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Designing Policy Based Management in Microsoft SQL Server 2008
- 2/18/2009
Prior to Microsoft SQL Server 2008, you performed configuration management of an environment by using a conglomeration of documents, scripts, and manual checking. The configuration options, naming conventions, and allowed feature set were outlined in one or more documents. To enforce your standards, you would have had to connect to each instance and execute scripts that needed to be maintained and updated with new versions and service packs. In this chapter, you learn about the new Policy Based Management framework that allows you to check and enforce policy compliance across your entire SQL Server infrastructure.
Exam objectives in this chapter:
Implement the declarative management framework (DMF).
Configure surface area.
Lesson in this chapter:
Lesson 1: Designing Policies
Before You Begin
To complete the lessons in this chapter, you must have:
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The stock market has regained all of its losses year-to-date as economic indicators continue to flash red, corporate profits continue to plunge, consumers continue to spend less at retailers, real wages continue to fall, and housing sales continue to decline. The entire "Dead Cat Bounce" has been generated through corporate stock buybacks, Wall Street lemmings trying to make up for their terrible year to date investing performance, and central bankers who will stop at nothing to verbally manipulate markets higher – since their monetary machinations over the last seven years have been a miserable failure in reviving the real economy.
As John Hussman points out, the market is poised to deliver nothing over the next decade, with a 40% to 55% "dip" in the foreseeable future. I wonder how many barely sentient, iGadget addicted, non-questioning, normalcy bias dependent zombies are prepared for a third Federal Reserve generated market collapse in the last 15 years?
From a long-term investment standpoint, the stock market remains obscenely overvalued, with the most historically-reliable measures we identify presently consistent with zero 10-12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns, and negative expected real returns on both horizons. From a cyclical standpoint, I continue to expect that the completion of the current market cycle will likely take the S&P 500 down by about 40-55% from present levels; an outcome that would not be an outlier or worst-case scenario, but instead a rather run-of-the-mill cycle completion from present valuations.
The only people who can't see the recession in front of their noses are central bankers who are paid to lie, obfuscate, and mislead; corrupt politicians trying to get elected or re-elected; and media pundits whose job is to keep the sheep sedated with positive propaganda and a never ending stream of trivialities and drivel. The average person has been experiencing a recession for the last eight years, with stagnant wages, rising living costs, no return on their savings, and rising taxes. Now, even the manipulated government economic statistics can no longer hide the true deterioration, as Hussman describes.
From an economic standpoint, recall that economic deterioration typically follows a well-defined sequence, with weakness in what I call the "order surplus" (new orders + backlogs – inventories) followed by deterioration in industrial production (which retreated again last month) and by real retail sales (which have declined for two consecutive months), then real personal income (which is the next measure to watch here), and typically followed only then by weakness in employment indicators. Nothing in recent weeks has changed our assessment of an imminent likelihood of recession, though as I've regularly noted, the immediacy of that expectation would be deferred if our measures of market internals improve significantly. Though employment is a lagging indicator, we would still watch for an increase in weekly unemployment claims above roughly 330,000, a decline in aggregate weekly hours over a 3-month period, and an increase in the unemployment rate to about 5.3% or higher to confirm the actual start of a recession.
The central banker action plan of monetary easing, negative interest rates, printing trillions of new fiat, currency debasement, and buying the bad debt of the criminal banking cabal, has not improved the lives of average people living in the real world. They have improved the net worth of the .01% who rule the world. They have succeeded in making the ultra-rich ultra-richer.
They, without a doubt, have made the lives of senior citizens far worse, the lives of middle income working class families ghastlier, and the lives of millennials just entering the workforce debt saturated and hopeless. Their deranged machinations have set in motion a global collapse which will make 2008 look like stroll in the park on a warm spring day.
Consider central bankers. For the past several years, global central banks have pursued increasingly deranged monetary policies, creating massive distortions in financial markets. It's easy to point to these effects on the financial markets, as Bernanke, Kuroda, Draghi and other central bankers have emphasized, as evidence that central bank policy is "working." What we, and others, have found, is that all of this deranged monetary policy has raised the level of GDP, industrial production, and employment by barely 1% from what would have been expected in the absence of these interventions.
It appears the sole purpose of these psychopathic central bankers is to talk up financial markets. Nothing else matters in this warped world of the financial elite. Dick Fisher, former Dallas Fed President, in a moment of truth revealed the Fed purposely injected the stock market with heroine and cocaine in order to stimulate gains. Now they've created an addict. They need ever increasing doses to be satisfied.
The ruling lords of the plantation reap the short term high, while the lowly slave peasants reap all of the pain, withdrawal symptoms, and ultimately death. As Hussman points out, even the vaporous benefits have a shorter and shorter high, as the markets are so ridiculously overvalued, the savvy insiders sell into every false rally. Meanwhile, Goldman and their fellow Wall Street co-conspirators sell to their muppet clients, just like 2008.On January 29, a week after insisting that a move to negative rates was not under consideration, Bank of Japan Governor Harohiko Kuroda announced a rate cut to -0.1%. On February 18 he reiterated that the BOJ was prepared to ease further. He wavered on that stance at the end of February, but shifted again last week, saying that a move to even deeper negative rates was possible. Meanwhile, facing economic erosion in Europe, Mario Draghi came out on February 15 saying "we will not hesitate to act." He followed on March 10 with his "bazooka" including a rate cut to -0.4%, an increase in the pace of QE, and a broadening of ECB purchases to include investment-grade, non-bank corporate bonds. On Wednesday, Janet Yellen announced that the expected pace of Fed rate hikes this year was likely to be slower than expected, as a result of weak global economic conditions and widening credit spreads.
Aside from a one or two-day knee-jerk response, these moves have had very little sustained impact on the equity markets. Japan's Nikkei index is down about 5% since the day after Kuroda's rate-cut announcement. The Dow Jones EuroStoxx Index is also down since the day after Draghi's bazooka. One suspects that the response of the S&P 500 to Yellen's dovishness will be similarly short-lived, though we need not rely on that. Given the continued sequence of erosion in economic measures, central bankers continue to point to the financial markets as evidence that their policies are "working." Now even those effects have become unreliable.
When global markets logically got off to a horrendous start this year, based upon plunging corporate profits, consumers no longer able to support consumption based economies, governments collapsing under the weight of immense levels of bad debt, war raging in the Middle East, plunging oil prices due to a global recession, currency devaluation wars, and civil chaos spreading around the globe, the central banker alarm was sounded by the global ruling elite. Save us!!!
The imminent 50% plunge in global stock markets would put a crimp in the lifestyles of the rich and famous. They needed time to unload their holdings on the dumb money and go short before letting the house of cards crash down again. You can smell the desperation of the deranged central banker lab rats, as they frantically push the bar for more stock market gain pellets. But, the number of pellets is dwindling rapidly. Time is running out.
This sudden escalation of dovish pronouncements by central bankers isn't sound monetary policy, being conducted based on demonstrated cause-and-effect relationships between policy tools and the real economy. No, this is an extinction burst. Central bankers are behaving like lab rats frantically pressing a bar in hope that more food pellets will come out of the chute. They ain't comin'.
These deranged lab rats have failed to positively impact their economies in any way. Every sentient critical thinking person in this world knows you grow an economy through savings and investing those savings in productive capital. When deranged central bankers penalize savers with negative interest rates they destroy the economy. It's really that simple. The Fed and their other central banker cronies are the reason productivity, investment and real wages have stagnated for the last 30 years. A world based on debt financed consumption will ultimately collapse under the weight of the debt.
Look, there's one thing we know for certain in economics. The amount of saving in an economy must be precisely equal to the amount of real investment in the economy (factories, buildings, equipment, capital goods, and inventory). That's not a theory. It's an accounting identity. The problem with punishing saving in order to encourage more consumption is that it's ineffective, and also leaves the economy with nothing to show for it. The wealth of a nation consists of its stock of real private investment (e.g. housing, capital goods, factories), real public investment (e.g. infrastructure), intangible intellectual capital (e.g. education, inventions, organizational knowledge and systems), and its endowment of basic resources such as land, energy, water, and the environment.
The central bankers and their Wall Street controllers have already guaranteed the third bubble bursting collapse in the last fifteen years. This time we have stock, bond, commercial real estate, and housing bubbles all poised to collapse simultaneously. Their easy money, QE, ZIRP, and accounting fraud schemes have guaranteed a catastrophic financial collapse. The longer they persist on flogging academic theory Keynesian solutions which have proven to be the exact opposite of what should have been done, the more likely we will experience a worldwide economic disaster.
Monetary authorities have now become little more than lab rats on a frantic extinction burst. If there are no adults in the room among our policy-makers who are willing to pursue the appropriate substitute behavior – expanding productive investment through fiscal means – we're going to have a deeper and more concerted global economic downturn than is already likely. I remain convinced that monetary authorities have already ensured a financial collapse in the coming years that is baked-in-the-cake as a result of obscene valuations. That outcome will unfold nearly regardless of economic prospects.
By encouraging acute financial distortions, enabling massive issuance of speculative-grade securities and stock buybacks at near-record valuations, and repeatedly diverting national savings toward speculative malinvestment, the concerted behavior of central banks is increasingly pushing the global economy toward financial crisis and depressed long-term growth. There is no hope for long-term economic prosperity if we place our faith in the monetary policies of deranged bankers and ivory tower college professors. All they can do is to buy interest-earning bonds and replace them with zero-interest paper. How ignorant must we be to believe that financial bubbles will carry us to prosperity without consequences, and how many collapses must we endure before we focus on strengthening our own legs?
It's sad that "we the people" continue to allow deranged captured academics, under the complete command of the banking cabal, to control the destiny of our country. They have failed for 103 years, but we continue to bow down to these central bankers as if they knew what they were doing. They do know how to debase the currency, obfuscate true inflation, prop up financial markets through monetary manipulation, and generate prodigious amounts of propaganda and misinformation to coverup their true purposes. The people will sit idly by until these deranged rats destroy the world. By then it will be too late to take the path laid out by John Hussman. We are destined to be eaten by these deranged lab rats and their deranged monetary policies.
The irony of economics is that when we pursue policies that encourage speculative malinvestment and make productive investment scarce, the pie gets smaller but a larger share of it goes to the owners of existing capital. The "rents" are always highest for those resources that are most scarce. If we really want more jobs, higher labor productivity, stronger growth, better real wages, a balanced income distribution, and a return to long-term economic prosperity, only an expansion of real productive investment – at every level of the economy – will do the job. Ever more deranged monetary policy will not.
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When I could touch 9/11 a decade later
I've shared this post before. I will probably share it many more times. It's my only real way of knowing what to say on 9/11. So, here is my heart laid bare for you to read about a city I fell in love with and a heartbreak that I could only express in tears that summer day.
When I knew that I was going to be in New York City for a conference in August, the first thing on my mind was to go to the 9/11 memorial. One of my dear friends invited me because she was planning to go with a group the first day there. It was the perfect plan. Except that it wasn't. First, the group was filled and didn't have enough room for one more. (I was heartbroken but realized it was what it was and there is nothing I could do about it.) Second, you know what they say about the best laid plans. First, I missed my flight so that delayed me. When I finally reached the city it took me nearly 3 hours to reach the hotel from the airport. So, even if I had been included in the group, I'd have missed it traveling anyway. Things happen for a reason. I knew it would weigh heavy on my heart to be there but I thought I it was exactly what I wanted to do.
Now, if you were with me during most of my trip to NYC, you know it was super emotional. You see, I've had a mini-crush on the city from afar. I have never been there but my heart was all "NYC ERMAHGERD!" But when I was actually there? It took mere seconds for me to fall in love with the city. Things that people who live there probably don't even give a second thought had me so smitten and emotional. It became so commonplace, my friends didn't even give it a second thought to look over and see tears in my eyes or rolling down my cheek over something that moved me about the city. Something I dreamed of seeing or doing and was actually seeing and doing!
All of that to say, with my emotions so up front and center, maybe the 9/11 Memorial wasn't the place for me. This year. But there was something that I was supposed to see and experience in relation.
I went to an event with one of my dearest friends, Liz, one evening in South Village. And of course, I was enamored with just about everything in the area. (Shout out, City Winery!) As she and I were walking around the area, I noticed a firefighter standing outside a firehouse. I peeked in and noticed a memorial wall. (cue tears) I asked if I could take a picture if it wouldn't be too disrespectful. He smiled and told me it would be fine and not at all disrespectful. As soon as I set up the shot I started to cry. No, cry doesn't really cover it. I began to sob. I took in every face. I looked at every name. It was a "small scale" vision of such a massively huge tragedy. And maybe that was what I needed to see more than the huge memorial. I needed to see one company. To see the impact that day had on them. To see their friends and brothers they lost. Their names. Their faces. Eleven men. My heart broke. I did my best to capture the shot, but my hands were shaking. As we were leaving I tried to thank the firefighter but I could barely whisper "Thank you" through my sobs. With a teary look at me, he just nodded.
I have always felt the weight of 9/11 each year in my own way. I couldn't truly imagine it. I still can't. Unless you were there and felt it, heard it, smelled it, survived it or lost someone that day, I don't think you can really grasp the enormity of the day. But walking the streets and falling in love with NYC and the people there, brought it a little bit closer to my heart. Standing in a firehouse that lost 11 of their finest brought it closer to my heart.
Though I truly thought I wanted and needed to see the 9/11 memorial, I realized my heart–my very soul– needed to see what that day meant in a more intimate way. One day I hope to go see the site where the twin towers stood and hope I can do it with someone who will understand my flow of tears. But this year, I am so very thankful I was with Liz who held my hand and never once questioned my emotional reaction or tried to stop it.
I'll never forget the day that beautiful and completely amazing city came under attack. And now I will never forget that one time I stopped by a firehouse with someone I love to take a picture, thank a fireman, and sob over the loss of lives that horrible day brought.
These are the heroes pictured who were lost on that horrific day.
Lt. Mike Warchola
Lt. Vincent Giamonna
Lou Arena
Andy Brunn
Greg Saucedo
Paul Keating
Tommy Hannafin
John Santore
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BC. Richard Prunty
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A consensus All-American at Oklahoma State, Thurman Thomas led the Cowboys to a 35-33 victory over West Virginia in the 1987 Sun Bowl. He holds three Sun Bowl records: most rushing attempts (33), most points (24) and most touchdowns (4). A Houston native, Thomas carried the ball a total of 897 times for 4,595 yards, 43 touchdowns and 21 100-yard-rushing games while at OSU. During his rookie year with the Buffalo Bills in 1988, he helped the Bills get to the AFC Championship. In just his second year, he was selected to the Pro Bowl. He was voted the 1991 NFL MVP and selected to the Pro Bowl and All-Madden team. Thomas became the first Bills player to gain over 100 rushing and receiving yards in the same game and went on to rush for over 1,000 yards in eight straight seasons. He set the all-time Bills rushing record with 11,938 yards. He is the second all-time leading receiver in Bills history with 4,341 yards, and he is fourth overall in team scoring. After 12 years with the Bills, including four Super Bowl appearances, six AFC titles, five straight Pro-Bowls and an MVP award, Thomas and other teammates were cut from the Bills for salary cap reasons. He played one more year with the Miami Dolphins before suffering a career-ending knee injury. He signed a one-day contract in 2001 with the Bills so he could retire with the team he spent 12 years with. Thomas finished ninth all-time with 12,074 career rushing yards and sixth in career all-purpose yards. He is the Bills all-time leading rusher with 2,849 attempts for 11,938 yards and 65 touchdowns. He is second in receptions (456) and fourth in receiving yards (4,381).


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Motion made by Steve Striffler by email to amend minutes of December 7, 2017 Ex Com meeting by removing the following sentence from item #6 in the minutes:
Karen will write up next steps and send during winter break
The motion is seconded. Motion passes by email vote on 3/2/18. The votes were 9 in favor; 3 members did not vote.


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Another Version of "The Wilderness Years" Article to Share
We received an email today that prompted the creation of a new web site. I am publishing this email with the author's permission. The email said:
Thanks once again for the great information (The Wilderness Years).
I am making very good headway (because of the high quality of your information) in helping to inform my circle of friends to the threat of Islam.
I would like to send / post to my Facebook page this article and the tweaked version to other friends ...how can I do this as a stand alone article without the references to "Citizen Warrior" and "An inquiry into Islam?"
I am getting a good result with people if I take the approach of "softly softly" I am finding friends and family members very cautious regarding anything to do with Islam.
Everyday I am amazed at the difficulty people are having in grasping the issue.
In fact the attitude of denial which Churchill faced and is prevalent today with politicians / churchmen and the general public of all persuasions is possibly more interesting than the whole subject of Islam.
Gordon A Cooper snr,
In response to Mr. Cooper's note, I created this: History is Fascinating. Share it at will. It was a good idea for the same reason that Inquiry Into Islam is useful (read more about that here). But this would allow you to share the article without it being immediately rejected because it seems anti-Islamic.


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(Le Mars)–Farm land on the west side of Le Mars that's produced crops will be a sales and service location for farm equipment.
City officials Tuesday (May 18) approved development plans for John Deere dealer ICON Ag Solutions to move its Le Mars location to 15 acres on Key Avenue. The project is estimated at 2.2 million dollars. The site is property known as the Thommes' land within the city limits on the west side of Le Mars.
ICON Ag Solutions will receive Industrial Property tax exemption for five years. City administrator Scott Langel answered council member Delana Ihrke's question saying the business would pay the taxes and then ask the city for reimbursement of the amount.
Council member Rex Knapp said the farm ground is worth 10-thousand dollars. According to Knapp, the taxable value of the implement business of 1.5 million dollars would be 2-3 times the farm ground's taxes after the the first year or two of the exemption. Council member Ken Nelson said there were plans for more jobs at the Le Mars location.
"We're getting additional property tax dollars," Knapp explained. "We still would have put in water and sewer for any business that went out there. So, we're giving the same (Industrial Property Tax) Exemption that we gave BoDean's, that we gave Le Mars Public Storage that we gave McCormick's. These are the same rules, same game, we're not playing different games for different folks."
"Very good point," Mayor Dick Kirchoff responded.
Nelson said, "It should be noted, too, that this is a corporate center that they're putting in out there. They're going to have more employment out there than what they presently have at their (Le Mars) location.
The city will extend sewer and water lines for ICON Ag Solutions which Langel says are sized not for the John Deere dealer only, but for future growth in the area. The cost is estimated at 285-thousand dollars.
Although local governments won't receive property taxes at the 100 percent taxable value for five years, city officials said local governments who have debt for bond issues would receive full property tax payment for that debt. Under the development agreement, ICON is to complete the project next year. The city will buy one acre from ICON for a recreational trail head end at a price of 20-thousand dollars. Soil needed for the project will be taken from the Le Mars Industrial Park Second Addition. The tax exemption is 75 percent the first year, 60 percent the second year, 45 percent the third year, 30 percent the fourth year and 15 percent the fifth and final year.
ICON has five John Deere dealerships located in Le Mars, Doon, Ireton, Paullina and Lawton.
(LE MARS)–A Le Mars resident who is known for his public service is the new member of the Le Mars hospital's board of trustees.
The City Council Tuesday appointed Ralph Klemme of Le Mars to fill a vacancy on the Floyd Valley Hospital Board of Trustees.
Hospital Board chair Bill Rosacker last Friday announced Klemme was the choice of Floyd Valley Hospital Trustees who considered seven applicants for the opening.
Klemme is a former state representative and school board member also served on the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission and is a member of the Plymouth County Zoning Commission.
Trustee Jim Ryan resigned before his term will expire in December of next year because he and his wife are moving. He had served as a hospital trustee since 1999.
City administrator Scott Langel expressed appreciation to Ryan.
"I would like to publicly thank James Ryan, Jim Ryan, for all the years of service he did for our hospital board of trustees. He was already thanked last Tuesday evening at the Floyd valley Hospital Board, but I think he deserves some special recognition for all the dedicated work that he had done at the hospital."
Mayor Dick Kirchoff said he concurred. If there is not a petition requesting an election to fill the vacancy, Klemme would begin his work as a trustee on May 24th.
(RURAL SIOUX CITY)–A Sioux City man was taken to a Sioux City hospital after he lost control of a pickup truck in southern Plymouth County late Sunday.
According to the Plymouth County sheriff's office, 23-year-old Kyle Young of Sioux City was driving south on South Ridge Road when the pickup went into the west ditch and rolled one time. Young told authorities his girlfriend took him to St. Luke's Regional Medical Center. His injuries were reported to be non-life threatening.
The accident was reported by Young's father about 2:30 Monday afternoon.
(SIOUX CITY)–A Sioux City boy who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident Saturday in Sioux City is still hospitalized.
Sioux City police Tuesday identified the injured children as 8-year-old Gage Zortman of Sioux City and 9-year-old Nick Belden of Sioux City. Zortman and Belden were on a bike that was struck by a pickup truck. The driver did not stop.
Both boys were injured but Belden is not hospitalized.
Police Monday arrested 18-year-old Thomas Varvais of Sioux City on charges of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in serious injury, operating an unregistered motor vehicle and operating a motor vehicle without proof of insurance.
YANKTON, S.D. (AP) A 19-year-old Yankton man died after the motorcycle he was driving collided with a car on a city street.
Acting Police Chief Jerry Hisek says Vince Varilek was airlifted to a Sioux Falls hospital, where he died.
The crash happened about 3:30 p.m. Monday. The 82-year-old driver of the car was not injured.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) Vice President Joe Biden waded into Iowa's governor's race, issuing a fiery endorsement of Gov. Chet Culver and pointing to his success at leading the state out of a recession and helping Cedar Rapids recover from devastating flooding.
Speaking Tuesday at a downtown Cedar Rapids park, Biden promised that he and President Barack Obama would campaign again in Iowa in support of Culver.
He argued that the Democratic governor had put Iowa in position to grow after a deep recession, had wisely overseen flood recovery for areas of the state flooded in 2008 and had succeeded in building Iowa's alternative energy industry.
Three Republicans are seeking the gubernatorial nomination in the June 8 primary Terry Branstad, Bob Vander Plaats and Rod Roberts. Culver has no Democratic opposition.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) An Iowa State Patrol trooper driving Gov. Chet Culver and his 7-year-old son in an unmarked SUV tried to pull over another driver who officials say was driving erratically.
Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Courtney Greene says the incident happened Sunday afternoon in West Des Moines as the driver was "screaming down the highway, honking the horn," and nearly hit the governor's vehicle.
Greene says the trooper turned on red and blue lights and tried to stop the vehicle. The driver refused until a marked West Des Moines police car arrived.
Greene identified the driver as Ed Allen of West Des Moines. No citations were issued.
Allen has filed a complaint against the trooper. Allen declined to comment Tuesday.
The governor's office says the investigation is being handled by public safety.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) The Dalai Lama says education and moral ethics is the key to happiness.
Speaking Tuesday to thousands of people at the University of Northern Iowa, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader told the crowd that relations between nations is important, but not as vital as "internal disarmament," which he says means accepting peace as a path to happiness.
It was the 74-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate's first visit to Iowa. He's on a six-day tour through the Midwest.
He admitted to being a lazy student but says as he grew older, he took an interest in studying for the sake of knowledge.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) A leading anti-tax group plans to endorse Republican candidate Terry Branstad, with stops scheduled throughout the state.
Ed Failor Jr., president of Iowans for Tax Relief, will join Branstad at five stops Wednesday to announce his group's endorsement. They'll begin in Ankeny and move on to Sioux City, Mason City, Cedar Rapids and Davenport.
The group's support is important for Branstad, a former governor who has faced criticism for increasing taxes during his four terms, from 1983 to 1999. Branstad has responded that he cut taxes more than he raised them.
Businessman Bob Vander Plaats and state Rep. Rod Roberts are competing with Branstad in the June 8 primary for the right to oppose Democrat Gov. Chet Culver, who will seek a second term.
AMES, Iowa (AP) Boone County authorities say one teenager has died and another has been injured in an all-terrain vehicle crash.
Deputies say the crash occurred on U.S. Route 30 outside of Ames.
Investigators said the two boys were riding the ATV when it went over a 14-foot drop-off. They say the driver flew over the ATV and plunged into a creek, and the vehicle then landed on top of him. Deputies say the rider flew off the ATV backward and suffered injuries that did not appear to be life-threatening. He was able to call 911 after the crash.
Paramedics said the boys appeared to be about 17 years old.
BROOKS, Iowa (AP) The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says a resident of Clarinda Academy shot a resident during a home burglary and later wounded an Adams County sheriff's deputy.
Authorities said Tuesday 16-year-old Daniel Beardsley assaulted a staff member and a resident before leaving Clarinda in a stolen pickup. They say Beardsley shot Matthew J. Herring while attempting Monday to burglarize the man's home.
Despite wounds to his right arm and abdomen, Herring escaped. He is reported in fair condition in an Omaha, Neb. hospital.
Deputy Jason Swanson, responding to a 911 call, was allegedly wounded by Beardsley, who barricaded himself in the house near Brooks for more than three hours before surrendering. Swanson was treated for minor injuries.
Beardsley is charged with two counts of attempted murder. It was not immediately known if he has legal representation.
WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) Jury selection has been completed for the trial of a Charles City teenager accused of sexually assaulting and fatally choking his 3-year-old cousin.
Court officers say 12 jurors and three alternates were seated Tuesday afternoon in Webster City.
Fifteen-year-old Edgar Concepcion Jr. is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, first-degree sexual abuse, second-degree sexual abuse and child endangerment. He has pleaded not guilty.
Jury selection began Tuesday in Webster City. His trial was moved from Floyd County to Hamilton County because of pretrial publicity.
Concepcion is accused in the death of Krystel Banes on July 10. His trial is expected to last about three weeks.
CORALVILLE, Iowa (AP) State and federal authorities have levied more than $92,000 in fines on a Coralville nursing home where staff are accused of covering up the sexual abuse of an elderly resident.
In addition to the fines against Windmill Manor nursing home, criminal charges were filed recently against its former director of nursing, Karen Etter.
State records say a male resident of Windmill Manor was found in bed with a female resident in November, and both were undressed. And then, on Christmas Day, staff saw the two having sex.
Regulators say the woman, who has Alzheimer's disease, could not have given informed consent to sex.
Regulators also allege that Etter warned staff members not to tell anyone of the incident if they wanted to keep their jobs.
The home's administrator, Janet Peterson, was unavailable for comment.
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It's rare that a truly new technology comes along, promising to revolutionise the world. Just as the printing press and spinning jenny empowered cottage industries with the ability to spread knowledge and manufacture goods, 3D printers promise to enable a next-generation industrial revolution of home-made and customised products.
In the industrial world, 3D printing is known as Additive Layer manufacturing, which should give you a hint as to how the process works. Thin layer after layer of material is built up, in a way that means a final fully-formed widget, hip bone, gun or part is produced.
It contrasts with traditional machine lathing, which has garnered the name Subtractive manufacturing, because material is removed to make a final part.
How to print in 3D
So how can you get started with 3D printing to become part of the revolution? The short and sweet answer is you'll need a 3D printer, suitable material for that printer, a 3D model to print and suitable software to do just that. Some of the big names in 3D printing are MakerBot, Up! Plus, Afinia and the most affordable RepRap design.
The MakerBot Replicator 2 is one of the best known 3D printers on the market, with a price tag of £1,800 / US$2,200 / AU$2,685, while 1kg (2.4lbs) of print filament costs around £52 / US$48 / AU$66. The MakerBot Replicator 2 has a print layer resolution of 0.1mm or 256dpi.
In old-school print terms this sounds almost archaic, but this is more than fine enough to print perfectly smooth, curved objects that can be as large as 285 x 153 x 155mm (11.2 x 6 x 6.1 inches).
The Up! Plus 2 printer is a good contrast because it retails for US$1,650 (around £1,055 / AU$1,735) and has a 0.15mm or 166dpi resolution and maximum print volume of 140mm cubed.
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In the popularity stakes, RepRap tends to win, largely because it's the cheapest brand on the market, with self-build kits starting at around £400 / US$600 (around AU$660).
It's rather dubiously known as the 3D printer that can print itself, which is really a half-truth, since only a number of connecting parts can be created this way. The rest are metal rods and electrical components, but it's a clever sell and most designs can be built entirely at home with basic DIY tools and materials.
What really makes the RepRap interesting is it's very much an open source design. This has enabled a number of alternative designs to spring into existence from the RepRap Mendel original.
For example the RepRap Wallace is a smaller lower-cost design, while the RepRap Prusa Mendel is a larger but easier and cheaper-to-build version.
A criticism of all these RepRap variants is the wedge-frame base design, so a popular alternative to this is the RepRap Prusa i3 that uses a more rigid box frame. While the MendelMax 2.0, which is going through its beta design phase, is gaining attention as the latest iteration of that popular RepRap design.
Common to all these printer types are print materials. To produce prints these lower-cost 3D printer units generally use acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), polylactic acid (PLA) or another member of the thermoplastic polymer family, usually supplied by the kilogram in a spools of 1.5mm thick wire, usually in a choice of different colours. As we've already said though, it's not cheap stuff.
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Printing itself depends very much on the 3D printer you've chosen. Pre-built models such as the UP! Plus and MakerBot Replicator 2 are on the whole standalone and ready-to-go out of the box. The RepRap variants tend to be based on the Arduino USB control system, so need to be configured and run from a PC.
Typically getting a RepRap-based device up and running requires a good number of steps. These starting with installing the Arduino USB driver and development environment for the USB interface. Interfacing, communicating and supplying suitable 3D models to the RepRap requires a suite of tools. Many are built on the Python programming language, so you'll need the right build from Python.org, which is often version 2.7.


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Are You at Risk for Diabetic Eye Disease?
Diabetes not only increases your risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and nerve damage, but may also affect your eyesight. Unfortunately, many types of diabetic eye diseases only cause symptoms after your vision has already been damaged. Regular visits to the optometrist will help you protect your vision and ensure that you receive prompt treatment if you do develop a potentially sight-stealing disease. Diabetic Eye Disease Awareness Month in November is the perfect time to schedule your appointment.
Who Gets Diabetic Eye Disease?
You're most likely to develop a diabetic eye disease if your blood sugar is often high. You may also experience vision problems if you had diabetes for a long time, even if your blood sugar is well-controlled. Smoking, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol may increase your risk. Diabetic eye diseases affect people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes and include diabetic retinopathy, macular edema, glaucoma, and cataracts.
Diabetic Retinopathy: High Blood Sugar Affects the Blood Vessels in Your Eye
Diabetic retinopathy causes the blood vessels in your retina to swell and leak and may also be responsible for the formation of new, abnormal blood vessels. The retina is made up of several layers of light-sensitive cells at the back of the eye. Once light reaches the retina, it is converted into electrical impulses and sent to the brain for processing. Leaky or abnormal vessels interfere with your vision and may cause permanent vision loss in some cases. Injections and laser therapy can be helpful in stopping the leaks, while steroids are helpful in reducing swelling.
Symptoms. Symptoms aren't common in the early stages of diabetic retinopathy. If the disease isn't diagnosed and treated, you may notice episodes of blurry vision, blind or dark spots, faded colors, difficulty seeing well at night, and floaters (wispy strings or cobwebs that seem to float in front of your eyes).
Macular Edema Causes Central Vision Changes
Blood vessels in the macula, the center part of the retina, swell and leak when you have macular edema. Fluid from the leaky blood vessels triggers swelling in the macula, blurring your vision. Abnormal blood vessels can also form scars that may cause permanent vision loss. Macular edema is more likely to occur if you have untreated diabetic retinopathy. Many of the same treatments used to treat diabetic retinopathy are also helpful for macular edema.
Symptoms. In addition to blurry vision, symptoms of macular edema include double vision and an increase in floaters.
Glaucoma Slowly Destroys Your Eyesight
People who have diabetes have double the chance of developing glaucoma, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Increasing pressure inside the eye damages the optic nerve, which sends light impulses from the eyes to the brain. Damage to the optic nerve is permanent and may cause partial or complete loss of vision. Open-angle glaucoma slowly affects your eyesight, starting with your side vision. Since the changes are gradual, it can be some time before you notice that your field of vision has become smaller. Angle-closure glaucoma happens suddenly and must be treated immediately to prevent permanent loss of vision.
Symptoms. Loss of side vision can occur with open-angle glaucoma, although you probably won't notice any change in your vision in the early stages of the disease. Eye pain, headache, blurry vision, nausea and vomiting are symptoms of angle-closure glaucoma. If you have any of these symptoms, you'll need to visit the emergency room right away.
Cataracts Make the World Look Cloudy
Cataracts occur when the clear lens inside the eye becomes cloudy, making it difficult to see clearly, even with glasses or contact lenses. The American Diabetes Association notes that diabetes may change the structure of the lens, causing you to develop cataracts at a younger age than normal.
Symptoms. Symptoms of cataracts include blurry or double vision and difficulty seeing at night or in dim light. If you have cataracts, colors may look faded. Glare and halos around lights may also affect your vision.
Want to reduce your risk of diabetic eye disease? Call our office to make an appointment with your eye doctor.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases: Diabetic Eye Disease, 5/2017
Prevent Blindness: Eye Diseases and Conditions
American Diabetes Association: Curious About Cataracts?
American Academy of Ophthalmology: Diabetic Eye Disease, 10/14/2021
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Diabetes and Vision Loss, 5/7/2021


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Let me open with a confession…on behalf of my dad. While hardly lucid toward the end, I sensed an important message breaking through. He wanted everyone to know…that this service would NOT be the first time his eyes would be closed during church. His power naps, to be sure, were legendary, and gave special meaning to the term "Blackshaw Nod." But this was a logical tradeoff of nature. When his eyes were open, no amount of energy, compassion, attention, love and warmth could possibly rival that which emanated from Bill Blackshaw - our father, your friend, Gods humble servant. That's why the website - williamblackshaw.com - is still overflowing with heart-felt testimonials. That's why we're here. My father was born in 1924 in a town known for its "turning point" role in the American Revolutionary War as well as the slogan "Trenton Makes, the World Takes." Seen through this lens of industriousness and historical inflection points, his Trentonial character has shined throughout every chapter in his life, and crossed every river of opportunity. A Catholic in a largely Protestant neighborhood where age-old religious tensions dating back to Martin Luther still simmered, even in his own household, my father quickly developed skills in findings ways to connect and relate to everyone - and always with strong judgment in reserve. My father was never poor, but like millions of others, the Depression disrupted his world and family in ways he didn't fully concede or admit until his later years. When the War rolled around, he saw opportunity and upgrade - the ultimate ticket to adventure -- but it came with obvious consequence. As he told us many times, nearly 10% of his Trenton Catholic classmates, and many neighborhood friends, perished in that "war to end all wars." Till his death he talked reverently of Turk Nolan and other friends from that greatest generation. From World War II and the highlands of India - where his Air Corp squadron serviced B-25's headed over the so-called "Hump" to China -- came the GI bill and St. Johns University, which opened up a new world to my father: one he embraced with relish, entrepreneurial zeal, and unrivaled creativity. He rose fast as an "outsider" in a largely insulated, wealth-credentialed, mostly-Protestant advertising industry, powered and insulated by his gift for managing relationships, connecting with everyone, and setting new standards of trust and loyalty. He abhorred elitism, and he was fond of saying "Never trust a man whose first name sounds like his last."Of course, lest we over-romanticize his early years, his post-war chapter also came with tradeoffs and excesses…all of which he addressed - with humility and "one day at a time" resolve - in later years. On this point, it hardly needs to be said that many of us are the beneficiaries of the wisdom, counsel, advice, listening and even occasional hand-holding my father fine tuned in managing his own challenges. In his own imperfections, he was both perfect and infinitely more accessible to us.As a somewhat overwhelmed father of two - with one more on the way - I still marvel at how my father assumed the near-overnight role of father of four and husband to my beautiful mother. By today's standard, what he accomplished, in partnership with my mother, made flying over the "Hump" seem like a walk to Starbucks. Indeed, I feel selfish and self-absorbed just thinking about it. Never content with orthodoxy, his practices often bordered on the counter-intuitive. He pushed us to take photographs in the sun - always to breathtaking effect, I might add - and he often tossed early drafts of school essays until we nailed a more provocative and engaging opening hook. Attention and engagement, he reminded us, is not merely a scarce commodity in advertising, but something we must earn in every pursuit. On this particular point, my father was not only smart, but he had uncanny emotional intelligence. He penetrated the deeper layers of arrogance, hubris, elitism, even personal insecurity to understand the core emotional drivers of human behavior. But let's not overstate his expertise. Before the first drop of sweat would break over a question he couldn't answer, he'd punt us to his dearest friend Jim Knowles…or to a friend or colleague in his agency. The mark of a great man, I believe, is the eagerness with which his friends await their turn to help out. Dad built the world's largest favor bank. That too shines from the website testimonials and letters:Finally, let me say a word on this beautiful final resting place. We are right smack in the center of the Bill Blackshaw trail, which dad traveled almost daily for nearly 20 years en route to work in Hollywood. All of us relished those great trips to the office, as well as dad's always fascinating - ever engaging -- narratives along the way.It's also fitting that my father will overlook the temples of creative genius in our world, from Disney's animation studios to Warner Brothers. Or maybe we should put it this way: the studios are in great company, and have a new underground power supply. And so William Blackshaw makes…the World Takes. Dad gave us simple, yet timeless, values. He was our rock, our foundation, our listening post, our tear collection agency, our humble chauffeur, and occasionally our pillow. And oh what a comfortable pillow! Sleep and dream eternally, Dad. May your beautiful soul bring the same vitality, life, and compassion to heaven that you have blessed us with here!
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Brand new FORGED head tube Prodigy 6061-T6 Extruded Aluminium deck either wrapped or painted in high quality finishes, 82.5 degrees Head tube finished off with nylon front plate, rear inserts and nylon brake. Topped with the Classic 4130 Chromoly Prodigy bars with its iconic gusted design. TPR Hand Grips that are soft but extremely durable at 160mm long they give the perfect amount coverage. Two Bolt 6061 Aluminium Clamp with 6mm bolts for ease of installation. Equipped with 120mm x 24mm Hollow core wheels with the best 86a grade Polyurethane and ABEC 9 bearings. Newly designed ALU Prodigy V2 IHC Forks that are now compatible with up to 125mm x 30mm wheels, Wheel spacers are available separately. The Prodigy complete is the perfect scooter for the intermediate to advanced rider ready to progress their riding to the next level.
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- The Prodigy Series 7 comes in 5 new colour ways Splatter, Black, Oil Slick, Scratch and Midnight. Perfect for kids of all ages!
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- 6 Series Alu Forged Prodigy IHC fork- Compatible up to 125 x 30mm wheels.
- 4130 Chromoly bars with extended gussets 620mm/24.4" high x 520mm/20.5" wide
- TPR hand grips 160mm long with nylon bar ends
- 2 bolt Prodigy Clamp- 6mm bolts
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The Bridger Walnut Vanity is a clean lines contemporary vanity with solid wood doors and continuous grain. Custom Brandner Design Modern Curve Pulls, a custom concrete sink, sliding shelf and backlit mirror make this an exceptional bath.
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10/12/2022 – Middlesex, NJ: RX-Safety has built a reputation in the online prescription safety glasses segment for high quality products that are reliable and durable. In fact, RX-Safety's mission is that the company is always looking for glasses with the latest and greatest of useful technologies for its customers. Also, keeping up with the latest safety trends is what keeps RX-Safety ultimately protective for its customers. In fact, RX-Safety works with the manufacturers and brands that it carries as an official distributor. This way, the prescription safety glasses it carries are always top-tier. They provide the wearers with unmatched quality and protection in the lab, office, industrial setting, and beyond.
Additionally, RX-Safety works hard to provide an excellent line of prescription safety glasses for men, women and children in all segments and environments. Whether its school, medical segments, or industrial segments, RX-Safety provides full coverage and protection for its customers. Many RX-Safety eyeglass designs have several critical features and benefits, these features and benefits give that special level of quality. An exceedingly popular type of prescription safety glasses has become the metal safety glasses style. With metal safety glasses, the wearer has a sturdy, yet comfortable frame, that holds up against the elements while they work. This season, RX-Safety has a new frame, the RX-425 metal safety glasses.
In fact, the Prescription Safety Glasses RX-475 are metal Safety Glasses with prescription available. This allows RX-Safety customers the ease of adding their personal glasses prescription from their eye doctor to the frames. Additionally, these Prescription Safety Glasses feature adjustable silicone nose pads for a secure fit. This is highly important for customers in temperature or weather fluctuating environments. It prevents sweat and rain from allowing the glasses to slip while they work. Also, these metal safety glasses for men and women are available in the color Gunmetal. The Safety Glasses RX-475 also come with removable side shields for additional protection. The removable side shields are ideal for preventing materials from making contact with skin, and increases the field of protection that the glasses provide.
Also, these metal safety glasses meet rigorous industry standards and are ANSI Z87-2+, as well as EN 166 F approved for optimal protection. In fact, the RX-475 glasses contain a lightweight frame design. This design allows all RX-Safety customers to wear their glasses with maximum comfort and durability. Whether or not you are playing a sport, working in the office, or any other activity, you can take advantage of all of these features by purchasing the RX-475 metal prescription glasses. With these great features, RX-Safety is always looking to supply their customers with the newest frames for maximum eye protection.
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F.A.C.T.S. Brings Hulk and Iron Man Together
11 septembre 2011 Non Par Comic Box[ENGLISH] Boom Art Department tells us: F.A.C.T.S is proud to announce its full line-up, with most recent the addition of « The Incredible Hulk » Lou Ferrigno as well as Adi Granov, comic-artist famous for his involvement in the Iron Man movies! « We have been trying to get THE HULK to FACTS for years now and finally the stars and planets are perfectly aligned. Lou Ferrigno is a personal hero and whenever I put on a jeans jacket, I think of that amazing TV-series », said Emmanuel van Melkebeke, F.A.C.T.S. Convention Director, with a disheartening honesty…
Also to have Adi Granov join the guest line-up is a thrill in itself. Adi has played a fundamental role in designing the Iron Man outfit as well as his allies and adversaries in the Iron Man movies. A Marvel exclusive artist with a major impact in both the comic as well as the movie business!
« I adore his covers to Iron Man as much as any normal FACTS-visitor would, but do not forget his Captain America and Thor coverwork as well », commented to Emmanuel van Melkebeke.
These latest additions might not be the last even, but for now F.A.C.T.S. has a strong line-up!
F.A.C.T.S. actors:
– Charisma Carpenter: Buffy, Angel, Charmed.
– Torri Higginsoon: Tekwar, Stargate Atlantis
– Sherilynn Fenn: Twin Peaks
– Dirk Benedict: Battlestar Galactica, The A-Team
– Julian Glover: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Game Of Thrones
F.A.C.T.S. artists:
– Keu Cha: Witchblade, Rising Stars, HEX
– Barry Kitson: Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Legion of Super-Heroes
– Aleksi Briclot: Merlin, Spawn, Wizard of the Coast
– Aleksa Gajic: « Technotise – Edit and I » animation, Scourge Of The Gods
– Clint Langley: Slaine, 2000AD
– Minck Oosterveer: Nicky Saxx, Ruse, The Unknown
– Romano Molenaar: The Darkness, Storm, Lady Death,
– Adrien Floch: Lanfeust of Troy, Ythaq
– Adam Devreux: Game Over
– Lectrr: Belgian cartoonist
F.A.C.T.S Comicon is the signature pop culture event of the Benelux, presenting guests and programming to cater for the top segments of the comics, anime, sci-fi, film, TV, and gaming industries.
Entering its 21th edition, F.A.C.T.S. is expected to draw over 16,000+ attendees to its October 22-23, 2011 convention held at the Gent Flanders Expo Convention Center located in Gent, Belgium.
The show will sport 12,000 square metres and will host dealers of toys, comics, movie merchandise, fantasy merchandise, manga and will see 400+ cosplayers and an entire fanvillage, as well as loads of surprises, brighten up the already amazing venue!
For more information, please go to http://www.facts.be
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Je ne savais même pas qu'il y avait une convention de ce genre en Belgique (et je suis Belge !)
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A perfect place to entertain. This house is all DECKED out and ready for your family and friends. Walking up to this house you notice the great landscaping and use of outside space. The door opens onto a spacious living area with vaulted ceilings, custom barn wood doors, new windows, and a beautiful white fireplace. The bright kitchen boasts a stainless steal farmhouse sink, updated cabinets, white brick backsplash, and new black and stainless appliances. Open the new sliding glass doors to the most awesome back yard. This pie shaped lots had been filled with places to entertain. From the private gazebo to the Pinterest ready green house, and the built in BBQ bar, there are deck on so many levels ready to enjoy the summer sun. Upstairs hosts the master bedroom with a remolded bath and two additional bedrooms. The second living level has a spacious family room with an updated fireplace, a 4th bedroom and full bath. The large finished basement can be used as a bedroom, a games room, Or a home theater.


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CRA allowing employees to claim up to $400 work from home tax deduction during COVID
Published December 16, 2020 at 1:02 am
OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency says it is introducing a simplified process to claim up to $400 in office expenses for Canadians working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The process will allow employees to claim these expenses as deductions on their personal income tax return for the 2020 tax year.
Eligible employees can claim a deduction if they worked from home more than half of the time over at least four consecutive weeks in 2020 due to COVID-19.
The temporary flat-rate method will allow eligible employees to claim a deduction of $2 for each day they worked at home due to COVID-19, up to a maximum of $400.
Under this new method, employees will not have to get Form T2200 or Form T2200S completed and signed by their employer.
Employees with larger claims for home office expenses can still choose to use the existing detailed method to calculate their home office expenses deduction.
"The temporary flat rate method and the new user-friendly calculator will make it easier for more Canadians to claim the deductions," said National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier in a statement.
The government says a shorter qualifying period will ensure that more employees can claim the deduction than would otherwise have been possible under long-standing practice.
Statistics Canada says 2.4 million Canadians who do not normally work from home did so in October.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — O.J. Simpson won't be invited to watch practice or take part in any official functions at his alma mater this fall following his release from prison.
The Los Angeles Times reports Southern California head coach Clay Helton told reporters at Pac-12 media days Thursday the school has decided against welcoming back the former Heisman Trophy winner. But Helton adds that he would be "cordial" to Simpson if he met him.
Simpson was a guest at a USC practice in Florida before the 2003 Orange Bowl.
Simpson is set to be paroled in October after spending nine years in a Nevada prison on a robbery conviction.
Simpson was acquitted in 1995 of the killings of his ex-wife and her friend, but later found liable for their deaths in a civil suit.


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Welcome to the autumn, blow winds blow! This is the time of year when my early morning waking policy all turns to shit as the sun at 6am is still kipping a big one. Indeed, I'm writing this in the darkness at ten to seven and the dawn chorus is still attempting to ignore one particularly belligerent teenage blackbird, enough already. What'd I tell you, even he's given up now. So this month's big story has to be the Pope's ridiculous words about the prophet Mohammed. Following the advice of any good Jesuit, the Pope does as he pleases then apologises afterwards. But, come on Pope, you think we're not totally aware of your religious shit-stirring? Even the Vatican must know by now that Islam is the new Emo, super touchy touchy and desperate to prove to its mates how bloody misunderstood they are. So why court trouble with such seemingly random broadsides? You think we ain't aware just how painfully considered that set-up was? Don't you think it's a bit rich dredging up this crap via some dodgy emperor from way back in the 14th century, a time when Christianity's collective unconscious was at least as stupidly dogmatic and easily wound up as Islam is in this early 21st century? If I were the Pope, standing atop Crosstianity's two-thousand-year history of Jewish Persecution, Women Persecution, Homosexual Persecution, African Persecution and Flat Earth Scholarship, I think I'd dither a bit before slinging mud at other religious morons who were so clearly my Juniors In Infamy. But then, the evidence suggests that the Pope knew precisely what he was doing if only because it takes one to know one.
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Finally finally, as a perfect piece of evidence with which to shore up old Jimbo Morrison's assertion that "You cannot petition the Lord with prayer", I gotta add this quick story about Rebecca Smith, an American CNN journalist who recently spotted an exclusive when she heard about a very old Jewish guy who'd been going down to Jerusalem's Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, everyday, for effing years. So she went to the Wailing Wall and someone soon pointed him out. Ms Smith watched him pray for about forty-five minutes, then – as he turned to leave – she approached him for an interview. "I'm Rebecca Smith from CNN. Sir, how long have you been coming to the wall and praying?" "For about sixty years." "Sixty years!!? That's amazing. What do you pray for?" "I pray for peace between the Christians, Jews and the Muslims. I pray for all the hatred to stop and I pray that all our children will grow up in safety and friendship." "How do you feel after doing this for sixty years?" "Like I'm talking to the wall."
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Kristi Clement, author of 15 books, has been a student and teacher of Zen for over 40 years. In 1973, Kristi founded the Monastery Peace Zen Center, and in 1977 she founded the Zen Mountain View Center near Alameda, California. She conducts workshops and retreats at these centers, other places around the U.S., and internationally. She has helped over 540 people in taking control of their lives.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Republican Round Up
-There continues to be no evidence of any backlash for Mike Huckabee in the wake of the Washington cop killings. His favorability is at 35/29, which is a seven point net improvement from 36/37 in mid-November. He continues to poll the best of the leading GOP candidates being mentioned for 2012.
-As much as the political climate has turned in a Republican direction over the last year voters don't really like Sarah Palin any more than they did ten months ago. In March of 2009 her favorability was at 39/50. Now it's 42/51. Yesterday's election could be seen as an indication that Republicans do better when they nominate un-Palinlike candidates. We'll see if they get the memo.
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- Simple thoughts said...
Sarah's numbers will rise now that she will be on fox 24/7. Now that will not improve her qualification, but it will improve her favorables.
the only thing that can improve sarah palin's qualification number is to do really well in the 2012 republican primary debates.
Sarah's numbers will improve with fair weather independents if she is seen as a winner.
with Palin,
If she can win Iowa. She can beat obama.
simple as that. - January 20, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- Unknown said...
Brown was more Palin-like than most Republican candidates. He campaigned on opposition to detainee trials, health reform, and cap and trade and for lower debt, tax cuts, school choice, and tougher immigration laws. While Brown has a moderate voting record and isn't a flame thrower he ran way to the right with his campaign.
- January 20, 2010 at 4:02 PM
Who did you poll...the koolaide drinking media who attacks her for anything and everything?
Palin is not unpopular with the American public. Check out her book sales and the amount of people who show up for the signings.
The UK Telegraph ranked her as #4 in the Top 100 Most Influential US Conservatives.
You need some new poll takers! - January 20, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- Simple thoughts said...
Can you please do a Primary Poll on Romney,Huck,Palin,Newt,Pawlenty,Rudy.
- January 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- Covenant60 said...
You should poll Bayh vs. Pence for the Senate race this year. That result should give a good idea of the depth of the trouble Dems are in this year.
- January 20, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- Covenant60 said...
By the way.. I appreciate your polling. We do not agree on policy much, but you are a stand-up pollster. Thanks.
- January 20, 2010 at 4:18 PM
- William Henley said...
PPP has always been the laughing stock of poll jokes. The only way the Huckster could be ahead of an amoeba is because PPP polled 1000 people (alive or dead) who live in his district and who most likely don't vote. What a joke.
- January 20, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Christy AKReport: Anything is simple in one's imagination. Sarah was on a media-focused book report, she spent an entire week on FOX prior to her being hired and she has now spent two weeks as an "analyst" discussing herself. If you love Palin, you cannot see enough of her; if you are looking for substance, she is not the way to go. Among FOX viewers, she already has curried the favorability of all she is going to get; she isn't going to convince anyone else at this time.
The difference with Huckabee was that he needed to define himself with conservatives (since the conservative blogs were doing a hatchet job on him) and his exposure on FOX gave him that media platform for such successful definition. Palin already had the conservative blogs on her side, so this does nothing for her.
I do agree, however, it all depends on the debates. Unlike you, however, I think Huckabee has the best chance in Iowa -- not to mention the debates -- he wowed them last time, and his likeability, eloquence, debating skills and social conservative values have remained constant. - January 20, 2010 at 4:31 PM
I highly disagree Palin's message is fine and Brown used many of her lines during his campaign spots.
Fighting against the "Machine" or the "Establishment" No more politics as usual.
Palin's problem is that she still hasn't shown that she has the intellectual depth to be a presidential candidate for the republican party. - January 20, 2010 at 4:55 PM
"Republicans do better nominating....unPlain like"
Oh COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Geeze, this is MASSA-FREAKEN-CHUSETTS we're talking about here. The most liberal state in the country. Of course a less social conservative candidate will do better. It's like going out of your way to say Democrats tend to do better when they nominate unObama like candidates in Texas. Well Duh! - January 20, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Palin is popular among hard-core conservatives, but disliked by everyone else. Palin is unlike Brown in the fact that she can't appeal to independents whatsoever. - January 20, 2010 at 8:41 PM
My guess is Romney is slightly ahead of Huckabee with Palin a distant 3rd.
With the Brown victory in Romney's Corner, I would expect his numbers to rise even more in February.
BOSMAN - January 20, 2010 at 10:58 PM
Great News, again Huckabee tops another Poll, does not matter if its Gallup, CNN, or Rasmussen. Hucks always at top. I know PPP is one of the most reliable pollsters. Keep up the good work.
The Public knows when it comes to a stand up guy who can Beat Obummer. Huck is the guy. Cant wait to see Huck Own Obama in a debate.! Huck 12.
I like Palin, but the more she talks the more I know she is not ready for Potus. Fox was a bad move for that Hott Momma. - January 21, 2010 at 1:16 AM
Congrats on the perfect call on the MA Senate race. Your credibility as a pollster is very high.
- January 21, 2010 at 6:32 AM
Palin has a fanatically loyal following on the right, but she lacks the appeal to independents. While she made a good VP pick for McCain, she wouldn't be a strong candidate on her own.
- January 21, 2010 at 7:42 AM
- Unknown said...
@William Henry:
Then you would expect their results to be erratic. But more importantly, they first predicted the MA race going to Brown, and they were correct on the final point spread and only off by one (51/46 vs. 5/47).
Looks pretty good to me. - January 21, 2010 at 8:52 AM
- PolticalJunkie2008 said...
Romney is the right choice for 2012. He is 3 for 3 in the high profile elections where his guys have gone toe to toe with Obama's guys in VA, NJ, and now MA.
- January 21, 2010 at 9:31 AM
"My guess is Romney is slightly ahead of Huckabee with Palin a distant 3rd."
Hahaha...looks like you missed something...maybe you should read the 2nd paragraph in the article again.
Huckabee 2012! - January 21, 2010 at 2:51 PM


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In a review published in Bakery Products Science and Technology, researchers from a host of institutes looked into the use of maize, oat, barley, sorghum and millet in breads.
All of the non-gluten grains held huge promise for bread development as they were nutrient-rich and cost effective, the researchers said. However, exploitation remained "constrained for several reasons".
"In bread making applications, the lack of gluten proteins to meet dough viscoelastic and fermentative restrictions has generally constrained the incorporation of substantial amounts of these underused cereals into wheat dough systems to achieve dietary and health-endorsing effects," they wrote.
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Portugal's traditional maize bread broa which used more than 50% maize should be looked at for development ideas, they said. In general, it had been possible to develop acceptable breads that incorporated maize into the matrix, including gluten-free varieties.
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Use of barley fractions in breads was an area of increasing interest because of the beta-glucan content in the grain, the researchers said.
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Despite this, barley breads had been successfully developed using up to 30% of the 'middling' fraction of whole grain and pearled barley, significantly increasing the beta-glucan and fiber content of the breads.
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proteins do not possess the unique viscoelastic properties characteristic for wheat gluten, resulting in lower quality products, that is lower bread volume."
Some experts had, however, succeeded in developing oat breads by adding water and gluten to the formulation, they explained. Developing oat breads without added gluten or water required different processing such as optimizing a sourdough process, they said. Wheat sourdough, for example, could be added.
Sorghum breads: Chronic disease protection and low post-meal GI
Research showed that whole grain sorghum flour in refined wheat flour flat breads had the potential to lower the effect on post-meal blood glucose levels in humans. "This would provide a low glycemic index food product of benefit for the long-term protection from type 2 diabetes mellitus," the researchers wrote.
In addition, the antioxidant capacity could provide protection from oxidative stress and reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and some cancers, they said.
Research showed fermentation worked to contain the nutritional content of the grain.
However, incorporating sorghum into breads was challenging because of certain physiochemical properties that negatively affected the technological properties of bread, the researchers said. Protein in sorghum aggregated during the liquid phase of batter, forming lumps which interfered with the starch gel that led to poor crumb formation. In addition, the high gelatinization temperature of the grain could cause inadequate gelatinization during baking creating white streaks and patches on the crust and a coarse mouth feel.
Millet breads: Calcium rich with dietary fiber
Finger millet was a grain rich in calcium and dietary fiber, the researchers said, as well as a good source of protein, fat and phytochemicals.
It was linked to a number of health benefits because of its ability to lower glycemic and cholesterol levels as well as its antiulcerative properties, they said.
Research showed possibilities of incorporating the grain, in flour form, into biscuits, breads and snacks at various levels. However, millet had not yet entered the international trade markets, they noted.
The future to successfully incorporating these non-gluten grains into breads would be down to optimization of mixed matrixes and advancements in technology, the researchers said.
Source: Bakery Products Science and Technology
Published online ahead of print, doi: 10.1002/9781118792001.ch6
"Barley, Maize, Sorghum, Millet, and Other Cereal Grains"
Authors: W. Zhous, YH. Hui, I. De Leyn, MA. Pagani, CM. Rosell, JD. Selman and N. Therthai


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