They need to realize that big players start out as little players.
Sometimes they do, but so what? It looks like Broadcom still has a good business, as do many other companies that only deal with large customers; in a healthy, diverse market, that's a reasonable strategy for some companies. I don't see why people get so pushed out of shape about this. It's not like Broadcom is the only source you can use.
Exactly! Sometimes people think a company should be after every tiny bit of the market and eat it all while many businesses never intent to capture all the opportunities. Only those with the highest ROI are worth going after. It is not because you want to buy a couple of Broadcom chips you deserve outstanding support.
Support costs money.
The above example from Apple is irrelevant in today's context. At the time Steve Jobs and Wosniak developed their computer, this was an emerging market. Personal computing w
Support costs money.
Then they should charge for it on an hourly basis, and waive that hourly fee for big customers. They already have data sheets and reference designs, so it would cost them nothing to put those on their website for download, like nearly every other semiconductor company does. It would also cost them very little to set up a wiki, and a forum where customers can interact and ask each other questions. Right now, that is illegal because customers sign an NDA to get specs.
Not sure where I read it but I believe part of why Broadcom is so secretive when it comes to their SoCs and things is that a lot of their market is (or was) for SoCs used in things like cable TV set-top boxes. Keeping things secret from the public at large makes it harder for hackers to figure out how their chips work so they can hack the firmware of these cable TV boxes and things.
Then they should charge for it on an hourly basis, and waive that hourly fee for big customers.
Why "should" they? They aren't in the business of handholding consumers or small customers. If you think they are wrong in their business model, stop whining and vote with your dollars instead. That's what adults do in a free market.
Of course, you whine and complain because you realize that Broadcom's business model is actually working for them.
Broadcom's business model is actually working for them.
Only for very small values of "working". If you invested $100 in Broadcom stock back in the year 2000, you would have $21 today, and last month they laid off 20% of their workforce [eetimes.com].
... in a healthy, diverse market, that's a reasonable strategy for some companies.
Because what they are doing is making the market less healthy and less diverse.
I don't see why people get so pushed out of shape about this.
We speak out because we want to change their behavior, and discourage other companies from adopting the same customer hostile behavior. Why do you get so pushed out of shape about other people getting pushed out of shape?
MOS made the 6502, not Motorola.
More reality-distorted Apple "History".
Mod this up. Indeed, MOS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) was the maverick company that came up with the 6502, a very clever improvement over the Motorola 6800.
Improvement? I guess if 'lower cost' is the only improvement.
They won't even talk to a little player, or anyone else who is unlikely to place an order for large numbers of chips.
They need to realize that big players start out as little players. I remember seeing an interview of Steve Jobs, and he was asked why they used the 6502 in the original Apple. He listed several technical advantages of the 6502, and then said that none of those factors had anything to with their decision.
No, his actual words were:
"fuck if I know, my nerd did all the technical bs, I could sell you insurance and I wouldnt care less"
Maybe you were referring to the Woz interview?
They used the 6502 because Motorola had given Woz a free sample.
the one where Woz said they used 6502 because MOS, and NOT motorola (motorola was busy trying to sell $300 chips), MOS sold 6502 at $25 out of a jar at Wescon in single quantities with no NDA/moq
you know, this one :
http://www.textfiles.com/apple... [textfiles.com]
"WOZNIAK: In 1975 an 8080 microprocessor cost $370 and you could only get it
from a distributor set up to deal with companies, not individual computer
enthusiasts. The 6502 was introduced at Wescon with a unique marketing
approach (thanks, Chuck Peddle) and was sold over the counter (like register
chips at the local surplus stores) for $20. I bought mine from Chuck and his
wife themselves."
The 6502 isn't a Motorola part. The far superior part at the time was Motorola's 6802 part, the 8-bit predecessor of the 68000 chip that went into the first Macintosh, and one of the two premier 8-bit chips at the time (the other was the 8080/Z-80). The 8502 was a weaker clone of the 6802, but as stated, MOS Technology (the producer of the 6502) gave Woz a free sample, and the 6502 was far less expensive than Motorola or Intel's processor at the time.
It's really a shame that Motorola didn't work closer wi
Typo in above: The 8502 was a weaker clone.. should read: The 6502 was a weaker clone..
No manufacturer wants to sell in small lots. If I called up Intel directly and said I want a hundred of anything, their salesman would laugh at me too. That's what distributors are for. They buy in volume and sell to the little people. Or other board makers that bought more than they need and want to unload some. Looking at Alibaba.com right now I can see more than one, likely in the latter category. Available in any quantity Hardkernel would likely want to buy, and at a price point that should make t
It's just the way they do business. I think they're about volume rather than margin. They're not even vaguely interested in enthusiasts or small scale jobs.
They are. If you take a look around, you'll find a Broadcom chip in everything. Be it WiFi, Bluetooth, FM radio, NFC, Ethernet (MAC or PHY or both, or switch chips), DOCSIS chipset, DSL chipset, router processors, etc. They make a custom SoC for everything.
Broadcom's business is basically a line item for your specific purpose - you want a DSL modem? Just
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Eben Christopher Upton is a Technical Director and ASIC architect for Broadcom. He is also a founder and former trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and now CEO of the Raspberry PI trading company.[4] He is also responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device.[5][6]
That explains a lot. Really, "targeted at education" and "full datasheet not available" do not go together, except for the most stupid or most corrupt of players. I have been wondering how this incredibly stupid choice was made.
Oh, because it is low cost, and targeted at kids, that makes regarding the customers as stupid o.k. in your book?
I dont care about Broadcom's politics. I cant change them and the Pi has been incredibly useful to me in learning and teaching electronics. I would love for the whole thing to be open, but its just not happening, so we must accept that the net gain from the PI is still a benefit to humanity, no matter how slightly 'impure' the ideology. Most of the device is 'open'.
Yes, but for some reason I find hard to fathom it attracts attention away from other products that would be just as good at fulfilling the same goals and *are* completely open. I have no doubt that if, say, Olimex's OLinuxIno [olimex.com] sold in similar quantities to the RPi it would be available at about the same price, rather than a slightly higher for a much better board, as it is currently.
Actually, the cheaper Olimex A20 boards are cheaper than a RPi and superior in basically every aspect. Go figure.
Do they have a non-profit foundation behind them striving to make them the pedagogical computer of choice for educators? The Raspberry Pi foundation isn't "in business" to provide SBC geeks on Slashdot with a cheap module to use in their living room, you know. Their entire focus is on providing an affordable easy-to-use part for education. Look at their forum, look at the audience they are successfully reaching out to. It's kids, and educators.
An in what part is "crippled documentation" compatible with "education"? Are we educating people to be uninformed now?
It is actually even narrower than that; their mandate is to provide an embedded computer of choice for educators... in the UK! They're doing great at that, and even are somewhat useful to the broader "neckbeard-SBC" market. Even people who actually dev on something else like a BBB still have a RPi in a drawer somewhere. And that helps support engineering education in the UK. Good on them, even if their products sucks! (Not saying it does, just saying the rest is true even if you don't like the product)
Yes, but for some reason I find hard to fathom it attracts attention away from other products that would be just as good at fulfilling the same goals and *are* completely open.
Simple, it increases the total market. Competition isn't zero-sum unless the market is mature and flat. A product that gets a bunch of free press and increases the demand for the whole sector is helping their competition almost as much as themselves. In these types of growing markets, cooperation is the most powerful competition. And as such, in the long term it is normal to expect the more open competitors to do better. Not only do they have more appeal to the more serious customers, but they can share not
It really depends what the particular aim of the education is. If it's teaching hardware design to university students, sure, you've got a point. But it's not. The educational aims of the RaspPi Foundation are teaching primary school kids how to code and do simple stuff with a GPIO port. You don't need an entirely open platform to do that.
I'm in favour of things being completely open as much as the next man, but the reality is that there are instances where it's not the greatest concern. It doesn't matter t
Education and openness have NOTHING to do with each other unless you're trying to educate people on the very detailed inner workings of the device they are playing with. This is a $35 linux computer. It may as well be powered by actual raspberries for all I care, if it gets people interested in programming and gets people playing with hardware it has done its job. And it HAS done so very well.
If you want to stand on some principle then you're right and we should ditch the Rasperry Pi and go back to
That explains a lot. Really, "targeted at education" and "full datasheet not available" do not go together, except for the most stupid or most corrupt of players. I have been wondering how this incredibly stupid choice was made.
And if we always follow the fundamentalist way nothing will get done ever. The Pi isn't perfect, but it is good at what it does and ultimately it did get made and became popular... Hardware doesn't have to be totally open to be useful in teaching software, for example.
It's like Hurd vs Linux, you can have all the ideals you want but if you fail to make it work and popular, it's worthless.
a) The response in the linked thread was quite welcoming, most hoping for some competition.
b) The most likely answer is that ogdroid couldnt muster up a large enough order for SoCs so broadcom said 'nah'. The only way RPI got around this was having a broadcom employee on their team.
c) The *rumor* is that RPI pressured broadcom into not selling the chips, which was started by someone on a competitor's blog.
This attitude is going to cost them dearly in the future when the engineers they've burned design in a competitor's parts. I know I'll never select components from Rambus and Broadcom because of their BS.
No need to go into the future for that, their past attitude and refusal to seek placement in upcoming devices might indeed play a role in their recent large layoff announcements, and their stock price has been basically flat since it dropped in the 2001 bust.
Look at Texas Instruments, who is friendly to customers and competes at all levels, including single units, and they're really strong with an increasing stock price since the bust. They're at about half their boom peak, with steady growth the past few y
They don't mention where they got their first batch of chips. It's very likely they got it from some third party since Broadcom doesn't seem to deal in small quantities. When the 3rd party supply dried, they went to Broadcom and were probably told to get lost.
Here's what one person said about it:
What I don't like about this project is that they simply use all the work (software development) of the foundation and the RPi community to sell their product. They call it "compatibility" but in fact it means: let other people do all the work and we make money from it.
Someone is new to open source/designs I see. Arduino has a bazillion knockoffs that are compatible yet they still seem to be doing okay. Unless RPi isn't an open architecture - in which case, why do we advocate its use?
why do we advocate its use?
Why do people rave about it? Because it's cheap.
Forget all the principled arguments: free software, "for the children", pretty coloured boxes, or hackability. The only reason people buy Pis is the price. The only thing that most of them do is them load XBMC and then brag to their friends how they got a $99 media player for fifty bucks.
We're all tarts: chasing after the cheapest price and free-est stuff. Nobody really cares whether the software is FOSS, the hardware is open source or if the PCB is made ou
Here's what one person said about it:
What I don't like about this project is that they simply use all the work (software development) of the foundation and the RPi community to sell their product. They call it "compatibility" but in fact it means: let other people do all the work and we make money from it.
Someone is new to open source/designs I see. Arduino has a bazillion knockoffs that are compatible yet they still seem to be doing okay. Unless RPi isn't an open architecture - in which case, why do we advocate its use?
Yeah, not only new to "open," but using recycled complaints from the 90s. It is already well refuted; in emerging markets cooperation is the strongest form of competition, everybody benefits. And in established markets, "open" empowers startups and lowers barrier to entry, preventing monopoly abuse from the established players.
Please, please, will somebody tell these idiots to download a new stupid version?! This old one is tiring.
Hardkernel wasn't using Broadcom SoC anyway?
The linked article makes it pretty clear they were basing it on Samsung Exynos SoCs - who *cares* whether or not Broadcom would source them parts, if they weren't even using Broadcom in their design?!? This is like using a Motorola 6502 in a design, and then claiming that Intel wouldn't sell you 8008's
No, the linked article says they are better known for their Exynos based products, this board was supposed to have the broadcom chip.
"none of them have made use of the same Broadcom BCM2835 SoC as the Pi, so none of them (until now) have been software compatible."
And the labeling on the picture shows the chip to be used.
From my reading, Hardkernel has some other, unrelated boards that use the Samsung. They wanted to release a board which would be software compatible with the RPi, and that would mean using the Broadcom SOC.
Using your analogy, it would be as if a company who previously made products with Motorola chips wanted to release a PC-compatible system to run Windows. Intel and AMD wouldn't work with them , so they had to cancel their planned x86 product.
for the rhombus-tech project i also contacted broadcom, to ask for access to one of their chips (this was before the raspberry pi). i can confirm that, just as other people are reporting, the conversation basically indicates that broadcom as a company doesn't wish to make money.
Broadcom makes money from people buying in huge bulk. Not little small fries ordering a few chips here and there.
To round up comments so far:
"Nasty Nasty Broadcom"
"Pi is bad because it uses Broadcom"
"You can't use it for "education" because you can't get the graphics datasheet and the works are encased in a blob."
Yet the Pi IS a cheap and flexible general purpose computer and depending on your educational perspective you don't NEED access to low-level information. Its also important to remember that the Pi originated as Eben Uptons home project consisting of a wire-wrapped board containing an Arduino processor to crea
And I predict the carton box will become a great collector's item. The arduino also has a great contender.
arduino and pi are really two different things, one is a sbc the other is more like glue to interface a computer to the physical world, course arduino team is trying everything and using everyone to make a sbc muddling the waters, but the core arduino is still just a convenient interface platform that may handle simple tasks stand alone
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The MGH and MassGeneral Hospital for Children have launched one of the only comprehensive adult and pediatric Down syndrome programs in the nation, offering multiple clinics each week tailored to meet the unique medical and psychosocial needs of patients of all ages.
The day-long clinics are divided into four age groups, with the aim of creating an easier transition from pediatric to adult specialists as patients age, says Brian Skotko, MD, MPP, the program's co-director and medical geneticist. "By seeing patients from birth to old age, we also will be able to establish a research center of excellence, dedicated to advancing our understanding of the medical conditions associated with the extra chromosome," he says.
The Infant and Toddler Clinic, for patients from birth to 5 years old, focuses on educating the family and supporting early development. The Child Clinic maximizes health care and success in school for patients ages 5 to 13. The Adolescent and Young Adult Clinic, for ages 13 to 21, provides support and education as patients transition into adulthood and begin taking greater responsibility for their own care. And the Adult Clinic focuses on maintaining health for those 21 years and older and encourages them to become involved within their communities.
Pediatrician Allie Schwartz, MD, the program's co-director, says the initiative also is unique in that the clinics occur in the same location, where patients will be greeted by Ben Majewski, a self-advocate resource specialist who has Down syndrome.
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DAVENPORT, IA -- At every stop on his three-day bus tour through Iowa, President Obama told audiences how he'd visited a slew of small towns, looking to reach as many voters as he could in his bid to clinch this key swing state.
He was also quick to point out – perhaps as part of that strategy – that he drank an awful lot of beer.
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President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event Aug. 15 in Davenport, Iowa, during a three day campaign bus tour through Iowa.
The cold ones started flowing Monday night, when Obama made an unscheduled stop at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, forgoing the Butter Cow to head straight to the Bud Tent.
At first the president seemed intent only on boosting the sales of Bud purveyor Mike Cunningham, who said his business had been shut down since 5pm so that the Secret Service could secure the area.
"Everyone who's over 21, you gotta buy a beer!" Obama told the crowd.
But when a man asked the president if the brews were on him -- prompting a cheer of "Four More Beers!" (a take on the incumbent's campaign cheer, "four more years") -- the president obliged.
"I'll tell you what, except for the [guy with the] Romney sign, I'll buy beers for 10 people," he said, handing out drink tickets to the thirsty onlookers.
Finally the president made his way back to Cunningham, who handed him a full plastic cup and an on-message t-shirt: "Save Water, Drink Beer."
The president clearly wanted the crowds at subsequent stops to know that he had consumed the Great American Beverage, as well as one of its culinary counterparts: pork on a stick.
Obama's endeavors shed light on the nexus between pints and politics, as candidates seek to prove that they're relatable by answering that time-honored question: "Would you have a beer with the guy?"
This isn't the first time Obama has sought to answer that question in the affirmative.
In the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both tried to prove they were the most ordinary Joe/Jane by knocking a few back with the locals.
At a stop in a Pennsylvania bar in March of 2009, the president downed the regional favorite – Yuengling, the local favorite – but got caught not really knowing what it was.
"What do they call it? A Yuengling?" he asked a male patron.
Perhaps not believing him, the man repeated the word, adding, "Like you didn't know."
"Is it expensive, though?" Obama continued. "Wanna make sure it's not some designer beer or something."
(Fast forward two years to a friendly Olympic hockey wager between the U.S. and Canada in which now-President Obama bet a case of – you guessed it – Yuengling).
Not to be out-drunk by her primary opponent, Hillary Clinton sidled up to the bar at Bronko's in Crown Point, Indiana a few weeks later, downing two mugs of Old Style beer and a shot of Crown Royal whiskey as cameras flashed.
Such photo ops are unlikely to come from the challenger this campaign cycle, as Obama's Republican challenger Mitt Romney abstains from alcohol for religious reasons.
In 2011, Obama divulged that the White House does in fact have its own brewery, which he was asked about during a Tuesday stop at a coffee shop in Knoxville, Iowa.
To convince the curious on-looker, Obama asked a campaign aide to go to his bus and grab a bottle of White House Honey Ale as a token of authenticity.
It's a pretty unique campaign trick. Obama may not be the only politician with a brewery (he shares that distinction with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper), but his is the only one with the presidential seal on it.
Another perk of the nation's top job? A 24/7 campaign video team, on hand to document every moment that captures the incumbent in a positive light, including his three beer-centric "OTR," or off-the-record, stops in Iowa.
The trip to the state fair seemed to be Obama's favorite (or the one he thought would resonate with voters the most) because he was still regaling audiences about it two days after it happened.
At a rally Wednesday in Dubuque, his wife Michelle, who had joined him on the podium for the day, asked him what he had consumed at the fair.
"Pork chops and beer," he responded, grinning.
"He's so pleased with himself," his wife quipped with a smile.
Among Iowa voters, it seemed to be working.
Waiting for the president to arrive in Davenport for his final speech of the trip, John Gilkison, 56, said that he thought Obama's beer drinking made him seem like a "normal person."
"It just makes him human," he said. "Makes him seem more open."
Gilkison's friend, John Wisor, 45, was particularly enthusiastic about the president's public displays of drinking – not a surprise, given that he owned the bar across the street from where the president was about to speak.
Inviting the president over, Wisor said, "I hope he does come over and have a beer."