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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Wisconsin and the Wages of Diversity
Wisconsin is about $3.6 billion in deficit, over the next two year budget cycle. California is even worse, with about $26 billion in debt looming for the next budget cycle. This is due to the tremendous influx of very, very poor Mexicans. The Census Bureau reports in 2009 that the median household income for Whites was $54,461 (White, not Hispanic). For Hispanic (any race) it was $38,089. That is a difference of $16,372. Hispanics are a full 30% less wealthy than Whites, by Household measurement, in the Census Bureau estimates from 2009. When taking into account non-measured illegal aliens, by any means a large proportion of Hispanics, the numbers will be even worse.
Illegal aliens pay on average, about $1,000 to $5,000 per person, to smugglers (coyotes) to cross the border. The money is often borrowed, at usurious rates (sometimes 100% interest or more) and must be payed back on cost of reprisals (like cutting off of heads) of family members in Mexico. Then, there is the paltry amount of wages that illegal aliens earn. The LAT reports that many illegals are paid as little as $3.50 an hour, far below state minimum of $8 an hour. Finally, a full $30 billion or more is sent back to Mexico in the form of remittances (the largest amount of foreign earnings Mexico has, outstripping petroleum exports) from the US. This suggests strongly that illegal aliens have little money in the US, what little they have goes to coyotes and family members back home, with living conditions and (taxable spending) being very, very low.
You cannot build a first class government workforce on the backs of illegal aliens earning $3.50 an hour. You cannot do this even on their descendants, who remain mostly mired in poverty and earn at least 30% less than Whites based on household income (likely the figure would be worse with Cuban-descendants stripped out). America now has substantially a good deal of Mexico's population. And with it, the ability to pay only for a slightly higher level of government than Mexico itself.
This sets up inevitably a spoils battle. As the scenes from Wisconsin show, most of the striking workers are White. Teachers remain mostly White in places like Wisconsin, but they are in direct conflict with an influx of poor illegal aliens (mostly from Mexico and Central America). Wisconsin can pay for the union members and wages and benefits it has, but only at the expense of deporting in some manner the tidal wave of very poor people who consume social spending like sponges and have little taxable activity to pay for it. Or Wisconsin can accept "diversity" and embrace what Washington Post writer Harold Myerson cited as the "end of Whiteness" (no state has been historically more White than Wisconsin) and have government including wages and benefits only marginally better than Mexico.
It cannot have both high wages, benefits, and government services, and diversity. There just is not enough money to pay for diversity.
Diversity COSTS MONEY. It costs reduced services, reduced government wages, reduced benefits, and thus guarantees only the most corrupt and venal government employees (good government requires expensive wage/benefit packages and constant monitoring -- cheap government defaults to the corrupt model seen in Mexico).
White union workers thus have a stark choice. They can either join in some coalition to deport illegal aliens (and their dependents) and thus reduce government outlays to afford their current level of wages and benefits, or accept mass layoffs AND wages and benefits far, far below current rates as the price for diversity. Having lots of poor people is never "free" and the White union workers are bearing that cost right now, in Wisconsin and elsewhere.
Wisconsin, and states like it (California under Pat Brown, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota) were able to afford a large, effective, and professional government. One that built massive highway/freeway systems, state of the art higher education institutions, and efficient fire and police systems. Call this the middle class utopia. All that depended on a large pool of Middle Class taxpayers. Diversity means replacing that Middle Class (which has always been, and always will be, overwhelmingly White) which was willing to tax itself to pay for things it directly consumed, with very poor illegal aliens and their descendants.
Will a very small pool of Middle Class White voters tax itself into oblivion to serve "first in line" (i.e. Whites "get to the back of the Bus" per President Obama) non-Whites, mostly illegal aliens and their descendants? So far, the answer has been no. That likelihood is even less in rapidly rising prices and stagnant wages, with price shocks of oil and other disasters already occurring. This is particularly true for a White Middle Class that has already priced in the probability of ever getting any social security ten or twenty years down the road. White middle class voters don't have much confidence on either the ability or will of non-Whites to pay for older Whites retirement and health care. Even less in a legal system of caste-level group rights, with enshrined discrimination against Whites in employment, government contracting, education, and other areas of life.
White identity-spoils politics, has already begun. Amy Chua's World On Fire (yes, "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" Amy Chua) model of "market dominant minorities" who despise and remove themselves from their majority competitors (think Diaspora Chinese in Southeast Asia) accurately describes SWPL. Who for all their rhetoric do the utmost to stay away from non-Whites, and exhibit separatist behaviors (Apple Computer, Trader Joes, Whole Foods, Jazz and Classical Music, PBS, etc, all things no Black or Hispanic person would be caught dead engaging in, shopping at, or listening to) radically different from that of non-Whites.
But for those not of the highly skilled, upper cognitive levels, who are not Harvard or Yale professors (like Chua and her husband), the alternative is "borderer" identity politics. Along the lines of the Scots-English border country, where fighting, feuding, clan-identity politics have been a way of life for almost 4,000 years. White union workers who are descended from this culture or shaped by it, are unlikely to be shopping at Trader Joes and figuring out ways to cheat or manipulate the new non-White majority. But they are likely based on their history in this country and Britain, to engage in a long running series of feuds in politics and by other means. A culture based on continual fighting with the Picts, Romans, Irish, Scots, Danes, Normans, English, and Scots again, is unlikely to choose either peace or surrender.
That same desire for pugilism, for in-your-face action, for "get bloody" rhetoric and goon-ishness, can be put against non-Whites in a spoils battle. History and culture suggests that it will, given that there just is not enough money to go around. Today the conflict is against Gov. Walker. Tomorrow, it could be La Raza.
Yes, the objections are that history goes only one direction. That the arrow of progress cannot be reversed. As Mark Steyn has pointed out, the pictures of Egyptian women graduating from the University of Cairo in 1959 and 1979-onwards bely this. The entire Middle East has rejected modernism and all its contents, in favor of various forms of Islamism. The fall of Mubarak, of likely Khadaffi, of perhaps even the Saudis, will only ensure more Islamism and less of even the minor trappings of modernity.
I find it extremely unlikely that White union members will simply decide to "give up their jobs so other people can have them" as Obama's Diversity Czar suggested. Their culture, background, and very sudden desperation makes a series of conflicts guaranteed. With naturally, the spoils battles tending towards taking money from non-White interest groups, given the constraints on raising taxes that exist. The public employee union groups are likely to be joined by the far greater non-government White workers, who lack the skills and connections to form a "market dominant minority" and don't like being made suddenly poor. Machiavelli advised it would be better to kill a man's parents than make him suddenly poor, as he would forgive the former before he would the latter. That should a man be made poor, he should be just as well killed, to secure the rule of the Prince.
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You may be overstating the impact of minorities on the crisis, Whiskey.
I was actually under the impression that Wisconsin was a "Whitopia". One of the few remaining states without large concentrations of minorities, and the associated minority-produced pathologies.
Currently, Wisconsin is 89% White, and only about 5% Latino. Even taking into account factors like illegal immigrants and Latinos' tendency to describe themselves as White, probably fewer than 1 in 10 citizens is Latino.
The real conflict in WI is probably between overpaid, predominantly white public sector employees and the shrinking public sector. Not unlike the situation in predominantly white countries such as France and Italy, where job-holding public sector fiftysomethings find themselves in conflict with the younger generation, which is largely unemployed or leeched to pay for Gov't salaries.
Consequently, the WI situation seems to be a unique case where the White Left is largely responsible for the crisis at hand. In coastal urban areas, on the other hand, you do in fact tend to see budget problems more in line with the California experience - regional collapse due to black & hispanic low per capita wealth and disproportionate consumption of public funds (public assistance, law enforcement associated costs, and Affirmative Action).
- February 23, 2011 at 6:29 PM
- Whiskey said...
France of course is heavily Muslim. Easily over 20%, the real rate anyway. The same is true to a lesser extent in Italy, where there is a large Albanian population. Also of course Gypsies.
I was under the impression that Wisconsin had very significant numbers of illegal aliens added in the last ten years. The Census say 5.3% Hispanic for Wisconsin, but California it is 37%. White not Hispanic for Wisconsin is 84.6%. Meaning 15.4% is non-White.
Is 15.4% in a small, relatively modest state enough to kill prosperity? I don't know. But I think it might, particularly given Wisconsin's slow growth (private, non-farm employment change 2000-8 is only 3.4%) and somewhat limited economic base (farming, some manufacturing, some timber/mining). There is only 5.6 million people in Wisconsin. That's not a lot of people. California was IMHO able to cruise beyond its ability due to its size for decades.
- February 23, 2011 at 8:34 PM
A better question is to ask if there has been any growth in the size of the public sector union in the last 10 years. Have they been adding more members?
This could provide a proxy for the growth of the non-white and illegal population that most government programs are designed to serve. For example, is the student population in wisconsin growing, causing an increase in the number of teachers? If so, what accounts for that growth?
- February 23, 2011 at 11:44 PM
You leave out the more likely scenario -- minorities will increase in numbers until they have control of the government. Then, they'll raise taxes on whites (who constitute the upper half of wealth holders and income earners), and impoverish them.
- February 24, 2011 at 8:35 AM
Our at some point people will shed this neo-calvinist bullshit and stop blaming poor Mexicans for their problems.
If the poor Mexicans staid in Mexico, you'd just end up with all the jobs in Mexico, China, India etc where ever work can be done the cheapest.
Why? It's all in order to maximize the bonuses of ultra-rich white people. Then they blame blue collar unemployment on Mexicans in the US after shipping all your jobs to Mexico, China, and India.
If you're not rich and you believe in American conservatism and laissez faire capitalism, you're in for a rude awakening as globalization brings your quality of life in line with those of other blue collar workers around the globe.
I can't wait until the Cuyahoga river catches on fire again as we deregulate everything to bring back white people jobs. Oh wait, Centralia is still burning underground as it has been for the last 30 years
- February 24, 2011 at 10:06 AM
- Whiskey said...
Nullpointer -- there is no particular reason why jobs have to be exported to the lowest labor cost. Germany and Japan have both faced erosion in their industrial base to China, but have managed to retain a good deal of their manufacturing capability. While reducing their pollution to more acceptable levels.
Industrial towns in Germany and Japan are no longer hell-holes, wealth allows things like cleaner factories. It was after all Hungary not Germany that spilled that toxic sludge into the Danube.
- February 24, 2011 at 11:16 AM
Race doesn't really play a role here, but it will if events continue on their current path. Now, it's a question of the sustainablility of the 1950s labor environment in the Midwest, where you have closed shops.
Note that Indiana is one step down the road in this fight. Their fleebaggers are afraid of the private sector being opened up. Ohio is heading down this path as well.
Open shops will mean that manufacturers like BMW, Volkswagen, Kia will consider their states along with the southern open shop states.
- February 24, 2011 at 11:22 AM
Rising oil costs also take away some of the charm of bargain basement labor rates.
- February 24, 2011 at 12:14 PM
Pretty fascinating how anti-capitalists rarely grasp the connection between anti-capitalism and disregard for the environment. Back in the early 90's National Geographic ran an excellent story on the industrial squalor pervading Warsaw Pact countries. Around the same time, 60 Minutes ran a story on Soviets' use of nuclear weapons in civil engineering projects, and the resulting birth defects. Thousands within the "proletariat" were killed outright or condemned to shortened life expectancies, but apparently that's OK. Leftists have no problem whatsoever with their favorite regimes' environmental catastrophes. Or with outsourcing pollution to poorer countries. Just something to keep in mind the next time you hear a lecture on minor-league catastrophes like Centralia.
Anti-capitalists are also likely to excuse the destructive population replacement strategies Leftist elites champion - after all, who can say no to those "Poor Mexicans?" (TM).
People with open minds want to read Victor Davis Hanson's comments on his state's Mexicanization. Many of his stories mention how filthy the California countryside is now that illegals are establishing rural squatters' camps. National parks are littered with garbage, human waste, "rape trees" (google if you have a strong stomach), and the odd marijuana plot. Not to mention unregulated Mexican businesses, which can be counted on not to dispose of their wastes properly. The fruits and nuts in the CA state government rarely go after these Hispanic polluters, even though they are happy to drown legitimate [white] businesses owners in red tape. One wonders how long progressive doublethink, which excuses non-white environmental destruction while penalizing law abiding whites, will be allowed to go on.
- February 24, 2011 at 1:54 PM
"France of course is heavily Muslim. Easily over 20%, the real rate anyway."
No, it isn't. Not even close. There is more to France than just Paris. Have you ever traveled outside of the US, Whiskey?
- February 26, 2011 at 3:13 PM
Found one of the links I was looking for. Here's our happy, Mexicanized, environmentally-friendly future, courtesy of our "brown brothers". Pay special attention to passages about how the feds drove out White farmers in the name of "environmentalism", while ignoring what Mexicans have done:
- February 26, 2011 at 3:56 PM
The Census Bureau reports in 2009 that the median household income for Whites was $54,461 (White, not Hispanic). For Hispanic (any race) it was $38,089. That is a difference of $16,372. Hispanics are a full 30% less wealthy than Whites, by Household measurement, in the Census Bureau estimates from 2009.
I think you've gravely underestimated the problem by confusing income with wealth, Whiskey. I'd venture to say that white WEALTH (net assets owned) is even higher, by an amount that exceeds two or three times Hispanic wealth. Making the persistence of poverty that much more likely.
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The site is being ready to be launched soon, its an online forex site (online trading site - Financial related) where users can login issue an account and trade currencies and commodities online. If you dont know what forex is please look around on google a bit before you proceed. Similar sites that offers a similar product are fxpro.com, easy-forex.com, etoro.com to name a few. Please dont get confused with online forex portals as this a real trading site and not a portal. The site is somehow serious but fresh its not the usual red and white site. The site is currently online at markets247.com with a sample logo which we are eager to change. The rest of the site design will stay as it is so please adjust to the exisitng colors which are white, blue and orange. Gradients are welcome. The site will attack people that are not 100% experienced traders but are good users of the internet so logo design counts and it has to be fresh, crisp and most importantly SHARP. Not too complicated, not too fidgety but stylish.
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It is a new year and everyone is trying to hold onto those new year resolutions to eat healthy and get organized. Not me though. I shoot for moderation in my eating all year round. It has worked for me thus far, mostly. A good resolution would probably be to cut back on the procrastination, but it works for me. Did I mention this recipe came to be for Thanksgiving. So it is a few month late, but equally delicious. Case and point: procrastination works for me.
So for those of you looking to break your new years resolution, have already done so or don't make them, this recipe is for you. This bad boy mac & cheese has over a pound of cheese. Tons of whole milk. Although a combination of whole milk and skim milk works too.
Instead of adding the truffle oil to the cheese sauce, I toss it with the pasta right after I drain it. The steamy hot pasta, cooked al dente, will soak up all that yummy flavor. Plus, there is already plenty of fat, dare I say grease, in the cheese sauce. No need to dump the truffle oil right into the sauce. Plus, I imagine the oil separating from the cheese mixture like water and oil, yuck.
There is more cheese in the topping, along with panko bread crumbs and truffle oil. Never tried panko bread crumbs? You should, they can be found in most grocery stores and make for a perfectly crunchy topping for any casserole. Beats store bough bread crumbs or grinding up your own.The end result is a decadent and elegant macaroni & cheese, with the addition of the truffle oil. It will impress your next dinner guests for sure, because truffles are always impressive.
1/2 stick unsalted butter, melted
2 cups panko bread crumbs
1 1/2 cups (4 oz) cheddar cheese, grated
3/4 cup Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated
1 teaspoon truffle oil
Macaroni and Sauce:
1 stick unsalted butter
6 tablespoons all-purpose flour
4 1/2 cups whole milk
6 cups (1 lb) extra sharp cheddar cheese, grated
1/2 cup (2 oz) Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, grated
3/4 cup (3 oz) fontina cheese, grated
2 tablespoons truffle oil
1 pound elbow macaroni, twists or penne pasta
- Preheat oven to 400F, with rack in middle. Combine the butter, panko bread crumbs, truffle oil, cheddar and Parmigiano-Reggiano, in a bowl, until well combined.
Macaroni and Sauce
- Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a heavy medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Once butter has melted whisk in the flour, continue whisking for 3 minutes, until the mixture is a light golden color and thick, then whisk in the milk.
- Increase the heat and bring sauce to a boil, whisking constantly, about 6-8 minutes. Reduce heat and simmer for 4 minutes or until sauce has thickened. Stir in cheeses, until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Cook the pasta in boiling water until al dente (a few minutes shy of what you normally do). Drain macaroni a colander, placing the drain noodles in a large bowl. Toss the noodles with the truffle oil, until well coated. Combine the noodles and cheese sauce, until evenly coated. Transfer to a 9 x 12 baking dish, sprinkling topping over the pasta evenly.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes, until topping is golden.
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One of the ways in which we can tell that a religion is not sincere about a true relationship between man and the universe, is the inherent bias that is built into its foundation. I can't speak for all the religions of the world past and present, but I can say that the most widely recognized ones all make one critical assumption – that humankind trumps everything else in existence in terms of importance. True, we have evolved to be the most dominant species on earth, but how does that automatically correlate to being the most important and therefore most valued species by a supposed creator?
There are many religious doctrines and dogmas throughout the world that are currently in use, and the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all unsubstantiated by any and all means of evidence for a creator. That doesn't stop each and every one of them from being wholly accepted by their adherents as being the one true belief system. Obviously, if one is correct, then the others are false, and since none has any more evidence than the others, it is reasonable (to rational thinking people anyways) to say that they all are false. If we can accept that this as an axiom for a moment, and we were to start from scratch in creating a brand new religion, where would we as humans logically start?
I think that it is safe to say that those who have a need for a deity to attribute the universe to would start that same way that most or all previous organized religions do – with mankind being the middleman between god and the rest of what exists on our planet. We are the dominant species, and we want to think that we are thus the most important aspect of creation in this god's eyes.
But why would that have to be the case? Why couldn't it be that we have a purpose, but that we are not the most important aspect of this planet? Maybe there is a god, and that god has an everlasting and unbreakable bond with the vegetation that covers this earth. Maybe this god created humans only to protect the prized vegetation on this planet from suffocating itself out of existence. What we breathe out, they breathe in, and vice versa. Maybe our purpose was also to evolve to the point where we understand how to keep nature's vegetation healthy and free from disease. What if there is a god, and it couldn't care less about how we humans destroy ourselves, or about a concept of human morality, or about any of the things that we inherently want it to care about – because it only cares that the innocent vegetation of this world is kept healthy and eternally growing and reproducing. What if plant life knows a bliss and universal harmony that we humans will never know? What if plants communicate with god? What if this god wouldn't even blink at the thought of a human raping and murdering one of its own kind, but would be enraged at the human deforestation of a hillside?
It's a silly exercise to think about, but the purpose is to shed light on the fact that when humans create religions, they always begin with a bias towards humans. The gods of these religions are obviously non-communicative with the humans, so the humans are free to make up whatever they want. Personally, I'd rather have people believe that there is a god that only cares about us in the sense that we are care takers for its prized vegetation. That way we could take full responsibility for how we govern ourselves, and leave the mysticism between god and plant life, and have some incentive for keeping our environment clean. Then when we die, we can literally push up daisies and become one with our maker … the maker that didn't really give a crap about us until we became daisies.
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If they are anything like us, then yes. Probably won't matter though, the first little green guy that shows up on our planet will probably find himself on the business end of an assault rifle held by a Jesus loving redneck, or worse, the government.
I would beg to differ on that. You give humans way too much credit. We most likely wouldn't be able to detect them in the first place. Look at the difference between a first world nation and a third world nation. That is nothing compared to the difference between us and a civilization that could cross the stars.
Or, perhaps another species is just genetically better equipped for space travel. Maybe they age far slower than we do, enabling them to withstand much longer space travel. Maybe they could make it here, only to find that our technology is actually slightly more advanced than theirs in some respects, and less in others. Might make a decent movie plot - except for that whole language barrier thing. Once you go the Star Trek route, or the Babel fish route, it's kind of hard to take a movie seriously.
I can easily go with the Babel fish route. Just think of a more advanced version of Google translate and 5 years of data gathering. Gestures might be a bear when you consider how much of our communication is non-verbal. So would common allusions be difficult to relate to. I think the latter would be the larger hurdle.
We know what a fuss some people had when someone suggested the Earth might be round, and Earth was not created for human beings, in fact the Earth revolves around the sun with several other planets, and the final insult, our universe is not the only one. Poor souls, knocked off the throne by some brash astronomers who opened up questions. The hierarchy in the church was demoted from "receiver" of information from and invisible, untouchable, unknowable god; man was the explorer with no firm answers but a lot of unstable questions. Thus, the development of "Chaos Theory"; god forbid!
Asking questions; observing events, patterns, correlations and occurrences; creating a hypothesis; testing the hypothesis by doing experiments; analyzing data and drawing conclusions; making public your findings; repeating until an answer appears or keep repeating.
In this process of seeking evidence, as opposed to seeking instruction, means an individual has the freedom to see what is, not limited by what is supposed to be. It is this inquiring mind that tried to fly like a bird, or swim like a fish, only to discover our equipment does not function as a bird or a fish.
Adaptability, flexibility and resilience matter.
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MONTREAL - On any given weekend in this country, the dreamers of professional wrestling will cram themselves into a vehicle and head off to a show. Traveling is a way of life for wrestlers, clocking untold hours traversing highways & roads through all kinds of weather.
When Ontario-based grappler Ruffy Silverstein made his first road trip to becoming a professional wrestler, it would take the Toronto native to the so-called wrestling capital of the world, Calgary, Alberta. From there, a five-plus-year odyssey would ensue, which at times would test his passion for the business.
"The wrestling business has brought me coast to coast. I've wrestled in just about every province," said Silverstein in an interview SLAM! Wrestling, at the recent Championship Wrestling
Association show in Montreal.
Later that week, the 5'10, 220 pound Silverstein
would have the privilege of wrestling in a WWE RAW brand dark match at the Molson Centre, followed by a second bout with the Smackdown! show in Toronto at the Air Canada Center on Tuesday.
"Things are going really well and I can't complain. Things are starting picking up now with the WWE. I've been trying to get in there for some time, now they're starting to listen and I'm getting some opportunities."
As Silverstein recalled, when he made his decision to become a pro, he needed only look back upon his TV viewing habits as a child to determine where he would go to learn the trade.
"WWE(F) was definitely my favorite to watch, and Stampede as well," Silverstein said, also including Montreal based International Wrestling and the American Wrestling Association.
"But it was mainly Bret Hart, Owen Hart and the British Bulldogs that were my biggest influence. I looked around at some schools in Ontario, but I figured if you're going to a school, you might as well go to the best. As far as I'm concerned the Harts are the best teachers," he said.
In 1998, at the age of 25 with fianc�e in tow, Silverstein journeyed west in pursuit of his dream.
When training ensued in Calgary, he was immediately indoctrinated into a grueling physical conditioning regime.
"I think what helped me get through the training was going to thrash metal concerts & surviving mosh pits when I was younger. My body would take a beating and my body would be sore for days," Silverstein reflected.
"I got used to the same kind of pain in wrestling. Your using muscles that you've never used before. My neck is still stiff from day one of training, it just comes with the business. You learn your falls, your back bumps, your front bumps and your feeling sore in places you never knew existed. But you got to break through it or go home."
Mirroring the experiences of fellow dungeon graduates Chris Jericho and Lance Storm, Silverstein saw many of his fellow students fail to complete the training. Aside from playing some select sports in high school, it all came down to passion for the Torontonian to endure.
"What got me through the training was the love of being a pro wrestler, it's something I always wanted to do. Just being there, in the dungeon, was a thrill," he said, extending praise to his lead instructor at that time, Bruce Hart.
"Bruce was an excellent coach. He would give you encouragement all the way through. He gave a lot of constructive criticism. If you weren't doing it right, he would tell you and he would be blunt about it. If you didn't body slam a guy right, you would do it until you got it right. He taught us that you were in a fight, stay on top of the guy."
Eventually, Silverstein would have his brush with greatness, in the form of a grappling session with none other the patriarch of the Hart family, the late Stu Hart.
"I had the opportunity to get stretched by him, twice," Silverstein recalled, with a slight facial wince.
"I never felt so helpless in my life. This man was in his eighties and he'd have my chin touching my chest, my arms above my head and he would say 'Try to break the hold by gutting my eye!' So I went for his eye and that's a mistake, now he's got me twisted up like a pretzel!"
As painful as the experience was for him, it is a badge of honor worn proudly, along with the simple pride of having socialized with a unique, Canadian icon.
"He could tell you stories from the old days and he could remember the exact date, whether if was snowing or raining. It was quite something to listen to him speak."
With his training now completed, Silverstein set out to pay his dues with the Calgary Stampede promotion. When not wrestling, he was fortunate enough to find work in his trade as a welder.
But his tenure in western Canada would be short lived, as the promotion eventually closed down for business in 2000. The only thing left to do was pack up and head back on the road to Ontario. It would be sobering trip back home.
"I moved out there (Calgary) with a fully furnished apartment and a fianc�e and I came back with nothing. Not even my car made it home," Silverstein told.
On top of all that, Silverstein had sustained a severe ankle injury while wrestling in the west, requiring nine pins and a metal plate to repair. Despite all of this, he chose to carry on.
"I've sacrificed a lot for this business and I guess that's what keeps me going. I've given up too much to just say I'll give it all up."
Upon his entry into the wrestling scene in his home province, he soon discovered a completely different ring style, further diversifying his overall wrestling abilities.
"It's so different. The style out west is very old school; I didn't do much high flying out west whatsoever. I come to Ontario and people don't stay on the ground out here. There's a lot more high flyers and that forces me to pick up the pace and do more top rope maneuvers." (In fact, his in-ring name is the same as an old-school wrestler from the '50s.)
Topping off his time in Ontario with tours of eastern Canada and various independents in the United States, Silverstein has come full circle as a well versed wrestler.
In time, he would utilize that unflinching grit of his to acquire the attention of the WWE. "It's just persistence. It's just like applying for a regular job, you send in your resume, portfolio, a video of your matches. You make sure they know you're interested and finally establish a relationship. I like to think my foot is finally in the door, now I just have to get invited in."
You can visit Ruffy Silverstein online at his website www.ruffysilverstein.com.
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You don't have to be a Tiger Mom to worry that your child is losing brain cells while he soaks up R&R over the summer break. And you'd be right to be concerned—summer learning loss, as the experts call it, is real. The typical child loses two months' worth of the math skills he gained during the school year over the summer due to lack of practice, and lower-income kids also fall behind in reading. This summer slide is especially critical for those children without access to summer learning programs, who are more likely to spend summers on the couch in front of a television instead of going to camp or engaging in educational activities with their parents.
For this reason, extending the school year has become the issue du jour for many prominent education experts. "There's a small positive effect on kids when they go to school year-round and a much larger effect on students who are struggling," says Harris Cooper, Ph.D., chair of the psychology and neuroscience department at Duke University and a summer-learning expert. But should summer learning be happening in a more formal academic program, at a traditional camp, or right in the backyard? Not surprisingly, parents have their own opinions.
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"Kids need to keep up their learning in a structured way over the summer, not only to 'compete' but to guard against losing what they've learned. I wish we had year-round school, and it's not because I'm a mean mom. I just want my kids to be prepared, and I'm not able to teach them." —Eileen Z. Wolter, Summit, NJ
"They will really benefit from continued education. My wife and I put our daughters into two classes—one we felt they needed and one they got to pick." —Lewis Hall, Los Angeles
"Summer school has been woven into my second- and fifth-graders' plans since their kindergarten years, academics in the morning and sports in the afternoon. This summer they will also attend a Spanish-immersion camp with their cousins. Kids need academic goals—realistic ones!" —Cyn Hawkins Davis, Silver Spring, MD
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"Summer should be a time to recharge and relax, with plenty of time for unstructured play. That said, parents can do simple things to make sure their kids don't lose important skills. By incorporating fun learning activities into the routine, children will stay sharp and enjoy the summer." —Erin Wing, Issaquah, WA
"Kids in grade school need to experience life, and learn through doing during their summer vacations. My kids, husband, and I take day trips to museums, parks, zoos, and the beach, and we go camping, too. Our summers are full of learning—just not the traditional classroom type." —Sarah Caron, Sandy Hook, CT
"It saddens me when parents put their kids in programs all summer. What happened to letting them be kids? Childhood is way too short, and they are already inundated with stress." —Nancy O'Neill, Temecula, CA
How to Pick a Summer Program
The most learning occurs in programs that are more informal than school and teach to smaller groups. Typically, they include field trips, hands-on learning, and sports, along with math and reading-skills work. In Pittsburgh, the public schools partner with local organizations to offer kayaking, fencing, and theater. Kids even built their own bikes, and then rode them on a field trip. How to choose one that's right for your child:
Be a matchmaker. Your kid won't get anything out of science camp if she's crazy about creative writing. Ideally, you want a program that's challenging but engaging enough that she wants to go. That may mean cobbling together a few different programs throughout the break.
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TI list member Bruce Hettema is the owner of P&H Creative Group and the author of an article in the current issue of Illustration magazine on the history of his Petaluma, California art studio, which began life in the 1920's in San Francisco as Patterson & Sullivan.
In 1927, on the eve of the Great Depression but still celebrating Charles Lindbergh's historic hop across the Atlantic, P&S was prospering.
It employed more than a dozen artists, each with his or her own specialty: product, still life, automotive, fashion, portraits - you name it. P&S artists could put pen, ink, paper, and brush together to produce ideas and illustrations that virtually leapt off the page to sell products and sevices.
In addition to their illustration services, P&S employed a staff of graphic designers and calligraphic artists plus a comprehensive typographic department. As Patterson & Sullivan's reputation grew, they began attracting many of the country's top illustrators.
In the early years, artists such as John Atherton ( whose work now hangs in museums across the country), Stan Galli, Paul Carey, Jack Painter, Haines Hall, Gib Darling, and Amado Gonzalez worked for the agency.
Tomorrow: The realities of working in an art studio.
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"On July 25, 1959, the Manila Zoological and Botanical Garden opened its doors to the public. It serves as one of the educational centers in the country where the viewing public can observe, discover and learn interesting facts about the beauty of Philippine fauna and flora.
Manila Zoo has a land area of 5.5 hectares and has a current population of about 500 animals. There are 106 species, among which are 30 different kinds of mammals, 63 reptile species and 13 types of birds. In addition to popular zoo occupants such as elephant, tigers lions and the hippos, Manila Zoo also houses several endemic and indigenous species of animals like the bearcat, long-talied macaques and crocodiles." - taken directly from http://www.manila.gov.ph/manilazoo.htm


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Subject description: Recipe for a secure dedicated Puppy computer
Linux is not immune to malware or rootkits. In fact, exploit kits for these that target Linux are being sold. I ran across an article about that on BBC the other day but unfortunately I didn't bookmark it.
An acquaintance of mine observed that a pup booting from a CD/DVD was a very secure OS, but in her opinion left something to be desired. She would prefer a 'regular' computer. Carrying around a separate disc or stick is not her idea of a OS, and 'why couldn't a normal computer be made as iron-clad as one booted from a CD?'
Good question.
We tossed around a few ideas and made some observations.
Puppy booted from CD/DVD has theses advantages:
It is immune to rootkits.
The base OS can not be compromised, except via a saved session or save file.
How could a regular kit, booted from the hard drive, implement the same features?
Things to consider:
The OS must be easy to update, so no immutable files.
The browser and email client must be updated regularly, along with some other applications.
Emails, documents and other personal files must be preserved.
This is the recipe we have so far:
Set Bios password(s)
Disallow boot from CD or USB.
Partition HD – 1 swap – 2 Linux – 1 data – 1 backup (never mounted by user)
Install GRUB to mbr, /boot on sda1
Create a blank save file (dd).
Manual install Puppy and configure menu.lst.
Boot & set up a frugal Puppy on a clean system (not connected to LAN or internet).
Set root password and computer name.
symlink ~/ browser and email files to /mnt/home/xx
Set browser to download to /mnt/home/yy
Install core apps from local copies, move to /mnt/home/zz and symlink back.
An alternative to storing apps and data on /mnt/home/xyz could be to use sfs files mounted rw at boot.
1 time
Backup mbr and partition table (dd).
Backup Puppy files: pupsave, initrd, vmlinuz, pup.sfs files.
Backup /boot directory.
Do periodic md5sum checks of system files at runtime.
At every shutdown, after all apps are killed and partitions unmounted:
Perform a final md5sum.
If anything is dubious, then from obscured onboard backup files,
Overwrite the mbr and partition table (dd).
Overwrite the Puppy system files and pupsave.
Overwrite /boot.
We would like to hear the thoughts of other forum members about this. How could the recipe be improved? Any pitfalls to look out for?
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Posted: Tue 29 Nov 2011, 15:58
Post subject: Re: Iron Clad Puppy
Subject description: Recipe for a secure dedicated Puppy computer
2byte wrote:
....This is the recipe we have so far:
Set Bios password(s)
Disallow boot from CD or USB. ...
I would only do that if I were going to boot from a network. Because what do you do if the computer's hard disk craters? (Which it will, trust me, and at the worst possible moment.) You won't be able to boot from a repair CD or from a plain Puppy CD to at least use the computer.
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She has no problem with going into the bios and changing the boot options. Or replacing a fried HD for that matter.
She's a very savvy lady.
Edit: Disabling CD USB boot was her idea
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I wouldn't bother with the overwrites at the end. Instead, get checksums and compare with known good values (that you've stored previously). In fact checking checksums in the background after boot wouldn't be a bad idea. That way you won't bork things if power goes down in the middle of a write. Probably faster too.
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Thanks for the suggestion, it's sort of obvious now that you've pointed it out. Plus, the rewrites can still be done if anything dubious is detected.
Would anyone else care to offer up an idea?
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I'll be interested to see the scripts you come up with. I run an encrypted pupsave and a truecrypt volume for my personal data, but I always intended at some point (never got around to it) to kick off a low priority background task in rc.local to verify the checksums of the non-encrypted pieces like the puppy sfs, just to be paranoid about stuff like trojans and key loggers.
I also boot off flash drive and carry this around when I'm not home so it's pretty secure I imagine, but it doesn't hurt to add more security to the picture.
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Attorney General Seeks Execution Date for Convicted Fresno County Murderer - Clarence Ray Allen
Allen Convicted and Sentenced to Death 23 Years Ago for a 1980 Triple-Murder
Attorney General Bill Lockyer today requested that the Glenn County Superior Court set the date of January 17, 2006 for the execution of San Quentin Death Row inmate Clarence Ray Allen. The Superior Court likely will consider and act on the Attorney General's request during a public session on November 18, 2005.
The United States Supreme Court today denied Allen's last available legal appeal by rejecting his petition for writ of certiorari. In 1982, Allen was convicted and sentenced to death for masterminding the 1980 triple murder of Bryan Schletewitz, Josephine Rocha and Douglas Scott White at Fran's Market in Fresno, California.
At the time of the Fran's Market murders, Allen already was serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison for orchestrating the 1974 murder of Mary Sue Kitts. Bryan Schletewitz testified against Allen at the Kitts murder trial. While in Folsom Prison, Allen conspired with fellow inmate Billy Ray Hamilton to murder witnesses who had testified against him, including Schletewitz. When Hamilton was paroled from Folsom Prison, he went to Fran's Market where Schletewitz worked. He murdered Schletewitz and fellow employees Rocha and White with a sawed-off shotgun and wounded two other people, Joe Rios and Jack Abbott. When Hamilton was arrested five days later he carried a "hit list" with the names and addresses of witnesses who testified against Allen at the Kitts trial, including Bryan Schletewitz.
In 1981, the Attorney General filed charges against Allen and prosecuted the trial in Glenn County due to a change of venue. The trial lasted 23 days, and 58 witnesses were called to testify. Ultimately, the jury convicted Allen of triple murder and conspiracy to murder eight witnesses.
As special circumstances making Allen eligible for the death penalty, the jury also found that Allen had previously been convicted of murder, had committed multiple murder, and had murdered witnesses in retaliation for their prior testimony and to prevent future testimony. During a seven-day penalty phase, the Attorney General introduced evidence of Allen's career orchestrating violent robberies in the Central Valley, including 10 violent crimes and six prior felony convictions. The jury returned a unanimous verdict of death, and the Glenn County Superior Court sentenced Allen on November 22, 1982.
In 1987, the California Supreme Court affirmed Allen's death sentence. Associate Justice Joseph Grodin's opinion referred to Allen's crimes as "sordid events" with an "extraordinarily massive amount" of aggravating evidence. Earlier this year, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal denied rehearing in Allen's case. In her opinion for the panel, Judge Wardlaw concluded:
"Evidence of Allen's guilt is overwhelming. Given the nature of his crimes, sentencing him to another life term would achieve none of the traditional purposes underlying punishment. Allen continues to pose a threat to society, indeed to those very persons who testified against him in the Fran's Market triple-murder trial here at issue, and has proven that he is beyond rehabilitation. He has shown himself more than capable of arranging murders from behind bars. If the death penalty is to serve any purpose at all, it is to prevent the very sort of murderous conduct for which Allen was convicted."
The Attorney General's Office prosecuted Allen due to a conflict of interest held by the Fresno County District Attorney. The Chief Deputy District Attorney for Fresno at the time (1980-81) was Stephen Carlton. Prior to joining the District Attorney's office, Mr. Carlton was in private practice and was appointed to represent Allen in a previous murder trial; creating a conflict which required the Attorney General to prosecute the case.
The case was prosecuted by Deputy Attorneys General Ronald Prager and Ward Campbell. Prager is currently a judge on the San Diego County Superior Court, and Campbell is a Capital Case Coordinator in the Attorney General's Office.
Although all the courts which have heard his case have denied Allen's challenges to his conviction and sentence, he still may seek clemency from the Governor.


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Tiffany opens its doors on September 14, 1837 at 259 Broadway in New York. The first day's sales total is $4.98.
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The Tiffany Blue Box is introduced.
The Catalogue of Useful and Fancy Articles sold everything from horse whips to French sugarplums. Now, the Blue Book features the world's rarest and most beautiful jewels.
During the Civil War, Tiffany creates ceremonial swords for Generals Sherman, Grant and others.
The Tiffany Diamond is not for sale; but Tiffany creates many other spectacular jewels featuring stones of astonishing size and beauty.
The Tiffany® Setting paves the way for a collection of legendary Tiffany engagement rings.
Tiffany purchases the French Crown Jewels in 1887 and America's high society clamors to own them.
Kunzite is named after George Kunz in 1902. Tiffany introduces tanzanite in 1968, discovered by Tiffany gemologists in the adventurous spirit of Kunz.
Louis Comfort Tiffany is considered a world leader of the Art Nouveau movement.
This 1901 brooch continues to inspire Tiffany's spectacular jewels today.
Tiffany designers create the U.S. Navy Medal of Honor, a non-combat distinction used by the Department of the Navy from 1917 to 1942. Rear Admiral Byrd, Jr. is awarded this medal, known as the "Tiffany Cross," for being the first to reach the North Pole.
Gene Moore joins Tiffany in 1955 and transforms the New York flagship windows into magical mini-theaters.
The lavish, nature-inspired designs of Schlumberger are worn by the world's most glamorous women.
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In 1968 Tiffany is commissioned to create the White House china service for President Lyndon B. Johnson and the First Lady.
Audrey Hepburn wears the Ribbon Rosette necklace set with the Tiffany Diamond while promoting "Breakfast at Tiffany's."
Elsa Peretti revolutionizes modern jewelry design.
In 1980, Paloma Picasso's debut Tiffany collection is introduced.
Inspired by the clock that has crowned the entrance to Tiffany's New York store since 1853, the Atlas® collection launches in 1995.
Bird on a Rock, one of Schlumberger's beloved whimsical designs.
Like all Tiffany diamonds, the Lucida® is cut to maximize brilliance.
The mission of The Tiffany & Co. Foundation is environmental preservation and social responsibility.
Pioneering architect Frank Gehry establishes a groundbreaking partnership with Tiffany in 2004.
The Tiffany Novo® diamond is introduced in 2007, based on the cushion-cut Tiffany Diamond.
The Tiffany Keys collection lets you mix key pendants and chains for a look that's all your own.
In honor of our 175th anniversary, RUBEDO® debuts in Tiffany 1837™ designs.
This astonishing 128.54-carat yellow diamond is suspended from over 100 carats of white diamonds.
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In 1851, Tiffany was the first American company to institute the 925/1000 sterling silver standard which was later adopted by the United States. This precious metal comprises Tiffany's hollowware, like this 1853 pitcher, and gleams today in chic jewelry designs.
In 1845, Tiffany publishes the first mail-order catalogue in the U.S.
In 1878, Charles Lewis Tiffany purchases a 287-carat fancy yellow diamond. It is cut to 128.54 carats and named the Tiffany Diamond.
Charles Lewis Tiffany introduces the Tiffany® Setting diamond engagement ring in 1886; and it's played a part in the world's greatest love stories ever since.
Tiffany gemologist George Kunz travels the far reaches of the world, finding rare gemstones that are still coveted today.
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Blue and White Polka Dot Romper
Added Sep 6, 2013
by bapower
Providence, Rhod...
I finally finished my playsuit, just in time for the end of summer! I used McCall's 6331 I actually wanted to make a matching skirt to make it a vintage inspired playsuit ensemble. I switched out the zipper closure in the pattern for bound buttonholes.
The blue and white polka dot fabric was super shear so I underlined the whole thing with lightweight white cotton. the bodice is additionally lined with a solid blue cotton that matches the polka dots, causing the overturned pieces on the bodice to contrast.
I think I can still wear my playsuit as long as it is still warm out (which it is).
Way more info about the making of this and this on my blog, Belle Clara
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Sep 7, 2013, 07.13 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
Nice match of the fabrics and the pattern. And made very well – all the parts are cut simmetrically. Very nice outfit and job and it suits you very well.
Sep 7, 2013, 08.54 AMby SENEBO
What a super play suit, I like the button detail at the back and it's a great fit on you
Sep 7, 2013, 03.14 AMby pictureit17
Great styling, I'm inspired to give this pattern another shot. :) Your shoes are awesome too.
Sep 6, 2013, 10.01 PMby Lolibraun
Simply adorable.
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JDoppelt needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 209 designs submitted by 67 freelance designers.
My company, http://www.PigeonForge.com, needs a new logo! http://www.PigeonForge.com is an online vacation planning website that visitors to our city, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee use to plan their vacations. Pigeon Forge is a resort town located in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains. It's a real family destination. We get over 11 million visitors per year to the city! They come to shop, hike, see shows, get married, stay in a cabin, go to shows. etc.
Our site blends advertising of cabin, hotels, activities, etc. with original content so visitors can plan their vacations and create lasting memories.
Our target audience is two fold. Number 1 - the visitor. Visitors planning their vacations thru our website, http://www.PigeonForge.com. Our visitors range from families with small children to seniors. Since it's the moms who really plan and book the vacations, we need to target them. Also, the kids ages 10 -20. They are the ones that tell mom what they want to do and where they want to go!!
Secondly, advertisers - those businesses that advertise on my website. Cabins, chalets, hotels, shops, restaurants, theaters, etc.
I want an updated, clean logo that is fun, attracts visitors but isn't goofy or cartoonish. The logo has to have http://www.PigeonForge.com and can have an image in it. The image will appear in the header of the website and on print as well. No birds.
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by Tom Utescher
Completely reversing the outcome of a mid-September volleyball match against defending Catholic Academies champion St. Basil, Mount St. Joseph swept the Panthers, 3-0, on their home court last Thursday afternoon.
The 25-13, 25-18, 25-18 victory raised the Magic's record in the AACA to 6-2, with home matches against Villa Joseph Marie and league-leading Villa Maria Academy remaining on the regular-season schedule.
"We're starting to gel now, and that took some time after losing five seniors," revealed Mount head coach George Trabosh, referring to the players who graduated from the 2011 MSJ squad. "The kids who took their places were a little nervous in the beginning, but now they have their spots, and we're starting to play with more consistency. When we get into our rhythm, we're pretty good, and of course the key with any team is being able to maintain that."
Mount senior hitter Maddy Good, a team co-captain along with setter Marissa McBride, contrasted last Thursday's win with the loss to St. Basil exactly three weeks earlier.
"We came out more focused this time," she said. "We knew coming here would be a big deal because there's always a lot of energy in this gym, and there was even more with this being their Senior Day. I think overall our passing has really improved, and on offense we've been able to place the ball better and really start to terminate."
At the outset of the match, sophomore middle Sarah Thomas notched a kill for the Mount, which then gave the point back on a serving error. A scoring tip by Thomas returned service to the Magic, who proceeded to surge ahead, 10-2.
It wasn't until after Mount St. Joe went up 16-4 that St. Basil was able to score more than one point at a time. Along the way to building that advantage the Mounties marked down kills for Good and for junior outside hitters Moira Mulholland and Caroline Zakrzewski.
Late in the opening set, the Mounties got up 23-11 on a true (untouched) ace by freshman Alex Uzzo, whose sinking serve dropped right to the middle of the Panthers' court after crossing the net. The teams traded points to close out the set at 25-13. Mulholland provided both points for the Magic, scoring on a hit off of two Basil blockers, and then chalking up set point with a well-placed tip.
The Panthers were defending league champs on their home court with a big win over the Mount already on the books, but throughout the rematch they seemed the more unsettled, jittery team. St. Basil was coming off of a 3-1 loss to visiting Villa Maria earlier in the week.
No opponent that knows anything about the St. Basil program prepares to play the Panthers without considering formidable junior middle Angela Evans. After the Magic's initial engagement with the Jenkintown team this fall, Trabosh said "We made some line-up adjustments.
You can't just let her load up; you have to try and make her pass."
In agreement with those thoughts, Good stated, "When you play them you have to try and keep away from Angela, even when she's in the back row. We concentrated on swinging to the places she's not, and setting the ball to make her move on the block."
Evans helped rally the hosts to make sure that the Mount did not build an insurmountable early lead in the second set. Midway through, the Panthers held a 14-13 edge, but Mount St. Joe secured a side-out to tie the set and then ran off another four points with Mulholland at the service line.
St. Basil came back to 17-18, but never regained the lead. After the tally seesawed to 19-18, a net violation gave the ball to the Magic and senior Dominique Pacitti served out the set for a 25-18 finish. Thomas stuffed the ball back on the Panthers for the first of these points, then St. Basil hit two balls long and a third into the net. A combined block by Thomas and McBride furnished set point for the Mount.
When the third round commenced, the Magic harkened back to the scenario of the opening set, and bolted to a significant early lead, 8-0. Thomas and Mulholland got cranked up for this one, with McBride providing some masterful sets.
"Marissa actually played defense on her club team," Trabosh pointed out. "Then she was doing 1000 sets a day to get ready for the school season."
The Panthers made some inroads and tightened the score to 19-15, but didn't get any closer as the MSJ hitters continued to apply pressure up front. A Mulholland drive capped the victory for the visitors, 25-18.


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Dear Ms. MCAllister, CPP, PHR My checking account in which I had set-up to receive direct deposit from my employer was charged $350.00 in overdraft fees by TCF Bank from 11-23-09 to 12-31-09 thus putting my balance in the red. I requested of my new store manager to change the routing number and account number to match that of another account I had at Wells Fargo. He entered the information onto the computer and told me that I would either receive a paper check the next week or my earnings would be deposited into my Wells Fargo account. When the next pay period came however, the funds were direct deposited into my negative balance TCF account and I was left with no pay for that week. My boss's explaination was that he didn't properly save the changes on the computer and that there was nothing further that he could do. I was reassured by him that the following week's check would surely go into the wells fargo account or I would receive a paper check. I resigned myself to chalking this up as a loss and waiting for next week's check. The following week I received a paper check for about $240. It stated on the check stub that my direct deposit bank account was Wells Fargo and it listed the last 6 didgits of my account. I was relieved that I would not lose any more of my earnings to TCF Banks unfair multiple overdraft fees. The next week, aware that I would only receive a 1 hour check for about $8.00 for a meeting I attended, and having recieved the check stub with the correct Wells Fargo bank account on it the week before, I fully expected that the earnings from the 1 hr meeting would be deposited into the Wells Fargo account. As it happened though, they were deposited into the old TCF account and I didn't notice until the next payday right before that week's check for $210 was set to be deposited into the old TCF account. I called my boss immediately and told him what had happened and what was about to happen and he had his boss who was there at the time change my direct deposit account to the Wells Fargo account again. By the time he had made the change my whole weeks earnings of $210 had cleared my TCF Bank checking account. My boss shortly called me back and told me that I could rest assured my next check would go into the proper Wells Fargo account. I replied "Great, but what about this week's check?" To which he stated that the changes once again had not been saved properly on the computer and that there was nothing he or his boss or payroll or the corporate offices could do about that. I argued "This was not my error, I want my pay!" He stated that he would check into it, but ultimately said that there was nothing that payroll or corporate would do to see that I received my earnings.
My questions to you are: 1. Can they do this? 2. Is it legal? and
3.What can I do to get my earnings back? Sincerely, Geoffrey E. Wagoner


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|Horseback riding through The Gap of Dunloe, County Kerry, Ireland:
left to right: my brother Michael and our mom Mary in the pony-drawn 'trap',
me on 'Tom', our dad Michael on 'Maudie'.
On the Flickr page of Nationaal Archief — The National Archives of the Netherlands — is this wonderful photo, taken in 1930, of a skijoring race. (If you click on it, you can view the other photos in their collection.) Skijoring looks like great fun, although probably somewhat dangerous.
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Stewart, a dual American-Dutch citizen, first played for the United States at 21 years of age. His career spanned 14 years, including 101 full international games for the United States with the first against Portugal in 1990 and the last against Grenada in June of 2004.
Included in his 101 caps, Stewart appeared in 30 World Cup qualifiers in 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 and 2004 and appeared in three World Cups: 1994, 1998 and 2002. Stewart appeared in four matches in the 2002 World Cup, and was honored as the captain for the USA's 3-2 win against Portugal. One of his most memorable goals was the game-winner he scored in the USA's 2-1 victory over Colombia in the 1994 World Cup, a game that pushed the Americans into the round of 16.
Stewart played every game of the United States' run to the semifinals of the 1995 Copa America and the 1999 Confederations Cup. In 2001, he was both the Honda Award winner as the outstanding national-team player and the United States Soccer Federation's Male Athlete of the Year. At the time he retired, his 30 World Cup qualifying games were an all-time national-team record. Among the other events in which he played for the United States were the 2003 Confederations Cup and the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Stewart spent most of his club career in Holland, where he played 16 seasons for several different clubs, mostly in the top division. He also played in the 2003 and 2004 seasons in Major League Soccer, both with D.C. United, where he won an MLS championship in 2004. In those two seasons, he played 47 MLS regular-season games and six MLS playoff games.


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