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How To Fix The Economy With Child Support Reform
12/8/2011, 3:59 p.m.
Now, I know what you are thinking...what about the individuals that do not get paid with a paycheck and own businesses....I am glad you asked! Those individuals will be required to pay their Child Support under the current guideline in the state he/she lives, but he/she will be able to list the custodial parent as an employee within their business and receive the same tax breaks any business would receive for hiring someone. By law, the non-custodial parent is also required to provide health insurance for the child they are required to pay support for, so listing the custodial parent as a tax-exempt employee will increase company savings and could result in hiring an additional worker and/or increase revenue to be place back in the economy under the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act for businesses.
Suggestion #2
Individuals required to pay Child Support should have the option of how that support should be administered to the custodial parent. Option #1 is to remain in the current system in which funds are transferred into the account of the custodial parent and the funds are not regulated or monitored and disbursed at the discretion of the custodial parent. Option #2 would be for the non-custodial parent to pay a monthly fee to a credit card company for a Child Support Credit Card. The sole responsibility of the Credit Card Company is to track expenses through approved vendors selected by both the custodial parent and the non-custodial parent. If the card is used by a vendor not listed and/or approved by both parties the transaction is declined. For example, if Best Buy is not listed as an approved vendor the card will be declined at the point of service.
So, how does this help our economy....I am glad you asked. The Credit Card companies are making money off the fees for utilizing the card, resulting in increased revenue and hiring workers to service the division. The government and lawyers make money because if the parents can't agree on a vendor the services of the both will be needed to moderate the dispute. The vendors will have an assured customer and will not need to worry about the custodial parent not being able to pay for services related to the child because he/she used that money to buy another item. The non-custodial parent has a feeling of empowerment since he/she is involved with what the money is utilized for. The non-custodial parent can also use the transaction records to defense against custodial parents requesting support increases when they are not warranted (i.e., Why do you need an extra $200 per month if the expenses associated with the child have not increased?). In cases of emergency, a set amount of cash can be withdrawn from the card via an ATM on a monthly basis.
Suggestion #3
Since Child Support guidelines are regulated at the State level, the federal government can implement federal tax reform by implementing tax guidelines which state that all tax events related to the child resulting from Child Support payments (i.e., claiming child on taxes, child care costs, healthcare costs, mortgage interest, etc.) should be claimed by both parents on alternating years (even year for custodial parent...odd year for non-custodial parent). Since the government does not allow for both parents to claim the child, but requires the child to be supported; the same would be for claiming the child on each parent's taxes in alternate years. If the custodial parent, who is receiving support, is approved for a mortgage and one of the reasons that individual was approved for the mortgage is because Child Support payments were listed as income; the non-custodial parent should be able to claim that mortgage interest based on what percentage the child support was used to determine the loan. For example, mortgage interest paid for the year is $1,000.00 and Child Support accounted for 15% of the income to expense ratio equation the bank utilized to grant the loan. The non-custodial parent should be able to claim $150.00 (15% of $1,000.00) on his/her taxes. By law, the financial institution approving the loan would be required to notify the non-custodial parent if his/her Child Support payments are listed as income.


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Projekt Management - Part One
Tomasz Gop and Lukasz Kukawski on the Polish gaming scene and canning games
Formed in 1994 Polish publisher CD Projekt was the first to introduce fully localised products to the Polish gaming market. In more recent years the formation of its development arm Red studio, producers of the 2007 PC RPG title The Witcher, and creation of DRM-free digital distribution platform GOG.com (Good Old Games) have seen the publisher establish its wider market credentials.
Here, in the first of a two part interview, Red studio's senior producer Tomasz Gop and GOG.com's PR & marketing specialist Lukasz Kukawski discuss outsourcing, content cuts and the state of the Polish gaming market.
Q: What are you working on at the moment?
Tomasz Gop: Well it's probably not too much of a surprise to say that I'm working on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, which we started developing almost as soon as we'd released the original Witcher game in 2007. We'll definitely be launching this title on PC and we're hoping to also release it on one of the consoles, though we're still in talks on that.
Lukasz Kukawski: At GOG.com we're working on adding more publishers to those whose games we already offer on the service and I can say that we'll be adding two big publishers this year [the first of which was Activision, announced last week].
Q: You mention a possible console version for The Witcher 2. It's well known that the original Witcher game was due to be adapted for consoles under the title The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf by French developer, Widescreen Games, but that project was abandoned. Are there any plans to resurrect that development?
Tomasz Gop: Well, as you know, development on that title was suspended after things didn't work out with Widescreen Games and that's where it remains, suspended but not cancelled. Ultimately we walked away because of concerns over deadlines and the overall quality of the project and I'd say that the guys at Widescreen weren't solely to blame for that.
Walking away was a very hard thing to do but I think we learned a lot about outsourcing and we'd love to see Rise of the White Wolf released on consoles at some point, perhaps we could go back to that after the release of The Witcher 2.
At the time, however, we weren't prepared to make the cuts that seemed necessary in order to bring the project in on time, when we were still in the alpha stage when we were supposed to be near the end of the beta, cuts and compromises were a very real possibility.
Q: Being forced to cut content from a title and not deliver all that was visualised at the start of a project is surely something that no developer wants to do. How do those cuts affect development?
Tomasz Gop: Having to cut any game is tough and always the developer would rather not have to do that at all if it's to the detriment of the project. It was hard when we were faced with having to make cuts to The Witcher, especially as what we were having to cut was because of censorship in certain countries and the themes had already been established and described in the books and read by millions of people so we really wanted to keep those parts of the world in the game. Fortunately we didn't have to change as much as we feared: we had to modify some of the character models and remove some of the mature sexual elements of the game for the US release, but it still required additional investment to prepare the game for different markets.
But to have to drop anything and compromise on the way that the fantasy world was imagined and described was very tough. It was actually a bit like having to harm your baby!
Of course it's not just what you have to cut out it's also about how that affects the rest of the game and the challenges you face with keeping the rest of the game world consistent.
There were a lot of difficult decisions to make because of the inconsistencies between different rating boards. The differences between the US and some of the European rating boards for example and their feedback to us on different elements of the game was totally different.
Lukasz Kukawski: For us [at GOG.com] it's different, we're offering titles that aren't our own so we don't have access to the source code of the games. We have the master copies so our focus is on making sure it's compatible and optimised to work on the more recent operating systems but we cannot modify any of the content.
However, our service is such that these games have been released on various markets before and in some cases where games have not been released to some markets, perhaps for our neighbours in Germany for example, there is little point not offering the titles to players in specific countries because they could simply change their county location in their profile and they would have access to those games! Really what it means is that in certain countries we cannot promote GOG.com there.
Media outlets and the gaming press are afraid of carrying promotion for our service because of the ban and general disapproval of violent games in Germany but despite this I'm pleased to say that the German market is still in the top 5 or maybe top 8 of our markets. Maybe they hear about the service on English sites like this one and that's how they find out about it...
Q: How's the Polish gaming market looking, what's your view on how healthy the Polish development scene is?
Tomasz Gop: I think the gaming market in Poland is definitely on the up. From what I've seen there has been a rise in the number of outlets that spread information about games over the last two years, and also there are more people buying consoles. With regard to developers though I think that we have between five and ten big developers in Poland but it's still not enough as far as I'm concerned. I believe that it is a place where a lot of people can make great games, but there just aren't enough investors at the moment.
Lukasz Kukawski: Also, in the last few years we've had several big publishers opening offices here in Poland so now there's a Ubisoft Poland office, a Sony Computer Entertainment Poland and also Microsoft has an office here. So it's getting bigger, and more people are talking about games but also the way they talk about games is different. They're not talking about them just as kid's toys any more, like they were ten years ago.
The mainstream media are also talking about games and game developers and, for example, The Witcher was the biggest thing that had happened on the Polish games market. Then last year Techland released the second of the Call of Juarez series which I think was a big success for them so it's getting better and better.
There are lots of really programmers and designers here that have quite specific and original ideas for games and so I think it won't be too long before we'll see Polish developers gaining consistent renown on the gaming scene at a worldwide level.
Tomasz Gop: Certainly a lot of programmers have left Poland over the last few years and I'd like to see them returning to Poland to boost the industry here, I'm not sure if that movement has already started but I'd like to see that happen soon.
Tomasz Gop is senior producer at CD Projekt's Red studio; Lukasz Kukawski is PR & marketing specialist at GOG.com. Interview by Stace Harman.


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Europe without basic freedoms could become our problem. An excerpt from Native Revolt: A European Declaration of Independence, a blog at The Brussels Journal.
Although the EU warns against "Islamophobia," those who live in the real world know that there has been an explosion of violent infidelophobia in Western Europe staged by Muslim immigrants. This wave of violence especially targets Jews, but the attacks against Christians that are going on in the Middle East are increasingly spreading to Europe as well. In more and more cities across the continent, non-Muslims are being harassed, robbed, mugged, raped, stabbed and even killed by Muslims. Native Europeans are slowly becoming second-rate citizens in their own countries.
This violence by Muslims is usually labelled simply as "crime," but I believe it should more accurately be called Jihad. Those who know early Islamic history, as described in books such as The Truth About Muhammad by Robert Spencer, know that looting and stealing the property of non-Muslims has been part and parcel of Jihad from the very beginning. In fact, so much of the behavior of Muhammad himself and the early Muslims could be deemed criminal that it is difficult to know exactly where crime ends and Jihad begins. In the city of Oslo, for instance, it is documented that some of the criminal Muslim gangs also have close ties to radical religious groups at home and abroad. As Dutch Arabist Hans Jansen points out, the Koran is seen by some Muslims as a God-given "hunting licence," granting them the right to assault and even murder non-Muslims. It is hardly accidental that while Muslims make up about 10% of the population in France, they make up an estimated 70% of French prison inmates.
Read the whole thing, even if it is hard to stomach at times. Hattip Instapundit, and he has as associated book recommendation as well.
Violence against women is another big concern of mine. For the most part I feel like I can protect myself and that I live in a fairly safe environment, but I've had training and plenty of studly man friends. I'm no feminist, but you would think they would be up in arms about this kind of thing. Evan Coyne Maloney agrees:
A Saudi woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes — for meeting a man who was not a relative.
In the 1980s, scores of activists and celebrities spoke out quite publicly against the racial aparthied system in South Africa. But today, an apartheid of gender exists throughout much of the Middle East, and these activists are largely silent.
Associated article from MSN here.
If you value your free speech and basic freedoms, do not let these issues fall through the cracks, because when we realize that the problem is bigger than we thought, it may be too late.


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Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500
Note: It's still not too late to take my "Best Practices 2011" Survey. Participants will receive the final report, and (when published) my "enhanced eBook" Making Referrals Happen. If you have had experience with this or other equipment, your comments are welcome below.
Put a 20-page document in the paper feed, press the button, and it's at work. If it's a double sided doc, it's chewing them up at 40 ppm. An unbelievable machine.
If someone could get completely organized so that all you did was feed the thing, you could theoretically scan 48,000 pages in a 40-hour work week.
You would think a machine with this kind of power needs its own room and attendant. Not so. With the top and bottom paper handling trays extended, you need about a square foot.
Here's a review from Amazon:
The speed is absolutely blinding – an incredible 20 pages per minute but, because it scans both sides of a page at the same time, double sided documents scan at 40 PAGES PER MINUTE! Wow! As with previous models, this scanner is very small and appears to be well built: it's quite heavy for its small size and fits very nicely on my small computer desk. The scanning quality is equally spectacular – it scans up to 600 dpi in color, grayscale, and black and white and mine came with a good assortment of software (Adobe Acrobat 9, Rack2-Filer, and ABBYY FineReader). It scans documents beautifully! While I've been too busy scanning the billions of pieces of paper that have cluttered my life for years (this scanner will actually do that quickly and efficiently – something I've always just dreamed would be possible), I haven't yet tried to scan photos; I suspect that this scanner will do a good job but that another type of scanner would probably do better for archival purposes).
Check it out on Amazon.
The Gotcha: Documentation
The documentation is as awful as the machine is great.
I decided to take it home this past weekend and tackle some of my own filing projects. For about an hour, I wandered aimlessly through a thicket of impenetrable documentation. It's possibly the worst I have seen.
But if I were lost, I am now found.
I poked around on Google® and found "The Unofficial ScanSnap Setup Guide" by Brooks Duncan. It is a fabulous piece of technical writing. It's well illustrated, well written, well designed and accurate. You should also poke around his website for other tips and training on going paperless.
Within an hour of downloading my guide, I was almost ready to go.
File Naming: Key to Finding What You Filed.
What a vital, if boring topic.
With the s1500, you can enable character recognition to search an entire scanned file. You can also highlight certain text and create searchable keywords. But that takes computer processing time. Your scanner speed is perhaps cut in half. In my case, we will be scanning thousands of identical contracts. I certainly do not want these indexed. (Windows 7 will do it automatically; you can search you entire hard drive in seconds.) If had had thousands of identical contracts, I could never find anything else. So I needed a way to find documents. I suspected the key is in the name of the scanned document. And I devoutly hoped some kind soul had already figured this out.
So I fired up Google again and voila! I found a pretty simple document that taught me quite a few "dos and don'ts" about naming files–"Folder and File Naming Convention—10 Rules for Best Practice". The company that prepared the article is Exadox. They offer "paperless office solutions."
So there you have it—the scanner, the documentation, and how to name the files.


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I picked up a couple of books on atheism recently because I wanted something to read and, well, why not? It's a wide variety of works by a number of different authors, some I know and some I don't. However, I realized as I started to read them that I was really quite bored with the subject matter. It isn't the author's fault, I couldn't quibble with style or talent, it was the whole topic of atheism that bored the ever-loving crap out of me.
The same is true of the religious, I also picked up a couple of books on apologetics and they bored me too. It's the same crazy arguments by the same crazy people, just as the atheist books are the same tired responses to the same tired claims. Nothing ever really changes in the world of religion, or in the response to such. I've read it all before, there's nothing new to learn and no real new refutations of the religious insanity. It feels like the whole theistic/atheistic debate is at a stalemate.
Of course, this isn't the first time I've said all of this, I guess I'm just suffering from ennui when it comes to religion. It's just not fun anymore. Debates never go anywhere. I feel like I'm talking to myself. It feels like the only people trying to defend religion are the people who are moving toward a fanatical singularity. Even watching debates seems pointless because they all end up the same way. I skipped watching the Bill Nye/Ken Ham debate on purpose because I figured no new ground would be covered. I used to be an avid viewer of debates online but lately, I haven't. I've tried, but I rarely make it more than 10 minutes into the debate before I call the theist an idiot and turn it off. They can't debate rationally and without that, what's the point?
On Twitter, which we all know is the lowest form of common trash among the social media sites, it's all the same thing. The same mindless memes, the same idiotic religious retweets, over and over and over and over. There's no intelligent thought on Twitter today, if there ever was. It's same shit, different day. No, wait a minute, same day. All day.
I even look at the Religious Horror Show and all of the stories feel the same. I am currently written out as far as September and I have stories almost through the end of the year and they all just run together. Oh look, another Catholic priest molested a kid. *YAWN* Joy, the Muslims murdered someone in the streets again. It just doesn't have the impact that it once did on me because it's all too common. There was a time that people got mad at these things, but now it seems like it's become blasé. It's in the news so often, it happens every day, nobody really cares anymore.
Now sure, I could just take a vacation from it all, I have posts written on the blog through June. Yes, June. I've got so many that, as I'm sure people have noticed, I've gone back and started peppering the overflow on days I usually don't post on. Now, instead of posting 4x per week, it's rare when I post less than 6x, but I feel I have an obligation, to myself if no one else, to keep cranking out the same kind of posts that I've done a dozen times before because nothing new ever happens.
I'd kill for something legitimately new, something wildly different. I'd love it if the theists could come up with a new argument that hasn't been kicked down the stairs repeatedly but we all know they won't and can't do such a thing. I'd love it if the atheists could do more than rehash the same old tired responses, but with nothing new coming from the religious, that's unlikely as well. Even on political issues, it's boring. Same old stupidity from both sides and nobody ever thinking rationally or critically about anything. It's a mess.
And you know something? Since I started working on my book, I've even gotten discouraged there. I've already covered all of these things time and time again. How many times can you refute the Kalam Cosmological Argument? How many times can you detail the failures of religion and politics? How many times can you write the history of Nixon's Southern Strategy? I sit down to write and I get bored. I've been there. I've done that. I don't get how people can write a dozen books on the same subject, especially a subject that never really changes, and not feel the same way.
It's not just me either, I've seen lots of atheist bloggers say essentially the same thing, they're bored with the sameness of it all. They're tired of the inanity of the religious and the irrationality of the political and the undeniable impossibility of talking anyone into taking a critical look at their own beliefs. The world is changing for the better but it's not going nearly fast enough.
Ah well, I'm just venting again, I guess. I'd really like to have something ignite the fire that once burned in my breast to debate, but I don't see that happening unless we find a whole new crop of honest and rational theists and… yeah, not likely.


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The pharmacy school interview is an important part of the application process. You will get to meet the school's admission staff, who you have previously only probably communicated with by application form and perhaps an email or two. This gives you both a great opportunity to see how you will fit into the program and how the school and the program fit with you.
The pharmacy school should make you feel as comfortable as possible during the interview process. It is not set up to trip you up, rather to find out more about you and how you would fare with the program requirements, so the interview should be a non-stressful situation. As part of the process you may get the opportunity to meet with current pharmacy school students and lecturers to gain some first-hand insight. This is a great opportunity and you should try to make the best use of any time you spend on this activity.
In the interview itself, ensure you are totally familiar with your written application in all its details so that you can speak about it, and enhance any areas with spoken answers when required. You will paint a much fuller and clearer picture of yourself if you are able to provide examples of the types of things you have included in your application to give your application support and some sense of reality. In addition, it is worth considering the types of questions that you may be asked and having an idea about how you will address them should they come up.
1. Tell me why you have applied for this program?
2. If applicable, what was your favorite course in college? Which did you find most difficult and why?
3. Describe one of your weaknesses. What have you done to improve?
5. Give an example of something you are proud of and why.
6. Why have you chosen to apply to our pharmacy program?
7. What are your plans for after you graduate?
8. What do you do in your spare time?
9. Where did your interest in pharmacy come from?
11. What would you consider the most important attributes for a pharmacist to have?
12. How do you feel you compare with those attributes?
13. Give us an example of when you have demonstrated your leadership ability.
14. Give us an example of when you used creativity to solve a problem.
15. Where would you like to see yourself 10 years?
In addition to these generic type questions you will need to familiarize yourself with current news and issues related to healthcare and particularly the pharmacy industry and be able to express an informed opinion or defend a position as necessary. Remember always to not engage in political debates or any topic that could be construed as 'off subject' however close to your heart it may be.
You may be asked some hypothetical questions related to difficult or ethical situations where you will be required to demonstrate either your experience in a certain type of situation or your judgement. Remember in these instances that there is usually no right or wrong answer, but you will need to ensure that any answer is backed with as many facts as possible and based on as real a situation as you can, so that you appear credible at all times. Most importantly of all, throughout the entire process, remember to take a moment to think over your answer before starting to speak. You will sound like you are considering and not rushing your answers rather than nervous, so don't worry!
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By Rusty Simmons
Las Vegas --
Everybody in the Warriors' organization longs for the day when Festus Ezeli checks back into a game, but nobody shares that sentiment more than director of team services Eric Housen.
"I'm at the gym all of the time. They think I live there," said Ezeli, a 24-year-old center, who has a key card that allows him to access the Warriors' downtown Oakland training facility at all hours of the night. Housen "always jokes that he's getting tired of doing my laundry. He tells me that he's never done so much laundry in his life."
Ezeli's work ethic is a prized commodity, but it also might be the reason why he's unlikely to play in the summer league starting Friday night. Nearly 13 months after having surgery to reinforce the medial collateral and posterior cruciate ligaments in his right knee, the big man is still being held out of game action.
The latest problem is right shin inflammation, which the Warriors don't believe to be serious and contend may have been brought on by overwork.
"My body is telling me something, but my mind doesn't know what 'overwork' is," Ezeli said after watching Thursday's practice and then going through noncontact drills. "I sat for so long that when they finally let me go, I just kind of went crazy."
Ezeli, who was a big part of changing the team's defensive culture as a 2012-13 rookie who started 41 games, knows exactly how long he sat. When he had the surgery, he thought the worst-case scenario would be a February return.
Before Game 7 of the Warriors' first-round series against the Clippers in May, Ezeli was still trying to convince the team that he was ready to get back on the floor. He walked into the gym and said, "Yo, I'm playing."
"They literally had to hold me back," he said. "You think I'm kidding."
He's now missed eight preseason games, 82 regular-season games and seven postseason games. When the Warriors' summer-league team plays its third game Monday, Ezeli will have missed 100 games.
"I'm stronger than I thought," Ezeli said. "Imagine sitting for 100 games. I never thought I could do it. ... It's just added to the fire. It's all motivation."
Ezeli's nostrils show the slightest flare when he talks about sitting for "precautionary reasons," but he seems to understand why the Warriors are being so careful with their big man of the future.
He's forced himself to find the positives in being sidelined.
He's noticing patterns in how opponents' offensive sets develop and how a defensive anchor can muck up those plays. He says he's worked on his passing, catching, shooting stroke and touch around the rim, and he can't wait to be unleashed to showcase the skills in a game.
"It's disappointing, but it's better to be safe than sorry," head coach Steve Kerr said. "You don't want to mess around with that. The biggest thing is for him to be ready to go in October. I feel bad for him, more than anything."
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In order to offer about $100 million in property-tax breaks to hotel and conference center operator Gaylord Entertainment, the city of Aurora must designate as "blighted" 125 acres of vacant land near Denver International Airport.
The land — classified as agricultural for tax purposes but zoned for commercial development — sits adjacent to a major proposed residential and commercial project and is located along the primary road to the airport. The property was part of a larger land sale in 2006 for $51.7 million.
The property-tax breaks represent about a third of the $300 million in incentives Aurora has agreed to give Gaylord over the next three decades for its planned 1,500-room hotel and conference center, which may have the National Western Stock Show & Rodeo as a neighbor.
The bulk of the rest of the money will come from sales, lodging and admissions taxes. The $800 million project would eventually employ 1,500 and would create about 1,900 construction jobs.
Under the state's urban-renewal law, once a city designates land as "blighted," local governments, schools and special districts may rebate to developers what they pay in property taxes for 25 years.
The property has to meet broad criteria ranging from deteriorating buildings or inadequate streets to safety hazards. Generally, blighted properties "constitute a serious and growing menace, injurious to the public health, safety, morals, and welfare," according to the 53-year- old statute.
The deal with Gaylord is drawing criticism from some Aurora politicians and residents who say the city is abusing the urban-renewal process.
"It does not pass the straight-face test for the blighted designation," said state Sen. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, a critic of corporate tax incentives. "It's a financing game to get public subsidies for a project that might be wonderful if it were privately financed."
Duane Senn, a retired Aurora employee who ran for City Council in 2005 and frequently criticizes city actions, said the tax breaks are a bad deal for Aurora taxpayers. The city is giving away virtually all of the tax benefits of having Gaylord for three decades but is taking on the considerable risk that the venture won't perform as predicted, he said.
"They're getting their bread buttered in every possible way," Senn said of Gaylord.
Aurora city officials say urban renewal is one of the few tools Colorado cities have to offer as economic-development incentives. The subsidies were essential to luring Gaylord, which was also looking at land in Commerce City and Broomfield, they said. The tax revenue wouldn't be generated at the site without the project. The rebated taxes must be spent on construction and maintenance of the conference center, they said.
Use of the urban-renewal statute has evolved since it was established in 1958, said Aurora Assistant City Attorney Mike Hyman. What began as a way for cities to clear and redevelop slums is now widely used as an incentive to attract projects.
"There are municipal projects that would not occur in this state but for the urban-renewal statute," Hyman said. "This property is next to one of the busiest airports in the world, and it's waiting for the right development project to come along. The right development project has come along."
Though the property might not meet the dictionary definition of blight, it clearly meets the state legal definition, he said.
The legal definition is broad enough to allow most undeveloped land to qualify, though there are additional hurdles for agricultural properties.
A consulting firm hired by Aurora conducted a study of the property in June, determining the land met the legal definition because it is undeveloped and underutilized, lacking roads, sidewalks, storm drainage, fire hydrants and street lighting.
Among other hazards, the firm found the site is unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists, and that it poses the risk of "uncontrolled growth of vegetation which . . . could increase the fire threat to nearby structures."
The Aurora City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing and vote on the blight designation and urban-renewal status Aug. 22.
Last year state lawmakers passed a law that took aim at cities calling agricultural farmland "blighted" for the purpose of offering tax incentives. A project in southeast Aurora was one that critics said was an abuse of the statute. Carroll co-sponsored the legislation with bill author Rep. Randy Fischer, D-Fort Collins.
The Gaylord property is subject to the new restrictions, but the law allows agricultural land to be labeled blighted if all government agencies that collect property taxes in the area sign waivers. Aurora is talking to each of those agencies, Hyman said, including Adams County, the Brighton school district and the Rangeview Library District.
Carroll and Fischer said they added the exemption and others to the bill under pressure from municipalities.
"The intent of my bill was to prevent abuses of blight and the urban-renewal statute for new developments on virgin land," Fischer said. "For it to pass, we had to carve out some exceptions."
Carroll said she underestimated the resourcefulness of cities and developers seeking incentive deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars to develop vacant lands.
"The Gaylord project is exactly the kind of gaming of the blighted designation for urban-renewal purpose that (the bill) was trying to stop," she said. "Getting permission of all the interested parties . . . to me it looks stealthy."
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According to Ken Gurnick of MLB.com, Daniel Murphy is the one player on the Mets that the Dodgers tried to trade for at the Winter Meetings, according to a baseball source, and they might make another run at him.
Murphy was the unnamed player general manager Ned Colletti referred to when he said he might be able to upgrade the roster at the Winter Meetings, adding yet another multi-position player after earlier signing Jerry Hairston Jr. and Adam Kennedy.
Gurmick adds that the trade unraveled when the Mets satisfied their need elsewhere without having to trade Murphy, a reference perhaps to Giants outfielder Andres Torres.
Aside from some defensive jitters in the field – most likely due to being bounced around between positions he has very little pro experience playing – Murphy is one of the most proficient hitters on the team.
Before having his season cut short again in 2011, Murphy, now 26, hit .320 in 109 games and was 5th in the league in batting before he got injured.
There are plenty of other teams interested in him, and he's become quite the hot commodity for the Mets, surprisingly so.
Ike Davis and Jon Niese, both 24, have also been mentioned in some trade rumors which is kind of baffling really. When asked about it, Alderson basically said David Wright is the only player assured of not being traded this winter.
So this plan, if that's what you want to call it, doesn't seem to be based on keeping any of the current younger players like Niese, Davis and I would imagine Ruben Tejada and Lucas Duda as well.
It looks more like tearing down any remnants of the Minaya era and replacing them all with Alderson-approved players.
They can deny it all they want, but this is the same thing their doing in Oakland right now, everybody's available for more prospects. A cycle of rebuilding every 5-6 years. I can't believe after the A's have been tooting their horn for years about developing Andrew Bailey, Trevor Cahill and Gio Gonzalez – they're all being traded after less than 4 years of service despite how they've shined. That scares me.
Wright is only being kept around to sell some jerseys and tickets – and to prevent a mass exodus of any remaining interested fans who still remain loyal – for now.


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Silva TKO's Sonnen in second round
There was no way the rematch between middleweight champion Anderson Silva and contender Chael Sonnen could live up to the hype.
It was called the most anticipated rematch in UFC history. It was promoted as a battle between Brazil, the nation Sonnen had ripped on again and again in advance of UFC 148, and the good ole U.S. of A. It was a fight between the man who has been called the best mixed martial artist in history, Silva, and the only man to come close to beating him in the past six years.
And, no, the fight itself didn't live up to the hype. After Sonnen tackled Silva to the ground five seconds into the fight and dominated the entire first round, he missed a spinning back fist halfway through the second round and lost his balance. Silva pounced, kneeing Sonnen in the chest, and then administered a straight-up beatdown until the referee mercifully intervened at 1:55 of the second round. After the epic five-round battle the two had gone through two years ago, this was child's play. Silva had barely broken a sweat when his hand was raised.
But then there was the moment right after victory was declared. The heavily Brazilian crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena waved their green-and-yellow flags and cheered, but Silva shushed them. The man who now had successfully defended his middleweight belt 10 times had something to say. This was what we'd come for.
"Ah, yeah, please, ladies and gentlemen," the 37-year-old said in his surprisingly high voice. "I don't have nothing for Chael. He disrespected my country? Fine. This is sport. This is UFC."
Then Silva put his arm around a deflated Sonnen, and you couldn't tell if he was mocking him or being magnanimous. Probably a little of both.
"Let's show the Brazilians have manners," Silva smirked. "I want everyone to applaud for Chael." He turned to Sonnen. "Chael, thank you for fight, bro. If you'd like to have barbeque at my house, I'd love to have you over for barbeque."
Ah, yes. A nice little "screw you" from the champ. That was the part that lived up to all the hype. And when it's done with a smile, it hurts that much more.
The win solidifies what had already been a pretty solid spot that Silva holds as the king of mixed martial arts. There's really no one in the middleweight division who hangs with him after UFC 148, which sold more pay-per-views than any UFC fight in history.
The first six fights on the card had the sellout crowd at MGM Grand Garden Arena restless. Each of the fights were decisions, many of them plodding fights that brought out the boos.
Then Chad Mendes stepped inside the Octagon, and all that changed really quick. Too quick, maybe. Mendes, a heavy favorite over Cody McKenzie, ended the fight in 38 seconds after knocking over McKenzie with a punch to the solar plexus and then pouncing. It was Mendes' first fight since he lost to Jose Aldo in January in UFC 142, a fight that was for the featherweight championship. The dominating victory could likely vault Mendes back toward the top of his division.
"It's very rewarding to go through a long and hard training camp with the best fighters in the world and to get in the Octagon and get it done fast like that," Mendes said afterward. "I had seen what he had done in past fights, and I was prepared."
The next fight was nearly as fast. Demian Maia took down Dong Hyun Kim, and it appeared that the South Korean fell on Maia's knee, perhaps breaking his rib. He put his hands over his face, and 47 seconds into the fight, Maia had won first fight since stepping down to the welterweight division.
"I was trying to bring my jiujitsu back so I did it my whole camp and concentrated on takedowns," Maia said. "That's what took me to this point and helped me win tonight."
Cung Le, the South Vietnam-born American kickboxer, won his first fight in the Octagon, going the distance with the French Canadian middleweight Patrick Cote. Cote was a 2-to-1 favorite, but perhaps jinxed himself by walking out walked out to Hammer's 2 Legit 2 Quit. Le kept Cote out of range with kicks and outstruck him thoroughly, and though the fight went the three-round distance, there was little doubt that the 40-year-old Le would win by unanimous decision. It was one of the first fights of the night that could be called anything close to a slugfest.
"I was going to do a backflip, but I don't have the energy," Le, the former Strikeforce middleweight champion, said immediately after the decision. "He has such a hard head, I hurt my foot on it."
In the co-main event, Forrest Griffin took a unanimous decision in a hard-fought fight against Tito Ortiz, who'd been inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame earlier in the day. Ortiz looked gassed after the first round, then lost the second before coming back with a powerful third round that made the fight close. Afterward, Griffin left the Octagon before the decision was announced, ceding the stage to Ortiz in his last fight. But then Griffin came back in, took the microphone from Joe Rogan and interview Ortiz.
"I've been doing this 15 years and paved the way for the rest of you fighters," Ortiz said.
"I feel like we had three draws," Griffin said. "I want a fourth round."
But there was no denying that the sellout crowd had not come to see Ortiz's swan song. They'd come for Silva-Sonnen II, and you could feel the energy in the arena every time Sonnen and Silva's faces were flashed on the big screen.
And after the fight had been called y the referee, Silva sank to his knees in the middle of the Octagon. He might have been asking, "Who's next?" But right now there's nobody.
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I Will Start by a name of a game on Armour games and the player under me write another game with the last letter of my game and so on
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how to raise a dragon.
btw. since comments with less then 7 words are considered spam you should add more... and honestly, if i didnt have to say this i have no idea what the other words would have been
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Hands of War Tower Defense
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Exit Path 2...is that cheating? its the only game that starts with "E"
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NPD Oct. 08: PlayStation Sales Down, X360 Up, Software Sales Good
Fueled by the release of Fable II, the Xbox 360 moved another 371k systems. But the Nintendo Wii has touched the clouds of heaven with 803k sold, fueled by absolutely nothing new, meanwhile the DS sold 491k. On the software front, Sony's Socom and LittleBigPlanet did very well: Socom sold 231k copies, and LittleBigPlanet managed an impressive 215k, considering it was on shelves for a mere four days before October ended. Fable II led the software charts with 790k sold, and the Xbox 360 version of Dead Space came in at tenth with 193k. Interestingly, Fallout 3 sold 375k for the Xbox 360, but the PS3 version didn't land the top 10.
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The PS3 is a better value, and a better system, but the average person will take the 360 because it's $100-$200 less than the cheapest PS3. The 360 Arcade is even cheaper than the Wii! Sure, serious gamers may dismiss the Arcade version, but the fact is it plays GTA IV, Madden 09, and Halo 3, and costs half as much as a PS3. That's an easy sale to Joe the sixpack plumber guy.
I've been saying it for a while now: if Sony doesn't cut the price soon, they're going to get their ass kicked. They can't allow the 360 to get a big lead in the mainstream market, which is exactly what is going to happen if this price gap continues.
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A issue during the PS2/XBox days was that the PS2 had no shooters and a lot of rpgs. The exact opposite was being said about the XBox - a lot of shooters but no rpgs.
So fast-forward to the next-gen and the roles are reversed. PS3 = more shooters, XBox = more RPGs. Ironic, isn't it?
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Tim Speed24
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Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 10:33:15 AM
That is completely false Microsoft did not pay for my broken system (well my third one) they did pick up one and two but after I got the second back and it red ringed they said that a refurbished unit was not covered by a blanket warranty after 90 days. I pitched a fit with the guy on the phone and after 45 minutes of talking to various people they refused to budge so I bought another system from some kid that was gonna trade his in at the gamestop I used to work at
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 8:30:29 PM
$200 is an awesome price. $399 isn't.
And I know that the PS3 at $399 is a good deal, but most people don't have that kind of money just to get a BluRay player added to their system.
If I was low on cash, and wanted to play all these awesome games coming out, I would buy a 360. Especially with Gears 2 coming out. The commercial for Gears 2 itself is better than the story in R2. (I kid of course...sorta)
We got reminded over and over how awesome the PS3 line up was towards the end of 2008, and while it has been good, I was a bit dissapointed. I don't think the 360 was too far behind.
They had Gears 2, Fable 2, Banjo, Left 4 Dead, Ninja Gaiden 2.
We had LBP which is awesome, Motorstorm 2, which is good, but nothing that is a must have (I prefer Pure myself), R2 which in my mind is fun, but I expected to be blown away by it, but I haven't been, and Socom, which had a horrible start.
And is one less game to care about if you're someone who prefers a single player campaign like myself, I don't have time for an online only game.
I dunno, does that make any sense? Before, I thought the PS3 line up was going to be better hands down, and while I still think it's better, just because nothing can beat the uniqueness of LBP, the 360 is not far behind. And if you take away my point of view on LBP (for those that arent blown away by it), I think you could argue that the 360's line up is better.
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King James
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 12:15:09 PM
How can u count Banjo? That game has horrible reviews (Poor Rare). And Left 4 Dead is a PC game. That game looks half-assed on the 360. Which leaves the ARPG, Fable2 and the 3rdPS, Gears 2. That's a total of 2 noteworthy games.
I hear you on the whole "I prefer single player" thing. But Gears 2 single player is NOT its strong point. Neither is R2's. That's the popular trend we are seeing in gaming now.
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 4:26:10 PM
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 4:34:25 PM
Ps3 DOES have a huge line-up of games this fall compared to the 360, but that doesn't matter because people cant afford the price of a ps3. Thats why ps3's sales were not up this month.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 11:26:25 PM
maybe this numbers will teach sony a big lesson.
Plus Sony need to start Advertising their Software. Sony commercials r pretty gay. R2 commercial for example. last years commercial was the best(Saliva).
Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 11:27:01 PM
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Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 8:35:03 AM
Maybe Sony needs to rethink the RPG stand point again. It worked for the PS2. The only one coming that's making buzz is FFXIII, and it's multiplatform...That's going to hurt Sony a bit. A lot of the games hyped for PS3 are FPS' and that's a pretty saturated market. Like Ben said in the legendary review, if you're going to put an installment for that genre you have to bring your "A" game.
I noticed a lot of you are mentioning games that aren't out yet and that's what's affecting the sales. This is the holiday shopping season though, Sony needs to have their big guns out now. M$ has a good number of Hyped games out right now and with a lower base price for a system, that gives them an edge. Ps3 has a lot of good games, but none of them are hyped up as much, and a few are "sleepers" which means the majority of people won't know about them. Which is too bad. The way things are looking, there's a good chance Sony will lose the Christmas sales battle, but we'll have to wait until next year when K2, and GT5 launch, and see what happens then.
Myself I'm sticking with Sony, I've never had a problem with any of their products, and I've seen from past experiences that they are slow to get started, but once they do, they do so well that there old systems are still competing with the new systems. Sony is looking at a ten year life span on the PS3, which we've all heard that that other systems just aren't able to do that.
So in the long wrong Sony is the better deal for me.
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Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 9:34:05 AM
Better value or not, if I want to play the multiplat games, and if money is tight, I'll buy the $199 360. I know the Arcade doesn't have a hard drive or wi-fi etc... but it does play the GAMES!
Besides, it's not like Sony can't afford to cut the price. Sony cannot afford NOT to cut the price at this point!
Witness Wal-Mart's PS3 sale last Saturday: Buy the $399 PS3, we'll give you a $100 gift card. That in itself tells you there is room for a price cut because Wal-Mart is not in the habit of losing money!
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 3:03:26 PM
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 9:44:37 AM
Listen, I have all of the consoles, so I'm no fanboy; but even though I have an Xbox and a 360 to play the "Xclusives", there is something about the way M$ft conducts business (basically stealing every single idea [Windows, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, the Zune, Avatars, Replay TV, etc...]) that irks me. I don't mind owning the Xbox and 360, but I sure as hell don't want M$ft to dominate the industry.
Microsoft dominating an industry is just bad for everyone. Look at computers and realize how few legitimate choices the average consumer now has for an operating system, a browser, a media player, etc..., especially since everything is bundled in right out of the box.
You don't know how glad I was that TiVo won out over Replay TV and the PS2 over the Xbox.
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 10:25:54 AM
Lets no forget price cut in japan 2009+final fantasy 13= win f**king win.
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Oh and killzone 2 will do really well next yr i'm on the beta and man it's Awesome.
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 11:22:33 AM
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 11:24:14 AM
King James
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 11:48:56 AM
PS3 dropped all that software though, and in the end...that's what sales consoles. I can't wait to see those November sales. I know ppl that bought a PS3 just for Resistance 2.
And did y'all see those LBP numbers? That's crazy. 200k+ in four days? Wow! The Fallout thing doesn't surprise me though. During that time, part of PS Mag's review leaked and was blown out of proportion. It stated "...PS3 version is inferior visually to its 360 & PC counterparts". It made a lot of PS3 owners hesitant.
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 2:40:57 PM
ps3 sell more in the US when it releases huge games(or a string of huge games).
In Sept-Oct there weren't any huge games, so it shows that the price factor of both consoles came into play last month.
I sill don't understand how the ps3 costs $400.
I've been meaning to get me another ps3 so I could play online games with my bro, but since it costs so damn much I haven't been able to.
Bring it to down to $300 Sony!
Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 4:58:39 PM
Hurr I'm a Durr.
There are two main factors for picking one version over the other: graphics and controller. Oh and Trophies/Achievements.
Most people who own multi consoles will pick it up for the controller they like the best, unless there's a huge graphical discrepancy.
However, with trophies just starting and most games not having them right away, I pick mine up for the 360, because of that and I like that controller better.
I have picked up a few for the PS3 instead because they looked markably better on the PS3 or because I felt I needed to boot my PS3 up for more than just updates...
But if you go back and look at the numbers games sell more on the 360 because of a larger install base AND a higher software attach rate.
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On the other note: There is a video on youtube that shows the durability of the PS3, Xbox 360, and the Wii.
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Now it really becomes bad when we see so many buy a Wii based off absolute nothing but a cheap price tag. There's an even easier way to save money and that is not to buy a console at all. As owning a Wii is the same as owning nothing because neither have any games.
Going out spending 250 bucks on a white box only just to have switched off standing by your TV for months on end, thats crazy. Well I suppose many people will spend that amount on ornements and things and they do nothing.
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The transfer to Israel of several carloads of machinery from DP camps in Germany was announced here today by the headquarters of the world CRT. The move is in line with a plan which the CRT has embarked upon to gradually shift its vocational training activities from Europe to artisan schools in Israel. More shipments are in preparation, the announcement said.
The CRT office here also announced the shipping to Tel Aviv from Geneva of complete installations for schools to train typewriter repair workers and wireless operators. A shipment of 353 sewing machines–part of the organization's artisan aid program–was also dispatched to Israel.


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When Bill Gates commits suicide, Apple will have no competition.
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When an inventor creates a device which improves overall air quality, the global average lifespan increases.
When the global lifespan increases, the world becomes overpopulated again.
When the world becomes overpopulated, people start moving to other planets.
When people start movng to other planets, they invent AG: Mars.
When they invent AG: Mars, They have to crate AG: Earth's Moon and one for each of Mars's moons.
When they have to create AG: Earth's Moon and one for each of Mars' moons, we have alien spammers.
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When every site on the internet lags like crazy, every internet user goes insane.
When every internet user goes insane, Terry starts barking like a dog and wears a potted plant on his head.
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White can do no wrong in Enda's eyes
Calamity incommunicado
Alex White, Minister of State at the Department of Health. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times
Thank heavens for Alex – Enda's white haired boy.
He's very bright, you know.
He's a lawyer. And a senior counsel, to boot.
He's taken silk.
Enda thinks Alex is great. Just the man to rescue the Department of Health. Calamity James might be in charge, but in fairness, he's only a doctor.
Where would the government be without Alex White?
"Promote him!" shouted the Opposition.
The Fianna Fail leader was so dazzled by the Taoiseach's high praise for the exploits of his Labour Minister of State in the war-torn enclave of Hawkins House that he inadvertently referred to him as "Minister Right."
Which wasn't wide of the mark, as White can do no wrong in Enda's eyes.
No matter which way you turned yesterday, it was all about Alex.
If it wasn't a successful Premiership manager calling time on a glittering career it was a junior government player successfully managing to impose a game plan on a ministerial misfit.
We'd missed James Reilly.
It's been a while since the Minister for Health blundered across Leaders Questions in the Dail. Opposition strikers eyed his return with relish, because mention of poor aul Dicey Reilly invariably presents them with the political equivalent of an open goal.
This time, he was in the spotlight following the news that the government is abandoning a much-vaunted election promise to extend free GP care to tens of thousands of people with long term illnesses.
This, despite numerous assurances from Calamity over the two years and a half years since the coalition took office that the plan was well on the way to delivery and due any time now.
Until Paul Cullen revealed in yesterday's Irish Times that the minister's scheme is a dead parrot. It is no more. Ceased to be. Expired.
Michael Martin kicked the carcase. There is no legislation, he pointed out. No talks were ever held with the Irish Medical Organisation about the proposal. The free GP promise has never been delivered.
Well, yes, and no, replied Enda.
"Minister White is dealing with this matter very effectively" he began, going on to explain that when Alex took over from Roisin Shortall (who sat quietly in the chamber wearing a martyred look) he took a closer look at the situation. And Alex, being a lawyer, threw a gimlet eye over the proposals and realised that complex legislation would be needed to bring in free GP care for those with long term illnesses.
He told his colleagues about this at a recent meeting of the cabinet sub-committee on Health. And he said it would be better to take a long term look at the pledge to eventually roll out free GP care for all and devise legislation to deal with the entire process in one go.
Minister Reilly, and the rest of the cabinet, must have been very shocked to hear this. Two and a half years down the line.
When Alex "validly pointed this out" said Enda, it was decided to hold back and take a proper run at the legislation.
Three cheers for Alex. Because there don't appear to be any lawyers hanging about the Department of Health who might have offered similar advice, and far earlier.
"Where's the minister?" came the cry from across the floor.
But Calamity James, rather like his dead proposal, had joined the political choir invisible. He wasn't in the chamber.
Neither for that matter, was the Minister of State. At least not in person. But he could be seen in glorious colour on the monitor directly opposite the Taoiseach, which was showing proceedings in the Seanad. And Alex, at that moment, was addressing the Upper House.
The Dail was experiencing a White out.
Micheal Martin marvelled at Enda's reply. He had managed to give it without once mentioning Dicey Reilly but managing to namecheck Alex White on numerous occasions.
When would the Taoiseach realise that James Reilly is not the man to lead the Department of Health, demanded the Fianna Fail leader.
Enda said James Reilly had his full support, and added that his government's commitment to roll out universal free GP care was still in place.
But apart from stating that the plan is still in place, he conceded that the Irish Times report was spot on.
"Most of the story is almost entirely accurate"
Scribes on the press gallery who hadn't fainted whipped out their rifles and took aim at the pigs gliding in the thermal updrafts from Enda's unprecedented declaration.
The TDs were stunned.
You can't be saying things like that, Enda!
Then Gerry Adams got in on the act. Sometimes a politician has to take the easy way.
"Your loyalty to Minister Reilly is commendable" said the Sinn Fein leader, but it didn't take away from the fact that Dicey "has been an unmitigated disaster."
The scheme was dead in the water and he couldn't believe how it took over two years to discover that there were legal difficulties.
He laid the blame at the feet of poor aul Dicey.
But Enda reiterated his support for him, while continuing to give thanks for the timely intervention of his white haired boy.
"What I am saying to the Deputy is that the Minister of State is a lawyer himself and could see from looking at the structure in place that this would cause quite complex legal problems. He decided against getting involved in that jungle..."
Oh yes, Alex could "see the legal quagmires."
Over in the Seanad, they were preparing to throw buckets of water over the Junior Minister, his ears were burning so much.
And somewhere else, maybe in Hawkins House, they were throwing a blanket over the Calamity's cage.


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Health insurance for lower-income earners
2012-10-07 10:00
Maya Fisher-French
Medical aid coverage is no longer the preserve of the more well off, writes Maya Fisher-French
Unexpected medical costs can wipe you out financially so insuring for hefty medical bills is an important part of your financial plan.
Medical schemes are fairly expensive and have been seen as the preserve of higher income earners.
Fortunately, medical schemes have introduced medical cover for lower income earners that are based on what you earn.
These plans usually require you to use service providers and hospitals selected by your scheme and will have certain limits.
However, they still provide reasonably comprehensive cover for some day-to-day medical costs while paying for any major medical costs like hospitalisation.
Day-to-day cover typically includes GP visits and basic dentistry such as your annual check-up, cleaning, polishing, fillings, extractions, pain and sepsis treatment, and X-rays.
You are also covered for eye tests and a pair of spectacles every two years.
Prescribed medications that are included on the schemes list of medicines will also be covered.
Hospital costs at a network provider are paid for up to a certain limit and covers the cost of giving birth.
Your take-home medication is usually covered for seven days and some schemes include some cover for rehabilitation.
Although you are required to use the schemes' network of doctors and hospitals, the schemes do provide cover for one or two emergency visits to non-network providers a year.
By law, the schemes have to cover all 54 prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs), which mean they will pay for medication and associated medical costs related to those conditions, which include HIV/Aids, diabetes and hypertension.
The monthly premiums are usually determined by how much you earn and some funds offer lower rates if you select state hospitals over private hospitals.
When selecting a fund, make sure you understand the limits and where they apply so that you don't encounter any unexpected expenses.
For example, some schemes pay for over-the-counter medication if prescribed by the pharmacist while others don't. Some schemes have unlimited GP visits while others apply a limit of 12 per year.
All schemes have a limit on hospital cover but this can range from R500 000 to R950 000 a year.
Also, make sure you use the services offered.
For example, some schemes offer HIV/Aids counselling or child care advice for the first year of your baby's life.
Momentum Ingwe
Momentum Ingwe is aimed at individuals earning less than R9?000 a month and is linked to your income. Premiums start at R397 for an individual earning less than R4?900 a month, and up to R3?533 for a family of five where the main member earns R8?900 a month. Premiums are about 20% lower
if you opt for state hospitals rather than the Ingwe Network of private hospitals.
Discovery KeyCare
Discovery KeyCare is a range of entry-level products.
KeyCare Plus and KeyCare Core are for people who earn up to R6?250 monthly and the premiums per main member are R638 and R511 respectively.
Next year, Discovery will be introducing KeyCare Access for R450 a month aimed at those individuals who earn less than R3?900.
The focus is on primary healthcare and provides private GP visits, emergencies and accidental trauma in a private hospital, childbirth and care for newborns in private hospitals, and elective procedures in a contracted network of state facilities.
Fedhealth Maxima EntryZone
Fedhealth Maxima EntryZone is primarily a hospital plan and is not income dependant.
Irrespective of income, the principle member would pay R883 monthly.
The plan has limited day-to-day benefits such as only one GP visit per beneficiary a year although it does include preventative screening care such as cholesterol tests and pap smears.
Due to the focus on hospitalisation, it provides unlimited hospitalisation at network hospitals.
There is post-hospital treatment for up to 30 days and all specialised radiology such as MRI and CT scans are paid by the scheme.
You are able to upgrade to a higher option any time of the year on diagnosis of a dread disease or in the case of a life-changing event.
The Rolls-Royce of medical schemes
On the other extreme, Liberty Health has introduced Prestige, a fully comprehensive medical scheme that covers all your medical expenses from risk cover so you are never faced with unexpected medical expenses.
This option is aimed at executives and people who are too busy making money to have the time to worry about medical admin.
Members are assigned their own private consultant, available 24?hours a day, 7 days a week, who attends to their and their family's needs.
They will deploy a nurse to perform preventative screening tests such as basic blood-glucose screening, cholesterol testing and blood pressure, all free of charge.
Described as the Rolls-Royce of medical schemes, the premium for a family of four will set you back more than R10?000 per month.


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Hines: If Newt is warning DeLay about ethics, times are bad
Published 6:30 am, Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Talking with Newt Gingrich about ethics may be like talking to Willie Sutton about bank robbery. You listen carefully to such an experienced practitioner, but you wonder: If he's so smart why did he get caught so often.
No matter. Gingrich is currently as cautionary, if not as vocally indignant, about the House Republican leadership's slide into the muck as he is about debating "patriotic immigration" or "the myth of judicial supremacy."
As usual, Gingrich is taking the long view, not something that current House leaders such as Tom DeLay are regularly accused of doing.
"Republicans in the House have to look at the reality that if we make sense as a party right now it's because we are the reform party, and anything that risks being the reform party is more dangerous for us than it is for the Democrats," Gingrich told a journalists' breakfast Tuesday sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. "They should be very careful."
Well, of course, House Republicans are not being careful. They are profligately displaying their power, including the power to abuse the House's tenuous-at-best policing of itself.
Gingrich's advice, minus some more general outcry, may be of limited effect. But Gingrich may have had a hand in stemming some of the abuses lately intended by DeLay & Co. Gingrich spoke out quickly late last year against the House Republicans' rule change to allow indicted leaders to retain their positions at least temporarily.
The rule was reversed. But the rollback turned out to be a temporary expedient.
DeLay, sometimes through House Speaker Dennis Hastert, has since exacted revenge against the House Ethics Committee for repeatedly citing him.
As a result of subsequent changes in House rules, it is now harder to institute an ethics complaint against a member. Hastert also replaced the fair-minded chairman of the House ethics committee, Joel Hefley, R-Colo., with a leadership stooge, Rep. Richard "Doc" Hastings, R-Wash., and replaced two of the Republicans on the panel. Two of the newly appointed members, including Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, have been contributors to DeLay's legal defense fund.
If DeLay's message was not clear enough, Hastings fired the two long-serving senior committee staff members, who were, in effect, the panel's institutional memory.
"It was terrible," Hefley told the Chronicle's Gebe Martinez of the staff firings. "Those two guys are very good, very competent professional staff. There was never a nuance of partisanship in either of them."
Gingrich made clear he thinks DeLay is on thin ice.
"The Republican Party's majority comes from the Perot voters who want real reform," Gingrich said. "Anything which weakens that is difficult."
The replacement of Hefley and the staff firings are "a fait accompli," Gingrich judged. "But as they move toward the future they should be careful about understanding that to the degree that we are seen as no longer the reform party, we create space either for a third party or for people to just stay home. And both are dangerous for our majority."
For readers freshly arrived from Mars, Gingrich was the mischievous Moses who led conservative Republicans as they took control of the U.S. House in the 1994 election, for the first time in 40 years. He barely got to see the political promised land.
Gingrich was House speaker (1995-1999) but was essentially run off after his party only narrowly hung on in the 1998 elections.
In his brief reign, Gingrich was assessed a $300,000 penalty for misleading the House Ethics Committee about his use of a tax-exempt organization for political purposes. He edged past other ethics skirmishes, including 22 checks bounced in the House bank scandal and a $4.5 million book advance from conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch, which looked a touch too lucrative to be strictly a business deal. He gave it up for a sweet royalties arrangement.
Gingrich also was having an affair with a congressional aide amid one of his divorces, even as he condemned President Clinton for dalliances with a White House intern. "I'm a sinner," a well-practiced Gingrich said when questioned about moral authority. On old form, he quickly told his questioner: "And I expect you are too."
Given his own aggressively partisan background, Gingrich expressed surprise that Democrats aren't piling on more on issues such as Republican contracts with conservative commentators and the White House's admission of a pro-Republican male hooker to the press corps.
"It's fair to say that in my career I would probably have found an opportunity to comment on it," Gingrich said.
As for running for president, Gingrich will be in Iowa and New Hampshire soon, but, "It strikes me as implausible." So, there's more than one thing on which Newt and I agree.
Hines is a Houston Chronicle columnist based in Washington, D.C. (firstname.lastname@example.com)


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Windows Server Security Issues – need advice
It's parameters are CPU 2GHZ, 1GB RAM, HDD60GB, 100MBIT.
I am trying to make a free hosting service out of it. So naturally security concerns me now…
Tell me please is there any windows software that would help me to protect my server and free hosting service from hackers and other bad folks?
1. What antivirus software is the best for my VDS?
2. How to protect from DDOS, and any kind of denial of service?
3. How to secure each new user from other users?
4. What monitoring application should I install?
5. How many users I could host on? Script is in PERL written - EASYHOST2.0?
6. What else could I install on VDS to protect myself – because I have no clue yet ?
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I find it curious that you posted a question specific to Windows 2003 Server on Linux Forums.
Am I misunderstanding you--are you really running something under Linux?
While there may be someone here who has a good answer for you, you are much more likely to find Windows answers elsewhere.
Here are a few forums you might try: