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Lions' quarterback Matthew Stafford is just 287 yards away from breaking the team's career passing mark.
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ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Matthew Stafford's latest highlight had more to do with his wits than his arm.
With Detroit trailing by six and seconds ticking away, Stafford could have simply spiked the ball to stop the clock. Instead he surprised the Dallas defense and even some of his own teammates by lunging forward and reaching the ball toward the goal line — and his 1-yard touchdown with 12 seconds left gave the Lions a win over the Cowboys two weekends ago.
If Stafford's risky move hadn't worked, the Lions might have run out of time, but their franchise quarterback is proving he can be trusted to make the right decisions with the game on the line.
"That was, in my opinion, one of the most impressive things I've ever seen any quarterback do. That was something out of a movie. You couldn't script it any better," receiver Nate Burleson said. "If that wouldn't have worked, could you imagine the backlash he would have gotten? What I love is that he didn't care."
The 31-30 victory over the Cowboys on Oct. 27 enabled the Lions to enter their open date on a positive note. Detroit (5-3) is now in a three-way tie atop the NFC North with Green Bay and Chicago.
Stafford enters this week's road game against the Bears with a chance to become Detroit's career passing leader. He trails Bobby Layne by only 286 yards.
"Obviously, any time you break a record it's a humbling experience," Stafford said. "It's not like I'm going out there trying to break a record, I'm trying to win a game. But if I do so in the process, obviously I have a lot of respect for the history of this game and this franchise too, so it's something that, when and if it happens, I'm sure I'll reflect on it after the fact."
The Lions drafted Stafford with the top pick in 2009, but after two injury-filled seasons, he needed surgery on his right shoulder. He hasn't missed a start since then, and questions about his durability have faded.
"Obviously, I didn't like missing games my first two seasons," Stafford said. "I knew it would get back to normal soon enough."
In 2011, Stafford threw for 5,038 yards and 41 touchdowns, leading the Lions to a 10-6 record and a playoff berth. He passed for 4,967 yards last season, but the Lions went 4-12, and Stafford threw for only 20 TDs with 17 interceptions.
So he still had a lot to prove in 2013, especially since he entered this season with a 1-22 record against teams that went on to finish above .500.
This year, the Lions have beaten Chicago and Dallas, who at least at this point have winning records. The second of those victories came in exactly the type of situation when a quarterback needs to show poise. With no timeouts remaining, the 25-year-old Stafford drove the Lions 80 yards in 50 seconds, finally scoring on his game-winning sneak.
"He's smart when it comes to the sport of football," Burleson said. "What you can't coach is his ability to make certain throws. What's improving on a daily basis is his intelligence."
Stafford and wide receiver Calvin Johnson have continued to post impressive numbers despite injuries to some of the team's other targets. Burleson is hoping to rejoin Detroit's offense soon. The veteran wide receiver hurt his arm in a car crash in late September, but he was at practice Tuesday — although coach Jim Schwartz said the team won't rush him back to a game if he's not ready.
"I've got to be smart," Burleson said. "If it was up to me I'd go out and risk it, but that's not necessarily the right thing to do always."
Stafford's career is a good example of how much patience a player has to have when he's hurt. In his second year in the league, he played only three games — but now he's about the surpass Layne's team record.
Stafford's peak may be still to come.
"I think there's a lot of other accomplishments that Matt has in front of him, other than being the career passing leader for the Detroit Lions. He's 25 years old," Schwartz said. "I don't think that record is going to be the hallmark of his career. There's a lot of other great things ahead of Matt Stafford."
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British chart-topper Jessie J is being sued by an American singer, who claims that her hit single Domino copies one of his band's songs.
According to Billboard, Will Loomis has accused the 24-year-old of using significant portions of his 2008 track Bright Red Chords by his band Loomis and the Lust for Domino, which was released last year.
The website reports that California-based Loomis has named Jessie J (real name Jessica Cornish), Universal Music Group, Lava Records and Universal Republic Records as defendants in the lawsuit.
"Mr Loomis never consented to the use of his song and we look forward to obtaining an appropriate remedy from the court for this clear infringement," said his lawyer, Chris Arledge, in a statement.
"Will Loomis is a rising star in the music business," the singer's lawyers claimed in legal documents filed to the United States District Court on Monday, reports The Guardian.
"[Bright Red Chords] is among Loomis's most popular [songs]. It was written in 2008 and rapidly gained popularity."
They also claimed that Jessie J and her co-songwriters "willfully infringed" on Bright Red Chords' copyright, and sold "millions of copies of their derivative work" resulting in "significant ill-gotten commercial advantage".
Loomis uploaded a mash-up comparing the two songs to YouTube in April, but the video has since been blocked on copyright grounds.
In a post on his band's Facebook page, Loomis wrote: 'When I wrote this melody in my garage I never imagined it would be sung for the King and Queen of England and I especially never imagined it would be sung by Jessie J.'
Jessie J performed Domino at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee concert earlier this month.
Loomis is seeking a jury trial and at least US$150,000 in damages.
Reps for Jessie J told BBC News that they would not currently be commenting on the case.
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After 16 weeks of rigorous training, demanding course work and character-building, 38 cadets graduate from the 55th Minnesota State Patrol Training Academy Monday, May 19 at Mariucci Arena at the University of Minnesota.
After 16 weeks of rigorous training, demanding course work and character-building, 38 cadets graduate from the 55th Minnesota State Patrol Training Academy Monday, May 19 at Mariucci Arena at the University of Minnesota.
The new Troopers range in age from 21 to 43 years old, and include 12 military veterans and 13 with prior law enforcement experience. The group has a marathon runner, a pilot, a college instructor and four born outside the U.S. The class also includes two former college athletes, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot and people who have worked in the fishery, pharmaceutical and auto mechanics industries. One new trooper was a member of the U.S. Army Old Guard – the oldest active duty regiment in the army. The Old Guard conducts full honor ceremonies for the President, visiting dignitaries, graveside at Arlington National Cemetery and standing guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers.
"These new Troopers are dedicating their professional lives to serving the citizens of Minnesota and making our roads safer," said Lieutenant Colonel Matt Langer, acting chief of the Minnesota State Patrol. "This graduation ceremony not only recognizes their accomplishments, it also thanks their families who have supported and encouraged the cadets through this process."
Since January 27, the cadets have lived at Camp Ripley while training and learning about motor vehicle crash investigation, traffic law, emergency vehicle operations, firearms and scenario-based training. Cadets' hands-on training included mapping and reconstructing crash scenes, learning how to deploy tasers and self-defense tactics. They were awakened at midnight to better understand the urgency and unpredictability of crash investigations. Cadets are coached on the character-driven core principles of the State Patrol: respect, integrity, courage and honor. Instructors teach leadership skills and emphasize service and lifelong learning.
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Denver Museum of Nature & Science Field Report from
Snowmass Village: Thursday, November 11, 2010
Note to Reporters and Editors: Every afternoon,
the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will issue an update
about the fossil excavation taking place at Ziegler Reservoir near
Snowmass Village, Colorado. In addition to this e-mail, watch for
another e-mail with links to the still images shot today, and a
third e-mail that will allow you to download video.
Today: Excavation crews from the Denver Museum of
Nature & Science are racing to wrap up work on the Ice Age
fossil dig site at Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village as
winter weather moves in. If all goes well, work at the site should
be completed for the season in the next few days.
Today, Museum photographer Rick Wicker is working with the dig
crews excavating the original Columbian mammoth fossil discovered
on October 14. Wicker is carefully photographing the bone bed so a
three-dimensional visualization of the original position of the
fossils can be created on a computer. He will also take photos as
each bone is removed from the pile so scientists in the lab can
understand exactly where every bone was located while in the
After they are washed in the conservation lab, scientists will
closely inspect the mammoth fossils to determine how the animal
died, and what happened to it after it died.
Also today, excavation crews are working fast to clear a new bone
bed that was exposed yesterday afternoon after they removed a
seven-foot American mastodon tusk from the ground. Thus far, crews
have recovered fossils from an American mastodon, an Ice Age
bison, and an Ice Age deer. The real find in the pile is one of the
smallest pieces recovered-a well-preserved sloth tooth.
Museum scientists also received the results of the first
radiocarbon tests this morning. Samples taken from a piece of wood
found next to an American mastodon skull in the lowest layer of the
dig site are "radiocarbon dead," meaning that there is so little
radioactive carbon 14 left in the specimen that it is no longer
measurable. This is evidence that the lowest layers of the
excavation site are more than 43,500 years old. Additional testing
and analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey may provide more answers
to the specific age of the layers in the fossil site.
Media Availability: Dr. Ian Miller, Dr. Steve
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Hotmail is now totally unusable on K-Meleon 1.6.0, with windows XP SP2. Sounds like I have more or less exactly the same problem as the gentleman above me said.
Soon as you have signed in... hotmail goes to create a blank new email of its own accord(!) and you cannot click out of that or do anything... you're just stuck. I haven't tried it with 1.5.4, but I suspect it will be as bad or worse. From memory I deliberately went with 1.6 because it could still handle hotmail, as well as the fast loading and good toolbar layout.
Can anything be done about this soon folks? Please get back to us soon. I am not keen on Opera but I'm being forced to use it just to access my hotmail currently
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The recent decline in aircraft retirement ages will not last, an international aircraft leasing company has concluded in a study designed to rebut reports that it says could unfairly lower the valuation of jets and drive up financing costs.
"Sound bites are not an appropriate source of information on which to base decisions about financing," says Dick Forsberg, head of strategy for Dublin-based Avolon, which has 164 aircraft in its portfolio.
Questions about the retirement age trend have gone beyond sound bites. An Aviation Week Intelligence Network worldwide fleet analysis through the first half of this year found that the average and median age of commercial jets being retired each year is dropping to its lowest level in two decades. Parts suppliers tell Aviation Week they are keeping closer tabs on retirement rates by aircraft type to protect themselves against early retirements that are creating parts surpluses. Some businesses, such as Marana Aerospace Solutions, are increasing their part-out services to take advantage of higher demand.
Aviation Week's Commercial Aviation MRO Forecast (CAMRO) foresees the average retirement age for widebody aircraft falling to 22.5 years in 2020—the lowest since 1993—based on historical trends, projected maintenance requirements and the expectation that an airline will not want to incur large costs for maintenance when it plans to retire an aircraft within a couple of years.
CAMRO, however, projects that narrowbody average retirement ages will stabilize between 26 and 29 years for the rest of the decade following a sharp drop to below 26 in 2011.
The apparent trend has led to calls for a shorter depreciation period than the current standard, under which aircraft are depreciated to 15% residual value over a 25-year period.
Avolon's study looked at retirement trends over the past half century for more than 30,000 aircraft, finding an average age of nearly 26 years, with 60% of delivered aircraft still in service at 25 years. Avolon acknowledges some recent declines, especially for single-aisle aircraft, driven by high fuel prices, higher fuel-efficiency options and market demand for spare CFM56 engines that has made parting out the aircraft more valuable.
But Avolon contends this is a blip, not a trend. For example, the Airbus A320 family and Boeing 737 Classic fleets are relatively young, so airlines retiring the oldest and least efficient of those aircraft are driving down the average, it says; by the time the airlines get around to retiring the younger ones, it says, most will exceed 25 years.
The lower retirement age right now "is simply a consequence of the youthfulness of the current fleets," Forsberg asserts. Even with Avolon's projection that more than 350 aircraft under the age of 15 years will be retired over the next 10 years—more than double recent "premature retirement" trends--the average retirement age over the next decade will top 25, it says.
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In his elections, Nixon appealed to conservatives and the country as a culture warrior who was not a moral or religious conservative. "Permissiveness," he told key aides, "is the key theme," and Nixon pressed that theme against hippie protesters, tenured radicals and liberals who bad-mouthed America. This kind of secular, tough-on-crime, tough-on-communism conservatism gathered a "silent majority" that loved Nixon for the enemies he made.
By this standard, Giuliani is a Nixon Republican. He is perhaps the most publicly secular major candidate of either party -- his conflicts with Roman Catholic teaching make him more reticent on religion than either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. But as a prosecutor and mayor of New York, he won conservative respect for making all the right enemies: the ACLU, advocates of blasphemous art, purveyors of racial politics, Islamist mass murderers, mob bosses and the New York Times editorial page.
July 18, 2007
Giuliani ≈ Nixon?
41 comments:
- B said...
. . . he won conservative respect for making all the right enemies: the ACLU, advocates of blasphemous art, purveyors of racial politics, Islamist mass murderers, mob bosses and the New York Times editorial page.
Hmmmm . . . the ACLU? It sometimes does actual good work, so . . . the ACLU really isn't anti-American.
Advocates of blasphemous art? "I know pornography when I see it . . ." Blasphemers will one day meet their maker, so, that's their problem.
But the rest of the list should be recognized as enemies of every American - the writer just got the order wrong.
- Gahrie said...
People often overlook just how liberal Nixon was as president.
In foriegn policy, he believed in detente, which conservatives saw as appeasement. He also opened relations with communist China.
In domestic policy he created the EPA, DEA,and OSHA, and instituted federal affirmative action programs. He increased Social Security payments and indexed them to inflation.
- desiderio said...
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Les felicito su claridad en su idioma. Yo apenas hilo el tema en su idioma, pero noto perfectamente su sentido moral.
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- ron st.amant said...
I'd agree, somewhat, with the comparisons as both were/are seen as primarily (pardon the pun, Fred Thompson) law and order candidates...
However, Nixon ran (in his victorious campaign) as someone who would end the war (something Giuliani hasn't said). Nixon also had anti-communist bona fides AND decades of foreign policy experience. There really isn't such a thing as having a Nixon-like track record on terrorists, nor does Giuliani have ANY foreign policy experience, certainly nowhere near the level of Nixon. Perhaps the fact that no one in the race, on either side that I can think of, has any experience on that level makes the point less dramatic? I'm not sure.
On a purely domestic policy basis I can see similarities, somewhat.
- B said...
mi: 12 years of French, O of Spanish.
I believe that you are talking about the highly mascara-ed critics?
- Eli Blake said...
I'm with B,
It's easy to tee off on the ACLU, and conservatives often do so almost without thinking about it any more, but let's face it:
The threats to and erosion of our Constitutional rights are all over and from many angles. If the ACLU wasn't keeping watch then who would be? Keep in mind that we live in a country where just in the past few years we've seen the authorization of secret tribunals with secret evidence, the indefinite detention without charge of a citizen, and the 'no-fly' list with no way to tell if you are on it, no way to get off of it and its misuse in order to restrict the travel of people for political rather than security reasons (i.e. the inclusion of Kerry campaign contributors and Senator Kennedy on the list).
And frankly, neither frontrunner in this campaign is any friend of your Constitutional rights, nor has any President since Carter been one. That's a quarter century of continuous and steady pressure against individual rights and freedoms.
- Simon said...
Well, Nixon nominated William Rehnquist, so maybe there's something to be said for that. I seem to remember Ann indicating that she had concluded that Scalia isn't especially interested in federalism (a point I'm hard-pressed to refute), Alito -- who replaced O'Connor, who was interested in federalism, even if I didn't always agree with her approach to it -- has given us reason to think he may not be particularly interested in it (the blood-chilling citation to Garcia earlier this term), and I watched an ACS forum recently whereat someone - I think Dahlia Lithwick - said that Roberts would be very like Rehnquist except Roberts isn't really interested in federalism so much.
I find all this troubling. And it seems to me that of all the candidates, Guiliani -- the social liberal but legal conservative -- seems most likely to appoint judges who are interested in federalism, because he has more skin in that game than the other candidates. This is a half-formed germ of a thought, but if he compares to the President who nominated Rehnquist, perhaps we can hope that he would nominate a Justice who has similar interests, if only out of self-interest.
- Revenant said...
The threats to and erosion of our Constitutional rights are all over and from many angles. If the ACLU wasn't keeping watch then who would be?
About three zillion other rights-advocacy groups that don't have the ACLU's political baggage -- many of which have much better judgment about which fights are worth picking.
It is far from obvious that having the ACLU on your side in an argument over your rights is a good thing for the rights in question. As an atheist I think an excellent case can be made that the ACLU's quixotic campaigns against the tiniest expressions of religious sentiment have the long-term effect of making BIG violations of church-state separation inevitable. Even if the majority is in the wrong (and I think that, as a point of first-amendment law they are), you can only offend the sensibilities of a supermajority of the population for so long before you get them riled up enough to force their will into law. Every time some jackass lawyer gets Christmas decorations banned from a town square I grit my teeth and wait for the backlash -- which is always worse than the oh-so-terrible sight of (gasp) a decorated pine tree and a neon cross.
- Mike said...
No way, no how, was Richard Nixon a conservative.
No way, no how.
- Gahrie said...
Eli Blake: The ACLU has only opposed three supreme Court nominations since it was formed. Care to guess who they were?
I'll break the suspense...Rehnquist, Bork and Alito.
While I wouldn't go so far as to call the ACLU anti-American, it was founded by socialists, anarchists and other radicals. It hasn't strayed far from its roots since.
- Revenant said...
Oh, one other thing:
the 'no-fly' list with no way to tell if you are on it
Er, there's a very easy way to tell if you're on it: they don't let you fly. Ted Kennedy wasn't on the list -- the name "T. Kennedy" was, but as an alias for a different man. Kennedy had to demonstrate that he wasn't the man in question.
In any case, how is this an example of the ACLU doing good? All the ACLU has done about the no-fly list is collect $200,000 in attorney fees for a lawsuit they settled out of court. The list itself remains in effect, the means by which people end up on it remains unknown, and the contents of the list remain secret. I'm sure the ACLU lawyers in question are enjoying their new Porsche, but how does that help *us*?
- Beth said...
They left out "9/11 first responders."
- Sloanasaurus said...
Seems like a hit piece to me.
Maybe we can refer to Obama as a Huey Long Democrat.
- EnigmatiCore said...
We're making progress when the leading Republican is compared to Nixon rather than to Hitler.
Get ready for Clinton/Obama against Giuliani/Thompson (or Thompson/Giuliani).
Edwards and Romney, the suddenly-I'm-more-progressive-than-anyone against the suddenly-I'm-the-true-conservative, can battle for best hair in a failed candidate.
- EnigmatiCore said...
"the writer just got the order wrong."
Maybe the order is in increasing badness, rather than the opposite?
- EnigmatiCore said...
Ann, if I can make a suggestion for your readers of an interesting subject, I present this article.
Love Justice Jill Parish's comment:
"The primary fail-safe against the absurd application of criminal law is the wise employment of prosecutorial discretion, a quality that is starkly absent in this case," Parrish wrote in a footnote."
We spend so much time focused in on the heads of the executive branch, maybe we should spend quite a bit more time considering the prosecutors. From the ones out in Utah, to Nifong, to many others, I wonder if we are doing ourselves any favors with our focus merely on 'the top'.
- Synova said...
"We're making progress when the leading Republican is compared to Nixon rather than to Hitler."
(I just had to read that again.)
- Cedarford said...
Adding to some of Nixon's other policies that were hardly conservative - but bold:
1. Unilaterally ending the arms race for bioweapons.
2. Unilaterally ending American use of chemical warfare agents.
3. Declaring the Federal Government would commit to a War on Cancer, horifying those who said the "genius of the market and private medical research was the only acceptable kind in a "free country". (Still a work in progress).
4. Creation of the Volunteer Military, ending the Draft.
5. Strong support for the Amendment for lowering the
voting age to 18.
6. Strong support for NASA's greatly expanding the unmanned space exploration program.
7. Rejecting all his advisors and deciding to confront the Soviets and bail out Israel in the 1973 War.
8. Managing to finesse the extraction of America from Vietnam in a way that did not give China or the Soviets a great victory.
His downside:
1. Personality disorders that eventually forced his resignation. He was unable to get past the hatred he had for his critics - many who were just as flawed in personality but were safe in the MSM - and who had been gunning for Nixon ever since he had helped end Soviet communist influence in critical US sectors. Commmunists who happened to be friends and relatives of NIxon's harshest critics.
2. Wage and price controls.
3. Affirmative Action.
4. Inability to form lasting relationships with elements of Congress that he should have, coupled with a secretive management style.
Giuliani can do a lot worse than being compared to being a Nixon Republican. And as far as faith goes - Nixon was just like all the rest of the Presidential Republican luminaries except Bush II. Personally, they were believers and Christians - Taft, Eisenhower, Goldwater, Reagan, Bush I, Dole - but didn't wear it on their sleeves or grovel to the Fundies like Bush II has. Not even Reagan. He pandered to the Religious Right, but he was never their bootlicker. They were just useful to him.
And Nixon? One of the smartest 4 Presidents along with Jefferson, Madison, and Bill Clinton. Genius and vision sadly misdone by his own flaws. He will be looked on as our Cromwell - a near-great leader, but for his demons. He rehab'd himself pretty well after resigning the Presidency as a prolific writer and advisor to various world leaders, generals, and all Presidents but Jimmy Carter before his death - and proof that the Commies the Left defended were in fact in bed with the Soviets helps.
It takes a Harding, Jimmy Carter, or Bush II to make you appreciate the competent ones like LBJ, Nixon, Bush I, Truman, and Clinton a little more.
Nixon will continue to rise in reputation. Already signs exist the demonization of the Dickster is fading when someone like Arnold Schwarzenegger running for Governor had the balls to explain to audiences he decided to be a Republican after watching Nixon - thinking what Nixon said he wanted to do and why made perfect sense to him. (And when more than a few leaders say Bush has made such a mess overseas that even Nixon would have a hard time fixing it if he was resurrected)
- Bea Arthur said...
What's this in here? Spanish spam? It's called "chorizo." Great with eggs for breakfast if you want to wake up your taste buds and clog your arteries. Mayor Bloomberg would not approve. You'll have a heart attack and screw up the City ambulance budget.
Anyway, I love these hatchet jobs. "R. Milhous Giuliani." Newspaper to brain: Giuliani=Nixon. That's all you have to remember.
And who made Michael Gerson the Cardinal? He's going on about how the "nice" Catholic Church (not like the "evil" Catholic Church of child abuse and misogyny) has all these wonderful moral positions that Rudy walked away from. Rudy may not be the best Catholic. I'm not the best Jew. Who cares? God? Whoops! I should spell that "G-d" if I want to start being a good Jew.
And I don't know which is worse as far as your basic blow-dried Southern preacher in a brown polyester suit is concerned: Being a good Catholic, or not being one. "Behold the Man of Sin, Child, ye POPE," says one of those old Protestant primers. A bit like something Hamas puts out today talking about Israel. Anyway, I get the impression that that Rudy isn't going to be on his knees begging forgiveness any time soon. And I frankly think most people won't care.
Giuliani may be a Nixon Republican, but at least he's not a sweaty liar. Remember "Tricky Dick?" Remember, "Would you buy a used car from this man?" Guiliani has absolutely nothing in common with that sad sonofabitch, other than he's tough on crime and "secular."
You've got to hand it to him, though, Nixon knew a lot about crime, especially breaking-and-entering.
Nixon liked to pretend he was a hardass, cursing with the boys and talking tough. Giuliani really IS a hardass.
Now I'm not totally ga-ga over Rudy Giuliani. Despite being so tough and all, he can be a real needy guy sometimes. There also are a lot of things to complain about that are hard to follow for someone outside of NYC. Let's just say his welfare reforms, for example, were not greeted with total joy. And he sure knows how to spend money and sweep it under the rug.
If I had to elect a president for World War III, Rudy would be it. If I had to elect a president for "normal" times, it's Sen. Clinton. And if I had to elect the president from Hell, it would be anybody else.
Now, if someone would only tell me when WWIII starts.
- Revenant said...
Declaring the Federal Government would commit to a War on Cancer, horifying those who said the "genius of the market and private medical research was the only acceptable kind in a "free country". (Still a work in progress).
To echo the local lefties, just how long does a war have to last before we admit that launching it was a bad idea?
The "war on cancer" is older than many of the people in this thread and has thus far yielded up no victories and no cure. We've spent a lot of tax dollars and gotten nothing back. Leaving it to the market would, in hindsight, have been the much more intelligent thing to do, since at least then the money being spent would have been being spent by willing volunteers rather than by the forcibly taxed.
- Bruce Hayden said...
The ACLU then is not the ACLU now. I even belonged for awhile, until they started taking positions based on political correctness over civil liberties here in CO. David Bernstein in his book "You can't say that" has an interesting chapter on the group explaining that much of what appears schizoid about the group is really their decentralized nature. Thus, you can have one chapter pushing civil liberties and the one in the next state over picking their cases on the basis of liberal political correctness.
While the parallel was made between Giuliani and Nixon, the parallels should not be missed between Hillary and Nixon. Remember, Hillary helped bring Nixon down. But they share several traits, notably their paranoia and wiliness to destroy their opponents. Both have or had enemies lists and both seem willing to use the levers of government against them.
- LoafingOaf said...
And Nixon? One of the smartest 4 Presidents along with Jefferson, Madison, and Bill Clinton.
If Clinton is so brilliant to be listed alongside Jefferson and Madison, why is it that - unlike those two - I can't think of anything brilliant or great that Clinton ever did, said, or wrote. He had 8 long years in the White House, years as an ex-prez, and a very long book, yet there's nothing brilliant to speak of whatsoever.
The reasons people think Clinton is brilliant is because he brown-nosed his way into a Rhodes scholarship, he's got political skills, and Democrats in the media constantly say they're in awe of him at cocktail parties.
No one is going to consider Clinton brilliant when the people who celebrity-worshipped him in his time are dead. Instead of studying any great acts he did in office, they'll study how he was dumb enough to get impeached, how Islamic Jihad grew to a major world threat to the free world on his watch, and why he had Albright remove UN peacekeepers from Rwanda right before one of the history's worst genocides.
Madison and Jefferson will still be studied as brilliant men, and influencing people - worldwide - 200 years from now, because they actually did, said and wrote brilliant things. That's how you know someone is brilliant, not because his shills and fans tell you you should just take their word for it.
He will be looked on as our Cromwell - a near-great leader, but for his demons.
I wasn't aware Nixon rehabbed himself. How does a war criminal and the most crooked president in history do that? Next are you gonna say Saddam Hussein wasn't so bad after all, and maybe Iraq would be better off if they had him back? (Actually, a lot of people do say that....)
He rehab'd himself pretty well after resigning the Presidency as a prolific writer and advisor to various world leaders, generals, and all Presidents but Jimmy Carter before his death
Since when has Jimmy Carter rehabbed himself? When he was kissing the butt of Castro? When he helped North Korea get nukes? When he wrote a book that became a fave of Islamo-fascist anti-semites?
Carter is doing as much to America and the free world as an ex-president as he did as president. Even Alan Dershowitz - a hardcore liberal Democrat who used to be Carter's friend and once campaigned for him - recently referred to Carter as "the Neville Chamberlain of today's war between tyrannical, terrorist regimes and democracies" on his blog, a condemnation that has the ring of truth to me.
Some of you admire presidents way too much. I wish I could. The only one from Nixon's time forward I admire is Ronald Reagan. He did some shady stunts himself, and his policies in the Middle East haunt us, but I feel very secure saying my country and the world are better off because he was president.
I cannot say that about Nixon, Carter, Ford, Clinton, or W. Bush. (I have some mild respect for Bush's father, but he messed up pretty big by not finishing Saddam off. And I used to admire his son's backbone, and I suppose the jury's still out on some of his acts, but backbone doesn't mean much when you're incompetent and surrounded by incompetents.)
Maybe we need to learn from our mistakes as voters and raise our standards, instead of "rehabbing" crappy presidents and feeling satisfied when we're comparing the new crop of candidates to them. America remains a great country because of our system (thank you Jefferson and Madison) and our people, and in spite of the long line of lousy presidents we've had in recent decades.
- LoafingOaf said...
I meant: Carter is doing as much DAMAGE to America and the free world as an ex-president as he did as president.
- hdhouse said...
why not. both are/were commited liars. past that, who cares.
- Pogo said...
Gosh, if Giuliani ≈ Nixon?, there's just no way the hippies will vote for him now. So good one, WaPo! I guess that makes Hillary McGovern? Say, how did Nixon do against that McGovern guy anyway?
It's useless to make historical comparisons when the only real similarity seems to be a "tough-on-crime" attitude, and I don't see much alike here.
It would be like comparing Hillary to Carter because she's supposedly 'southern'.
More, Nixon was not secular. He once wrote to his parents, that "fundamental Quakers" had "ground into me...all the fundamental ideas in their strictest interpretation. The infallibility of the Bible, the miracles, even the whale story, all these I accepted as facts when I entered college four years ago."
The Friend's precepts helped form Nixon's vision of himself as the lonely, persecuted warrior surrounded by ruthless and evil enemies, and he had to be ruthless against them. More, his religious background propelled the sentinel event in Nixon's life, the Hiss case.
Giuliani has no such background.He and Nixon are Republicans. The comparison ends there.
- P. Rich said...
At a sufficiently high level of abstraction, any two people can be made to appear similar. I agree with Sloanasaurus: a hit piece, intended to create a Giuliani:Nixon association in small minds. H R Clinton and Obama are relatively immune from this tactic, of course, because both are so obviously different.
- Pogo said...
P.S. Every President from Wilson to FDR to Kennedy had committed the very same "crimes" and dirty tricks Nixon committed (including using the IRS to bully enemies, stealing documents, and illegally taping opponents).
It was only the MSM antipathy toward Nixon which provoked them to use this rather standard presidential modus operandi as a weapon, in their successful effort to overturn an election. The same MSM attacks were used against Bush, including using falsified stories, and to no small effect.
WaPo and NYT, the unelected deciders. And hdhouse, all Presidents are liars. Get over it.
- hdhouse said...
Pogo said...
"It was only the MSM antipathy toward Nixon which provoked them to use this rather standard presidential modus operandi as a weapon, in their successful effort to overturn an election. The same MSM attacks were used against Bush, including using falsified stories, and to no small effect."
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the end product of no moron left behind.
Tell me Pogo, can you read? do you have any idea of real history or do you just hope you get it right.
As said before, just when you think that the last bus has departed to Idiotville, up drives Pogo.
- Pogo said...
I can always count on hdhouse for a well-thought-out and documented rebuttal to an argument.
The pattern?
Pogo: Argument
hdhouse: Idiot!
P.S. My source for that claim you quoted is Paul Johnson's A History of the American People, final chapter. It's one of the finest American history books ever written, I think.
- Comrade X said...
Hillary is probably the most like Nixon. It's the paranoia & enemies lists, stupid.
We're making progress when the leading Republican is compared to Nixon rather than to Hitler.
If Hillary wins, the chickens will come home to roost on the last 6 years of Hitler blasts. There's already a HitleryClinton.com website.
- Cedarford said...
Pogo's right. Historians accept that JFK, LBJ, and FDR did smarmier things in office than Nixon. Truman brushed over the red line now and then with cronyism. Reagan had Contragate, and "Clinton=sleaze if he thinks he can get away with it" was the watchphrase of those days.
The difference was that Leftist MSM and academia had taken on a mission to "payback" Nixon, McCarthy, and J. Edgar Hoover for persecuting their friends and relatives and the great causes of Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs and the Blacklisted Hollywood 10. That Nixon&Co. were right about those folks being Soviet assets never diminished the fury.
If voters are convinced Giuliani is Nixon in terms of genius and vision....then he just might get the vote of Middle America. Hmmmm, effective detente with the Islamoids, extraction from Iraq with honor, ME stability, a range of bold, innovative domestic programs with an 80% success rate?
Sounds good, a bargain. As long as it comes with an effective Rudy "sleaze and inner demons" watch.
Loafing oaf - The inclusion of Nixon and Clinton in the list of the brightest few is from scholars that rated the quickness of mind, broadness of knowledge, vision of various Presidents. And those excluded from the top 4 or five can still be enormously intelligent - like Lincoln, Eisenhower, Hoover, Adams, and Wilson - but not quite at the level of the top tier.
Clinton is on the list because of his academic reputation, his broad knowledge, and effective vision..
Of the current candidates, Hillary and Romney are considered the smartest. By far. Whether that brightness translates into a substantial Presidency remains to be seen if either is elected.
- peter hoh said...
Andrew Sullivan has been comparing Hillary to Nixon.
start here.
- nick danger said...
hdhouse could be replaced by a tiny shell script.
- B said...
I would just like to take a moment to say that I like much about Fred Thompson - his stated views are closer to mine than any other candidate at this point - but does anyone else question his "fire in the belly" for the job? I just have this unsettled feeling . . .
- Richard Fagin said...
We really need to stop insulting Nixon's memory by having Hillary compared to him. Nixon just fired Elliott Richardson, not all 93 sitting U.S. Attorney's 'cuz his wife told him to. Kind of like asking Rush to stop using the word "feminazis" because REAL Nazis are truly insulted.
I am not aware of any plan by Giuliani to implement wage and price controls, either, if the comparison to Nixon were to continue.
- Theo Boehm said...
Nick: That's a point I've tried to make about a lot of alleged people on the Internet, but, sadly, not many have seemed interested. I guess you have to be something of a propellerhead and/or an AI freak to be intrigued.
- chickenlittle said...
peter hoh said:
"Andrew Sullivan has been comparing Hillary to Nixon."
He's been pumping Obama lately too (figuratively at least)
- hdhouse said...
Yo Pogo:
Johnson's history books are to fact as My Pet Goat is to....gosh fill in the blank.
I don't do what you say. You wrote:
Pogo: Argument
hdhouse: Idiot!
Unfortunately the sequence is:
Pogo: Utter nonsense
hdhouse: laughter
Yes you are an idiot if you think Johnson passes for fact. You are so predictably silly as to make the gods weep in shame.
- Pogo said...
Re; "Johnson's history books are to fact as..."
hdhouse is to empty rhetoric.
Fish. Barrel.
Really, house, is that meant to be some sort of criticism? Johnson has a massive output of well-researched history. His depth and breadth of knowledge, from literature to art to politics, is simply inspiring.
He exposes Howard Zinn's work as that of an irredeemable ideologue.
- LoafingOaf said...
Clinton is on the list [of most brilliant presidents in American history] because of his academic reputation, his broad knowledge, and effective vision..
I wasn't aware there was an official list ranking the brilliance of presidents that we're all obligated to accept.
I understand Clinton has the reputation of being brilliant. I heard more than a few Democrat pundits feeling sorry for him that he wasn't president on 9/11 and thus denied the chance to combine his brilliance with "great events." (I guess they don't realize that if Clinton had still been president on 9/11 he'd have been run out of the White House in short order and Democrats might not have won another election for a generation.)
Reputations aren't always true. Until I see some examples of his brilliance in his actions, accomplishments, and words, I'm not gonna accept it. What vision are you talking about? Hiring pollsters to tell him what to believe? Come on, dude.
The only time I ever hear Clinton quoted is in mockery of his blatant B.S. when he's squirming on a hook. Being a top BSer is a form of intelligence, but is that all it takes to rank with Jefferson as "brilliant"?
Of the current candidates, Hillary and Romney are considered the smartest. By far.
I don't know most of the candidates too well yet, but if I went by speeches alone, Obama is the smartest Democrat and Giulliani the smartest Republican. But did they even write their speeches? Maybe they're just good at delivering them. I have no idea.
Hillary's book was garbage, btw. And as brilliant as she is, she needed three ghost-writers.
You guys are political junkies and you probably wanna believe some of these politicians of our era are brilliant people to justify your high interest in politicians. I don't think we get many (or any) brilliant people in national politics anymore. Brilliant Americans of our time are people like...well, Steve Jobs seems brilliant to me. Macintosh, IPod, vision, creativity, accomplishment, influence. Changed the world! To him I'm in awe.
- Revenant said...
Of the current candidates, Hillary and Romney are considered the smartest. By far.
By who?


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Greenways Intermediate School's annual Muffins for Moms for students and their mothers will be from 7 to 8 a.m. Wednesday for fifth-graders and March 7 for sixth-graders in the school cafeteria, 8100 Pineridge St.
Candy Gibbs will present a program for parents about raising children in today's hostile environment from 8 to 9 a.m. Thursday. The school's book fair also will be open Wednesday and Thursday in the library.
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Conference topics will include legal issues related to patient and family wishes, understanding life-sustaining equipment and procedures, awareness of financial exploitation of patients, care for veterans and their families, care of indigent patients and refugees, and cultural perspectives affecting spiritual care, end-of-life care and bereavement by a diverse panel of local leaders.
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Canyon High School's Class of 1983 has scheduled its 30-year reunion during Labor Day weekend, Aug. 30 to Sept. 1.
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Matt Light, a member of Cisco's global sales team for hosted collaboration solutions, said one major pitfall he's seen is when partners stress the technical, rather than business, outcomes of using the cloud.
"Customers are buying business outcomes and the value their applications bring forward. They don't care if it's cloud, or whatever name we put on it. Sometimes the amount of marketing and hype that's around cloud can set off a red flag for folks," Light said. "That's where we need to change how we sell and really start to focus on those business outcomes, so when you are talking to a sales leader, it's not about 'Here's this service I'm going to bring,' it's 'What if I can shorten your sales cycle by one week?"
Light added, "Then you are taking these fluffy benefits, that are hard when you are selling, and you start to define those into real dollars."


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One thought I had was to make an offer of my seats plus some cash for the 142s. I'd pay for a few seat upgrade, and the seller would have tix he could sell plus some short term cash relief.
Seller, if you are out there shoot me a PM if interested
The Jets should start a PSL marketplace and charge like a nominal listing fee. With no transacton fee. I see a set of four in LGL in row 2 I would like to buy, but the 10% fee the seller has to pay ruins the deal. If I could get them 10% less I might pull the trigger.
Those on the aisle in section 142 by 140 for 15k, at 10% would only be $13,500.
Leaning towards moving to 232a. Sar buys hot dogs?
Passed on 133 row 30 aisle seats on 134 side. Those seemed like best seats around in TDC section right now.
So, Mezz A for a season or two and then who knows....
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Think I'll do 232a through Jets which allows me to "trade in" my 148 PSLs at what I paid. Again, I'll pay more for my 232 but won't lose on my 148 so almost a wash.
Plan to pay them down and maybe upgrade again later.
I'm sure if you went from a $10k PSL and wanted to move to a $15k PSL they would gladly let you make that move. Also if someone wanted your specific seats for some reason I'm sure then they would let you move.
I would strongly recommend not going through the Jets. there are deals on ebay and stadiumpsl.com where you can get good seats (or great seats) way below Jet PSL costs.
I got a seller through stadiumpsl.com to agree to transfer and sell me his PSL's. Now I need to send money to Choose Your Seat, Inc. which is the company running stadiumpsl.com
can anyone make me feel better and let me know if they had a good experience with this website and company? according to the Better Business Bureau they seem fine.
by the way, I purchased section 135 row 6 (which seems to be row 3 since the rows start at row 4 and not row 1) for a psl cost of 15,000 for two tickets. the game-day ticket price of the seats are a much better value than where I sit now.
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For those of you who are unfamiliar with Casefile Clues, it is a weekly How-To column of genealogy tips and advice. Michael uses his own research to walk us through various genealogy records, step by step. His analysis of the documents combined with in-depth explanations of what can be found and how to interpret the findings, is invaluable. Even if the specific set of records he discusses is not applicable to your ancestors, you can extrapolate his advice to your own genealogy challenges.
I asked Michael how long he's been writing Casefile Clues and he responded with
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Hello, my name is Maksym and I am applying for the Master Program to Oslo.
Here is my letter of motivation. I would be very thankfull to those, who will help me with making it right!
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I am a student of the Master Program in Finance at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. I want to get deep knowledge in the sphere of economics to be involved in the development of modern organizations and businesses, and to run my own business in the future. I would like to apply for the Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the Norwegian Business School.
It is the second year of the Master Program attended by me and it will be finished in June 2012. I already have a Bachelor Diploma in Finance, which was received in June 2010 at the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy after successfull defend of bachelor thesis and pass of the state examination. The topic of the Bachelor thesis was The currency market of Ukraine. In this thesis an econometrical model was developed to measure macroeconomic factors which affect the strength of Hryivna the most.
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Cape Cod Times with a Cape Cod League update:
Bryan Morgado of Tennessee was drafted in the third round by the White Sox last month, and has until Aug. 17 to sign. "They never told me a dollar amount. They said they'd follow me over the summer."
Morgado has opened a lot of eyes on the Cape with 18 strikeouts in eight innings, and allowed only three hits and two walks. He struck out 13 in five innings Monday night against Cotuit. That's basically just following his career form for the right-hander, who is throwing between 90-94 right now.
Morgado, as a high school senior, fanned 144 in 72 innings. But he underwent Tommy John surgery before his freshman year at Tennessee and was redshirted. …
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David Hasselhoff was right in front of me during NERO, got some pictures....
Upcoming Shows:
Fever Ray: 5/18 @ Metro
Radiohead: 7/07 @ United Center
Smashing Pumpkins: 8/19 @ Xcel Energy Center
Metallica: 9/02 @ Kohl Center
Metallica: 9/04 @ Target Center
Metallica: 9/08 @ Alerus Center
Riot Fest: 9/14-16 @ Douglas Park
Metallica: 10/16 @ Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center
Metallica: 3/09 @ KFC Yum! Center
I met TomAZ and Courtney. Those are my "claim to fame"s for the weekend
I saw Paris heading toward the Dumb Zone.
Earl Sweatshirt and most of OFWGKTA
David Hasselhoff
Katy Perry
Donald Glover (Childish Gambino)
Colin Hanks
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
Blake from Workaholics
Francis and Stevie from Malcolm in the Middle
Saw into Josh Homme from QOTSA and Them Crooked Vultures in the artist compound
A few more that I forgot, but we had Guest passes so we were mingling with them all weekend, luckily.
Coachella - '12 --- Lollapalooza - '08 --- Sasquatch - '06, '09, '10, '11
Friday: M83 : Explosions in the Sky : Amon Tobin
Saturday: Radiohead : Flying Lotus : tune-yards : Childish Gambino : The Shins : Jeff Mangum : Godspeed You! Black Emperor : SBTRKT
Sunday: Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg : DJ Shadow : At the Drive-In : Beats Antique : The Weeknd : Girl Talk :
Put this up on my fb:
1) Asked to take a picture of Josh Homme in the guest area before the Buzzcocks Weekend 1. Told him he regularly kicked ass. Noticed Tim Roth (not pictured) standing next to him and let him know he kicked ass as well.
2) Shook the hand of Jimmy Cliff as i was exiting and he was entering the Artist Compound. Told him the show was great and he said "Thank you." (blurry pic after this not included)
3) Talked to Scott Kirkland from Crystal Method after Feist about stuff that included our past connection through Groove Radio.
4) Got to meet Gary Tovar (founder of Goldenvoice) at Kasabian 2nd Weekend. Told him "Gary! i'm an Olympic / Perkins Palace kid" He liked that.
5) Ran into Fred Arminsen and Rebecca from Wild Flag in the Guest Area after PULP. Told Fred he was doing everything right.
6) Brief encounter with Ritchie Sambora in the Guest Area after the Hives. Told him if GV did Rockchella, they would be a great headliner. He liked that. (Have a picture of Ritchie and board member Missy together)
7) Radiohead was coming into their trailer area as i was going out. Was standing next to Thom Yorke. When he was done talking to someone else, i said to him "This is the closest i will ever be to you. You're the best. Looking so forward to tonight's show." Shook his hand (which i was careful not to hurt) and went away.
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(disclaimer: this was not AT coachella but NEAR it, don't hassle me)
sunday morning after RH played, I went into Koffi in palm springs and while waiting in line, glanced behind me to see a certain someone.
didn't say anything, felt it would be inappropriate as he seemed to be enjoying his day off...
is this creepy? yes? oh well.
I met Gary Tovar right before Jeff Mangum. I had seen him enter the vip/guest area in front of the outdoor theatre and I immediatedly noticed Paul Tollett walking in, and Gary Tovar was with him, and Gary makes eye contact with me. He walks up to me at the barricade and says "You know who that guy is? He's the king of Coachella." I told him I knew and then he said "and I founded Goldenvoice!" I shoke his hand and then off he went. Very cool. I saw him later in the VIP/Guest for Justice.
Coachellas attended: 2007-present
I played some Jenga with Haley Joel Osment in the Red Bull Speakeasy, didn't know it was him, he gained some wait in the last few years, then my girlfriend started talking to him about his movies. Pretty cool kid.
weekend 2: right before radiohead, dave chappelle was walking in between the barriers. Tried to get a picture, but he was too fast. Heard someone yell "Dave!" and he turned and waved. Oh and yes, he was most likely high as hell.
How did I miss Josh? I was at that Buzzcocks show grrrrrrrrr!
My "celebrity" brush was at Justice when Jamie Kennedy stood near us. About 4 of us tried to hit him in the head with a beach ball and failed. The highlight was my friend Dave yelling "hey Malibu's Most Wanted, FUCK YOU!"
We also got to say hi to Chromeo who was at that show as well.
Random list of shows I'll never remember to edit
in 2010 I crossed paths with Dave Grohl near the outdoorl, and met Busy P and Miguel Miggs in the VIP area. I think that's about it for people I've met at Coachella.
I saw Ed O'brien walking around with what looked to be a camera crew week 1 and then had him rock out in front of me during Modeselektor week 2.
I'm a reasonable man, get off my case.
A foot away from Dave Chappelle and John Salley while at the front of the 2nd barrier for Dre and Snoop 2nd Weekend, and Tony Hawk right before that for Justice and ATDI.
I've never seen a celebrity at Coachella other than that stupid spoiled whore Paris Hilton. Am I not standing in the celeb hot spots? I usually don't get really close to the stages because I like to enter/exit as easily as possible.
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took a picture with Blake as well, right after Childish Gambino weekend 1.
11/21 - Pearl Jam - Viejas Arena
fairly certain I saw the Cameron Diaz/Drew Barrymore combination platter side stage as Oasis performed. The crowd/band/set was pretty dead, so it's easy to eye wander.
You mean Noel Gallagher and the High Flying Birds?
No, Oasis actually played one year. The band stood there, the audience stood there, and Cameron Diaz stood there as well. It was like an unintentional Leonard Cohen show without the emotion.
not coachella, but was sitting right next to rainn wilson at the hotel pool yesterday down in huntington beach. cool guy.


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C'mon, Frazier... What the hell kind of swing is that???
Rounding third and heading for home...
Same old thing just a different day.
That's the Reds I remember lol.
Frazier swings at some BAD pitches sometimes.
STL has to love facing Dustyball.
Rounding third and heading for home...
[QUOTE=Ironman92;2662091]1. Surfs up....
I don't think so...they'd be chasing me with harpoons
Eh we're gonna get some runs tonight, just hope Latos can get some quick easy outs and hold it at 1.
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Nurses Invited to Learn Better Care Strategies with Convenient Webinar Series
First Presentation to Address Adverse Drug Reactions, Common in Elderly Patients
Written By Alexis March '13, PR Intern
UC teams with the Pines Education Institute of Southwest Florida to provide valuable information for nurses
Utica, NY (01/22/2013)- The Pines Education Institute of Southwest Florida and Utica College have teamed together to present "eMAS: A New Approach to Recognizing Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) in Older Adults." The first in a series of webinars for nurses, the presentation will be held Jan. 30 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, and will focus on avoiding hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations among nursing facility residents through an awareness of adverse drug reactions.
Elderly individuals are at higher risk of experiencing adverse drug interactions for several reasons. According to Netwellness.org, age-related changes in the body, exposure to multiple medications due to multiple health problems, social circumstances and confusion all can contribute to medication errors.
Ronald Lucchino, Ph.D. and gerontology expert, will discuss eMAS, a new approach in recognizing adverse drug reactions using observational changes in older adults and identifying which medications may be responsible. He will also review common medications and discuss reasons for a high incident of ADRs in older adults.
The presentation is the first of a series of webinars called "Better Eldercare: Care Strategies for Nurses." The webinar series aims to educate nurses about reducing inpatient hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations, as well as improving the overall quality of life for nursing facility residents.
The second webinar, "Lewy Body Dementia: It Isn't Alzheimer's or Parkinson's Disease - What Everyone Needs to Know," will be held on Feb. 4 from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
The third webinar, "Nursing Home Residents and Their Relationships: What Can You Do To Help," facilitated by Sarah Burnett-Wolle, Ph.D., CTRS, aims to educate participants how to understand older adults' social networks and how they change over time. The presentation will take place in March.
The cost of the first webinar is $99. Individuals registering for all three webinars may register at a discounted fee of $89 per webinar. Companies or facilities registering three or more employees may also register at the discounted fee of $89 per webinar. The fee includes webinar participation, webinar materials, and certificate of completion awarding CEUs.
To register for the webinar, visit www.utica.edu/eldercare-reg.
For more information, visit www.utica.edu.
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Matthew K.:
--- Code: ---global $user_info;
if ($user_info['is_admin'])
echo 'Hello Admin!';
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Great, it seems to work... :) Your a boss!!!
But i also want my forum's super modos to see this ADMIN button...
And i'd like to recuperate member id to get the custom profil field and use it for things like display member avatar and personnal stats from our game.
Sorry if ask so much...
Where can i found all the array fields for $user_info ?
EDIT: i'm stupid, will do a print_r... But if there is a documentation, i take it, for curiosity...
Edit, fantastic, i've seen all i want printing the array... I have member name, id... Just wonder why the [is_modo] is empty for the forum's global modérators...
Matthew K.:
Try cross-checking the $user_info['groups'] array to see if the array contains the global moderators id.
Or allowedTo('moderate_forum') is probably a safer method.
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Why is that a more safe method? Because more groups could have it...?
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HARRISBURG– State Rep. Frank Farina, D-Lackawanna/Wayne, will host his Employ our Veterans Job Fair from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday, May 23 at Fiorelli's Catering, 1501 Main St., Peckville.
The event will bring employers face to face with local veterans who are looking for meaningful employment.
"I am looking for employers who will be hiring great workers with high integrity who have been well-trained in teamwork and achieving goals," Farina said. "Honorably discharged veterans are excellent choices for many positions.
"A new report from Senator Robert Casey's Joint Economic Committee reports that more than one in 10 Pennsylvanians is a veteran, and their current unemployment rate is 9 percent. This is a perfect opportunity for companies looking to hire qualified individuals to meet high-caliber prospective employees."
This event is still in its planning phase and Farina is actively recruiting potential employers to be represented during the job fair.
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BOLINGBROOK – Yolanda Jordan wants the Bolingbrook community to know she can relate.
The newly named principal of Bolingbrook High School sees the need for stability and consistency within the high school's leadership office. Jordan has spent eight years as an administrator in Valley View School District.
The Valley View School District 365U School Board voted unanimously June 9 to name the former BHS Dean of Students to the school's top administrative position, effective July 1. Jordan had been serving as interim principal since mid-February.
She replaces former principal Michael White, who resigned suddenly in January and left his post on administrative leave a month later.
White's departure made Jordan the fifth principal in five years at the school.
Jordan, who was assistant principal at Romeoville High School for nearly four years before becoming BHS interim principal, came to Valley View as a dean in 2006.
A news release from the school district said Jordan helped found and sponsor a wide variety of student organizations at both RHS and BHS, including RIGHT (Really Intelligent Girls Hanging Together), Mr. RIGHT, Guide Right, and Multicultural Club.
She also has experience as a science teacher at Homewood-Flossmoor High School, Lincoln Park High School and The Harvard School in Chicago and coordinated the science outreach programs at Chicago State for more than six years.
Bolingbrook Suburban Life News Editor Ryan Terrell spoke Tuesday with Jordan for a question-and-answer session.
Terrell: What does it mean to you to be principal of BHS?
Jordan: No. 1, this is where I started. No. 2, I live in the community. To live in the community and feel like you're giving back is significant. To be instrumental in the lives and educational experiences of this community's kids is a great feeling.
Terrell: How do you think your extensive experience in the district will be beneficial?
Jordan: I am familiar with the community, the building – this is a huge building – and the people in the district. [Superintendent James] Mitchem was once my principal. I know his expectations as far as being an educator in the district. His beliefs and my beliefs line up. I think that will help me quite a bit.
Terrell: What did you learn about the role while serving as the interim principal?
Jordan: People want to be heard, and a lot of it is just listening. ... Just listening to the kids and understanding their wants and needs. And then with parents, it's about building relationships. Through that, I have seen that there is a need for stability and consistency here.
Terrell: Building off that – you're the fifth principal of BHS in five years. How do you anticipate being here longterm?
Jordan: That is my plan. ... I intimately care about what happens here. From an administrator's standpoint, change takes about three years. To make those changes and see some gains, I need to be here awhile.
Terrell: What are some of your goals as principal?
Jordan: I really want to see BHS be an institution of excellence. Our surrounding communities feel BHS doesn't compare [to other area high schools]. I beg to differ. And, of course, safety is always a priority. Anytime you have 3,700 to 4,000 people in one building, safety is paramount, especially with what is going on in the world today. I also want to raise the academic standard here. I want people to know that they're going to get a great education at BHS.
Terrell: What expectations do you have for BHS educators?
Jordan: To treat every kid like you're own. Any decision you make, make them based on each individual kid and as if that kid was your own.


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It's hard not to accept that the current financial crisis and its economic repercussions are unprecedented when so many people now seem to characterize it that way. Last month alone, we counted about 4000 reports or articles describing some economic news as "unprecedented." However, many of the events of the last year or so have, in fact, been with precedents within the span of many market participants' careers. The level of volatility, the "seizing" of capital markets, the rapid and sizable downdraft in equities, the hit to high quality corporate bonds, the complexity of mortgage-backed derivative securities, the leverage in private equity, the drop in GDP – the list goes on.
What is unprecedented today is the scale and speed of monetary policy response by the Federal Reserve (a zero to 0.25% interest rate policy, 12 different liquidity facilities, and the expansion of the Federal Reserve balance sheet to about $2.3 trillion), and the scale of government action so far and in the coming months through the Troubled Asset Relief Program and an expected fiscal stimulus.


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Seattle Mariners agree to 25 year lease for Safeco Field
The new lease will take effect in 2019. The original ballpark 20-year lease expires at the end of 2018.
Get to know the NAIA World Series teams
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Mariners place Dee Gordon on 10-day DL
Gordon, 30, initially injured the toe when he fouled a ball off it during an at-bat on May 9 at Toronto, and further injured it in Sunday's 3-2 victory over the Tigers.
Central Valley honored on MaxPreps Tour of Champions
"It's an honor and a privilege to receive this award," said Central Valley head basketball coach Freddie Rehkow. "It's great for the Pacific Northwest to be recognized with this honor and accomplishment.
Paxton tosses complete game as Mariners earn 7-2 win over Tigers
James Paxton pitched a complete-game three-hitter and the Seattle Mariners took a 7-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday night at Safeco Field. Paxton struck out eight and walked on, recording his second complete game of the season. He joins Cleveland's Carlos Carrasco as the only pitchers in the Major Leagues with two complete games this season. This was his fifth straight start with at least six innings pitched and three or fewer runs al...
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The Tigers had the bases loaded in the 8th inning with two outs when Jose Iglesias drove in two runs on a single to give the Tigers a 3-2 lead and ultimately the win.
Mariners fall to Rangers, giving up 5 runs in final innings
The Mariners held the Rangers to only one run until the 9th inning when Texas scored two runs on a passed ball.
Seahawks sign first-round pick Rashaad Penny
Penny, who led the nation in rushing at San Diego State last season, was the No. 27 overall selection in the draft, marking just the second time in the past six drafts that the Seahawks have taken a player in the first round.
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I was browsing through TheThinkingAtheist's facebook page, since people tend to post a lot of great things there.
Then I stumbled upon this.
Not only is this absolutely hilarious, but it shatters anyones argument that they follow the Biblical code, and underlines that Christianity is an outdated religion.
Lots of love,
P.S. I wasn't sure where exactly this would fit, so I do apologize if it's in the wrong category. But hey, it's my first post over here :)
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Haha that's great. I wonder if she replied. Probably not. I love it when theists get caught picking and choosing among their religious beliefs.
Just a note though, you said.
Not only is this absolutely hilarious, but it shatters anyones argument that they follow the Biblical code, and underlines that Christianity is an outdated religion.
Just FYI, Dr. Laura is in fact an Orthodox Jew, and not a Christian. Same bullshit though.
Oh, you're absolutely right! But, I suppose this applies to both Judaism and Christianity, since both of them believe in the Old Testament.
The apologetic argument is that the old testament laws are divided into "cleanliness" and "moral" laws, ans supposedly the "moral laws" still apply, while "cleanliness laws" no longer do, nor do the punishments (usually death) for violating the "moral laws".
The problem is that this is never specified at any point in the scripture. The laws in the old testament are NOT clearly divided into to categories. They are listed one right after another without any indication that each one only applies to a specific category.
The problem with that is that entirety of Leviticus (which contains that one popular verse) is a holiness code. And one that only applies to male Levitican priests.
The word that's mistranslated as "abomination" really refers to a ritual uncleanliness not some kind of intrinsic immorality.
Thoroughly ripped off of "The West Wing", when President Bartlet unleashes a torrent of awesome at a fundamentalist (a Dr. Laura clone) just to embarrass her for lack of propriety. This lacks the majesty of Martin Sheen's presence, but it's still awesome. Aaaand I scroll down and there's the scene in question. Give it a watch.
In fact, go watch "The West Wing". The whole thing. Right now. It's awesome. Except season five. But once you get past that, the show gets good again.
It's the other way around. "The West Wing" was inspired by the letter, which made its way around the internet per email back then.
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DENVER (AP) - A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers says the state that made national news for being the first to allow marijuana sales should make headlines again by being the first to ban teen smoking.
They're backing a proposal likely to be introduced next week that would raise the tobacco age limit from 18 to 21. The bill would apply to cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, electronic cigarettes and tobacco vaporizers.
"You have to 21 to gamble. You have to be 21 to drink. You have to be 21 to smoke marijuana. Why are we not consistent about tobacco?" said Sen. Steve King, R-Grand Junction, one of the bill's sponsors.
Several other states are considering similar legislation, but none have acted yet. A handful of states set the smoking age at 19.
King has allies among powerful Democrats who say Colorado would send a strong message by regulating tobacco with the same age limit as alcohol and marijuana.
"Tobacco is equally as harmful, really, and maybe more so," said Rep. Beth McCann, a Denver Democrat who leads the House Health, Insurance, and Environment Committee, who plans to sign the bill as a co-sponsor.
The bill could set off a hot debate. Opposition will likely be as bipartisan as the support, and presiding officers in the Legislature and governor's office haven't mentioned tobacco as a priority.
"If we have our military at age 18, they should be able to smoke. They're old enough," said Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins.
People who are currently between the ages of 18 and 20 would be grandfathered in, meaning the measure wouldn't be fully implemented until today's 17-year-olds are 21. "We don't want to cut 'em off cold turkey," said McCann.
It's not clear how many of Colorado's current smokers are younger than 21. However, a paper published last year in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine said that 9 out of 10 daily smokers have their first cigarette by 18 years of age, and that about 90 percent of cigarettes purchased for minors are obtained by people between 18 and 20 years old.
There hasn't been a legislative budget analysis, so it's too soon to say whether the change would cost Colorado lost tobacco-tax revenue or add to state tax receipts through increased fines. Colorado taxes cigarettes 84 cents a pack, below the national average of $1.53 a pack, according to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Just outside the Capitol, a group of smokers waiting for a bus on a recent afternoon scoffed at the plan.
"Ease up on the damn smokers!" said Jason King, a 40-year-old pack-a-day cigarette smoker from Denver.
Another smoker, 31-year-old Darlene Sandoval of Denver, was skeptical the change would make a difference.
"Maybe you can stop them from buying cigarettes in the store, but you're not going to stop them from smoking," said Sandoval, who smokes about half a pack a day.
The 21-to-smoke proposal isn't the only tobacco measure pending in the Legislature. Another bill would ban the sale of electronic cigarettes and other nicotine delivery devices to people under 18. That bill awaits a hearing in the Senate.


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These new mobile APUs feature up to four newly-designed x86 CPU cores with updated, AMD Radeon graphics and a hardware-level data security solution based on the ARM Cortex-A5, all on a single system-on-chip (SoC). Products based on these new APUs are already announced by Lenovo and Samsung, with many more expected on-shelf in time for the 2014 back-to-school shopping season.
The 2014 AMD Mainstream and Low-Power Mobile APUs are designed for consumer and commercial mobile devices of all shapes and sizes, from fanless tablets to 2-in-1s like detachable and convertible notebooks, to small-screen and ultrathin laptops. They feature up to four x86_64 "Puma+" CPU cores and AMD Radeon R Series graphics based on Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. Additional power management features integrated into the APUs include:
Marking AMD's first implementation of ARM-based technology into processors designed for consumer and commercial client devices, the 2014 AMD Mainstream and Low-Power APUs feature an AMD-developed platform security processor (PSP) based on the ARM Cortex-A5 featuring ARM TrustZone technology for enhanced data security. These are the first and only x86 processors available to integrate an ARM core for security. The integrated PSP taps into the open standards-based ARM TrustZone ecosystem and partitions the new processors into two "virtual CPUs" -- a "secure world" and a "normal world" based on the type of data being processed -- and ensures secure storage and processing of sensitive data and trusted apps including online payments, digital rights management and enterprise- and web-based services.
According to AMD, its 2014 AMD Mainstream APUs ("Beema") deliver
up to 100% better graphics performance over the previous generation ("Kabini"); up to 20% power reduction versus the previous generation ("Kabini"); increased memory support from the previous generation to DDR3-1866; up to 50% better graphics performance and up to 7x the compute performance versus Intel Pentium ("Haswell U") and; up to 3x the graphics performance and over 35% better system performance than Intel Pentium ("Bay Trail M").
AMD also claims that its new Low-Power APUs ("Mullins") offer over 2x the graphics performance-per-watt and nearly 2x the productivity performance-per-Watt versus AMD's previous generation (formerly codenamed "Temash"); better graphics performance than Intel Core i3 and three times the compute performance of Intel's Atom processor.
Beema and Mullins can turbo up to much higher frequencies. In the case of Mullins in particular, since it's so thermally constrained, the potential upside for frequency scaling is huge. The frequency gains aren't just limited to the CPU, the 128 GCN cores can also run at higher speeds with Beema and Mullins:
AMD managed to hit significantly higher frequencies without a substantial architecture change or new process node, by raising the max thermal operating point of the silicon.
Previously once the silicon temperature hit 60C, AMD would cap max CPU/GPU frequency. With Beema and Mullins, AMD increases the silicon temperature limit to around 100C (still within physical limits) but instead relies on the surface temperature of the device to determine when to throttle back the CPU/GPU. In AMD's own words, this allows the SoC to run at a much higher frequency for up to several minutes before having to scale back down.
The trick is that AMD is able to enable this new chassis temperature governed boost without requiring any additional sensors or hardware from the OEM. What AMD does instead is gives the OEM tools to properly map SoC temperature to chassis skin temperature.
These new processors also have several software capabilities:
It seems that although AMD has not made significant changes to the architecture or manufacturing process, its 2014 updates to its entry level and low power silicon are substantial. According to the first reviews that have surfaced online, Puma+ delivers performance that comparable to Intel's Bay Trail and still, it holds a GPU performance advantage. Still, it is unclear how these new SoCs stack up against Bay Trail when it comes to power consumption.
AMD expects to see Beema and Mullins designs show up over the next 1 - 2 quarters.


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Western Kentucky University says it is challenging other Kentucky colleges and universities to see which can save the most electricity and water over a three-week period.
The Bowling Green school says the universities of Louisville and Kentucky, as well as Berea College, have accepted the challenge, which is called Bluegrass Unplugged. It is part of a national competition among colleges and universities aimed at reducing electricity and water use. The 2013 Campus Conservation Nationals allows schools to choose any three-week period from February to April to compete. More than 200 schools nationwide are taking part.
"Bluegrass Unplugged" will run from March 23 to April 12.