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Republicans select Robert Stivers as next president of Kentucky Senate
FRANKFORT — Robert Stivers, a Manchester attorney who has been the Senate majority leader for three years, will replace David Williams as president of the Kentucky Senate.
Sen. Damon Thayer of Georgetown, a proponent of expanded gambling in Kentucky, will be the Senate's new majority floor leader.
The 23 Republicans who expect to be seated in January and independent Sen. Bob Leeper of Paducah met behind closed doors Tuesday for about three hours to select their leaders for the next two years.
Stivers and Senate President Pro Tem Katie Kratz Stine, of Southgate, who faced no opposition in her leadership re-election, must still be elected by the full 38-member chamber in January before officially taking office.
Williams, a Burkesville attorney who had been Senate president since 2000, recently stepped down to accept a circuit judgeship appointment by Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear.
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement that Stivers "will do an outstanding job on behalf of Kentucky."
"The people of the commonwealth can be assured that Sen. Stivers and the energized, newly-elected Republican leadership in Frankfort will work hard to tackle the state's most pressing issues," McConnell said.
Stivers was challenged for the presidency by Leeper.
The GOP caucus agreed to a motion by Stivers to allow the independent to participate in the caucus elections.
Leeper said afterwards that he has offered to stay on as chairman of the powerful Senate budget committee. Stivers later said Leeper has been a good committee chairman and he knows of no reason to remove him.
Thayer and Sen. David Green of Greensburg ran to succeed Stivers as majority floor leader.
Thayer said he will step aside as chairman of the Senate State and Local Government Committee. "Leaders don't chair committees," he said.
Concerning his work with Beshear to push for expanded gambling in Kentucky, Thayer said the issue "shows no signs of going away."
He noted that the caucus has not yet discussed the issue.
The GOP caucus will hold a retreat Dec. 13 and 14 in Frankfort to discuss upcoming issues in the 2013 General Assembly that begins Jan. 8.
Also elected to a Senate leadership position was Brandon Smith of Hazard. He will be majority whip. Jimmy Higdon of Lebanon also ran for the seat. Carroll Gibson of Leitchfield did not seek re-election to the post.
Dan Seum of Louisville will remain Senate GOP caucus chairman. He turned back a challenge from Joe Bowen of Owensboro.
Although no Republican senator from Western Kentucky won a leadership position, Stivers said "this group will represent the state as a whole."
The Senate GOP caucus that met Tuesday included five newly-elected members and state Rep. Sara Beth Gregory of Monticello, who is the GOP nominee in the Dec. 18 special election to succeed Williams as senator from the 16th District in Southern Kentucky.
Vote tallies of the caucus elections were not released, but Seum said one election resulted in a tie. He did not identify the election.
Stivers said retiring Sen. Vernie McGaha of Russell Springs counted the unsigned ballots and did not reveal the tallies.
Other caucuses in the legislature are expected to hold their leadership elections in early January.

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This past Friday, AMD unveiled its forthcoming mobile platform, codenamed Puma, which features a mobile chipset (RS780) with an integrated graphics product and a new CPU that currently goes by the codename of Griffin. Puma will be the centerpiece of AMD's assault on a mobile market that Intel currently dominates with its power-efficient Merom architecture, so it's worth taking a brief look at it in advance of fuller revelations that AMD will give at the forthcoming Microprocessor Forum.
The Griffin processor
I wrote recently about AMD's approach of taking its brawny, server-oriented flagship microarchitectures and moving them down-market into the different segments of the consumer space, and Griffin is one example of that for mobile. However, Griffin is based not on Barcelona but on the K8 architecture that AMD otherwise will be phasing out in favor of its new quad-core parts. It made sense for AMD to stick with K8 for laptops, given the following factors:
- Dual-core is ideal for laptops right now, so it makes sense to tweak an existing dual-core design instead of trying to adapt a new quad-core design.
- Barcelona has some tradeoffs that are intended for 64-bit computing. You'll find plenty of 64-bit workloads in the server space, but not so many in laptop applications
- Barcelona's microarchitecture also contains a few tradeoffs in favor of power versus performance. Again, this is more ideal for servers than laptops.
Griffin takes the basic K8 microarchitecture and "rewires" it for lower power. One aspect of this rewiring that AMD has revealed is that each of the processor's two cores has its own voltage plane. The separate planes enable the two cores to have their frequencies and voltages dynamically adjusted independently of one another so that power consumption can be tuned to fit the running workload on a per-core basis.
The I/O components on the die with the K8 core will also get tweaks and updates. Both the memory and HyperTransport controllers will be power-optimized so that they operate on a separate power plane from the processor cores. Again, this lets Griffin down-clock one core without slowing down I/O to the other core. Finally, the HyperTransport controller will get an update to 3.0 so that it can take advantages of some of the nicer features of that bus protocol's higher bandwidth and dynamic link scaling ability.
Pairing the cores with more power-efficient and capable I/O is key to enabling Griffin to take advantage of the other parts of the Puma platform.
RS780 chipset
The chipset part of Puma is codenamed RS780, and it includes a number of features that will be nice both for notebook users and for small-form-factor and home-theater PC applications.
Probably the most important part of this chipset is the discrete graphics component that uses one of the recently-announced Radeon Mobility HD 2000 series of GPUs. Thus, the discrete GPU will sit on a PCIe 2.0 bus and will be able to do relatively low-power, high-definition hardware video decoding as well as support DirectX 10 for gaming.
This discrete GPU will be paired with a less-powerful—and lower-power—integrated GPU, and AMD's PowerXpress feature will switch between the two dynamically as the need arises.
RS780 also features HyperFlash, which is AMD's answer to Intel's Robson technology (renamed Turbo Memory). Both HyperFlash and Turbo Memory are essentially a cache of NAND flash memory that sits on the motherboard and stores key parts of the OS for an increase in boot time, performance, and battery life. Intel's flash cache is an add-in to Santa Rosa that plugs into the southbridge via PCIe, whereas HyperFlash appears to use a different kind of link.
Both Griffin and RS780 are going to face off against Intel's potent Core 2 Duo and Santa Rosa combo on what really is Core 2 Duo's home turf (i.e., low-power and mobility). From what little I've seen of Griffin, I honestly don't expect it to touch Merom in either raw performance or performance per watt, especially given that Merom beats K8 pretty handily in those areas. Puma's appeal will therefore have to hinge on its price and feature set, two areas in which it could fare quite well. The new HD 2000 series mobile GPUs in particular are very nice, at least feature-wise, though the jury is still out on their real-world power efficiency. If they do work out in terms of battery life, Puma could shape up to be a solid choice for laptop users who want to do gaming and video playback on their machines.


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Best spring skiing in years available in Colorado high country
Remember those eager turns in November? Flying down manmade ribbons of white, swerving through the giddy masses, pining for powder, endless terrain and no crowds?
That dreamy scenario is thriving up high. The resorts are open wall-to-wall. Many resorts are boasting their best coverage in years: Crested Butte, Monarch. Others are offering plentiful stashes of pow: Breckenridge, Loveland, Mary Jane, Steamboat, Beaver Creek.
And the slopes are as lonely as ever.
We jostle through packed highways and just-as-crowded icy groomers in November and December. We wade through oceans of spring breakers in January and February. Then, when snow reaches its deepest and crowds evaporate, everyone decides it's time whack weeds and pedal pavement? All that energy wasted to get slopes ready for Thanksgiving turns and then all but two hills shut down when it gets perfect. It's time for a paradigm shift in ski-time attitudes when the high-country singletrack is dry in November and buried under 15-plus feet of snow in April. Why not realize that skiing really doesn't start until January but can thrive deep into May or even June?
With snowpacks at the deepest depths in several seasons, the resorts are making it easy by keeping the lifts spinning longer than initially planned and running chairs later in the day.
Breckenridge, and Winter Park pushed their closing dates back a week to April 27. Copper Mountain is opening an extra weekend: April 25-27. Aspen Mountain will open for two extra weekends: April 26-27 and May 3-4.
The parties are rolling too and things have moved well beyond festooned pond skims. Breckenridge has Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and The Gin Blossoms April 12 and 13, followed by Yonder Mountain String Band and Blues Traveler April 19 and 20. Vail's got Karl Denson's Tiny Universe and STS9 April 12 and 13 with Lez Zeppelin and Steel Pulse on April 19 and 20. Winter Park has Big Head Todd and the Monsters and New Orleans' funk masters Dumpstaphunk April 19 and 20.
An upslope storm arriving Saturday through Sunday could bring up to 10 inches to Front Range hills, making Monday at Loveland, Arapahoe Basin and Winter Park a powder day, says the best pow forecaster in the business, OpenSnow's Joel Gratz..
There's less than three weeks left. Leave the gardening until May. There will be plenty of biking through October. April is for skiing, especially when it's this good. You will regret not making those sunny – and often powdery – turns come November when you're slipping down the million-gallon man-made ribbon.


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Fall Winter 2017 Woman Runway Collection
Temperance. The Empress. Justice. The female gures of tarot cards are the inspiration for the Trussardi Women's Fall/Winter 2017-18 collection. Past and present blend: everything develops to describe an aesthetic that is not interested in trends but wants to renew a heritage and expertise transformed into style and modernity.
It starts with leather – a heritage of the brand – and its treatments. The tailored suit in treated leather has a timeless look and is given a sportier vibe with ribbed knit trim, just like the dark brown crust leather jacket as soft as a glove with a large multicolored ribbed collar. The slip dress comes in a leather version with unexpected monochrome patchwork suede, where seams are embellished with special top-stitching in a contrasting color. Finally, the oversized wraparound coat in dark brown crust leather features patch decorations, a technique used in other garments to underline that tarot card theme that links the entire collection.
Fall Winter 2017 Man Runway Collection
In the presentation staged in the rooms of the Brera Pinacoteca Gallery, the Tarot cards become genuine characters: timeless ideal men expressing a new style concept. A series of actors will portray them on small stages in a theater of contemporary thought, cultures and moods.
The focus is on leather: dark brown and midnight black buckskin and suede in shades of sand, burnished brown or legendary Trussardi blue. Emblems – echoes of imaginary, indelible elegance – appear throughout the collection and adorn garments with the oversized "T" logo above a bugle bead crown. Accessories feature backpacks and clutches with classic lace-up shoes.


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The latest version of PHPBB (the forum software) supports most of the things that I felt were missing and led me to my on-again/off-again efforts to write some custom forum software for us (mostly off-again).
So, we're going to see how this goes. I'm finally able to feel comfortable in turning off administration approval of new accounts, which has been a thorn in my side for two years (and has probably hurt overall forum activity), so please flag spam posts for the admins/moderator in case the new measures don't work.
I will be going through the three week backlog of new user registrations now as I eat my lunch.
I plan on merging a lot of the forums (all of the discussing forums will be 'Talking Blues'), there will be one guitar forum (currently slide, acoustic, electric, tabs, and equipment), etc. You should probably speak up with objections, though I think that everyone who commented about this liked the idea before.


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So far, Romney's Colorado strategy avoids Denver area
The Associated Press
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DENVER – So far, Mitt Romney is taking an unexpected approach to campaigning in the battleground presidential state of Colorado.
Instead of stumping in the vote-rich Denver suburbs, the presumptive Republican nominee is holding a town hall-style event Tuesday in Grand Junction after a fundraising stop Monday evening in Aspen. It will be Romney's second visit in three months to Colorado's Western Slope. He visited coal miners in rural Craig in May.
Romney hasn't been to the Denver area since clinching the Republican presidential nomination. Instead, he is visiting lightly populated parts of the state where he is likely to encounter friendly crowds.
Is Romney avoiding the suburban Denver independent voters who could make the difference in November? Or is he wisely firing up the base in a state where conservative Republicans handed him an unexpected defeat in presidential caucuses?
Opinions differ within the GOP. Some Denver-area Republicans say Romney needs to pay more attention to the population centers, while many rural Republicans say the candidate is smart to first concentrate on the GOP base outside Denver.
"If we get our vote out, we can offset Denver and some of the suburbs outside Denver," said Kevin McCarney, a Republican activist and Romney volunteer in Clifton, near Grand Junction.
On the other hand, some Denver-area Republicans are wondering why Romney seems to be avoiding the population centers. Mesa County, where Romney is holding the town hall Tuesday, had about 65,000 registered voters from all parties at the end of June. Moffat County, where Romney stopped to talk about coal mining in May, had about 5,500 registered voters from all parties.
In contrast, Denver County and suburban Arapahoe and Jefferson counties had about 250,000 voters each.
"I think he needs to spend a little more time in our district," said Nathan Hatcher of Arvada, GOP chairman for the 7th Congressional District. "He's been a little quiet, to tell you the truth, but it's early."
A Republican critic of Romney in Denver was even more blunt.
"I think he's going where he thinks it's going to be friendlier and things are going to be easier. You can read into that what you want," said Florence Sebern, a delegate to this summer's Republican National Convention who prefers Republican Ron Paul, who is no longer actively campaigning. Sebern said Romney has work to do with independent voters outside Denver.
"I'd be surprised to see how many people showed up if he came to suburbs," Sebern said.
The Denver suburbs, though, are among the few places in Colorado where voters have a track record of crossing party lines. Two years ago, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet narrowly defeated a Republican tea party candidate thanks mostly to independent and even GOP crossover votes in those suburban Denver counties.
Republicans hope Romney's organization will crank into higher gear in the Denver suburbs. In the meantime, they hope he's doing the right thing making stops in less-populated Colorado.
"Colorado is both the Front Range and the Western Slope, and it wouldn't be a good idea for him to ignore one region or the other," said Pitkin County GOP chairwoman Frieda Wallison, a pledged RNC delegate for Romney.
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One of the more controversial design choices for the MacBook was the inclusion of a glossy screen. While the glossy finish does have the effect of adding a sharpened richness to the screen that is attractive on the show floor, it's at the cost of a glare that makes for headaches and tired eyes once the "Ooh, shiny!" perception has worn off. It's a "feature" that brings out fairly strong opinions in most users. I've known several co-workers who have bought a MacBook Pro solely because of the matte screen option.
A MacRumors forum member has taken the matter into his own hands to create the (current) holy grail of MacBooks—a MacBook with a matte finish screen. Having gotten a deal on a MacBook with a broken screen, 4JNA managed to swap it out with a matte screen from a wholesale supplier.
Everything works the same. Calibration, brightness control, photo booth flash, etc. Seems very bright when side by side with a customers whitebook. Overall, very happy with the results. The matte finish seems to match the finish of the blackbook better than the glossy.
Now there's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that he was able to find a panel that matches perfectly and requires no modifications of any kind—and it's also only about $165. The bad news? The exact model number of the panel in question is MIA and no one seems to be able to find it. Also, there's this:
I would also point out that I repair 2-10 laptops per week, can take powerbooks/ibooks apart from memory, and found this macbook to be one of the trickiest laptops to take apart i have ever encountered. You must take the screen completely off the laptop even though there are guides showing only the lcd panel/covers being removed. Trust me. You have been warned.
Pictures and a full description can be found in this thread on the MacRumors forums.


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Trial starts of suspects in Hariri assassination
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Nearly nine years after a truck bomb killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others, the trial started Thursday for four Hezbollah suspects accused of plotting the assassination that turned a Beirut seaside street into a "man-made hell."
The trial opened against a backdrop of ongoing sectarian violence in Lebanon, where a car bomb exploded early Thursday in a Hezbollah stronghold close to the country's border with Syria, killing at least three people and wounding more than 20, security officials said.
Hariri's son, Saad — like his late father, also a former prime minister — was in the courtroom for the start of the trial along with family members of other victims of the Feb. 14, 2005, blast.
"Our presence here today is in itself a proof that our stance, since the first moment, and every moment, was and will continue to be: seeking justice, not revenge, punishment and not vengeance," he told reporters outside court, saying it was "the time of justice for Lebanon."
But the suspects themselves were absent as they have not been arrested. Shiite group Hezbollah denies involvement in the murder and the group's leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, has denounced the court as a conspiracy by his archenemies — the U.S. and Israel.
Saad Hariri criticized all those who are shielding the suspects from justice, calling it "a crime added to the main crime."
The U.N. Security Council, which authorized the tribunal, and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the opening of the trial and in separate statements stressed "the vital importance of combating impunity for the long-term stability and security of Lebanon."
Presiding Judge David Re says prosecutors will call hundreds of witnesses in a trial likely to take months.
Beginning an opening statement expected to last into Friday, Prosecutor Norman Farrell told the court "the people of Lebanon have the right to have this trial, hear the evidence and seek the truth."
He said the prosecution case is made up of evidence including large amounts of data from mobile phones allegedly used by the plotters to plan and execute the bombing.
Farrell showed the court photos of the aftermath of the attack, including a smoldering, rubble-strewn crater around 12 meters (40 feet) across and the flaming wreckage of the truck. He told judges attackers packed "an extraordinary quantity of high grade explosives" into a Mitsubishi truck to kill Hariri.
A scale model of the blast scene stood on a table in the center of the courtroom, which has been purpose built in the gym of a former Dutch spy agency's headquarters.
Another prosecutor, Alexander Milne, said the blast created "a man-made hell." He showed videos of the immediate aftermath and photos including one he said showed Hariri's body covered by a plaid blanket.
"The force of the blast was such that Mr. Hariri was thrown from his car and it's reasonable to conclude that he died quickly at the scene," said Milne, who called the bombing, "a cruel, cruel act."
The four Hezbollah suspects include Mustafa Badreddine, believed to have been the group's deputy military commander, who also is the suspected bomb maker in the 1983 blast at the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Americans.
The other suspects are Salim Ayyash, also known as Abu Salim; Assad Sabra and Hassan Oneissi, who changed his name to Hassan Issa. The fifth to be indicted was Hassan Habib Merhi, who was indicted later than the other four suspects and is not officially a suspect in the trial that started Thursday.
They are charged with terrorism and intentional homicide.
There are fears in Lebanon that the tribunal will open a new chapter of sectarian violence in a country where the Syrian civil war has spilled over with increasing frequency in the past few months. Sunni-Shiite tensions are soaring, and there has been a new wave of killings among Lebanon's Shiite and Sunni political factions.
Those fears were underscored by Thursday's blast in the predominantly Shiite town of Hermel.
Hariri, who also held Saudi citizenship, was one of Lebanon's most influential Sunni leaders, with wide connections in the Arab world and international community. Hezbollah, a Shiite group, is backed by Shiite Iran.
In the immediate aftermath of the assassination, suspicion fell on Syria, since Hariri had been seeking to weaken its domination of Lebanon. Syria has denied any role in the murder, but the killing galvanized opposition to Damascus and led to huge street demonstrations, dubbed the "Cedar Revolution," that helped put an end to Syria's 29-year military presence in its smaller neighbor.
Lebanon has a history of political assassinations for which no one has ever been held accountable. In the emotional days following his death, Hariri supporters called for an international investigation, and a U.N.-backed court was established in 2009.
In Beirut, about two dozen Hariri supporters gathered hundreds of meters (yards) from the site of the 2005 blast and uncovered a giant billboard with a picture of the late former prime minister and a sign that read "time of justice." Top right of the billboard was a timer that started counting the days of the trial.
Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue contributed to this story from Beirut.


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How Allen West blew it
It wasn't supposed to end this way for Allen West.
The tea party House freshman had an astonishing $17 million war chest, sky-high name ID and a Republican-leaning district. His opponent, Patrick Murphy, was a 29-year-old construction company executive who had never sought office before. Even Democrats privately acknowledged late in the campaign that Murphy was probably a little green to be going up against a powerhouse like West.
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But on Tuesday morning, it was West, not Murphy, issuing a lengthy concession statement after a two-week recount that confirmed he had fallen a painful 2,000 or so votes short. The congressman's unexpected loss left his advisers, donors and legion of tea party fans searching for answers.
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His tight-knit circle of top campaign aides was "shocked," said one Republican close to the incumbent. On the eve of the election, a private survey conducted by West's veteran pollster, Gene Ulm, had the congressman leading by 5 percentage points.
Some Republicans close to the campaign blamed West's bombastic, no-holds-barred style — an approach they said simply didn't work in what was basically a moderate-minded district full of elderly voters. During his brief tenure in Congress, he dished out insults like candy at Halloween — he called Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz "vile, unprofessional and despicable"; dubbed President Barack Obama "probably the dumbest person walking around in America right now," and said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats "should get the hell out of the United States of America."
Behind the scenes, Republicans were urging West to tone it down. Early this year, shortly after launching his reelection campaign, the congressman sought out a surprising figure — former GOP Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned in 2006 amid revelations that he had sent sexually-charged electronic messages to House pages. Foley, who had represented much of the southwestern Florida district, counseled West to run to the middle — advice the congressman didn't take issue with.
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Foley thought highly of West — at one point, he even advised the freshman to run for Senate in 2012, reasoning that his fundraising capabilities and national profile would make him a strong contender. But as Foley watched the House race play out, he saw West embracing much of the same conservative rhetoric that he had in his previous races.
And instead of presenting his compelling life story — West rose from an upbringing in the Georgia slums, eventually becoming a military commander before running for Congress — the Republican seemed intent on tearing down Murphy in harshly personal terms. One West TV ad blasted Murphy for his underage drinking arrest a decade ago, showing a mug shot of the intoxicated then-teenager.
"I think Allen might have been a bit too conservative for the district," Foley said in an interview. "The district was extremely center-focused."
Some of the Republicans said West's inability to get beyond the hard-charging image was a function of staff error. Aides, they said, failed to tame the congressman and to warn him that his outbursts — though catnip to his grass-roots backers and good for fundraising — would ultimately damage him. West's congressional office got off to a particularly slow start — his first chief of staff, conservative radio talk show host Joyce Kaufman, resigned just a few days after she was hired.
"This was a congressional operation run amuck. The congressional staff couldn't control it, they failed to manage expectations, to manage the brand," said a Republican source close to West. "When you have something to say on national TV every time something arises, the brand is overused. The brand wasn't carefully constructed or guided."
"Sometimes people don't want controversy," the source said. "They just want a congressman."


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I poured some washable kids paint into separate cups to keep the colors from turning to muck. Then the girls began to dip the straws into the paint and stamp them onto their papers.
Mina started out stamping red splotches all over her paper. I think in the future I will thin out the paint a bit with water. It seemed so thick on the paper.
Next Mina decided to turn her straw around and stamp a bit with the small circular end.
When she decided she was done with that picture she turned her paper over to start painting on the back - thank goodness for these awesome washable paints! I didn't even lay down any newspaper underneath since usually clean up is so easy. It would have made a beautiful print had we been able to keep it there.
Maisy started out with the yellow paint she loves so much and moved on to pink.
She liked stamping for a couple of minutes before moving on to just smearing the paint. By this point the straw was so bent out of shape that it wasn't making a very nice print anyway.
Once Mina got a new sheet of paper she was off to her straw stamping once again. She loved to use all different colors.
And moving on to the next paper!
Maisy decided she would have another go on a clean sheet of paper. Once again she decided to go for the smearing effect instead of stamping.
Mina's final piece of artwork - as she decided to jump up and down on the stool. It looks like we're done painting today!
Meanwhile, Maisy was getting a bit carried away with the paint also. It's time to put the paints away once they start being splashed on the walls!
Mina's 5 pieces of artwork,
And Maisy's 2 finished pieces.


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Rookie Evan Fournier scored a season-high 19 points, including 10 in the fourth quarter, and the Denver Nuggets extended their home winning streak to 18 games by beating the Brooklyn Nets 109-87 Friday night.
Denver improved to 33-3 at the Pepsi Center this season, the best home record in the league.
Wilson Chandler had 16 points and Corey Brewer and Kosta Koufos added 13 points apiece for the Nuggets, who are one win shy of matching their longest home winning streak since Jan. 28-April 20, 1989, despite missing injured point guard Ty Lawson. He was ruled out for the third time in four games after an exam Thursday of his strained heel also revealed a plantar fascia tear in his right foot.
In a statement, the Nuggets said surgery was not needed and characterized Lawson's playing status as day to day.
Deron Williams scored 19 points for the Nets, who missed a chance for their team-record 21st road win of the season. It was the Nets' sixth consecutive loss to the Nuggets in Denver.
Andray Blatche had 16 points and Reggie Evans added 15 points and 16 rebounds for the Nets, who are trying to finish a season with a winning road record for the first time in team history.
Trailing by as many as 22 points in the third, the Nets went into the final period down 80-66 after C.J. Watson hit a 3-pointer as the buzzer sounded ending the quarter.
A follow shot by Blatche narrowed the Nets' deficit to 86-74 with 8:21 left but the Nuggets scored the next six points, capped by a driving layup by Fournier, who was seeing increased minutes because of Lawson's absence. The Nets did not threaten again as Denver closed the game with its reserves on the floor.
A jumper by Kris Humphries pulled the Nets within 33-28 in the second quarter. Ignited by a driving layup by Danilo Gallinari and a 3-pointer by Chandler, the Nuggets responded with a 12-0 run that put them in front 45-28 with 5:23 remaining in the second quarter.
The Nets fell behind 55-38 at the half after being outscored 29-15 overall in the second.
NOTES: The Nets' Joe Johnson missed a third consecutive game with a right quad injury. ... Fournier's previous high in points was 10. ... The Nuggets haven't lost at home since a Jan. 18 defeat to Washington 112-108.


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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- The former chairman of a Chinese mining equipment company acquired by Caterpillar Inc. CAT, +1.02% said on Monday that he was "shocked" by the U.S. heavy-equipment maker's allegations of accounting misconduct that resulted in Caterpillar taking a $580 million write-down on the purchase, news reports said. "We were especially surprised by this situation as we cooperated very closely with the Caterpillar team during their extensive due diligence," said Emory Williams, the former chairman of ERA Mining Machinery Ltd., The Wall Street Journal reported. The company was built by Williams and Li Rubo, also known as John Lee, the Journal said. Williams said he and Lee have contacted Caterpillar to seek further details but haven't yet received a response. The Journal said Caterpillar officials in the U.S. couldn't immediately be reached.
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The amnesty fantasy
The networks had barely called the election for President Barack Obama before GOP elites rushed to embrace an amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Getting killed by almost 3-to-1 among Latino voters understandably concentrates the mind, but it's no reason to lose it. The post-election Republican reaction has been built on equal parts panic, wishful thinking and ethnic pandering.
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It's one thing to argue that amnesty is the right policy on the merits. It's another to depict it as the magic key to unlocking the Latino vote. John McCain nearly immolated himself within the Republican Party with his support for amnesty and did all of 4 percentage points better among Latino voters in 2008 than Mitt Romney did in 2012, according to exit polls.
What is the common thread uniting McCain, the advocate of "comprehensive" immigration reform, and Romney the advocate of "self-deportation"? They are both Republicans supporting conservative economic policies. Surely, that had more to do with their showing among Latinos than anything they did or didn't say about immigration.
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According to Census Bureau data, among native-born Hispanics, 50 percent of all households with children are headed by unmarried mothers. About 40 percent of all households receive benefits from a major welfare program. This doesn't mean that the GOP shouldn't try to appeal to voters in these households. It does mean that they aren't natural Republican voters.
Latinos tend to have liberal attitudes toward government. Take health care. An ImpreMedia/Latino Decisions poll of Latinos conducted on the eve of the election found that 61 percent of Latinos support leaving Obamacare in place. Sixty-six percent believe government should ensure access to health insurance. This might have something to do with the fact that 32 percent of nonelderly Latinos lack health insurance, about twice the national average.


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Mirrored edges are a great way to achieve a photo-wrapped look without cutting into the subjects of your photo.
Today's design tip is for more advanced users familiar with photo editing software such as Photoshop. This method works really well on landscapes, abstracts, as well as distance shots of people. Here's how to do it.
In this example we'll assume we're making a 24 x 8″, 1.5 inch gallery stretch canvas.
Step 1: Crop your image accordingly: 24 x 8″
Step 2: In your image editing software, enlarge your canvas size to 28 x 12″ (Image > Canvas Size … Read more


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