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No need to start hitting grounders to Buster Posey at third base quite yet.
A drastic move to replace Pablo Sandoval would be premature despite a $50 million divide between the Giants and their World Series MVP. A starting point is just that, both sides engaging to talk further about bridging the gap.
But … if the Giants aren't going to get a lot closer to Sandoval's price, they should prepare for the Panda Farewell and Appreciation Tour. Panda hats full price this year, two bits next year.
The Sporting Green's Henry Schulman reported that Sandoval's agent, Gustavo Vasquez, rejected a three-year offer for about $40 million and asked for at least Hunter Pence money, five years and $90 million, the kind of funny bucks tossed around these days to players with Sandoval's star power.
Leadoff hitters Jacoby Ellsbury and Shin-Soo Choo received deals averaging $21.9 million and $18.8 million over seven years, respectively. As for third basemen not named Alex Rodriguez or Miguel Cabrera, consider that the Mets' David Wright averages $17.25 million and Washington's Ryan Zimmerman $16.7 million, and those contracts were signed in 2012 – before the market got a whole lot nuttier.
Sandoval has every right to ask for the moon, and the Giants are hesitant to give Pence money to someone who doesn't start 162 games or order kale by the bushel.
If the Giants were 100 percent convinced that Sandoval will maintain his figure through 2019, he'd be signed already. His weight, health and stats have fluctuated too much to be certain about his consistency and discipline. Weight clauses aren't unprecedented (see Delmon Young, Carlos Lee, Curt Schilling), but the union frowns on them, especially for marquee free agents.
Until further notice, the Giants consider it a huge risk to give Sandoval $90 million over five years, but it's a risk another team would take. Think the Yankees (Kelly Johnson), Red Sox (Will Middlebrooks) and Dodgers (Juan Uribe) might want to upgrade next winter?


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Fed up with rising taxes
on property, this resident
is ready to make changes
Prior to Nov. 2, 2004, Chatham County Commission Chairman Pete Liakakis was present at a property owners and tax meeting. Due to his statements at the meeting, I and possibly others were led to believe that he was sympathetic to our dilemma. We were instrumental in replacing five out of the nine commissioners.
In recent weeks it has become obvious that I made a huge mistake. I'd like to offer my apology to the property owners of Chatham County for my part in that error in judgment; it can be fixed in the next elections.
As I've stated in the past, there needs to be a change in the taxing procedure, not only in Georgia, but in the United States. The property owner has been left exposed to the whims and fancies of those responsible for taxing.
I've formed a new organization called Stop Taxing Our Property of Georgia, Inc. The group is dedicated to equality and justice for all of us. We ask that anyone who has been frustrated with the actions of other groups please give us a chance to explain our point of view.
Taxes are supposed to be for services rendered to the people. Services are not rendered to property. This is not a racial issue. This is a property owners issue.
It's estimated that 56 cents out of every dollar goes for taxes of some kind. We supported our families and purchased our property with the remaining 44 cents. And now our local politicians want as much in taxes per year as we purchased our property for.
STOPG, Inc., is a non-partisan organization; we endorse no political party. I started being a political activist many years ago. It is quite easy to defeat an incumbent. Most politicians think all they need is money, but that's not so. What they need is our vote. That is where we come in. Let's return the power to the people.
Stop Taxing Our Property
of Georgia, Inc.
Unhappy as a teacher?
Get out of the classroom
Teachers shouldn't burden their students with their own issues. With the new school year beginning, I am asking teachers in Chatham County not to complain and whine to their students. They should just step up to the plate and teach our kids.
By complaining I mean if a teacher wanted a second-grade class and got a fourth-grade class or has been given a class of struggling students and not high achievers, he should remember it isn't the students's fault that he is unhappy.
When teachers let their students know they don't want to be there, how can they expect students to be motivated and attend class? Is being pleasant that hard to do? Teachers should keep their negative attitude to themselves and not unload it on the kids.
I beg burned-out teachers to get out of the profession. There are a lot of fine, talented and motivating teachers who would take their job in a second. Let our kids experience an environment with positive, can-do educators who love the teaching profession and want to excite them to learn. Please make this a happier year for everyone.
MELINDA MacFARLAND
Liberals, media ignore
that we are fighting a war
After hearing and reading the liberal media reporting on the war on terror, I'd like to give an old soldier's views. I was a soldier for 26 years. I served two tours in Vietnam and nothing saddens me more than the sound of "Taps."
The first thing every service member (active duty, National Guard, reservist) does when entering the profession of arms is take an oath to protect this country and obey all orders. It may come as a surprise to those who have never served and to the liberal media, but the profession of arms is one in which you may be required to kill or be killed.
Simply put, the service members dying in the war on terror are complying with the oath they took when entering the service. Do the liberal media believe you fight a war without casualties?
Maybe they don't believe we are fighting a war or that al-Qaida exists. Maybe they believe the bombings will stop if we withdraw. Maybe the liberals would rather fight al-Qaida in Georgia.
I hear people say they support the troops but are against the war. They told me the same thing when I was fighting communists in 1967-69. In fact, the only thing Vietnam and the war on terror have in common is the way they are reported to the American people by the liberal media.
Money demand pushed
potential members away
I have a concern. My husband I have attended a local church since we moved here. We decided we wanted to join the church we had been baptized in as children.
The night before we were to join the church, the preacher came to our home and told my daughter that we would have to be saved and give half our income to the church. What gives the pastor of a church the right to tell a person how much money to give?
Because of that demand, we are now looking for another church. If we had to give the church half of our income, we would be in the street. That pastor pushed us away.
Read all fine print from credit card companies
I'm probably no different than most Morning News readers in that I have several major credit cards I use for convenience sake. In the last couple of years, however, I've noticed a marked change in the terms and requirements governing the use of credit cards and their impact on cardholders.
The changes cover such items as interest rates, late fees, default interest rates and arbitration provisions. The notices are becoming more frequent and the changes more dramatic and restrictive on cardholders. All the changes, without exception, work to the sole benefit of the credit card company.
I recently received notice of a change in terms on one of my cards that was 14 pages long and required a considerable amount of time just to read and digest. It included the now-prevalent arbitration agreement which was almost four pages long.
I would surmise that the majority of credit cardholders ignore these notices and either just file them away or toss them in the trash. I strongly recommend that upon receipt of such notices that cardholders read them in their entirety. It will at least make them more knowledgeable and may save them a lot of grief in the future.
Savannah has history of
being great sports town
Tim Guidera's Aug. 8 sports column, "Sports never were, never will be part of Savannah's identity," written in reaction to The Sporting News listing of Savannah as a poor sports city (No. 302), is flawed. His "never, ever" approach to the article reveals him, as our cousins from Charleston, S.C., are wont to say, as someone from "away."
Were he covering a sports beat, say 50 or 60 years ago, he'd know and appreciate Savannah as a great sports town. My memories of sports in Savannah include the magical year 1947, when war-hero Lou Brissie and his Indians teammates played before huge crowds that often filled both bleacher sections and were standing along the left- and right-field playing lines.
Beyond baseball, there were the annual football wars between Savannah High School and Benedictine that packed Grayson Stadium on Turkey Day. And golf, always big in Savannah, produced Hobart Manley, one of the great amateur players.
Club boxing was prominent at the Jewish Alliance and Union Bag Athletic Association, and there was wrestling at the City Auditorium, which featured the likes of Tommy Todd and The Green Hornet. In addition, Savannah led the way in basketball with the great Savannah High teams and those of Johnson and Beach high schools that dominated statewide. The memories go on and on.
Savannah never a sports town? Why that's like saying there's no Santa Claus.
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What a day we had at the third Momentum One-day International at the Wanderers on Sunday! It literally had everything from a packed house to exhilarating individual performances, and even some very pink jackets flying around! The entertainment in the middle was breathtaking at times and it certainly lived up to all the pre-match hype.
Speaking of pre-match, I was inspecting the pitch approximately 40 minutes before play and was greeted by Misbah-ul-Haq and Mohammad Hafeez. They were out at centre wicket just before the toss checking out the surface in their respective duties as captain and vice-captain.
Mohammad, whom I have got to know well over the years, broke away from discussions to come and take the 'mickey' out of me regarding the rather loud pink jacket I was wearing, coupled with matching shirt and tie. Following some well-targeted jibes delivered with a big smile on his face it was my turn. In jest I told him at least I was wearing pink and supporting a great cause and asked where his pink was. To me and my camera crew's surprise, he then showed us his extremely pink jocks, laughed his head off and rejoined his skipper at a gallop.
That epitomised the day for me and I knew the party had begun. I am almost certain that everyone at some stage has somehow sadly been touched by the scourge of breast cancer and the manner in which everyone embraced the platform for awareness was heartwarming.
The South African players jumped at the opportunity to fly the flag and be involved and the Pakistan team officially approached Cricket South Africa and the sponsors Momentum to see what they could do to support the day.
The nearly 28 000 pink-adorned people who crammed into the stadium and joined the massive drive determined that it was a day to remember.
Congratulations to all involved in the initiative and well played to the players for having made it even more memorable by delivering superb entertainment.
That was certainly a day to be consigned to the memory banks and let's hope it was a forerunner to an annual one-day pink drive day where once again everyone is galvanised behind an extremely worthy cause.


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What is the value of social networking sites?
What is the value of social networking sites? - by Frankie
Here are some simple tips on how to maximize online networking:- by PaulRushing
- Build your network before you need it. Make contacts and offer value in your association without asking for anything in return.
- Became a giver in online public settings. Offering, advice and opinion without it being solicited. Do so tastefully and diplomatically.
- If your opinion disagrees with the status quo be able to give the why, making sure to add value to the conversation.
- Do it often!! Don't be a passive contact. Stay in touch and keep adding to and growing the conversation. Usually the small minority will influence the powerful majority.


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i loved it
That was one of the best stick flashes i have seen and i liked the music as it went with the flash. my favourite was toughluck's part because it like war flashes and that 1 was awesome!! you should make more
It was great
I really enjoyed this collab. It was cool to see all the different artists and thier work.
Cant wait for the next one
Very good collab! :) Enjoyed it.
Jazza owns...
Samus, I was kinda dissapointed in your work, you usually come out with the best on the collab, this however was not your best. I still however feel your the best cartoon animator out right now! wo0t wo0t
Everyone did a good job, I enjoyed seeing a lot of diff techniques that the animators used.
I however didn't think C-A did a good job on anything. The buttons at the beginning are pathetic. The only thing I would say good job on is putting your name on it.
Anyways, I give this flash 9/10 cause I liked all but C-A's part.
Thought it was great and can't wait till Ma$sacre 3 comes out! All artists involved were awsome! Just wondering who did the music- I know I've heard it before. Can't remember. Keep up the good work!
good job guys
Silent killahs was my favorite bit but it was all good


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Written by: Michael Den Boer on October 2nd, 2012
Theatrical Release Date: USA, 2012
Director: Tom Morris
Writers: Elliot Feld, Jaz Kalkat, Tom Morris
Cast: Chris Sheffield, Maiara Walsh, Sam Ayers, Skylan Brooks, Bobby Campo, Seth Cassell, Federico Dordei, Janeane Garofalo, Larry Miller
BluRay released: October 2nd, 2012
Approximate running time: 85 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Widescreen / 1080 Progressive
Rating: NR
Sound: DTS-HD 5.1 English, Dolby Digital Stereo English
Subtitles: English
BluRay Release: Well Go USA
Region Coding: Region A
Retail Price: $29.98
Synopsis: A tennis prodigy's, who has just been offered a full scholarship to a university that generations of his family members have attended. He is forced to change his summer plans of going on a trip to Mexico with his friends. When he is told that he is one credit short of graduating. Along the way he gets the his High School to let him attend gradation, in hope that his parents will not discover that he has not meet all of his academic requirements to graduate. And to keep up his charade, he enrolls in summer school to complete the one class he needs to graduate. Trying to keep his secrets under wraps proves to be too much, when his overbearing father's dream of him becoming a tennis superstar puts his chances of completing summer school in jeopardy.
The heart and soul of all 'coming of age' film are its characters, especially its protagonist. Needless to say that the more likable the characters are, the deeper the story at hand resonates.
Unfortunately for General Education its protagonist is not an easy character to identify with. In fact with each new obstacle that gets in his way, I found myself feeling indifferent to whether he could overcome these aforementioned obstacles. To put it simply, this is not the lovable loser that has become synonymous with these type of 'coming of age' comedies.
Fortunately for this film the secondary characters which make up this film colorful cast of characters fare so much better. And while the majority of these characters run the gamut of the stereotypical that populate teen comedies of this ilk. There are a handful of characters that standout in a film that at times feels to content to stay within the safe confines of the teen comedy genre. Most notably this film's protagonist thirteen year old black sidekick, who doesn't wear shoes because 'he can run faster without them', the protagonist sister who spends most of the film dressed up as a mime and his neurotic mother, who is superbly portrayed by Janeane Garofalo (Reality Bites).
Flaws with the characters which populate this film aside. Outside of a few memorable moments. Another area in which film often comes up short is its fairly routine and predictable story
The BluRay:
General Education comes on a 25 GB single layer BluRay. The film is presented in a 1080 progressive anamorphic widescreen. Colors and flesh tones look accurate, contrast and black levels look consistent good, details look crisp and there are no problems with compression.
This release comes with two audio options, a DTS-HD 5.1 mix in English and a Dolby Digital Stereo mix in English. Being that this is a dialog driven movie you really can't go wrong with either audio mix. Both audio mixes sound clean, clear and balanced throughout. Also included with this release are removable English subtitles.
Extras for this release include a trailer for the film (1 minute 44 seconds – anamorphic widescreen), outtakes (5 minutes 39 seconds – anamorphic widescreen) and a 'Making of' featurette (10 minutes 15 seconds – anamorphic widescreen) and a audio commentary with director Tom Morris, producers Jaz Kalkat, Kevin Liang and Elliot Feld and sound editor Tim Hoogenakker. The insightful audio commentary is easily the best extra included with this release. Also included with this release are trailers for other titles also available from Well Go USA. Overall General Education gets a strong release from Well Go USA.
Note: This film is also being released by Well Go USA on DVD.


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Emacs is the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. This Editor is used to do a lot of things, from IRC to reading mails and news, along with "basic" editing, advanced macro, remote control, multimedia player, and so on...
This webpage is about EMMS, an Emacs "package" that you use to extend Emacs features to multimedia.
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» Student WorksheetPost-Viewing Sheet #4: Student Writing Assignment:
"Let me introduce you to lunch at my school"
Note to students: You have looked at some of the diet issues that face our nation. Some of you have examined your own diet and compared it to the food pyramid. However, healthy eating is not just about what you consume, but the amount of pleasure that you receive from your meals. How food is presented and the environment in which you eat it is also part of a healthy diet. You are going to write a two-page (500-word) paper that examines lunch at your school. Please include the following:
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We have worked on over 5,000 plus projects – all extremely rewarding in some facet or another. However, the most rewarding things we do continue to be those that don't involve our online marketing expertise or web experience. Instead, the opportunities that take us out of the office to put in time, blood, sweat and tears to help those less fortunate always leaves the most lasting impression on each one of us.
This holiday season imFORZA decided that the people right in our own backyard could use our help so we paid a visit to the Los Angeles Mission in downtown Los Angeles.


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Let's see, do I have everything? Lap-top, check. Digital camera, check. Voice recorder check. Sandwiches check. Cell phone, of course, looks like I'm ready to go! New Britain here I come and I will be preceded by the Double-A version of a wrecking crew from Binghamton known as the B-Mets.
I sent word ahead, a little advanced warning so-to-speak, when I reached out to Matt den Dekker today and told him I would be at these next four games, and asked him if he would have a little time to answer some questions for our readers at MMO. He said he would have some time, and seeing as he is red-hot with the bat right now and simply scorching the ball to the tune of a .386/.429/.636 slash line in his last ten games, with five doubles, two HR's and eight RBI's, I better keep my distance in case he spontaneously combusts.
There should be lots of interesting B-Mets tid-bits coming your way here on MMO all this week. I'm going to go the distance for you to answer once and for all your burning B-Mets questions. Where does Zack Wheeler think he is in his development as a pitcher? What adjustments have Jefry Marte, Eric Campbell, and Armando Rodriguez made in order to have such success this year? How is Reese Havens feeling? How does Greg Peavey feel about his first go-round in double-A? How long will Jenrry Mejia and Collin McHugh be at double-A?
Inquiring Mets-minds want to know. Well, I'm out the door, hittin' the road now, we'll see you in New Britain stay tuned…….


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For those living with lupus, arm pain can be a common complaint. It is worth pointing out that such pain can be caused by a variety of factors.
A number of conditions associated with lupus are characterized by pain in different parts of the body, including the arms. Any single one of them can be responsible for causing lupus arm pain. Thus, a patient with pain in the arm would be well advised to consider what type of pain it was, where else he or she felt similar pains, and what other symptoms accompanied the pain. Doing so would likely help the patient to identify the condition that was responsible for the pain.
Some of the Conditions that Lead to Lupus Arm Pain
Consider a patient who feels a sharp pain in the elbow joint, the shoulder, or the fingers. If the patient feels similar pains in other joints, then it is possible that he or she is suffering from tendonitis or from bursitis. Alternatively, the patient may be suffering from lupus arthritis. In each of these cases, the cause of the arm pain would have been easy to identify by virtue of its localization in joint areas.
Lupus patients may develop muscle aches and pains in different body parts as a result of inflammation. This goes without saying. After all, lupus is an inflammatory disease. When it triggers inflammation, the patient is liable to experience fever, sweating, chills, fatigue, weakness, and aches and pains in the muscles. If some of these aches and pains are felt in the arms, then the patient can be said to be experiencing lupus arm pain.
Fibromyalgia is yet another painful condition experienced by lupus patients. It involves chronic pain all over the body and nine paired tender points on different body parts, including the arms. For patients with this condition, pain and tenderness in the arms would readily be associated with lupus and consequently thought of as lupus arm pain.
There is yet another condition associated with lupus that could result in pain in the fingers, wrist and a small part of the forearm. The condition is carpal tunnel syndrome. People with various diseases, including lupus, are at risk of developing this painful condition.
Lupus patients often develop carpal tunnel syndrome because inflammation in their wrists causes pressure to be exerted on their median nerve. As a consequence, the patients develop pain, numbness and tingling in the affected area. Left untreated, this condition can result in the weakening and atrophying of the hand's thenar muscles.


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In a great win for new insight via visualization, Carlos Paris shares his amazing discovery of organized chaos in prime numbers through rendering stacked circles or sizes from 1 to 101.
Developing Figure 2 for the first few circles took me a few minutes, but that was more than enough. When I saw the pattern, it just exploded in my face. It is orderly chaos! That's when I felt something from beyond the screen staring back at me. The patterns and shapes generated above never repeat, they always look different depending on your location to the right of the origin. And most importantly, now you can visually tell how all circles fit into each other! I call the image a "Map of Factors" because it tells you all the factors for each number. Wherever you have only 2 circles intersecting the horizontal axis at their right quadrants, you have a prime number! The green vertical lines show the locations of the prime numbers.
The site shows the construction of several visualizations, and animates some of them which yields an odd 3d-like effect.
Primal Chaos. via Infosthetics


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Requesting some advice on a training schedule
Hi guys. I'm getting back into exercising more intensely this year and building some muscle mass and strength as well as improving my MA skills.
I used to do a kind of circuit training every monday and thursday along with intense kendo (and some Iaido) every wednesday and saturday which definitely did provide me with a good level of fitness and strength but when the dojo fell apart (long story which I will be happy to share with you guys sometime soon) I was left with, well, nothing. I did some JKD for a while, but it was in another city and my country's train network is absolute **** sometimes so I dropped it because it was too much money and effort to keep doing it (work and school are a bitch)
Therefore I have begun drawing up a weekly training schedule to get back into action. Problem is I'm not at all an expert on this stuff (in other words I'm a complete noob) so I was wondering if you guys could help me out here, is this schedule too much? too little? does it need some changes here and there? Or should I just try it out and see how it works out for me?
Any tips are more than welcome:
(body)weight training:
biceps, back, core strength
Cardio (rope, heavy bag)
Krav Maga
(body)weight training:
Legs, triceps, chest
Cardio (rope, heavy bag)
1/20/2011 7:35pm, #2
I am a complete novice, but am currently doing a subset of Rippetoe's Starting Strength program on the advice of two people who have had success with it. Success is defined in this case as producing substantial, quantifiable strength.
See http://startingstrength.wikia.com/wi..._Strength_Wiki and http://startingstrength.com/resources/forum/forum.php
It involves eating a lot while doing the fundamental barbell lifts: squat, bench press, deadlift, power clean and overhead press. I omit the power clean because I don't have the equipment. I bought myself a bar, bench and squat rack, but you could also go to a gym.
The book itself (Starting Strength 2nd edition by Rippetoe & Kilgore) is excellent. Clearly written and wastes no time explaining the hows and whys.
I would recommend joining a solid school--there are plenty of threads on what criteria you should use, but the short answer is to make sure they randori or spar--and starting a lifting program based on Starting Strength.What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. -Xenophon's Socrates
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Cons: Everything is cheap with this stereo
I got this stereo in 2004. I never did think that it sounded that good. I wanted to get a refund but i never got around to do it. I never used it that much then i had to start using it because my RCA RS2600 was in another room and my Sony CDF-Z110 was in a closet forgotten and my Durabrand CD1492 was broken. I used it for just FM radio and a few cds it got okay reception and played the cds okay but skipped sometimes. Then in 2006 i got a computer that could burn cds (Gateway GT4024) and i started using CDRs in this stereo. It skipped even on a CD that i just made. I stopped using it for my RCA RS2600 and then my Sony CFD-Z110. One night i was using it and the part that is on the cd door broke off and now it can't play any cds and one speaker is blown... Cheap junk


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Time to hold some pundits responsible. Because every day they spew whatever malarkey wins them page views, retweets and cable news airtime but are they ever held accountable? Does anyone ever call them out on said malarkey when it proves, usually within a few days, to be completely off base? No. They're given a free pass to generate brand new malarkey the next day and no matter how inaccurate their predictions were the day before they are usually never questioned. The cycle continued over and over and over. They're worse than fake psychics, because at least fake psychics are able to realize that most people do have a dead relative named John.
So what was the most inaccurate prediction of the 2012 election season? Well, that would be the exact opposite of what actually happened: that Barack Obama would lose and Mitt Romney would win. Countless conservative pundits, day after day, wrote Obama's obituary, most of them knowing that in our 24 hour new cycle (or even 6 or 12 hour cycle), the words and tweets of the previous day would be quickly forgotten and a new narrative would be written.
Here is some of the best Mitt-Will-Win punditry, starting at 10 (ok, 11!) days before the election, and counting down to the final predictions.
October 26th, 11 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 74.4% chance of winning
Ross Douthat
I think the Romney campaign's guarantee of victory has mattered much less than the Obama campaign's recent aura of defeat. Losing campaigns have a certain feel to them: They go negative hard, try out new messaging very late in the game, hype issues that only their core supporters are focused on, and try to turn non-gaffes and minor slip-ups by their opponents into massive, election-turning scandals.
Rick Wilson
Watching the final debate, the more I considered Barack Obama's deplorably non-presidential affect and attitude; his reliance on corny, crudely-made zingers; and his almost pathological string of lies and distortions, the more it struck me that, at some level, he knows this is over.
Jennifer Rubin
The collapse of Obama's winning coalition from 2008 is evident on multiple fronts… the president is now drawing in the RealClearPolitics average the support of (you guessed it) 47 percent of the voters.
Neil Stevens cherry picked one poll and predicted Minnesota and Pennsylvania would go to Romney!
Gallup's new partisan ID split, one that mimics what Rasmussen has been saying all along, predicts nothing less than doom for the Democrats, and a solid, national win for Mitt Romney this year.
October 27th, 10 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 73.6% chance of winning
Hugh Hewitt – speaking of Ohio
I am not surprised by the crowds or the energy. People who think it is close will be surprised a week from Tuesday. You can't hide the economy from the people living through it. Ohio wants change.
John Nolte, on Michael Barone
Michael Barone is no shill. He might be right-of-center politically, but he's nobody's flack. What he is, however, is one of the top three smartest numbers men in the country, and he's predicting a Romney win.
Dan McLaughlin
Barack Obama is toast. This is not something I say lightly. I generally try to remain cautious about predictions, because the prediction business is a humbling one…. Obama will lose – perhaps lose a very close race, but lose just the same. That conclusion is only underscored by the fact that, historically, there is little reason to believe that the remaining undecided voters will break for an incumbent in tough economic times. He will lose the national popular vote, and the fact that he has remained competitive to the end in the two key swing states he needs to win (Ohio and Wisconsin) will not save him.
October 28th, 9 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 74.6% chance of winning
Jay Cost
More and more, Americans are coming around to the idea that a President Romney would be a change for the better, which means that—barring some unforeseen shift in public opinion—Obama's days in office look to be numbered.
Newt "I'm going to be the nominee" Gingrich
I think it's very unlikely, as a historian that [Romney] can win a significant popular victory vote and not carry the electoral college…I think he's actually going to end up winning 53-47.
Dean Chambers (The unskewedpolls.com Guy)
If these numbers are right, Mitt Romney gets elected our next president with 301 electoral votes to 237 for Barack Obama. If Romney wins Pennsylvania and Michigan, that total goes to 337 electoral votes. If Romney momentum causes him to win Oregon, New Mexico and Minnesota, he will win a total of 359 electoral votes as projected here. If Maine, Connecticut, New Jersey and Washington state come into play, they could add another 37 electoral votes to the Romney total for a final total of 396 electoral votes.
October 29th, 8 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 72.9% chance of winning
Dick Morris
Obama won by 7 points in 2008. But the electorate has become 15 points more Republican since then. Do the math — an 8 point Romney victory! OK, maybe 5 or 6 or 7, but no cliffhanger.
John Kasich
Right now, I believe we're currently ahead. Internals show us currently ahead. Honestly, I believe that Romney is going to carry Ohio.
Jack Kelly
So the question may not be whether Mr. Romney will win, but by how much…Underlings must wonder if there will be legal consequences for the laws they've broken. I predict an orgy of document shredding Nov. 7.
October 30th, 7 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 77.4% chance of winning
Michael Novak
For myself, I expect Romney to win by just over 52 to 46 percent, with two minor candidates gathering about 2 percent between them.
also, speaking of pollsters…
The one I count most trustworthy is Rasmussen
Frank Donatelli
A cold, hard reading of the most important trends and numbers tells us that Mitt Romney will be elected America's 45th president…There are still many factors that can affect this closest of elections. But the most likely outcome is for Mitt Romney to ride strong public dissatisfaction with the president's handling of the economy to victory on Nov. 6.
Joe Klein provides a needed dose of reality
So we're in the quiet eye of the election. And I promise you, this thing can spin either way when we emerge. There will be a jobs report this Friday. There may be other surprises. But anyone who claims to know who is going to win is blowing smoke.
October 31st, 6 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 78.4% chance of winning
Michael Graham
I predict the latter. One week from today, Mitt wins…If you've been watching the polls and the campaigns at all objectively, you're starting to see a picture develop. One where Romney's the winner well before bedtime.
Dick Morris again, in a piece titled "Here comes the landslide"
In the next few days, the battle will move to Pennsylvania (20), Michigan (15), Wisconsin (10) and Minnesota (16). Ahead in Pennsylvania, tied in Michigan and Wisconsin, and slightly behind in Minnesota, these new swing states look to be the battleground.
Once everyone discovers that the emperor has no clothes (or that Obama has no argument after the negative ads stopped working), the vote shift could be of historic proportions.
The most likely outcome? Eight GOP takeaways and two giveaways for a net gain of six. A 53-47 Senate, just like we have now, only opposite. Barack Obama's parting gift to the Democratic Party.
Dan McLaughlin with a long-winded double-down on his insistence that Obama is toast
(he declares that a statistical models like Nate Silver's 538.com is no better at predicting outcomes than RCP, which on this date are predicting Obama electoral votes of 299 and 290 respectively)
And I stand by the view that a mechanical reading of polling averages is an inadequate basis to project an event unprecedented in American history: the re-election of a sitting president without a clear-cut victory in the national popular vote…No mathematical model can provide a convincing explanation of how Obama is going to win re-election. He remains toast.
November 1st, 5 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 80.8% chance of winning
Keith Backer at Battleground Watch uses words like unrealistic, silly, and fantasy to deconstruction a trio of Quinnipiac polls showing Obama leading in swing states.
Well done Quinnipiac. Now, if you'll just survey far more Democrats than have ever shown up at the polls in these state [sic] the Death Star may finally be fully operational and Obama can pull out an election that he is almost assuredly losing right now.
Karl Rove ignores all data that doesn't support his argument (which is quite a bit)
My prediction: Sometime after the cock crows on the morning of Nov. 7, Mitt Romney will be declared America's 45th president. Let's call it 51%-48%, with Mr. Romney carrying at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more.
Boris Epshteyn cites (who else?) Gallup in his piece "3 Reasons Mitt Romney Will Win the Election"
The feeling among GOP faithful four years later is drastically different. We do not "hope" to win or "believe we can" win, but are convinced that Mitt Romney will win the election on November 6.
November 2nd, 4 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 82.67% chance of winning
Jay Cost doubles down in "Why Romney is Likely to Win"
I think Mitt Romney is likely to win next Tuesday. For two reasons:
(1) Romney leads among voters on trust to get the economy going again.
(2) Romney leads among independents.
The Obama campaign's David Alexrod counters all of this with a firm prediction of victory:
(Be sure to read the comments on this one)
I don't want to be ambiguous about this at all, We're winning this race," senior adviser David Axelrod said on a conference call Monday morning. "I say that not on the basis of some mystical faith in a wave that's going to come or some hidden vote. We base it on cold, hard data based on who has voted so far and on state by state polling. So we just, you're going to get spun and spun and spun in the next week and what I would urge you to do is to focus on the facts, focus on the data, focus on the trends in the states and if you do it will lead you to the same conclusions.
November 3rd, 3 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 83.7% chance of winning
Michael Barone ignores all the polls and goes with 315 for Mitt, 223 for Obama
Fundamentals usually prevail in American elections. That's bad news for Barack Obama. True, Americans want to think well of their presidents and many think it would be bad if Americans were perceived as rejecting the first black president…Bottom line: Romney 315, Obama 223. That sounds high for Romney. But he could drop Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and still win the election. Fundamentals.
Michael Franc cites the single week-old (yes, you guessed it) Gallup poll and then "unskews" the rest of them…
Correcting these polls so that there was a Republican edge in the sample of voters consistent with Gallup's finding would hand Romney a lead between five to ten points. Imagine the run on smelling salts at Mother Jones and MSNBC if that were to happen?
Speaking of unskewed polls, Dean Chambers ups his estimate to 311 Romney
If the election were held today Mitt Romney would win 311 electoral votes while Barack Obama would win in states worth 227 electoral votes according to the latest polling data available today.
Lots of wishful thinking from Emmett Tyrrell
Next week President Obama goes into retirement. I hope he will consider Hawaii.
November 4th, 2 Days Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 85.5% chance of winning
Charles Krauthammer
Nonetheless, predicting the outcome of the election, Krauthammer said that while the recent events have helped Obama "slightly recover in the polls" Romney will ultimately win the election by a narrow margin.
Mary Kate Cary
Romney promises to deliver where Obama did not, by working with decent people on both sides of the aisle. Obama can't promise to do the same—because it's clear he doesn't think there are decent people to work with on both sides anymore.
Romney does. That's why he'll win.
Ari Fleischer tweets:
Romn wins CO, WI and NH. That's 271 EVs…PA and OH would be icing on the cake. Romn could peak at 309 EVs if he takes both.
November 5th, 1 Day Out…
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 86.3% chance of winning
Julia La Roche, reporting on Dennis Gartman
Another point Gartman makes is that he thinks the polls are "badly out of touch." First, he notes the calls have a very high refusal rate and only a small percentage are actually responding. What's more is the polling tends to take place during the day and those people responding are likely unemployed, therefore, they would likely need government assistance and would also likely lean toward the Democrats, he explains.
I can't get enough Dick Morris
Morris says Romney will capture 325 electoral votes while Obama will get 213, a significant difference.
"It will be the biggest surprise in recent American political history," Morris said. "It will rekindle the whole question on why the media played this race as a nailbiter where in fact Romney's going to win by quite a bit."
And finally, from World Net Daily. A witch doctor from Obama's ancestral village in Kenya predicts Obama will win and of course, the birthers at WND are not surprised!
Witch doctor John Dimo tossed some shells, bones and other items to determine who will win Tuesday's election. After throwing the objects like so many dice outside his hut in Kogelo village, Dimo, who says he is 105 years old, points to a white shell and declares: "Obama is very far ahead and is definitely going to win."
Fred Barnes
Mitt Romney will win. The tie in the polls goes to the challenger.
November 6th, Election Day!
FiveThirtyEight.com Forecast: Obama 91.6% chance of winning
Larry Kudlow
Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is working to restore the freedom model created by our Founders. This model has served the country well for 250-some-odd years. It is fundamentally a belief in people and good common sense. It is profoundly optimistic. Perhaps I'll be wrong. But I think optimism wins this election.
Rich Stowell
Count this author as among those who believe the American People will not vote for failure. We will learn fairly early tomorrow night that Mitt Romney has secured an electoral majority.
Mark Tapscott
Romney wins 53-47, thanks mainly to his Rope-A-Dope strategy and an immense enthusiam advantage.
Red State Blogger qsclues
For those two reasons alone, I predict a victory for Romney on Tuesday night by a margin that will be anywhere from "comfortable" to "resounding". As a bonus prediction, the party will unofficially start when Pennsylvania is called for Romney.
Of course, we know how it all turned out.
Mark McGinty's work has appeared in Maybourne Magazine, Montage Magazine, Cigar City Magazine and Germ Warfare. His novel The Cigar Maker won a Bronze Medal at the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards and was named Finalist at both the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards and the 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards.


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Act No. 152
Public Acts of 2011
Approved by the Governor
September 24, 2011
Filed with the Secretary of State
September 27, 2011
EFFECTIVE DATE: September 27, 2011
Introduced by Senator Jansen
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 7
AN ACT to limit a public employer's expenditures for employee medical benefit plans; to provide the power and duties of certain state agencies and officials; to provide for exceptions; and to provide for sanctions.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "publicly funded health insurance contribution act".
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Designated state official" means:
(i) For an election affecting employees and officers in the judicial branch of state government, the state court administrator.
(ii) For an election affecting senate employees and officers, the secretary of the senate.
(iii) For an election affecting house of representatives employees and officers, the clerk of the house.
(iv) For an election affecting legislative council employees, the legislative council.
(v) For an election affecting employees in the state classified service, the civil service commission.
(vi) For an election affecting executive branch employees who are not in the state classified service, the state employer.
(b) "Flexible spending account" means a medical expense flexible spending account in conjunction with a cafeteria plan as permitted under the federal internal revenue code of 1986.
(c) "Health savings account" means an account as permitted under section 223 of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 223.
(d) "Local unit of government" means a city, village, township, or county, a municipal electric utility system as defined in section 4 of the Michigan energy employment act of 1976, 1976 PA 448, MCL 460.804, an authority created under chapter VIA of the aeronautics code of the state of Michigan, 1945 PA 327, MCL 259.108 to 259.125c, or an authority created under 1939 PA 147, MCL 119.51 to 119.62.
(e) "Medical benefit plan" means a plan established and maintained by a carrier, a voluntary employees' beneficiary association described in section 501(c)(9) of the internal revenue code of 1986, 26 USC 501, or by 1 or more public employers, that provides for the payment of medical benefits, including, but not limited to, hospital and physician services, prescription drugs, and related benefits, for public employees or elected public officials. Medical benefit plan does not include benefits provided to individuals retired from a public employer.
(f) "Public employer" means this state; a local unit of government or other political subdivision of this state; any intergovernmental, metropolitan, or local department, agency, or authority, or other local political subdivision; a school district, a public school academy, or an intermediate school district, as those terms are defined in sections 4 to 6 of the revised school code, 1976 PA 451, MCL 380.4 to 380.6; a community college or junior college described in section 7 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963; or an institution of higher education described in section 4 of article VIII of the state constitution of 1963.
Sec. 3. Except as otherwise provided in this act, a public employer that offers or contributes to a medical benefit plan for its employees or elected public officials shall pay no more of the annual costs or illustrative rate and any payments for reimbursement of co-pays, deductibles, or payments into health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, or similar accounts used for health care costs, than a total amount equal to $5,500.00 times the number of employees with single person coverage, $11,000.00 times the number of employees with individual and spouse coverage, plus $15,000.00 times the number of employees with family coverage, for a medical benefit plan coverage year beginning on or after January 1, 2012. A public employer may allocate its payments for medical benefit plan costs among its employees and elected public officials as it sees fit. By October 1 of each year after 2011, the state treasurer shall adjust the maximum payment permitted under this section for each coverage category for medical benefit plan coverage years beginning the succeeding calendar year, based on the change in the medical care component of the United States consumer price index for the most recent 12-month period for which data are available from the United States department of labor, bureau of labor statistics.
Sec. 4. (1) By a majority vote of its governing body, a public employer, excluding this state, may elect to comply with this section for a medical benefit plan coverage year instead of the requirements in section 3. The designated state official may elect to comply with this section instead of section 3 as to medical benefit plans for state employees and state officers.
(2) For medical benefit plan coverage years beginning on or after January 1, 2012, a public employer shall pay not more than 80% of the total annual costs of all of the medical benefit plans it offers or contributes to for its employees and elected public officials. For purposes of this subsection, total annual costs includes the premium or illustrative rate of the medical benefit plan and all employer payments for reimbursement of co-pays, deductibles, and payments into health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, or similar accounts used for health care but does not include beneficiary-paid copayments, coinsurance, deductibles, other out-of-pocket expenses, other service-related fees that are assessed to the coverage beneficiary, or beneficiary payments into health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, or similar accounts used for health care. Each elected public official who participates in a medical benefit plan offered by a public employer shall be required to pay 20% or more of the total annual costs of that plan. The public employer may allocate the employees' share of total annual costs of the medical benefit plans among the employees of the public employer as it sees fit.
Sec. 5. (1) If a collective bargaining agreement or other contract that is inconsistent with sections 3 and 4 is in effect for a group of employees of a public employer on the effective date of this act, the requirements of section 3 or 4 do not apply to that group of employees until the contract expires. A public employer's expenditures for medical benefit plans under a collective bargaining agreement or other contract described in this subsection shall be excluded from calculation of the public employer's maximum payment under section 4. The requirements of sections 3 and 4 apply to any extension or renewal of the contract.
(2) A collective bargaining agreement or other contract that is executed on or after September 15, 2011 shall not include terms that are inconsistent with the requirements of sections 3 and 4.
Sec. 6. A public employer may deduct the covered employee's or elected public official's portion of the cost of a medical benefit plan from compensation due to the covered employee or elected public official. The employer may condition eligibility for the medical benefit plan on the employee's or elected public official's authorizing the public employer to make the deduction.
Sec. 7. (1) The requirements of this act apply to medical benefit plans of all public employees and elected public officials to the greatest extent consistent with constitutionally allocated powers, whether or not a public employee is a member of a collective bargaining unit.
(2) If a court finds the requirements of section 3 to be invalid, the expenditure limit in section 4 shall apply to a public employer that does not exempt itself under section 8, except that the requirement for a majority vote of the governing body of the public employer in section 4 shall not apply. If a court finds section 4 to be invalid, the expenditure limit in section 3 shall apply to each public employer that does not exempt itself under section 8.
Sec. 8. (1) By a 2/3 vote of its governing body each year, a local unit of government may exempt itself from the requirements of this act for the next succeeding year.
(2) A 2/3 vote of the governing body of the local unit of government is required to extend an exemption under this section to a new year.
(3) An exemption under this section is not effective for a city with a mayor who is both the chief executive and chief administrator, unless the mayor also approves the exemption.
(4) An exemption under this section is not effective for a county with a county executive who is both the chief executive and chief administrator, unless the county executive also approves the exemption.
Sec. 9. If a public employer fails to comply with this act, the public employer shall permit the state treasurer to reduce by 10% each economic vitality incentive program payment received under 2011 PA 63 and the department of education shall assess the public employer a penalty equal to 10% of each payment of any funds for which the public employer qualifies under the state school aid act of 1979, 1979 PA 94, MCL 388.1601 to 388.1772, during the period that the public employer fails to comply with this act. Any reduction setoff or penalty amounts recovered shall be returned to the fund from which the reduction is assessed or upon which the penalty is determined. The department of education may also refer the penalty collection to the department of treasury for collection consistent with section 13 of 1941 PA 122, MCL 205.13.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives


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Okay, so here I am again, overweight. Three years ago I actually did it... got down to size 4 (I'm a lady) and 145 pounds. Now I'm right back where I started, 208 pounds and size 14. So, although I am the same person inside, I have had such different experiences having been fat and thin, and I've learned that thin girls definitely have more fun, and I want to be thin again. So here are some little tidbits of info that are really getting under my skin about being overweight, and I thought I'd share them.
1. Getting dressed totally sucks for a fat girl. I used to pull ONE outfit out of my closet when I was thin. It looked great. I was ready to go. Nowadays, I've got half the closet pulled onto the bed before I finally just settle on an outfit that feels good. Then, I try not to look into any mirrors as I go about my day.
2. Men treat me totally different than they did when I was thin. They held doors for me. They joked around with me. Do I want guys hitting on me? NO WAY! I'd just like it if when I walked into AutoZone, the guy behind the counter would look up from his copy of PlayBoy and wait on me. That would be nice. I'd like to be treated like a normal person, not some disgusting blob who has let herself go. Men are naturally shallow and their standards are high, and no, I don't want to go through life being unattractive to them. People may say that's not right and I should be doing this for myself. But think about it, and you'll see what I mean, ok?
3. My house is a mess right now. When I was thin, I kept my house in order. I felt good enough to do it. When I'm completing a project at home, I rarely feel hungry. Funny how a clean house and a "clean" body go hand in hand.
4. My kids and I had fun when I was thin. We ran together. We went out and did things outside. Now the poor kids are subject to sit in the house because overweight Mommy doesn't feel like doing anything. That's not fair. And now my older son is starting to put on pounds as well which is not good for him at all.
5. Photos. I could have screamed when I saw myself in my sister's wedding photos a week ago. And of course all those photos went on facebook, for everyone to see. So they see the fat I was trying to hide by only posting pics that were flattering and didn't show my double chin were hoaxes. I feel a lot like a big, fat version of Pinnochio right now. It's very embarrassing. My husband wants to get photos done at Christmas. We need to, but if I see anymore fat photos of me, I'm going to die.
When you're overweight, life is a struggle. The only thing some people see is my fat. So I have to get rid of it and get my life back. I'm hoping this site helps me. I am ready to feel good again, and be the person I feel like inside.


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Cal football gets top-20 recruiting class
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, February 2, 2011
If the 19 prep all-stars who gave verbal commitments to play football for Cal remain true to their teenage words, and fax in signed letters-of-intent today, head coach Jeff Tedford's recruiting class will receive a top 15 or 20 national ranking.
It would be a significant boost for Tedford as he attempts to rebound from the first losing season of his tenure in Berkeley with an expected recruiting class sprinkled with nine players ranked in the top 250 in the country, according to one scouting website.
There was a little drama Tuesday concerning Cal's one five-star commitment, defensive tackle Viliami Moala of Grant High School in Sacramento. A big 'un at 6-foot-2 and in the 320- to 340-pound range, Moala also was considering Oregon State as his college of choice, as was Grant teammate Puka Lopa, a defensive end.
But late in the day, Rivals.com reported that Lopa had made his verbal commitment to Cal, thus solidifying Moala's choice of Berkeley made last month.
Scout.com gave him five stars and ranked him the No. 2 defensive tackle in the country. Sports Illustrated.com ranked Moala as the 71st-best player in the country at any position. Rivals.com gave Moala four stars and ranked him the 99th-best high school player.
Today is the first day high school players can sign national letters-of-intent. Tedford and his staff expect to start receiving letters as early as 5 a.m., especially from some of their nine out-of-state commits.
"I chose Cal because I looked at a lot of aspects for college," said safety Avery Walls of McDonough, Ga., who already is enrolled in Berkeley. "I think it has everything I wanted. I loved it. I went on an unofficial visit in the spring and then my official visit. I enjoyed the entire visit."
Walls said the fact Cal is upgrading its facilities - the Student-Athlete High Performance Center is expected to be ready in September and a renovated Memorial Stadium in 2012 - was a factor in his decision to go to Cal.
Of the 21 players expected to sign with the Bears, 19 are high school seniors and two are from junior colleges. Ten are defensive players, nine are offensive players and two are listed as "athletes," reflecting their versatility.
In addition to 12 in-state players, Tedford and his staff got commitments from three players from Texas and one each from Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Oregon, North Dakota and Massachusetts.
Cal's top "gets" include Walls, linebacker Jason Gibson of Serra High in Gardena (Los Angeles County), defensive tackle Mustafa Jalil of Cathedral Catholic in San Diego, defensive end Brennan Scarlett of Central Cathlolic in Portland, Ore., cornerback Stefan McClure of Vista High (San Diego County) and offensive lineman Jordan Rigsbee of Pleasant Valley High in Chico.


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Aratrum Republic: An @AltHistoryHub Contest Entry
Suddenly, about three hundred miles off the coast of Daytona Beach, an island appeared. No one knew when or how it appeared, it was just there. From satellite images, the United States government estimated the island to be around 1,157 square miles in total area. The island had trees and natural landmarks like it had been there for decades or more. An United States Navy ship was dispatched with civilian scientists five months after the island was discovered to study how and why it just appeared.
Upon arriving at the island however, the US Navy ship was shockingly greeted by 100,000 settlers who had already taken up residence. The appointed leader of the settlers, a Jacob M. Richardson, explained that they had all received a vision of the island a month before it was discovered and fully intend to become an independent nation-state.
Well of course the federal government wasn't going to let this spat of independence stand, so the President Of The United States ordered the captain of the destroyer, a Commander Jake Wade, to arrest the settlers and remove them from the island. Commander Wade countered that the arrest order was ultimately illegal, because technically the island was not claimed by the United States before the settlers arrived. A bureaucratic oversight that cost someone a job (or would be, if getting someone fired from the United States government was a next to impossible task). The settlers were also armed to the teeth and was not too keen to be forcibly removed.
So a compromised was reached that the United Nations would decide the fate of the island. The US Navy ship with the civilian scientists were invited to stay as guests of the island. News spread and another 200,000 settlers came to the island. The new arrivals spread out into five different areas of the island. The population swelled to just north of 400,000 before the migration started to abate.
As more and more people came to the island, they realized that they needed some form of government. Jacob M. Richardson was tasked to name the island, come up with a government, and the flag when they made their case to the United Nations. Being a somewhat learned man and using Latin, Richardson gave "Aratrum Republic" as the name for island's new nation-state. He named the territories: Borealis to the north, Septentrionalis to the northeast, Orientalis to the east, Australis to the south, and Occidentalis to the west. He named the legislative branch the Legatus and the executive branch council the Rector.
The United Nations didn't need much prodding to side with the Aratrum Republic, since both Russia and China wanted to stick it to the United States. Three years after appearing out of nowhere, Aratrum Republic gained its independence. The fallout for Aratrum Republic was almost immediate: The island quickly ratified the flag and constitution written by Richardson. Two Russian destroyers appeared and escorted the US Navy destroyer away from the island. Not wanting to be invaded by Russia or anyone else, island leaders suddenly revealed they had five nuclear bombs and were prepare to use them on THEMSELVES if invaded (rendering the island uninhabitable). Commander Wade and most of his crew resigned from the US Navy to start the Aratrum Republic's own navy. Jacob Richardson was elected to the Rector and re-elected until he died. The Aratrum Republic's racial demographic percentage mirrored that of the United States with one small difference, they all (well, 99.99% of them) considered themselves Christian Conservative.
The fallout for the rest of the world, was mostly catastrophic: Support for the United Nations in the United States and Europe took a sharp nose dive, as well as US/Russia relations. The European Union soon collapsed after a very angry Hungry decided they had just about enough of Germany's nonsense. Russia was about ready to invade Eastern Europe and China the rest of Asia, when suddenly the micro-nation movement sprang up all over the world (except Aratrum Republic, Japan, New Zealand, and already establish city-states). The world's economy came to a stand still as the micro-nation movement was being dealt with. Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East saw the biggest scrambling of boundaries. Weaken Russia, China, and the United States were able to hold it together. Canada got it worse when Quebec broke away. Mexico has become a failed state and all of South America is still on fire.
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ALTHOUGH Celtic's decision to turn to Ronny Deila took many by surprise, chief executive Peter Lawwell yesterday stressed that the new manager was "top of the list" when it came to searching for potential successors to Neil Lennon.
He claimed that no candidate was offered the job before Deila, who met majority shareholder Dermot Desmond earlier this week, after Roy Keane had withdrawn from the running. Other high-profile names such as Henrik Larsson, Owen Coyle and Steve Clarke were also linked with the club before confirmation of the 38-year-old Deila's appointment yesterday.
"They were all very good candidates in their own right," said Lawwell. "There were no job offers [to other candidates]." He added that Deila was the "most outstanding" of those the board considered. Deila has been known to Celtic for longer than only the last couple of weeks, after the Stromsgodset manager's name was discussed as a potential replacement for the departing assistant manager Johan Mjallby.
Lennon revealed yesterday in an interview with an Irish newspaper that Deila was "going to be brought in as number two when Johan left," although the Norwegian was slightly cooler on this subject yesterday.
He claimed that he only wanted to come as manager. Lawwell stressed that Deila was always uppermost in their thoughts when they began a two-week process of pinpointing a successor for Lennon, one who would fit the profile required by developing up and coming young players.
"He's following a very good manager, a very successful manager," noted Lawwell. "Neil is different to Ronny in some aspects but also very much the same in others.
"The way the club is organised, the structure we have, the ideal remains the same. Neil's gone out and we've replaced him with Ronny. We'll hopefully go on being successful."
"There were people in England who we knew and who knew him [Deila] well," added Lawwell. "His name came up, we spoke about him and explored it and then always kept his name at the back of our minds.
"Then, after it emerged Johan was leaving, I spoke to Neil about Ronny. We had a chat about it but no more than that.
"Then when Neil left it came to the front. We immediately tried to arrange to meet Ronny and that didn't occur until very recently. Then we were happy to move on [with it]."
Lawwell revealed he had discussed Deila with Stefan Johansen, the midfielder who signed for Celtic from Stromgodset in January. "When Ronny's name came up in the process, I asked about him and Stefan said he was absolutely fantastic," said the chief executive.
"He also made it clear that Ronny had done a lot for him," added Lawwell. "And I'm sure he's a pretty happy young man this morning when he's heard that we'd done the deal with Ronny."
"Ronny met virtually all of the board. He met Dermot initially, then myself, then he met two other board members this morning. So it's a board appointment. Everybody's 100 per cent behind it."
Lawwell is hopeful about giving Deila every chance to be a success by retaining the services of players such as Fraser Forster and Virgil van Dijk, both of whom have been linked with moves away this summer.
"We are in a position where we don't need to sell," said Lawwell. "We don't want to sell. But these things normally sort themselves out.
"The frank answer is that we can say what we want, that we don't want to sell a player and we want him to stay. But if someone offers a player four or five times their salary, it turns their head and things become more difficult. We have said to Ronny that we don't have to or want to sell. But there is a reality out there that we might have to face. We hope not, though."


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Deadly Advice
by Roberta Isleib
Cover Artist: Brandon Dorman
Review by Beth Slater
Berkley Paperback ISBN/ITEM#: 9780425214749
Date: 06 March, 2007 List Price $6.99 Amazon US / Amazon UK / Show Official Info /
Deadly Advice is the first in a new series by Roberta Isleib featuring Dr. Rebecca Butterman, psychologist and advice columnist. Recovering from her recent divorce, Rebecca returns to her recently purchased condo on the Connecticut shore to find police crawling all over her neighborhood. Startled, she approaches them to find out that her next-door neighbor, Madeline, is dead, apparently by her own hand. Rebecca can't believe that she missed the signs, despite not knowing her neighbor well beyond an acquaintance. When Madeline's mother Isabel approaches Rebecca to care for Madeline's cat, Spencer, she also asks Rebecca to look at Madeline's diary for signs of depression. But will her investigative instincts cause her to ignore her own advice?
Rebecca is trying to pull the pieces of her life together after finding her fellow psychologist husband in their bed with a young redhead. She's moved to a water-view condo in her hometown, is continuing with her own clinical psychology practice, and is writing an advice column for Bloom! under the pseudonym Dr. Aster. Her questions about her neighbor, Madeline, seem to coincide with her editor's desire for a column series about the current dating scene when she finds that Madeline had recently been attending the speed dating scene through Fast Connections.
With a little help from her close friends and her sister, Rebecca is able to wend her way through the speed-dating scene and the clues to find answers to the questions concerning Madeline and her evident blog addiction (blog=web log). Amidst the dating questions, websites, and emails, the condo association is in an uproar over the death in their neighborhood, and calling for more security measures – expensive security measures. Rebecca is working to see what all of it has in common before anyone discovers that Madeline's suicide may have been murder, but the police have beaten her to it – she hopes. When another neighbor is attacked, the investigation speeds up – but is it fast enough?
This is a great new series for those who like books with a theme, and Dr. Butterman – Rebecca – is a wonderful, sympathetic character who is able to admit her own culpabilities while helping others. She has a great support cast of friends and co-workers, as well as her new cat Spencer.
I look forward to Isleib's new series and would recommend it for anyone who wants a quick break from reality for a good read.
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Thread: Stabbing vs. Cutting
5/31/2006 5:50am, #1
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Stabbing vs. Cutting
Ok, after some of the commentary on knife defense and what not in Your Martial Art Sucks I got to thinking on something I have pretty much always taken for granted.
Thrusting with the knife is inherently more lethal than cutting.
I have pretty much always believed the above statement to be true just because I was told it was. Is anyone aware of an empirical study that shows one way or the other?
5/31/2006 9:47am, #2
"inherently" is a strong word, but it's probably more true than false. I've never heard of anyone trying to study it scientifically, and I don't know how you could, really. How would you control? Would you survey incidents of knife attacks? If you did, how would you control it so that you were comparing apples to apples?
If we're talking about the chest, for instance, then stabbing would be much more likely to be lethal, as cutting the chest with most knives won't even get through the ribs. If the throat, I don't know. Cutting might be lethal more of the time there; hard for me to have an informed opinion. If extremities, I would venture to guess that more people die of blood loss from large cuts than from thrusts.
I would say that thrusts tend to be aimed into the vitals while cuts are often applied in less-vital places.
5/31/2006 10:55am, #3
The most horrific injuries I have ever seen were generally caused by slashes from stanley knives/bayonets etc as you get wide open wounds with fat/muscle/tissue hanging out, and lots of small blood vessels damaged. but these injuries were, in the words of a medical proffesional, 'relatively superficial'
however both fatal stabbings I have had the misfortune to go to were relatively neat puncture wounds that went several inches under the surface and through arteries, lungs, hearts, ribs... its was only at the PMs that you realise how much damage is done....
mmmm, knives
5/31/2006 10:55am, #4
I don't know of any formal studies done on it, but I believe that to be true. I think most cuts are relatively superficial but getting stabbed is likely to jack things up in a way that is not easily repaired.
5/31/2006 10:57am, #5
I would like to point out the time stamp of the two above posts. I'm wasnt being redundant :P
5/31/2006 11:07am, #6
You attack different targets differently. You take what you can get. That said, a stab is going to be more penetrative (SP?) than a cut. It will also generally be easier to do than a cut, on a timing/distancing standpoint. But if I had my druthers, I would go for the chop or hack.We are surrounded by warships and dont have time to talk. Please pray for us. One Somali Pirate.
5/31/2006 11:16am, #7
From a training perspective, most Kalistas (Eskrimadors, Arnis(is)?) would say that every slash should have a slash and every slash a thrust.
As for the lethality of the slash, a straight cut is generally less severe than an angled one. Why do you trim flowers at an angle? To keep the ends of the cut from closing up. An angled cut of a blood vessel is much harder for the body to repair than a straight slice.
To reiterate what was said above, a lot depends on the target.Originally Posted by Canuckyokushin
5/31/2006 11:40am, #8
Hit an organ and you get results. That is tough to do with a cut.
Lungs. Heart. Liver. Kidney.
It may take some time but without medical attention that person is going to die.
It takes a while to bleed out from a cut wound. Unless you hit a major artery with a cut the victim will probably survive even without medical attention. You may slice through a tendon, such as the wrist/forearm and make it unusable. But the overall stopping power of a slash is less.
With a stab wound look for dark blood and sucking/wheezing sounds. That means you hit money.
5/31/2006 11:45am, #9
Part of the reason for the danger of stabbing v slashing is penetration. Unless someone is using a very sharp knife (with a good amount of weight), it's tough to slash deeply. Slashes will bleed a lot, but as said above it's superficial. That's one reason why people tend to survive slashed throats (as opposed to stabs to the neck) - lack of penetration. Further, things like clothing can help cut down (pardon the pun) on penetration as well in the case of slashes.
Stabbing, on the otherhand, brings a lot more body weight to bare on the action. And, as noted above, it's a case where a little depth can go a long way towards making you dead.
On a side note, I've been anecdotally told (by a kali and police instructor) that the general knife attack pattern (if such a thing exists) is two to three slash passes followed by concerted stabbing attempts. Anyone ever here anything like this? I have not had a chance to get back with that instructor to quiz him further on this.
- MattStudent of Wan Yi Chuan Kung Fu,
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5/31/2006 1:34pm, #10
This is something that is often discussed/debated in historical fencing circles as well. Virtually all of the dagger techniques from the 14th/15th/16th centuries are stabbing (thrusting) attacks and counters to those types of attack. This is probably due partly to the type of weapon being used, often a "rondel" style dagger, optimized for thrusting, and the heavy wool clothing of Europeans of the period. However, even when daggers that obviously have a cutting edge are depicted, the predominance of thrusting is still there. I really believe this is due to the "inherent" stopping/killing power of the thrust. Cutting can lead to severe bleeding, etc. if you cut deeply, but can also be difficult through even moderate clothing. A deep thrust is more likely to damage a vital organ and cause the kind of injury that is difficult to survive. I'm afraid I can't back any of this up with any data right now, but I'll keep looking.Matt Anderson
ARMA, Virginia Beach


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Good morning!! Buenos dias, bom dia, bonjour!!!
That's all I know.
Happy Thursday!!!
I decided to share more photos of my beautiful cousin Victoria. I've selected shots of her not looking directly at the camera.
It's great when I can naturally catch someone not looking at me, but sometimes I will specifically tell the person "ok, now don't look at me, just look away". For some it's a bit awkward at first "look where?" they say in a panic, and I just tell them to think of something peaceful and look anywhere. After a few tries, they relax and it becomes a bit more natural.
Directing people to pose, yet making it look like a natural shot isn't always easy. It just takes a little practice, and a LOT of patience. Ok, maybe make that a LOT of practice too. In the end, the natural not staring dead on at the camera shots, make for great images.
Who is she looking at, what is she thinking of... I love when people are not so posed, not so "picture ready" there's no - "smile, say cheese" - It's just someone looking out at nothing you specifically can see or know but rather, can only imagine.
Different angles emit different feelings, different possibilities..
But... It's always a good time to have a beautiful bright-eyed smiley face looking directly at you!!
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Vanderbilt's offense line has not necessarily taken shape. With seven returners who all started at least five games last season and one undeniable up-and-comer, there's a lot for coaches to consider before the season opener Sept. 5 against Western Carolina.
One thing is for certain: the Commodores' blockers never have been in better shape.
"I think every upperclassman had passed the (conditioning) test before the season started," offensive line coach Robbie Caldwell said. "That may be a first for us ever."
Strength and conditioning coach John Sisk could not confirm Caldwell's assessment, but he did say that all of the offensive linemen passed the conditioning test roughly a month before the start of preseason practices. That meant they all ran 18 90-yard dashes in 15 seconds or better with just a 45-second break in between each.
Sisk had no doubt it was the earliest that particular position group had reached that point in their conditioning.
Likewise, it was clear what brought those big guys to that point. The offense's plan to employ a no-huddle offense in 2009 put a premium on the offensive line's ability to get to the line of scrimmage and get set for the next play.
"We're in the best shape this team has ever been in," center Bradley Vierling said.
So while that unit was fit for the start of workouts on Aug. 7, it remains to be seen exactly which five are the best fit to comprise the starting unit.
The most common alignment thus far has been Thomas Welch at left tackle, Ryan Custer at left guard, Vierling at center, Eric Hensley at right guard and James Williams at right tackle. However, Reilly Lauer and Kyle Fischer each have gotten plenty of opportunity as well.
Vierling and Welch were the only two who started every game in 2009, but Welch's 13 appearances all were at right tackle. Hensley started the final seven games at right guard. Lauer started 10 times – all at left tackle –Fischer started the final seven – three at left tackle and four at left guard – and Joey Bailey started the first five at right guard.
"We're having fun up front," Vierling, a fifth-year senior, said. "We're older now. We know what's going on. We can relax a lot more and go out there, have some fun and try to put some people in the dirt."
In the midst of all of that experience Williams, a redshirt-sophomore, from Smyrna has come along to the point that he's in position to start.
"He's gotten bigger and stronger. He's always been athletic. But now with the strength and the bulk and the knowledge of the system … James has done a real good job learning what we're doing, and that's a big key."
Not only that, he got himself conditioned to play – as did everybody else on the line.
Senior defensive end Steven Stone will miss the start of the season due to a foot fracture he sustained during Monday evening's workout.
"It was a pretty routine play," Stone said. "… My attitude is that I'm going to stay positive. It could be a lot worse, and if something like this is going to happen this is the best time of year for it."
Coach Bobby Johnson said it was a fracture of the fifth metatarsal and that it likely will take six weeks before Stone, who started every game the last two years, can return.
Sophomore Tim Fugger is in line to fill in for Stone.
• Wide receiver John Cole sprained an ankle Monday evening and was out Tuesday. It was his second injury already and it occurred just days after he returned from a hamstring strain, which cost him several workouts last week.
"We're going to call him 'Lucky,'" Johnson said.
• Quarterback Jared Funk participated but did not throw Tuesday because of a sore elbow.