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Incremental Intellisense Improvements in VS2010
Some improvements like LINQ are substantial, and some just make our lives a little easier. Intellisense in VS2010 has an improvement that is incremental and will make the life of a programmer a little easier.
In VS2008 Intellisense listed members alphabetically by matching characters as you type them. In VS2010 Intellisense lists members using a contains-a approach. Let's take a few minutes to explore this incremental improvement to the VS2010 IDE.
Evolution Lived
Video buffer memory is still accessible. To see this open a cmd window, run the debug.exe program and send some data right to video memory. (For the demo I am using EGA video memory because I can't recall the CGA video memory addresses.) It is worth noting that odd numbered memory addresses at EGA memory represent the background and foreground RGB colors, and that my typographic errors (shown in Figure 1) show you just how error prone this approach can be (which in turn demonstrates why good debugging tools were and still are so necessary).
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Figure 1: Entering the raw data right into EGA video memory will display ASCII characters and RGB colors directly to video memory.
Thankfully debugging evolved shortly thereafter with Borland's Turbo Pascal Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and continue to evolve today. Now we have built-in Output windows and Intellisense that make debugging what's going on and figuring out what code base we have to work with substantially easier. (To demonstrate Intellisense for VS2010 I will demonstrate how to redirect IO using .NET in the section "The New and Improved Intellisense".)
Intellisense in Visual Studio 2008
Intellisense in Visual Studio works by displaying members alphabetically. When you type an object name followed by the member of an operator (.) and some alpha-numeric characters Visual Studio will display a drop down window, the first member that start with those characters and then the members that follow alphabetically. Visual Studio 2010 improves on this approach.
The New and Improved Intellisense
When you type an object name, followed by the member of operator in Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio will display all of the members that start with or contain those characters. Instead of a starts-with, alphabetic listing, Visual Studio 2010 displays a list of members that contain those characters anywhere in the member name, as long as those characters are in the same relative order and the case matches.
To demonstrate, the code in Listing 1 shows you how to
redirect console IO to a WinForm of your choosing, instead
of the IDE's Output window. I will use this code to show you
how Intellisense lists members in VS2010. (Listing 2 shows
you how to add a TextBox to a form and initialize the
MyStreamWriter class with the TextBox,
resulting in
Console Write and
WriteLine method calls buffering data in the
Form's TextBox.)
Listing 1: Building your own debug window in VS2010 using
console IO redirection.
Imports System.Windows.Forms Imports System.Text Public Class MyStreamWriter Inherits System.IO.TextWriter Private control As TextBoxBase Private Builder As StringBuilder Public Sub New(ByVal control As TextBox) Me.control = control AddHandler control.HandleCreated, _ New EventHandler(AddressOf OnHandleCreated) End Sub Public Overrides Sub Write(ByVal ch As Char) Write(ch.ToString()) End Sub Public Overrides Sub Write(ByVal s As String) If (control.IsHandleCreated) Then AppendText(s) Else BufferText(s) End If End Sub Public Overrides Sub WriteLine(ByVal s As String) Write(s + Environment.NewLine) End Sub Private Sub BufferText(ByVal s As String) If (Builder Is Nothing) Then Builder = New StringBuilder() End If Builder.Append(s) End Sub Private Sub AppendText(ByVal s As String) If (Builder Is Nothing = False) Then control.AppendText(Builder.ToString()) Builder = Nothing End If control.AppendText(s) End Sub Private Sub OnHandleCreated(ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As EventArgs) If (Builder Is Nothing = False) Then control.AppendText(Builder.ToString()) Builder = Nothing End If End Sub Public Overrides ReadOnly Property Encoding() As System.Text.Encoding Get Return Encoding.Default End Get End Property End Class
Listing 2: Initialize MyStreamWriter with a TextBox
residing on a form to send Console IO to the TextBox instead
of a command window or the Output window in Visual
Public Class Form2 Private writer As MyStreamWriter = Nothing Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load writer = New MyStreamWriter(TextBox1) Console.SetOut(writer) End Sub End Class
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After that debate between Tzortzis and Lawrence Krauss that was overshadowed by the disgraceful anti-egalitarian exhibition of Muslim misogyny, iERA is now trying a new tactic: they're releasing tiny snippets of the debate that they believe they can spin into anti-Krauss sentiment. Here's a perfect example, Krauss's reply to a question about the morality of incest.
The audience gasped when Krauss said it's not clear to him that incest is wrong, and then he went on to argue that there are biological and societal reasons why incest is not a good idea, but that he'd be willing to listen to rational arguments for sexual and emotional interactions between siblings, for instance…not that he'd encourage such behavior. It's a nuanced and complicated reply in too short a time, but otherwise, he's not wrong.
But you know what Tzortzis is thinking: this is a perfect clip to play to the dogmatic mob, his people, who don't do complicated and nuanced, and don't care about rational arguments, only absolute dictates.
I'd add two other arguments that might sink in.
One is that religions also rationalize incest. Here's the Protestant Christian example:
Since Eve was made from one of Adam's ribs [Genesis 2:21-22], she would have been a clone of Adam and, had there been any genetic mutation in Adam, this would have been reproduced in Eve and expressed in their offspring. However, we may reasonably conclude that there were no mutations, and the very first commandment given to them was "to be fruitful and multiply" [Genesis 1:28]. However, the business at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil took place long before there were any children.
The account then continues where God confronted the guilty pair at the tree, but they did not confess their guilt or plead for forgiveness [Genesis 3:1-13]. God then cursed the serpent, imposed reproductive difficulties upon Eve and "cursed the ground for [Adam's] sake" [Genesis 3:17]. From that moment, everything that Adam – and mankind since – ate had grown in the cursed ground. Cell by living cell, Adam began to very slowly change from his initial state of eternal perfection to mortal imperfection, and he finally died at the age of 930 years [Genesis 5:5]. Nevertheless, Adam and Eve's immediate offspring would have been very close to physical perfection while brother-sister marriages were the only unions possible! Further, according to the genealogies given in Scripture, pre-flood longevity was about the same as that for Adam, so families were very large compared to those of today. Brother-sister unions were not only unavoidable, but they undoubtedly became traditional and expected.
Catholics make a similar argument.
Incest was not a problem for the immediate descendants of Adam and Eve. It became a problem when the deterioration of the gene pool meant that there was an increased likelihood that the offspring of the unions of near relatives would inherit physical or mental problems. Adam's immediate descendants inherited perfect or nearly perfect genes, so the unions of near relatives were not a problem. Besides, near relatives were the only people who existed.
it is a known fact that legislation differs from one Shari'ah to another, while the principles and beliefs remain the same in all of them. So, making of portraits was allowed in the Shari'ah of Sulayman (peace be upon him) but is prohibited in our Shari'ah. Similarly, making prostration of salutation was permitted in the Shari'ah of Yusuf (peace be upon him) but is illegal in ours. Also, war booty was prohibited for nations before us but it is completely legal for us. The Qiblah of people before us used to be towards Bayt Al-Maqdis, but for us it is towards Ka'bah. In a similar way, marriage between brothers and sisters was permitted in the Shari'ah of Adam (peace be upon him) as opposed to those that came afterwards. The following is a clarification on the issue by Haafidh Ibn Katheer, who said:
Allaah allowed Adam (peace be upon him) to marry his daughters to his sons for necessity. Every couple used to have a boy and a girl. Hence, he married the girl of one couple to the boy of another. This is said by Suddi regarding what has been narrated by Abu Maalik and Abu Salih, from Ibn 'Abbas, by Murrah from Ibn Mas'ood and by other companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) that Adam did not have (in his grandchildren) a baby boy unless it was accompanied by a girl, so he married the male of a couple to the female of another, and the female of a couple to the male of another
So apparently their absolute moral prohibition against incest isn't quite so absolute after all. A good Muslim can fuck his sister if Allah tells him to.
But the other example I'd give is current, and it's done all the time. Ever looked at a purebred Arabian horse's pedigree? It's an incestuous nightmare, and it's encouraged — it's even regarded as a good thing to reinforce good stock with a moderate amount of inbreeding.
Here's an example of a horse pedigree. Notice what's going on?
Look at Pie's Joseph, for instance. He is the product of a breeding between Wood's Jay and Wood's Jay's granddaughter, Wood's Chili.
Pie's Joseph was then bred with his own niece, Pie's Lady I, and they had a daughter, Pie's Lady II. Pie's Joseph was than bred to his own daughter to produce a son, Blue Joe, who is also his grandson.
Let's not even get into cows and pigeons. Here's a quick glimpse at the sordid sex life of Favorite:
Are you squicked out yet? You shouldn't be. This stuff is going on on farms all over the world. The biological prohibition isn't quite as strong as you might think — if you want extremes of a phenotype, as you might in agriculture, trying to achieve selective homozygosity for specific traits might actually give you an advantage.
We tend to not want that kind of result in human crosses…although, if you think about it, an unscrupulous nation could embark on a breeding program for athletic ability that would benefit from a multi-generation pattern of incest…
But this all highlights a common problem: get into a debate with fanatics and ideologues like the iERA mob, and they will actually hold it against you if you actually consider the complexities of reality. We like both complexity and reality; how can you argue with someone who comes in with a bias that what you regard as virtues are sinful, and demands that the universe fit itself to their false simplicities?

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Michael Hanel
PhD candidate Classics Univ. of Cincinnati
MDiv Concordia Seminary
MA Classics Washington University
Unofficial BibleWorks Blog
oops...No, I didn't realize you had to do that. So which of the keyboards should I choose? I've attached a screenshot of my choices.
-- Richard
"Contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints." Jude 3 (ESV)
Ok - never mind. The SBL site has their announcement up with a very good FAQ that explains all of this (Greek Polytonic).
Thanks for your help!
-- Richard
"Contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints." Jude 3 (ESV)
Ok, now I know how to use the font in general, but in BW, I haven't quite got it mastered. Forgive my slowness, but in the screenshot, I have the Browse window greek font set to SBL, but you can see behind that the GNT is showing up with the English character set. This is after restarting BW.
-- Richard
"Contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints." Jude 3 (ESV)
Dr. Georg S. Adamsen, Denmark
Specialist in Academic Writing and Biblical Studies
Jim Darlack - Associate Director of Goddard Library /
Reference Librarian at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
Gloucester Assembly of God | Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
The 'Unofficial' BibleWorks Blog | Old in the New | Facebook | LibraryThing
I just wanted to confirm that the message I got this time is the same one that threw me off last time. It's not a big deal, but when you get to be my age, you want folks knowing you're not hallucinating these things.
full reply from the SBL fonts forum.
The executive summary is that classical Hebrew/polytonic Greek have complex demands still best met by specialized fonts for those with specialist needs. The all-in-one Massive Font (TM) will be your Swiss Army Knife, not your linguistic scalpel.
When you get the patch the font file (SBL_Grk.ttf) will be placed in your BibleWorks root folder. You must manually install the font using the Windows Control Panel Fonts Applet.i really appreciate it
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text: mental invalid 8 Posted August 1, 2003 im in hiding........ Free Will Astrology horoscopes for week of July 31, 2003 Aries (March 21-April 19) This horoscope is a collaboration between me and Rumi, a Sufi poet who died 730 years ago. "All disquiet springs from a search for quiet," Rumi would like you to know. "And so the best way to cultivate inner peace," I add, "is to learn to love the way everything keeps changing." Rumi continues: "All illnesses spring from scavenging for delicacies." I conclude: "So pluck the simple, inexpensive riches that are right in front of you." Taurus (April 20-May 20) A long-distance runner I know prepares for his competitions in a way that seems counterintuitive. For his next race, a 38-mile marathon in August, he has been running five miles a day four times a week. He will never actually practice a 38-mile jaunt in one stretch. This approach has never failed him in preparing for previous races. Like him, Taurus, you will soon be called on to pull off a marathon version of a task you've been doing on a smaller scale. By my astrological reckoning, you'll have all the stamina and savvy you need to succeed. Gemini (May 21-June 20) Decide what mental pictures you're sick and tired of looking at, then banish them from the sacred temple of your imagination. Next, browse the fertile depths of your subconscious mind, searching for exciting new mental pictures that you want to install in your awareness full time. For instance, you might want to exorcise a certain fearful scenario that pops up whenever you're under stress, and replace it with a bright, shiny vision of you at the top of your game. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Many fantastic beasts that are known to Harry Potter and his fellow wizards are invisible to Muggles, the ordinary people. They include the yeti, also know as bigfoot; the clabbert, a tree-dwelling animal that's a cross between a monkey and a frog; and the phoenix, a bird that periodically bursts into flames, dies, then resurrects itself from its ashes. But my favorite magical creature is the billywig, a mosquito-like insect whose sting causes its victims to become giddy and levitate off the ground. Even if you're a Muggle, I predict you will have an experience that resembles a billywig bite in the coming week. An annoying prick will lead to a pleasant floating sensation. Leo (July 23-August 22) The force of gravity can't be seen, heard, or touched, and almost no one can explain it. There wasn't even a word for it until the seventeenth century, when Isaac Newton identified it and gave it a name, borrowing the Latin term gravitas, meaning "heaviness" or "seriousness." I predict that you'll enjoy a similar breakthrough in the next month, Leo. You will finally recognize an essential energy or power or beauty that has forever been a secret to you, even though it has always been all around you. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Largely because of humans, animal and plant species are dying off at a record rate. The earth is in the midst of the greatest mass extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. If the trend continues, a quarter of the mammals will be gone in 30 years, and half of all species will be exterminated by 2100. Most people aren't consciously aware of the ongoing annihilation, yet we all feel it in our bones and know it in our souls. As a result, we carry a huge load of unacknowledged grief. If you wonder why you sometimes feel down or anxious even though your life is going well, this secret tragedy may be the cause. Now is an excellent time to tune in to the sadness, Virgo, and recognize that it's not caused by your personal failure. Libra (September 23-October 22) The legislatures of most American states have devoted a lot of time to choosing their power symbols. Pennsylvania, for instance, has made the chocolate chip cookie its Official State Cookie. The bola tie is the Official State Neckwear of Arizona; the morel is the Official State Mushroom of Minnesota; the Tule duck decoy is the Official Artifact of Nevada; and "Red or green?" is the official state question of New Mexico. According to my astrological analysis, Libra, you're in a phase when you should make similar designations for your own personal empire. What is your official cookie, neckwear, mushroom, artifact, and question? Don't stop there. Add at least 20 more categories. Scorpio (October 23-November 21) In a study of modern democracy, a British political scientist has concluded that lying is necessary and justifiable. "Politics should be regarded as less like an exercise in producing truthful statements and more like a poker game," said Glen Newey. "And there is an expectation by a poker player that you try to deceive them as part of the game." Personally, I find this attitude distasteful. My policy is to never be dishonest if I can help it. But then I have the luxury to live like that. As a self-employed poet, I don't have to hash out compromises with ideological adversaries or hang out in moral gray areas in order to serve a greater good. But your path may be different, Scorpio. In August, you might have to lie a little as you fight for a noble cause. Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) I've tried a wide variety of meditative practices from many traditions. I've calmed myself through rhythmic breathing; watched bemusedly as the nonstop cavalcade of images paraded across my mind; visualized sacred mandalas and cultivated unconditional love; taken rigorous inventories to determine whether the integrity of my actions matches my high ideals. And that's just a few. But in 25 years, I've never heard of a meditation that asks me to go into a public place, take my attention completely off myself, and observe people with precise and compassionate objectivity. Luckily, you're in a perfect phase to pioneer this radical new mode. It'll energize you enormously. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) My friend Jane Heaven is an uncanny catalyst. Good things happen for me when she's around; interesting connections and fun challenges pop up. Why? It has to do with her curiosity and willingness to try new things. One night on her radio talk show on KPFA, she goaded me and five other guests not to speak but rather to sing everything we wanted to communicate. For the next two hours we improvised a cappella melodies and rhythms as we carried on our meandering discourse. I came away inspired to write two new songs, which I produced the next day. Now listen to this, Capricorn: Your own personal equivalent of Jane Heaven is either already in your life, waiting for you to ask for more direct help, or else is hovering close by, ready to be summoned. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) On a Star Trek rerun, a female starship captain 370 years in the future was considering a love affair with a nineteenth-century Irish bartender -- or rather a hologram of the bartender in a realistic holographic recreation of an Irish village. Though she felt an attraction, she wished several things about the man were different. Since she literally had the power to reprogram him, she did, creating an even more desirable character. But after their fling she felt remorse and sought advice from the ship's non-human doctor. "I've noticed you humans often try to change those you fall in love with," the doc noted. "Why is that?" Let this serve as a teaching story for you, Aquarius. You may feel like redesigning people you love in the coming weeks, but I suggest you change yourself instead. Pisces (February 19-March 20) Songbirds are disappearing all over the world, in part due to deforestation. If current trends continue, the tunes of Yellow-throated Warblers and Red-eyed Vireos, along with many others, will be gone forever. Meanwhile, crows, starlings, and blue jays are enjoying a population explosion. You'll be hearing a lot more of their shrieks in the coming years. While you may not be able to do anything to prevent this, Pisces, being aware of it could help you avoid an analogous development in your personal life. In August, encourage your inner bird -- the part of you that loves to take flight -- to be melodious rather than shrill. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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What do you think of the REEL leash. Does it work properly or do they break just as easily as the ordinary leashes.
When my board is under water while I get yanked by the kite the leash gets really tensioned. The board does not slingshot back at me at all BTW.
Please share your experiences!


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Happy December 1
Every year my goal is to make it to December 1 with most of the "work" of Christmas finished. I want the tree up and the house decorated. Christmas gifts purchased and wrapped (the wrapping never happens on time) and Christmas cookies planned and maybe even baked (this also never happens). I'm 100% behind on every single item this December 1, and we're heading into a hectic December (I know we're not alone in the craziness). This year we have the added bonus of chemo and very long days at Vanderbilt. It's hard to believe this is my second December in a row full of doctors and appointments and long days at the hospital, not to mention that I've now completed an entire year of treatment. Twelve whole months is a very long time, friends, and I am feeling every bit of it.
Before I list a few Christmas favorites, let me also tell you Wednesday's scan shows yet another decrease in cancer - I'm now at a 29% decrease from this time last year. If I can make it 1 more percentage point, then not only is that good news for me, but it is very good news for my clinical trial doctor and drug. That one additional percentage point means that the trial drug is officially successful and could have a long-term positive impact on many other cancer patients. And I still get the distinct impression I am their star patient, but maybe they're just trying to make me feel good. ;)
Unfortunately, there are signs the neuropathy is returning, which is no good, very bad news. I'm praying those side effects disappear. The drug I am taking to counteract the neuropathy is a sedative (yikes), but I'm only taking half the dose so we have room to grow. I do not have room in my schedule to deal with the sedative side effects, however.
So. I may not have any of my own Christmas goals complete as I write this morning, BUT I've found some great Christmas favorites that I want to share. Honestly, you've probably missed out on the discounts since Black Friday and Cyber Monday are over, but they are great companies that you can bookmark for later.
I also want to note here that I have tried to purchase small business and fair trade more and more each holiday. I don't know quite how to make it to 100%, but I have purchased more this year than ever before and I am so proud of that.
Mery House Global - a fair trade global movement started by Kristen Welch who authored one of my favorite parenting books, Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World. Read all about their mission and then go buy items made by women in Kenya.
May Designs - design your own menu book, agenda, phone case, stationery, etc. I bought several gifts this year and it is going to be an annual favorite. (I also might have bought myself something as well, but I'm not telling.)
Dignify - I still haven't purchased one of the Kantha blankets, but they are on my list every. single. year. One of these days!
Bottle of Tears - I am certain we all have people in our lives who could use a little encouragement. I love this little company and its mission. I've sent one bottle this season and plan to send another soon.
Mezzati 1800 Thread Count Sheets - I didn't buy this as a gift, just replaced our old, worn out, and holey sheets. They are incredibly soft and so cheap!
And my favorite books of the year if you're a reader:
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Fearless Parenting by George Barna and Jimmy Meyers
New Morning Mercies by Paul David Tripp
Gracelaced: Discovering Timeless Truths Through the Seasons of the Heart - this book is BEAUTIFUL
On the off chance you need something to help track all of the money you're spending, I have been using the Daily Budget app for the past 6 weeks or so and it is easy to use, but effective (I am using the full paid version). I love it and it's the only budgeting app/tool that I've kept up with for this long.
I'm going to do a catch-up post soon. For now, the best way to stay connected is via instagram - lifeasalewis. It's a private account, but I'll accept your request (especially if you comment here!).
Putting up the tree. Camden is working on lights; Rory is singing away to Christmas songs. The reality of this was nowhere near as idyllic as it looks.
We rearranged furniture so that the tree could go in front of the window this year (Brian's idea). This was also not nearly as idyllic as it seems, although I am enjoying it.
Happy December 1, friends.


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Sack Lunch: Black Bean Chili with Eggplant Recipe
Lately I've been wondering if I should add "freezing food in individual portions" to my list of interests on Facebook. For one long, dark year I lived in a Park Slope studio with no freezer, unable to save leftovers and frequently forced to eat entire pints of ice cream in a single sitting. Ever since I have appreciated my freezer and used it as much as possible, although the serving size of ice cream that satisfies me now remains tragically huge.
Since I don't always have the time or ingredients to pack even a sandwich, my frozen stash of soup, stew, and other leftovers has often been the only thing standing between me and a mediocre but depressingly expensive business-district lunch. Although some things (especially potato-based soups, in my experience) suffer for having been frozen, most come out just fine and are given additional relish by the thrill (okay, for me) of enjoying the fruits of my earlier labor.
Here's what's in my freezer right now: black bean and eggplant chili. This meatless, bean-filled chili (sorry, chili purists!) was far too spicy for me the day I made it, even with wheatberries, plain yogurt, and cheese stirred in. It mellowed a little overnight, but I will be more careful with peppers next time. (I used chilies de arbol and am wondering if New Mexican red chilies are actually much milder.) In any event, this was solid home cooking but didn't make anyone weak in the knees, which is why it was an excellent candidate for freezing: I wouldn't have wanted to eat it several meals in a row, but I will be very grateful to have it when I find myself in a mealtime pinch.
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- Yield:4 as a main course
- 1 1/2 pounds eggplant, unpeeled, stemmed, and cut into 1-inch cubes
- Salt
- 15 dried New Mexican red chilies (about 3 ounces)
- 3 cups water
- 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 small red onions, finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 28-ounce can plum tomatoes, drained and chopped
- 1/2 tablespoon ground coriander
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 cups cooked black beans
- As accompaniments:
- White cheddar, coarsely grated
- Red onions, finely diced
- Cilantro, coarsely chopped
- Cooked brown rice, wheatberries, or tortilla chips
Put the eggplant cubes in a strainer and sprinkle generously with salt. Let stand for 1 hour and pat dry with paper towels.
Simmer the chilies with the 3 cups water in a large saucepan for 20 minutes. Purée the chilies and the liquid in batches in a blender until very smooth. Force the puree through a fine sieve and discard any solid pieces.
Heat the oil in a large, heavy Dutch oven over moderately high heat. Add eggplant and cook, stirring, until almost tender, about 4 minutes. Remove eggplant and set aside. Add onions and garlic to the same Dutch oven, adding more oil if necessary, and cook, stirring, for 4 minutes.
Add tomatoes, ground coriander, cumin, bay leaf, eggplant, and chili puree and simmer 5 minutes.
Add beans and simmer over moderate heat for 15 minutes. Season to taste with salt. Remove the bay leaf. Place in bowls and top with cheese, onions, and cilantro.
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I found this info interesting. It makes sense that Nazi's who hated Jews would go to a country like Egypt, to continue propagating their hatred since Egypt never liked the jews in the first place. (I wonder why everyone says that they went to ARGENTINA?...anyways ...interesting facts as follows:
Nazis during WWII Under Hitler After the war
Altern Erich Post-war name: Ali Bella Regional Chief SD (Himmlers Security Services), Jewish Affairs in Galicia In Egypt during the 50s, then instructor in Palestinian camps
Appler Hans Post-war name: Sakah Chaffar Information services with Goebbels Egypt 1956: Minister of Information
Bartel Franz Post-war name: El Hussein Assistant Chief of the Kattowitz Gestapo (Poland) Since 1959, Jewish Affairs of the Ministry of Information in Cairo.
Baurnann, SS Standartenuhrer Participated in liquidation of Jewish Warsaw ghetto Minister of War in Cairo. Instructor for the FLP (Liberation Front of Palestine)
Bayerlein, Col. Fritz Rommels camp aid Egypt
Becher Hans Gestapo Jewish affairs, Vienna Alexandria, Egypt. Police instructor
Beissner, Dr Wilhelm Section Chief VI C 13RSHA Egypt
Bender Bernhardt Post-war name: Bechir Ben Salah Gestapo, Warsaw Consultant for Political Police in Cairo
Birgel Werner Post-war name: El Gamin SS Officer Cairo, Egypt. Worked in Ministry of Information
Boeckler Wilhelm SS Untersturmfuhrer Wanted in Poland for the liquidation of the Jewish Warsaw ghetto Egypt since 1949. Worked in Israel Department of Information Bureau in Egypt.
Boerner, Wilhelm Post-war name: Ali Ben Keshir. SS Untersturmfuhrer Guard at Mauthausen concentration camp Worked at Egyptian Interior Ministry. Also instructor of the FLP (Liberation Front of Palestine)
****Brunner Alois**** Post-war name: Georg Fisher and Ali Mohammed In charge of deportation of Jews in Austria, Tchecoslovakia, Greece. Chief of Drancy concentration camp in France. Damascus, Syria. Consultant for Special Services. Protected against extradition by Syrian government.
Buble Friedrich Post-war name: Ben Amman, SS Obergruppenfuhrer Gestapo Director of Egyptian Public Relations Department -1952. Consultant for Egyptian police force.
Bunsch Franz, SA. OBersturmfuhrer Collaborator with Goebbels Israel Department in the Information Ministry in Cairo, Egypt.
Daemling Joachim Post-war name: Jochen Dressel or Ibrahim Mustapha Dusseldorf Chief of Gestapo Consultant for Egyptian penitentiary system. Active member of Radio-Cairo (Radio-Le Caire)
Dirlewanger Oskar, Oberfuhrer Chief of 36th Waffen SS division (USSR-Poland) Some say in Cairo since 1950. Others claim that he died June 7 1945 in Germany under house-arrest.
Eisele Dr Hans Chief doctor of Buchenwald concentration camp. Died in Cairo in 1965.
Farmbacher Wilhelm, SS Lieutenant-General Wehrmacht Eastern Front, Supervisor of Vlassov Army in France in 1944 Military consultant for Egyptian President Nasser.
Gleim Leopold Post-war name: Lt-Col Al Nashar Unit Chief in Warsaw High ranking officer in Egyptian national security departement, in charge of political prisonners.
Gruber Post-war name:Aradji Canaris recruit in 1924. Egyptian resident 1950: Influencial agent within the Arab League
Heiden Ludwig Post-war name: El Hadj Journalist for anti-jewish agency Weltdienst (NSDAP) Converted to Islam. Translator of Mein Kampf into Arabic. Lived in Egypt in the 1950s.
Heim, Heribert. SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Medical doctor at Mauthausen concentration camp Became medical doctor for Egyptian police.
Hitholfer Franz High ranking officer of Gestapo in Vienna Lived in Egypt in 1950s
*** Von Leers, Dr Johannes*** Post-war name: Omar Amin Goebbels assistant, in charge of antisemitic propaganda. In Egypt, he was in charge of anti-israeli propaganda in Cairo since 1955.
Luder, Karl Chief of Hitler Youth movement. Held responsible for anti-semitic crimes in Poland. War Minister in Egypt.
Mildner, Rudolf. SS Standartenfuhrer Gestapo Chief in Kattowitz. Chief of police in Danemark. In Egypt since 1963. Member of Deutscher Rat organization.
Moser Alois, Gruppenfuhrer SS Wanted in USSR for crimes against Jews. Instructor of paramilitary youth groups in Cairo.
Munzel Oskar SS General Military consultant Cairo, during the 50s.
Nimzel Gerd von. Post-war name: Ben Ali Egypt. 1950s.
Oltramare, Georges Post-war name: Charles Dieudonne Director of Pilori in France during German occupation Responsible for TV show La voix des Arabes (The voice of Arabs) in Cairo. Died 1960.
Peschnik Aehim Dieter Post-war name: El-Said Resides in Egypt
Rademacher Granz Post-war name: Thome Rossel 1940-43. Headed Anti-jewish section of Foreign Affairs Ministry. Journalist in Damascus.
Rauff, Walter Chief of SD (Himmlers Security Services) in Tunisia. In Syria until 1961. Was arrested and released in Chili in 1962.
Seipel. SS Sturmbannfuhrer Post-war name: Emmd Zuher Gestapo in Paris. Converted to Islam. Security Services with Interior Ministry in Cairo.
Sellman, Heinrich Post-war name: Hassan Suleiman Chief of Gestapo in Ulm. Ministry of Information in Cairo. Egyptian Special Services.
Thiemann, Albert. Post-war name: Amman Kader SS officer in Tchecoslovakia Information Ministry in Cairo.q
Weinmann, Erich, SS Standartenfuhrer Chief of SD(Himmlers Security Services) in Prague. Said to have died in 1949. In fact, he became consultant to Alexandrias police force in Egypt.
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I've been writing a lot about "gamification" and the pharma industry (see "Pharma & Fun, Not Oxymoronic? Here Comes Gamification!" and "Gamification, Then and Now", for example), but never from the perspective of games designed to compete with drugs such as Novartis' Ritalin, a stimulate indicated for the treatment of ADHD.
Fat chance!
First, fat chance that the FDA will actually approve a video game as an effective treatment for a medical condition. Second, fat chance that even if approved, health insurers/patients will pay for a game treatment after being conditioned all these years to think only of drugs as treatments. Third, fat chance that physicians will prescribe the game to their patients. That would require overturning the entire drug-physician industrial complex!
Nevertheless, Akili co-founder Eddie Martucci said "his company's research shows that people want choices other than today's powerful medicines. 'We would aim to have efficacy and tolerability that outstrips any of the drugs.'"
Wow! Are these guys anti-drug industry? NOPE! Senior Partner, Chairman of PureTech Ventures is Dr. Ben Shapiro who was previously Executive Vice President, Worldwide Licensing and External Research for Merck. Another Senior Partner at PureTech is Dr. John LaMattina, who was previously President, Pfizer Global Research and Development and Senior Vice President, at Pfizer Inc.
LaMattina, who also writes the Drug Truths Blog at Forbes, was once enthusiastic about torcetrapib, a drug that Pfizer hoped would replace LIPITOR. "We believe this is the most important new development in cardiovascular medicine in years," said LaMittina. That was before Pfizer halted development of torcetrapib and after it spent more than $800 million on its development (read "torcetrapib: $800 Million Failure but Kindler Safe"). Hopefully, Akili isn't costing nearly as much to develop as a new drug.
With such experienced drug industry veterans as partners, Akili might have a chance of making it to the FDA. Unless, of course, clinical trials reveal dangerous side effects.
It's not likely such side effects will be similar to those that torcetrapib caused; i.e., death. Some video game critics, however, fear that "electronic media might improve visual attention but impair the ability to sustain attention on a hard or boring task," notes the WSJ article. "The latter type is what teachers need from students, according to ... Douglas A. Gentile, a developmental psychologist at Iowa State University." What teachers DON'T need, however, is for students to claim that playing video games during school is part of their medical treatment!
It's interesting to speculate how FDA-approved video games would be marketed, assuming any will actually be approved by the FDA. Akili, for example, might splurge on exhibits at medical meetings and lure physicians into its booth to play the game. And maybe it would hire physicians to be "consultants" and "speakers" to promote the game to their peers. I'm betting that direct-to-consumer (DTC) TV ads would be out of the question -- much too expensive for a product unlikely to reach "blockbuster" levels of sales.
I do, however, envision that DTC social media could be very cost-effective for marketing FDA-approved video game treatments.


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Praise God in his holy sanctuary;*a
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* [Psalm 150] The Psalm is a closing doxology both for the fifth book of the Psalms (Ps 107–149) and for the Psalter as a whole. Temple musicians and dancers are called to lead all beings on earth and in heaven in praise of God. The Psalm proclaims to whom praise shall be given, and where (Ps 150:1); what praise shall be given, and why (Ps 150:2); how praise shall be given (Ps 150:3–5), and by whom (Ps 150:6).
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Vegan songwriting contest
Calling all musicians (which I decidedly am not! I received this fun contest in my email from a local vegan and thought I'd pass it along:
The goal for you poets and songwriters and lyricists is to match YOUR lyrics with these tunes and rhythms.
When you've completed your entry or entries, send the words along with the name of the song whose MIDI you're writing words to match to the Vegetarian Resource Center at eval(unescape('%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%56%52%43%40%49%56%55%2e%6f%72%67%22%3e%56%52%43%40%49%56%55%2e%6f%72%67%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b'))
Ah,. hundreds of vegan children for decades going forward singing YOUR lyrics, YOUR words, your 2-3 or 4-5 verses of lyrics celebrating vegan values, vegan lifestyles, vegan experiences, and vegan aspirations and hopes.
So what makes a lyric or song good is its historical durability, the timelessness AND timeliness of its lyrics and inspirations, its ability to inspiration present AND future generations going forward for decades, perhaps centuries.
Great religious hymns have inspired for centuries, sometimes for millennia. Vegan values ARE timeless; we're not about Hollywood or celebrities, but rather about deeper and truer, more just AND more sustainable outlooks, insights, values, and hopes and aspirations than the circumstantial.
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Hilda Mary Isabel Petrie Collection
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- Coleção
- Probably early 1900s
Two albums. One labelled 'Scraps', which contains mainly photographs, only one of which shows Egypt (Pyramids and Great Sphinx at Gîza); the rest are British churches and historic buildings. The other album is labelled 'Post Card Album' and contains postcards showing French Prehistoric stone circles, megaliths, and chamber tombs, as well as excavations in progress.
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If you loved the starry-eyed love-sufferer Joseph Gordon Levitt in "(500) Days of Summer," cherish the memory. Because he's not coming back any time soon.
The actor is heading into action territory in two movies, the first being "Premium Rush." This does not refer to the feeling associated with meeting the person of your dreams, but rather of illegal drugs.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, the movie will have Gordon-Levitt as a bike messenger who picks up an envelope from Columbia University only to be chased by a dirty cop desperate to get his hands on it. The movie will be directed by David Koepp. Not much room for romance here, especially since those bike messengers get all sweaty and inhale a lot of car exhaust.
Gordon-Levitt then could move onto "Looper" a sci-fi thriller that will re-team him with "Brick" director Rian Johnson.
"Looper" is set during a future in which operatives use time-travel to assassinate criminals before they commit crimes. Gordon-Levitt will play a man sent back to kill himself.
Of course, it raises the inevitable question: could Gordon-Levitt do a time-travel movie in which he warns his "500 Days" character Tom Hansen not to get involved with Summer because she's just going to break his heart in the end? Probably not.
So we'll keep the indie-romance leading man candle burning, JGL, until you return. You are its brightest light.
Indie Love Puppy No Longer Applicable for Joseph Gordon-Levitt
If you loved the starry-eyed love-sufferer Joseph Gordon Levitt in "(500) Days of Summer," cherish the memory. Because he's not coming back any time soon.


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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Celebrate 50!
A round of 50's would be very appropriate, don't you think?
Update! Video evidence of the blessed event right here: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=12357079
6 comments:
- Ian Hunter said...
I can't recall the last time a drank a 50, but for Jose Bautista - cheers!
- September 23, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
- September 23, 2010 at 2:06 PM
I drink 50 when I go to the pool hall. Pool anyone?
- September 23, 2010 at 4:02 PM
- William J. Tasker said...
Excellent. Very happy for Bautista and the fans of the Toronto Blue Jays.
- September 23, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- radar said...
Loved 50 draft on tap. Just loved it.
Didn't drink it by the bottle. But I loved it from the keg.
Did I tell I loved it?
Any ways I got side tracked there for a minute.
Congrats to JBau.Somebody told me he tweets about all his "random" drug tests. 50 seems sorta special in this post(?)PED era.
- September 24, 2010 at 12:31 AM
Wasn't it cool how Bautista gave credit and thanks to Cito Gaston for sprinkling some of his magic on him? Great to see a loyal man thank the great manager for his trust and faith.
Cito is awesome, isn't it great how it's almost impossible to recall a great event in Jay's history and not see Cito Gaston standing proudly in the picture?
Yes, yes it is.
- September 24, 2010 at 10:40 AM


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What's the buzz going around on the black market?
Honey bees apparently.
Bees are not only a hot commodity for its pollination services, but there's big money in their honey as well.
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These shoes, sandals regency la toc, appeared a long time ago. Naturally, it began its distribution from ancient civilizations (India, Greece, Egypt). In those days, sandals were made from straw mats that were tied with straps made from animal skins or directly from grass twisted from grass.
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The advantages of sandals, sandals regency la toc are obvious:
they protect the sole of the foot from damage (sharp stones, spines, etc.)
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Of course, sandals were worn by both men and women. This is where we turn to the main gender difference in shoes. Sandals, sandals regency la toc (including childrens) are actually sandals that have more pronounced foot fixation elements.
Variety of sandals regency la toc
For example, the one-piece heel can be performed on womens sandals, sandals regency la toc. Also, a solid strip of material may be present in the area of the beginning of the toes of the foot. At the same time, the sole of the sandals is absolutely flat.
In sandals, sandals regency la toc there is at least a small, but still a heel. If we are talking about adult shoes, then sandals can also be fully executed on heels.


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amputation(ăm'pyətā`shən), removal of all or part of a limb or other body part. Although amputation has been practiced for centuries, the development of sophisticated techniques for treatment and prevention of infection has greatly decreased its necessity. Surgical amputation is currently performed in cases of bone and tissue cancers, gangrene, and uncontrollable infections of the arm or leg. An amputation is performed as far above the affected area as is necessary to remove all unhealthy tissue and to leave a portion of sound tissue with which to pad the bone stump. Whenever possible amputations are performed at points on the limb that permit the fitting of prosthetic devices (see artificial limbartificial limb,
mechanical replacement for a missing limb. An artificial limb, called a prosthesis, must be light and flexible to permit easy movement, but must also be sufficiently sturdy to support the weight of the body or to manipulate objects.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Ceremonial amputation of finger joints has been practiced in parts of Australia and Africa in conjunction with male initiation rites. In some areas of New Guinea women have finger joints amputated to signify mourning.
What does it mean when you dream about an amputation?
Amputation has different connotations depending on the tone of the dream. When amputations do not refer to actual removal of limbs, they refer to the radical removal of something from one's life. Positively, a dream about an amputation may refer to the removal of something that, although formerly quite close to the individual, is no longer necessary or desirable. Negatively, it may mean the abandonment of talents and powers represented by the amputated limb. Sometimes amputation may also represent a situation that one has been ignoring but which has finally reached a crisis point.
The surgical, congenital, or spontaneous removal of a limb or projecting body part.
This is a frightening dream which may be due to anxiety and fear. It suggests feelings of frustration, anger, and powerlessness on the part of the dreamer. This dream may also be related to a radical removal of something from one's life. Some believe that you are trying to get rid of something that is no longer desirable or necessary or that the limb or the part being amputated has lost its power. According to New Age thinking, the right side of the body is usually associated with the ability to give emotionally, psychologically and physically to yourself and others, while the left is linked with the ability to receive. Carl Jung said that the left side represents the unconscious while the right indicates the conscious


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Here's the final part of Twitter 201 which will cover the best applications for Twitter, as well as a few things I'd advise against on Twitter. If you missed earlier parts, here are the links to part 1 and part 2.
Best Apps For Twitter
1) Tweetscan – Allows you to search for specific things that people are Tweeting about. This is a favourite of mine and I've had a great experience where I was searching for "chinese new year", found someone else's blog, commented on it and a reader of that blog then came here and commented. Can't recommend this enough
2) Snitter is an application you download to your desktop and it looks a little something like this:
The benefit is simple: you don't have to continually go to the Twitter website, but just update your Tweets from this instead. Your friends' updates will be sent right to you as well. I've been using this for a few days and have found it to be fairly non-intrusive.
3) Twitter Cal helps with productivity and scheduling, which can be useful. I haven't personally used this very often, but the perks are definitely there.
4) Facebook Application – search for this on Facebook, and anytime you update your Twitter status, your Facebook status gets updated at the same time. Pretty neat.
General Twitter Advice
Know who your audience is. This can make a difference between whether you Tweet yourself to remember the milk, or publicising something to friends.
Too much "noise". Twitter your thoughts (Why I dislike Chinese New Year) vs actions (wondering which pair of socks to wear). Do keep in mind that Twitter also functions as an extension of your personal brand, and people will stop following you if you post too many frivolous Tweets.
Be aware of who you're following. Best example of this – When Seth Godin isn't Seth Godin.
SianAh – Trust Singaporeans to come up with a Twitter clone for you to fill in what's bothering you. Unfortunately, I think SianAh is gone now because I can't access the website
That brings me to the end of the Twitter201 posts. I really hope you enjoyed it and most importantly, learned something that will help you use Twitter a little better. As always, feel free to comment if you have other uses/suggestions on Twitter below.
Publishing 2.0 – Why I Stopped Using Twitter
Chris Brogan – Twitter Revisited
ProBlogger – 9 Benefits Of Twitter For Bloggers, Tips For Bloggers
Lifehack – Twitter: Use It Productively
Edit: There's a new Twitter write-up on Makeuseof that just got posted which covers almost the same scope as this but with variants in the apps and with a section on word tracking. Worth a look!


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Today is Saturday, May 11, the 131st day of 2013. There are 234 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 11, 1973, the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the "Pentagon Papers" case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.
On this date:
In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.
In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
In 1862, during the Civil War, the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia was scuttled by its crew off Craney Island, Va., to prevent it from falling into Union hands.
In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
In 1935, the Rural Electrification Administration was created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs.
In 1943, during World War II, U.S. forces landed on the Aleutian island of Attu, which was held by the Japanese; the Americans took the island 19 days later.
In 1950, President Harry S. Truman formally dedicated the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state.
In 1953, a tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.
In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36. The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Cats" opened in London.
In 1985, 56 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.
In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.
Ten years ago: The United States declared Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's Baath Party dead. Lithuania became the first ex-Soviet republic to approve entry into the European Union as voters completed a weekend referendum. Canada beat Sweden 3-2 in Finland to win its first hockey world championship in six years.
Five years ago: Serbia's pro-Western president, Boris Tadic (boo-RIHS' TAH'-dich), declared victory in parliamentary elections — a stunning upset over ultranationalists. Parvati Shallow was the last woman standing on CBS' "Survivor: Micronesia — Fans vs. Favorites." (Shallow had previously come in sixth place on "Survivor: Cook Islands.")
One year ago: A Chicago jury convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law, William Balfour, of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. (Balfour was later sentenced to life in prison.)
Today's Birthdays: Comedian Mort Sahl is 86. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan is 80. Rock singer Eric Burdon (The Animals; War) is 72. Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo (SHOH'-reh ahg-DAHSH'-loo) is 61. Actress Frances Fisher is 61. Actor Boyd Gaines is 60. Country musician Mark Herndon (Alabama) is 58. Actress Martha Quinn is 54. Country singer-musician Tim Raybon (The Raybon Brothers) is 50. Actor Tim Blake Nelson is 49. Actor Jeffrey Donovan is 45. Country musician Keith West (Heartland) is 45. Actor Nicky Katt is 43. Actor Coby Bell is 38. Cellist Perttu Kivilaakso (PEHR'-tuh KEE'-wee-lahk-soh) is 35. Actor-singer Jonathan Jackson is 31. Actor Cory Monteith is 31.
Thought for Today: "Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short." — Golda Meir, Israeli prime minister (1898-1978).
Today in History - Saturday, May 11, 2013
Today is Saturday, May 11, the 131st day of 2013. There are 234 days left in the year.


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Less than 200 km south of Melbourne is the quiet seaside town of Port Welshpool.
Port Welshpool Caravan Park is a long established and well known venue famous for its budget beach front accommodation and self contained cabins which sleep up to 10 people.
With play areas for the kids and BBQ facilities it's the ideal location for that quiet holiday by the sea.
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RICHMOND — Gov. Terry McAuliffe highlighted an ambitious health reform initiative Thursday, pitching it as evidence that Virginia is ready to expand Medicaid and extend taxpayer-funded health insurance to hundreds of thousands of new people.
It's a significant reform, House Republicans responded. Virginia was smart to start working on it three years ago under Gov. Bob McDonnell, and McAuliffe should be commended for the new progress under his leadership, they said.
But there's no way, they said, that Medicaid will be expanded this session.
The debate is certain to last well beyond the planned Saturday end to the current legislative session.
Thursday brought more sniping back and forth about who's listening to whom, who's willing to negotiate and who's playing politics.
Republicans called the governor a grandstander without a detailed grasp of his own proposals.
McAuliffe said House Republicans are playing politics with "a life and death" situation.
He talked about a woman he met in Wise County during one of several recent trips he's made to pitch Medicaid expansion in Republican districts around the state. She's a cashier with diabetes, he said, and without a free health clinic she couldn't afford the insulin she needs.
The clinic she visits doesn't have enough money to serve everyone who needs it, the governor said. Health insurance would solve that.
"This is about life and death," McAuliffe said.
Hyperbolic rhetoric, Republicans responded. Plus, the House budget inludes several million in new funding more for free health clinics, and that budget has been held up by the ongoing Medicaid debate.
McAuliffe's announcement Thursday dealt with an experimental program meant to save Virginia money on many of the most expensive patients with taxpayer-funded health care: Those who qualify for both Medicaid and Medicare.
Medicare is a federal program for senior citizens, as well as disabled people. Medicaid is a state- and federally funded program for some of the same people, and more, with eligibility tied largely to income.
More than 100,000 Virginians are part of both programs, and they navigate a tangled web of two massive systems. Even Cindi Jones, the head of the Virginia department that oversees Medicaid, said she struggled to deal with the two systems for her mother.
They don't share records, she said. You have to ask Medicare for approval for the simplest things. Medicare denies it and you have to ask Medicaid. Weeks go by, or longer, she said.
Under the new system the state contracts with three insurance companies to do this legwork. The companies assign patients case managers, and the expectation is that this will promote enough efficiency to save the state hundreds of millions in coming years.
Also, the companies get a capped per-patient fee, and if care costs go above that, they have to make up the difference. The state plans to track 133 metrics, a move meant to cut down on any profit motive to deny care.
Virginia is one of three states trying this, and none of them have been doing it long enough to see real results, said Del. S. Chris Jones, R-Suffolk, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. The program has been in the planning stages for several years, and the federal government approved it last year, but enrollment just began. So far 182 of the 78,000 people the state hopes will sign up have enrolled, according to the Department of Medical Assistance Services
House Republicans said they want to see results from this reform and others before they put Medicaid expansion — or a compromise plan offered by the Virginia Senate — on the table. But GOP leaders didn't have a cohesive answer Tuesday when asked how much reform they need to see, and how long it will take to bear enough fruit.
Jones said it takes at least 12 to 18 months to see whether changes are working. Many of the reforms House leaders want haven't been in place that long.
But House Majority Leader M. Kirkland "Kirk" Cox said there are far more problems with expansion proposals than reforms can address, and there's no guarantee that reform savings will convince him that expansion makes sense.
He, like many Republicans, doubts the federal government will keep its promise to fund 90 percent of the expansion costs in the out years.
McAuliffe accused Republicans of putting up "one false roadblock after another." Every day Virginia doesn't expand its program it squanders $5 million in federal money that could be used to pay for health care, he said.
Instead, people without insurance end up in the emergency room. They get the most expensive form of free care around. Businesses pick up the cost through higher insurance premiums, McAuliffe argued, and the state spends hundreds of millions on indigent care.
"It's time that we act," McAuliffe said. "We're talking about our friends and we are talking about our neighbors."
McAuliffe said Senate Democrats, and some Republicans, have been willing to negotiate with him on Medicaid. The Senate plan, Marketplace Virginia, would use expansion money to buy private insurance policies instead, tapping something like $1.7 billion a year in federal money to do so.
House Republicans won't engage on that concept, or any others, McAuliffe said.
Republicans shot back, saying neither the Senate, nor McAuliffe, has provided them enough detail.
"Look north to Washington," Jones said, refering to the Affordable Care Act."They passed a bill before they read it, and it's a mess."
Cox said the Senate's Marketplace Virginia proposal is just three pages. State Sen. John C. Watkins, R-Midlothian, a lead sponsor of that plan, said he's got a file folder full of answers for his colleagues in the House.
"All they've got to do is ask," he said.
Replied Cox: "We've sat down with John. There are a lot of questions they can't answer. It's Swiss cheese."
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Alec Baldwin marries Hilaria Thomas in NYC
NEW YORK - Alec Baldwin and his yoga instructor fiancee have tied the knot in a New York City church.
The 54-year-old Baldwin and 28-year-old Hilaria Thomas married Saturday evening at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. Baldwin's friend and publicist said the "30 Rock" star warmly received congratulations from well-wishing fans.
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Thomas wore a silk magnolia Amsale gown with cap sleeves. Baldwin's suit was designed by Tom Ford.
The two began dating last year. Baldwin previously was married to actress Kim Basinger; they have a daughter, Ireland, who attended the wedding.
The reception was held at New York University's Kimmel Center.
The wedding came about a week after Baldwin and a news photographer got into a scuffle outside of a courthouse where the actor was believed to have been picking up a marriage license.


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"Shortly after the Martellus map surfaced," Van Duzer wrote by e-mail, "some photos were taken of it in ultraviolet light, and one of these in particular showed that northeastern Asia, where one hardly sees any text at all with the naked eye, is in fact dense with text." It took decades for multispectral imaging technology to develop to the point where scholars would be able to read the legends. But the Martellus world map, which is six and a half feet wide and four feet tall, presented yet one more challenge. "Transporting it to a laboratory for the multispectral imaging," Van Duzer said, "would have been detrimental from a conservation point of view, and difficult in terms of insurance."
Fortunately, portable multispectral imaging tools have recently become more common, and Gregory Heyworth of the Lazarus Project has developed some that can be used with fragile artifacts.
Heyworth and the Lazarus Project team traveled to Yale to photograph the Martellus map. Years ago he began carrying his multispectral imaging tools in a golf bag in order to get around some airline restrictions regarding baggage. Not a golfer, he slips a green plastic putter and golf ball into the bag as a ruse, which smooths the way with airport officials but can also be the source of some embarrassment. While at Yale, a staffer there extracted the green putter with a quizzical look while Heyworth, chagrined, had to quickly explain.
Another participant in the project, Roger Easton of the Rochester Institute of Technology, talks about other, more technical, problems, pointing out that "since the map really is a painting rather than a manuscript, the contrast between the writing and background varies all over the place. . . . We often have to come up with some new methods to recover local sections of text, and these methods generally are not helpful for the next block of text nearby."
While reflecting on his role in the work on the Martellus world map, Easton, an imaging scientist, takes the long view of the connection between the humanities and technology: "I feel as though I am an ally of the scribe who originally wrote the words. It is not a stretch to say that the scribe was an imaging scientist of his time. He was trying to preserve words by using the most advanced archival technology. These words were then 'lost' through no fault of his. We are trying to recover those words using modern descendants of the technology he used to write the original words."
The recent types of multispectral technology developed by Megavision in California and at the Lazarus Project and used to more fully view the Martellus map have also been used in such groundbreaking projects in the digital humanities as the Archimedes palimpsest project and on the David Livingstone diaries.


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Police charge 2 men in spa robberies
Witnesses provide to police Virginia license tag
Howard County police have charged two men in connection with a robbery and an attempted robbery of local spas along the U.S. Route 1 corridor.
Andre Hairston, 31, of Parkville, and Antoine Dyson, 32, of Baltimore, each were charged with two counts of armed robbery, robbery, assault and theft.
The charges stem from two incidents on Sept. 3, the first of which was an attempted robbery at the Silk Spa in the 8600 block of Washington Boulevard in Jessup around 8:30 p.m. Police said two men posed as customers when Hairston brandished a folding knife and assaulted two female employees before both of them fled in a dark-colored Dodge Durango with a Virginia license plate. Police said witnesses provided the tag number to investigators.
Shortly before 11 p.m. the same night, police received a report of a robbery at the Oriental Spa in the 6300 block of Washington Boulevard in Elkridge. Police said two men matching the descriptions of the Silk Spa suspects posed as customers and took a cash box from the office. They fled in a dark-colored Dodge Durango with a Virginia license plate.
Through the investigation, police identified Hairston and Dyson as the suspects. Both were being held at the Howard County Detention Center on $1 million bond.


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Fixing the economy
Fixing the economy
Fixing the economy
What one thing could President Barack Obama or Gov. Mitt Romney do in the next four years to get the economy going again? Economic and business experts from the University of Iowa offer these ideas…….
Stimulate spending by cutting taxes for low-income people
Jon Garfinkel, professor of finance
Consumer spending constitutes 70 percent of U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). To grow the economy we should grow consumption, and that means putting money in the pockets of spenders. The difficulty with this is that one of the government's simplest approaches to doing so is to cut taxes, which reduces revenues and widens the deficit. So the battle over lower taxes versus reduced deficits arrives. The best outcome is to limit the cost of tax cuts while maximizing the amount of spending/consumption these cuts generate. The key to doing so is to put money in the pockets (cut taxes) of those households that spend the greatest fraction of their after-tax income.
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Expenditure Survey, it is clear that higher after-tax income families spend smaller percentages of their after-tax income, while lower after-tax income households spend larger percentages of their after-tax income. To accomplish a tax cut for lower income households, one needs to focus on payroll taxes if federal income taxes are minimal or zero on such households. The payroll tax "holiday" could be extended, or even made permanent, with means-testing to limit the cost of doing so and to emphasize the effect on those that spend the greatest portion of their after-tax income.
My other "tax-related" suggestion would be to advocate for a vastly simplified tax code, though not necessarily a flat one. One example of the potential benefits to this: many small companies find it too expensive to take advantage of targeted tax breaks. I would prefer to eliminate the complexity of the tax code, removing targeted tax breaks and consequently raising tax revenues, and then spend the proceeds by simply reducing corporate taxes across the board, not entirely unlike the 1986 Tax Act did.
Raise and enforce the minimum wage
Colin Gordon, professor of history
The lingering recession and the longer-term problem of inequality in America share a common source: a fundamental shift in public policy that has eroded the bargaining power of American workers and the security of American families. The political dimensions—and economic consequences—of this shift are well-documented. They include macroeconomic policies which prefer fighting inflation to full employment, regulatory indifference to everything from financial markets to workplace safety, labor-management policies which tilt dramatically in the employer's favor, a steady erosion in the incidence and quality of job-based benefits, an increasingly tattered social safety net, and remarkably meager (by international standards) commitments to the work-life balance.
This is a daunting list. If I had the ear of the next president long enough to propose one fundamental policy change, it would be this: raise, index, and enforce the minimum wage. The current federal minimum of $7.25 an hour is—in real, inflation-adjusted dollars—nearly two dollars below its peak in the late 1960s. Evasions of even this meager standard, wage theft by employers, is now distressingly common. Raising the minimum wage has broad (and bipartisan) political support. It would have a substantial impact, especially in an economy in which both recent and projected job growth is heavily weighted towards low-wage service employment. So what should it be? Full-time work at $7.25 an hour is not enough to lift a family of two above the federal poverty level. For this reason, most economists (see recent work by the Center for Economic and Policy Research or the Economic Policy Institute) place the "poverty" or "low wage" threshold closer to $11 an hour. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation and productivity growth, it would be closer to $20 an hour today. So let's split the difference: a staged increase to $14 or $15 an hour over three years, indexed to rise with inflation after that.
Get serious about cutting the debt
Robert Miller, professor of law
The United States faces many grave economic issues, but the most serious one over which the next president will have significant control concerns our unsustainable federal budget deficits. Annual deficits have run to $1.4 trillion in 2009, $1.3 trillion in 2010, and $1.3 trillion in 2011, and 2012 will probably see a deficit of another $1.2 trillion. The national debt thus totals about $11.3 trillion, or more than 70 percent of GDP. This, of course, does not count tens of trillions of dollars in unfunded Social Security and Medicare liabilities over coming decades. World capital markets have not yet demanded higher interest rates for U.S. bonds the way they have for those of Greece, Spain, and Italy (though this happy circumstance could be partly due to the fact that the Federal Reserve now holds about one-sixth of outstanding U.S. debt—the largest percentage in history). Eventually, however, the markets will start demanding higher interest rates from the United States, and the consequences of this will be extremely deleterious.
It is imperative, therefore, that the United States substantially reduce its budget deficits and deal credibly with its future Social Security and Medicare obligations. This cannot be done solely, or even primarily, by increasing taxes. Even if the federal government confiscated the entire income of every American earning more than $500,000 per year (about $1 trillion total), this would still leave an annual budget deficit of about $200 billion. Leaving aside the effects such a policy would have on economic growth, we cannot tax the rich to close the budget deficit because the rich simply do not have enough money to fund current levels of government spending. The only viable solution entails substantial, permanent reductions in government expenditures, especially entitlements. Achieving such reductions will involve many complex issues, including important ones of social justice. Anyone aspiring to be the next president should now be presenting to the American people a credible program for substantially reducing government spending.
Stop arguing to build consumer and investor confidence
Tom Rietz, professor of finance
What can the government do to help improve the economy? Two words: Stop bickering. Uncertainty kills investment and spending. The current partisan political environment creates incredible uncertainty. Politicians swear that this policy or that will surely destroy the economy and that this other one will save it. As soon as a policy as important as health care is passed, opposing politicians threaten it immediately. As businesses and consumers, how can we decide what to invest in or whether to spend money on a new house or car when it seems as though the next election may reverse policies on everything from health care to energy policy and job creation to taxes. My advice is to have a healthy debate and, through the debate, choose economic policies with everyone's input and representation. Then, and this is the important thing, stick with policies chosen. Give them a chance to work and don't create uncertainty by threatening them at every juncture. Health care reform passed. Don't demonize it. Don't threaten it. Get over it and move on. Maybe revisit it after a pre-specified time lag of 10 or 12 years. Don't threaten the entire economy over a debt ceiling debate. Deal with it and move on to more fundamental issues. The instability and uncertainty of the current partisanship creates more harm than any particular economic policy could.
On the flip side, if the uncertainty is resolved, people and businesses will adapt to whatever policies are in place. Then, we will spend and invest with the confidence that the policies won't change fundamentally tomorrow. That spending and investment is what will drive an economic recovery.
Invest in infrastructure
Alice Schoonbroodt, assistant professor of economics, and Martin Gervais, associate professor of economics
Whichever party ends up in power may want to think about investing in infrastructure improvement. This kind of fiscal policy should be fairly uncontroversial and attract support from both sides of the aisle, as well as from most economists.
The last "stimulus package," the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, had provisions to increase government spending by about $500 billion, which represented around two-thirds of the entire package, and around 3.5 percent of GDP at the time. Only about 25 percent of this was targeted to infrastructure. In retrospect, despite a $56 billion increase in aid to states, the increase in federal stimulus spending in infrastructure was more than offset by the decrease in such spending by states and local governments (see www.bea.gov and the Cooley−Rupert Economic Snapshot; econsnapshot.wordpress.com). While the jury is still out on the impact of extra non-infrastructure spending, investing more in productive infrastructures should be much less controversial. Here is why.
Taken together, the argument is that borrowing today at very low rates in order to bring forward projects that are already known to be productive at a time when factors of production are relatively cheap and abundant should be a no-brainer. First, recessions tend to be particularly harsh on the construction sector, generating underemployment, job loss and/or bankruptcies. This certainly has been the case for the recent recession. Figures for 2011 from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis show that the number of full-time equivalent employees in the industry is still down 17 percent relative to the year 2000 and 28 percent relative to its peak in 2006, while real value added is not only down in levels (30 percent below its 2000 level) but also as a percent of GDP (4.7 percent in 2000, 4.9 percent in 2006 and only 3.4 percent in 2011). Second, not only does the federal government have the ability to borrow a large amount of funds but it can do so at relatively low interest rates right now. Third, there are always infrastructure projects that governments know will have to be completed at some point.


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Chemist stole drug evidence from state lab, AG says
Sonja Farak indicted on several charges
A chemist at the Massachusetts State Crime Laboratory in Amherst has been accused of stealing drug evidence from the lab.
Sonja Farak, 35, of Northampton, was indicted Monday by a statewide grand jury on charges of theft of a controlled substance from an authorized dispensary, tampering with evidence and possession of a Class B substance.
"We allege that this chemist violated the trust placed in her by stealing drug evidence from the lab and in some cases replacing the samples with counterfeit substances," Attorney General Martha Coakley said.
In January, members of the Amherst laboratory contacted State Police to report a discrepancy in the controlled substance inventory held in evidence. The lab stores and analyzes alleged controlled substances seized by local and state police.
Police allege that Farak tampered with drug evidence at the lab. Police said she was in possession of substances that appeared to be cocaine. Farak was arrested at her home on Jan. 19.
Officials allege that Farak also tampered with four drug samples stored at the lab. Authorities allege that in two of the cases, Farak mixed drug evidence samples with counterfeit drugs to hide the theft and that in another two cases, the samples were missing entirely.
According to authorities, controlled substances believed to be cocaine were found in Farak's workstation and in her vehicle.


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