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While we're waiting out Hurricane Sandy, here's a few servings of Zoot SIms, whose 87th birthday anniversary is today. Let's begin with Count Basie fielding a 1979 edition of the Kansas City Five featuring Sims, Roy Eldridge, Cleveland Eaton, and Duffy Jackson. Basie and Sims won a Grammy for their 1975 Pablo recording, Basie & Zoot.
Here's Zoot with his longtime sparring partner Al Cohn on a British television show, Cool of the Evening, playing "What the World Needs Now" and "Doodle-Oodle." Cohn told Whitney Balliett, "Playing was both an escape and a serious vocation for him. He used to talk about the ecstasy factor– the times when your playing becomes a kind of ecstasy. Once he sat in somewhere and played 'Sweet Lorraine' for a half an hour. He told the piano player, who was really a bassist, the name of another tune, and the pianist said 'Sweet Lorraine' was the only tune he knew, so Zoot said, 'Play it again,' and they played it for another half hour. He didn't look like a sophisticate, but he was a sharp, fun-loving guy…Not long before he died [in 1985], his doctor came in to take a look at him, and Zoot said, 'You're looking better today, Doc'."
And here's a half-hour of Zoot at Donte's in Los Angeles. That's Roger Kellaway at the piano; Chuck Berghofer on bass; and Larry Bunker on drums. We'll hear John Haley Sims in tonight's Jazz a la Mode on recordings with Basie, Dave McKenna, and Jimmy Rowles.


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- Why midwifery care makes sense for good breastfeeding outcomes
- The effects of hospital routines on early breastfeeding
- Predictable newborn behaviors
- Importance of positioning and latch in early breastfeeding
- Assessment of newborn latch and suck
- Supplements for breastfed babies – when are they needed?
- Influence of commercial baby food industries
- Understanding the letters: IBCLC, IBLCE, ILCA
- Maternal nutrition
- Hyperbilirubinemia
- Breastfeeding challenges and problems – engorgement, sore nipples
- How we communicate with breastfeeding families
- Communication skills – case studies
- Liability and ethics about infant feeding
- Maternal medications and breastfeeding
- On-going breastfeeding problems – yeast, mastitis, abscess, plugged ducts
- Breastfeeding multiples
- Breastfeeding the premature infant
- Relationships in the breastfeeding family
- Culture and the conflict with human biology
- Care of the slow to gain, poorly gaining infant
- Relactation and nursing an adopted baby
- The grief of a failed breastfeeding experience
- Skills labs
- The meaning of family-centered care
- Setting up a lactation service
- Postpartum depression and breastfeeding
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- The real meaning of "Baby Friendly"
- Breastfeeding the older child
- When breastfeeding ends
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- Commission on Dietetic Registration, 45 CPE hours, Category II (For RDs only)
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- Breastfeeding and Human Lactation (2004) by Jan Riordan
- The Breastfeeding Answer Book (2003) by Nancy Mohrbacher and Julie Stock
- Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession by Ruth Lawrence (this book is very "medical" in its writing and message)
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When the Xbox came out, there was a shift in the gaming world from hardcore gaming to casual gaming. No longer was a gamer a person who stayed in his (never "her") bedroom all the time, working for hours to solve one puzzle or go up one level, never showering or wearing deodorant; a gamer was now a person who liked to play Halo and Madden and other games for short periods of time, drink Mountain Dew, and watch women in bikinis mud wrestle. (At least, that's how advertisers saw it.) Definite proof came in the form of Spike TV's Video Game Awards.
Opinions on that matter aside, a similar shift seems to have occurred within the anime community. Anime used to be very underground in the US. Even when it started to become more known, anime fans were still a niche market. Then, Cartoon Network kicked its programming into high gear, with Dragonball Z, Gundam Wing, and Naruto. While CN had been showing other series for a while, including the classic Sailor Moon, those DBZ, Wing, and Naruto propelled the popularity of anime through the roof. At least, somewhat.
Now, everyone knows what anime is, from five-year-olds to fifty-year-olds. Whether the people like anime or not, they know what it is. Anime has become incredibly popular among teens and preteens, spawning numerous knock-offs, not many of which are good, including Kappa Mikey, Shuriken School, and too many other pieces of crap on Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel to name. Anime merchandise is now sold in general stores now, like Wal-Mart and Hot Topic, instead of specialty shops. There is a huge selection of manga and anime to buy, as well.
The problem is that the "anime-influenced" shows tend to be complete crap, devoid of any originality; all the merchandise is either DBZ, Gundam Wing, Naruto, or Inuyasha-related; and the people who watch anime on CN think that they've seen the best shows ever and know what anime is all about.
Just as a lot of hardcore gamers were upset by the Xbox's popularization of gaming, a lot of anime fans have been upset by the popularization of anime. It seems that the worlds of gaming and anime are no longer subcultures but are instead just parts of the mass culture, which takes away from the uniqueness that belonging to a subculture gives.
Cutting straight to the point now, since I am really tired and can't think too well, is this popularization okay? This should be interesting, since I know there are a lot of the newer anime fans on this site, people who got into anime thanks to CN, and since I know that there are also older anime fans, who perhaps bought VHS tapes from Manga Entertainment, paying $30 for two episodes. (Those bastards . . . )
Should Cartoon Network be loved for making anime popular, or should it be hated? Is CN even the reason anime is so popular now? Would the popularization have happened anyway? And so on . . . Let's just get some discussion going.
(Also, please give me the benefit of the doubt concerning any gaps in my logic and such. I am very tired right now and can better think later, when I can retract and/or change any mistakes.)


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Pumping up Performance & Profit
Enhancing instrument reliability and repeatability
Quality can be defined as the degree or extent of excellence. Everyone wants to improve process quality. However, it can be difficult to quantify and evaluate a product's quality.
The key parameters commonly used to evaluate instrument quality are device reliability and repeatability. Tough questions remain, however, incuding:
How do you quantify the value of improved reliability and repeatability?
Which specifications are critical to instrument reliability and repeatability?
Are specifications an "apples-to-apples" comparison across suppliers?
How do suppliers prove their specifications?
What programs are available to continuously improve specifications?
Typical Work Orders for Pressure Transmitters1
Quantifying quality's value
From a broad perspective, quality improvements impact plant profitability through increased production and reduced cost of goods sold. More specifically, improved reliability translates into:
Increased production. Reducing the risk of costly unscheduled shutdowns results in improved availability (hours available to produce divided by total hours available). Improved device repeatability translates into increased production and/or reduced cost of goods sold through better measurements.
Better device repeatability provides users with the opportunity ," at no increased environmental or safety risk ," to reduce raw material costs for control applications, improve billing accuracy for custody transfer applications, or improve decision-making for monitoring applications. Therefore, one dollar of reduced flow uncertainty yields one dollar of opportunity to reduce operating expenses.
Reduced cost of goods sold. Costs are reduced through the prevention or elimination of unnecessary work. In the case of instrumentation, unnecessary work equates to work orders and trips to the field. The figure provides an industry benchmark for pressure transmitter work orders. This graph illustrates the various opportunities to reduce the time and cost of preventive maintenance programs. The obvious benefit of improved product quality is to reduce product failures, calibration shifts, plugged lines, etc., which account for roughly one-third of work orders. However the larger opportunity, which represents roughly two-thirds of work orders, is to reduce the frequency or need for quality validation from routine checks or "no problem found." This is accomplished by documenting product quality improvements and subsequently challenging the existing practices based upon earlier product quality standards.
Evaluating reliability
The two parameters central to instrumentation reliability are quality control and product robustness. Quality control is a measure of product performance under normal operating conditions, while product robustness is a measure of device reliability under abnormal conditions. Many users attempt to compare and quantify robustness and quality control for different manufacturers by evaluating designs and the vendors' professed commitment to concepts such as continuous improvement, International Standards Organization (ISO) 9000, Six-Sigma quality, total quality management (TQM) and other quality intiatives. Unfortunately, such comparisons are not typically "apples to apples," so they are not always useful for decision-making.
Quality control. Perhaps a better tool for evaluating device and manufacturer quality is mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) data. MTBF is defined as a measure of random constant failures that are not reducible through material selection or routine maintenance and affect only the wearout failure modes. MTBF is not a measure of how long a device will function under field conditions.
Although MTBF is a quantitative benchmark for evaluating device and manufacturer quality, the data are difficult to compare because different suppliers use varying approaches to determine MTBF.
MTBF example for
a pressure transmitter:
Observed MTBF = 1200 years, predicted MTBF = 285 years and demonstrated MTBF = 175 years at a 95 percent confidence level. At a 50 percent confidence level for that same device, the demonstrated MTBF increases to more than 368 years.
Examples include:
Observed MTBF based on user-reported failures. Because most users do not report all failed transmitters, MTBF is inflated, and suppliers with better customer service and communications are actually penalized.
Predictive MTBF is a component analysis provided by suppliers and usually validated by independent third parties such as Factory Mutual (FM) and/or TV. The analyses are performed a laboratory environment. Based on the author's experience, "real-world" installed reliability always is much worse for field devices such as transmitters. Therefore, users can evaluate the real-world reliability and life-cycle-cost impact of specific technology and user practice alternatives only by quantifying installed reliability.
Demonstrated MTBF is probably the most useful MTBF method for predicting installed reliability. It is based on highly-accelerated life-cycle testing (HALT).2 However, this approach requires the destructive testing of many transmitters and is prohibitively expensive for all but the highest-volume suppliers.
It is important to verify that the MTBF numbers are measured consistently and the specifications are given at the same confidence level. As the confidence level increases, the MTBF number decreases.
Product robustness. If MTBF is a measure of random constant failures, product robustness is a measure of how a device performs under unplanned or abnormal events. Often, product robustness is used to describe the installed reliability of an instrument.
Examples of product robustness criteria for a pressure transmitter can include:
The ability to protect against process corrosion and hydrogen permeation.
The ability to handle rapid and severe over-pressure resulting from the "water-hammer" effect or improper equalizing line pressure after calibration.
The ability to protect electronics from humidity and condensation.
The necessary corrosion resistance within the field terminal electronics to protect against improper housing cover sealing of during installation.
Adequate electronics protection to prevent electrostatic (ESD) damage during handling and installation .
Adequate physical shock protection to protect against improper device handling or dropping.
One potential predictor of installed reliability is experience. In general, the fifth release of a device will be more reliable than the first. The question to the supplier, therefore, becomes: "How many thousands of devices, or devices of similar design, have been installed in similar applications?" The supplier also should be willing to provide references.
Useful references for your assessment should be, in part, based on a history of continuous improvements for product design enhancements. Minimum components of continuous-improvement programs include:
A feedback loop for communication on product reliability, including application assistance and failure analysis detection.
Documentation of any changes that affect form, fit, function, materials or performance specifications and approvals.
Design and manufacturing testing to verify any changes that affect form, fit, function, materials or significant performance criteria.
Validation of 100 percent of product to published performance specifications. Maintain, track and review data for 100 percent of units.
Random audit testing of a product from all manufacturing locations ," i.e., product inspection, performance testing, etc.
The request to the supplier, therefore, becomes: "Please provide a product quality review outlining and proving your specifications."
"Good, better, best" compares the transmitter total performance (includes reference accuracy, static pressure, temperature and drift) of one 0.1 percent and two 0.075 percent reference accuracy devices.
Repeatability and specs
How can the user quantify the impact of "real-world" sources of error? For any measurement, the accuracy and repeatability in a real-world application will usually be lower than in the laboratory. Consider, for example, a differential pressure (DP) transmitter with 0.1 percent reference accuracy installed on an orifice plate. Will the complete measurement system provide 0.1 percent, 1 percent or 10 percent flow repeatability?
The first step is to identify the factors that will cause a transmitter to be less accurate and less repeatable outside of a laboratory. Using the example of a DP flowmeter, "real-world" effects can include:
Expected ambient temperature variation.
Maximum static line pressure.
Process fluid pressure and temperature variation for gas or steam.
Line temperature variation (for liquids).
Flow turndown.
Transmitter drift over time.
The next step is to quantify the impact of these real-world conditions for the given application and transmitter of interest. For DP flow applications, reputable instrument suppliers publish specifications that allow the user to calculate and predict the impact of these and other "real-world" effects on installed flow accuracy and repeatability.
The results under "typical" installed conditions are shown in the table. Although these errors might seem small at 100 percent flow, the errors are magnified at lower flow rates for two reasons.
First, any error remains fixed over the entire transmitter range. For example, consider a 1-mile per hour (mph) error in your speedometer. At 100 mph, this is a 1 percent error; however, at 10 mph, it becomes a 10 percent error.
Second, for DP flow applications, flow is equal to the square root of DP, meaning flow errors increase exponentially at higher turndowns. For example, 1/2 flow equals 1/4 DP, 1/4 flow equals 1/16 DP, etc. Many suppliers offer software tools that allow users to quantify the installed repeatability for specific transmitters in specific, user-defined application conditions.3
Two conclusions can be made from the table:
Reference (laboratory) accuracy is a trivial component of total transmitter installed error.
Two DP transmitters with identical 0.075 percent "reference accuracies" can provide dramatically different installed accuracies. CP
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The Jackall Crosstail Shad was the very first soft plastic bait developed specifically for drop shotting. Since its introduction to the bass fishing world in 1999 the Crosstail shad has been a staple for Japanese anglers. The Crosstail Shad has now been made available to the United States and should be in every serious bass fisherman's arsenal. Jackall's Cross Tail Shad was designed to match the natural characteristics of baitfish throughout the country.
This 4" soft plastic bait has the profile and action of baitfish when fished correctly. The Cross Tail Shad has a rounded large head that blends into the slender top side of the bodygiving it the realistic action that fish desire. This bait is extremely effective when nose hooked on a drop shot rig and fishing it around suspended fish that are near balls of bait. The Jackall Cross Tail Shad comes in a variety of fish catching colors that are salt impregnated to give anglers confidence when fishing is tough. The Crosstail Shad is hand poured and is the perfect drop shot bait!
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Proudly display this Axe and Log patch to show your Wood Badge loyalty. This is a great gift for your Wood Badgers or Gilwellians at reunions or to give to your patrol as a Thank You for the great memories.
The leather woggle is symbolic of the skill of leather workers making familiar Turk's head neckerchief slides.
The slide has neither a beginning or an end, comparable to the never ending commitment made to serve youth and others. The woggle reminds us of the skill in all Wood Badge training that is emphasized in the practical phase of the course.
The axe and log logo was conceived by the first Camp Chief, Francis Gidney, in the early 1920s to distinguish Gilwell Park from the Scout Headquarters. Gidney wanted to associate Gilwell Park with the outdoors and Scoutcraft rather than the business or administrative Headquarters offices. Scouters present at the original Wood Badge courses regularly saw axe blades masked for safety by being buried in a log. Seeing this, Gidney chose the axe and log as the totem of Gilwell Park.
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This report collects information on transaction accounts, time and savings deposits, vault cash, and other reservable obligations from depository institutions.
Purpose: These data are the primary source for calculation of required reserves and for construction of the monetary and reserves aggregates, used by the Board and the Federal Open Market Committee in the formulation of monetary policy.
The deposits reports were designed to meet the requirements of the Monetary Control Act of 1980 (MCA) and the Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 (Garn-St Germain Act). The MCA imposed reserve requirements on all depository institutions that maintain transaction accounts or nonpersonal time deposits; formerly only member banks were required to report deposits and hold reserves. The Garn-St Germain Act imposed a zero percent reserve requirement on the first $2 million of reservable liabilities, in effect exempting from reserve requirements all depository institutions with total reservable liabilities less than or equal to the exemption amount. The exemption amount is indexed annually. Since 1980 there have been revisions to accommodate banking trends and changes to Regulation D. Lagged Reserve Requirements (LRR) were changed to Contemporaneous Reserve Requirements (CRR) in 1984, calling for required reserves against transaction liabilities to be maintained almost contemporaneously. In 1994 the single deposit cutoff applicable to both nonexempt and fully exempt institutions was replaced by two separate cutoffs. In 1998 the Federal Reserve required that each depository institution have only one "master" account with the Federal Reserve System, and it returned to a system of LRR. In March 2006, the Federal Reserve discontinued compiling the M3 monetary aggregate. As a result of the elimination of M3, the indexation of the nonexempt deposit cutoff and the reduced reporting limit is based on the sum of total transaction accounts, savings deposits, and small time deposits, rather than total deposits. In July 2009, the FR 2900 instructions were revised to incorporate amendments to Regulation D as well as to enhance clarity.
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Skip to comments.U.S. government confirms world won't end in 2012
Posted on 12/03/2012 3:53:07 PM PST by ColdOne
The U.S. government is rebutting claims that the end is nigh.
"The world will not end on December 21, 2012, or any day in 2012," an unsigned USA.gov blog asserts.
Some New Age theorists believe that the ancient Mayan civilization predicted a late December doomsday for all of humanity. Others believe the date signifies the start of a new era. Their predictions are based on the idea that the Mayan Long Count calendar "ends" in 2012 something that scholars say is a misrepresentation.
"False rumors about the end of the world in 2012 have been commonplace on the Internet for some time. Many of these rumors involve the Mayan calendar ending in 2012 (it wont), a comet causing catastrophic effects (definitely not), a hidden planet sneaking up and colliding with us (no and no), and many others," the government asserts in the pos
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Well, that could be one way to fix the deficit....
Got a couple of hundred thousand worth of assets for sale for just a few cans of beans and a sleeping bag in which to kiss my fanny goodbye...
So when did it become prudent to TRUST in anything that the Government said???
Just what I was thinking.
Well, we're screwed.
If they know that it will not end then they probably decided to end it before the Mayan end.
I am so thankful we have our government to tell me that, I have been so worried! Every million of dollars it cost them to research this was worth it!
"Those looking for refuge from the predicted Mayan Apocalypse should make alternate plans..."
How does that saying go?
Believe nothing until it's officially denied.
I wasn't overly worried about the Mayan calendar thing. Until now.
"The world will not end on December 21, 2012, or any day in 2012,"
That's because $16 trillion in research proves that it already happened on January 20, 2009 right around noon Eastern time.
Oh Noooooooooo. I wasn't worried till this. Government lies all the time. Now I might have to worry about it.
2013 is looking real good though.
"Darkness warshed over the Dude - darker'n a black steer's tookus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom. "
The world won't end in 2012, but the administration is doing everything it can to make it end in January of 2013.
Damn! I'll have to be a little more careful about what I steal from the internet. I feel kind of foolish now for thinking it was humorous.
No doubt, now I will just party like there's no "to-MAYA"
It was humourous — no reason to feel even slightly foolish. I didn't know the difference myself; until it was recently pointed out to me elsewhere.
Maya culpa.
Even the Mayans couldn't have accounted for the additional hell on earth due to Obama.
No mention of the most likely and obvious apocalyptic trigger, the one with the sister named Maya.
Didn't believe in this stuff until right now - if these lot say it isn't going to end then we are all screwed.
Signing off from under the couch,
maybe not,, but even the Mole People are still a little edgy, they remember last time. 8-o
Global warming or the world will end! I will go with the Mayans, they have more credibility.
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Chapter 49
The Messiah will be a light to the Gentiles and will free the prisoners—Israel will be gathered with power in the last days—Kings will be the nursing fathers of Israel—Compare 1 Nephi 21.
2 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp
3 And said unto me, Thou art my
4 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.
5 ¶And now, saith the Lord that
6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a
7 Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
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17 Thy children shall make haste; thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee.
18 ¶Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these
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20 The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too
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22 Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will
23 And kings shall be thy
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An Orange County native won a prestigious singing competition this week and is headed to the Metropolitan Opera.
Efraín Solís of Santa Ana took top honors on Sunday at the Western Regional Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in Los Angeles. The baritone will now head to the National Semi-Finals in March, when the competition continues on the stage of the venerable New York City opera house.
Solís said on Tuesday that the big win hadn't quite sunk in yet.
"I feel honored to be part of it, to be able to stand on the Met stage," he added by phone from the Bay Area, where he is studying at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. "What more can a 23-year-old ask for?"
The Met's annual National Council Auditions, which date to the 1950s, are designed to find new talent for the company as well as for its Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. The auditions are held in 13 regions in the U.S. and Canada, which are in turn broken down into 40 districts.
Solís won the district auditions in San Francisco on Oct. 7, then the regional, which was held at the Colburn School. The regional contest was taped by KUSC and will be broadcast in December. Soprano Tracy Cox, a member of the young artist program at Los Angeles Opera, will join Solís in New York for the national semi-finals.
Born and raised in Santa Ana, Solís is a first generation Mexican American and the first in his family to receive a college degree, from Chapman University's Conservatory of Music in 2011. He is in his second year of the master's program at the San Francisco Conservatory.
He credits his parents, both of whom performed in church, and his public school teachers (he attended Saddleback High School in Santa Ana) for encouraging his interest in singing.
In the regionals, Solís sang Figaro's "Aprite un po' quegli occhi" from Act Four of Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" and Onegin's aria from Act One of Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin." He'll revamp his repertoire for the auditions in New York but says he'll definitely keep the Mozart.
About 10 of the semi-finalists are chosen for the Grand Finals, a public concert on the Met stage which is accompanied by the Met Opera Orchestra and broadcast nationwide on the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network. The Grand Winners, approximately five, will receive $15,000 and are automatically considered for the Lindemann Development Program.
A number of notable singers have come through the National Council Auditions, including Renée Fleming, Ben Heppner, Deborah Voigt, Eric Owens and Frederica von Stade.
Solís is eagerly anticipating the nationals in New York. Every few hours he is reminded of it and has to calm himself down.
"To think of all the people who stood on that stage is overwhelming," he said.
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thank you!ABC would most likely find that featuring Davis and White in order to promote Skate America, which is being broadcast by NBC to be a conflict of interests. The idea that anyone would be paid to appear on a network to promote an event another network has rights to seems very unlikely.
The comparison to the Fierce Five doesn't work, because the Fierce Five became an asset to any show by winning the Olympics and becoming famous. If Davis and White win the Olympics, then they will be more likely to appear on all sorts of shows across networks. They'll be more likely to be invited on these shows even before the Olympics in Sochi, I imagine, during the pre-Olympic hype. That, however, is two years away. Also, it probably won't have a lot to do with the USFSA asking for them to be included- rather, it would be initiated by the producers of the shows. Any time the USFSA is asking if their skaters can appear on a show they can expect to pay for that right unless they are negotiating a broadcast deal, and NBC already has those rights. There may also be a conflict between NBC's deal with the USFSA and the ability to ask other networks to promote their skaters.
As for the pressure, I totally agree that skaters will have to deal with pressure to get anywhere in the sport. Hyping somebody up as being the person who will probably beat the national champion is a bit far, though. It puts a very specific expectation on a skater that could be a blow to their psyche should they fail to accomplish as much. It's also very unfair to the national champion who, by virtue of winning, has earned the right to be heralded as the current best the US has to offer. Billing Gracie as the best (and saying that she'll become better than the national champion is doing so) is probably confusing to many fans who might want to cheer for the skater who was ready to earn the title- a title that some seem to want to hand to Gracie with no results. Also, as I already mentioned, sending two of your best skaters to the same event makes it less likely that both will qualify for the final. That would also be unfair to one of the skaters. They'll face off at nationals, and if they both have good Grand Prixs, then that can build more hype for Nationals, which is the bigger event. If they don't, then the USFSA can find another aspect to hype without having blown their marketing plan with one event.
I do agree that skating needs more exposure in general, but I think that it's 1)harder than we think and 2)needs to be the right type of exposure. In 2006 I thought prospects were bright for the future of figure skating with skating movies coming out and the Ice Diaries and Skating with Celebrities shows. Somehow the general public seems to have a reduced opinion of skating after all that, though. Maybe the Disney version of skating (you can learn to do a triple in a year!?!!!!) didn't sell? Maybe the pageant-like aspects of the sport have turned some people off? Or maybe the USFSA entered into a really bad broadcasting agreement with NBC that truly fails to promote the sport because the sport is almost never on channels that everyone actually gets and includes broadcasters who (even though they might be right) denegrate the code of points every chance they get (this is my vote for what went wrong). There needs to be adequate coverage of the actual sport, and various facts about the athleticism and skills required need to be explained every time it's on the air.
I also think that the quality of professional skating that is shown has gone way down, and that has also affected the ratings. It's hard for me to watch certain skaters who are way past their prime and clearly don't train all that much on shows like the Halloween On Ice show doing the same watered down tricks and choreography over and over again. Some of the professional skaters are lovely, and some of the newer ones are bringing new life to the choreography, but we don't see enough of them on t.v., and we see too many of the others who are there just for their name. We need more skaters like Kurt Browning, Stephane Lambiel, Joannie Rochet, Jeffery Buttle, Katia Gordeeva, and the like to be shown, and less of those who phone their show programs in.
I would love to see skating featured in programs like the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade again (way more interesting than a dog show, though I have nothing against dog shows). I think ABC has the right to that programming, though, so it would have to be a group other than the USFSA that would coordinate that type of thing. It would be wonderful if a John Curry style special from the Rockefeller tree lighting could be shown (again, ABC territory). All of this costs money and takes organization, though, and would be out of the hands of the USFSA.
Maybe the USFSA could convince NBC to air a pro-am competition to include athletes of a high caliber during Christmas season in a future year? That way they'd be organizing the competition and could invite those who'd best represent the sport? Again, though, that costs $$$. NBC would have to be willing to pay for it.
Maybe the best route is to try to get more youngsters interested in the sport- perhaps the USFSA should put their money towards a day of free skating lessons in member rinks across the country, and advertise this heavily. The difficulty here is that skating is a sport with a steep learning curve, so they'd have to work hard to find ways to make doing the most basic things a lot of fun.
I'm just rambling and throwing out random ideas now. The point is that it is a lot more difficult to drum up popularity than many of us think, and the USFSA has a tall order ahead of them.
Maybe the best way to promote skating is for each of us to take a friend to a show, and then to take a few friends skating, and then maybe take our neighbors' and relatives' kids skating. Maybe relying on the governing bodies to fix everything isn't the answer? Or perhaps the USFSA needs to find ways to get more people involved in promoting the sport- offering a second set of tickets at a discounted price to people who buy the expensive seats so that they can bring a friend? Or maybe just trying to get member clubs to go out into the community to promote certain events?
also - if WE the fans can't even agree with how to "fix the problem" I can't imagine it any easier for the folks at the USFSA to agree and fix it either.


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The core of my creation is to engage in a comparative study of the Eastern and Western cultures. Through a segregation of the two cultures into multiple levels, I peel away the layers to reveal the similarities and differences of both sides. With my comprehension, I have made works relating to issues like religion, history, races and gender etc.
Games comprises of three sets of chess games. The initial concept was to assemble a chess set (Games Set I) with one side of Chinese chess pieces set in opposition to one side of European chess pieces. My intentions are not to be interpreted merely on the surface of cultural conflicts in the tactical play of chess, it raises the complexities of irony: whose rules to abide by on treading upon foreign grounds in this inconceivable game?
The other two chess sets were later inspired by the Centenary of Federation. The second chess set (Games Set II) looks at the native animals that roam the Aboriginal land fighting against the intrusion of the introduced animals that came with the immigrants to Australia. Working on a collaborative effort with artist Mui See Leong, who sculpted and cast the chess pieces in glass, the message behind this chosen material is to speak of the fragility and preciousness of both animal life and land in the fight for the survival of the fittest. And, above all, the invisible role of the man is trying to play God as each move is made.
In the third chess set (Games Set III) iconic figures of Australian heritage like Chesty Bond, Ned Kelly, Captain Cook and Aborigines, stand on a landscape of Australia depicted as the red centre, desert sands, lush greens and blue oceans. The reason behind the circular chessboard is to create an environment where there are no opposing sides to take, all the characters come together, idealised as a symbol of reconciliation.
Confucius once wrote: 'Eat, drink, man and woman are the main desire of human.' In The way we eat I investigate the differences of cutlery used in both East and West through my observation and research. Focusing on the Victorian era with the most flourishing style in cutlery, I attempt to compare a simple pair of Chinese chopsticks with a wide array of European flatware. Although there is a high regard for the aesthetics and craftsmanship of the Victorian cutlery with Rococo and Baroque decorations, there are many made with an excessive overlap in their functional purposes. The only value of their existence is to serve the purpose of flaunting the extravagance of the bourgeoisie. On the contrary, a pair of chopsticks can cover the multiple purposes that the pieces of Western cutlery are to perform. In turn it is also a metaphoric symbol of traditional Chinese culture and ancient philosophy that 'less is more'. In a time when the world is turning towards globalisation, there is a lot to offer and learn through the interaction of both cultures.
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Why the Canucks Shouldn't Retire Pavel Bure's Number 10
Thomas Drance
November 08 2012 01:12PM
This weekend Pavel Bure will be going into the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, and it appears that the Russian Rocket - the most exciting player to ever don some variation of a Vancouver Canucks sweater - will be honoured at long last by the team as well. Late on Wednesday evening, Jason Botchford reported that the Canucks are likely planning on retiriing Pavel Bure's number 10 at some point when hockey is played again.
Based on what Bure meant to the franchise, to the city and the sport this should be a no-brainer. There are, however, other factors that make this decision a tricky one for the Canucks.
Read on past the jump.
Tony Gallagher, one of Bure's most outspoken supporters when the Russian Rocket dueled repeatedly with team management some 15 years ago, presented the argument for why it's "absurd" for Bure's number not to be retired on Thursday:
Bure... has expressed reluctance at times about being honoured in Vancouver. He's been concerned about how the crowd might react, given the way he left here -- after five years of asking to be traded. And Gillis has indicated that some interests within the club haven't been overly enthusiastic about the idea. But now it appears they're getting over whatever pettiness may have been going on -- and perhaps the right thing is about to happen.
Bure was easily the best Canuck of all time, his ability to lift people out of their seats absolutely amazing. But everything about him was astounding, different, larger than life -- totally unlike any other Canuck before or after him.
Certainly most fans in my generation who grew up watching Bure, scoffed at the Ring of Honour ceremonies celebrating the likes of Harold Snepsts and Thomas Gradin. No disrespect intended but for a lot of fans Bure's absence from the Ring of Honour, or from the rafters at Rogers Arena has cheapened the honours bestowed on other players. The absence of the number 10 is a constant distraction and the team has long needed to figure out some way of honouring Bure.
The big issue still is that retiring Bure's number might not make a lot sense. The Canucks - and this has happened while the Aquilini Group was in charge - have set up an internal standard for number retirements that emphasizes more than just a guy's play on the ice. In order to have your number retired by the Canucks, generally speaking, you have to have shown loyalty and active citizenship in the local community. By retiring Linden's number 16 (a slam dunk) in addition to Markus Naslund's number 19 (less so a slam dunk), the Aquilini Group sent a statement to the denizens of Vancouver and to the players: that this franchise recognizes quality individuals in addition to quality hockey players.
By all accounts Pavel Bure is a fine person, but he's an intensely private individual, and the Canucks have made a point of retiring the numbers of players who put on a strong "public face." Bure just doesn't meet this set of criteria.
Now, whether or not "off ice citizenship" is a wortwhile criteria for the Canucks to use to decide which numbers to retire, is a different argument. In fact, I tend to think that Bure's induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame exposed that in-house criteria as stupid (full stop). How are you going to recognize the accomplishments of Smyl and Naslund when Bure is in the Hockey Hall of Fame primarily for what he achieved while wearing the black, red, and yellow jerseys of the mid-90s Vancouver Canucks?
But silliness aside, the Canucks have invested a lot of time into setting up this "community oriented" standard for number retirement and I'd rather see the organization stick to their guns, than cave to public pressure. And make no mistake, this would be the team caving.
The Canucks have had a decade to figure out a way of honouring Bure since his retirement. The team was apparently pushing to induct him into the Ring of Honour (alongside Thomas Gradin and Harold Snepsts!) but Bure reportedly wasn't interested in showing up for some secondary honour...
Then there's the trade request. While there's little doubt that Bure was woefully mistreated by George McPhee and Pat Quinn during his Vancouver tenure, there's still the fact that he hired current Canucks General Manager Mike Gillis to orchestrate a hold out and a public trade request. I'm of the mind that Bure's actions were fully justifiable based on the way he was treated by Quinn's regime, but I also think that an act of insubordination like Bure's disqualifies you from being honoured, at the highest level, by the team.
Pavel Bure was my favourite player growing up, so don't count me among the unhinged who will be upset to see his number raised to the rafters of Rogers Arena. His skill alone meant so much to the city, the sport and the franchise; and I'd never say that it's an honour Bure doesn't "deserve". It's just an honour I don't think he should get.
If Bure does have his number retired, he'll be the exception to every rule the Canucks have for honouring their players; but maybe that's fitting. Bure was nothing if not exceptional.
Considering the mediocre careers (smyl, linden, and possibly even naslund) and subsequent numbers the Canucks have already retired I would think you would be overjoyed that they are actually retiring a player that is worthy of this honor.
As for your disdain for the way Bure left town, I invited you to get over it. If the Canadiens can retire Roy, the Canucks can retire Bure.
Did you even read the article? No one is debating the numbers Bure had, he never had the same public standing Linden, Smyl and Naslund had. They are three players that all were individually the face of the franchise at one time, while they didn't have the numbers Bure did they all blow Bure out of the water for what they contributed off ice, in the locker room and in terms of leadership.
Just because the Canadiens throw around number retirements like they're candy doesn't mean the Canucks should. I support not retiring Bure's number and agree that the Canucks are stepping away from the gold standard they set with previous retirements. I've always been happy that the Canucks don't just give away jersey retirements easily, this compromises that. While I wouldn't want the Canucks to follow suit I can't help but admire Toronto's decision to not retire jersey's.
November 08 2012, 11:49PM
I respect the organization's standards for jersey retirement, however when it's a talent like Pavel you have to make an exception. Two straight 60-goal seasons.
if the Canucks were any other organization, only Bure and maybe Smyl would have their jersey's retired... that is all. ring of honor would be for the naslunds and lindens of the world and jersey retirements are for exceptional hockey players and maybe the franchise's first captain, which would be more suited for the ring of honour.
If you believe that players should have their jersey's retired for what they do within a community then fine. I can accept that. That's your opinion. But then I have to wonder why haven't the Canucks retired more numbers than just those that belong to Linden, Naslund, and Smyl. Surely, the Canucks have had more than just 3 players over the course of their franchise history make significant contributions to the community.
Personally, I believe players should be retired for a multitude of reasons. That said reason numero uno, should be what they did between whistles and nothing else. Bure was a world class talent and deserves to have his number raised, and IMO should be the only one raised at GM place in this point in time.
"I've always been happy that the Canucks don't just give away jersey retirements easily, this compromises that."
I like this quote from you. It makes me laugh because obviously, you and I just could not disagree more. You obviously, believe that the raising of Bure's jersey cheapens the retirement of smyl, linden, and naslund. I see it as the complete opposite. It's a pity that Bure's number will hang next the likes of the other 3, when clearly Bure was a cut above.
As for your cheap shot at the Canadiens. Just for your information. When a team has won 24 stanley cups it means they have seen a few marquee talents in there day giving them reason to raise a jersey or two. Do yourself a favor, go look up the Canadiens history. Particularily, the 70's and a man by the name of Sam Pollock. Educate yourself.
November 09 2012, 12:40PM
Naslund won the Lester Pearson award in 2003. That is the award for the best player in the world (pop 6 billion), as voted by NHL players. He was also a 3 time NHL first team all star and a Hart finalist.
I find it comical that actual players thought of Naslund as the best in the world, but posters here call him "mediocre" or not exceptional.
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Naslund was good, but no where exceptional or HHOF worthy.
silly silly canuck fans
if the Canucks were any other organization, only Bure and maybe Smyl would have their jersey's retired... that is all. ring of honor would be for the naslunds and lindens of the world and jersey retirements are for exceptional hockey players and maybe the franchise's first captain, which would be more suited for the ring of honour.
This is contradictory. If you are arguing that the Canucks should hold jersey retirements only for "exceptional" hockey players like Bure, then Smyl should not be anywhere close to the rafters. He was a good player for sure, great captain, and exceptional only in the sense that he served exceptionally well as the face of the franchise. This standard fits the likes of Linden and Naslund, but I would argue that Naslund and Linden (in that order) accomplished more statistically than Smyl.
I tend to agree with you that the Canucks should be more stringent in terms of number retirement, but at the same time, imo, Linden is probably the only deserving player to have his number retired.
The fact that Smyl and Naslund is there (with all due respect to these two great payers) is what makes it stupid to not have Bure up there as well, because Bure was the best hockey player among them and the only one in Hall of Fame).
Look, it's great that the Canucks want its players to be involved in the community. But that doesn't equate to never recognizing true talent just because he was a private guy. His bitter divorce with the Canucks should be contextualized. We had crappy management and ownership and the team had no sense of direction at the time.
I, for one, would like to see the most electrifying player the Canucks ever had to be properly remembered.
isn't smyl the franchise's first captain?
November 09 2012, 05:06PM
I never said Naslund should have his jersey retired. I took issue with the terms "mediocre" and not exceptional.
Again, I'll take the opinion of a league full of pro players over you.
Perhaps your style here is also better suited for Eklund's site? Then again, your incoherent ramblings after the 4 exclamation points probably wouldn't be understood there either.
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I just have to say that I absolutely love it that I can share the love for Christmas with you all. My friends and family think I am crazy for wanting Christmas already and here I found others like me! I love it that I finally found people who like talking about Christmas in June too.
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What's with all these idiotic and stupid comments on this thread saying "americans believe this and americans think that not". Not all americans think this way. Not all americans think nudity is the devil and not all americans are fat gangster cowboy nascar drivers or whatever other stupid things you other people think. It's mainly just the older generation who have no idea what they're talking about and convincing/forcing their kids to start up those stupid "cease fire" things with some games. Anyone in this country with half a brain knows that theres other problems going on with people and not the video games.
We're not all sitting on our scooters at walmart waving a tiny flag. Get a grip europe.
*Goes to wiki*
*Check the voilent crime stats page in US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States*
*Noticed a heavy decline of voilent crimes since video games became mainstream (just before the release of PS1*
*Won discussion*
Really...do these senators in the US not have internet? I mean...really? Homocide rating has only been lower twice in the last 50 years and that was early 1960s! Since then it started to raise...I guess the Mafia where playing to much games as well. Actually the crime rates are pretty comparible with the rise and fall of the Mafia in the US. Anyhow how could voilent crime families have anything to do with that stuff. They do not murder! Games do!
Once again, politicians & the mass media take advantage of a terrible situation to push whatever their agenda happens to be at the time. Sigh...
Anyway good article, and I agree 100%. Blaming game makers (or gun manufacturers, for that matter) for violence is like blaming the makers of matches for arson, swimming pool companies for drownings, or Alexander Graham Bell for the Jerky Boys. It just doesn't make any sort of logical sense.
This topic has brought this longtime lurker out of hiding...
For the people who love to put the blame on video games for all of the violence in the USA (in different times the "great satan" would have been comic books, or maybe the dreaded rock and roll music), I like to remind them that these games do exist and are played around the world. They are played in England. They are played in Japan, etc. Ours is not the only first-world nation where violent video games (and movies) exist. But guess what; we still somehow manage to have a disproportionately greater number of mass shootings on American soil than in any other first-world country. So, I don't know, perhaps common sense might suggest that the problem lies someplace other than just at the feet of video games and Hollywood?
I remember when I was in high school and the whole PMRC was going on and Congress wasted it's time dragging Dee Snider, Frank Zappa amongst others to explain themselves because heavy metal was corrupting the youth. D&D was blamed for people getting kids into Satanism and of course all the horror movies were subjected to the same BS.
How about some responsible parenting and personal accountability. That's what they should be looking at. It's all a function of the government being a bunch of useless, out of touch, corrupt fearmongers who will do just about anything to get re-elected so they grab onto a knee-jerk reaction that might help them win at the polls rather than taking a look at the real issues.
Americans have legalized firearms, Europeans don't. Americans get random shootings every 6 months, Europeans every 20 years. Both play the same video games.
Where's Spock when you need him???
Having lost a good friend years ago and getting to see the entire cycle of investigation and accusation close up, I've spent many a long night pondering all sides of this arguement.
I agree that far too often people dissect the life of a disturbed person and focus on the hobbies that make them distinct from from the person doing the dissection. In my grandparents' childhood, it was playing cards and novels. In my parents' youth it was rock and roll. In my youth it was dungeons and dragons. Now it's video games.
But, to play devil's advocate for a moment: although violent games don't change the character of the player, what they may do is help an already-disturbed person train themselves into being a more effective weapon and, within a gaming subculture, may be less likely to be detected as disturbed or be as connected to influences that can help them.
Originally posted by maplestone
Having lost a good friend years ago and getting to see the entire cycle of investigation and accusation close up, I've spent many a long night pondering all sides of this arguement. I agree that far too often people dissect the life of a disturbed person and focus on the hobbies that make them distinct from from the person doing the dissection. In my grandparents' childhood, it was playing cards and novels. In my parents' youth it was rock and roll. In my youth it was dungeons and dragons. Now it's video games. But, to play devil's advocate for a moment: although violent games don't change the character of the player, what they may do is help an already-disturbed person train themselves into being a more effective weapon and, within a gaming subculture, may be less likely to be detected as disturbed or be as connected to influences that can help them.
The problem with this link is there are far more real world arena's where one could receive even better training in using a weapon, some free to the public and many that are tax-payer funded. From boy's camps to the community firing range.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
If video games trained you to be a better killer. How come I am not a ninja?
Anyway lets blame video games and remove them, but lets also blame everything that has an equal or stronger influence. That would include:
Sports (this includes playing a viewing)
Guns of course.
News (they love violence, so covering violent news stories has to go)
Music (it can stir your emotions so it must be bad)
Parents who own or are interested in any of the above must have their childern taken from them (because they are exposing their kids to such things)
If we did all that we would have a perfect world...
Oh crap the Amish still have violence.
Yes, I think these games glorify violence too much. But the violence we do in the games is far less troublesome than the violence that we do to each other because of the games.
"Violence" is nothing more and nothing less than a violation. At its extreme, it's physical battery or lethal force. But we violate each other, and the industry violates us, every day. The publishers sell you the illusion of ownership, power and prestige, only to rip it away from you the moment the games can't deliver enough bodies and wallets to them. We post grief videos and rage quit videos on YouTube. We are indifferent to, or even take pleasure in, the misery of others in the course of playing these things. And in the course of all this, we have the publishers who are laughing their way to the bank.
But, of course, none of us are going to admit that our past time is less than squeaky clean. Then again, I wouldn't expect anything else from addicts like us.
"Its sad when people use religion to feel superior, its even worse to see people using a video game to do it."
"...when it comes to pimping EVE I have little restraints."
--Hellmar, CEO of CCP.
"It's like they took a gun, put it to their nugget sack and pulled the trigger over and over again, each time telling us how great it was that they were shooting themselves in the balls."
--Exar_Kun on SWG's NGE
I'm still baffled on the amount of shootings in countries where they legalise the use of arms. There are people who don't know Obama is president of the USA (at least so I've heard... as I'm from Europe), but are allowed to weild a gun. The following might be a little harsh, but it's based on research and newspaper articles on a subject currently in debate in the Netherlands: Lower educated people should be told what to do A LOT. This sounds weird, but I get my statement as a conclusion on a discussion on health care. Research shows people with lower education have more health problems and cost the society more in healthcare. Moreover, in the Netherlands health insurance for them is even cheaper than for those who have a higher education (actually it's based on income, but those two are more often than not related). Higher educated people not only pay more, but they often have a healthier lifestyle: they eat healthier (less fastfood, more vegetables, etc.) and they smoke less. Right now the debate is on if it's right to raise the insurance for higher-risk groups (as is the case with car insurances) or adopt another solution (as to raise taxes on unhealthy food).
To relate this to the shootings, there's just incompetent people out there and access to guns is way too easy. Everyone can buy one and a lot of people do. Not to bash on lower educated people, but when the government here is worried about what those people eat, why should they, on the other side of the ocean (where obesitas is a far bigger problem) be allowed to have guns? Not to say higher educated should be allowed to have guns, but when you ask me I'd rather have someone more intelligent or someone with a special education and priviliges (e.g. police officers) carry a gun than someone with half a brain.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/gun-ownership-statistics-demographics/ Gun ownership is a lot higher as educational level is lower, and that's in percentages. Take into account that there's a lot more lower educated people...
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
And for MMORPGs ever so true...
I don't know how the virtual goods thing is going to play out, but that is that and this is this.
Video games don't make people snarky anymore than a football game. I think those people were like that to start with. In other words, if you are a violent person and play video games and then go do violent things, its not that games fault.
That's not "putting blinders on" over my hobby. Its logic.
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Swear I have seen the my Government trying to pin violence in video games over and over and have never brought up a shred of proof backing it otther then a someone who is paid to say these things. Never once over the past 20 oe o years since I started playing games have I ever had a thought to go out and commit mass violence.
It has nothing to do with games it is all about how peoples brains are wired but as an American I feel the higher ups are just too stupid and old to understand this.
Originally posted by Terranah
There's been many studies regarding violent video games relative to gun violence, and no link has been established. I have killed many npc's and players over the years. If I was going to guess, I'd say the number's are up in the 1 million range. Yet I never murdered anyone. In fact, I've saved quite a few lives over the years. Just gave cpr to someone who coded last week and she lived, so chalk another +1 in the save category. Hitler, Stalin and Mao never played video games as children, yet they collectively killed over a hundred million people. There is a greater link between mental illness and mass killing, but no one wants to have that conversation because it doesn't fit with the politics of the day.
Sorry to get off topic, but I have to disagree on the last statement, there's very little link between mental illness and voilence, people whom are mentally ill are no more or less prone to commit such acts (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1525086/). If you examine all the mass killings, the majority of them were male and of a certain age. Last I checked, women suffer from mental illness as well and it's almost unheard of that that particular gender participates in large scale shooting sprees. Even if the perpetrators in these shootings were mentally ill, no one bothered to check what sort of medication or substance they had been inducing. Many legal pharmaceutical medications for mental illness, of the sides effects, one of them is psychotic/violent behavior (SSRIs falling in that category).
"If I offended you, you needed it" -Corey Taylor
Stop discussing the issue of gun control and violent video games. Seriously, stop. Don't get involved in the conversations in your daily lives or on news media sites.
Instead, do everything you can to shift the attention back to what really matters: the budget. Two weeks ago, we were facing a fiscal cliff and the problems related. That problem didn't go away just because the politics of the day changed. As Americans, we should be ashamed that the media can so easily influence our discussions and distract us from the issues that really matter.
If you want to change the discussion, you can't keep discussing gun control and video games. Bring back the discussion about the budget. Post on your social media site of choice and post on news sites.
Yes of course, it's violent video games that are the problem, not the fact that you can buy semi automatic weapons from local gun stores and bullets from local supermarkets or that you can buy hand guns, rifles or shotguns from most sporting goods store or even pawn shops in the U.S. and let's not even mention the black market where the sale of unregistered weapons is rife, no it must be video games that cause these murders and robberies, remember guns don't kill people, people kill people except where video games are concerned then it's video games kill people, because that's much more a convenient answer to the problem than standing up to U.S. gun manufactures and lobbyists, far easier to put the blame on an industy that is far more popular and successful.
America, ...how not surprising of you.


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September 5th, 2013 08:06 AM #12
Gabrielle Faye and...
Juliette Nyx
Elodie Arcadia (perhaps this feels 'fresher'?)
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Vivienne Arcadia (love this with Gabrielle)
Aimee Juniper (Aimee means 'beloved')
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Tiny House in Sultanahmet
Size50 m²
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|Fidanlıbahçe Sokak, 34200 Istanbul, Turkey
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|More than half a year ago
The flat is around 50 m2 including bathroom with shower, toilet and all the necessary for your daily needs, a kitchen fully equipped with all the appliances for cooking, one living room fitted with a sofa bed suitable for one person, one armchair, TV and some book shells. The bedroom is fitted with one sweet double bed very comfortable.
The apartment is very close to Sultanahmet area (2 minutes by walk), 100 meters away from Sokullu Mehmet Pasha Mosque at Kadirga district.
Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and it is the country's economic, cultural, and historical capital. The city's biggest attraction remains its historic center, partially listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but its cultural and entertainment hub can be found across the city's natural harbor, the Golden Horn, in the Beyoğlu district.
Formally called Constantinople, Istanbul was the capital of the Roman Empire and Europe's wealthiest metropolis, and is now the largest city in Turkey. Here you will find a fabulous city that spans Asia and Europe. In Istanbul you will see how old meets new when you visit the "must-see" historic sites such as the Blue Mosque , one of the most famous monuments in both the Turkish and Islamic worlds.
House rulesThis is a family apartment so loud noise and partying strictly prohibited.
Security Deposit: €200
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I found the property terleurstllend. I had a different expectation. There was an apartment offered and proved to be two rooms, the kitchen is lacking, which is in the basement and for common use. With shower and toilet There is also no possibility to sit outside. I thought that was a shame, I was hoping for a place with its own kitchen and something to sit outside. The caretakers speak poor english which makes it difficult to communicate.
de accommodatie vond ik terleurstllend. Ik had een andere verwachting. Er werd een appartement aangeboden en het bleken 2 kamers met een douche en toilet te zijn, de keuken ontbreekt, die is in de kelder en voor gezamelijk gebruik. Ook is er geen mogelijkheid om buiten te zitten. Dat vond ik erg jammer, ik had gehoopt op een eigen plek met keuken en iets om buiten te zitten. De huisbewaarders spreken slecht engels wat het lastig maakt te communiceren.
We enjoyed our stay at Tariks place a lot. The room was clean and neat, towels and linen were provided. There's a fully equiped kitchen and a common room where it's possible to prepare and eat your own food. The staff was very friendly and helpful even we arrived really late at night.
All in all fully recommendable!
There were only two tiny negative aspects:
- the address is very hard to find for taxi drivers even if it's only from Taksim square, because it's a small street. So make sure you have Tariks phone number with you. Call him and hand the phone over to the taxi driver so he knows where to go and you don't need to pay lots of money for just driving around and trying to find it ;)
- second thing was that it was a bit loud outside as there is a large street around the corner where there's a lot of traffic. So unfortunately it's almost not possible to keep the window open at night. But there's an air-condition anyway ;)
Guest house in Beyoglu was a good choice for staying in Istanbul. Tarik (the host) was very helpfull, we couldn't find the place on our own so he sent his friend to pick us up on Taksim square. The room was nicely decorated, clean and tidy, had everything we needed. Good value for the money. Downside of the location is very steep street up to the Taksim and unsafe looking neighborhood but the police station is very near the place. Overall, we were satisfied.
Very nice guesthouse in Beyoglu/Istanbul. Everything was well organized and Tarik was very kind and helpful. He gave me support and advices for the transfer from the airport to the guesthouse. The guesthouse has a simple but nice modern style. Everything is clean and in good state. The guesthouse was most frequented by younger persons, mostly students from abroad, backpackers or people like this so it's a friendly and unconventionell atmosphere there. The kitchen is always the center of social life in the guesthouse where you can talk with others and exchange experiences. The area of the guesthozuse isn't quite sophisticated. It's a part of the city where usally not the richest people of Istanbul living but it needs just a few minutes of walking to reach the Istiklal Caddesi in the center of Taksim. I wouldn't recommend the guesthouse for people who are senisitive of noise. Usually the acoustic level raises when the muezzin from the near mosque start to call the prayer when sunrise. With the begin of the daily rushhour and the school in the neighbourhood and their loud interval signal for the breaks the noise level raises more and more. All others will be quite happy there :-). I wouldn't recommend the guesthouse for travellers with luxury demands but anybody who is looking for place for sleeping and base to discover the town will have good time there.
We had a really good time in the apartment. It was clean, all things you need are avaible. In the street are good opportunities to get something to eat. You reach all the sight in a relavitely short time.
My friend and I enjoyed our stay in these suit rooms in Beyoglu in Istanbul very much. Both 'hosts' (during the night and during the day) were really lovely people!
The place is fine and comfortable. The onliest thing I want to give feedback about is that it was not really clean.
We were glad that the beds were ready in both rooms when we arrived at nighttime. And Tarik guiding the taxidriver through Istanbul to his place. That was a good service.
We also liked the area where we stayed, to see houses getting rebuilt in a beautiful way. We felt quite safe, also late in the evening.
It was all super.freundliches personal.nur the territory a little creepy ..
Es war alles super.freundliches personal.nur die gegend ein wenig gruselig..
Very nice people, the service is very good and the rooms are clean and nice.
The rooms in the rez-de-chausee are however unbelievably dark because you have to keep the blinds closed all day if you don't want people to stare into your room.
pleasant home, night of great seriousness ... the place is a clean comfortable 15 MIN WALK high street is very c bien.merci Wimdu and tarik!
accueil agreable,veilleur de nuit d un grand serieux...le lieu est tout confort propre a 15 MIN A PIED de grande rue ;c est tres bien.merci wimdu et tarik!!!
AMAZING place!
ITts in the heart of istanbul, really close to the main shopping street and bars/restaurants.
The room was super clean and compfortable.
But the best was Tarik.
When we arrived he took care of us and explained everything: "what to do" and "what we not have to do".
We had a great time there and we will reccomend this accomondation really really tho other travellers.
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Kenny Howell
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The City of Mt. Juliet Alcoholic Beverage Commission is ready to review the 11 applications filed for those wanting to open the first liquor stores in Mt. Juliet.
The commission will meet Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 p.m. to review the applications and hear the presentations from the applicants. They will then rank the applicants and send them on to the Board of Commissioners who have the final say. The Board of Commissioners could go with the findings of the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, or pick their own top candidates.
There will be three stores allowed in the city limits, but there was most likely only be two in these first set of applicants. The City says that the stores have to be three miles apart, and all the applications are either near the corner of N. Mt. Juliet Road and Lebanon Road or in the Providence area. Most of Mt. Juliet Road is zoned Commercial Town Center, which does not allow for liquor stores.
The proposed locations are as follows:
1. Village Wine & Spirits. 11237 Lebanon Road.
2. Providence Wine & Spirits, Providence West Boulevard.
3. Vin Fine Wine & Spirits, 11191 Lebanon Road.
4. Fast Track Wine & Spirits, 1200 S. Mt. Juliet Road.
5. Mt. Juliet Wine & Spirits, 11344 Lebanon Road.
6. Providence Wine & Spirits, 659 S. Mt. Juliet Road (Providence Commons.
7. Mt. Juliet Wine & Spirits, 12904, 12906, 12910 Lebanon Road (Mt. Juliet Commons).
8. South's Finest Wine & Spirit Shop, 607 Providence Parkway.
9. Providence Wine & Spirits, 85 North Mt. Juliet Road.
10. Green Hills Wine & Spirits, 12554 Lebanon Road.
11. The Wine & Spirits Shop, 11344, 11350, 11356 Lebanon Road.


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