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First there was the violence and now there is the justice.
After nearly five nights of violence in towns and cities across England, riot suspects are appearing before the courts where magistrates and judges are under pressure from politicians to hand out severe punishments.
In London, the City of Westminster Magistrates Court remained open all night to deal with a backlog of riot suspects held in custody since trouble erupted Aug. 6. Police say some were arrested at the scene of crimes, while others were arrested after having been identified by surveillance cameras or witnesses.
In a speech to the recalled British parliament, Prime Minster David Cameron said there had been more than 1,200 arrests across England, including 922 in London alone.
"It is criminality pure and simple. And there is absolutely no excuse for it," he told members of Parliament. "We have seen houses, offices, and shops raided and torched, police officers assaulted and fire crews attacked as they try to put out fires, people robbing others while they lie injured and bleeding in the street, and even three innocent people being deliberately run over and killed in Birmingham.
"We will not put up with this in our country. We will not allow a culture of fear to exist on our streets," he said. "And we will do whatever it takes to restore law and order and to rebuild our communities."
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Suspects range from a postman to a millionaire's teen daughter
Despite public outrage few people have turned up at courts to see justice meted out.
At Camberwell Green Magistrates Court, south London, David Pickering from Brixton was the sole person sitting in the public benches waiting to see the court proceedings. He said: "I just wanted to see their faces and who they are. I'm angry about what's happened and want to know why think they can break windows and steal from shops as if it doesn't matter."
In the dock was Piotr Dziedzic, a Polish immigrant who police found in a betting shop in Clapham. Charged with burglary with intent to steal, he appeared indifferent to the charges. He was not required to enter a plea and was remanded in custody.
Teenage friends Shourov Chowdhury and Byron Cawley claimed they were "good guys" despite admitting burglary at a supermarket in Croydon, stealing alcohol and sweets. They will be sentenced later.
Others on the court list face similar charges ranging from burglary to possessing an offensive weapon.
At Westminster magistrates court it was revealed that university graduate Natasha Reid had handed herself into police because she was "unable to sleep" after stealing a television from an electrical store in north London.
Despite Ms. Reid acknowledging her remorse and guilty plea, district judge Elizabeth Roscoe said she still faced prison ahead of sentencing because of the serious nature of the offenses.
In other courts the faces of those allegedly taking part in the riots emerged and many were not the impoverished stereotypes assumed to have been behind events. They included a postman, school mentor, students, a lifeguard, a charity worker, and a millionaire's teenage daughter, Laura Johnson, accused of stealing £5,000 ($8,100) worth of electrical gear from a chain store in southeast London.
Perhaps most shocking was the appearance of an 11-year-old boy at Highbury court in north London and a 12-year-old in Manchester, both charged with looting and stealing.
Peace largely restored
While the courts deal with the list of defendants, peace has largely been restored in London – where 16,000 police will again be patrolling tonight – and other cities such as Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Manchester and Liverpool.
Insurance experts have estimated that claims from riot-hit businesses could run to £200 million ($324 million). Many smaller traders, already struggling in the recession, do not have insurance. In his speech today, Mr Cameron announced a £20 million ($32 million) program to help affected businesses and a £10 million ($16 million) recovery package to help local councils pay for the riot damage.
In a shift away from traditional British policing, Mr. Cameron said police might be allowed to spray rioters with dye to help identify troublemakers, possibly from water cannon.
He also said that police might be given new powers to remove face masks, possible bans on would-be rioters using social-network sites to encourage trouble, and initiatives to stop the spread of gang culture. He cited the successful implementation of the task force set up in Glasgow, Scotland, in 2008 to combat gang membership and the Boston cease-fire project set up in the 1990s.
Cameron pressured to curtail budget cuts on police
Cameron, despite earning plaudits since returning from holiday on Tuesday to take charge of the crisis, is coming under increasing pressure to stop police budget cuts because of the credit crunch, which critics say will lead to as many 16,000 officers lose their jobs.
Opposition leader Ed Miliband of the Labour Party said: "The events of the last few days have been a stark reminder to us all that police on our streets make our communities safer and make the public feel safer.
"Given the absolute priority the public attaches to a visible and active police presence, does the prime minister understand why they would think it is not right that he goes ahead with the cuts to police numbers? Will he now think again on this issue?"
He was joined by London mayor Boris Johnson, a conservative colleague and Oxford University friend of Cameron. He told the BBC: "If you ask me whether I think there is a case for cutting police budgets in the light of these events, then my answer to that would be a 'no.' "


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John Boehner wearing Ed Hardy ties now? Becomes official representative of douchebags everywhere
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Ed Hardy douche bag plague claims House Minority leader John Boehner
The French designer of Ed Hardy, Christian Audigier, always dreamed of coming to the United States and shitting on every product in our everyday lives. For, the most part he's succeeded, as Ed Hardy is on everything from carpet cleaning sprays, incense. tampons and now around John Boehner's neck. It is being reported that Boehner signed an exclusive contract with Audigier, in which he'll wear Hardy's crayola-diarrhea neck apparel in return for a large campaign donation come this fall from Audigier. Is the GOP that desperate for cash? Maybe…. Is Boehner now the official d-bag party representative? Yes, was there ever a doubt?

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Mario11779 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 98 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
We are opening up a new concept of homestyle quality food delivered or picked up with the convienience of a sit in dining area. Our quality of food is 2 steps up from Applebees but a step down from a gourmet restaurant. Our niche is large portions of Italian and American comfort food at a relatively affordable price.
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My name is James Gividen. I am a resident at Signature HealthCare of Trimble County, and I've been here for 14 months.
I am responding to an ad that was placed on the back page of the Trimble Banner (Dec. 14, 2011) that said our Signature nursing home is not a good place.
I want to say that it is a good place. I'd recommend it to anyone who needs to be in a nursing home. The nursing staff is excellent. The kitchen staff is excellent. The place is very clean.
The Trimble County Youth In Need Holiday Assistance Program has been able this season to provide well over 200 youth and more than 90 families with gifts and food for Christmas. This is a yearly service that is provided through the Trimble County Schools Family Resource Center and the Youth Services Center.
My family and I live on Wentworth Road, neighboring the land LG&E has designated for the proposed ash landfill. Lately, we have been subjected to constant large truck traffic from 6 in the morning to as late as 8 at night. In the last two weeks, it has been extended to include Saturdays and, this past weekend, they worked all day Sunday.
I wish to thank everyone who participated in the Community Thanksgiving dinner at the Morgan Community Center. The food was delicious. Everyone who helped prepare the food, servers, clean up crew, everyone involved, I cannot thank you enough. I hope to see everyone next year. If you have any comments good or bad please contact me so we can discuss the matter.
Rita Davis
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Is there no shame in Trimble County?
I can remember that 10 years ago when a special interest group of people were crying about how we needed zoning here. They said that if not passed the lower class of people would destroy Trimble County by moving in with their trailers, drinking, their drugs and trashing our beloved county. It did not happen.
The Bedford Elementary School PTA would like to thank the community for their support of the 2011 BES Fall Festival. We had a great turnout for the food, games, raffle, and auction.
The Fall Festival was a huge success, because of your donations, support, and time. The faculty, staff, and students are grateful to have such a wonderful and involved community that truly cares about the success of their young people.
Once again I would like to applaud Nolan Hamilton for his stand against the Sunday sale of wine. He is serving the county well. After attending the court meeting the other day I feel like most of the county is against this ordinance. I saw people from different parts of the county. I have come to realize the only thing left to do is at the ballot box. So, friends, be sure to vote in the next election. We must do all we can to stand against things like this.
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A lot of people don't know who we are and what we do. We are there if you need us to be. The Trimble County Emergency Search Unit is a group of wonderful skilled and trained volunteers that help to find lost and missing persons and that's why I joined the team three years ago. I am a single mother of three, very proud of them all and I try to make them proud of me in all I do now. I am very glad this unit is there if I ever need them to be called upon to find my children if they ever wondered off.
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King's message of nonviolence resonates
There's never a shortage of oversimplifications and stretched analogies this time of year, Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
A public relations stunt is even trying to "honor" King with Saturday's Gun Appreciation Day. They want people to rally at gun shops and shooting ranges.
That's hardly the way to regard a man assassinated by gunfire. Now the temptation will be to draw conclusions about how King would view gun violence and the White House efforts to control it.
First, understand that King initially accepted nonviolence only as a practical matter. Later it became a moral conviction.
Author and theologian James H. Cone explains this in the book "Martin & Malcolm & America." King didn't begin such historic actions as the Montgomery bus boycott with a philosophy of nonviolence, nor did he have it when his home was firebombed on Jan. 30, 1956. King resorted to armed guards.
But King faced the reality that lives would be lost if he appeared to advocate for violence. King couldn't call for black people to meet resistance to social change with force or weapons. Numbers, the police presence then, meant that would only result in slaughter.
He also began to see that violence begets violence. Today that truth is seen in retaliatory killings, drive-by shootings and the sort of gunslinging that has recently caused the accidental shooting deaths of little children in the metro area.
The power of nonviolence, King argued, is how it disarmed people. In King's view, it had power over people who wanted to maintain a segregated society, one that treated racial minorities and the poor as lesser beings.
To grasp where King was coming from, a person needs to move beyond the mentality of an eye for an eye, a slap for a slap, a bullet for a bullet.
The bully, the person quick to aggression, sees the nonviolent person as the weaker, the one lacking courage.
But that's rarely the case.
It's the one who reaches first for the weapon who more often lacks self-control, and often broader insights.
It's important not to assume what a man dead nearly 45 years would say about the specifics of current social issues.
But it's merely accurate to note that King believed in the power of nonviolence to transform people and societies.
King believed nonviolence's greatest power was in what it does "to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect. It calls on resources of strength and courage that they did not know they had."
Nonviolence, King argued, "helps you to work for something that is morally right."
It's an approach that worked for civil rights. And it offers a viable framework for current struggles to balance the rights to self-defense, mental health and living in a peaceful society.


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Equity Point Prague is in a brand new refurbished building in the heart of the old town. The building is located in Ostrovni Street, a few steps away from Slavia café and at barely 5 minutes walking from the Karlúv Most (Charles Bridge) and 10 minutes walking from the main Square with the famous clock.
The building has been renovated to reach Equity Point's quality standards. Wooden floors, granite staircases, modern bathrooms with colored tiles and double window panes to keep the building warm in winter.
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The dining room area are decorated with a modern version of the typical wooden chair of the Czech Republic.
There is also a kitchen available for guests in case our clients feel so comfortable at our Hostel that don't want to go out for lunch or dinner.
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All content except the introduction on the home page was originally published on ficlets and was all licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License.
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(AP) — Officials say an Amtrak locomotive on a train bound for Chicago has derailed in Michigan.
The Times Herald of Port Huron reports the train had just left a station in Port Huron on Wednesday morning when the engine tipped off the rails.
No injuries were reported on the train, which had 14 passengers.
Amtrak spokesman Marc Magliari says the locomotive was to be disconnected from the rest of the train before passengers make their trip.
Port Huron is about 55 miles northeast of Detroit. The cause of the derailment is under investigation.


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EU Copyright Holders Cling To Old Levies, As New Ones Start To Appear On Cloud Storage
from the time-to-stop-this-nonsense dept
Levies on blank storage media are a relic of older times when copying was a new possibility for copyright works. You no longer needed an LP pressing plant, say, you could copy music in the comfort of your own home, first on analog cassette tapes, then later on digital media like CDs and MP3 players. At that time, it was easy to see each of those copies as somehow replacing purchases, and so the argument for levies was born: people should pay indirectly for the "lost" sales their copying caused.
Fast forward to the Internet age, when everything online is copied multiple times as it traverses the nodes of the network, and where everyone is constantly copying files, regardless of copyright law -- with a potential annual liability of around $4.5 billion, according to a well-known study by John Tehranian. Basically, the idea that every copy of a digital file must be paid for is dead, which makes levies on storage media -- currently being pushed to absurd levels in some countries -- look even more unjustifiable.
Even the copyright holders are aware of this. A new "Declaration on Private Copying Remuneration" (pdf), pointed out to us by an article in Intellectual Property Watch, tries to convince people that levies are fair:
Private copying is becoming a more and more frequent subject of debate. The companies which market copying devices are systematically attacking the system through European and national courts, lobbying and through the press. On behalf of hundreds of thousands of creators we, the undersigned organisations representing authors, performers and producers of musical, audiovisual, literary and visual arts works, feel the need to give a reminder of why private copying combined with fair remuneration remains essential.
But its attempted justification fails right at the start:
Over 50 years ago, the first commercially available recording devices created a dilemma. Copyright as it stood at the time required permission for each act of copying of protected works. It was practically impossible for private users to get permission whenever they wanted to copy something. At the same time, rightsholders were clearly entitled to remuneration for such use of their
Well, no: they are not "clearly" entitled at all. When people pay for music or videos, they pay for the ability to enjoy them, possibly on a range of different devices. Making copies of CD tracks to an MP3 player, or of DVDs to a tablet does not entitle copyright holders to any more money, since they have done nothing extra to deserve additional remuneration. They produced the work, they were paid for the work, end of the story. The fact that copyright does not allow such reasonable, everyday actions without "exceptions" just shows that it is unfit for the modern world, where personal copies are ubiquitous.
To resolve this, the vast majority of European countries allowed private copying as long as remuneration was paid to the rightsholders. These national pieces of legislation were brought together at European level in 2001, reiterating the necessity of rightholder remuneration.
Against this background of increasing irrelevance for copyright levies, it's a shame to see the European Commission meekly accepting their imposition on cloud-based storage systems. Here's what it writes in one of the documents (pdf) accompanying its new strategy for "Unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe":
Currently, depending on the national private copy levy system, private copy levies are being asked for the storage media and the hard ware used by consumers in the context of cloudservices.
But trying to impose a complicated set of differing national levies on cloud computing services will simply reproduce the huge problems that a fragmented copyright licensing market is causing for startups in the EU. Moreover, cloud computing actually reduces the need for levies altogether, as the same paper points out:
Some of the technologies applied in the digital context, such as streaming, have the potential of reducing the number of copies which are actually made on consumer devices. Cloud computing services, where end-users are actually replicating less on their personal local devices have been seen as a game changer, making the private copy levy concept less appropriate, as digital technology advances.
Rather than permit an outdated system to throttle innovative cloud services in Europe, the Commission should use the shift to this technology to kill off the private copying levy once and for all.
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Energy and utility markets to embrace tech innovationsThe global energy and utility markets - which were traditionally seen to be conservative and slow moving - look set to embrace technological innovations over the coming year, if a new Gartner report is to be believed.
Gartner noted that the energy and utility markets are set for numerous challenges over the coming years, with the likes of environmental sensitivity, ever-changing policies and heightened consumer expectations providing potential stumbling blocks.
To combat this, however, the sectors appear to be turning to solutions they have historically avoided - the tech industry. Not only that, it could embrace some of the newest, most cutting-edge solutions that even those in other industries which typically work more closely with technology have so far avoided.
In light of all this, Gartner found ten different new tech options that could help the industry, or which have already started seeing interest. These were, in no particular order; social media and web 2.0; big data; mobile and location-aware technology; cloud computing and SaaS; sensor technology; in-memory computing; IT and OT convergence; advanced metering infrastructure; communication technology; and predictive analytics.
Below are four of the ten and the ways in which they could provide a boost to the energy and utilities markets.
Mobile and location-aware technology
Mobile tech has been used to great effect in the retail industry, with ads being tailored to whoever happens to be close by when they log on. For the utilities market, however, this technology can be used to lower costs whilst also improving overall accuracy and effectiveness. It allows sharing of information at high speeds whilst also automating geographical information, thus removing the chance of any mistakes.
Cloud computing and SaaS
The energy industry is thought to be among those which has had a slow uptake where cloud computing is concerned. Sharing the traditional fears of security and potential downtime, many businesses have so far avoided using the tech, despite countless reports claiming that such concerns are unfounded.
This resistance could soon be a thing of the past, however, with smaller firms and co-operatives that don't have extensive infrastructure or budget seeing that cloud options could speed up their processes whilst having just a minimal impact on production systems.
Sensor technology
Utility companies can utilise sensors in their entire supply, transmission and distribution domains. Furthermore, as previous concerns such as shielding, temperature protection, remote access and ruggedness are alleviated with new developments, this could become an even more central aspect of operations.
Communication technology
Improved communication technology should give the utilities industry significantly better asset management and much more efficient working practices. It could mean, however, using familiar systems with different approaches.
Gartner noted: "The smart grid drive toward better observability of the distribution network requires machine-to-machine (M2M) monitoring systems that are similar in function to low bandwidth SCADA, but use different communication technologies and approaches (such as personal-area networks [PANs], HANs, FANs, substation, control center and enterprise LANs, and shared wide area networks)."


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(Before we bring on today's Wreckage, let us pause to pray to the literary powers-that-be that the English-to-Spanish translation site I just used isn't some frat-boy prank, and that "cascajo" doesn't actually mean something like "beaver toe." [closing eyes] Pleasepleasepleaseplease.)
As a refresher, here's what Dora the Explorer, the spunky Spanish-teaching cartoon character, usually looks like:
And here she is looking at you, kid.
Here she's lost a nose but gained a lovely tan:
Lastly, though, is a truly "special" Dora. A Dora that stands out in the crowd. A Dora that says, "my baker sees the world a little differently." A "manager's special" Dora, if you will:
Karin D., Jenn E., Derek C., por favor manténganse se alejado de las puertas.
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If you are fortunate enough to be friended by me on Face Book, you are undoubtedly aware of the great sacrifice I made on Saturday night at 7:30 pm. If you are not one of the chosen few, here is how it went down. In hopes of breaking the dreaded "streak" which began the same year I introduced myself to the Clark County public school system as a kindergartener, I made a major move. I decided to not watch the Kentucky v. Florida game live. I decided to leave my modest home for a place where there would not be a TV, radio, and I promised not to check my phone for the entirety of the contest. I did all of this for my beloved Wildcats, and for my wife, for whom I had purchased tickets to the Jason Aldean – Florida Georgia Line concert for Mother's Day. Here is how it went down…
First, let me say, for all of you parents out there that raised your daughters to believe it is perfectly acceptable to wear nearly nothing to concerts… Bless you! I don't have the best eyesight, so when I can tell you are not wearing much more than a pair of boots, you probably aren't wearing much more than a pair of boots. You girls can't all be groupies, so what are your "hopes" for the evening? And where were you about 10 years ago? I didn't think my mind would be able to be distracted from the fact I was not watching the Cats, but… it was.
We saw some people we knew before the concert got started up and I could tell immediately, seeing the Pedigos out and about minutes before a Kentucky kickoff is a very surprising sight for many. It seemed very comparable to a Bigfoot sighting or seeing a Louisville fan without a line beard. People were actually shocked when they caught a glimpse of us strolling Rupp's corridors. I must say, it was a very uncomfortable feeling for me too. I felt as naked as those girls lining up for fireball shots all over the damn place in their boots, and not much more than their boots.
Once we arrived to our seats, I got settled in a bit to my situation. I did very well as far as our tickets went. Floor seats, basically front row. There were only a few nearly nude girls standing between us and Jason Aldean occasionally. I knew going in that the Florida Georgia Line boys and Jason Aldean were all Georgia Bulldog fans, so I anticipated that they would probably give the score of the game, as long as it was good for the Cats. After FGL didn't give the score during their set, I was a bit worried. Then, as expected, in his set, Aldean started talking about how his Bulldogs had just lost to SC, so, tonight, he was a Kentucky Wildcat fan, because he hates Florida. He then said, "Kentucky 10 Florida 6. 20,000 strong went nuts, and that number included yours truly. I was immediately on edge for the remainder of the show. I never checked my phone, I never grabbed the radio, but I really wanted to. My wife kept making comments about "staying in Lexington" and "What are we going to do afterwards" that made me think, she knows something, and it sounds good. Some might think she was giving me hints about something other than celebrating a Cats victory, but I know her fairly well, she wasn't.
Before the show started, we ran into Coach Mitchell and his wife. It was a quick interaction, but as soon as the concert ended, the two of them were with us at our seats. I could no longer take it and grabbed the headphones to tune in Tommy Leach. I was losing my mind and the unknown was overwhelming! I tuned in just in time to hear, "Florida 23 Kentucky 20, and the Cats will have the ball". I yelled out the score and probably ruined the plans of those around me who had DVRed the game and were going home to watch it, but I didn't care. This might have been the case for Matthew Mitchell who was still standing beside me and I had totally forgotten that fact. I yelled the score at him, because the speakers we sat by had completely blown my ear drums out, that we were down 3 with the ball and he seemed as excited as I was!
My mom worked the concert with our friend JC, and they were going to give us a ride home. We hustled out the backstage to get to mom's truck and more importantly, her radio. We got there in time to hear the Cats move the ball down the field into field goal range. We were surrounded by tour busses, trailers, and those nearly naked groupie gals wearing boots as we blasted the call in the Rupp lot. AS the first field goal attempt went through, only to be erased by a penalty, I screamed out "son of a b..ch!" and one of the groupie booted women thought I was yelling at her. It was intense back there BBN! When the 2nd attempt was in the air and I heard the Florida fans start to cheer in the background, I thought it was over, but… Leach said it was good and it was as much fun for a few moments as we have had with UK football for years! We drove through Lexington for all 3 overtimes, with my wife screaming out the window to random people until the battle was lost.
As crushed as I was Saturday night, I am that much more excited today about our Cats! I hope that all of BBN will join us on September 27 when our Cats return to do battle with Vanderbilt in our ol' Kentucky home! Our Cats have shown how much fight they have in them, now let's show them how much fight we have in BBN! Get there early, stay the ENTIRE game, no matter the score, and let's celebrate together the greatness that is the Cats, girls in nothing but boots and the University of Kentucky football program! C! A! T! S!


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Graduation is around the corner and so we needed a playlist of the best graduation songs, because a great playlist makes life better for just about everything.
Anticipation is in the air. There's an excitement that summer is within our grasp. But there's also a sense of transition. It's graduation time and many of us or our friends are moving on to bigger and better things. To deal with the mixed bag of emotions, we created a playlist of the best graduation songs that speaks to friendship, nostalgia and moving on to whatever life has in store. Dry your eyes, hug your friends and give a listen. It's not goodbye...it's I'll see ya later!
Jordin Sparks- One Step at a Time Nothing like inspiration and a great pair of heels...
Skillet- Say Goodbye A tearjerker. For sure.
All-American Rejects- The Last Song "As I leave, will you be the someone to say goodbye As I leave will you be someone to wipe your eye My foot is out the door and you can't stop me now." Good grief. Will someone pass the hankies?
More of our best graduation songs for inspiration and friendship...
Vitamin C-Graduation Song Rod Stewart-Forever Young Taylor Swift- Never Grow Up Jimmy Eat World- The Middle Green Day- Good Riddance Kimya Dawson- Tree Hugger Eve 6- Here's to the Night The Nixons- Sister Cracker- Friends Beatles- In My Life Sarah McLachlan- I Will Remember You Tim McGraw- My Old Friend Chris Isack- Graduation Day The Velvet Underground- She's My Best Friend Drivin' N Cryin'-The Friend Song The Weepies- Can't Go Back Now Nada Surf- When I Was Young Israel Kamakawiwo'ole- Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World Lynard Skynard- Freebird Coldplay- Yellow Alphaville- Young Forever (check out the Jay-Z remix too!)
UPDATE: We've added to our list with a new post and instant playlist of our favorite NEW graduation songs and some that weren't included on this list! Just click the link :lol:


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The meaning of hand gestures vary drastically from culture to culture. Flash someone a well-meaning "thumbs up" sign in Russia, and they'll interpret it as a vulgar insult.
Rude Hand Gestures of the World: A Guide to Offending without Words, a new title from Chronicle Books, delves into the varied interpretations of hand signals around the planet.
Author Romana Lefevre spends half the year traveling the world studying offensive language patterns of different cultures.
It's a great read if you're traveling to foreign countries and don't want to offend the people you meet along the way (or if you do, for that matter).
The publisher has been kind enough to share a few choice gestures with us.


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1. The enactment of K.S.A. 23-201(b) did not modify the common law of Kansas.
2. Upon the filing of a divorce or separation action, the common law recognizes the existence of a species of common or co-ownership in all marital property.
3. Under the facts of this case, the doctrine of species of common or co-ownership is not applicable to interpret the parties' separation agreement.
4. If a trial court reaches the right result, its decision will be upheld on appeal even though the trial court relied upon the wrong ground or assigned erroneous reasons for its decision.
Appeal from Johnson District Court, PATRICK D. MCANANY, judge. Opinion filed May 4, 2001. Affirmed.
Steven L. Passer, John H. Johntz, Jr., and Donald R. Whitney, of Payne & Jones, Chartered, of Overland Park, for appellant.
J. Eugene Balloun and Scott C. Nehrbass, of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P., of Overland Park, for appellee.
Before GERNON, P.J., KNUDSON and BEIER, JJ.
KNUDSON, J.: In this post-divorce proceeding, L.T. Watson (petitioner) appeals the district court's interpretation of the separation agreement entered into by petitioner and her husband, T.S. Watson (respondent), during the pendency of their divorce. The court found the parties' agreement as incorporated in the final decree was unambiguous and contemplated that the responsibility for any capital gains tax liability generated by the sale of certain stock in Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., would be shared equally by the parties.
The court's ruling was based upon the doctrine of species of common ownership in marital property as explained in Cady v. Cady, 224 Kan. 339, 581 P.2d 358 (1978), and subsequent cases of the Kansas Supreme Court. We affirm the trial court's decision, although our analysis differs.
The respondent is a well-known and highly successful professional golfer. Assured Management Company (AMC) has managed the financial affairs of the Watsons for many years. The petitioner's brother, Charles E. Rubin, is a principal of AMC. Among the parties' assets was respondent's 84 percent beneficiary interest in an inter vivos trust holding 374,846 shares of common stock of Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. Rubin was the sole trustee and another beneficiary. On July 8, 1998, Rubin sold the stock for $14,251,176. The share of the proceeds attributable to the beneficial interest held by respondent was $11,942,475. The capital gains tax approximates $3,000,000.
Petitioner filed this divorce action on December 15, 1997. Throughout the divorce, the parties were each represented by skilled and respected attorneys. AMC prepared a marital balance sheet disclosing the parties' assets, liabilities, and net worth as of June 30, 1998. That balance sheet was made an exhibit to the parties' separation agreement, which was signed on September 16, 1998,--not so coincidentally, the same date their divorce was granted and the agreement approved and incorporated into the decree by the district court.
The relevant sections of the separation agreement state:
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"4. Assets to be Divided Equally in Kind. That the following assets shall be divided equally in kind between the parties:
"Commerce Bank Checking (and all other bank or other financial institution accounts . . . . )
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"'Investments' (as denominated in the accounting by Assured Management Company [and] as shown on the attached Exhibit 1) . . . .
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"1. 1998 Federal and State Income Tax Returns. The parties shall file separate federal and state income tax returns for 1998 . . . .
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"4. Role of Assured Management Company. That unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties, the determination of federal and state income taxes attributable to unrecognized capital gains (net of unrecognized capital losses), and the mechanics of effectuating divisions of the parties' assets agreed to herein, shall be determined and handled by Assured Management Company."
Exhibit 1 referred to in § III, ¶ 4 of the parties' separation agreement is the parties' balance sheet of June 30, 1998, prepared by AMC. The Coca-Cola stock is listed on that balance sheet as an investment with a fair market value of $1,557,141.28. It is fair to say the parties negotiated their settlement based upon the financial information given in exhibit 1.
At the divorce hearing before the trial judge, the petitioner presented uncontested evidence to satisfy the district court that a divorce should be granted and the parties' separation agreement approved. The judge granted the divorce and then stated:
"I've reviewed [the separation agreement], and on its face it appears to comprehensively dispose of the assets and liabilities of the parties in a fair and equitable manner. It appears to have been done so after full disclosure of those assets and liabilities. And based upon that, I'll approve that and incorporate that into the Court's decree of divorce."
When the court was finished with its rulings, counsel was asked if there was anything further. The following discussion then occurred:
"MR. JOHNTZ [counsel for petitioner]: Judge, now that you're mentioning that, the--actually, believe it or not, the net worth of the parties increased the month after in July with a capital gain, increasing it from what may show there, around 20 some, to close to, I think after tax, maybe 35. Since you made reference to that--it's basically from a [In re Marriage of Kirk, 24 Kan. App. 2d 31, 941 P.2d 385, rev. denied 262 Kan. 961 (1997),] independent decision, let me disclose that. But let me say also, essentially, since the matter provides for a 50/50 division of everything, it's really not technically relevant, but it is entirely different than that before you.
"MR. WAXSE [counsel for respondent]: That's a correct statement.
"THE COURT: It's a rising tide.
"MR. JOHNTZ: And interestingly, Judge, it was not one of the rising tides that then came back down because the--as luck would have it, again, the asset got sold and so the capital gain was locked in.
"THE COURT: I suspect a little more than luck involved in that. In any event, I think it's a fair and equitable distribution. I'll approve it." (Emphasis added.)
Subsequently, pursuant to § III, ¶ 4 of the parties' agreement, AMC divided the Coca-Cola proceeds equally between the parties, with no funds retained to pay capital gains taxes.
Because the stock had been held by an inter vivos trust with respondent as beneficiary, his Form 1099 reflected all of the parties' taxable gain from sale of the stock. Petitioner has denied that she is in any way responsible for paying her proportionate share of the capital gains tax. Respondent contends the agreement, together with the statements of counsel at the divorce hearing, demonstrate the parties' mutual intent to divide the proceeds from sale of the stock equally after taxes. Petitioner argues that the separation agreement provides unambiguously that she was entitled to one-half of the monies in the parties' account and that each of the parties is to pay his or her own income taxes for 1998. She defines the entire amount due for the capital gain on the Coca-Cola stock as respondent's liability.
After considering the arguments of counsel, the trial court stated in its ruling:
"Petitioner correctly observes that the language in the separation agreement is clear and unambiguous in that the 'investments' are to be equally divided between the parties and each is to file his or her separate income tax returns for 1998, the year in which the gain was realized. However, that observation begs the question of who, in fact, realized the gain upon which taxes were to be paid. Thus, the issue is not the interpretation of the contract, but rather an independent legal determination as to the ownership of the trust assets at the time they were sold and the gain realized.
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"Under Kansas law the filing of the petition in this case created a species of common or co-ownership in the trust property. The extent of that ownership had to await the determination by the court in its approval of the separation agreement. Here, the trust assets were sold before the entry of the divorce decree. However, at the time of the filing of the divorce action, and at the time of the sale, the parties were co-owners of the trust assets; and they ultimately agreed, and the court ordered, that each should receive one-half of the trust assets or, in this case, the proceeds from the sale of those assets.
"Cady and [In re Marriage of Smith, 241 Kan. 249, 737 P.2d 469 (1987),] control this case. The trust assets, although titled to the respondent, were held in a species of common or co-ownership with petitioner. Therefore, petitioner was co-owner of the trust assets at the time of their sale. Since the sale of the trust assets was a taxable event, as a co-owner petitioner recognized a gain on the transaction to the extent of her proportional interest in the sale proceeds. Therefore, in accordance with ¶ IV. 1, petitioner is liable for the tax on her one-half of the gain."
L.T.'s motion to alter or amend was denied and a timely appeal has been filed contesting the trial court's subject matter jurisdiction and application of the species of common ownership concept requiring petitioner to pay one-half of the capital gains tax that is owed.
L.T. contends the trial court was without subject matter jurisdiction to decide "petitioner is liable for the tax on her one-half of the gain." L.T. argues that who should pay the capital gains tax is a federal question not to be resolved in a state proceeding. Our standard of review on jurisdictional questions is unlimited. See In re Marriage of Killman, 23 Kan. App. 2d 975, 976, 939 P.2d 970 (1997), rev'd on other grounds 264 Kan. 33, 955 P.2d 1228 (1998).
T.S. counters that the trial court did not determine the federal question of personal income tax liability for either party. Upon L.T.'s motion to alter or amend, the trial court clarified its ruling, stating:
"I'm not suggesting and not ordering that one party pay to the other party anything or pay to the federal government anything. The parties are going to file their own tax returns based on however they think they--they can support it and this I'm sure will be some evidence as to--as to which is the correct interpretation."
In Cady, 224 Kan. at 341, the court stated:
"Under federal tax statutes a taxable transfer presents a question controlled by federal law. State law may control only in [the] event the federal tax law, by express language or necessary implication, makes operation of the tax law dependent upon state law. (Lyeth v. Hoey, 305 U.S. 188, 83 L. Ed. 119, 59 S. Ct. 155 [1938].) Where state law controls, federal courts must ascertain and apply state law. (Huddleston v. Dwyer, 322 U.S. 232, 88 L. Ed. 1246, 64 S. Ct. 1015 [1944].) The field of domestic relations belongs exclusively to the state. (McCarty v. Hollis, 120 F.2d 540 [10th Cir. 1941].)"
We are persuaded the trial court acted within its jurisdiction. The trial court decided L.T.'s legal interest in the Coca-Cola stock at the time of sale; that was an issue appropriately decided under state law. Certainly our conclusion is bolstered by the trial court's explanation of its order. We conclude L.T.'s jurisdictional claim to be without legal merit.
(a) K.S.A. 23-201(b)
Both parties have vigorously argued whether K.S.A. 23-201(b) is applicable and dispositive. We do not read the district court's decision to rely upon K.S.A. 23-201(b); instead, the court relied upon common-law development of the doctrine of a species of common ownership in marital property, which arises upon the filing of a divorce action.
K.S.A. 23-201(b) states:
"(b) All property owned by married persons, . . . whether held individually or by the spouses in some form of co-ownership, such as joint tenancy or tenancy in common, shall become marital property at the time of commencement by one spouse against the other of an action in which a final decree is entered for divorce . . . . Each spouse has a common ownership in marital property which vests at the time of commencement of such action, the extent of the vested interest to be determined and finalized by the court, pursuant to K.S.A. 60-1610 and amendments thereto."
K.S.A. 23-201(b) did not alter preexisting common law. It merely emphasized that, under Kansas law, each divorcing spouse has an ownership interest in all marital property and any transfer of such property between them to effectuate a fair, just, and equitable property division is a transfer between co-owners. See Smith, 241 Kan. at 252; 1 Elrod & Buchele, Kansas Family Law § 4.23 (1999). This emphasis was needed because the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had earlier sought to treat such transfers as gain-generating and thus taxable. See United States v. Davis, 370 U.S. 65, 67-69, 8 L. Ed. 2d 335, 82 S. Ct. 1190, reh. denied 371 U.S. 854 (1962). K.S.A. 23-201(b) adds nothing to either side's argument that cannot be gleaned from an examination of Kansas common law on the doctrine of a species of common ownership.
(b) The Common-law Concept
The decision of the Kansas Supreme Court in Cady was also in response to Davis, 370 U.S. at 68-69. In Cady, a provision of the property settlement agreement required the husband to transfer corporate stock held in his name to the wife. After the divorce, the IRS assessed a substantial income tax deficiency against the husband, arguing the divorce had effected a taxable transfer of property. The Cady court stated:
"Prior to the filing of a petition for divorce a spouse may dispose of his or her personal property without regard to the other spouse. [Citations omitted.] At that time a spouse possesses only an inchoate interest in real estate held by the other spouse. [Citation omitted.] The filing for divorce, however, has a substantial effect upon the property rights of the spouses. At that moment each spouse becomes the owner of a vested, but undetermined, interest in all the property individually or jointly held. The court is obligated to divide the property in a just and equitable manner, regardless of the title or origin of the property. [Citations omitted.]
"We hold that the filing of a petition for divorce or separate maintenance creates a species of common or co-ownership in one spouse in the jointly acquired property held by the other, the extent of which is determined by the trial court pursuant to K.S.A. 1972 Supp. 60-1610(b). Except for those rights which vest by virtue of the filing of the divorce action, we in no way change the interest of one spouse in the property held by the other, or in the ability of the other spouse to convey, sell or give away such property." 224 Kan. at 344.
The common-law doctrine expressed in Cady was taken one step further in Smith. In that case, the court held that marital property was not subject to a lien or execution based upon a judgment obtained against one spouse or co-owner during the pendency of the divorce action because of the vested interest of the other spouse or co-owner. 241 Kan. 249, Syl. Smith made clear that the doctrine did more than remove property division transfers from the reach of the tax man. It also gave the previously uninvolved spouse property rights that trumped those of creditors seeking to collect from the involved spouse until the ownership of the property is finalized by the decree.
Thus, the Kansas courts have invoked the doctrine of species of common ownership in two situations: (1) to prevent a transfer of title between divorcing spouses from being seen as a taxable transaction, and (2) to protect the vested interest of one divorcing spouse when a creditor of the other divorcing spouse attempts to take control of property or its value during the pendency of the divorce. Our courts have not previously applied the doctrine as the trial court did here: to permit a spouse to use the doctrine offensively to divide capital gains tax liability when property has been sold during the pendency of a divorce. The federal district court and, later, the Tenth Circuit have invoked the doctrine to shift tax liability on income generated by a portion of a partnership interest post-divorce at the insistence of one of the ex-spouses, but that situation is distinct. See Kenfield v. United States, 783 F.2d 966, 968-70 (10th Cir. 1986) (following and expanding upon Imel v. United States, 523 F.2d 853, 855-57 [10th Cir. 1975]).
This review of the common law leads us to disagree with the district court's analysis. Cady and its progeny are instructive but not controlling of the outcome here.
In this case, the Coca-Cola stock was no longer part of the marital estate when the trial court entered its final orders under K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 60-1610(b). Rather, the trustee, in his sole discretion, had liquidated the stock and deposited the before-tax proceeds into one of the parties' accounts that was to be split 50/50. The separation agreement itself did not address this specific situation, but it was brought to the court's attention by the parties' counsel at the divorce hearing and explained. At that point, the court was assured by petitioner's counsel that essentially, since the argument provided for a 50/50 division of everything, it was really not technically relevant that the stock had been sold and "locked in" a capital gain that increased the parties' joint net worth by several million dollars.
Based on that representation, and the agreement of respondent's counsel, the court ruled that the distribution of assets reflected in the separation agreement and its attachment was fair and equitable.
We see no reasonable alternative to our interpretation of the exchange at the divorce hearing: that is, the stock sale was intended to change nothing about the parties' relative financial positions. That, in addition to the enormous positive injection for their net worth, is why neither side took issue with it. If the sale had not occurred during the pendency of the divorce, each spouse would have left their union with 50 percent of the 84 percent beneficiary interest in the trust, or perhaps 50 percent of the stock it represented. If and when either or both sold the stock post-divorce, each party would have borne his or her 50 percent share of the tax burden. In order for the sale truly to have made no relevant difference, as represented by counsel at the hearing, or, to put it another way, to maintain the fair and equitable division, each party must now be seen as having realized half of the gain the sale produced during the pendency of the divorce. Otherwise their relative financial positions would have been changed by the sale--petitioner's $1.5 million to the better and respondent's $1.5 million to the worse. This was not the intention of a document that states the stock is to be shared equally nor of the remarks made to the court during the hearing.
We affirm the district court on this alternate analysis of the undisputed facts before it. If a trial court reaches the right result, its decision will be upheld on appeal even though the trial court relied upon the wrong ground or assigned erroneous reasons for its decision. Bergstrom v. Noah, 266 Kan. 847, 875-76, 974 P.2d 531 (1999). We are satisfied that the separation agreement unambiguously indicated the parties' intent to transfer the stock in kind and that the remarks made by counsel confirm that intention once the stock had been liquidated. The parties did not mean to alter the balance of their property division by allocating the entire tax burden accompanying the gain to one side.


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Maya Angelou: Her quotes, poetry and prose
Maya Angelou's words spanned worlds: From the inner city to the presidential stage, from her painful childhood to a soaring career as a poet, professor and performer.
Following news of her death Wednesday at the age of 86, tributes poured in from celebrities, politicians and others who remembered her life and legacy.
Here are some excerpts from Angelou's best-known works:
"Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise." -- from 1978's "Still I Rise."
"Late one day, as we were attending to the pigs, I heard a horse in the front yard (it really should have been called a driveway, except that there was nothing to drive into it), and ran to find out who had come riding up on a Thursday evening...
The used-to-be sheriff sat rakishly astraddle his horse. His nonchalance was meant to convey his authority and power over even dumb animals. How much more capable he would be with Negroes. It went without saying.
His twang jogged in the brittle air. From the side of the store, Bailey and I heard him say to Momma, 'Annie, tell Willie he better lay low tonight. A crazy nigger messed with a white lady today. Some of the boys'll be coming over here later.' Even after the slow drag of years, I remember the sense of fear which filled my mouth with hot, dry air and made my body light." -- from 1969's "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
"You, created only a little lower than
The angels, have crouched too long in
The bruising darkness
Have lain too long
Face down in ignorance.
Your mouths spilling words
Armed for slaughter.
The Rock cries out to us today, you may stand upon me,
But do not hide your face.
Across the wall of the world,
A River sings a beautiful song. It says,
Come, rest here by my side." -- from "On the Pulse of Morning," which Angelou read at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993.
"Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenal woman,
That's me." -- from "Phenomenal Woman," first published in 1978 and later featured in the 1993 film "Poetic Justice."
Angelou also shared messages of hope, love and wisdom on her Twitter page. A few of them are included below:


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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, January 27, 2011
How's the pool water level - is the pool leaking?
Pools can lose water during the winter. Underneath a snowy pool cover, it's sometimes hard to spot, but a winterized pool leaking water is never a good thing.
Vinyl liner pools can leak from almost anywhere, and most suspect is any area that was purposely cut - for wall returns, lights, skimmers and step sections. Concrete pools commonly leak around the skimmer and the underwater lights.
Winterized pools, or those that had the lines blown out and plugged at the pool, should not be leaking if properly sealed, so any leaks on a winterized pool should be coming from the pool shell.
Do you have a solid winter pool cover? Small holes in a solid cover can allow you to pump out pool water - trough the holes and out via your pool cover pump. Using an air blower under one end of the pool cover can help inflate a solid pool cover, pushing all water to one side, where it can be more easily pumped off. This also makes it easy to spot new water "bleeding" onto the pool cover as it settles back into place.
Any pool type leaking during winter should not be allowed to drain completely. This can cause havoc on vinyl or concrete pools. Add water to your pool if a leaking pool drops within 1 foot from the shallow end floor. Vinyl liners will relax and wrinkle, possibly cracking or "snapping", and concrete pools risk cracking, drying of plaster finish and popping out of the ground due to hydrostatic pressure.
It is good practice however, to allow a pool to leak down to the light, and/or below all wall returns or fittings. If the leak will "stabilize" at the middle of the light, for instance, we may want to remove the lamp and inspect the light niche and where the conduit connects in the rear of the light "bucket". This can be sealed with swimming pool leak repair products like pool putty, silicone or a cord seal plug.
Likewise, if the water level has stabilized at a wall fitting, dye testing around this area can determine an area in need of patching using pool putty or a vinyl liner pool patch kit. If the pool continues to lose water level, dropping below lights and returns, watch it carefully and inspect the water level areas closely, using a dye test syringe and a close eye to look for small cracks or tears in vinyl liners.
For more information on locating pool leaks, see an earlier blog post on locating pool leaks.


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Fresh strawberries, red suckers, huge black olives, cherry tomatoes, and mozzarella balls.
The cake is wonderful alone but the strawberries fit with our color theme. I've also made a chocolate version.
very nice! i love the puffs hanging over the dessert table! Will have to try that!
Wow, super cute and creative!
Hello Heather! You have such cute ideas! I love some of them and will have to try them myself. However the reason I am writing you today is for another reason. I have an Autistic 8 year old boy that has a Mickey Mouse bowl just like the small black one you have in your picture. This bowl is his "best friend". I don't know if you know much about Autism, but my son has a hard time connecting to things and people. Anyway, to make a long story short, he has broken his bowl about 30 times, and I keep gluing it back together. I have also been trying to find another one to buy. However they aren't being made and Target isn't selling them anymore. So, I am writing to ask you if there was any way you would sell me your small mickey bowl? Please let me know what you think. my email is firstname.lastname@example.com
Much thanks!
Jenn Sievers
Hi! That was a super cute party. im planning my baby's birthday and I was looking for those mickey mouse bowls, I can't find them at target or anywhere. Would you sell yours?


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Dad Delivers Baby
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You've heard about moms having their babies in their cars, in their driveways, and even in front of the hospital they were supposed to deliver in. But have you ever seen footage of it happening? After watching this video, you can say you have .
Off to the races
Troy and Kristin Dickerson were awaiting the birth of their third child when she went into labor — ironically the night before an induction was scheduled. An avid biker and surfer, Troy was in the habit of using his beloved GoPro camera on his adventures. When Kristin went into labor at 42 weeks pregnant and they had to rush to the hospital in the middle of the night, he strapped the camera on and filmed their amazing journey.
The resulting video is at times hard to bear, as the dad-to-be absolutely races down the highway at 95 miles per hour towards their destination. Kristin is sitting beside him wailing in pain, and soon begins to cry that she's not going to make it. Troy reassures her that they will make it, and they do.
It's baby time!
They pull up and a valet attendant comes out with a wheelchair, but as Kristin stands up, she says that they baby is coming out. The valet tries to coax her into the wheelchair (in a sitting position, like that's going to happen!), but instead, Troy crouches down and catches his baby boy.
It's an awesome video. I really got caught up in the moment and was cursing Troy for driving so fast and really, why aren't you pulling over and calling 911? Then when the valet implores her to sit down, I shout, "Are you joking?" And by the time the baby emerges, I'm bawling.
It was such a cool, emotionally wrought video with an amazingly happy ending. I also think it's an awesome use of the GoPro technology.
More fun birth stories
Idaho mom gives birth while driving
Baby born in children's library
Mom went in for operation, came out with surprise baby


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Obama's last best hope
With remarkably little to show for a week of intensive lobbying, the last bit of leverage that Democrats expect the White House to use is this: Barack Obama's presidency depends on it.
This isn't what Americans will hear when Obama addresses the nation Tuesday night. Publicly, the argument is all about the evidence that the Syrian government used chemical weapons and the ramifications if the United States doesn't retaliate. Senior White House officials are loath to make it a referendum on Obama, saying they remain confident that he can win by sticking to the merits of the case.
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"Politics is somebody else's concern," White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said on "Fox News Sunday." "The president is not interested in the politics of this. The president is interested in making sure that our national security is protected. That's the question, first and foremost, for us."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama to visit Senate Democrats on Tuesday)
Proof and peril of the chemical weapons attack haven't convinced Congress — at least not yet — and the politics point to defeat. So Obama's last best hope is to convince conflicted Democrats, even if it's just implicit in private conversations, that they can't be the ones who cripple his presidency and his ability to deliver the party's priorities, according to Democrats on Capitol Hill and close to the White House.
But the grim reality for Obama is that his reservoir of personal capital on Capitol Hill is running dry.
House Democrats are also well aware that former colleagues who lost their seats after taking tough votes for Obama — the stimulus and Obamacare among them — haven't been taken care of by the White House. For every former Rep. Betsy Markey (D-Colo.), who landed an assistant secretary job at the Homeland Security Department after losing reelection in 2010, there are dozens of Democrats whose loyalty was unrequited.
Not only that, the Democrats who might be most persuaded by personal pleas are also the staunchest opponents of military intervention, including some members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
( PHOTOS: Syria: Where politicians stand)
"I have supported this president from Day One," Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union." "Let me say what I'm worried about is becoming more isolated in the world if we don't have the full backing of the international community. I don't think that the public wants to see any more violence and destruction and death in Syria."
Then there is Connecticut Rep. John Larson, a former top House Democrat who wants to get back into leadership at some point.
Larson is personally reluctant to support strikes; his constituents are opposed to intervention in Syria; and home state Sen. Chris Murphy voted against the resolution in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Like a handful of lawmakers in both parties who would like to rise in leadership, the Syria vote offers Larson an opportunity to draw a clear contrast with the current party bosses — Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer — all of whom are backing Obama.
But beyond the set of incentives compelling Larson to be a "no" vote, Obama doesn't have the kind of relationship with the former chairman of the Democratic Caucus that would warrant Larson to want to bail out a president who made his own mess with Syria.
( Watch: Syria: Timeline of crisis response)
A common criticism from Congress held that Obama hasn't seemed interested in the courtship rituals that build bonds for a president. White House aides have long argued that a few more rounds of golf or cocktail hours wouldn't flip votes or soften opposition to his agenda.
To the extent that he has increased his interaction with lawmakers this year — and he has done that with a series of dinners — it largely has been with Republican members of the Senate. As one veteran House aide who now works on K Street put it, every time Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) talks publicly about his latest conversation with McDonough, Obama further alienates House Democrats who wonder why they're getting calls only from mid-level aides — or why they're getting no calls at all.
Match that up against the phone calls and personal interactions lawmakers are having with their own constituents, and it's easy to see why many in Congress think that Obama miscalculated by coming to them for approval.
One Democratic lawmaker who fielded calls from constituents this week said he got a call from his mother. It was the first time she had called him on a policy issue even though he's been in Congress for more than a decade.
"As a constituent," his mother said, "vote no."
On the Republican side, Whip Kevin McCarthy has the same opportunity to contrast himself with Boehner and Cantor, both of whom have embraced the controversial use-of-force resolution. He, too, appears to be personally reluctant to approve of Syria strikes and, as a result, finds himself in the vast majority of rank-and-file Republicans. As with Larson, Obama hasn't forged the kind of personal relationship with McCarthy that would lend itself to a do-me-a-solid pitch.


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DUBUQUE, Iowa—Dubuque rode its high-powered offense to a 39-21 win over Augustana Saturday night at Chalmers Field in the season opener for both teams. The key stretch in the game came late in the first half and early in the second, when the Spartans scored four touchdowns in a span of less than five and a half minutes and went from down 14-7 to up 33-14.
The Spartans took the opening kickoff and went 73 yards in 13 plays for the game's first touchdown. Running back Kyle Acker finished off the march with a 5-yard scoring run. Dubuque kept the drive alive by converting a key fourth-and-three at the Viking 43-yard line. Standout quarterback Wyatt Hanus hit Tyler Rutenbeck for a 10-yard gain on the play.
After the teams traded punts, Augustana tied the contest just before the end of the first quarter. Starting from his own 35-yard line, senior quarterback Nick Welch (Oswego HS, Oswego, Ill.), getting his first career start, picked up six yards on a first down run. After throwing an incomplete pass on second down, Welch busted off a 59-yard touchdown run. Brady Rogers' (Cherokee Trail HS, Parker, Colo.) PAT evened the score at 7-7.
On the Spartans' next possession, Hanus connected with Chris Bagley on a 59-yard pass play that took Dubuque from its own 13 to the Viking 29-yard line. However, on third-and-two from the 21, linebackers Erik Westerberg (York HS, Elmhurst, Ill.) and John Draminski (Wethersfield HS, Kewanee, Ill.) broke through and dropped Acker for a three-yard loss. The Spartans gave the ball back to Augustana with an incomplete pass on fourth down.
Welch and the Vikings went right back to work, going 76 yards in 13 plays for a go-ahead touchdown. Junior running back Eric Chandler (Cary-Grove HS, Cary, Ill.) capped the drive with a 14-yard run. He also caught a 20-yard pass from Welch on the march. The key play came when Dubuque sacked Welch for a seven-yard loss on fourth-and-three at the Spartan 33, but were called for a face-masking penalty which kept the drive alive.
The rest of the half was all Dubuque. First, the Spartans went 54 yards in three plays with Dakota Runde going in for the tying score from nine yards out. After forcing a Viking three-and-out, Dubuque drove 66 yards in eight plays in just under two minutes to regain the lead. Acker scored on a two-yard run. Another Augustana three-and-out set the Spartans up at the Viking 44-yard line, but with just 21 seconds remaining in the half. That was just enough time for Hanus, as he connected with tight end Miles Hookstead for a 12-yard gain and again for a 32-yard scoring strike as the first half clock expired. Augustana blocked Steve Jones' PAT attempt and went to the locker room trailing 27-14.
The Vikings received the second half kickoff, but on their third play from scrimmage, Welch attempted an option pitch to Antonio Owens (Naperville North HS, Chicago, Ill.), but Dubuque knocked the ball loose. Stephen Vassalotti scooped it up for the Spartans and rumbled 35 yards for a touchdown to make the score 33-14. The two-point conversion attempt failed.
Welch was picked off on Augustana's next possession, but the Spartans quickly returned the favor. Viking junior linebacker Mike O'Donoghue (Mundelein HS, Mundelein, Ill.) blindsided Hanus and stripped him of the ball with Westerberg picking it up and going 23 yards to set up the Augustana offense at the Dubuque 26-yard line. With the help of a Spartan personal foul, it took the Vikings just two plays to score. Freshman quarterback Sam Frasco (Prospect HS, Mt. Prospect, Ill.) dashed in for a touchdown from 10 yards out and Rogers' point after made it 33-21 Dubuque with 10:24 remaining in the third quarter.
The final score of the night came on a Chris Sanders two-yard touchdown run with 9:59 left in the game. That capped a 12-play, 55-yard Spartan drive.
The Viking ground game produced 176 yards on 33 carries, an average of 5.3 yards per tote. Welch, with 56 yards on eight carries, led the way and Chandler added 52 yards on just five carries. Welch was four of eight for 55 yards through the air. Westerberg, one of the leading tacklers in the nation a year ago, recorded 18 stops (including eight solo) in addition to his fumble recovery.
Hanus, second in the nation in passing efficiency last year, completed 23 of 31 attempts for 288 yards and one touchdown with no interceptions. Acker rushed for 144 yards on 31 carries.
Coach Rob Cushman's Vikings are back on the road next week. They'll travel to Pella, Iowa to face the Central Dutch in a 1:00 p.m. contest on Saturday, September 8.


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Avid gamer! South-Africa's gaming scene is mostly focused on western games so games like S.ta.l.k.e.r is GOLD here! (For me at least)
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Been working on my own ideas towards a base mod. Here are some screenshots of what I've done so far.
For now it's only a merge of a couple of larger mods. With some features added, and some removed.
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Zhang Rui's One Year at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art
In 2007 young artist Zhang Rui, then newly graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, was one of 1001 Chinese citizens selected by Ai Weiwei through his blog to participate in his project Fairytale for Documenta 12. The experience proved to be a transformative one. Her body of work One Year is showing at Sydney's 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. Small works, painted with[…..]


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With temperatures hovering near "You've got to be kidding me," Michigan residents' thoughts this time of year often fast forward to summer. And for many, those lazy daydreams of summer usually involve camping and RVing.
The Macomb Daily reported that the timing of winter RV shows — including the upcoming 47th annual Detroit Camper & RV Show — couldn't be better.
The Michigan Association of Recreation Vehicles and Campgrounds (MARVAC) is sponsoring the 47th annual show Feb. 6-10 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi. All types of new 2013 recreation vehicles including more than 275 units and 50 brands, will be displayed. Folding campers, motorhomes, travel trailers, truck campers, fifth wheel travel trailers and toy haulers are among the models visitors will see.
"There's nothing like going to an RV show to cure your cabin fever," MARVAC Executive Director Bill Sheffer said. "Where else can you get the opportunity to walk around and see, in the case of the Detroit show, 275 new RVs? You're not just looking at picture of them on the Internet.
"An RV show is also the place to talk to campground owners. We're finding more and more people are literally making their camping reservations with campgrounds owners who have a booth at the show."
In addition to the Detroit-area show, MARVAC will host RV exhibitions in Battle Creek (March 7-10 at Kellogg Arena), Flint (March 14-17 at the Perani Arena & Event Center) and Traverse City (March 22-24 at the Grand Traverse County Civic Center). The 24th annual Detroit Fall Camper & RV Show is Oct. 2-6, also at the Suburban Collection Showplace.


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I keep hoping I can get Orthanc for a little less than the steep $200. It's THE set I wish would drop a bit in price so I could scoop it up.
Orc Forge is gonna be a bear for you I think, and Uruk Hai Army would be tough too since that set is really the army builder of its year more or less.
I love the Orc Forge, and it really ultimately goes as a complement to Orthanc, so while it'll be a pain, I think you'll dig it. It's one of my faves.
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Al Bayader launches food safety drive in schools
Dubai, November 13, 2010
Al Bayader International, a manufacturer of comprehensive packaging solutions in the Middle East, has launched an innovative food safety campaign, 'Pack-it-Right,' in schools across the UAE.
The campaign aims to create awareness on the importance of safe food handling and packing practices, said a company statement.
In conjunction with aswaaq - a Dubai-initiated marketplace concept that has been involved in a number of community well-being projects - and under the umbrella of Al Bayader's Fun consumer brand, the 'Pack-it-Right' campaign will be run throughout the year in a number of schools across the UAE, comprising a series of interactive demonstrations featuring lectures, videos and slideshows.
Targeting students in grades 4 to 10, the campaign also aims to share the Fun brand's commitment to hygiene, quality standards and safety measures, while encouraging partnerships with schools, customers and other entities, including the Dubai Municipality Food Control Department.
The first 'Pack-it-Right' session was held at the Uptown Mirdiff School in Dubai last month, said a top official.
Alaa Al Ashoush, quality assurance manager for Al Bayader and Nahla Yagoub Elawad, head of aswaaq's Food Safety section conducted the hour long programme at the end of which was an interactive quiz which resulted in many Fun gift boxes being given away.
"In today's fast-paced lifestyle, people tend to take for granted safe food handling and packing requirements," said Ashoush.
"By engaging youngsters in the importance of food hygiene, quality standards and safety measures, we are trying to highlight how proper and safe food handling can minimise the risk of disease caused by food bacteria and other contaminants."
'Among the topics discussed with the students were: What are Bacteria - How do Bacteria find their way in to food; other agents that may contaminate food; how to pack food the right way; food grade packaging materials and how to identify different food packaging materials; and how to pack / store / reheat food in disposable kitchenware,' he aadded.
"Based on the reaction of the participants, this first 'Pack-it-Right' session was a huge success," said Elawad.
"The issue of food safety is a shared responsibility hence we are delighted to partner with Al Bayader's Fun consumer brand to bring this campaign to young students in the UAE. We are looking forward to creating a better, cleaner and healthier UAE," she added.-TradeArabia News Service


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"When I use the number 10 years, I am admitting to you I don't know."
Those words come flooding back to me every time I read another story predicting autonomous vehicles will be dotting U.S. roads by 2025.
The quote belongs to advanced-battery guru and Energy Power Systems founder Subhash Dhar, who in an interview last December poked holes in popular projections that call for less costly lithium-ion batteries to arrive within the next decade and once and for all spark electric-vehicle demand.
But the inventor's insight into the challenge of forecasting the technology horizon would appear to apply equally as well to autonomous vehicles as advanced batteries.
Of course, it's not that the driverless car won't happen – even within that relatively short period of just two or three vehicle-development cycles.
The technology is out there today, as Google, Continental and several global auto makers already have proven. And it's not all that expensive, with costs likely to come down rapidly as systems application proliferates.
But huge development, social and financial hurdles remain, including potential infrastructure issues, legal concerns, questions surrounding operational protocols and lack of consumer confidence in the technology.
That's why trying to pinpoint, even in a broad sense, how soon we may all be chauffeured around by the intelligent vehicle seems futile.
It might be more realistic to focus less on the ultimate endgame and more on what the autonomous-car building blocks might do for society nearer term, namely help solve the driver-distraction dilemma.
With such systems as emergency braking, lane-keeping assist and blindspot detection already proliferating on luxury cars and quickly moving down-market, the pieces soon may be in place for the car to take control away from the driver when absolutely necessary, long before all the issues associated with full-time autonomous driving are resolved.
Last week, officials from the U.S. Department of Transportation and National Highway Traffic Safety Admin. rolled out voluntary guidelines calling for limits to the amount of time required for drivers to operate infotainment systems and other features that force them to take their eyes off the road.
But even if the formula is right for onboard system controls, nothing will prevent drivers from becoming distracted by handheld devices they bring with them into the car. That leaves the smart car as potentially the best safety answer to the smartphone.
During a conference call to explain the new guidelines, NHTSA Administrator David Strickland said his agency does think a better solution to distracted driving may be found in advanced, active-safety technology, but much more work remains before even that small piece of the autonomous-vehicle equation can be sorted out.
"We have a lot of work under way looking at these active systems, whether its crash-imminent braking or cruise-control lane-keeping – even increased levels of automation, going forward," Strickland says. "It's clearly part of the future look at safety.
"(But) there are a number of human factors issues involved with these technologies (that) are still being studied, so it would be premature to say these particular solutions applied to distracted-driving are the complete solution."
If we're still a long way from mandating emergency-brake assist and other autonomous-driving building blocks or even just evaluating their potential safety advantages, imagine how long it could take to sort through the entire smart-car puzzle.
So the next time you hear fully automated driving is just a decade away, keep in mind Dhar's 10-year rule. And hope for the best in the meantime.


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he owners of the World Trade Center can't demand billions of dollars more in insurance money for the destruction caused by the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal judge decided Thursday.
Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled after hearing testimony by economic experts for the trade center owners and for the airlines linked to the planes that were hijacked in the attacks. The non-jury trial was held to decide whether the owners could collect more than the nearly $5 billion they've already received toward reconstruction.
In ruling against developer Larry Silverstein and World Trade Center Properties, the judge cited state laws that bar "windfalls and double recovery on the same loss."
The judge said that though he was ruling against the trade center owners, they deserved credit for spearheading the recovery effort at the 16-acre lower Manhattan site.
"You were dealt a very severe blow," the judge said of the attack, which turned the trade center into an inferno and destroyed the twin towers. Since then, the developer's workers have labored to "create beauty out the ashes of the destruction," he added.
A spokesman for Silverstein Properties said the developer was "deeply disappointed" by the ruling and would appeal but remains committed to the ongoing construction projects on the site.
"We will not rest until we have exhausted every option to assure that the aviation industry's insurers pay their fair share toward the complete rebuilding of the World Trade Center," said the spokesman, Bud Perrone.
During the four-day proceeding, Silverstein's attorneys had insisted that the aviation companies owed at least $3.5 billion for letting hijackers board planes that destroyed three skyscrapers on Sept. 11, 2001: the prominent twin towers and 7 World Trade Center, a 47-story building that caught fire after debris from one of the jet crashes pierced its facade and collapsed hours later.
Attorney Roger Podesta, speaking for companies including United Airlines Inc., US Airways Inc., American Airlines Inc. and its parent company, AMR Corp., had argued that making aviation companies pay would amount to double compensation.
He said an $8.5 billion total recovery would be more than two and a half times the fair value of the buildings that fell.
But attorney Richard Williamson, representing World Trade Center Properties, said damages from the attacks had totaled at least $7.2 billion.
The trade center owners say it has cost more than $7 billion to replace the twin towers and more than $1 billion to replace the third trade center building that fell.