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WHITE OAK - When he is not defending our country, Army Maj. Jason Johnston can be found building a bookshelf, remodeling his house or hunting wild game on his family's lush 65-acre farm. It's where he can rest and recharge between deployments, while spending time with his wife, Sheila, and two daughters, Fiona, 12, and Gillian, 10.
Jason, who is stationed on Fort Bragg, has made a career in the military. He was born in Charlotte but grew up in Colorado.
"I've been in the Army since the week after I turned 17," he says. "What started out as a desire simply to serve like my grandfather did, combined with the need to be able to afford college and gain additional life experience, became a career toward the end of my first enlistment. I realized then that the Army was a path where I fit in, and there was a great deal of satisfaction in doing reasonably well. That, combined with seeing new places, moving every few years and the opportunity for professional advancement, have kept me going."
And the rustic beauty of Bladen County, where Jason, an avid outdoorsman, has time to hunt, fish and explore miles of woods and wetlands with his two daughters, between deployments.
"We all like spending time together," says Jason, who has hunted since he was a small child. Turkey, deer and quail are plentiful right in his own backyard, and being able to hunt on his own property is a benefit that he and his family enjoy.
"Spending family time together is easier now," Sheila says. "Deployments often take Jason away for long periods of time, and hunting and fishing used to take him away, too. Since we moved to this farm, he gets to be home more between deployments. There's no pressure."
Dad and daughters now hunt together. He looks forward to hunting during quail season with his youngest daughter, Gillian. "The hard part is finding the quail," Jason says. "They fly like darts through the trees."
He prefers to hunt with a 12-gauge shotgun, a .30-06 rifle or a Hoyt compound bow, depending on the season. He plants a half-acre of chufa to attract deer and uses broadcast feeders and piles of corn to help channel game through the property.
Last spring, Jason and his older daughter, Fiona, spotted a wild turkey late in the morning, across the open field behind their home. The father-daughter duo, dressed heavily in camouflage, pursued their game all morning across the sprawling farm. Fiona made bird calls with her hand to attract the large brown gobblers out into the open.
"We tracked them for three hours," Jason says. Then, they kept quiet, stayed low, and waited, until a bird appeared in the clearing. When a bird was finally in his sights, a single, booming shot rang out from Johnston's 12-gauge, shattering the morning stillness and taking down a very large turkey.
"Fiona's eyes were so big!" remembers Sheila. "Jason plucked it, I cleaned it, and we stuck it in a pot with a whole stick of butter."
"Now that we, as a family, have decided on the place to settle, we've put all of our efforts into building it into a comfortable home and a place the girls will want to return to after they leave for college," Jason says.
Over the past several years, they have been working hard to make their dream a reality. Their plan includes a restoration of the land, two houses and several barns. Their dream, Sheila says, "is to transform it into a Kentucky-style horse farm. Jason is giving the girls the hunting experience, and my dream is to give them the horses. I grew up on 80 acres of land with horses, where my father worked as a veterinarian and an M.D.
"Horses are my hobby," she says. "The farm is a gift from God."
When they purchased the farm, along with a 1970s red brick ranch home, two years ago, they didn't buy only one house. They also bought the house next door - a much older, and smaller, two-bedroom house built in the early 1900s.
"The seller wanted to sell both properties together and sold them for the exact amount of money that I could get with a VA loan," Jason says. The $600,000 side-by-side properties, located just miles from Bladen Lakes State Forest and Suggs Mill Pond Game Lands, was a deal too good to pass up when it was reduced to $400,000.
"The smaller house could be used as a guest house or as an art studio, but right now it is used for storage," Sheila says as she reflects on its possibilities. Several old barns and abundant flora and fauna surrounded them. In addition to 25 acres of cotton, gracefully strung like pearls, there are pine trees, dogwoods, crape myrtles, beauty berry bushes, Bartlett pears, muscadine and scuppernong grape vines, and a weeping willow. Gillian and her sister pluck juicy grapes from the grapevine and fresh pears from the tree when in season. "We made some awesome grape jelly with the grapes last year," she remembers.
Fishing is easy with a spring-fed pond stocked with carp, bass and bream. A portion of Harrison Creek also runs gently through the property. Swimming, kayaking and fishing in their 18-foot Tracker are other pastimes the family enjoys. The pond is the site of a newly built duck house, where a passel of Muscovy ducks (17 in all) waddle down to the water's edge for their daily feeding, and where a small duckling the family has named "MD" has recovered from a broken hip that he suffered at birth. With help from a veterinarian on post, the little duckling was able to rejoin friends gliding across the pond. Exercise is the best thing for him, they were told by the vet.
"Little bones grow quickly," Sheila adds. It is an early and valuable lesson in farm living.
Living in the country is a big change from the city life they had lived previously in Monterey, Calif., while Johnston completed his master's degree at Naval Postgraduate School and where Sheila taught piano. Now, she is teaching her own girls how to play. They also are learning the violin.
The couple met at a church youth group when Jason was 15 and Sheila was 18.
"We were good friends for eight years before we dated. We used to go fishing together, and wrote many letters to each other," says Sheila. Eventually, they married, and nine days after their 1995 marriage, Jason left for a military deployment.
"We had our honeymoon in the barracks at Fort Carson, Colorado," Sheila says.
Five years after that, Fiona was born, and the new dad was able to make it home just in time for the birth.
"Into my seventh year in the military, I decided to become an officer, and from that time forward have never looked back," Jason says. "The Army created such a busy life for me and my family that before we knew it, I had been in for 20 years and there was no sense in getting out or starting something new. I have enjoyed working with the guys around me in every position I have ever been in, and there is a lot of gratification in that. After talking to civilian friends and relatives, I don't know that I could attain that level of satisfaction in a civilian job."
Johnston completed his basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C., and then did his Advanced Individual Training in Monterey, where he learned to speak Russian. Then, in Washington, D.C., he also learned to speak Croatian at the Defense Language Institute. He has also been stationed at Fort Riley, Kan.
But it was years later, while living in Monterey, that they found their dream home in North Carolina. While searching through hunting and game property listings online, Jason and Sheila traded emails back and forth until they figured out that they were both interested in the same piece of land 2,300 miles away. Neither at the time knew that the other was looking at the exact same property on the Internet. Taking it as a positive sign, Sheila flew directly to North Carolina to check it out while her husband finished school. Ultimately, she gave him a hardy thumbs-up in favor of buying the property.
"Jason fell in love with the property once he saw it," she says.
Soon after discovering their new paradise, things took an about-turn. Just weeks after moving in, Jason was deployed again, and Sheila and the girls were left to get settled in a new home on their own. Then, a few months later, Fiona was diagnosed with Hashimoto's disorder, an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid. "It was a very stressful time," recalls Sheila.
As they adjusted to the new lifestyle and the challenges that it created, things slowly improved and the girls began to merrily adapt to country life.
"I like having animals, and I always wanted a farm," says Fiona, whose health is improving now. She is learning to care for dogs and ducks and chickens.
For Gillian, the joy also is about exploring the land. "We have lots of land and cool old stuff," she says.
To help them unearth some of the farm's hidden secrets, Jason gave his wife an unusual and special gift for Mother's Day - a metal detector - so that she and the girls could have fun exploring the farm.
"We found an old worn-out farming disc, blades, a mallet, an ax head and a wheel, so far," says Sheila.
There were other surprises. It wasn't until after they moved in that they discovered a small cemetery containing a single grave, mysteriously located between the two houses. A humble granite headstone, surrounded by a worn, black iron fence, reads: "Sara Martin, age 50, died July 30, 1887."
Her exact identity, 125 years after her death, is still a mystery to them. They are hoping to learn more about the history they've inherited as time will allow. Until then, every sudden gust of wind, creaky door or bump in the night fuels the imagination.
Exploring the pack barn revealed some hidden gems, too, that were later put to good use. It was similar to an old-fashioned Christmas morning as the girls uncovered a fishing rod, an old 1960s-style record player, a toy truck and a large oak antique table, hidden in the dark corners of the weathered barn. Sheila cleverly added wheels to the legs of the table and moved it into the kitchen. Hunting for antiques and thrift-shopping for unique items to furnish the home has been the fun part, she says.
This year, while focusing on remodeling projects, the Johnstons also are home schooling the children. They are doing most of the remodeling themselves, and the project list is endless.
"We have multiple projects going on at once, and it's hard to compartmentalize all of it because it's all connected," says Sheila. "I am by nature just someone who takes something on and does it."
She is someone who knows how to wield a gun or a hammer and, when needs dictate, pay the bills, feed her family and look after things on her own if Jason is away. She has, in the past, owned and operated her own design and greeting card company and was previously employed at L-3 Communications in Fayetteville.
"Everything in life teaches and trains us," she says.
With Sheila's training and background in design and graphic arts, she and Jason have no trouble envisioning the farm's potential as they plan out their next remodeling strategy. She admits that finding the time to work on projects isn't always easy.
"We work on things when we can. It will take years to build, and it just takes time," she says. "We're trying to get as much done as we can before Jason is deployed again."
Jason taught himself how to install a garbage disposal, built floor-to-ceiling built-in bookcases and laid down new hardwood hickory flooring. Outside, a patio deck and an extra-large dog house and dog kennel also have been completed. The tobacco barn and pack barn sit half-empty, waiting to be reborn.
"I like to get things done, and I enjoy seeing the results of what we're trying to do," Jason says, "but sometimes it's overwhelming."
Indoor renovations have included the mud room, living room, foyer and kitchen and dining room.
"We wanted to make the kitchen more open so that even while I'm cooking meals, we can all hang out together," says Sheila. "The basic house has good structure and bones. Doing it ourselves means allowing ourselves to make mistakes and to learn from them.
"We just work through it."


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I understand. Losing those QB's in 2011 though seems to me like the obvious reason for that late season collapse whereas there was no similar issue this year.
Now if we do something similar in 2013 without losing Schaub late in the year then I'd say it's reasonable to surmise that we would have folded up early in 2011 even if Schaub had not been hurt and a pattern emerges but the QB injuries in 2011 cloud the issue for now I think.
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Last edited by Irrlaeufer; December 29th, 2009 at 10:25 AM.
awesome, nice initiative!
if you want, wanna change our title to team Utopian Battleship?
i think daestwen wants us to use the team title when requesting cards, and im about to post in the signup thread saying we're an official team and to place us in the list accordingly, might as well use the team name across all threads .
I got Love imperialist drug lab. sounds awesome too.
Well, I don't have a better suggestion for a team name, I think utopian battleship is nice (as a cat person I'd prefer battlecats, heh, but I like ships, too)
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."-Mark Twain
the drug lab sounds cool, too... my best result was disaster voodoo church
So, hm, do you already have ideas which cards you'd like to do?
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."-Mark Twain
I'm glad it is acceptable, haha. I think it has a nice ring.
So as to the cards, if you two have specific ones you'd like to do i say feel free to post in the card thread and request them for our team, I guess choosing one major and one minor tarot each is the best way to do it, so feel free to do that!
I'm not sure what I'm going to go after yet, i may even end up choosing two minors or something. I'm going to sleep on it and work that out later today. (it is 7am here and i have yet to go to bed, i wanted to sort this all out first! silly me.)
Okay, first things first. I think the name thing is not a big issue, much more important: the cards! I'd like to go for The Empress and Three of swords before all slots are full.
What about the two of you?
okay, good night then instinct.
What about you Nike?
Good night, instinct!
Hm, I'm still thinking about the cards... from the major arcana I like the chariot, the star, and the world, and the lower I have to check again...
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."-Mark Twain
Okay, I've settled on the Two of Cups and the Five of Swords, so nike, if you want to do two Major Arcana feel free!
Also if either of you have any ideas towards perhaps some kind of over-arching theme or colour/design scheme we could work towards to end up with images that feel 'team-like' or something, post 'em!
It's a completely different direction, but one thing i was thinking about was taking it into another genre, for example, what would a tarot used in a sci-fi setting be like?
Now, to bed!
Last edited by instinct; December 28th, 2009 at 10:21 AM.
I reserved the two now because I'm a bit in a hurry. Need to catch the train. So I'd say you just do the same as soon as you have decided which cards to pick.
I find this link quite useful: http://www.tarot.com/tarot/decks/index.php?deckID=23 LostFAyth has posted it in the Topics and Discusiion Thread. Maybe you have already checked it out.
Ok, great, I've decided now, too - I'll do the World and the Five of cups; I can do the star, additionally, if I feel like I need more :-)
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"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."-Mark Twain
I somewhat like the scf-fi idea. My first idea for the empress was to go for a mix of asian designs and costume plus maybe some egyptian stuff and not so much for traditional 18th/19th century imperial stuff from Europe only.
What came to my mind is star wars, of course. But I think there is tons of cool stuff and designs that never made it into the films, so it's worth to check this out for inspiration.
hm... what about combining egyptian/mesoamerican/ancient asian elements with sci-fi elements? Like in the von Daeniken "aliens built all important ancient cultures of our world" theories?
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."-Mark Twain
the egyptians and mesoamericans made use of tons of gold for adornment and decoration. The main color of traditional sci-fi is probably white and gray. So we could try to add gold elements and maybe inscriptions in order to achieve a common design and color scheme.
One more useful link I got a five finger discount on. Hope it's okay to have it in out thread, too.
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Well, I'm just brainstorming
...actually wouldn't say the main colors of sci fi are white and gray - sci fi ambient comes with a lot of different color schemes... techincally, sci fi is distinguished from fantasy genre only by the fact, that its imaginary elements are based on laws of nature/technology, while in the fantasy genre those imaginary things are just there because they are, or because of a magical force...
but I think the symbolic language (not only text symbols, symbols that can be found in costume, adornment, architecture, decoration etc.) was often used as an inspiration for science fiction and fantasy (stargate might be a pretty obvious example) art and literature - some people like von Daeniken went so far that they say it was impossible for humans to build for example pyramids or the huge mesoamerican buildings and he claims that a "technologically more advanced life form" has helped/or made possible to build this stuff and has influenced these cultures art and symbolic language. Scientifically trash, but fun ideas....
I think we could try to achieve common design best, if we use a similar ambient and symbolic language in the details... doesn't have to be 1:1 the same for every picture, but similar...
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."-Mark Twain
Very useful link Irrlaeufer!
I love the idea of combining ancient culture with science fiction! The obvious parallels we already draw between the cultures that have constructed pyramids and advanced technology feels perfectly exploitable for interpretation.
I already had both asian+scifi and aztec+scifi ideas in mind!
As to keeping to the same colours, since we've got two Sword cards and two Cups cards, why dont we have continuos colours for each suit? If not colours, similar ancient themes or inspirations? other ideas?
for example, cups could be blue and swords could be yellow, or cups could be aztec and swords could be asian. Of course i dont want to force anyone to use a culture for their suit they didnt plan on using, so colours might be a better way to go.
Another thing is how we want to label our cards, i think some kind of name scroll is granted, either on the top of the card or the bottom.
But for the suits and the card number, i was thinking of doing something like this(i hope this doesnt count as starting to draw!):
Is this a good idea? I figured this way we can be a little more mysterious/lax with the exact representation of the suit amount if we want to be, since its clearly labeled with the icon.
yea I think von Daeniken himself claims to have discovered some sort of blue print of a spacecraft on a maya tombstone or something like that. I was thinking about it and had to google it. But it's not much of an inspiration
Maybe I'm not nuts enough.
instinct, cool idea. But not sure if necessary. If Daestwen really is going to get the finished set printed she will probably put a frame including the suits around the images anyway. Just to make it look more coherent and since the suits are splitted on different teams.
I think all the designing is being left up to us, in this post by Daestwen, it looks like we're responsible for atleast the naming of each card, I figured we'd be including the suit as well, although i guess we could just use the scroll for every image and write "Two of Cups" in it instead of "The Empress" or what have you.
In either case, its a minor thing, I'm sure we can figure it all out nearer to the end.
instict, I think the color ambient/ culture per suit is a good idea... if cups were blue and swords yellow I think we could also try to match the elements the suits stand for (swords stand for air, I think cups for water) -- I sooo want to start sketching
I like your numbering suggestion, too
Irrlaeufer, heh, the stone was one of his coups, yes,... I've seen one of his shows once and it was one of the funniest things ever. He had a little computer animation where this guy in the spaceship set off the stone... he had a lot of interesting theories about egypt, too, that aliens used this place as an experimental place to breed things like minotaurs etc.... and the bible is obviously full of spaceships, too.
Got to get some sleep now ...
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."-Mark Twain
I like the idea of the elements, perhaps we could use it as a queue for colour schemes or overall elements, using soft light colours and wispy cloths etc for air, or browns and greens and dirty textures for earth, etc etc.
I also have an anouncement, Mimer has shown great interest in joining as our 4th! I've sent him to check out our ideas before making up his mind and he is very interested!
So, welcome aboard Mimer!
ha ... didn't read that. alright then, let's keep that in mind. Well, we have 4 lesser arcana so it would make sense to agree on a common style for the suits. For the Greater Arcana we can still come up with fonts in order to achieve some coherence.
Got to go to bed now. It's already 1:20 a.m. here.
eh, I just remembered I have posted a small collection of links for hieroglyphs elsewhere... I thought I'd post them here, too, for inspiration:
This Book might be inspiring, too:
E. J. Brill (editor), Lost Languages from the Mediterranian. You can preview a big part of it on google books:
and here's a good site about the mesoamerican stuff:
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."-Mark Twain
welcome, mimer and good night/day/whatever everyone
"The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent."-Mark Twain
nice! I'll add a few relevant links i've been holding on to as well;
(very useful for finding costume design from all over)
hi everyone
checked in on the team chow thread and saw that you were looking for a fourth
close to 2 am here atm so im going to pick two cards and sign up for them in the main thread as well as posting them here, then im going to sign off for tonite, or ill be rubbish for work tomolo ill check in again tomorrow. the mesoaerican inca/mayan references sound like they could make for a good solid foundation to get a choesive design going.
different colours for different suits is also a good idea.
I like the scifi idea too, most tarots ive seen tend not to go for scifi. mayans in spaaaace!
unless ive read it wrong, you dont need to go for major arcana, in which case im signing up for four of cups and two of pentacles.
Yep, no need to chose Major Arcana. In fact, Daestwen is giving out golden stars to teams that choose more minor arcana over major! We're already ahead! hahaha.
posted in the main thread about my two choices, dunno if daestwen wants one gathered post of all out choices eventually, but figured id get those in before i fell into bed see you all tomorrow
Welcome Mimer and good morning / good night everybody.
I collected some images from the net that might be useful for my card. Dunno if it it's gonna be useful for yours, too. But since these threads are about bringing along all kinds of stuff and sharing it, here it is.
awesome pic collection, Irrlaeufer
I have found some image collection for mesoamerican stuff:
you can browse and download all images of the codices, too:
and a lot of other .pdf files (some are whole books) on art and architecture of the different ancient mesoamerican cultures.
will try to collect some pics, too
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FINE FINE! My apologies OP. Just felt like this was a rehash or old and stale BS. The internet has been littered with this DES comparison since the show began. Last night some DE stans where stalking me and i just snapped. Now its not who loves her more and who's love is deepest but whose sex was better??? Like give me a break!!! Delena stans are still delusional about their so called "finally, true love is expressed" scene. They have a problem realising that sired means slave means rape (unintentional though it may be, that was not Elena making a conscious decision about having sex). When people lack good critical thinking skills it really makes me want to shoot them through the screen. No one is saying that Elena never had feelings for him before she turned (the fact that they are still arguing about this is enough proof of their lunacy). The fact of the matter is that the sire bond affects only actions right? Then why are they shooting themselves in the foot and why is it SOOOO hard for people to understand that Elena would never have ACTED on her feelings with Damon after less than 48 hours after breaking up with Stefan? If she wasn't sired they would not have slept together yet. Shipper or no, one cannot argue with these points. They all expect Stefan to just allow them to ride into the proverbial sunset with because they are so "inlove" and i'm like please go reacquaint your head with a brick wall. Just last week she was professing undieing love to him, now she's telling him to move own not after months, but days and Damonaters really expect the man to be cool with loosing the love of his life??? Last episode proved beyond a shadow of a douby that the sire bond has real implications on her feelings no matter what Tyler says (who the fuck would listen to a half wit jock on such delicate matters anyway). Her one day old sex/love with Damon made her 1-2 year love with Stefan be "barely a memory". JUST WOW. And still there's nothing wrong with that and with her brainwashed state to them, just as long as Damon finally has someone to choose him over his bro...........Seriously, my ship for this show is DE, Death and Elena. I wish death would compel her to go count the tire marks in Wickery Bridge for the next 24 hours without her ring.
Last episode proved beyond a shadow of a douby that the sire bond has real implications on her feelings no matter what Tyler says
Tyler's quote is actually beyond stupid - the sire bond affects how you act, not how you feel...then please explain to me why in s3 when he was became a hybrid he did all those Klaus made him AND he was all - Klaus took the pain of turning every full moon away...Tyler was loyal towards Klaus and his feelings about Klaus were that Klaus was right and Tyler was grateful to him. So whatever shit the writers came up with save themselves from this sire bond nonsense turned out to be more stupid because the sire bond does affect how you and how you act, if it didn't then what would be the point of unsiring all those poor 12 hybrids - Tyler unsired them and told them they need to stop being loyal to Klaus, to stop being grateful to him - hello, how the hell are feelings not involved in the process? Idiots.
@Redoktober Actually I agree with everything you've said. This was exactly I was getting at. I didn't mean to come off as asking who's sex was better lol. I don't think that the Elena we've seen in the last 3 seasons and even the first couple of episodes of season 4 would ever hop into bed with Stefan's brother 24 hours after breaking up. I think the sire bond has everything to do with what she's doing and how she's feeling. You actually said the same thing I said in a thread I made on here after the last epi. Elena's feelings for stefan being just a distant memory was so odd. I don't think she would even be with Damon if it wasn't his blood that turned her. I don't she's a slut but I think what she was really, really slutly behavior for someone who was just a couple of episodes ago just claiming to love Stefan so much.


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Employment Background Checks: FTC, EEOC Offer Tips for Employers and Job Applicants
Hiring decisions are among the most important choices for any employer, but the process can be complex. For the first time, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) have co-published two short guides on employment background checks that explain the...
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Certegy Check Services to Pay $3.5 Million for Alleged Violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Furnisher Rule
Certegy Check Services, Inc., one of the nation's largest check authorization service companies, has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
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Roundtable on Methodologies for Assessing Accuracy and Completeness of Credit Reports
The FTC's Bureau of Economics hosted a roundtable with researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the credit reporting industry on methodologies for assessing the accuracy and completeness of credit reports. The roundtable was held in conjunction with Section 319 of the Fair and...
FTC Warns Data Broker Operations of Possible Privacy Violations
The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to ten data broker companies warning that their practices could violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) after a test-shopping operation by the FTC indicated the companies were willing to sell consumer information without abiding by FCRA requirements.
FTC Testifies on Credit Reporting Accuracy Study, FCRA Enforcement, Credit Education
The Federal Trade Commission testified before a U.S. Senate Commerce subcommittee on a recent FTC study examining the accuracy of consumer credit reports, as well as the agency's efforts to improve credit report accuracy through enforcement and education.
FTC Invites Public to Submit Questions Online During Senior ID Theft Workshop
The Federal Trade Commission will host a one-day workshop on senior identity theft on May 7, 2013, in Washington, D.C., and invites participants watching the webcast to submit questions to panelists online.
FTC Approves Final Order Settling Charges Against Marketers of Criminal Background Screening Reports
Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges that Filiquarian Publishing LLC, Choice Level LLC, and their CEO, Joshua Linsk operated as a consumer reporting agency without taking consumer protection measures required by the Fair Credit...
FTC Warns Data Brokers That Provide Tenant Rental Histories They May Be Subject to Fair Credit Reporting Act
The Federal Trade Commission has warned the operators of six websites that share information about consumers' rental histories with landlords that they may be subject to the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
Comment Period Remains Open for FTC Data Collection Workshop
The Federal Trade Commission reminds members of the public that the period for submitting comments on its recent comprehensive data collection workshop remains open until March 8. The workshop, held in December, explored practices and privacy implications of comprehensive collection of data about...
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Downtown dining stalwart Nikolai's Roof unveils its new look and menu on Friday. But the iconic panoramic view on the 30th floor of the Atlanta Hilton will remain.
Lounge and dining room renovations were originally scheduled to be completed in early January.
"We've invested close to $1 million to transform Nikolai's Roof into a more contemporary space that's sophisticated and upscale, but still very comfortable and approachable," said Hilton Atlanta director of food and beverage, Kevin O'Leary, in a press release.
"We're moving away from being known as only a fine dining, special occasion destination to welcome a more relaxed vibe into our menu, lounge and dining room."
The Russian-inspired design for the 7,500-square foot space includes floor-to-ceiling wine cabinets and a new dining niche for wine dinners and large groups.
The new menu from chef de cuisine Stephanie Alderete will feature American and Russian influenced dishes served a la carte or in three, four or six course options, starting at $55.
Thankfully, it seems there will be no changes at Trader Vic's, where retro tiki bar shenanigans reign.
— By Bob Townsend, AJC Food and More blog.
February 26th, 2014
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February 26th, 2014
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I worked at the Hilton Atl from 87-90. They finally have put some money in what used to be a serious cash cow!! and yes, Trader is Vic's is awesome!
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They better be hiring some experienced servers. The last time I ate there, the servers seemed to be trained by Chili's or some low-end food chain. Had to ask for water, bread, and when I went to the restroom, my napkin remained in my chair. For the "Four Diamond" rating, I truly expected better.
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"Welcome a more relaxed vibe into our menu", are you kidding? Why keep the name "Nikolai's Roof"? What are the "relaxed" menu items … Fried Chicken Kiev … Ribs Tsarina … Fried Baloney Bolshoi? And, don't forget the banana banshees and the strawberry daiquiris.


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Every year I try to become a legitimate NASCAR fan and vow to start with the Daytona 500. Well, I was going to watch as a friend send me texts to understand the nuances of the race, and it was rained out. So, Fox replayed last year's race. Apparently a lot of viewers missed the crawl that said 2013 and last year's winner, Jimmy Johnson, got a lot of congratulatory calls while sitting out the rain delay.
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- Freeport – Calling all fishermen and fisherwomen! Freeport is known as one of the best places to fish in Texas, plus it's only about 60 miles from Houston making it a close day vacation. The waters of the Gulf of Mexico provide great fishing experiences offshore and inshore at the hundreds of fishing spots around the area. In addition to fishing, visitors can enjoy "birding" - the Freeport Audubon Christmas Bird Count is one of the top-ranked counts in the nation in terms of numbers of species.
- Galveston – If you are looking for a day trip to the beach, then head to Galveston. Located 50 miles south of Houston, Galveston's 32 miles of beach will not disappoint. This historic destination has something for everyone from top-notch restaurants, great downtown shopping, antique stores, art galleries, historic tours, and more.
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Thunderbird discusses and bashes "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury with the Institute's literature class...
SPECIAL DISCLAIMER: See the Introduction.
A/N: First of all, I've renamed this story; instead of "Quillian's Misfits Stories," it's now "A Collection Of Misfits Stories." Anyway, I was just perusing through Great Literature According to Thunderbird" some time ago, and I decided to poke fun at a book which he never bashed. (And, ironically, I happen to like this book.) Personally, I think the title says it all...
NOTE: This takes place a few days after the last chapter of "Great Literature According to Thunderbird."
Also, I would like to thank the great Red Witch herself for tossing me some ideas for this one.
"The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running around with lit matches. ..." -Ray Bradbury, "Coda"
/"Thunderbird 451"/
It was a few days after the class where the students debated and argued about Animal Farm by George Orwell and after Hank and John got into a fight over William Shakespeare vs. Donald Trump.
And now, John was teaching again.
"Okay, so, which book shall we trash - er, I mean discuss this time?" John asked with a grin (he was obviously in a good mood).
Naturally, everyone turned towards Kurt, who usually wanted to discuss one book which everyone else wanted to trash.
Instead, today he was absorbed in a book which depicted what looked like a fireman bearing a flamethrower.
"Kurt, you with us today?" John called.
Kurt snapped out of his funk and looked up from the book he was reading. "Oh, I'm sorry, I was reading this book..."
"Really?" John asked. "Which book is it?"
"It's..." but then Kurt trailed off and stopped himself before he could say anything else. "NO! I'm not telling you!" Kurt yelled. "You'll just bash this one again!"
As he said that, the German mutant made a dash to stuff it in his bag, but Jamie snatched it out of Kurt's hands and held it up for all to see. "Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury!" Jamie shouted.
"Oh GOD no!" John moaned. "Not THAT one!"
Kurt gave an odd mix of a sigh and a groan. "Here we go again." He then mumbled under his breath, "Thanks a lot, Multiple."
"No problem, Nightcrawler," Jamie responded cheerfully, tossing Kurt his book back.
"So, what's this book about?" Jesse asked.
"Oh, it's some sort of utopian future or something where firemen burn books as well as the houses which they're found in," John drawled. "Instead, everyone just watches walls with TV's or something built into them."
"Hm, that doesn't sound so bad," Roberto remarked.
"Yeah," John agreed. "Quick poll: Would you rather read books or watch TV?" Every hand except Kurt's shot up like a rocket. "I rest my case."
"The whole point of that book was about the evils and hypocrisy of censorship!" Kurt pointed out, determined not to let John unfairly win this argument in his usual fashion.
"What's wrong with censorship?" Tabitha asked. "They do it all the time with movie ratings, don't they?"
"Well, that kind of censorship I can live with," Kurt elaborated. "You know, so children don't see movies with stuff that's too mature for them... but the kind of censorship I'm talking about is where people censor things and prevent ideas from spreading simply because they don't like those ideas and don't want other people going with those ideas."
"You mean like if you wanted to publish some things about how mutants shouldn't be persecuted against and some jerk like Senator Kelly censored it because he didn't like those ideas and didn't want people to go with them?" Paige asked Kurt.
"Exactly!" Kurt exclaimed, gesturing towards Paige. "That's my entire point! Trying to prevent innocent children from seeing things which they're not mature enough for, that's one thing... but censoring stuff for other people simply because you don't like it? That's whack!"
"Well, the book is whack!" John shot back. "I can see your argument against censorship, Kurt, but the book is still BOR-ING! It's either 'Hey, maybe they shouldn't burn books after all' or 'Hey, let's strike back against the government and have books published again,' and that's boring! Just some tale about this guy named Guy Montag who burns books for a living, meets some delusional teenage girl who goes on about books, meets with some old professor who hides books and yet doesn't read them, kills his boss, runs away from the system, joins up with these people who memorize entire books, and helps in some assault against the system!"
"You know, it sounds like Pyro would love the job as a fireman in that," Roberto chuckled.
"Knowing Pyro, he definitely would," Amara agreed.
"The argument isn't just against burning books," Kurt argued. "The author has even said himself that there's more than one way to burn a book, so to speak - just by editing out words or ripping out entire pages, you're still doing the same thing if you were burning an entire book; trying to prevent ideas from being spread which are perfectly allowed to be spread simply because you don't like them! If you don't like a certain book or any other sort of literary text, then just don't read it, but don't ruin it or yank it away from other people!"
"Wow, Kurt, you're really passionate about this sort of thing, aren't ya?" Sam asked.
Kurt merely shrugged in response to that. "I think after all the book bashing that's been done in this class, it's kind of gotten on my nerves after a while."
"You know, Kurt, you do raise some interesting points," John said slowly. "But then again, suppose I burned just one copy of that book... surely there'd still be plenty of other copies out there, right? Still those same ideas for other people to read?"
Kurt shook his head. "You know what, Mr. Proudstar? I think that by now, you have officially lost me..."
"Here, let me demonstrate," Thunderbird said as he plucked another copy of Fahrenheit 451 off the shelf and proceeded to set it on fire with a cigarette lighter he just happened to have on him.
At that very same moment, Beast walked in to ask his colleague something... but whatever it was, no one else knew, because he saw John setting a copy of Fahrenheit 451 on fire.
Beast let out an unearthly roar of anger and promptly went berserk. "THUNDERBIRD, YOU HAVE OFFICIALLY CROSSED THE LINE THIS TIME! SETTING A COPY OF FAHRENHEIT 451 ON FIRE? YOU'VE REALLY DONE IT THIS TIME, YOU BOOK-BURNING FASCIST!"
And with that, another brawl promptly ensued, this one even more grand then their previous "Shakespeare vs. Trump" argument. Their shadows were thrown across the floor by the fire which now proceeded to eat away at the teacher's desk and the floor underneath it. Greatly excited, all the students (minus Kurt, of course, who was shaking his head and moaning in disbelief) placed their bets on their fighting teachers and set back to watch the show.
A minute later, Xavier came along and saw what was going on. By, now there was only one thing he could do...
"Why is it my teachers cause more fires than my students?" Xavier groaned to himself.
A/N: So, how was this one?
Note about the Ray Bradbury quote at the beginning of this short story: Most copies of Fahrenheit 451 these days should have this "Coda" thing in the back of them. It's basically the author's thoughts upon censorship itself.


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August 2012 (No issue of Health System Friday Focus for the month of August)
July 2012
Share Your Care, Not Your Germs! Workflow Mapping for UTMB's Future; Community Health Program Article; Benefits Annual Enrollment Period: July 15 - July 31, 2012; New UTMB Cancer Center Opens July 19; UTMB Nurses Recognized by Good Samaritan Foundation; Six UTMB faculty members receive Outstanding Teaching Awards from UT System Board of Regents
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UTMB Kicks Off In-house Clinical Safety and Effectiveness (CS&E) Program; UTMB Offers "Sunday Screenings"; Primary Care Pavilion (PCP) Now Open! AAACN endorses UTMB Telehealth Toolkit; Welcome ANCC Magnet Designation Appraisers!
May 2012
Hospital & Nurses Week: Spark Excellence! Primary Care Pavilion to Re-open; John Sealy Hospital Concourse Project to Begin; PGY1 Pharmacy Residency Program Reaccredited; UTMB Nurses' Article in Nurse Leader Journal
April 2012
Protect Our Patients (P.O.P.) Hand Hygiene Initiative Kick-Off; Infection Prevention: Focus for 2012; UTMB Breast Health & Imaging Center Earns Accreditation ; 2012 National Nurses Week & National Hospital Week: May 6-12; UTMB Connect: Spotlight on Dolly McCarley
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Building a Culture of Trust: Safety & Service; UTMB Health Values Patient Confidentiality; Health System Leadership Rounds; Silent Angel Award Nominations; Joint Commission Certifies VAD Program
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Austin Women's Hospital Closes Its Doors, Health System Scorecard, New Sterile Processing Department, Dr. Gina Rizzo Voted "Best Physician", UTMB's 32nd Annual School Health Conference
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Engaging Patients and Improving Care through Meaningful Use, Congratulations Drs. Angelica S. Robinson, Patricia Beach and Karen Brykczynski
December 2011
Patient Satisfaction: You Can Make Difference! Health System Scorecard, Holiday & Lighting Ceremonies, Holiday Sing-along at the Ace Unit, Congratulations Texas Super Docs
November 2011
UTMB Health celebrates Community Health Workers Day, Volunteer Services receives donation, Sigma Infusion Pumps are live, Bay Colony Dermatology Talk of the Town Award
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UTMB Submits ANCC Magnet Application, UTMB Values Patient Confidentiality, Model Community Health Program at UTMB Health
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Hand Hygiene Initiative, EVS & Morrison Food Services, UTMB nurses recognized by Good Samaritan Foundation, Capital equipment purchases, Access Center record calls
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SANDPOINT, Idaho-- A North Idaho couple is doing their part to starving in parts of Africa.
The Kaiser family from just outside of Sandpoint Idaho has created a food product that could help save countless lives of starving children thousands of miles away.
what looks peanut butter cookie dough is actually a recipe that can help feed thousands.
The food is called Nuts For Kids and it is similar to something called Plumpy Nut. It's a paste made of peanuts, sugar, vitamins, and milk powder.
Kurt and Jan Kaiser are making it for their next trip to the republic of Congo in western Africa. There they've seen first hand the devastation of hunger.
Kaiser personal photos show the young faces of the hungry and the young faces who have lived because of nuts for kids.
the couple will bring more than Nuts For Kids on their next trip. they will also bring hand crank tools so the people of the Congo can make their own paste to feed the hungry.
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Time is running out and you still haven't filed your tax return.
You tried doing it yourself but every time you attempt to translate the tax form instructions they come out as a stream of incomprehensible syntax strung together without logic or meaning.
That's your first mistake. Don't look for logic in the Tax Code. It's a product of politics, not reason. The only reason why the blind get an extra standard deduction and the deaf don't is because the blind lobby was more effective in convincing those in Congress to give them a break.
Interesting, but that doesn't get your return in the mail.
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You called your accountant for an appointment this week and she laughed. "I have an opening the first week in June," wasn't the response you were hoping to get. Last time you looked at the calendar, June was after April 15 -- even under the Tax Code.
Take a deep breath, procrastinating taxpayer.
While the IRS deadline for filing your tax return is April 15, you can get an automatic extension to file up to Oct. 15. You get it by sending Form 4868 to the IRS by April 15.
You can file the extension request by mail or file it electronically from the IRS Web site.
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The 'Fair Clout' poetry series collection is a high-edged, artistic poetry collection series that gathers works on various universal ideas from compelling poetry writers from all around the world at mid-year intervals for publication into the local and international literary markets.
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The last balloon aloft in the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta's 18th America's Challenge distance race for gas balloons has made a safe landing about four miles north of White River in Ontario, Canada.
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As the U.S. Supreme Court comes closer to the end of its term in late June, some Democratic elected officials and progressive law professors are calling on Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to announce her retirement when the term concludes. Their argument is that Ginsburg, the Court's oldest member at 81 and the leader of the Court's liberal wing, should retire in time to allow President Obama to nominate her successor while the Democrats still hold a majority in the Senate.
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When it comes to San Antonio radio, it is hard to deny the existence of 102.7 KTFM.
A station that dominated the San Antonio airwaves and ratings for over 20 years. Back in late 2003, then owner Infinity Broadcasting flipped the station to K-ROCK and dropped the usage of the call letters KTFM. Leading up to that we had seen KTFM go through a large amount of format flips and transformations thanks to the hands of the ratings dive caused by 98.5 The Beat.
Almost immediately after Infinity Broadcast dropped the calls KTFM, Border Media purchased the rights to use the call letters and affiliated it with their 94.1 signal.
Fast forward to May 2010 and you an find that many things have changed over the years. Most recently the format change 94.1 has gone through. In case you did not know, 94.1 is now a top 40 radio station and in direct competition with Mix 96.1
I have had several industry and regular listeners approach me to ask if the new KTFM will be anything like the old 102.7 KTFM. Here is my take on the subject.
Flat out in my opinion the answer would have to be no. No the new KTFM will not be anything like the old 102.7 days. If you look at today's current popular music, you can clearly see that times have changed.
Rewind back a mere 10 years ago. What was popular and playing on heavy rotation on top 40 stations at that time? The boy band craze was finally winding down yet you could still turn on any pop station and still hear it. That alone is a huge difference. Then look at the genre merging between Hip Hop and the top 40 format. Let's look at Mix 96.1 for example.
Mix has been known in this city to be a great top 40 station and it mirrors many different stations of the same format across the country. However if you were to look at 96.1′s playlist you will find a large amount of Hip Hop in it. Just like every other top 40 station in the country. That is something that you did not find 10 years ago. Sure in 2000 there was a few Hip Hop records being played by top 40 radio, but no where near the large amount that is in it today. Another indication would be that even country music stars like Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood can also be found on hundreds of top 40 stations as well.
Times and also the music have changed. I think a huge affiliation that some people want to see on the new KTFM is the return of freestyle music. The whole rant I just spoke of only furthers my point that it wouldn't be a good idea to play freestyle on the 2010 version of KTFM. Freestyle music was a huge part of the 102.7 era. Some of those songs are 20 maybe even 25 years old. Would 94.1 be considered a top 40 station if they played these records? Certainly not. Besides, the young listeners are most likely to be too young to remember the impact it had on the old station. So in other words…. the old KTFM music which includes Freestyle is out.
Now onto other matters such as airstaff. People who remember the old 102.7 still remember a few select jocks from the station such as Drex, Joey Dee, Joe B, Hot Henrietta, Miss Ree, Sonny Melendrez, and Rick The Stick just to name a few. Sure there were plenty of others even including myself. However to be realistic, no one remembers them… or even me for that matter. Will we find any of those more popular former 102.7 DJ's on the new KTFM? Not likely.
Back when 94.1 was Jammin 94.1 they resurrected the old color scheme from the 102.7 logo. Here is a comparison.
They even hired former 102.7 jocks such as Henrietta and Rick The Stick in an attempt to rekindle the old glory days. For whatever reason, it did not work out. Would 94.1 benefit from picking up any of the names I had just mentioned? My answer would be no. Not that it is anything personal against any of them no. This is 2010 and not 1996. The new KTFM sounds wonderful. It sounds new, fresh, and young. Getting some of the talent that the majority of young people do not know of would not be beneficial at all. (BTW I am not including Drex in that cause the return of Drex would be huge. However he isn't about to leave the Chicago radio market to return to San Antonio.)
And finally….
In my opinion if 94.1 wants to put a dent into the listening audience at Mix 96.1 they need to steer very clear of the old 102.7 KTFM. Mix is not playing freestyle, or doing any of the antics the old KTFM was doing. They simply play the hits and their ratings reflect their success.
So to sum it all up…. the new KTFM will not be anything like the older 102.7 version. I feel the examples I presented are a great justification. Now I am not apart of KTFM or the KTFM management so this is all speculation. However I feel I bring up some great points on why the new KTFM should do their own thing.
I am sorry to say but people need to let the old KTFM image just disappear because it is not coming back. Let me rephrase that. It is not coming back…. ever!
Sure 102.7 KTFM was apart of San Antonio culture for years. It is time to realize that time has passed. Who knows, maybe this 2010 version will be just as popular as the old version.
I am a fan of the changes BMP has made with the 2010 KTFM and wish them luck with the new station.


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Here's the advice Charlie Parker gave to his fellow-saxophonists: "You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail."
Everyone will have a chance to crave the wails at the Ralph Ellison Library, 2000 N.E. 23rd Street on Saturday, May 21, when the library kicks off its new "Saturday Soul Music" series with a saxophone concert. The sounds will come out from 2:00-4:00p.m. The event is free and suitable for all ages.
"Music," said Michael Owens, the Ellison Library Manager of Library Operations, "especially jazz, was important to the life of author Ralph Ellison. So Ralph Ellison Library found it appropriate to begin a new live music series. First in the series is jazz music with a professional saxophone player leading the way"
Ellison, author of the 20th Century classic novel "Invisible Man," was born in Oklahoma City in 1914. His book won the National Book Award in 1953, and his essays on jazz and jazz musicians have become classics in their own right.
"We invite everyone to drop by the library on May 21 for good talk and good music," Owens added. "We're hoping the 'Saturday Soul Music' series will get off to a great start and become a part of our community for a long time to come."
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