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The Smyrna Vinings townhome and condo market has taken off on a strong note in 2014, much like the Smyrna Vinings single family home market. Smyrna Vinings condo and townhome sales continued to be spurred by low interest rates. Sales are now higher than 2007 levels, which is a huge shift and double the sales from just a couple years ago.
As you can see, we've been tracking the market for quite some time. We sell a lot of Smyrna Vinings homes, condos and townhomes and one of the major reasons is that we specialize in the area, we know the inventory of homes for sale and understand the trends, statistics and all the local pertinent information necessary for you to make an informed decision.
As you'll notice, the green bar is 2007 and we were selling a lot more condos and townhomes in 2007. Sales dropped continuously in 2008, while 2009 stabilized and picked up in the fourth quarter largely due to the first-time home buyer tax credit. 2010 saw the market peak in the late Spring and Summer. Smyrna Vinings condo saw slow and steady improvement in 2012 and took off in 2013. So much so, that we are at all-time highs. Buyers are finding it harder to resist today's low interest rates and the attractive prices. It really is the perfect opportunity for a home buyer.
The Active Listings chart depicts Smyrna Vinings condos and townhomes currently for sale. You'll note that total active listings peaked in 2008, which can be explained based upon sales dropping significantly in 2008, which resulted in Smyrna Vinings townhomes and condos sitting on the market longer. In 2009, we saw the active listings drop significantly and this can be tied to the economic uncertainty, which resulted in a lot less development of new condos and townhomes for sale in the Smyrna Vinings market.
This trend has continued. What we see now in the current market is that active listings are lower than any of the past seven years. One interesting point about this is you have less competition if you want to sell in today's market. If you've thought about selling and just aren't sure, be sure to contact us or find out how much your home is worth. And if you're looking to buy, inventory is thin and you'll be fighting over the best properties with other buyers.
One other important statistic that we like to track is how we gauge the health of the Smyrna Vinings townhome and condo market. Months of inventory is a calculation that takes the current amount of homes for sale and divides that by the number of homes that have sold in the last 12 months. What the result means is if no more homes were listed, how many months would it take, based upon the past 12 months activity, to sell all the homes currently for sale. A result of 6 months is considered a healthy market, less than 6 months a seller's market and more than 6 months, a buyer's market.
The highest amount of bloat and most severe buyer's market was in January of 2009 with significant improvement coming at the end of 2009 and throughout 2010. What you can see in the chart above is that months of inventory dropped significantly in July and August of last year and stabilized around the 5 month mark. But with the big jump in sales over the past year, inventory hasn't been keeping up. If inventory drops further, we'll continue to experience a lot of multiple offer situations like we have over the past year. I do expect to see the market start to stabilize as rates have been increasing over the past few months and should begin to have an effect on Smyrna Vinings condo sales.
That's your Smyrna Vinings condo and townhome activity recap for February.
Hope that was helpful and don't hesitate to contact us if we can help you sell your Smyrna Vinings condo or townhome or find your new Smyrna Vinings townhome or condo. And don't forget that we offer the most extensive Smyrna Vinings condo and townhome search in the area.


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Decisions about what medications make it onto a health plan or hospital formulary — and the level at which they are covered — affect physicians, pharmacists, and patients every day.
Who it is that makes those calls — the people sifting through stacks of reports from pharmaceutical companies and consultants to decide which drugs meet their organizations' needs better than others — has been changing in recent years. New faces have appeared on pharmacy and therapeutics committees as health plans struggle to review an ever-growing number of drugs.
Health plans, hospitals, and pharmacy benefit managers are taking a variety of approaches to updating the composition of their P&T committees. As they do so, they are calling on a wider portion and greater numbers of the medical community to take part.
At Bluegrass Family Health in Lexington, Ky., executives restructured its P&T committee this year. It now looks very different from the one the health plan created several years ago. Like most P&T committees in the past, Bluegrass's comprised mostly primary care physicians. Today, family physicians, pediatricians, and general surgeons are joined by pharmacists from hospitals and the community, a physician assistant, and others in casting votes. "It really was an effort to make the committee more representative of our provider community as a whole," says Bluegrass's chief medical officer, Jaudon E. Behrman, MD, MMM.
Other health plans have replaced primary care physicians with specialists, added requirements that physicians and pharmacists be in active practice, and created networks of specialty consultants to help out. Many also are considering or are actively looking for health care ethicists, economists, and geneticists who are willing to take a seat at the table (see "Emerging Factors: Genetic Medicine and Outcomes Research"). And some are asking members to get training in areas such as how to evaluate the reliability of studies that report health outcomes and compare one drug to another. The National Committee for Quality Assurance also has weighed in with several guidelines, including one that asks health plans to have practicing physicians and pharmacists on their panels.
The formulary development process at Aetna probably will be very different in six months from what it is today, says Kathleen Woods, PhD, RPh, head of clinical and program management at Aetna Pharmacy Management. Issues on her radar screen: attaining more external input by finding ways to enable practicing physicians and pharmacists to participate in the formulary process, and expanding the role and scope of the committee. "It is a process that is changing over time," she says.
P&T committees began in hospitals around 1960 as an effort to maximize rational drug use through careful consideration of a product's safety and how well it worked; their existence became mandated by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in 1965. When managed care entered the market, HMOs viewed formularies as a good way to control costs. Early managed care efforts at creating formularies enabled insurers to get discounts for purchasing large volumes of certain medications. That is still the case. Nevertheless, committees today have a much broader mandate. They are charged with looking at the safety and the efficacy of medications as well as the overall economics — not just the price — of each medication, says David A. Sclar, Boeing distinguished professor of health policy at Washington State University.
The first P&T committees at managed care plans were small and included mainly the health plan's medical director, primary care physicians, and one or two pharmacists from an organization in the insurer's network, Sclar explains. The basis of that composition, physicians and pharmacists as key decision makers, has remained the same over the years while the type and number of those representatives have been refined.
"The top three participants in formulary committees continue to be physicians, pharmacists, and medical directors," says Lily Field, manager of managed care at SMG Marketing Group Inc., a research and consulting company in Chicago. In 2000, 96.7 percent of managed care insurers had physicians on their P&T committees, while 89.8 percent had pharmacists and 83.8 percent had the plan's medical director on board. That's compared with 97.2 percent, 90.2 percent, and 84.4 percent, respectively, in 1999, according to SMG data. "Managed care plans are interested in placing knowledgeable individuals with a breadth of experience on these committees," Field says. "It also reflects the continued partnership of the physicians with the managed care plans. Physicians know the drugs; they prescribe them. So who better to be on a formulary committee?"
The same is true at academic medical centers, where physicians typically take up to 70 percent of the seats on P&T committees, says Frank Ascione, professor of social administrative sciences at the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy, Ann Arbor.
In recent years, however, a shift has occurred. While most P&T committees of the past were made up mainly of primary care physicians, committees have made room for many more specialists to participate. Committees need specialist physicians to evaluate waves of new drugs in those specialties. Two models for that new participation have emerged. Some health plans and PBMs have chosen to put specialists directly on their voting committees, defining which specialties should be represented before deciding which physicians to invite. Other plans have maintained a primary care focus in the main committee but have added a network of specialty consultants to provide recommendations on medications as needed. To meet NCQA standards, physicians who prescribe specialty classes of drugs must at least be consulted when formulary decisions are made on those drugs, says Deneen Richmond, NCQA's assistant vice president for policy.
Express Scripts' national P&T committee defines which specialties are to be represented, basing its decisions on members' drug histories. The St. Louis-based PBM's 17 physician committee members come from cardiology, dermatology, gastroenterology, neurology, oncology, psychiatry, and other areas of medicine, including family practice and pediatrics. "These physicians are representative of those doctors who are treating the types of conditions that our clients are spending their money on for drugs," says Raulo S. Frear, PharmD, vice president for clinical services at Express Scripts.
"Specialists are on the cutting edge in terms of knowing about the types of drugs that are used to treat specific conditions," Frear says. "And we like to have that expertise available when we are making decisions about those drugs."
Similarly, when Tufts Health Plan restructured its pharmacy and therapeutics committee more than two years ago, the plan outlined several highly specific areas of medicine it wanted to see represented. The committee has seven physician members who vote on a regular basis. Five have been trained in internal medicine, and three have subspecialties in cardiology, geriatrics, and endocrinology. A pediatrician and a pediatric allergist also serve on the committee.
"We made sure we had a wide representation in terms of population, so that's why we have the geriatrician, the pediatrician," says Adele Pietrantoni, manager of clinical pharmacy at Waltham, Mass.-based Tufts. "We also looked at the proliferation of drugs in the marketplace. We see a lot of drugs to treat high blood pressure and high cholesterol, so we felt we needed the expertise of a cardiologist. A lot of drugs are coming out for the treatment of diabetes, so we needed an endocrinologist."
Still, a primary care doctor's broad approach to medicine is worth hanging onto in a P&T environment, says Ralph Blair, MD, medical director for utilization management and clinical policy at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, based in Wellesley, Mass. Harvard Pilgrim insists that its physician P&T members have a primary care focus in at least part of their work days.
"Primary care providers render care in all of the medical specialties that are up for consideration, so they really have something to contribute to any discussion," says Blair, chairman of the P&T committee and an internist who also specializes in infectious disease. "And they have experienced managing a moderate degree of severity in a wide range of conditions, not just the sickest patients. Given that part of our role is to work within a globally constrained budget to improve the health of the greatest number of people, that broad perspective is critical to our process."
Harvard Pilgrim doesn't expect primary care doctors to know all the ways in which each drug under consideration is used, however, so it relies on specialists to make recommendations as needed. Indeed, it is becoming common for health plans and PBMs to have specialty consultants in place to guide formulary decision making.
Prescription Solutions, a PBM based in Costa Mesa, Calif., has more than 30 consultants under contract, many of whom are MDs. They don't vote on which drugs should be included on the formulary, but they're called in at various times to testify on certain classes of drugs or present their opinions in writing.
The sheer number of drugs that must be reviewed means that a P&T committee can't handle the full workload itself. The number of pharmaceuticals on the market has topped 11,000, with the FDA approving close to 100 new drugs last year. At Prescription Solutions, committee members must rely on help from outside experts, as well as internal staff who put together packets two-inches-thick with information for each monthly meeting, says David M. Berenbeim, MD, vice president for clinical services and medical director. And the work is growing. "Traditionally, we have been responsible only for pills, but recently we have assumed the responsibility for injectable medications for many of our clients. That consumes a good piece of the agenda as well."
The availability of specialty consultants has enabled Prescription Solutions to maintain a primary care focus on its P&T committee and still meet other needs, such as reviewing injectable drugs, Berenbeim says. But the company has changed another aspect of its committee: Today, half of its 14 physician members are in active practice. "We want the opinions of people who actually have to write the prescriptions for the agents that we make decisions on," Berenbeim says.
When Berenbeim joined the company about two and a half years ago, there were far fewer practicing doctors, and more MD administrators and academics on the committee. The PBM made the change because practicing physicians can lend a "reality check" to formulary discussions, he says. For example, physicians who see 30 or 40 patients every day are in a better position to determine whether a certain drug needs to be readily accessible through a general formulary placement, or if it would be sufficient to place the drug in a category that requires prior approval, Berenbeim explains. Practicing physicians also know what works — whether patients will take one drug over another or whether a certain antibiotic is facing resistance, he adds. NCQA standards require that at least one member of the body making formulary decisions be a practicing physician.
Just as the scope and tenor of physician participation on P&T committees has changed in recent years, the role of pharmacists has grown and evolved as well. Like the requirement for practicing physicians, many health plans and PBMs require that some of their pharmacist representatives still see patients. Some have added the distinction that pharmacist representatives come from both independent and chain-store pharmacies in their networks. At the University of Michigan Health System, pharmacists who work in patient-care areas sit aside research-based pharmacists in making formulary decisions.
When Steven Avey, executive director of the Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy, sat on various P&T committees in the early 1990s, typically he was one of only a couple of pharmacist members. The number of people from his field on such committees has grown dramatically in recent years, with an average committee today made up of about 30 percent pharmacists, he says.
Part of the reason for that increase is that pharmacists understand drug-benefit structures and can make recommendations on where drugs should be placed in a tiered environment. Organizations also recognize the growing role of pharmacists in health care, he says. "The PharmD degree is growing in relevance. The pharmacist is looked upon as an individual with expertise in drug management."
Tufts has six voting pharmacist members on its P&T committee, which is cochaired by pharmacist Georgiann Koutrouba. Two are employees of the HMO, one is from the company's PBM, one is from an independent pharmacy, one is from a chain drug store, and the other is from a hospital. Three pharmacists also serve as consultants to the committee.
Pharmacists have face-to-face contact with members when filling members' prescriptions and must learn to deal with benefit structures, says Tufts's Pietrantoni. And the hospital adds valuable input about how drugs used primarily in the hospital should be employed in a community setting, she says.
"Pharmacists also have the most in-depth knowledge about pharmacology, drug-delivery systems, and pharmacokinetics, and they can share that expertise with our physician members, who have a higher level of understanding, but not as detailed, of drugs and pharmacology," she continues. "That interaction between the person who is doing the diagnosis and the person managing the drug therapy is a very important dialog that helps both sides of the committee come to a sound clinical recommendation for the health plan."
Other medical practitioners are taking their experience to P&T committees as well. At Harvard Pilgrim, a psychiatrist helps to make formulary decisions. "A lot of mental health issues are dealt with in the primary care arena, so it's important to have that representation on the committee," says Harvard Pilgrim's Blair. "A psychiatrist is not necessarily going to weigh in on a cardiac drug. On the other hand, some classes of cardiac drugs are associated with neuropsychiatric side effects and manifestations. The kind of input that we could get from a mental health provider on that would be helpful."
For Bluegrass, having a physician assistant on the committee makes sense because PAs are integral to the network, says Behrman. Physician assistants also bring a different perspective to discussions because they have more frequent contact with patients.
Nurses, too, often contribute substantially to discussions about how drugs are used, what patients prefer, and what potential problems could arise, executives say. Nurses serve on more hospital P&T committees than on those of health plans or PBMs because they are often more focused on inpatient care. "One of the key roles nurses play is to address any issues or problems that could potentially be encountered by a nurse at the time of administering a medication," says James Stevenson, director of pharmacy services at the University of Michigan Health System. "They typically come in with very practical concerns about how something that we are doing could cause a problem or could cause confusion, or how we could be clearer and safer about how we are going to bring a new drug onto a formulary."
Nurses can be viewed by health plans and other organizations as patient advocates as well, says Tim Sawyers, RPh, president of Performance Managed Care Consultants, a health care consulting firm in Cincinnati. The boon is that nurses know enough about medical issues to follow and contribute to clinical discussions and then can ask some hard-hitting questions about a formulary decision's effect on patients, he says.
Characteristics of P&T committees continually change, but how they are composed is important to determining their success, says the University of Michigan's Ascione. Most important is that all of an organization's constituencies be represented, whether that means subspecialists, pharmacists, nurses, or others.
Such a structure takes advantage of "360 degrees of opinion," says Prescription Solutions' Berenbeim. And, it promotes better buy-in to formularies overall, executives agree.
Tufts doesn't get many challenges regarding where it places drugs on its three-tier copayment system, says Kautrouba. But when someone does complain, having key specialty physicians doing the voting helps, she says.
"We felt it was important that if someone wanted to look at the structure of the P&T, they would see there were people in those specialties who came to the monthly meetings and were an integral part of the process."
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November 14, 2013
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Dear Mr. Beers:
As the U.S. and others strive to get assistance and aid to the Philippines in the wake Typhoon Haiyan, hearts all over the world go out to the victims of this disaster. While that nation struggles to cope with the after-effects of one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on land, the United States can help in many ways, in addition to the aid that is already underway. One way we can help is to limit the strain on that country's resources by designating the Philippines for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under §244(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
AILA is the national association of immigration lawyers with more than 13,000 members. It was established in 1946 to promote justice, advocate for fair and reasonable immigration law and policy, advance the quality of immigration and nationality law and practice, and enhance the professional development of its members. AILA has supported the judicious grant of TPS in limited cases in the past based on a studied consideration of the totality of the circumstances. Just less than four years ago, DHS and USCIS acted quickly in just such a circumstance to designate Haiti for TPS after a massive earthquake and in record time, stood up a procedure to process applications for nationals of that devastated nation. That response can and should be repeated for the Philippines.
While we do not yet know the full impact of Typhoon Haiyan on the Philippines, the facts that are emerging are chilling. The death toll is believed to be in the thousands, and it is estimated that nearly 7 million people have been affected. Reports are that every structure in Tacloban has been destroyed or seriously damaged. Tens of thousands are homeless, and food and water is scarce in the affected regions. Roads and transportation infrastructure are gone, not only delaying relief but presenting a massive rebuilding challenge to a nation already struggling financially. There is simply no way that the Philippines could absorb the return of its nationals under these conditions.
We therefore ask that the Philippines be designated for TPS with all due haste.
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Start-Up Medio Brings Mobile Analytics to the Cloud
You hear a lot in enterprise computing circles these days about analytics. It basically means taking long streams of data about something important, usually something that gets repeated a lot, crunching through it with a lot of computing oomph and finding useful patterns that can make that repeatable process less costly, more efficient, faster or better in some way — and at the same time, helping to eliminate the bits that get in the way.
It's something that IBM does a lot of, and does well, and it's something that Hewlett-Packard is starting to talk about with increasing regularity, especially in the wake of its acquisition last year of Autonomy, while outfits like Splunk and open source efforts like Hadoop make it easier to do the crunching. And there are lots of start-ups working at finding ways to bring new levels of analysis to stale old business data that used to sit collecting virtual dust, unloved and unused on hard drives.
Generally speaking, the businesses that use analytics are, by definition, pretty big. They have large retail footprints, or big supply chains or something else about their business that makes them big. Being big is, intuition tells us, sort of a prerequisite to yielding the large volumes of data that just beg to be analyzed. You had to buy hardware and software and hire a lot of really smart people to get the job done.
Intuition can be wrong. In the age of cloud computing, where companies don't bother to buy their own servers but rather rent space on servers from cloud outfits like Amazon Web services or IBM or Rackspace, why couldn't you do the same thing with analytics? It turns out you can.
A Seattle-based company called Medio does precisely this, and today it launched something called the InGenius Suite. It's essentially a big data analytics engine that's designed to do exactly what big companies all want when they call Big Blue or HP or someone else: Show them where they can make more money. And? It all runs in the cloud.
Think you're missing an opportunity to make incremental sales, but don't have the data to prove it? Medio is aimed at industries like retail, finance and entertainment, and it brings the same kind of predictive analytics to bear that the big companies get. It's also been around for a while: Medio has been selling its predictive analytics technology for years in two prior generations, but this is the first time it has been available in a cloud-based offering.
Its speciality is in the mobile space, and its platform supports 10,000 different devices, sees more than 105 million unique users in 220 geographies and captures 550 million events every day. The analytics have turned out 15 billion different personal recommendations.
"Our mission in life is to help companies to understand what their consumers are doing, to engage them better, and to help them make more money as appropriate," says Rob Lilleness, Medio's CEO. Customers range from Rovio, the Finnish outfit behind the addictive Angry Birds mobile game franchise, to mobile carriers like T-Mobile and Verizon.
The company is backed by investments from Accel Partners, Trilogy Equity Partners, Frazier Technology Ventures and Mohr Davidow Ventures, with total capital raised of about $30 million.
Lilleness said Medio has been at it for seven years. One of its co-founders is Brian Lent, who's also chairman and CTO. He founded an outfit called Junglee that Amazon bought some years back. When Amazon tells you after buying something that you might also like something else, that's the Junglee technology at work. Amazon boosted the percentage of sales coming from recommendations from 3 percent to 30 percent since acquiring Junglee, so the effect of having an analytics engine that can help you make recommendations isn't exactly trivial.
Medio's InGenius Suite is built around getting the same kind of understanding that big companies do, but in a manner that's within reach to smaller companies. "We want to democratize the ability for companies to get up and running easily with big data," Lilleness told me. "We can service the big companies, and we have for many years. But whether you're a large company or a smaller, the key thing you have to know about big data is that data itself is the oil of the 21st century. Those who don't understand it and what they need to do with it risk being left behind."


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The combination of the bricks and clicks world is getting a bit more interesting. Google today announced that it is buying Waterloo, Ontario-based BufferBox, a 21-month-old Canadian company that allows parcels to be shipped to pick-up stations.
The move is interesting because Amazon.com has been rolling out a competitive locker service in various markets, first testing the concept at 7-Eleven stores in the Seattle area. In recent weeks, we've reported on the Amazon Lockers getting rolled out at both Staples and RadioShack locations.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed, but TechCrunch pegs it at more than $17 million. BufferBox plans to operate more than 100 locations in Canada by the end of next year, but with Google resources it could add on to that number. It plans to put the boxes at transit stations, and is working with grocery stores and other retailers on additional locations. The acquisition also highlights how Google and Amazon appear to be on a collision course.
"We have been able to achieve more than we could have ever imagined since we started working on our idea a couple years ago, and the team couldn't be more excited about the future," the company wrote in a blog post. "As online shopping becomes a bigger part of how you buy products, we look forward to playing a part in bringing that experience to the next level. We are happy to share that it will be business as usual for our users and we are looking forward to continuing to build out the service."
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I sold one of my old mustangs and now that I have some $$ and some room in my garage its time to start fixing up my daily driver 92 bronco. Im going to start with the hood which just needs paint ( clear coat flaked off ) so im going to strip the hood and lay down some fresh paint. Ill be using SPI epoxy, with a PPG black ( have not purchased yet) and ill probobly use SPI's universal clear coat because Ive heard so many good things on this site about them. The hood I can handle fine, the rear quarters are a new venture for me sorta, I did a patch panel on a 92 miata and it was a major pain but a great learning expierence. I butt welded the patch on the miata and even though i stitch welded very slowly i still had a lot of warpage and a few burn throughs that the fought me to the end. Id like to bypass all that crap this time doing both rear quarters on my bronco. I have two replacement quarters that I am using. Im only going to remove whats rusty till i find good solid metal which shouldint be too much (see pics) and cut the new panel to fit. Im thinking I want to get a panel flanger to have a stronger joint with less chance of burn thru and have the flanged side be the exisiting metal so that theres no pocket for moisture to sit.
My only concern is using the flanger on the existing metal because it has a contour to it, what would you all reccomend?
First off its easier , faster and better to replace the whole 1/4 You dont really need a flanger for this job ,I'm assuming your using used 1/4's...anyways you make your splice where the glass is and weld it where the factory welded it be sure to make a splice in the jamb and not on the outside of the 1/4....
Depending on how much of the replacement quarters you have, you might be able to use bonding adhesive and only have to weld the door post somewhere above the bed.
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here are my patch panels, they are new, they cover a pretty large part of the rear quarter. I would like to replace the entire panel and looking the truck over today I dont think it would be very hard, im a little worried about the door jam area wouldnt want the striker to move... My only rusty area is at the top of the wheel well and the edges of the inner fender. I can get inner fenders for 55.00 each which is no big deal but im not sure how they are attatched right now.. they dont look spot welded like the quarter does, in one small corner it looks like they used maybe a panel adheasive. Im still a ways away from ordering my paints/primers ect so ill have to look into the black epoxy. That would cover all too well!
from what I expierenced on my last fender (miata in my pics) it was all crunched in and i had to cut out and butt weld the whole panel back in. To me this bronco looks like a cake walk replacing the whole fender. Id like to go that route but that would add another 500.00 to the bill for the fenders.. decisions decisions
* i know the panel is not "straight" its just for demonstration purpouses
In this case I'd put the flange about 1" below the body line, about where the pinstripe is. A used 1/4 would be easiest though.
I don't think I can find a good used quarter here in south Dakota, way to much salt going on here! I double checked prices and the cheapest I could find are 230.00 per panel plus 120 to ship... So basically thats another 700 bucks and I don't think I want to go that route.
So I should go with a flange? Or butt weld? I've been doing some reading, a lot of people say a flange will rust because it will collect water, I don't see how if the existing metal id flanged and the panel fits into the flange... So the lip its facing down. Hopefully you understand what I mean. of course I'll use some weld thru primer, then a shot of epoxy and some undercoat after to seal it..
Theres nothing wrong with a flange joint what so ever.(if its done right) if you flange the replacement panel the flange will be upside down and it'll hold water like a cup even if its seam sealed it'll fail sooner or later. If you flange the the bed side (the right way) theopen end will point down and it wont hold water then a little seam sealer and it'll last as longer than that replacement patch ...
I would flange the top only just to help keep the seam from warping. the strength from the body line combined with the added strength from the flange will give you a nice straight seam. then I would butt the sides and back it up with a strip of copper to keep the metal from blowing out when you weld The sides will warp but you can work them fairly EZ...Thats me,for you,I'd say go ahead and flange it on all three sides and use some drill screws in the flange to hold the new panel on that way you test fit it pull it of and work the flange until its perfect use a straight edge to make sure the joint is flush everywhere BEFORE you start welding. I'd also put the screws every two inches all the way around..When your sure everything is right and you start welding just pull one screw and make a plug weld then go to the next one and repete,when all the screws are removed and a plug weld has replaced them ,then you start on the flange edge,That has to be welded like a butt joint ,all the way around..if you take your time you should have a warp free job that needs very little filler...
Thanks for the advice, the last panel i did was a warping nightmare. I do not want to do that again. I ended up getting a lead/tin kit and filled most of the warpage from my buttweld. Then did a very thin coat of filler. Probobly not the perfect way but it was a practice car anyway and had very thin sheetmetal. I only had a few blowthru's and I bought a nice copper backing kit with a handle and interchangeable shaped copper ends and finished it up.
I think ill do it the way you told me to do it and use some weld thru primer on all the "to be welded" areas and between the flanges. Then when its done ill hit it with some epoxy primer, then finish the backsides with paint just as I would the front but also apply an undercoating or herculiner of some sort.
looking into the SPI black... since a black base will cover anything easy, is there any benefit to using the black epoxy? Since ill be shooting a high build primer over the epoxy (which maybe they make in black also) whats the point??
The epoxy sticks like crazy and it seals everything up .you really dont need anything else on the inside ,you can paint it if you want to, but use a SS paint not a base coat...The 2k is for getting your body work straight ,thats basiclly about it. You would want to epoxy before you used the 2k but the SPI epoxy can also be used as a building primer but it takes days to cure ,so if you have the time to wait you can eliminate the cost of a 2k primer and just use the SPI epoxy all by itself....I belive it comes in black, white and gray...
be sure to post pics as you progress....
Hey that's good news, so a guy can just do say 3 costs of the spi epoxy, block it just like 2k then base coat it? I hope i'm understanding that correctly I will post pics. Im going to stay mid next week. I think i'm going to do my hood and fenders first, should I leave them on, or take them of? I suppose leaving them on is easier, but id kinda like to see what's going on behind the fenders anyway...
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What has also impressed me is the breadth and variety of alumnae who have committed themselves to the visual arts, whether as artists, such as Jonas, or as curators, art historians, gallerists, or patrons. Last April 2018 we hosted our Director's Circle tour in Cleveland, which boasts a vital and growing art scene. Fourteen MHC alumnae, with several spouses joined us, and local civic leader and art philanthropist Leslie Dunn '67 generously co-hosted our welcome reception at MOCA Cleveland, where tour attendees mingled with other local alumnae committed to the arts.
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In his foreword to a forthcoming symposium issue of Law & Contemporary Problems, Professor Neil Siegel observes that all Americans have at least a financial stake in the eventual outcome of court challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (the ACA). The law represents the biggest expansion of the social safety net in more than 40 years, he writes; it intends to bring health insurance to approximately 95 percent of previously uninsured Americans and other lawful residents — more than 30 million people — and represents an attempt by Congress to gain control over mushrooming health care costs.
Siegel, who has focused much of his recent scholarship on the constitutionality of the minimum coverage provision, brought together a number of his Duke Law colleagues and other nationally prominent scholars last September to exchange insights on the ACA litigation from a range of perspectives. Titled "The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act: Ideas from the Academy," and sponsored by the Program in Public Law, the conference was "inspired by the belief that legal academics who specialize in U.S. constitutional law, health law and policy, or statutory interpretation are making distinctive and important contributions to the national debate over the constitutionality of the ACA," he explains.
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The Supreme Court's current doctrine underenforces constitutional norms of federalism and economic liberty. If that doctrine remains intact, then it is hard to see how the [ACA] will not ultimately survive the current challenges to its constitutionality. I have tried to show, however, that underenforcement is a historically contingent phenomenon, and doctrine that has shifted once can shift again. … To the extent that the lawsuits challenging the [ACA] amount to a vehicle for articulating a different view of constitutional meaning, they may well find a more receptive public audience than they would have a decade or two ago. And if that happens, one should not expect the current underenforced status of federalism, or possibly even of economic liberty, to persist forever."
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Whether or not those who have raised concerns about bootstrapping in the [ACA] have put forward persuasive arguments against the legitimacy of the individual mandate, the problem is not the legitimacy of bootstrapping. If the final destination is impermissible, so be it. But that does not mean that the pathway should be abandoned as well."
— Stuart Benjamin, Douglas B. Maggs Professor of Law, "Bootstrapping" (Benjamin defines "bootstrapping" broadly, as the situation where "an actor undertakes permissible action Y and thereby renders its action Z legally permissible." Some critics of the ACA, for instance, argue that the law's prohibition against denials of coverage based on pre-existing conditions "effectively necessitates an individual mandate, or something like it," says Benjamin.)
If concerns about economic liberty, and activity versus inactivity, are implausible under current due process doctrine, as the Florida ruling unequivocally indicates, then why should such concerns, under the structural pieties of federalism, be sufficient to invalidate the considered judgment of democratic processes? In other words, is there a constitutional vision of federalism in the plaintiffs' claims that is distinct from the decentralizing laissez-faire vision of economic substantive due process, such that a different outcome is compelled in this litigation?
"… In sum, it seems that the plaintiffs' federalism challenges to the [minimum coverage provision] should stand or fall, as a matter of constitutional adjudication, with the freedom of contract theories that animate them."
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Whatever the reason, the Lipscomb Lady Bisons came out on the court less than prepared in the first set against Campbell in an Atlantic Sun Conference match Saturday afternoon. The match was played at the Curb Center at Belmont because Allen Arena is being used this weekend by the Nashville Symphony.
"As the first set was going on I probably thought a little bit too much about why we were here and why we were doing this," Lady Bisons coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "We are a talented team. There is no doubt about it.
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It was the 30th consecutive match win for the Lady Bisons in regular season conference games, tied with Hawaii for the second longest active streak in NCAA Division I. Central Arkansas leads with 31. It is also the 23rd straight home win for the Lady Bisons, the fourth longest streak nationally.
The Lady Bisons, who have won their last seven matches, are 16-5, 5-0 in the A-Sun. Campbell slips to 8-13, 2-3 in the conference.
It was only the second time the Lady Bisons have lost a set in an A-Sun match this season. The last time was against USC Upstate Oct. 9.
"You hate to have them, but this was more of a wake-up call than Upstate," Rosenthal said. "We have to come out ready to play. "As hard as it was I needed to calm down after the first set. I pulled a couple of players aside because things we had worked on all week just weren't getting done. The keys in two, three and four were our early leads in each set."
Middle blocker Alex Kelly led with a match-high 16 kills. She added eight digs, three service aces, four assists and two blocks. Outside hitter Kaycee Green added 15 kills. Opposite Charlyn Ursell, the conference leader in hitting percentage, posted a match high .526 percentage while making 12 kills and three assists.
"In each match Char keeps getting better and better," Rosenthal said. "In a match like this when Campbell was doing a nice job on our outsides, and we didn't get off to the best start in the middle, Char came up huge for us.
"Her comfort level on the court is so high. It is great to see her starting to play like she is capable of playing."
Outside hitter Meghan Hinemeyer made six of the Lady Bisons 13 service aces. Both are team season highs. Hinemeyer also tied for the conference high overall for a game.
Green often finds a way to step up when things aren't going well overall. She had a strong match with a .312 hitting percentage. "When you think back on the match you don't think about Kaycee standing out, but time and time again she came up with some key kills whether they were huge kills or tips," Rosenthal said.
Libero Stepanie Rex also put in another solid game with 12 digs. Middle blocker Katie Rose added 14, a team-high, and Hinemeyer and defensive specialist Caitlin "Dot" Dotson each added 10.
Setter Stefine "Jake" Pease had 41 assists and finished with a .500 hitting percentage with five kills, nine digs and one service ace.
"The match reminds me of the quote that says `it amazing how far we can go and or how much we can do when nobody cares who gets the credit'," Rosenthal said. "I thought our service game really dictated some really tough problems for Campbell. From there we were able to take advantages of some opportunities attacking-wise."
No Campbell player reached double figures in kills. Lauren Garza finished with a match-high 19 digs.
The Lady Bisons play a non-conference match Oct. 20 on the road at Louisville and then have a weekend off before hosting North Florida Oct. 29 and Jacksonville Oct. 30 at Allen Arena.
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My MG Magnette ZA has been feeling a bit neglected over the past few months, so to cheer it up I've sent it into the paintshop for a bright new coat of British Racing Green.
It's all part of an ongoing restoration that moves a step forward every time funds allow. The chromework will have to wait until sometime next year, but at least the car will start looking a bit more presentable now.
Meanwhile, the reason for me neglecting my ZA has been my father's car. He bought himself a Series IIa Sunbeam Talbot 90 earlier this year. Unfortunately, he bought it unseen on eBay and the condition of the car really wasn't as good as described. As a result, we've spent several months restoring the mechanicals to get it back on the road.
Yesterday was the landmark day: we fired the car up, drove it out of the garage and took it for it's first test run. I have to admit there were times I wondered if we'd ever see this day.
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Hi to you mike,i bet your dad felt like a million dollars when he took to the road in his latest addition .Road tests on cars bought on ebay is a must but it`s always advisable to take someone with a little knowledge to give an honest opinion of road test ability .unfortunately the "sold as seen" syndrome still operates and your dad wonders if he`s done the right thing ! When he put it in first gear, all those worries subside a little road test and i bet he had a smile on his face. A little smoke appeared on accelaration but hey;--he`s enjoying life and taking time out to remember the old fashion cars of yesteryear.
Hope every thing turns out ok in the future.
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Welcome to the forum. I always had soft spot for the Talbot 90 (Sheila van Damm and Pat Moss et al). Never had one but did succum to a '58 Minx a '60 Rapier and a '64 Alpine.
Ok perhaps there are a few problems with the doors but it does look like a nice car and the engine sounds good. I guess your dad just had the choke out to give the black smoke signals at take-off.
Very nice to see it on video too. Gives much more of a feel. More please!
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There's an old ex-RAF airfield not far from here, and while wandering amidst the tumbledown buildings (its on common land) I found an 80 or a 90 in a building, that one time had been used as a one-man garage business. The thing was falling apart, and I think last time I peered through the rusting window frames (all glass gone) of that particular building, the S-T had disappeared. I must have some piccies of it somewhere....
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That garage is a tent! Unfortunately the garage was a wee bit small to work around the car, so we got ourselves a car tent earlier this year so we had enough room to work around the car.
It's been very good, actually, and I can recommend it to anyone who has the space to put one - a good temporary workshop.
Unfortunately, my dad has decided to sell the car. He's 6' 4" tall and simply cannot make himself comfortable behind the seat. You may have noticed on the video there are a couple of shots where the drivers door isn't fully closed - the reason is, there isn't room for my dad to fit in
close the door!
He's also got some health issues at the moment, so this particular car is going to have to go.
Mind you, we're not getting rid of the classic car bug just yet - he's after a 1960s Triumph 2000, or a Rover P6 or WHY...
If anyone is interested in this car, it's currently in Yateley in Hampshire.
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You can now pick which folders you want to sync on a machine. By default this option is turned off. You will need to go into SkyDrive settings in the app and select the folders you wish to download to a new machine.
You can download SkyDrive from below link to manually update old install or wait for your client to be updated.


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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to today's What Was She Wearing: Answers! The trustworthy and thoroughly fantastic team of WWWD interns compiled your questions, researched and double-checked the facts, and wrote up the results with their signature flair, so please give a big hand to Allison, Jessica, Cory and Lily!
Lindsay Lohan
We're sure our readers probably brace themselves for the price tags attached to the items they've seen on celebrities, but today such support is not necessary. We are delighted to inform you that the bag Lindsay Lohan recently carried retails for a very reasonable sum. Much like her clutch featured in last week's WWWD Tips story, Lohan also apparently grabbed the Croco Framed Lady Bag from Urban Outfitters ($58). The bag has brass feet, a mid-length hand strap and longer, removable shoulder strap, and comes in black or plum.
Jessica Biel
Though it may be a subtle change, LA residents are embracing the recent temperature decline by breaking out their coats, boots, and all other fall fashion paraphernalia. Jessica Biel is no exception, as she was spotted in some autumnal apparel that left you all craving colder forecasts (to yield more cute clothes, naturally). While running errands in Brentwood, Biel kept warm in a beautiful Lauren Moffatt Wool Melton Jacket in Navy ($541). The jacket is also available in a lighter blue (wedgewood blue, specifically) at Shopbop.com for the same price. Biel incorporated some color into her outfit by sporting a pair of Urban Outfitter's Promenade Suede boots ($78). If the turquoise is a little too bright for your taste, they are also available in mud, gray, black, and purple.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Readers wanted to know about Sarah Michelle Gellar's cozy, fall get-up she wore when spotted recently at LAX airport in Los Angeles. Sarah Michelle paired this Vince Bubble Car Coat sweater in dark gray ($325) with tights, a pair of Loeffler Randall Matilde Flat Wedge Leather Boots in cuoio ($695), and some rather lovely Fendi sunglasses. We also found a pair which resemble the look, if not the price, of SMG's choice—the Steven by Steve Madden's Intyce Boot in cognac leather ($203.95). Gellar's BCBG beret is from the Fall 2006 collection, so sadly it's no longer available. However, we think you can complete this outfit by picking up a Cable Knit Beret from Urban Oufitters in black ($24) for a similar shape.
Blake Lively
The CW's Gossip Girl series is an office favorite, so we were excited to see Blake Lively make an appearance on Live with Regis & Kelly a few weeks ago. Based on the number of questions we received about what she wore, we think it's safe to say she is making a name for herself as a respected trendsetter. We'll skip ahead to the most talked about part of her outfit—her shoes. The pair in question are by Gaetano Perrone for Te Casan's Jewelled Ballerina Shoes and they are available now in Te Casan boutiques ($375, 212.584.8000). Her white pleated skirt is by Kozomara and it is currently up for grabs at Bergdorf Goodman ($799, 212.753.7300). Finally, Lively's wearing a simple black top from the ultra-exclusive, young Hollywood favorite, Giambattista Valli, but we think the Little Boy Tee by Vince makes a great alternative ($29).


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It Is All About BTC, LTC, ETH, ZEC mining as well as other alternative crypto currencies
After over a month of silence with no updates Alpha Technology have released a new update on their status on the Viper Scrypt ASIC miners showing some photos of what seems to be the final enclosure of the miner as well as a board with 12 ASIC chips installed on it. Alpha Technology claims a better than expected performance of 1.5 MHS per chip and also says the chips could be overclocked further, the claim of these chips being "the most efficient on the market" however seems like an overstatement. The most important thing missing is information in the new update from Alpha Technology on when are they planning to stat shipping exactly as customers are already tired of things getting postponed for a later date. This Time Alpha Technology says soon, but how soon exactly and how many people are actually let that did not request to get a refund. Even if they do manage to ship any hardware anytime soon or at all we won't be surprised to see the situation with KNC's Titan miners repeating. Meanwhile there is already a dedicated website called Fight Alpha Technology Scam that is a forum dedicated to helping with useful information and advice people that want to get their money back from Alpha-T.
– To check out the Fight Alpha Technology Scam website for some useful information…
The Alpha Technology Scrypt ASIC manufacturer has been silent for more than a month already since their last update, even though they did promise to release a video of a prototype miner after showing pictures of the chips that they have apparently received already. Since then however there is no word on anything going on, no video, no new delay information for the shipment schedule of the actual products, no nothing. Interesting enough the company seems to be still sending partial refunds to users that wanted to get these instead of continue to wait for hardware. In the end the intention of Alpha Technology could've been just that – promise something, not delivering it and returning a percentage of the money they've got from customers, and keeping the rest. It all sounds a lot like a classic scheme for a scam as apparently the company does not plan to deliver anything, even if they have actually made some hardware, or at least things look more and more like that is the case. In the meantime customers are apparently working on taking legal action against the company, though it seems that many have already asked and received partial refunds and have given up completely on dealing with Alpha Technology as well.
As we are nearing the end of July, Alpha Technology, a Scrypt ASIC manufacturer has announced that they will not be shipping this month as they were previously targeting in order to beat the competition. The company announced that they have had technical issues during tape-out which has caused them to redo some portion of the ASIC layout one more time thus delaying the chip fabrication. According to them the tape-out is mid-way now and there should be no more delays, also in parallel to the tape-out process they have already started the fabrication of the PCB's and enclosures. Regardless the shipping has now been moved to September, so there is some chance that KnCMiner might start shipping their Titan units earlier by the end of the next month, even though Alpha Technology were supposed to try hard to deliver first. And while this is not so good as new for the people that have pre-ordered Scrypt ASIC miners from Alpha Technology, though quite a lot have already requested or even received their refunds, it is good news for the people that have purchased some of the currently available Scrypt ASIC miners such from Gridseed, ZeusMiner, Innosilicon as they will have more time with smaller increase in the total network hashrate before the big miners start shipping.


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He will receive life in prison for the murder of James Brotherton.
After deliberating for more than six hours Friday, a jury unanimously convicted Charles Hill in the murder of James Brotherton.
Hill, 33, has been on trial this week in the slaying of SCAT bus driver Brotherton, who was found dead early Nov. 22, 2011. Brotherton was lying in a pool of blood near the Gulf Gate library, a single gunshot wound to his back.
Hill was also found guilty of armed kidnapping and robbery with a firearm Friday, and will receive a mandatory sentence of life in prison for first-degree murder.
"It was a cold, cruel and cowardly act and justice was served for James Brotherton and those who loved him," Assistant State Attorney Art Jackman said after the verdict was read and Brotherton's family quietly stood, hugged and wiped tears from their eyes.
Hill shook his head as the verdict was read, and his fiance quickly left the courtroom.
Since December 2011, Hill has been at the Sarasota County jail awaiting trial and the chance to tell his side of the story.
He did the latter, against the advice of his attorneys, Thursday when he was sworn in to testify. Hill maintained his innocence, denying ever knowing or shooting Brotherton. Instead, he said he was home with his fiance and daughter.
Hill returned to the stand Friday morning, where Jackman cross-examined him.
Jackman pointed out that Hill has a special interest in the outcome of the case — a more significant interest than any other witness to take the stand this week.
"You've had two years to think about what you were going to say on this witness stand," Jackman said.
Hill acknowledged that he has spent the past two years behind bars and away from his family, but he denied extensive preparation for his testimony.
"The truth is the truth and that's what's been said here," Hill said.
Hill also corroborated statements made by his fiance Thursday, that in their 168 jail visitations and 518 phone calls, they never discussed details of the case.
Prosecutors showed the jurors on numerous occasions surveillance video from an ATM of Brotherton and another man, who they claimed to be Hill.
"A lot of people look like the man," Hill said to Jackman. "You have the same jaw structure as the man in the video."
Jackman asked if Hill murdered Brotherton in cold blood.
"You couldn't be farther from the truth," the defendant responded.
Jackman said there is too much evidence for the defendant implicated by coincidence alone — the ATM video, various independent witnesses who identified Hill and a smashed gun in Hill's trash can.
"This person is not the unluckiest man in the world," Jackman said in his closing arguments. "Those are not coincidences, that's evidence." In the defense's closing statements, Public Defender Carolyn Schlemmer questioned the credibility and consistency of the state's witnesses, particularly Rick Rowland who said he was with Hill before and after Brotherton's death.
Rowland was the person who contacted detectives to identify the suspect in the ATM video.
"Rowland placed a much bigger role in this than he was willing to admit," Schlemmer said. "Why would somebody come forward? You want to come forward because you want to cast suspicion on someone else. You want to clear your name."
In the state's rebuttal, Assistant State Attorney Karen Fraivillig said even if jurors discounted Rowland's statements, there is still enough evidence against Hill. She reminded jurors to scrutinize Hill's testimony just like the other witness.
"Was the defendant honest and straightforward or did he have an answer for every single thing?" Fraivillig posed. "Did he expound on every single thing, even when there wasn't a question? Did he take the time to explain himself away?"
She ended her rebuttal asking jurors to look at the image of the man in the ATM video, a man Hill said he has never seen before.
"He sees that man's face every single day of his life when he looks in the mirror," she said.


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Hillary Clinton returns to Colorado, yet again, for Aspen Ideas Festival
The festival, which runs through Thursday, has dubbed Monday the "Afternoon of Conversation," with Clinton one of several political bold-faced names set to appear. At 2:10 p.m., she will be interviewed by Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute and a former head of CNN and Time magazine. The conversation will be broadcast live via Facebook, which also will allow its users to submit questions that Isaacson may draw upon to ask Clinton. It's the latest stop in the potential Democratic presidential candidate's book tour for "Hard Choices."
Clinton came to Denver for the first half of last week as part of the Clinton Global Initiative America conference downtown, with Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton also playing significant roles. She also was in the Denver metro area at the start of the month, to tour a plastics molding factory and give a paid speech.
Other people who will be appearing at the Aspen festival Monday include PepsiCo chairwoman and CEO Indra Nooyi, former Vice President Al Gore, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus. All sessions will be broadcast live on the festival's website.


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At school safety meeting, panelists focus on vigilance, training
A town hall meeting on school safety that sent several hundred people to San Jacinto College's north campus Thursday night was envisioned after the mass killings in Newtown, Conn., officials said.
But the shooting at Lone Star College this week brought the issue the focus.
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia joined more than a dozen law enforcement officers, educators and political leaders to address the topic that has been a national concern.
Although the incident at Lone Star College could hardly be compared to the Sandy Hook shootings, Garcia said both situations were chaotic.
"We were very successful," he said.
Steve Head, president of the community college where the shooting took place, said they have conducted "active shooter" training in the past.
"We weren't sure exactly what was going on, but the response was the same," Head said.
"People knew what to do because we had gone through the training," he said.
Lone Star developments: 'Bump' led to gunfire
The panelists agreed that schools and students in the Houston area were safe but that vigilance and training is still necessary.
Since the Connecticut shootings, which claimed the lives of 20 schoolchildren and six adults, legislation has been proposed to train Texas schoolteachers to carry concealed handguns in the classroom.
Garcia said he was opposed to the idea, adding that the Harris County Department of Education has come out against arming school staff.
"I support that position," Garcia said.
Garcia said officers responding to a chaotic shooting scene would have to quickly determine whether the person was an assailant or an armed teacher.
"It makes the job much more difficult," Garcia said.
Head called himself a "pro gun person" but said he was against allowing teachers to carry guns on campus.
"It's not like a movie. I think you're asking for problems," Head said.
Sheriff's Lt. Wendell Kuhlman got the biggest applause of the night when the panel was asked what community members could do about school safety.
"You could encourage everyone to bring God back into schools," he said.


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centip3de wrote:mShred wrote:Well who knows. It's not like they can turn around and have a bot DDoS their system. Like the dude said, it could be aimed at trying to identify the attackers. But with that, I don't know how well that'd work depending on the attacker's security measures. But either way, I like it.
I dunno, if the attacker was an idiot and made no attempts to use a proxy, and or hid there I.P. in any way shape or form, I'd love to see an automated-rehacking-bot.
A proxy is hardly all you need to be anonymous these days.


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"Rex Morgan. M.D." Creators Receive Award of Recognition
The creative team of the "Rex Morgan, M.D." comic strip, writer Woody Wilson and artist, Graham Nolan, have received the Golden Achievement Award from the Asthma and Allergy Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA). The comic strip creators received the award for educating the public, patients and their families about the seriousness of asthma and allergies in a special series about the deadly diseases. Wilson... Read More


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Well... its become that time.
I've realised that while the game can be a great hobby I need to recognise that it is just that and that it inhibits me in the way I play it now. I had an epiphany the other day whilst on holiday. Things are going slowly in the guild at the moment, with many people hitting burnout and holidays etc so staying online unless you're levelling is a little pointless and I realised: I'm tired of the heroics I've run for a year, of all the raids I've raided to death, of trolls both in LFD and trade (and the lack of server community) and above all I'm tired of the grind. The fact that you can't stop playing or you'll slide back, blizzard isnt alone in using this idea of loss to get you to keep playing. . This article was one of the things opened my eyes. I wouldnt say it was fear, more a bit of a wake up call. I had 2 weeks off - week 1 I played wow - week 2 I'd arranged a trip to see some relatives up north. Week 2 I was severely ill and I still had a better, more rewarding time.
There's another article on that site thats also very good. It show how the internets is making us sick. Again a little dramatic but some of what it talks about is completely valid to most of us. I do realise this website is mainly a comedy website but they made some pretty good points.
I recognise that I get a kick out of taking a an alt character from scratch and by allocating the time and the effort gearing it until I can shine with it. Maybe I'm a little OCD but I enjoy the feeling of power this gives me and the way I can excell. I also get a kick out of raiding, like the satisfaction when we kill something we've struggled on. However, this is a virtual world and at best we're leaving footprints in the sand. I can't put on a CV my Hardmodes, my experience or even my Gearscore. The fact is that any reasonably intelligent person can pick up the game and excell without too much work is depressing and devalues that crap anyway. People constantly go on about skill when increasingly you don't need it to do well at this game . It's a grind fest. It rewards you for knowing that 1 piece of extra information.
Basically I took a hard, honest look at myself and didn't like what I saw. Gone was the 19 yearold scamp who was playing between partying and in it's place a guy in his mid 20s, who's mildy overweight and has alienated to this date 3 girlfriends and a couple of best mates. I didn't start out like this, in fact at the beginning I was determined not to play as much as I do now and I forgot that. Sure I've made friends playing the game and I hope that they find a balance that works for them. Most of the people I've met playing WoW have been fucked up in at least one obvious way, often not making them a bad person (like Axxx who hates gays but is otherwise friendly) . Often it's just something that they've fallen in to. I know a lot of you do have your heads screwed on right but you guys seem to be few and far between. I hope you don't go the way I've gone. I recognise it's not entirely the game but how I interact with it and it's my own fault I've come to this point.
WoW has taken some of the best years of my life. It sounds melodramatic but I've been foolish and tied myself to wow to make sure I didnt miss anything in game and as a result I've missed a lot outside it. This large amount of time in game has also made me ill. Not "arghh its the bad AIDs" ill but disatisfied with my quality of life. Getting home and playing several nights a week means I don't have time for exercise, sitting at the pc has given me bad posture, and playing late and relying on the game for entertainment have made me a frequently tired, boring person. This got worse when my job changed.
I'll be online sporadically to enjoy the game in small chunks, but I'm not going to put my life on hold any longer. Good luck in the future with your goals whether they be Virtual or RL and I'll probabaly see you from time to time in game. Rxxxxx xxx is probably the best home I've had in any online game and I hope you guys chill out a bit because the atmosphere we have in raids sometimes can verge on toxic .
All I'd suggest is that if you've put on weight like I have, go out for a jog. I did the other morning and although I nearly died and was slow (and in all honesty had to walk off a stitch for part of it) once I'd got back and returned to normal I felt incredible. I slept like a baby that night something I haven't done in ages.
Oh and be nice to Bxxxxx and Hxxxxx theyre both working hard for the guild with no thanks for it. They have a difficult time ahead and could do with your support.
I hope Ive given at least 1 of you something to think about. Surprisingly I'm going to miss the time I spend with you guys, even the bulgarian mafia or TEAM SWE. Please know that even though I'm a bit of a cunt, I generally either wasn't serious or was doing it for the benefit of the guild. To paraphrase Txxx: While I was an officer we had to make some tough decisions and they weren't always the right ones, but they were the best ones we could make. It's been a privilege being an officer for you guys and being a member of Rxxxxx xxx.
TLDR: ISAK, Retiring from raiding/being an officer. Won't be online so much.
PS: If you need crafts or something. Send the mats to echo then get Exxx to text me.
It's been fun being part of the blogging community but I feel I need to take a big step back.
So long
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She may not be horse racing's new Zenyatta, but Royal Delta ran a stirring race to win the $2 million Ladies Classic for the second year in a row.
The race was one of the few formful things to happen Friday at Santa Anita on the first of two days of Breeders' Cup races. The announced crowd of 34,619 watched as foreign horses (two French bred and one Argentine) won half of the day's six races. There are nine races today.
Royal Delta ran an unusual race — from the front. She normally rallies from behind. It was trainer Bill Mott's ninth Breeders' Cup win and fifth in the Ladies Classic.
Royal Delta joins Bayakoa as the only two-time winner of the race.
Mike Smith also set a record aboard Royal Delta with his 16th Breeders' win, passing Jerry Bailey as the all-time winingest jockey.
Royal Delta had a difficult time getting to Southern California, leaving New York just before Hurrican Sandy hit. Mott said she was slightly scraped up backing into the stall before the plane trip but it proved not to be a problem.
Royal Delta will be brought back as a 5-year-old and retired after next season.
"She was lightly raced as a 2-year-old and as a 3-year-old," Mott said. "She was bred to get better as she gets older. She's got to remain healthy and she may be even better."
Royal Delta's next race will likely be in the Dubai World Cup.
In the day's other marquee race, Beholder ran a smart race on the rail and held off favorite Executiveprivilege in the $2 million Juvenille Fillies race. Executiveprivilege, trained by Bob Baffert, was the prohibitive favorite but she lagged down the stretch losing by a length.
Afterward, owner Wayne Hughes joked about the motivation to run his horse.
"My wife explained to me that we owed a lot of money and the 10 percent of the $500,000 (that the horse could have won in another race), so we had to go for the gold," Hughes said.
Winning trainer Richard Mandella explained the thinking behind running the horse in a 1 1/16 mile race.
"When she came from Del Mar she had just won her third race in the Debutante," Mandella said. "She is excitable and you would probably consider her a sprinter stretching out, not a two-turn horse getting a prep race sprinting."
The day started as a tribute to age as legendary trainer Wayne Lukas, 77, won his 19th Breeders' race. He became the oldest trainer to ever win one of these races. His 2-year-old colt Hightail rallied in the stretch to catch favorite Merit Man in the 6-furlong Juvenile Sprint.
The race was hurt by the scratch of Super Ninety Nine when he got too nervous in the barn and suffered some cuts. South Floyd was a late scratch and just five horses went to post.
In the next race, Calidoscopio, an Argentine horse, won the 1 3/4-mile Marathon. It was the 10th win in 40 starts for the 9-year-old horse making him the oldest horse to ever win a Breeders' Cup race.
The French horse Flotilla was the winner of the Juvenille Fillies Turf, rallying from ninth to beat the Irish-bred Watsdachances by 1 1/4 lengths. The favorite, Sky Lantern, couldn't find racing room down the stretch and finished eighth.
Zagora, also French-bred, won the 1 1/4 mile Filly and Mare Turf race. A crowded field down the stretch deprived Fugue from a late rally.
It appeared as if no horses were injured in Friday's racing. Questing, running in the ladies classic, was eased on the backstretch and vanned off the track. Veterinarians could find nothing wrong with the horse.
The highlight of the second day of racing today is the $5 million Classic at the traditional distance of 1 1/4 miles.
Game On Dude, trained by Baffert, is expected to be the favorite. He finished second last year when Drosselmeyer charged past him deep in the stretch. Baffert has never won the $5 million race but stands a good chance as Game On Dude is five for five at his home track of Santa Anita.
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