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The letter submitted by Gino Mariotti ("Why gas prices soar," May 13) concludes as if "facts" contained in it have anything to do with Donald Trump and Make America Great Again.
Typical of the Democrat talking points of today, the writer starts off with an absolute falsehood, stating that the president "recommended an absurd $1 per gallon increase" in the federal gas tax. Trump did say he would "consider" 25 cents while his chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, did suggest a 7 cent increase in an October 2017 meeting. The writer ignores these facts, including the rebuke published in the Washington Post by Democratic Congressman Peter DeFazio, who declared the 7 cent increase as being "totally inadequate."
He then follows the Nancy Pelosi objective to eliminate the Trump tax cuts with her ridiculous declaration that $1,000 to $2,000 is only crumbs to middle income Americans. He declares the U.S. Treasury bankrupt and attempts to link the Trump tax cuts for higher income Americans to the national debt, which had doubled from $10 trillion to more than $20 trillion during the Obama administration.
The next few paragraphs spoke of the high gas prices reaching $3.099 in April as somehow being an indicator that Republicans push policies to generate extreme inequality. For one, this lifetime Republican resents the leftists parroting this same trashy rhetoric on a daily basis. The absurdity of this premise and conclusion has been obvious for years although perpetuated by the national "fake news" ideologues. To illustrate, when the Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu suggested that gas prices needed to rise to European levels — $7 to $9 per gallon — I would suppose that $3.099 would not have seemed very expensive, but this is ignored by Democratic "fake" news.
For the purpose of understanding, it is the content of the writer's letter and the Democratic propagandists that have given America Donald Trump such that we have a chance to Make America Great Again.


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Bank of America's earnings soar 70 percent
NEW YORK Bank of America (BAC) says its second-quarter profits soared, helped largely by cost-cutting.
The results beat analysts' expectations. The bank earned $3.6 billion in the quarter after payments to preferred shareholders. That was up 70 percent from $2.1 billion a year ago.
Per share, that worked out to 32 cents. Analysts polled by FactSet had expected 25 cents per share.
Bank of America, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has been slimming down and cutting jobs since CEO Brian Moynihan took over at the beginning of 2010, a strategy meant to make the bank easier to manage and to escape potential extra scrutiny from regulators. In the second quarter, the bank slashed expenses about 6 percent, to $16 billion from $17 billion.
The bank benefited from lower litigation expenses, having already settled several high-profile lawsuits related to its mortgage unit earlier this year. It also was able to shrink the unit that services troubled mortgages. The bank cut about 18,300 jobs over the year, or nearly 7 percent.
Investment banking and wealth management powered Bank of America's earnings more than its consumer business did. The bank funded nearly $27 billion in home mortgages and home equity loans, a jump from 41 percent a year ago, though the loss in its overall mortgage business widened.
Total revenue was $22.9 billion after stripping out one-time charges, up 3 percent from a year ago. That was better than the $22.8 billion expected by analysts polled by FactSet.
Bank of America's stock was up nearly 1 percent in pre-market trading, rising 12 cents to $14.04.


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Denis Nguyen captured the singles title at the Harvard Winter Invite (Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's tennis team kicked off the 2013 portion of its schedule in fine style as it hosted Boston College and Marist in the weekend-long Harvard Winter Invite. The Crimson took part in 22 singles matches, winning 20 of them, and 10 doubles matches, claiming nine wins. Harvard's Denis Nguyen won the singles competition while the team of Alex Steinroeder and Nicholas Mahlangu took the doubles crown.
The event began with doubles and Harvard had strong showings on three courts. Denis Nguyen and Casey MacMaster dominated Marist's Will Reznek and Trym Nagelstad, 8-2, while Nicky Hu and Shaun Chaudhuri posted an 8-2 win over a BC duo on the second court. Rookie Conor Haughey and junior Brendan Seaver also topped a BC pair, 8-2, on the third court.
Harvard swept all but one singles match on Day 1, claiming seven victories on the day. Chaudhuri had the most convincing win for the Crimson, knocking off BC's Jonathan Raude, 6-1, 6-1. Denis Nguyen, MacMaster and Haughey also recorded straight-set victories, while Alex Steinroeder dug deep for a 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 win over Marist's Lorenzo Rossi and Hu notched a 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 win over Joris Van Eck of Marist. Freshman Kelvin Lam also rallied from a one-set deficit, downing Nagelstad, 5-6, 6-3, 6-5.
Day 2 featured more strong doubles from the hosts, fronted by an 8-1 victory by Haughey and Lam over a Marist team. Steinroeder teamed with freshman Nicholas Mahlangu for an 8-2 win over Matt Wagner and Raude of Boston College, and the Chaudhuri/Hu and Nguyen/MacMaster teams were victorious for the second time in as many days.
There were straight-set wins across the board for the Crimson on Saturday with Steinroeder leading the charge by way of a 6-0, 6-2 win over Michael McGinnis of BC. Lam (6-3, 6-0) and Chaudhuri (6-2, 6-1) relinquished only three games each in their singles wins and Seaver earned his first singles win of the tourney with a 6-2, 6-3 final against Motta of Marist. The final day of competition saw a Harvard singles sweep as all four matches were decided in straight sets.
The Crimson is back in action Jan. 25-26 when it travels to Oklahoma to take part in the ITA Kick Off event. Harvard faces Notre Dame Friday and will see either Memphis or host Oklahoma Saturday.
MacMaster-D. Nguyen vs. Reznek-Naggelstad (M) 8-2 Harvard
Hu-Chaudhuri vs. Nelson-McGinnis (BC) 8-2 Harvard
Steinroeder-Lam vs. Grokenberger-Childree (BC) 8-2 Harvard
Haughey-Seaver vs. Klassen-Bishop (M) 8-5 Marist
D. Nguyen vs. P. Nelson (BC) 6-4, 6-2 Harvard
S. Chaudhuri vs. J. Raude (BC) 6-1, 6-1 Harvard
A. Steinroeder vs. L. Rossi (M) 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 Harvard
N. Hu vs. Van Eck (M) 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 Harvard
C. MacMaster vs. Grokenberger (BC) 6-4, 6-2 Harvard
K. Lam vs. Naggelstad (M) 5-6, 6-3, 6-5 Harvard
C. Haughey vs. Bishop (M) 6-3, 6-4 Harvard
Seaver vs. Childree (BC) 6-2, 6-3 BC
MacMaster-D. Nguyen vs. Nelson-McGinnis (BC) 8-5 H
Hu-Chaudhuri vs. Reznek-Naggelstad (M) 8-4 H
Steinroeder-Mahlangu vs. Wagner-Raude (BC) 8-2 H
Haughey-Lam vs. vs. Guidici-Motta (M) 8-1 H
MacMaster-D. Nguyen vs. Steinroeder-Mahlangu 8-5 (Stein-Mahlangu)
Haughey/Lam vs. Nelson/Grokenberger (BC) 8-7 H
Nguyen (H) vs. Raude (M) 6-4, 6-1 H
Chaudhuri (H) vs. Nelson (BC) 6-2, 6-1 H
Steinroeder (H) vs. McGinnis (BC) 6-0, 6-2 H
MacMaster (H) vs. Van Eck (M) 6-2, 6-2 H
Mahlangu (H) vs. Reznek (M) 6-2, 6-2 H
Lam (H) vs. Grokenberger (BC) 6-3, 6-0 H
Haughey (H). vs. Guidici (M) 6-1, 6-4 M
Seaver (H) vs. Motta (M) 6-2, 6-3 H
Nguyen vs. Chaudhuri 6-3, 6-0 Nguyen
Steinreoder vs. Raude (BC) 6-4, 6-1 H
Hu vs. Kausson (M) 6-5, 6-5 H
Mahlangu vs. Lam 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 Mahlangu
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I had been taught all my life to take the Bible literally, to believe that God created the world in six days, that Abraham and Moses really existed and did and said what the Bible records, that every word of the Gospels was true as written, and that Paul really did tell women to submit to their husbands and not work outside of the home. The Bible, I was taught, was infallible, without error of any sort, and was my guide for life. But when I found in college that my parents' views on evolution were wrong, and that the Biblical account of creation could not possibly be literally true, I had a problem. What was I to believe?
This was actually the point where I first questioned my beliefs about patriarchy. I had wholeheartedly endorsed patriarchy up until this point, but if my dad was wrong about young earth creationism and the literal truth of the Bible – and he made this issue the very foundation of his faith and taught it to us with a passion rivaled only by his very belief in God – I realized that something was seriously out of place. Put simply, my father was wrong. And if he was wrong about this, what else was he wrong about? And how could I submit to him and make his beliefs mine if I knew he was wrong? And with that, I let go of Christian Patriarchy.
But at this point, I had bigger problems to worry about. I had been taught I that had to take the Bible literally but now I simply could not do that. In addition, when I delved further, asking questions I had never thought to ask before, I realized that, taken literally, the Bible was wrong both factually and ethically.
First of all, not only is the Bible wrong about how the world came into being, it is also wrong in numerous particulars, such as how many Israelites left Egypt (the Bible says there were 600,000 men of fighting age, which would mean about 2,000,000 people total, but at the time there were only 6,000,000 people in all of Egypt and only about 50,000 people in Canaan) and the correct dates for the existence of the various Canaanite tribes. In addition, the four Gospels contradict each other mercilessly and contain historical inaccuracies (how many donkey's did Jesus ride on Palm Sunday? it depends on which gospel you read. similarly, there was no empire-wide census in the days of Augustus). Sure, I had been taught to explain these things away, but I suddenly realized that those explanations made no sense when I looked at the problems honestly, and not simply out of a desire to justify my faith.
Second, I began to find that the Bible had ethical problems. God commands the Israelites to commit genocide, killing thousands of men, women, and children and wiping out entire nations. The law God gave to Moses treats women as property and even instructs fathers on how to sell their daughters into slavery. The New Testament was not immune to this either; God strikes Ananias and Sapphira dead for the simple act of lying. And this is a good, perfect, loving God? Something was seriously wrong here. And then, of course, there is the issue of sending people around the world whose only transgression is not ever hearing about Jesus to eternal torment in hell. I suddenly could not fathom how a loving God could do that.
Now that I saw the Bible as riddled with errors and filled with genocide and misogyny, I could no longer believe it was infallible in any literal sense. How was I to understand it? I had a problem on my hands. But of course, I wasn't about to throw out the baby with the bathwater. I couldn't very well reject Christianity – it was the core of my existence. So I set out to sift through the bathwater and find the baby. And in this process, I did what many recovering fundamentalists have done: I turned to Catholicism.
The Catholic Church admits that there are errors in the Bible, which it sees as a very human book that simply contains kernels of greater truths rather than literal truth. The Old Testament Law and the genocides were merely a tribal society's way of understanding God, rather than being God's actual perfect commands. This was an understanding of the Bible that I could accept, and, somehow, it made the Bible more beautiful, more rich and complex, than before. In addition, the Catholic Church teaches that Jesus came to die for all of humankind, whether they had heard of him or not. Anyone who lives life with the right heart attitude will be saved through Jesus, whether they hear of him or not. This made so much more sense. I mean, if I were Jesus, I'd die to save everyone, not just the few who might hear and believe.
But unfortunately, once I had begun to think the questions kept coming. Why did the church condemn birth control? Why was masturbation wrong? Why did priests have to be celibate? Just believe, the Catholic Church said. Just accept. We know what is best. It became all too familiar. The beauty and richness was still there, but the hierarchy began to feel stifling. When I took issue with certain things in the church, super-Catholics told me I wasn't being a good Catholic. Just believe. And I couldn't do that.
At the same time, I suddenly found that I had other even more troubling questions. Why couldn't God just forgive people, why did he have to have his son murdered in order to be able to do so? This made no sense. When someone hurt me, I didn't have to have something murdered in order to forgive them. It suddenly seemed to me that Christianity was built on the foundation of actual literal human sacrifice, and I felt repelled. And besides that, how does God have a son who can come to earth and die, and yet he and this son are one being, together with the Holy Spirit? Let's face it, the Trinity makes no sense. How do theologians defend it? "Human minds cannot comprehend the mystery of it," they say. "Just believe." Sorry, can't do that, I stopped doing that a while back and I won't do it again. If the Trinity makes no sense, it makes no sense. You can't just make it so.
With a very human Bible and Christian doctrine that didn't even make sense anymore, I had a problem. I began to wonder if there actually was a baby in the bathwater at all.
One thing I still held onto as proof of Christianity was my relationship with Jesus. He and I had been best friends since I was a little girl, and he was always there for me. I talked to him constantly, depended on him, loved him. He was so real to me – Christianity couldn't possibly be wrong, could it? And then I started to realize something. Christians have set it up so that God can never fail them. Your child survives cancer? Praise God! He healed your child! Your child dies of cancer? It was God's will, and he's teaching you things through it. In practice, whether God exists or not is completely irrelevant. Christians don't get sick less, they don't have greater financial success, and studies have shown that prayer does not actually help. And as I pondered it, I realized that there was nothing about my relationship with Jesus that could not be pure imagination. In fact, that's what it was: Jesus was my imaginary friend. And with that, I let go.
It took me almost five years from start to finish, but in the end I concluded that there was no baby in the bathwater after all. You can't force yourself to believe something you simply don't believe anymore, and my faith died a quiet and peaceful death. Christianity embodies some very excellent impulses – love, service to others, charity – but it no longer appears to me to be divine in any sense. I can appreciate it for its history, beauty, and tradition, but I no longer believe it. I have walked beyond the borders of religion and found that the world is still a beautiful place, filled with wonder, love, and joy. I have finally found lasting contentment and answers to the questions that before had never stopped pestering me. My journey has led me to a place that has, for me, brought freedom in mind, body, and soul. Life makes so much more sense to me now, everything all fits into place, and because I now believe I have only one life to live, I am living it to its fullest with no regrets.
Please don't feel like this post is either my attempt to convince you to follow me down the same path or an invitation for you to try to convert me. It's neither. You might find a baby in the bathwater even as I did not. Everyone's journey is different. I'm not asking you to either agree with what I've said or disagree with it; rather, I'm simply explaining my journey and asking that you accept me as I am. Or not. Because regardless of what you think, I am Libby Anne, and I am an atheist.
If you think anything I have said here is incorrect or simply want to learn more, please see Bart Ehrman's Jesus Interrupted, Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible, and Silberman and Finkelstein's The Bible Unearthed. To clarify, these authors simply explain scholarly (i.e. academic) understandings of the Bible, and reading these works helped me come to see the Bible as a very human book, but none of these authors argue against faith itself. That part I did on my own.


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If you take the time to write good survey questions and poll questions, you'll be well on your way to getting the reliable responses you need to reach your goals.
The first choice you have to make is the type of question to use. We offer both open-ended questions that ask respondents to add personal comments, as well as closed-ended questions that give respondents a fixed set of options to choose from. These closed-ended response choices can be simple yes/no options, multiple choice options, Likert rating scales, and more.
But the decisions don't end there! You'll also have to decide how to ask your questions. To help you write a top-notch questionnaire, we'll cover:
In general, when writing a survey, you should try not to ask more than 2 open-ended questions per survey or poll, and if possible, put them on a separate page at the end. That way, even if a respondent drops out of the survey, you're able to collect their responses from the questions on previous pages.
Say you asked the leading question:
"We think our customer service representatives are really awesome. How awesome do you think they are?"
The question seems to convey an opinion that you want respondents to agree with. You can make the tone objective by editing it as follows:
"How helpful or unhelpful do you find our customer service representatives to be?"
The answer choices you include can be another potential source of bias. Let's assume we included the following as answer options when asking respondents how helpful or unhelpful your customer service reps are:
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b. Very helpful
c. Helpful
You'll notice that there isn't an opportunity for respondents to say that the reps aren't helpful. Writing good survey questions involve using an objective tone. This means adopting a more balanced set of answer options, like the following:
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Customer service and product reliability are two separate topics. Including both in the same question can push the respondent to either evaluate one or to skip the question altogether.
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"How would you rate our product's reliability?"
You'd probably get annoyed, right?
That's how respondents may feel if you repeatedly ask questions that use the same question prompt or answer choices. It leads respondents to either leave your survey or, equally as bad, engage in "straightlining"—answering your questions without putting much thought into them.
You can proactively address this by varying the types of questions you ask, how you ask them, and by spacing out questions that look similar.
Keep both of these things in mind when deciding which questions to require answers to. And when you're unsure whether to make a certain question optional or required, lean on making it optional. We've found that forcing respondents to answer your questions make them more likely to quit your survey or select an answer at random.
Prevent the situation from happening to you by sharing your survey with colleagues, friends, and others, in advance. A pair of fresh eyes can be all it takes to spot mistakes in your survey.
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LACONIA -- Somewhat lost in the shuffle of businesses and governments trying to reduce energy costs, a government-initiated program that allows electricity customers to buy renewable energy and save money is gaining traction locally with the help of a company dedicated to green power.
The Green Power Partnership, a free, voluntary program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, assists organizations in procuring electricity generated from renewable resources and promoting their green power leadership.
Through the purchase of Green-E certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs), customers can purchase 100 percent renewable energy. Glacial Energy has helped many customers participate in this program by purchasing and retiring RECs on the customer's behalf through its Glacial Green Product offering.
Founded in 2005, Glacial Energy is a fast growing retail energy marketer, selling electricity and natural gas in deregulated markets throughout the United States, where it serves residential, commercial, industrial and institutional customers in more than 20 states and 50 utility markets. Its expertise, quality of service and wide range of products make it one of the most competitive, flexible and cost-effective providers in the industry.
Glacial Energy serves 4,500 commercial customers in New Hampshire, while also purchasing RECs for the towns of Troy and Meredith.
"We supply Easter Seal, Tanger outlets, hotels, motels, restaurants, convenience stores, manufacturers, and many others," says Rich Seeley, Glacial Energy's regional director for New Hampshire, noting that its Laconi office also has clients in Maine and Massachusetts.
More than 1,300 towns and cities across the country have purchased RECs through the Green Power Partnership program. Glacial Energy purchases RECs, which represent the environmental attributes of one MWH (megawatt hour) of electricity generated from renewable resources. For every REC that Glacial Energy purchases on a customer's behalf, he or she receives 1 LEED credit point.
RECs provide direct financial support to renewable energy projects, and buildings seeking to meet LEED benchmark standards can receive various ascending levels of recognition— Certified, Gold, Silver, and Platinum. RECs can be used to gain credits under LEED.
Glacial Energy gives its customers the option to reduce their greenhouse emissions and impact on the environment. In the short term, Glacial Energy helps meet customer demand for greener processes. In the long term, green products support renewable energy initiatives such as wind, steam, hydroelectric and tidal, helping to ease stress on the grid and allowing for the expansion of green initiatives to help meet future needs.
Seeley is publicizing the Green Power Partnership program, noting that not all commercial clients realize it's there. "We're trying to raise awareness to let commercial customers know they have that opportunity to do so and it's really something to look into," Seeley says.
Glacial Energy is a business partner of Green Alliance, a union of local sustainable businesses promoting environmentally sound business practices and a green co-op offering its members discounted green products and services.
For more information on Glacial Energy, visit www.glacialenergy.com, and for the Green Alliance, visit www.greenalliance.biz .
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Frito-Lay Lightly Salted Portfolio Expands
Committed to providing healthier snacking options that deliver great taste, PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America business unit, Plano, Texas, introduces two new Lightly Salted varieties of chips – Fritos Lightly Salted corn chips (80mg sodium per serving) and Ruffles Lightly Salted potato chips (80mg per serving), which join Lay's Lightly Salted potato chips (90mg per serving), launched in 2000 in select markets, but now available nationally. With at least 50 percent less sodium per 1-oz. serving, these Lightly Salted varieties provide consumers concerned about sodium with delicious new options.
"The No. 1 request from consumers is for lower sodium versions of the snacks they love most," says Ann Mukherjee, chief marketing officer of Frito-Lay North America. "However, they are unwilling to compromise on taste. Lightly salted meets that consumer need. We will continue to build on this effort and look to deliver even more great-tasting options for those consumers focused on sodium."
To put the sodium content in perspective, a 1oz. serving of Lightly Salted chips has less sodium than one slice of wheat bread.
"Many consumers believe Frito-Lay snack chips are high in sodium, but they are often surprised to learn that is not the case," says Mike Zbuchalski, group vice president of R&D. "Because the salt is sprinkled on the outside of the snack chip, the salt flavor is prominent compared to foods where the salt is cooked within."
Suggested retail price for Lay's Lightly Salted and Ruffles Lightly Salted is $3.99 per 10-oz. and 10.5-oz. bags respectively, and $2.99 for a 9.25-oz. bag of Fritos Lightly Salted.


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|In 1968, Marvin Miller led a committee of players that negotiated the first collective bargaining agreement in the history of professional sports. (MLBPA)
Marvin Miller served as executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966 through 1983, transforming the association first into a bona fide labor union then gradually into one of the strongest collective bargaining units in the United States.
Club owners had ruled baseball with an iron fist for nearly a century prior to Marvin Millers appointment as the MLBPAs executive director. Players had no ability to choose their employer as they were tied to their original club by a reserve clause in every player contract that provided for automatic renewal. Salaries and benefits were low, working conditions abysmal.A gifted economist for first the U.S. government then the United Steelworkers of America, Miller brought a wealth of knowledge and experience to the players cause. With a combination of charisma and clarity of vision, Miller convinced the initially skeptical players of the strength they could wield through solidarity and collective bargaining.
In 1968, Miller led a committee of players that negotiated the first collective bargaining agreement in the history of professional sports. The agreement raised the minimum salary in baseball from $6,000 - the level at which it had been stuck for two decades - to $10,000 and set the tone for future advances.
In 1970, Miller helped players negotiate the right to arbitration to resolve grievances - an achievement Miller considered the most significant of the unions early years. The impartial dispute resolution process paved the way for nearly all of the gains the players would achieve in ensuing years.
That breakthrough led five years later to free agency when Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally played out the option year of their contracts and challenged the reserve clause before arbitrator Peter Seitz. The arbitrators decision in favor of the players was later upheld in federal court.
A compromise that allowed all players free agency after six years service was formalized in the next collective bargaining agreement. Miller embraced the compromise knowing that the six-year waiting period would limit the supply side of the market and drive salaries upward through competitive bidding.
In all, Miller helped players collectively negotiate enormous advances in salaries, benefits and working conditions over five collective bargaining agreements with the owners during his tenure. To reach those agreements, Miller guided the players through strikes in 1972, 1980 and 1981 as well as lockouts in 1973 and 1976.
The sometimes contentious labor disputes only served to strengthen the players resolve, and Miller helped preserve that strength by emphasizing to each succeeding group of players the sacrifices that had been made on their behalf by players who came before them.
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Rep. Heck's rematch in 10th Congressional District features only one Republican this time
First-term Democratic Rep. Denny Heck looms as a kind of modern Goliath for the three challengers in Washington's 10th Congressional District primary this year.
Only one of three opponents has much experience in campaigns, and Heck, a politician-turned-wealthy-businessman, is sitting on more than $900,000 in campaign funds leading up to the Aug. 5 primary.
Pierce County Councilwoman Joyce McDonald of Puyallup, the one opponent with experience in elective office, says her mid-year report to the Federal Election Commission will show she raised about about $33,000 through June 30.
That gives Heck, a successful Olympia businessman and co-founder of the state TVW public-affairs network, an almost thirty-fold financial advantage and the ability to run television ads or blanket the 10th district with fliers if he wishes.
"You can't overcome that kind of disparity in funding. But a reality is, this is America and people need to have a choice as to who they vote for. I present myself as that clear choice because I believe I can represent the people better than Denny Heck has the last two years,'' McDonald, 61, said last week in an interview at her Puyallup home.
Heck, 61, is a liberal on social issues and centrist on the economy, and defends his record as a man who can get things done. At campaign events, he tells supporters that he won passage of a bill co-sponsored by Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick in 2013 that lets the Federal Housing Administration make sure that reverse mortgages – which let elderly homeowners sell their homes and receive payments while staying in the house – are in a retiree's best interest.
Heck noted it is rare for a freshman lawmaker in the minority to get a policy bill passed.
He also tells of getting a Purple Heart medal for the son of a friend and former colleague, Connie Michener. The son, Sgt. Jacob Liddell, suffered a service-related brain injury and the Army held up his medal until Heck intervened.
A third candidate in the race is Jennifer Gigi Ferguson, a marriage counselor from University Place who got about 11 percent of the vote in the 2012 primary running as a Democrat; this time she's on the ballot as an Independent. Ferguson, 56, said she learned from her fourth-place finish last time and believes her background as a military spouse gives her more credibility than Heck in military circles.
Sam Wright, a research scientist from Olympia who retired from state employment, is the fourth candidate. At 77, he is running as a way to draw attention to the Human Rights Party he founded in 2012.
Wright, who plans to spend less than $5,000, and Ferguson have run low budget campaigns in the kind of race that that typically requires a lot of money to be successful.
"I'm running against a machine and I realize I'm running against a machine,'' Ferguson said in an interview. "I think there are a lot of people who are tired of party politics and they want someone who is interested in people, and not the party.''
In a speech last week to Lacey retirees, Ferguson said her family members have been in the armed services for four generations. She also said she brought concerns about care problems for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder to former congressman Norm Dicks before his retirement in 2012, just days before a major investigation was launched.
Ferguson is conservative on social issues and more liberal on economic and health care issues. She supports goals of the Affordable Care Act and wants to raise Washington's minimum wage and also the federal rate. She also wants to require that corporations offer job opportunities to underprivileged people, including ex-felons returning to society, in exchange for preferential tax rates.
Unlike McDonald and Ferguson, Wright isn't running to win but to make a statement.
"I couldn't figure out any other way to change the direction of the country," the Olympia resident said. "You can only do it from the inside."
Wright wants "to get people to run for Congress" in other parts of the country on his ticket, which rejects war and advocates for better access to health care, housing, education and jobs.
"I'm obviously not going to get enough votes to advance to the finals. The 10th district is a safe Democratic district anyway. I don't know why the Republicans run because they can't get any national support," Wright said.
What she lacks in cash so far, McDonald is trying to make up for by pointing to her record of getting things done as a five-term state legislator and a County Council member in her second term. She notes she won passage of a bill to outlaw texting-while-driving as a Republican serving in a Democratic state House, and she's worked across the aisle with Pierce County's Democratic executive to make tough budget choices that cut staff and streamlined some government planning operations.
State Rep. Dick Muri, the Republican from Steilacoom who formerly served with McDonald on the Pierce County Council, said he thinks the mood of voters is different this year than in 2012, when he ran for the 10th district seat and lost with Heck getting 59 percent of the vote. He sees McDonald as a strong, able candidate, but facing the same financial challenges that hampered his campaign.
"As nice and polite as she is, she runs a very tight ship," Muri said, recalling the way she ran meetings as council chair. "On one hand she's one of the nicest people you want to meet, but she runs a very efficient operation … and made tough decisions."
McDonald thinks her approach appeals to independent voters in the relatively new 10th district that runs from Olympia northward to Shelton, Lakewood, Puyallup and University Place. But she is staking out some hard conservative positions, and U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the Spokane Republican who is in U.S. House leadership, helped kick off her campaign in late April.
"My top priority is definitely budget issues. I feel it is imperative for the future of our country that we balance the budget – that we do not raise the debt ceiling and we live within our means (without new taxes)," McDonald said. "And that we have a serious plan to pay down the $17.5 trillion in debt so we don't mortgage our children's future.''
McDonald also wants to start over with Obamacare, which House Republicans have voted to repeal more than 50 times, and she criticizes the Democratic U.S. Senate for not meeting the Republican House on budget compromises. She also criticizes Heck for voting 95 percent of the time with House Democrats, which a Washington Post analysis of 766 votes shows.
Heck is running on economic issues, particularly job creation.
He is advocating a short-term solution to the financial shortfall coming in the federal highway trust fund; he wants to end a tax rule that benefits corporations that put their headquarters off shore to avoid taxes.
With no increase in the gas tax in sight, closing that exemption could keep the federal highway trust fund solvent for an extra 18 months, which pays for projects that create jobs, Heck says. He also favors raising the federal minimum wage and boosting infrastructure improvements – particularly getting state and federal money to complete the state Route 167 spur into the Port of Tacoma, which he believes will create thousands of construction and export jobs.
Now in his second year, Heck is getting ready to help lead the charge to extend financing of the national Export Import Bank, which provides loan guarantees for export sales. He's introduced a bill, which he says has 201 Democratic co-sponsors. He said the bank is needed to ensure that financing is available for buyers of Boeing jets as well as small businesses' products.
The new House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., opposes the extension. McDonald said she is just learning about the issue but is leery of putting taxpayers on the hook to pay for loans that go bad.
"From my perspective I don't think it is the government's responsibility or the taxpayer's responsibility to underwrite businesses' losses," she argued.
The candidates disagree on other major issues – although McDonald agrees the federal minimum wage should be raised to the level of Washington's, which has been the nation's highest. Breaking ranks with many in her party, she thinks it makes sense to tie the federal wage to inflation, so that it goes up with the cost of living – something Washington state voters enacted in 1998.
But on immigration, they differ widely – with Heck wanting tighter borders, enforcement against employers that don't verify immigration status, and a way for law-abiding immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally to become citizens.
McDonald, an immigrant from Scotland, says the pathway to citizenship is "amnesty" for law breakers. Having gone through the immigration door legally in 1973 and having seen her sister's effort to immigrate get held up for more than a decade, she said those who entered illegally into the U.S. years ago should not be given a chance to stay and earn citizenship.
She also criticizes Heck for his efforts to help banks finance marijuana businesses, which are now legal under state law due to an initiative but which are still not legal under federal law. Heck notes there is risk in having cash-only marijuana sales, but McDonald was a force in getting Pierce County to enact a ban on marijuana stores in unincorporated areas.


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Yamaha Tech 3 team have erected a wall dividing the garages of Colin Edwards from that of James Toseland. As we reported earlier in the year (), the two riders had a falling out after swap in crew chiefs occurred. Following the conclusion of the 2008 MotoGP season, James Toseland was granted Colin Edwards' crew chief Gary Reynders, an incident that Edwards was opposed to and has stopped the teammates from working together.
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The owner of a website that showcases grisly videos says that his site should be praised for helping identify Luka Rocco Magnotta, who is alleged to be in a video believed to depict the stabbing and dismemberment of a man.
In an email exchange with CBC News, Edmonton-based Mark Marek, owner of Best Gore website, said members of his site were able to identify Magnotta days before the discovery of the torso in Montreal and a foot at the Conservative Party of Canada headquarters in Ottawa. A hand was also found at a Canada Post terminal that was addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada headquarters.
Magnotta, 29, is wanted in connection with the discovery of those body parts and the video.
"People should be grateful and thank [the] great job Best Gore did to ensure everyone's safety," Marek said.
"Because the video was made public, Best Gore community was able to identify the [suspect] and report it."
Marek said he doesn't believe the 10½-minute video was sent to him by Magnotta.
"I do not actually run background checks on my contributor so I can't say that for sure. By the sound of it, I doubt it was Magnotta, but as I said, I neither have the capabilities nor interest in verifying identities of contributors," he said.
"Many would not contribute if they had no option to remain anonymous. But I'm 99 per cent sure it was not Magnotta. No, the tone in which it was sent to me — no, it just wasn't him."
Marek said the video was forwarded to him on May 25 and posted on the same day. He said it is not known when it was filmed.
He said police have not yet contacted him.
Marek described the site as the "largest reality news website" on the internet that plays an important role in informing people "what may lurk in their neighbourhoods."
"Myself and other Best Gore members are people who don't live with rose tinted sunglasses permanently mounted on our faces. We see the real nature of men on a daily basis so this video was just another example of what we know people are capable of."
He dismissed critics of the site, saying that they feel "threatened when their rose colored world is exposed for not being this cosy warm place they force themselves to believe it is."
He said the website has contributed to making safer neighbourhoods.
"There are literally thousands of people who can attest to that and confirm that the breaking point was their exposure to content on Best Gore. Best Gore exposes the real threats — the drunk drivers, the reckless drivers, the animal abusers, etc. — they are the ones who need to be regulated, not websites that expose them."
But Toronto-based internet law expert Gil Zvulony told CBC News that although he hasn't seen the video, it falls under the Criminal Code's obscenity laws.
'It's a crime to publish that," he said.
Zvulony said he doesn't believe the video would be covered by the "public good" defence.
"The question is, posting it online, does that really further the public good. Couldn't they have simply notified the police?"
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Scandal boss Shonda Rhimes was not kidding when she said Olivia Pope has bad taste in men.
ABC's resident political fixer now finds herself attracted to Captain Jake Ballard (Scott Foley), whom Olivia (Kerry Washington) randomly met at a coffee shop. What she doesn't know is that Jake was actually contracted by the President (Tony Goldwyn) to spy on Olivia by any means necessary. Those means include planting video cameras all over her apartment. But it's not creepy at all, insists Foley, who truly believes Jake has real feelings for Olivia. But will she return those feelings if she ever learns the truth? TVGuide.com caught up with Foley to get the scoop on what's in store for Thursday's episode (10/9c) and beyond:
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Does Jake have real feelings for Olivia?
Scott Foley: That's a great question. I think yes. He obviously took himself out of the voyeuristic aspect of his life and made it into an in-real thing, so by the very nature of that I can say Jake has very real feelings for Olivia.
Does he honestly think he can really have a relationship with her considering the foundation of their meeting was a lie?
Foley: Yeah, I agree with that, but I think he does. Relationships flourish through all sorts of beginnings and rough times. Usually it's best when you're not spying on the person, but I think he believes that they can overcome that should that come out. Although, it doesn't necessarily need to come out.
It's a Shonda Rhimes drama! It's going to come out!
Foley: Of course it is! Of course.
Are we going to see Jake grappling with whether or not to be honest with Olivia?
Foley: Yeah. By the nature of what Jake does for a living — and we're not exactly sure what that is, but we know it's military intelligence — I think he's pretty comfortable with keeping secrets. Although, when you mix personal feelings and secrets, there's always the want to be completely honest with the person you have those feelings for. He definitely wrestles with them. He feels a sense of not just responsibility to the President to keep an eye on her for whatever reason, but the need to be honest with her. That's a big drive for him.
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We've seen their first date. What's their next step in this relationship?
Foley: The next step is overcoming the hurdle that is Olivia Pope and her perspective on relationships and where she's been in the past. To get them to the next step, she has to be willing to say, "OK, let's try it out!"
How will they be working together in Thursday's episode?
Foley: Speaking of trust, there's a great thing that happens in this episode where Jake has to trust Olivia. There's a hostage story in Thursday's episode and she gives him information, refusing to give him the source and he has to take her word that this information is going to be correct, especially if he's going to take it to the President to help free these hostages. He was has to take a leap of faith with her. In doing that, it brings their relationship to another level.
We've seen in the promo that a photographer takes a picture of Olivia and Jake together. That would obviously compromise Jake's standing with the President if that got out. What lengths will he go to fix this situation?
Foley: Jake needs to be very careful. He's doing something here by using Olivia not just as a source, but as a potential love interest that is way outside his purview. It's something that the President would definitely not approve of. I think it's going to be interesting to find out what lengths Jake will go to to make sure that any photo or any evidence of his relationship with Liv is not in the public.
Do you think he feels bad lying to the President?
Foley: I don't think he feels bad deceiving the President. I think he knows that the President has, like Jake does, ulterior motives when it comes to Olivia.
It seems only inevitable that Olivia will find out the truth about Jake's true motives. How will Jake handle that?
Foley: It does seem inevitable. If and when it does happen, it's hard for it to go down in any way that it could be positive for their relationship. Now, that being said, if I were to speak about an imaginary relationship that began with stalking and cameras in someone's apartment and that person found out, I would put a lot of money on the fact that it's not going to end well. Wouldn't you? [Laughs] Imagine dating a guy and you really like him and he's cute and sweet and has a good job — in this economy, he's got a great job! — then you find out that he's had cameras in every room of your house watching you for who knows how long. Could you continue a relationship with that person?
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But the President told him to do it!
Foley: I couldn't agree more! That's the excuse right? That's how he'll get off the hook, right? "Hey, it's my job! I'm following orders. I'm a military man. The highest commander in the military has ordered me to do this. It's my job to do so." I would play that excuse out for as long as I f---ing could. [Laughs]
You're used to playing good guys, so what has it been like playing this morally ambiguous guy? And do you think he's actually a good guy?
Foley: It's been a challenge. I'm used to a different type of character. It's been an interesting challenge that I've enjoyed. Everyone thinks he's a bad guy and morally questionable, I don't know if I agree with that. We're going to find out that he's in a position that's hard to get out of and maybe he wishes that he could get out of it. There's so many more layers and ways to play a character and options you have when you're going into a scene. It's been so interesting. The Twitter universe has erupted on both sides of the fence, vitriol and praise. I love that.
Will we ever get to see more of his background, maybe even going back to when the President first enlisted him to spy on Olivia?
Foley: I don't know if we're going to get to see that far back, but we're going to find out a little bit more about who he is, where he's from and why he's doing what he's doing; not necessarily in regards to the President and their relationship, but his place in the world and why he's there. That's going to answer a lot of questions for people.
Are you rooting for Jake and Olivia?
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African villagers embrace U.S. role in hunt for Lord's Resistance Army leader
OBO, Central African Republic — On the edge of this quiet town in the isolated forests of central Africa sits one of America's newest military outposts, a base made of grass surrounded by razor wire. Outside, a baby chimpanzee plays on a green rope, and three local policemen lounge in a pickup truck. Inside, up to 30 U.S. special forces plot the demise of one of the world's most elusive and sadistic rebels.
The U.S. troops arrived two months ago and by most accounts have yet to undertake any military actions. But their mere presence has transformed this tattered out-of-the-way enclave of Congolese refugees, Ugandan soldiers and traumatized local residents into an upbeat cluster of newfound hope.
At night, energized locals bang homemade 8-foot-long xylophones and straddle voluminous bass drums, crooning new tunes to celebrate their good luck. "The Americans are here/Our saviors are here/Let's dance" goes one such song.
"Americans are favored by God wherever they are in the world," said Bassiri Moke, a local chief. "We asked God to save us and the Americans came. We hope we won't have to die like before."
The American deployment here forms the core of a new plan constructed in Washington to end the violent cross-border marauding of Ugandan rebel Joseph Kony and his band of 200 hundred or so fighters known as the Lord's Resistance Army. Masters of survival, they slink through thick equatorial forests and brush-littered plains in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the Central African Republic, preying on the civilian population for food and new conscripts, killing and abducting as they go. Thousands have died in their wake.
That the U.S. has joined the hunt for a group that horrifies millions of Americans but poses no direct threat to the United States is testament to the influence of human rights campaigners, who, together with evangelical Christians, lobbied Congress to pass a law requiring renewed U.S. efforts against the LRA. The Obama administration responded by dispatching 100 special operations troops to help find Kony.
Most of the U.S. troops are based near the Ugandan capital, Kampala. But this outpost in Obo — a town of 15,000 in the far-eastern obscurity of the Central African Republic, an impoverished former French colony of 4 million people — is the true heart of the effort. Kony and his core followers are believed to be living off the surrounding forests, always on the run.
Expectations among those who live in the rebels' vicious shadow are sky high.
"Kony will die now that the Americans have come," bellowed Longbango Jean-Claude, a 38-year-old Congolese refugee who had three family members killed and three more abducted by the LRA in 2009. "Don't put him in prison like a child. Just kill him."
The area where Kony operates gives new meaning to "middle of nowhere." A sequestered and ungoverned land with few roads, the area lies near the intersection of three of the world's most failed states and one of the remotest points on the continent.
There is little here of international economic interest, though the land itself is so fertile that even refugees have no problem growing their own food. There are vast mineral deposits in eastern Congo, and the U.S. government recently has changed sanctions laws to open South Sudan's oil industry to U.S. companies. But those are hardly factors in hunting down Kony.
The most direct U.S. interest may in fact be tighter cooperation with the Ugandan military, which also has become a channel for U.S. efforts in Somalia, where Uganda shoulders the fight against Islamist rebels with links to al Qaida.
A McClatchy correspondent, joined by a writer and a photographer from Time magazine, were the first journalists to visit the site of the new American deployment. The U.S. military's Africa command, known as Africom, was informed of the visit in advance but said the mission was not ready to accommodate journalists.
Twice in emails, a spokesman for the military said there was no U.S. base in Obo and that U.S. troops deployed here were staying at a Ugandan base. But the Ugandan base is at an abandoned church on one side of town, while the newly constructed outpost where the Americans stay is near a police station on the opposite side. Locals say the American compound has its own helicopter pad.
When reporters approached the American outpost, two close-cropped white heads poked briefly above the wall. One yelled, "You are not allowed in here." A white pickup truck carrying what appeared to be four Americans pulled up to the compound as the reporters were preparing to leave.
Not long ago, life here slogged away as it had for centuries. But in early 2008, as peace talks over South Sudan collapsed, Kony's men, who had been operating largely within the borders of the Democratic Republic of Congo, began venturing further north and west.
On March 6, 2008, they struck here.
Moke was the town mayor at the time. There was a huge funeral party. He warned everyone not to stay out late. He went to bed at 8 p.m.
"They didn't listen," he said. Around 2 a.m., the music suddenly stopped. The villagers realized they were surrounded. "They took them all," Moke recalled.
About half of the abductees were released after a few days, but 30 or so others remained. Boys and young men became LRA fighters; girls and young women, "wives."
Most have since escaped and found their way back, scarred with searing images of brutality and cruelty.
When asked how he is adjusting to life after a year in the hands of the LRA, the eyes of one abductee darkened.
"The images are always flashing in front of my eyes. It's like I'm projecting my own movies," said Emmanuel Daba, who was turned by the LRA into a soldier before he fled in South Sudan. "I doubt I can ever escape it."
Officials in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, say that this country was the weakest link in the Uganda-led regional effort to finish off the guerrilla group. Kony and his men have not set foot in Uganda for years. Most of the attacks take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan is also seriously affected, but each of those countries have United Nations peacekeeping operations and somewhat functional, if ill-disciplined, national armies.
The Central African Republic, however, has a weak army with a spare presence here. When small groups of Central African Republic troops started arriving in some of the more rural areas in 2008, some teenagers had never seen a soldier before.
Now, they see American special forces drive around in white Toyota Hilux pickups and jogging for fitness along the edge of town.
What exactly the Americans have in mind is unclear.
There are differing opinions among officials about whether killing or capturing Kony would be enough to end his movement, which originated in the marginalized Acholi tribe of northern Uganda and offers an ideology that is a cult-like mish-mash of Christianity and traditional mysticism, held together by the force of Kony's charismatic and cruel leadership. Kony and two of his top lieutenants have been charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court and would theoretically face trial if captured alive.
The U.S. says it is here to provide logistical support, bolster intelligence sharing and improve the coordination among the four nations' armies now fighting the LRA.
"Our intent is to supplement host nation military efforts with advice and assistance that maximizes the flow of information to, and synchronizes the activities of, host nation units in the field," said Maj. James Scott Rawlinson, a spokesman for U.S. special operations forces in Africa. "The end state for this mission is to enable local forces to be able to render the LRA ineffective."
Although local residents are impatiently expecting a major new military operation soon, they say they have seen little American activity, and the troops themselves keep a low profile. Obo's acting mayor said he hasn't met any of the U.S. troops. The one identifiable U.S. project is the construction of a bigger broadcast tower for the local radio station.
Rawlinson did not directly respond to a question about whether U.S. personnel would join the Ugandan military on patrols, but he said that it is the African militaries that "have the responsibility of specifically countering the threat."
Ledio Cakaj, a researcher who has interviewed 200 former LRA fighters, women, and abductees over the past several years, is openly skeptical that the U.S. involvement will make any difference in a battle that has gone on for decades.
"The so-called military solution has not worked for over 25 years," he said, noting that the LRA is far more organized and rational than it is often portrayed in Western media. "It is not practically possible to kill them all."
Locals in Obo have had their hopes raised before. When Ugandan troops arrived in 2009, they were warmly welcomed as protectors. But more than two years later, with Kony still at large and the Ugandan strategy for finding him opaque, that good will has evaporated. Locals say Ugandan soldiers sometimes rampage through town drunk, abusing civilians, and they accuse them of running business schemes instead of finding Kony.
For the time being, the U.S. presence seems to have straightened out their allies' behavior, and once again the people of Obo feel their liberation is near. How long the status quo can remain before that elation craters is impossible to know. Locals seem to anticipate Kony only has a few months, if not weeks, remaining.
Until then, life remains a daily struggle.
In mid-January, Mbolifue Dieudonne and his brother, Danambutigo James, carried peanuts and clothes toward South Sudan for sale. They crossed four rivers, climbed a mountain, and then they saw them: five reeking dreadlocked men, armed with AK-47s.
They dropped their goods and ran for it, but James was captured. He was marched a mile and a half and stripped of his clothes. "We will kill you," said a man on his right. But the commander, to his left, released him.
Just like that, he was free. Once again, the tormentors from another land had left him empty-handed. And once again, he had no explanation for the shadowy force that has turned his life upside down in a conflict he still doesn't understand.
"I don't know why they let me go," he said. "I'm still terrified."
Boswell is a McClatchy special correspondent. His work is underwritten in part by a grant from Humanity United, a California-based foundation that focuses on human rights issues.
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This year, fall fashion is not for the faint of heart. WSJ On Style columnist Christina Binkley joins Lunch Break to break down the look of the moment, and the best and worst of the fall 2013 runway season. Photo: Getty Images.
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Zmcguire4lmt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 61 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Natural Gifts Holistic Center, LLC
I need a logo that will grow with my company's beliefs and wont be limited such as just a massage logo. I also want something unique and one of a kind...THAT is where you come in.
This logo will be used for everything from business cards, letter head, signs, car advertisement, and Shirt Logos.
I would like for it to be able to be used in color or black and white. I really like Black Letters for primary use, but I would like to be able to put it on a black background too (like black shirt) and will need it to be able to stand out.
I truly look forward to seeing what the amazing talent on this website can bring me and who knows! You may be the lucky artist!! Good luck and happy creative juju!!
Current services my business offers: Massage, Reflexology, Chakra Balancing, Aromatherapy, Holistic Nutrition, corporate chair massage and products such as oil warmers, vitamins, jewelry, biofreeze, and other massage related products.
In the future: I want to expand and at this point the options are limitless... I would like to have an acupuncturist, a doula, maybe a midwife, hypnosis, and products like bulk herb bends,and anything else in the holistic world.
Holistic means looking at a person from a whole - emotionally, physically, spiritually, along with how they grew up, past illnesses, etc...
This is a baby company with huge expectations of growth and who knows where it will end up.
Please let me know if you have any further questions.
Other things I like but are just suggestions: Ying Yangs, Bamboo, Lotus, Tree of Life, Peace Sign, Eye of Providence, Triquetra,Chakras, Natural or Organic looking
I have posted what I am currently using as my logo.
I'm in the process of a business change from "massage therapy by zada" to "natural gifts holistic center, llc" If you would like to check out my current website it is" http://www.massagetherapybyzada.com but all of this will be changing over as soon as everything is in order.
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[UPDATE: It's finally officially online, click here for The Dark Knight Rises Teaser Trailer! ]
[UPDATE 2: It doesn't match the "alleged" description but The Amazing Spider-Man trailer is now online.]
Only one day after The Dark Knight Rises teaser poster appeared online, we're getting a play-by-play trailer description of two of the most anticipated super-hero films of 2012.
Trailer breakdowns for both The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man have dropped online - and each of them sound like enjoyable teases that feature context for their respective stories as well as brief glimpses at the baddies the two heroes will fight.
If you attempt to avoid trailers (so as not to be spoiled at all) or don't want to know any information about The Dark Knight Rises and The Amazing Spider-Man trailers, it goes without saying that you should stop reading now. This article describes alleged shot-by-shot breakdowns of each of the highly-anticipated film teasers - and definitely contains MINOR to MAJOR SPOILERS depending on how much of blank slate you like to be when you sit-down in a theater.
The Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer: Rumored to screen ahead of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2.
While it's certainly going to be exciting to see what director Christopher Nolan has up his sleeve for the final film in his bat-trilogy, fans shouldn't expect an all-out reveal of Catwoman and Bane - though it does sound as if the The Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer provides actual footage from the film, unlike first trailer for The Dark Knight (which featured fresh Joker audio but no video).
Check out The Dark Knight teaser trailer below - just to get a sense of how Nolan approaches teasers. Reminder: This is the The Dark Knight (2008) trailer NOT The Dark Knight Rises teaser trailer (details on the trailer for the 2012 blockbuster continue after the video):
While fans might be somewhat skeptical of just a trailer text-description for one of the most highly-anticipated films of next summer (given the amount of fan-fueled misinformation surrounding the film), the description was accompanied by a bootleg image from the trailer - featuring the film's logo. The image certainly corroborates the authenticity of the description - but, here at Screen Rant, we don't post bootleg images. So, if you're dying to see the image (which is essentially the trailer-equivalent of the recent teaser poster logo), feel free to search the wilds of the Internet - after you check out the full play-by-play description below, courtesy of Collider reader, Dave:
Trailer opens with studio logos set on top of the blue flame from Dark Knight.
Start panning up some buildings, but to screen card. EVERY HERO HAS A JOURNEY.
Cuts to a shot from Begins with Bruce walking up to that Village when he's looking for Ra's
Screen Card: EVERY HERO HAS AN END
Ra's voice over: If you make yourself more than just a man. If you devout yourself to be ideal. And you become something else entirely. A legend Mr. Wayne….A LEGEND!
Screen Card: THE EPIC CONCLUSION
Cut to Gordon in a hospital bed laying on his side. Looks to be in serious pain. Has A breathing mask on. Is talking to someone.
Gordon: We were in this together, then you were gone…….Now this Evil rises. The Batman…..HAS to come back.(all this is said in a very raspy voice, in much pain)
Bruce/Batman(its not shown who he's talking to, so don't know in which form Bruce is visiting him in. My guess would be as Bruce Wayne) : What if he doesn't exist anymore?
This part is the hardest to understand in the entire trailer, I listened to it at least 10 times but the score is over powering here and Gordon is having trouble talking. It sounds like if says Humor me while trying to laugh. I might be wrong here, full disclosure.
During this quick talk we're shown a shot of the bat cycle when it drives up the ramp from Dark Knight, Gordon destroying the Act Signal all cut in with the Hospital. As well as super fast flashes of Bane's face.
Pan up crumbling buildings to reveal the teaser poster, the camera zooms to the white opening and on an all white screen the title appears. The score reaches a fever pitch before turning over to The chanting from the website.
Fades to black and then we see Batman backing away from something, then Bane enters from the left side of the screen. Very quick shot then the trailers done.
If the report turns out to be accurate, the trailer (which is expected to run for 93 seconds) is managing a lot of story-threads, connecting back to the events of the first and second film - as well as introducing new bad-guy Bane (though it sounds as if we'll have to wait to get a glimpse at Anne Hathaway's Catwoman. It'll be interesting to see how the teaser plays-out on the big screen but given the ominous conclusion to the trailer, it sounds as if Bane is going to be an imposing force for Batman to face-off-against - and offer the kind of formidable physical action we've seen in the comics.
The Amazing Spider-Man teaser trailer: Expected to debut at Sony's Comic-Con 2011 panel - no doubt appearing online shortly after.
Unfortunately, The Amazing Spider-Man trailer report is less difficult to verify and offers a less-detailed play-by-play - allegedly written by a Comic-Con employee who got an sneak peek at the footage. However, should the report turn-out to be accurate, fans could have an equally exciting Spider-trailer waiting on the summer-reveal horizon.
According to the description, the trailer sounds like a mash-up between the recent Captain America: The First Avenger marketing (with stick-man Steve Rogers) and Sam Raimi's original Spider-Man trailer - which prominently featured the spider-suit and manhattan skyline (with, at the time, the twin towers).
Just for fun, check out the original Spider-Man trailer below. Reminder: This is the Spider-Man (2002) trailer NOT The Amazing Spider-Man teaser trailer (read-on after the video for details on the 2012 reboot):
Now for the alleged description of The Amazing Spider-Man teaser trailer, courtesy of MovieWeb:
Trailer opens with Peter Parker [Andrew Garfield] being beaten by bullies, one of which is played by Chris Zylka.
Shots of Dr.Connors [Rhys Ifans] being injected by a greenish fluid in a lab.
Shot of Parker being bitten by a spider,in his own house in what appears to be an attic lab.
Shots of Gwen Stacy's face, Uncle Ben's face and Aunt May's face.
Shot of an alley with Ben [Martin Sheen] and Parker, then one of a dying Ben who utters 'With Greatest power must come greatest responsibility, never forget that.'
Shot of Parker putting on the costume, camera angle from his back. He turns and is now atop The Empire State Building.
Goes black for a few seconds, we hear some monstrous sounds and cut to Connors' lab where his foot transforms into a scaly one. Goes black and we hear roars.
Then we see a giant web with the title The Amazing Spider-Man. Coming Next Summer in 3d and Imax.
Like The Dark Knight Rises teaser report, there are definitely plenty of juicy details here - especially the claim that we'll get to see a piece of the Lizard transformation (ala Beast in the X-Men: First Class trailers, presumably). Sadly, also like the Batman trailer, it sounds as though the leading lady, in this case Emma Stone (aka Gwen Stacy) gets short shrift - with only a single face-shot of the fan-favorite character.
It'll be especially interesting to see how Marc Webb's film differentiates itself from Raimi's origin story - since, given the description in the trailer, it sounds as if a lot of familiar ground is being covered (Parker getting picked-on in High School and Uncle Ben's death).
Follow me on Twitter @ benkendrick — and let us know which trailer you're most excited to see.
The Amazing Spider-Man swings into theaters on July 3, 2012.
The Dark Knight Rises into theaters on July 20, 2012.


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ONU Law Featured - Nation's Most Innovative Law Schools
Jul 25, 2012
The Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law was named one of the most innovative schools in the country by The National Jurist and will be featured in the "Back to School" issue of preLaw magazine in August. ONU was one of 20 law schools selected by The National Jurist.
"It is gratifying to be recognized for the hard work our faculty has done to design and implement our new curriculum," said Stephen Veltri, former interim dean of the Pettit College of Law. "Our new curriculum goes well beyond standard law school coursework. It includes clinical opportunities and courses designed to develop professional skills that prepare our students for the practice of law."
The National Jurist also will publish details about each school on its website in August. In addition to Ohio Northern, other recognized schools include Stanford University, the University of North Carolina and the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.


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Maine karate instructor charged for allegedly recording sexual assault on young boy
BANGOR, Maine (AP) � An instructor at a Lewiston karate studio has been charged in federal court with production of child pornography in connection with an alleged sexual assault on the son of a law enforcement officer.
The Bangor Daily News (http://bit.ly/SuWJ9i ) reports that Wade Robert Hoover of Augusta was originally charged in state court after child pornography was allegedly found on his laptop.
He was arrested Oct. 3 at the office of the Maine chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, where he worked.
He faces federal charges after investigators allegedly found photographs and videos of Hoover sexually assaulting a boy who appeared to be asleep.
According to court documents, the boy was the 11-year-old son of a law enforcement officer Hoover knew. It could not be determined if Hoover had a lawyer.
Information from: Bangor Daily News, http://www.bangordailynews.com