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Russia Should Restrain Ruble Appreciation, Delay Free Float, Klepach Says
Russia needs to stem the appreciation of the ruble and isn't ready to implement the central bank's plan to let the currency trade freely, Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach said in an interview.
The ruble has gained 2.7 percent against the dollar this month, making it the second-best performer among 25 emerging- market currencies tracked by Bloomberg. Demand for Russian assets is rising as higher oil prices bolster the economy of the world's biggest energy exporter.
"Our fundamentals, the state of the current account, are allowing the ruble to strengthen at a fairly strong pace," Klepach said Oct. 9 in Washington, where he took part in the International Monetary Fund's annual meeting. "We can't give up on restraining the appreciation of the ruble's rate, and that contradicts the policy of targeting inflation and refusal to affect the exchange rate in the medium term."
Bank Rossii has pledged to shift its policy regime to target inflation by 2012 as it allows the ruble to trade more freely. The change may take "several years" as the economy isn't ready for unrestricted currency trading, Klepach said.
Russia's central bank, which steers the ruble exchange rate against a basket of dollars and euros to manage fluctuations in the currency, has "made serious progress in liberalizing the exchange rate," First Deputy Chairman Alexei Ulyukayev said Oct. 5. The regulator is becoming "marginal" on the currency markets and expects the ruble to strengthen, he said.
Effective Ruble Rate
The ruble's effective rate is set to increase 10.7 percent this year and 5.7 percent in 2011, according to the Economy Ministry. The rate measures the ruble against the currencies of Russia's major trading partners, stripping out the effects of inflation.
Russia's current account, the broadest measure of trade in goods and services, reached a surplus of $60.9 billion in the first nine months of 2010, compared with $33.3 billion during the same period last year, central bank data show.
Oil for November delivery advanced 99 cents to $82.66 a barrel Oct. 8 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Futures have risen 1.3 percent since Oct. 1, the third straight weekly gain and the longest stretch of weekly advances since June. Prices have increased 13 percent in the past 12 months.
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Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson is likely to avoid FA action over criticism of linesman John Flynn.
The Sun says Ferguson slaughtered referee Mike Jones and linesman Flynn after they awarded the Magpies a 64th-minute penalty which lead to their equaliser.
The FA will look at his comments today but because they are not personal, abusive or question the officials integrity no action is set to be taken.


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Skip to comments.Interior Proposal Would Block Oil Shale Development On Federal Lands In West
Posted on 11/09/2012 3:00:14 PM PST by drewh
The Interior Department on Friday issued a final plan to close 1.6 million acres of federal land in the West originally slated for oil shale development.
The proposed plan would fence off a majority of the initial blueprint laid out in the final days of the George W. Bush administration. It faces a 30-day protest period and a 60-day process to ensure it is consistent with local and state policies. After that, the department would render a decision for implementation.
The move is sure to rankle Republicans, who say President Obamas grip on fossil fuel drilling in federal lands is too tight.
Interiors Bureau of Land Management cited environmental concerns for the proposed changes. Among other things, it excised lands with wilderness characteristics and areas that conflicted with sage grouse habitats.
Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) praised the plan, saying the administration exercised the right amount of caution on oil shale development, which has not yet been brought to commercial scale and brings concerns about the amount of water used in the practice.
"I am glad the Interior Department is taking measured steps to encourage research and development of our oil shale resources. With water being one of our most precious commodities in the West, I have concerns about the potential impacts of commercial oil shale development. Nonetheless, I look forward to seeing this technology explored further," Udall said in a Friday statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Now there's a shock!
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Slowly, but surely, the country we serve(d) will discontinue its subtle but clearly identifiable discrimination against non-religious personnel.
Thanks to MAAF, and many other organizations, for their courage and stamina.
In today's military the question of religion of religion should not even be asked. The separation of church and state should preclude any such question.
In WW-2 Jews sometimes hid or through away their dog tags to keep from suffering at the hands of the Nazis.


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Most women give more priority to family over baby
Merely 4 percent of women view having a baby as a top priority, with family, friends and relationships topping the list as most important, a new survey has found
The study into female fertility found that for 43 percent of women aged 18-44 their top priority in life was their family and friends.
This was followed by the relationship with their partner at 18 percent and their health at 14 percent. But having a baby was still one percent higher over women's careers - with only three percent of respondents saying their job came in at number one.
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at an Australian University, William Ledger said it was ''significant'' that having a baby was not more of a priority, given the fertility of the age group.
''This result reflects current social trends that show that Australian women are, on average, making the decision to start their family at a later age than ever before,'' a major newspaper quoted him as saying in a statement.
Women, however, should be aware of the impact of delaying starting a family, he said.
''Not only can waiting to have a baby beyond their early 30s lead to difficulty in conceiving for many women, the ... survey also shows the possible effects of waiting on relationship issues such as stress (78 per cent) and sex being seen as a chore (53 per cent)," he said.
Those surveyed 70 per cent of the women reported knowing at least one person in their social circle who has had problems conceiving, and almost 50 percent of those trying to fall pregnant said they were experiencing difficulties.
Nevertheless, being short of cash when bills were due trumped other stressful life events at 48 percent, followed by the loss of a job at 26 percent.
These dwarfed the pressure of trying to conceive, which came in at only five percent of the 1010 women surveyed.


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Fight Night Nachos
Freddie Prinze Jr. doesn't mess around when it comes to snacktime! Find this recipe and more in his cookbook, Back to the Kitchen.
Total Time:
Level: Easy
Serves: 8
For the Red Chile Sauce
- 3 c. chicken stock
- 2 c. cold water
- 4 oz. New Mexico red chile powder
- 2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 clove garlic, peeled but whole
- 1/2 tsp. kosher salt
For the Green Sauce
- 1 large green New Mexico green chile or a substitute, roasted
- 1 avocado
- 1 clove garlic
- kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 2–4 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
For the Nachos
- Vegetable oil, for pan
- 1 lb. skirt steak
- kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- ancho chile powder
- garlic powder
- 15.5-oz. can low-sodium black beans, drained
- 14.5-oz. can corn, drained
- 16 oz. bag Tortilla chips
- 8 oz. Shredded Monterey Jack
- 8 oz. shredded Cheddar
- Make the Red Sauce: In a bowl, whisk together stock, water, and chile powder until very smooth.
- Heat a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add olive oil and let it get very hot. Add the stock mixture and bring it to a boil, whisking to remove any remaining lumps, then add garlic and salt.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 45 minutes. Remove the garlic clove and taste for salt. Use right away or store in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
- Make the Green Sauce: In a food processor, combine chile, avocado, garlic, salt, pepper, and 2 tablespoons oil and mix until the sauce is smooth and creamy. Drizzle in more oil as needed and season with salt and pepper. This will keep for about 2 days in the fridge.
- Cook the Steak: Preheat oven to 400°. Heat a grill pan or skillet to medium-high. Cover the bottom with a thin film of oil and add your steak. Season steak with salt, pepper, chile powder and garlic powder. To cook the steak medium-rare, sear it for about 5 minutes per side, or until a thermometer inserted into the center registers 145°, then let it rest on a cutting board for at least 5 minutes.
- In a medium sauce pot, mix together the beans and corn with a pinch of salt and tablespoon or two or water, and heat them over medium-low until warmed through. Season with salt and pepper and set aside to rest.
- Assemble the Nachos: When the steak has rested, thinly slice it against the grain (meaning perpendicular to the grain; this makes it more tender) into 1"- to 2"-wide strips, then cut the strips into 1" to 2" pieces.
- Add the tortilla chips to a medium baking dish. Sprinkle on half the cheeses, then add the steak pieces and the bean and corn mixture. Ladle on red sauce to taste, then top with remaining cheeses.
- Bake until the cheese begins to bubble, about 10 minutes. Remove from the oven to a trivet and spoon 1/4 cup green sauce into the middle for dipping. Serve with more green sauce, if you have it.
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Back to Journals » Open Access Animal Physiology » Volume 2
Auditory sensitivity and the outer hair cell system in the CBA mouse model of age-related hearing loss
Authors Frisina R, Zhu X
Published 4 June 2010 Volume 2010:2 Pages 9—16
DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/OAAP.S7202
Review by Single-blind
Peer reviewer comments 4
Robert D Frisina, Xiaoxia Zhu
Otolaryngology, Biomedical Engineering, Neurobiology, and Anatomy Departments, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, USA
Abstract: Age-related hearing loss is a highly prevalent sensory disorder, from both the clinical and animal model perspectives. Understanding of the neurophysiologic, structural, and molecular biologic bases of age-related hearing loss will facilitate development of biomedical therapeutic interventions to prevent, slow, or reverse its progression. Thus, increased understanding of relationships between aging of the cochlear (auditory portion of the inner ear) hair cell system and decline in overall hearing ability is necessary. The goal of the present investigation was to test the hypothesis that there would be correlations between physiologic measures of outer hair cell function (otoacoustic emission levels) and hearing sensitivity (auditory brainstem response thresholds), starting in middle age. For the CBA mouse, a useful animal model of age-related hearing loss, it was found that correlations between these two hearing measures occurred only for high sound frequencies in middle age. However, in old age, a correlation was observed across the entire mouse range of hearing. These findings have implications for improved early detection of progression of age-related hearing loss in middle-aged mammals, including mice and humans, and distinguishing peripheral etiologies from central auditory system decline.
Keywords: presbycusis, hearing loss, hair cells, auditory brainstem response, otoacoustic emissions, mouse hearing
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A novel high-throughput analysis approach: immune response-related genes are upregulated in age-related hearing loss
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|Synth Site: Moog: Sonic Six: User reviews Add review
|Average rating: 4.3 out of 5
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|Geoff Kransdorf a hobbyist user from Tokyo, Japan writes:
My first synth was the Sonic6 and I played it in bands in High School.. It's great for effects and very easy to use and learn on. The builtin speaker and case are handy too. As a performance instrument though, I can't really recommend it. The oscellators drift a lot in pitch and they're tricky to tune. It really could have used another envelope generator also.. Still, it's a nice instrument and you can get some great sounds that are hard to replicate with a Minimoog or Micromoog.
|Rating: 4 out of 5 posted Wednesday-Mar-15-2000 at 22:31
|Paul Vetrone a hobbyist user from Wrenshall, MN writes:
Also my first synth circa 1975 bought it new for ?? recently bought one in mint condition great for learning basics of analog synthesis, good manual, nice board layout lots of external controls typical 70's Moog sound lots of mod routings one peice unit with built in speaker great for on the road play when you dont want to take half a studio with anybody know a site with patches ??
|Rating: 4 out of 5 posted Wednesday-Aug-05-1998 at 23:46
|Bob Parker a hobbyist user from USA writes:
My first synthesizer (back in 1973) was a Moog Sonic 5, essentially the same as the Sonic 6 but in a non-portable walnut case. There were a couple of cool features that I have never found on any other self-contained synth. The twin LFOs were a great feature. You could set up some really oddball modulation patterns. The other thing I liked was the instrument's ability to apply glide to only one of the two oscillators. This could be used to create an almost human-like sound. I really miss my old Sonic 5 and hope to replace it one of these days. A totally cool instrument.
|Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Wednesday-Aug-05-1998 at 23:46
|Steve Hoyer a hobbyist user from Synthavia writes:
I have a sonic six that I bought in 1982 which has been modified extensively. It's a totally amazing synth! It screeches like a human. There'e no singer in my band, but the sonic fills in perfectly! Try routing your oscillator output into the filter as a modulation source; it screams! Get one if you can find one!
|Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Wednesday-Aug-05-1998 at 23:46
|monkey lewis a professional user from 301 trixes ave. Caverdeen Ridge writes:
the sonic six" not much I can say besides thank you for finding your way to Caverdeen! we've been long expecting you. the synthesizer that you never need to touch. the noise maker that makes noise without the use of filters. straight to hypnosis, you waste no time. square wave nice and slow on waveform gen Y...and any thing you like nice and quick on gen X, mix together with your choice of ring modulated occilators, or ext. input. and then switch some octaves, and pitch knobbing.. maybe then trigger the envelope with a key, and then another and then change occilator waveform. and then turn around and set the arpeggiator to something nice on another synth boom, blap, wump, crrr, repeat...and now drop your hands on a high pitch key of another "lead" synth, then switch it up, and make it lead bass this is should work you into a timespace where you yourself can speak "oooooooooo", "ooo-ooo-ooo", "nmph-nmph-phnn-phue" the sonic six, the complete sound of inefficiency.(Check Spelling)
|Rating: 5 out of 5 posted Monday-Aug-03-1998 at 17:26
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text: On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Tim Rightnour wrote: > Whoooo.. thats scarry.. meaning if the user doesn't manually create > /usr/pkg.. it installs packages in /usr?? > > I dont like that idea one bit.. no commercial operating system does that.. Well, I won't ask for proof of that point. But I will point out that we're a free OS, and that another free OS that's done a hell of a lot better in the marketplace than we've ever dreamed of does just that. In addition, the BSD that's bigger than us does something just as bad or worse in many people's eyes: it dumps the stuff in /usr/local. (I certainly consider this worse behaviour.) I think part of the problem here may be that I'm talking to NetBSD developers, and NetBSD developers really do see `NetBSD' (meaning the stuff we distribute in base.tgz, comp.tgz, etc.) as something qualitatively different from the software in pkgsrc. Personally, I don't see the difference; I trust NetBSD-supplied tools (sysinst) to deal with the stuff in base.tgz, and I trust NetBSD-supplied tools (pkg_add) to deal with the stuff in emacs-20.3.tgz. In both cases, NetBSD developers are trusted to test the software (most of which is not written by NetBSD developers), and have full control over the source code (including changes to it to fix bugs or make it more compatable) and the paths where it's installed. Perhaps makers of Linux distributions, since everything comes from `outside,' don't see this separation between `their' code and `outside' code and thus Linux folks don't have a problem with emacs installing into /usr/bin/emacs. At any rate, I can tell you that the /usr/pkg thing is a really hard sell to users new to NetBSD because nobody else uses it; to us it may be sensible, but most of the world perceives it as a gratuitous incompatability. My proposal was to have the default work the way the rest of the world expects it, because those of us familiar with NetBSD have the knowedge to make the one minor change to do it the `NetBSD way.' The alternative means that those of us who do know that a change needs to be made don't need to make it, and those that don't know are the ones who do need to make it. That seems to me a way to make sure that we make non-NetBSDers just a little bit less happy with NetBSD. Anyway, that's the end of my opinions on this subject. Personally I'm not affected either way, since I'm one of the ones with the knowedge to set things up the way I want. But the arguments I've had on this subject make me feel that people are not working very hard to understand what potential users of NetBSD who don't currently use it are looking for, and I'm getting really tired of fighting for a group that I'm not even a member of. So if anyone needs clarifications of my thoughts on this matter, I'm happy to supply them in private e-mail. But I will argue about it no more. Todd Vierling has the notes I've made to this point, he can continue promoting the adoption of whatever portions of those he likes, if he feels so inclined. cjs -- Curt Sampson <email@example.com> 604 801 5335 De gustibus, aut bene aut nihil. The most widely ported operating system in the world: http://www.netbsd.org


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In this video, Rabbi Fohrman examines the Snake's mode of temptation. The text seems to be missing something, and the temptation is not entirely clear - nor does it seem to be too tempting. What was the Snake's approach?
I want to talk to you today about the snake's temptation, what it is that the snake tempts Eve with. How would you tempt Eve if you were the snake? Well, there are movies, 'snow white' comes to mind, and there you got the shiny apple being presented by the Wicked Witch, and this woman taking the apple and eating it, and it really seems to be a play of the Adam and Eve story.
And in that story, all it is was this shiny apple. It's just, "isn't this delicious?" That's what I would have said. Here is this beautiful apple, isn't this delicious? Something like that! Let's look at what the snake says. The snake doesn't really say that; the snake said something else which is really hard. Now, it is so hard, and I want to caution you here that the translations struggle with it. And you can begin to tell that something is almost not right by how various different translations are over here.
But just to backup for a second; for many of you, some of you who are reading the bible on Hebrew and some of you are reading it English. If you are reading in English, you will of course do have the disadvantage of not reading the primary text. So, if you are not reading the primary text, if you are reading in English, what you really want to do is use different translations.
And sometimes, because you are really at the mercy of the translator, the translator will try to make things easy for you by smoothing over difficulties in Hebrew and trying to make it sort of fit. And the problem with that of course is that the difficulty is where the action is and it's in the difficulty we begin to find the germs that really shade light on the story. So, if the difficulty is all smoothing over for you, you're kind of stock.
A Partial Solution: If you can at least identify sections of text that are rendered differently by various translations, you'll be able to tell where the areas of ambiguity are in the original Hebrew.
One of the most notorious translations for this is the New JPS translation, which is very colloquial and really tries to do a lot to smooth things over. And the Kaplan Translation sometimes do this too; this is a translation by Aryeh Kaplan, available at the Living Torah, also available in the bible and ort , kind of, Google 'Bible and ort.' And you will come upon this, very nice, and they are available over here, you just click any of these hyperlinks and it takes you to the various places.
But anyway, if you look at Kaplan's translation… So, what I was saying was that you can look at the various different translations in English, and even though you are sort of at the mercy of the translator, if various different translations translate things really differently, you'll kind of know something is up. And here I want to give you an example of that. Here is Kaplan on what the snake says – 'The serpent was the most cunning of all the wild beasts that God has made. (The serpent) asked the woman, 'Did God really say that you may not eat from any of the trees of the garden?'
Let's shift over to JPS. Over here, this is JPS since 1917 translation. Before it was redone, so it's very archaic-sounding, but let's see what they say – 'Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman: 'Yea, hath God said: Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?' Now, I don't about you, but I don't know what 'Yea, hath God said' really means. In the Kaplan translation, that was 'Did God say'. And over here, all of a sudden, the 'Did' is getting switched into 'Yea'. What does that exactly mean?
And, of course, the problem here is that this is coming off of an ambiguous Hebrew. So, let's look at the Hebrew and actually try to translate the Hebrew literally and to see how outstanding the Hebrew really is. 'V'hanachash hayah arum mikol chayat hasadeh – the snake was more cunning than any of the beast of the field.' We would have translate it into 'subtle,' but I think cunning is probably better. 'Asher asah Elokim – God had made.' 'Vayomer el-haishah – and the snake said to the woman…'
Now, here is the first issue here. Af ki-amar Elokim lo tochlu mikol etz hagan. So, for you Hebrew speakers, this part is easy to translate, right? Lo tochlu mikol etz hagan, this is the part when God is saying you shouldn't eat from all the trees of the field. But the first part here is excruciatingly difficult to translate.
Let's go through it word by word. Word, number one is 'af'. What does 'af' mean? Well, 'af' actually means 'even', OK? So, 'even'!
Let's go to the next word, 'ki. What does 'ki' mean? 'ki' can mean 'because' or in this case 'if' – 'If' or 'because', right?
And then, 'amar'! Amar is easy, amar is 'said'.
So, in order, that is, 'even if God said, lo tochlu mikol etz hagan – don't eat from all the trees of the garden.' What's that suppose to mean?
"Even if God said don't eat from all the trees of the garden…"
First of all, it's not even a complete sentence. "Even if God said don't eat from all the trees of the garden…" So, like, what's the rest of the sentence? And, seemingly, if you would put together the rest of the sentence and add the implied part of the sentence, it would seem to be "even if God said don't eat from all the trees of the garden, so what?" Eat anywhere.
And that's a really weird translation. It has nothing to do with this being a really delicious apple; that has to do with why you just disobeyed what God said. What kind of temptation is that? I mean, the last thing in the world which you would want to do is remind Eve that God said not to eat. Why would you emphasize that? Even if God say, don't eat, so what kind of temptation is that? So, that's a really strange kind of thing. And again, all the translations are smoothing that over, making it into a very nice question – did God said you shouldn't eat?
Ok, so, that's one problem with the snake. And let me just give you one last problem while we're at it. If you continue down and look at what the snakes says in the final part of the conversation that the snake has with Eve, the snake then says, "don't worry, Eve, you are not going to die if you eat from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. Really, God knows that the day that you eat from the tree, your eyes will be opened, you will be like God and you will be knowing good and evil." So, again, the reason why God doesn't want you to eat from the tree is because the day you eat from that, you are going to be like God knowing good and evil.
Now, is the snake right about that, is that just a boldface lie, right, or is that the actual truth that the reason God doesn't want us from eating from this tree is because if we do we will be just like him knowing good and evil? I mean, you would say, oh, common, God is territorial on that kind of way. He is worried that we are going to be too much like him knowing good and evil. And that totally is got to be a lie. I mean, why would God care about us…we are suppose to be more godly if we can. And God is thinking that just because we eat from a little tree we are going to become just like him?" You can't think about a more ridiculous thing than that, right? So, totally, the snake is lying.
OK, so it seems like the snake is lying. But let's actually look at the evidence.
Do we get any clues from the text as to whether the snake was lying or telling the truth?
Well, let's look at the evidence at the text. If you go to the end of the story, when God banishes them from Eden, let's look at God's language. Here is what God says, God says, 'man has now become like one of us knowing good and evil. Now he must be prevented from putting forth his hands…' Oh my gosh, the snake is totally right! 'Man is now like one of us knowing good and evil.' God is actually saying this. And this seems so strange. Does God really think we are like him just because we took some fruits from the tree and put in our mouth? I mean, God made the tree, Good made the fruit, God made us; no one knows more than God, then we are not like him just because of that. So, what is God saying over here, that man is now become like one of us in knowing good and evil. It is such a strange, strange thing. How do we understand that?
And also, if you think about that, how do you describe God? If you are to take a quick test, give me two or three qualities by which you would describe God. So, if I were to come up with those qualities, I would say, well, God is omniscient, which just means that He knows everything. And I would say that God is all-powerful, very, very powerful.
So, these are the kind of things that you would say. You might say that God is Just. You might say God is Kind. These are sort of the top ten lists of things that you would say about God. I think, way down in the bottom, we'll just say that God is a knower of good and evil. That would be like the number one way you would explain what God is. But that is what God himself says over here. God said 'man is now become like one of us in knowing good and evil.' That's God's own definition of what it means to be godly? Such a strange thing! So, we can add all these together. The snake is very, very puzzling.
First of all, is the snake human or is the snake a snake, and what really is the difference between a human and the snake? That comes in and relief our story. Plus what about the snake's temptation that seems to be a very un-attempting temptation – 'even if God say don't eat from the three, so what?'
And finally, is the snake telling the truth. Seemingly, he is. But what a strange thing that God is worried about us being godly. These are, I think, really serious issues in trying to understand what to do with the snake.
And then, to really understand the story we have to come back to them. So, we are going to that, but before we do that, there are other questions from the story. What are the other questions? We will come back and entertain some of those.
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This fine ceramic plate was the 6th in a series done by Richmond Galleries. This one features the Cleveland Lighthouse in Cleveland Ohio. Limited edition of 10 firing days, this is number 19 made in 1995. This collectors plate is part of a collection that was donated to assist in our ongoing research. Approximately 8.5" in diameter. Sold as is with no returns.


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The latest shooting rampage of 26 people, including six adults and 20 children in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012, is a senseless tragedy, and words cannot convey the horror and the magnitude of the loss of innocent life. The second deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was carried out by 20-year-old Adam Lanza (photo, left), a loner with a personality disorder — and in critical need of psychiatric evaluation and treatment. Once again, these deadly rampages are the result of failure of the mental health system.
Consider the case of Jared Loughner, a 22-year-old disturbed individual who shot and attempted the assassination of former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. He also killed five others, including an innocent 9-year-old student and a judge, and wounded fourteen other people in 2011. There were signs of psychiatric illness and social pathology, that should have alerted those around him and called for mental evaluation and psychiatric treatment. But Loughner, like Lanza, fell through the obvious cracks.
The case of Loughner in Arizona (photo, right) is particularly revealing because a consensus has been reached that the mentally deranged individual should have received psychiatric evaluation and treatment, which were not administered.(1) The same conclusion is being reached as more information is rapidly coming to light in the latest rampage by Adam Lanza in Connecticut.
"Convicted felons and mentally unstable people," as I stated in a previous article, "forfeit the right to possess arms by virtue of the fact they are a potential danger to their fellow citizens. This has been recently demonstrated by the tragedies that took place in Arizona and in Aurora, Colorado (James Holmes, photo, left); and not only in the United States, but also in Oslo, Norway."(2)
In the recent case in Norway, after bombing a government building in Oslo and then taking over an island, a homicidal killer perpetrated a horrible massacre. Anders Behring Breivik (photo, right) massacred 69 of his fellow citizens, systematically hunting down unarmed youths at a camp, methodically killing mostly defenseless teenagers. Imagine if just one person had carried a gun and knew how to use it to defend his or her life and the lives of others! But Norway, for all practical purposes, like most of Europe, is like the schools in the U.S., a "gun-free zone," where guns are not allowed and a deranged individual can enter and kill with impunity.
These three specific incidents represent cases of criminal insanity associated with regrettable and overt failures in the mental health system, rather than the easy cliché of "too many guns" in the hands of people. In my article, "America, Guns and Freedom" I also cite other recent cases, including the two reciprocal incidents in Aurora, Colorado, earlier in the spring and summer of this year. One incident was widely reported; the other, where a citizen stopped a rampage and saved the lives of others, was not. The vast majority of citizens use firearms responsibly.(2)
Incidentally, the United States is a Federal Republic, and the fifty states of the Union have some leeway in passing and enforcing gun laws. We already have 20,000 gun laws on the books. We don't need more statues. The failure lies elsewhere. The killer in Connecticut operated with impunity in a state that does not easily allow persons to carry guns for self protection, and most states in the U.S. already have a "zero tolerance" for guns in schools, which are in turn "gun-free zones," where firearms are strictly prohibited. Perhaps it is time that we consider allowing teachers to have special concealed carry firearm licenses to protect students in this mad, dystopic world we are creating in which we are permissive to criminals and deranged individuals, while we easily blame and propose more laws and controls to limit the rights of law-abiding citizens in society at large.
Guns are inanimate objects. The responsibility for crimes rest on the criminals and those who facilitate their crimes! Elsewhere, I have discussed failures in the criminal justice system, leniency and use of revolving prison doors that allow many of the same criminals to commit the vast majority of serious crimes.(3) I have discussed the aforementioned failures in the mental health system. There is a sinister contributing factor, and an even more serious problem — namely, the problem of media reporting and sensationalization of violence that in association with the "fifteen minutes worth of fame" and the pursuit of celebrity status in vogue today are all pervasive.(4) What more evidence is needed than the immense popularity of vulgar "reality" television shows? (photo, left) It is not a big step to link extensive coverage of shooting rampages in both the press and the colorful electronic media as a major contributing factor in the pathologic and even morbid attainment of celebrity status even in death.
While the media has sensationalized violence and the mass shootings of hapless victims (who are virtually forgotten), they have not given defensive, beneficial uses of firearms (e.g., protecting or saving lives and property), the attention these positive acts deserve, which go usually unreported. By and large, to read about the cases where law‑abiding citizens use firearms for self and family protection, one has to read independently published books, such as Robert A. Waters' excellent tome, The Best Defense (1998).
Only infrequently do these cases even get publicized in the mass media or published in the medical journals by public health investigators in their "gun and violence" research.
The death of innocents, particularly children, is a tragedy, and responsible media commentators should be compassionate while remaining honest, objective professionals in dealing with social problems of this magnitude. We cannot use atrocious crimes charged with emotions to incite even more passion to effect a desired public policy. And the media moguls need to get their minds together to begin the systematic de-sensationalization of crime and making morbid celebrities out of criminals.
In medicine, surgeons cannot guarantee results. Complications and sometimes bad results occur; the same can happen with guns. Firearms in the hands of terrorists, criminals, or the mentally deranged, are dangerous. Those using the latest tragedy, eliciting emotionalism to push for another round of gun control (5) — while ignoring the accumulated objective research published in the criminologic or sociologic literature (6) — are not only sensationalizing violence and not lamenting the deaths of the innocents or sympathizing with their families, but attempting to score points, political points at the expense of the victims.
My heartfelt thoughts and prayers are with the grieving families in Connecticut!
(1) Faria MA. The Tragedy in Arizona — A Mental Health Challenge Failure. GOPUSA.com, January 12, 2011.
(2) Faria MA. America, guns and freedom: Part II - An international perspective. Surg Neurol Int 2012;3:135.
(3) Faria MA. Women, Guns, and the Medical Literature — A Raging Debate. Women and Guns. October 1, 1994.
(4) Faria MA. California: Another Lesson About Children and Guns. Newsmax.com, March 12, 2001.
(5) Newton shootings: Democrats Malloy and Feinstein seek gun controls. BBC, December 16, 2012.
(6) Faria MA. Public Health and Gun Control: A Review (Part 1: the Benefits of Firearms). Medical Sentinel, April 12 2001. I'm indebted to the work of Dave Kopel, Don. B. Kates, Edgar Suter, M.D., Timothy Wheeler, M.D., Gary Kleck, PhD., and others.
Written by Dr. Miguel Faria
Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D. is Clinical Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery, ret.) and Adjunct Professor of Medical History (ret.) Mercer University School of Medicine. He is an Associate Editor in Chief and World Affairs Editor of Surgical Neurology International (SNI), and an Ex-member of the Injury Research Grant Review Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2002-05; Former Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Sentinel (1996-2002), Editor Emeritus, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS); Author, Vandals at the Gates of Medicine (1995); Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine (1997); and Cuba in Revolution — Escape From a Lost Paradise (2002). His website is http://www.haciendapub.com.
A different version of this article was published earlier today on GOPUSA.com as "Faria: Mass shooting and mental health — at what cost?" A more abreviated commentary appeared in the Macon Telegraph on December 30, 2012 as "Faria: Campaign against gun ownership is misguided." A scholarly, longer and fully illustrated version of this article was published in SNI. The link is available above under heading Source.
Copyright ©2012 Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D.
So who is responsible for these attacks, the mental health staff, security guards or law enforcement? How about those who provide guns to these unstable people? 20-year-old Adam Lanza was psychologically challenged so that the school staff, teachers had not reported him as a mentally ill suspect student. A school counselor should be able to identify a student with such disorder.
Mental health staff are not providing educational information seriously needed. Mental health awareness in important, whether it is given in school, meeting halls or through the internet. A mental health social network, where people can share thoughts (anonymously or nor) and without interference, is needed. Visit aboutmentaldotcom
From the MT version Dec 30, 2012:
BenCats: "With all the outcry for banning guns, I step back and look at who's doing most of the crying! The lame street media (they're lame because they can't stand on their own two feet) and the majority of Liberals! To be clear I must point out at least 90% of the media is also Liberal. So I take note that they are against the idea of arming teachers yet President Obama's kids go to a school that has 11 armed guards. So does Mr Gregory the oft outspoken biggest Liberal on NBC and so does the kids of the Mayor of Chicago, Emanuel. So every time Obama goes out in public there are at least 23 guns protecting him by secret service agents to include a SUV that has several machine guns in it. Emanuel also has armed guards when he goes out in public Are you starting to get the drift?
"If that's not being hypocritical I don't know what is! Molon Labe: "Let them Come and Get Them!"
"Great article Dr Faria, don't even intimate to liberals that mental health may be the issue here, they have enough compulsive disorders to worry about already!"
unned: "One of the first steps in a Marxist/Communist nation is to Have control of the Media,then ban weapons(Piers Morgan and others) then place folks in jail for speaking out against the Administration(Harry Belafonte)
"If you are a celebrity or in Congress however; your children are protected by Armed Guards on the way to their private schools. Sound familiar?"
"Great Article Dr. Faria. Those of us that truly believe in protecting our Second Amendment for the purpose it was intended must not stop fighting 'for it'."
MAF: The great statesman Solon in ancient Greece stated that one of the ways to recognize good government is when the rulers obey the same laws they pass on to citizens. This is apropos to, not only our politicians, but also applicable to the liberal elite members of our society. With money and power, they can bypass the restrictions imposed on the rest of us.
You have provided excellent examples of armed guards protecting those who push for gun control for everybody else. Thank you for your excellent post, BenCats and uneed. And my you also enjoy a happy and healthy New Year!
Top: "Dr Faria, excellent piece and to your point on systematic failures in the mental health system, consider the information going around in a chain email to which the original link with detailed reporting is here:
MAF: Top, thanks so much for this list. It absolutely demonstrates a strong correlation of mental illness, particularly depression, to mass shootings. The medications themselves were prescribed because there was already a problem, and they were needed. Lawyers would try to blame the medicines for the derangement, but it was the mental illness that, despite treatment did not improve but actually continued to worsen ( i.e., poor follow-up, non-compliance, need for hospitalization or even institutionalization for recalcitrant cases, etc.), and in my opinion is the real culprit. Happy New Year, Top, and may you and your family prosper in 2013!
guntoter: "Very well written and to the point. But sadly it will fall on deaf ears. It is so much easier to Ban Guns as a way to solve an unsolvable problem. Everybody knows as an absolute fact that alcohol kills more people yearly then all gun deaths, but you will not see alcohol ever being banned again. We are willing to give alcohol a total pass. But guns, well that is an entirely different issue. Being how the Democratic party needs the American public unarmed to take complete control, guess where their issues are these days..."
MAF: Alcohol prohibition is a telling story. The XVIII Amendment (Prohibition) had to be repealed with the XXI Amendment because of non-compliance by Americans. Prohibition brought about a black market and organized crime and violence in full force to America. I have published a graph in one of my articles showing how crime spiked after prohibition and came down only gradually after Repeal.
The War on Drugs have been a failure...
Trying to register, ban, and confiscate (one follows the other) over 300 million firearms owned by Americans would bring about a situation an order of magnitude worse than Prohibition — and a veritable police state to the Land of the Free. Thank you for your comment, guntoter.
Susrum (MT., Dec. 17, 2012): "The Montreal massacre was in part why the guns laws were tightened specifically as to types, not loosened. What has been done away with is the gun registry a proven failure of admin. excesses. 70% of all guns used in the commission of a crime in the Toronto area are traced to either Kentucky or Virginia and 100's each year are confiscated at the border."
AJC, Dec 19, 2012:
#1 "Politics influencing gun studies? Remember Emory University's Bancroft Prize winner Michael A. Bellesiles, who faked data to "prove" in his book "Arming America" that gun ownership in early America was really not common? His conclusions had wide, wild-eyed support among the liberal intelligensia, though were so preposterous that it didn't take long to prove his "scholarship" was faked."
#2 "If you want a true measure on gun violance and whether or not the public at large are safer with or without guns, all you need to do is go to the FBI. Their studies have shown that gun ownership has increased from 2010-2011. With that, violent crimes dropped 4% in the same time frame, and are at a 40 year low."
"When I first heard that an elementary school shooting had occurred, I guessed aloud the shooter's profile: white male, 18-25.
"Adam Lanza, 20, turned out to fit the profile. Lanza joins a sick lineup of similar shooting "stars": Eric Harris (one of the Columbine shooters, was almost 18), Dylan Klebold (the other Columbine shooter, 18), Seung-Hui Cho (the Virginia Tech shooter, 23), Jared Loughner (the Arizona shooter, 22), James Eagan Holmes (the Colorado theater shooter, 24).
"All of them shared other traits too. All had psycho-social problems to the point of being suicidal, pathologically vengeful, or at least dangerously out of control. All wanted grand notoriety. All had people around them who knew there was trouble brewing. All were from well-heeled families and apparently had good medical coverage. All were reportedly skilled video gamers, enough to be desensitized to the implications of pulling a trigger with bodies in the cross-hairs. All had too-easy access to real guns…"
David Oedel, Law professor, Mercer University. MT. Dec. 21, 2012
Maconsense MT., Dec. 21, 2012): "The World Trade Center was destroyed by an airplane. The Oklahoma and the first attack on the Trade Center were accomplished with fertilizer and diesel fuel. In Europe and the Middle East, the preferred method is by bomb. The one thing all have in common is a murderer. It is the person who is the problem, not the instrument."
Marty Dean (MT., Dec. 23, 2012) : "If it hadn't been a gun, it could have been a knife (see story, Chinese man cuts 20 children) or explosives (Timothy McVeigh) or homemade sarin gas (Aum Shinrikyo, cult-subway attack)."
Children and adolescents should be loved but also taught moral absolutes and given close guidance, particularly as they reach the vulnerability of adolescence. So guided, as they journey through the path of life, they are able to distinguish right from wrong --- and fulfill their destinies with benevolence and kindness. Increasingly, this is not being done, and children and adolescents are left to wander, rudderless and alienated, and they become easy prey to the temptations of evil. MAF
From John Fund, National Review online, 12/16/2012:
"First, the mental-health issue. A lengthy study by Mother Jones magazine found that at least 38 of the 61 mass shooters in the past three decades 'displayed signs of mental health problems prior to the killings.'
"New York Times columnist David Brooks and Cornell Law School professor William Jacobson have both suggested that the ACLU-inspired laws that make it so difficult to intervene and identify potentially dangerous people should be loosened. 'Will we address mental-health and educational-privacy laws, which instill fear of legal liability for reporting potentially violent mentally ill people to law enforcement?' asks Professor Jacobson. 'I doubt it.' "
"Preventing any adult at a school from having access to a firearm eliminates any chance the killer can be stopped in time to prevent a rampage," Jim Kouri, the public-information officer of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, told me earlier this year at the time of the Aurora, Colo., Batman-movie shooting."
One Texas town knows what it needs to protect its children. Teachers are trained in firearms and carry concealed weapons. They have had no mishaps. Here is the article:
If we trust our police, our security guards, pilots, then why not teachers, many of them having Masters' degrees and know child psychology. In fact, it was a teacher who stopped the carnage in Pearl, Mississippi in 1998.


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Mohun Bagan has appealed to West Bengal Chief Minister and Kolkata Mayor in order to launch a fresh probe into the fire that broke out in IFA office 5 years back. Some important documents were burnt in that fire and the club is still to get the reported amount of Rs 20 lakhs from the gate money obtained during that period. Mohun Bagan didn't receive the amount because some of the related documents were destroyed by the fire.
Allegations have risen that their might be a case of match fixing in the final round of matches in I-League Division Two in Silchar. United Sikkim have already qualified for the final round while Ar-Hima and Aizawl FC are fighting for the other spot. Match commissioner for these games have ordered each match to be video taped and sent to AIFF in order to clear any controversy. Meanwhile, United Sikkim have lodged a complaint with AIFF regarding damaging comments made by Ar-Hima coach.
Over 600 boys participated on first day of FIFA-AIFF Academy trials in Kolkata on Saturday. 80 younsters were selected from the first batch. The trial camp will be concluded on Sunday.
Salgaocar inched closer to the Goan title after a 1-1 draw with Churchill Brothers on Saturday. Salgaocar as 22 points from 11 matches with Churchill in second place, 2 points behind.
kolkatafootball.com reports
"Kolkata based Bengali Company G-Group will start their proposed Football Academy at Konnagar, Hooghly on 26th February. The Technical Director of the Company, ex-East Bengal footballer Trijit Das told in this regardsthat, on 26th Feb an exhibition football match between the selected boys for their proposed Academy and Mohun Bagan U-17 team will be held as the part of the inauguration programme at at Konnagar Olympic Institute, the proposed venue of the programmme and Academy ground."
North Eastern India is fast rising up as the new hub of Indian football. Click here to read an article on this phenomenon.
YOSC, Khurai outlasted YSC, Sekmaijing Awang 3-2 in the opening match of the 4th Under-13 Th Birchandra Singh Football academy State Level Football Tournament at Taobungkhok ground today.
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by Haris on October 16, 2009
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How many of you use Bing as their default search engine? Since the launch of Bing (formerly Live Search), many users of Google have moved to Bing for the number of extra search features it offers.
If you use Windows Explorer a lot along with Bing search every now and then, then you might want to add Bing to your Windows Explorer/My Computer search box.


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The human animal is capable of such extremes — behavior and accomplishments both remarkable and wondrous, to examples of almost unbearable ugliness and selfishness — and it seems to me that what each individual human values is a key indicator as to which way that pendulum is going to swing. A skilled musician who values the transcendent beauty of great music may create something that moves those who hear it if, again, they value that experience. Just like someone who values only themselves and their own narrow self interests may act with cruel abandon difficult if not impossible for others to imagine.
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Meeting in high school, Gabe Dunlap, John Sanders, and Philip Enzor never realized that their common passions would eventually merge together into a powerful music ministry. The result was a decade and a half of putting their hearts and talents out there for the world to see, not only through captivating live performances but also through compelling records such as their Ardent Records' releases Brother's Keeper and Cover Me. Each album infuses memorable pop melodies and intricate harmonies – a signature element from their very beginnings – which deliver a genuine message of hope, peace, and encouragement.
After Ardent's time with the band, John Sanders formed the indie label, Training Union Records, which released the group's 3rd album, Beyond Beautiful in 2006. He is also one of three partners of Premier Christian Cruises and along with Gabe Dunlap, co-founded and are directors of Camp Electric, a "rock 'n' roll" Christian music camp. Philip Enzor is the worship pastor at the Veritas Project church in Memphis, TN.
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Forget mystery meat.
The cafeteria at San Francisco Jewish Community High School of the Bay features things like vegetarian sushi, a salad bar, a falafel bar and make-your-own burritos.
The organic, kosher, vegetarian fare earned the school a place among the top five "Veg-Friendly Cafeterias" in the country, according to PETA2, the youth-outreach arm of the animal rights PETA organization.
Other schools on the listt include the Columbus School for Girls in Ohio, The Chapin School in New York, The Colorado Springs School in Colorado, and Massachusetts' Beaver Country Day School.
This isn't the first time the San Francisco private school's cafeteria has won a national award. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine named the school its grand prize winner in the 2009 Golden Carrot Awards.
Across the Bay, Berkeley Unified made the top five list of winning public school districts. Los Angeles Unified also made the cut for the vegetarian chili with tortilla chips, veggie burgers, and veggie soup options served daily.


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Marco Reus refuses to press charges after foul
Germany winger Marco Reus has refused to press charges of grievous bodily harm against a defender for a foul during a German Cup match, despite a two-month long police investigation
Berlin: Germany winger Marco Reus has refused to press charges of grievous bodily harm against a defender for a foul during a German Cup match, despite a two-month long police investigation.
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Reus lasted just 24 minutes of Dortmund's 2-0 third-round win over third-division Dynamo Dresden and was left with a knee injury after being fouled off-the-ball by Dresden defender Dennis Erdmann. Having investigated Erdmann for what was seen as a malicious, rather than sporting challenge, Dresden police have confirmed they have closed the matter.
"We've closed the case because the affected player has not made a complaint," a spokesman for the Dresden Prosecutor's Office told SID, an AFP subsidiary. Reus advisor Dirk Hebel told German daily Bild that the German international was sent a form by Dresden police asking if he wanted to press charges, but declined. "He didn't want the player to be prosecuted," explained Hebel after his client was left with a bruised knee from the incident.
Having missed Germany's World Cup win last July with an ankle injury, Reus has endured an injury-ravaged season and to add insult to injury, Erdmann had mocked the Dortmund star after he was helped off in Dresden. "I used to play in the regional league and when you'd get a knock like that, you'd give it a rub and play on.
I don't think it's like that in the Bundesliga," said Erdmann after the match. Reus has himself been in trouble with police this season after being fined 540,000 euros ($600,374) last December for driving without a licence since 2011. Dortmund will play VfL Wolfsburg at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on May 30 in the German Cup final and hope to have Reus fit.


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Sound Oil Secures Rig for Nervesa Appraisal
Sound Oil announced the signature of a rig contract with LP Drilling SrL for the forthcoming Nervesa appraisal well in Northern Italy.
The Company has recently been advised by the Veneto regional authority that the written "Autorizzazione" for the Nervesa appraisal drilling is expected to be delivered to the Company March 1. The Company has therefore now concluded a contract to lease the TB 2100S hydraulic drilling rig for the appraisal well addressing the Nervesa gas discovery on the Carita Permit. The contract allows the Company to mobilize the rig March 25 which the Company will do assuming the written permissions have been received by that point. All other terms are broadly consistent with the previously announced Letter of Intent signed last October. The Company estimates that the remaining spend for the appraisal well is approximately $3.87 million (EUR 2.9 million) including rig costs, of which Sound Oil will fund $1.87 million (EUR 1.4 million), with the balance being paid directly by the funding contract with CSTI.
Sound Oil's Chief Executive Officer James Parsons commented:
"Nervesa is a 21 Bscf gas discovery which was discovered by ENI in 1985 and was put into production for several years. The discovery has an independent assessed base case value of circa $60 million.
Operations to prepare the site for this flagship project are now complete.
We are pleased to have received confirmation from the Italian permitting authorities that there are no outstanding issues and that the "Autorizzazione" will be awarded immediately after the Italian elections. Assuming the Autorizzazione is received as expected March 1, we expect the well to spud April 1. While this is later than originally expected it does enable the rig to be mobilized in the first quarter and spud to occur shortly thereafter.
The signature of the rig contract is the final step to ensure the Company is ready for the drilling of this key well."
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- Sound Gets Closer to Securing Rig for Badile Drill (Feb 29)
- Sound Energy All Set to Drill First Moroccan Well (Feb 15)
- Sound Energy Confirms Clean-Up Operations at Nervesa (Feb 09)


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- abbr. cerebrovascular accident
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- n. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
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What will make or break the CVA is the how many states will call the electronic ignition primitive and allow them.
Electrifying Muzzleloaders: CVA's New Electronic Ignition System
JJB have never said anything about a FULL company CVA, the are simply looking to dispose of 30 bad stores in a CVA one way or another, I feel the term CVA is being used by JJB to scare the Landlords into giving JJB lower lease rates and give themselves leverage, seriously does anyone think SDJ doesn't ALREADY know what he can / can not achieve will a CVA, I am not sure how they will go about it, but I am told that they will get rid of these 30 stores in the coming weeks if they can not get better rates, seriously this is a good thing, leaving JJB with a stronger more profitable portfolio.
The 4 in 1 reloader by CVA is a great 2nd shot option, plus a few cleaning patches moist in a plastic bag is handy for reloading, especially if using the Powerbelts which I do, in 245 grs plastic tip.
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The band's first album was entitled CVA, the medical abbreviation for cerebrovascular accident.
Both Mainers and those "from away" have called CVA home, but all Mainers can be proud of the school, its athletes and the direct connection it provides us to the talent, skill and hard work displayed on the slopes of the Winter Games and many other high-profile competitions.
Pearson suggested at the weekend that a CVA might be a sensible route, although owner Bartlett has offered hope that a way to "trade through" the problems can be found.
Pearson suggested at the weekend that a CVA might be a sensible route, although owner Russell Bartlett has offered hope that a way to "trade through" the problems can be found.
Chairman Adam Pearson suggested at the weekend a CVA might be the preferred route, as it would at least allow the club to retain control, but owner Russell Bartlett on Monday morning offered a more positive assessment.
Because of this, the administrators believe approving the CVA is the only way unsecured creditors will get any money and Crystal Palace will survive as a football club.
Palace administrator calls CVA meeting for June 25 (From Sutton Guardian)


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We can't recall a Project Runway model drama that rates anywhere as high as the drama surrounding "Morganza", aka Morgan Quinn. Which could be the reason why models were often seen but barely heard from after Morgan Quinn made waves amongst the Season 1 designers. But the spotlight will shine on the models in the soon-to-be-aired season 6 of the fashion design series in the first spin-off of Project Runway.
Set to be called Models of the Runway, it will focus on the 16 models who compete for the chance to score that magazine spread in Marie Claire in their winning designers clothes. The show will air immediately after Project Runway, which premieres on Lifetime on August 20 at 10pm.
Hopefully the show will go behind the scenes enough so we can see the the likes of Michael Kors and Nina Garcia are like when they're out of those judges chairs.
[Update] Lifetime have just launched the offical website for Models on the Runway. Check out this years model line up!


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Bruins show no spark in falling to Lightning
TAMPA -- When Mike Sullivan took over as Bruins coach, he said one of his goals was to help prevent his club from shooting itself in the foot.
Bruins show no spark in falling to Lightning
TAMPA -- When Mike Sullivan took over as Bruins coach, he said one of his goals was to help prevent his club from shooting itself in the foot.
That's a lesson the players obviously still need to learn. Last night, they took too many penalties, which Sullivan termed "lazy," allowed the Lightning to wheel around Boston's zone at will, and couldn't find a way to solve goalie Nikolai Khabibulin. It added up to a 5-1 loss to Tampa Bay at the St. Pete Times Forum.
Boston gave Tampa Bay seven power plays, and the Lightning capitalized with three man-advantage goals.
"A lot of them could've been avoided," said Sullivan. "I think it was a major factor in the outcome. We've got to be more disciplined. We've just got to make more of a commitment to second efforts. To reach and hook people, in my opinion, is a lazy penalty. We have to move our feet and readdress our angles so we don't have to reach and haul somebody down."
Being shorthanded for so long did more than overtax their penalty killers, it prevented the Bruins from developing any flow and derailed any chance of them sustaining pressure.
"When you get down two goals, three goals, and you keep on getting penalties, you have no chance to come back in the game," said captain Joe Thornton. "With our five on five, I thought we did really well. We've just got to cut down on our penalties. It's tough because you get the momentum back and you feel good and then it comes to a quick halt because you have to kill off a penalty. You want to get that edge on them but when you take a dumb penalty or a silly penalty it backfires on you a little bit."
The first penalty of the game -- for obstruction hooking on Brian Rolston at 1:19 -- resulted in the first Lightning strike. Flashy forward Martin St. Louis dished a centering pass to Cory Stillman, who rapped it past Felix Potvin at 1:54 of the first. It set a Tampa record for the fastest goal in a home opener.
The Lightning added three goals in the middle period -- two on the man-advantage. Their second goal came at even strength, scored by left wing Dmitry Afanasenkov at 2:52.
Center Vincent Lecavalier set up the next score, on the power play. With Bruin Jeff Jillson in the penalty box for high sticking, Lecavalier skated the puck up the right side. He gained the blue line then drove down the right circle, beating Bruins defenseman Hal Gill to the outside. With Stillman trailing him, Lecavalier moved toward the net then one-handed the puck behind him to Stillman in the slot. Stillman's shot ricocheted off the post and past Potvin at 8:05.
Another Bruins' high stick -- this time on Ivan Huml -- led to the Lightning's fourth goal. Just 44 seconds after Huml was whistled off, Brad Richards cashed in at 15:51, giving the home team more than enough offense.
Sullivan elected to lift Potvin in favor of Andrew Raycroft to start the third.
The Bruins ruined Khabibulin's shutout bid with 9:50 remaining when P.J. Axelsson took a centering pass from Mike Knuble and beat Khabibulin from the left circle for his first goal of the season.
Former Bruin Tim Taylor rounded out the scoring for Tampa with his first of the year at 12:33.
In the end, the Bruins' special teams proved their biggest Achilles' heel. They were 0 for 3 on the power play and killed off just 4 of 7 penalties.
"Our penalty killing has to be better," said Sullivan. "Our special teams have to be better. Special teams win and lose you games, and it wasn't good enough. It wasn't good enough the other night against New Jersey and we've got to find a way to be better.
"I thought five on five we carried the play. We had some great scoring chances. We didn't help ourselves with our lack of discipline. We've said from Day One we wanted to be a team that doesn't beat itself, and you can beat yourself in a number of different ways. A lack of discipline ranks right up there as No. 1."
The Bruins' next opportunity comes tonight against the Florida Panthers.
"We'll forget this one very quickly," said Thornton. "It's nice we get to play [tonight]."
© Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company.


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The Golden Girl Grudge Match: Bea Arthur Betty White Feud
If you were born after 1970, you probably remember that "The Golden Girls" ran between the mid '80s to the early '90s, but were you aware of the Bea Arthur/Betty White feud that sent Hollywood tongues a' wagging? While the other two stars, Estelle Getty and Rue McClanahan, were amazing, most agree that Bea and Betty stole the show.
The Beginning A widowed, man-hungry Blanche Devereaux, (McClanahan) advertised her home for rent. Dorothy Zbornak (Arthur), a divorcee, and Rose Nylund (White), also widowed, soon joined her. Rose (aka annoyingly cute) told long-winded stories of the Scandinavian town of St. Olaf (or those "Damn St. Olaf stories," as Dorothy called them). Dorothy, a retired teacher, possessed a droll sense of humor. "Back in St. Olaf" never failed to elicit much eye rolling from Dorothy and "here-we-go-agains" from the other housemates. After Dorothy's mother, Sophia Petrillo's (Estelle Getty) retirement home burnt down, she completed the cast with her razor-sharp wit.
Truth or Fiction There is really no way to substantiate the Bea Arthur/Betty White feud, but quite a few stage coordinators consistently said they never socialized together. It was also mentioned several times on various talk shows that the women did not talk to each other while on set. It was said they kept mainly to themselves.
Interviews In The Archive of American Television, Betty White shows disgruntlement. She was quoted to say, "Filming a soap like that isn't hard work; don't listen to what Bea Arthur says. It's not that hard." To be fair, there may have not been merit to the Bea Arthur/Betty White feud at all; although, many folks that were supposedly "in the know" claimed that the only thing they truly had in common were animal rights issues.
Rumors Aplenty The catfights may have stemmed from merely a difference in training. Betty worked primarily in television, while Bea was a highly trained, stage actor. Betty brilliantly interacted "off the cuff" with a live audience, often mugging it up. Although Bea was equally talented, she could not easily deviate. She was a "strictly business" professional. Furthermore, in the Bea Arthur archives, she openly admits that she was hesitant about working with the "too sweet" Betty White, who joked with audiences when someone flubbed their lines. This apparently frustrated Bea to no end and lent even more credence to the Bea Arthur/Betty White feud.
Films Tell the Tale On one of "The Golden Girl's" blooper DVDs, they are all in the kitchen. After Bea's line, the director yells, "CUT." Rather snidely, Betty says, "Bea screwed up." If Bea's eyes were lasers, Betty would have been faceless. However, an unfazed Betty gave Bea a look that plainly said, "Yes, I said it. You screwed it up; not me." Reportedly, the other two women looked worried that Bea would unleash her famous temper, but an unperturbed Betty just laughed, much to everyone's relief.
Say it Ain't So Perhaps the most famous Bea Arthur/Betty White feud rumor of all time came from "A&U" magazine. Allegedly, Bea defecated on Betty's private dressing room floor immediately following a particularly nasty catfight. Yes, you read that right; she "shat" upon the carpet. If this is indeed fact, then there is no wonder that there was a modicum of truth feeding the Bea Arthur/Betty White feud rumor mill.
You Decide Maybe there was discord; maybe not. You can never really tell when it comes to Hollywood stars and their fragile, yet ginormous egos. In a Q&A show produced by Carol Burnett, when pressed about the Bea Arthur/Betty White feud, Betty nipped it in the bud, saying, "They always seem to have us fighting; nothing could be further from the truth." Regardless, there is no denying that these uber-talented women had enormous chemistry together. Sadly, Betty is the last remaining "Golden Girl." Thank you for being our friends.


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I am interested in that for sure. I am looking for cheap hardware to run it on. With dry contact outputs. An example application would be a sunrise calculator that would control exterior lighting (maybe 120V). Any 12 or 24V dry contact would do though, since I can implement a pilot relay to get the voltage up.Cupiditas said:
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Thirty years ago, the average man thought the clitoris was a Greek hotel and the average woman didn't know how to enlighten him. A man's sex education consisted of what his misinformed friends told him. As an editor on British national newspapers, I received letters from confused and timid women, which made it clear that sex, from a woman's point of view, needed to be explicitly addressed.
During this period, despite the Swinging Sixties, the perception of sex was that everybody did it. You could sunbathe topless, wear see-through dresses and fornicate more than previously, but nobody actually talked about sex: it was considered embarrassing.
The contraceptive pill had appeared but few women felt sexually self-confident. Women – and young girls especially – were being pressured by their boyfriends to have sex. Girls were hesitant, confused about sex. Now that they didn't risk pregnancy… should they or shouldn't they?
Did first-time sex leave you feeling like a goddess or a doormat? Would he still love you tomorrow? What did 'being good in bed' actually mean?
A lot of women felt inadequate; a lot of girls acquiesced because they were frightened of being dumped; a lot of bewildered girls felt rejected when they were dumped. There was a lot of anxiety and disappointment.
At this point, I decided to write an informative book about sex for teenage girls. I spent eighteen months researching it.
The only sex education I had received from my mother was by way of book that featured goldfish – had I fallen in love with a goldfish I would have known exactly what to do. My friends were given similar birds-and-bees publications. We actually learned about sex from a banned blockbuster, Forever Amber By Kathleen Winsor, which was passed around school in a dust jacket of A. A. Milne's When We Were Very Young.
Mindful of this, I finally wrote my textbook as a novel, Lace. This book was subsequently described as the book that taught men about women and women about themselves. Lace gave the reader explicit information about sex. It helped women to discover their sexuality and take charge of it: it generated the murmur of bedroom guidance, 'Up a bit . . . down a bit . . . more to the left . . . MY left'. Teenage girls passed Lace around in secret, so in a roundabout way, I reached my target audience.
Somewhat surprisingly, I encountered no negative reaction to Lace, except in one American city. On my American publicity tour I flew into Kansas City around midnight, only to be told that the City Fathers had forbidden me to make any appearances in public on radio or TV, because I was making my living out of sex. I was fifty-three years old at the time, a bit late for entry into the sex profession, but delighted to have a day off in the hotel, and wash my underwear backlog.
Today, girls may know more about sex but Lace's message of empowerment and equality is as relevant and important as it was thirty years ago. It's a pity that modern novels, especially informative ones, that involve women's sexuality are put down as 'mummy porn', 'bonkbusters', 'bodice rippers', 'beach-reads', 'wank-fodder' or, simply, trash.
The worldwide success of Fifty Shades of Grey has made it clear that, for whatever reason, women want to read erotic books, although I don't believe that millions of women long to be handcuffed and beaten on the behind – one thing can so easily lead to another and there is nothing sexy about a broken nose or a ruptured kidney. But what has clearly been proved, and what has changed in the last thirty years, is that women are far more openly interested in having an enjoyable sex life.
Because today in the West, the perception of sex is everywhere – you can't get away from it. The other day I pressed the wrong button on my TV remote and there before me was a glistening eighteen-inch lavender penis, waving gently. Male magazines are in full view at the local corner shop, and where modern children learn about sex is on the internet. What's that you mutter? The parental control button? Don't make me laugh.
Unfortunately, sex-as-business productions are male-filtered, and so reinforce male misapprehensions about female sexual needs. They can also persuade some women that they must be abnormally unresponsive, when they are not.
The result of sex-as-business is that teenage boys expect a naked teenage girl to look like the plastic-enhanced ladies featured in the media, with melon-sized boobs propping up their chin, legs lengthened by six inches courtesy of Photoshop, and bald genitalia.
Teenage girls have always felt not-good-enough, but now, as a result of male comparison and criticism, they borrow dad's razor, buy their own Ladyshave or save up for a full Brazilian; they plan to have breast implants and facial silicone injections as soon as they can get their hands on enough cash. Sometimes feeling not-good-enough leads to bulimia, anorexia or a victim mentality, and it always leads to lack of self-confidence.
This is as worrying as that Cinderella update, Fifty Shades of Grey which – forgive my psychobabble – clearly illustrates the adult female's childish wish to dump the tedious responsibility of her life on somebody else, preferably a handsome, rich, good-tempered cardboard-cut-out man. Apparently, modern Cinderella doesn't want to plan her career, work for her success, or buy her own car. But in fiction and in real life, a modern man should never be seen as a woman's meal ticket, exchanged for sex with the woman bound, beaten and humiliated. Young students should not be groomed for sex in this way, as is the heroine of Fifty Shades.
What has changed since the 'Eighties is that now women talk frankly about sex over coffee in a work break, in the kitchen at home, or when choosing lingerie at an Ann Summers gathering, the modern equivalent of a Tupperware party.
What is not yet discussed by either sex is female masturbation, which remains a taboo subject. Men think it is a) filthy, b) an affront to masculinity and to themselves personally. Nice women don't do it.
But we do.
On the other hand, male masturbation a) is only natural, b) provides a healthy relief before marriage or when a woman is not available, such as in prisons, warships, tents and tanks or anywhere, anytime, when alone and unobserved.
After the nine o'clock TV curfew, when all fourteen-year-olds are safely tucked up in their bed, TV comedians hurl male masturbation jokes at audiences, which roar with the laughter of recognition.
The French writer Colette once wrote that a good lover is one that can do it better than you can. Maybe that's why men don't like the idea of a woman being able to please herself. This is one perception that hasn't changed a bit in thirty years – both in bed and out of it.
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It's a common misconception that those who write newspaper columns and articles have a lot to do with the headlines, photo selection, graphics, etc. I wake up and pick the paper up on the doorstep like everyone else — and most of the time it's the first time I see the finished product of whatever text I knocked out a few days before.
I'm always excited to see whatever our art department people (usually Matt Petty or Anne-Marie Praetzel) come up with for my Pop Culture columns — particularly when they start digging into the Star Wars action figures. But I get particularly stoked when they commission an illustrator for the art. Among our in-house guys, Don Asmussen is a genius, and I always love Lance Jackson's colorful and kinetic work. (Sometimes he even does a sculpture!)
The illustration on today's mullet column, though, actually caused me to spill my coffee. (It was vitamin water, but whatever.) Not only did I not see the layout until I got to the BART terminal this morning, but I had been on vacation and had totally forgotten that the column I wrote two weeks ago would be in the paper. Staring at me on the top three-fifths of Datebook was this glorious monster-like mulleted creature — like a angry love child of a Ralph Steadman drawing and one of those cool portraits J.J. painted on "Good Times."
The guy who illustrated the piece is a San Francisco free-lancer named Ferris Plock. I don't know anything about him — he's not on staff and I've never met him, but I'm officially appointing myself his pimp for life. You can check out more of his stuff on his web site, which has a ton of cool art.
(P.S. As of 2 p.m. Monday I've received about 60 e-mails about the column, and half are from angry readers demanding my head because they say Tom Hanks doesn't have a mullet — a theory I acknowledge in the middle of the piece, but who wants to read that far? I'll address this pressing controversy on Tuesday in the Culture Blog.)