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It's hard to part with something we love, whether the preschool handprint of a beloved child or a memory-filled house where that child was born and raised. In the 95 years since it was built in 1908, this pink stucco property on Rugby Road has had but three owners, surely a testimony to the affection and attachment it has engendered in those families.
It's an attachment that's easy to understand. The house is captivating, from the sweeping view of the front once you're inside its protective hedge, to the striking entrance hall, to the master suite with its heart pine wainscoting and 9 x 14 master bath replete with stained-glass windows and steam shower.
The neo-Tudor residence was designed by architect Eugene Bradbury for Allan Perkins, one of the founders of the law firm McGuire, Woods & Battle. Since then, a large kitchen and two-car garage have been added, and a 1983-84 renovation updated all major systems and added sophisticated stylistic touches such as a curving center staircase, black marble in the master bath, and air conditioning.
New owners will find that nothing needs to be done except to move in and begin enjoying the luxury of the large living and dining rooms off the entrance hall, the huge kitchen with industrial quarry tile floor and granite counters, and the many beautiful koa wood built-in shelves and cabinets.
Merely describing the number and configuration of the rooms in this house cannot do it justice. Sturdy three-brick-thick walls, century-old heart pine floors, marble counters in the "butler's hall" between kitchen and dining room, and museum-quality koa radiator covers are elements unavailable in most high-end houses on the market today.
These and other charms such as original bathroom sinks; wood-burning (not odious "gas log") fireplaces; long, alluring window seats in the kitchen, living room, and first-floor office; and a huge attic with built-in queen bed and seemingly miles of under-eaves storage shelves make this a one-of-a-kind property. Add in casement windows uncluttered by mullions for maximum light and view, and you have a house to live in for well, for as long as you possibly can.
The side yard is a separate lot available only to the buyer of the house ($125,000). Off the kitchen, a huge deck, high above the slightly sloping yard, offers a winter view of Brown's Mountain and a summer hideaway of complete privacy.
The basement used to shelter the butler and the maid (we hope they were a married couple, in 1908!), but would now make a perfectly serviceable nanny's quarters or mother-in-law suite with its full bath and generous space. It needs a lot of work, however, standards for "help" having changed over the years.
Unaccustomed as we here at On the Block are to falling in love so intemperately, we feel obligated to report on a few flaws. (But we hasten to add that they're like the slightly crooked tooth a smitten suitor finds so endearing in a beloved adorable in their very imperfection.) The laundry facilities are inexplicably placed smack at the top of the elegant, gracefully curving staircase. Up you climb, expecting to find Eden around the last curve, but instead you run the risk if the bi-fold doors have been left open of running into a damp Wonderbra and a box of Ivory Snow.
But this is quibbling for the sake of quibbling. If you have $960,000 languishing in a one-percent savings account, you'd do well to withdraw it this afternoon and head for Rugby Road.
As you recline on one of the window seats or entertain your friends on the arch-enclosed patio, you'll vow that it will be a long time before you allow family number five to take possession of your treasure.


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TUESDAY, July 24 (HealthDay News) -- Greater availability of neurosurgeons could reduce the number of people who die from brain injuries suffered in traffic crashes, according to a new study.
Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of death in the United States among people 34 years old and younger. Traumatic brain injury is the primary cause of death among people injured in car accidents; treatment of brain injuries is generally handled by neurosurgeons.
In this study, Dr. Atman Desai and colleagues from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., examined data from more than 3,100 rural and urban counties across the United States between 2004 and 2006. The average rate of car-crash-related deaths, they found, was 226 per 1 million people.
The largest number of neurosurgeons in a county was 372, the researchers discovered, but most counties had no such doctors.
The researchers calculated that an increase of one neurosurgeon per 1 million people would lead to between one and two fewer deaths from car accidents per 1 million people. This was true whether the county was rural or urban.
To achieve the same reduction in deaths would require an additional 33 primary care doctors or an additional six general surgeons per 1 million people, the researchers said.
The findings indicate that the availability of local neurosurgeons may improve a person's chances of surviving a car crash, and suggest the need to encourage medical students to choose neurosurgery as a career, the researchers concluded.
The study was published online July 24 in the Journal of Neurosurgery.
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The documentary 'Burn,' which premiered this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, follows Detroit firefighters facing a staggering problem: the city has three times as many structure fires as Los Angeles, a city more than five times its size. NBC's Kevin Tibbles reports.
Cash-strapped, arson-prone Detroit could let fires in vacant buildings and homes burn themselves out to save the city Fire Department money.
The fiery notion from Detroit's Executive Fire Commissioner Donald Austin surfaced as the documentary "Burn," chronicling a year of Motor City firefighters' camaraderie in the face of declining budgets and increasing fire calls, made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York.
"We are in no way looking to 'let the city' burn, this is about saving lives and money," Austin said, according to a report Tuesday by NBC station WDIV in Detroit. "My department is strapped, the budget is strapped, and it's time to look at a new way of doing things."
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is looking to trim $250 million and cut more than 2,500 jobs from the city's 2012-13 budget. The cuts would lower the fire department budget below this fiscal year's $183 million.
Austin's proposal would allow vacant buildings to burn if they're more than 50 percent ablaze — as long as they're not a risk to inhabited structures and the weather is favorable.
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An arson investigator photographs a fire at a Detroit building complex at Sycamore and Grand River on March, 28 2012.
Bing's office is not taking any position on Austin's idea until he makes a formal proposal of his annual budget request, the mayor's spokeswoman, Naomi Patton, told msnbc.com.
Detroit Fire Fighters Association President Daniel McNamara said he opposes Austin's idea of letting vacant homes burn, unless they're on a predetermined demolition list, WDIV reported.
"This is a long overdue idea, really," Jo Robins Davis, a Detroit-area lawyer specializing in fire insurance claims, told msnbc.com. As long as they can keep the burns controlled, the idea would work for her, she said.
"They're going to be torn down anyway," she said of the vacant structures.
Austin has other ideas to save money, WDIV reported: Ask the U.S. Navy's construction division, the Seabees, to level 10,000 vacant and dilapidated homes; or create a demolition unit in the Fire Department to use heavy equipment to level the remnants of newly burned buildings.
Detroit has 80,000 abandoned structures, "Burn" filmmakers Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez say.
Film-makers Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez discuss the hardships facing Detroit's fire department, as documented in their upcoming film, "BURN."
Austin said 40 to 60 percent of the fires in Detroit are in vacant structures. Last year alone, the Fire Department fielded 30,000 fire calls. The city of 714,000 sees 30 structure fires a day. In contrast, Los Angeles, a city of nearly 4 million, faces just 11 structure fires a day.
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To illuminate the obstacles that Detroit firefighters face, filmmakers Putnam and Sanchez documented a year in the life of the men and women tasked with saving their beloved city. The film features video shot by the firefighters with cameras attached to their helmets.
"On our first two nights filming, we went to 21 structure fires with one engine company," recalled Putnam, who said that he and Sanchez were inspired by the 2008 death of Detroit firefighter Walter Harris.
Burned on purpose
Arson in Detroit rose in 2010 to 1,082 incidents, up from 636 the year earlier, according to FBI crime statistics. Insurance companies paid $237.8 million for damage caused by arsons or suspicious blazes in 2010, the Detroit News reported.
Why is arson so frequent?
"I think Detroit's a place where people feel disenfranchised and there aren't a lot of ways to express themselves," Putnam told NBC News. The filmmaker broke the reasons down into categories: arson for profit, homeowners who are upside down on their mortgages, and arson for revenge. Other times it's just arson for kicks. "Like one of the firefighters says, 'a gallon of gasoline is cheaper than a movie ticket,'" Putnam said.
Scrappers, who strip vacant buildings of valuable materials, are also a problem. After stripping away all metal piping, they can leave an exposed gas line to catch fire, which is what happened April 10, when fire destroyed two abandoned buildings and damaged the occupied family home of Tiffanie Alston, 31.
She grabbed her children — 9, 10 and 11 years old — and then headed to the basement to help her 61-year-old father.
"People go in there and scrap all the time, and it was just a matter of time till it got set on fire," she told The Detroit News.
In the 1980s, Detroit was known for Devil's Night fires, which peaked in 1984 with more than 800 fires over Halloween. In 1985, an Angel's Night campaign began to counter the arsons. Firefighters responded to only 94 calls Oct. 29-31, 2011, according to the mayor's office.
'Katrina without the hurricane'
Wide swaths of Detroit consist of scattered occupied homes surrounded by boarded-up structures, burned-out buildings and weed-covered vacant lots, WDIV reported.
The city's population, which peaked when the post-World War II auto industry boomed in the 1950s at nearly 2 million people, has dwindled. Now Detroit's population has plummeted to 714,000, the Census reported last year.
As one firefighter in the film put it, "This has been Katrina without the hurricane."
Now Bing's planned budget cuts could make firefighters' jobs even tougher. With starting salaries at approximately $30,000 a year, most firefighters already have second jobs.
From their extensive time with the Fire Department, Putnam and Sanchez saw firsthand the real impact the city's budget problems had on the firefighters. Many of their boots were secured with duct tape, some were missing gloves, and they were still cutting holes in roofs with axes, the filmmakers said.
"I think we think that's all being taken care of, and it's not being taken care of," said Sanchez. "We need to be there for them because they're always there for us."
Funding for the film came from corporate sponsors like General Motors and an outpouring of donations from supporters who saw preview clips online. To do their part, Putnam and Sanchez are donating portion of any proceeds from the film to the Leary Firefighters Foundation to help supply firefighters with equipment.
For Putnam, the story of this one city's firefighters is symbolic of what the rest of the country's fire departments may soon be facing, as budget are slashed in almost every state. And Putnam and Sanchez want people to remember that, as heroic as their work may be, firefighters are human after all.
"People tend to think of firefighters as being indestructible," Putnam said. "They're not indestructible. If you don't give them the equipment they need and you send them into situations they shouldn't be going into, they can get hurt and they can get killed. And it's easy to forget that."
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This is the dream. After nightmarish starts to the last two seasons and finishes that left a fan base as loyal as any hating what had become of its team, the Red Sox were in desperate need of something good to begin 2013. It's been better than good.
This is the dream.
After nightmarish starts to the last two seasons — 4-10 last year, and 2-10 the one before — and finishes that left a fan base as loyal as any hating what had become of its team, the Red Sox were in desperate need of something good to begin 2013.
It's been better than good. It's been likable players performing well, the polar opposite of what the Red Sox were in 2011 and 2012.
On Monday afternoon, with the sun beating down on Fenway Park in a way it hasn't since the calendar turned to 2013, the Red Sox beat the Orioles 3-1 in their home opener, improving to 5-2 in the process.
It took them 15 games to get their fifth win each of the last two years.
But as much as a roster makeover has gotten attention during the team's fast start — out with the old and jaded, in with the new and optimistic — pitching has truly been at the center of it.
And Clay Buchholz was the one doing the work Monday.
Though he didn't ever feel he was in complete command, Buchholz (2-0) was just that. He allowed just three hits in seven shutout innings, striking out eight and walking four.
"Clay, once again, was consistent with what he's been in the spring and in New York (in his first start of the season)," manager John Farrell said. "Seven solid innings. ... He had very good stuff today."
Buchholz gave up a base hit to Nate McLouth leading off the first, walked Chris Davis to start the second, allowed two-out hits to Manny Machado and Nick Markakis in the third, walked Davis to start the fourth and walked McLouth with two outs in the fifth before finally retiring the side in order in the sixth.
He also allowed a baserunner in the seventh, but just like in the first five innings, Buchholz escaped without allowing a run.
And given what was happening when the Red Sox were at the plate, Buchholz needed to escape each inning unscathed.
The Red Sox didn't get their first hit off Wei-Yin Chen until the fourth inning, and when Buchholz left the game after the top of the seventh inning there was still no score.
Daniel Nava then blasted a three-run home run onto Lansdowne Street in the bottom of the inning to account for all the Red Sox' runs and put Buchholz in position to earn the win.
"We were going inning for inning," Buchholz said of his battle with Chen. "It's tough. ... You just don't want runners to get on because all it takes is one pitch, like you saw. It's a fun game to pitch in, especially when you come out on top. I didn't really have one thing that was working. I was up in the zone. I thought there were a couple of balls hit early that could have gotten out, but they stayed in the park. Other than that, it was sort of a grind."
After six innings, Buchholz had thrown 90 pitches. It wouldn't have been surprising this early in the season if Farrell decided to pull Buchholz and hand the game over to his bullpen. But instead the manager sent Buchholz out for the seventh inning.
"He earned that right to get through it," Farrell said. "His stuff didn't diminish. He showed the ability to make some big pitches in big moments."
In two starts this season, Buchholz has allowed just one run in 14 innings with 12 strikeouts and six walks. His ERA is a miniscule 0.64.
"(Buchholz's) performance was a lot of fun to be a part of," Nava said. "He was just doing a good job of mixing his speeds and working in and out, and up and down, and obviously with eight punchouts he was locating very well."
Buchholz, of course, has only played a role in two of Boston's five wins to date.
Jon Lester has been similarly good, allowing two runs in 12 innings. And Boston's starting rotation as a whole — which was such a problem beginning with the team's September collapse in 2011 and carrying through last year when its ERA was an astronomical 5.19 — has given up 11 runs in 40 1/3 innings, an ERA of 2.68.
It's been a dream start. And though there's been timely hitting, like Nava's home run on Monday, and a couple of lopsided victories, pitching has been at the core.
"It's a lot better than starting 2-9 or whatever it was last year and the year before," said Buchholz. "We've got an awesome group of guys. It's been fun all the way through spring up until this point."
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"A spy novel, a war story, an adventure, a survivor's tale—Night Soldiers is all this and more."
—The Seattle Times
"Night Soldiers has everything the best thrillers offer—excitement, intrigue, romance—plus grown-up writing, characters that matter, and a crisp, carefully researched portrait of the period in which our own postwar world was shaped."
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"Intelligent, ambitious, absorbing . . . The history is deftly incorporated; the viewpoint civilized; the characters and the settings picturesque; the adventures exciting; the writing pungent."
–Walter Goodman, The New York Times
"Night Soldiers is an atmospheric journey through turbulent lands at a turbulent time, not so much a thriller as it is a panoramic, historical adventure."
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"Intelligent and absorbing . . . An unusual viewpoint, solid research and unobtrusively elegant writing make this pure pleasure to read."
–Kirkus Reviews
"Evocative, moving . . . Furst shows a remarkable talent, integrating details about the cultures of Spain, France and Eastern Europe with a fascinating story of the constantly changing, constantly unpredictable events of that world at war."
–Publishers Weekly
"One of the very best novels ever written about the inner world of Soviet intelligence. . . . This fine novel, in effect the memoir so many did not live to write for themselves, is a triumph of historical imagination."
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Looks aren't everything. That's what curators probably muttered when the Curtiss-Wright Junior first entered the National Air Museum's collections in 1959. The petite aircraft had been part of an airshow act, its wings and tail sprinkled liberally with large polka dots. The fabric on its fuselage and the engine cowling had been removed, and it bore little resemblance to the sleek blue-and-silver airplane the Curtiss-Wright company had enthusiastically promoted back in 1931.
Over the years, the CW-1 patiently waited in the restoration queue at the Museum's Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration and Storage Facility in Suitland, Maryland, but something always happened to postpone its makeover.
Six years ago the airplane finally got its chance. And on most Thursdays since then, an all-volunteer group has met to restore the sporty monoplane. From the beginning, the project was a challenge. "We started with a bunch of junk and made an airplane out of it," says Joe Fichera, who is heading the project.
Fichera, who began working for the Museum in 1969 and retired as a shop foreman in 1984, returned as a volunteer in 1996 to work on the Pitts Special S-1C, which took five years to restore.
When Fichera, along with volunteers Roger Guest and George and Cindy Rousseau finished the Pitts, NASM aeronautics curator Dorothy Cochrane suggested the Curtiss-Wright Junior as a successor. "Joe is a master restorer of antique and classic aircraft," says Cochrane. "It was a natural thing for them to do. Certainly we always knew we wanted to restore it. It really didn't look like a normal Junior, which was basically used to get people interested in flying."
The two-seat, dual-control, open-cockpit aircraft was cheap to operate, soon becoming one of the most popular flivver-type airplanes of the 1930s. By June 1931, in just over six months, 125 Juniors had sold, each priced at $1,494 (about $21,000 in today's dollars). Some 270 were built.
"We wanted to restore it back to the configuration and color to illustrate the popular appeal of the Junior's design," says Cochrane. The Junior (donated by Robert E. Maytag of the Maytag Company) "was initially very well received. Then the Depression really gripped the country and all lightplane sales went down the tubes," Cochrane explains. "The Travel Airs, the WACOs—they're bigger planes that cost a lot to buy, and they were more than what your entry-level pilot would want to handle. The whole idea of the lightplane movement was to be able to make a plane that appealed to just weekend pilots and sportsmen who didn't have a lot of money, and who didn't want to do a lot of training."
Pilot Melissa Courtney joined the restoration crew in 2003, and Karl Heinzel, a shop foreman who had retired in 2008, recently returned to help. The project must be finished by the end of 2009, when all work at Garber will cease as the shop prepares to move to its new home, at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia.
The first task: wings.
"The wings were in horrible shape," says George Rousseau. "There was rot and breakage and old repairs. It would have been simpler to build brand-new wings, but that's not a restoration."


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The Central Connecticut softball team will play #4 seed LIU Brooklyn at 10:30 a.m. on Friday in Moon Township, PA for its second game of the NEC Tournament. After winning game one on Thursday against Monmouth, marking the first win in an NEC Tournament in CCSU history, the Blue Devils enter the winners bracket. Thursday's win also marked Head Coach Jeff Franquet's 300th win as the coach of an NCAA team.
A win over the Blackhawks on Friday would mean an automatic advancement to the championship game on Saturday for Central.
Fans can watch the action live, for free, on www.NECFrontRow.com or follow the game via LIVE STATS.
This season, the Blue Devils traveled to Brooklyn, NY to play the Blackbirds where they earned both wins in the doubleheader by scores of 9-1 and 5-0. Game one was decided in six innings and marked the second win in 10 seasons against LIU Brooklyn.
Central is 3-5 over the defending NEC Champions in Franquet's tenure at CCSU. The Blue Devils are 3-17 against the Blackbirds since 2004.


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George Clooney and Meryl Streep were due on the red carpet in Leicester Square on Wednesday for the opening of the 53rd London Film Festival.
The stars provide voices for the lead characters in the opening-night film, the world premiere of director Wes Anderson's animated adventure "Fantastic Mr. Fox."
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Anderson's stop-motion kid-flick is adapted from Roald Dahl's book about the battle between a suave, chicken-stealing fox and evil farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean.
Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Willem Dafoe, Michael Gambon and musician Jarvis Cocker also provide voices for the playfully lo-fi feature, which brings the hipster sensibility of Anderson's "Rushmore" and "Royal Tenenbaums" to Dahl's children's classic.
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Although the film takes liberties with Dahl's story — giving Mr. Fox additional neighbors and family members — the filmmakers had the blessing of Dahl's widow Felicity. Anderson and co-writer Noah Baumbach even wrote the screenplay while staying at the Dahl family home in Great Missenden, southern England.
"Fantastic Mr. Fox" is released in Britain Oct. 23 and in the United States next month.
Clooney is a major presence at this year's festival, also playing a psychic researcher for the U.S. military in Grant Hestov's "The Men Who Stare at Goats" and a smooth management consultant in Jason Reitman's "Up in the Air."
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One of the world's oldest film festivals, London is trying to raise its international profile to compete with better-known events in Cannes, Venice and Toronto. Most of the 300 films from almost 50 countries in the London lineup have been screened elsewhere, but 15 are world premieres.
The festival also plans to hand out a best-picture prize for the first time at an awards ceremony on Oct. 28.
The lineup includes Austrian director Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon," which won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival; prison drama "A Prophet" from France's Jacques Audiard; Jane Campion's visually ravishing John Keats biopic "Bright Star"; "Steven Soderbergh's whistle-blower saga "The Informant"; designer Tom Ford's directorial debut "A Single Man"; and Lone Scherfig's "An Education," the Nick Hornby-scripted story about a teenager coming of age in the 1960s.
The festival wraps up Oct. 29 with the world premiere of "Nowhere Boy," a film about the young John Lennon directed by British artist Sam Taylor-Wood.
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Editor's Notes: A New Way to Niche
I caught three good keynotes in late 2012: Chris Harris, editor-in-chief of Wired, at DMA2012; Frank Cooper, CMO global consumer engagement of PepsiCo, at ad:tech New York; and Brian Solis, principal analyst of Altimeter Group, at NCDM.
Each spoke about a new way of approaching business and marketing that is more collaborative with the target market. The reason they are all on this same wavelength is digital media has allowed niche consumers to band together in ways not possible before.
Sometimes that happens on the big social networks, other times it happens on site comments, message boards, YouTube channels and blogs—anywhere they can share what once would have been a lonely passion. As Harris put it, everyone sees a different Internet based on their personal interests.
Serving a niche is not new to direct marketers. Whether its high-end optics, Schuco toy cars, specialty cooking utensils or outdoor supplies, serving a niche is Direct Marketing 101. But Harris, Cooper, Solis and others are talking about a new approach to business and marketing that is more collaborative with your target market.
Harris spoke about long-tail data and how marketers should be analyzing it to find underserved niches and develop products for them. He said the data should determine what needs to be done, not the whims of the highest paid person in the room.
Cooper explained how PepsiCo allowed customers to design a new product with its "Dewmocracy" campaign, and crowd sourced some of the advertising for it. But more importantly, he described a way of doing business that was collaborative. To Harris, what it takes to make hit products and campaigns today is more honesty and transparency, which draws your niche to you along with all its feedback and excitement, and that leads to success.
Solis sees a deep, fundamental need for marketers to embrace "connected consumers," bringing in everything you know about them in aggregate via Big Data and by interacting with individuals on social media. It's not always an easy sell, and he spends much of his time on change management: "Why do I spend time on change management? Because of the politics involved in these new technologies."
Are these opportunities for your business, too?


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Founded in Rome in 1984, Irtem is a non-profit, publicly financed institute which aims at creating a research centre in the fields of musical theatre, 20th-century music and ethnomusicology. For this purpose the Institute has created two archives which are open for consultation by scholars, students, and music lovers: a sound archive which covers the areas of 20th-century music and ethnomusicology, and a video archive constituted by musical theatre documents. These archives are complemented by a collection of 20th-century scores as well as a considerable number of programme-booklets from all major Italian and foreign theatres. A prominent role is played by specific research carried out in the field of the relations between music and media, with a special emphasis on musical theatre in all of its aspects (opera, ballet, musical comedy, etc.).


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After over a decade together, Zoe Saldana and her fiancé Keith Britton have parted ways.
The former pair announced their break-up with a statement, saying their separation was a friendly one — friendly enough, in fact, for the 33-year-old "Avatar" star to keep running a business with her entrepreneurial ex-fiancé.
The erstwhile couple, who are business partners in a website called My Fashion Data Base, had announced their engagement in June of last year.
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Back then, Saldana had commented with gratitude on being in a relationship with somebody not in the spotlight of celebrity.
"I feel like the partners that stay at home, they have their lives, but they're the ones that are living with the real you," she said. "I think that they need to be recognised, every now and then."
Saldana's last big movie, "Colombiana," was a box office disappointment, but the actress looks forward to starring in a sequel to James Cameron's massive hit "Avatar."
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Riverlea, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 20, 2011. Virginity testing is an ancient Zulu and Southern African Nguni custom that was revived in the time of Aids to try and find a way protect young girls from the disease, as many fall victim to rape and abuse. It is also a way to celebrate celibacy in a nation with massive HIV rates. Despiote this, there are many critics who say that it either humiliates the girls or marks them as targets for rape as there is a persistant belief that sleeping with a virgin cleanses one of Aids. This ceremony in dumpland near Soweto was named as Umhlonyana or Sweet 16 ceremony to acknowledge Lerata Ndlela's adolescence (she turned 15). Two of the girls were found not to be virgins, and Gogo Thembi Sibisi, a scion of Zulu culture, counselled them and sent other group adults to meet with their parents. One of the girls had been raped by an adult neighbour and the other had sex with a boy of the same age - both pre-teenagers.. Photo Greg Marinovich / Storytaxi.
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UC Davis' Sperling says low-carbon standard could boost economy, reduce emissions
How will state-level resistance to a low carbon fuel standard affect efforts to implement a national program? During today's OnPoint, Daniel Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, discusses new research, released by the National LCFS Project, on the economic and environmental impacts of an LCFS. Sperling explains why he believes the LCFS framework allows for market flexibility and consumer choice.


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Sheets Ranch
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We have sold all our puppies- but keep us in mind for future litters.
Shade Tree Corgis
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AKC registered Pembroke Welsh Corgis. I have 2 Tried colored male's and 1 red female. These beautiful babies will be ready September 18th. If interested please call or text me at the number listed.
Emerald Corgis
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I am a small hobby breeder. I have been breeding corgis since 2011. I have 2 litters a year. My dogs are my pets and they live in the house with me and my family. Please look at my website.
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Thanks for your interest in Smithshire Glen Corgis.We are doing what we can to produce well rounded, happy, beautiful, healthy corgis w/ a sound mind and body. We DNA test every adult & puppy for DM
White Corgis
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AKC Pembroke welsh corgis. Health tested parents. Pups are raised in my home. All pups come with health guarantee and will be current on all age related vaccines and worming
Royal Hearts
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We are a small breeding facility located on a 5 acre ranch in the Majestic High Desert of southern California
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X Bar's Lil Legs of Texas
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As of February 21, 2019 we have 3 litters with puppies to pick from. Two litters that are AKC registered DM clear and vwd1 clear. And a AKC litter with 2 DM carriers and 2 DM clears Available.
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We live on a small farm in central Missouri & raise a few litters of Corgis every year. Our young sons help care for them & very much enjoy playing with the puppies. CORGIS ARE AWESOME!!!
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Linda Albro owner & breeder of Los Osos kennel of AKC Welsh Pembroke Corgis. We have a litter of 5 puppies that were born September 28,2019. For details or info, 805-528-8455/Cell 805-235-5471.
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Off Road Ranch Corgis
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Our next litter is due September 2020. This litter will be Tris.We also have a litter Red/ Tri due the first week of October 2020. Parents health tested clear of DM/PRA/[email protected]
WSP Corgi's
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This spring litter of 10 has deposits on all. Please contact me for a wait list. Either for back up on this one or our next anticipated litter that would be ready for their forever homes in DEC! AKC!
Sunny Garden Farm
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We breed a few litters a year with attention to temperament and quality. Pet puppies are sold on spay neuter agreement, no exceptions. All parents are health tested and appropriately DNA tested.
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Cartwright Corgis
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February 2020 Litter is Here! Corgis raised by experienced, responsible small breeder in the beautiful Ozark countryside. We raise only corgis and all puppies are AKC registered.
Nita's Corgis
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Our Corgis are part of our family and puppies are AKC registered, have tails docked and dew claws removed at birth. They are wormed and shots are up to date. Healthy, happy and ready for your home!
Parrott Ranch
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Pembroke Welsh Corgi Puppies available mid February. AKC, first shots, worming, micro chipped, vet checked. Our babies are very popular and typey in looks. We have new babies available now.
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I have been raising Pembroke Corgis since 1998. We have red and white, as well as Tri colors. Puppies are AKC and they come pre spoiled!
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Characteristics of the Corgi, fun cute intelligent! They are great companion dogs. You can't have just one.
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Wind Mountain Corgis
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It's all over the news and my Facebook news feed, and I was interested in getting the reaction of this community to it.
The DC Circuit Appeals Court recently struck down elements of a 2010 FCC order. These elements, popularly referred to as Net Neutrality, in essence required ISPs to treat all data going over their Internet tubes and dump trucks as equal, and forbade them from giving preference to one person or corporation over another.
I've been astonished with the universal horror that this news has been greeted with. Everything from posts on Facebook to news articles are unanimous that this is going to end the Internet as we know it.
A much more neutral Wired article on the decision.
I'm a libertarian myself, and am not the most knowledgeable on the history of ISPs engaging in this type of behavior before the rules were put in place. However, as a general principle, I dislike anything that involves more government intrusion and regulation. The last place that I want to allow any kind of government oversight at all is the Internet. I personally feel the dangers from allowing government more power to regulate the Internet greatly outweighs those of a free-market approach to regulating potential abuse by ISPs.
Reason.TV, a libertarian group, on Net Neutrality.
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Great Salt Lake Minerals, a division of Compass Minerals, launched a powerful mobile tool designed to help potato growers and crop consultants make more accurate soil nutrient decisions and maximize yield potential.
The Potato Potassium Uptake Calculator is now available here or is available for download to an iPad device via the Apple App Store for iPad. Those who wish to download the application to an iPad can visit the Apple App Store. Please note that the app is not optimized for the iPhone, because the required data input is not for the small screen. It is also available for Android devices here.
According to Robert Mikkelsen, Ph.D., with the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), "potatoes managed for maximum productivity have a high demand on soil nutrients.
In his 2006 publication, "Best Management Practices for Fertilizer, Mikkelsen points to a study done by Oregon State University in which potatoes removed approximately 515 lb./A of potassium from the soil, and approximately 34 lb./A of sulfur, in addition to other nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium (Table 1, Addendum).
Numerous University studies have documented the benefits of proper potassium fertilization in potato production. Potassium availability influences the tuber size and yield, in addition to a number of tuber quality factors such as specific gravity, blackspot bruise susceptibility, chip and fry color and storage quality. Potassium deficiencies decrease photosynthesis, reducing dry matter and starch formation.1
To learn more about the benefits of using Sulfate of Potash and improving potato quality and quantity, visit www.textbookpotatoes.com.
"We wanted to provide potato growers and field consultants with an effective tool to help them understand how much potassium was being removed from their soil, based upon their yield, explained Dave Furbeck, marketing communications manager with Great Salt Lakes Minerals. "We plan to develop additional on-line tools to help potato producers make smart soil nutrient choices and get the most yield potential possible out of their fertilizer budget.
1 J. Stark, D. Westermann and B. Hopkins, "Nutrient Management Guidelines for Russet Burbank Potatoes, University of Idaho College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Extension bulletin #840, 2004.


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Transcript: 'This Week' Economic Debate
Sens. McCaskill, Bayh, Shelby and the Chamber of Commerce's Thomas Donohue.
Mar. 8, 2009 -- ABC'S "THIS WEEK WITH GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS"
STEPHANOPOULOS (voice-over): Good morning, and welcome to "This Week."
(UNKNOWN): I don't know how I'm going to pay my mortgage.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Economic shock.
HALL: We've never had four straight months of job loss in excess of 600,000.
(UNKNOWN): We don't have any feeling whether there's one more shoe to fall or whether Imelda Marcos' closet is about to come down on us.
STEPHANOPOULOS: With no bottom in sight, President Obama tries to spark confidence.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Throughout our history, we have met every great challenge with bold action.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But is Washington meeting the economic challenge or making it worse?
(UNKNOWN): We have to show that the government can discipline itself.
STEPHANOPOULOS: What will it take to stop this spiral? Questions this morning for Democratic Senators Evan Bayh and Claire McCaskill, Republican Richard Shelby, and the CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue, our "This Week" debate.
RUSH LIMBAUGH, TALK SHOW HOST: Why doesn't President Obama come on my show?
STEPHANOPOULOS: ... Rush and the White House square off. That and the rest of the week's politics on our roundtable with George Will, Cokie Roberts, David Brooks, and E.J. Dionne.
And, as always, the Sunday funnies.
JAY LENO, TALK SHOW HOST: We gave them $165 billion, now we're giving them $30 billion. You know what AIG stands for? "And it's gone"!
ANNOUNCER: From the heart of the nation's capital, "This Week" with ABC News chief Washington correspondent George Stephanopoulos, live from the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hello again. In this morning's New York Times, President Obama promises to put all the pillars in place for economic recovery this year, but his pledge follows a week in which nearly all signs pointed toward a recession that could last far longer. It's an economic emergency.
How to address it is our topic this morning with four key players here in Washington: Republican Senator Richard Shelby; Tom Donohue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; and Democratic Senators Evan Bayh and Claire McCaskill.
And let me begin with another headline. This is the Washington Post. I don't know if you guys saw it yesterday. And the headline pretty much gets to the heart of the problem here, "Job Losses Could Drown Stimulus."
Senator McCaskill, are we at the point where we can say now that we're going to actually have to do more, that it's time for a second stimulus package?
MCCASKILL: Oh, I think it's too early for that. What you're seeing is jobs -- job loss is always a lagging indicator. It's not a leading indicator in a recession. And we've said all along in the stimulus, besides the tax cuts, which people forget to mention, a huge chunk of tax cuts, money going right back into the pockets of the American people, we're trying to keep job losses from being as great.
Even when we were debating the stimulus, we kept saying over and over again there was going to continue to be significant job loss. It's a matter of whether or not we can keep from that job loss being as severe as it could be had we not done the stimulus.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But, Senator, by the assumptions of President Obama and his team are -- that we would have 8.1 percent employment -- unemployment all year long, we saw that already this month. We know it's going to get worse, at least the president has said, before it gets better, so he's not going to be able to save the 3.5 million jobs he talked about.
BAYH: Well, it's a little soon to conclude that, George. And we may need -- need to have to recalibrate what we do as we go along as the facts change. He did inherit one heck of a mess, and it's gotten worse over the last couple of months.
The depth of domestic problems was worse than expected. The global nature of the recession, with Europe and China now struggling, was worse than we expected.
But let's give this a little time. I was with Ben Bernanke a couple of times this week. He does think that some things in the credit markets are beginning to get better, but there is a lag between when you put policy into effect and when it actually starts having an effect in the real world.
And the second lag, George, perhaps most important, is the psychological one. It does take some time before things -- before people realize that the substance is actually getting better. My guess is that'll start later this year or the first part of next year, and we're moving aggressively to make sure that it does.
STEPHANOPOULOS: The question, Senator Shelby, is, what is going to create that confidence? What is going to change the psychology of the markets right now? You want to...
SHELBY: I believe, if we can straighten out the banking system and get banks lending again and get confidence in our banking system -- the American people don't trust the banks. They know -- they're not investing in the banks. The banks aren't lending. And without lending, this -- this country's economy is based on credit, you know, credit to small business, medium-sized business, and that's not happening today.
We've got to do it, and we've got to do it right. TARP certainly didn't do it. I opposed that; a lot of people didn't. But -- but we can't go down that road again. And what I fear is, is Paulson II or TARP II or TARP III.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well -- well, we've seen Secretary Geithner and the president say that now we're going to take a middle-ground approach. They've out the beginnings of their plan on the banks. You don't approve of that?
SHELBY: I don't think it'll work. I think that they've got to close some big banks. They don't want to do it. We're -- we're going down the same road Japan was going down.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you're in the same place -- I had Senator Lindsey Graham on the problem a couple of weeks ago. He said we're going to have to close, nationalize some of the big banks.
SHELBY: I don't want to nationalize them. I think we need to close them...
STEPHANOPOULOS: So when you say "close," what do you mean by them?
SHELBY: Close -- close them down, get them out of business. If they're dead, they ought to be buried. We bury the small banks; we've got to bury some big ones and send a strong message to the market. And I believe that people will start investing in banks. People aren't...
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you're talking Citigroup?
SHELBY: Well, whatever. Citi's always been a problem child.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You're shaking your head.
DONOHUE: Well, I believe that the TARP thing had a very important value, and that is, it put liquidity in the banks that let them meet their requirements. Otherwise, they would have to be put out of business. And they're holding that money. They haven't spent it. They're waiting to find out where the floor is.
And when they get to the floor, then we'll be able -- on the economy, then we'll be able to figure out how to put more money back in the economy.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Is it practical to talk about closing down big banks?
DONOHUE: It's not practical to talk about closing a bank that is integrated throughout the whole global economy. It is practical to talk about buying some of those assets away from those banks and holding them in an institution that would have both public and private money, but it's not practical...
MCCASKILL: And as a matter of confidence, I think it's important for us to point out that there's two kinds of banks that we're talking about here. The -- the commercial banks, the small, local banks, they're fine, and people need to realize that. Your local bank is loaning money; it is operating as it always had.
It may be suffering in its stock prices because of what's going on in the stock market, but they are doing a great job. In fact, most of the commercial banks, the local banks, have loaned more money in the fourth quarter of last year than they had the fourth quarter the previous year.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But what do you do with these big banks, these few big banks that are in big trouble?
MCCASKILL: Well, I think -- I think a plan has been laid out. I think -- and now they're -- what they're doing is they're doing this evaluation to look at the strength and the weaknesses of each of these banks so we know what's there, and then they're going to have those capital asset funds available to help them stay liquid, the big banks.
But I think this is a matter of continuing to look aggressively at how we can help without wasting taxpayer money.
BAYH: George, the real problem here is this whole concept of too big to fail. Some of these institutions -- and you can put some of the big three automotive companies in the same category -- if they were to go down, the problem is, it's not just them. They take -- it's called, you know, collateral damage, a whole lot, hundreds of thousands of blue-collar working men and women, other smaller financial institutions who were not involved in these bad decision- makings, they'd all pay the price, too.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you can't close down the big banks?
BAYH: Well, what we have to do is stabilize them for the time being to avoid the collateral damage, put into effect regulation to make sure that this does not happen again, and if institutions are going to get, quote, "too big to fail" so that the taxpayers will have to come in, maybe they have to operate under a different set of rules.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And what -- go ahead.
SHELBY: George, subsidization of anything for very long never works. You don't stop. The automobile business, those companies, Chrysler, Ford, and General Motors, they're in deep trouble. We know that. I've suggested they go into Chapter 11. That's where they belong. And they could reorganize. We could get, you know, money in place for them. We could do it if they did it and did it right. Short of that, the UAW will run those companies and run them into the ground.
DONOHUE: Now, I can get pretty close to that issue. We need to do something -- I'm not sure all three of those companies -- and I'd like to see the three end up being two -- but if there are going to be any resolution here, General Motors has to be willing to be very, very tough and take the big step, if they have to. Otherwise, they're not going to get any place with their unions or be able to deal with the franchise rules in the states on the dealers.
This is an issue which I believe that all of us have a similar view about. I don't think it's exactly the same when you start looking at the banks.
The senator's right in the long term. We have to take some of these really toxic banks and straighten them out. This senator is exactly right that 90 percent of the banks in the country are doing a great job. The only thing is, 25 million small businesses can't get their money from banks.
We have to get the asset back -- lenders back in business. We have to put individuals in the position to do what they've always done, is to lend to small companies. Those guys create the jobs.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me bring this back to the issue at the top, the congressional agenda right now, spending bill more than $400 billion, more than 8,000 earmarks. Senator Bayh, you're one of two Democrats who's come out unequivocally against this bill, in part because of the earmarks, in part because of the size.
Do you think that you're going to be able to prevail? Senator Reid could not get the 60 votes he needed on Thursday.
BAYH: I think ultimately they'll get the votes to pass the bill, George, but I think there are substantive and perceptional problems with this bill. Substantively, the deficit is over $1 trillion. Our national debt is going up more than $1 million per minute. We have to borrow most of this money from abroad, which weakens our country.
I think this is a time to show that we can economize, do better than across-the-board increases that are many times the rate of inflation. So that's my substantive problem.
For example, if we were just to continue last year's levels of spending for the remainder of this year, we'd save $250 billion over the course of the next 10 years to help solve our long-term deficit problems.
The perceptual problem, which I think is just as great, is that, at a time when many Americans are having to tighten their belts, many businesses are having to make tough decisions, it looks as if Congress is just on auto pilot, immune -- immune from the problems that most people face.
BAYH: That undermines confidence in the system. I think we need to keep faith with the American people and show we can do what they do everyday.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Shelby, you're one of the few Republicans who's actually for this bill. Why is he wrong?
SHELBY: Well, I think he's wrong for two reasons. We differ on some things, agree on others.
First of all, this is -- these are a compilation of nine appropriations bills. A lot of people voted for a stimulus bill, a TARP. That's $1.5 trillion. Now they say, "Oh, we'd better not vote for a $400 billion bill to fund the government." I think we ought to fund the government and move on.
Are there some things in this bill that I don't like, I wouldn't vote for if I could? I voted for amendments, you know, to knock things out of it, sure.
But, overall, I think it's -- it's -- we need to get it behind us, and I think we will.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Now, Senator McCaskill, you are an unequivocal opponent of earmarks. You've asked for zero earmarks. You voted to strip them out, yet you're supporting this bill. I don't quite understand that.
MCCASKILL: Well, I have done everything I can possibly do to reject the process of funding -- funding projects through earmarks. I vote against earmarks when I get the chance, as long as we're voting against all of them, and I've dropped another bill to reform the process even further this week.
But I don't think I can sit on the sidelines on every budget, though, because I've got to tell you, George, you talk about a habit that's deeply ingrained and a culture that's very hard to get rid of, these guys love these earmarks. They love the ability to have the power, you know, to pick out projects to fund.
And, you know, some of the earmarked projects are great, but the process, I think, is fundamentally flawed. That's why Evan and I were the only two Democrats that voted to strip every single one of them out. And as long as we have a chance to keep reforming it, I think we need to keep moving forward and get the government funded. BAYH: And just one distinction from what Richard said. The TARP vote was about stabilizing the financial system at a moment of crisis last September or October, when the economy, according to the chairman of the Fed, was about to collapse. And hopefully we're going to get most of that money paid back.
The stimulus bill, the job-creating bill, that was focused or was supposed to be focused like a laser on stabilizing the economy at a time when you pointed out in the headlines, it is in terrible straits. This is just general government spending, and it's increasing many times the rate of inflation.
What are we, as members of Congress, going to do to sacrifice, to show the American people that, in the long run, there is some fiscal discipline around this town if we can't keep restraints into place for just one year? What does that say to the marketplace?
So I think this is an important part of re-instilling confidence and, frankly, helping the president, who wants to get the deficit down and wants to remove these earmarks.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Shelby, you have more earmarks in that bill than just about 40 other senators. Can you defend the process?
SHELBY: Absolutely. I can defend every earmark. Every one of my earmarks have been released to the press. Every one has -- has, I think, been vetted in the committee and publicly in my state.
I don't want an earmark that has no merit, but I do believe that we ought to have the power to appropriate things with merit. And that's what I -- that's one of the reasons I'm voting for this bill.
MCCASKILL: Yes, I think it's important to point out that a lot of the senators that stood up with righteous indignation on the stimulus bill, talking about earmarks in the bill and earmarks in the bill, are back two weeks later for a huge chunk of earmarks.
And this is an equal-opportunity sin, George, as you pointed out. The -- every single member of Republican leadership is participating fully in the earmark process.
So what I hope people quit doing is using earmarks as a partisan fight, because it is not partisan. It's about...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Although Senator Shelby is consistent, to be fair. He's consistent that he's for earmarks and he's for the bill.
MCCASKILL: He is. He is. He is. He's a loyal appropriator.
SHELBY: And not only that, I'll tell you, the stimulus bill was loaded with earmarks. There was one coming out of Illinois, $2 billion...
MCCASKILL: That was competitively -- that was competitively done, George.
SHELBY: Oh, yes. Nobody believes that now.
MCCASKILL: But it was. It was a five-year...
SHELBY: It was competitively done because the president wanted it, and he's the biggest earmarker of all.
MCCASKILL: No.
SHELBY: Bush was the biggest earmarker. All of them are earmarkers.
DONOHUE: If we talked as much about jobs as we talk about earmarks, we'd be better off.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, I actually want to move to health care right now, because you were part of a health care summit this week that President Obama convened. Here's President Obama speaking at that summit.
OBAMA: Nothing is harder in politics than doing something now that costs money in order to gain benefits 20 years from now. It's -- it's the single hardest thing to do in politics, and that's part of the reason why health care reform has consistently broken down.
STEPHANOPOULOS: And, Mr. Donohue, you were at this summit. There's been something of an evolution at the Chamber of Commerce. You were at the summit saying you support the president's goals. You believe we can get something done this year.
DONOHUE: Well, what I did say is, in comparison to the previous big debates on health care, all of the parties are somewhere else. For the longest period of time, you knew where big business, small business, the docs, the hospitals, now they're all over the place, and they are for a very simple reason, is that health care has become not only very expensive, but very complicated and very much driven more and more by the government, who are, you know, engaged with 45 percent of paying for what's going on in the health care business.
So I do believe there is a sentiment, a willingness to listen and willingness to see what we can work out here. Of course, you know, that'll fall part at one point when everybody finds out where their car happens to be parked.
But we're going to participate in this debate and listen. There are things we all agree to. We have to do wellness. I mean, what's going on with young people in this country is crazy. We have to do I.T. It's the only industry, 60...
STEPHANOPOULOS: Information technology.
DONOHUE: Yes, 16 percent of the economy, and it's the only industry that basically doesn't use it. We have to do things about getting those people covered who are not.
You know, everybody talks about 49 million not covered. A third of them could be covered tomorrow if we took them by the hand and down, signed them into the programs that are available. A third of them can't be covered, and we have to do something about that. So there are many things we can find common ground on.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But does that mean, for example, that business is ready to sign on to a requirement to provide health care to all their employees?
DONOHUE: Well, I don't know that that's going to come apart -- around at this time. See, there is a basic issue that's more fundamental, as we look at health care, as we look at CO-2, as we look at what we're doing in labor. We're trying to hold this economy together.
This president, who we need to make sure he succeeds -- I mean, this country has to succeed -- but he wants to put more things one on top of the other faster than I think we can assimilate it.
I'm prepared to bring the business community to a legitimate discussion on health care. I'm prepared to bring them to a discussion on CO-2. But if we jam all this stuff at once, if you look at what's going up on regulation, on taxes, on costs, you see that job number and those job pictures, it'll be worse. So let's do it in an orderly fashion.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator McCaskill, he does bring up an important point on revenues and -- and -- and timing here. And from what I could tell this week in my reporting, talking to Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill, it was almost impossible to find anyone who would support the president's plans to pay for this health care by shaving the deductions for wealthy Americans.
MCCASKILL: But he gets credit for saying he's going to pay for it and laying out a plan to pay for it. I mean, we did Medicare D. And -- and -- and Bush lobbied for it and gleefully signed it into law with not any way of paying for it, no means test, billions of dollars into the pockets of the pharmaceutical companies and the insurance companies without a second thought of public money.
So I think the fact that this president is showing the discipline to say, first of all, we're going to have an honest budget, no more cooking the books. We're going to put all of this stuff on the budget so the American people know how serious the problem is. And the fact that's committed to paying for the way we get health care reform...
STEPHANOPOULOS: But can you sign on to the plan, for example, to shave the deductions for wealthy Americans to pay for this?
MCCASKILL: I mean, it's -- we're talking about somebody who makes $4 million a year, instead of getting a $350 deduction on $1,000 contribution, getting a $280 deduction on $1,000 contribution. Does that really sound like something really tough?
DONOHUE: Well, that's a -- that's a fundamentally different issue than the question that George asked about the tax rates. The issue of shaving the deduction for people that are at this time, in this economy, from people that are putting money, willingly and voluntarily, into the needs of others is not going to fly. It's dead on arrival.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You agree with that?
BAYH: Well, first, I think the president is confronted with a lot of these simultaneously because the world has confronted him with them. He didn't ask to have to deal with the recession and the global warming and the health care crisis. He's been confronted with that, so he has to deal with a lot of these things.
With regard to budgeting, I think Claire's right. At least -- remember Vice President Cheney, George, said deficits didn't matter? And they pretty quickly took the largest budget surplus in history and turned it into the largest deficit. Now we have a president who wants to get the deficit down.
I think we need to go through a progression on health care, first, look for ways to -- to economize within the health care system. By just looking at the way we practice medicine in different parts of the country, there's a lot of money to be saved. That's number one.
Secondly, maybe there are some other parts of the budget that we can economize to help pay for some of this. That's why I'm opposing the omnibus, $250 billion over 10 years? That's real money by just tightening our belts for one year.
And then, finally, the issue of revenues may have to be addressed, but I think you have to do that last, not first. And the question is, do we extend with additional tax cuts to the most affluent among us? Perhaps that's something that has to be...
STEPHANOPOULOS: But you said do it last, not first. If you don't have the reserve fund in there, can you really make the upfront investments you need to make in health care, for example, building on what the president did in the stimulus package on information technology?
BAYH: By that, George, I mean, the president was right to put that issue on the table, but I think we as Congress first have to see what else can be done to get the revenue and then only raise the issue of whether you raise taxes last, not first.
STEPHANOPOULOS: What can you and your Republicans colleagues sign on to here?
SHELBY: Well, I -- I think that what we've got to do is straighten up the economy first. We've got to go to banking. That will help. If we take on all these programs, this country is going to be in one heck of an economic mess.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So put off any discussion of health care this year?
SHELBY: Well, I think we can discuss it, but how are we going to fund it?
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you're for no -- no revenue increase? The president says he's not going to have the revenue increases until 2011, but you're saying not even debate it now?
SHELBY: Well, I think we're going to debate it. We debate it every day. But we should be careful in what we're doing. Let's do not push this economy and the jobs losses even further down.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How -- how do you address this question, Senator McCaskill, of scale -- and both Mr. Donohue and Senator Shelby have talked about -- and -- and priorities? You say the president didn't choose to put himself in this position, but is it -- is it appropriate at this point to scale back and say, "First things first. Let's focus on the banks. Let's focus on this job situation"?
MCCASKILL: I think the American people fundamentally understand that he's focusing on the economy first and foremost. I think there is some confusion. You know, things happen quickly. Obviously, the TARP situation was an emergency and it was everyone -- frankly, it was a remarkable moment when I saw the candidates for both parties come together on that, realizing we had a crisis of liquidity that -- and, you know, I think he's going to continue to focus on the economy.
On the other hand, George, as -- as Evan said, he's a great communicator. And I think the American people know that if we keep delaying the health care discussion, if we keep delaying the cap-and- trade discussion and -- and the discussion about our environment and global warming, that that is a very, very bad thing for our grandchildren. And, also, we have to keep focused on deficit reduction.
But what you're seeing is a president that's not afraid to take on all these issues that he knows the American people want reform, they want reform on this. So it's tough. We've got to communicate clearly. We've got to make sure that we bring the American people with us, but I think we've got the right communicator to do it.
BAYH: He's got to try and do two things simultaneously, George, first, be an idealist, look at the problems that face the country and propose bold changes to deal with those. He's doing that. But at the end of the day, he also has to be a pragmatist, and you can't insist on more than the system can deliver, although you push for all that it can deliver.
And my sense of this president is that he's a very practical person. He wants results. And at the end of the day, that's what we'll deliver.
SHELBY: I think we have to be careful, not overload the economy. Our thrust should be turning the economy around, and we do that through banks, getting people back to work.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Another issue that's going to come up before the end of this year -- and we only have a couple of minutes left -- Mr. Donohue, you're going to spend about $10 million, I've read, to try to defeat this Employee Free Choice Act, which would give union -- unions the ability to organize at a plant if they could a majority of the people at the plant to sign up.
And, Senator McCaskill, let me bring you in on this. Is there anything you can say, you believe, right now, that'll convince Mr. Donohue to back off that? And do you have the votes to get this done this year?
MCCASKILL: I'm not sure that we have the votes, and I have no hope of backing Mr. Donohue off. I would say that I think it would be fair that we have a secret ballot for decertification of unions. Right now, businesses can go with a card check.
There is no secret ballot to get rid of a union, but there is a requirement of -- of that for people to be able to organize. And to me, that seems unfair. Let's -- let's -- what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Let's put people on a level playing field and have both businesses have to have a secret ballot to decertify. Until they do that, I'm not sure they've got a lot of room to complaint.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You get the last word.
DONOHUE: That is another -- the loss of the secret ballot and the 16 other issues that labor unions want is another weight on this economy. What we need is a defibrillator that shocks this economy back into private -- positive action.
This president, this Congress, and the business community have to talk about positive things and a bright future. We need to stop letting everybody watch the president and all of us talk this economy into the can. Watch the market. The market goes down; liquidity goes down. We have a real challenge here, and we ought to seize it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I'm afraid that's all we have time for today. Sorry, Senator. Thank you all very much for a great discussion.


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The price of the gold in August was around $950/ounce. ARC of course is not a charitable institution. When it pays huge to rent hotels and put advertisement to collect gold from area to area, how much do you think they expect to make in future gold market?
When media repeats on foreclosure and unemployment news, it squeezes people to sell gold and jewellry to speculators. The next financial balloon will be a gold bubble. At that time, the topic in media will be inflation. It will advise you to buy back gold. This is how the inside group controls this country and make money from each crisis.


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As we all know, ladies and gents, when you are harassed and threatened with violence and rape in a space you visit for entertainment — like gaming — it's your fault.
It's your fault, and you should be banned from the game. Oh, I know — we should also leak your personal information to thousands of said players who have been harassing you, so that they can harass you more! You need to toughen your skin, and the job of any caring game company is to help you enjoy your gaming experience. By making you afraid to take part.
See, out there is a CEO who just gets it. One day, there was this gamer, username TheIneffableSwede, who just got all up in said CEO's ruining-my-day-with-your-basic-human-decency-crap space. TheIneffableSwede (who is probably really, really in-f-able, AMIRITE?) had contacted the game's operators previously regarding harassment and threats she received while part of a million-large MMORPG player base. Of course, this company knows how to pick good employees, so their response to her initial complaints was as follows:
1. It's your fault for choosing a username that reflects your gender. You should change your name to something that is gender-neutral.
2. If you are concerned about this, report it to the police.
DUH. Are you new here? You with your thinking you could pick a name you liked that reflected your being part of half of the world's population, are you a moron? And yeah, the police! Because they totally have jurisdiction over our worldwide base of Internet users. God, this woman.
In other words, even though these personal threats were against the game rules, the game's staff assumed no responsibility for enforcing the rules, or else blamed me for 'provoking' the male players. (One game operator did tell me that I 'provoked' the threats by 'playing too well' and suggested I deliberately lose more often so as not to bruise male egos. This game operator was, by the way, female.
All of this is common sense, right? But noooooo, she wasn't through. She complained to the CEO. Which, let's be honest, this had just gone too far.
Eventually, I complained to the CEO himself of the gaming company and his response was to ban me from the game because he was 'tired of hearing about this problem'. The players who threatened me with rape, mutilation and death are still active in the game and some of them have been given jobs as game operators (the referees of the game).
So sick of it. Just, stop, with your wanting to have any sort of positive experience gaming with my company. You want to play a game, you better get used to being threatened with the worst possible violence and violation, because that's just what people do.
Obviously, this chick needed a wake-up call, so the company's well-trained employees generously decided to help her grow as a person, and accidentally on purpose shared her info with thousands of gamers.
Before I was banned, one of the game operators, an employee of the company, released my real-life details (full legal name, physical address, email, telephone number, link to my social media, such as Facebook, etc.) to thousands of other players (I had given this information when I registered for the game) and encouraged people to harass me outside the game, which several of them did. I had to change my mobile number, cancel my Facebook account, and even considered moving house at one point to escape the harassment.
Oh yeah, and then they banned her, because geez, what would YOU have done?
If she had had any kind of brains, she would have just pretended to be a dude. Penises are magic, kind of like how the Dark Mark will allow you to pass through certain magical barriers. But this woman just doesn't learn, and keeps harping on the fact that just having a vagina in an online world makes you sub-human.
She holds out a challenge to men who think that women exaggerate the extent to which they are hassled and abused online.
One (male) commentator – with an avatar showing Peter Hitchens – whosuggested: "Try playing under a male username and you'll see that guys are subjected to the same name-calling and threats. It's just part of gaming and if you're too fragile for it then you shouldn't play."
Her reply: "I did change my name in the game to a male because I got tired of the abuse. The other players praised me for my ability and we had some good-natured banter, but not one scary threat. Certainly no rape threats. I reverted to a username that clearly identified my gender and within a week, more threats and name-calling (dumb cunt, stupid bitch, fat cow, etc.).
"Same thing happened here on Guardian Cif – just in the past few days. I removed my selfie as my avatar and put up a Japanese Kanji. People assumed I was a man (called me "he") and respectfully disagreed with me. Put this current selfie up [showing a female picture] and I'm already piling up the dumb blonde/stupid bitch abuse."
She then offered the reverse challenge: "Why don't you try substituting Hitch's photograph with a female avatar for a week and see how it goes for you?"
NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD DO THAT. Seriously, who wants to be a female? These women, I swear.


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Summon Lesser Demons
3rd level Conjuration (Wizard, Warlock)
Casting Time: Action
Range: 60 feet
Components: VSM
Duration: Concentration, 1 hour
xge 167
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