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Houston men sentenced for roles in attempted armored car robbery
Four Houston residents have been sentenced to prison for the attempted robbery of an armored car, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
Kaleem Jamie Stephens, 30, was charged and convicted along with Nicholas Dushon Price, 31, Victor Tyrone Bruno, 29, Jermaine McNeal, 29, and Ervin Clark, 23, for their roles in a conspiracy to rob an armored car.
Price, Bruno, McNeal and Clark pleaded guilty to various charges, while Stephens proceeded to trial. Stephens was found guilty on Sept. 29, 2011. Today, U.S. District Judge Grey Miller, who presided over the trial, sentenced Stephens to a total of 144 months in prison. He will serve 84 months on both of the conspiracy to interfere with robbery and conspiracy to commit a violent offense while possessing a firearm charges which will be served consecutively to an additional 60 months for aiding and abetting the possession of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
Bruno and Clark pleaded guilty to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery and received sentences of 81 and 84 months, respectively, while McNeal will serve three years of probation months for his conviction of misprision of a felony. Price will be sentenced on April 13, 2012.
During Stephens' trial, the jury heard testimony that Stephens and all of his co-conspirators were arrested on Sept. 10, 2010, as a result of an undercover operation conducted by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The investigation began on July 2, 2010, when DPS received information that Price wanted to rob an armored car of Garda Armored Services. Shortly thereafter, undercover agents from DPS and ATF, posing as employees of the company, met with Price. During this meeting, Price discussed getting approximately $250,000 in the robbery while working alongside the undercover agents and co-conspirators. On Aug. 19, 2010, the agents met with Price, Bruno and Stephens and discussed the details of the robbery as well as the roles of each defendant. Stephens was to use a "Bin Laden style gun" to hold down the driver of the armored truck while his co-conspirators robbed collected the cash in the vehicle. At the time of the arrests, agents found Clark had stolen a Dodge Durango for the co-conspirators to use as the getaway car, while McNeal was on standby to be Bruno's getaway driver.
On Sept. 10, 2011, the date of the planned robbery, agents conducting surveillance of the defendants arrested Stephens and his co-conspirators before the robbery, thereby thwarting their plan. Investigating agents found a loaded SKS rifle and two loaded pistols in the cars carrying the defendants as well as a pistol in Stephens' car.
With the exception of McNeal, all remain in custody.
Assistant United States Attorney Kebharu Smith and Suzanne Elmilady prosecuted this case.


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This is when the Cullen's find bella when she's little. I am going to have to repost this sorry. I am going to take this one down and post it as Bella.. It just will have something different in it.
1. Chapter 1- Meeting Bella
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Edward's P.O.V.
We were one our way to Forks, which is my siblings and I. My sister Alice, and my two brothers, Emmett and Jasper were in one car. My dad, Carlisle, my mom, Esme, and my annoying sister, Rosalie, were already there. Well we were on our way when Alice had a vision of a little girl in a field close by when one of our kind steps out of the shadows with thirsty blood red eyes. That was all I needed to see before I was out the door and on my way to rescue the little girl.
But I didn't see the rest of the vision. When I get there I go mad with the smell of her blood. And I kill the little girl! Thankfully Alice did and told my brothers and they all came after me.
They got there in the nick of time too. I just got done killing Mark when I smelled the little girl. My gold eyes turn pitch black and I slumped into a crouch and sprang when Jasper sprang at me. We meet in the middle of the air and he knocked me off track to the little girl. Then Emmett appeared out of now where and when he tried to grab me I dogged him. I saw Alice approach my prey so I sprung and snatched the girl up. I heard a sickening crunch as I landed on her arm. When she cried out in pain I growled at her and she whimpered. I was about to sink my teeth into the spot on her throat where the blood flows the most, when Jasper sprang and knocked me off her and Emmett held me down. That's when I realized what I almost done. I saw it all happen again and I flinched back at what I had and almost had done.
"Emmett, I can do this, you can let me up." I told him.
"Nope. Not until the girl is moved." He informed me.
"Emmett, you can let him up he won't do any thing." Alice told him.
"Alright, but I'll be right behind you. Remember that!" He threatened.
"Okay." I said as he let me up.
I went over to where the little girl was. I didn't even breathe! When she saw me approaching her behind Alice, her eyes filled with terror. Pain filled my head. I tried to hear what she was thinking but I couldn't. 'That's weird.' I thought. I heard Alice ask her what her name was.
"Bella. Isabella Swan actually. But I like Bella." She replied weakly.
"How old are you Bella?" Alice asked her. Jasper came and sat next to Alice. Emmett stayed behind me and I didn't get any closer when she looked at me.
"I'm 6 and a 1/2."She replies.
"Where are your parents?" Jasper asked.
"They... they died when someone came to visit. I was watching T.V. and some one rang the door bell my mom and my dad went to get the door. Then my mommy screamed and then she stopped real quickly. So I went to see what was going on and I saw them lying on the floor and the man at the door was covered in blood. He smiled at me real big and so I ran out the back door he followed me and so I ran into the woods because my daddy told me that if I'm being followed and I don't want to be then to go into the woods so I could lose them. So I ran to my meadow and I stopped to breathe when he appeared. Then he," She pointed to me." came and killed him then he tried to kill me and you and you," she pointed to Jasper and Emmett," saved me." She finished. When she said that I had tried to kill her I flinched and was stricken with guilt. Pain filled my face. Jasper felt that coming off of me and tried to calm me down but I was in such pain that it didn't even help a little.
"Well I don't think he tried to kill you." Alice said, pointing to me." He saved you."
"We didn't even introduce our selves. I'm Jasper." He said, trying to change the subject.
"I'm Alice."
"Emmett." Emmett gave her a goofy smile and she smiled back.
"I'm Edward." I told her. I'm sure she heard the pain in my voice because she looked sad that I was sad so I gave her a lopsided grin halfheartedly.
"Hi Edward." She told me in a whisper.
"Hi Bella." I told her back.
"We need to take her to Carlisle so he could look at her arm." I said. "Can I carry you to the car?" I asked her.
"Yes." I so owe Alice one for making her believe I didn't try to kill her. I lifted her up and told her to close her eyes. She did and I ran vampire speed to my car. The others met me at the car. Alice sat in the back with Bella and Emmett. Jasper rode up front with me.
'Edward?' Jasper asked me to get my attention.
'I'm worried. Why did you attack Bella? You usually always have more control than me and I didn't even really want her.' He thought.
"She's my singer!" I told him so low only our ears could hear.
The conversation was over when we pulled into our driveway. I carried her in and took her to Carlisle. He put her in a cast and we all introduced each other again.
"I wanna play with Bella first." Emmett said.
"No. I wanna dress Bella first." Alice said. Alice and Emmett began arguing. Then Alice stopped.
"Carlisle! Brilliant idea." Alice and I said together.
"What?" Emmett whined
"Well I was just thinking that we all want to have Bella first, so why don't we have her on different days? We can draw sticks to see who gets her on what day of the week."
"That IS brilliant Carlisle!" Every one yelled.
So Carlisle got sticks and everyone wrote there name one it,
"I'll have," she paused to hold the suspense," Monday!"
"I'll have...Tuesday!" Emmett yelled as he drew out his day.
"I'll have ...Wednesday!" Alice said as she drew her day.
"I'll have...Thursday!" Jasper said as she drew out his day.
"Esme and I will have...Friday!" Carlisle said.
"I'll have... Saturday!" I said.
"So that leaves Sunday for family night!" Esme said.
"YEAH!" Emmett yelled! "I get tomorrow! I get tomorrow!" Emmett sang.
"Yes but first, we need to go hunting. Edward can you stay with her? We'll be back soon." Carlisle asked me (A/N Carlisle doesn't know that Bella is Edwards singer.) and I just nodded my head. The truth was I didn't know if I could handle it so when they left I went up to my room. When I got in there I thought I had the wrong room because I had no covers on my bed and new curtains, most likely thanks to Alice. 'Oh well. It's not like I get cold.' I thought to myself. I was up there for an hour or so and they still weren't back yet and having no covers was really aggravating so I went down stairs to see if I could sniff them out when I saw Bella wrapped up in my sheets on the couch. Seeing her so helpless made my mouth fill up with venom. 'NO!' I mentally shouted at myself. 'you can't take this girls life away. And what about what Carlisle has built up? Or what it will do to Esme. You CAN'T' I yelled at myself. She looked up when I gripped the door frame.
"Sorry" she said.
"For what?" I asked.
"For using your blanket. It was in a box so I didn't think you were going to use it but my mommy always told me to ask before I use other people's stuff." She told me. Here she was, apologizing for using my blanket and here I am thinking of ways to kill her. 'wait. She said it was my blanket.'
"How did you know it was my blanket?" I asked.
"It smells like you, silly." She said. Such a simple, little kid answer made all the difference. I know that I will be able to control myself because she has her whole life a head of her. I picked her up and put her in my bed she fell asleep almost immediately when her had hit the pillow but she was awake enough to say, "'Night Edward. I love you." And if I were human, my heart would have melted away.
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This is "karuta", which is a Japanese card game that is typically played during the New Year's holidays. As one of the cards is read, players try to grab the corresponding card. The person who does it the fastest wins that card.
These Animal Crossing karuta are 500 Club Nintendo points, and redeemable points can be earned by buying Nintendo hardware or games.


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U2 Make Surprise Appearance at Benefit Event
If you want to make a big splash with your charity event, it helps to have friends in high places, and Sean Penn knows more than a few. Case in point: Penn's third-annual Help Haiti benefit, held in Beverly Hills on Jan. 11, lured none other than U2 to the stage for the first time in three years.
The band's surprise performance, which came during a busy weekend that also saw them picking up a Golden Globe, added an extra burst of superstar pizzazz to Penn's fundraising gala. Taking the stage at the Montage Hotel ballroom, they performed a set that included 'I Will Follow,' 'Vertigo' and 'Desire'; the evening also saw singer Bono and guitarist the Edge covering Leonard Cohen's classic 'Hallelujah' with Haitian vocalist Anaelle Jean-Pierre. (You can watch part of their performance above.)
The event reportedly raised $6 million in all, drawing a crowd of celebrities that included Emma Thompson, Charlize Theron and Anderson Cooper, who served as the event's MC as well as the winning bidder in an auction that left him with a sculpture made from Penn's decommissioned guns. Variety quoted Cooper as telling attendees, "I urge you to go to Haiti and see it for yourself. Haiti pulses with life. Tonight, we celebrate that life and that hope and that strength."
Aside from benefiting a worthy cause, U2's performance acted as a warm-up for what's sure to be a very busy 2014 for the band. While details are still sketchy at this point, the group is expected to announce an upcoming studio album -- its first since 2009's 'No Line on the Horizon' -- shortly, with a spring release reportedly on the table.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — The 89 players who have qualified and are competing in the 80th Masters, which starts Thursday at Augusta National Golf Club. Players listed in only first category for which they are eligible. This is the smallest field since there were 89 players in 2002.
MASTERS CHAMPIONS: Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson, Adam Scott, Charl Schwartzel, Phil Mickelson, Angel Cabrera, Trevor Immelman, Zach Johnson, Mike Weir, Vijay Singh, Mark O'Meara, Bernhard Langer, Ian Woosnam, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize, Tom Watson.
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The first visual record of police interrogation we have comes from a XII Dynasty tomb in Egypt, two thousand years before Christ. The image shows a man being held by three others while the fourth one beats him with a bamboo stick and the fifth, who appears to be the one in charge, supervises the procedure. The sight is disheartening, Borislav Pekiå«c comments. In four thousand years not much has changed. Prisoners still get beaten. And that's not the worst that happens to them, of course. There have been many refinements since the pharaohs in methods of inducing physical and mental pain. We must give credit to the Holy Inquisition, which contributed more than any other institution to the development of the role of the interrogator. The Inquisitors' techniques of persuasion were especially admired by modern totalitarian states where ideological heresy likewise came to be regarded as a capital crime.
Only educated people conversant with nuances of doctrine and with a talent for abstract speculation could count on becoming inquisitors. Their task was no longer to bash heads and extract fingernails but to have the prisoner comprehend the nature of his transgression and make a public confession. Today, in the name of the war on terror, ill-treatment and torture in all their ancient and modern varieties are again being used more or less openly by some countries, including the United States. These practices, surprisingly, have the approval of a number of distinguished law professors and opinion makers who argue that to defeat evil we may have to do the unthinkable now and then.
Were he alive today, Borislav Pekiå«c would not have been persuaded. His interest in the abuse and torture of prisoners comes from firsthand experience. Unlike his better-known Serbian contemporaries, the novelists Danilo Kis and Aleksandar Tisma, who also wrote extensively about imprisonment, Pekiå«c actually spent time in jail as a political prisoner under the Communists. Born in 1930, he was arrested in 1948 in Belgrade while still in high school, and accused of organizing a conspiracy against the state. He did not deny his guilt. The secret student organization, of which he was one of the founders, planned to engage in sabotage in addition to proselytizing for democratic reforms.
This was an act of bravery akin to starting in Nazi Germany an association to combat the spread of anti-Semitism. He was interrogated, treated roughly, and made to sign a statement in which he admitted plotting against the state because, supposedly, he and his friends could not bear the freedom and happiness his fellow citizens now enjoyed. In other words, he was made to realize that rather than having fought for liberty as he had previously told himself, he had been a mortal enemy of that liberty. He served five years out of a fifteen-year sentence.
Exactly how he was made to confess the opposite of what he believed, Pekiå«c…
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Nov. 29, 2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - In its first game after a 12-day hiatus, Emerson College emerged with a 54-43 victory over MIT in a non-conference women's basketball game on Thursday. With the win, the Lions improved to 2-1 on the year while the Engineers fell to 1-3.
The early stages of the game were a back-and-forth affair as Emerson crept out to a 9-6 advantage after five minutes elapsed. Back-to-back three-pointers by Clara Yuan and Alice Yeh put MIT ahead, 12-9, at the 12:01 mark. The Lions countered with 10 straight points during the next three minutes to reclaim the lead for good. A three-point play by Yeh ended the run and narrowed the gap to four (19-15). Emerson responded by tallying 12 out of the next 15 points to establish its largest lead of the half (31-18) with 4:49 on the clock. The Engineers closed out the frame with an 8-2 run that resulted in a 33-26 deficit at the break.
Yeh continued to power MIT's offense in the second stanza as she posted five points during the first 41 seconds. Baskets by Lauren Vassallo, Lindsay DeStefano, and Maude Okrah helped maintain Emerson's edge as it led, 39-31, at 18:21. The next 12 minutes became a defensive battle as both sides combined for 10 points. A jumper by Alleigh Marre sparked a 9-0 run by the Lions as they extended their lead to 17 (54-37) with 4:13 on the clock. MIT held Emerson scoreless for the rest of the game as a lay-up from Sally Simpson and a pair of baskets by Kelsey Cappelle closed out the scoring for the Cardinal and Gray.
Cheryl Kwinn notched a career-high 11 points and seven rebounds while Yeh contributed 11 points coming off the bench. Cappelle totaled eight points and two blocks while Samia Mahjub grabbed a team-high 12 boards. Kimberly Soo Hoo dished out nine assists as Kristen Whaley picked up two steals for the Engineers.
Emerson's DeStefano finished with 12 points, four assists, and two blocks as Vassallo amassed 12 rebounds, eight points and three steals. Okrah chipped in 10 points while Kathy Andrade added eight points and three steals.
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Went to a free concert in the park last Thursday. I like pipe bands! I found out that this band our very own local one, went to Scotland last fall and won the World Championship for amateur / junior pipe bands!!
Our Church had a production of the Imagine Christmas show this year. I was a camera operator for the video production, and I brought my 1DMark III and took a few candid shots between my takes. These are a few that I got... was a very fun production.
Same night as Megadeth (this was one loud show!)
Let's bring some life back to this board!!! I think I know a key ingredient to help us out...
This show was insane... and I hate this band - but I love their lighting guy!
I got the opportunity to shoot Mayhem Fest last weekend in Hartford. Despite being a wimp and only shooting the indoor bands on the main stage, it was still hot enough inside to allow me to leave with a sweat soaked shirt. 27 photogs in the pit was no fun, being elbowed by people with media passes...
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Went to the 2nd annual Help Willys Friend Pet fair on the 16th of May.. Both as an unofficial Photog for HWF and as an Unofficial volunteer for the Animal Haven..lol Besides, My wife Christine, who is now a volunteer for Help Willys Friends and had worked on this fair, made me go..lol
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The ones shown here were shot handheld with the 300mm, -- 5and 6 are handheld standing on a chair. The reach still wasn't enough, so I had to upsize these 10% at a time then crop them down.
I recently took my step daughter to a concert in Atlanta. DSLR's were not allowed so I took my M6 and a roll of Trix. I shot this at 1250iso and pushed it in Diafine. I only survived the first band out of five and retired to the car and took a nap.LOL. I don't know any of the bands names they were...
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shot a co-workers CD release party for his band a few weeks back, finally getting around to posting. the lighting was awful and the bar was really small so i wasnt happy with the shoot but i was able to get a couple shots i was mildly happy with. the band was excited to have some shots by someone...
So today I was going to do a photo shoot with my car, since I haven't had the camera out of the bag in about a month. But that never happened. I came across the blues fest in downtown Syracuse instead.
hi everyone I just wanted to say Good Bye to M.J. boy you could dance, and make music
shot another co-workers band the weekend after the CD release, had a little better lighting for this one!
I had the opportunity to shoot a local studio's production of the Nutcracker this past weekend. They did a phenomenal job... I was very, very impressed.
I shot these all from high up above all the seats. I had two tripods... one with a Canon Mark III and 200 1.8 with TC1.4. I shot some with...
shot my first concert last night, Rockin the Red Cross corporate battle of the bands. My company sponsored a band so i went as their photographer. I really could have used a f2.8 lens but i think i did ok for a first timer. The show as at the Landmark Theater here in Syracuse.
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A. Scott Berg didn't enroll at Princeton until almost 100 years after
How would Wilson have handled the issues President
We live very much in a world Woodrow Wilson created. I believe all our foreign policy goes back to a single sentence in a single speech he gave on April 2, 1917, that the world must be made "safe for democracy." The bulk of our economic policy is based on the federal reserve system, which Wilson introduced.
The friction between the executive and legislative branches today is the most intense since the days when the Democratic Woodrow Wilson encountered an increasingly hostile and Republican
The big difference between Obama and Wilson is that Wilson maintained a constant dialogue with Congress, where I now find Obama often lurching from crisis to crisis. I think he was able to get more legislation passed and was better able to articulate why he wanted legislation passed.
He came to the White House with a short resume: President of Princeton and two years as governor of New Jersey.
No one had less "experience" than Woodrow Wilson. I suggest that it's the most meteoric rise in U.S. history, that a man came from virtual obscurity being a college president who'd written some books, and within two years he's president of the United States. He used to say he ran for public office to get out of academia. He said politics was child's play next to that.
We are so familiar with other major wartime presidents, like Lincoln, FDR. Why not Wilson?
He was an academician for most of his life and has been written about mostly by academicians. They are heartless, even soulless books. Wilson's views on race look so archaic as to be unbelievable, certainly intolerable, and that has worked against his reputation. And the photographs we have of him are severe and somewhat forbidding. Yet he had humor; he loved to sing and dance and tell jokes, and that's what's [been] missing. Women adored him, and he adored women.
Is World War I getting lost along with Wilson?
World War I was in many ways the first modern war, and in essence what FDR did is build on the machinery Wilson left for him. Wilson took an isolationist country with an army the size of Portugal's and within a year had mobilized 2 million soldiers in the greatest fighting machine the world had seen. In so doing he also created the ground floor of the military-industrial complex by joining big business with the military. As a result, the United States emerges from World War I as the first modern superpower.
Hard to believe, but as a teenager, you had a Wilson poster on your wall. What surprised you about him during your research?
The pathos of his life was more intense than I had imagined. Late in his administration, after his stroke, he sits in the East Room watching the documentary footage of his [triumphal 1919] arrival in Paris, and then he gets up and limps out of the room. It was just months earlier, and here was the "savior of the world" now just this completely broken man, physically, mentally, emotionally. I had never seen a book that humanized him, that gave me a sense of his personality. I found him to be more vivid in every respect than I had imagined. He was more of an idealist than I thought, but also more of a Southern racist , and more suppressive of dissent, going after [Socialist presidential candidate and pacifist Eugene V.] Debs the way he did.
Another thing that was revealed to me was his incredible obstinacy. When I started the book, I thought he was charmingly uncompromising, but in the end I realized he shot himself in the foot, or worse, he stabbed himself in the heart.
Did you find any brand new material?
Two caches emerged: When Wilson's last grandchild, National Cathedral Dean Francis Sayre, died, his family found trunks of letters belonging to his mother, Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie. There were thousands of letters — lots of intimate family drama. They were a gold mine.
Then the second cache was Dr. Grayson's [Cary T. Grayson was Wilson's aide and personal physician] last son's. The family found a trunk full of notes and letters to his fiancee who became his wife.
[One letter concerned] an assassination attempt, a madman in a Chicago hotel who wanted to stab Wilson. He leaped to his death. It wasn't in a newspaper; it was nowhere. Even Wilson sort of slept through it. Grayson said: "I write to you, darling, to say we almost had a tragedy!" And the other thing is the secret procedure where Wilson had [nasal] polyps removed but they didn't tell anybody. I thought this really was a dress rehearsal for [the stroke] that happened a year later: They knew how to keep medical secrets.
What happens when we are paperless and there are no more hidden letters and journals?
This is the biographer's nightmare. Do we collect people's tweets? It's the only record we're going to have. We won't have the breadth or the depth and we won't have those happy occasions when trunks of papers get discovered. Where is the record going to be?
[Wilson] was unusually articulate. He left no thought unexpressed. This is a man who wrote down everything he ever thought or felt.
There's already a film in the works based on your book. Could all the attention change the perception of Wilson?
I don't care whether you love him or hate him, but I'd at least like you to know about him: What he did with labor, the eight-hour workday, workers' compensation, appointing [Louis] Brandeis as the first Jew on the Supreme Court. Just the way he redefined how presidents can and should act.
How does "Wilson" differ from your earlier biographies? It took 13 years.
And I never had an uninteresting day! He never failed me as a character; he was such a good writer, and almost everything [about him] had some reference to the world we live in today.
This was far more difficult, in large measure because once you get into a presidential archive, it's endless. What about the secretary of State's papers? The secretary of Agriculture's papers? Should you go through Clemenceau's, and maybe Lloyd George's? That part is difficult. A presidential life covers everything.
I believe a biographer's task is to paint the times as well as the life; it's my job to give the background, and there's no part of America's life or the world's life of that period that Wilson did not touch. The biographer's job is the same as the novelist's or the playwright's, to unfold drama tellingly, [not to be like] what
Is there a particular moment of his life where you would have liked to have been a fly on the wall?
After Wilson gives the speech to the joint session of Congress asking for a declaration of war, and everyone cheers and applauds, Wilson and Edith drive back to the White House in silence. Wilson goes into his office, puts his head down on the table and sobs. Wow. A president who not only realizes that he is about to send all those men to war but that he is going to be personally responsible for the deaths of many of them. [In] the speech he gives at the American cemetery in Paris on
What do you make of the current vogue of hatred for Wilson by the likes of
Well, it's crazy. I believe he said Woodrow Wilson is the most evil man who ever lived, and Hitler was sixth on that list. That Woodrow Wilson, this minister's son who loved peace and freedom, is Satan is just astounding to me. Is having a graduated income tax because of Wilson the most evil thing that has ever happened?
At the end of World War I, Wilson was like a demigod in Europe. How did he handle celebrity?
I think he remained as modest as any Presbyterian minister's son could remain. It's impossible to ignore the adulation, but I don't think he ever fully believed it. He definitely felt he was on a mission and felt appointed to carry out that mission. That moment after he gets elected and [his] campaign manager comes to him for a job, and he says, "You have nothing to do with this — this was all Providence, this was all foreordained."
His League of Nations [national barnstorming] tour was for a cause. He was not campaigning for himself; he was campaigning for an idea, or an ideal. I don't think of Wilson as messianic, but he was definitely a martyr. He truly did feel he owed it to those who gave their lives. I'm inclined to think Wilson is the most passionate man who ever inhabited the White House.
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Hello again Dr. Bob,
On 28 July I asked you about my doctor prescribing Proleukin for fatigue. You gave me some great advice that day... 1. asked me if i was seeing a HIV specialist. 2. asked about my diet. 3. you asked about my excercise. 4. suggested it could be some undetected opportunistic infection. 5. suggested i seek some form of counseling.
Well, I went to another Hiv specialist and guess what? 1. i was diagnosed with MAC at the same time I was diagnosed with HIV, 10 months ago, (never mentioned or treated) 2. I was diagnosed with low tetesterone. 3. My diet needed improvement. 4. I wasn't getting enough excersise.
My new Doctor is treating the MAC (she was surprised that the ex-doctor didn't see it in the lab results)
She is making me stop for work for 1 month to get my health back, begin excercising and get my head on straight.
I start treatment for low tetesterone next week.
I have a much greater report with my new (smarter doctor), so i would encourage anyone who soesn't have a good report with your doctor to look around for another one.
But most of all, I wanted to THANK YOU FOR YOUR GREAT ADVICE!!!
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Wonderful news! Thanks for writing back with your follow-up report. I'll post your response on the Treatment Forum as well in hopes that others will find your story motivating and enlightening! By the way, did you check your ex-doctor's credentials? Perhaps his medical degree came in the mail from Sally Struthers.
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A winner was selected from 51 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
LuckyP Racing
A couple of years ago, I (Pete) came on here and started a competition to design a logo for my fledgling race team, LuckyP Racing. The results were fantastic and I sellected a design which I used on my Toyota MR2 MkII race car, our team clothing - hats, shirts and jackets. I entered the 2009 MR2 Championship (looking far better than my driving skills were) but I managed to win the novice Championship!!
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The car will compete for LuckyP Racing. The logo design you guys came up with is brilliant. I want to incorporate this on the vehicle so that the logo LuckyP Racing (see attachement or previous competition) can be seen from the side, the front, the roof and maybe the rear.
The LuckyP Racing colours are: Black/Orange/Red/White.
I like black and orange the best, the white and red should be used tp outline or detail.
Would consider is silver, but not in large blocks. Just lines etc.
The car is black. I'd rather not want to respray the car, well not all of it. Maybe just the front/rear bumpers, the mirrors or the bonnet.
Thoughts have been a design in the style of the MARTINI stripes but in LuckyP Racing colours. The graphics will be done by Creative FX:
I love the 911 shape, and I really want to excentuate the iconic shape, the width of the rear and the beautiful headlamps/wings.
Optical illusions are cool and anything that draws attention to it.
Also it's a race car. I want it to look cool, purposeful and coiled up ready to pounce!! It sould look like it's going 120mph even in the garage!!
We need to remember that there will be a white panel for the race number (66) on either door and the bonnet.
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In her BNET column, "168 Hours," Laura Vanderkam recently shared "22 Things to Do During That Boring Conference Call." While I applaud Vanderkam's suggestions to write love letters and thank-you notes, read poetry, and do other things that arguably make the world a better place, I also agree with her that if people need conference call distractions to pass the time, perhaps they should instead think of ways to make the calls more worthwhile.
So how do you make a conference call productive? Host it over telepresence. The face-to-face connection commands people's attention—you can't hide from the person staring at you across the virtual table! With telepresence, participants can read each other's nuanced body language and engage in lively, natural dialogue without the common audio call hazard of talking over one another. Just by paring down the confusion of faceless communication, telepresence calls can take regular 60-minute conferences down to 45 or 50 minutes. Add up those savings over the course of the week, and you've earned back several hours of quality time.
Government agencies can greatly benefit from the efficiency telepresence brings to conference calls. As the Telework Enhancement Act takes effect and more and more federal employees work remotely, the conference call will increasingly become the go-to meeting format. If agencies use telepresence to host these calls, productivity levels can equal—even surpass—the productivity of in-office meetings: there's no need to round everyone up from their offices because they can connect at the push of a button from anywhere they choose. In addition to logistical smoothness, communication will be clear, colleagues can explain things visually, and employees will feel accountable for maintaining active presences in the discussion.
Now, if you do still find yourself on the occasional boring traditional conference call, I recommend Vanderkam's suggestion number 13 (assuming your boss won't mind): watching a video on Khan Academy. It's a great example of the power of video technology, including telepresence, to enhance education.
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Another great thing about the Streetlight gig is the fans. They know every lyrics/horn line and sing (scream) along while we do our thang, it definitely gets you pumped up. There's a lot of stage diving and mosh-pit action as well (which honestly just scares me, I have to dodge kids so I don't get smacked in the teeth).
Check out the tour dates on my schedule, and this video of Streetlight at the Reading Festival in England over the summer. Listen for the crowd singing the horn lines at us!


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"Borrowed time is an exploration into the moment the point of no return has been reached and the subsequent freedom that follows. Using the visual of midflight plane failures was my attempt to show the moment that horror, relief, freedom, and graphic beauty all meet at once."
"Because there are very few images/actual references of planes when they have these types of engine malfunctions mid-flight, I had to replicate/make as visual correct as possible what occurs when these types of catastrophic malfunctions occur."
This series from Michael Massaia, entitled "Borrowed Time – Mid Flight Engine Failure", is made without Photoshop or digital composites. The ones where the planes are actually flying upwards are particularly interesting, as if, though on fire, they have no intention of going down. See more after the jump.


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People old enough to recall the fall of 1981 might remember the huge fuss that occurred when the Atlantic published William Greider's article "The Education of David Stockman," in which Reagan's budget director went overnight from whiz kid to Deep Throat. For readers too young, or anyone wanting their memory refreshed, here's part of my account of the debacle in The Age of Reagan:
"I've never believed that just cutting taxes alone would cause output and employment to expand," Stockman told Greider. It got worse: "Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate." Greider thought "This seemed a cynical concession for Stockman to make in private conversation while the Reagan Administration was still selling the supply-side doctrine to Congress." From the immediate sequel in the article, it appears Greider pressed Stockman on this issue, and Stockman admitted that Reaganomics was no more than its liberal critics had made it out to be. Stockman: "It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory." Later in the article Stockman seemed to imply that supply-side economics was a "crackpot theory."
At first the article received only secondary notice in the media, with a few short wire service stories buried far back in the news pages of the major papers. But when CBS Evening News led with the Atlantic story two days after the magazine hit the newsstands, it propelled it into a bombshell. The New York Times put the story on the front page: "Stockman's Views Touch Off Furor," and the story was the focus of the punditocracy for more than a week. Typical of the media judgment of the episode was Hobart Rowen's column in the Washington Post: "Stockman is saying flat out that Reaganomics is a failure, and the economic arguments for it were fraudulent—and he knew it." The New York Times editorial page said "The Reagan Administration's vaunted economic policy cannot work; the Administration knows that; and yet the Administration keeps on flogging it as just the medicine America needs," and went on to compare Reagan's "deception" to Lyndon Johnson's disastrous decision to pursue "guns and butter" in the 1960s. Ecstatic Democrats claimed vindication, and read the entire article into the Congressional Record as though it was the equivalent of the Pentagon Papers. Tip O'Neill was triumphant: "The architect of the Administration's program is admitting exactly what I and other critics have been saying for six months." . . . The Atlantic article finished off what little political momentum Reaganomics had left.
This episode is relevant because of Ryan Lizza's recent New Yorker article "The Obama Memos," especially its revelation of a 57-page memo on economic policy that Larry Summers sent to Obama during the transition period, in which Summers warned Obama about the limits of Keynesian stimulus spending and the broader fiscal abyss the nation was facing. (You can view the actual memo here.) Although Summers joined the Administration as director of the national economic council, Obama and his political team obviously ignored Summers.
Lizza's New Yorker article ought to be to Obama what Stockman's confessions to The Atlantic were to Reagan: a major media bonfire. It has attracted some attention, but not as much as it ought to have. My AEI colleague James Pethokoukis outlines 11 stunning revelation from the Summers memo, with quotes from the text:
1. The stimulus was about implementing the Obama agenda.
The short-run economic imperative was to identify as many campaign promises or high priority items that would spend out quickly and be inherently temporary. … The stimulus package is a key tool for advancing clean energy goals and fulfilling a number of campaign commitments.
2. Team Obama knows these deficits are dangerous (although it has offered no long-term plan to deal with them).
Closing the gap between what the campaign proposed and the estimates of the campaign offsets would require scaling back proposals by about $100 billion annually or adding new offsets totaling the same. Even this, however, would leave an average deficit over the next decade that would be worse than any post-World War II decade. This would be entirely unsustainable and could cause serious economic problems in the both the short run and the long run.
3. Obamanomics was pricier than advertised.
Your campaign proposals add about $100 billion per year to the deficit largely because rescoring indicates that some of your revenue raisers do not raise as much as the campaign assumed and some of your proposals cost more than the campaign assumed. … Treasury estimates that repealing the tax cuts above $250,000 would raise about $40 billion less than the campaign assumed. … The health plan is about $10 billion more costly than the campaign estimated and the health savings are about $25 billion lower than the campaign estimated.
For the other eight of Jim's observations, click here.
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It must have been a strange sensation for Rick Tolman. After years of watching the Natural Resources Defense Council bash farm groups, the CEO of the National Corn Growers Association met with NRDC leaders in their New York offices recently.
Tolman, the top staff member of the St. Louis-based NCGA, was invited to the NRDC meeting to discuss the potential for ethanol and other alternative fuel sources. The NRDC believes all fuel used for transportation in the United States could one day be derived from biomass sources, Tolman says.
"Our organization has talked about biomass fuels being supplemental to other fuels, but not completely replacing them," he noted. "In that regard, this (the NRDC) group is very futuristic. They're looking at whether this can realistically be done, and they're asking 'what is the best pathway to get there?'"
Using a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, NRDC is exploring strategies to transform the U.S. fuels market into a bio-based market by 2050. The group's plan calls for a biomass transition to begin in 2025.
Tolman discussed the importance of a renewable fuels standard and other legislation that will encourage growth in the biofuels industry.
NRDC leaders, in turn, talked about their vision for more farmer-owned, rurally located fuel production operations. The group plans to construct several pilot plants and is looking at economic models and simulations for future production, transportation and storage of biofuels.
"The piece that I was able to share with them is what's happening right now with the growth and development of the ethanol industry," said Tolman. "I talked about the current situation, and we discussed ideas of how to get where they want to go in the next 25 to 50 years."
NCGA and the NRDC still have a ways to go before peace breaks out between the groups. The NRDC Web site, located at www.nrdc.org, contains an e-mail form letter supporters can send their senators, urging them to vote against the energy bill corn growers have been trying to pass.
But it's still a major step for the organization that almost brought the apple industry to its knees with the Alar scare to ask a farm group for its opinion on anything.
At press time, little progress was being reported on the energy bill.
Some say crude oil prices hitting their highest level since the Gulf War could give the bill new life, but that is not a given until House leaders back off on the bill's product liability waiver for MTBE.
As for the NCGA and NRDC, they have several things in common, Tolman said, including the desire to protect air quality, water quality and other environmental entities. "I was able to make them more aware of what we're doing and why.
"We both see the benefits of rural economic development and see the benefits of more energy coming from biomass. We both see energy security benefits as well."
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The art/ culture/ skate magazine King Brown is about to drop their 8th issue with a massive party this Thursday, July 26th, in NYC at Klughaus Gallery featuring a new mural by Mike Giant, artworks from the likes of Mike Giant, Dave Kinsey, Grotesk, Kevin Lyons, Morning Breath, Jay Howell and many others. There's also to be a best trick skate competition across the street hosted by Steve Rodriguez/5boro. All goes down 6-11pm.
We are flying Mike Giant over to paint the exterior of the gallery on the day, Steve Rodriguez/5boro is throwing a best trick comp accross the street on some skateable sculptures we had made and we have pieces from Mike Giant, Dave Kinsey, Grotesk, Kevin Lyons, Morning Breath, Greg Lamarache, Raza Uno, Pontus Alv, Jay Howell, Zach Malfa Kowalski, Andy Jenkins, Cycle, Stefan Marx, Steve Gourlay, Ben Horton, Beastman, Phibs, Twoone, Reka, Kyle Hughs-Odgers, Meggs, Sean Morris, Lister, Yok, Sheryo, Ian Mutch, Ross Clugston, Rone, Daek and Numskull... It's our unofficial 'Skate' Issue, guest curated by Morning Breath.
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Stamping out polio has proved harder than anyone imagined, with the latest blow coming in the form of deadly attacks on health workers delivering vaccine in Pakistan and Nigeria.
But despite the recent setbacks, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates will join with other leaders this week to argue that the crippling disease can be eradicated by 2018, thanks to a new strategy and unprecedented political support in the handful of countries where polio persists.
It won't be cheap, though. A new estimate puts the total price tag for the six-year push at $5.5 billion, about half of which still must be raised. That's one of the main goals of a summit that starts Wednesday in the Persian Gulf state of Abu Dhabi, where the focus will be on increased funding from Muslim nations in addition to traditional, Western donors.
"Islamic leadership … is a critical part of this final stage of polio eradication," said Dr. Chris Elias, president of global development for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Islam is the dominant religion in Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of Nigeria, the three nations where polio remains endemic.
Once common around the world, including in the United States, the sewage-borne virus was eliminated in wealthy countries after the development of a vaccine. When the first global eradication effort was launched in 1988, about 350,000 children a year were paralyzed by polio. In 2012, there were only 223 cases worldwide.
But the disease has clung stubbornly in a few corners of the globe, occasionally flaring up and spreading to other areas. "Until the polio virus is completely eradicated everywhere, no country is safe from reinfection," Gates wrote this month in the Cairo Review of Global Affairs.
Three previous target dates for eradication — 2000, 2005 and 2012 — have come and gone without success.
But advocates say things are different this time, pointing to new tools and to India's surprising success in wiping out the disease in 2011.
"Five years ago, most people thought India would be the last place with polio," Elias said.
The Indian government mustered more than 2 million workers for the polio fight and pioneered approaches now being applied in other countries.
In Nigeria, health agencies are deploying smaller vaccination teams armed with high-tech maps and GPS-equipped cellphones that allow them to cover more homes in less time — meaning fewer households are missed.
In Afghanistan, permanent polio teams are replacing the large-scale campaigns that are easy targets for opposition and violence. When the teams are allowed to work in dangerous areas, they take advantage of the window by dosing children on an accelerated schedule.
As part of enhanced surveillance systems, sewage in vulnerable areas is regularly checked for polio virus. When the bug turned up in Cairo's sewage recently, the source was quickly traced to construction workers from Pakistan, who were then targeted for vaccination, said Apoorva Mallya, senior program officer for the Gates Foundation's polio programs.
Every diagnosed case of polio is genetically analyzed to identify where the virus originated, and to determine its type. One of the three major types of polio virus was eradicated more than a decade ago. A second strain appears poised to disappear soon, with only one known case in the past six months.
"If what we're seeing now is a reduction in the genetic diversity of the virus, that's another indicator of progress," Mallya said.
For the first time, the new eradication plan also includes a road map for phasing out the oral polio vaccine, which contains weakened, live viruses that in rare cases can actually cause the disease. It will be replaced by an injectable vaccine that's more expensive, but contains killed virus with no risk of infection.
Some health experts remain skeptical that the 2018 target will be reached, or that it's worth such a huge investment to eradicate a disease that afflicts so few people.
An independent panel that evaluates the polio program cautioned recently that "success is far from assured," and pointed out that several countries are already scaling back their vaccination programs.
Dr. Howard Frumkin, dean of the University of Washington's School of Public Health, is concerned that the focus on polio will divert money from other health priorities. But he still joined more than 400 leading scientists from around the world in signing onto a declaration of support for the eradication program.
"I think we're at the 1-yard line now, and we've never been there before," Frumkin said. "I think we need to stick with it."
What seems like an enormous investment will pay off manyfold in reduced incidence of disease and the ability to phase out costly vaccination programs once polio is no longer a threat, Frumkin said.
Polio would be only the second disease erased from the earth, after smallpox. "If we succeed in eradicating polio, we will prove that setting big goals leads to big victories," Gates wrote Tuesday in a Globe and Mail op-ed with Canada's Minister of International Co-operation.
Gates has declared polio eradication his top priority. Over the past few years, the Gates Foundation has spent about $300 million annually on the effort and expects to continue that general level of support, Mallya said. That would pencil out to another $1.8 billion over the course of the six-year eradication program.
Gates and other program coordinators, including UNICEF and the World Health Organization, recently began reaching out to wealthy Arab nations for help bankrolling the effort.
The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi committed $50 million in 2011 to help vaccinate 35 million children in Afghanistan and Pakistan against polio, and is expected to announce new funding this week. The Islamic Development Bank made its first donation to polio programs last year, with a $227 million financing package for Pakistan.
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Jaguar, in a campaign planned and bought by Mindshare, will premiere the 40-second TV ad as part of its 'Alive' global brand positioning, in the first ad break of 'Homeland' on Sunday.
Following the premiere, Channel 4 will air five two-second blipverts in each of the five ad breaks during the show. The short ads show a flash of the car with the sound of a heartbeat, which will get progressively quicker.
At the end of the final ad break, as the viewers are about to find out how the series ends, Channel 4 will air the special 'Homeland'-themed ad, made by Spark 44.
Chris Cardew, strategy director, business planning, at Mindshare, said: "The partnership with Channel 4 has innovation, intrigue and integration at its heart, and has provided a fantastic platform from which to launch the new Jaguar brand proposition."
The 'How Alive Are You' campaign aims to differentiate Jaguar from its German competitors and attract a younger male audience, ahead of the launch of the XF Sportbrake this autumn, and the new F Type convertible sports car next spring.
David Amodio, agency principal at Channel 4, said: "Sometimes advertisers can become a little obsessed with trying to produce content for viewers, when there is already incredible content for them to leverage.
"Mindshare and Jaguar have cleverly identified a cult show that has captured the UK's imagination and used it to make their message and campaign more relevant to the audience who love that show.
"By empathising with viewers and their mind set while watching the drama unfold, Jaguar is making a really bold statement."
During last Sunday's 'Homeland' episode, Channel 4 aired a special ad displaying Twitter responses to its premiere of the trailer for the Ridley Scott film 'Prometheus'.
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After the collective groan that emanated from MotoGP fans around the world when Wataru Yoshikawa was announced as Valentino Rossi's replacement, Interwetten Honda is feeling a bit frisky about MotoGP's next stop at Barcelona for the Catalan GP.
As such the team has challenged the Fiat-Yamaha substitute rider to battle with their own replacement for Hiroshi Aoyama: Kousuke Akiyoshi. With neither rider likely to make much of a showing against the MotoGP usuals, Interwetten Honda boss Daniel Epp sees a battle of the backmarkers as a way to spice up the race.


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News and notes about Baseball and players from this part of the World.# Noticias y comentarios sobre Beisbol y los jugadores de esta parte del mundo
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So the Dodgers are in the playoffs, but for how long?
The Dodgers finally made it to the playoffs, thanks in some part to Manny Ramirez, but how far will they go this year? will they get another post-season victory so Jose Lima will shut about it? are they any good to compete? or they are here just because they played in the worst division of Baseball? Personally I had lost any hope of the Dodgers getting any series victory.
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For years, the Queensline Medical Group operated out of the 96-10 Metropolitan Ave. office currently occupied by AdvantageCare, but had a spotty service record and a tendency toward rundown care facilities, according to Murphy.
"At times, this had gotten more run down, and we're trying to change that," he said. "It's been modernized but reputations live on as reputations."
Part of the issue was that Queensline and other similar healthcare providers under the Emblem Healthcare umbrella around the city were operating autonomously and had little coordination with available resources.
"It used to be that in Queens, Staten Island, Brooklyn and Manhattan there were four different groups, so there were some inconsistencies between where you went, and how things were done," Murphy said. "Emblem thought it would be much better to consolidate everything as one group."
Murphy signed on as a controller at AdvantageCare last July, and had previously worked with Emblem for seven years before leaving to serve as the CFO for another area provider that focuses on caring for people with physical disabilities.
"They brought some of the management team over from Emblem to the medical groups, and those are people that I knew that I felt very comfortable working with," Murphy said.
He said that along with updating and cleaning up facilities operated by the medical groups around the city, Emblem and AdvantageCare are working to establish a reputation for positive healthcare experiences.
"One of the big mantras these days is hospitality. You have to go out to deliver not only medical services, but to also go out and deliver positive experiences," he said. "When you go to the doctor, you're going to the doctor, but we want to make it as positive as it can be."


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Not got a proper photo of this yet BUT I got it in 2009 and this is its third summer if you count the one I planted it in.
The thing is, every winter it dies from frost but it still comes back, even from being overgrown like this!!! When I figure out its name i'll write it up properly. It was a dollar from a pissy garden store where they seemed a bit pissed that people brought their cheap plants. he said to watch out for the frosts!!!
In the second mild winter it seems to be taking quite a nice shape.
This has to be the first winter that this plant has survived. Maybe now i'll be able to figure out what it is.
This plant is doing quite well as of November 2011. I think it would have been a lot larger if it had not have been covered in weeds for the growing season. Im praying that theres no frost over Xmas as it woul dbe great to see this establish itself, especially after so many ardous years.
You cant se it in this photo as its currently only 6 inches tall and burried under HEAVY weedage. I'll get a proper photo later as i 'redisicovered' it today whilst 'weeding'.


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Has Eli Manning been dealing with a tired arm?
Manning never said so, nor has Tom Coughlin or any New York Giants official. Still, the speculation on Manning's arm has legs, helped along by the quarterback's decision not to throw during the bulk of the Giants' bye week.
During a guest spot on the "Double Coverage" podcast with Steve Wyche and Mark Kriegel, Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz was asked about -- what else? -- Eli Manning and his (hypothetically) fatigued appendage.
"I personally haven't seen any 'tired arm' thing going from Eli," said Cruz. "I think that any time the ball is thrown my way, it's on point, it's right where it needs to be and I catch it to the best of my ability.
"I think a lot of it has to do with depths of routes and just communication and being at the right place at the right time and things like that. I mean, me personally, I don't see anything with Eli's tired arm."
Cruz said the real problem with the Giants' offense has been a lack of continuity caused by injuries to Hakeem Nicks and others. With Nicks nearly back to full health, we'll see if a more functional Giants offense shows up on Sunday night against the Green Bay Packers.
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A political impasse between Republicans and Democrats that led to a U.S. government shutdown in recent days could have devastating consequences for the global economy if it translates into a debt default, the head of JPMorgan Chase & Co's Brazilian unit said on Tuesday.
The impasse is probably going to be resolved at the very last minute, Jose Berenguer, JPMorgan's senior country officer in Brazil, said at an event sponsored by Brazil's banking lobby group Febraban.
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If the United States defaulted, it would be just a for very short time, he added.
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What is up with cops lately? It seems like they are up on me and I haven't the slightest clue why this is going on. I came home last night from a very late tattoo session, and it was Friday yes, but I hadn't had anything to drink but warmish water, as I laid over a table for several hours with my chin and neck in near impossible configurations, never quite getting the balance of my head right.
When you are bent forward for a long period of time it tends to bring back bored at school memories, those painful endless days trapped in a small desk containing your smaller body and folding yourself in half over the surface of the thing trying to disappear into it. This is somewhat of an altered state, as it blurs the vision and makes you react a little slowly as the world spins on behind you and you have to fully turn yourself around to go with it, but leaning extremely forward is not a viable method of intoxication, not like standing up super fast or spinning around wildly because these are the hard drugs of childhood that will make you pass out or at the very least go extremely pale.
I did none of these, but I did ask for heavy spray downs of lidocaine, which is my drug of choice. I don't recommend this to anyone who is planning on getting a tattoo, this is just what I do sometimes, if I can remember to bring the bottle and if the artist will allow it. some really don't like it, as it will cause the skin to react unpredictably and it heals slower and thicker and usually hurts more after the fact.
The truth is nothing takes the sting out of tattooing. It is painful and the pain is the method and motive of the delivery. I have understood this for some time and now am on the other side of it. as I see it, when you have more parts of your body that are tattooed than are not, you can make your own decisions about what works for you. So first become a candidate for a career in a turn of the century sideshow or circus and then make a conscious decision about topical anaesthetics.
I was driving home on the heavily traversed Sunset Blvd in Loz Feliz and I came upon a number of panicked vehicles turning left and I see they are swerving up into the hills above Sunset to avoid the sobriety checkpoint in front of me. I was too tired to bother with navigating up into the crooked lanes and one way dead ends that dissolve into silverlake and so I just went straight for the sobriety check point. Perhaps the test is that if you are sober enough to avoid the checkpoint then you don't need additional screening.
A small army of rather youngish cops, the baby police, barely born and embryonic in their authority, stood in reflective vests and formed a bright line. I have been here before, and been waved through, as my expression is hard to read I guess. There's my bar face and my car face and never the twain shall meet. But today my bar face must have made an unscheduled appearance because a stern cop stopped my car with the palm of his hand and made me to roll down my window. He asked me if I had anything to drink and I said no and I don't think he believed me. My face had odd fold marks and indentations from the massage table, and these creases burned in the silence of his assessment.
He lifted up a pen and had me follow it with my eyes and I was so unnerved I kept following the pen with my face while looking at the policeman, which actually was harder to do because I was using both central and peripheral vision at the same time which alarmed him because he couldn't identify what drug or drink caused the effect of this kind of hyperawareness.
He kept asking me to do it again and look at the pen only and I was looking at the pen but moving my face strangely in the opposite direction and then he was frustrated and possibly thinking I was making fun of him and his badge and his pen and I was not doing any of that. I was just nervous and unsure of how to bring someone into my body to show them I was capable of the moment. It's a near impossible thing to achieve. When you try to convince someone of your competence, nerves and physical pride get in the way and mess up your performance.
He waved me off, and I watched drivers behind me get stopped and pulled out of their cars and I saw cones laid out in a lane in front of me and I was confused by them, like I was meant to weave in between them or something like in my motorcycle class, but I saw they merely marked out an exit lane and I escaped with flooding relief, wondering the entire drive home whether I had passed the sobriety test or not.


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As part of the national celebrations for Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM) in April, the Museum will honor jazz's birthplace on Saturday, April 28, with the day-long Global Weekends programNew Orleans: Culture Remixed. Headlining the event is famed jazz trombonist and music producer Delfeayo Marsalis, whose family includes saxophonist Branford Marsalis, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, drummer Jason Marsalis, and pianist Ellis Marsalis. Delfeayo recently answered a few questions about his music.
What was it like growing up in a family of famous jazz musicians?
I think the great part about my family is the amount that all the brothers influenced, encouraged, and inspired each other. There's the question of sibling rivalry, but that's only one part of it. The old-school way is that competition is always going to bring out the best. In music, it's similar to when Beethoven or Mozart were composing, and they had their contemporaries: they were competing, but they were also inspiring and being inspired. That's always been important for my family. Even if it's competition with yourself, you say, ok, I will play better than I played yesterday.
What's unique about playing the trombone?
It's actually an instrument with much responsibility. It's the bridge between the rhythm section and the horn section, so sometimes we play like the tuba or bass, sometimes we harmonize with trumpet and sax or clarinet, and other times we play counterpart. In New Orleans style, the trombone needs the most flexibility.
What should people look forward to about New Orleans: Culture Remixed?
If they missed Mardi Gras, we're going to re-create it for them. It will make them realize they gotta get to New Orleans soon and check it out. New Orleans is one of the only places in the world where you can have an entire festival of the music from that city. It's the original survival city, and jazz is the original survival music. We go through turmoil, but we bounce back, and like the phoenix, we rise.


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