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These best e-government practices aren't from this side of the pond.
The U.S. may have invented the Internet and pioneered what's now known as e-government, but we haven't cornered the market on good ideas. Just ask Theresa Pardo, director of the State University of New York's Center for Technology in Government. Pardo, who routinely advises foreign governments on tech-related issues, says governments the world over are grappling with the same issues, including transparency and citizen services. As a result, a lot of good ideas come from abroad.
This past October, the center hosted a global conference on public-sector technology that drew more than 300 leaders from more than 50 countries. A number of best e-gov practices emerged during the three-day conference, and I asked Pardo to share a few of her favorites. Her picks run the gambit from educational applications to immigration issues:
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• In the oil-rich, Mideast nation of Oman, primary and secondary education is free and widely available. But higher education isn't as accessible -- at least not yet. Oman's Ministry of Education recently created a Web portal that gives students a central location for applying to the nation's colleges and universities. Among other things, the portal -- the Higher Education Admission Center -- was designed to give all applicants a fair shot at attending college, regardless of social status or where they live. To do that, the ministry created a standard admissions procedure for all higher education institutions and put everything related to college admissions online, eliminating the need to apply in person or have inside knowledge to navigate the process. The site awards college placement based on students' exam results and educational interest.
• Different terminology and measuring methods make data analysis a challenge anywhere. In Austria, the federal government wants to make that easier. That's why they've undertaken a project to establish a common "data language." Already, the Austrian federal government has developed standard data descriptions that must be used by states, ministries and agencies that contribute to the country's open data Web portal. These common descriptions -- known as metadata -- are crucial to the usability of the data, providing details like what subjects the data covers, the language in which it's written and how it was collected. While the concept may seem obvious, it's not easy to get multiple data contributors to agree to common terms. With the federal standards now in place, Austria is working on standardization agreements with Germany and Switzerland, which would make the Austrian portal a single source for comparable government data from all three nations.
• In the European Union, immigration policy is largely set by each country. For that reason, it's not very coherent. That's where Puzzled by Policy comes into play. It's a website created by a coalition of European organizations to explain and engage citizens in the development of a more unified E.U. immigration policy. The site offers interactive and multimedia content that explains immigration issues and lets users voice their own opinions. For instance, an online poll gathers opinions on a series of immigration topics and then gives users a report on how their views compare to those of E.U. policymakers. Citizens can easily embed the survey tool in their own Facebook pages and blogs to prompt broader discussion. Poll results are forwarded to policymakers, who also are encouraged to participate in live online forums hosted by the site.
• For every kid who walks to and from school, there's a set of parents who worry about that kid's safety. Feet First, a website created by the New Zealand Transport Agency, aims to keep kids safer as they walk to school. The site offers safety-related course materials for teachers and collects student-submitted stories -- all aimed at raising awareness of potential hazards. One of its more interesting activities is an annual competition for primary and secondary students. Kids submit multimedia depictions of how to make their journey to school safer, and the winners -- and their schools -- get cash prizes.
These sites have been tailored to meet the needs of their specific users, but the concepts are universal. School safety, educational equality and government transparency are critical issues for U.S. policymakers. Given those realities, there may very well be some ideas on this list worth importing.


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Hope College continues to be among the nation's NCAA Division III volleyball leaders in home attendance.
The NCAA reports that the 2008 MIAA champion Flying Dutch had the second highest average home attendance in Division III for the third consecutive year.
The Flying Dutch have played at the DeVos Fieldhouse for three seasons and have a dedicated space for volleyball, providing players and fans an exciting environment.
This past season the Flying Dutch averaged 552 fans across 11 home dates. The DIII leader for the second consecutive year was East Texas Baptist with an average of 566 fans across five home dates.
The Flying Dutch posted a 9-2 record on their home court and in three seasons are 29-4 at DeVos Fieldhouse.
A highlight of the 2008 season was the home Calvin vs. Hope match which was moved to the main arena at DeVos and attracked a Division III regular season record crowd of 2,307 fans.
The Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) ranked fourth among Division III conferences in 2008 with an average of 179 fans across 86 home dates by the nine member colleges.


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Early signs of heart disease in preadolescent children with type 1 diabetes
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in patients with diabetes. Patients with type 1diabetes have a 200 percent to 400 percent greater chance of developing cardiovascular disease than those without diabetes. Medical College of Wisconsin researchers at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin discovered the early signs of cardiovascular disease are likely to manifest before the onset of puberty in many children with diabetes.
Those findings are published in the February 2, 2011 online version of Diabetes Care and will be in the March 2011 issue of Diabetes Care.
Led by Dr. Ramin Alemzadeh, professor of pediatrics at the college and pediatric endocrinologist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, and Senior Clinician Scientist at Children's Hospital's Max McGee Juvenile Diabetes Research Center, the researchers studied 21 preadolescent children (avg. age 8.5 years) with type 1 diabetes, and compared that group to 15 healthy siblings. Investigators looked at flow-mediated dilatation (FMD), a gauge of the health of a major blood vessel of the upper arm artery, in both groups. FMD percentage (FMD%,) is a way to measure any stiffening of the blood vessels; stiffening blood vessels is an early precursor of cardiovascular disease.
Children who had high blood pressure, family history of high cholesterol or premature cardiovascular disease from other causes were excluded. Blood samples were collected from all participants to monitor cholesterol and sugar levels.
When tested, the blood vessels of children with type 1 diabetes had a lower FMD% change, which means their blood vessels were less expandable than the control group suggesting that higher circulating glucose results in increased rigidity of blood vessels independent of serum cholesterol levels. The patients with diabetes also had vascular inflammation, which is a known harbinger of future cardiovascular risk. Long-term studies are needed to evaluate the progression of those vascular changes through puberty and beyond.
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A teen who lived on Signal Mountain was featured Wednesday night on "American Idol" - and made the cut.
Melanie Porras, 19, an administrative assistant now living in Kennesaw, Ga., got one of the golden tickets to the show's Hollywood round after judge Jennifer Lopez told her: "I can hear you recording records. I haven't said that to anyone this season."
On her website, Porras, who lived on Signal Mountain starting in sixth grade and moved during her ninth-grade year in 2008, says she wants "to set an example for those who feel like they have nothing or no one to help them, which is everyone at some point in their life."
Before she sang on "American Idol," host Ryan Seacrest introduced her with one of the show's breakout videos that gives a contestant's backstory. In it, Porras revealed that her dad was a former rocker who played and toured in California before giving up that life to raise her as a single dad for the first five years of her life. He taught her to play guitar, and she said music has always been their bond.
"As a child I was a very lonely person, but music has always been my best friend," Porras writes on her website, melanieporras.com. "I never felt that I had a true friend to talk to and as a result I released my feelings through my poetry. My poetry gave me confidence in my writing which eventually led me to write music after learning how to play the guitar at 11."
On "Idol," Porras accompanied herself on guitar as she sang "Fever," the Top 10 hit from 1958 by singer Peggy Lee. Lopez thought it was a safe choice and asked to hear a second number without the guitar. The teen then gave a soulful interpretation of Bon Jovi's "Dead or Alive" that clearly impressed the judges.
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It's not the same, especially without the company of my horses, but a day spent in nature was an excellent escape. I've just been a little on edge lately, and walking around barefoot in a vintage cotton dress - complete with bruised up knees and impractical headwear - was just what I needed. I'm definitely making an effort to do it more often. And though I didn't get to ride any horses, I did meet a lovely mare who kissed me on the nose. What more could a gal ask for?
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Al Perez was touted as a future star in the 1980s after working in many territories including World Class, Mid-South, Southwest and the big two of WWF and NWA. Perezgives the inside scoop on his entire career in this entertaining and informative shoot. He has worked with just about all the big names and he tells all about it on this shoot. Here is what Perez talked about:
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-Thoughts on Joe Blanchard.
-Working Bobby Jaggers, Scott Casey, Bob Sweetan, Sheepherders, Adrian Street, Manny Fernandez and more.
-What was the locker room like?
-How Southwest changed when it got the USA deal.
-Working Puerto Rico.
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-What was the drug scene like?
-Did success go to anyones head.
-Working the Tower Of Doom match.
-Going to WWF.
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-Going to Dusty Rhodes new promotion. -Memories of a young Dallas Page.
-Matches with Mike Graham.
-His cousin Lou Perez and what happened to him.
-Going to World Class.
-Perez goes into lots of details about all the Von Erichs in and out of the ring.
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-Working Tony Atlas.
-Perez compares the different Von Erichs to each other.
-Working Cactus Jack back then.
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-What Jerry Lawler was like in USWA.
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-Working Soultaker, now known as Godfather.
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A reality TV star claims her butt implants were much more than a pain in the a–.
Colombian Yina Calderon, 27, shared a shocking video of "puffy balls" left in her bottom after having removal surgery.
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Calderon got the implants three years ago because she said she suffered from low self-esteem. But she claims the implants "poisoned" her.
Now, that most of her problems are behind her, she's warning others against the derriere-boosting surgery.
"I hope to serve as an example that in this f—— life you should never have anything injected into you," she said in a video released on social media.
"We should say no to strange substances in our bodies, do what I suggest and say no. This poison kills and it hurts a lot. Thank God for my family, boyfriend and the surgeon for being in this difficult situation with me."
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THE NETS ARE COMING TO TAKE OVER NEW YORK: Stephen A. Smith Spazzes Out On The Knicks! [Audio]
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Drew - (no music by choice)
May 17, 2009
Yet Another Reason To Like J.D. Drew
9 comments:
- Patrick said...
Looking through that list, I'm not surprised, but still disappointed to see so much mainstream rap.
- May 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM
So many of them match the people perfectly: Lowrie isn't alright currently, Beckett lives hard, Lester uses what he's got, Wake definitely wants it a lot, Oki's...well, how could it not fit?, and Pap's is just perfectly high-energy.
And Youk...is a Soulja boy?
- May 17, 2009 at 1:06 PM
- accudart said...
come on redsox, you don't want to stroll to the plate with Rolling Stones, Replacements or Black Flag?
- May 17, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- allan said...
When I want to listen to music, I will pull out a record or CD.
If I want to listen to blasting commercials, I will stay home and crank up my TV.
When I am at the ball park, I want to simply enjoy the game. Without all the bullshit bells and whistles.
- May 17, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- laura k said...
Hurrah for Drew, fighting the good fight against needless noise in baseball.
Oh god I'd better not get started. What I wouldn't give for one game - one game, live - without amplified music and sound effects.
- May 17, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- Amy said...
True confession: Almost all of those songs are entirely unfamiliar to me...
- May 17, 2009 at 3:13 PM
- allan said...
There's Ortiz's problem: he has music by someone named "Daddy Yankee".
- May 17, 2009 at 3:15 PM
- richard said...
Someone needs to take the high road and can this crappola.
I'm with Amy - most of these songs are entirely unfamiliar to me (this probably says something unflattering about me!). Gotta love Baldelli's Hendrix choice, however. But not at the ballpark, please.
- May 17, 2009 at 8:29 PM
- Pandyora said...
It is sad that the absence of cardiovascular organs renders Drew impervious to music.
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Crusted stuff: Under the bridge and screaming
The stink over an alleged sewage dump by a DMB tour bus continues to spread. On August 24, the state of Illinois filed a civil suit to the tune of $70,000 against the Dave Matthews Band for allegedly dumping 800 pounds of human waste onto a boat carrying over a hundred tourists.
The complaint, filed after a two-week investigation by Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, blames both the band and driver Stefan A. Whol for water pollution, discharge of a contaminant into a waterway, and creating a public nuisance.
There were no major injuries as a result of the August 8 incident at Chicago's Kinzie Street Bridge, but two thirds of the boat's passengers were reportedly covered with what authorities described as a yellow-and-brown liquid.
"I feel like I'm in a bad Ben Stiller movie," wrote Chicago Tribune reporter Brett McNeil, who was one of the unfortunate passengers on the popular $25 tour run by the Chicago Architectural Foundation. McNeil witnessed passengers vomiting; and while no injuries were reported, some of the boat riders were taken to a nearby hospital for tests.
The ensuing scandal has proven to be particularly ironic considering the group's reputed social conscience. Their Bama Works charity foundation counts Greenpeace, The World Wildlife Fund, the American Oceans Campaign, and even an organization called Clean Virginia Waterways among its many beneficiaries.
Each member of the five-man, Charlottesville-based band rides from gig to gig in his own luxury motorcoach. Initially, the Band insisted that all five buses had been parked at a hotel at the time of the dump. One implicated bus driver even found a police officer to check his septic tank. However, police now say that a surveillance video indicates that another bus, fiddler Boyd Tinsley's ride, was the source of the effluent.
"Certainly, this is the bus that discharged this fluid," officer Michael Chasen was quoted in the Chicago Sun-Times, which reports that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is encouraging police to consider criminal charges.
The bridge has a metal mesh surface, and according to the attorney general's complaint, emptying the bus's waste collection tank can be accomplished in under two minutes simply by flipping a toggle switch near the driver's seat. Still, the band won't pass judgment.
"Our driver has stated that he was not involved in this incident," said DMB publicist John Vlautin, in a statement issued shortly after the incident.
"We're dying to look at this tape," Vlautin was quoted in the Sun-Times. He also added that the band "will continue to be cooperative in this investigation." The band members kicked things off by offering to donate DNA samples to compare with that found in the fecal matter. The offer was declined.
Since the incident, detractors have begun cracking jokes about how they typically only have to pay $14.99 to get Dave's crap in their ears– as well as pointing out lyrical ironies, such as "Don't Drink the Water." Band supporters, meanwhile, are touting algebraic proofs demonstrating the difficulty of dumping so much fecal matter through such a short bridge.
"Dave's always talking about poop between songs," says Laura Crandall-Bohl, a UVA student who has attended no less than 15 of the band's concerts. "He's always talking about the poop he hid his weed in as he was crossing the border, or something like that." [See Essay, page 79].
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Bacteria are germs that are normally in the gut. They are often referred to as the gut flora. Most bacteria are in the large intestine (colon). Some bacteria can cause infection; these are called pathogens. Other bacteria can be helpful. These helpful (or "good") bacteria are called probiotics. Medicines that destroy bacteria are called antibiotics.
During IFFGD's 7th International Symposium on Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in April 2007, we had the opportunity to interview a leading researcher, Eamonn Quigley, MD, on the topics of probiotics and antibiotics. Dr. Quigley is Professor of Medicine and Human Physiology at University College, Cork (National University of Ireland). Brooks Cash, MD adds comments about issues of safety and effectiveness of antibiotics.
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Dr. Quiqley discusses how our understanding of the importance of the interaction between our gut bacteria and ourselves is growing.
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Dr. Quigley explains how studies suggest that some probiotics can do more than displace bad bacteria (pathogens).
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Some IBS patients show a response to certain antibiotics. A discussion by Dr. Quigley of why this may be and possible issues of safety and effectiveness.
Brooks Cash, MD, USN, is Chief, Gastroenterology Division and Colon Health Initiative; and Associate Professor of Medicine, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. Here he speaks about whether there is an appropriate application for the cautious use of antibiotics in the treatment of functional bowel disorders, and what symptoms they may affect.
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EDITORIAL: Senate must stop filibuster, allow vote on Hagel
It's been less than a month since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid decided against making real reforms to filibuster rules, claiming the minor changes he negotiated with Republican leader Mitch McConnell would be enough. Of course he was wrong.
Disastrously wrong.
Senate Republicans last week filibustered Obama's nomination of former Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel to lead the Defense Department, preventing an up-or-down vote on him. This is the first filibuster of a nominee to lead the Pentagon and only the third of any Cabinet nominee in history. (The other two were ultimately confirmed.) But Reid shouldn't be surprised, given Republicans' unprecedented obstruction of President Barack Obama's first-term agenda.
It's getting tiresome pointing out GOP hypocrisy. But just for posterity's sake, here's McConnell in 2005:
"I think the president is entitled to an up-or-down -- that is simple majority -- vote on nominations, both to his Cabinet and to the executive branch and also to the judiciary. The filibuster was not used for 200 years. The country did just fine."
There has rarely been such a clear case of playing politics with national security. Many of the objections to Hagel are about his support for Obama's policies. Surely the president is entitled to appoint people who will carry out his vision. Senators' opposition can be expressed appropriately, without filibustering, through a simple "no" vote.
More disturbingly, some of them are trying to use this to force the administration to release information they claim they haven't gotten about their latest obsession, Benghazi -- which has nothing to do with Hagel. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, trying to avert a tea party primary challenge in 2014, is leading the charge. He's getting backup from his pal John McCain, who seems to want more information from Hagel than he did from the woman he picked as a vice presidential running mate. Anybody want to see a birth certificate, too?
There were obvious and terrible failings in Benghazi, where four U.S. diplomats were killed. But there is no evidence to support claims of White House wrongdoing. None.
Several Republicans indicate they'll allow an up-or-down vote on Hagel when they return from recess Feb. 26. But the delay is not harmless. The so-called sequester takes effect March 1; without a deal to avoid it, the Pentagon will begin cutting nearly $500 billion over 10 years. And we are still at war. The Defense Department needs a leader now.
This needless battle sends a dangerous message to the world: that the U.S. Senate no longer even attempts to separate politics from national security. It's too bad Reid, the Democratic leader, didn't think of that before agreeing to bypass real filibuster reform.
Editorial courtesy of the San Jose Mercury News, mercurynews.com.


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Britain has not always enjoyed its current mild climate, over the past 2.6 million years it has gone through extremes of cold ice ages and warm interglacials in a period of geological history that we call the Pleistocene.
An ice age in fact often refers to a group of several cold periods that take place over a relatively short period of time.
Today, 10 per cent of the world is covered by ice but that figure has been as high as 30 per cent in the past.
One ice sheet, reached as far south as London, and in places the ice was three miles thick.
Interlinked with the fluctuating ice sheets is the story of human evolution.
Humans first arrived in Britain at least 780 000 years ago and they have recolonised after major glaciations to leave a pattern of occupation closely related to the climate.
These early people began to use items they found lying around as tools and gradually they learnt to make their own tools like these Stone Age tools made from worked flints.
Tools like these could be used for butchering animals and for extracting the valuable high protein marrow out of the bones.
A wide variety of animals have lived in Britain ranging from giant mammoth in the cold periods to hyena and even rhinoceros in the interglacials.
It is quite common for remains of animals such as the sabre-toothed cat, woolly mammoth, wolf, hyena, elk, bison and bear to be found in caves around the country. See The Bone Caves.
Today, glaciers and ice sheets are found at extreme latitudes like the north and south poles and high altitudes such as the Himalayas and the Alps.
Much of Britain has been shaped by ice, with the last glaciers still clinging on in the Highlands of Scotland until around ten thousand years ago. The main body of ice had dispersed about four thousand years previously.
Several reasons have been suggested for the cyclic nature of ice ages, although it is agreed that it cannot be attributed to a single cause.
The most widely accepted is the theory of Milankovich cycles, named after Milutin Milankovich, the Serbian scientist who suggested them. His theory was that the changes are caused by a combination of effects: alterations in the shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun from nearly circular to much more elliptical; a change in the tilt of the Earth's rotational axis; and variations in the direction of the axis of rotation.
These effects are known scientifically as eccentricity, obliquity and precession.
Glaciers are not static objects, they move very slowly, flowing under the weight of ice, and they grow and shrink, depending on the climatic conditions.
If there is a greater amount of snowfall and low temperature then this will cause a glacier to grow as the snow is compressed into ice.
In warmer periods the ice can melt and calve, forming icebergs and causing the glacier to shrink.
Glacier ice contains water, air bubbles, sediments and sometimes even trapped plants and animals.
The water within the ice helps the glacier to move and slide over the ground. It also moves by moulding like plasticine and by passing over a softer substance like sand or gravel.
In an area which has been glaciated, such as Britain, you can find evidence that glaciers were present not that long ago (geologically speaking).
The BGS is studying present-day glaciers in Virkisjökull, Iceland


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While the last decade has seen Billy Bob Thornton only acting in front of the camera, it seems that he's planning a return to the director's chair. I say this because at this weekend's junket for Faster, Thornton told me that he's writing a script called Jayne Mansfield's Car with his old writing partner Tom Epperson and he hopes to get it made this spring. After the cameras stopped rolling, I asked if he'd be directing the project. He said yes.
On top of that, if you're a fan of Bad Santa, Thornton told me, "there's been talk of making a sequel to it, which I actually would like to do."
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While many of you might only think of Billy Bob Thornton as an actor, way back in 1996, he actually broke on the scene as a writer-director with Sling Blade. After the critically success of that film, he continued writing for the next few years and also directed All the Pretty Horses (2000) and Daddy and Them (2001). However, since '01, he hasn't directed a film. While neither film had the critical or commercial success of his debut, I'd like to see what he would do after a decade off. Also, since he last directed, he's worked with a number of great filmmakers and I'd like to think some of those experiences would help him on his next project.
And regarding Bad Santa…
Sometime in 2002, I drove out to Pasadena with Jeremy Smith (Mr. Beaks) from AICN. We'd heard about a test screening for Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa with Billy Bob Thornton and decided to try and get in. While I've been to many test screenings, I'll always remember this one, because we were laughing so hard that I had to wipe away tears.
However, when the movie finally got released, it was neutered by Miramax. I remember watching it in the theater and thinking what the hell happened. However, since it's original theatrical release, Bad Santa has been released as an unrated director's cut and you can see Zwigoff's vision fully restored. Trust me, if you've never watched Bad Santa, do yourself a favor and buy it immediately. It's as much a Christmas time classic as Miracle on 34th Street.
So if you're like me and love the movie, you might be excited to learn Thornton told me there's been talk of making a sequel. While I don't think it's on a fast track, or likely to happen anytime soon, I would love to see this sequel happen. Especially if Zwigoff came back and was left alone by the studio.
Anyway, here's what Thornton told me about both projects, with a transcript of what he said below the video player. Look for my full interview very soon.
Collider: You've done a number of things that I love, but one of the things that I especially love is Bad Santa, is that something that people always wanna talk to you about?
Billy Bob Thornton: Yeah, I get Bad Santa a lot. Bad Santa's become like a classic Christmas movie. People watch It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th St. and Bad Santa now is sort of the box set. And there's been talk of making a sequel to it, which I actually would like to do. I've never done a sequel to one of my movies, but that one makes sense to me to do it.
Well what's interesting, if you don't mind me talking about that for a second, I went to the very first test screening of that, that was out in like Pasadena or something, and the version I saw that night I fell off my chair laughing. And then they neutered it, and then they put it out, and then they released the director's cut, it went through a lot of different things. If you ever did a sequel, how do we guarantee that it's exactly what you guys want on screen?
Billy Bob Thornton: Probably get a director who's got the juice to, with whoever makes it, you know puts up the money to get it in blood. That's the way you have to do it, and hopefully it'll work.
Really quick, I have to wrap with you, but what else do you have coming up next?
Billy Bob Thornton: My old writing partner Tom Epperson and I just wrote another script, we haven't written together in years, 15 maybe. And we're hoping to get that made in the spring, that's what we're working on right now.
Does it have a title?
Billy Bob Thornton: No title. But it's a—actually it does have a title, I may as well tell you, maybe it'll intrigue people. It's called Jayne Mansfield's Car, and it's a dandy if I do say so.


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The United States Postal Service, as part of a 12-year series on the "Nature of America", has issued "Hawaiian Rain Forest" featuring 24 native Hawaiian species of plants and animals. Click the link below to see and read more:
USPS Nature of America: Hawaiian Rain Forest
Among the species featured, a Cyrtandra platyphylla (Gesneriaceae) is prominently displayed near the middle of the sheet.
Here's a link to a few actual photographs of the species, taken by Warren Wagner (Smithsonian):
Cyrtandra platyphylla
Cyrtandra is the largest genus in the Gesneriaceae (~600 species) and is particularly diverse in Hawaii, with 58 recognized species native to this archipelago (Wagner, Clark and Roalson, in prep.).
10 September 2010
US Postal Service issues a stamp featuring a gesneriad
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Sharon Hill Washer Repair Service
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Sharon Hill appliance and services repairs just about all manufacturers and models of Washers & Clothes washing machines throughout the Sharon Hill Area. When you consider that clothes washing machines do so many things, they may be more challenging to diagnose than they are to repair. This is because the unique timing cycles that work valves and motors that turn water on, spin the tub, drain water, and regulate the water temperature. But diagnosis is a possibility:
Listed here, we will inform you where to look for trouble in your washing machine and the way to make some important repairs if a part malfunctions. When we get a few preliminaries out of the way, we'll dive right in to some diagnostic inspection for your washing machine and send out the most qualified Sharon Hill washer repair professional that will give you the lowest pricing for washer repairs.
Notice: Many newer washers integrate electronic diagnostics that can be interpreted from the owner's instruction booklet.
Warning: Before you do any work on a washing machine, make certain that it's unplugged.
A washing machine is essentially a big tub that routinely fills with water and then drains, spins to wring clothes dry, and has a gadget for stirring things up-- either an agitator in the middle of a top-load machine or a rolling drum in the case of a front-loader.
The specific 4 cycles that every washer performs are fill, wash, drain, and spin.
Nevertheless there are a number of problems that you can fix quite simply, laundry machines have a variety of devices and controls that, when they go wrong, are better kept in the control of an appliance washer repair man. Make sure you either find the best prices for Sharon Hill Washer Repair companies or just simply pick up the phone and we will warranty cheapest pricing for your Washer Repair needs in the Sharon Hill area.
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Some problems that quite often take place with a clothes washer are that it: is unable to agitate, will not drain the washing machine, doesn't run the washing machine, shake the washer, vibrate, shift, leak, is unable to spin, leak or uses the wrong water. Don't fret prior to calling your Sharon HillWasher Repair Service experts.
In case your washer is unable to run, be sure it's connected in and that the receptacle works (the circuit hasn't overloaded). Prior to working on the washing machine, be sure to unplug it. If it is unable to fill, the water inlet screens may be blocked.
In case your washing machine will not spin, check to see if the clothes have jammed or are unbalanced in the drum before calling a repair person. Unbalanced clothing will also cause a washing machine to shudder or "walk." If straightening out the load doesn't stop the washer from shaking, look at the feet underneath and be sure they are safely adjusted to keep the washer resting level on the ground (you just rotate them to shift them upward or downwards). Don't call the Appliance Washing machine Repair in Sharon Hill for pricing just yet.
To prevent problems, follow better maintenance techniques. For those who follow good maintenance you won t have to spend money and find the lowest pricing for washer repairs in the Sharon Hill area.
Because washer hoses are under consistent force, check occasionally for wear because they can flood your home in Sharon Hill if they burst when you are away. You can prevent this by installing lever-type shutoff valves (shown top right). With one of these, we are able to shut the levers for both hot and cold water between wash days. Again by properly maintaining and inspecting your washer machines, you save a lot of money by not having to look for discount on Sharon Hill Appliance Repair Companies.
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How a Sharon Hill Washing Machine Works so you do not need washer repair service in Sharon Hill.
Washing machines get clothing clean by plunging the clothes through the water and detergent mixture. It is the motion that really helps to loosen dirt. In the old days, they used to beat wet clothes against a rock to get them clean. You would not need a Sharon Hill Washer repair company to fix your problem if it was still like that.
In top loading machines the agitator twists back and forth pulling the clothes down to the bottom of the tub. This is where many washers like Maytag washer, Kenmore Washer, GE Washer, Frigidaire Washer, Electrolux Washer can get broke and because you do not want to pay for an entire new washing machine, you should contact Sharon Hill washer repair experts. The clothes then work their way back up to the top where the agitator grabs them again. In a front loading machine, the clothes tumble and are plunged into the water over and over again. After the water is pumped out, the inner drum uses centrifugal force to wring out more water from the clothes by spinning at several hundred RPMs. This is where many things can go wrong with your washing machine so you need to make sure you hire and expert at a low price to fix your washing machine in the Sharon Hill area.
While the operation of front loading washing machines is substantially similar to that of top loaders, note that the rest of this article addresses only the top loading style of washing machine.
The design of washing machines vary by manufacturer (Maytag, Kenmore, GE, Frigidaire, Electrolux) but the general principles are essentially the same. The controls consist of a timer, cycle selector mechanism, water temperature selector, load size selector and start button. The mechanism includes the motor, transmission, clutch, pump, agitator, inner tub, outer tub and water inlet valve. If this is too confusing to follow please contact Sharon Hill Washer Repair for emergency washer repair services.
The washer has two tubs, the inner tub with hundreds of holes in it and the outer tub which holds the water. During the spin cycle the inner tub spins, forcing the water out through the holes to the stationary outer tub. Many things usually go wron and you will experience water leakage, if this happens, do not hesitate, just contact Sharon Hill washer repair team for lowest washer repair pricing.
The cycle selector controls may include separate or integrated controls for water temperature, water level, cycle selection and a start switch.
A lid switch, which indicates whether the lid is open or closed, will interrupt some or all of the washing machine operations depending on brands (GE, Kenmore repair, Frigidaire repair, Maytag Repair).
The water inlet valve connects to the water supply of your home and allows hot and cold water to flow into the tub. Call Sharon Hill Washer Repair service today for all emergency washer repair services.
The agitator is in the center of the inner tub. During the wash repair cycle, the agitator rotates back and forth (about 3/4 of turn) to pull the clothes through the water. At the conclusion of the wash cycle, the water is pumped from the outer tub and into the drain though the drain hose.
The pump, agitator and spin drum are driven by the motor. Some washing machines use direct drive, in which the motor is connected directly to the pump and transmission. Other machines uses a belt drive in which the motor drives the transmission through a pulley and belt depending on the manufacturers (GE, Kenmore, Maytag, Frigidaire).On belt driven machines, the pump is typically connected to the motor by a flexible coupling. Sharon Hill washer repair guarantees lowest washer repair pricing and same day service.
The transmission drives both the spin of the inner tub and the back and forth motion of the agitator. Your Sharon Hill washer repair has either a single direction or a reversing motor.
Most washing machines use a clutch to reduce the force generated by fast starting motors. The clutch allows the transmission to grab the drum or agitator in a gradual manner rather than all at once..
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This is the view I wake up to every morning. Well, once I've sat up anyways. Typically Israel crawls into bed with me early in the morning, so he is what I really see first thing. Speaking of him, I think that is his reflection in the Warhol poster, kind of weird huh?
Anyways, it's time to do some rearranging. I spend so much time at home, I get tired of looking at the same things all the time.
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Looks beautiful! It must be a peacefull way of waking up, and see that view first thing in the morning :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 22, 2012
Very simple and beautiful, wonderful collections of things and love your lamp! Have a wonderful dayReplyDelete
Love your Warhol print! Is it something that I can purchase somewhere? Thanks! Love your blog too btw! :)ReplyDelete
- sarahAugust 23, 2012
nice morning view :-)ReplyDelete
where did you get the warhol print?
have a wonderful day with rearranging :-)
greetings from germany
- KasiaAugust 23, 2012
Where does this adorable little white box with wooden lid comes from? So cute!ReplyDelete
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"Hang on a minute. That's bollocks! Does he eat flies? No. Does he get eaten by his female mate after having sex? No. I don't think they thought it through, have they?"
Spyder-Man is a man who happens to be a spy, and also has spider tendencies. His physical features are mainly human; however, he has the bizarre ability to create an icky-sticky web out of a white substance that nobody knows the name of. Spyder-Man also has the ability to lay eggs: he does this during the day, which explains what the hell Peter Parker does with his free time. Though he is supposed to be a professional photographer, and carries a valid up-to-date international press card, very few of his photographs are ever printed or entered for awards, and the few that have been seen are out of focus, with people's heads cut off.
The Origin of Spyder-Man[edit]
On November 22, 1963, he painfully shy "geeknerd" Peter Parker was having an ordinary day, sipping soda pop and stammering at pretty girls, when he was suddenly munched on by a rare exotic spider at the Cincinnati Spider Sanctuary, where he was attending a comics convention. ("Isn't that ironic?" commented Alanis Morrissette.) The bug would have taken off his whole left arm, and perhaps gobbled up his appendix, if he hadn't brained it with a nearby fire extinguisher in a dimly lit corridor. Parker's cardiovascular system absorbed 7.35g of exotic poison, which shampoo scientists have since broken down as: 2g unknown proteins, 2g funny carbohydrates, 1g Viagra, and 2.35g pure spider semen. All this weird stuff made Parker feel nauseous for a while, and he thought for a few minutes that he had swine flu or was turning into Gordon Brown. But he wasn't: he was turning into Spyder-Man. He became much stronger, cobwebbier and even nerdier. He could now beat up his three-year-old niece in revenge for all those wedgies, bags of ice down the pants, and forced oral sex.
Like a teenage girl about to go to the prom, Parker was then seized by a thorny problem: what should he wear? If he was going to swing around skyscrapers with icky goo shooting out of his palms, that would look mighty strange in a tuxedo or a pair of pyjamas, or a rugby shirt or a suit of armour, or a poncho-and-sombrero combo. He could not decide on a proper costume, until one night when he was watching What Not To Wear with his parents and laughed so hard that he peed just a little bit.
Dressed in a patriotic red, white and blue suit from Gap, hastily customized with a picture of (get this) a spider on the back, Spyder-Man made his live debut at the 2003 Academy Award ceremony, where Matt Damon saw him, screamed and ran to the little boys' room. Spyder-Man later gave out Special Spydey Awards to famous people whose names sounded a little bit like bugs – Stephen Fly, Faye Dungbeetleaway, Termite Hatcher, Linus Roache, Ant (of Ant and Dec), Tony Barrell and Jeff Goldblum.
According to legend, Spyder-Man can do anything a spider can. This includes climbing walls, scaring women, spinning webs, turning up in people's bathtubs, and getting squashed by giant shoes. He has the proportional strength of a big hairy spider, which means he can drive big trucks and beat fat blokes in fights.
Spydey has made many enemies among the technologically super-augmented villains of the big wide world. They hate him because he has no decent plans for world domination, his costume is even sillier than theirs, and because they hate spiders like everybody else.
- Doctor Octopus - Not strictly super, but definitely quite villainous. Doc Ock, as his friends and lovers call him, has really bad eyesight requiring hideous spectacles, a really stupid bowl-cut making him look like a moron, and eight crotch-grabbing arms. The arms are mechanical and gammatronic, designed and built by Doc Ock himself, a brilliant scientist and sometime undersea physicist, and powered by 2 AAA batteries. The good doctor likes nothing better than to grab Spyder-Man with two of them while the other six swung into his face. He also makes pretty amazing crop circles.His secondary attack is shouting " DOCTOROCTOGONOPUS!" and then firing a Lazer at his enemies.If you listen closely,you can hear him shouting "BWAAAAAAA!!!!" while firing his Lazer.
- The Green Gobbler - GG is Halloween-fixated, probably as a result of some childhood fright on October 31, and has drunk enough vodka 'n' Irn Bru to give him super-strength and regenerative abilities. Being another brilliant scientist, he built himself the "Gobbling Glider", which didn't gobble and didn't glide. The Gobbling Glider was a wayward machine shaped like a bat, but jet-powered, and it raised the Green Goblin to undreamt-of jet-propelled heights. GG killed Spydey's main squeeze, Gwen Stacey. In revene, Spydey engineered an "accident" for GG that led to his name being changed to Gary Glitter. Nobody comes near him now.
- Sandman - Sandman's power, such as it is, derives from being made of sand. He originates from a heap of builder's sand in Hornchurch, Britain, and was once used to help pave Nelson Mandela's garden for a special edition of Ground Force on British television. Sadly, when it rains, Sandman becomes mud, and when it doesn't, a stiff broom is usually all it takes to see him off.
- Lord Mandelson – Boasting the ability to keep turning up like a bad penny, Machiavellian "Mandy" can kill with a single skull-like grimace, which is why Spydey always looks away quickly when he sees him. Mandy's alter ego is Fu Mandelchu, who looks just like him but has a fake moustache and eats Chinese takeaways laced with guacamole. He spends most of his time dabbling in politics in Britain and being gay.
- Aunt May - Aunt May is Peter's aunt, a woman called May who, with her husband Ben, raised him as a child. Peter was responsible for Ben's death at the hands of either the Sandman or someone else, who can tell? In her fury, Aunt May flagellated Peter's (and thus Spyder-Man's) tender ass. Peter fled, but returned to sodomise Aunt May with a soda bottle. She has "control" problems. Fortunately for Peter, these are bladder-control problems.
- Venom - Venom, previously known as Eric Forman is a photographer for the Good Morning New York Special News Magazine Inquirer. After Petey had taken several pictures of Eric fucking the Sandman, he wanted to get back at Spydey. During a very gruesome Talos mass at the local church, Peter had taken off his supah suit and threw it at, now known as, Venom. He had big teeth used for chomping steak, and is now a food chewer for elders at his local steakhouse in Montreal.
Spyder-Man's Women[edit]
Spyder-Man couldn't bag a chicken in his early years, but after the spider-bite incident he bulked up and became a little less weedy (but only when wearing his spider suit, strangely). Add to that the money he was bringing in ($24 a week from his paper round, and $4,000 from drug-dealing), and he became a much more attractive proposition to pretty girls and eventually began dating a few of them, and marrying one: Mary Jane Watson, who refers to him as "Tiger" because she's not very zoologically aware. Mary Jane was a major cum-swallowing slut and hotter than the bonnet of a black Mercedes in Dubai. Eventually Peter fathered a baby with her. It has yet to be seen if the child will inherit his super-powers, or will simply have eight fucking legs.
Before smooching with Mary Jane, Peter dated the ill-fated Gwen Stacey, daughter of the pig from the movie Babe. Gwen was blonde, but still trimmed her pubic hair into the shape of a spider's web. Peter met Gwen at the newspaper he worked at (remember that place?) and was soon happily poking away at her until the Green Gobbler tossed her off a bridge, leaving Spydey free to date MJ or the Black Pussy.
The Black Pussy was the super-ish antihero persona of Fellatio Hardy. She and Spyder-Man had a fling on a swing and considered setting up house together, but the obstacles were insuperable. Cats eat spiders, which can be nice or fatal. The real problem they faced was, what would their children look like? Hairy with eight legs and nine lives? Also, her whiskers were way too ticklish.
Peter is the nerdiest nerd in the geeky geek-nerd nerdy alliance in the geeky name of nerdiness, in Geek Avenue, Nerdsville. However, he still gets chicks. (There's hope, my fellow nerds! There's Hope!)
Stage and Screen[edit]
Spyder-Man appeared as an incongruous guest star in the TV cartoon series Wait Till Your Father Comes Home (WTYFCH), in 1582. It was later discovered that the appearance was an accident: two studio animators, Jeff Vomit and Trixie Puke, had been working side by side – Vomit on WTYFCH and Puke on Spyder-Man, and their drawings had become hopelessly mixed up during a heavy petting session. Vomit and Puke later married and became the double-barreled Vomit-Pukes. When the Spyder-Man episode was screened, it was followed by a half-hearted apology from the network. However, 42 people and a rooster phoned to say they liked the unexpected webby guy in the weird costume better than the other, more infantile cartoons in the show.
Spyder-Man later acquired his own cartoon series, The Flintstones, in which he played a little blond caveguy called Barney Rubble, whose secret alter ego was Tyrannosaurus Rexman and was having a torrid affair with his neighbor Wilma.
Spyder-Man has been portrayed by Toby Keif in the recent film series Spyder-Man 1, 2, and 3. The film series has been criticized for containing too little sex among the violence. While some admire Keif's nerve in playing the world's favorite superhero as a geek, most people vomit at the sight of him. Similarly, Kirsten Dunst's portrayal of the super-hot, brash and confident Mary Jane as a timid, bland, retiring loser with pudgy thighs was not well received. How hard can it be to find a beautiful redhead in Hollywood? Spyder-Man 3 was particularly notorious for the scene where alien venom mysteriously transforms him into a jazz club attending lesbian.
It is rumored that in the upcoming Spyder-Man 4, Spyder-Man's old foe, Lord Mandelson, will be played by either Catherine Zeta-Jones or her wizened spouse, Kirk Douglas. At the moment it is anyone's guess which half of the legendary Hollywood couple will snatch the role, and what they will do with it.
The Death of Spyder-Man[edit]
Spyder-Man has died several times, but never very severely. Fortunately, he gets two extra lives every now and then while fighting venom. The closest he ever came to permanent death was whilst attempting to impregnate Spider-Woman. Female spiders bite the heads off their mates after impregnation – but Spydey had already shot his web fluid several times that day and was unable to empty his egg-sac, thus saving his head.
See also[edit]
|Superheroes and heroines
|Captain Planet - The Amazing Fiber-Man - Spider-Woman - Mary Jane - The Incredible Hunk - The Scarlet Spider - Daredevil - Dr. Strange - The Punisher - Ghost Rider - Deadpool - Igloo - The other Captain Marvel - Stan Lee
|Blackheart - Dr. Doom - Electro - Galactus - Green Goblin - Juggernaut - Mecha-Dracula - Rob Liefeld - Batroc - Kool-Aid Man - Loki - The Hobgoblin - Fred Phelps - Blackout the Vampire - Venom - Dr. Octopus - Spider-Man's Rogue's Gallery - The Creature
|Professor X - Apocyclopse - Gene Grey - Beast - Wolverine - Bishop - Cable the Larry Guy - Northstar
|Salacious Six
|Sr. Tentacles - The Wang - Sabertooth
|Other teams
|The Inhumans - The Revengers - The Fantastic Four


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By Steve Rothaus and David Smiley
In a decision some called "the beginning of the end" of Florida's ban on gay marriage, a Monroe County judge ruled Thursday that two Key West bartenders and other gay couples must be allowed to marry.
Monroe County Chief Circuit Judge Luis M. Garcia ordered the county clerk's office to begin issuing marriage licenses to gay couples as early as Tuesday morning. In doing so, he sided with Aaron Huntsman and William Lee Jones, who argued that the ban on same-sex marriage in the Florida Constitution violated their rights under the U.S. Constitution.
"The court is aware that the majority of voters oppose same-sex marriage, but it is our country's proud history to protect the rights of the individual, the rights of the unpopular and rights of the powerless, even at the cost of offending the majority," Garcia wrote in his opinion.
Though Garcia's order applies only to Monroe County, it would allow same-sex couples from around the state to flock to the Keys to get married. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, however, quickly filed a notice of appeal Thursday, putting Garcia's ruling on hold and leaving open the possibility that nothing will change next week unless Garcia forces the issue with further action.
"With many similar cases pending throughout the entire country, finality on this constitutional issue must come from the U.S. Supreme Court," Bondi said in a statement.
Despite the uncertainty, Garcia's ruling set off both a wave of celebration from Key West to Tallahassee and vows from conservative Christian groups to protect Florida's definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman. Meanwhile, Democrats hoped to capitalize on the ruling, with the state party chairwoman declaring Thursday that "love wins."
Huntsman and Jones, who met at a gay pride celebration and have been a couple for 11 years, told the Miami Herald they were "ecstatic." The couple sued the Monroe County Clerk in April for a marriage license, and said the wait felt like forever.
"I can't believe it finally happened," said Jones. "Love is love. It doesn't matter if it's a guy and woman or two women or two men. Love is love."
The couple celebrated Thursday night at Duval Street's Aqua Nightclub, where they wore rainbow sashes and held hands on a stage. A small crowd cheered and whistled -- and then booed when it was announced that Bondi was appealing the ruling.
In Tallahassee, dozens gathered outside of the historic Capitol building and waved rainbow flags and signs adorned with hearts. There was no music, but some attendees were so happy that they danced.
"It's hard to put into words," said Amanda James, who cried when she heard the news. "I feel free now. It's like, I'm a real person. For the first time, I have the same rights as everybody else."
In Miami Beach, Stratton Pollitzer, the deputy director of Equality Florida, which organized many of the celebrations, said the organization had fielded thousands of phone calls and messages with the same question: "Can I get married?"
Conservatives say they will do everything they can to make sure the answer remains a resounding "no," and blasted Garcia's ruling Thursday as another overreach by an activist judge.
Anthony Verdugo, executive director of the Christian Family Coalition of Florida, called the ruling a "corrupt decision," and a "judicial lynching of nearly 8 million Florida voters" who voted to ban same-sex marriage in 2008.
John Stemberger, who led that 2008 campaign, said he would keep fighting.
"This is an issue worth dying for," said Stemberger, president and general counsel of the Florida Family Policy Council in Orlando. "Every domestic partnership, every single civil union, every couple that cohabitates, these arrangements dilute and devalue marriage."
Stemberger said he wasn't "daunted" by Garcia's ruling, nor was he surprised.
"The court was very hostile to our position," he said. "This is a very sad day for Floridians. This is an entirely illegitimate process. The judge had no legal authority in this decision."
The Monroe County ruling is just one front in the fight over the state's gay marriage ban. Another case is pending in Tallahassee. And yet another is awaiting a ruling in Miami-Dade County, where six same-sex couples and the LGBT advocacy group Equality Florida Institute sued County Clerk Harvey Ruvin for the right to marry.
In both the Monroe and Dade cases, Florida Assistant Attorney General Adam Tanenbaum argued that the judges should not dismiss Florida's constitutional gay marriage ban, which passed with the support of 62 percent of voters. The state, citing a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, contended that the definition of marriage belongs exclusively to the state and is exempt from federal scrutiny.
But in his ruling Thursday, Garcia rejected the state's position, saying changes in society and case law have made same-sex marriage a federal question. "This court concludes that a citizen's right to marry is a fundamental right that belongs to the individual," he wrote.
In Miami-Dade, Judge Sarah Zabel has yet to rule on whether to allow the plaintiffs to wed or go to trial. The couples are Catherina Pareto and Karla Arguello of Coconut Grove; Dr. Juan Carlos Rodriguez and David Price of Davie; Vanessa and Melanie Alenier of Hollywood; Todd and Jeff Delmay of Hollywood; Summer Greene and Pamela Faerber of Plantation, and Don Price Johnston and Jorge Isaias Diaz of Miami.
The Miami-Dade plaintiffs' attorney, Elizabeth Schwartz, said she is filing Garcia's decision with Zabel so that she can consider the opinion. She called the ruling "another nail in the coffin of Florida's unfair marriage ban."
"We are hopeful we will see a similar ruling by Zabel very soon," said Schwartz.
The battle over gay marriage is being waged across the nation. A federal judge last week ruled Kentucky's same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional. According to the group Freedom to Marry, LGBT advocates have won 23 times in federal, state and appellate courts since June 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court threw out a key portion of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
Last year, Supreme Court justices determined the federal government must recognize same-sex marriages, but did not address whether state marriage bans are legal. Conservative activists in Florida, who campaigned six years ago for the constitutional gay marriage ban, have fought to keep it in place.
Gov. Rick Scott late Thursday issued a statement, saying he "supports traditional marriage, consistent with the amendment approved by Florida voters in 2008, but does not believe that anyone should be discriminated against for any reason."
Meanwhile, support flowed out from the state's Democratic politicians.
Bondi's opponent in the November election, Perry Thurston, called on the incumbent attorney general to "stop wasting taxpayer dollars on her ideological crusade" against same-sex marriage. Democratic candidate for governor Charlie Crist followed with his own statement: "Today was a great step towards equality in Florida."
Crist, who held office as a Republican before becoming a Democrat in 2012, was governor when Florida passed the constitutional amendment banning the recognition of same-sex marriages. He has since called the ban "discriminatory."
University of Miami law professor Charlton Copeland said Thursday that he agreed with Bondi that gay marriage is likely to end up back before the U.S. Supreme Court. More difficult to determine, he said, is whether gay couples will actually be allowed to get married come Tuesday.
"The stay could be lifted by Judge Garcia," he said. "But it's not clear what will happen."
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The study met its primary endpoint, with Neulasta significantly reducing the incidence of febrile neutropenia. Febrile neutropenia is a low white blood cell count accompanied by a fever.1 In the study, the incidence of grade 3 or 4 febrile neutropenia in patients receiving Neulasta across the first four cycles of chemotherapy was 2.4 percent compared to 5.7 percent in the placebo group (OR=0.41, p=0.014). A similar incidence of grade 3 or higher adverse events was seen in both arms of the trial (28 percent placebo; 27 percent Neulasta).
"This analysis showed that PAVES met its primary endpoint, with Neulasta significantly reducing the incidence of febrile neutropenia in patients with colorectal cancer," said Sean E. Harper, M.D., executive vice president of Research and Development at Amgen. "In addition to providing new data on Neulasta, we believe PAVES will provide valuable information to the oncology community on commonly-used chemotherapy regimens."
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PAVES is a Phase 3, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial evaluating Neulasta in 845 patients receiving FOLFOX or FOLFIRI and bevacizumab for the first-line treatment of locally-advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer. The trial was multicenter and multinational. All patients received treatment with either FOLFOX or FOLFIRI plus bevacizumab and were randomized to one of two treatment arms that also received either placebo or 6 mg of Neulasta at least 24 hours after each cycle of chemotherapy. The primary endpoint was the incidence of grade 3 or 4 febrile neutropenia during the first four cycles. The study was not designed to define the febrile neutropenia rate of FOLFOX or FOLFIRI plus bevacizumab. Other endpoints include overall response rate, progression-free survival, overall survival, time to progression and adverse events.
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Jamie Dimon's Daughter Doubts Anyone Has Heard of Flint, Michigan
A headline on a recent PolicyMic story reads: "This is America's Most Apocalyptic, Violent City — And You've Probably Never Heard Of It." That city would be Flint, Michigan. The story's author: Jamie Dimon's daughter.
Now, we are not implying that children should suffer the sins of their fathers. The fact that Laura Dimon's father is the chairman of JPMorgan Chase and arguably bears significant responsibility for some of the biggest acts of malfeasance in Wall Street history does not disqualify Laura Dimon (Columbia Journalism School '13) from pursuing a career in journalism. It helps, in fact, since she has a cushion to fall back on when trying to cobble together a living in journalism. And the fact that Laura Dimon is working for PolicyMic rather than, you know, interning for Andrew Ross Sorkin implies a lesser amount of nepotism in her life than might be expected.
But it is reasonable to expect Laura Dimon to be aware of both her place in the world, and of the general state of the world at large. With that in mind, let's very briefly examine the problems with this story:
1. The headline "This is America's Most Apocalyptic, Violent City — And You've Probably Never Heard Of It" implies that you, the average reader, have probably never heard of Flint, Michigan, even though Flint, Michigan is, famously the birthplace of General Motors (a company for which Jamie Dimon's bank managed an IPO in 2010) and Michael Moore made that movie about it 25 years ago. We venture to guess that it might be more accurate to say that Laura Dimon had probably never heard of Flint, Michigan prior to the writing of this story.
2. Though the story primarily consists of ruin porn photos of Flint, Michigan, several of the photos in the story were not, in fact, photos of Flint, Michigan. One, for example, was a photo taken in Israel.
There's also the matter of this other Laura Dimon story, "The 6 Most Notorious Criminals Of 2013 Aren't Facing the Justice They Deserve," which—despite purporting to feature The 6 Most Notorious Criminals Of 2013—does not feature Jamie Dimon.
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