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Taj Exotica Resort & Spa, Maldives, is an exclusive, private and romantic island resort lush with tropical plants and encircled by clear blue waters of one of the largest lagoons of the Maldives. Taj Exotica Resort & Spa spreads idyllically along a pristine beach and the serene lagoon. The award-winning resort, now re-launched, seamlessly extends the magic of the island's blessed natural beauty in its design even as it offers the finest contemporary luxuries and services. Jiva Grande Spa, an authentic Indian spa, offers a range of signature wellness experiences. A choice of gourmet cuisine, water sports, and recreation make for a complete and exclusive destination. The resort is only 15 minutes by a private luxury speedboat, available 24 hours, from Malé International Airport.
Guests experience impeccable services, amenities and hospitality at the resort and spa. 64 luxurious villas present the ultimate in luxury and privacy. Of these are 24 Lagoon Villas; 31 Deluxe Lagoon Villas with Pools; 4 Deluxe Beach Villas and 2 Villa Suites each with a private plunge pool; the superlative Rehendi Presidential Suite
Each of the resort's luxuriously designed 64 villas is furnished in natural tones and textures. The warmth of wood, the fragrance of flowers and the soft glow of lamps and candles create an intimate ambience in the villas. Expansive ocean views and a soothing breeze relax the senses. All the villas are palm-thatched, built of finest natural wood finishes on the exteriors and floors and are delightfully appointed in classic Maldivian style. Amenities include air-conditioning, personal bar, LCD television with satellite channels, safe, tea/coffee-maker, satellite television, DVD/CD player, MP3, Media Centre, Internet connection, international dialing, Electronic safe, double vanity, bathtubs overlooking the ocean (in lagoon villas ) and rain showers in the bathrooms, and hairdryer. Some of the villas have a private plunge pool.
The 24 Lagoon Villas, of 71 sq mts each, are a series of two adjacent villas on the lagoon along the island. They offer private sun decks with loungers, easy chairs and ladders with direct access leading to the lagoon Each villa has a double vanity bathroom, rain showers and bath tubs with panoramic views of the Indian Ocean.
The 31 Deluxe Lagoon Villas with Pools, of 94 sq mts each , are located at the far end of the island. These elegant stand-alone villas offer complete privacy as they open out to private sundecks with serene sea views and ladders leading into the lagoon, easy chairs and loungers. Stylized furniture, a double vanity bathroom, rain showers, bathtubs with an infinite view of the Indian Ocean and special in-villa furnishings create a special ambience. All 31 of these villas now feature a private deck with a freshwater plunge pool and an alluring day-bed area with spectacular views.
The 4 Deluxe Beach Villas, of 89 sq mts each, are just 5 metres from the picturesque lagoon. Each of the luxuriously styled villas offers an oversized plunge pool, a private veranda with sun beds, a tropical outdoor shower in a private walled garden and an infinite view of the lagoon.
The 2 two-bedroom luxurious Beach Villa Suites, of 158 sq mts each, are just 5 metres from the lagoon. Each luxuriously style villa, set on the beach, has a spacious living room, a private courtyard, an oversized plunge pool, a private veranda with sun beds and a tropical outdoor shower in a walled garden. The mezzanine bedroom unfolds a beautiful view of one of the most picturesque lagoons in the Maldives. The master bedroom has an oversized attached bathroom and a private balcony that is a perfect spot to enjoy spectacular sunsets. Guests can enjoy Taj treatments in complete privacy at the spa treatment room attached to the villa.
The Rehendhi Presidential Suite, built over water, unfolds sheer luxury and privacy in its spacious and beautiful interiors. The 450 sq mts tastefully appointed villa has a living room; a master bedroom with attached his and hers bathrooms, a private balcony; a guest bedroom; a glassed bathroom with an infinite view of the Indian Ocean; a 15 ft fresh water pool with a private sundeck, two `salas' for relaxing and dining; and a beautiful suspended deck filled with powder soft sand.
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From casual, all-day dining to formal, fine dining, guests can savour a choice of gourmet cuisine, cool beverages and the choicest wines. The resort offers a distinctive dining experience at its restaurants. The menus feature traditional and contemporary favourites of a variety of international cuisines that are complemented with fine wines from the resort's cellar. Guests can dine at the restaurants or any spot on the island of their choice.
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Frankly my dear, I do give a dram. { How the Sunday Whisky Society came to be }
It would be fair to say that my journey with whisky began at a very young age. My Father enjoyed nothing more than the simple pleasure of a single malt, neat or with a few drops of water, while playing solitaire with dog-eared cards on an upturned chess board on his lap of a Sunday evening. This activity was as regular as clock-work. Even if we were on holiday, a bottle of Scotch would be bought at the airport to take with us and come Sunday, those cards would be laid out, or if forgotten, temporarily replaced with suitably ridiculous cards from a local purveyor of trinkets and niceties and a Scotch would be poured.
But never more than a dram or two… When I got older I would offer to pour him another and he would always decline. When probed, he said that he drank it to enjoy it, not to get drunk. This has stayed with me.
I tried whisky many times, growing up. As is usual to a younger pallet, it did not appeal. I had a range of whisky faces at the suggestion – cross-eyed, screwed up nose, tongue pointedly out and usually some sort of vocal expression of distaste. Right through my early twenties, when my very Scottish family so often would raise a dram, I would sit sheepishly with a glass of wine. I had always felt I was in some way being disrespectful by not enjoying this liquid that Duncan would sing about in long car journeys, that Fraser had started to collect since his first bottle at 18, that Johnnie yearns for, that Grant poured every Father's Day and toasted Dad with.
And then I tried ardently to get into whisky at my 25th birthday, but I just couldn't – whisky was not a drink for an entire evening. Mixed with coke, maybe, but I made that suggestion only once to my family. And so they gave up on me and for the years that followed, always had a bottle of wine put by for me at family occasions.
It was only a year ago that I came back to single malts through my job where it was imperative that I know as much about single malts, the process, the range, the industry players, the liquid. There is something to be said for learning a bit more about the process, the people behind the liquid, how to drink it neat and what to look for in the tasting of it.
In my learning, I came to talk more and more about single malts amongst my group of 30-something friends. I noticed that I was the only woman of the group drinking single malts at the end of a meal or at the mid week drink, that women claim vehemently to dislike whisky (even if they haven't tried more than a sip), that men love single malts and know a bit about them, but that they avoid drinking them for a night out when the intention is to get merry rather quickly.
Because my passion for single malts has grown so much over the last year, I was frustrated that few of my friends agreed with me. And I was bored of them grabbing my glass on a night out, taking a halfhearted sniff and turning their nose up at a beautiful 15 year old single malt. So I did a few informal whisky tastings with various Speyside whiskies to help them understand more about this liquid sunshine. Low and behold, they have proved so popular that I am slowly converting more to the joy of enjoying a short drink over a longer period. Savoring and enjoying single malts as they were intended – not shot down the gullet, not mixed with coke, but rather enjoyed. And the best time to do this was a Sunday evening – when the pressure of getting merry with your friends isn't there. When one will do, when you have time to enjoy it slowly.
And so The Sunday Whisky Society began – as in informal gathering of people who just want to learn more about whisky and who want to enjoy the liquid from nose to finish of every sip.


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I've created my own prison. You're right again, Creed lyric of the day calendar.
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My preschool age daughter immediately fell in love with her cute penguin character slippers. They pull on easily just like socks (she can put them on herself) and have an extra thick padded footbed. In fact, she has proclaimed that she is going to wear them all the time, even to bed! The Lands' End website provides a handy kids footwear sizing chart you can print out for accurate foot measurements. Other styles include bear, dog, ice skates, snowflakes, scotties, and ski badges.
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From November 5 through December 6, the James Gallery presents The Metropolis Between Your Ears, a series of projects exploring our current post-industrial condition. The show brings together a major new video by American filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh, titled The Ape of Nature, and a new series of sculpture and videos by British artist Andrew Lord. Organized in response to the theme of this year's International Conference on Romanticism, "Romanticism and the City," The Metropolis Between Your Ears furthers the James Gallery's mission to bring artists and scholars into direct contact with each other's ideas and work and to share with the public the fruits of this exchange. The exhibition also features an early video by artist Paul Chan, titled 34 Flower Types for Henry Darger, and variously scored versions of the 1921 film by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, Manhatta.
The James Gallery is located off the lobby of the Graduate Center at 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34th & 35th Streets). Hours are Tuesdays through Fridays, 12–8 pm, and 12–6 pm on Saturdays & Sundays. Admission is free; for more information call 212-817-7138 or visit http://www.gc.cuny.edu/events
The exhibition takes its cue from the conference's keynote speaker, Michael Moon of Emory University. Moon conceived of an imaginative urban space born of reading, often at a remove from the city, which he calls The Metropolis Between Your Ears. He tackles the theme of "Romanticism and the City" head-on, invoking such 19th and 20th century visionary thinkers as Walt Whitman, by way of Charles Strand and Paul Sheeler's Manhatta; the utopian socialist Charles Fourier; "outsider" artist Henry Darger; Fyodor Dostoevsky; and the Bronte sisters. For the exhibition, artists Peggy Ahwesh and Andrew Lord were asked to develop new work and Paul Chan to lend an early video study and a series of related "Maxims" to expand on the conversation begun by Moon.
Peggy Ahwesh is an American experimental film maker and celebrated teacher born in the 1950's in the industrial city of Pittsburgh. Her The Ape of Nature is a treatise on the malaise of post-industrial cultures, which she observes firsthand at one of Pittsburgh's few remaining local factories, Kopp Glass. The lion's share of her film unfolds, however, not in a noisy factory, but in a bucolic Hudson River mansion. Ahwesh proposes an equation between a state of mind she induces via hypnosis in women performers in the mansion, and a mindset induced by the current economic climate observed in the men she films at work in a vestigial industry. Her just-completed feature-length video is installed in varied segments at the James Gallery and is Ahwesh's first effort to structure her work for a gallery installation, rather than a theater screening.
Andrew Lord, a British sculptor, also born in the 1950's and raised in the northern rural mining country of Lancashire, offers a series of new sculptures and wall reliefs, along with two videos, configured for the James Gallery's Fifth Avenue store-front windows. His River Spodden at Healey Dell, Whitworth, I – VII is based on details of the natural and cultural history of his hometown -- a river, a road and a dance. The installation sets the finely tuned abstract vocabularies of Lord's cast plaster sculpture against the videotaped imagery of an annual miners' Morris dance (Britannia Coco-nutters Dance through Bacup, Easter Saturday, 2009) and a historic "high" road that connects his town to other nearby mining and mill towns (Road from Catley Lane Head to Rake Head, Stacksteads, May 31, 2009).
Paul Chan, born in Hong Kong a generation after Ahwesh and Lord, has a longstanding interest in Darger and Fourier. His 34 Flower Types for Henry Darger, 2002, conflates hedonistic social philosophies inspired by Fourier with Darger's "fantasies of garden worlds" and manages to be at once hallucinatory and cautionary. His Maxims After Henry Darger in No Particular Order, 2009, written just a few months ago, subject some of the insights gleaned from Darger to a conspicuously post-millennial, even post-"crash" mindset.
Charles Sheeler's and Paul Strand's iconic modernist silent film, Manhatta, inspired in part by Whitman's poetic evocations of the city, serves as a counterpoint to these contemporary artworks. Its modernist singularity, however, is intentionally undercut by the inclusion of five variations on the original film taken from the website YouTube.
The artists in this exhibition stare hard at our present globalized, post-metropolis world, but do so with uncommon empathy. They share a confidence conveyed in the deliberateness with which their work is paced and a readiness to conjure slowly, from "between their ears." As a result, their attentiveness to informative detail comes across as open, rather than insistent on authority. To look closely at their work is to realize how much stranger things become when you think you know them well and bother to consider them anew.
The Graduate Center is devoted primarily to doctoral studies and awards most of the City University of New York's Ph.D.s. An internationally recognized center for advanced studies and a national model for public doctoral education, the school offers more than thirty doctoral programs as well as a number of master's programs. Many of its faculty members are among the world's leading scholars in their respective fields, and its alumni hold major positions in industry and government, as well as in academia. The Graduate Center is also home to more than thirty interdisciplinary research centers and institutes focused on areas of compelling social, civic, cultural, and scientific concerns. Located in a landmark Fifth Avenue building, the Graduate Center has become a vital part of New York City's intellectual and cultural life with its extensive array of public lectures, exhibitions, concerts, and theatrical events. Further information on the Graduate Center and its programs can be found at www.gc.cuny.edu.
Submitted on: NOV 1, 2009
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A Small Cattle Farmer
Published on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 1:38pm
Bill Dorough turned 80 years old this past January…and, he says, "I need to think one of these days about slowing down a little bit." The central Arkansas rancher has certainly kept busy these past eight decades. For the last 36 years, he's been a top official with the Arkansas State Fair. He tried to retire in 2004, but a year later he was back helping to run the livestock shows, which he had supervised for 18 years. Before that, he had a 70-head dairy farm in Sweet Home, a town of about 1,000 just south of Little Rock; when he took over the livestock director's job at the Fair, he switched from dairy to beef cattle.
"Johnny Holmes, who used to work for the American Dairy Association and later Associated Milk Producers, was a good friend of mine," Dorough explained from the Fair's annual board meeting in August, "and he became the general manager here. I was getting tired of the dairy business, working myself to death, and I guess it was the year that he came here I decided I was getting out of the dairy business. So he visited with me and wanted me to come out here and get the Livestock Department off and running; a month after I came here, I inherited this other job of superintendent of the grounds."
Those two jobs kept him at a hectic pace. Little Rock's big multipurpose arena, Verizon Arena, wouldn't be completed until 1999, and the fairgrounds offered the only sizeable venue in town. "We had events going on constantly," Dorough recalls. "We had lots of concerts, trade shows; I'd say five days out of every week, something was going on here, and usually they always managed to ruin our weekends with events," he adds, laughing.
Dorough's relationship with the Arkansas State Fair goes back almost as far as he does. He started showing livestock when he was nine years old, and won the Grand Champion Jersey Cow competition four years in a row. Back then, what there was of the Fair was across the Arkansas River in North Little Rock.
"It was over in the area where the old Planters Lumber Co. was, near the Missouri-Pacific yards over there," he recalls, "and that was going to be the permanent home. I believe it was the second year there; they only had one permanent building at the time, but they were going to proceed with more construction." In 1942, a disastrous fire on the last day of the Fair burned the facilities to the ground. "It was during the war years," says Dorough, "so there wasn't any money for refurbishing that place." The Fair moved to Pine Bluff for a year, was cancelled in 1944 and 1945, and set up shop at its current location the following year.
Dorough attended Arkansas Tech in Russellville and the University of Arkansas as a member of the National Guard, he fought in the Korean conflict. He returned to operate his dairy farm until he got, as he puts it, his "full-time job, and then some," with the Fair. His beef cattle farm back in Sweet Home was an Angus cow/calf operation until this spring. "I decided I was getting too old to be messing with the cow/calf thing," he says. "So I sold all my cows, and I was going to raise replacement heifers." Dorough and a friend—he has many—went to Texas; each bought heifers off the same ranch, and he'll sell his heifers before they calve in mid-January. "I don't have to calve a bunch of first-calf heifers," he says.
He may have changed his mind again He says he had a "brainstorm," and told his wife, Frances, "You know what? I can eliminate a lot more work if I get out of this business of raising heifers. I don't have to worry about bulls; I don't have to worry about heifers trying to break out to get to bulls; I don't have to worry about bulls breaking in to get to the heifers."
Now, Dorough intends to get into the backgrounding business. He says, "I can grow out a group of steers; get them in the fall, sell them in June; get another group in the spring, sell them in the fall." Dorough has several friends with cow/calf operations and won't have to buy calves at sale barns, which he says he avoids as much as possible. "When I had a cow/calf operation," he says, "I rarely sold my calves at the stockyards; I sold mine to either individuals, or buyers that would take them, maybe, to wheat pasture in Oklahoma or Kansas." For several years, another friend with a farm in western Arkansas would buy all his calves, grow them out and sell the bred females as replacement heifers; Dorough only brought cull animals to town. "I'm not bragging," he says, "but I just felt like I had calves that ought to be bringing a better price than what they brought at the stockyard."
Good grass is crucial to backgrounding, and Dorough says he's got plenty of it. "It's a river bottom farm, and I just rarely am ever short on grass," he says. "I don't put up a lot of hay; I don't feed hay but 2-3 months a year. I have enough forage, winter and summer, without having to feed a lot of hay. And I don't like putting up hay; I decided that putting up hay is hazardous to your health."
Dorough says he still does 95% of the work on his farm by himself. "If we're working cattle, I give them shots," he says. "We normally do that 2-3 times a year. I have some friends that come out; I have family help me, but I don't even have any part-time help on the farm. If I've got a project that I need help on, I usually hire one of my neighbors for a day or two, but I don't have much hired labor at all."
He hasn't sold the heifers yet, of course, and sounds like he's still thinking about staying in that enterprise. "They were weighing 700 lbs when I bought them, and they're going to weigh 1,000 lbs by the first of the year. They're a crackerjack bunch of heifers, and they're all peas in a pod; they're just top-notch Angus heifers. A lot of them are bred to the top Angus bull in the breed, artificially, so I'm hoping they're going to bring a good price. If they don't," Dorough laughs, "that's going to really sour me on the heifer business."
Meanwhile, Dorough's duties at the Fair are keeping him occupied—more than he expected, due to a tragedy. When he retired in 2004, he was replaced by a long-time Arkansas county agent, Gerald Crossland. Last December, Crossland suddenly passed away. "They came to me the first of February," he says, "and said, 'Would you come back and help us?' They knew me well enough to know I wasn't going to say no."
Even before that, his duties at the Fair had been expanding. "I swore I was going to leave; when I left in 2004, I was done! Then I got talked into coming back in 2007 and helping out—'Oh, you won't have to do much; we just want you to do one particular thing. Just stall cattle, and work with the exhibitors on their stalling.' Well, I wound up working at other things the whole ten days, and the same thing last year."
Now Dorough's back to handling the livestock shows, his first love. "That's what I always wanted to do," he says. "I didn't care for the concerts, the tractor pulls and the wrestling matches; the last eleven years I was here in that position as livestock director, I really enjoyed my work because I love working with these kids. I made a lot of friendships there with their families, and kept up with some of these kids—they've gone on to be successful as grown-ups."
The accolades have been rolling in for Dorough; he was named to the Arkansas Agricultural Hall of Fame last year, and was named a Graduate of Distinction of the University of Arkansas' Department of Animal Science in early 2009. Both institutions cited his extensive work with young livestock exhibitors, and with the Fair's Farm & Ranch Club. He says this may be his last year at Fair; then again, it may not be.
"I grew up on a farm," Dorough explains. "My happiest memories were days spent on the farm. A lot of neighbor kids, they'd get bicycles, and they wanted to go swimming and stuff. My parents always kind of worried about me, because I wanted to work all the time. I wanted to get out there with my hands, and work; I don't know why, but it just intrigued me, and I've always enjoyed doing work. I think that's one reason why I can still do things at 80 years old—because I've been accustomed to hard work all my life, and I enjoy it. There are times when I wanted to sit down and forget it, but I can sit down for three hours and I get restless; I want to get out and do something. I don't ever intend to become a couch potato. When I do, well, they can haul me off."


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MINNEAPOLIS -- With the Minnesota Twins well into a truly wild rally, Jason Kubel and Chris Colabello shared a joke as they waited for their turn to bat.
"Man, we've been doing it all wrong for a while. We've been trying to hit the ball to score runs. We don't need to do that," Colabello said.
Not on Thursday night they didn't.
The Twins scored three straight runs on wild pitches by Toronto's Sergio Santos in the eighth inning, when they walked eight times off three Blue Jays relievers to finish a 9-5 victory and a sweep of the day-night doubleheader.
Kyle Gibson threw eight scoreless innings as Minnesota won the opener 7-0. The Twins trailed 5-1 in the fifth inning of the second game after another lackluster start by Mike Pelfrey, but they stayed patient.
Steve Delabar walked two batters starting the six-run eighth, setting up Santos (0-1) for trouble as manager John Gibbons called for his closer early. Santos walked all three batters he faced, loading the bases with one out when he put on pinch-hitter Trevor Plouffe. The Twins cut the lead to 5-4 when Josmil Pinto came home on a wild pitch.
The collapse by the Blue Jays bullpen got worse from there.
Ball four by Santos to pinch-hitter Kurt Suzuki was wild, too, allowing Chris Herrmann to score and tie the game. Santos threw another wild pitch to Brian Dozier, and pinch-runner Pedro Florimon raced home for the lead.
Dozier saw six straight sliders from Santos.
"That's his strikeout pitch," Dozier said.
Not on this night.
"I was trying to be too perfect there," said Santos, who took his first blown save in five chances this year.
J.A. Happ relieved him and walked the next two, with Chris Colabello, the AL leader with 19 RBIs, forcing in a run. Then Jason Kubel broke open the game with a two-run single, the only hit of the inning.
"It was a crappy ending to a crappy day, I'll tell you that," Gibbons said.
Santos, who has been handling the ninth-inning role while Casey Janssen is on the disabled list with a strained back, threw only four of 16 pitches for strikes. The previous time a team walked eight times in one inning was April 19, 1996, when Texas did so against Baltimore. The record of 11 was set by pitchers on the original Washington Senators against the New York Yankees on Sept. 11, 1949.
According to STATS research dating to 1974, this was the only game that featured an eight-walk, three-wild-pitch inning.
Casey Fien (2-0) pitched a scoreless eighth for the victory for the Twins.
Jose Bautista took over the AL lead with his sixth homer, a solo shot in the fifth inning that accelerated Pelfrey's exit. Bautista, who also walked and scored in the first, has gone deep 11 times in 14 games at the ballpark the Twins opened in 2010. That's the same number of homers Joe Mauer has here in 256 games.
Edwin Encarnacion had an RBI single and reached base four times for the Blue Jays. Toronto starter Dustin McGowan, like Pelfrey, failed to finish the fifth. But all that was forgotten with the wildness that came in the eighth.
Pelfrey used the words "terrible" four times and "embarrassing" three times in discussing his performance with reporters, describing his mood in the clubhouse as "crushed," as if his dog had died. But he perked up.
"These guys picked me up, and hopefully from here on out they won't need to do that," Pelfrey said.
The first game was played in 2 hours, 38 minutes, thanks to Gibson's command, and the Twins joked afterward they were ready to come back out for the next one in a half-hour. Instead, they waited nearly 3 1/2 hours for another lumbering start by Pelfrey.
After wintry weather forced postponement of Wednesday's game, workers scrambled all morning to melt snow and ice from the seating areas, and the grounds crew dried the warning track. The Twins even sent out a company-wide memo asking for help. Slush still sat along the edges of the plaza behind right field, and the highest seating level was closed off because it wasn't cleared in time, giving those customers an unexpected upgrade.
The announced paid attendance was just over 20,000 for both games, but the actual number of people present was half of that at most, much lower at night despite the downright balmy 42 sunny degrees at first pitch.
Pinto highlighted a five-run fifth inning in the first game against Blue Jays knuckleballer R.A. Dickey (1-3) with a two-run double, missing a grand slam by a few inches. Plouffe also had two RBIs. But the story of the game was Gibson.
Gibson (3-0) took the mound for the coldest start for an outdoor game in Twins history, 31 degrees, and breezed through a Blue Jays lineup that totaled 20 runs in the previous two games. He walked one, struck out four and scattered four singles.
Game notes
Dozier hit his third leadoff homer of the season and has five total. ... Blue Jays CF Anthony Gose, their extra player for the doubleheader, walked three times. He had only five in 153 plate appearances last season. ... 3B Eduardo Nunez was the 26th man in his Twins debut and had a hit and a walk.


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President Obama believes that health care is a right for every American. This is a perversion of the Founding Fathers' idea of rights. There is an abundance of problems associated with ObamaCare but not enough attention has been paid to the dangerous philosophy behind the law. The underlying problem with ObamaCare is that too many Americans now see health care as a human right rather than a good.
The Declaration of Independence states that we have an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That doesn't mean that other people should be forced to sustain our life or make us happy. Many people have a fundamental misunderstanding of the negative rights listed in the founding document. A negative right is a right to not have something done to us. The right to not be killed, the right to not have our property confiscated and the right to not have our speech punished are negative rights.
These legitimate rights do not place obligations on anyone except to not infringe on the rights of others. Otherwise, people are free to do as they please.
Progressives have invented so-called positive rights that are listed nowhere in our founding documents. A positive right is a right to something such as health care, housing, and clothing. The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights claims that everyone has a right to health care. Of course, there's no such thing as free health care. The government has no money of its own which means that it cannot "give" anyone health care without first taking away something from someone else.
There is a big difference between a need and a right. Health care is a basic need that everyone is free to pursue. This means that the government cannot infringe on our right to pursue health care but no one owes us health care. Health care is a good just like food, clothing, and shelter.
Positive rights contradict the very notion of rights. The so-called right to health care infringes on negative rights by imposing forceful obligations on taxpayers and health care providers. What about the right of the taxpayer to keep the fruit of his own labor? Should a doctor ultimately decide who he treats—or should he be forced to treat everyone whether he likes it or not? To say that we have the right to someone else's time and services takes us back down a dark path in American history.
A right is not something someone gives you- it's something that no one can take away.
Those who reject the idea that health care is a right are not dismissing the importance of health care. Quite the opposite is true. Health care is too important to be left to the incompetent federal government. Due to a lack of proper incentives, government generally destroys everything they touch. The government has never been able to run anything more efficiently than the for-profit private sector.
Anti-ObamaCare activists are often accused of being selfish, greedy people. That isn't the reality. ObamaCare was passed under the guise of compassion. But as the late economist Murray Rothbard said, "it is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost." There is nothing virtuous about spending other people's money without their consent, no matter how well-intentioned the cause. Where's the compassion for taxpayers—who are forced to foot the bill?
Theft is seen as immoral in practically every society on earth. Most of us would never dream of stealing money from a neighbor to give to someone less fortunate. Why then do some people demand that the government do it for them? Private charities that run on voluntary donations are the best way of helping the poor obtain health care, not government welfare that relies on force and coercion.
President Obama seems to believe that he can simply repeal the economic law of scarcity. There will never be enough of anything to satisfy all human wants. People can complain about the alleged unfairness of reality, but the fact is that health care will always be a scarce good. No laws can change that fact.
Bad ideas have bad consequences. The idea that health care is a right has led to more government involvement in health care. Government now pays for more than 50 percent of all health care costs in the United States. In order to stop government control and increase freedom, Americans must reject the idea of so-called positive rights. Health care is a valuable good that would be better left to the free market.
I don't agree with this article or the comments. The poster Allen said the government has no business making body-care decisions for us. But the government is not doing that (unless they are forcing you to have or not have an abortion or forcing you to do something else with your body) What the government is doing is giving everybody access to health insurance which is not part of your body. What you do with the health care is up to you, not the government.
He also said people for Obamacare have no idea what they are doing is wrong. But how is saving lives wrong? On this website I saw a petition to cut funding for Planned Parenthood. I'm guessing it's because they do abortions. I'm guessing it's because you want to save lives. But abortion is only 3% of what planned parenthood does. It does much more good. And Obamacare will actually cut down on abortions. Countries with universal health care have less abortions because they can afford to get health care for the baby. Do you think it's right to cut a program that only does 3% abortion but much more good AND want to get rid of Obamacare which will reduce abortions and save lives? It makes no sense. Obamacare has already saved lives. Many lives. One man posted a picture of his daughter who would have died of a brain tumor if not for Obamacare. How is that wrong? Do you really think our founding fathers would WANT us to live in a world where saving lives is considered WRONG just because it's done through forced insurance? Don't you think that's kind of insane? Lives are more important than that. And if the founding fathers would be against that, then we should be against their view. Nothing is worse than letting people suffer and die because somebody a long time ago might not like it if we figure out a way to help people and save lives.
As for the article .... every developed nation on the entire PLANET except for the USA alone thinks health care is a right. Do you think all the people in every developed nation on the planet are wrong and just the conservatives in the USA alone are correct?
If you want to know what IS wrong I can tell you. Having a for-profit system what will deny you for a pre-existing condition is wrong. Letting children die is wrong. Not going to the doctor because you are not sure if you can pay is wrong. The fact that the majority of people who go bankrupt in the USA do so because of health care costs is wrong. The fact that people leave the USA to get care because because the cost of flying to another country and getting their care without insurance cost less then just getting the care here is wrong. The fact that you can see flyers or jars at the store asking people to donate money for somebody's cancer care is wrong. The fact that our insurance is tied to our job is wrong. The fact that the entire planet thinks we are insane (and you can actually find article about this) since people are against Obamacare is wrong. The fact that having access to health care will get people off the streets and create more jobs, but people are against it is wrong. The fact that people have such a horrible attitude towards their fellow man is wrong. The fact that people say "BUT IT'S A TAX" as if that is more important than a human life is wrong.
I'm sorry but if doing something that is going to save millions of lives and make the country better and give us a higher quality of living and happier lives is WRONG then I don't want to be right. I would rather be wrong all day, all week, all year.
Right on.
Negative rights > Posited rights.
Natural rights > Government-created rights.
Natural rights are inalienable.
What's scary is that the President (and his supporters) really do believe they are 'doing the right thing' by the people of our country. They have *no* idea that what they are doing is wrong, and even if you were to show them definitive proof, they would still think they were right. This article is very well-written, and it's absolutely correct. Health care is something that would be better left to the free market.
The government has *no* place making our body-care decisions for us. If they are able to regulate how we eat (in order to maintain our health by evading obesity), then how long will it be before as well they are controlling *what* and *when* we eat? As the author of the above said, the people of our nation must reject positive rights. Our Founding Fathers had *no* intention of our government to become capable of doing what our current leadership (and the party behind it) are attempting to do.
Well written! Totally agree!


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Mike Aldrete returns for his fifth season on the A's coaching staff, his second as assistant hitting coach. He rejoined Manager Bob Melvin for a third time in his coaching career as bench coach in 2015 and spent the next two seasons as the A's third base and outfield coach. Aldrete, who has served as bench coach for the St. Louis Cardinals from 2012-14, previously worked under Melvin as first base coach for the Seattle Mariners in 2004 and as hitting coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2005-06. The 2019 season will mark his 15th on a Major League coaching staff.
He began his coaching career in 2001 as hitting coach for Yakima in the Diamondbacks' minor league system. He was promoted to manager of Yakima the following season and then managed Arizona's High Class A club in Lancaster in 2003. His first coaching opportunity in the majors came in 2004 when he was named first base coach on Melvin's staff in Seattle. He moved to Arizona the following year when Melvin was named manager of the Diamondbacks, serving as hitting coach there for two seasons.
Tony La Russa, whom Aldrete had played for in Oakland, hired him as assistant hitting coach with St. Louis in 2008. After four seasons in that position, including the 2011 Cardinals team that was crowned World Series champions, he was promoted to bench coach in 2012 when Mike Matheny replaced the retiring La Russa as manager. During his three-year stint as bench coach, the Cardinals advanced to the World Series in 2013 and to the National League Championship Series in both 2012 and 2014.
Born in Carmel, Calif. and a graduate of Monterey High School and Stanford University, the former first baseman/outfielder played for seven different teams during his 10-year Major League career, including both the San Francisco Giants (1986-88) and the Oakland A's (1993-95). A .263 lifetime hitter in 930 games, Aldrete also played for Montreal (1989-90), San Diego (1991), Cleveland (1991), the California Angels (1995-96) and the New York Yankees (1996).
Aldrete's finest season as a player was with the Giants in 1987, when he batted a career-high .325 on a team that lost to St. Louis in the National League Championship Series. He split his final season between California and New York in 1996, ending his career as a member of the World Series Champion Yankees.
A third team All-American his senior season at Stanford, Aldrete was chosen by San Francisco in the seventh round of the June Draft in 1983. He enjoyed a pair of trips to the College World Series with the Cardinal and was a member of the U.S. Collegiate All-Star Team that toured Japan in 1982. Aldrete graduated from Monterey (Ca.) High School, lettering in baseball, basketball and football.
Aldrete makes his off-season home in Salinas, Calif., with his wife, Gina, and their three children; Michael, Blake and Nicolette. Michael (RHP) was selected by the Cardinals in the 2012 First Year Player Draft out of San Jose State (39th round).


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During the most recent edition of "The Ricky Gervais Show," comic foil Karl Pilkington offers his interpretation of the expression "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."
If you live in a such a home, he advises, "don't be chucking stuff about."
Pilkington, luckily for fans of the offbeat show, will be chucking about his bizarre theories on everything from evolution to chimpanzees to the rest of the animal kingdom for at least one more season. HBO has renewed the hilarious, but so far sparsely watched program, The Hollywood Reporter notes, meaning we're in for more of Pilkington's absurd observations.
The show, for the uninitiated, is basically an animated version of popular podcasts Gervais and writing partner Stephen Merchant began making in 2005 built around "pointless conversations" with Pilkington, a British radio engineer who believes, among other things, that "The Flintstones" is a relatively accurate depiction of the Stone Age.
Like "The Flintstones," the Hanna-Barbera-like format actually suits the show well. There's something inherently cartoonish about Pilkington, a denizen of his own, fantastical alternate universe where a sea lion is a cross between a fish and a dog.
Mocked by Gervais for his "perfectly round head, pug little nose, funny, gimp eyes with no expression," Pilkington possesses a permanent hangdog look, with a voice to match. His deadpan delivery adds to the laughs as Pilkington, whose obsessions include monkeys, blathers on about chimps piloting rockets and a simian that supposedly rescued someone from a burning building.
There's something appealingly genuine and childlike about Pilkington who believes everything he hears, reads – and says. He takes bits of information, true or not, and imprints on them his own his reality as he spins bizarre tales and theories – spurring laughter and insults from Gervais and his writing partner Stephen Merchant.
"You're mental!" Gervais has been known to yell.
Karl Pilkington is an acquired taste. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, the show is averaging 180,000 viewers – modest even for a Friday night. But HBO is smart to stick with Gervais and Merchant, the duo behind the original, UK version of "The Office" and "Extras." "The Ricky Gervais Show" needs some time to build a TV audience.
In an era of flashy Reality TV shows, Pilkington stands out for letting us into his internal surreal world – even if he knows he's only inviting mockery. He's a funny little round-headed man who lives in an animated glass house that we'll happily peer into for at least one more season.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Pahuta Breaks Home Run Record In Canaries' Loss
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- Tim Pahuta homered twice on Thursday night in the Sioux Falls Canaries' 5-3 loss to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks, tying and breaking both a team and American Association record.
Pahuta holds the league record for now, but C.J. Ziegler of Wichita is a close second with 27 home runs.
Fittingly, Pahuta broke a team mark set by Jermaine Swinton in 2001 and Brandon Sing in 2010 with a multi-home run performance, his fifth of the season. Somewhat surprisingly, both long balls came against the RedHawks' left-handed starter, Jake Laber (8-5). Pahuta had collected 22 of 26 home runs off right-handers entering the contest.
The Canaries (38-52) took a 2-0 lead on Pahuta's first dinger in the fourth inning, a two-run shot rocketed to right field. After the Birds fell behind 5-2, Pahuta towered a ball in the sixth that landed on the right field party deck for a solo shot. He finished 2-for-4 with three RBI.
Pahuta's homers were all the scoring the Canaries could produce. Despite cracking 11 hits, the Birds stranded eight runners on base and were shut out by the Fargo-Moorhead bullpen over the final three innings.
The RedHawks (57-33) scored all five runs in the sixth inning with two outs. Buddy Sosnoskie singled home a run before Todd Jennings pulled a ball down the left field line for a three-run double. One more tally came home on an error.
Canaries starter Ben Moore (9-7) took the loss, allowing all five runs, four earned, on eight hits in six innings. He walked one and struck out six.
Laber picked up his second win against the Canaries this season. He yielded three runs on eight hits in 5 1/3 innings, walking one and striking out four.
Jared Clark was 3-for-4, and Nick Van Stratten singled to push a team-best hitting streak to 14 games.
The Canaries dropped the rubber game, and Fargo-Moorhead shrunk their magic number for a division crown to two.
Sioux Falls opens a three-game home series against the Winnipeg Goldeyes at 7:05 p.m. on Friday at Sioux Falls Stadium.
Courtesy: Sioux Falls Canaries


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This recipe was inspired by a craving for all things cinnamon sugar. I couldn't decide if I wanted to make cinnamon sugar donut muffins, or snickerdoodle muffins, or french breakfast puffs. But then I started to feel guilty about eating such decadent things so early in the day so I decided to adapt my favorite coffee cake recipe from Ina and add my version of cinnamon sugar in two ways.
These were very decadent. I don't know what I was thinking, but I certainly didn't lighten anything up :-) The muffin itself is wonderful , light and moist and best the day they're made. It's a perfect basic muffin to eat plain or with other add-ins like Ina's blueberry coffee cake muffin version I made last year. We had two each (one with sugared tops and the other plain) with breakfast sausage and a tall cuppa. It made a nice leisurely weekend breakfast.
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 4 ounces (about 1/2 cup) sour cream
- 1/8 cup milk
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Cinnamon Brown Sugar Filling
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Cinnamon Sugar Topping (optional)
- 3 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Place 10 paper liners in muffin pans or spray muffin pans with non stick spray.
In a small bowl combine your brown sugar and cinnamon. Mix and set aside. In another small bowl combine the granulated sugar and cinnamon. Mix and set aside. In a large bowl with a hand mixer, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. With the mixer on low speed, add the eggs 1 at a time, then add the vanilla, sour cream, and milk. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. With the mixer on low speed add the flour mixture to the batter and beat until just mixed.
Scoop a tablespoon of the batter into the prepared muffin pans. Evenly spoon the brown sugar mixture into the muffin cups, being sure to keep the sugar in the center of the batter and not touching the sides of the pan. (This will help them release from the pans, but if you use paper liners, it's not much of an issue.)
Spoon the remaining batter over the brown sugar mixture, filling each cup just to the top. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until the muffins are lightly browned on top and a cake tester comes out clean. Melt the butter in a small dish and set aside.
Allow the muffins to cool a bit before removing them from the pan. Dip the muffin tops in the melted butter and roll them in the cinnamon sugar, or sprinkle them generously with the granulated sugar blend. Enjoy with a cuppa hot coffee.
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For all the budget debate about whether to extend 2009's small taxes on income and sales, the most worrisome tax increase on the horizon is a payroll tax on California employers. Payroll taxes have significant, negative impacts on jobs.
How could this happen? In short, California's unemployment insurance fund has been insolvent for more than two years. Federal loans to the state have been used to pay benefits, and those loans need to be paid back.
The state legislature and the governor could decide how to do that themselves -- through some combination of raising payroll taxes and cutting benefits. But given the record of cooperation between the legislature and governor on spending and tax issues (which is, let's be charitable, a limited record), there's reason to believe they won't be able to agree.
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In that case, a federal payroll tax on California employers could be triggered. The LA Times reports this morning on a new state auditor's reporting showing that those payroll taxes could eventually rise to $6 billion.


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Working for yourself is one thing because you get to enjoy the perks and benefits of owners and CEO's, but those working under others are often not privy to the incentives for management. Employee rewards are becoming more common place as companies realise that staff are much less productive and enthusiastic without recognition and benefits.
A Few Innovative Employee Rewards
Flexibility: This is one of the key rewards for employees. People chained to desks from 9-5 are restricted to the access they have to the things in their personal lives that require attention, such as children and household issues. More flexible work hours give employees an incentive to prove they are capable of doing the job, while tending to their important lives outside of the office.
Incentivise: Show employees recognition for their hard work by giving vouchers for a spa day or comedy show tickets. A little something to help them unwind, or give them a good laugh, shows employees that they are valued, goes a long way to building loyalty.
Lunch: Reward staff with a buffet lunch where they can take a step back from the office and stuffy work involved. Many companies treat their staff like machines and expect lunch to be taken at their desks while veering off the work course is frowned upon. This is the best recipe for companies looking for high staff turnover. Some companies will reward employees or a single employee with a voucher for a lunch date for them and five of their friends.
Throw a Party: This is one sure-fire way to show employees you appreciate their time, effort and input into your company. Employee rewards go a long way to boosting morale, productivity and loyalty. Staff who get to enjoy a party for no reason other than just being rewarded for good work, are naturally inclined to always give their best.
Many companies work hard for their employees, and as a result employee's work hard to ensure they give their best. Incentives, benefits and employee rewards are the primary driving force behind these people, who are often the backbone of big companies, making a concerted effort to go the extra mile.
It's often disconcerting that one would have to remind the guys at the top of the ladder to not take their staff for granted. Most of us were raised to show gratitude and courtesy, and this has found a way into the work place as more bosses give more employee rewards. Thank goodness for evolution.
As a prolific writer Vida Denning has freelanced for a variety of businesses and her recent stint at a Reading office space was extremely inspiring in how staff are rewarded and motivated.


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I found a few videos on Youtube of people roasting greens in a frying pan.
Also read in Steve's interview that he set off alarms during his time as a prison officer when roasting beans, so clearly it is possible but perhaps a bit tricky?
So has anyone tried this and what advice do you have (the videos seemed to produce rather uneven results).


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DHD UHac
The Dutch Haskell Users Group is hosting a combined event for Haskell enthusiasts: an informal conference and a weekend hackathon. In short, it is a Dutch HUG Day followed by a Utrecht Hackathon, or...
- DHD >>= UHac
Dates: April 20 - 22, 2012
Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands
The Dutch HUG Day and Utrecht Hackathon are two events held over one long weekend.
Dutch HUG Day
The DHD will be on Friday, April 20. We invite people from all backgrounds to speak about their hobby projects, their research, or anything else related to functional programming.
This will be the second time the Dutch HUG has hosted such an event. The first Dutch HUG Day was held on April 24, 2010. It was a great success and brought together people from all over the Netherlands, as well as Germany and Belgium.
We intend to make this year's DHD just as successful and open it to an even wider audience by binding it to a hackathon, which usually attracts people from all over Europe.
Utrecht Hackathon
UHac immediately follows the DHD and lasts from Friday, April 20, to Sunday, April 22. In the now-grand tradition of Haskell hackathons, UHac will be an international, grassroots collaborative coding festival with a simple focus: build and improve Haskell libraries, tools, and infrastructure.
Haskell hackathons have been held every year since at least 2006. In 2009, Utrecht hosted its first hackathon. This year will be Utrecht's second hackathon.
Dutch Haskell Users Group
The Dutch HUG is an informal group with monthly meetings that often include talks on novel applications of functional programming. Or sometimes, we just gather for drinks at a pub. The group was founded on April 19, 2009, at the end of Hac5, the first Utrecht hackathon. In April, 2012, we will be celebrating the 3rd anniversary of the group's existence.
Call for speakers
We are looking for speakers for the Dutch HUG Day. The topic can cover anything in the functional programming or Haskell world. It may be your latest pet project, current research, or simply a demonstration of something novel that you discovered. We are flexible about the time: it can be a lightning talk (e.g. 5 minutes) or up to 20 or 25 minutes.
If you would like to give a talk, please send a title and abstract to Sean Leather (firstname.lastname@example.com).
Local arrangements
We are still in the process of organizing locations and schedules. This page will be updated as we make progress.


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Last week an angry Florida judge invited the defendant in a copyright case to propose sanctions against the porn-trolling firm Prenda Law for misleading the court. The case pitted a porn producer called Sunlust Pictures against a Florida man named Tuan Nguyen. Yet the case was such a fiasco that by the time of last week's hearing, there were no lawyers left who were willing to represent the plaintiffs.
The defense says that the lawsuit was orchestrated by an Illinois law firm called Prenda Law. But Prenda can't practice law in Florida, so it needed to recruit a local attorney to represent its interests in the state. At last week's hearing, the Florida attorney Jonathan Torres told Judge Mary Scriven that he had been recruited for the job by Prenda but now wanted out of the case. Yet Prenda sent in a letter claiming it had nothing to do with the case. And John Steele, an Illinois attorney with ties to Prenda who was sitting in the audience near the plaintiff's table, told Judge Scriven that he wasn't involved in the case either. An incredulous Judge Scriven dismissed the case and asked the defense to propose punishments for Prenda's "lack of candor."
On Tuesday, defense attorney Graham Syfert took Judge Scriven up on her offer, submitting a motion for sanctions against Prenda Law, John Steele, and others affiliated with the ethically challenged law firm.
Syfert provided strong evidence that Steele was lying when he claimed not to be involved in the case. Prenda's letter denying involvement in the case was submitted by email as a PDF. Syfert examined the metadata for this PDF file and found the document had a "title" of "Steele Law Firm" and an "author" of "Kerry Eckenrode." Syfert says "Kerry Eckenrode" is the maiden name of Steele's wife, and "Steele Law Firm" is the name of Steele's current law practice. An obvious interpretation would be that Steele ghost-wrote the letter denying Prenda was involved in the case and had Prenda lawyer Paul Duffy sign it. And then a few days later he showed up at a hearing in that same case.
"It is common for John Steele to create documents and send e-mails with other attorney's names to serve his own agenda, with or without their knowledge," Syfert told the court. We covered another case of alleged sock-puppetry by Steele on Wednesday.
Syfert also had ample evidence that Duffy (or whoever wrote the letter) was lying when he claimed not to be involved in the case. Duffy personally made courtroom appearances in at least three Sunlust lawsuits in Illinois. Even more damning, Prenda's own website has a page listing "a sample of individuals who chose to litigate the matter and are currently in court over their alleged infringement." That page has a link to the original complaint against Syfert's client before the Florida courts.
Syfert said that he would be filing a separate motion asking Sunlust pictures to cover the defense's legal costs, along with a "lodestar multiplier" to reflect the plaintiff's misconduct. He requested that Prenda, Steele, Duffy, and others associated with Prenda be on the hook for those costs.
Getting some answers
Syfert wasn't finished. Judge Scriven had also invited a motion for sanctions against Matthew Wasinger, a Florida attorney who had briefly acted as Prenda's local counsel before asking to be excused from the case. (He and Torres were two of at least four Florida lawyers who have tried to bow out of the case since August.) But Scriven hadn't yet excused him from the case, so he was obligated to attend the hearing. When he failed to do so, Scriven invited the defense to propose sanctions against him as well.
In another motion, also filed on Tuesday, Syfert estimated that monetary sanctions between $500 and $3400 would be an appropriate penalty for failing to show up in court. But he said he was more interested in getting information from Wasinger than cash. So he proposed that Wasinger be excused from paying a financial penalty if he agreed to answer a series of 14 questions about his relationship to Prenda, Steele, and Sunlust.
These questions focus on how Wasinger first got involved in the case, the extent of Wasinger's communications with Duffy and Steele, the details of his financial arrangement with Prenda and Sunlust, and whether his legal filings were being ghost-written by others. Syfert also wants to know how much contact Wasinger had with the nominal client, Sunlust Pictures, and whether Wasinger ever actually reviewed the evidence that supposedly proved the defendants were guilty of copyright infringement.
"By requiring answers to these questions, defendants counsel hopes that the responses serve as a warning to other potential 'local counsel' representatives of Prenda Law," Syfert wrote. He hoped that when Prenda tried to recruit new attorneys in the future, they would have "reasonable disclosure of the facts surrounding the cases that they are accepting and ability to adequately protect the interest of their clients." Presumably, once attorneys understand what they're getting into, most of them will run away screaming.
Update: I mistakenly suggested Steele flew from Illinois to Tampa, but I'm told that as a Miami resident he may not have needed to fly there.


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I share these video i mede in august 2012 when severe storm (Tramontana)surprised wery good level windsurfers in Savudrija(Croatia).It was visible when "the wall" was coming but almost all windsurfers were like hipnotised and nobody reacted until it was almost too late.Max gust measured by meteo buoy station was 68 kts.
Try not to get cought by these kind of weather with kite or it may be too late to react.
At 3:45 flying toys;)
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Sioux Falls Mom Busted for Drugs on Night of Fatal Fire
A Sioux Falls mom who lost her three kids in a house fire December 22nd is now facing drug charges stemming from that tragic night.
Court documents show that on December 26th, Rhiannon White was being interviewed by police when she gave them her medical records from the night of the fire. Those records showed she had methamphetamine and ecstasy in her system the night of the fire after she was checked out by the hospital. White claimed she had not done meth in 14 years.
White then changed her story, and admitted to doing meth in 2009.
During their investigation, police also learned that White's sister said she got a text from her the night of the fire that said White had stopped at her drug dealer's house on her way home from a bar.
Earlier this month, police interviewed White again, who said she had done the drug two days before the fire. White told investigators that she took the drug because she was run down and tired and felt like 'superwoman' when she took the drug and 'she could take care of the kids.'
Medical records obtained by police also show she had marijuana in her system at the time of the fire.
If convicted of both charges she faces 20 years in prison.
Sixteen-year-old Michael Hensely, 12-year-old Savannah Coon and six-year-old Alivia Coon died in the fire on North Main Avenue December 22nd.


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Welcome, fellow Oregonians!
Location: Portland, OR
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Two events you don't want to miss next Sunday Sept 8th.
In the morning, the man the legend: Ray Hyman will be in Portland to give a demonstration and lecture on critical thinking. Ray Hyman, along with James Randi, Martin Gardner, and Paul Kurtz started the modern skeptical movement. Do you really want to look back and say you had the chance to meet him but you slept in instead? Plus there will be Food, Drinks, and Childcare.
Sunday @ 11 AM
Later that day, the singer songwriter Shelley Segal of Youtube and Reason Rally fame will be playing a concert. Save money with advanced tickets. Details here:
Sunday @ 7 PM
Michael Shermer, the founder of Skeptic magazine, will give a talk at the Bagdad Theater on November 16th. It is cosponsored by Center for Inquiry-Portland and Oregonians for Science and Reason. More details, with a link to buy tickets, here:
Hello Portland!
New member here. Portland metro area. Happy to see there are quite a few members and lots of links for meet ups. :)
Have a great day!
The 3rd Annual Portland Humanist Film Festival is here. Friday thru Sunday Oct 26-28th. 17 independent films. 4 box office films. Q&A meet directors of 2 films.
Buy now and save $5 of the weekend pass.
Thursday, September 20, 2012, 7:00 PM
Biddy McGraws, 6000 NE Glisan St, Portland, OR
After performing this year at the 'Reason Rally' to a crowd of 25,000 in Washington DC, Segal's music video for her single 'Saved' has gone global.
The Melbourne based singer-songwriter became involved in secular activism over two years ago, despite her father being the president of a local synagogue. Her songs are a passionate response to dogmatic belief, inequality, religious oppression and the idea that only the devout can be grateful and good. She enjoys bringing this usually controversial topic to the public discourse and finds music to be a effective medium for expression and raising awareness. "I can say what I think for three minutes without anybody interrupting me." (Melbourne Times City Weekly)
Segal's latest release, 'An Atheist Album,' embodies her thoughts on religion and has quickly made her "a new pin-up girl for the international atheist movement." (Barny Zwartz -The Age)
Opening Act: Monster On Sunday
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Hey everyone.
I just moved here from Utah back in July. It's really cool living in a state where no one really cares about religion, but it's also made me realize that one of the side effects of being raised mormon leaves me wanting a bit of regular socialization. Back in mormonville I started a CFI affiliated group that met for beer and coffee on Sundays. I noticed some meetups on the board, but wanted to go straight to the people on this one: Any regular meetups y'all recommend? Anybody want to start one? Let me know!
CFI-Portland is bringing author and educator Dale McGowan to Portland, OR for a unique seminar about parenting without religion. It will be held at Friendly House in NW Portland on Saturday, April 21st, from 1 to 5pm. Learn about "practical solutions for secular parenting in a religious world." Tickets for the Parenting & Grandparenting Beyond Belief workshop are $35 per person ($65 per couple, $25 for Friends of the Center), and can be purchased here: http://action.centerforinquiry.net/site/Calendar?id=102161&view....
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NEW YORK - Shares of Xoom soared more than 40 percent in their first day as a publicly traded company.
The online money-transfer company gained $6.41, or 40.1 percent, to $22.41 in midday trading on Friday. It opened at $21.
Xoom Corp. raised $101.2 million from selling 6.3 million shares at $16 each. It had predicted selling 5.8 million shares for $13 to $15 each in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this month. That Xoom sold more stock, for a higher price, suggests healthy demand from investors.
The banks managing the deal may buy nearly 950,000 additional shares to sell if there's demand, increasing Xoom's proceeds from the initial public offering.
Xoom, an upstart Internet competitor to Western Union Co., sold 5.2 million shares in the IPO, while early investors offered 1.1 million. The company won't receive proceeds from shares sold by the early investors. It predicted proceeds of $74.7 million after expenses, which it expects to use to run the business and possible acquisitions.
Xoom said many of its customers are immigrants to the United States that use Xoom's website to send money back to people in their home countries. They transferred $3.2 billion last year, up from $1.7 billion in 2011.
Shares of the San Francisco company are trading on the Nasdaq under the "XOOM" symbol.
The company was founded in 2001 and is backed by venture firms including Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates, SVB Capital, and Fidelity Ventures.
It provides consumer remittance services to the Philippines, India, Latin America, Europe, Australia, Canada, and South Africa.


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Thoughts on Belinda Carlisle and Jonathan Roberts on DWTS
Belinda & Jonathan danced a Waltz to the song "What the World Needs Now"—Dionne Warwick Download MP3 on Amazon. Belinda and Jonathan scored 17 out of 30 on their waltz. That score puts Belinda and Jonathan in the bottom 5 tied with Steve-O and Lacey.
The best line I've seen from Belinda and Jonathan was when Jonathan said something like, "I want to prove that nice guys can win." Unfortunately, I'm afraird that he won't be proving that on this season of DWTS. In the DWTS after show interview, Belinda promised to sing to each person individually. That's a nice offer, but I'm still afraid that Belinda's dance skills will be her demise on the show.
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Silke Spiesshoefer
Clinical Assistant Professor
Silke Spiesshoefer graduated with a Ph.D. in Microelectronics-Photonics (2005), a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering (2001), and a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering (1998) from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Webster University (2008) in St. Louis, Missouri. Silke has been affiliated with HiDEC since 1996, first as an undergraduate student intern, graduate student, and then post doc. She has recently become an Adjunct Professor with the center.
Silke is currently the Technical Research Director for the Advanced Technologies Division (ATD) of Engineering Systems Solutions (ESS), headquartered in Frederick, MD. She is directly responsible for the initial creation and management of the ATD of ESS and creating new development projects/products including the development of nanomaterial based product and process development for advanced batteries, antennae, and novel sensor technologies. This includes material analysis and selection as well as process chain development in addition to creating and assisting in business proposal development tasks, business plans, project planning, forecasting, and budgeting. She is also the COO and Research Director for a small technology start-up, Evoltech Systems Solutions, based in Fayetteville, AR.
She has more than ten years of research and development experience in the microelectronic, wafer-level fabrication and materials areas. She has led various research and development projects involving microelectronic fabrication and advanced material development, with the most recent projects involving the process development and characterization of via structures in silicon for advanced 3D VLSI systems and nanomaterial-based electrodes for battery enhancement. She has given numerous national and international presentations on her research and has over 30 publications. Dr. Spiesshoefer also has extensive experience in technical marketing and program management.
Silke Spiesshoefer
Clinical Assistant Professor
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Arkansas
- Ph.D., Microelectronics-Photonics, University of Arkansas


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We've been following Legendary Pictures' Godzilla movie since the first new monster design blew the doors off Comic-Con 2010. But since then, the giant kaiju has been waiting under the sea, ready to strike with more news. And more news we have! A batch of rejected Godzilla concept art has been leaked, giving us a better idea of what kind of monster the studio is building.
This rejected concept art was released in G-fan magazine and has been confirmed to be the real, rejected deal. Monsters director Gareth Edwards is attached to direct this rebooted Godzilla picture. Max Borenstein (The Seventh Son) has been rewriting David Goyer's original draft of the script. As of now, we're getting the feeling that this is all still in the development stages, although we expect a 3D or IMAX announcement at some point. Of all the movies eagerly attaching 3D and IMAX to their title, Godzilla actually seems to fit.
Until we know more, we'll just have to settle for this rejected art. What do you think? We certainly like the classic feel to these monster, even though the studio passed on this work.
[Toho Kingdom via Comic Book Movie]


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scream (one's) head off(redirected from scream her head off)
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scream (one's) head off
To scream or yell very loudly and lengthily. Suzy screamed her head off when I told her she couldn't have an ice cream cone. The stadium was packed with fans screaming their heads off for the popular band. Don't bother listening to the crazies who stand on street corners and scream their heads off at passersby.


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It has recently been stated by the Hungaarian government that new financial sources have been provided for the completion of the restoration of the medieval castle complex in Esztergom, in particular that of the early Gothic castle chapel and the adjoining spaces, which are decorated with frescoes. The 14th century frescoes of the chapel as well as the late 15th century frescoes of the so-called 'Studiolo' have been under restoration since 2000 - an impossibly long time. With the new funds, the end maybe is in sight - the chapel will be accessible again as early as next Spring, while the frescoes of the Studiolo will be on view again in 2015.
Recently, most attention has been given to these Renaissance frescoes, following the sensational claim made by restorer Zsuzsanna Wierdl and art historian Mária Prokopp in 2007 that the figure of Temperantia from a series of the Virtues was painted by the young Botticelli, who was in Hungary during the 1460s. Although disputed soon after the announcement, the authors keep repeating this claim, which has been published in various places - including the acts of the 2007 conference on Italy and Hungary in the Renaissance, held at Villa I Tatti in Florence. I reported on this claim and some response it received in an earlier post. According to an article published this week in Hungarian daily Népszabadság, the authors claim that their attribution of the fresco to Botticelli has gained acceptance and has not been refuted until now. In fact, they now believe that all surviving figures of the Virtues can be attributed to Botticelli. Well, Népszabadság may not be an authoritative source on questions of attribution - but it is definitely wrong on the issue of responses to the Botticelli-attribution. Let's see a few publications on the subject!
|Conditions at the Esztergom 'Studiolo' during recent years
First, I would like to call attention on the publications of Mária Prokopp and Zsuzsanna Wierdl. The attribution to Botticelli was first presented at the Villa I Tatti conference held in 2007 - the conference volume has since been published, with texts by both authors on the subject. The authors have also published a Hungarian-language book on the subject, and their arguments have been summarized in a number of other publications, for example in Rivista di Studi Ungheresi in 2012. If you would like just a quick overview, read the article by Mária Prokopp, published in Hungarian Review. In addition to stylistic and historical arguments, the attribution rests on the interpretation of the letters MB incised in the frescoes, supposedly referring to "(Alessandro di) Mariano, detto Botticelli".


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There's a throw down!
by, November 17th, 2012 at 02:22 PM (5823 Views)
GSP or Condit? I am a GSP fan, but I don't hate Condit.
Now that the throw down is out of the way, here is how the meet went.
My 400 free (1st event) started at 7:59 and I finished cooling down at 9:20 from my last event. All my racing was done in under 80 minutes. Very much something James would think is fun.
1st event 400 free, the gridge event
- 4:58.15
-- 1:10.68 (33.51, 37.17)
-- 1:18.70 (37.99, 40.71)
-- 1:17.35 (39.03, 38.32)
-- 1:13.38 (37.18, 36.20)
I thought 10,12,12,12 was reasonable, but I also have know experience splitting a 400. There are 6 lanes and I am in lane 1, so there are 4 people faster than me in theory, two I know are fast and realistically much faster than me. At the 75-100 leg I see I am in the lead, by a lot, and all I can feel is prerace jitters, I have no idea how fast I am going from feel, so I dial it back. In reality, I was right on track. If I would have kept up the pace, I would have died at the end but had a much better swim, probably by several seconds.
-18.71 for the gridge, but worst swim of the meet, all on poor execution. I shouldn't let other swimmers influence my race, I know how much variety there is in my training, so expecting the fast guy to go fast is silly.
I have done a sub 5:00 swim from a push at Lifetime recently, which is the primary reason I am so disappointed in that swim. The feel the first race of a meet is so incredibly different than anything in practice...
50 free: 27.81
Happy with that. I didn't cool down, warm up, or have time to pee after the 400 free. Not the best time for me, but I am not in the condition I was last year, the 400 was maybe 10 minutes before and last year I had Jost to race.
200 free: 2:16.06
- 1:05.77 (31.45, 34.37)
- 1:10.29 (35.74, 34.55)
This was kinda different. Stephanie Stone was in the lane next to me and we knew each other from WCM intensive training camp that we did back in March. She said she wanted to break 2:13, and I was entered with a 2:13 mid. I told her that I was not in the condition I was in last November and after the 400 definitely wasn't going 2:13, but I was more than happy to go out in a 5 high 6 low, but she needed to know that at the 100 she would have to pull way ahead of me to meet her goal. She's a smart girl, so probably didn't trust me, but at the 100 she was about a stroke and a half infront of me, well withing meeting her goal, she just didn't quite have the back half some 30 minutes after her 400, to break 2:13. She was 2:14 mid. Still a blazing time, but she wasn't thrilled with it.
Happy with my time, slightly faster than I expected, didn't really swim my usual race and thinking about someone else's 200 for a change was a nice break. This was a really enjoyable swim for me.
100 Free: 1:00.96 (30.03)
This was fun. This is probably the first race that I can ever remember winning. Sadly, I remember not too long ago when this meet was bigger I probably would have won the second to last heat. Still fun!
I was in much better shape at this point in the meet than I expected and this was a solid time given the timeline of the meet. To break a minute at this meet, I would have to forgo everything but the 50 or actually become a much faster swimmer. The 100 free is just too late in this meet to have a good swim and still take part in the other events I enjoy.
Almost forgot, I got stuck in traffic and missed half of warm up (was on deck at 7:20 for a 7:00 warm up and 7:45 clear the pool) but the meet was so small I was in a lane with only Stephanie and Lynn (also from WCM training camp) during warm up who are both quick swimmers. One of the best warm up experiences I have had at a meet. This might have impacted the 400, but doubt it for the rest of the meet.
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Spicy Dishes We Love in Chicago
Have you ever noticed that the best spicy dishes are never labeled as such? They warn you of what's to come, but they never mention fire, suicide, or anything related to volcanology. That's just how they are supposed to taste. You may tear up and start to sweat, but pleasure should always win out over pain.
Why are we talking about spicy food? Well, we have nothing against the comforting flavors present at the Thanksgiving table—it is one of the best meals of the year—but we can't be the only ones who got home from the extended holiday weekend looking for some seriously spicy food to wake up our tastes buds. And as the temperatures continue to plunge, we crave that heat that only chiles can provide even more. Now seemed like the perfect time to pick out some of our favorite spicy dishes in Chicago.
Note that we didn't set out to find the absolute spiciest dishes out there. We are not crazy. Competitions are all well and good, but we love spice when it winds its way into a dish, actually improving the flavor of each component. We avoided dishes that used spice to punish our tongue, since those mostly just muted the taste of everything else.
Here are the dishes that get our noses running in the best possible way. Obviously, we missed a few places, so let us know if your favorite spicy dish didn't make the cut.
- Som Tum Poo at Andy's Thai Kitchen
- Salsas at El Pueblito
- Torta Ahogada at Taqueria Traspasada
- Sabri Nihari at Sabri Nihari
- Nam Sod at Thai Aree
- Mapo Tofu at Double Li
- Tan Tan Men Ramen at Slurping Turtle
- House Special Grilled Fish in Spicy Pan at Lao Ma La
- Will's Special at J.P. Graziano's
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