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Donley: Sequestration Hits Air Force Readiness, Modernization
Donley: Sequestration Hits Air Force Readiness, Modernization
WASHINGTON, May 24, 2013 – Sequestration has hit the Air Force particularly hard, impacting its force structure, readiness and modernization, senior Air Force leaders said here today.
Air Force Secretary Michael B. Donley and Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, the chief of staff, said Congress must provide a solid budget number so the Air Force can ground its planning in reality.
The Air Force understands it must do its part to work through the debt and deficit reduction problem, Welsh said.
"We just want to get to the bottom line or the new top-line budget … and get on with preparing our Air Force to remain the best in the world," he said.
Sequestration has hit the Air Force hard and the effects are felt throughout the full range of accounts from force structure to readiness to modernization, Donley said during his last scheduled news conference as secretary.
On April 26, Donley announced plans to step down June 21 as the Air Force's top civilian after serving as secretary for nearly five years.
"Twelve combat-coded squadrons have stopped flying, and important training has been canceled," Donley said. "Weapon system sustainment reductions will delay maintenance, increase costs and create backlogs. The impending civilian furlough will hamper us further and will impact morale and reduce productivity across the Air Force."
Even before sequestration there was a readiness crisis in the Air Force, the secretary said. "The readiness hole that we have been trying to dig out of just got deeper, and we are facing a readiness crisis from which it will take many months to recover," he said.
And it is not just operations and readiness accounts that are at risk, said Donley, noting the Air Force needs modernization -- in aircraft, missiles, and capabilities.
"As advanced technologies proliferate around the globe, these cutbacks in modernization would put at risk the Air Force capabilities this nation will need in the decades ahead," Donley said. "Despite our near-term and long-term concerns, we are working to ensure that our most significant Air Force priorities remain on track, including the fifth-generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the KC-46 tanker, and the long-range strike bomber."
Aircraft must support the warfighters, but budget cuts mean that airmen cannot train for full spectrum operations, Welsh said.
"And our readiness continues to decline, even while calls for potential no-fly zone or air policing operations in response to Syrian violence are reaching a new crescendo," he said.
"We're still the best Air Force in the world," Welsh said. "And our great airmen will rely on experience and their unmatched dedication to succeed in any operation that we're asked to execute. But atrophied skills elevate risk, and stagnant proficiency will only grow over time if we can't restore some sense of budget normalcy. And so that's what we're hoping for."


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2001 Chrysler 300M or 2004 Chevy Aveo 5
Posted 19 September 2007 - 10:24 PM
The first car is 2001 Chrysler 300M with 83k miles. Its automatic w/autostick feature. Its seems to be a very nice car, well taken care of. It has all the options like pw, pl, sunroof, cruise control, leather.What I am curious about is if there are any known problems with these vehicles? Whats the average lifespan?
The second is a 2004 Chevy Aveo 5 Hatchback with 33k miles. It is a 5speed. It seems to be a plain car. No power options. However it does have cruise control. I am not sure of the reliability of these cars since they are made in korea. The low miles is something I am looking for, however I need it to be reliable. Have any thoughts?
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Don't know about the relative merits of either one. Our only Chrysler is a '95 LeBaron Convertible we keep in Hawaii. It's starting to break small things, but has never given us any major headaches in the seven years we've had it.
I'd buy a Subaru.
Posted 26 September 2007 - 03:06 PM
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Posted 26 September 2007 - 10:50 PM
There ARE other fish in the sea (preferibly japanese models)
Though if your credit is so so you may have to take what you can get.
I think the Aveo will be more reliable given that the 300 is OLD by comparison. What you save in gas will pay for any repairs it may need too.
Posted 26 September 2007 - 11:19 PM
Nuff said.
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Posted 28 September 2007 - 07:57 AM
I would avoid any Chrysler that is built on the Intrepid platform. They have a well deserved reputation as transmission eaters. I know nothing about the Aveo.
Add an oddly high waterpump failure rate that that motor has, and its an all around no go.
Mine was somewhere around $700 to have the water pump done.
Posted 30 September 2007 - 12:29 PM
I can't specifically say fromt personal experience that the Aveo has all these problems, but if you look under the hood and car, it's exactly the same car, just smaller. I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.
Disclaimer: The Forenza/Reno, and the Verona (production actually stopped because of massive problems as well) are the only Daewoo-based Suzuki cars. The New XL7 is a Suzuki-GM hybrid, but other than that, Japanese-designed Suzuki's are actually pretty decent cars. We rarely see SX4 (5-speed is kinda fun to drive, and has a rally competing version), Aerio, Grand Vitara, XL7, or older Suzuki's back for any significant warranty work. A 4-door SX4 just got released, and the Swift is coming back, so don't be discouraged from buing a Suzuki, they're really half-way decent little cars...just don't touch the Korean ones.
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It pays off to have a deep bench in a hard-fought basketball game. Especially one that goes to overtime.
With a roster of nine, the Colfax-Mingo girls basketball team doesn't have that luxury.
And that's what made its 34-31 overtime win over Greene County (Jefferson) all the more impressive.
The Tigerhawks rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit to take a one-point lead into the fourth quarter. They battled the Rams (3-1) for those eight minutes and then for four extra, outscoring Greene County 5-2 in the overtime session to hand it its first loss.
It was Colfax-Mingo's first win of the season, and snapped an eight-game losing streak dating back to last season.
"This year our numbers are way down," Tigerhawks head coach Brandon Smith said. "We've struggled some as the game has progressed. Against some teams we were definitely in games and then fell off the cliff a little in the fourth quarter. To play solid in the second half all the way to the end and even go to overtime — I'm so proud of the girls."
C-M senior Nicolette Husson — who had 20 of the Tigerhawks' 34 points — said the team's motivation was simple.
"I think we were just playing our butts off because we were tired of losing," she said.
Colfax-Mingo (1-4) was coming coming off a 64-46 loss Saturday in which it had the lead midway through the third quarter before getting routed down the stretch. Tuesday was a different story. The Tigerhawks outscored Greene County 14-3 in the third quarter and held it to just seven points after halftime.
Husson had four of C-M's five points in OT, including two big free throws with 6.8 seconds left that game it a three-point lead. The Rams' attempted 3-pointer air-balled to end the game.
"It feels really good, especially to knock (Greene County) off because they were undefeated," Husson said. "It shows we can be good."
Husson also had 12 rebounds, five steals and had two big blocks in OT.
The game was the Rams' in the first half. They got out to a 13-3 lead before Colfax-Mingo scored eight straight points on two Husson baskets and a 3-pointer from junior Jena Teed. But with the help of numerous Tigerhawks traveling violations, Greene County outscored C-M 10-2 the remainder of the half to take a 23-12 lead into the break.
But it was all Tigerhawks in the third quarter. They limited their turnovers, shut down the Rams, got in an offensive rhythm and stole the game's momentum as they outscored Greene County 14-3 in the frame. Husson had her team's first six points, while freshman Jessica Albright, Quick, senior Sydnie Fahrney and sophomore Sara Lahart each had a basket.
"We were traveling way too much in the first half," Smith said. "We reminded them to get the ball reversed. Once we did that, we got wide-open shots, drives and kicks. When we do that, we can be successful shooting it."
The rest of the game was about as defensive as one could be. The Rams only made two baskets in the fourth quarter, and the Tigerhawks had just one and a free throw to make the score 29-29 with 1:47 left. C-M eventually held for the last shot, but couldn't get a good one off at the buzzer.
That sent the game to OT, where a Husson basket and a free throw from Quick gave the Tigerhawks a 3-point lead at 32-29 with 1 minute remaining. Greene County scored its final points on a basket with 30 seconds left, and junior Jade Lewis pulled down a big defensive rebound to that led to Husson going 2-for-2 at the line with 6.8 seconds left. That set up the Rams' last shot, which was well off-target.
Colfax-Mingo 34, Greene County 31 (OT)
CM scorers — Husson 20, Fahrney 4, Quick 3, Teed 3, Lahart 2, Albright 2.


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Saturday, May 23, 2009
AJ vs Phillies
7:20pm Why try to hit Jeter? Obviously, A.J doesn't want to hit their guy when he clearly doesn't have command earlier in the first inning. A nice job by Captain to hit a single to get a revenge. By the way, the last thing Yankees need right now is Burnett to hit another guy later and then get ejected. Yankees has a short bullpen tonight.
7:28pm If my memory serves me right, this will be the first Yankees base runner to get threw out at home plate.
7:30pm Do you guys get nervous when the ball is hit to right field now? Man, is it too early to get Wang ready now?
7:44pm It seems to me Yankees will have a long night. However, you never know what will happen in any baseball game. One thing I know for sure. A.J has to stop the bleeding in order to give Yankees a chance to come back.
7:50pm Teixeira makes another great play. This time probably save some pitches for Burnett.
7:54pm Burnett is at 48 pitches through 3 innings. At this rate, we will see our bullpen pretty soon. Hopefully, he will have couple of easy innings soon. By the way, at this rate, Myers will finish the game by himself.
8:00pm Here comes the easy inning A.J needs if he can get his third man of the inning.
8:01pm Guess what? He needs to get his third man of the inning against Rollins. Hopefully, it will be him for A.J.
8:12pm A huge at bat for Swisher. Guess not.
8:26pm Well, A.J gives up 5 runs in 5 innings at 86 pitches. What would you do if you were Girardi?
8:39pm A.J somehow get a double play to end the 6th inning.
8:46pm A-Rod hits one out. If Yankees lose this game, we at least score one run.
8:52pm It seems to me Wang's velocity is fine. The location of pitches actually are worse.
9:16pm Wang throws more good sinkers second inning of work.
9:44pm Based on three innings of work Wang puts on, the result is a mixed one. The good thing is Wang's velocity back. The bad thing is he can't throw all his pitches at the lower strike zone consistently. Once Wang get his consistent release point and delivery back, he will be fine. I agree with the decision of putting Wang in the bullpen as a long relief pitcher at this moment. First of all, he needs to pitch against major league hitters to re-gain his confident. Secondly, Yankees can put him back to rotation once Wang gains more arm strengths and throws most his pitches down in the strike zone.
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As a Phillies fan, who do the Mets fans root for this weekend?
The Phils obviously love your new ballpark....compared to ours here, it's even more of a laughing stock!
- May 23, 2009 at 1:36 PM
- Jessica Lee said...
I think Mets should root for Yankees this weekend if they are true Mets fans.
I actually don't care about this homerun park issue.
- May 25, 2009 at 12:58 AM
- MJB said...
Its no surprise a Phillies fan got so confused over such a simple question.
As for important things, like the Yankees and Wang...looks like things are going well. Its a tough question (so Phillies fans, sit this one out) about how to get Wang back in the rotation with everyone pitching so well. The team is really clicking and I'm sure they don't want to mess with it. I think Hughes will probably have to go back down to AAA even though there is nothing much for him to work on there. He needs to just stay ready for the next injury call-up.
- May 29, 2009 at 1:38 PM
- MJB said...
You should go to the Pride of the Yankees blog and see their story about Cashman and Wang (from ESPN). It seems outrageous and I'm curious if Taiwanese media knows anything about it.
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I was wondering what the major components of an MCU are.
Hi,Quote from: Sehvur on April 30, 2009, 12:45:20 PMI was wondering what the major components of an MCU are.MPU (microprocessor unit)ALU (arithmetic, logic unit)Memory
I assume from that answer that you have a lot more experience with analog electronics than with embedded devices. That was sparse and incomplete. Really - you wouldn't consider a port to be significant?
hazzer answered what you would find from a board-level perspective.
Naming the parts of the microcontroller itself can be subjective.
[Snip a lot]Most microcontroller data sheets contain this information in their introductory sections.
I, on the other hand, must assume that you were never taught what's considered main components.Hint: Stuff that might vary from one controller to the next doesn't count as main parts, however crucial they may be to one particular controller.Sure, ports are significant, I should have mentioned them, only the correct term in such a context is I/O.
But yeah, my brush with anything digital is a short one, I first got around to digital when TTL was all the rage and the micros was 8080, 8085 and the very much thinking ahead COSMAC.
Quote from: GearMotion on April 30, 2009, 02:32:55 PMNaming the parts of the microcontroller itself can be subjective.Not when you're following established conventions.
Doesn't make them considered main components of an MCU (which means _any_ MCU, when no specific is mentioned).


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It has been 100years after Breaking Dawn the Cullens are now back in Forks. What happens when the mysterious Moon Sisters, the red eyed human Ruby and Her blue eyed Twin Safire move into town, who have a secret of their own? Banner made by my awesome brother Brian who made this in an hour
this is my second story but has no relation to my first.
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Safire's POV
"Safire! Ruby! Time to go to your first day at your new high school!" I heard my mom calling me and my twin. "Ruby, come on you look fine." I said to my almost identical twin. I say almost because we look exactly the same except our eyes. My eyes are a light blue and Ruby's are a reddish orange color. A lot of people think she wears contacts but nope her eyes are just plain weird, but pretty also. Ruby, my mom, and I are decadents of the Potawatomi tribes in Michigan.
We can from Muskegon MI. Muskegon isn't a big town but it's also not a small town either. The weather is weird in Muskegon. It can be 70 degrees one day and 52 the next. It can be warm and sunny then cold and rainy all in the same week. I already miss Muskegon. It has a very homey feel to it.
"Is that all your going to do with your hair twin?" Ruby asked me. I pretended to think about and put my index finger on my chin and said, "Yep!" Ruby rolled her eyes. My sister, mom and I moved to small rainy town in Washington after my dad's accident.
"Girls come on your going to be late to Forks High!" I heard my mom call again. "Come on Rubs before Mom has a coronary." Ruby laughed and we headed off to Forks High. Ruby got into my electric blue slug bug. It may be a small car but it works.
I held Ruby's hand as we got out of my car and walked to the office to get our classes. "Chill Safi, its okay Mom said we will probably get all of our classes together because of what happened to dad." She said the last part with sadness in her voice. I hugged my twin. We walked into the office and sure enough we did get every class together.
"See nothing to worry about twin." Ruby whispered to me. I nodded my head and we went off to our first 4 classes which were English, Art, Trig, and com tech. Art has always been something my sister and I have been good at. A lot of kids stared at us during class and as we walked into the lunch room.
After we got our food we went and sat at an empty table in the back of the launch room. Ruby and I were eating and listening to our IPods when we felt like other people were sitting with us. Ruby and I looked up to see a tall Native American boy, and red haired girl holding his hand sitting next to me, a pale boy with tousled brown hair and a brown haired girl sat next to the red haired girl, a big football playing guy was holding hands with a blonde Barbie doll looking girl, were next to the brunette girl, and finally there was a pixie looking girl holding the hand of a blonde haired guy that looked like he was in pain. I knew right away what they were and so did Ruby. Vampires, but these had gold eyes not red like the ones who killed our father. I wasn't sure about the red head and the Native American though, they were not vampires, but if they are friends with them then I don't like them.
I looked at Ruby. "Umm are we sitting in your seats? Because I don't see any names on them!" Ruby said. I hit her in the arm. "We'll move if we are in your seats though." I said shyly. Sometimes I wish Ruby was quieter and did not open her big mouth. She might get us killed.
No answer, so Ruby and I kept eating as they all sat around us. The Barbie doll girl then spoke, "Why are you at our table?" she said. Before Ruby could open her mouth I spoke. "Sorry we're new and have nowhere to sit." I said calmly, and just like I thought she would Ruby opened her big mouth. "What's it to yah Blondie?" Ruby asked. I kicked Ruby. Here we go we're going to join our father. "Why don't you move little girl?" the Barbie doll said.
"I would say "Bite Me" but you would like that wouldn't you." Ruby said. Oh crap. The circle of vampires gasped and stared at Ruby and I. "How did you know about that?" the brunette girl said. Just then the bell rang and I pulled Ruby out of the lunch room. "Great Ruby now we have a coven of vampires coming after us! Why did you have to open your big fricken mouth? We could have let them think we were normal humans who knew nothing, but no you and your temper wouldn't allow it." I said to Ruby as we walked to our next class. "I'm sorry, it's just that I thought about dad which made me upset and when Blondie started shooting her mouth I just blew up!" Ruby said. She had a tear threatening to over flow.
I sighed and hugged her. "Now what do we do?" I asked. "They are going to want to know how we know and then will probably have us for lunch." I said. Just then we walked into our next class which was Biology, and sure enough right were the teacher showed us to sit was the Brunette girl and the boy with the brown tousled hair. We took our seats in front of the Vampire duo.
Half way through class a felt something land on my hand. It was a note.How do you two know about us?
I showed the note to Ruby who responded to the note.Why should we tell you?
Then she through the message back. Then we got it back again.Meet us after school by the silver Volvo.
I responded this time to the note after Ruby showed me.Only if there are going to be other people around
I wrote back and through it back to the girl. She nodded yes and the bell rang for next period.
Bella's POV
We were all going to lunch when Edward stiffened. "What is it?" I asked. Edward shook his head and kept going. Renesme and Jacob were ahead of us. It had been 100 years since we were last in Forks. I had asked Edward if we could move back here now that for sure everyone we knew was dead. When we got to the lunch room there were the two new girls sitting at our table. They both were listening to their IPods.
We all walked in and sat down. The girls looked up. They were identical except for their eyes. One had red eyes and the other had blue. The red eyed one did not smell of vampire but of human. How odd to have a human with red eyes. The Red eyed girl spoke up, "Umm are we in your seats? Because I don't see any names on them." She said. The blue eyed girl then hit her sister and said, "If we're in your seats we'll move."
No one said anything. The girls then started to eat again when Rosalie spoke up. "Why are you at our table?" she asked. The blue eyed girl spoke up, "Sorry we're new and have nowhere to sit." Then the red eyed girl spoke up, "What's it to yah Blondie?" "Why don't you move little girl?" Rosalie said. Then something unexpected happened the red eyed girl spoke up, "I would say "Bite Me" but you would like that wouldn't you."
Everyone gasped. "How did you know about that?" I asked. Just then the bell rang and the blue eyed girl pulled her sister out of the room as quick as possible. "Call Carlisle now!" Edward said. Alice obeyed. "What do we do?" I asked no one in particular. No one answered. Edward and I went to our next class which was evidently Biology.
A few minutes after we arrived in Bio the two twins who knew the secret came in and sat right in front of us. About half way through class I through a note at the blue eyed one. She read it and sent it back with a message of its own. I had asked how they knew and the message back asked why they should tell us.
Class was almost over so I told them to meet us by Edward's Volvo. Sure enough they sent the message back saying as long as there would be other people around. I nodded to confirm that there would be other people around. Then the bell rang and Edward and I went to tell the others.


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Wayne Brassell passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014, in Albuquerque N. M. following a short illness. He was born in Hondo on Sept. 11, 1946. He is preceded in death by his mother Sadie Tate Brassell in 1951, and his father John G. Brassell of San Marcos in 1970. He is survived by his wife Dorinda Rehberg Brassell of Albuquerque, N.M.; their son Bryan Brassell and wife Cynthia of San Marcos; two daughters, April Brassell of Albuquerque, N. M. and Heidi Baucom of Phoenix, Ariz.; four stepgrandchildren, Gabriel and Cayla Baucom of Phoenix, Ariz. and Casey Barton and Sam Brakhage of El Paso; and two step-great grandchildren, Matthew and Melanie Barton of El Paso. He is also survived by his sister Janis McBride, and her husband John McBride of San Marcos; two nieces, Cathy McBride Stoughton and husband Craig of Kyle and Karen McBride George and husband Ryan of Dayton, Ohio; a great niece and nephew, Cailyn and Cayden Stoughton; a brother-in-law, Kerry Rehberg and wife Dena of Las Vegas, Nev., and niece Jamie Rehberg-Trujillo of Chicago, Ill. Wayne was a 1964 graduate of San Marcos High School, and maintained friendships throughout the years with many of his classmates. He was looking forward to the 50th year class reunion in June. He enlisted in the Army at 19 and served for 20 years until his retirement in 1986 at Fort Bliss in El Paso at the rank of SFC. He served one year in Viet Nam as a machine gunnerfor a long-range recon platoon, 1/503rd Parachute Infantry, 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate). He earned many awards for his duty in Viet Nam, including a field-awarded Army Commendation Medal, Republic of Viet Nam Cross of Gallantry w/Palm, Republic of Viet Nam Campaign Medal, and Combat Infantry Badge. Following Viet Nam, he served as an antiaircraft defense missile specialist at NIKE Defense Bases in Ohio, Germany, Fort Hood, Alvarado and the U.S. Army Air Defense School at Fort Bliss. He was serving in Painesville, Ohio, when he met his wife and love of his life, Dorinda Rehberg. They married on Sept. 10, 1976.Upon his retirement, he went to work for R.A.M., Inc., a defense contractor based in El Paso, and worked there for approximately 20 years. On his move to Albuquerque, N.M., he spent two years employed by Honeywell Security, and then spent the next six years
employed with BAE Systems out of El Paso in a contractor capacity. Although he received a degree in Business Administration, Wayne was an avid historian, and was particularly interested in military history.He was a knowledgeable resource for all military events — both past and present. There will be a military ceremony and interment at Fort Bliss Cemetery on April 17 at 2:30 p.m. A reception will follow at the Benavidez-Patterson 82ndAirborne Chapter Hall on Fort Boulevard, El Paso. The family wishes to acknowledge the kindness and support at this time by Bob and Sharon Waldron, R.A.M., Inc., Dennis Nicholas and team at BAE Systems; many employees of the Albuquerque Public School District, Danny and Stella Olivas, and Deedee Stroud, all of Albuquerque, N.M.; Colonel and Mrs. Les Colegrove of Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bright of La.; and the Benavidez- Patterson All Airborne Chapter Association of the 82nd Airborne Division of El Paso.


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PLANO — After coming off a four-game stretch to start the Plano Christmas Classic where they shot a paltry 26 percent from beyond the arc, the Morris Redskins finally got hot again as they competed for seventh place on Saturday night. The Redskins hit 8-for-19 from deep and defeated the Newark Norsemen 42-37.
The Redskins raced out to a 9-2 lead as senior guard Jake Hogan knocked down his first three trifectas of the night, all in succession.
"Hitting the shots early was definitely a big confidence boost for me," Hogan said. "It also helped with the team. It just started getting everyone rolling and on the same page."
Hogan would add a fourth three-pointer later on and wound up leading Morris with 13 points on the night. Meanwhile, standout Newark freshman Jack Clausel would find himself with two quick fouls, and would only go on to score four points while managing foul trouble.
In the second quarter, a three by sophomore forward Austin Patterson would give the Redskins a 14-9 lead. Patterson would knock down three of four from behind the arc on the night and would finish with 11 points and four rebounds to go along with three assists. However, Newark senior Brett Anderson would answer with a jumper moments later that would cut the Morris lead to one.
Anderson would finish with 24 points on the night and averaged 14.6 points per game for the tournament. The numbers were down from last year, when he averaged 26 points and nine rebounds a night in Plano, but Morris was still forced to focus their efforts on limiting Anderson's touches.
"With a player like that, you gotta make him work on defense and try to tire his legs a bit on that end of the floor," Morris head coach Joe Blumberg said. "You gotta be physical with him, but really it starts with the other four guys (not guarding him). If guys are in helping and guys are pressuring the basketball, he can't catch the ball where he wants to."
In the second half, Anderson would almost single-handedly get Newark back into the game, scoring 10 straight points and giving Newark their first lead of the game when he hit a three from the wing with less than three minutes remaining.
However, after starting off just 2-for-10 from the field, Morris senior Ben Ortiz was able to answer with back-to-back buckets to regain Morris' lead. On the other end of the floor, Ortiz was able to corral Anderson and Morris held the Norseman scoreless after the go-ahead three.
"I thought Ben stepped up on the defensive end, but he also knocked down some big shots to give us the lead back. Their senior stepped up, and I thought a few of our seniors stepped up in a key spot in the game," Blumberg said. "You like to see that, especially in a rivalry game with hardware on the line."
Ortiz would follow up his two big shots by knocking down the front and back end of a one-and-one to give Morris a 41-37 lead late. Ortiz would finish with 11 points on the night.
For the tournament he would average 13.6 points and 8.6 rebounds a game. Meanwhile, the Redskins would finish at 3-2 during the 50th installment of the Plano Christmas Classic and gained valuable momentum heading back into Northern Illinois Big 12 Conference East play.
"It was good to end on a high note, because going into the New Year it's gonna help us. I think we got Sycamore next, so hopefully it helps there," Hogan said.
Redskins win final game at Plano
PLANO — After coming off a four-game stretch to start the Plano Christmas Classic where they shot a paltry 26 percent from beyond the arc, the Morris Redskins finally got hot again as they competed for seventh place on Saturday night. The Redskins hit 8-for-19 from deep and defeated the Newark Norsemen 42-37.


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UK Government to Tax Linux? 343
An anonymous reader writes "The UK government is looking at introducing a tax aimed at software published under GNU GPL. It claims that because programmers do it for free, it is losing out on income tax and that commercial software companies (read Microsoft) are at a disadvantage. Some pressure group has already put up a website with more details and news site Techworld have got a quote from a Treasury spokesman saying that they're only considering it."


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Hawks get revenge on Smithfield, advance to state championship
The Bishop Hendricken hockey team hasn't lost very often this season, but one of those rare defeats came at the hands of Smithfield on Jan. 24.
With much more on the line this past weekend, the Hawks made sure that didn't happen again.
Using a dynamic power play and solid work on the back end from the goaltender out, Hendricken more than avenged its regular season loss to Smithfield with a sweep of the best-of-three state semifinal series between the two teams. It grabbed a 5-3 win on Friday and a 2-1 win on Saturday, sending the Hawks to the state championship series for the seventh time in nine years.
And its opponent will be a familiar one, as Hendricken will take on defending state champion Mount St. Charles for the title, the only team it has faced in the state championship over that nine-year span. Mount, the No. 2 seed, swept No. 3 La Salle in the other semifinal series.
"It feels good, it really does," said sophomore forward Jamie Armstrong, who scored two goals and added two assists in the series. "As a team we earned it this year. We work hard every day in practice. I think tonight was a good example of it. We stuck with it. Our mental toughness was good and we got the win."
The top-seeded Hawks entered the postseason on a roll, included in which was a late-season 4-3 win over Smithfield. In that game, the Sentinels made a charge in the third period to make a would-be blowout into a tightly-contested game.
On Friday, Hendricken took the same sort of lead and didn't let Smithfield chip too much of it away. Patrick Creamer scored halfway through the first period, with Andrew Fera and Armstrong assisting, and Armstrong blew the game open in the second period with two power play goals in the period's first five minutes to make it 3-0. Creamer picked up two assists and Tucker Alberigo had one as well.
"We've got to do that," said Hendricken head coach Jim Creamer. "We've got to come out at the end of the night in the plus on the special teams. We talked about that as well. The kids just did a good job from top to bottom."
Fera added an unassisted goal to make it 4-0 before Smithfield got on the board with a Nick Gerlach goal late in the period. Michael Gualin added a second goal for Smithfield early in the third period to make it 4-2, but Reilly Miller scored Hendricken's fifth goal early in the third period to put the game out of reach. Kiel Fuller and Eric Edwards assisted. Smithfield got a late goal from Jim Varin to round out the scoring.
Matt Kenneally made 14 saves in net, while Smithfield's Evan Carlton turned aside 16 shots.
"It was good because we had a lead and we were able to run four lines and six D," Creamer said. "We had a lot of guys going and I think it gave some guys a little bit of rest (for game two)."
The rest showed on Saturday. Though Hendricken won only 2-1, it out-shot the Sentinels 43-15, dominating puck possession and keeping Smithfield from many legitimate goal-scoring opportunities.
"It's great, a great feeling," Kenneally said. "It's great to get back at them after beating us in the regular season."
Hendricken also benefited from a terrific first period. It out-shot Smithfield 16-4 over the first 15 minutes, and took an early lead on its first power play of the game.
With 6:33 to go, Steven Dumond threw the puck on net from the left point with traffic in front. The puck was re-directed by Brandon Mitchell and it flew past Carlton for a 1-0 lead. Miller also received an assist.
"Our special teams unit came in to play," Armstrong said. "That was a big part of the series. They took penalties and we just capitalized on our opportunities."
The Hawks had another good opportunity on the power play less than a minute later, but came up empty. Five minutes after that, though, they found the back of the net again.
Chris Shalvey sent a pass to Armstrong just inside the blue line on the left, and he skated the puck hard to the net. At the last second, Armstrong slipped a pass to Pat Creamer on the right side, and the freshman one-timed it past Carlton for the eventual game-winner, making it 2-0.
"We had to jump on them early or they would come right back at us," Kenneally said.
The second period was chippy, with the teams being called for a combined 13 penalties. With power plays abounding for both sides, neither was able to find the back of the net, although Hendricken again dominated possession and out-shot Smithfield 11-6.
"They're not an easy team to play," Jim Creamer said. "This had a recipe for disaster in a lot of respects. Smithfield is tough, and I thought we were tough as well."
Early in the third, Smithfield narrowed the gap. Kyle Cook put a puck on net and Kenneally made the initial save, but it bounced around near the crease. Andrew Souza got his stick on it and sent it from the right post to the left post, where Nick Paiva forced it into the goal.
Even after being a step faster all game, Hendricken only led by a goal.
But the Hawks didn't lose their cool. They nearly re-upped the lead to two goals with eight minutes remaining when Carlton made a kick save on a Fera wrist shot, and Hendricken kept the pressure on from there.
Smithfield took a timeout with 2:31 to play and pulled Carlton shortly after, but never mounted another serious opportunity. Hendricken out-shot the Sentinels 16-5 in the period.
"We talked about it during the second and third – if they got one, not to panic," Creamer said. "I thought if we just played we'd be fine, and the kids did a good job."
The final buzzer eventually sounded and Hendricken was free to celebrate another trip to the finals, something it missed out on last season.
It will be searching for its second state championship in three years and its fourth in seven years. The Mounties and Hawks have split the last six titles, three apiece.
The best-of-three finals will begin on Friday, with game two on Saturday. A third game, if necessary, will be held on Monday. All the games will be at 7 p.m. at Brown's Meehan Auditorium.
Hendricken won all three regular season meetings against Mount this year. With two more, the Hawks will be state champions.
"Us and Mount again," Creamer said. "Back at it. We're excited."


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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Early spring semester events at Bucknell University include an appearance by "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer, a celebration of the Harlem Renaissance, a Samek Art Gallery exhibition with works by Jay Bolotin and Michele Kong, and readings with poet-in-residence James Harms and poet Evan Boland.
For a full listing of events at Bucknell, including a printable calendar of events, visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x20214.xml
Jan. 22. Reading. James Harms, poet-in-residence, 7 p.m., Bucknell Hall. Harms, who directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at West Virginia University as well as the West Virginia Writers' Workshop, is the author of five collections of poetry, Modern Ocean, The Joy Addict, Quarters, Freeways and Aqueducts, and After West. For more information about Harms or the poet-in-residence program, visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x3730.xml
Jan. 25 to March 30. Samek Art Gallery Exhibitions. "Jay Bolotin: The Jackleg Testament: part one – Jack & Eve, and other works," main gallery; and "Michele Kong: Latis," project room. "The Jackleg Testament" retells the creation stories of Western religion in two bodies of work by Jay Bolotin: 40 woodcuts containing the visual elements for a 60-minute motion picture. The site-specific installation "Latis" is a confluence of drawn and sculptural elements that describe a shifting topography. Exhibition hours: weekdays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., weekends 1 to 5 p.m. For more information, visit http://www1.bucknell.edu/Samek/
Jan. 25. Weis Center Series. Jasmine Guy in "Raisin' Cane" with the Avery Sharpe Trio, a celebration of the Harlem Renaissance, 8 p.m., Weis Center. Tickets: $20. For more information, visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x36465.xml
Jan. 26. Samek Art Gallery Lecture. Artist Jay Bolotin, 5 p.m., Forum, Elaine Langone Center.
Jan. 26. Hilltop Film Series. "Strawberry and Chocolate," directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Cuba, 1994, 8 p.m., Gallery Theatre, Elaine Langone Center. For the rest of the Hilltop Film Series schedule, visit http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/hilltop/
Jan. 28 to Aug. 15. Bertrand Library Exhibitions. "Rainmaker Editions: Fusion of Literature, Art, Craft." The rare, beautifully produced Rainmaker Editions fuse fine literature with visual accompaniments and superb craftsmanship. A gift of Brenda O'Boyle Griego, Class of 1988, to the Bucknell University Special Collections, these signed, limited edition imprints are meticulously constructed, designed, printed, and bound. James A. Russell Exhibit Area, lower level 1. For more information about the Library collections, visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x18881.xml
Jan. 29. Samek Art Gallery Film. "The Jackleg Testament Film," noon, Gallery Theatre, Elaine Langone Center.
Jan. 29. The Bucknell Forum series. "The Capitalist Citizen and Democracy," Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's 'Mad Money' show, radio hosts and best-selling author, 7:30 p.m., Weis Center. Tickets are required. For more information, visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x37526.xml
Jan. 30. Janet Weis Jazz Series. 8 p.m., Rooke Recital Hall, Weis Music Building.
Feb. 1. Weis Center Series. Sofia Festival Orchestra, with piano soloist Terrence Wilson, 8 p.m. Weis Center. Tickets: $25. The program includes works by Prokofiev, Gershwin and Tchaikovsky. For more information, visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x36464.xml
Feb. 6. The Bucknell Forum. "Religion, Politics and Citizens in America," with panelists Obery Hendricks, professor of Biblical interpretation at New York Theological Seminary; Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life; and The Rev. Barry Linn, executive director of Americans for Separation of Church and State, 7:30 p.m., Trout Auditorium. For more information, visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x37526.xml
Feb. 15. Weis Center Event. Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, 8 p.m., Weis Center. Tickets: $20. For more information, visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x36463.xml
Feb. 15. Theatre. "Life as a Ball: A Tribute to Lucille Ball," written and performed by Bucknell senior Anastasia Peterson, 8 p.m., Tustin Studio Theatre. Tickets: $8, $6 for senior citizens.
Feb. 16. Theatre. "Small Talk," devised and performed by Bucknell senior Janine Merolla, 8 p.m., Tustin Studio Theatre. Tickets: $8, $6 for senior citizens.
Feb. 17. Theatre. "Life as a Ball: A Tribute to Lucille Ball," written and performed by Bucknell senior Anastasia Peterson, 8 p.m., Tustin Studio Theatre. Tickets: $8, $6 for senior citizens.
Feb. 18. Theatre. "Small Talk," devised and performed by Bucknell senior Janine Merolla, 8 p.m., Tustin Studio Theatre. Tickets: $8, $6 for senior citizens.
Feb. 19. Reading. Poet Eavan Boland, 7 p.m., Bucknell Hall. Boland also will participate in a question-and-answer session at 4 p.m. in the Smith Library of the Vaughan Literature Building on Feb. 19.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee actually gave two awards for economics this year. The Committee gave the Peace Prize to an economist for achievements in practical economics. No, the Committee didn't exactly say that, but in honoring Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize honors the power of the free market to reduce poverty. The Nobel Prize Committee agrees that access to credit leads to economic opportunity, which leads to higher incomes, which leads to a solid foundation for a lasting peace.
Here is what the Committee said in the citation for the Prize:
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 divided into two equal parts, to Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank for their efforts to create economic and social development from below. Lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty. Micro-credit is one such means. Development from below also serves to advance democracy and human rights."
Yunus tells the story of how the idea that ultimately became Grameen Bank came to him. Back in the 1970s, Muhammad Yunus was an economics professor in Bangladesh. His daily walk from home to the university took him through some of the country's poorest villages where thousands of impoverished and malnourished people lived in hopeless conditions. "I felt very empty, teaching beautiful elegant economic theories in the classroom and walking through that cluster of villages where people were without food and about to die. I thought, my theories have no meaning to the lives of these people."
His conversations with these villagers convinced him that they needed credit, and that they were credit-worthy. Conventional banking wisdom holds that loans without collateral are too risky. But the Vanderbilt-trained economist knew these villages and their character, and was confident that they were a good risk. During the 1976 famine in Bangladesh, Yunus made a loan of $27 to a group of women who made bamboo furniture. His "gamble" paid off when they repaid that loan.
Since those early beginnings, Yunus and the Grameen Bank have financed literally millions of small projects. A $50 loan allows a woman to buy chickens so she can sell eggs. As the chickens multiply, she has more eggs to sell. Eventually she can sell the chicks as well. The New York Times reported on one woman in India who started with a $50 loan and a 20-chicken farm. She now has $2,000 in borrowing power, a huge sum for her community. Overall, 98 percent of loans are repaid.
Most of the micro loans are to women, who need to support families and care for them at the same time. Their small business success helps advance the status of women in the community. In Afghanistan, under the Taliban, a woman earned a modest income from a home-based tailoring business. She had the help of her family, including a brother who served as her male "front." Now with the new government and the help of small loans, she runs the New Pimar Construction Company, a venture of 250 women that generates $28,000 per year in revenue.
One of the more innovative micro-finance projects is the community phone. Village Phone operators take a micro-loan for as little as $230 (U.S.) to purchase the equipment necessary to set up a satellite phone in the village. The operator then makes the phone available for a small fee to anyone in the village. The operators make a living, and provide a valuable service to the entire community. MTN Uganda recently announced the provision of its 2,000th Village Phone operator. The program in Uganda is based on a similar program in Bangladesh, which has over 37,000 Village Phone Operators who earn incomes three times the national average.
These are stories of individual people meeting real human needs, using the power of credit and the market. They are meeting their own need for an income, and their neighbors' needs for eggs, chicken and telephone service. Eventually, some of them become employers and meet their neighbors' needs for employment.
"The poor you will always have with you," a great wise man once told us long ago. And indeed we do. But the micro-credit movement has helped many of the poor become less poor, and to lift themselves, their families, and their neighbors out of abject poverty.
In the words of the Nobel Committee, "Every single individual on earth has both the potential and the right to live a decent life. Across cultures and civilizations, Yunus and Grameen Bank have shown that even the poorest of the poor can work to bring about their own development."
Amen to that.
Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse is a Senior Fellow in Economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World.
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What happened to the most powerful man on earth? That's the question Dana Milbank poses in his Washington Post column yesterday. Milbank's query was triggered by Obama's evident inability on Monday to use the bully pulpit to halt the free fall of stock prices in the wake of Standard and Poor's downgrading of the U.S. credit rating last week. Obama gave a public statement designed to reassure the markets, but as Milbank writes, "When he began his speech (and as cable news channels displayed for viewers), the Dow Jones industrials stood at 11,035. As he talked, the average fell below 11,000 for the first time in nine months, en route to a 635-point drop for the day, the worst since the 2008 crash." Although Milbank acknowledged that Obama probably shouldn't be blamed for the slide, he then goes ahead and blames him anyway: "It's not exactly fair to blame Obama for the rout: Almost certainly, the markets ignored him. And that's the problem: The most powerful man in the world seems strangely powerless, and irresolute, as larger forces bring down the country and his presidency."
Milbank's comments are a reminder, if anyone needed one, that the favorable – at times fawning – media coverage Obama received in the 2008 campaign has long since disappeared, at least among the White House press corps. More than two years into Obama's presidency, the White House press corps has resumed its more familiar role as nattering nabobs of negativism (to recycle Vice President Agnew's famous description of the Nixon-era press, using words penned by Nixon speechwriter William Safire).
But what I found most interesting about Milbank's column, and of the press conference held yesterday that Milbank describes, is not confirmation that White House journalists have turned on the President. Rather, it is how the press corps contributes to the already inflated expectations regarding the president's very limited power to influence the economy.
After an initial segment dealing with education policy, Obama's Press Secretary Jay Carney opened the press conference up to further questions. Reporters immediately zeroed in on what the president was going to do about the falling stock market and the dismal economy more generally. Nora O'Donnell led the way by wondering why Obama did not seem to demonstrate a greater sense of urgency in confronting the economic crisis. Ever helpful, she suggested Obama might want to call Congress, now in recess, back to Washington for an emergency session.
"Q The President said our problems are imminently solvable, and he talked about a renewed sense of urgency. Why not call Congress back to work?
MR. CARNEY: Well, I think that what we can do, after the process we just went through, is make clear that when Congress does get back from its recess, it is very clear —
Q That doesn't sound very urgent.
MR. CARNEY: Well —
Q I mean, the Dow dropped below 11,000. Where's the sense of urgency?
MR. CARNEY: Look, I think there is a great deal of sense — a great sense of urgency here about the need to continue to work to get our fiscal house in order, create jobs and grow the economy. The reality that we live in is that this is — as set up by the founders — is a government that has different branches with different amounts of power, and we need to work together to get significant things done, and we'll continue to do that."
Carney's reminder that the President worked within a system of shared powers fell on deaf ears. Instead, O'Donnell's suggestion to call Congress back from recess was echoed by other reporters. Here is NBC's Chuck Todd:
"Q Jay, there are, I think, six specific things that the President has been calling Congress to do on the jobs front — free trade agreements, the infrastructure bank, patent reform, unemployment insurance, payroll tax cut — that's seven. [Seven? I count five. But never mind.] Why not bring Congress back now to just do that? I understand the answer to Norah's question about the urgency on the debt, that you're going to let the committee see if it actually works —
MR. CARNEY: Well, it seems we're getting a drumbeat here to call Congress back from its recess.
Q — but why not — well, it does seem that the markers are crashing; we're now below 500 points since this briefing began. I mean — I'm not implying any relation, just that — I mean, the point is, the economy — the American public seems to be in a little bit of a panic, and yet Washington is like, well, we're going to stand back and wait until school starts."
Call Congress back to Washington? Did any of these reporters read the S&P report explaining their decision to downgrade the U.S. government's credit rating? It was based in part on their belief that the political polarization in Washington prevented elected officials from addressing key economic issues in timely fashion. And yet these journalists seem intent on driving that point home by having Obama call Congress back into emergency session, only days after the near default, in the naïve (or perhaps self-interested!) belief that during an emergency session Congress would move more quickly this time to pass a series of not uncontroversial legislative proposals. Never mind that it would likely result in a reprise of the months-long debt default negotiations. At least it would demonstrate leadership!
Politico's Glenn Thrush's question near the end of the conference aptly summarized the tenor of the press queries:
"Q — you said he will be contributing to the process, talking about the super committee, but he won't be leading it. He is the leader of the free world. Why isn't he leading this process?
MR. CARNEY: I think that was a technical recognition of the fact that it is a congressional committee, Glenn. Look, this President, his leadership on these issues is quite established."
Evidently Carney's reminder that the Congress has some say when it comes to economic issues did not satisfy Milbank. In the conclusion to his WaPo piece, Milbank muses about Obama's seemingly feckless leadership: "That is the enduring mystery of Obama's presidency. He delivered his statement on the economy beneath a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, but that was as close as he came to forceful leadership. He looked grim and swallowed hard and frequently as he mixed fatalism ("markets will rise and fall") with vague, patriotic exhortations ("this is the United States of America").
'There will always be economic factors that we can't control,' Obama said. Maybe. But it would be nice if the president gave it a try."
Here's the real mystery: where was Milbank and his White House press colleagues during the debt debate? They clearly weren't in Washington, or they wouldn't be urging the president, to paraphrase Milbank's words, to give it the old college try. Instead, they would be explaining to their readers that when Carney defended his boss by, in Milbank's words, uttering "something about the founders and the separation of powers" Carney was actually writing Milbank's lead. But Milbank evidently views references to the Constitution as a possible explanation for Obama's "failure to lead" as too esoteric for his readers. Far better to blame it on Obama's lack of a "fire in the belly". Shades of Drew Westen!
Where's the "most powerful man in the world"? I suspect that he's in the White House, talking to Lincoln's portrait about how a White House press corps hungry for news seems determined to make an impossible job even harder.


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Much of what Bush discusses in his essay presages present conversations about information overload, filtering, and our restless "FOMO" — fear of missing out — amidst the incessant influx. Bush worries about the impossibility of ever completely catching up and the unfavorable signal-to-noise ratio.
More than half a century before blogging, Instagramming, tweeting, and the rest of today's ever-lowering barriers of entry for publishing content, Bush laments the unmanageable scale of the recorded "human experience"
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Is it just me or is the art getting even better? Souma has never looked as cool as in this chapter. That glare!
Rooting for him to kick that guy's ass, but it's not going to be that easy this time.
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Will he unleash the seal for yukihara skills!?
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Finally read chapter 21 and have to say that I disagree. I believe that the head chef really was a villain in this one.
Megu arrived at the desired result. What the alumnus did was channel scumbag teacher and failed her for not following his command word for word. Others probably failed because the dish is not to standard.
In fact Megu still created the same dish, the only difference is that she cooked the cauliflower differently.
If someone told you to count the apples in 5 crates with each of them having the same number of apples you'd have either choice of adding or multiplying.
What the alumnus did was add each apple individually.
What Megu did was count one crate then multiply by the number of crates.
Same answer right?
Then the alumnus fails her for not adding everything individually. That's the issue here.
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Then the very concept of the test itself is flawed. This indicates they are raising chefs who cannot cook with substandard ingredients, narrow-minded, and have no adaptability when things go wrong in the kitchen which it normally does in large scale star rated restaurants.
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No the desired result was for someone to choose the correct ingredients and cook the desired recipe. It never was about who is proactive and who isnt. In fact not all the chefs are proactive and it is the diference in personality and tastes that sometimes creates one of the most wonderfull tastes that have ever existed.
The head chef didnt prepare enough good ingredients for all the students so she choose to work with what she had, and made the most of the situation, if he treats them as workers then she definitely passes the exam. If he treats them as students then maybe there are grounds for what you said, but he even expressely said youre fired. At the very least there are not enough grounds to outright dismiss her like he has done.
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He deliberately included spoiled ingredients, it wasn't a mistake that he made. From that, you can see that the ones who move the fastest are going to get the good ingredients and those who take their time are bound for failure. It's pretty obvious what the examiner was trying to do with the test.
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Which is a pretty stupid thing to do if that examiner works in restaurant as a manager. If the client complained that the food taste different (although maybe it's still good) the one who'll take the brunt wouldn't be the chef since it's the managers fault for not providing fresh ingredients.
Also what's the point in purposefully trying to cut more students anyway? It's not like there's a cap limit for the graduates or something. He's just being plain asshole without valid reasons in doing it.
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that's why I said the logic of the test is wrong. As a chef, you can't just limit yourself to wanting the freshest of the freshest. There's nothing wrong with incorporating that spirit but not to commend the capacity to work around setbacks is a flaw. It's like he made the test with the intention that someone must fail. This does not promote how to be a chef, this just promotes how to be a jerk.
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As a I said before he is treating them as workers, and in this case she definitely qualifies.
And besides in an exam of school whether you are proactive or not does not matter, it matters your knowledge and abilities. And if he is going to make this an exam of school youre going to at least make sure there are enough ingredients for every person in the room.
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i'm the only one who think will not be weird if souma win? he is cooking since he was a child (10 years or more of experience) and was being tutored by his father that is one of best chefs in the entire world, i understand that the sempai is a good chef too but , just because Souma is not graduate does not mean that the sempai is superior in anyway ,for what i read Souma is already a chef and the school is just for him to gain experience to become a chef in the same level of his father.
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Had Megumi panicked and created a bad meal, then the aluminus chef would have been justified in expelling her.
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TBF technically he wanted a very specific taste from the dish which can only be obtained via fresh ingredients. And lets be honest when your applying for a job, university or even some school and everyone has he same academic level and overall proficiency your gonna end up filtering out people for arbitary reasons as everyone obviously can't get a place. Though in this case it does show she has ingenuity but does she actually have to go to that school, it's not like it's impossible for her to be a great chef without it.
Though it doesn't seem like there's much of reason to limit the space in that school outside of it's part of there prestige that only very few make it in the first place.
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Then you're making a case where it's wrong to improve upon something instead of copying the presented work as is. Surely that's the case in some places but what is the logic behind it? The incapability to take orders even though the orders themselves were flawed to begin with?
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Tuesday TOC
* As U-M fans, we've never enjoyed the Tosu "Fuck Michigan" salute more than in the picture below
* The flip side of that coin is two Buckeye guys getting all Brokeback with each other for some college hijinks.
* OU QB Rhett Bromar gets busted for drinking again by elite undercover basketball cops in Oklahoma
* The blame for all of Michigan's recent sporting woes rests with one man: Baggy. Find out why he's the root of the curse in the lastest edition of The Devil Speaks
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Nothing new is said, but it's an interesting read anyways:
Go Bucks!
- March 14, 2006 6:53 PM
- Yost said...
How does a Buckeye fan find something like that in the M student paper? Wow.
I thought finding half-naked Tosu co-eds was just a bit of good luck.
Anyhow, thanks for the link. Might have to comment on that.
- March 14, 2006 7:00 PM
A guy from Kalamazoo is friends with the guy who wrote it and posted the link on the O-Zone. Yes, for God's sakes, I'm a lurker over there. It's amazing between the hurling of insults at "scUM" what one can learn over there. It pays to know one's enemy well. That's why I read over here.
- March 14, 2006 9:04 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
I've got to say, the guy who wrote this letter is a raving idiot with no credibility. His only reasonable point is the first one - Tosu HAS passed us in most sports and Bill Martin - or someone more qualified - has to act. But his support is weak. Lloyd Carr is the worst game coach in the Big Ten? Is this why he was able to get two extra seconds to beat Penn State? Is this why we're 4-0 in OT? He's driven the football program into the ground? Two Big Ten titles over the last three years is hardly driving it into the ground. He's had one bad year. Yes, Tosu has dominated the series. The football program is far from perfect. But we're not Indiana either. Teams have bad years - look at Sparty hoops. And he should, because they're the measuring stick in the Big Ten, not Tosu. Yes, the basketball team falls way short, in both men's and women's. He rails about the hockey team - again, one "bad" year that most schools would kill for.
As I posted yesterday, the state of Michigan athletics is at, hopefully, a nadir. We're commented a lot about it on this site. But our points are well-measured and defensible. Not the ravings that appear in this letter to the Daily.
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LONGVIEW, Texas, November 18, 2013: Thanksgiving is not only a time to stop and reflect on what we are thankful for, it is also a time to show people how thankful we are for them. Seniors in their 70s, 80s and 90s at Buckner Westminster Place are planning on showing local firefighters just how thankful they are for their service by baking 36 homemade pies for their heroes to enjoy both at the station and at home. Residents will participate in a special baking session on Thursday, November 21 from 9:30 am to 11:00 am. After lunch, the residents will deliver the pies for Station 6 at 12:30 pm. Each of the 18 firefighters will get to choose a pie to take home to their families. The remaining 18 pies will remain at the station for each shift of firefighters to enjoy.
"I really enjoy baking and am excited to do it for the firefighters who sacrifice so much to make sure we are all safe," said 82-year-old Dorothy Graff, a resident of Buckner Westminster Place. "All of the ladies at Buckner Westminster Place are excited to participate in this baking project. We all feel really good about being able to show our thanks for them. This will be the first time I've made pies for anyone but my family. It makes me happy to think that the firefighters will be able to enjoy my pies at work and be able to take one home to share with their families."
Graff learned how to bake in high school in a cooking class and learned from her mother as well. Most of her pie recipes have been passed down to her from her mother. Her favorite pie to make is pecan pie, which she plans on making for the first responders. She also enjoys making pumpkin pies, sweet potato pies and mince meat pies. Graff and the other ladies at Buckner Westminster Place are eager to show their thanks through baking.
"The key to making a great pie is to make sure you make the crust right; it sets the tone for the rest of the pie," shared Graff. "My favorite part of baking is pulling the pastry out of the oven and seeing that it turned out real good. I really enjoy baking and sharing my homemade treats with others. Everybody likes dessert after a good meal. Recently, I have been working with a student from Panola College to teach her how to bake. It is great seeing how much pleasure she gets out of it. The first thing I taught her to bake was a pound cake. It turned out beautifully and she took it home to share it with her family. Next week I may have her help me with baking pies for the firefighters."
Graff said it is more fun for her to give than to receive. She grew up eating these pies, learned how to bake them and is now excited to share these joys with others who sacrifice so much.
"I cannot begin to imagine what it is like to sacrifice everything to ensure the safety of others," said Graff. "It is such a dangerous job and it is wonderful that they choose to serve us. My brother and my cousin served in World War II. My cousin did not make it home, as his airplane was shot down and never found. I always think about them when I give back to others who are also putting their lives on the line and it makes me feel good."
"The firefighters at station six are quick to get to the community when we need them and they are very caring toward the residents," said Wes Wells, executive director at Buckner Westminster Place. "The staff and residents are eager to show their thanks and give back to our local heroes who serve us every day. We have so much to be thankful for, so we feel this is one small way we can give back."
If you are interested in setting up an interview with Dorothy Graff, covering the baking of the pies or covering the delivery of the pies, please email email@example.com or call Lauren Witt at (214) 890-7912 ext. 42.
Buckner Westminster Place, a Buckner Retirement Services community, is a non-profit, faith-based senior living community offering 89 independent living apartments and patio homes for active adults aged 62 and above. In addition, the community offers a continuum of care including 30 assisted living apartments, 25 memory care support residences and 20 private bedrooms in the Green House® homes for skilled nursing care. Buckner Westminster Place is the only complete CCRC (continuing care retirement community) in Longview which accommodates these four levels of living and care as residents' needs change.
Located near the Longview Mall and just minutes from area medical centers, Buckner Westminster Place gives residents a beautiful way to live. The community includes a 16-acre lakeside setting with walking trails and spacious well-manicured grounds.
Residents enjoy delicious dining and warm fellowship in beautifully arranged dining rooms. The community also has an on-site life enrichment coordinator, chapel, full-time chaplain, on-site worship services, beauty/barber salon and weekly housekeeping/linen service.
A partnership with the Good Shepherd Institute for Healthy Living gives residents and staff access to a wellness center that includes classrooms, a resistance pool, a track and exercise equipment. The community provides transportation to the wellness center.
For more information about Buckner Westminster Place, please visit the community website at www.bucknerwestminster.org or call Blake Lambert at (903) 252-6736.
ABOUT BUCKNER RETIREMENT SERVICESBuckner Retirement Services, Inc. is one of the largest not-for-profit senior living organizations in Texas dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for senior adults and their families by promoting an active, healthy Christian lifestyle while maintaining their independence and dignity. Buckner Retirement Services is part of Buckner International, a global faith-based ministry serving more than 470,000 people each year in the United States and 18 countries worldwide.


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Given that your feet spend the best part of the year tucked away in some (admittedly rather dashing) brogues, it's easy to overlook their upkeep in favour of the body parts that are more often on display. By summertime, however, months of negligence and incessant pavement pounding will likely have turned your feet into a pair of hooves, something even you can't bear to get to grips with, let alone present to the world. Without the necessary preparatory measures, the simple act of donning a pair of sandals can therefore become a public offence. This season, don't let ingrown and discoloured nails, corns and calluses dull your sartorial edge. Here, I've compiled a few handy DIY tips to help make your sandals and flip-flops a viable, almost pleasurable option this summer.
Get a little too enthusiastic with the clippers and you could end up causing all sorts of podiatric problems. Not only does over-clipping - or, worse yet, picking - at the sides of your toes increase the risk of ingrown nails, but exposing too much flesh also leaves you wide open to infection. Trim the white part of the nail that extends beyond the nail bed - never risk going any deeper.
Spending a fortune on a pair of hi-tech trainers is a great way to upgrade your gym routine. Get the wrong fit - or even lace them up incorrectly - and you'll traumatise your toenails with persistent chaffing. Unsightly, bruised or sometimes completely non-existent nails are caused by the big toe forever rubbing up against the front of the shoe. Get fitted.
As bizarre as it sounds, your feet expand throughout the day - this is especially noticeable in hotter climes. The neat pair of kicks you slipped on at 9am may therefore end up being less accommodating by mid-afternoon. It's always advisable to get a professional to measure you up, even if you think you know your size. Failure to do so could land you with some nasty blisters from a bad fit.
More of a fashion faux pas than a podiatric disaster, sandals and socks are an absolute no-no. Even in an ironic, geek chic sort of way.


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World Week Ahead: Can Santa bring budget deal?
Article – BusinessDesk
Dec 24 (BusinessDesk) The focus on this holiday-shortened week on both sides of the Atlantic will remain keenly on the attempts to reach a US budget deal after talks ground to a halt.
World Week Ahead: Can Santa bring budget deal?
By Margreet Dietz
Dec 24 (BusinessDesk) – The focus on this holiday-shortened week on both sides of the Atlantic will remain keenly on the attempts to reach a US budget deal after talks ground to a halt.
There is just one week left to find a compromise acceptable to both Democrats and Republicans and prevent US$600 billion of tax increases and spending cuts that would probably tip the world's largest economy into recession in 2013.
Still, optimism remains that President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner will succeed.
"The markets still basically believe that something will be done," Sandy Lincoln, chief market strategist at BMO Asset Management US in Chicago, told Reuters.
Obama, too, believes something can still be done.
A plan can be achieved "whether it happens all at once or whether it happens in several different steps," the president said at the White House on Friday, according to Bloomberg News. "Call me a hopeless optimist, but I actually still think we can get it done."
After Boehner's failure to convince his own Republican colleagues to support a tax increase on individuals earning more than US$1 million, Obama said Congress should move forward on a narrower agreement that at least holds tax rates steady for 98 per cent of Americans, leaving the most politically divisive issues to be debated in the New Year.
US Treasuries received a boost on Friday, however, from the increased suspense.
"There may be a last-minute deal, but there has been a notable increase in risk in the markets," Adrian Miller, director of fixed-income strategies in New York at GMP Securities, told Bloomberg.
The House and Senate are on break until Thursday, perhaps giving both Democrats and Republicans time to rethink their positions.
Data released this week will offer fresh clues on the American housing market, which has shown promising signs of a sustained recovery, through the S&P Case-Schiller Home Price Index on Wednesday, New Home Sales on Thursday, and the Pending Home Sales Index on Friday.
Other reports due in the coming days include Consumer Confidence on Thursday and Chicago PMI on Friday.
Trading volume on Wall Street is expected to be low this holiday-shortened week. Markets close early on Monday and are closed on Tuesday for Christmas Day.
"I'm guessing it's going to be a low volume week. There's not a whole lot other than the fiscal cliff that is going to continue to take the headlines," Joe Bell, senior equity analyst at Schaeffer's Investment Research, in Cincinnati, told Reuters.
In the past five days, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 4 percent, the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 1.2 percent and the Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 1.7 percent.
Last week, the benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 Index gained 0.6 percent. Mario Monti, who resigned as Italian prime minister on Friday after parliament approved his government's budget for next year, is expected to clarify his future plans as early as Sunday. After initially saying he wouldn't run for office, Monti more recently appears to have been in campaign mode. EU leaders are keen for Monti — or at least the reforms he's initiated — to remain firmly in place.
Meanwhile, the Japanese yen extended its weakness against the greenback, dropping 0.9 percent for the week to 84.24 yen per US dollar, as the newly-elected Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party raised the spectre of further monetary easing.
"We are eventually heading toward 100 in [US] dollar-yen and maybe the other side of it — that's how significant this sea change in Japan is," Andrew Wilkinson, chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak in New York, told Bloomberg. "People will still believe that something has to give with the fiscal-cliff debate. I am still banking on strong US growth next year."
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1. Did you figure out right away that they were on their way to prom or did you, like Bella, have something else in mind?
Yeah, at that point it was pretty obvious where he was taking her.
2. If you haven't read the extended prom remix at Stephenie's site, I encourage you to do so right now. If you have read it, do you think the shorter version is better? What parts of the extended version do you think should have been left in the book and why?
I haven't read that yet, but I will right now if I can find it.
3. How did you feel about Jacob at the prom? And please, try to ignore any feelings you may have developed about him from New Moon. Remember at the end of Twilight, Jacob doesn't believe in the superstitions of his people and is only there to get parts for his car
I think it's overstepping a boundary on Billy's part, but he believes it is life or death for Bella. To an extent, Billy is right. He is Charlie's best friend, and he feels it his duty.
4. The last line of Twilight has confused many readers as they assume Edward bites her right then and there. Were you one of those people? Be honest! And how did you feel about that ending? If you read the book when it first came out, were you desperate for more? If you read the book recently, did you know there was a sequel and were already planning to read it?
I already had the sequel before I finished it. I knew there would be a lot more debate over changing Bella.


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2007 Chevy Avalanche Z71 Review - Long Term ReportPosted in Vehicle Reviews on March 1, 2009
A full year has passed and our Avalanche had almost 25,000 miles put on it by our road warriors before the representatives from Chevrolet showed up at the office to retrieve the keys. During its stay, our Avalanche regularly rolled on more than 5,000 miles a quarter, proving that our picky staffers preferred the Avalanche for their longest trips.
It is easy to see why when you take into account a smooth-riding coil-sprung rear suspension, a roomy interior with supple leather seats, and a rear-seat entertainment system for the kids. Kudos about the Avalanche on the highway flowed freely throughout the year.
One of the best things about our Avalanche for long trips was the nearly 500-mile range, thanks to a potent and fuel-efficient 5.3L OHV V-8 and a four-speed automatic transmission. While we didn't quite see the 20 mpg promised on the window sticker, we did average just short of 15.5 mpg over the course of the year, with a best tank of 18.36 mpg.
Maintenance was also easy, only requiring a service every 8,000 miles or so, depending on the maintenance indicator.
Off the highway, the Avalanche was a competent trail rig with the Z/71 package that included suspension upgrades, a locking rear diff, 18-inch wheels and tires, skidplates, and a high-capacity air cleaner. It regularly took us off the beaten path, and while it isn't the rig of choice for the Rubicon, it would gladly tow our Willys there.
We also loved the bed, using it much more than we thought we would. Although the midgate never did see much exercise, we appreciated the weather-resistant tonneau cover that produced lockable storage, which served as a giant trunk on our test rig.
Only a few negative comments popped up over the course of the test, such as a sluggish rear-vision camera that was slow to boot, often coming on too late for the driver to make use of it. We also had a mysteriously intermittent dash rattle that came and went on its own accord, and a midgate that started speaking to us toward the end of the test. We also experienced an erratic tire-pressure monitoring system that gave us low-pressure warnings on cold days and high-pressure warnings on hot days, and we longed for the General's new six-speed automatic throughout the test.
Those complaints aside, our Avalanched proved that it was a reliable, efficient and a deserving winner of the 2007 Four Wheeler Pickup Truck of the Year competition and coddled our staff in comfort and style for a year. While we wouldn't go as far as to call the Avalanche a real pickup, for those who need a more compact crew cab and have hauling needs beyond the typical SUV may just have found the right mix in Chevy's out-of-the-box SUT.
Report: 4 of 4
Previous reports: May '08, Aug. '08, Dec. '08
Base price: $36,040
Price as tested: $47,310
Four-wheel-drive system: Electronic knob activated, part-time with low range and auto settings
Long-Term Numbers
Miles to date: 24,578
Miles since last report: 5,060
Average mpg (this report): 15.19
Test best tank (mpg): 18.36
Test worst tank (mpg): 12.81
Problem areas: Radio popping, midgate creak
What's Hot, What's Not
Hot: Great range, good fuel economy, comfortable ride, small-block sound
Not: No six-speed, erratic TPMS, slow rear camera
Logbook Quotes
* "Radio developed an annoying pop from the speakers when the ignition is turned."
* "Traction control is really aggressive on loose dirt."
* "My dad said he really enjoyed this truck."
* "99-degree heat caused high front tire-pressure warning."
* "Just started getting a rattle from the midgate."


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I learned at an early age to spot moochers. When I was in 7th grade (no allowance and no income so any amount of money I had was quite dear), a classmate asked to borrow 50 cents for lunch (quite odd now that I think about it because her father made quite a bit of money while my parents did not). I loaned it to her. Before she paid that back, she asked to borrow another 50 cents for lunch. I loaned it to her. When I ran across her again, I asked her when she was going to pay me back the dollar she owed me; she said (I think she was lying), "I do?" When she asked me if she could borrow 50 cents again, I said, "No," and she never asked me again.I have a friend who twice had no cash on her when we went out to eat (and she knew in advance we were going out to eat). Both times, she asked me to cover her, and she'd pay me back. By the third time we were to go out to eat, she hadn't paid me back so I made sure to have exact change when we went out. Sure enough, she said, "Oh, I forgot to get cash; I only have my debit card." I said, "I have exact change so I can put down what I owe." I noticed, after that, she managed to have cash when we went out.
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You know the kid that everyone tagged at school, because you know she could never catch anyone?
That was me.
Anyway – not afraid of my Chinese burn, Yummy411 has tagged me. The cheek! On a Sunday too!
1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
I was 16, a teenager, busy eating hot pots and rice puddings, getting fat, wishing I could marry Ronan Keating. Wanted to know what this 'getting fingered' stuff that all the other girls were doing was (not allowed out at that age – and RIGHTLY SO!)
2. What are 5 things on my to-do list today?
I have to finish two freelance projects, I have to give a tv to my Nan, I have to start cleaning and tidying (moving house in 4 days and, no, not found anywhere else to live thanks for my genius, better half), and I need to write some complaint letters…oh and do a plan for my new website which my kind collegue is building me.
4. Places I've lived:
Manchester, England – and…Hong Kong for a little bit. Oh alright, it was a holiday. Sad, I know. I am planning to escape soon!
5. Things I'd do if I were a billionaire:
Buy Wentworth Millers love, buy a Buggati Veyron and drive it at 30 miles per hour and have a sticker on the bumper that says 'My other cars a Yaris', travel travel travel, go to Tokyo and clear every single beauty counter, start some orphanages and schools for little girls abandoned in China…mm there are lots of good causes around the world that would benefit. I would get a nose job, lipsuction, eye lift, eyelash implants, breast reduction…I'd go to vegas and play with Daniel Negranu. I'd hire Derren Brown to be my coach. I'd get a really heavy Hermes, iron lined bag and whack Victoria Beckham over the head.
6. People I want to know more about.
All those anono-mouse posters, anyone, everyone infact. I'm nosy.
Don't shout at me but I don't get how I tag other people – and anyway how do I know if they have been tagged or not *rubs eyes* wahhhhh helppppp!


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Press Release
On World AIDS Day, New Online Resource Illustrates Impact of Legal Environment on Gay Men's Health and Human Rights
November 29, 2011
Oakland, Calif. -- This World AIDS Day, as the United Nations Global Commission on HIV and the Law draws up its final recommendations, the Global Forum on MSM & HIV (MSMGF) urges national legislators around the world to review and repeal laws that undermine access to HIV services for gay men and other men who have sex with men (MSM). To help illustrate the connection between HIV and the law for this key population, the MSMGF has launched a new collection of resources that features case studies, toolkits and never-before-seen video testimonials from grassroots MSM advocates in Uganda, Zimbabwe and Cameroon.
"From laws criminalizing homosexuality in more than 70 countries to laws punishing non-disclosure of one's HIV status, punitive legal environments around the world prevent MSM from accessing life-saving services," said Dr. George Ayala, Executive Officer of the MSMGF. "This is a major problem for the HIV response among MSM around the world, in countries rich and poor alike."
The content of the archive was selected to make clear the connection between HIV and the law for this highly-impacted population, as well as provide grassroots organizations with tools to aid in legal advocacy for the health and human rights of MSM.
The website features the MSMGF's Specialist Submission to the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, made public for the first time. Drawing upon focus group interviews, published research and other sources, the report makes five recommendations for law-based action that would have a game-changing impact on the HIV response for MSM:
- Review and repeal laws that undermine the HIV response among MSM
- Address the inappropriate enforcement of laws that hinder access to HIV services for MSM, through coordination, education and training with the judiciary and law enforcement officials
- Establish laws that protect the health and rights of MSM, and bring perpetrators of violence and other human rights abuses against MSM to justice
- Implement know-your-rights campaigns, and create enabling environments in which individuals can lay claim to their rights
- Integrate the law as a core pillar in all National AIDS Reponses, and adopt a rights-based approach to the HIV response
"We know that laws and policies that uphold the human rights of gay men and facilitate their access to services are absolutely essential for an effective HIV response," said Dr. Ayala. "But real action to transform legal environments has been bogged down by fear, stigma, and a lack of political will to take on the tough issues. Courageous activists have continued to raise their voices in this struggle, often at great personal expense to themselves and their families. We call on all Member States of the United Nations to heed the call of civil society, and recognize that the human rights movement is the HIV movement."
The online archive can be accessed on the MSMGF's website at www.msmgf.org/law.
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Long hair is the beauty of the women. Most of the Indian girls own the pride to have black silky long hair. We feature the beautiful long hair pictures and videos of Indian girls and women including long hair combing, braiding, washing,shampooing, oiling, plays,drying, brushing and actress.
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The recent shooting in Arizona has focused people's attention even more onto Iowa's new gun law. Keokuk County Sheriff Jeff Shipley says they haven't run into a problem so far issuing gun permits, but he is getting responses to the gun law. Shipley says part of the public is saying that you are arming respectable people to protect themselves against criminals, and you also have people unnerved about people being allowed to carry weapons. Shipley says they should take a wait and see approach and see what problems pop up with the new gun law.
Jefferson County Sheriff Jerry Droz says the way he sees it there are a lot of holes in the new gun law with a lot of unanswered questions. Droz says what he sees happening is someone taking a county to court saying they have the right to bear arms on county property. He says he has received a lot of questions about the law not only from the public but from officers as well.