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Introvale (levonorgestrel and ethinyl estradiol) Tablets: Recall - Packaging Flaw
Audience: Consumer, Pharmacy
ISSUE: Sandoz notified the public that it issued a voluntary recall of 10 lots of its generic oral contraceptive Introvale in the US, following a recent report of a packaging flaw. A consumer reported that the white placebo tablets were mistakenly in the ninth row (labeled "Week 9") of the 13-row blister card, rather than in the correct position in the 13th and final row (labeled "Week 13"). Each three-month blister card contains 84 peach-colored active tablets and seven white placebo tablets in 13 rows, each representing one week. While the white placebo tablets can be clearly distinguished from the peach-colored active tablets, the risk of an unintended pregnancy for a patient taking the wrong tablet over several days cannot be excluded.
The lot numbers involved in the recall are as follows: LF00478C, LF00479C, LF00551C, LF00552C, LF00687C, LF00688C, LF00763C, LF00764C, LF00765C and LF01261C. These lots were distributed only in the US between January 2011 and May 2012.
BACKGROUND: Introvale is an extended-cycle oral contraceptive. Sandoz is not aware of any reports of related adverse events.
RECOMMENDATION: If a patient finds a white placebo tablet in any position other than the 13th and final row (Week 13), they should immediately begin using a non-hormonal form of contraception and contact their healthcare professional.
Healthcare professionals and patients are encouraged to report adverse events, side effects, or quality problems related to the use of these products to the FDA's MedWatch Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program:
- Complete and submit the report Online: www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/index.cfm
- Download form or call 1-800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178
[06/05/2012 - Press Release - Sandoz]
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Contrary to popular opinion, I have not been abducted by space aliens, raptured away or joined a cult. OK, maybe I did join a cult – or at least my son did – I was drafted by the cult known as Boy Scouts. As a yearbook advisor, I already have very limited time. Now as a Boy Scouting leader AND still a yearbook advisor, free time has become a mystical concept that is heard about, but never seen. I am not blog-fading, just trying to figure it all out. With summer upcoming, I should be able to get back into a rhythm of blogging again. (I hope.) Now for the links…
1 – After months of indecision, the Texas Legislature has finally settled on the amount of pain to inflict on public school districts. If you live here and want to know how bad it will be for the next two years, take a look. Thanks to the Texas Tribune for providing our state with the best info on every twist and turn of the crazy pink building in Austin.
2 – I love photography. Didn't start out that way, but I love it. I am intrigued by famous photos, especially of "regular" people who just happened to be in a famous photo. Listverse has a Top 10 of the lives of people made famous by famous photos – especially what happened after the photo was published.
3 – Here is a great tool for creating visualizations for news stories called Many Eyes. It appears to be free.
4 – Are our First Amendment rights in danger? They are when Police see cameras like this…
5 – I recently wrote about how teachers in the US are taking the blame for a problem created outside of schools. And Finland has been held up lately as the solution to all our problems. But Finland and the US are nothing like each other.
6 – I deeply respect Mindy McAdams, I think she is one of the best professors in online journalism today. I mainly agree with her post – that it is not stupid to major in journalism today, as long as the student understands the landscape. They must be prepared to never work for a traditional news organization, or only work for one for a short time. They must be ready to work for a small online startup, maybe even a series of them. Their career will be very different from journalists of the past.
7 – Now this is a Facebook style photo that is worthy of being called a photograph.
8 – I love my Mac, but I hate waiting for Photoshop or Final Cut to render. The Macintosh Performance Guide has all kinds of ways to help you get the most out of your Mac and the software on it, like the Adobe line of products. Worth studying.
9 – This is turning into a "stuff I love" post, but I've had nothing but great experiences with the wonderful people at B&H Photo. Apparently a camera they were testing (a used one) mistakenly ended up leaving their store with the photos still on it. This gave the outside world a glimpse into the world of B&H. I love the photos. I love the fact that B&H is closed on Jewish holidays, just like I love the fact that Chick-fil-a is closed on Sundays. I respect businesses that have a positive ethos and B&H does this well. They provide a great service at a good price, by friendly people.
10 – Need a free, easy to use HTML editor look no further, just click on the link.
11 – At my school, we ditched our photo company a long time ago – too costly. We now take our photos ourselves, and this means training the students on how to take a good portrait. But what is good for a thin person, doesn't work with someone like myself – someone who has a higher BMI. dPs has a top flight post on how to photograph larger people.
12 – If you are like me, many of the photos in your yearbook are taken by staffers who never took a photo class. They got a quick and fast version of it in yearbook class and they shoot most of their photos with a point and shoot – often badly. Clifford Otto has a terrific post about how to hold your point and shoot to get the best photos.
13 – I know this is how many teachers and students feel about school right now.
14 – Do ethics matter in online journalism, maybe more so than ever. Check out this post from Mindy McAdams with 10 Rules for Online Ethics. Best takeaway – #2 Assume everything you write online will become public.
15 – Petapixel has the best explanation of depth of field I've ever seen.[vimeo http://vimeo.com/1136116]
16 – This is a fun site to teach kids about ISO, shutter and aperture – Camera Sim.
17 – I've heard that the kerfluffle over staging shots of presidential speeches has changed the official policy at the White House, but it is sad that they ever did it this way to begin with.
18 – This is pretty geeky and contains math content, but it is interesting – the f/stop scale is logarithmic because humans are bad at telling the difference in brightness, unless it is really big.
19 – The owners of Leica Camera were the Oskar Schindlers of the photo world. The untold story of how they snuck Jews out of Germany before and during WWII.[vimeo http://vimeo.com/4613988]
I have more, but I'm saving some for later in the week.

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In creating their sixth album, the soon-to-be-released Almería, Lifehouse went about putting it all together a little differently than they had in the past.
"This last album took about a year and a half to make because we were really trying to just do something new," frontman Jason Wade revealed. "We're on our sixth album and we were just kind of searching for a new sound."
Wade revealed most of the songs came from late night jam sessions.
"A lot of the songs kind of came out of these really nonchalant jam sessions that started at like 8:00, 9:00 at night," he said. "We almost reverted to being teenagers again in our parents' garage and just kind of fell in love with music all over again. It was a really liberating experience because we have spent a lot of time out on the road so it was nice to just kind of get back in and just try to capture some inspiration."
That time off the road was a major part of helping to truly focus on the new album, giving Wade and the other members of the band time to retreat to their favorite creative places after a little R&R.
"When I was in my early twenties I wrote a lot on the road," Wade said. "But things got so crazy and so busy that I find when we come off of a big tour I find that I get in a good creative head space after I take a couple of months off and then get back into the studio."
The new Lifehouse CD, Almería, will be released on December 12th and includes their current single, "Between the Raindrops" featuring Natasha Bedingfield.
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Budget Furthers the Administration's Initiatives Aimed at Expanding and Diversifying Clean, Affordable, Reliable Energy Supplies, Fostering Scientific Breakthroughs, and Preserving our National Security
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Secretary of Energy Samuel W. Bodman today announced President Bush's $25 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2009 budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE), an increase of $1.073 billion over the FY 2008 appropriation. This request will continue investments to meet growing energy demand with clean, safe, affordable, reliable and diverse supplies of energy; support the development of climate change technologies; advance environmental cleanup; and ensure the reliability of our nuclear weapons stockpile. The President's budget for DOE directly supports the development of cutting-edge carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS); begins to transform the weapons complex to address 21st century challenges; and accelerates technological breakthroughs to further the President's Advanced Energy Initiative (AEI), and scientific leadership through the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI).
"This budget furthers President Bush's comprehensive strategy to increase energy, economic, and national security by focusing on accelerating technological breakthroughs, expanding traditional and renewable sources of energy, and increasing investment in scientific discovery and development," Secretary Bodman said. "From transforming the weapons complex to maintain the utmost safety and reliability of our nuclear weapons stockpile, to issuing solicitations for loan guarantees to spur innovation in advanced energy technologies, this budget enables the Department to continue to lay the foundation for a clean, safe, secure and reliable energy future for all Americans."
Among the President's priorities funded in the FY 2009 budget request includes $1.4 billion to promote the expansion of safe, emissions free nuclear power. DOE continues to actively work with industry partners to promote the near-term licensing and deployment of America's first new nuclear plants in more than 30 years. This budget also requests $648 million, the largest budget request in over 25 years, for increased research in clean coal technology and demonstration of carbon capture and storage for coal-fired power plants, an important component of the Administration's Climate Change Technology Program.
Another key priority in the Department's budget includes support of its Loan Guarantee program, which requests $19.9 million for administrative expenses, and would be offset by collections in the same amount as authorized under the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct). In addition, DOE requests an extension of its authorization to issue loan guarantees through FY 2010 and FY 2011, enabling commitments to guarantee loans under Title XVII of EPAct to total more than $38 billion from FY 2008 through FY 2011. These efforts, combined with plans to further expand the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to an ultimate capacity of 1.5 billion barrels by 2029, will help achieve a more secure and reliable energy future for the nation.
The budget also continues to significantly invest in the President's Advanced Energy Initiative (AEI) and the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI), both unveiled in President Bush's 2006 State of the Union Address.
Advancing the American Competitiveness Initiative ($4.7 billion)
The Department's FY 2009 budget request of $4.7 billion for the President's ACI, approximately $748.8 million above the FY 2008 appropriation, will increase basic research in the physical sciences that will have broad impacts on future energy technologies and environmental solutions. ACI funding will also continue to support the construction and operation of world-class scientific facilities and will support thousands of scientists and students, which are essential for the U.S. to maintain its world class, scientific leadership and global competitiveness.
Accelerating the Advanced Energy Initiative ($3.2 billion)
At a request of $3.2 billion, $623 million above the FY 2008 enacted appropriation of $2.5 billion, the President's AEI will continue to improve the nation's energy security and aims to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy. AEI supports a diverse energy portfolio designed to meet the energy challenges of the 21st century by promoting the licensing of new nuclear power plants and conducting research on an advanced nuclear fuel cycle; furthering a robust vehicle technology program by developing lithium-ion batteries, plug-in hybrids, and drive-train electrification; and investing to make solar power cost-competitive with conventional sources of electricity by 2015.
Office of Science ($4.7 billion)
The Office of Science is the single largest federal supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the nation, and its $4.7 billion request will help ensure U.S. leadership across a broad range of scientific disciplines. DOE's Office of Science budget request, an increase of almost 20 percent over the enacted FY 2008 appropriation, includes $100 million for the Energy Frontiers Research Initiative, a new initiative to leverage intellectual strength across the country by awarding several small competitive grants annually to universities, labs, and leading non-profit organizations to advance energy research projects. This budget request also supports the work of DOE's world class national science laboratories in High Energy Physics ($805 million); Fusion Energy Sciences ($493 million), including $214.5 million for the ITER project; and Basic Energy Science ($1.6 billion), which supports research and operates facilities to provide the foundation for new and improved energy technologies.
This budget request continues support for three bioenergy research centers in Tennessee, Wisconsin and California announced last year to accelerate the development and commercialization of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels ($75 million); $368.8 million to support the Department's supercomputers, some of the fastest in the world that deliver forefront computational and networking capabilities to scientists nationwide; $510 million for research in nuclear physics, including operations of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider; and $145.9 million for cutting-edge research through the Climate Change Science Program.
National Nuclear Security Administration ($9.1 billion)
The FY 2009 National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) budget requests $9.1 billion, an increase of $287 million above the FY 2008 enacted level, to promote national security by maintaining the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile and promoting nuclear nonproliferation and threat reduction to address the realities of the 21st century. The NNSA budget requests $6.6 billion, a $320.6 million increase over the FY 2008 appropriation, for its weapons program to meet the immediate national security requirements of the stockpile, and continue progress toward transforming the nuclear weapons complex to a much smaller size by 2030. The Department's FY 2009 request for nonproliferation activities includes $1.8 billion for detecting, securing, eliminating, and disposing of dangerous nuclear materials around the world as well as the installation of radiation detection equipment at an additional 49 foreign sites in 14 countries and at 9 additional Megaports locations. This budget also supports implementation of an aggressive schedule to complete all shipments of Russian-originated highly-enriched uranium (HEU) fuel by the end of 2010 and maintains a schedule for completion of the construction of the second of two fossil-fueled power plants located in Zheleznogorsk, Russia in 2010.
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy ($1.25 billion)
The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy budget requests $1.25 billion, $1 million more than the Administration's FY 2008 request, to support a diverse portfolio of energy options, including fuels and vehicles ($592.3 million); renewable power ($241.6 million); and energy efficiency ($185.9 million) programs. For fuels and vehicles research and development, the budget requests funding for biomass ($225 million) to achieve President Bush's goal for cost-competitive, commercial scale cellulosic ethanol by 2012 as well as support for plug-in hybrids, lithium-ion batteries, and critical hydrogen fuel cell technology. To advance renewable energy, DOE's budget request includes funding for the President's Solar America Initiative ($225 million total - $156 million from EERE and $69 million from the Office of Science); wind power research and development ($52.5 million); and geothermal power ($30 million). This budget request also supports energy efficiency programs, including buildings and industrial technologies ($185.9 million), to reduce energy consumption and reduce the carbon footprint through zero-energy buildings. DOE's request also includes $15 million for the Asia Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate that will advance the President's goal of developing and accelerating the deployment of cleaner and more efficient technologies and practices globally.
Office of Nuclear Energy ($1.4 billion)
The Office of Nuclear Energy FY 2009 budget requests $1.4 billion, a $386 million increase over the FY 2008 enacted level, to support the expansion of nuclear power as a safe, economical, emissions-free source of energy capable of powering the nation in the 21st century. This request includes $301.5 million for one of the key nuclear priorities, the Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative in support of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, which supports research and development activities focused on reducing the volume and toxicity of high-level waste and spent nuclear fuel through recycling. To address the immediate need for nuclear power expansion domestically, the Nuclear Power 2010 program seeks $241.6 million to support industry cost-shared, near-term technology development and licensing demonstration activities. The FY 2009 budget request includes $70 million to continue the development of next-generation nuclear energy systems known as "Generation IV" and will focus on long-term research and development of a gas-cooled very-high temperature reactor through the Next Generation Nuclear Plant project. In accordance with the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, the Office of Nuclear Energy is requesting $487 million for the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility, a key component of the nation's nuclear nonproliferation efforts.
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management ($494.7 million)
The Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management requests $494.7 million, a $108 million increase over the FY 2008 appropriation, to further plans for the licensing and construction of a permanent nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain. The primary focus of the funding will be for the submission of and support for DOE's license application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for authorization to construct and operate the nation's repository for spent nuclear fuel and high level waste. Other activities will include continuing essential interactions with state, local, and tribal governments to support national transportation planning. All of these activities are critical to addressing the Federal government's mounting liability associated with unmet contractual obligations to move spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear plant sites in 121 temporary locations in 39 states.
Office of Fossil Energy ($1.1 billion)
The Office of Fossil Energy's FY 2009 budget requests $1.1 billion, an increase of $223 million above the FY 2008 enacted level, to support the Administration's priority of developing and demonstrating advanced clean coal technologies that produce electricity from coal with near-zero atmospheric emissions. Funding priorities include: DOE's restructured FutureGen approach ($156 million); the Clean Coal Power Initiative ($85 million), which will issue solicitations this year for its third round of projects focused on carbon capture and storage technologies; and $407 million for advanced coal research and development activities including Carbon Sequestration Regional Partnerships ($149 million) for continued work to inject up to one million tons of carbon dioxide into several types of geologic formations. To further protect the nation against oil supply disruptions that could harm our economy, the budget includes $171.4 million for expanding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve toward an ultimate capacity of 1.5 billion barrels by 2029.
Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability ($134 million)
The FY 2009 Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability budget requests $134 million, a $19 million increase over the FY 2008 request, to modernize the electricity transmission and distribution system by making it more reliable, secure, and efficient. The FY 2009 budget request allocates $100.2 million for research and development activities in superconducting cables and energy storage technologies to strengthen grid stability, reduce frequency and duration of operational disruptions, and increase efficiencies. The budget request also supports implementation of EPAct requirements in transmission and energy corridor designation and enhancement of DOE's energy emergency response capabilities to advance energy assurance through federal, state, and local coordination.
Office of Health, Safety and Security ($446.9 million)
The Office of Health, Safety and Security (HSS) FY 2009 budget requests $446.9 million, $22.4 million above the FY 2008 enacted appropriation, to support the Department's continued commitment to ensure the safety and health of DOE workers and members of the public and management of DOE facilities across the country in a safe, secure, and environmentally responsible manner. HSS is responsible for policy development and technical assistance; safety analysis; corporate safety and security programs; education and training; complex-wide independent oversight; and enforcement.
Office of Environmental Management ($5.5 billion)
The FY 2009 Environmental Management (EM) budget requests $5.5 billion to clean up Cold War era legacy waste at sites across the country. Funding is focused on activities that will yield the greatest risk reductions while achieving environmental cleanup: stabilizing radioactive tank waste in preparation for treatment (about 34 percent of the FY 2009 budget request); storing and safeguarding nuclear materials and spent nuclear fuel (about 20 percent of the FY 2009 request); disposing of transuranic, low-level, and other solid wastes (about 14 percent of FY 2009 budget request; and remediation and decontamination and decommissioning of excess facilities (about 23 percent of the FY 2009 request). The FY 2009 request will also fund the consolidation and disposition of surplus plutonium and other special nuclear materials and the construction and operation of waste treatment and immobilization facilities across the complex. The amount requested would enable the completion of cleanup at DOE's Sandia National Laboratories and Argonne National Laboratory by the end of 2009.
Office of Legacy Management ($186 million)
The Office of Legacy Management FY 2009 budget requests $186 million for the Department's long-term stewardship responsibilities at DOE sites where active remediation has been completed. The funding will ensure the sustainability of environmental remedies and continuity of pension and medical benefit payments to former contractor workers at completed cleanup sites.
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Recent years have seen a huge growth in the supply, range and timeliness of data from a variety of official agencies including the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA), Eurostat, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as other agencies. Much of the data are publicly and readily available online together with detailed notes about the data. The QEF is not intended to provide an alternative to these sources. It provides a signpost to available sources of data. It selects a few indicators from key areas of concern: employment, unemployment, earnings and labour cost, inequality in income, poverty, public finances and debt.
It is intended to expand the selection of indicator over time to cover a somewhat broader range of topics under each heading. However, to avoid information over-load (a not infrequent feature of many of the major statistical sources!) it is planned to keep the overall number of indicators shown in this and subsequent editions within a reasonable and manageable size. Comments, queries and suggestions are welcome both in relation to the content as well as the overall scope of this publication.
Each indicator is laid out as follows:
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For the purposes of comparisons across European States typically two averages are used where possible: EU 27 for all Member States and EU 15 for those Member States that were in the Union prior to 2004. These constitute a more homogeneous group in terms of GDP per capita. Unless otherwise stated, averages at the level of EU 27 or EU 15 are unweighted means.
Please note that, unless otherwise specified, all references to 'Ireland' in this edition of QEF refers to the Republic of Ireland only. It is planned to expend data coverage for Northern Ireland along with the Republic for more indicators in future editions of QEF.
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My old trusty Sony headphones broke where the headpiece joins the earpiece a while back. I tried gluing them a couple of time but by the third break I knew they would never work out. I got myself a nice pair of Sennheiser HD25 Mk II's which I've always loved. I took them for a test drive this weekend and recorded the result and named it Wizz, Bang, Boing.
It is 2 hour psychedelic trance journey to a damp land inhabited by heavy wild things stomping about bending balloons into fantastic shapes as robot insects flit between the speaker stacks looking for their guitars.
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Allegation: Drug Companies Drive Up Generics Costs
A case before the Supreme Court accuses drug companies of delaying the rollout of generic drugs to the marketplace and a Canadian generic company is siding with the FTC in the matter. Peter Landers has the details. Photo: Getty Images.
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... the the ... welcome back to the use of the Supreme Court is getting ready to decide whether deals between brand name drug makers and generics makers to delay the introduction of copycat pills ... represents an anti trust violations ... the government has been challenging so-called pay for delay for a decade ... but weeks before the high Court arguments March twenty Fifth ... government picked up a new ally in Napa Tex Corporation of Canada ... which is balking a nearly the nearly the entire industry ... with a brief arguing that deal was the deal's hinder competition Peter Landers is in Washington with the details ... Peter thank so much for coming this morning ... you're saying ... still ... how I ... let's back to suffer for second how is it ok ... for brand name drug makers ... to paid generics makers to delay copycat pills ... well they say they're just using the same tool that any Acuity continues and courthouse somebody says you and ... the outcome of the cases on certain you could settle that person made you pay ... a certain out of money an exchange you don't admit guilt or deny at this often happens and and you ... you make some have deal with that the person selling it so ... they say they're just using this common tool ... okay now ... has boomed in the way I would think of it and when the meeting meaning viewers do is to come to think ... the Dr just comes off at Nana certainty ... and then at that point you would see the copycat Silva we are talking about is their challenges ... even prior to that ... had an expiration date and into these challenges they end up getting settled with these payments ... that's right you have a pad of those expiring in twenty twenty for example on the company ... sees that it has a seven or eight years of strong a monopoly growth ahead of that ... and then some tummy comes in it's as though we think you're patent is invalid we wanna sell a copy cat killed right away right now two thousand thirteen and what you do well the companies may say ... but say kitty let's say that you start selling in two thousand seventeen ... that that will compromise their men ... struggled payments that to make that work better ... that's the kind of deal were talking about with the government's response to the deal Kate sounds sounds okay according to them the way the license that depicted with the government's response ... well they do see an antitrust violation there I mean in general you can pay a competitor not to sell its ... product on the market ... so ... as they see especially ... when he's payments if that is one thing to just agree that will will split the difference two thousand thirteen May two thousand seventy ... it's another thing to pay the other company to wait ... until two thousand seventeen s where they see the real problem here an antitrust ... violation potentially okay let's talk about how tax ... from Canada ... and ... their role in this in this litigation now what what makes that what makes their role interesting ... but the taxes involved in this very ... complicated ... struggle over plastics one of the best-selling drugs and that states they tried to ... again on the market earlier they were involved Chris Myers Squibb and lengthy litigation there ... that's even an resulted ... in directly in the Bristol Myers Squibb ... chief financial officer of pleading guilty to a crime so ... it was the ... masses of us ... I was a scandal back to back them now they are balking as you said almost the entire industry to argue that ... the government is correct then they say these deals do ... chief consumerism billions of dollars by delaying the introduction of generic drugs there themselves a major generic drug maker based in Toronto ... so this is an unusual position and won the rest of the industry rejects ... ok Peter last question what's the timetable for ... the Supreme Court on in this case ... there are a arguments next week and that decision probably in jail it's taken a long time ... almost ten years and now if I get an answer on whether these deals are legal or are legal or not ... and will report to Peter Landers in Washington thank so much for joining us


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East Bay Then and Now: Kingman Hall: a Microcosm of 20th-Century Berkeley History
Few houses in Berkeley (or anywhere, for that matter) can boast the picturesque setting and colorful history of Kingman Hall, the student co-op at 1730 La Loma Avenue. Perched above the oak-wooded canyon of Strawberry Creek, the building overlooks a sunken garden with a creekside amphitheater. Built in 1914 for Nu Chapter of the Theta Xi fraternity, the house has mirrored the history of Berkeley over the past 95 years.
Theta Xi, an engineering fraternity, established its Berkeley chapter in March 1910. The first ten members took up residence in the old Kappa Sigma house at 1739 Euclid Avenue—an ornate High-Peaked Colonial Revival affair designed in 1900 by Thomas D. Newsom. The original owner was Demetrius Satoff, a Bulgarian-born shoemaker and realtor doing business at 2121 Center Street.
Four years after its founding, Nu Chapter arranged for more desirable lodging. On May 3, 1914, the Oakland Tribune announced: "Theta Xi will move on August 1 to occupy their new $27,000 structure at Le Conte and La Loma. This house is the gift of wealthy alumni and is complete in every detail. It contains accommodations for thirty besides the sleeping porches and two guest rooms. A billiard room in the basement is also being planned for. The first floor outside will be constructed of brick and the remaining two stories will have a rough plaster finish."
The completed building, a 25-bedroom dormered country villa with a triple-arch entrance loggia, ended up entirely stucco-clad with the exception of its brick base. The architects listed in the building permit were Drysdale & Thomson, Sharon Building, San Francisco. The contractor was the Barry Building Co. of Oakland.
While nothing is currently known about Thomson, Charles W. Drysdale (1872-1918) was the right-hand man of eminent San Francisco architect George W. Kelham (1871-1936), who had his offices in the Sharon Building, which he had designed. Constructed in 1912, the building teemed with architectural offices, but it's not likely that Drysdale & Thomson had an independent practice, since Drysdale worked for Kelham until the end of his short life. Thomson, possibly a structural engineer, may have been another Kelham employee.
Kelham received his architectural training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and in 1898 joined Trowbridge & Livingston of New York as a designer. In 1906, he was dispatched by this firm to San Francisco as project supervisor for the rebuilding of the Palace Hotel, which had been devastated in the earthquake. Here Kelham opened his own office, and in October of the same year brought Drysdale out from Chicago to run his office.
Charles W. Drysdale was born in Illinois and worked for a while in Washington, D.C. For a dozen years before his premature death he oversaw all of Kelham's major architectural projects, including the rebuilding of the Palace Hotel, supervising the building of the Panama Pacific Exposition (1915), and designing the Carnegie (Main) Library at the San Francisco Civic Center (1917).
Drysdale died suddenly of heart failure on Sept. 4, 1918. His obituary, published the same month in The Architect & Engineer, informed, "A short time before his death Mr. Drysdale was conversing with his chief and apparently was enjoying the best of health. He expired at his desk before medical assistance could be procured." The same article reported that "Mr. Kelham was especially pleased with Mr. Drysdale's work in connection with the building of the Carnegie Library in the San Francisco Civic Center. The minutest detail was not overlooked here. Mr. Drysdale personally designed and superintended the construction of the new Elks' home in San Rafael, himself being an active member of that order. Mr. Kelham pays a high tribute to the worth and character of the deceased. 'He was the fine type of man and in every way a credit to the profession,' said Mr. Kelham."
Kelham would go on to succeed John Galen Howard as the University of California's supervising architect, a position he retained from 1927 until his death in 1936. His Berkeley designs include Bowles Hall (1928-29); the Life Sciences Building (1930); International House (1930); Moses Hall (1931); McLaughlin Hall (School of Engineering, 1931); and Harmon Gymnasium (1933, now altered beyond recognition).
Drysdale's design for the Theta Xi chapter house was apparently a success, for in October 1914, a mere ten weeks after it had opened, the building was selected by the students' executive committee to serve as housing for the varsity football squad during its last weeks of training.
Theta Xi's Nu Chapter resided at 1730 La Loma Avenue until 1964, but trouble began several years earlier. On October 4, 1959, a physics student by the name of Donald S. Wood limped into Cowell Hospital. Two days earlier he had been initiated into Theta Xi, and now he was suffering from acute nephritis. While young Wood was reluctant to talk about what had taken place, his father, a Los Angeles aircraft company executive, charged that Donald had been beaten with a paddle and forced to eat a large chunk of raw liver.
The Wood incident took place shortly after a University of Southern California student had choked to death on a piece of raw liver during his fraternity initiation, and California Attorney General Stanley Mosk issued a stern warning against such practices. UC officials and the Berkeley police launched an investigation to determine whether hazing had taken place.
Such was the uproar that State Senator Fred S. Farr announced his plan to introduce a bill prohibiting freshmen from joining fraternities and sororities, saying that it would give students time to exercise mature judgment and help eliminate irresponsible hazing practices. The system, claimed Senator Farr, was particularly bad at Berkeley, where many students dropped out when they failed to be pledged. "This is a major loss, not only to the individuals but to our society, which can't afford to let good brains be wasted," said Farr.
Three weeks after his initiation, Donald Wood was still in the hospital. The investigation revealed that he was put through a series of exercises that contributed to his physical exhaustion, in violation of university policy. He had not been given raw liver but fed mush with a color additive, and he was accidentally struck in the stomach with a paddle. Dr. Glenn Seaborg, then the Berkeley campus chancellor, announced that the university was withdrawing recognition of Nu Chapter for one year. In addition, seven of the chapter's officers were placed on probation for the duration of the academic year. The Woods elected not to press charges.
Youthful anti-establishment sentiment in the 1960s robbed fraternities of their cachet, shrinking their memberships. Simultaneously, the university exerted pressure on the Northside Greek-letter societies to move south of campus. Theta Xi's Nu Chapter disbanded in 1964 and was not reestablished until 1977.
With the fraternity gone, 1730 La Loma Ave. became a rooming house for male students popularly known as Toad Hall. In 1969, the building was purchased by Harold Mefford, a Castro Valley and Hayward attorney who had just co-founded the East Bay's largest builder of low-income housing, the Eden Housing Corporation.
Mefford's professed intention was to provide affordable housing to students, but he rented to all comers. Craig Healy, a Toad Hall resident during the Mefford period, says that the house functioned more like a commune than a rooming house. One of the residents was Joy, Country Joe McDonald's personal secretary, who lived in a basement room. Author/Merry Prankster Ken Kesey and rock star David Crosby used to buy their drugs from one of Toad Hall's residents, and their cars were often seen parked in front of the house. In the late 1960s and early '70s, Toad Hall was an epicenter of the Berkeley counterculture-the coolest place to live.
The neighbors weren't thrilled. A letter from the late Elena Herr to the Zoning Officer complained about the strange and transitory nature of the tenants, as well as the shoddy appearance: "Blankets and pieces of cloth hang from the windows in the way of curtains and the front lawn is being used as a parking lot. […] Cars and motorcycles are also being repaired there."
The Mefford era was short-lived. In 1973, he sold the building for $127,000 to the Living Love Center, a non-profit organization led by Ken Keyes Jr., author of Living Love-a Way to Higher Consciousness. The center conducted Weekend Consciousness Growth Intensives and disseminated "The Living Love Way" via broadcasts on KQED-FM every Saturday evening from 7:30 to 8 p.m.
The neighbors found no reason to be satisfied with the new arrangement. A request for service in May 1973 noted "A very large bus, possibly a converted Greyhound, used as a permanent living quarters by its owner, is parked conspicuously in the front yard of 1730 La Loma." The follow-up report revealed that Keyes himself was "temporarily living on the bus because he is a paraplegic."
The battle to dislodge the Living Love Center continued for four years, with numerous complaints from neighbors, city inspections, and inter-departmental memos. But all attempts were to no avail. Then the center itself decided to pull up stakes. On Nov. 22, 1976, it approached the city of Berkeley with an offer to donate the property for park use if it could be determined that it was located on the Hayward fault line. The city declined the offer. Fearing a proposed apartment development, Elena Herr approached the University Students' Cooperative Association, suggesting they buy it. The building was, in fact, sold to the co-op for $300,000 in 1977.
USCA dedicated 1730 La Loma Avenue in October 1977 as Harry Kingman Hall, in honor of the general secretary of Stiles Hall (University YMCA), who in February 1933 inspired 14 UC students to establish the first student housing cooperative in Berkeley.
The 50 residents of Kingman Hall carry on the traditions of their various predecessors in the annual Living Love party, an initiation rite that takes place each fall. Residents and initiates dress in toga-draped sheet; one by one, the newbies descend, book in hand, into the dimly lit entrance hall, where an electronic keyboard provides eerie background music. Whether this tradition incorporates occult artifacts from the Theta Xi fraternity is not publicly known.
Kingman Hall was designated a City of Berkeley Landmark in January 1999. The Theta Xi chapter house is now located in the Cornelius Beach Bradley House (Edgar A. Mathews, 1897) at 2639 Durant Ave., designated a City of Berkeley Landmark in Nov. 1997.
Daniella Thompson publishes berkeleyheritage.com for the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (BAHA).


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Goalkeeper Scott Sutarik had seven saves in Liberty's 1-0 victory, Friday.
Liberty midfielder Jonatan Torres scored the game's lone goal with less than eight minutes left, pushing the Flames men's soccer team to a 1-0 victory over the Georgia State Panthers, Friday at GSU Soccer Complex. The contest was the season opener for both teams.
Liberty received a solid performance from goalkeeper Scott Sutarik, who made seven saves, the second-most in his career.
The Flames move to 1-0 on the year, while Georgia State drops to 0-1. It was the first meeting between the two teams since 1990.
Sutarik and the Liberty defense were strong early. The host Panthers sent a flurry of shots at the Flames' net over the first 34 minutes of play, only to come away empty. During the stretch, Sutarik made three saves, two on corner kicks by Georgia State, keeping the game scoreless.
Liberty pressured the Panther defense in the 19th minute. Liberty had an opportunity on a corner kick, but came away empty. Later in the 36th minute, Flames midfielder Tim Harbison pushed a shot attempt wide.
Sutarik turned away two more shots in the final minutes of the first half, sending the game to intermission at 0-0.
In the second half, Liberty began to find its stride on the offensive end. After Sutarik's sixth save in the 59th minute, Harbison and Torres ripped back-to-back shots at the Panthers' net, forcing two saves by Georgia State keeper C.J. Cochran around the 61st minute. At 80:32, Torres netted the game's lone goal. Defender Jamie Foxwell sent a crossing pass from 17 yards out in front of the net for the senior midfielder, who put it into the back of the net for what proved to be the final score of 1-0.
Once again, Sutarik came up with another save in the 84th minute. Off a corner kick, the junior corralled a header by Andrew Webber, keeping the Flames in front.
The Liberty defense then cleared two corner kicks without a shot in the waning minutes, sealing the win.
Georgia State held the edge in shots, 14-7, and in corner kicks, 9-3.
Sutarik posted his highest save total in a contest since making a career-high eight stops in a 1-0 victory over Campbell on Oct. 5, 2012 at Liberty's East Campus Fields. The shutout was the junior's 12th of his career. Cochran recorded two saves for the Panthers. Liberty will take to home turf for its next outing, next Friday. The Flames will host the IUPUI Jaguars in their home opener at Osborne Stadium. Match time is scheduled for 6 p.m.


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06 Maestro wrote:That was a crafty way of knocking out Russia. If I understand the situation correctly; the results of the two Grand Offensives, the losses of manpower and provinces and the likely prevention of planned Russian Grand Offensives pushed Russia over the edge.
Now the preparation can begin on settling the score with France and then England. Are you planning on a bit of naval expansion?
Fastsnake wrote:Oh yes... What a jerk am I!
And the miltiary production? It is proportional to the civilian production?
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And your AAR is great, it's kinda funny because I'm playing one of my first campaign with France, and in 1916 the overall situation is quite similar to yours (which is not good for me, so!).
calvinus wrote:I'm wondering if the surrender of Russia in 1916, instead of a historical 1917, is giving to CPs much more chances to win...
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WOW! Where does the time go? School has started and soon my baby boy will be 7. It's hard to believe I have a 2nd Grader and a 5th Grader. Hope everyone is off to a good start at school. The kiddies are HAPPY with their teacher and so am I. Joaquin originally wanted a circus theme for his birthday party and after I made all these BIG TOPS he decided on a Carnival Theme. UGH! I kept the original invitation because they are just too cute. We are under way with lots of fun DIY games. Looking forward to all the fun!
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Hola Amigas! I have been busy, busy, busy! Here is one of my latest creations. I made this for two special children who will be participating in their First Holy Communion. Congratulations Ben and Lia. Although the card is monotone it has so much texture. I am biased but I think its GORGEOUS!
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Happy 10th Birthday Soli
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Personalized popcorn cups for her movie theme party.
Still need 10 more for her friends party.
I just have to wrap these up with cellophane and add a tag. DONE!
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With the president showing his hand on his deficit-reduction plan, Chicago Theological Seminary Prof. Susan Brooks Thistlewaite argues that the anti-tax mantra of the Tea Party isn't very Christian, but progressive taxation is; USC's own Liz Fefebvre has her own nicely calculated riff on accusations of "class warfare." On the international front, dotCommonweal is collecting Catholic statements on the Palestianian effort to achieve state recognition at the UN; the Vatican has yet to weigh in. An America editorial takes the side of the Palestinians.
On to news of the church: The new English Mass translation roll-out continues; the UK Tablet carries mostly negative letters (some more here) from Brits along with an essay by a bishop from New Zealand, who reports that after about a year of the new translations, 83 percent of respondents to a survey give the new texts a thumbs down. In addition to the new Mass texts, English Catholics have been called back to meatless Fridays by their bishops, and Father Tim Gardner has some flesh-free recipes to make abstinence go down easier. On the other side of the Channel, the French began implementing a ill-conceived (OK, dumb) law against prayer in public, driving the Muslims of France into indoor makeshift mosques.
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MIAMI – Tropical Storm Aletta formed in the Eastern Pacific early on Tuesday May 15th right on the "official" beginning of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season.
It is rare to get a tropical storm this early in the Eastern Pacific. Since 1949, when record keeping began in the Easter Pacific, there have only been two tropical storms that have formed by May 15th. Hurricane Alma in 1990 and an unnamed storm back in 1996.
What is interesting about the formation of tropical storm Aletta is that it ends a 41 day streak without a tropical storm anywhere in the world. According to the U.K. Met Office, the 41 day period is the longest span without a tropical storm in 70 years!
Prior to the formation of Aletta, the last tropical storm on the planet was tropical storm Daphne in the South Pacific, which dissipated April 3rd, 2012. April is usually one of the quietest months globally for tropical cyclones.
The last time there were as many as 38 consecutive "storm-less" days was in 1944.
The Atlantic hurricane season doesn't officially begin until June 1st. However, the National Hurricane Season has issued special out of season "Tropical Weather Outlooks" on two disturbances so far in 2012.
The most recent disturbance, near the Azores, that developed on Saturday, Invest 92L, has weakened and is no longer being tracked by NHC.


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Thomas, Michael Tilson, 1944–, American conductor, composer, and pianist, b. Hollywood, Calif. A musical prodigy, he won Tanglewood's Koussevitsky Prize at 24 and shortly thereafter (1969) made his conducting debut with the Boston Symphony. Although he was a protégé of Leonard Bernstein and an often controversial musical director of the Buffalo Philharmonic (1971–79), until the 1990s many felt that his career had not lived up to its early promise. He was guest conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1981–85), a founder of Miami's New World Symphony (1987), and principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra (1987–94). He became musical director of the San Francisco Symphony in 1994 and has been very successful at attracting a large and diverse concert audience. Thomas is known for his sometimes brash personality, flamboyant conducting style, broad repertoire, and devotion to modern American music.
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Like the second phrase of the easy solo, this advanced phrase is also predominantly arpeggio-based. However, it adds speed and flash for a more speed metal vibe.
Taught by Dennis Hodges in Lead Concepts & Techniques seriesLength: 4:50Difficulty: 3.5 of 5
Dennis Hodges blends conceptual lead instruction for developing solos, improvising, and harmonizing along with lead techniques such as legato, sweeping, and alternate picking.
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Dennis teaches key improvisational concepts such as blending scales, phrasing, and staying within a scale.Length: 29:16 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Dennis Hodges dissects an advanced, extended solo he wrote in A Minor for this lesson.Length: 33:28 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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JamPlay instructor Dennis Hodges is back with a two sided metal solo! This pack of lessons contains an intermediate and advanced level metal solo. You'll be utilizing bends, sweeping, arpeggios and talking...Length: 2:11 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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To get things started, Dennis offers up the first four measure phrase of this easy metal solo. He also discusses the E Phrygian Dominant mode, which will be used throughout most of this solo.Length: 3:06 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Now that you have the first phrases of the easy solo under your fingers, let's put a little heat into the lick. You're working out of the same E Phrygian Dominant scale here, but you're adding some embellishments...Length: 4:00 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Here's another four bar phrase of the easy metal solo. This phrase is predominantly arpeggio-based. It ends with a big bend and slide out.Length: 4:03 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Like the second phrase of the easy solo, this advanced phrase is also predominantly arpeggio-based. However, it adds speed and flash for a more speed metal vibe.Length: 4:50 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Dennis is back with the next phrase of the easy metal solo. Phrase three incorporates a step sequence where you play a note, go up a step, then leap down in a repeated fashion.Length: 3:49 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Just like the other advanced phrases, this one is an embellishment of the easy lick. To amp up the step sequence of the easy lick, this advanced phrase adds triplets.Length: 6:16 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Dennis Hodges is back with another lick from the easy metal solo. Phrase four is the final phrase of the easy metal solo. This lick isn't incredibly fast, but it combines a pull-off to open strings, which...Length: 3:28 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Phrase four of the advanced solo is another embellishment of the easy solo. To amp up the speed and give it a more metal edge, Dennis introduces trills that bounce off the open strings.Length: 5:56 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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At this point, you should have all four phrases of the easy solo under your fingers. In this lick entry, Dennis discusses how to connect the phrases together in order to play the entire solo seamlessly.Length: 4:40 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Congratulations! You've learned all four phrases of the advanced metal solo. Now, let's take a look at how to connect those phrases for a seamless solo!Length: 6:07 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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For better or worse, Dennis Hodges cannot stop playing music, and (he hopes) will never stop playing music.
Growing up in Flint, Michigan, Dennis had a tremendous passion for drawing. He couldn't stop copying moves from bands he saw on MTV, though, and it didn't help that his parents filled the house with Santana, Stevie Ray, and Allman Bros. (on real records, no less!) so it wasn't long till he got his first guitar. It was junk. Within a few weeks his parents traded in a poor acoustic for a less junky 3/4-size electric.
Dennis started lessons right away at the age of 8. He still remembers hating it for awhile, and not taking it seriously until he was 12. He is thankful his parents forced him to practice early on and kept paying for lessons, even though rational thinking should have stopped them after a year.
Around this time drawing became less important, and guitar consumed all his attention. After 6 years of lessons he parted ways with his teacher and, after trying out two others with no results, decided to continue alone. His nerdistic tendencies paid off, as he put in hours working on picking and left hand exercises and learned as many Randy Rhoads and Kirk Hammett solos as he could.
Luckily, there were playing opportunities at school talent shows and church. Dennis was playing bass at his church when he was 13, helping to hone his performance skills in a group setting.
In high school, Dennis joined the marching band on sousaphone for all 4 years. It was as awesome as you could expect. He was also fortunate enough to be in several different metal bands, still play at church, and get the incredible opportunity to play guitar for many local community theaters. This kept his sight-reading in shape and gave him an appreciation for different styles of music (and paid pretty well, from a high schooler's perspective).
In 2001, Dennis came to Bexley, Ohio to study guitar at Capital University with Stan Smith. His studies emphasized jazz and classical guitar. Here his metal past merged with a deeper understanding of the instrument and music in general, and the basis for most of his teaching style was set in motion.
Dennis now plays guitar for Upper Arlington Lutheran Church every Sunday, for St. Christopher in Grandview, Ohio, with the youth group, and also plays for touring Broadway shows that stop in Columbus. Occasionally, he plays weddings and private parties, and he is starting a new cover band with some friends, called Dr. Awkward. He is blessed to have his understanding and supportive wife Kate, and is glad to be at JamPlay!
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I am 66 years young and I still got it! I would have never known this if it had not been for Jamplay! I feel like a 12 year old kid with a new guitar! Ha! I cannot express enough how great you're website is! It is for beginners and advanced pickers! I am an advanced picker and thought I had lost it but thanks to you all, I found it again! Even though I only play by ear, I have been a member a whopping whole two weeks now and have already got Brent's country shuffle and country blues down and of course with embellishments. Thank you all for your wonderful program!
Greg J."With Jamplay I can fit in a random session when I have time and I can go at my own pace"
I'm a fifty eight year old newbie who owns a guitar which has been sitting untouched in a corner for about seven years now. Last weekend I got inspired to pick it up and finally learn how to play after watching an amazing Spanish guitarist on TV. So, here I am. I'm starting at the beginning with Steve Eulberg and I couldn't be happier (except for the sore fingers :) Some day I'm going to play like Steve! I'm self employed with a hectic schedule. With Jamplay I can fit in a random session when I have time and I can go at my own pace, rewinding and replaying the videos until I get it. This is a very enjoyable diversion from my work yet I still feel like I'm accomplishing something worthwhile. Thanks a lot, Greg
Bill"I believe this is the absolute best site for guitar students."
I am commenting here to tell you and everyone at JamPlay that I believe this is the absolute best site for guitar students. I truly enjoy learning to play the guitar on JamPlay.com. Yes, I said the words, ""enjoy learning."" It is by far the best deal for the money.


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Living Without a Cellphone
Waiting in the bowels of New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal recently, Nancy Kadlick was losing faith. She was supposed to meet her friend Cynthia Santoro, but as the minutes ticked by, she wondered if she was in the wrong spot.
It turned out she was. "I was upstairs, and you weren't there!" Ms. Santoro exclaimed when they finally found each other.
The cellphone was supposed to put an end to moments like that. But the 54-year-old Ms. Kadlick, of Salem, Mass., is among the roughly 30 million American adults who don't own one. She used to pay $65 a month, but she ended her cellphone service a few years ago, trying to cut costs.


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U of I Sister School Visitor's Policy
University of Illinois sister school visitors may use TRAC for a fee as a Special Visitor while they are visiting the UIS campus.
Currently enrolled students and employed faculty or staff from a University of Illinois sister school or affiliated office (such as UIUC, UIC, Extension Office, etc.) shall be eligible to use TRAC as a sister school visitor. The sister school visitor wishing to use TRAC shall submit his/her UI i-card to the Front Desk upon entering the facility. After determining eligibility, the sister school visitor shall then be granted permission to use TRAC upon paying per visit the $5 special visitor's fee. This is not a daily fee; it is a $5 per entry fee, even if using the facility more than once in a day.
Sister school visitors shall be allowed the following benefits:
- able to check out equipment during their workout time in the Rec Center only
- same Guest Policy benefits as a Rec Member (i.e., able to host and sign-in guests and/or family members).
Sister school visitors do not have the following benefits:
- no extended equipment check-outs (i.e., equipment checked out overnight, for multiple days, or outside of TRAC)


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Asian stock markets retreated Monday, with benchmarks in Hong Kong and South Korea off about 2 percent, as a jump in U.S. unemployment intensified concerns the global economy is facing a prolonged slump.
Investors were rattled by a much-anticipated report released Friday that showed the unemployment rate in the world's largest economy increased to a worse-than-expected 7.2 percent in December from 6.8 percent in November. Meanwhile, employers cut 524,000 jobs, bringing job losses for all of 2008 to 2.6 million — the most since 1945.
While hardly surprising, the figures were still more evidence that the magnitude and duration of the global recession could be worse than many anticipated. For Asia, the news was especially unsettling as rising unemployment hurts consumer spending and erodes demand for the region's exports.
U.S. & World
"After the grim reminder of the U.S. labor market, I think there's the realization that it's not going to be an easy ride," said Song Seng Wun, head of research at CIMB-GK in Singapore. "Investors fear the global economy might be tanking worse than even pessimists expect."
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index fell 275.86 points, or 1.9 percent, to 14,101.58, and South Korea's Kospi dropped 24.21 points, or 2.1 percent, to 1,156.75. Japan's market was closed for a national holiday.
Mumbai's Sensex benchmark lost 2.1 percent, thought shares of embattled outsourcing giant Satyam Computer Services Ltd. rebounded 40 percent after Indian authorities Sunday named three business leaders to its board to help turn around the firm.
Key stock measures in Australia and Singapore shed about 1 percent or more. Taiwan shares also fell.
Shanghai's main index, down early in the session, recovered to add 0.6 percent amid a statement from Premier Wen Jiabao that China's efforts to break out of an economic slump were starting to show results, with the economy performing better than expected in December.
China's December trade figures are due to be released Tuesday, and analysts expect more weakness amid lackluster global demand. China's exports fell in November for the first time in seven years and manufacturing activity shrank in December for a third straight month.
U.S. investors, also unsettled by the jobs report, sent stocks veering lower Friday.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 143.28, or 1.6 percent, to 8,599.18, logging a 4.8 percent decline for the week, its biggest point and percentage loss since the week ended Nov. 21. Broader stock indicators also declined, with the Standard & Poor's 500 index falling 19.38, or 2.1 percent, to 890.35.
U.S. futures traded lower, signaling a weak open on Wall Street. Dow futures fell 12 points, or 0.1 percent, to 8,511 and S&P500 futures slipped 3.4 points, or 0.4 percent, to 882.10.
Oil prices edged lower, with light, sweet crude for February delivery down 58 cents at $40.25 a barrel in Asian trade.
In currencies, the dollar slipped to 90.06 yen, down from 90.39, and the euro weakened to $1.3419 from$1.3470


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There is nothing more pleasing as an Area Manager than my clients using their Terms of Trade correctly to implement a speedy and successful debt collection via EC Credit Control. Having a signed copy of their Terms of Trade in place with the debtor before the debt is incurred is vitally important. Not only do their chances of collecting the debt increase dramatically, but their correctly worded Terms of Trade also allow them to pass on all the costs they incur recovering the debt to their debtor!
So far this month I have loaded just over $50000 of debt in the Sutherland Shire area alone! What is it with business owners in the Sutherland Shire region!? Do people think they can take advantage of hard working and honest business owners from this area? Not if they are clients of EC Credit Control – refer to the paragraph above!
As we come towards the end of the month I am looking forward to seeing some big smiles from a number of happy and relieved clients in the Sutherland Shire.


text: There is so much to be said about the perfect rocking chair. Grandma's rocking chair is still fresh in our imaginations and all the precious memories wrapped up in it. We have chosen a collection of nursery rockers and gliders that combine modern comfort (and lumbar support!) with designs that are destined to be a family heirloom, with durability and longevity in mind. The rhythmic movement of a rocker is soothing to baby while nurturing the closeness of parent and child during those late night feedings and the multitude of bedtime stories. You'll forever love whatever rocker you choose, destined to become the single seat that will forever hold all those special moments.


text: Canadian manufacturer research in Motion's Blackberry smartphones have long indicated that the BlackBerry is the essential device for professionals on the go. From the Blackberry Bold 9700 to the Blackberry Torch 9800, uBreakiFix offers repair services for everything from broken glass to water damage. Our professionally trained technicians can get your device up and running in almost no time at all.


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There's nothing that adds a dash of excitement or a flash of individuality quite the way a necktie can. Perhaps the reason fewer men have chosen to wear neckties is that so many have stopped being fun or clever or unique. This is not the case with this fun tie!
Inspired by everyone's all-time favorite injection-molded, plastic, interlocking, Danish, building blocks.
All Josh Bach neckties are hand-crafted in pure silk to a length of 57" and a width of 3.5"??and by the way, make fantastic knots!


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Red Cafe Disses Hell Rell Live On Stage At S.O.B's In NYC!
Marz Money reports "During a Performance @ S.O.B's in NYC, Red Cafe does an Accapella & Disses Hell Rell. This was a Response to Hell Rell calling him out"
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Demand Reddit Remove Subreddits that Promote Violent Behavior and Severe Discrimination
Demand Reddit Remove Subreddits that Promote Violent Behavior and Severe Discrimination
This petition had 11,873 supporters
(Trigger Warning: Extensive Discussions of Rape, Sexualized Violence Against Women, Assault, Racism,Transphobia, Ableism, Homophobia)
Did you know that passages within Reddit's User Agreement page cite that when participating in their online community, "You agree not to use any obscene, indecent or offensive language... [material must not be] defamatory, abusive, bullying, harassing, racist, hateful, or violent."? Did you know that this same page also claims that users must also "...further agree not to use any sexually suggestive language..." or post material that "encourages conduct that would conduct that would constitute a criminal offense."?
What about the following currently active subreddits makes the Reddit administration question as to whether or not these terms of agreement have been broken...?
r/rapingwomen: Readers that love rape.
r/beatingtrannies: Saying the word "Tranny" is the same as murdering a homosexual. It's true! Try it. Feels good, man.
r/SexyAbortions: Pictures of sexy abortions from your fap folder.
r/BeatingCripples: Post your favorite cripple gore! Discuss your hatred of the handicapped with like-minded individuals.
r/beatingwomen: Give and get advice on what to do about back talk. Share your favorite Irish sunglasses stories.
These categories are self-explanatory, but I guarantee you, whatever viscous material you've imagined lies within these pages, to see the real thing is much, much worse. It's physically sickening, and the worst of it is, "it's all in good fun"... I refuse to accept that, and I hope you won't accept it either.
Consequently, there are relating Subreddits that are grouped together with the afforementioned threads. However, r/painal, r/KillingWomen, and r/ChokeABitch show allegedly consensual, explicit, graphic sex acts that showcase one overwhelming theme - gritty fetishizations of sexualized violence against women.
What is Reddit administration condoning by surplussing these discussions with violent images and video? And don't be mistaken, they are condoning it. After reading the guidelines for how things are run over at the site, I learned moderators supervise each and every one of the Subreddits. Giving them the benefit of the doubt just for one minute, let's say, perhaps, they missed one (or all) of these pages by mistake But wait, each of these pages has a "Must be 18 or older" button to click and enter... and the moderators decide when and where to put those buttons.
So let me get this straight, the moderators saw this content, and deemed it acceptable to potential viewers as long as they click a button saying they are of age? Of age to do things like join the army and vote, not only discuss the violating of other individuals' humanity, but make a field day of it?
In the past several weeks, I have learned a lot about Reddit. For example, I learned that women's privacy does not matter. If she is in a public place, she is fair game. I have also learned that Reddit condones the idea that women are property (not just public property as previously shown, but flat-out propery, plain and simple), because this notion is headlined on the r/KillingWomen page.
The last thing I learned about Reddit, is that according to their own About page, they define "Reddit", as "a type of online community where users vote on content". Join me and we'll do just that... We'll put it to a Reddit! Please, sign this petition, and spread the word so that we can get rid of this content today, and ensure it stays gone tomorrow!
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