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Our modern dining chairs are made with an iron frame and legs and feature velvet upholstery, wide comfortable seats, quality fixings and neutral hues. Each chair has a weight capacity of 150kg and include anti-slip floor protectors.
* Soft velvet fabric
* 150kg capacity
* Solid iron legs
* Wide comfortable seat
* Sturdy fixings
* Anti-slip design
* Easy to assemble
* Seat material: Velvet
* Frame material: Iron legs
* Overall dimensions: 48cm x 49cm x 78cm
* Seat height: 42cm
* Quantity: 2
* Colour: Light Grey
Package Content:
2 x Dining Chair
1 x User Manual
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NBM Publishing Announces SPX Debuts and Creator Appearances
In anticipation of next weekend's Small Press Expo held on September 10th & 11th in Bethesda, Maryland (near Washington DC), NBM Publishing has announced the company's plans for their annual appearance and special releases.
NBM can be found at table G7-8.
We will be premiering hot off the press our very first manga, the moving and inspiring Japanese best-seller Stargazing Dog. It's sold over a half million copies in Japan and been made into a movie there just released this summer. See the preview of pages.
Daddy is down and out. Life has conspired against him, everything coming undone.
Fed up, he sets out with his car to just get away from it all to nowhere in particular.
All people around him have abandoned him in indifference but as we discover along with him, the one companion he can count on utterly and completely is his dog who follows him blindly, faithfully and completely, to the end.
The other special we'll have for the show is a preview of Ernie Colon's Inner Sanctum with signed copies including a free signed sketch by Colon for the 1st 20 to buy!
A revered veteran of comics brings to comics life one of the most fondly re membered mystery and horror radio shows in history.
In striking black & white as only Colon is well known for, we are swept into 4 chilling mysteries including: The Horla, Death of a Doll, The Undead and Alive in the Grave.
Also, appearing at our booth:
Brooke A. Allen with A Home for Mr. Easter
The irrepressible Rick Parker signing the Papercutz spoofs of Harry Potter, Twilight and Percy Jackson
We'll have a good choice of recent books available there as well. Find us at G7-8, come say hello! Publisher Terry Nantier will be there and happy to chat with you.
About NBM Publishing
NBM is a leading critically acclaimed graphic novel publisher showcasing the diversity of comics from North America and Europe.
Founded in 1976 by publisher Terry Nantier, NBM has grown to become the second largest indie comics press after Fantagraphics with close to $3MM in yearly retail sales on over 200,000 graphic novels sold a year plus tens of thousands of comic books and magazines.

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Open Family Australia has been providing outreach support and services to homeless and at-risk young people for more than 30 years.
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More than 32,000 young Australians will sleep on the street tonight and young people aged between 12-18 years are the largest group experiencing homelessness.
Open Family Australia155 Roden StreetWest Melbourne VIC 3003T. 1300 669 600E. email@example.com


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Two adorable fluffy little ducks have decided that an equally adorable stumpy legged corgi is their mother. My heart is microwaved with joy, my ovaries marinating in misplaced maternal instinct.
According to Discovery News, it's uncommon- but not unheard of- for baby birds to "imprint" on animals other than birds.
"There's nothing unique here at work," according to Sara Hallager, a bird biologist at the National Zoo. "All baby birds, when they're born, the first thing they see, which is usually the same species, is what they imprint on."
When ducks or other animals imprint, it's generally on their mother. It's an instant bond from which they then learn the behavioral aspects of their species. Simply put, many baby animals are evolutionarily hardwired to follow their mother.
But sometimes, when animals are raised by humans, this imprinting can end up misplaced —on the human— or in this case, a dog.
All together now: Awwwww.
Ducklings Following Dog Explained [Discovery]
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A year makes a big difference.
The third-quarter Brinker Barometer, released Monday, found that 49% of financial advisors felt good about the economy and their clients' financial future, compared with 26% who felt that way in the same period a year ago.
Sixty-nine percent of advisors said their clients were financially better off than they were a year ago, and 51% said clients had more purchasing power.
"What's particularly remarkable about this rise in confidence is that advisors were able to see beyond the then-looming government shutdown, and the country's tarnished reputation on the international stage, to focus on the longer-term prospects for America's economic future," Brinker Capital vice chairman John Coyne said in a statement.
Respondents weren't rid of all concerns, however. Sixty-eight percent felt financial regulation would have a negative effect on the investment management industry over the coming decade.
Another 64% believed the country's reputation around the world had suffered over the past year.
And 61% fretted about ineffective federal governance by the White House and Congress.
When asked what changes they expected to make in their clients' investment strategy over the next 10 years, 69% of advisors said they would focus more on "desired personal or purpose-driven investing outcomes."
Brinker's statement said this was supported by a finding in its first-quarter barometer in which 87% of advisors considered it more important to measure success against a client's personal goals rather than a standard benchmark.
In the new survey, 78% of respondents said they would not recommend any changes to their clients' retirement investing plans.
Advisors complained that new prospects were resistant to their recommendations. Seventy-two percent ascribed this to market skepticism, 40% to lack of investment knowledge and 29% to clients not wanting to pay fees for advice that is free on the Internet.
Respondents also played what's hot, what's not in terms of asset allocations, with 57% favoring alternatives, 54% equities and 46% international.
Fixed income was most out of favor with 63% of advisors, cash with 28% and emerging markets with 14%.
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From Commander Appo, member on our message boards:
Karen Traviss has officially announced that she will write a 5th book in the Republic Commando book series! The title is Imperial Commando, and judging by the name of the book, I'm guessing that it will take place during the Empire.
Now in the RC book series, there will be:
Hard Contact
Triple Zero
True Colors
Order 66 (comes out on September 16th)
Imperial Commando (Comes out at an unknown date, most likely 2009)
Karen Traviss also announced that she will write a post-Legacy book featuring Boba Fett
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Do you remember Kimball's Green Ridge Turkey Farm on Nashua's Daniel Webster Highway? Who can forget the giant turkey that once stood atop that iconic sign on DW Highway? For nearly 60 years, the Green Ridge Turkey Farm stood on the corner of the DW Highway and Spit Brook Road in Nashua, NH, about two miles north of the state border with Massachusetts. Its site was historic – the main house of the farm, called the manor house, had been a long-time Nashua landmark, dating to revolutionary times when it had served as a stage-coach hostelry. Through several ownership changes and one major fire, the Green Ridge served dinners and pies in its restaurant – and not just of turkey, but also seafood; the Green Ridge also served lobster, clams and scallops.
But, of course, Kimball's Green Ridge Turkey Farm was best known for its turkeys, which were sold either "drawn and ready for the oven" or "cooked and pan roasted". The Green Ridge also offered its own dressing and gravy. The Green Ridge Turkey Farm got its start when George and Grace Kimball bought the 200-acre property in 1931 and soon after opened a farm stand. Its frontage on the Daniel Webster Highway contributed to the Kimballs' success, and, by 1938, Mr. and Mrs. Kimball expanded the stand, adding turkey sandwiches and ice cream to its offerings. Two years later, in 1940, the Kimballs added the restaurant, and the Green Ridge's reputation for great turkey, supplied directly from their farm, quickly caught on. The farm quickly grew to accommodate the raising of up to 6,000 turkeys.
The reputation of the Green Ridge as a restaurant and a turkey farm spread throughout New England during the war years. Then, during one of its best years, just four days after Thanksgiving, disaster struck the Green Ridge. At 6 PM on the evening of November 27, 1950, a few hours after the farm had hosted the New England Turkey Growers' Association, Dr. Frank Flagg knocked on the door of Mr. and Mrs. Kimball's home. The Green Ridge, just 100 yards south from where they were sitting, was on fire. Dr. Flagg and the Kimballs set off to alert the fire department, but couldn't find a working telephone. A recent storm had knocked out phone service in the area. Eventually, others saw the smoke and flames in the sky and the calls began to arrive to the Nashua Fire Department. The first caller told the fire department that the 'Green Ridge farm building [was] ready to explode'. A moment later, a call from the Wayside Furniture Company told the firefighters that something was wrong at the Green Ridge.
The Central and Lake Street stations responded to the fire. All call men were soon summoned to duty. Firefighters arrived to find the fire at its peak and the interior of the building was completely engulfed in flames as the smoke rose skyward. Motorists and nearby residents stopped to watch the fire. A lack of hydrants in the area meant the firefighters had no available water. Firefighters rushed the half-mile south to the Allen property and were able to attach a pump to a water hole. They had finally found water to fight the fire. But, by then, it was out of control.
By the time the fire was out, the restaurant was a total loss. George Kimball told reporters he didn't have adequate insurance coverage to rebuild. The restaurant had been officially closed for the season just a couple of days before, and would have reopened the next year, on February 22. The losses were deep, however, and the costs were formidable to replace the lost large dining room, soda fountain, and two deep freeze units, that had been holding 250 turkeys. The Kimballs put the Green Ridge Turkey Farm on the market.
A buyer came forward and, on March 15, 1951, the Kimballs sold their Green Ridge Turkey Farm to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Flanders. The Flanders rebuilt the restaurant, and reopened it in July 1952.
The Flanders' ownership of the Green Ridge was short-lived. After rebuilding and reopening its restaurant following the 1950 fire, they sold it to the Charpentier brothers, Luc, Victor, and Edmund, in 1954. The Charpentier family owned the Green Ridge from 1954 through its closing in the mid-1990's, when it was closed, razed, and replaced by a Barnes & Noble, which still stands at the site. Still, when driving down the DW Highway in Nashua even today, I still look twice for the turkey that once stood atop the Green Ridge Turkey Farm sign perched near the Spit Brook Road intersection. Has it really been more than 15 years since it came down?


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Dracula with a Twist
Nowadays when most people think of horror films, gorefests like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer come to mind. It's difficult to remember the genre hasn't always been synonymous with excessive blood and gore.
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors, is one of the great classics of the silent era. Unlike its modern counterparts, it finds ways to evoke an atmosphere of terror and menace without resorting to sex and violence. First released in 1922, it also avoids some of the genre's most melodramatic clichès like giving vampires oversized fangs and high-fashion capes.
German director F.W. Murnau (The Last Laugh and Sunrise) and screenwriter Henrik Galeen freely adapted English writer Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, which originated the characters that have inspired most modern works about vampires. They moved the action to Bremen, Germany, renamed the characters, and made key plot changes, in hopes of avoiding the payment of royalties. Stoker's widow, Florence, sued anyway and won, obtaining a court order to have all copies of the film destroyed. Fortunately, some bootleg prints survive.
Despite the filmmakers' dishonest intentions, the result is a visual poem of purity, beauty, and grace. The story is simply told through a series of static, black-and-white compositions which skillfully use light and shadow to sustain their mood. Most of the scenes are shot on location with attention to naturalistic detail.
There are no carefully designed, expressionistic sets such as those found in other German masterpieces of the period like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Metropolis. In contrast to much contemporary product, the movie is driven by character development, not special effects, and the difference between good and evil, once defined, is never blurred.
Hutter (Gustav Von Wangenheim) is a happily married real estate agent in Bremen who's sent by his boss, Block (Alexander Granach), to the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania to close a deal with the wealthy Count Orlok (Max Schreck). The young man innocently sees the voyage as a good business opportunity and a chance for some exotic travel. But Block appears to have some ulterior purpose as he rummages through papers covered with occult symbols when no one is looking. Only Hutter's sweet-tempered wife, Ellen (Greta Schroeder), has a premonition of danger.
In Transylvania the peasants recoil at the mention of Orlok's name and refuse to take Hutter up to the castle door. The count himself resembles a cadaverous rodent, with long bulbous ears, a bald skull, a hook nose, bulging eyes, and birdlike talons for hands. He has an aura of pestilence and death. One morning Hutter awakes with a strange mark on his neck which he at first ignores.
The count is attracted to a picture of Ellen kept in a locket worn by her husband. Soon thereafter she has nightmares and begins sleepwalking. The filmmakers establish a mysterious psychic connection between Ellen back in Germany and Hutter and Orlok in Transylvania. One night when the count approaches her husband with bad intentions, she cries out a warning, and Orlok turns away.
Hutter becomes fearful and escapes from the castle but falls ill. Unlike most versions of the Dracula story, Nosferatu doesn't have all the vampire's victims die or turn into vampires themselves, and the count's drinking of blood doesn't make him any younger or healthier.
Eventually, Hutter recovers and returns home. Orlok follows by ship with a coffin filled with rats where he sleeps during the day. All the vessel's crew "sicken and die."
After the ship arrives in Bremen, there's an outbreak of the plague from the rats Orlok has brought with him. Block loses control, crying, "the master approaches," and "blood is life." The townsfolk blame Block for the pestilence and try to stone him.
Orlok takes up residence across from Ellen and Hutter. Realizing that the town is doomed as long as the count lives, she decides to utilize the mysterious connection between them and sacrifice herself. When she learns that a vampire dies in the daylight, she lures Orlok into her house one night and keeps him there until dawn by allowing him to nibble on her neck. The sun's morning rays make him literally evaporate. She herself dies soon thereafter.
The movie's many striking images linger in the mind's eye: Ellen reading Hutter's letters alone at the beach surrounded by graves marked by crosses; Orlok's deathship gliding into Bremen harbor at night; the count carrying his coffin on his shoulders through the town's deserted streets; and the angry townspeople stoning Block as he flees across the rooftops.
Nosferatu is a unique rendition of this much-told tale which dramatizes the power of sacrifice. The vampire isn't killed in the usual fashion by a wooden stake driven through his heart. Instead his evil power is terminated by the selfless act of a woman described as "pure in heart."
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A Reminder Of The Big Flood
NWS Marks High Water Level At Sullivan Park
A painful but important reminder was placed at Sullivan Park this week. The National Weather Service in Glasgow worked with the Glasgow Reds baseball team to place a high water mark on the concessions stand.
Valley County and the city of Glasgow will never forget a flash flood that took everyone by surprise on June 8, 2011. Tanja Fransen, a local meteorologist at the National Weather Service, said they placed the water line mark in a place where more people would see it.
"The marker is for anyone in the future to see," she said. "Twenty years from now people can go by and realize that this happened here. It was an event I'll never forget."
The placement of the marker made more sense at Sullivan Park then at the bridge where the measurement was taken. Fransen explained that several people would drive by the park during the flooding to figure out where the water was over a three-month period of time. The park was under water from April through June in 2011.
The 2010-11 year brought in record snowfall. There is an average of 30 inches of snowfall in a year – and that particular year dropped just over 108-inches of snow. The snowmelt caused excess runoff but the water receded. The problems began in May, when more than 10-inches of rain fell. Fransen said the average rainfall is 11 inches in a year. More rain accumulated in June – and between four and five inches fell on June 7, which caused the water levels to rise.
In 2011, Glasgow recorded the wettest, and highest river record, as well as the most snow fall. Fransen said that the new water line will help remind people of the possibilities when they build in the flood plain. While many in the area were educated on the rising waters, a lot of livestock and horses were moved before the waters swept in.
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Bethany's Speech Team competed in the Icebox Classic speech and debate tournament at St. Cloud State University on Feb 2 and 3. Eighteen top teams from the Midwest competed at the Icebox Classic. The Bethany team had considerable success.
Team members competing were Baylee Amy, Alex Berg, Leah Hensch, Shawn Loging, Rachel Skaaland, and William Soule. Indeed the weather lived up the tournament's namesake, but the action at St. Cloud State University was hot and proved to be a very successful weekend for the Bethany team.
Skaaland and Soule earned a first place finish in the debate portion of the tournament. The duo was undefeated thoughout the weekend. Skaaland was named the top debater for the tournament with Soule earning sixth best debater honors.
Amy and Hensch competed in the novelty event, Interpretation of Children's Literature. Hensch earned a second place finish and Amy took third.
Soule and Skaaland also placed well in Extemporaneous Speaking with Soule earning second place and Skaaland taking sixth.
The combined efforts of the six team members earned Bethany an overall third place finish for the tournament.


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Asus G74SX measures 32.5 x 42.0 x 2.09 ~ 6.20 cm (WxDxH). It is 2.09cm thick on the front and 6.20cm at the back. It weighs in at 4.28kg which really speaks volumes about its mobility. Thankfully, the backpack should take care of that.
As far as looks go, we really liked the G74SX. Top of the laptop is coated with a soft-touch matte surface, which copes well with fingerprints and helps the laptop feel more robust.
Front side and back side
The only thing of interest on the front is the Power Indicator. Once the laptop is closed, the blinking LED shows it's in Sleep mode.
Unlike the front, back of the laptop looks as mean as it gets. The back of the laptop is about 4cm thicker than the front.
If you look closer in the outlet, you'll notice that the heatsink is mainly positioned on the right side of the device. We noticed that the right side of the laptop gets much hotter, meaning that CPU and GPU are probably on the right.
Bottom and the Battery
The bottom of fashined from rugged black plastics and it is possible to replace hard drives or memory, which is probably a good idea since the laptop is aimed at the enthusiast crowd. Unlike classic batteries, Asus G74SX uses a square one.
We're talking about a Li-Ion A42-G74 eight-cell battery with 5200mAh, 74W. Of course, if you're planning long gaming sessions, you should make sure you're near an electricity outlet because the battery won't last longer than an hour when under full load. Classic operation with WLAN on may last up to 2.5 hours whereas turning off WLAN and decreasing brightness will result in 3.5 hours of endurance.
G74SX comes with two Seagate hard disks (ST9750420AS) each with 750GB. As you can see, they're easily acessible by removing the plastic cover.
G74SX has four memory slots. Three are populated by three Samsung 4GB memory modules (PC3 - 10600S; M471B5273DH0-CH9) while one was left free for future upgrades.
The GTX 560M is located top right, whereas the Core i7 2630QM is just around the center, above the memory. GPU and CPU heatsinks have two heatpipes each. The picture below shows where the GPU cooler's heatsink starts.
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Noem Wins 2nd Term as Lone South Dakota House Member
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Republican Rep. Kristi Noem has defeated Democratic challenger Matt Varilek to win a second term as South Dakota's lone member of the U.S. House.
Varilek is a former member of Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson's staff. He argued throughout the campaign that Noem had shirked her duties by skipping committee meetings and failed to protect South Dakota's interests in getting a farm bill passed before Congress adjourned before the election.
Noem is 40-year-old rancher and former state lawmaker from Castlewood who was first elected to Congress as part of the 2010 Republican wave. She says she has worked to cut federal spending and taxes, has a 99 percent voting record in committees and did all she could to get a farm bill passed.
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SEM Short Course
NCSU's Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) offers a hands-on short course on Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) on a routine basis. In addition to two lectures on SEM theory, each student will get hands-on time running the AIF variable pressure SEM (VPSEM). The goal of the course is to provide students a basic knowledge of both the theory and practice of SEM imaging, the data that can be derived thereof, and to understand what the generated data means. This should allow a student who successfully completes the course to operate any SEM with minimal training. By the end of the day, the students should be able to operate the VPSEM without assistance. To insure each student receives maximum hands-on time, the course will be limited to 3 participants.
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|NCSU student $50; non-profit $50; industry $350
For more details and to register, please contact Chuck Mooney at email@example.com.
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expression cloning in TOPO TA and pET vectors - Very high and unusual non specific amplification in colony PCR (Apr/25/2010 )
I am working with expression cloning of a gene whose size is ~1.7kb. For expression cloning I used pET vector. I double digested plasmid as well as insert with EcoRI and NotI REs and gel purified both. This purified plasmid and insert have been used for ligation in 1:1 molar ratio. After transformation i got many colonies, but when i performed colony PCR to confirm the insert i got very high non specific amplification, which i have never ever experienced before for any colony PCR. for colony PCR i used vector specific primers. Following pic shows the colony pcr with six clones having non specific amplification
With this result i tried cloning the gene in TOPO TA cloning vector (invitrogen). I did PCR to get amplicon of my interest which was A tailed and used for cloning. Ligation reaction was kept at RT for 30 min. reaction additions was performed as per the manual. After transformation I got many colonies. I have chosen few of them and did colony PCR with vector specific primers. Here also I got very high non-specific amplification. Following pic gives the clear idea about the PCR.
To check whether there is any problem with colony PCR cocktail (contamination!!), i did one trial PCR using same cocktail with cloned TOPO TA vector from my colleague. Also I put one blank reaction (without template). This time it didn't showed any non-specific amplification also there was no band in blank. this means that the PCR cocktail is OK and working fine. Following is the pic to explain!
with this background, i am unable to get the reason behind such non specific amplification. why i am not getting cloned fragment in both the vectors?
Do this happen while you go for expression cloning? OR there is some problem with vector system?
for colony PCR, you should use the primer set in which one is specific for vector sequence while the other is for the insert.
in my experience, I usually get a lot of false positive results even using the primer set I mentioned above. so I dont do colony PCR ever since. Now I just pick all the white colonies (b/w selection), extract plasmid and check the size on the gel. no false positive anymore.


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A lovely cancer awareness memorial glass candle design with signature pink ribbon and butterfly floral background. The design is wrapped all the way around the glass candle container. A white candle is contained within the glass container. Select up to 3 lines of personalized text on the front of the candle.
We enhance and correct the photo on the front cover, if needed. A wonderful memorial for each family member or to display and light at the ceremony. The colors for this design are pink hues. Available in 2 sizes!
- Printed Glass Cylinder Memorial Candle Container Includes Wax Candle Inside; Your Chosen Photo and Up to 3 Lines of Personalized Text on Front
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The Vampire Diaries Season 3 Episode 18
The Murder of One doesn't, of course, include the one-in-five boom we were promised. Why would it? It's not like they're linked. And, of course, we have four episodes still to go.
I'm joking, mostly. Finally, after so much marching in place, this episode brought together many of the finest parts of what they've been trying to set up all season. Klaus and his rotating cast of frenemy siblings, Damon paying for having toyed with Rebecca, even Sage seemed to serve a purpose, if only to humanize Finn so we'd be kind of sad when he was torched.
I'm pissed off that the coolest element of the siblings was eradicated in one go - the fact that one equals all - even though they tried to balance it out with the idea that one vampire's death means the death of all their turns (which, if you think about it, kind of makes more sense anyway). But I love how Elena was all "We'll just kill whoever didn't make Caroline! and Damon! and half the other people in this town who we don't know are vampires anyway!" Oh, and Caroline's memory that Tyler would be killed if Klaus went down was the first time anyone in the audience thought about Tyler in a hell of a long time. Sorry, Michael Trevino, but I don't think you're coming back to star on the Mystic Falls football team, do you?
This was supposed to be a character episode, bringing forth the revelation of who people are when they're forced to make horrible choices. My issue, though, is that this kind of episode seems to bring forth Elena at her most irritating. I feel like I was beating this drum last year around this time: the higher the drama gets, the more she is doggedly assured of what she should do but somehow always in the most sanctimonious way possible. Even when she realizes that all her vampire friends and lovers will be affected, she's somehow blasé, saving all her emotion for what Stefan will think when he realizes that if she could have had that fantasy that Damon had, she would have. And, given that Elena seems primed to be kidnapped by Klaus next week, maybe she'll get the opportunity after all.
I do appreciate that Bonnie is being asked to make some big choices, and is replying like a normal person would, answering the question "are you okay" with "I don't know", rather than moral fortitude. For all of you who have been keenly missing the lack of Bonnie, don't you think the lack of her the last few weeks made this have more of an impact? I think they're definitely muddying the waters with the whole "mom left because she's a vampire/I mean because she's a deadbeat" thing, but no matter how strong or supernatural Bonnie and all the others are, they're doing this for the first time, and are really actually 18; hurting this much may become commonplace but for now, it matters.
Given that everyone wound up being as loyal as they were supposed to, there's less to say until next week, but I will point out that Alaric's alter ego isn't going to have much point until we actually see that it's him (or his body's inhabitant) doing the killing, although did you hear that Aunt Jenna is going to make an appearance? That should send him for a loop. Furthermore, whomever was doing the sound design on Damon's ripping flesh can congratulate him or herself and then please take a break next week. I'm not naive enough to think they won't be back in full force before the end of the season though.
The Murder of One
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Well, the sleeping Americans probably don't know it yet, but the end of the world hasn't happened as Australians and others who have already entered the day Winter Solstice will attest. Google celebrates with a piece of the Mayan Calendar. Of course, why anyone would trust the "predictions" of a civilization that didn't predict its own demise centuries ago is beyond me. More to the point though, we in the West have a new calendar to mark the Earth travelling another orbit around the sun, but we don't see New Year's Eve as being the start of the apocalypse each year. The Mayans just didn't get around to publishing their new calendar for the next period after what is to our minds the date 2012-12-21.
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Files and Attributes: chattr
|Tip of the Trade: Don't just talk about it. Change some of the attributes of files in ext2 and ext3 Linux filesystems with chattr.
chattr +option filename
- +i: Makes a file immutable: even root can't alter it. This is useful to protect against accidentally altering particularly important files.
- +a: Sets files such that they can only be appended to, not overwritten. If you set this for your logfiles, if an attacker gets access to the machine, they can't rewrite the logs to hide the breakin. Two things to bear in mind:
- An attacker with full root access could simply use the -a flag to remove this protection. Look into the lcap utility to remove the capability to make this change from the kernel (after which it will take a reboot to restore it).
- Setting this attribute will break log rotation. It's a tradeoff between that slight inconvenience and the advantages of much better audit.
- -S (note capitalization): The file equivalent of setting mount -o sync for a directory. Instead of holding the data in a buffer and writing to disk asynchronously (which improves performance but slightly increases the risk of data corruption), the write happens immediately when the change is made. On a per-file basis the performance hit is minor, so this may be useful, again, for particularly important files.
The -R flag will set these attributes recursively (chattr -R +i /directory). You can also see the attributes set for a particular file by using lsattr filename.
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Ti West prepares to head behind the camera once again, this time with a spooky tale of a haunted hotel in "The Innkeepers".
Jessica Alba finds herself headlining a controversial horror film that was the last to be picked up at the recent Sundance Film Festival. Alba left part way through the first screening of "The Killer Inside Me", leaving director Michael Winterbottom to field angry questions as to why it was necessary to show such gratuitous violence towards women.
The Syfy Channel continues its legacy of "high quality" films as it prepares to revisit some classic fairy tales, with a twist. Slated for remakes are "Little Red Riding Hood", and "Hansel and Gretel".
Daniel Craig will be exchanging his dapper "Bond" trappings for a set of spurs as he signs on to headline Jon Favreau's big screen adaptation of "Cowboys & Aliens".
Scout Taylor-Compton rambles on via YouTube about why she doesn't want to play Laurie Strode in a Zombie-less "Halloween 3". She never mentions if anyone has actually ASKED her to.
A Japanese man strikes five people with his truck, then gets out and stabs twelve more. All of this to take out his frustration from being bullied by trolls on his favorite internet forum.
A Chicago woman is suing the Metra train company, claiming that after using one of their on board toilets, she was sprayed with her own feces upon flushing. Um, gross.
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"Honoring the Pink Shawl" is the theme of the Holland Pow Wow, the area's fifth annual traditional pow wow, which will be held at the Hope College DeVos Fieldhouse on Saturday, Oct. 24.
"Honoring the Pink Shawl" is the theme of the Holland Pow Wow, the area's fifth annual traditional pow wow, which will be held at the Hope College DeVos Fieldhouse on Saturday, Oct. 24.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The pow wow will be held from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Highlights will include the Grand Entry at 1 p.m. and a native storyteller, sponsored by the Holland Museum, at 3 p.m.
Presented by the Anishnabek of West Michigan, the pow wow is scheduled in a spirit of reconciliation and is a family event open to attendance by all peoples. The pow wow will feature authentic Native American dancers in regalia, Native singers and drummers, along with Native American-made jewelry and other goods for sale. There will be a concession featuring native food. The event's planning committee anticipates participants from throughout Michigan.
To promote this year's theme of "Honoring the Pink Shawl," there will be informational booths and displays by local health agencies throughout the day. The Pink Shawl Project is a grass-roots movement, initiated originally by Lorraine "Punkin" Shananaquet, a community health representative at the Health Department of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi, Gun Lake Tribe. It is becoming a nationwide movement. The purpose of the pink shawl is to use traditional Native symbols, such as a woman's shawl, to promote breast health awareness.
Native storyteller Larry Plamondon is being sponsored by the HollandMuseum, and will present at 3 p.m. Plamondon, of Cloverdale, is a member of the Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians. He is the author of a self-published memoir, "Lost from the Ottawa: The Story of the Journey Back."
Those with leading roles during the pow wow will include George Marting, head veteran; Bill Memberto, master of ceremonies; David Shananaquet, arena director; Kelvin Dan, head male dancer; Punkin Shananaqet, head female dancer; and Sons of the Three Fires, host drum.
Dances presented during the pow wow will include the Northern Traditional Men's Dance, the Northern Traditional Women's Dance, the Traditional Men's Grass Dance, the Traditional Women's Jingle Dance, the Fancy Dance for men, the Fancy Dance for women and intertribal dances for all peoples.
The Native Americans of the area refer to all Indians as Anishnabek people and themselves as the People of the Three Fires, also known as the Ottawa (Odawa), Chippewa (Ojibwe) and Potawatomi (Bodewatomi). The pow wow has been planned by a gathering committee representing members of the West Michigan Native community and other Native Americans living in the area.
Multiple programs at Hope are among the sponsors for the pow wow. In addition to Hope, the pow wow's sponsors include several native tribes of Michigan, the Gannet Foundation, and the city of Holland.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets.


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When support for the
const qualifier appeared in compilers some 20 years ago, I learned to place it as most programmers do: to the immediate left of the type that it modifies. That is, when I wanted to declare
p as a pointer to a constant character, I wrote the declaration as:
const char *p;
as just about everyone else did.
As I grew to understand the
const qualifier better, I started to encourage other programmers to use it, which I did by using
const whenever appropriate in my writing and in my lectures. Still, many programmers seemed less than enthusiastic about using
const. I started asking programmers why they were reluctant to use
const. Most said they just didn't understand it. They knew they could place
const at different points within a declaration, and they just didn't understand the consequences of the different placement options. For example,
const in
const char *p; modifies the
char to its immediate right (it declares
p as a pointer to a
const char).
Does that mean that the
const in
char const* p; modifies the pointer operator to its immediate right (it declares
p as a
const pointer to a
char)? (Answer: No.)
In the mid-1990s, it occurred to me that it might be easier for programmers to understand
const if they learned to apply this fairly simple rule: When writing a declaration, place
const to the immediate right of the part of the type that you want to be
const. When reading that declaration, read
const just before you read the thing to its immediate left. For example, to declare
p as a pointer to
const char, write:
char const *p;
To read it aloud, just read it from right to left, as "
p is a pointer to a
const char." To declare
p as a
const pointer to
char, write:
char *const p;
To read it aloud, again just read it from right to left.
In the years that I've been using and teaching this style for placing
const in declarations, I received a lot of positive feedback that using this style does indeed help. Unfortunately, the converts represent what appears to be a distinct minority of C and C++ programmers. Most C and C++ programmers simply won't do it. Moreover, they won't even try it.
When I ask programmers why they won't try it, they often tell me, "It's not conventional" or, "Hardly anybody does it that way," to which I offer the following response.
For the last six to eight years, I've been posing the following query to my lecture audiences. Given these declarations in the conventional style:
typedef char *ntcs; const ntcs s;
what is it about
s that's
const? Is it (a) the character, or (b) the pointer, or (c) both? (The answer appears at the end of this article.) I've posed this question to thousands of programmers and only about 40% get it right. The rest either get it wrong or are unable or unwilling to hazard a guess. At the same time, well over 90% of these programmers reported using the conventional style for placing
So, when someone tells me they won't use it because it's not conventional, my response is that, in this case, conventional isn't working. Maybe it's time to try something else.
Other times, when I ask programmers why they won't try it, they tell me something like, "It won't work. It'll confuse people." When I ask, "Have you tried it, or do you know someone who's tried it and been confused by it?" the answer is invariably, "No." When I ask, "How do you know it won't work if you won't try it?" too often the answer is something like, "It's obvious that it won't." Not to me it isn't.
Of course, there are those programmers who use the conventional style and understand declarations well enough to correctly interpret:
const ntcs s;
as well as more complex declarations. I can understand why they see no need to adopt a different style. Nonetheless, some programmers who don't need to switch styles for themselves have done it to help coworkers who've struggled with
const, and reported positive results.
The keyword
const is a very useful feature of C and C++, especially for writing embedded systems. The keyword
volatile is also useful and follows rules that are nearly identical to the rules for
const. Using
const and
volatile appropriately is a good thing, and programmers ought to be encouraged to do it. Unfortunately, the conventional style for placing const in declarations doesn't seem to help much.
More than a decade ago, I started using and recommending the alternative style for placing
const in declarations. While I know this style takes a little getting used to, I've had many programmers try it and tell me it helped them use
const more effectively.
By the way, the answer to my "What is it about
s that's
const?" question is (b). The declaration:
const ntcs s;
s as a
const pointer to
Dan Saks is a teacher and writer on C++. This is a modified version of an article that originally appeared in EE Times in December 2008.


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With a variety of models to choose from, Panasonic's 7700 series of proprietary telephones offers the features to help expand communications capabilities, and the flexibility to adapt as a business grows. Each model features a sleek, low-profile design highlighted by a J-type, European-style handset. The Panasonic 7700 series telephones provide enormous convenience with an assortment of practical features to help users manage voice communications in their small business or residence.
Useful features include Automatic Call Back/Busy for automatically redialing a busy or unanswered number, speed and one-touch dialing capability, the ability to program the telephone to forward a call to a desired extension or set the telephone to "Do Not Disturb, " and paging to an extension or group of extensions.
The phones also have Automatic Redial; Auto Answer/Mute key for answering calls without picking up the handset (functions like an intercom); Auto Dial/Store key for one-touch "push-button" dialing or system programming; Conference key for connecting multiple callers in a conference call setting; a Message button for access to messages left in the user's voice mailbox; and traditional phone features such as flash, hold, redial and intercom.
The KX-T7730 is also compatible with Caller ID Name and Number. When a call comes in, the caller's information is displayed on the backlit alphanumeric LCD display. Accessing the stored Caller ID information is done with the Navigator key - a multi-function button that allows users to easily scroll through the Caller ID log for the caller's information. This functional key can also be used to adjust the handset volume and to gain access to other telephone features.
Hands-free operation is also possible with Panasonic's 7700 series telephones. They have speakerphone capability, allowing the user to place or answer calls without the handset or to let others in the room join in the conversation. All of the models also offer an industry standard 2.5 mm headset jack for use with an optional headset.
Each telephone has flexible Central Office (CO) keys that can be individually programmed for each individual user. These buttons can be set for either Direct Station Selection (DSS)/Busy Lamp Field (BLF), automatic dialing or one-touch access to the feature each employee uses most often. All of the 7700 series models have 24 programmable buttons: 12 illuminated CO keys and 12 personal features keys.
The KX-T7730 24-Button Speakerphone Telephone with 1-Line Backlit LCD Display features includes: 24 Programmable Buttons, 12 CO & 12 Personal/Feature; 10 fixed buttons for (Intercom, Conference, Program, Voice Mail, Pause, Forward / Do Not Disturb, Flash/Recall, Auto Answer/Mute, Auto Dial/Store And Redial) plus 3 large buttons for Hold, Transfer and Speakerphone; Navigation Key for Volume, Display Contrast and Function Selection; headset jack; wall mountable.
- Product Description
- Panasonic KX-T7730 - digital phone
- Product Type
- Digital phone
- Compatible Platforms
- Advanced Hybrid Telephone System, Digital Super Hybrid Telephone System
- Intercom
- Yes
- Speakerphone
- Yes
- Caller ID
- Yes
- Call Services
- Caller ID, Call Transfer, Call Hold, Message Waiting Capability
- Display
- LCD display - monochrome - Yes
Detailed Specification
- Product Type
- Digital phone
- Compatible Platforms
- Advanced Hybrid Telephone System, Digital Super Hybrid Telephone System
Phone Features
- Call Services
- Caller ID, Call Transfer, Call Hold, Message Waiting Capability
- Dialer Type
- Keypad
- Dialer Location
- Base
- Conference Call Capability
- Yes
- Intercom
- Yes
- Speakerphone
- Yes
- Function Buttons
- Recall button, navigator key, flash button, memory pause button, auto redial button
- Programmable Buttons Qty
- 12
- Volume Control
- Yes
- Ringer Control
- 3-step
- Indicators
- New message indicator
- Additional Functions
- Intercom
- Type
- LCD display - monochrome
- Line Qty
- 1
- Backlit
- Yes
- Connections
- Headset jack / sub-mini-phone 2.5mm


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Dr. Robert Crawshaw
Having obtained a BA in French with Italian from Exeter University many years ago, I worked as an editorial trainee for Oxford University Press before pursuing postgraduate study in comparative literature and linguistics at the Universities of Paris and Cambridge leading to an appointment as a tutor at Exeter, my first full-time post in Britsh Higher Education.
The bulk of my academic career has been spent at Lancaster University where as lecturer and researcher, I focused initially on French language, literature and society and then, progressively, on the culture and economics of Europe as a whole. Following a period as Director of European Relations for the Management School at Lancaster, and subsequently during the early 1990s as academic advisor to the European Commission, I wrote a number of reports on European education policy and in 2001-02 convened the European Language Council's Task Force on Citizenship and Language.
Between 1998 and 2004, I directed a number of research projects in the field of intercultural communication and, in 2006-07, the Annual Research Programme of the University's Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS). Since then, I have been heavily involved in the major AHRC Project Moving Manchester/Mediating Marginalities which I initated in 2005 and in the work of Lancaster University's Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research.
Between 2001 and 2007, I was Associate Editor of the International Journal for Languages and Intercultural Communication and since 2007 have been associate Chair of the EU-funded Lanqua Project's working group on Language and Intercultural Communication in European Higher Education. Having taken over as Head of the Department of European Languages and Cultures at Lancaster, I am currently working on a book for Cambridge University Press on the pragmatics of intercultural communication, based on the output of the ESRC-funded PIC Project of which I was the Director.
At the same time I am struggling to contribute to the book Postcolonial Manchester derived from the Moving Manchester project which is due to be published by Manchester University Press later this year. I am a keen (but increasingly handicapped) sailor, skier, cyclist and mountaineer and have an enduring interest in theatre, cinema, reading, music, history, art and European culture generally, together with a lifelong love of the Alps and the English Lake District.
Research Areas
The current focus of my research is on intercultural studies with particular emphasis on narrative, history, migration and cross-cultural communication. Government-funded research projects with which I have been involved over the last few years, as initiator/director or as member of the research team, include the HEFCE-funded Interculture Project (1998-2002) www.lancs.ac.uk/users/interculture/, the ESRC project Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication (2003-6) www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/pic/ and the AHRC-funded Moving Manchester/ Mediating Marginalities (2005-09) www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/movingmanchester/. I am currently combining work on a publication for Cambridge University Press on Pragmatics and Cross-Cultural Communication with editing a special volume of the journal Regional Studies arising out of the 2006-07 Annual Research Programme of Lancaster University's Institute for Advanced Studies of which I was the Director www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/annualprogramme/regionalism/index.htm.
Function within the Center
Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (January-July 2011)
Research poject "The Pragmatics of Intercultural Communication"
Selected Publications
"Wanting to be wanted" : a comparative study of incidence and severity in indirect complaint on the part of French and English language teaching assistants', Journal of French Language Studies, January 2010, pp. 75-87 (with Jonathan Culpeper and Julia Harrison).
'Articulation, imagined space and virtual mobility in literary narratives of migration', Mobilities, 3.3, November, 2008, pp.455-469 (with Corinne Fowler).
'Migration and imagined space in Joe Pemberton's Forever and Ever Amen' in K.Korhonen (ed.) History and Theory Protocols, Vol. 7, 2008 http://bezalel.secured.co.il/zope/home/en/120117025.
'Lieux de mémoire, Monuments et Monumentalisme : la Portée symbolique de l'Architecture et de l'Archive dans l'Austerlitz de W.G.Sebald', in F. Mckintosh & J.Prugnaud (Eds.) Les Monuments du passé, Lille: CEGES, 2008, pp.169-183.
'Politics and Pragmatics in the Cross-cultural Management of "'Rapport"', Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 7 : 3, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2007, pp.217-239 (with Julia Harrison).
'Literature, metahistory, ethnography, cultural heritage and the Balkans: Ismail Kadare's The File on H.', in R.Byram and U. Kockel (eds.) Moving, Mixing and Memory in Contemporary Europe, Berlin: Lit. Verlag, 2006, pp.54-75.
'Le paradoxe de Prométhée': the case of L'Ordre du Discourse', in C. Forsdick and A. Stafford (eds.) The modern French essay: sociology, genre, writing, London: Peter Lang, 2005, pp.219-232.
The Intercultural Narrative, Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol.4: 1&2, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2004.
'Attesting the self: narration and identity change during periods of residence abroad', Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 1 : 2, Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, 2001, pp. 101-119.
Exploring French Text Analysis: Interpretations of National Identity, London: Routledge, 2000.
e-mail r.crawshaw[at]lancs.ac.uk


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The All-Ireland SFC semi-finals generated plenty of reaction on Twitter as age-old rivals Dublin and Kerry advanced to the Sam Maguire Cup decider on September 1...
Look at what changing from CoCo Pops to porridge can do 😂 pic.twitter.com/q7KIkM6R45— Eoin Liston (@EoinListon) August 9, 2019
Look it's very simple. A man has to do what a man has to do !!! 6'2 Sean Cavanagh and 6'7 Mick Quirke had to be interviewed for The Sunday Game down the sideline ...and I'm only 5'7 !!! Had to see into their eyes 👀!!! Thanks lads for the interview ! @TheSundayGame @RTEgaa pic.twitter.com/9xP3puGLnW— Marty Morrissey (@MartyM_RTE) August 11, 2019
At the #KERvTYR post-match press conference, Kerry manager Peter Keane was asked if he had seen the Dublin v Mayo match.— Adam Moynihan (@AdamMoynihan) August 12, 2019
"Nah." pic.twitter.com/T4ZoLN93pO
€90 for all stand tickets for all Ireland is shocking— Eddie Brennan (@NedzerB13) August 11, 2019
3/4 categories priced accordingly is needed ASAP https://t.co/I1rWvIlmC4
Looks like O'Brien might be ok? https://t.co/Vyx2CnoDZa— Eamon Mc Gee (@EamonMcGee) August 11, 2019
Jim Gavin was definitely handing out Michael Jordan's Secret Stuff from Space Jam at half time. #MonStars pic.twitter.com/NaEav24C2N— Darragh Buckley (@darraghbucks94) August 10, 2019
POTY 2019 done n dusted @CathalMcshane #GINGERNINGA— gregmccartan (@maceyebrow) August 11, 2019
#KERvTYR While #Dublin footballers seem a class apart at the moment, as @tomas5ky rightly points out @RTERadio1 the Minors & U-20s of #Kerry #Galway #Cork etc. bode well for senior competition in the future. Any #trueblue I know wants to be tested ! #Nurture— john creedon (@johncreedon) August 11, 2019
David Clifford. What a player. Kerry middle third improved massively with those substitutions. Work rate increased, crucial to the win. Cathal McShane aside, Tyrone attacking options were limited. #KERvTYR— Hawkeye Sidekick (@hawkeyesidekick) August 11, 2019
Congratulations to the @Galway_GAA Minors on beating Kerry in the All Ireland Minor Semi Final yesterday!!😎 A superb performance and an AMAZING achievement!! 😃👏🇶🇦#GalwayGAA #Supermacs #WinningTeam #ProudSponsor #GaillimhAbú https://t.co/JSWajdmzI5— Supermac's (@SupermacsIRE) August 12, 2019
I'm wearing this jersey with @EvanneNiC for Laura Brennan, her family who are left behind and for all the young people who have a chance to get the vaccine and be protected from the HPV virus. Let's stop HPV and #ProtectOurFuture #ThankYouLaura pic.twitter.com/p12NNiLLXS— Marie Crowe (@mariecrowe) August 11, 2019
Its Mullinavat AGAIN! @JJKavanaghBuses @KilkennyCLG County Senior Football Final REPLAY Mullinavat 1-13 @RailyardGFC 0-10— Mullinavat GAA (@GAAMullinavat) August 11, 2019
Well done to the team and management on an excellent three @kilkenny CLG SF titles in a row #vegasabu pic.twitter.com/nmlf2t3Bqa
Middletown Na Fianna hurlers win Armagh County final. 4 of 5 brothers play in the final. There dad part of the management team. pic.twitter.com/GCORaVB5y5— Edmond Gnol (@edmondgnol) August 10, 2019


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READ about Piers Morgan's long career in journalism here.
This evening, "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomed back Rick and Karen Santorum for their first sit down interview since the former senator suspended his campaign for the presidency. Joining Piers Morgan for a live face to face exclusive, the Santorums detailed everything from family and social issues, to politics and life on the campaign trail.
As Mitt Rommey inches closer to securing the GOP nomination, Morgan encouraged the Republican from Pennsylvania to make his intentions clear:
"Everyone assumes you've endorsed Mitt Romney tonight. Senator, just spit it out."
Santorum chose his words carefully:
"All I said was the obvious, which is Mitt Romney's going to be the nominee and I'm going to support the nominee whoever the nominee is. Period."
Sitting directly across from the man who once won three contests in a single night, the host encouraged his guest to remove his politician's hat.
"I'm a straight talker. I'll do everything I can to help him win," came Santorum's response.
"Including endorsing him?" followed Morgan.
"Absolutely," allowed the Senator.
And with that, the host was happy:
"That's all I wanted you to say. Thank you very much."
Watch the clip, and listen to the interview, as Morgan and Santorum discuss political life with Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee.
santorum is nothing but a petulant child. He never had a chance to get the nomination and would never be president. This isn't Iran and we don't need an evangelical taliban candidate like Santorum. He is shameless and a fringe candidate. The GOP doesnt need or want him.
It is a relief these idiots are out, I cannot imagine them in the White House running our country. They need to give people that run for president an IQ test before they can run. They used their daughter for sympathy like Sarah Palin and her little son, and it doesn't work.
Yes, I'm sure he is ecstatic that his daughter was born with a life threatening genetic disorder...
I think it would be wonderful too. It would ensure an Obama win.
I am dismayed that you let go by the comment about Bella when Karen expressed concern about Obamacare as it relates to Bella's condition. I have a daughter who is now 25. She has neurofibromatosis. She was going to be kicked off our insurance when she turned 24. Obama allowed her to stay on another few years. If insurance companies are allowed to not provide health care coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, then what do we do? The Santorums should thank President Obama for helping people with pre-exisiting conditions get health coverage, otherwise they might have to spend their fortune on Bella's medical bills from now until her expected outcome.
I am saddened that you did not challenge them on this point. But I also understand that you must be a friendly forum for all stripes. I kind of understand that. But Karen Santorum being allowed to get away with that comment really galls me.
I liked Rick Santorum. What matters is Abortion and he tried to stop it.
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First off, Perry is reversing his erstlhiwe passionate stance on letting states decide these issues, which reveals (if anyone doubted it) that he is nothing more than a calculating politician and cannot be trusted to stick even to his stated principles. Secondly, Perry, Bachmann, et al represent a political bloc that has forever assailed liberals for attempting to influence the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court, while conservatives in fact do this quite aggressively, as is shown by Perry's flip flop. No matter, his calculation will most likely prove insufficient to overcome a powerfully negative image. Even if Perry is nominated, which is far from certain, he will have to defeat an extremely well-funded sitting president who has proven himself a strong, canny campaigner with a firm grasp of issues. Many are citing Bush 2000 as reason to fear, but it will not be so easy for the GOP to rig the national elections a second time.
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Romney's election would be the greteast failure of the US. The thing is, the votes are RIGGED! No one is taking note of this. I've heard people that actually went to the precinct say this, there needs to be an investigation, and if the government won't do it, we the people must. That is our civic responsibility. We can no longer blame politicians while pleading apathy. There IS a better choice 2012. It is Ron Paul.
I was neutral on this subject


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Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Having "Copious Amounts of Anarchist Publications"
By Will Potter/ From Vice
An inmate in Illinois has been in solitary confinement since July for possessing "copious amounts of Anarchist publications" and "handwritten Anarchist related essays," according to prison documents.
Mark "Migs" Neiweem is a prisoner at the maximum security Pontiac Correctional Center who, in addition to the publications and his writings about the prison industrial complex, was also found in possession of anarchist symbols including a "Circle A" and "Circle E" (the latter, which stands for equality, is described in prison reports as representing "class warfare, the 99%").
"I've been doing this work since 1979 and I can't think of another case where someone has gotten a disciplinary report for something so obviously political as this," said Alan Mills, who is Neiweem's lawyer and a professor at Northwestern University.
Neiweem also had documents in his cell from the Anarchist Black Cross, which the Illinois Department of Correction says is "a political organization and openly supports those who have committed illegal activity in furtherance of revolutionary aims." That's a menacing way of saying that the group writes letters to prisoners and solicits donations so they can buy food from the prison commissary. (more…)


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Most of us are a few generations off the farm. We are probably living in a metropolitain area. We are probably earning decent incomes. We have insulated homes, heat, electricity, running water. We buy our organic groceries at a supermarket. We don't realize that most of the people who work on farms do so hoping that their children will get a good education and get a job living in the city. This includes our forefathers. Why? Because farming is a shitty way to make a living. It is not a hobby you perform on your off time with a $60,000 a year salary to earn during the day or a pension check coming in each month.
Californians are living in a complete delusion. They look at the pastoral pictures thinking that those people living in borderline poverty performing manual labor from dawn to dusk have the good life. Agriculture for most people in the world is a second or third world existence. They wish it on no one.
A majority of our food comes from industrial agriculture. Our quality of life and our ability to feed ourselves is dependent on large scale agriculture and agricultural science. And because of industrial agriculture only a few percent of the developed world's population works on farms. Even today most farmers in the developed world want their children to live and work in the city so they can enjoy a better quality of life. When we ask farmers to produce "organic" products we are actually reducing yield and the farmers are making less money. Our romantic notions about agriculture are actually imposing more work for less return upon the world's farmers. Organic agriculture is a formula for poverty.
For most of the world, growing and eating locally is not viable. Many regions have short growing seasons that greatly reduce the number and type of crops that can be grown. Yes, staples can often be grown locally during one season, but winter and the need for nutrition and variety of diet requires long distance transport of produce. California is the exception, not the rule, and should not dictate agricultural policy for the rest of the world. Fuck local.
The world does not want to be hungry. In many cases scarcity in other countries is due to our food fetishes or our food phobias. Let the people of the world coordinate the growing of crops to feed themselves using the latest techniques of agriculture and aquaculture. Yes, one company owning all seed varieties is a crime against humanity. However, there are good agriculturalists who can apply large scale agriculture for our benefit.
Think Global. Let Us All Eat Bread, Meat, Poultry, Fish, Fruit and Vegetables Year Round. Cake, too.


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Colon surrenders back-to-back-to-back homers in first
Angels pile on 11 more runs; Wright and Murphy ejected
ANAHEIM -- The Mets arrived in Southern California a cheerful bunch, fresh off a series win over the Braves and eager to further their momentum. A few miles down the road from the Happiest Place on Earth, the Mets looked and acted the part.
Sixty hours later they left exhausted, beaten, even a little angry. The Angels had spent Sunday blasting their staff veteran, Bartolo Colon, for nine runs in a 14-2 loss, undoing much of the good work the Mets accomplished earlier in the week. If Anaheim is home to the earth's happiest place, the Mets were happy simply to leave.
"This was just a flat-out beating," said third baseman David Wright, one of two Mets players ejected for arguing balls and strikes in the game.
At least the Angels did their beating efficiently. Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Raul Ibanez hit back-to-back-to-back home runs off Colon in the first, and Kole Calhoun came a foot or two shy of making it four in a row. Calhoun settled for a double, scoring anyway on an Ian Stewart hit later in the inning.
"At that moment, you're not thinking, 'Why is this happening?'" Colon said through an interpreter. "It's just part of the game."
From there, the rout was on.
The Angels made it 7-1 on Erick Aybar's two-run triple and J.B. Shuck's run-scoring single in the fourth. They made it 9-2 on Hank Conger's two-run blast -- and none of these homers were cheap ones -- in the fifth. They made it 11-2 when Scott Rice gave up runs on a bases-loaded walk and a wild pitch in the sixth. They made it 14-2 on another wild pitch and Ian Stewart's two-run homer -- Anaheim's fifth of the afternoon -- off John Lannan in the eighth.
By that point, Wright and Daniel Murphy were angry enough about home-plate umpire Toby Basner's strike zone that they had earned simultaneous ejections in the seventh for chirping from the dugout and the rest of the team's frustration was apparent. When asked about Trout, who went 7-for-15 with two home runs in the three-game series, Collins said simply: "Yeah. He's good."
The Angels were all good in this one, coming up two shy of their franchise record for extra-base hits. This marked the first time since 2003 that Colon had allowed nine earned runs in a game, and it came directly after his best outing of the season -- a seven-inning blanking of the Braves on Tuesday.
"That was big," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "Bartolo's tough if you let him get going. The mistakes he made early, we didn't miss. We hit them hard."
Despite all that, the Mets actually held a lead for the 11th time in 12 games this season, when Wright touched C.J. Wilson for an RBI single in the first. That turned out to be their high point of the day.
"We knew we were facing one of the better left-handers in the game, so we knew that runs were probably going to be at a minimum," said Wright, who deflected questions about his ejection. "To get one early felt pretty good. And then it just wasn't Bart's day today. From what I've seen from him, those days are few and far between."
Colon has started three games now for the Mets. One has been excellent, one has been adequate and one has been poor. If it's consistency the Mets are hunting, they have not yet found it in their 40-year-old starter. But they remain as confident as ever in his track record.
It had, after all, been 11 years since any team had so thoroughly pummeled Colon in an outing. It had been four years since any Mets pitcher had given up nine runs in a game.
The Mets did not invest $20 million in Colon this winter expecting anything like this. So they are confident they won't see anything like it again.
"We've bounced back a couple times," Wright said. "We've kind of given away a couple games that we should be winning. It's tough to take positives out of that, but at the end of the day, we're putting ourselves in position to win some games, and we need to take advantage of that."


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