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Emery High held a public hearing to hear input on the proposed draft drug testing policy. Larry Davis, principal at Emery High welcomed everyone to the meeting and said for the past five years the school has been working vigorously on combatting drug problems within the school. They have dealt with drug related issues in sports, clubs and other school organizations. The school has talked with students in the learning strategies class about drug use.
Drugs are a growing problem. Efforts have intensified and one area now being considered is the random drug testing. Principal Davis said they will continue to do battle against drugs in the school with or without a policy.
Drugs have become more accessible and common in society as well as affordable. These changes in the drug culture are having a greater impact on students. Principal Davis said the school has looked at several options and they feel this is the next step that needs to be taken. They have been modeling the policy after the drug testingpolicy Davis School District has in place. They hope the policy will be meaningful to Emery High and help bring the drug problem under control.
Students were polled as well as parents and most voted in favor of a drug testing policy.
Principal Davis said the public hearing was being recorded and would be used to help shape the drug policy. The drug testing policy will be presented to the school board in January. He said he will take comments up until the Christmas break.
Principal Davis read emails from Tami Oliverson the swim coach and Nolan Johnson, the principal from Green River High. Oliverson spoke in favor of the drug testing. She supports drug testing for any extracurricular activity. Academics are the most important aspect of school and sports and extracurricular activities should be secondary. Drugs will not help anyone. Students should be taught other coping mechanisms for dealing with life's challenges. If kids have a problem, then maybe they won't participate in sports, but maybe they will get the help they need so they can participate.
Principal Johnson said Green River High is thinking of adopting a drug testing policy, too. They are very supportive of the effort and will help in anyway they can.
Principal Davis opened the meeting up to public comments. Wade Allinson said he supports the policy. He thinks it should extend to any extracurricular activity. When students travel to participate in drama or sports they are representing your school.
Shaun Bell from the Emery County Sheriff's Office said they strongly support drug testing and believe it will help deter use.
Jonathan Fauver said drug use is a major problem. Kids today are using more dangerous drugs. Kids are often unaware of the consequences they might suffer from taking drugs. Fauver said he talks with his children about drug use and they are aware of instances/parties where students are using drugs. It's a huge problem, I fully support the drug testing policy. With a first time offender they are sometimes just experimenting or succumbing to peer pressure. With a second violation, the student could be forming a dependency. With a first offense students could be given education about drugs and be taught coping skills. With a second offense, maybe the kids should be bumped up to the legal system. The child needs more help. Fauver said he thinks the testing policy should adhere to both sports and other activities. He said the policy needs to be enforced unilaterally and that the policy should be stipulated by the school and not a coach who may have concerns about losing a star player.
Fauver said addiction can become so severe that lives are lost and kids at this age can't see how becoming addicted to drugs can ruin their entire lives.
Jack Funk said he agrees that the testing should include more than sports. He knows of students throughout the state that are using performance enhancing drugs. The kids need someone to counsel them and teach them the real truth about drugs. Marijuana isn't harmless. The policy is really for the youth and for their good. In the real world, most jobs include drug testing.
The question of whether the high school rodeo club would be under the drug policy was raised and Principal Davis said it is a separate organization that would need its own policy.
Kylee Jensen the cheer coach spoke in favor of the drug testing. She said they have experienced problems with the cheer squad over the years. It's a safety issue, if someone is under the influence of drugs and performing stunts where someone might be hurt, then it's a real concern. The drug testing policy will be a good way to help keep kids off drugs and encourage those on the cheer squad to help other members be drug free.
Doug Mecham is the principal of San Rafael junior high. He said he's had his own children come through the school system and he told his son that plays sports that he had his permission to quit because of the problems some of the sports teams were having. "My kids go to these schools too, and I don't want kids there that are selling and using drugs. I would also like to see programs for alcohol and tobacco detection," said Mecham.
Todd Jeffs, the athletic director at Emery High spoke in favor of the policy. He said as things are now, it's only when a student is caught that the Utah High School Athletic Association rules can be enforced. The policy will help the students that are concerned about their status on a team. It will hold them to a higher standard as leaders in the school.
Students are required to have a physical to play sports so he views drug testing as an extension of that in making sure students are healthy and drug free. The drug policy includes a stipulation that if a coach has reasonable suspicion that an athlete is using drugs they can ask for a drug test.
Baseball coach and vice principal Steven Gordon said he supports the policy and believes it will help student athletes make better decisions. "I fully support it. It's a good thing to have in our school."
Kirk Christiansen the wrestling coach said he is also involved with the rodeo club and they have had discussions about a drug testing policy also. He thinks the new testing policy will give the coaches more of an opportunity to help kids who may be on the fence. Kids need to choose to be drug free. Wrestlers don't have much privacy anyway he said they submit to weight and body fat tests all the time and incorporating a drug test will be helpful in cleaning up the teams. Christiansen said he talked to the Altamont coach and after starting a drug testing program there the numbers initially went down, but are now back up again and the students encourage each other to stay drug free so they can participate.
Dr. Ron Sanders spoke in agreement with the policy saying he is in a drug-free profession in chiropractic and students need to make decisions that will keep them healthy and hopefully the policy will help reduce the problems that are occurring now.
Garrett Conover from the sheriff's office said they deal with drug problems on a daily basis and anything that can help is welcome to them. The policy will help the kids that sports is their life and if they couldn't play it would crush them. It will also help identify the kids that need some help so that help can be given.
Coach Kirk Robinson said he would like to see the drug testing policy extend into the junior highs. They had a problem this year and had to suspend someone for alcohol use.
Jerod Curtis from the sheriff's office said he has a student athlete and he sees the drug testing policy as a positive thing that will get students the help they need.
Fauver said if a student is dependent on a drug then they can't stop on their own. They need help. When a youth brain experiences drug use, the brain enjoys it. The use brings pleasure and at the time, there is no worry about what the consequences might be.
There will be some students that need help and treatment.
Proposed policy consequences could include: For a first offense the student will undergo a drug intervention assessment through Four Corners Behavioral Health. They will receive counseling. They will not be referred to juvenile court. They will be suspended from two consecutive games, meets, matches, events, competitions or performances. Practice may be continued following a personal assessment of the student by a licensed substance abuse intervention or treatment program and a clean drug test. A second offense would include a six week suspension and a third offense would be an 18 week suspension.
Four-five tests would be conducted each week. The students will be assigned a number and put in a pool. A drawing will be held and numbers selected. These students will be notified and tested. They will be required to provide a urine sample in a private stall. There will be an adult present outside of the stall.
Parents will need to sign a consent form for their student to be tested. Parents will be notified of any positive test results. Testing is estimated to be $10 and will test for 13 different substances.
An increase in the student participation fee will help cover the cost of testing. If a student refuses to take a drug test then it would be considered a positive test.
Numbers will go back into the pool and may be selected again. If a positive result is found in the off season for any student, the suspension will be when that season resumes. Drugs to be tested for include: methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, Benzodiazepine, methadone, barbiturates, oxycodone, morphine/opiates, etc.
It is believed the drug testing policy will give students a way to fight against negative peer pressure. They can tell other students they can't use or they won't be able to play sports or participate in activities and it will help them with peer pressure.
Principal Davis said the Buddy Box can be used for tips and anything reported is followed up and checked upon. Most students at the school are awesome, they are on time and respectful. They are engaged in activities. They want to get the most out of life. "We don't want negative influences at Emery High," said Principal Davis.
Principal Davis said they aren't law enforcement. They are educators and want the best for students. They want to know when kids need help so they can get them what they need and they might be saving that child's life. "We love all these kids. We are here to support them. We are here to help so the kids will have a chance at a quality life," said Principal Davis.
Principal Davis said the policy will be presented at the January 2014 school board meeting which will be held at Emery High.
The school board can approve or amend the policy as they determine. The policy will be sent to them well before the meeting so they will have time to review it.
Principal Davis said if anyone was unable to attend the meeting and would like to make a comment they can email him at firstname.lastname@example.com or comments can be mailed to Emery High Box 499, Castle Dale, UT 84513.


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Inevitably, the argument reminds me of this:
Thankfully, AdAge and Simon Dumenco do not disappoint this year. Dumenco lays out a bunch of arguments showcasing entertainment and celebrities touting this project or that on Twitter.
So from that, Twitter is killing the press release. Because, to quote Simon, "as the celebrity-industrial complex goes, so goes the rest of corporate America." Forget that publicity firms are the last firms to social media, often being beat (by years) by their consumer technology sister firms. Forget that publicity and the entertainment complex aren't comparable to corporations that have to abide by SEC disclosures and other sticky things like that.
But, maybe, just maybe Twitter's limitation to 140 characters is just not enough to disseminate news, even with links to a blog or page that is, well, I guess it'd be a press release huh?
This doesn't mean that the press release is a great piece of public relations history. The press release has many issues - most being that too much that's put out as a release is not newsworthy, and people can't write - but this isn't going to be fixed by a magical social media release or abandoning press releases to Twitter. And while Google bypassed a press release for it's earnings back in April (ignore the long, and well, wrong section on the social media release), Google must have still disseminated the news to go to its Investor site by some type of wire release (or maybe it just went to Reuters) - correction (11.20 am) via @irwebreport: Google just used EDGAR and didn't do a release. Doesn't change my main point, though.
The press release isn't dead. Twitter isn't killing it. It's not going to disappear over night because, well, there are still people that are investors and stakeholders that need to get information. And they're not all on Twitter.


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Canucks Army GDT #11 - Canucks @ Islanders
Dimitri Filipovic
October 22 2013 02:55PM
Look at that strapping young man.
It feels like it has been forever since the Canucks were in Long Island, but apparently their last visit was on January 11th, 2011, so I guess the photo above is just a teensy weensy bit older than that. The Canucks will be playing the 4th game of their 7-game roadtrip, and they're coming off of a rather forgettable loss to the Blue Jackets. Fortunately for them they're probably catching a depleted New York Islanders squad at just the right time, as they'll be without a few important pieces in this one.
Read on past the jump for a preview of tonight's game against the soon-to-be Brooklyn Professional Hockey Team.
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Sure seems like #canucks David Booth will be a healthy scratch vs #islanders. If so, quite a message w/only 12 healthy forwards on trip.— Dan Murphy (@sportsnetmurph) October 22, 2013
Wow. That's quite the bombshell. Jason Botchford suggested today that he could be the odd man out once Alex Burrows gets back (more on this below). I guess it shouldn't be a huge surprise given that Booth has generated just 1 goal (and only 12 shots on goal, which is the most surprising thing of all) through 10 games. He also played a season low 10:18 against Columbus on Sunday, and his ice-time has been steadily dropping since the start of the season. But still.
So what does this move mean? With Booth sitting it out, one of Andrew Alberts or Yannick Weber (more likely) will draw back into the lineup and play wing on the 4th line with Sestito and Welsh. I assume that means that Dale Weise will then move back up to the 3rd line to play alongside Zack Kassian and Brad Richardson.
If you think this makes the Canucks a better team then I don't know what to tell you. Except that it doesn't. But chances are that you're stuck in your beliefs and there's no changing your mind. It's kind of unfortunate that a significant chunk of the team's fanbase will be thrilled by this news, because they seem to genuinely despise Booth for the person he is, and because of his contract (which was inherited by the Canucks, by the way).
The debate about the merits of David Booth the hockey player seems so fruitless; I'll try to point out to you that he does useful things like provide defensive value by maintaining possession of the puck and drawing penalties at a good rate, while you'll remain adamant that you think he's the worst. There's no real winners, and ultimately all that happens is that a bunch of time is wasted. So let's go our separate ways on that one.
This is probably just a wake-up call of sorts by Tortorella. We'll surely see Booth back in the lineup on Thursday against the Devils, but it's stupid that it has even come to this.
According to Daily Faceoff this is what we can expect from the Islanders tonight:
I mentioned that this was a good time to catch the Islanders, and that's because they'll be without Lubo Visnovsky (injury), and Michael Grabner (suspension). As a result there's probably some guys listed above that you've probably never heard of. I expected them to take another step this season after finishing last year on a torrid pace (and pushing the Penguins in the 1st round of the playoffs), but they've really struggled in the early going. In fact, they've been a bottom 6 or 7 team in terms of possession this year which is kind of surprising. It doesn't help that their goaltender is Evgeni Nabokov, who is rather stinky (could've used a much worse word, trust me..). It's a shame that their ownership group is so cheap because a goalie like oh, say, Roberto Luongo would look mighty nice behind their group of players. But I digress.
I'm really excited to get to see John Tavares who has quickly become one of the best players in the league. It's days like this that I'm thankful for the NHL's realignment. In case you aren't totally aware of how badass JT is, check this out.
Let's end with some positive news..
Alex burrows joins Canucks for tail end of morning skate and works after it with booth and eddie lack— Jason Botchford (@botchford) October 22, 2013
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"I'll try to point out to you that he does useful things like provide defensive value by maintaining possession of the puck and drawing penalties at a good rate, while you'll remain adamant that you think he's the worst."
It's really statements like these that make CA a little tiresome to read at times. 'My position is nothing if not reasonable, those who disagree do so without cause or merit.'
Not saying I understand scratching Booth (I think he's a valuable 3rd and occasionally 2nd line player, and agree that there are bigger questions than goals scored when evaluating a guy's play), but it's as though you conflate Torts' decision to scratch him with the fanbase at large's frustration with Booth. Not to be a team apologist, but there's got to be more reason to a move like this than "he's the worst", no?
Can Cam just email Tortorella a link to Behindthenet?
Even if the organization is leaning towards buying out Booth at the end of the year, his 2013-2014 salary/cap hit is a sunk cost.
What's next sitting Hamhuis for a game to teach him a "lesson"?
Giving Weise 10+ minutes is giving up the advantage gained from Grabner's suspension...
"Not to be a team apologist, but there's got to be more reason to a move like this than "he's the worst", no?"
Probably some nonsense about motivation.
Although I'm not sure why a paid vacation day would be considered a motivator...
October 22 2013, 03:39PM
Do you really think Tortorella is stupid enough to think that the team is better off with Weber than Booth on the wing? Really?
I don't think that that is what Torts is saying, or that it is misguided.
Its just the age-old technique colloquially known as "a kick in the pants". He will be back in the lineup next game, and Torts is trying to kick-start his production.
October 22 2013, 03:41PM
Believe it or not, they actually want to play. When players are injured or can't play, it is tough for them to see their teammates play.
October 22 2013, 03:41PM
*some of them
It's not Weber. It's Alberts. This is even worse.
I mean it's obviously supposed to wake Booth up or something but jesus that makes the team worse for this game.
You must be new here Jer. If it's tiresome feel free not to read.
Not new at all, been reading pretty consistently for a couple years. Really enjoy the insight, and see & analyze the game differently than I did before I read CA. Just find the surprisingly frequent world-weary tone unnecessary and unhelpful. I don't recall the commentary coming across this way when I first started reading (or I likely wouldn't have continued). Who knows, maybe I'm alone in this...
@Austin Wallace
Is there any evidence that a so-called "kick in the pants" does anything, though?
Booth has every reason to be "motivated" this year.
It's a very important season for his career...
This isn't Montgomery Burns' softball team.
Tortorella can't just tap a player on the shoulder and magically have him start scoring goals.
He has chosen to dedicate a roster spot and ice time to inferior players.
Completely devoid of logic...
The issue is that I feel like if I had a nickel for everytime I've tried to discuss David Booth's value with someone I'd be able to retire and live happily ever after by now, and unfortunately, there has been pretty much no progress resulting from any of those conversations. It's just such a tired topic.
Yeah, no I get that. I guess I see a lot of arguing with the lowest common denominator on some of the blogs, and I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to just go around that? It doubtless wears you out and leads to that sort of reductionist / strawman argument that I took issue with in the first place. Maybe it's just my issue: when I read that type of 'your side is dumb' statement, it makes me want to argue for the dumb side, even if I don't believe in it. :) Anyway, I'll leave it at that, not too much sense going further in a comments section. Over a pint, maybe. Cheers...
@Dimitri Filipovic
You don't have to convince me that Booth does more things right than he gets credit for, I already believe that his cap hit and goal totals over shadow everything else (good or bad) he does. I'm going to nitpick anyways: Booth's contract was purchased, not inherited.
These types of games are important points. Being in a tougher division the Canucks have to stay away from extended pointless streaks even on the road. The last 2 games were ridiculous because the NHlL is the worst scheduling entity in the world. Finally each team plays each other home and away, but to have a west coast team play back to back early games is stupid. Just plain ignorant but that's the NHL. Get the two points boys
"Is there any evidence that a so-called "kick in the pants" does anything, though?"
Is this the "if it hasn't been studied yet, it doesn't exist argument"?
Booth being sat down is pretty meh. He is really struggling and has been struggling for a long time. Being a healthy scratch may wake him up. No harm in it at all. His contributions have been poor.
Not at all.
I'm willing to accept a claim if it makes sense and isn't simply an appeal to tradition.
I don't buy the logic that sitting Booth is going to give him the "kick in the pants" he needs to play better.
And I don't think that as fans trying to gain a better understanding of the game we should accept the "kick in the pants" notion at face value...
Not at all.
I'm willing to accept a claim if it makes sense and isn't simply an appeal to tradition.
I don't buy the logic that sitting Booth is going to give him the "kick in the pants" he needs to play better.
And I don't think that as fans trying to gain a better understanding of the game we should accept the "kick in the pants" notion at face value...
Ok now you're saying making someone a healthy scratch, in fact, has no impact on a person? The kick in the pants is pointless? Really?! You cannot be THAT stupid?! Listen here, NumbNuts00, that premise is a basic part of human behavior. Look it up. It is related to the premise where competition makes most players up their game. Unreal. ShatForBrains00, you hit a new level almost daily. Maybe stick to topics where you have a clue...I guess that may mean you remain silent...
Booth being sat down is pretty meh. He is really struggling and has been struggling for a long time. Being a healthy scratch may wake him up. No harm in it at all. His contributions have been poor.
If I had a nickel for every time I've tried to discuss David Booth's value with someone I'd be able to retire and live happily ever after by now, and unfortunately, there has been pretty much no progress resulting from any of those conversations...
It's only inherently rational and reasonable to not believe something we have no proof for...
God, Santa Clause, and the Easter Bunny say "hi"
We didn't "inherit" Booth's contract, we traded for it -- a trade I still don't have a problem with in that we didn't really give up anything for it and I am not paying Booth's salary. But by most measures it hasn't panned out -- for either team really, unless you count the salary dump in the long run it constitutes for FLA.
All that said I agree that Booth isn't anywhere nearly as bad as he sometimes gets made out to be but I don't have a problem with him being sat to prove a point/send him a message. This is a pretty common tactic -- or sending a guy to the minors for partying too much or whatever -- so I don't see the big deal. It does make us a qualitatively poorer team and we were lucky after Hansen's injury to have escaped this game. Richardson and Santorelli have been a really nice surprise, the other pressed into much more action today and I thought had a pretty decent game was Welsh. He saw quite a few shifts, even late into the third I thought and did pretty admirably. Hope Hansen isn't out too long though I was worried with the way he was holding his arm that might be a break. I guess Booth's definitely back in next game...
Perhaps it's not really Torts caving to "fan pressure of unrelenting hate towards the player" but more of a reflection that puck possession statistics are a tad bit overrated. And as has been shown on this very site, his statistics this seasonin tha regard haven't been irreplaceable.
Don't ruin this for me Lemming, I have already written my list. HE. WILL. COME. THIS. YEAR.
In my opinion, the idea that hockey players don't need any further motivation other than their paycheck is the more unreasonable position to take. If anything should need to be proven, it is the notion that once a player signs a contract worth millions of dollars, he is no longer susceptible to the same emotional and motivational factors as everyone else. The default position should be that the players behave exactly like every other person and then you prove that the motivational strategies don't work on high-paid hockey players.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that the paycheck is the sole motivator.
As an aside, from a purely financial perspective, Booth would probably end up making more money in the long run if he were bought out next summer...
Is Booth's issue that he simply isn't trying hard enough?
Considering the last two years of his career, why would he not be giving max effort?
And if he actually isn't giving max effort, why would a paid vacation day be the catalyst for an improved effort?
Cam pondered the healty scratch option last season in regards to Lucic:
Needless to say, I agree with his take on the subject.
Booth makes the Canucks better than Alberts.
And, quite frankly, it may have almost cost the Canucks the game...
Meh, that is just one example where Cam provides several factors that could explain Lucic's low goal totals and why he should remain in the Bruin's lineup. It doesn't provide reason to believe that hockey players don't respond like everybody else to motivational strategies.
But what is the reason to believe Booth needs motivation?
Why wouldn't he be giving an honest effort?
Perhaps his issue isn't related to "wanting it".
Maybe it's a combination of bad luck/this is what he is...
My comments were not intended to be a defense for the decision to bench Booth and, personally, I wouldn't have benched him in this instance.
I was commenting more generally on your statements that there might be no logical reason for benching a player for motivational reasons.
"But what is the reason to believe Booth needs motivation?
Why wouldn't he be giving an honest effort?
Perhaps his issue isn't related to "wanting it"."
I refer to my previous point that the default position should be, if we are looking at the logically, that hockey players, until it is proven different, need, and respond to, motivation the same as everybody else.
Boiling down a complex issue like motivation to "wanting it" or "max effort" is overly simplistic.
"Maybe it's a combination of bad luck/this is what he is..."
It could be this; Cam, in the Lucic article, does a good job supplementing his opinion with data and analysis.
Personally, I think it speaks more to how difficult it is to come back from three major injuries in less than two years.
The difference I'd say is we're talking about an elite level professional athlete.
To get to that level, one has to be pretty self-motivated.
A lot more self-motivated than the general public, in my opinion.
Agree to disagree though...


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April 9, 2014
SPRINGFIELD – Days after receiving positive feedback from bond rating agencies regarding his fiscal year 2015 budget plan, Governor Pat Quinn today unveiled a six-year, $8.6 billion construction program that will improve roads and bridges throughout Illinois while making major investments in public transportation. The projects are part of Governor Quinn's agenda to create jobs and build a 21st century infrastructure that will drive Illinois' economy forward.
"This comprehensive plan for our highways, public transit, rail and airport projects will make critical repairs and major improvements across Illinois," Governor Quinn said. "A booming economy requires a 21st century infrastructure. Our infrastructure plan will create thousands of construction jobs now while paving the way for more jobs and economic development in the future."
The fiscal years 2015-2020 highway improvement program will improve 1,845 miles of highway and replace or rehabilitate 384 bridges across Illinois. Among hundreds of projects across the state, the plan includes:
The improvement program also includes $1.85 billion for public transportation and $800 million for airports with $161 million for fiscal year 2015. Highlights include:
"We have made tremendous progress the past few years toward improving the state's transportation infrastructure," Illinois Transportation Secretary Ann Schneider said. "However, with federal revenue sources dwindling and the end in sight for Governor Quinn's Illinois Jobs Now! program, I look forward to supporting the Governor's call for a bipartisan working group to find ways to continue this progress."
"Replacing the functionally obsolete I-74 bridge across the Mississippi River will not only increase safety but it will create jobs and economic growth across our region," Congresswoman Cheri Bustos said. "I am encouraged that Governor Quinn has included this important project in this construction plan and I will continue to work with local, state and federal leaders to ensure it remains prioritized and continues to move forward."
For fiscal year 2015, which begins July 1, 2014, the program has allocated $1.88 billion for road projects, $1.85 billion for public transportation, $2.7 million for rail and $161 million for airport improvements. For the six years of the plan, a total of $5.82 billion is targeted to state highway system improvements with $2.77 billion going toward local transportation needs.
The plan includes $6.99 billion in anticipated federal funds, $1.16 billion in state funds and the remaining $450 million from local and other sources. The $158 million remaining for road and bridge projects from Governor Quinn's Illinois Jobs Now! capital construction program is also included in this multi-year program.
Projects that are part of the fiscal years 2015-2020 program will begin after July 1 of this year. Of those projects, IDOT is offering contractors a reimbursement rate of $15 an hour for hiring graduates of the Highway Construction Careers Training Program, an IDOT-sponsored initiative to encourage women and minorities to pursue careers in the transportation construction industry.
The Governor is also asking the Illinois General Assembly to form a bipartisan working group to establish the next capital bill to ensure our roads, rail, transit and airports receive additional funding to ensure they are reliable and efficient for the future. Thanks to the Illinois Jobs Now! capital bill more than $15.12 billion has been invested in the state's highways system alone from January 2009 through March 2013, improving more than 7,700 miles of roadways and more than 1,330 bridges.
Today's announcement follows news yesterday that Standard and Poor's has joined the other two bond rating agencies in noting Illinois' progress in addressing its budget challenges. The agencies recognized the hard work the state has done to cut costs, pay down old bills and pass a comprehensive pension reform plan. Standard & Poor's, Moody's and Fitch agreed that Governor Quinn's proposed fiscal year 2015 Budget could bring long-term fiscal stability to Illinois.
The multi-year transportation program builds upon the success of Governor Quinn's $31 billion Illinois Jobs Now! program, which is supporting more than 400,000 jobs over six years. It is the largest construction program in Illinois history, and is one of the largest construction programs in the nation. Prior to its passage by the Illinois General Assembly in 2009, Illinois had gone nearly a decade without a major program to address its critical infrastructure needs.
Plan highlights can be found at dot.il.gov.
RAW TAPE: Governor announces six year $8.6 billion transportation construction program. Audio includes Governor Pat Quinn and IDOT Secretary Ann Schneider.
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Deidara has said it himself that Sasori is alot stronger than him. In my opinion Deidara should really be much stronger than Sasori, i mean Deidara managed to beat Gaara, who was a real beast. He also had a very even fight with Sasuke, who managed to beat Orochimaru pretty easily. I´m not saying that Sasori isn´t strong and in fact Sasori is one of the strongest members of Akatsuki. However Chiyo said that Sasori isn´t so good at analyzing his opponents(unlike Deidara).
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Stuart Taylor joins Reading
Reading have completed the signing of Stuart Taylor on a one-year contract after Mikkel Andersen finally joined Portsmouth on loan.
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Former Arsenal goalkeeper Taylor had been training with the Royals since being released by Manchester City at the end of last season.
Reading were keen to sign the 31-year-old as cover for Adam Federici but were waiting for Andersen to complete a move to crisis-club Pompey.
The Dane did so on Saturday on a one-month loan deal, playing the full 90 minutes of Portsmouth's 1-1 npower League One draw with Bournemouth.
Reading director of football Nick Hammond told the club's official website: "I'm delighted to have signed Stuart.
"He is a very experienced goalkeeper at the top level and having him here allows us to loan Mikkel Andersen out and get him some games.
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The strongest in Narutovrse ? Probably not, there is always So6p and Jyubi's final form to consider.
So, it probably goes like this:
- So6p,
- Jyubito,
- Jyubi Final Form,
- Edodara,
- Hashirama/Older son/Younger son (remember, Hashirama was in a league of his own, Madara was simply the only one strong enough to battle him and not his equal),
- Madara,
- Bijuu Mode Naruto,
- etc.
I had feeling it might drop early today!
- It looks like Obito's mind is overwhelmed by Jyuubi's same as a jinchuuriki that gives in to darkenss no surprise.
- I think he will begin to loose control and the Jyuubi will run rampant soon.
- God you goto love Kishi, Madara still has a trump card hahaha no wonder hes so relaxed !!!!
Now we get to ponder what is Madara's trump card?
Fire type
What chakra type are you?
It would have been foolish of Madara if he did not account for Obito's recent actions.
I just want Madara fully revived, and completely overwhelming.
I think I'm on the wrong side of the story here. :p
Whatever Madara wants to do, he needs to do it while Obito's mind is still in a fog.
I am surprised that Naruto could still sense the individual Bijuus inside the Juubi, Question, are they still individual even now that Obito is the Jinchuuriki? Was the SO6P's Izanagi that created the Bijuus so hard to break, I ask because I can't understand why Obito and Madara would not dissolve them into the Original Juubi's mind or mindlessness, whichever?
I am not sure what use the Kages would be under these circumstances, unless if Obito's mind is so addled that they can confuse him with multi-directional attacks.
Question, Is the Juubi's Jinchuuriki fundamentally different from the Other Bijuus' Jinchurikis. Normally a Jinchuuriki cannot fully use the Bijuu's power without first befriending the Bijuu, perhaps Obito 's case is different because the Juubi currently has no mind of it's own, or does it? How could it have a mind separate from the Bijuus which still possesed consciousness even as part of the Juubi?
Question, will Edo tensei reform Tobirama's body. As someone else sadi, That was a Wood clone of Hashirama that got blown away, not the real thing.
Hmm! so much to consider.
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Ok, am I the only one who smell the approach BS plot line? Epic chapter, yes, but I'd hate to think that Madara will have some method that will pull one over on Obito so easily when Hashi and Co are getting crushed. IIRC the manga has always depicted Madara and Hashirama as rivals with similar power levels, so I wonder what Madara can do to screw over Obito.
IMO it may have to do with the "unique zetsu clone" that had merged with Obito.
it kinda looks like jyubito chopped the edosenju similarly to the way tobirama took out izuna. can't wait to learn about madara's trump card! I hope kakashi isn't filling the kamuiverse with blood.
Every chapter released is dragging Naruto's plot to the abyss. Kishi is rushing things! This chapter smelled like HunterXhunters Ant king's birth.
Madara is not as strong as the Juubi. The only one who was able to take on the Juubi in its Final Form was the Sage. No ninja that came after him (as of right now anyway) is strong enough to achieve the same feat. So I don't believe Madara is on par with Obito at all now. The way this was written though makes me wonder. Was he only able to absorb it because it wasn't in its final form? If that's not the case, why would the sage have needed to fight the Juubi at all?
Unless he originally had no desire to be its Jinchuriki, and just wanted it gone or something. As its Jinchuirki though, he could make sure that it could never do harm again.
Also, you guys know how the Bijuu's can speak through their hosts? Do you think that maybe it's the Juubi talking instead of Obito since he has no recollection of who he is?


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In the previous blog post, we concluded that providing an Amazon AWS-based NTP server that was a member of the NTP Pool Project was incurring ~$500/year in bandwidth charges.
In this blog post we examine the characteristics of NTP clients (mostly virtualized). We are particularly interested in the NTP polling interval, the frequency with which the NTP client polls its upstream server. The frequency with which our server is polled correlates directly with our costs (our $500 in Amazon AWS bandwidth corresponds to 46 billion NTP polls [1] ). Determining which clients poll excessively may provide us a tool to reduce the costs of maintaining our NTP server.
This blog posts describes the polling interval of several clients running under several hypervisors, and one client running on bare metal (OS X). This post also describes our methodology in gathering those numbers.
The polling intervals of
ntpd vary from 64 seconds (the minimum) to 1024 seconds (the maximum)—as much as sixteenfold (note that these values can be overridden in the configuration file, but for purposes of our research we are focusing solely on the default values).
We discover that clients running on certain hypervisors correlate strongly in the amount of polling (e.g. the VirtualBox NTP clients frequently poll at the default minimum poll interval, 64 seconds).
By examining the chart (the chart and the underlying data can be viewed on Google Docs), we can see the following:
ntpd; rather, it appears to set the time via the NTP protocol with a proprietary Microsoft client.
maxpoll value (1024 seconds), we suspect that OS X uses a proprietary daemon and not
maxpoll, i.e. 1024 seconds.
|Guest Operating System
|ntpd version
|Average polling interval (higher is better)
|Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
|VirtualBox 4.3.12 r93733 on OS X 10.9.4
|FreeBSD 10.0 64-bit
|VirtualBox 4.3.12 r93733 on OS X 10.9.4
|Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
|VirtualBox 4.3.12 r93733 on OS X 10.9.4
|Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit
|AWS (Xen), t1.micro
|FreeBSD 9.2 64-bit
|Hetzner (KVM), VQ7
|Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit
|ESXi 5.5
We decide to characterize the NTP traffic of four different operating systems:
We decide to test the following Hypervisors:
We're ignoring embedded systems, a fairly broad category which covers things as modest as a home WiFi Access Point to as complex as a high-end Juniper router.
There are two reasons we are ignoring those systems.
We wish we had the resources to characterize embedded systems—sometimes they are troublemakers:
Windows and Apple clients don't matter. Why?
We suspect that fewer than 1% of our NTP clients are either Windows or OS X (but we have no data to confirm that).
Regardless of its usefulness, we're characterizing the behavior of their clients.
The ESXi, Xen (AWS), and KVM (Hetzner) clients have already been set up (not for characterizing NTP, but we're temporarily borrowing them to perform our measurements); however, the VirtualBox clients (specifically the Ubuntu and FreeBSD guest VMs) need to be set up.
We choose one machine of each of the four primary Operating Systems (OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD). We define hostnames, IP addresses, and, in the case of FreeBSD and Linux, ethernet MAC addresses (we use locally-administered MAC addresses [3] ). Strictly speaking, creating hostnames, defining MAC addresses, creating DHCP entries, is not necessary. We put in the effort because we prefer structure:
Here are the Four Hosts of the Apocalypse [4] (with apologies to St. John the Evangelist)
|Operating System
Domain Name
|IP Address
|MAC Address
|Windows 7 Pro 64-bit
|Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
|FreeBSD 10.0 64-bit
We use Vagrant (a tool that automates the creation and configuration of VMs) to create our VMs. We add the Vagrant "boxes" (VM templates) and create & initialize the necessary directories:
vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64
vagrant box add chef/freebsd-10.0
cd ~/workspace
mkdir vagrant_vms
cd vagrant_vms
for DIR in ubuntu_14.04 fbsd_10.0; do
mkdir $DIR
pushd $DIR
vagrant init
Now let's configure the Ubuntu VM. We have two goals:
The former is accomplished by modifying the
config.vm.network setting in the
Vagrantfile to use a bridged interface (in addition to Vagrant's default use of a NAT interface); the latter is accomplished by creating a shell script that installs and runs NTP and modifying the
Vagrantfile to run said script.
cd ubuntu_14.04/
vim Vagrantfile
config.vm.box = 'ubuntu/trusty64'
config.vm.network :public_network, bridge: 'en0: Ethernet 1', mac: '020011223344', use_dhcp_assigned_default_route: true
config.vm.provision :shell, path: 'ntp.sh'
cat > ntp.sh <<EOF
#!/usr/bin/env bash
apt-get install -y ntp
vagrant up
Now that we have set up an Ubuntu 14.04 as a client, let's turn our attention to FreeBSD 10.0.
cd ../fbsd_10.0
vim Vagrantfile
config.vm.box = 'chef/freebsd-10.0'
# Use NFS as a shared folder
config.vm.network 'private_network', ip: '10.0.1.10'
config.vm.network :public_network, bridge: 'en0: Ethernet 1', mac: '020011223355', use_dhcp_assigned_default_route: true
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", :nfs => true, id: "vagrant-root"
config.vm.provision :shell, path: 'gateway_and_ntp.sh'
cat > gateway_and_ntp.sh <<EOF
#!/usr/bin/env bash
route delete default 10.0.2.2
route add default 10.9.9.1
grep ntpd_enable /etc/rc.conf || echo 'ntpd_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
/etc/rc.d/ntpd start
vagrant up
The FreeBSD Vagrantfile is slightly different [5] than the Ubuntu Vagrantfile.
We enable packet tracing on the upstream firewall (in the case of the VirtualBox guests or the bare-iron OS X host) or on the VM itself (in the case of our AWS/Xen, Hetzner/KVM, and ESXi guests).
Here are the commands we used:
# on our internal firewall
sudo tcpdump -ni em0 -w /tmp/ntp_vbox.pcap -W 1 -G 10800 port ntp
# on our AWS t1.micro instance
sudo tcpdump -w /tmp/ntp_upstream_xen.pcap -W 1 -G 10800 port ntp and ( host 184.108.40.206 or host 126.96.36.199 or host 184.108.40.206 or host 22.214.171.124 )
# our our Hetzner FreeBSD instance
sudo tcpdump -i re0 -w /tmp/ntp_upstream_kvm.pcap -W 1 -G 10800 port ntp and ( host 2a01:4f8:141:282::5:3 or host 2a01:4f8:201:4101::5 or host 18.104.22.168 or host 220.127.116.11 )
# our ESXi 5.5 instance
sudo tcpdump -w /tmp/ntp_upstream_esxi.pcap -W 1 -G 10800 port ntp and host 18.104.22.168
-W 1 -G 10800 to
tcpdump; this is to enable packet capture for 10800 seconds (i.e. 3 hours) and then stop. This will allow us to capture the same duration of traffic from our machines, which makes certain comparisons easier (e.g. the number of times upstream servers were polled over the course of three hours).
-w flag (e.g.
-w /tmp/ntp_vbox.pcap) to save the output to a file. This enables us to make several passes at the capture data.
port ntp)
and host 18.104.22.168 to the filter)
We need to convert our output into .csv (comma-separated values) files to enable us to import them into Google Docs.
We determine the upstream NTP servers using
vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ ntpq -pn
remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
+18.104.22.168 18.104.22.168 2 u 4 64 377 52.586 -34.323 2.141
-188.8.131.52 188.8.131.52 2 u 63 64 375 84.136 -28.303 3.513
-2001:19f0:1590: 188.8.131.52 2 u 56 64 377 91.651 -24.310 2.218
*220.127.116.11 18.104.22.168 2 u 35 64 377 59.146 -32.741 3.297
+184.108.40.206 188.8.131.52 2 u 2 64 377 147.590 -32.185 1.860
Next we create a .csv file to be imported into Google Docs for additional manipulation:
for NTP_SERVER in
tcpdump -tt -nr ~/Downloads/ntp_vbox.pcap src host $NTP_SERVER |
awk 'BEGIN {prev = 0 }; { printf "%dn", $1 -prev; prev = $1 }' |
tail +2 | sort | uniq -c |
sort -k 2 |
awk "BEGIN { print "polling interval (seconds), VB/Ubu/$NTP_SERVER" }
{ printf "%d,%dn", $2, $1 }" > /tmp/vb-ubu-$NTP_SERVER.csv
Notes regarding the shell script above:
-tt flag is to generate relative timestamps, so that we may easily calculate the amount of time between each response
src host parameter is to restrict the packets to NTP responses and not NTP queries (it's simpler if we pay attention to half the conversation)
awk command prints the interval (in seconds) between each NTP response
tail command strips the very first response whose time interval is pathological (i.e. whose time interval is the number of seconds since the Epoch, e.g. 1404857430)
sort and
uniq tells us the number of times a response was made for a given interval (e.g. "384 NTP responses had a 64-second polling interval")
sort command sorts the query by seconds, lexically (not numerically). The reason we sort lexically is because the
join command, which we will use in the next step, requires lexical collation, not numerical. (in other words, "1 < 120 < 16 < 2", not "1 < 2 < 16 < 120")
awk command puts the data in a format that's friendly for Google spreadsheets
We use
ntp -pn to determine the upstream NTP servers.
Then we create .csv files:
for NTP_SERVER in
tcpdump -tt -nr ~/Downloads/ntp_vbox.pcap src host $NTP_SERVER |
awk 'BEGIN {prev = 0 }; { printf "%dn", $1 -prev; prev = $1 }' |
tail +2 | sort | uniq -c |
awk "BEGIN { print "polling interval (seconds), VB/FB/$NTP_SERVER" }
{ printf "%d,%dn", $2, $1 }" |
sort > /tmp/vb-fb-$NTP_SERVER.csv
The Windows server is easier: there's only one NTP server it queries (time.windows.com), so we can filter by our VM's IP address rather than the NTP server's IP address:
tcpdump -tt -nr ~/Downloads/ntp_vbox.pcap dst host w7.nono.com |
awk 'BEGIN {prev = 0 }; { printf "%dn", $1 -prev; prev = $1 }' |
tail +2 | sort | uniq -c |
awk "BEGIN { print "polling interval (seconds), VB/W7" }
{ printf "%d,%dn", $2, $1 }" |
sort > /tmp/vb-w7.csv
Like Windows, there's only one NTP server (time.apple.com), so we can filter by our VM's IP address:
tcpdump -tt -nr ~/Downloads/ntp_vbox.pcap dst host tara.nono.com |
awk 'BEGIN {prev = 0 }; { printf "%dn", $1 -prev; prev = $1 }' |
tail +2 | sort | uniq -c |
awk "BEGIN { print "polling interval (seconds), OS X" }
{ printf "%d,%dn", $2, $1 }" |
sort > /tmp/osx.csv
for NTP_SERVER in
tcpdump -tt -nr ~/Downloads/ntp_upstream_xen.pcap src host $NTP_SERVER |
awk 'BEGIN {prev = 0 }; { printf "%dn", $1 -prev; prev = $1 }' |
tail +2 | sort | uniq -c |
awk "BEGIN { print "polling interval (seconds), Xen/Ubu/$NTP_SERVER" }
{ printf "%d,%dn", $2, $1 }" |
sort > /tmp/xen-ubu-$NTP_SERVER.csv
for NTP_SERVER in
tcpdump -tt -nr ~/Downloads/ntp_upstream_kvm.pcap src host $NTP_SERVER |
awk 'BEGIN {prev = 0 }; { printf "%dn", $1 -prev; prev = $1 }' |
tail +2 | sort | uniq -c |
awk "BEGIN { print "polling interval (seconds), KVM/FB/$NTP_SERVER" }
{ printf "%d,%dn", $2, $1 }" |
sort > /tmp/kvm-fb-$NTP_SERVER.csv
tcpdump -tt -nr ~/Downloads/ntp_upstream_esxi.pcap src host 22.214.171.124 |
awk 'BEGIN {prev = 0 }; { printf "%dn", $1 -prev; prev = $1 }' |
tail +2 | sort | uniq -c |
awk "BEGIN { print "polling interval (seconds), ESXi/Ubu" }
{ printf "%d,%dn", $2, $1 }" |
sort > /tmp/esxi-ubu.csv
Next we need to merge the above files into one file that we can easily import into Google Docs.
for CSV_FILE in *.csv; do
[ ! -f $CSV_TEMP ] && touch $CSV_TEMP
( join -t , $CSV_TEMP $CSV_FILE
join -v 1 -t , $CSV_TEMP $CSV_FILE | sed "s/$/,/"
join -v 2 -t , $CSV_TEMP $CSV_FILE | sed "s/([^,]*$)/$COMMAS1/" ) |
sort > $$.$CSV_INDEX.csv
join command to merge the proper fields together; this is so our scatterplot will display properly. The join-field is the polling interval in seconds
sort in order to keep our temporary files lexically collated, a requirement of
5192.17.csv) we will import into Google Docs
sort before import (we need to sort numerically, not lexically):
sort -g < 5192.17.csv > final.csv
In order to create our scatterplot, we must comply with Google's requirements. For example, each column needs at least 1 datapoint.
1 Math is as follows:
90 B / NTP poll
$500 total
× 1,000,000,000 bytes / GB
× 1 poll / 90 B
= 46296296296 polls = 46.29 Gpolls
2 The inclusion of FreeBSD in the list of Operating Systems is made less for its prevalence (it is vastly overshadowed by Linux in terms of deployments) than for the strong emotional attachment the author has for it.
3 To define our own addresses without fear of colliding with an existing address, we set the locally administered bit (the second least significant bit of the most significant byte) to 1.
4 The term "host" has a specific connotation within the context of virtualization, and we are deliberately mis-using using that term to achieve poetic effect (i.e. "hosts" sounds similar to "horsemen"). But let's be clear on our terms: a "host" is an Operating System (usually running on bare-iron, but optionally running as a guest VM on another host) running virtualization software (e.g. VirtualBox, Fusion, ESXi, Xen); a "guest" is an operating system that's running on top of the virtualization software which the host is providing.
In our example only one of the 4 hosts is truly a host—the OS X box is a true host (it provides the virtualization software (VirtualBox) on top of which the remaining 3 operating systems (Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and Windows 7) are running).
5 We'd like to point out the shortcomings of the FreeBSD setup versus the Ubuntu setup: in the Ubuntu setup, we were able to use a directive (
use_dhcp_assigned_default_route) to configure Ubuntu to send outbound traffic via its bridged interface. Unfortunately, that directive didn't work for our FreeBSD VM. So we used a script to set the default route, but the script is not executed when FreeBSD VM is rebooted, and the FreeBSD VM will revert to using the NAT interface instead of the bridged interface, which means we will no longer be able to distinguish the FreeBSD NTP traffic from the OS X host's NTP traffic.
The workaround is to never reboot the FreeBSD VM. Instead, we use
vagrant up and
vagrant destroy when we need to bring up or shut down the FreeBSD VM. We incur a penalty in that it takes slightly longer to boot our machine via
vagrant up.
Also note that we modified the
config.vm.network to use a host-only network instead of the regular NAT network. That change was necessary for the FreeBSD guest to run the required
gateway_and_ntp.sh script. Virtualbox was kind enough to warn us:
NFS requires a host-only network to be created.
Please add a host-only network to the machine (with either DHCP or a
static IP) for NFS to work.


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Southside Hospital in Bay Shore and Staten Island University Hospital were among 620 hospitals nationwide and 16 in New York State that were ranked among top national performers based on key quality measures by The Joint Commission, the nation's leading healthcare accreditation organization.
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Virgin Australia has been working overnight to schedule additional services to assist affected Qantas passengers.
The airline will use Virgin Australia aircraft to offer over 3,000 extra seats today between the ports of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Karratha and Perth.
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So we all know that Pain apparently controls people through the use of piercing made of a reactive material that reasoned to high frequency chakra waves. And seeing how Jiriaya and now kakashi reacted to pain chakra emitted through his eyes, I wanna say that the Rinnengan actually disrupts and redistributes chakra and he uses the redistributed chakra to emit a form of control over all those who have piercing in, what probably is, chakra points on there bodies.
The only real evidence I have is (MangaShare didnt Have it up at the time)
It disrupted chakra flows, probably redistributed(Maybe) and it allow Pain to summon more bodies, because Sage Chakra is more powerful then regular chakra, and the weapon that he used on him that cause his chakra control is probably made of the same material as the Piercings which lead to, what i believe, redistributed his chakra only to make him stronger.
Thoughts..... hate mail..... tell me 5 other threads have this same theory....


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What does the Tran person do? I see her here, but just here.ReplyCancel
Darryl is another who ruined her face with cosmetic surgery. Tran claims to be a model, but really just dated Chris Brown after he beat RhiRhi, then would get into social media wars with RhiRhi. Tran is now a prostitute, but claims to be a model.ReplyCancel
How exactly does a top like Tallulah's stay up? I would constantly be tugging at that thing making sure it wasn't slipping. Then again, I have 40 yo boobs and she doesn't 😉
Is there a costume truck at Coachella? These celeb always look like they've pulled something out of a dress up bag to wear there. It's trying way too hard.ReplyCancel
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@Jessi, YESSSS. I thought it was a Skid Row tweeker. Not sure the other readers can keep their eyes off that fatty.
Take your hot moves elsewhere, Leo!!!ReplyCancel
Have you ever Ben to a Widespr$ad p@nic show? I've been to a few and people dress like they've rolled in the dirt. I had a college course with a girl during the day then saw her at a show. She looked so preppy day to day, then had some dirt all over her overalls and tried to form dreads. I stuck out like a sore thumb. Not my scene.ReplyCancel
I was temporarily MIND FUCKED by Lance's shirt. I was wondering where he got those awesome neon headphones.
The young and their tomfoolery! I don't like tricky clothing!ReplyCancel
Joe Jonas and his phony baloney girlfriend. They pulled a fast one on Blind Gossip last year with that sex video bs. BG fell for it hook, line and sinker. And not a peep out of BG about it since.
Bosworth getting all lovey dovey for the paps.
Christina Milian and Karrueche Tran ready to give crabs to one and all.
One is Tallulah and one is Scout: tits and tits
Darryl Hannah is 53. Time to grow up sweetheart.ReplyCancel
Whenever I see a pic of any of the Willis girls, I am amazed that the gene pool of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis could produce such offspring.ReplyCancel
@Reno She is Chris Browns on and off piece.If he isn't with RiRi he is with her.ReplyCancel
You are supposed to dress hippy dippy to Coachella. It's a tradition.ReplyCancel
I think it's the "glamour" pose of the Willis sister that are so ridiculous.
Laura, it appears he put on jeans later in the evening but came in wearing shorts. Same shirt and hat though.
If Macca is there it's officially too commercial Cochella now. And yeah, Darryl is my age. She needs to grow up and stop hanging with the kids.ReplyCancel
Thanks guys. That's all I could come up with, thw Chris connection.ReplyCancel
Let's not forget that Demi's got about half a mil worth of work. Her genes don't have anything to do with how she looks now. There's nothing on her from head to toe that hasn't been nipped, tucked, chiseled down, lifted, stretched, or removed.
Plus, when a jaw like this get together you end up with those.
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Christina Millan reminds me of a young Janet Jackson!!
Was it this Jonas whose wife recently gave birth? If so, she looks pretty good. He looks pretty bored.ReplyCancel
Good GOD. And don't get me wrong, I'm a total hippy, but these people are most certainly not. Hippies don't have trust funds and they don't get paid a yearly salary to show up to a function for a couple of hours. Celebrity posers are ruining Coachella. Time to give it back to the unwashed masses.ReplyCancel
I'm baffled by the Willis/Moore daughters. As offspring of big-name film stars, they've been exposed to paparazzi since childhood–& from almost day 1, been picked to pieces for not looking like their mom.
Demi was always stunning, but since the myriad cosmetic enhancements, her career seems to consist of looking great for her age. –So how has mom's narcissism & the media's obsession with appearance affected her kids?
Also, the Bruce'n'Demi-ettes seem to be adopting the lifestyle of entitled celeb offspring, which exposes them to further discussion of Demi's errant DNA. Even if their aims are that superficial, at some point, surely at least Rumer has run to mommy in tears after viewing her latest Google Alerts–& begged for a total, Ashlee Simpson-like do-ever?ReplyCancel
ooops! Even if their aims are NOT that superficial….
Wow, I've I've invested way too much thought here.ReplyCancel
I remember Demi's face (unforgettable) in the movie Ghost. She had a very square jawline, which was part of her beauty, IMO. You can really see it, because she had her hair short at that time. She definitely did not have the oval face she has today.ReplyCancel