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LANSING (AP) — The top candidates vying to become Michigan's next U.S. senator agreed Tuesday that jobless benefits should be renewed for 1.3 million long-term unemployed, including 43,000 state residents affected when the program expired late last month.
For weeks, Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters had already been calling for an extension of benefits that expired Dec. 28. Then before White House-backed legislation to restore the benefits unexpectedly cleared a hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday, Republican Terri Lynn Land said she supports the bill.
Her stance puts her at odds with Republicans in Congress and conservative organizations that say an extension is ineffective and wasteful.
"I support an extension of the federal benefits to those actively seeking gainful employment, but what we really need are pro-growth policies that create jobs so that the victims of the Obama economy can finally regain their independence and dignity with a good-paying job," Land said in a statement issued by her campaign.
Michigan has the third-highest jobless rate in the country, at 8.8 percent, and favoring a renewal of benefits may help Land broaden her appeal with the middle of the electorate after tacking to the right on the federal health care law. She signed a conservative pledge to oppose any funding to implement the law and later said she would have voted against a bill that ended the partial government shutdown in the fall.
Peters said on his Facebook page Tuesday that "extending unemployment insurance is an investment with a proven economic return, and it is the right thing to do for Michigan families." State Democratic Party Chairman Lon Johnson said Land's stance on jobless benefits "doesn't pass the smell test" because she opposed the deal to reopen the government, while Land said Democrats were the reason the benefits were not part of a December budget agreement.
Michigan's two Democratic senators, Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin — who is retiring at year's end — voted to move forward on the three-month extension legislation. While Republicans plan to seek changes so the bill's $6.4 billion cost would not add to deficits, spokeswoman Heather Swift said Land would have supported an extension regardless of whether the cost is paid.
As drafted, the unemployment bill would restore benefits averaging $256 weekly to an estimated 1.3 million long-term jobless who were affected when the program expired. Without action by Congress, thousands more each week — 86,000 altogether in Michigan over the next six months — will feel the impact as their state-funded benefits expire.
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The Polish Oprah and Perfect Potatoes
Here I am getting ready to be interviewed on the Polish talk show Rosmovy W Toku (Talk is in Progress). I had hoped that they'd give me that dramatic eye makeup I've come to associate with Slavic femme fatales, but they did a disappointingly tasteful job.
Once I had the earpiece fitted so I could hear my interpreter, I walked out onto the set and was surprised to find that there was a studio audience. The host, Ewa Drzyzga, the "Polish Oprah," had a warm, casual manner, dressed in jeans and sitting next to me on a couch. The lag that occurs with translation is interesting. It interrupts the usual rhythm of conversation and you're forced to just sit there and pause as you try to stay poised and maintain eye contact, in front of four cameras and an unreadable audience. I made it through the interview and the producers seemed happy. It went by fast and almost seemed like some kind of David Lynchian dream. I kept the eye makeup for the rest of the day.
In the picture with me is me with my new buddy Teresa Fortis, a Swiss woman who wrote a book called Lockruf Saudia (originally in German, unfortunately not translated into English yet), about her years living in Saudi Arabia and working for Saudi Airlines in the 80s. Along with the segment producer who brought us over, we wound up having a couple of lovely dinners that lasted late into the evening, as if we'd known each other for years. Fast intimacies are one of my favorite things about international travel. Another favorite thing is, I believe, one of life's great pleasures- a meal eaten alone in a foreign city.
At a café overlooking Market Square in Krakow, I ate (sorry, mom) the best potato pancakes I've ever had in my life, while the other patrons drank vodka and talked passionately- about what I have no idea. Because I don't understand a word of Polish, the language was just music weaving through the air around me
In these moments, I achieve a deep kind of noticing, a sensation of settling into myself. They almost always happen when I'm traveling alone. I wonder if there's somehow a way to bring experiences like this home. They don't take long. They just take a genuine detachment from the to-do list. They take a certain internal silence. I have tried meditating a million different ways and never seem to stick to it, never seem to get the peace I'm looking for. Instead, I achieve it over a perfect potato pancake, looking out over the flower market's wild splashes of color against the grey day, the people hurrying by in dark coats, leaning into the wind.


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...and it's getting boring to have to read things which imply it.
Depends on your point of view.
Dissident speech instills terror in the minds of authority.
Depends on your point of view.
Dissident speech instills terror in the minds of authority.
As evidenced throughout North Africa, Middle East and even China, at the moment. Yup. Those tyrants are very wary of anyone who so much as utters a disparaging wort about their cousin having a bad go with the local constabulary.
I'll take two lumps, please. Sweets to the sweet I always say.
This is the government attacking it's citizens over their opinions and beliefs, nearly making it an illegal act. That's fascism.
This is the government attacking it's citizens over their opinions and beliefs, nearly making it an illegal act. That's fascism.
There's nothing specifically fascist about this. The same could be said for Socialist or Communist. Rather, it's generic totalitarianism.
I wish people would stop using "Fascist" for "Evil". It's only one of several evil forms of government.
Complaining too much? Denying that witches exist? - That was one of the things listed as indicators for being a witch.
The Spanish Inquisition (TSI) used to have some extra questions for them.
> Dissident speech instills terror in the minds of authority.
Not for the most part. Mostly they just find it annoying and respond by being authoritarian because they're pissed off. When reporters report on torture in Chechneya by the local strongman, they get killed because they're a pain to him. Not because the guy who tortures people every day is somehow afraid of them. He *should* be afraid of them. But mostly he's pissed at them. And he runs the apparatus of the state. He's not afraid of them--at most he's afraid that his bosses will replace him if anybody cares about new public knowledge that Russia sponsors terrorism.
Similarly (and obviously very differently, since most TSA employees are good people who are not actively torturing lots of innocent civilians, but similarly for the point about whether terror is inspired), TSA employees, like cops, are generally not terrified by dissident speech. They are annoyed by it because someone is making their day harder.
...since most TSA employees are good people...
Well, you're entitled to your opinion, I guess. I just can't see how a "good person" could fondle people in an airport without puking.
They are annoyed by it because someone is making their day harder.
Cry me a river. I'm annoyed because even though I'd be one of the first ones up to defend an airliner from someone trying to blow it up, TSA wants to treat me -- and every other law-abiding citizen -- like one of the statistical anomalies who actually *does* want to bring down an airliner. That reaction is so far out of proportion to the scope of the problem that I'm continuously amazed that we are literally throwing billions of dollars at such a farce.
Cry me a river. I'm annoyed because even though I'd be one of the first ones up to defend an airliner from someone trying to blow it up, TSA wants to treat me -- and every other law-abiding citizen -- like one of the statistical anomalies who actually *does* want to bring down an airliner. That reaction is so far out of proportion to the scope of the problem that I'm continuously amazed that we are literally throwing billions of dollars at such a farce.
They should have Groping and Non-Groping flights so peo
the TSA's purpose is not stopping terrorists...
Q: How many terrorists has the TSA caught?
Q: How many terrorist attacks has the TSA stopped?
For proof, the answer is obvious - a terrorist doesn't just decide that airplanes are too well protected so they are going to give up on the idea of causing mayhem, they will just look for easier targets like shopping malls, movie theaters, concerts, etc. Since we have had zero attacks on alternate targets, its clear the TSA isn't protecting airplanes from anyone.
The worst we've seen have been run-of-the-mill lone gunmen type like the Ft Hood shooter and the DC sniper. Everybody else, like the Times Square bomber have been so incompetent they couldn't even build a working bomb and most of those convicted have been guilty of nothing more than talking trash within the earshot of a snitch looking to get criminal charges dropped in exchange for narcing out someone, anyone.
It's even worse than that. Of the several attempted airline bombings that occured since 9/11, not a single one was stopped because the would be terrorist was caught during pre-flight screening. In every single case, they managed to get the bomb past the TSA and were only foiled due to the intervention of other passengers on the flight.
"Hey officer, wouldn't your hands like to feel all over a nice, sensual terrorist!?"
You know, soft moaning like you're enjoying the experience, and asking them to do redo particular parts works very well too. It's not a "complaint", but it'll weird them out enough to not want to touch you ever again.
I'm very straight, so it's hard to fake it, but apparently I do well enough.
Mmmm.. oh ya.. right there. do it again.. faster.. oohh... What are you doing after work, I fly back at 10pm..
I wouldn't bother. Those guys rarely call the next day.
Wait you need to bitch about the guy to get felt up? I though that you get felt up unless you follow their very specific guidlines:
- Don't look TSA agents in the eye
- Don't talk to TSA agents
- Don't slouch or walk too upright
- Don't have a beard
- Don't be cleanly shaven
- Don't breath deeply or sigh
- Don't let your heartrate exceed 70bpm
And pray to god that dime in your pocket doesn't set off the metal detector or it's straight into the room with the rubber glove for you.
No different from being in a prison then - except that in a prison the guards don't give a crap if your heartrate exceeds 70bpm.
And there is nothing to stop the terrorists from sending in a few decoy people that has a very annoying behavior just to numb the minds of the TSA people. In a chaotic situation it's a lot easier to slip under the radar.
One person complaining loudly about the scan/pat-down, another messing up the metal detector by acting very distracted a third with a weird bag that gives suspect s
One could assume from this that the TSA is here to teach us to not talk back to the Authority, rather than to actually catch terrorists.
If you ask a TSA employee, their job is not catching terrorists. Their job is preventing "dangerous items" from getting onto an aircraft. The problem is that if that really is their job, they're horrifically bad at it.
That's not their job.
TSA was founded for several purposes:
1. To shift the power over airport security to the federal government (several subpurposes to this -- among them shifting responsibility in the case of another failure, and creating a single point of influence for contractors to target.)
2. To, simply by being created, be a visible act of "doing something", regardless of substantive effectiveness or lack thereof, in the immediate, wake of a major terrorist attack, and
3. To condition the public to accept greater arbitrary intrusions on personal liberty.
#2 was a short term goal and was probably reasonably successful (it was a political measure, and there were lots of others at the same time, so its pretty hard to isolate its effectiveness); #1 was obviously successful in general (and its subpurposes seem to have been achieved effectively). Despite some pushback over some measures, #3 seems to have been successful at least in the context in which TSA operates (though its less clear how successful it has been at conditioning the public to except more intrusion generally.)
In case any of us hadn't noticed, all of this authoritarian war-on-terrorism crap is taking place at a time when the rights and economic well-being of everyone in the middle class on down is under attack. It doesn't require a big stretch of the imagination to realize that this may all be in anticipation of the civil unrest and disobedience that often accompanies this kind of class warfare from above.
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength...
Wrong quote.
"Facecrime: An indication that a person is guilty of thoughtcrime based on their facial expression."
The article isn't about surveillance, it's about BDOs and SPOT [flyertalk.com] agents on the lookout for facecriminals.
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of mutt
Tiger yes. a "government of the people, by the people, for the people" no.
See, you're giving the government more power than it deserves. But alas, we get the government we deserve.
You realize that "government of the people, by the people, for the people" didn't even come around until 100 years after the country was founded and it was in a speech commemorating the dead in a battle during the civil war right? You know, the war where one side was fighting to remove themselves from the ruling of the federal government who wasn't listening to them and the other side was fighting to keep them under control of it?
It's no wonder that one liners get so much attention, but I don't think it mea
Actually, I've had the pleasure of sitting by a few air marshals. It didn't come up in conversation, but when they're using a government issued computer, and looking at training photos, or reading documents that have a security clearance, it becomes more obvious. And ya, the sports coat and ankle holster are dead giveaways.
Hmmm.. Thinking about it, half the time I dress for business. Those trips, I'm getting off the plane and then to a meeting of some sort. When dressed like that, I'm treated very well and expedited through the line. t-shirt and jeans usually gets me a secondary screening.
I guess a crew cut and business dress clothes are a dead giveaway that I'm an agent of some sort.
I was doing some traveling with a coworker for a while. I started to play a game with him. It was "watch their behavior" game. Dress clothes? No problem. Casual clothes, problems. I only wore casual when we had plenty of time for the flight, as it'd add about 15 minutes for me at the checkpoint. Hey, for every minute they're harassing me, that's another minute they aren't harassing someone else. I can deal with verbal abuse, obtuse questioning, and a bit of molestation. If you close your eyes, it's like being at a massage parlor, except without the happy ending.
I went to Thailand for about two months last summer. I was just off a 36-hour flight (including a long layover) so I looked terrible, and I was wearing casual clothes. That, combined with that I apparently didn't have a good reason for going there according to them (I was just on vacation after finishing school and told them as such; I don't drink, use drugs or use prostitutes, I'm about the cleanest person possible coming off the plane from Thailand but they don't know that...) meant I was sent to secondar
Sure it does 'cause no one believes amateurs right?
All the experts have to do is look at what the amateurs are doing and replicate what works but with their aura of authority.
If I was an alleged terrorist (and for the record, I'M NOT) the alleged terrorist would get a job at the airport as baggage handler, or as a someone who services the planes. Then the alleged terrorist would put a bomb in some luggage, or some C4 into soda cans or something and get them on the plane - the alleged terrorist wouldn't try to get through security, unless his plan was to blow up the security checkpoint, which would also be good from a terror perspective. Then they can move the security check points outside the terminal, then those get blown up. Then move them off property and check all the people before allowing them in to the airport, then car bomb gets that.
The worst thing we ever did was change our behavior and way of life after the hijackings in the 70's and obviously after 9/11. We showed the people who would do such things that we will modify our behavior in a predicable fashion based on their actions - a very bad idea. We are now in a reactive posture. The thing that's even worse is listening to the morons who travel talk about how the "security" measures make them feel safe. Really? I have a tiger repelling rock I'd like to sell you...
I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.
The preceding is a real quote, many of you know who said it, but if not, Google it...
And for the record, fuck the TSA. By all means, investigate me. I have the ACLU's phone number right here ready to go... I've said as much directly to my congressman and senators
If I was an alleged terrorist (and for the record, I'M NOT) the alleged terrorist would get a job at the airport as baggage handler, or as a someone who services the planes. Then the alleged terrorist would put a bomb in some luggage, or some C4 into soda cans or something and get them on the plane - the alleged terrorist wouldn't try to get through security, unless his plan was to blow up the security checkpoint, which would also be good from a terror perspective.
I work a lot at airports, and the security for staff can be tougher than the security for passengers (although the lines tend to be shorter). It's a real pain in the backside when you really do have to take tools through.
Who are the real terrorists? I'm not sure about you, but I'm almost afraid to fly.
As for "rights"
The TSA did not exist on 9/11. Mohammed al-Qahtani was turned away by immigration after his flight landed in the US. He was chosen for Secondary inspection because he didn't fill out the paperwork properly. He was denied admission for a long list of suspicious activity ($2800 cash, no hotel, no return ticket, multiple stories, etc) in addition to being "creepy." That case really doesn't have much in common with what the TSA is attempting to do. That is also CBP's job. They are tasked with undesirable people out of the United States. When the TSA does their job (keeping weapons, explosives, and incendiaries off airplanes), it does not matter who boards an aircraft.
The AAPD asked numerous questions concerning the case. I explained that apart from not having a return ticket and possibly not having sufficient funds, the subject appeared to be malafide. I further explained to the AAPD that when the subject looked at me, I felt a bone chilling cold effect. The bottom line is, "He gave me the creeps".
Full Testimony: http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hearing7/witness_melendez.htm [9-11commission.gov]
Anything that cannot be separated from revenge-by-cop is something that I question in the utmost terms.
I.e., if it resembles someone complaining about the IRS and then getting audited, I call it a likely government abuse, no matter the "justification".
Well, this is certainly the finest pat-down, X-Ray scan, cavity search and bowl of hot grits down the shorts I've ever experienced at SFO! I feel like flying every week!
Terror Alert Elevated from Plaid to Paisley
nab scuffle throw-down hammer-lock vulcan-death-grip
Ahhh, nooooooo! I was sincere! Really!
Does this report honestly surprise anybody?
You have idiot politicians supervising idiot bureaucrats who supervise idiot workers carrying out idiot policies upon idiot people who accept it without question. Anybody who does question it is a real threat to the idiots who are only smart enough to protect their own jobs, not the country.
You should check out their propaganda blog
Interestingly enough, some experts say terrorists are much more likely to avoid confrontations with authorities, saying an al-Qaeda training manual instructs members to blend in."
No kidding. As someone trying to evade detection in a crowd I could (a) do something that draws attention, or (b) try to be as unremarkable as possible and take steps to make any interaction dull and quickly forgotten. The first is more likely to bring the authorities my way, and the second is less likely. So
(Warning, this post contains high concentrations of sarcasm. Use with appropriate caution.)
Everybody I know who flies complains about the TSA.
So the TSA investigates everybody? Now we're back to the same absurdity as "everybody does something embarassing on FaceBook, so don't hire anybody".
Oh nevermind. Keep on with the taxpayer funded elephant repellant...
Good one but in truth virtually nobody complains at the actual checkpoint, to TSA people. I fly a lot more than most people, generally at least twice a month. My experience is in general everybody falls in line, does what they are told and gets the hell out of there as fast as possible. Rare is the case when somebody is outwardly angry. Even people who have to dump out entire bags of over 3.4oz size toiletries do so with a smile and only complain once they've made it through.
So yes, somebody who is bitching
This is the United States of America. Anyone who doesn't complain about even the slightest inconvenience obviously is not from here. So why would they check the people who do complain when that's the American way?
Complaining got you send to gulag.
According to CNN, the TSA is actually more ineffective than I initially thought:
False Positives-
Members of Congress also expressed concern about the number of "false positives" -- people flagged for additional screening that resulted in nothing being found. For every person correctly identified as a "high risk" traveler by (the behavior detection officers), 86 were misidentified, Willis said. At random screening, for every person correctly identified, 794 were misidentified.
Effectiveness at detecting terrorists-
Experts agree that the fact that there is an extremely small number of terrorists makes it hard to evaluate the effectiveness of behavioral observation programs. The Accountability Office said it looked at 23 occasions in which 16 individuals -- people later charged with terrorism-related activities -- passed through high-threat airports. None is known to have been identified. But it is not known if the behavior detection officers were working at the time, the agency said.
So, in the best case scenario, for every person ultimately charged with a crime (not necessarily convicted) 86 are misidentified. And that is using "trained" behavioral analysts. Most TSA searches are random, which results in one charge for every 794 false positives. Note also that nearly 40% of the charges are immigration related. Most of the rest are probably drug related.
The TSA can't point to a single incident where its random searches or behavioral analysis actually has prevented a terrorist attack. Despite their utter failure, the TSA plans to spend another $1.2 billion over the course of five years on behavior analysis techniques.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/04/15/tsa.screeners.complain/index.html?hpt=C1 [cnn.com]
Just to be clear, the paragraphs starting with "Members of Congress" and "Experts agree" are direct quotations from CNN. The remainder of the post contains my opinion. Sorry for any confusion.
"saying an al-Qaeda training manual instructs members to blend in."
Why did you have to tell them that? Now they'll consider everyone blending in to be potential al-Qaeda terrorists.
saying an al-Qaeda training manual instructs members to blend in
Can I haz the ISBN?
1984 was not an instruction manual.
The rest of the World.
He's a TSA agent, airport annoyance specialist style.
A relative by marriage, I hasten to point out.
He's a fat lazy idiot and was incompetent at his other jobs. And he's now a TSA agent.
I'm not saying these two things are related, necessarily.
Instead of the Million-dollar scanner, I choose to get the "pat down." I don't complain, in fact -- just the opposite.
I'm not sure if I get on the security list or not, but my involuntary groans of pleasure, sure seem to BOTHER them a lot.
Try going back through security, and if questioned, say, "I'm not sure if I was searched well enough the first time." Get some friends with torn clothing, and whisper to each other about your "favorite" inspector.
Ask them if they are coming out with a "Hunks of TSA" calendar.
If we don't let terrorists on the plane -- they'll just be blowing us up in the parking lot anyway.
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His son, Michael Collins, tells the Los Angeles Times ( http://lat.ms/Z1nT8s) that Collins died Thursday of pneumonia in Ventura.
Collins was one of 19 writers and directors called by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 in a probe of supposed Communist subversion in Hollywood. He wasn't asked to testify but 10 who refused to answer questions about their beliefs were jailed in what has widely been called a witch hunt.
Collins was subpoenaed again in 1951 and identified more than 20 colleagues as Communist sympathizers. He later expressed regrets.
He went on to have a three-decade career in TV writer and producer on shows including "Bonanza" and "Matlock."
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Authorities confirm "no rape" at Bauxite Middle School
After two women told a Little Rock television news station that their children are in danger at the Bauxite Middle School, with one saying that her 13-year-old daughter was raped on campus, authorities are saying otherwise.
"We have been able to confirm through our investigation that there was not a rape (of the student) at the Bauxite Middle School," Lt. Mike Frost of the Saline County Sheriff's Office told The Saline Courier today.
He also said that the investigation is still continuing, and that this investigation began about two weeks ago. Frost also addressed a claim by the second woman's daughter during Fox 16's newscast, that "little girls are passing out alcohol" in which he said there was "no alcohol" found to be involved in the alleged rape investigation.
The Courier also spoke with Kim Arnold, assistant principal and public relations for Bauxite Middle School, who said the small town school district is "safe" for children to attend. She said there are cameras that monitor, everything.
"The students are safe here," Arnold said. "We have surveillance cameras in every hall, as well as teachers and staff monitoring. All student activity is monitored and recorded."
She also said that the Bauxite School District is fully cooperating with the Sheriff's Office on the investigation. Superintendent Jared Williams also noted that the doorway entrances and stairwells are also monitored with extensive surveillance camera systems.
Arnold said the school district takes necessary steps to ensure the safety of the students on all parts of the campus. She stressed again that "Parents can be assured that we are working with investigators and that the students here are safe."


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School funding formula tweaks could bring millions of dollars to neighboring Woonsocket
School funding formula tweaks could bring millions of dollars to neighboring Woonsocket
WOONSOCKET - One of the consultants who helped devise the 2010 school aid funding formula is saying now that some changes - long advocated by Woonsocket City Council President John Ward - might be in order to make the distribution of school funding more fair to urban areas, including Pawtucket.
Jason Becker, who provided the complicated mathematical computations for the formula, suggested several new factors to consider in his blog post last week: greater reimbursement of contributions to teacher pensions; consideration for the cost of educating English language learners; a higher reimbursement for housing aid; and a little help for districts paying charter school tuitions.
Ward says he's been raising most of these issues since the formula was first debated.
He says in a message to Woonsocket representatives and senators, "He has consistently told me that the problem was not with the formula, but with Woonsocket. Now, he has apparently had a change of heart and posted this."
Read Becker's full post: http://bit.ly/152GkBE
Ward is urging Woonsocket General Assembly members, "Mr. Becker has a very credible foundation on which to make his arguments and should be given serious consideration."
Meanwhile, Cumberland's Mayor Daniel McKee, who had an early hand in the creation of the formula, is agreeing that "a conversation" might be helpful, but he's warning that any changes should be made on a "global" basis rather than to benefit a specific community.
Suggests McKee, "The funding formula that was passed in 2010 with broad based support from mayors was and is good policy. Even good policies can always be improved and I am in favor of smart, fair improvements."
He also argues that Ward's depiction of "rich suburban communities" is inaccurate and one-sided.
For Ward, there's some satisfaction in Becker's blogged comments of Aug. 22 because they begin to concede points Ward says he has been raising for five years.
For parents and taxpayers, the points raised have the potential of altering a community's share of the state's school funding aid.
Becker does say that overall he's proud of the "relatively simple" formula that's been implemented successfully according to a phase-in schedule.
But he raises these points:
* Teacher pensions
Currently local districts pay 60 percent of teachers' pension contributions and the state pays 40 percent.
Ward, and now Becker, argue the flat split for all communities ignores communities' relative wealth and therefore ability to pay.
Ward wants the contributions rolled into the aid formula so the expense is reimbursed according to the formula.
For Woonsocket, that would mean an added $3.3 million a year and for Pawtucket $4.2 million, says Ward.
"Mr. Becker seems to have seen the light. I fought hard with the RIDE (Rhode Island Department of Education) staff to have this made a part of the formula package before it was even introduced, but was handed my hat and told to deal with it myself, they weren't interested," said the Woonsocket City Council president.
* Housing aid
Ward and McKee both want to rethink the state's share of funds for building and maintenance of school buildings.
Becker advocates removing the minimum and instead reimbursing according to the formula. Currently the minimum reimbursement is 40 percent for suburban schools, a number Ward calls "a massive subsidy for suburban schools" that "deprive(s) urban districts of funds they desperately need for their own infrastructure needs."
By his figures, if reimbursement were based instead on the formula, Cumberland and Lincoln would get about the same share, he says, but Barrington and Narragansett would lose, while urban districts would get more.
McKee, meanwhile, labels the current plan for state investment in local schools "the most glaring omission from the current policy" but unlike Ward wants more for suburbs in "a system for equitable and efficient distribution of state aid for school construction."
He said, "That is where my focus will be as I discuss policy with my fellow mayors and state leadership."
* English language learners
At the time the formula was adopted, the expressed philosophy was that districts would receive extra funds to cover lower income students and the ELL students were generally the same subgroup.
Ward disagreed and now Becker is conceding that "extra supports" are needed by the children who come from non-English speaking homes.
Pawtucket and Woonsocket are currently appealing a lawsuit based on funding for ELL students that the districts lost in the lower court, but Ward says the arguments are currently centered only on constitutional issues.
* Charter school payments
Becker is also suggesting that districts should retain 5 percent of the funding they now turn over as charter school tuition to help offset some fixed costs that aren't recoverable when charter school kids leave the system.
Mr. Ward
Please don't try to use the school funding formula to solve your problems. The formula was worked out long ago...where were you? Being fooled by your school committee and super.
Where's the incentive to be fiscally responsible?
From reading this article, one might think that is PAYS to be undisciplined and careless with the taxpayers money. It also sounds as if the towns that have been responsible and prudent are now being penalized for their smart business decisions. WHY TRY if everyone is going to be rewarded, no matter what?
SitV, can you explain what constitutes "undisciplined and careless" vs. "responsible and prudent" as you call it? Not junk rhetoric, but specific spending and unit costs that comparatively meet your defiition. I'll look forward to your in depth analysis of spending among the various school districts to support your argument.
My analysis? STOP SPENDING!
Mr. Ward; You sound like a true politician, trying to cloud your dismal results with BS and mockery. My explanation is a moot point. Where I live, my elected officials would be held responsible for your analysis. They are the ones supposedly making the decisions based on that analysis. I am only concerned with the final results. If your town can't make it work, then elect new officials. Why should we all have to suffer for your town's inaptitude? As far as I know, the state of Rhode Island has not become a socialistic state yet. I don't even DRIVE through Woonsocket anymore!


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|2007-08-28, 03:28
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I guess Makoto really is immature and goes to the girl with same mentality as his (which is always being horny almost 24/7 when he's around either Kotonoha or Sekai) just to choose who to side with. Thats pretty much how he sees it, although I do see some kind of pattern during the past two episodes.
If he sees Kotonoha being bullied right in front of his eyes and she goes off being sad, he suddenly sides with Kotonoha just like that.
If he's with Sekai, he thinks he can just "do it" with Sekai since she does seem to have the same feelings as Makoto and such, thus making him choose Sekai's side.
Just like what you said Kayos, he truly is indecisive and clueless about all of these strong emotions and feelings that are being thrown around right in front of his face.
|2007-08-28, 04:09
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It's weird... Hayate no Gotoku has probably the best male lead for a harem series that I can think of... and School Days has the worst.
Harem series usually degrade into one thing: a blank male lead that's just there to give females something to latch onto, but in reality is not needed at all, because the fans almost always support the females, not the potential couples. But what we get with HnG is a male lead whose happiness is just as important as that of the girls with whom he interacts, and with School Days we get a guy most of us wish never existed. Kinda puts a whole new level of respect on most Harem male leads, doesn't it?
He went from being the typical guy of a harem series (clueless, weak-willed, etc.) to being a very dislikeable, fully developed character. In a way, that sets him apart. He is selfish, thoughtless, dangerously impulsive, ridiculously dishonest, and has no remorse for what he does.
Forget perv; he's a complete lech. I can forgive losing interest in a girl you've liked simply because you became disillusioned after you got with her. I can forgive the idea that he's this awkward and horny teenage boy, because, well, teenage boys are awkward and horny (did that even come out right?). I can't forgive not being straightforward about his loss of interest. He has no feelings for Kotonoha, and has gone for Seikai only because she made him aware of the possibility in episode 1. To be honest, he's the kind of guy who would have sex with a warm, buttered bagel if it looked attractive to him.
He basically got with the girl he faps off about at night, realizes that the real thing is harder to get off on, decides it's too much work (even as she opens up to the idea), moves on to the next best thing just to get his quick fix, and will probably discard the next best thing the moment he finds something better. It's not just some stupid kid who made a couple of mistakes in the spirit of youth. This is a very weak character who only knows how to indulge in the things he wants, and only seeks advice to get those things. He's not interested in a relationship, and he's not concerned with the consequences of not being interested in a relationship; to be frank, this case makes many adulterous situations look saintly. You know what? This isn't even weak-willed. This is all premeditated.
No one can fault him for losing interest in someone he likes; that's something that happens in life. But the way he carries on with someone else disgusts me. The "Boys will be boys" argument phails here. Phails. Hard.
|2007-08-28, 10:06
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Yeah, I enjoyed the synopsis, a good read. I would add that he's not just letting Kotonoha be clueless about the situation, he actually got annoyed because she tried to get closer to him after he started seeing Sekai behind her back. That's some nerve, acting like she's supposed to know that he doesn't really care for her even though he hasn't broken up with her.
|2007-08-29, 14:24
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|2007-08-29, 16:05
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I think Yuuichi's the best male lead this genre has seen, if you can put Kanon in this genre anyway. He's someone whom I could believe girls would fall for.
Makoto sets a new standard for terrible male leads, but I have to admit he does have a deeper (though not necessarily better and in fact far more dislikable) character than the typical "clueless and useless yet nice at heart so the girls like him" crap.
|2007-08-29, 16:46
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|2007-08-29, 16:58
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|2007-08-29, 17:00
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I didn't watch Gift. I heard the main girl was more or less a Nemu and that was a huge turnoff for me.
But what I liked about Yuuichi is how he had a good sense of humour, how he wasn't clueless, he could have fun, and he was reliable when he needed to be. I have no clue what kind of character Haruhiko is, but I could list Yukito from Air as another good character. Rin from Shuffle was alright, and I like Shirou from F/SN as well.
On the other hand, at least usually, male leads who have a "harem" but didn't originate from a visual novel have better characterization, too. It's quite sad because I've often found that visual novel based male leads go through a process of de-characterization for the anime; in the actual games, when you get more insight into their thoughts and such, you can tell they're a lot better than the shows make them look. An example of this is Jyunichi from DC; he's far more interesting, smarter and much better at talking to girls in the game than he was in the anime (better sense of humour, not so clueless, fairly smooth).
Of course, I can't speak for Makoto since I haven't played the game, but the general consensus even for people who have is that he's quite despicable in it, still.
And for the record, Sinestra, it's true that Makoto is somewhat realistic, though I don't know anyone -that- stupid; and it's also a good thing that there aren't that many good guys around - it'd not be too nice to be up against tougher competition, this world is competitive enough in a lot of areas already...at least in the matters of love a lot of people are inept.
|2007-08-29, 17:11
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Makoto you don't feel sorry for at all. Sure he's clueless, but rather then try to make amends he just makes things worse. And it's not just simple misunderstandings like Hayate, he is flatout ignoring what is going on. Like what was said he's only in it for the sex.
And yet these 2 shows are the first harems I've watched, boy did I pick a duo.
|2007-08-29, 17:27
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|2007-08-29, 17:34
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You know like most of us here i recommend anime to many friends who dont really know much about it. Over the course of the past 2 weeks iv told them I will have to get back to them on School days and i have never done that. I have always had an answer right away for any anime they have asked about. But this one hits close to home with me on a couple of issues which i have mentioned in other posts. I think before I actually take a stand on recommending it or not i will have to wait to the end. Also, i like you deconstruction of male leads in harems very well put.
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|2007-08-29, 17:39
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however, i can safely claim that Game Makoto >>> Anime Makoto (in a "good" way)
scripters love to "improve" the "hate" vibes for characters. (Otome is a prime example...)
|2007-08-29, 17:41
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By the way, thanks for the comments, Sinestra.
|2007-08-29, 21:05
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|2007-08-30, 04:45
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But Makoto realizing that all that he has done was just hurting everyone around him is low...he's too stupid to realize of that kind of thing.
I believe the only person(s) that could make him realize that he's just hurting everyone is either Kotonoha or Sekai...other than that, he's too clueless on whats going on around him.
|2007-08-30, 04:53
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It's really hard to make arguments to justify Makoto's behavior when ever week he does more stupid things like this. I think I officially give up on arguing anything for Makoto from now on.
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Sculpture II in brief
- The sculpture is one of Kirsten Justesen's earliest
- With Sculpture II, Justesen comments on the classical sculpture and its relation between the plinth and a certain type of female figure. Justesen has figuratively removed the woman from the pedestal and instead placed her in an imaginary room inside the pedestal.
- In addition to its formal deliberations on sculpture as such, Sculpture II is also the beginning of Justesen's work with body art.
- Sculpture II and its partner Sculpture I were created in relative obscurity, but have since been exhibited in a number of contexts and have been recognised as some of the most important Danish avant-garde works in the late 60s.
The woman in the box
In a cardboard box sits a naked woman all huddled up. To fit into the box she must bend her legs and lean her body over them. Her long hair covers part of her body and her face, which is seen in profile.
The woman is the artist herself, and the photograph of her - huddled up in the box - is mounted on top of the box. In this manner, she's playing with the viewer's perception, and an illusion is created of the woman being inside the box.
The box she's in has four flaps which, in principle, could be folded around her. In that case, this box wouldn't be any different from any other box, in which we transport larger objects. The box is a perfectly normal everyday item with an added photograph.
The box that held it all
But this box is not an everyday item anymore, because Kirsten Justesen has transformed it into the work, neutrally titled Sculpture II which simply tells us that this is a sculpture. But that is probably the most important thing. The title tells us that we should view the work as a sculpture and thus see it in relation to the sculptural tradition.
By emphasising the importance of viewing the work as a sculpture, Kirsten Justesen also directs our attention to the classical sculpture which usually consists of a three-dimensional stone, bronze-, cast- or wood figure on a pedestal. Although the work is called Sculpture II, it doesn't look like a classical sculpture.
Instead, Sculpture II, with its 50x60x60 dimensions, reminds us of a traditional pedestal. Kirsten Justesen has explained that:
"It corresponds with a pedestal which has width, height and depth. Purely form. And the figure on top of the pedestal has often been the figure of a woman, so I put my own body on top of the box in the shape of a photograph taken of my body inside the pedestal (as an imaginary performance)."
Furthermore, the box can be collapsed into a two-dimensional object and hung on the wall which, in 2004, made Justesen conclude:
"So it covered more or less all genres in the discussion which took place about the concept of art at the time. Then I could leave Aarhus. I was free."
Aarhus is the second-largest city of Denmark where Justesen in the 1960s attended the art academy and made her first artistic experiments.
This is not a trap
"This sculpture was not a feminist artwork from the outset", writes colleague, conceptual artist and sculptor William Louis Sørensen about Sculpture II. In retrospect, according to Kirsten Justesen herself, it's only really about form:
"My deliberations were purely formal, a note on the basic classical sculptural concepts I'd learned, by hand, between 1965-68 with Knud Nellemose [at the Jutland Art Academy]: Pedestal, volume, texture, theme/model."
In an interview with Katy Deepwell in 1999, Kirsten Justesen explains that Sculpture II was not conceived as a feminist statement, but at the same time she admits that some of the deliberations about the sculpture had their origin in a feminist mindset. Deepwell comments that she, at her first meeting with the sculpture, saw it as if the woman was represented as an object and showed as trapped. To this, Kirsten Justesen says that the work is not at all about a trapped woman.
"Yes, but it's not a matter of a trapped woman. I would never, ever make a trapped woman. Because if I see a trapped woman, I would have to help her get out! I would politically, as a feminist, show this idea if asked, but not in this expressive way. I have worked politically as a feminist but never in that way."
About insisting on your right
The fact that the work had such a long life at exhibitions of feminist art is not due to Kirsten Justesen herself. According to her, the feminist context is a manipulation of the meaning of the work. But it's an added value, which she considers interesting and is quite happy with.
On the other hand, Justesen explains that behind the idea of using her own body rather than a model's was a feministic decision to insist on her own, also immaterial, space. At this time, women still found it difficult to find acceptance on equal terms with male artists and Justesen tells how she was often deeply frustrated about being reduced to 'housewife' in the company of her male colleagues, who, in spite of their working community, expected that Justesen would be the one to do the dishes.
Kirsten Justesen also explains that she wasn't all that conscious about feminist deliberations at the time and not about gender deliberations either. The understanding of gender only arrived later. Nevertheless, the work strikes many a chord that later on turned out to be significant for her production. Among other things, the blurred boundaries between subject and object turn out to be a consistent element in Justesen's art, which becomes more and more clear as she uses her own body as material in her work.
Justesen is both artist and model and points with her work to the fact that it's her right to hold both positions.
As Deepwell phrases it, Sculpture II is also about how "women are rejected by others and use themselves to resist being reduced to an object by others at the same time as showing their subjectivity."
A cool reception
Although this work has since obtained almost iconic status within Danish avant-garde art from the 60s, it and its partner Sculpture I didn't make waves in 1968.
Kirsten Justesen, Sculpture I, 1968, MDF-sheets, photostats and mirror, Three sheets of 96 x 96 x 10 cm. KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark.
Justesen herself implies that Sculpture I only just made it into the Artists' Autumn Exhibition in 1968. As she told assistant professor at University of Copenhagen, Tania Ørum, in 2004, she might have continued with the development of the minimalist sculpture as formal experiment if an art dealer had seen and liked her work back then.
But she felt that she needed to move on to new issues. Issues, which are already visible in Sculpture II. And quickly hereafter, she began working on the body- and feminist issues which dominated her art throughout the 1970s.
Did you know?
The London-based artist Carey Young (born 1970) has made a series of photographs where she re-creates and replays a number of important body art and performance art works, among them Kirsten Justesen's Sculpture II.
Carey Young has named the series Body Techniques and the works can be seen on Carey Young's homepage.


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From UCLA:
Eight outstanding Bruins who have excelled as student-athletes or coaches will be inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame on Friday night, November 4, it was announced today.
Invitation-only ceremonies will be held in the Athletics Hall of Fame, located in the J.D. Morgan Intercollegiate Athletics Center (reception), and in Covel Commons (dinner). In addition, the new inductees will also be introduced during halftime of the November 5 UCLA-Arizona State football game at the Rose Bowl.
The UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame was dedicated in 1984 with 25 charter members. The Class of 2011 brings the total membership to 247. The 2011 inductees are Gary Adams, baseball; Ato Boldon, track & field; Theotis Brown, football; Ernie Case, football; Larry Nagler, tennis; Mel North, fencing; Alex Rousseau, water polo; and Janeene Vickers-McKinney, track & field.
Following are biographies on the 2011 UCLA Hall of Fame inductees:
GARY ADAMS – Adams played second base for the Bruins in 1959-60 and 1962. In 1960, he formed UCLA's double play combination with his twin brother, Gene. After missing the 1961 season due to a knee injury, Adams was the team captain and MVP as a senior in 1962, leading the squad with a .265 batting average and 12 stolen bases. After graduating, Adams was an assistant coach before being hired at UC Irvine, where he was head coach for five years (1970-74). At UC Irvine, Adams won 73% of his games, and the Anteaters captured the 1973 and 1974 NCAA Division II Championships. Adams returned to Westwood in 1975 and was head coach of the Bruins for 30 years before retiring after the 2004 season. Adams is UCLA's all-time winningest baseball coach with a career record 984-823-7. At UCLA, Adams captured four Pac-10 Conference championships, and his team advanced to the College World Series in 1997. A total of 38 former Bruins from the Adams era have played in Major League Baseball. Adams was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in January 2005. He is also a published author and illustrator and has written several children's books.
ATO BOLDON – Boldon is one of the most successful sprinters in the history of UCLA Men's Track & Field. Boldon arrived in Westwood after transferring from San Jose City College. He competed for two seasons (1995-96) and led UCLA to consecutive Pac-10 team titles while winning the Pac-10 100m and 200m titles both years. He was also a member of the 400m relay Pac-10 title team in 1996. Boldon still holds Pac-10 meet records in 100m (10.03) and 200m (20.00) as well as UCLA records in those two events – 100m (9.90) and 200m (19.80). His 9.90 mark in winning the 100m at the 1996 NCAA Outdoor Championships was an NCAA record. That performance, along with his second-place finish in the 4x100m relay, helped lead the Bruins to a third-place national finish. The previous year, Boldon captured the NCAA 200m title as the Bruins finished second in the nation. Boldon ranked in the world Top 5 in the 100m for seven years (1995-2001), and the Top 5 in the world in the 200m on four occasions. He represented his native Trinidad & Tobago in three Olympic Games (1996, 2000, 2004), capturing a total of four medals (bronze medals in the 100m and 200m in 1996, silver in the 100m and bronze in the 200m in 2000). Boldon also won gold at the 1997 World Championships in the 200m and received a total of four World Championship medals in his career. In 1999, Boldon ranked No. 1 in world in the 200m at 19.88 and No. 2 in the 100m at 9.86. During his career, he ran a total of 28 100m races under 10 seconds, including eight under 9.90 seconds.
THEOTIS BROWN – An outstanding running back from 1976-78, Brown won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1976, the All-Around Excellence award as a junior, and offensive MVP honors as a senior. Brown received first-team All-Pac-10 honors in both 1976 and 1978. He concluded his playing career as UCLA's single-season leader in all-purpose yards (1,804 yards in 1978, now second), ranked second in both career rushing yards (2,914) and touchdowns scored (27) and he remains ranked seventh in each of those categories on UCLA's all-time lists. Brown also left UCLA as the career all-purpose yards leader, having gained 3,944 yards as a Bruin (now ranked sixth). Brown set UCLA's single game rushing record in 1978 with 274 yards against Oregon (since broken by DeShaun Foster and Maurice Jones-Drew). During his career, he had no less than 11 games in which he gained over 100 yards and was UCLA's leading rusher in both 1976 and 1978. In the NFL, he played a total of six seasons for St. Louis, Seattle and Kansas City before a heart attack sidelined him and put an early end to his professional career. In his pro career, Brown rushed for over 2,000 yards and gained another 1,500 yards receiving. Brown's son, Trey, also played for the Bruins, starting at defensive back.
ERNIE CASE – Case played varsity football at UCLA in 1940-41 and then from 1945-46 after serving in World War II. Case sat out the 1940 season and was the second-string quarterback in 1941 before leaving after that season to enlist in the Army Air Corps. Case became a fighter pilot and was captured by enemy forces after being shot down over Sardinia on his 12th combat mission. He sustained severe injuries, including a broken hip and several cracked ribs, and was taken as a POW. Hospitalized in Chieti, Italy, Case and a buddy managed to escape on Sept. 25, 1943 when the U.S. 5th and English 8th armies attacked. On the lam for a month, Case and his friend finally reach safety when they found the encampment of the Canadian 8th Army in Trivento — some 77 miles from Chieti. Decorated with a two Bronze Stars, a Purple Heart and an Air Medal with a Gold Leaf Cluster, Case returned to start at quarterback and served as team captain for the 1945 Bruins. Again serving as team captain in his senior season of 1946, Case led the Bruins to one of their best years ever. The Bruins posted a 10-0 regular season record and outscored opponents, 313-72, before falling in the 1947 Rose Bowl game. Case threw for a Rose Bowl-record 165 yards, rushed for a touchdown and kicked two extra points in the Bruins' loss to Illinois. Case's first quarter TD run resulted in the first ever postseason points for UCLA. Throughout his career at UCLA, Case also played defense, served as the place kicker and punted (notably a 70-yarder on his first career attempt). Case was selected by the Green Bay Packers with the 6th overall pick in the 1947 NFL Draft, eventually signed by the Baltimore Colts and played one season in the NFL before returning to Southern California.
LARRY NAGLER – Nagler was a three-time (not eligible as a freshman) ITA All-American during his tennis career at UCLA between 1959 and 1962 and helped lead UCLA to NCAA team championships in both 1960 and 1961. In 1960, Nagler won NCAA championships in both singles and doubles (with Allen Fox) and posted an undefeated record in singles tournaments. Nagler is still the only men's tennis player ever to win three Pac-10 singles titles (1960-62). He captained the men's tennis team in 1962 and played doubles with Arthur Ashe during the 1961 and 1962 seasons. Nagler also played two seasons for John Wooden on the men's basketball team. After graduating from UCLA, Nagler played a limited amount of professional tennis, with a peak ranking of No. 11 in the U.S. Nagler is a graduate of the UCLA law school and has practiced law in Los Angeles for 38 years. In 2004, he became the 16th UCLA player or coach to be inducted into the ITA Hall of Fame.
MELVYN NORTH – North was the first coach of the UCLA Fencing program. Bringing 25 years of coaching experience to the team, North coached the UCLA Fencing Club and Varsity program from 1960-1974 and returned to coach two more years, from 1980-82. During that time, UCLA Fencing teams compiled an intercollegiate record of 218-18 in dual and tri meets, including a string of 174 consecutive victories. Along the way, UCLA became the first West Coast school to defeat the Air Force Academy, the perennial power in the sport of fencing. After retiring to Colorado in 1974, North returned to UCLA in 1980 to a program that had fallen to the bottom of collegiate fencing. In two short years, North resurrected the program, and the Bruins won the NCAA Western Regional of Fencing by defeating the Air Force Academy in the final match. North's significant collegiate accomplishments include founding the Intercollegiate Fencing Conference, creating the UCLA Invitational Fencing Tournament, and bringing the U.S. National Championships to UCLA. Including individual and team competition for men and women, North led UCLA to 19 collegiate championships. A teaching professional for more than 40 years, North is recognized as a leading teacher and innovator in modern fencing and was one of the mentors in the writing of the first tests for Masters for the U.S. National Coaches Association. He was inducted as a member of the World Masters Federation in 1956. On eight occasions he was coach of the U.S. World team, and North's students have participated in or on 50 World teams, six Olympic Games, seven Pan-Am teams, and 15 World Cups.
ALEX ROUSSEAU — Rousseau was a four-time All-American water polo star at UCLA from 1985-1989, earning second-team honors his freshman year and first-team honors his remaining three years. Rousseau was team MVP and captain in 1989 and was the team's leading scorer all four years. In 1989, he led UCLA to the NCAA Championship game by scoring eight goals in a 13-10 victory over USC in the semifinals. Rousseau also played for the USA Water Polo Junior Team from 1985-1987 and competed in two World Championships, earning All-World team honors in Brazil in 1987. Following his career at UCLA, Rousseau played in over 175 international games with the U.S. National Team and was a member of the Olympic Team in 1994 and 1996. He was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame in 2004. Rousseau's international professional career spanned from 1990-1993 and 1997-1999, playing for C.N. Marseille, France and Lazio Nuoto, Roma, Italy.
JANEENE VICKERS-McKINNEY – Vickers is widely considered to be one of the all-time Women's Track and Field greats at UCLA. Vickers was a vital part of the UCLA Women's Track and Field teams from 1988 through 1991. In her freshman season of 1988, she immediately established her benchmark in the 400m hurdles and was crowned the Pac-10 Champion. She went on to dominate the conference and eventually won seven Pac-10 Championships in hurdle events and relays, including three 100mH titles, two 400mH titles and two 400m relay championships. On a national level, she won back-to-back-to-back NCAA Individual Championships in the 400m Hurdles in 1989, 1990 and 1991. Vickers set a collegiate record of 53.47 in 400mH in 1991, a record that would stand until the 2005 season. She also still holds the second-fastest UCLA time in the 400mH (53.47) and the eighth-fastest time in the 100mH (13.16). Vickers went on to achieve international success, winning a bronze medal in the 400mH at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.


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Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew says he never feared for his job at St James' Park
Newcastle United boss Alan Pardew admits he never feared for his job despite seeing the side slide down the table.
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Last Updated: 08/02/13 9:13am
The Magpies have struggled in the bottom half of the Premier League table this season and they currently lie just six points above the relegation zone.
However, Newcastle have recorded back-to-back wins against Aston Villa and Chelsea to move clear of trouble and Pardew insists he also felt he had the backing of the club's hierarchy.
"It's rare in football to have the position that even with the results I've had, the message from upstairs was that I was going to be retained as manager," said Pardew.
"Perhaps our fans weren't quite as happy about that at the time, but I have to try and reward the club for the backing the gave me now. So far, we've got two great results and we have to build on that.
"We haven't been good enough and we've been saying that. Now we think we have got a team that's good enough and we have to back it up with results."
Meanwhile, Newcastle's managing director Derek Llambias believes stability is needed if the club are to build a platform for future success.
"The club has never had stability and it needs it," said Llambia "This is too big a club not to have stability.
"Do we want to find ourselves in a situation when we have a manager for 15 or 20 years? Absolutely. If the manager works, we work. You cannot get any better than that."
"Eventually you will bring to the club what it has been crying out for. Stability is a big thing for us."
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Maybe it wasn't a drought just yet, but the Sharks' top two goal-scorers were definitely in a dry spell. Luckily for San Jose, both Patrick Marleau and Logan Couture picked the same night to find the back of the net once again -- both in regulation and the shootout that followed -- to give the Sharks a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Arena. The shootout win Thursday night was exactly the kind of bounce-back effort the team was looking for after an embarrassing 4-0 loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets just 48 hours earlier. San Jose remained fifth in the Western Conference playoff race. "Our road game has been lacking a little bit," said Marleau, who scored his team-leading 17th goal of the season after notching just one goal in the previous 11 games. "Especially coming off a bad game in Columbus, you wanted to come out with a strong performance." While Marleau and Couture were providing the offense, goalie Antti Niemi had another strong effort. Forward Justin Abdelkader and defenseman Jakob Kindl did score for Detroit, but Niemi made 27 saves -- several of them spectacular -- and two more in the shootout to improve San Jose's record against the Red Wings to 8-1-1 in their past 10 meetings. The Red Wings entered the game in unfamiliar territory -- eighth seed in the Western Conference and at risk of missing the playoffs after 21 consecutive appearances, the longest streak of any pro sports franchise.
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Sharks slip past Red Wings in shootout
San Jose Mercury News | Apr 12


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Food for the Future: A conversation with environmental historian Bryan McDonald
"When we talk about globalization," Bryan McDonald says, "people tend to think about computers or airplanes. But the way most people interact with the world on a daily basis is through what they eat." That's why McDonald, an environmental historian and assistant professor of Science Technology and Society at Penn State, chose food as the focus of his most recent book. Food Security, published by Polity Press, examines the interlocking challenges of developing a sustainable global food system for the 21st century.


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Quick and simple Photoshop tutorial on how to get more vibrant photos. From my experience this method works very well with food photography. I only recommend saving original images before flattening them (just copy them, select them and go to Layer > Merge Layers).
Check it out!
You can find it here:
How to create vibrant color photographs


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Session co-chairs: Emily Miller Bonney and Leann Pace
This session welcomes papers that deal explicitly with theoretical and anthropological approaches to art and archaeology in the ancient Near East and eastern Mediterranean. In past years, the session has received enough quality papers to warrant holding at least two sections of the session at the Annual Meeting. This year, in one of these sections we seek to feature papers focused on non-elite segments of ancient society and the more everyday aspects of human life in the Near East. We look forward to considering abstracts addressing this area of focus, as well as those that employ theoretical and anthropological approaches to the study of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world more broadly.
The deadline for submission of abstracts is February 15, 2014.
Professional membership in ASOR and registration for the Annual Meeting is required at the time of abstract submission (directions will be provided in the confirmation of abstract receipt). Abstracts will not be reviewed until first authors of the papers have registered for the meeting. Should an abstract not be accepted, the registration fee can be refunded. Thank you in advance for your cooperation with this policy.
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Attorneys for the Shelby County Commission are seeking a status conference with U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee Judge Samuel "Hardy" Mays on their plan to convert what is now a 23-member countywide school board to 13 members effective Sept. 1.
A ruling by Mays is pending in the latest phase of the two-year old federal court case.
The attorneys requested the status conference as the commission considers a procedure for filling a vacancy on the existing school board.
District 6 school board member Reginald Porter resigned the position as he become chief of staff of Shelby County Schools effective Aug. 1.
But under the districting plan for a 13-member board instead of the seven-member board that was part of the 2011 settlement plan by all sides, the vacancy to be filled would be in the new District 9 since those new lines would take effect Sept. 1.
That all depends on a ruling by then from Mays. He has agreed that he approved a provision that would allow the commission to take the school board to 13 members instead of seven on Sept. 1.
He also said he would have final approval of the details of such a plan including the new district lines.
Sept. 1 is when the nine members of the old Memphis City Schools board and the seven members of the old Shelby County Schools board go off the countywide school board.
The legal point Mays is expected to decide is whether the County Commission can fill the six new positions immediately or whether there could be a special election or whether to wait on the regularly scheduled county general elections in August 2014.
The Porter vacancy is a complication that prompted the commission Monday, Aug. 5, to rescind its earlier plan for filling the vacancy at its Aug. 19 session.
Several commissioners argued the commission was complicating the vacancy by the possibility of only considering those who live in the smaller District 9 to come instead of taking candidates from the existing District 6.
Still other commissioners countered that the commission should set parameters for filling the vacancy and set them so they only have to do it once.
If the commission were to consider candidates from the existing District 6 and someone who didn't live in the new District 9 was the appointee, that could lead to the commission having to make another appointment of someone from within District 9 once Mays rules on the new district lines.
In other action Monday, the commission delayed a vote for a month on a resort addition to the Spring Creek Ranch development at Collierville-Arlington Road and Raleigh LaGrange Road.
And developers of the First Citizens National Bank mixed-use commercial space at Austin Peay Highway and Millington-Arlington Road withdrew their proposal from consideration.


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Writer Rick Edgerton talks #MHFBeanie Round, the harrowing statistics behind Brain Cancer - and what...
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The Newtown Jets registered good wins in both grades on the weekend, setting the scene for a big crowd at the first home games double-header for the season at Henson Park next Saturday (May 6th).
In the VB Premier League match played at Campbelltown on Friday night, the Jets were too strong for last-placed Western Suburbs, winning this match 42-6 after leading by 22-0 at half-time. The Magpies offered plenty of resistance in the first half, with Newtown asserting their ascendancy in the ten minutes prior to the break.
Jets half-back Jamie Soward turned in the game?s standout performance, with five of Newtown?s nine tries coming directly from his broad repertoire of accurate kicking options. Newtown?s forward pack, spearheaded by Glenn Hall, Danny Williams, Mickey Paea and Lopini Paea took control early in the match and laid the basis for the Jets? nine tries to one victory. Fullback Aidan Kirk and winger Troy Malcolm collected two tries apiece, as did five-eighth Josh Lewis, prior to his leaving the field midway through the second half after being on the receiving end of a dangerous head-high tackle.
In the third round of the Jim Beam Cup competition on Saturday, the Jets completed their Central Coast travelling requirements with an away game to The Entrance and would have reason to be pleased with the quality and character of their 34-18 win. Newtown had led by 16-14 at the break, but things looked ominous when The Entrance grabbed the lead early in the second half. Newtown Director John Lynch reports that superior fitness, physical strength and team spirit saw the Jets surge home for a very useful win. Ritchie Parker, Billy Baleilomaloma, Khalid Deeb and Rimini Reweti were Newtown?s best forwards, with Toufic Nicolas and Anton La Vin giving strong performances in the backline.
The Parkes Spacemen disappointed their Pioneer Oval home crowd when they crashed out badly in the Group 11 first grade match against Dubbo CYMS to the tune of 42-12.
The Newtown Jets return to Henson Park next Saturday (May 6th) for the first competition games double-header for this season. Action gets underway at 12 noon when the Newtown Jetettes face off with the Windsor She-Wolves in the Sydney Women?s Rugby League. The Jets clash with Wentworthville in the Jim Beam Cup at 1.15pm, while in the VB Premier League main game, Newtown take on the Bulldogs at 3.00pm.
[Pic: Newtown winger Troy Malcolm has been a prolific try-scorer for the Jets this season. Photo courtesy of Gary Sutherland Photography.]


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Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns has announced that one member and two alternate members have been appointed to the National Peanut Board.
"I am pleased that these individuals have agreed to serve on this important board," Johanns said. "The National Peanut Board will be well served by their expertise."
Newly appointed to the board is Gilbert O. Harris of Prague, Okla., alternate member; Charles T. Edens of Sumter, S.C., member; and Edward M. Rast Jr., Cameron, S.C., alternate member. Their terms began on Jan. 1 of this year and will end on Dec. 31, 2007.
The 10-member board is composed of eligible peanut producers. The nominees were appointed from nominations submitted by certified peanut producer organizations.
USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service monitors the operations of the board. More information about research and promotion programs is at http://www.ams.usda.gov.fv.rpb.html.


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Duckling Goes Home / Daniel Feels Left Out
series: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood
air date: 3/10/14 1:00 PM
Duckling Goes Home: Today at school, the children find out that Ducky has grown too big to be their classroom pet and it's time to take him back to the farm. This news is very upsetting, especially to Daniel and Miss Elaina. The children cope with their sadness in different ways and soon they feel a little bit better. Daniel Feels Left Out: On their way home from the Neighborhood grocery store, Dad and Daniel stop by the Treehouse to say "hello." O the Owl and Katerina Kittycat have been playing together all day, and are even going to have dinner together. When it is time to go home with Dad, Daniel feels left out and sad. Back at home, Mom and Dad Tiger help Daniel with his sad feelings and he soon feels a bit better.
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(S.D.)-No Action Taken After Alderman Investigation In Rapid City
By: Chris Fankhauser Posted at: 12/21/2012 07:39 AM
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) - The Rapid City council has declined action against an alderman who was the subject of a City Attorney's Office investigation.
The council agreed Thursday do nothing further against Ward 1 Alderman Bill Clayton.
The council made the decision after meeting for about two hours in executive session.
The investigation was prompted by at least two complaints filed against Clayton. One complaint alleged that Clayton had verbally assaulted Ward 1 Alderwoman Charity Doyle. Details of the second complaint were not made public.
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press)


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This tutorial was created especially for those whose cheekbones haven't come in yet! I grew up on the extreme end of chubby cheeks… borderline chipmunk cheeks that people loved to pinch (which made me cringe!). My mom always said "don't worry honey, your cheekbones will come in when you're 25" and low and behold they did! But what do you do until then (besides embracing them)? The High Flush of course! This makes your cheeks appear higher and smaller than they actually are. Here's how:
- Your Favorite Blush — We love Sonia Kashuk Beautifying Blush in Sunset and Flamingo or Charlotte Tilbury Cheek to Chic Swish & Pop Blusher in Love is the Drug.
- Your Favorite Blush Brush — We love MAKE UP FOR EVER Artisan Large Flat Blush Brush because it's the perfect brush for powder blush. We also love the Cozzette S Series Vegan Brushes if you're looking for a new set!
- Swirl the brush across the powder and give it a tap against your counter. Place it on the top outer corner of the apple as demonstrated above.
- Now sweep the brush towards your temple.
If you want to really slim and hollow out your cheeks, pair this with my Contouring 101 Tutorial.


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Andrew Joseph Lobban has been indicted by a grand jury on three counts of first-degree premeditated murder in the killings of three men outside a downtown Ocala bar.
Andrew Joseph Lobban has been indicted by a grand jury on three counts of first-degree, premeditated murder in the killings of three men outside a downtown Ocala bar.
The panel met for several hours in a secluded part of the courthouse Tuesday with brown bags over the windows to ensure privacy.
The state has not yet determined if it will seek the death penalty.
Officials say that in the early morning hours of June 2, Lobban, 31, was inside AJ's Bar having drinks with a group of people, including witness Clifford Floyd. Floyd later told police when he opened the front door of the bar to leave he witnessed Lobban "pull a black handgun, possibly 9mm, from his pants."
Floyd told police the next thing he heard was shots being fired.
Outside the bar, police found the bodies of Josue "Sway" Santiago, 25; Jerry Lamar "Junior" Bynes, 20; and Benjamin Howard, 23.
Lobban later told police his intended target was Santiago and the other two "were killed by accident," according to court records.
Witnesses described seeing a "short, heavyset black male wearing all black run from the scene." Law enforcement later found a black handgun and black T-shirt inside a city of Ocala trash can.
Lobban entered a written plea of not guilty on June 5. A public defender has been appointed to represent him.
According to court records, the Medical Examiner's Office determined all three men were shot in the head. Santiago and Bynes were both shot in the back of the head, and the wounds indicated both were shot from close range.
All four men worked together as bouncers at the Ocala Entertainment Complex, which is owned by Bobby Tillander, whose daughter Amanda owns AJ's at 11 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala.
Police are still trying to determine a motive in the case. Recently a prank video had surfaced in which Lobban was shown misfiring a gun at a local shooting range. The men had teased Lobban about the video, which seemed to anger him, according to police. Furthermore, Santiago recently was promoted to head of security over Lobban.
Law enforcement found Lobban before noon on the day of the shooting at a house in the 100 block of Pecan Drive Pass, where his girlfriend lives.
The defendant told police he remembered shooting at least two rounds from the 9mm handgun at Santiago outside AJ's.
Santiago and Bynes both left behind young children. Howard, an Iraq War veteran and Belleview resident, had discussed attending college after being honorably discharged from the National Guard just two days before he was killed.
Lobban has been held without bail at the Marion County Jail since the shootings.
Staff writer Austin Miller contributed to this story. Contact April Warren at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Health Benefits have risen for New Mexico State Employees. Starting today, rate premiums will rise 15 percent. That rise is likely to affect over 70,000 people covered by the state plan.
A new plan design will also take effect with deductibles increasing from $150 dollars to $350 annually. The out of pocket max will also rise from 3,000 to $3,500.
The State employee insurance plan also is moving to a calendar year, making the current deductible $175 for the rest of 2013. In January, the annual deductible will be $350 dollars.
A.J. Forte, Risk Management Director for the State of New Mexico calculates cost for the state insurance benefits. According to Forte, he was left will little options when trying to bring in revenue.
"The only way for us to bring revenue in is through premium increases. If we don't do premium increases, we have to do plan redesign. And that means going from a one hundred-fifty dollar deductible to three hundred-fifty dollars," said Forte.
Forte met with his actuaries to look at the data. After receiving monthly projections, his department realized that in order to keep the funds solvent they would need to increase premiums and also present a new plan design to state employees.
"So at the end of fiscal year 2013, because of five years of flat premiums, five years of no plan redesign we were going to be thirty-five million dollars in the hole. We were going to be insolvent. If you look forward to fiscal year 2014, we were going to be almost seventy million dollars in the hole, and that is why we had to make so many plan design changes and the fifteen percent increase to get us trending back in the right direction," said Forte.
The rise in rates has some state employees very concerned and others may be forced to make tough decisions. Eric Simon works as a state employee. He is also the president of the Las Cruces chapter of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees Union. Simon said the rising cost means less dollars going into the local economy.
"It's disappointing to see that go into effect. State employees are underpaid and under supported by the current administration as it is. So it is going to make it a lot harder for the state employees that I represent, myself included, to put money back into the community. We like to spend locally economy," said Simon.
Rising rates means less dollars flowing into the local economy, but according to Simon the real impact will be employees being able to spend less time with their families, due to working a second job.
"A lot of them are actually considering going into different lines of work; where these benefits might be a little less expensive and less competitive, or just take second jobs," said Simon.
According to A.J. Forte, health care inflation continues to impact the state employee benefit fund. Either way, rates for state employees will rise forcing some tough financial decisions for many employees.


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I wrote several years ago about Dr. A.E.P. Albert and his wife, Octavia, who lived and worked in Terrebonne around 1800.
I wrote several years ago about Dr. A.E.P. Albert and his wife, Octavia, who lived and worked in Terrebonne around 1800. He was the pastor of an African Methodist Episcopal church on Houma's Canal Street, while she was the author of stories she heard from former slaves.
Accounts of an African-American writer in Houma generated no reader response, until this month, Black History Month.
"I ran across your columns from the Spring of 2009 in the Comet regarding the Alberts," Henry Wicker emailed early Saturday morning.
"They were my great, great-grandparents and I do have family photos if you are still interested. I'm so sorry that I was not aware of your columns back in 2009 when you were working on them; most of the family dispersed along the East Coast and I left New Orleans in 1985. I found your articles while researching for Black History Month."
I will respond to Wicker's message, hoping to see pictures of both Alberts, and since local readers will likely not remember the Albert articles, parts of the originals will be republished here this month.
Don't cry for me: It's black and embroidered with a San Francisco logo. I'll be wearing it most mornings this week. The jacket has special significance, unrelated to football or the losing team in Sunday's Super Bowl.
First, it's reversible and I wear the gray fleece side in, for cosiness on these chilly February mornings.
Second, it's a souvenir of our last visit to the California city. The logo includes images of the Golden Gate, the famous trolley and nothing more. If the football team has a logo, it does not appear on the jacket.
From the grapevine: The persistent "cold" I fought for more than a week made me a reluctant paradegoer, but we found a place Friday night at Park Avenue and Bayou Gardens Boulevard to wait for Hercules, the first parade of the Terrebonne Parish Carnival season.
It was long in arriving. The first float came about 8 p.m., and folks who watched downtown reported going home about 11 p.m., without seeing a float.
The noon report that a float had tipped onto its side may have complicated things, but the confirmed collision of a float with the reviewing stand came too late to have slowed things much.
It was about 1 a.m. when the last unit cleared the reviewing stand.
More idle thoughts. Gleaned from a brotherly email forwarding:
- I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart. Now what?
- If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
- Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants off
- Today is the oldest you've ever been, yet the youngest you'll ever be, so enjoy this day while it lasts.
Sexspam? I ordinarily delete suspicious emails without opening, but the "grammar" in the subject line caught my eye: "Hi, do you forgot about me?" From "Svetlana T." I did not recognize the Russian address.
Her message includes an online address. "Perhaps you'll see my recent photos?" Not I. The email was enough.
Responding? Contact Bill Ellzey at 381-6256, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com or c/o The Courier, P.O. Box 2717, Houma, LA 70361.


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Egyptian actress Rania Shawqi, the daughter of the late actor Farid Shawqi, has started filming the new television drama series "Dmoo Al Qamar" (Tears of the Moon).
According to the Qatari daily Al Rayah, Rania plays the role of a journalist that reports on corruption, and receives death threats from the people she exposes.
She is spending a week trailing criminal reporters at a major newspaper to learn their techniques in investigating high profile officials accused of criminal activity to prepare for the role.
The Lebanese artist Nour will co-star with Rania in the new drama which is scheduled to be aired on a number of satellite channels this coming Ramadan season. The series is written by Majdi Salem and directed by Isam Shaban. The series also stars Riyad Al Kholi, Abeer Sabri, Hatem Tho Al Faqar, Hayatem, Jamal Isamil, and Khaled Mahmoud.


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech football team, nearing
the end of spring drills, will hit the turf in Tucker Stadium for
its annual Spring Game Saturday at 11 a.m. Fans are invited to
watch. Admission is free.
The scrimmage format will give coach Watson Brown's coaching staff one final look at a large number of players who are hopinig to emerge into larger roles for the 2011 season including a handful who have moved to new positions. The team heads into Saturday's action with only a few players expected to miss due to injury.
"Spring drills are the most important time of the year for a team on the field," Brown said. "This is when we find players, and we've had a really good opportunity to look at a lot of players during the past couple weeks."
The spring sessions have also given the coaching staff a chance to take a closer look at a bevy of players who were on the team last fall but sitting out as redhsirts including 10 freshmen. Players on that redshirt list who are anticipating their debut in the fall include quarterback Darian Stone, defensive linemen Matthew Smith and Nathan Bush, and linebacker Midoho Okpokowuruk.
The 2011 roster will be a veteran group for the first time in Brown's five seasons in Cookeville, with 25 seniors and 24 juniors.


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Susan King hosts town hall meeting
State Representative Susan L. King held a town hall meeting in Roscoe on Friday. She briefly discussed the upcoming 2014 interim studies and touched on the big topics from the last legislative session: water, transportation, education and health care. Roscoe residents, including Roscoe Mayor Pete Porter, City Manager Cody Thompson, Nolan County VCSO Robert McBride, RVFD Chief Gary Armstrong and Travis Williams of Blackland Smokehouse, voiced their opinions and concerns on several issues, mainly healthcare and education. All in attendance agreed that the Affordable Care Act is one of the biggest problems, along with the skyrocketing cost of medical care.


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Shreds of Insanity Guitar Explosion
Interview, photos, and video by Metalette
I had a chance to interview Parker Jameson of Starkill, Rick Di Marco of Death Division, and Jake Dreyer of White Wizzard at Shreds of Insanity.
The Shreds of Insanity event took place at the Hollywood Carvin guitar store, and featured incredible soloing and guitar duels from Parker, Rick, Jake and Dave Silver of Savage Messiah. The event was hosted by Century Media Records, Dunlop Manufacturing, and Cleartone Strings. As well as a satisfying dose of metal guitar-shredding, there was time for an audience q-&-a session with the guitarists, and a raffle with great prizes – the grand prize being two tickets to see Wintersun at the House of Blues Hollywood that same evening!


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Occasionally, though, I find something like Mighty Milk - it looks weird enough to be interesting, but turns out to be wretched.
Mighty Milk is sold in a brick-like four-pack of 8.5-ounce Tetra Pak containers. Each container includes a telescoping straw, but consumers may also peel off the foil seal and pour out the drink if they prefer.
I imagine what most people will prefer is to pour this swill out into the toilet.
For one thing, even though this stuff has almost nothing in common with any actual dairy product, there is nothing on the front label to indicate that Mighty Milk is anything other than some kind of flavored milk. The entire front label reads: Mighty Milk Nutritional Drink for Kids - Chocolate Shake. Sounds like some kind of fortified milk drink. The four-pack is designed so that the front label of the individual Tetra Paks face outward. Only after buying the product and reading the fine print is there any indication of the purely industrial nature of the fluid within:
Water, Caseinate, Milk Protein Isolate, Blend of Vegetable Oils (Sunflower and/or Safflower Oil, Canola Oil), Crystalline Fructose, Lecinthinated Cocoa, Maltodextrin, Vitamin Mineral Blend, MCT's, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Whey, Potassium Chloride, Soy Lecithin, Microcrystalline Cellulose, Monosodium Phosphate, Carrageenan, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Salt, Acesulphame Potassium, Sucralose.Wow. That's like a shopping list for the Monsanto Factory Outlet.
At the bottom of the container is the allergen warning. If I had seen this first, I might not have bothered buying it. Check it out:
ALLERGEN STATEMENT: This product contains ingredients derived from milk and soy. However this product contains no milk."Contains no milk." That's kind of an important detail. Why isn't it on the front label?
The package instructions say that it's "Best Served Cold" and "Shake Well Before Using." So I put the four-pack in the fridge overnight before trying some the next day. When I got ready to try it, I gave it a good shake and popped the straw through the foil.
Holy shit, this stuff is nasty. It tasted like a mixture of chocolate water, oily liquid vitamins, and rusty steel. There was a strange sort of "tingling" sensation in my mouth when I drank it that I can't really pin down or accurately describe. As I drank more from the container, it became harder to draw anything through the straw though it was obvious that there was still something in there.
I tried again with a new container of Mighty Milk. I gave it a thorough shake and poured it into a different cup. Just like the first time, the "Nutritional Drink" came out in a chunky flow of thin brown liquid and thick gluey clumps. I tried to stir it with a spoon, but it didn't really matter how hard or how fast I stirred, the chunks were still there - and no amount of stirring made it taste any better.
Mighty Foodz (Yes, they really do spell it like that.)
The video below is what Mighty Milk looks like when it's plopping from the container to the cup. There's no audio, but I bet with a little imagination you can provide the proper soundtrack.