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Monthly Archives: April 2008
Panic on 15th Street
Fresh off his willfully ignorant hit piece on John McCain's position on taxes, the Washington Post's Jonathan Weisman (this time joined by Matthew Mosk) turns his attention to the other obstacle to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton. The thesis of their piece is that Hillary Clinton's candidacy may well produce "a racial divide" that "could do lasting harm" to the Democratic party. Weisman and Mosk, in essence, turn their front-page story »
Obama: The Candidate of Hamas, But Not Rev. Wright
I missed yesterday's blogger call with John McCain, but it contained a remarkable exchange with Jennifer Rubin in which McCain, noting the fact that Hamas has endorsed Obama for President, said: All I can tell you Jennifer is that I think it's very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States. So apparently has Danny Ortega and several others. I think that people should understand »
Obama knows the words, but can he learn the music?
I've suggested before that the real "Clinton" is this campaign is not Hillary, but Obama. Both came from fairly humble origins and from the intellectual and social periphery. Both had major father figure issues. Both, by virtue of their great intelligence, were admitted into America's elite educational institutions. There, both were exposed to, and profoundly influenced by, strong strains of radicalism. Both, in seeking the nation's highest office, understood the »
Good News From Iraq
Earlier today, the highest-ranking Sunni in Maliki's Iraqi government called on his fellow Sunnis to rejoin the government so they can help to "save Iraq:" The Sunni leader has been one of al-Maliki's most bitter critics, accusing him of sectarian favoritism, while the prime minister has complained that the vice president is blocking key legislation. But al-Hashemi and other Sunni leaders apparently have been swayed by al-Maliki's crackdown against Shiite »
Season of the witch
In November 2001 Peggy Noonan was scheduled to appear as the featured speaker at the Center of the American Experiment's "fall briefing" event in Minneapolis. A few days before the event, as I recall (I'm a member of CAE's board and I am writing from memory), she informed CAE that she wouldn't be appearing because of her fear of flying in the aftermath of 9/11. It wasn't much of an »
McCain Triangulates
John McCain is in the midst of a "Time for Action Tour," which could perhaps better be named his "Bash Bush and the Republicans Tour." First came his demand that the North Carolina Republican Party withdraw its ad criticizing Barack Obama's choice of Jeremiah Wright as a spiritual mentor. On NBC this morning, this is how McCain answered questions about the ad: VIERA: The ad says Obama's, quote, "just too »
Change you're not supposed to notice
Hatem El-Hady is the former chairman of the Toledo-based Islamic charity Kindhearts that was shuttered by government in 2006 for Hamas-friendly fundraising. El-Hady now devotes himself to raising money for the Obama campaign. He even has a web page at the official Obama campaign site. Make that had a web page. On Wednesday Charles Johnson wrote about El-Hady and noted three friends listed on his page. One of them was »
An apologist for Syria denies he's Obama's adviser
Yesterday Paul Mirengoff wrote here about Obama nuclear policy advisor Joseph Cirincione. Paul's post was based on Gabriel Schoenfeld's discussion of "Obama's radioactive potato." Cirincione has now responded to Schoenfeld: I am not a top advisor to Senator Obama. I have never met the Senator. I have written occasional memos to his campaign and publicly endorsed his candidacy, but I am afraid there is no way I could be considered »
An apologist for Syria shifts his ground
Yesterday, I noted that Joseph Cirincione, Barack Obama's go-to guy on nuclear issues, insisted in September 2007 that reports of North Korean involvement in developing a Syrian nuclear facility were "nonsense" cooked up by the Bush administration and Israel for their own purposes. One might think that being this wrongheaded — lashing out against a valid report due to dislike of its sources and implications — would disqualify Cirincione not »
Why not him?
Minnesota Democratic senatorial candidate Al Franken titled his mock memoir of a presidential campaign Why Not Me?. Over the past few weeks, with his failure to pay workers' compensation insurance in New York and his failure to pay corporate tax returns in California, he has begun to answer the question he asked in the title of that book. Today's Star Tribune reports that a new round of financial questions dogs »
"McCain offers tax policies he once opposed"
That's a headline on the front page of today's Washington Post. The story, which was written by Jonathan Weisman but could just as easily have been penned by the DNC, begins this way: On May 26, 2001, after then-Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) cast his vote against President Bush's $1.35 trillion tax cut, he trudged back to his office, convinced, he recalled, that he had been the lone Republican to »
Those darned Iranians
The Wall Street Journal reports that Iranian weapons unaccountably just keep turning up in Iraq: The U.S. military says it has found caches of newly made Iranian weapons in Iraq, leading senior officials to conclude Tehran is continuing to funnel armaments into Iraq despite its pledges to the contrary. Officials in Washington and Baghdad said the purported Iranian mortars, rockets and explosives had date stamps indicating they were manufactured in »
How high the moon?
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Ella Fitzgerald. She was a remarkable artist. Each period of her long career is rewarding, though she deepened her art as she got older. She excelled in a wide variety of material and in every muscial setting. There is an emotional reserve or detachment in her singing, but there is also joy and an irrespressible sense of fun in her approach. The »
Obama's bad luck with advisers continues
Gabriel Schoenfeld reports on the latest Obama foreign policy adviser who turns out not to like Israel very much. Add Joseph Cirincione to the list that includes Samantha Power, Robert Malley, Merrill McPeak, Zbigniew Brzezinski , and his spiritual adviser Jeremiah Wright. (Obama, of course, loves Israel; he's just unlucky with his advisers). Last September, in response to reports that the site in Syria that Israel bombed was a potential »
The Wright interviewer
Rev. Jeremiah Wright did an interview with Bill Moyers. That's a good match; it's difficult to say which one holds America in lower regard. During the interview, Wright tries to have it both ways — he stands by his statements, but he's being unjustly portrayed through the airing of them. No wonder Obama admires Wright. JOHN adds: Here is part of the Moyers interview. You'll notice that, notwithstanding Moyers's sympathetic »
Change you can forget about — a word from Bill Otis
My friend Bill Otis writes: One way of testing whether Obama is the candidate of "bringing us together" and "getting past partisan divisions" is to ask him to specify one — just one — significant issue on which he would be willing to break ranks with his party and join with the other party. We know McCain has done this all the time, on immigration, campaign finance, tax cuts, "torture" »
A fair and balanced take on Bill Ayers
We understand that Bill O'Reilly will be reporting on and playing highlights of the audio clips of Barack Obama's mainstream Chicago friend Bill Ayers on his O'Reilly Factor impact segment at ten after the top of the hour tonight. We posted the audio clips here (part 1) and here (part 2). It should be worth watching as this story breaks out of its cocoon following last week's debate. Thanks to »


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Das wohltemperierte Clavier - Book II, BWV 870b-893
Sébastien Guillot (harpsichord)
rec. April-May 2009, Eglise de la Résurrection, Paris
Another recording of Bach's Das wohltemperierte
Clavier- Book II, but this time we have a new USP.
This is apparently the first recording of the London autograph score, the
'Londoner Originalhandschrift' or 'Fassung A'.
"The original autograph manuscript having been lost, there remains one
copy in the hand of J.S. Bach and his second wife, Anna Magdalena…
[This version] includes - in relation to the 1744 version, the source that
is now recognised as authoritative - numerous melodic, rhythmic and
ornamental variants." All of these variants in fact serve to
illustrate that there is in fact no definitive version of DWC Book II. The
1744 copy is deemed authoritative by some as the student who worked on them
was apparently being given Bach's revisions of that period, but this
is no reason to assume the older copy is no longer musically relevant. Like
all of those versions of Bruckner's symphonies or that tremendous
unrevised score of Sibelius's Violin Concerto, it seems so
improbable that it has taken until now for someone to record the Bach
family's first fair copy of such legendary music.
Going through each difference will bore everyone to tears, but you
already get an idea from the first C major prelude, which is presented as
unadorned 16th notes, rather than including those extra twiddly
18th notes which we all know and love from the third beat of the
first bar and first beat of the second bar, and so on. You'll find
yourself becoming a twitcher despite yourself, wondering for instance if
those inner voices in the C sharp major prelude are as different as you
suspect. Indeed they are, and you also find yourself wondering why no-one
has taken up this wonderful resource of alternative angles on what is
already some of the most marvellous music written for the keyboard.
Sébastian Guillot's instrument is recorded in a nice
church acoustic, with a fairly close microphone placement catching all of
the detail without gnawing at your ears with discomforting harshness of
sound. He plays a 1993 reproduction of a Parisian instrument from 1733 by F.
Blanchet, Italian builder O. Fadini creating a nice resonant tone with
plenty of lively colour. The most recent harpsichord version of Bach's
complete Wohltemperierte Clavier I listened to was with
Christine Schornsheim on the Capriccio label (see review), which has more upper partials in the recorded sound,
though with different perspectives it's tricky to tell if this is more
to do with the instrument or the recording. Either way Guillot's
playing is very good throughout this Book II. He has an expressive
'lift' or rubato used to bring out expression in an instrument
well known for its lack of dynamic capabilities, and this works well most of
the time. He can occasionally 'drift' a little in tempo which is
less appealing in something like the Prelude No. 5 in D major, where
your metronome will have trouble deciding which way to go, or where the ends
of each repeat section lose a little steam, to be picked up again at the
recapitulation. This is a very minor point, and Guillot's technical
prowess is proven time and again with the most demanding of fugues. Every
player has their own little quirks in Bach, and this is part of what keeps
each new recording alive and interesting. I rarely found myself in argument
with Guillot's tempi, and moments where a questioning eyebrow might
have been raised were soon overruled by performances of conviction and
considerable power and expression.
Sébastian Guillot has already given us a highly respectable
recording of J.S. Bach's Art of Fugue (see review), and in its own terms this recording of Das
wohltemperierte ClavierBook II is truly excellent. The
points of difference between this version and those to which you will have
become most accustomed are rarely aspects of the music which leap out at
you, and buyers can rest assured they are acquiring a DWC II which satisfies
in every way each other good harpsichord version does, assuming you like
Like 'needing' the newest version of the iPad, what this
release does provide is the perfect excuse for splashing out and discovering
this incredible music all over again. Treat yourself to little surprises and
big ones, like the extra coda at the end of Fuga X, BWV 879 or those
funky rhythms of the Praeludium BWV 887. Go on - you know you want to
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The episode began with Larry lighting into a guy in shorts who was sitting next to him on an airplane. Here I am on very subject of men in shorts on airplanes last April:
The guy seated next to me on the plane was wearing shorts. Presumably, he didn't recognize me (and know my anti-shorts writings), but wouldn't it have been funny if he did?Her, I emphasize. Unlike Larry David, I was a woman sitting next to a man in shorts. Larry was also in first class. I was not. The degree of imposed familiarity was really atrocious. Plus, I think men should have more pride in their genitalia. By wearing shorts, what are you saying? Either: 1. your genitalia are too small to be in any danger of protruding beyond the hem of your skimpy garment, or 2. you don't care what happens to fall out.
He was also wearing a t-shirt with a hole under the arm, which hole he displayed to me more than twice.
He was up to page 503 on his Stephen King novel. Those King books are clumsily thick, yet the print is quite large — to give readers a feeling of accomplishment?...
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Last saturday I went Karting and Laser Tagging with friends, which resulted in me being pretty sore on sunday. A good reason to have a quiet day to work on the new features of the Daily Dilbert plug-in.
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wow man I like all I have seen! bravo man!
Hey guys!
Just finished another busy week, but nonetheless I have some pics you will enjoy coming up soon.
I just might give you a sneak peek... here ya go...
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I'll get some sleep now -> off to bed... Sam
Fuck, so hot. Yum
Perfection Sam! Hot and Sexy!
you're too hot
DAMN!, Sam!! YOU actually SWEAT Testosterone!! *THUD!!*
Though I'm not sure my Heart can take what you might have Cumming UP, I'm certainly looking forward to it!!
THANK YOU!, Young Stud!!
Keep smilin'!!
WISDOM is the Knowledge you've gained ... After you could have used it! _Me
I want you deep inside me!
Sam your so hot the sneak peek got my shots wet. Looking forward to the post
Whoa...HOT Sam!!
Very hot torso shot!!
A really short update... just a quick snapshot after gym. More pics tomorrow. Peace.
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Hey Sam!
Looking mighty fine!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
One of the finest headless torsos on JUB!!
You're getting sexier Sam!
Pretty darn hot if I say so myself
Hey guys!
I just saw that I got labeled "verified poster!" Who ever did that: Thanks man! That's pretty cool + I feel kind of special right now, eventhough it might not be special at all. Plus it says: "On the prowl"
I'm sorry that I wasn't able to post the pics yesterday since I promised you to, but I was ehrm... a little drunk yesterday night and I wanted to avoid posting pictures on here that don't belong here... So, yeah, I'm good right now, my girl is outta town for a week and its just me, my fleshlights and the gym. I'm a such loner... haha
Here ya go, I hope you like them...
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P.S.: I just wanted to post that smiley so badly, 'cause its so cool...
And it goes on...
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That's what I was talking about: Awesome things happen during a drunk college night!
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(P.S.: I know the guy who reminded me in a very smooth way, what my name is. Thanks buddy!)
sounds like a good night Sam, gonna tell us more?
Looks like you had some fun! I wish I was there while the gf is away HOT, HOT pics!!
Sam, like you, your pics are awesome!
replace the fleshlight with my ass?
Damn, Sam!!! Even your feet are perfect!!!
My mouth is SO jealous of your FleshLight!!!
... and now I'm VERY curious what those drunken pix might have been!!!!
Damn sam your best update yet. Oh .. and I noticed, you shave your ass AND hole? Quite rare for a straight guy
You're super hot! Thanks for sharing!
Hockey players butts drive me nuts!
Actually... no, I didn't.
My ass is just pretty hairless and what I do shave (or get shaven, if I'm a brave and lucky boy ) is that "part" behind the balls. I don't know what it's called. But I agree: On the pics it looks like its shaven.
P.S.: Apparently your all pretty curious about what happened last night, haha! I'll tell you a thing or two next time.
"Damm" in german, perineum in english (or latin ) For some scars in your mind google "Dammschnitt"
I should go and hide somewhere, 'cause it is actually really common. And my parents are both doctors so I should have at least a little knowledge of anatomy.
Oh my... don't get me started on latin, ... had that in school for 5 years. Didn't like it one second.
Your balls look amazing!
Hockey players butts drive me nuts!
wow Sam great update!you are quite a catch!
Great update Sam hope you post more.
Sammy, don't ever doubt your beauty, or your attractiveness.
You are a hot guy!
Your body is beautiful!
Your lady is very lucky to have you!
And we are lucky that you continue to share your body pics with us!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
Sam - you definitely have the Hottest set of Balls on JUB!!!! Please post more of them.
Where does the line start to get a taste of them ???
Awesome pics man I loved the fleshlight one, one of my favorite toys!!!!
Seeing your pictures, I sure know what I'm gonna do with my fleshjack in a bit....
Hi guys!
Christmas is 'round the corner and so are xmas-shopping, xmas-parties, xmas-family-visits... It's really stressful Are you stuck in that xmassy life as well? I hope not...
So, well... some of you asked about my drunken night last week... It was not one of my worst drunken nights I had, but it was sort of 'funny', because that idiot wrote that words on my stomach and the ink lasted for days on my skin. So when my girlfriend was back from her trip we were about to have some fun, but then she removed my shirt and saw those really 'funny' three words written on me and she just couldn't stop laughing. Yeah, that was the end of all the sexual tension...
But I took revenge on that 'funny' guy some days later when we were playing tennis. I shot one tennis ball so bad in his goods. His balls are probably still blue like the caribbean ocean and won't get laid for weeks. (Revenge is sweeeeeet, buddy!)
Uhm,... no special pics today, I'm sorry... just some shower shots and one before I headed to bed.
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P.S.: I'm goign to answer all your messages tomorrow.
- Sam
Not special...Sam my friend, any picture you post of your hot body is special!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
What Ron said, any picture of you is indeed special!!
Your pics are always special Sam!


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Butterscotch Banana Dessert Recipe
Butter and brown sugar combine to create this yummy sauce that's terrific served warm over cake or ice cream. "This is a family favorite," says Carol Haugen of Fargo, North Dakota. "And it keeps well in a tightly covered jar in the fridge."
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- 2/3 cup packed brown sugar
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- One portion chocolate cake (7-1/2-inch x 5-inch rectangle) from the Delicate Chocolate Cake, cut into four pieces
- 2 medium firm bananas, sliced
- In a heavy saucepan, combine the first five ingredients. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently, until mixture thickens slightly and a thermometer reads 180°, about 20 minutes.
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I am a public school student writing a paper for my school newspaper about scholarships. I was wondering if it is harder for homeschooled students to get scholarships or if there are any specific scholarships for homeschoolers. I know my school has some scholarships just for students in my school through the alumi association and the school in general. There are also somes scholarships only avalible for students in my schools system (Boston Public Schools) from local universitys. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if there was anything similar for homeschoolers. Any information would be great, thanks!
Most scholarships are dependant only on you being a full-time student and maintaining a certain level of GPA, not so much on who you are. Since homeschoolers are (on average) better educated, I think you'll find that homeschoolers have an easier time getting those sorts of scholarships.
Not a whole lot of homeschooler-specific scholarships, to my knowledge.
Not a whole lot of homeschooler-specific scholarships, to my knowledge.
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In 2011, CTA provided 531,960,253 rides, topping last year's total of 516,891,783. The 2011 total is the highest number since 1991, when more than 540 million rides were recorded.
"The growth in 2011 ridership shows that the CTA is an increasingly integral part people's daily lives and emphasizes that there is a real and growing demand for public transit in the city and the suburbs," said CTA President Forrest Claypool.
The CTA's three percent ridership gain outpaced the average among transit systems across the United States by about 30 percent, according to the American Public Transportation Association's study of national ridership numbers for 2011. The CTA's rail traffic gains exceeded the national average by more than 50 percent.
Many factors have contributed to the ridership increase, including higher gas prices, Claypool said. But he added that the gains are also due in part to numerous investments CTA has made, particularly on the rail system, to improve the customer experience and make transit an even more convenient and attractive option.
"Based on the extensive feedback we've received from our customers, the jump in ridership shows that our efforts to improve our operations, upgrade our fleet and infrastructure and focus more on the things that matter most to our customers are having a positive result," Claypool said.
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On an average 2011 weekday, 1.688 million riders boarded CTA buses and trains, up from 1.644 million in 2010, up 2.7 percent.
The largest jumps in ridership were on weekends, which saw increases of four percent on Saturdays (to 1,087,653) and 5.4 percent on Sundays (to 774,137).
All eight rail lines saw increased ridership. The biggest increase was on the Blue Line, which saw nearly 3.7 million more riders, up eight percent. The second-biggest increase was on the Brown Line, up more than 2 million riders or seven percent.
To keep up with ridership and continue to ensure on-time trips for passengers, the CTA plans a number of system-improvement projects.
Improvements to seven deteriorated stations along the Howard branch of the Red Line will begin this year, followed in 2013 by a reconstruction of the tracks along the Dan Ryan Branch and the construction of a new transfer station at Wilson Ave. Blue Line slow zones will also be repaired in 2013.


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If you haven't seen the clip of a young Yook in the movie Milk Money, click here. ... The team grabbed right-handed reliever Gaby Hernandez off waivers.
And: A witness to Abraham Lincoln's assassination appears on the 1956 TV show "I've Got A Secret" (gee, I wonder who sponsored that show?).


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Hand Hygiene With Alcohol Sanitizer
Hand Hygiene With Alcohol Sanitizer
The use of an alcohol sanitizer for hand hygiene was examined in terms of effectiveness in prevention of infection. Hand hygiene has been identified as a key factor in infection prevention by care providers and is a component of patient and informal caregiver education in prevention of infection for at-risk patients with cancer.
Recommended for Practice
Guideline/Expert Opinion
O'Grady, N.P., Alexander, M., Burns, L.A., Dellinger, E.P., Garland, J., Heard, S.O., . . . Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). (2011). Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections, 2011. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/pdf/guidelines/bsi-guidelines-2011.pdf
PROFESSIONAL GROUPS: Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Purpose & Patient Population:
To provide evidence-based recommendations for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections for healthcare personnel who insert and care for intravascular catheters and for those responsible for surveillance and infection control in hospital, outpatient, and home health settings. Patients addressed in the guidelines were adult and pediatric patients with intravascular catheters.
Type of Resource/Evidence-Based Process:
The resource is comprised of evidence-based guidelines. For the development process, evidence was categorized as category 1A to category 2 based on strength of recommendation and support from clinical or epidemiological studies.
Phase of Care and Clinical Applications:
- Patients were undergoing multiple phases of care.
- The study has clinical applicability for pediatrics.
Results Provided in the Reference:
The results were not summarized.
Guidelines & Recommendations:
The guidelines provided extensive recommendations regarding the education and training of staff; selection of catheters and sites, including avoidance of the femoral vein for central venous access and use of the central venous catheter with the minimum number of ports needed; hand hygiene; use of maximal sterile barrier precautions for insertion; skin preparation with alcohol, iodine, or chlorhexidine; use of standard catheter site dressing regimens; specific aspects of care for umbilical and dialysis catheters; and use of piggybacks, stopcocks, and catheter flushing. Guideline recommendations include a bundling of multiple recommendations: antimicrobial-impregnated catheters and cuffs are recommended in patients with long-term use if the organizational central line-associated blood stream infection (CLABSI) rate is not decreasing despite the implementation of comprehensive strategies for improvement. Lower-level (category II) recommendations include the use of prophylactic antimicrobial lock solutions in patients with long-term catheters who have a history of CLABSIs despite optimal aseptic technique as well as daily cleansing of patients in the intensive care unit with 2% chlorhexidine-impregnated washcloths. Recommends changing IV administration sets no more often than every 96 hours unless used for blood products. For needleless components, recommends changing according to administration set timing as above, and states no benefit to changing more than every 72 hours.
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It's sometimes fun and always interesting to fish where most everything is outside the scope of your experience. For me, fishing for silver salmon at Deception Pass on Sunday was such a place.
To start with, my wife and I are wintering in Washington, so we had to buy fishing licenses, one of the costs of being snowbirds. I'm an Alaskan resident, so it cost me $123.55 for a combination freshwater-saltwater license, which includes all fish and shellfish, as well as a Vehicle Access Pass that allows free parking at state boat launches. Sue is a Washington resident, so her combination license cost $54.25. When we return to Alaska next spring, my fishing license will be free, but her's will cost $145, plus $100 for a king salmon stamp.
In other words, Alaska charges nonresidents twice as much for the same product. It's interesting to note that Alaska still has healthy runs of king salmon. In Washington, kings have been scarce for years.
At 7 a.m. on Sunday, Sue and I met my son, Vic, and his son, Derek, at the Coronet Bay boat launch at 7 a.m.. As the sky lightened in the east, we loaded up and got under way in his 21-foot, outboard-powered boat.
This time of year, fog isn't uncommon in the Puget Sound area. It enveloped our boat as soon as we left the dock. Vic ran the motor at just above idle speed for the entire trip to the pass, about a mile. The fog thinned on the outside of the pass, which was good, because several boats were already there, and more came later. Trolling among them would've been dicey in fog.
The sun rose into a blue sky, but the here-again, gone-again fog had us wishing we'd worn more layers. What's more, we discovered that none of us knew how to rig a herring for trolling. I knew how years ago, when I had my own boat, but I'd forgotten. For years, I've been fishing on charter boats, where the mate baits your hook, or fishing with a buddy who was better at rigging a herring than I ever was. Anyhow, we trolled with herring. Suffice it to say that our presentations were less than perfect.
In Puget Sound, barbless, single-point hooks are the only legal kind for salmon fishing, so I had to pinch our barbs closed. I'm guessing, but I think this regulation is a conservation measure. Releasing immature salmon is apparently easier on the fish when the hooks are barbless.
Fishing at Deception Pass is like fishing in a large river, only different. Most large rivers don't rise and fall several feet twice a day, let alone change direction while doing so. The every-changing eddies and currents constantly push at your boat, moving it counter to where you want it to go. It's similar to back-bouncing for Kenai kings at Big Eddy or Beaver Creek, where changing currents and heavy boat traffic make fishing a challenge.
One big difference between fishing the Kenai and fishing Deception Pass is the scarcity of charter boats at the pass. Vic said there were a couple there the previous weekend, but we saw none Sunday. Without the "pros" there, the fishing was less determined than if they'd been there.
Everyone was having a good time. When boats came within an oar's length of each other, no hackles rose. By noon, a dozen bank fishermen were fishing, casting in the general direction of the 20 or so boats. Skippers avoided conflict by skirting the "combat zone," where the splashes of spoons and jigs struck the water like bullets.
We had expected to hit the peak of the silver run. However, as the day progressed, we adjusted our expectations. In six hours of fishing, the four of us had caught three silvers, seven sculpins and one crab. Most boats around us did no better. Surprising to me, we didn't catch a single rockfish. In the 1950s, those were plentiful along the shoreline of the sound. Now there is no open season for rockfish, and lingcod fishing has been sharply restricted.
Fishing at Deception Pass on a nice day as we did was a real pleasure. There was the emerald-green water flowing between sheer cliffs. There was the forested shoreline and the impressive bridge. Best of all, I spent some quality time with my son and grandson. I look forward to doing it again, and soon. Next time, I'll know how to rig herring.
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Because of this, Gold Star Tool recommends homemade gifts as a cost-saving alternative to buying in stores. Making a present from scratch adds sentimental value; moreover, the cost is only a fraction of the expense of something store-bought. Similarly, Black Friday unofficially kicks off the holiday decorating season. Gold Star Tool wants Americans to reclaim decorations by creating their own wares and displaying them with pride. With the rise of the do it yourself (DIY) movement, informative wikis like eHow, and social media tools like Pinterest, it's easier than ever to make homemade creative, quality presents.
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Just got my product in and looking to try it out. Took my first 20mg this morning and holy shit i was not expecting the alcohol taste. I dont drink at all so it was a lil crazy for me at first. I havent had liqueur in years. So let the fun begin.
Currently this big fat rat is 5'8'' 204.4lbs as of this morning aprox 7-8 bf.
current cycle is..
400 test
100 tne pre workout
1,000 tren
800 mast
60 tbol
100mcg IGF
8iu hgh
40mcg clen
1mg propecia
12.5mg aromasin
going to add more tren in 4 weeks adding parabolan to the mix 50mg eod
also swapping to var in 4 week
and in 8 weeks swapping to halo and var, no test but tne twice a day, and 2.5mg of letro
If this stuff works as good as i have read I will be running another bottle past the 30 days to finish my contest prep.
diet currently is
half cup of egg white, cup of oats, 1 scoop whey, peanutbutter
2 scoops whey,2 slices of bread, and fruit banana, orange, or apply
6oz chicken, yams, brown rice, or bread, and veggies
2 scoops whey and 50mg carbs
2 scoops whey and oats
steak of salmon with huge salad with veggies
whey with avocado oil.
training is one muscle a day other then chest and tris
mon on
tues on
weds off
thurs on
fri on
sat on
sun mountain biking.
I dont have set day of which muscle i train. The gym is packed as fuck right now so i kind of gauge what is recovered and what i will be able to train efficiently with all they people with new years resolutions.


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Wells here we go again. The Fed has all but admitted that the waste of flesh in the oval office is completely incompetant. For those of you who dont see a problem with this let me explain what the Fed is doing.
They are pumping billions of printed and borrowed capital into the market by buying morrgage backed securities and purchasing bonds from......themselves.
Yup. Its called monetizing your debt and its ridiculously stupid. But its all Obama knows to do. To him only government can solve this issue.
I guess third times a charm.
The more we print money the less the money in your pocket is worth. Also look for our credit rating to be down graded. Whats that mean ¿ Well if nobody buys our bonds how do we run our Country ???
SS Checks ? Nope. Paychecks for the military our spending ? Nope.
Medicare payouts ? Nope.
The truth is there is nothing they can do after this. This is their last hope.
Also for those who know how our monetary system works the way you retrieve all of that worthless money when inflation goes to double digits is raise interest rates through the roof. It gaurantees a longer recession or depression. Stock market loves it though but then again when inflation rises its just Monopoly money. Yep.
Its a campaign speech being made by Bernake for Obama right before the election and it will do far more harm than good.
Monetizing your debt is the last thing a Country does before their economy completely collapses.
Thanks to all the dumbsh#*t Obama voters and the international leftist lovers who hate America.
Dont be so thick to think this wont affect you. Americas economy collapses and the world economy is right behind it.


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JACKSONVILLE -- The Dolphins owned the first quarter. And the second quarter.
But Jacksonville seemed to find a sense of urgency when Chad Henne scored from 1 yard out on a QB keeper to give Miami a 14-0 lead.
The Jaguars answered with a six-minute drive that culminated with a Maurice Jones-Drew 1 yard run to make it 14-7.
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Study Faults App Vendors For Security
Do Windows application vendors really care about security? For many of them, it's a fair question. We're coming up on 6 years since Microsoft introduced DEP (Data Execution Prevention) into Windows XP SP2, a version so old that it's about to exit its support lifecycle. And yet, as Secunia shows in a recent survey, many of the most popular 3rd party Windows programs don't support it.
DEP prevents execution of programs in areas of memory reserved for data, the technique used to gain program control in the large majority of application vulnerabilities. There are ways around it, but these largely fail in the face of another protective technique, ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista. ASLR randomizes the location in memory of program code. In order to use either DEP or ASLR, programs must opt in to them. And both can expose subtle non-security bugs in programs and challenge some programming techniques. This is just one reason why many app vendors don't bother with them, even though their value is well-understood. Of the app vendors in their survey, few use ASLR at all, and it turns out that many programs' use of ASLR is a sham. Here are Secunia's results for their most recent tests:
The results are shocking, but my observations don't quite agree with Secunia's. Let's take it app-by-app:
- Adobe Flash PlayerSecunia's reasoning for listing DEP as "N/A" seems to be that a researcher demonstrated several months ago a way to bypass both DEP and ASLR in Flash. But they also note that the current version (10.1.53.64) detects and blocks this attack. I don't see any reason to call this anything less than a YES. As they note, ASLR is functioning properly in the current version.
- Sun Java JREDEP FAIL, ASLR FAIL. My tests confirm Secunia's reports.
- Adobe ReaderDEP has been enabled for Vista and Win7 for a long time but, ironically, only recently for Windows XP. ASLR is basically set, but one DLL is loaded at a fixed address on non-IE browsers. Strangely, the ActiveX version is safer! ASLR is also full-blast in the standalone reader. Note that PDFs can embed Flash objects, so all Flash vulnerabilities are Acrobat vulnerabilities.
- Mozilla FirefoxMuch like Adobe Reader, DEP has been on for a while for Vista and Win7, but only fairly recently for XP. ASLR is enabled, but it's basically a sham: 10 DLLs in Firefox load at a fixed base address, defeating the whole purpose. One wonders if they set the ASLR bit purely for marketing purposes.
- Apple QuickTime PlayerSecunia says that DEP was not enabled on their QuickTime 7.6.6, but it was for me. It's not set as Always On (permanent), meaning that the user can't opt out of it, which perhaps is where the confusion comes from. ASLR is not enabled, although Secunia says that libraries are generally randomized when loaded; perhaps they wrote their own loader.
- VLC Media PlayerSecunia says that VLC does not enable DEP and loads multiple libraries at fixed addresses.
- Apple iTunesThe current version of iTunes (188.8.131.52) enables DEP and ASLR. Secunia says that their ASLR is negatively affected by a couple of fixed-address libraries, but from what I see it's worse than that: Because I installed iTunes I ended up installing a number of other programs which load when I run iTunes, including iPodServices.exe and AppleMobileDeviceService.exe, neither of which have either DEP or ASLR enabled. Fail.
- Google ChromeYES all the way, as I see in my own system. Chrome, like Internet Explorer, also runs at low integrity, further limiting the damage it can do if it is compromised.
- Adobe Shockwave PlayerDEP may be on depending on your browsers; ASLR may be on, but several libraries are loaded at fixed addresses anyway.
- OpenOffice.orgDEP is not enabled. Secunia says that the IE ActiveX control loads at a fixed address, but doesn't specifically say if ASLR is otherwise enabled.
- Google PicasaNeither DEP nor ASLR are enabled.
- Foxit ReaderSecunia tested Foxit Reader 3.3.1.0518. They found DEP disabled and both the plugin and ActiveX control loading at fixed addresses. Since they tested Foxit has released version 126.96.36.1999 which I tried with the same results.
- OperaDEP is enabled, but Opera.DLL is loaded at a fixed address, so ASLR is not real. Those are basically the only two binaries from Opera and the DLL is the great bulk of the great bulk of the code, so ASLR is a total phony here. Secunia tested Opera 10.53, but I tested the new 10.60 and got the same results.
- WimampDEP was not enabled in version 5.572 for Secunia. They don't mention ASLR and I didn't test it.
- RealPlayerDEP was not enabled for Secunia in the SP 1.1.4 version. They report that plugins are loaded at fixed addresses. I don't let software from Real on any of my computers so I didn't test.
- Apple SafariDEP is enabled as is ASLR in the latest version 5.0, but at least one DLL is loaded at a fixed address.
In a number of cases above Secunia puts a "no" in their table when there is partial support, such as Shockwave's DEP in some browsers but not others. This seems misleading to me.
But I do want to thank them for bringing to my attention the false support for ASLR in some of these programs, as they set the bit for their main image load but then load DLLs at fixed addresses. Shame on you Adobe, Apple, Mozilla and Opera.
And it's worth noting that Foxit Reader gets a lot of attention and installs as a supposedly safe alternative to Adobe Reader. While you may be safer for the fact that Foxit isn't targeted in the way that Adobe's Reader is, Foxit Software appears to be putting a lot less effort into their security than Adobe.
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EDMONTON - Indulge me for a moment while I squeal with library-geekish delight. My e-book, Life After Birth: True Stories from the First Year of Parenthood, is now available through the Edmonton Public Library. Life After Birth is a collection of parenting essays I wrote during the first year of my son Oscar's life in 2010-2011.
Topics include breastfeeding gaucherie, formula guilt, pool blowouts, air travel, new parent nookie, sleep deprivation, sleep training, postpartum depression and the first day of daycare, among many others. This isn't just a book for new moms and dads. It's a book for any parent, and for non-parents, too. You'll laugh, you'll cry … just kidding.
Life After Birth is the first Edmonton Journal e-book to be added to the EPL's catalogue. It means a great deal to me, as a youngish author, to have my writing in the public library system, and I'm so grateful that Pam Ryan at EPL not only made this possible, but initiated the process.
"We knew Edmontonians would be interested in the e-book and aware of it through the Edmonton Journal so, of course, wanted to make it available via the library," Ryan said. "EPL's collection policy includes direction that materials reflect the information and recreational needs and interests of the community."
Of course, the Journal hopes all our e-books will find a home at EPL. On Dec. 4, we are releasing two Christmas-themed e-books, both are which are sure to be popular: Rick McConnell's Shadowing Dickens, a novel that tells the story of an orphan named Afly Wickfield, who is befriended by England's most famous writer, Charles Dickens, and Christmas Time in the City, a collection of essays and features written by newspaper staff. Columnist Paula Simons edited the collection.
Library borrowing aside, I hope you'll buy a copy of my ebook for your phone or tablet or computer (visit edmontonjournal.com/ebooks for more information). Christmas is just around the corner, and yes, gift options are available.
- A word of warning to breastfeeding mothers who enjoy grapefruit juice. As reported in the news last week, grapefruit has the potential to interact with more than 85 oral medications, including Domperidone, a commonly prescribed galactagogue that is also taken for gastrointestinal ailments.
Many new moms take this drug to increase breastmilk supply, unaware of the potential risks of mixing it with a refreshing, tart glass of grapefruit juice over breakfast.
According to David Bailey, a clinical pharmacologist at the Lawson Health Research Institute, the interaction of Domperidone and grapefruit is "very high risk" because it can lead to a form of cardiac arrhythmia called torsade de pointes.
"It is considered to be one of the more dangerous of arrhythmias as it has the possibility of producing sudden cardiac arrest," Bailey told me in an e-mail. "Basically, your heart stops pumping blood. Consciousness is lost by six seconds."
Bailey is the lead researcher of a review of grapefruit-medication interactions published Nov. 26 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. He advised that those who take Domperidone avoid consuming grapefruit.
Breastfeeding moms who take Domperidone to boost lactation are advised to speak with their physician.
- As you've probably read, meteorologists are predicting a long, cold winter for Edmonton (did we really need an expert to tell us that?). Parents scratching their heads for somewhere to take the kids on an extra-chilly day might want to investigate the Toy Hutch, an indoor inflatable play park that just opened in the west end.
Nicki Doucet, a mom of three, started out renting bouncy houses for birthday parties and special events, but the business has now evolved into a fixed location at 17213 107th Ave. The family entertainment centre boasts indoor bounce houses, a giant inflatable slide and play structures for toddlers and older children, plus food options.
The Toy Hutch opened Oct. 1 and Doucet said she's already planning a second location.
Weekends and Mondays/Tuesdays are strictly for private bookings, but the play park is open to drop-ins Wednesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. The drop-in fee is $7.25 for children age one year and up.


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I think you might be right. We are beginning to notice a trend in BM's parties & indeed any social event. RN was invited over on a Monday night "for games and a few drinks". When RN declined the drinks, BM told him not to bother coming over at all.
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Town clerk Bobbi Sale said the board canceled the festival to focus on essential services. Board members said Wednesday they hope to bring it back next year.
This year's festival was planned for Aug. 2-3. It would have been the 22nd year celebrating the unique regional summer event.
"They really had to look at essential and non-essential (services), and as much as everybody loves the festival, and wants it to come back in 2014, it just was not practical to do it this year," said Sale.
Past years have included live entertainment on two stages, all the free sweet corn you could eat, vendors, contests and games, and an event-ending fireworks show.
According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, making money on the festival is not always guaranteed. Sale said in some years it makes money for the town, and other years the town has to pick up some of the costs. Last year, it cost Olathe $16,000.
"Right now in this economy, the board has to look at wants and needs, and the corn festival has turned into a want, and not a need," Sale said.


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Does or has any1 have/had this gear case and how does it work, all pics I've looked at haven't had a protective case over the pinion/spur gears if I do choose this gear case/mount do I just buy the part that goes over the pinion/spur and if so does any1 know which 1s would fit
alright thanks I was thinking that but it was kinda confusing
rag6 has it in his pictures as part of his Slash 2wd mt feeler - Thread
I'll check it out right now
oh yea I seen it but his pinion/spur is exposed, and It does look like the stock cover would fit but I would like to get an aluminum cover for it as well to act as a heatsink
DBG has that trans
I haven't seen him around lately
Try PMing him
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An aluminum cover, Where do you live, on the equator?
Someone probable makes them,but unless it's 150 degrees where you live,that,s just extra weight.
I think your really your taking this heat thing ,a bridge to far.
I live in Michigan and in the summer we run in 90+ degrees a lot,heat can be an issue if you don't gear for the track,but your worrying way to much over nothing.
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It's already hit 85+ a couple times, summer it's usually 100+ everyday I'm in Temecula, CA or part of Riverside county and I live by the mountains this area gets HOT
Okay,but gear your truck right,and you'll be fine,you keep adding weight to dissipate heat,and you start to defeat the purpose
Good luck,have fun rc ing.
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alright the past few days I've been running 23/86 and like I said before I was running 16/90 and even on 16/90 motor was getting hot but I'll take the advice from more experienced people thanks again
That HR tranny is a hybrid. It has a graphite gearbox and an aluminum motor plate. The weight of this box isnt much more over stock. You should see temps decrease somewhere around 10° vs what it used to be. HR also sells an alloy cover, but you can bolt up your stock plastic one or an RPM one that I suggest. The RPM one has a full cover where it will keep rocks from coming in.
Another option is the new RPM gearbox that utilizes a motor plate also. Hope this helps ya.
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The HR case is great, it is very light and the separate suspension mounts allow for easy anti squat adjustments with slightly modded wedges from the Nitro Rustler.
The new RPM case is better on two fronts though. The suspension mounts are 100% separate, so they don't attach to the case at all. This makes gearbox maintenance easier as you can leave the suspension arms attached to the chassis and just remove the tranny.
Secondly the bumper mount is exactly as stock with the RPM case. It isn't with the HR. The bumper attaches solely to the motor plate on the HR tranny and this isn't as robust a solution as what the RPM case does.
I'm incredibly happy with my HR case, but if the RPM case had existed when I bought the HR case I would have gotten that instead.
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Could have went with the cc and had no problemslol jk. I live in so cal ad well and add a fan to the esc and gear it right. Everything else is overkill
alright thanks will keep you updated w/ my choice
I have two rpm's,the one in the pic,and a green one I just got today.
Even tho I was running indoors,(it's quite cold here)I notice almost a 20 to 25 degree demp drop,from stock.
With the pro line trans, I noticed about a 10 degree temp drop,if the trans would last a pack with out problem's.
I run my trucks hard,the case is 29 bucks,but the sealed cover,is sepert and cost another 6 bucks[IMG][/IMG]
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I probably already asked you but, do those HR mounts have toe-in? Looking at the machined silver line in the mounts, they appear to have toe-in, but I can't find any info on how much or if there are different mounts for different amounts of toe.
Depending on what the answer is, it would be a toss-up for me between this and the RPM case.
If you look at the pic in the link from the first post, it definitely doesn't look like the arm mount is parallel to the trans case, which leads me to believe there is toe built-in. If that's the case, I can't understand why HR wouldn't document it. Well, maybe they did and I just haven't looked hard enough.
alright I've looked into it and going to go w/ the rpm choice
Even tho you haven't had your slash long,if your going in to the trans case,I would put thicker grease in the diff,(you said it's hot there)and replace the diff bearings,as there the first to go.
Its three extra dollars but no extra work.
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thanks for the info what's a good grease that I can pick up at my lhs
I run the rpm tranny case, and it's excellent. A definite thumbs up from me.
For grease, go to your local auto parts store and pick up a tube of Lucas Red N' Tacky. That stuff is thick, and won't sling off the gears. It'll be around 4-5 bucks, the same price for a tiny tube of grease at the LHS.
Get good high temp car bearing grease,,Mobile one synthetic car bearing grease,that's what Dr.Isotope suggests.
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thanks again for all the help
No toe in on any(3 different in 5 years) of the HR gearcases I have Had. Unless u need a full alum case, rpm it is for the win.
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I'm scrapping my GH alloy case for a new RPM hybrid one. I need to try one of these puppies anyways. Sounds like my gears and new Triad Slipper are going to have a new home.
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just ordered the Black RPM case with the black cover need to hide it make it look stock
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At least on the cover,when I bought the truck second hand,it had a black rpm solid cover,the case was stock black.
I didn't know they made a black stock case.
Built Ford Tuff With Chevy Stuff.
Yeah, the original pede/rusty/bandit came with black plastics. Then around 05-06 they switched to grey plastics. Recently they brought the black back with the raptor and MJ pedes...
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Oh I see,since I just jump t back in the hobby about eleven months ago,and quit about 1986,It's still all new to me.
I'm really quite surprised how much off my racing skills,came back so well.I mean I'm not always in last place any way. But the cover is a closed rpm aftermarket.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Ala' Al-Azizi, a chemical engineering graduate student, has been named one of five recipients of a 2014 scholarship from the Philadelphia section of the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE).
John Irwin and Jillian Beyer, 2014 scholarship co-chairs, cited Al-Azizi for her "combination of GPA, significant accomplishments, persuasive recommendation letter and work in the field of tribology."
Al-Azizi will receive $2,000 and a certificate during an awards ceremony in August. She is also invited to present her work at a future STLE meeting.
Founded in 1944, the STLE advances the science of tribology and the practice of lubrication engineering in order to foster innovation, improve the performance of equipment and products, conserve resources and protect the environment.


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The most important number at a weekend Shelby County Commission budget retreat was not the $145 million in new funding the countywide school board has asked for.
It was a percentage – the projection by Shelby County Assessor Cheyenne Johnson that the 2013 property reappraisal by her office will likely reflect a 4.63 percent loss of value on property for taxation purposes.
The projection is below the 5 percent drop that Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell and other county leaders expected would be the low side of the property tax revenue loss from the declining property values.
With the estimate in, the discussion now moves to what amount of new school funding has enough votes on the County Commission, the only local funder of public schools in Shelby County with the first fiscal year of the schools merger that begins July 1.
Even those school board members who voted for the "ask" of $145 million in new funding from the county don't expect to get it.
Even the $60 million to $65 million range is questionable.
New schools funding at that level combined with a tax increase necessary to produce the same amount of revenue as the current $4.02 county property tax rate would be a combined property tax increase greater than 10 percent. Any property tax hike of 10 percent or more requires a nine-vote, two-thirds majority from the commission to win approval.
Before the weekend retreat, Shelby County Commission chairman Mike Ritz's rough estimate was that a 9.9 percent tax hike involves $25 million to restore the revenue lost from the drop in property values for taxation purposes and perhaps $28 million in new school funding.
If that is the ultimate outcome, it would mean a phased-in transition to the schools merger over several fiscal years.
In that scenario, there is the possibility of an expansion of pre-kindergarten through a city of Memphis-run program and funded with a proposed citywide sales tax hike. Over several years, a call by President Barack Obama for more federal funding of pre-kindergarten could also translate to a pre-K expansion the school system doesn't have to include at least in the county-funded part of its budget.
Parents of county school students have been the most vocal so far in their concerns about a shift away from staffing levels used by the county school system to student-teacher ratios that either match higher city school ratios or are in between the ratios of the two school systems.
The new county funding "ask" from the school board ballooned to $145 million when board members added back in the cost of applying the lower county school system staffing ratios across the larger city school system with the merger.
Among those voting for the $145 million amount were members of the former county school board who said they didn't want the merger to become a "leveling down" to city schools staffing standards. The Memphis City Schools levels do not include school vice principals, fewer assistant principals and nowhere near as many teaching and clerical assistants that are a common feature of county schools.
By contrast, Ritz and others are certain the path to a nine-vote majority for a 10 percent or higher county property tax hike would have to include two of the five suburban county commissioners.
The group of five is Heidi Shafer, Steve Basar, Chris Thomas, Wyatt Bunker and Terry Roland. They are also the minority on the commission who has opposed the body's part of the schools merger lawsuit contesting the creation of suburban municipal school districts.
When it comes to funding for the consolidated school district, all five have been vocal in insisting the school board still hasn't made the "tough decisions" necessary to make the consolidated school system as efficient as it could be.
They and Shelby County Mayor Mark Luttrell have generally defined the "tough decisions" as outsourcing transportation and school custodial services and closing up to 20 Memphis schools in a single year – all three steps recommended by the schools consolidation planning commission.
The three measures came with an estimated savings to the consolidated school district of $40 million. But staffers from both school systems who evaluated the planning commission recommendations dispute the savings estimates.
Instead Memphis City Schools officials recommended closing four schools and school board members have questioned even those closings. They have specifically questioned closing underutilized schools in cases where the students from those schools would then be assigned to schools where student achievement scores are lower and in some cases part of the bottom 5 percent in terms of student achievement statewide.
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UPDATE: Friday 11.30am
THE bushfire burning in the Kybeyan Valley area is now being controlled by firefighters.
Earlier this morning a Watch and Act alert was reportedly made to nearby residents, including those in the Brown Mt area.
About 250 firefighters will continue to work on the fire 20km east of Cooma.
The fire has burnt through approximately 9500ha of bush and grass land. Higher temperatures and stronger winds are predicted for today and Saturday.
Nearby residents should monitor conditions, stay informed and activate your Bush Fire Survival Plan. Local roads may be closed at short notice depending on fire behaviour.
The fire is burning in Very High fire danger conditions. Under these conditions, fires can be difficult to control. Embers may be blown ahead of the fire, creating spot fires. These spot fires may threaten your home earlier than the predicted main fire front.
Check and follow your Bush Fire Survival Plan. If you do not have a Bush Fire Survival Plan, know what you will do if the fire threatens your property.
If you plan to leave, leave early.
If your life is at risk, call Triple Zero (000) immediately.
Continue to stay up to date with the bush fire situation by checking http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au, or by calling the NSW RFS Bush Fire Information Line on 1800 679 737.
A COMBINATION of brutal temperatures and howling winds sparked an uncontrollable bushfire in Brogo and several spot fires on Tuesday.
The blaze was one of over 130 that broke out across NSW in a horror day for the Rural Fire Service.
As a heatwave took most of the state above 40 degrees, a total fire ban was declared and state forests and national parks were closed.
With the mercury climbing an incredible 12 degrees in an hour in Bega on Tuesday morning it was less a matter of if a fire would start, but where.
Shortly after 9am Bega was declared the hottest place in the state as the temperature rose to 38 degrees.
RFS volunteers in Brogo were messaged mid-morning on their pagers to a fire at Warrigal Range Rd.
Steve McGinnity from Brogo RFS said he was first paged at 10.25 with a call to attend a car fire on Warrigal Range Rd.
He was unable to confirm if this had sparked the blaze.
Mr McGinnity was at Brogo RFS with other volunteers awaiting news on the fire direction before they headed out to join their colleagues.
Three Brogo RFS fire tankers were joined by trucks from Cobargo, Bega and Bega North.
Almost 50 firefighters, 11 fire tankers and two aircraft worked to contain the blaze, which had burnt out about 50ha by 1pm.
Water tankers from the Bega Valley Shire Council and private companies roared up Warrigal Range Rd to provide firefighters with water.
Going the other direction were residents who were heeding RFS warnings via SMS to leave while the path was still clear.
The fire was set to impact 12 isolated properties east of Warrigal Range Rd and west of Eagle Nest Rd.
However, RFS personnel were able to stop the fire from destroying any properties.
Mid-afternoon a second blaze broke out in Brogo, approximately 1km south from the original fire.
It was caused by powerlines becoming entangled in trees during the high winds.
As personnel were already situated close by, the blaze was quickly brought under control and did not have a chance to spread.
The RFS also quickly dealt with blazes in Millingandi and on Mount Darragh near South Pambula.
"Crews in the area jumped on those really quickly before they were able to get into denser bushland," Far South Coast community safety officer Marty Webster said.
A report of a blaze at Coopers Gully near Bega was fortunately a false alarm.
Throughout the afternoon, visibility on the Princess Hwy at Brogo and Cobargo remained poor due to smoke and drivers were cautioned to take care.
A late southerly change brought strong winds, but also a small amount of rain to some parts of the Valley, including Brogo.
On Wednesday, Mr Webster praised the efforts of RFS personnel the previous day and throughout the night.
"Everyone is very tired, but crews worked through the night and kept the blaze under control at Warringal Range Rd.
"The wind overnight was erratic, but didn't affect the blaze too much.
"The RFS warning level has been taken down to Advise, but it is still burning so the plan for Wednesday is to attack the fire aggressively and we are feeling confident because conditions are better.
"There has been no property loss at this stage."
The race was on for fire crews to make sure there was nothing left smouldering with temperatures and winds set to pick up again today.
Of concern to Bega authorities is a blaze still burning on the Monaro at Kybeyan Valley near Numeralla.
At press time the fire had burnt through approximately 9400ha of bush and grass land.
The uncontrollable fire has the potential to jump into dense bushland in Wadbilliga National Park, which would allow it to spread to Bemboka and Brogo.
Mr Webster said local RFS brigades were "forward planning" for this event and were working with a liaison officer from the Cooma RFS.
Throughout Wednesday and Thursday the RFS fielded calls from concerned Bemboka residents about the smoke haze from the Kybeyan Valley fire.
The Bureau of Meteorology forecast for today predicts temperatures of up to 38 degrees and 25kmh north-easterly winds, followed by a high of 36 degrees on Saturday.
Mr Webster said the Far South Coast RFS had started planning for the spread of the Kybeyan Valley fire and urged everyone in the Bega Valley to remain vigilant.
"We want to thank residents in Brogo for being well prepared for Tuesday and urge residents throughout the Bega Valley to have the same level of preparedness for a bushfire," he said.
A STATEWIDE total fire ban has been declared in NSW for today (Friday, January 11) due to forecast hot, dry and windy conditions.
The total fire ban will remain in place until midnight.
The Bureau of Meteorology has advised some parts of NSW will have a Severe fire danger rating.
The NSW Rural Fire Service advises:
• In these conditions fires will be uncontrollable and fast moving, and could threaten properties with little warning.
• If a fire breaks out you should only stay with your home if it is well-prepared and you are able to actively defend it.
People should report any unattended fires to 000.
For full details on total fire ban rules visit www.rfs.nsw.gov.au.
MEANWHILE, all walking tracks in NSW National Parks will be closed until at least Monday due to the severe weather expected over the next few days.
Picnic areas and camping areas in the east of the state remain open.
Parks in the west of the state remain closed and will remain closed until at least Monday.
The latest information on park closures is available on the national parks website www.environment.nsw.gov.au/NationalParks/FireClosure.aspxand people should check there or ring the local national parks office for the latest information.


text: This is going to sound really weird but anytime I encounter a teenager or a group of them, I suddenly feel very self conscious. I get nervous and flustered as if they are silently judging me. As a teen I was awkward and shy and felt this very same way when I was around other teens. I find this odd because I am 26 and haven't been a teenager for a while. Shouldn't I feel like, I don't know... the adult? Anyone ever feel like this?


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Price: $44
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Region: Marlborough, New Zealand
Varietals: 100 percent Chardonnay
Alcohol: 13.5 percent
Tasting Notes: Founded in 1961 by George Fistonich, Villa Maria is one of New Zealand's largest family-owned wineries and a leader in sustainability. In 2009, Sir George was honored with a knighthood, the first ever granted to a Kiwi winemaker. One of Villa Maria's top-of-the-line Single Vineyard bottlings, the 2011 Taylors Pass Chardonnay shows complex flavors and a crisp mouthfeel. On the nose, its aromas are of citrus and tropical fruits. Flavors of gooseberry and guava in the mouth are complemented by mineral notes, a vibrant acidity and a clean finish.
Food Pairings: Grilled fish, oysters, garden salad
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Valdes rules out new Barca deal
Victor Valdes' representatives have told Barcelona he will not consider extending his stay at the club.
Valdes, who turned 31 this week, will be out of contract in the summer of 2014 and recently indicated that he would like to sample "other cultures, other leagues and other countries" before the end of his playing career.
Barcelona sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta had suggested to the media that the club were hopeful of agreeing a deal to keep the goalkeeper at the Camp Nou. However, at a meeting between the club and the player's representatives on Thursday, it emerged that Valdes would not welcome any offers to extend his deal.
A statement released by his representatives to the EFE news agency on Thursday evening read: "The agents of Victor Valdes have told FC Barcelona at a meeting this afternoon that he has made an irreversible decision not to renew his contract. This avoids the need to enter into any financial discussions."
Valdes first joined Barca as a youth in 1992 and has spent the entirety of his professional career with the club. It is expected that Zubizarreta will explain the goalkeeper's reasoning at a press conference on Friday.
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If anybody is thinking of ordering broadband via a BT line (not cable) be warned You may have a long wait.
I was listening to a local BBC radio station this morning when a caller rang in. The caller lives in my village so my ears immediately pricked up. This caller had ordered broadband a few weeks ago but it had not been activated. Apparently he has been told that the local exchange is now full and BT cannot give him a date when his line will converted to broadband (DSL). He has been told that there are 5,000 people in the same situation. I do not know if this figure of 5,000 is local or national. However, if you are thinking of getting broadband it may be worthwhile contacting BT before you sign any contracts. This would affect any ISP who supplies broadband through the BT local loop so NTL and Telewest cable customers would not be involved (nor those using the Kingston network).


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The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has leased new mobile equipment that can strip phone data in minutes and store the data indefinitely, regardless of whether or not the owner has committed a crime.
The device, the ACESO, can extract texts, emails, pictures and contact details on the street from phones which the Met believe may have been used in criminal activity. A Met Police spokesperson confirmed to the Huffington Post UK that the ASECO lease began at the beginning of May and they are already being used across London.
The hiring of the devices is an attempt by the Met to speed up criminal investigations. Standard procedure currently involves sending phones away for forensic analysis, taking weeks to analyse.
However, the Met Police said that the "data recovered from the devices is retained and handled in accordance with other data and information held by the MPS (Metropolitan Police Service)."
When asked by the Huffington Post UK how long data is kept, a Met Police spokesperson said that data is retained "for the forseeable future," with no timeline for deleting information.
This could mean that some members of the public will have their entire phone's contents stored for an undefined period of time even if the phone owner is never charged with an offence.
Radio Tactics, the company behind the ACESO, says that the Met has leased 16 of the devices, one for each London borough, for 12 months at a price of £50,000. This price includes the cost of training 320 officers to use the device.
Radio Tactics says that the device "empowers police officers with the ability to examine and interrogate digital mobile devices, quickly and accurately," making it particularly useful where "immediacy of information is paramount to the success of an operation."
The Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Stephen Kavanagh, said: "Our ability to act on forensically-sound, time-critical information, from SMS to images contained on a device quickly gives us an advantage in combating crime, notably in terms of identifying people of interest quickly and progressing cases more efficiently."
However, civil liberties group Liberty has questioned the legality of the new technology. Director of Policy Isabella Sankey told the Huffington Post UK: "It is unclear whether the police have legal authority for such intrusive access. Just as retention of innocents' DNA came unstuck in the Court of Human Rights so too could this dangerous policy of stockpiling intimate details about those never charged, let alone convicted."
"Emptying your pockets at the police station used to mean giving up your spare change and a bus pass. Now the police think they can demand copies of text messages, emails, photos and contacts to be kept by them forever. "
Another dissenting voice against the Met's new equipment is data protection lawyer Vinod Bange, of the firm Taylor Wessing.
According to Bange, it is crucial to know how long the Met plans to keep hold of data.
"Unless there are strong arguments as to why that information should be retained for evidential reasons, which is already questionable when a suspect is released, then it's very difficult to see that there is a lawful basis for that mobile device data being retained by the police," he says.
The public have a right to know if a third party such as the police has their data, for what purpose and for how long it will be held. Photos of your family, automatic access into Facebook and Twitter, will all that data be extracted from the mobile device?
"Will a suspect who is released without charge be told that their mobile has been accessed and the data retained even if they are no longer under investigation?
"These are all questions which the public should have answers to."


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Just read Michael T's fine piece on the 3 ousted judges on the front page of Thursday's [Nov. ] EDN.
However, in reading Thursdays story, we only heard from the lawyers and we did not get to hear from the people of Iowa. Based on the lawyers comments, you would glean from the article that some great damage had been done to the court system here in Iowa. Well, damage or no damage, this whole "judge flushing" did not need to happen. However, the people of Iowa were forced into voting "NO" on the judges because it was the only course of action left to them
You have to go back to April 2009 when the Iowa Supreme Court came down with their infamous 7 - 0 decision favoring gay marriage in Iowa to understand what has happened. The citizens of the state were in shock. We could understand this happening in Californiabut Iowa? The uproar of disapproval from most Iowans was deafening. In June of this year a state wide poll had 77% of Iowans saying we should get a chance to vote up or down on this issue. However, the word from Democratic Majority leader Michael Gronstal of Council Bluffs was "he would not allow any changes in the law". With the Democrat Party holding firm majorities in both Iowa Houses and the Governor's mansion, there was no way the voters would get to ratify or reject the "new law".
Fast forward to last Tuesday's voting. I was as shocked as anyone when the voters said "NO" and flushed out the 3 Judges. Based on the moral decline we have observed over the past 20 to 30 years in our society , I did not think there was enough "Moral Fuel " left in the tank of the Iowa voters to reject these 3 judges. Yes, I believe, 55% of the voting Iowans looked at this gay marriage vote as a "Moral Issue" and not a "Constitutional issue". When the judges handed down their verdict and the majority party politicians said to the voters "you have no say in this issue"..the NO voters said "enough is enough" and "threw out the bums".
For those of you who follow these things, I think there are only 5 states in the Union who have legalized gay marriageall via Court decisions forced upon the citizens of these states. On the other hand, I also believe the score is 23 - 0 in the states where the citizens have been allowed to vote on this issue. Yes, the voters in 23 state have said NO to gay marriage. Even California voters have turned down the gay marriage issue.
There is hope on the horizon. With the changes coming next year in the Governors Mansion and in the Iowa House, perhaps the voters of Iowa will get a chance to become state #24 to say NO. Time will tell. My hearty congratulations to the 55% who voted NO. Thank You for standing up for morality.
Larry Loeschen