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|2012-01-25, 16:45
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|2012-01-25, 17:07
|Link #27302
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|2012-01-25, 17:09
|Link #27303
The True Culprit
But you're effectively saying she is, because she doesn't have any of the capabilities she was told she has, under your theory. How the hell would Erika not notice and complain? You're trying to bandaid a huge plothole but what you're proposing doesn't make any sense.
|2012-01-25, 17:28
|Link #27304
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What Featherine meant about ripping the guts out of a cat isn't solely about finding the truth. Its disecting every part of the story and pulling out its nasties. The regret that that comes from this is that you find out that the stories aren't really well written or though out right. And boy does Umineko have a whole lot of filthy guts
|2012-01-25, 19:46
|Link #27305
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That is not necessarily true. In fact, I believe it is largely wrong.
Humans were never told that their truths are correct. Does that mean they are being cruelly tricked? No. They can go around and experience the world with their senses, and decide what is the truth for themselves. Even so, their senses are not at the level of Red Truth.
That is how it is with Erika's Piece in the Mystery side of the story, according to my theory.
In the end, what we are all looking for in this story is "an answer we can be satisfied with." Whether Ryukishi gives us this answer or not, it doesn't change that this is our objective. And it doesn't change the fact that we are capable of reaching this objective. I believe I will reach that objective, myself. Do you?
|2012-01-25, 20:20
|Link #27306
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Join Date: Aug 2011
I don't get why Erika can't make the mistake of not making sure behind her there's really Shannon and Kumasawa and Kanon is really where Battler says he was.
Despite being intelligent she overlooked checking things more than once in Umineko so missing to check is an error she's prone to do.
We're never told Erika saw Kanon and Shannon together in the parlour, we're told that Battler saw them, first one and after the other but in such a short amount of time it's hard to think Yasuda managed to switch from one to the other, realistically speaking (Umineko sometimes could care less about realism, though, but I don't think that speedchanging Yasuda is the trick here). In order to see them Battler had to move his gaze around the room, while Erika was in front of him, likely looking at him.
From Erika's perspective she likely in that moment saw Battler, George and Jessica... and possibly who were behind them or close to them. If there were people close or behind them.
She had to play the polite and proper guest, it's rude to costantly look around, expecially when talking with someone else. Lambda took advantage of this to trick everyone (Bern, Erika, Battler) about everyone being present.
It fits with Erika's character (she doesn't always check thingseven when it could turn important later) without touching Erika's abilities (she cannot be shown falsehood).
It's nothing else but the same trick used to have her believe that the cousins were dead or that Kanon was in the room.
In both cases, if she had checked, she wouldn't have been tricked.
And now let's talk about an odd thing I noticed about the gold.
The world's largest gold bar stands at 250 kg (551 lb), measuring 45.5 cm × 22.5 cm × 17 cm.
Now this means 10 tons of gold would be 40 gold bars and if I try to build a wall with them I would have 227,5 cm x 45 cm x 68 cm (5 gold bars x 2 gold bars x 4 gold bars).
Okay, so the gold bars used in Umineko can't be that big as they weight only 10 kg and a gold bar isn't a perfect parallelepiped so measurement is approximative but still... it doesn't look like the huge mountain of gold we see in Umineko, though the gold bar would be 1000.
Though maybe it's an optical illusion. The wall showed in the PSP version seems huge but the ingots might be rather small... and the anime and the manga might have not bothered checking how big the 'mountain' of gold was supposed to be.
Also about 'Our Confession'.
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|2012-01-25, 20:28
|Link #27307
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She keeps an eye out for every single person, she establishes alibis for every single one. She does so to incriminate Nats. Its not just the parlor scene but also during the time of the first twilight and Hideyoshi's murder. If Kanon/Shannon weren't really there during those times then the author just hand waved a bunch of plot holes by using "Erika is an idiot huuuur"
|2012-01-25, 20:31
|Link #27308
The True Culprit
And if the witches are just fucking with Erika, and she can't hope to win, then why in the fuck is she an antagonist? Why is Battler HELPING to bully her? Why is everyone being a jackass for no reason except to troll the readers and waste everyone's time?
|2012-01-25, 20:41
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...I've only been repeating things that have been stated over and over throughout Umineko, whether it be the novels or Tsubasa. That's why I think it is close to the truth. However, I acknowledge that there can be holes.
For example, I don't remember Lambda saying that everything Erika observes is literally 100% certain.
Alright. Then in that case, I'll adjust my theory to match that. Everything Piece Erika observes, is 100% certain. It is at the level of Red Truth.
Therefore, that which she does not observe, or does not pay attention to, is not 100% certain. And since we were only shown the Fantasy side of that scene, then as far as we're concerned, anything could have happened on the Mystery side, within reason. So, my theory about staging a detective game instead of doing normal introductions is still valid.
|2012-01-25, 20:59
|Link #27310
The True Culprit
|2012-01-25, 21:04
|Link #27311
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Furthermore, while everything she does observe is not an illusion in any way, shape, or form, and is therefore 100% certain, it is not as though she wouldn't be able to mistake a real sound for a different sound if the two sounded similar.
|2012-01-25, 21:04
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|2012-01-25, 21:14
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|2012-01-25, 21:20
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However, even if what you are seeing is not an illusion at all, it's possible to mistake it for something similar.
If I ring two bells next to you, but both are similar enough that it's hard to tell that they are different, you might think that they are both the same type of bell. Even so, the fact remains that both of these bells are very real and your hearing is presenting you with perfectly accurate data of the noise around you.
|2012-01-25, 22:08
|Link #27315
Reading your tale. :)
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Just out of sight, eating popcorn. >:D
That doesn't excuse THREE different scenes where Erika should have noticed something off about Shannon and Kanon and yet did nothing about it.
1) The aforementioned parlor scene everyone's been discussing where everyone is supposedly there.
2) When Erika's trying to corner Natsuhi about Kinzo's dissappearance.
3) When Erika is accuses Natsuhi of the crime.
|2012-01-25, 22:12
|Link #27316
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Spoiler for Space:
Whoa-za ... are you responding to a specific theory, or every one out there? Part of why I support Kanon having a body is that it means Erika's Mary-Sue powers worked EXACTLY as we were told, and she gets to still be as intelligent and anal retentive about details as we're told she is.
Of course, my theory DOES have Erika being mildly duped - it would mean Lambda made a fundamental change to the structure of the game unannounced, and !Battler reverted back to the original structure, similarly unannounced. I would not say, however, that either told her deliberate lies about their narratives ... er, beyond the degree that Beato did with any of her games, anyway.
ALSO, we've been discussing this parlor scene, but the last few posts made me realize that we may not all be talking about the same one. Most of my thinking concerned Erika'd denouement, wherein she deliberately gathered every living charater into the parlor with her. However, some of us seem to be talking about her introduction, where the "people in parlor now equals people on island" red was made.
I bring this up because I can maybe, MAYBE excuse Kanon being behind Godha at the introduction, where Erika was still playing the part of a mature, refined young lady, but I came to my own conclusion at the denouement where, despite the continuing lack of Erika's first-person descriptives, the presence of every human besides Kinzo, Hideyoshi, and Twilight was deliberate on the part of Erika herself, and typical of the type of denouement scene that's ... hm, traditional isn't the word I want to use - expected.
|2012-01-25, 22:45
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My intention here, is not to create a theory which has absolutely 0 holes in it, and the reason for this is that I won't have a chance to go back and read through the novels again for quite some time. After all, the novels are all really long, and I'm a slow reader. And I'd need to at least go through all of EP5 again. That'd be the bare minimum. Even so, I wanted to try and come up with theories.
It would be difficult for me to respond to 2 and 3 as I am now. I can come up with a few theories for them (like for example, by pointing out the fact that everyone is not necessarily in the same place during those scenes), but it would be difficult to develop it to the point where it would be truly satisfactory. My memory is just too vague in regards to these scenes and related information.
|2012-01-26, 02:17
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EDIT: Or, Shannon being the irrelevant element and Kanon actually being acknowledged physically(which would mean a change in Yasu's disguise).
|2012-01-26, 07:57
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Thats the point, Erika clearly cares about the position of everyone and establishes alibis for them just so she can corner Natsuhi. These alibis rise to the the level of red truth for everyone other than the people in the first twilight, its the only reason why Battler was able to create the alternate truth.
If she had conveniently left out Kanon then Battler could have gone out in his desperate non Sorcerer form and said something like "Kanon was never accounted for in your theories! He could have committed the crimes! Natsuhi is innocent!"
I subscribe to the idea that Kanon was physically there, its the only way Erika doesn't come out as an idiot thats being played by everyone. Thats what "lack of love" means, because in this game, the only reason for Shkanon to exists is absent and yet they are there. Battler corrects this in EP6 and warns Erika to pay attention to the fantasy scenes and she didn't, because in her mind that was useless other than establishing probable motive. If she had actually paid attention to them, she could have figured out the Shkanon trick.
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|2012-01-29, 11:42
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
In the PT mooks defense, her machine is a cheap Knockoffs (has half the shield power and endurance, though possess same mobility). Meanwhile, the Tank in question are special (prototype tank upgraded with I.S. tech), only it's ammunition are really mundane.
Going to sleep as well because the Interwebz connection kept worsening...
|2012-01-29, 19:03
|Link #20004
Awe of She
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
...should I consider it a small step for Ori-wincest that the one Chifuyu chikan doujin that I didn't like had her murmuring for Ichika in her sleep...
Ugh, the rage I feel at that doujin... ><
Chifuyu surveyed the landscape after her heated skirmish, casulties were strewned over the entire battlefield. The blackened and charred lumps were still smoking, a testement to the searing heat that cooked them. The cracked and broken shells of her foes lay virtually indistinguishable from each other. She was covered from head to toe in an assortment of a white, powdery substance that one had dared to throw in her face as her blade ripped into it.
Brunhilde had but only one foe that she could not defeat...ever.
...if only she were in an IS right now...
"...Chifuyu-nee," came his voice as he poked his head into the kitchen area, his face a mix of 'I told you so', and 'Don't look at me to help'. A pot fell, clattering to the ground in mockery of the attempted storming of the kitchen by the strongest 1st Gen pilot. They both looked at the pot before their eyes met.
"You're cleaning this up."
The retort danced on he tip of her tongue but her younger brother's unusually strong gaze made her sigh in resignation of her alloted fate. "...yes, Ichika..."
|2012-01-29, 21:03
|Link #20013
Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
Yume: "One will only buy a burnt pot out of love! Which means.... Irish and Inami don't have enough love! Go read more boys love comic!"
Edit: Tenshi no Akisora
Upgraded version.
Even BL to make Ichika(Oblivious) trembles.....
Normal straight guys.... it is an instant death.
|2012-01-29, 21:05
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@ Treme - It wouldn't matter even if he did read any. He wouldn't understand the implications considering the way he was raised.
Side note - 1500 words so far in the next chapter. New writong style's dping wonder's for my word count
|2012-01-29, 21:09
|Link #20015
Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
Dude. it is really that bad.....
The writer take it as a challenge to make sure people like him can understand BL.....
Edit: The book is for mature audience only due to extreme graphical nature of the book....
Enough to traumatize even the readers
Needless to say, the book is banned for obvious reason and punishment is swift for those who are caught with it. (In ISA anyway)
|2012-01-29, 21:33
|Link #20019
I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
Charles: "THis... can't unsee, I mean... this is too fierce! Boys love is supposed to be gentle!"
Ichika & Dan: "You really didn't know, girls these days..."
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Whatever Happened on the Way to the High-Tech Downtown Berkeley Start-ups?
Saying "I told you so", as Cassandra could have attested, does nothing to make you popular. But a little bit of schadenfreude is perhaps understandable in this case.
Not even a full year ago, in this very space, I said that "As a (retired) entrepreneur who's actually participated in starting something up, I can testify that adding one more bureaucrat to the Mayor's office staff won't make a dime's worth of difference to location decisions of nascent enterprises."
The context for my gloomy prediction was an editorial suggesting that perhaps Judith Iglehart, the bureaucrat in question, erstwhile Chief of Staff for the Mayor of Berkeley, wasn't the right person for the job of serving the citizens on behalf of their mayor. She was presumably hired because of her experience with high-tech startups both at UC Berkeley and in the marketplace, but she seems not to have produced any techno-miracles while she was a city employee, nor has she markedly improved the way Bates serves the public—though he did get re-elected.
And now, a year later, after collecting something in the range of a hundred thousand dollars or so from the citizens of Berkeley, Ms. Iglehart is bailing to create her own job in the private profit arena, according to a story on Berkeleyside.com.
She's appeared on these pages just a couple of times during the year.
In March, Zelda Bronstein covered her appearance at a "Startup Forum" sponsored by Berkeleyside.com, in a piece which revealed that Iglehart planned to continue her association with Keiretsu International, where she was Vice President for International Chapter Development and Operations. It's likely that this was the kind of networking that's now paid off with her new job.
Then in August Ted Friedman spotted her at Tom Bates' campaign kickoff, where she played but a cameo role: "Bates' food was donated, prepared by Judith Iglehart, his new city-employee chief of staff, who called it "finger food."
In some circles cooking up noshes for a campaign event might be considered inappropriate for a city employee, but perhaps she baked those cookies or chopped those crudités at her home in Piedmont as a political contribution to the Bates campaign, not on the City of Berkeley's time as an employee.
And Bates told the Berkeleyside reporter "that Iglehart had been largely absent from city hall during his recent re-election campaign due to a long recovery necessitated by a double knee operation." So she might have had time for domestic pursuits.
B-side commenters, sometimes a surly bunch, were rude enough to wonder aloud exactly what Iglehart had done for Berkeley in this short year of service. Said their Number One airhead (with whom I seldom agree, and whose 3K+ comments on the site beat the next guy's by almost 4-1): she "doesn't seem to have done a whole lot during her tenure."
That might be, for once, an understatement. Another windy fellow sprang to her defense, trying to give her credit for bringing a $200 million project to downtown Berkeley, but Numero Uno batted him down effectively, asking for proof that it was her baby and receiving none.
In a way, you can't blame her for what she has or hasn't done this year. Someone looking forward to having both knees done would be smart to take a not-too-taxing public job with good healthcare benefits for the duration of the medical problem, and then to go on to more lucrative pursuits in the private sector.
And while we're on the subject, whether Iglehart can take the credit or not, how about that project—the latest mega-monstrosity that the land speculators are trying to foist on downtown Berkeley? The absentee owner of the old Hinks building, now the thriving Shattuck theater complex, sold it to a Southern California group which proposes once again to destroy the downtown in order to save it. (Boy, am I tired of that Vietnam era formulation, but it's still got legs.)
Mark Rhoades, former city planning employee and husband of development lobbyist Erin Rhoades, is serving as the project's—"expediter"—isn't that what they call it in San Francisco? In Chicago it would be "fixer", but that's too crude for Berkeley, isn't it? Though we have revolving doors in our planning office, just like they do in the big cities, don't we?
One of the few things I learned in my 15 years in the computer industry was "if it's not broke, don't fix it." Despite the incessant kvetching of the Downtown Berkeley Association and their boy the Mayor, it's starting to seem like Downtown Berkeley is almost working despite the whiners. But the grandiosely titled "Residences at Berkeley Plaza", accurately described by its boosters as "unlike anything else in downtown Berkeley" could manage to break what's now working about Downtown.
What's working there now, among other things, is the Shattuck Theater complex, which the project threatens to demolish. The area has finally become the arts destination which was envisioned for many years, with thriving entertainment venues and associated eateries, plus a handy BART station to bring the bridge-and-tunnel crowd, which adores the Berkeley Rep, in from the burbs.
We went downtown with friends on Saturday night and experienced the scene first-hand. We hoped to have an early dinner in one of the two trendy restaurants on the west side of Shattuck just north of Addison and then take in the 8 o'clock show at the Shattuck. Since UC's still on break, we thought we'd have no trouble getting in to all these places without reservations, though we knew they're usually jammed.
What a mistake! By the time we got there at six, Downtown was jumping, even in pouring rain. Both restaurants were filled, with long waits for tables, if at all.
I still can't bring myself to patronize the third trendy spot on the south side of that corner since the proprietor took out after the homeless during the Measure S campaign, but we found a pleasant family-run Asian restaurant and had a leisurely dinner. Somewhat too leisurely, in fact, because when we tried to buy our tickets at the Shattuck they were sold out.
So much for the Downtown Doldrums. Yes, there were some spare-changers abroad in the rain, but we survived the encounters. Downtown Berkeley is doing fine, thank you—but that could change.
The proposed development, three glass boxes up to 180-feet and 17 stories, is pitched as 365 luxury apartments aimed at employees of the techie boom now spilling out of San Francisco and Silicon Valley. It would have the obligatory ground floor retail, just in case there aren't enough empty storefronts downtown already.
And while promoters will give lip service to the fiction that residents in luxury apartments don't drive cars, in fact there will be lots of parking for their inevitable autos in the project. Don't ask me to believe that the luxurious tenants will survive without owning one luxurious vehicle per person, adding to traffic even if they might BART to San Francisco for work.
An out-of-town UC alumnus friend asked if the building will be taller than the Campanile. Yes.
Might it block the view of the bay from many points in the hills? Yes.
Do we need this? No.
Whatever happened to all those Downtown startups that Ms. Iglehart was expected to produce? Maybe I've missed something, but all I've heard about so far is a crib in the Great-Western/Powerbar/Chase-Western building for UC grad students, working cheap for their professors, which has yet to provide any revenue to the city.
The Residences, so-called, are not expected to house any such enterprises.
This whole boondoggle is yet another example of Planning by Property Ownership. The out-of-town owners of the site, both past and present, think of the Shattuck Theater as just a blank space on an aerial map, ripe for exploitation by builders, who don't care whether the eventual occupants are good for Berkeley or not.
The sorry history of luxury residential developments in Berkeley is embodied in the still-moribund Seagate/Arpeggio building on Addison, whose godfather at birth way back in 2004 was the very same Mark Rhoades, then employed on the other side of the revolving door as a Berkeley city planner. At the time ace Planet reporter Richard Brenneman covered the whole sorry story in depth—citizens of all stripes predicted the disastrous course which this project has taken, and for their efforts they were called NIMBYs.
Once again, just today, the ever-optimistic San Francisco Business Times predicts "Housing Boom to Hit Berkeley".
From the lede:
Like a college graduate entering the real world, downtown Berkeley is growing up.Oh sure. The puff piece fails to mention that we already have a bunch of similar units still vacant after all these years, with the Arpeggio (or whatever it's now called) leading the pack. It might be interesting if an SFBT reporter could find out what Berkeley's current vacancy rate in this category might be, a figure guarded jealously by the powers that be, if in fact anyone actually knows.
Investment is pouring into the city's nucleus with residential developers proposing more than 800 units in six projects — more new housing than the city has seen in years — as well as numerous new restaurants and a business improvement district giving the downtown an urban, upscale makeover.
"The economy is roaring back," said Mark Rhoades, a Berkeley residential developer and consultant. "People are now pushing out to the East Bay from San Francisco. There's lots of interest in Berkeley plus the constant need for housing for the University of California and the passing of the downtown area plan."
The Bay Area in the 40 years I've lived here has been subjected to a great number of boom-and-bust construction cycles, sometimes residential and sometimes office. Inevitably, the builders make out like bandits and the citizens pick up the pieces when the expected tenants don't materialize on schedule.
I hereby predict lots more vacant fancy apartments for Berkeley if this project is built, and few if any new start-up businesses. We'll see what happens.
Some of the Planet's regular contributors have told me they plan in-depth discussions of the impact of the Residences proposal. We welcome contributions from anyone who has an opinion on this topic, especially one that's backed up by data.


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It does not come as any surprise to me that the prestige of MSNBC is wearing thin among sane non-Kool Aid drinking Americans.
Nevertheless, we must challenge the residual ignorance that blankets the remaining 650,000 viewers MSNBC receives per day.
Kudos to the Dallas Tea Party Organization for challenging Keith Olberman and MSNBC to look at the lack of diversity in their own media outlet.
This repudiation of Olbermann's statements has been a long time coming. I have had it with the mainstream media pretending that people of color in the Tea Parties do not exist. The same assumption is made concerning the Republican Party as a whole. African Americans that choose conservatism are marginalized to salt and pepper on an iceberg sized steak. We are characterized as mere tokens used as black up.
Will Olberman show? Of course not. He may risk some violence from all of the angry gun toting racist like Dallas Latina conservative, Katrina Pierson or Alfonzo Rachel (aka ZoNation)- an African American Republican.
Even the above examples do not account for all of the diversity within the Republican Party.
There are women, physically challenged persons, Asians, Jews, gays and lesbians all in the Republican Party.
Any person who attempts to prove this to the mainstream media- is quickly shut down, marginalized, invalidated, and branded as "stoopid".
Republican National Committee Chairman, Michael Steel is constantly belittled as someone who "should thank Barack Obama for his job". Liberals believe had it not been for Obama paving the way in the struggle for the brutha, Michael Steel would not have a career, let alone have been selected as RNC chairman. MSNBC never reported that Steele was not the only African American on the RNC ballot. They never mentioned that Steele was once the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, a FOX NEWS contributor, a former GOP senatorial candidate, and quite active in the Republican Party BEFORE OBAMA WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT.
To assume that Michael Steele was only elected as RNC chair because he was black is sort of racist isn't it? How would MSNBC like it if we said that Rachel Maddow was the token lesbian?
MSNBC will never interview this man:
MSNBC will never send reporters to cover this event:
The Dallas Tea Party Organization is awaiting your reply Mr. Olbermann. Or will you make the entire Tea Party, The Worse Person of the Week simply for extending you an invitation? I am betting that somehow Mr. Olbermann will find the underpinnings of racism within the video. It will be akin to the snuff film of the decade. Yeah, that's it Katrina Pierson was forced to be in the video because her family was being held hostage somewhere in an Atlanta peach orchard by Rush Limbaugh.
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You guys know the Mets. You know their history, their tendencies, the promises made that have long since been forgotten.
Almost gone now are Jeff Wilpon's words after the debacle known as the Summer of 09, the Mets would be an aggressive trading and spending bunch this winter. A little over six weeks later, with the Hot Stove rumors starting to fire, I don't believe John Lackey or Matt Holliday will be Mets this summer. I see the Mets slipping back into old habits of hoping for their best, in this case, having their wounded back healthy and doing some patchwork here or there.
Patchwork does not come in the form of $90 million or more packages.
I know a lot of you want Lackey and Holliday, or would be willing to settle for only one. That said, how many, knowing what you know about the Mets, actually believe you'll get one?


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Finland national team captains Niklas Moisander and Maija Saari picked up the men's and women's player of the year gongs on Monday in a gala that included a special award for Richard Møller Nielsen.
Defender Moisander, 27, was recognised after cementing his reputation as a reliable presence for Finland, AZ Alkmaar and an AFC Ajax side he joined during the summer. Saari, who plies her trade with AIK Fotboll in Sweden, was pivotal in Finland's march to next summer's UEFA Women's EURO 2013 final tournament. That achievement also brought recognition for boss Andrée Jeglertz, who was named coach of the year.
Møller Nielsen was given the lifetime achievement award, the Captain's Ball, in Helsinki. It recognised the Dane's contribution in "giving Finland a vital lift on the international scene" and "raising the status of our domestic game" during his tenure as Finland coach from 1996 to 1999.
Now 75, the man who led Denmark to glory at the EURO '92, said: "I appreciate this recognition tremendously, especially as it involves a great player and professional like Jari Litmanen [head of the Captain's Ball committee]. I still follow Finnish football and the future looks bright."
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The Hope of Restoration
God's grace to His people in the restoration is shown in two primary ways. First, He provides His Son to fulfill perfectly all the requirements needed for Him to restore all creation. Second, He elects a people to salvation, guaranteeing ...Read More
The Penalty for Blasphemy
The issue of the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is a difficult one, but commentators agree that we have not committed this sin if we feel remorse and want God to forgive us. Only those whose hearts have been completely ...Read More
The Regulative Principle
Even within the Reformed tradition, where the regulative principle is highly esteemed, there is disagreement as to how it should be applied. But adherents to the regulative principle agree that human beings are not free to introduce things into worship ...Read More
Our Kinsman Redeemer
We are accustomed to thinking of a sibling or a parent as our closest relative. For those who are in Christ, however, Jesus is our closest relative, our closest kinsman who paid our debt when we could by no means ...Read More
God's Promise of Restoration
There are consequences for disobeying the Lord, but He also promises to restore all sinners who turn to Him in faith, no matter what they have done. Until Christ returns or death occurs, whichever comes first, there is always hope ...Read More
The Threat of Exile
Though it may be painful at times, God's discipline is one of the greatest blessings that we have as His children. He chastises us when we sin that we might continually turn to Him, proving the reality of our ...Read More
Profane Oaths
Consider today whether you are a person of your word. Can your friends and family count on you to keep your commitments? If you consistently fail to keep your promises, then take better care to decide whether or not the ...Read More
Our Pattern for Holiness
We are often tempted to trivialize God's demand for holiness and instead look to somebody or something other than God as the standard by which we measure ourselves. Remember, though, that the Lord has pronounced judgment on His image ...Read More
Sanctification Demanded
John Calvin, in his commentary on today's passage, notes how many people might view the Lord's treatment of Nadab and Abihu as overly harsh. Yet, he writes, "If we reflect how holy a thing God's worship is ...Read More
The Feast of Trumpets
As we will see, Christians are waiting for the Feast of Trumpets to be fulfilled in its entirety. But Christ the Lamb of God has come and by His death has inaugurated the last days, which comprise the entire period ...Read More
The Feast of Booths
At each Feast of Booths, the Israelites gave up the comforts of their homes in order to commemorate God's salvation. This is a reminder that in order to be redeemed, the people of the Lord must surrender certain things ...Read More
Firstfruits and Pentecost
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The Day of Atonement
The requirement for the people to afflict themselves on the Day of Atonement (Lev. 16:29–34), a shorthand reference to self-examination and repentance, was a clear sign that the sacrifices on that day would be effectual only when the ...Read More
The Sin Offering
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The Folly of Soaking the Rich
July 3, 2011 6:50 P.M. By Mario Loyola
The chart Andrew Stiles referred to Friday (from an earlier post by Veronique de Rugy) shows only the start of how counterproductive it is to increase taxes on the wealthy. As a result of lower tax rates on the top income earners, not only do they pay a much larger share of all taxes, but they pay much more taxes total — and revenue to the government has increased. This is because lowering taxes on the rich creates more rich people and richer rich people. The federal government gets much more revenue if you impose a 40 percent tax on a large number of very wealthy millionaires than if you impose a 70 percent tax on a small number of less wealthy millionaires.
Every tax has a "revenue-maximizing" point well short of 100 percent. If a tax is set higher than its "revenue-maximizing" point, overall tax revenue to the government will decrease. This is the basic theory behind the Laffer Curve, which states that when taxes are zero percent, revenue to the government is (obviously) zero, but when taxes are 100 percent, revenue to the government is also zero, because by taxing all the income of a particular group of people, you kill all economic activity in that group, so you're left with nothing to tax. Between those two extremes is a curve whereby revenue to the government rises as you increase taxes from zero percent, but begins to fall as you approach 100 percent taxation — that's the Laffer Curve.
Arthur Laffer and Ford Scudder explore this phenomenon at length in their brilliant series The Onslaught from the Left. In keeping with what Veronique pointed out, they write, in Part II of the series:
In the year Ronald Reagan took office (1981) the top 1% of income earners as reflected by the Adjusted Gross Income of all tax filers paid 17.58 % of all federal income taxes. Twenty-five years later, in 2005 the top 1% paid 39.8% of all income taxes, representing a greater than doubling of the share of tax payments made by this group.
But even more to the point, from 1981 to 2005 the income taxes paid by the top 1% rose from 1.59% of GDP to 2.96% of GDP. In addition to the huge rise in the percent of GDP paid in income taxes by the top 1% of income earners and the more than doubling of the share of taxes paid by this group was the huge absolute increase in real taxes (2005 dollars using the GDP price deflator [in other words, adjusting for inflation - ML]) from 1981 through 2005. In 1981 total tax payments from from the richest 1% were $98.84 billion, while in 2005 the top 1% paid $368.13 billion in taxes; that's a 288% increase in 25 years. In rough numbers, that means that each of the richest 1% of filers in 1981 paid a little over $100,000 in 2005 dollars, while in 2005 each filer on average paid over $288,000. And remember that's inflation-adjusted dollars."
This astonishing statistic is explained by a simple fact. As a result of reducing taxes on the rich, the rich got much richer — so much so that they wound up paying nearly four times as much total tax (and nearly three times as much tax per rich person) as when taxes were higher.
This also reveals the truth behind the increased income inequality that liberals love to cite as their chief evidence against supply-side economics. In fact, as Laffer explains in Part I of the Onslaught from the Left series, the poor have gotten richer — just not as quickly as the rich have. "The increasingly unequal distribution of income during the era of supply-side economics has resulted from the poor increasing their income at a rate that has not kept pace with the phenomenal gains in income the rich have experienced — not from the poor getting poorer." He goes on to show that in fact, lower taxes rates have led both to higher income among the bottom 50 percent of income earners and lower total taxes paid by that group.
Most important of all, of course, is the fact that when the rich get richer, they invest more money in the economy, thereby stimulating economic growth. Democrats generally can't stomach the rich getting richer, even when it means everyone is better off. But you'd think they would at least propose tax policy that increases government revenue. Alas, they so want to punish the rich that they are even willing to lower government revenue in the process. — Mario Loyola is director of the Center for Tenth Amendment Studies at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the new of the Laffer Center for Supply-Side Economics.
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Is that the Boehner deal?
Not sure who is doing what at this point.
But my assumption is that we, taxpayers, will get hosed. I see no signs that Boehner or anyone else is serious about cutting spending if the cuts take place in the near term...they all want to cut spending 10 years from now....when they are gone. And the democrats cannot let go of the need to add taxes.
As a result, I fully plan to be disappointed again.
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wrt to getting hosed, of course we will...
the idea is to keep the hosing to a minimum...
at least the politicians see the debt as a big big problem, so there's some hope, i hope...
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it's chock full of the standard moonbat BS.
WASHINGTON After a grueling, all-night debate that ended close to 5 a.m., the Senate on Saturday adopted its first budget in four years, a $3.7 trillion blueprint for 2014 that would fast-track passage of tax increases, trim spending gingerly and leave the government still deeply in the debt a decade from now.
The 50-49 vote sets up contentious and potentially fruitless negotiations with the Republican-dominated House in April to reconcile two vastly different plans for dealing with the nations economic and budgetary problems. No Republicans voted for the Senate plan on Saturday, and four Democrats Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mark Begich of Alaska and Max Baucus of Montana also opposed it. All four are Red State Democrats up for re-election in 2014.
The Senate has passed a budget, Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the Senate Budget Committee chairwoman, declared at 4:56 a.m. Saturday.
The House plan ostensibly brings the governments taxes and spending into balance by 2023 with cuts to domestic spending even below the automatic sequestration levels now roiling federal programs, and it orders significant changes to Medicare and the tax code.
The Senate plan, in contrast, includes $100 billion in upfront infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy and calls for special fast-track rules to overhaul the tax code and raise $975 billion over 10 years through legislation that could not be filibustered. Even with that tax increase and prescribed spending cuts, the Senate plan would leave the government with a $566 billion deficit in 10 years, and $5.2 trillion in additional debt over that time.
The first priority of the Senate budget is creating jobs and economic growth from the middle out, not the top down, Ms. Murray, the chairwoman of the Budget Committee, said. With an unemployment rate than remains stubbornly high, and a middle class that has seen their wages stagnate for far too long, we simply cannot afford any threats to our fragile recovery.
Republicans were dismissive of the Democrats priorities.
Honest people can disagree on policy, but where there can be no honest disagreement is the need to change our nations debt course. The singular truth that no one can escape is that the House budget changes our debt course while the Senate budget does not, said Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the Budget Committees ranking Republican.
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iMediaWorks needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
I am a professional speaker and how-to guy. We are creating a new website to hopefully take me to the next level.
Instead of the same ol picture everyone has. I want a high end full-body avatar of myself
Corporations, Small Businesses. People in General
Full body avatar. in the style of http://shama.tv. This is the graphic style I am looking for (no dog for me :)). Clean lines and shadowing and smiling face is what I am looking for. I have seen many avatars the really really look bad. So it is important to have the same style as Shama or better.
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Design will be used in print and web so please design at higher res. I can reduce down to fit the different needs.
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Here are some of my observations after using Google News Archives' newspaper browsing:
- The image quality is very low. It depends on the issue, but I found the images to be scanned at a much lower quality than other newspaper sites. It made them hard to read and I couldn't get very good images from them to add to my files.
- You can't save the images. I used the "Snipping Tool" in Windows 7 that allows me to get a snapshot of any part of my screen that I want.
- I was unable to search the images. The OCR scans seemed to be lacking, possibly due to the poor image quality. So you pretty much have to browse these newspapers.
- The newspaper editions are not properly sorted. I found that Google said that issues were missing that were actually included in the previous date's images. Make sure you browse the editions before and after a missing date and you might find what you are seeking.


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The unfolding story of American evangelicals' involvement in politics has a certain rhythm to it. Like a pendulum swinging from one extreme to another, evangelicals have swung from a kind of pietistic stance of withdrawal and suspicion to a strident, triumphalistic program for "taking America back for God."
The Myth of a Christian Nation, a new book by St. Paul pastor and former professor at Bethel College Greg Boyd, provides a sign that the pendulum might be headed back the other way.
But first we need to first appreciate the story thus far. Once upon a time, evangelicals considered the Great Commission their primary mission and calling. What mattered was eternity. What was most urgent was the salvation of souls. While evangelistic work was often attended by charity and acts of mercy, few evangelicals could justify expending energy on "worldly" tasks such as politics.
In the early 1970s, some influential voices began to argue that this understanding of the church's calling was truncated. In particular, Ron Sider and Jim Wallis argued for a more holistic approach to the gospel, noting that Jesus' model for ministry attended to concrete, "worldly" matters of poverty and illness as occasions for redemption (Luke 4:14-20).
At the same time, Richard Mouw, from a Reformed perspective, invited evangelicals to see the dualism of the status quo: that their concern with souls and eternity ignored God's affirmation of the goodness of bodies and the temporal world. By ignoring politics and culture, evangelicals were unwittingly giving over these spheres of creation to forces of distortion and destruction, rather than redemptively redirecting them. Mouw invited evangelicals to take up the cultural mandate as a complement to, and expression ...1


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While many teams are trying to trade older, expensive veterans they've drafted over the top of, the Patriots appear set to move some young, cheap help.
According to Jeff Howe of the Boston Herald, a trade of running back Jeff Demps is "imminent."
The report states that multiple teams are involved in the talks, but that a trade seems likely to end Demps' short time with the team that signed him. Demps wants to continue to run track, and the Pats don't seem inclined to sponsor extracurricular activities.
They signed him in August, but he spent the year on injured reserve.
"Jeff is going to do both football and track, and there are teams that won't have a problem with that, said Daniel Rose, who represents Demps.
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Nothing succeeds like success, and few things are as enjoyable as excess and that, in a nutshell, is the Ford Raptor. Built to give people a street replica of a Baja racer, but something far more than just a sticker job with some "special-edition-badging", the Raptor feels as if with just a little prep, you could go out and run it in the 8100 class.
The Raptor starts out as a short bed, extended cab (crew cab available for 2011) and then goes in for some serious gym work. There are 12 inches of suspension travel in the front and 13 in the rear, 35" tall BF Goodrich off road tires and some killer FOX Racing shocks on all four corners
The front grill is unique to the Raptor, along with some additional running lights both on the front and in the back. Our test unit came with the optional $1,075 graphics package, which is a blocky representation of dirt being thrown up on the truck. It's something that we'd skip. We've seen the Raptor in several colors, our black test unit, Blue and in Silver without the graphics package and we prefer the cleaner look. If we want the look of dirt on the side of the truck, we'll take it into the dirt and mud and put it there the traditional way, thank you.
The five and a half foot box on the Raptor seems small and perhaps it is, but there is an optional bed extender that we would probably get. Also, Ford offers the integrated tailgate step as an option. Neither was on our test vehicle but we can say, unless you have a 38" inseam, we'd highly recommend that tailgate step. With the truck sitting as high as it does, getting up into the bed is not the easiest of tasks.
Not only does the truck sit high, but also, it is quite wide. Our driveway is seven feet wide and the edges of the tires went over the edges and onto the grass on both sides! Being that wide, it takes a bit of getting used to driving down the road as it takes up almost the entire width of the lane. If you live in an area where the roads are narrow, it's something that you'll have to be mindful of when traffic approaches in the opposite direction.
There is a nice slab of steel for you to step up into in the cabin of the Raptor. The step serves three purposes, (a) a step duh! (b) a nice skid plate when you go off roading to protect your doors, and (c) a payback mechanism for door dings. If someone opens their door next to hou without paying attention, rather than your door getting a nick in it, their door will get a nice dent in its edge, coming against that nice bit of plate steel!
Once you climb up into the cabin, you have a lot of room. Driver and passengers are separated by a wide center console, which has a very deep storage bin. There are also four auxiliary switches built in for your future modification needs like auxiliary lights, winches, etc. Our test unit had the optional orange seat accents that are a take-it-or-leave-it thing. They offered a nice contrast to the rest of the interior, but it may be a bit too much for others. The steering wheel has a nice meaty feel to it and when you hold it at the ten and two position, it feels custom molded to your hands.
Being an extended cab model there is a back seat for three. It's a fairly useable space, though we wouldn't want to ride back there for a long time unless the people in the front two seats were on the shorter end of the scale. With the seats adjusted back for a six-foot plus person, legroom is tight; set for people of normal height, it's okay.
Our test unit was also equipped with the 700-watt Sony sound system with full SYNC and navigation system. This is not a cheep option at $2,430 but it's so well done, it's hard to argue not ordering this. One thing that will be very useful is that SYNC, with the nav system, can direct you to the nearest gas station via voice command. It's a place you'll become very intimate with, owning and driving the Raptor: the gas station, that is.
The big upgrade that came later in the 2010 model year was the availability of the 6.2-liter engine, which is now the only available engine for 2011. While the old 5.4-liter engine can trace its roots back to the early 90's 4.6 V8 that appeared in the Crown Vic, this is an all-new engine for Ford. 411 horsepower and 434 lb/ft of torque are the ratings for the 6.2 and unlike the 5.4, it has power across the entire range. While we would never complain if more power was available, we can say that we were very happy with what was on tap for this power plant, save one thing and we'll get to that in just a second. Driving in the city, getting on the highway, or just when you feel the need to romp on the gas, the 6.2 has power on demand and makes life oh so enjoyable.
When you buy a truck like the Raptor, fuel mileage is probably not high on your list of concerns. If you can afford a $48,525 pickup truck, you aren't worried about a trade off of gas in the tank or food on the table for your family. All that said, when the window sticker says in bold face type, "FUEL ECONOMY RATINGS NOT REQUIRED ON THIS VEHICLE," you know people at the Whole Foods store aren't going to be smiling at you when you park in their lot.
To see what we could do for mileage, we went on the highway at night so there was little traffic, set the cruise at 75-mph and drove for 45 miles. According to the readout on the dash, 14.1mpg is what we got. There is an upside; in city driving, your mileage will only fall off about 2-3mpg. Therein lies the rub: the motor has enough power to make the truck feel great yet the problem is that it comes at a pretty big cost in fuel economy although the 5.4 was not any better.
The engine we'd love to see under the hood of the Raptor is the EcoBoost V6. Not that we'd expect it to get 20mpg, but if it could get something close to 18, that would be huge. The EcoBoost is about to come on line for other F-150 trucks and Ford is going to run it in this year's Baja 1000 so maybe, for 2012 or 2013, it will be an option. It has similar power and torque numbers to the 6.2, but at a higher efficiency. We'll have to wait for the official EPA numbers to come out on the EcoBoost F-150 before we can calculate what that would mean for the Raptor. Look: save it, we know where you are going. Yes, we'd kill to have a turbo diesel, but you can find the PowerStroke Raptor at notgoingtohappen.com, all right?
The Raptor is equipped with a six-speed automatic transmission and it does a good job. In our highway mileage test, 75 miles an hour in sixth gear was 2100 rpm. The transmission shifted smoothly and precisely and there was no slushy vague feeling in it. It also had a tow/haul mode and an option to shift it manually. While our test unit did have the trailer-towing package with brake controller, we didn't have the opportunity to hook it up and pull anything in our few days with the truck.
On the roads and on the highways, the Raptor rides firm but it's not jarring. This is no Town Car pillow top ride; it is an off road truck after all but it is a comfortable ride. For as high of a center of gravity as the Raptor has, and as tall as the tires are, it handles fairly well. It's nimble enough to handle tight parking garages and just fits under the 6'8" height limit of most parking structures around us.
While we didn't get to truly run the Raptor off road on trails or fire roads, we did find a few fields to rip it up on, and the s&*t eating grin on our face didn't go away for hours! There were hidden ruts and holes in the field and the Raptor went over them like it was nothing. Given what we believe the shock valving and spring rates to be, to a point, the faster you go, the smoother the ride should be.
There is one dangerous aspect to the Raptor: to your driving record that is. The truck goes 90 on the highway like most cars go 60. There were several times we looked down on the speedometer and had to do a check up. The Raptor is smooth and quiet at those speeds. Most tires geared for off road are also quite noisy at highway speeds, not so with these BFG's. They made no more noise than your standard all season radials on the family sedan.
People love the Raptor. It doesn't matter if it's the young kids in the neighborhood, people in the Costco parking lot, or just driving down the road; people look at you and smile, tell you that it's a cool truck and give you a thumbs up. When you buy something like the Raptor, it's doubtful that you are looking for affirmation from others about your purchase, but it is a nice thing to have.
The Ford Raptor is everything you hoped it would be and more, that's why we describe it as a 30 gallon bucket of awesomesauce. It's a truck that exceeds your expectations, and you are always looking for an excuse to go out and drive it, even if it's just on surface streets. We wish we would have had the time to head out to Chrysler's off road course in Chelsea, MI to really pound it on some trails and mud, but it wasn't in the cards and couldn't be arranged.
Would we buy this with our own money, you bet! It's a truck that's worth $48,000? If you consider that a similarly optioned F-150 FX4 is $43,000, then you would have to add wheels, tires and suspension, etc., to bring it up to the Raptor's level, you are coming out at the same or higher cost, so yes. Almost $50,000 for a pickup truck is amazing, but Ford, Chevy and Dodge, can all get you into three quarter and one ton trucks from north of $60,000 these days, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised.
If you get the chance, go drive a Raptor 6.2, you won't be able to wipe the smile from your face for weeks and that, more than anything, is why trucks like this exist.


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February 25th, 2009
February 25th, 2009
These mini worlds look like they came out of that little planet marble bag in the movie Men in Black. Alexandre Duret-Lutz builds these wee planets by taking many individual photographs from all directions and not just the horizon but the sky and ground views as well. It's a 360 x 180 degree panorama image that is [ Continue Reading ]


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The Story of Max
In the spring of 2001, when my youngest brother Jimmy was 9 years old, he asked my parents for a dog. They were unsure (our track history with dogs was not good – one was returned to the kennel, one was returned to the farm – but those are other stories).
Jimmy asked some more.
My parents considered that our house once filled to the brim with kids, between the 4 of us and all the neighborhood kids running in and out, was soon going to be more of an only child house. Jeff and I had long since moved out, and Tommy was on the brink of getting his license.
Jimmy asked them again.
They thought about it. We watched My Dog Skip one Friday night, and all fell in love with the little boy and his dog. My parents asked Jimmy if he was sure.
He swore he was.
On a piece of lined paper torn from a notebook, in the clumsy handwriting of a young boy, Jimmy wrote his promise to always feed and walk his dog, even if he didn't feel like it, even if it were cold and snowy. For years it hung on the wall above my father's desk upstairs.
They said, if you want a dog, you need to find the dog… my parents decided that a beagle would be a good fit for our family and Jimmy called up breeders and asked them if their dogs would be good for a 9 year old boy.
And one day they drove an hour west of Worcester, to a breeder of beagles. The breeder opened the kennel and out came all the puppies running everywhere pell mell. Except for the runt, who ran right up into Jimmy's lap.
That puppy was Max.
In his puppy years we loved to feed him Cheeze Balls, the neon orange puffs of deliciousness… Max loved Cheeze Balls. As we realized how terrible they were for him, we switched to Rice Cakes, which he loved even more. You could get Max to do anything for the promise of "Rice Cakes".
He was a sweet dog, who loved most to snuggle and be loved. He slept in Jimmy's bed, and loved to curl up under the covers behind his knees. He delighted in being scratched behind the ears, and when you stopped, he would gently nudge you with his paw to ask for more. At the sight of another dog would scrunch down on his belly and frantically wag his tail, letting out whimpers of uncontained excitement. He fought the good fight against the wild turkeys in the woods behind my parents house – barking at them as if sheer force of will would transport him beyond the fence and into their domain.
When we brought our diva shih tzu George into the fold, Max is the one who patiently taught him his dog manners. How to stand still to be sniffed. How to play nice. How to not be an ear biting pest of a puppy.
They were best buddies.
We had always felt like we were one kid short, like our family would have easily fit a 5th child in… and Max had come to fill that place.
After EJ was born, Max solidly performed uncle duties – watchfully minding the tiny baby on the floor, gently eating the Cheerios offered by EJ's baby fingers, his back and ears happily offering a sturdy handhold as EJ learned to walk these past 2 months.
Over the past few weeks Max started having accidents around the house. Last week his belly swelled and he stopped eating. He was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, and not eggs, cucumbers (his FAVORITE), or hamburger could entice him to eat… and with it the heart medicine needed to relieve and prevent the fluid build-up.
On Thanksgiving, we all spent our time giving him our love, and saying our good-byes.
After improbably making it through two horrible nights, and one day of relief after my mother literally force-fed him the medicine, my mother brought him to the animal hospital, in a hopeful and desperate attempt to do something, anything, to help him.
His heart was failing, his kidneys were failing, and his liver had shut down. There was nothing the doctors could do, and he was suffering greatly.
And so, with profound grief, my mother had him put down.
We miss him terribly.
Bye buddy.
benedetta #
so sorry Jackie! it sounds like you did the kindest thing for Max in the end.November 30, 2009
Marisa #
I am so sorry that you had to say goodbye to Max. It sounds like he was well-loved and he kept you all well-loved too. Sending love and strength to you and your family.November 30, 2009
Manise #
Oh no! I am so sorry Jackie for your loss. It's so hard losing a furry friend. Hugs to you all.November 30, 2009
What a sweet looking dog. I'm so sorry.November 30, 2009
Jeanie #
I am so sorry:( He looked so sweet. I am sure he will be missed.December 3, 2009
Jim #
Thank you JackieDecember 9, 2009
Thank you for sharing your story. I definitely teared and choked right up. We had to put our senior lab down a couple summers ago, and I had only known her since she was 7. I can't imagine the day my two wonderful lab puppies, 1 1/2 and 2 go over the rainbow bridge to eternally eat sausage and Brussel sprouts (their favorite). I send you all of the compassion and love to get through this hard time!December 23, 2009


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Vicente Vicens needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 507 designs submitted by 135 freelance designers.
I am an independent developer entirely dedicated to the iPhone and iPad platform. I develop and sell my own apps on the AppStore, and also program custom apps for clients.
Imathink means the way i do the things, a mix of creativity (imagination) and rational thinking.
I have two markets:
Users of iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. They buy my apps directly on the AppStore.
Companies that need an app developed for them. I sell my services to them.
The logo has to represent the Imathink concept (imagine+think). It has to express the idea that the software that i make is both a job well done, and that has also gone the extra mile to make it different from the rest.
It has to scale well at different sizes. It has to look well both, big and little (as when used as a favicon).
The logo has to be a vector image. You are free to use the colors you want but it has to play well with white or clear backgrounds, and also with black or dark backgrounds. It also has to play look good or at least not loose the meaning when reproduced on one or two tints (as black and white).
You can write Imathink as Imathink, imathink or IMATHINK. "ima" and "think" can be different as log as they are kept together and it is clear that the word is "imathink".
I don't want stock images or clip art in the logo. I want a something original. It has to look very Apple style, but please don't use an Apple or an iPhone. If you work with Macs, you know what i mean. When someone sees the logo i want that they think that i am a Mac guy, not a Windows guy (with all my respects to the Windows community).
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It looks like former Hills star Kristin Cavallari may be embracing the show's series finale by shedding her blonde bombshell image. The once buttery blonde darkened her hair to a shade of warm honey just in time for fall. "I just dyed it today!" Cavallari told PEOPLE at The Blackberry Torch Launch Party in Los Angeles this week. "I was bored with my hair and it's the first time I was able to dye my hair because of filming for The Hills. You could never change your hair. 'I thought: I can, why not!'" To complete the transformation, the blonde beauty also added some wispy bangs for an updated look. However, Cavallari admits she isn't done going under the bottle and is even contemplating life as a brunette. "I don't think I'll be a full brunette but I definitely want to put a little bit more dark in it," she said. "Not too much though." Tell us: Do you think Kristin should go brunette or stay blonde?–Michelle Ward


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Two years ago we reluctantly urged California voters to defeat the poorly written Proposition 37, which would have required labeling of food with genetically engineered ingredients.
The proposition's intent was good. But backers skipped a basic step in lawmaking:
Before taking a proposal directly to voters, give the Legislature a chance to deal with it. The deliberative process identifies potential flaws and improves the odds of ending up with a well-crafted law.
Fortunately, Prop 37's supporters went back to the drawing board with Sen. Noreen Evans' SB 1381. The bill still needs work, but it's a big improvement over the 2012 initiative. The Senate Agriculture Committee should refine it before approving the bill at a hearing next week.
With more than 90 percent of Americans in support of labels on genetically engineered products, a federal solution would be ideal. But California Sen. Barbara Boxer's labeling bill has stalled in Congress and shows no signs of gaining bipartisan support.
Enter Evans, a Santa Rosa Democrat who is adamant that she doesn't know whether genetically engineered foods are good or bad for people — she just thinks Californians should be able to make informed choices. She's right.
There is no compelling evidence of a health risk from foods or animals whose DNA has been modified by scientists. The National Academy of Sciences, the American Medical Association, the Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization all have conducted studies and found no problems.
But the scientific field of study is so young, it's impossible to determine if there are long-term risks that aren't showing up yet. Hence the need for labeling, allowing consumers to take the gamble — a pretty small one, we suspect — or not.
California shoppers today can't tell which food products contain genetically engineered ingredients. The latest reports indicate about 40 percent of U.S. produce comes from genetically modified seeds, including nearly 90 percent of the corn in grocery stores.
Evans' law would require a "clear and conspicuous" GE (genetically engineered) label on packages. Its weaknesses are that it doesn't affect food purchased at restaurants, and it exempts all alcohol products — an acknowledgement of the power of the wine and beer industry in California, since there's no other reason to exclude alcohol.
More than 60 nations including every European Union nation, Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan and even Russia require labels on genetically engineered foods. California consumers deserve the same transparency in labeling.


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