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Marvin Pineda's journey from Guatemala to the United States took two harrowing months. The trip for the 11-year-old and his family was arduous and frightening. He witnessed violence and feared for his own safety along the way.
When he arrived in Southeast Los Angeles, his ordeal was still not over. His family settled in a poor neighborhood and life was difficult. Yet, he listened when his mother told him, "Just study; that's why I brought you."
Mr. Pineda's life experiences, and his subsequent degree from UC Riverside, made him an ideal candidate for a Polanco fellowship, a program which takes young, committed Hispanics who have overcome hardship and provides them with year-long, on-the-job Capitol training.
Named after former state Senator Richard Polanco, a founder and chairman of the California Latino Caucus Institute, the fellows program, which began in 2003, gives young Latinos a taste of public policy and life inside the Capitol and offers a connection with people who can open doors.
"It's clear their experience has to be at the table," Mr. Polanco said. "That's part of California. That's part of the United States. That's part of America. Without that being present at the table, we're left behind."
The program is run by the non-profit California Latino Legislative Caucus Institute for Public Policy, which has six board members: the chairman, Mr. Polanco; president, David C. Lizarraga; secretary, Carmen Perez; treasurer, Angie Medina; former assemblyman Robert Pacheco and Roberta Sistos.
Fellows undergo three days of training at the Center for Creative Leadership in San Diego, a four-month placement at a state agency and an eight-month stint in a Legislative office. They are paid around $1,900 a month.
'Genuinely Interested In Us'
The fellowship would change Mr. Pineda's life. But first, he had to nail the interview.
After finding out he was one of 12 applicants invited to interview for six positions, he went to a JC Penney store, opened a charge account and bought a suit, a shirt, a tie and a pair of shoes. He realized he didn't know how to tie the tie and on his drive to the interview at Burbank Airport, stopped at a Rite Aid in Maywood and asked a pharmacist for help.
"I said, 'OK, that looks good,'" said the now 26-year-old, who spent the 2005-2006 school year as a Polanco fellow. He finished the program in State Senator Gilbert Cedillo's office, where he plans to stay until starting law school at UC Davis this fall. "It was a great experience ... The fellowship builds you professionally, personally and emotionally."
Past and current fellows say they might have been left behind if not for the Polanco program. "You interact with a lot of high-level people," said Alani Cridge, a 28-year-old Polanco fellow from 2003-2004, who expects to earn her master's degree in Public Administration from USC in December. "These people are genuinely interested in us succeeding in life and meeting our goals. They're interested in each of us as a person."
Current Polanco fellow Felipe Perez agrees: "You always have somebody to turn to, which is really key."
Javier Gutierrez, a Polanco fellow in 2003-2004, works as a corporate lawyer in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, near Los Angeles. Without the lessons learned in the fellowship, he said he wouldn't be where he is today.
'Fearlessness Comes From That Program'
"That year was just a spark," said Mr. Gutierrez, whose fellowship included a placement in former Assemblyman Rudy Bermudez's office. "It kind of lit a flame. I'm not afraid of anything. Fearlessness comes from that program."
Mr. Gutierrez, 26, grew up in South Central Los Angeles, the son of a Mexican father and an African American mother who met while working together at a fast food restaurant. Sometimes there was nothing to eat in the house but Cheetos. But there was always time to study.
"My parents didn't allow for me to make excuses," Mr. Gutierrez said. "You get to the fellowship, no one accepts mediocrity. My parents were kind of like that."
Alma Perez's first taste of the State Capitol came during a Chicano Latino Youth Leadership conference, an experience that convinced her she needed to return some day. The Polanco fellowship gave her that chance.
Now she's a consultant for the state Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. Getting there wasn't easy. Ms. Perez, 26, remembers her early days in Michoacan, Mexico, when she would cut a piece of cardboard the size of her foot to put in her shoe so the hole wouldn't bother her.
When she was nine, she moved to Morgan Hill, near San Jose. While a student at UC Berkeley, she worked 40 hours a week at various jobs before graduating and landing a Polanco fellowship in 2004-2005.
Assigned to former state Senator Richard Alarcon's office, Ms. Perez recalls working some days on the state budget until one or two in the morning.
"You come home, you feel like you're a part of history," she said. "For me, when I was growing up, the idea of ever being a part of it just seemed like a dream. It was really a life-changing experience."
Mr.Pineda echoes that sentiment. He left Guatemala in poverty, then met with that country's president and vice president on a recent trip there with Senator Cedillo.
"I always say, sometimes life, it's very hard," said Mr. Pineda, a permanent resident who is about to become a U.S. citizen. "I say that I've been blessed. So far my life has been difficult. And wonderful."
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Michigan GOP Considering Republican Plan To Rig The Presidential Election
Under the Republican plan, GOP lawmakers in several states that supported the Democratic candidate for president in recent elections would stop awarding all of their electoral votes to the winner of the state as a whole, and instead award most of them one-by-one to the winners of individual congressional districts. In part because of widespread Republican gerrymandering, if Republicans had implemented this election rigging plan in six key states where they currently control the state government — Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin — Mitt Romney would have won the Electoral College despite losing the popular vote by nearly four points.
Efforts are already underway in several of these six key states to enact this election rigging plan and all but ensure that the next President of the United States is a Republican — regardless of how the American people cast their votes in 2016. Seven Pennsylvania state house members introduced a bill implementing the GOP election rigging plan this week, and the plan already enjoys the support of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) and state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R). A bill backed by Virginia State Senator Charles "Bill" Carrico Sr. (R) would implement the election rigging plan in Virginia. And Wisconsin Republican state Rep. Dan LeMahieu is behind an election rigging bill in his state. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) expressed support for the Republican election rigging plan, but he later backed off that support following significant criticism.
Michigan is a blue state. It supported the Democratic candidate for president in every single election for the last two decades. President Obama won the state by nearly 10 points last November. And yet, if the Republican election-rigging plan had been in effect last year, Romney would have likely won a majority of the state's electoral votes.

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The Council of Canadians has expressed profound disappointment on the ruling by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes against issuing a six-month restraining order against water disconnections in Detroit. An estimated 24,000 people have had their water shut-off in that city this year and that number is now increasing by about 400 people a day.
In early September, the Council of Canadians had written Judge Rhodes to say, "We understand that you will be ruling on the Temporary Restraining Order on the water shutoffs... and are writing to urge you to place an injunction on the shut-offs in order to respect the human right to water and sanitation."


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Ok. So to be candid, a $10 knife is likely a POS. Nevertheless, the concept is a notable one. And honestly, if you never plan on using it in a tactical (i.e. fighting) scenario, who cares.
Say hello to the Tac Force TF-530BK Tactical Brass Knuckle Knife. Unfortunately, the description on Amazon's page is sparse to say the least. Nevertheless, it's said to be made of steel and includes a teflon coated blade that measures just under 4-inches in length (3 5/8″ to be exact). If you look closely there is a small metal knob at the base, which can be used to break open a car window in an emergency, or worse puncture someone's skull – I suggest sticking to windows. Although it's not a switch blade, there is a spring that should lend an assist in opening, as well as a belt clip for keeping it at a hands reach.
You can buy the Tac Force TF-530BK Tactical Brass Knuckle Knife for $10 at Amazon.


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When I was a kid my dad traveled a lot for work. Back then, his company was growing exponentially and my father was sent to oversee the opening of new stores all across the country. In 2002, he had a particularly busy year. My dad was assigned to a store in Pennsylvania and, because it was a longer assignment and because it was summertime as well, he decided to take my mom and I with him.
Since we were going to be there for two months, they gave us a fully furnished house in the suburbs. It was two stories tall and at the end of a very lonely cul-de-sac. The town itself was very small, with a little over 3,000 residents, and the suburb where we stayed was even more rural.


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Thanksgiving Costumes -- Cute or Racist?
Last year, one school's annual Thanksgiving celebration had its share of Native American costumes. And some parents were pissed.
It's a tradition that's been going on for 40 years. Every November, Claremont, California, kindergartners dress up like pilgrims and Native Americans for their annual Thanksgiving celebration.
Last year, according to the Los Angeles Times, the Claremont School Board decided to ban costumes that depict Native Americans at Condit Elementary School and Mountain View Elementary.
That means when kids show up for turkey and songs for their annual Turkey Day feast, they won't be wearing the standard fringed vests or pilgrim-style black hats with the giant buckles, reenacting the (not entirely accurate) story of both groups sitting down for a feast.
Michelle Raheja, the parent who initiated the ban, is a member of the Seneca tribe. She complained that the costumes are "demeaning" and no different than allowing children to dress up like Nazis. "There is nothing to be served by dressing up as a racist stereotype," she said.
Letting children dress up as Native Americans is not the problem, Jacqueline Johnson Pata of the Tlingit Tribe of Alaska and spokesperson for the National Congress of American Indians told momlogic. "What's needed is an academic curriculum that more correctly depicts an honest history around Native Americans."
Pata points out, "Thanksgiving is the one time of the year that people think about Native Americans." That's why she and other Native Americans are lobbying to make "Native American Awareness Day" a national holiday. "It would occur the day after Thanksgiving."
But that might be a long way off. Today, kindergartners in Claremont had to leave their costumes at home -- although one mom says she won't stand up to the ban.
"They're not going to tell us what we can and cannot wear," said Dena
Murphy, mother of a five-year-old kindergartner. "We're tired of
[district officials] cowing down to people. It's not right."
What do you think? Has political correctness gone too far?
The pilgrims didn't actually have buckles anyway.
I'm going to eat my turkey and NOT think about the native americans. Like I do every year.
So stupid…everyone is soooo p.c. these days!!! Look where that got our men and women at FT.Hood. Thanksgiving was shared between pilgrams and native indians and thats the way it should be shown. Would Mrs Raheja prefer that people just rewrote history and left the native indians out all together? I really don't understand all this stupidness.
How pitiful. I'm tired of people throwing around words like racism with no context. No one is implying Native Americans are an inferior race by dressing up as them, and it's childish and cheap to pretend they are. All you're doing is taking harmless fun from children because of your own self pity.
Considering that first Thanksgiving was to celebrate the killing of 700 Pequot men, women and children I can see how and why the Native Americans would find this offense.
The U.S. has over 564 tribes within its borders that have varying languages, regalia, customs and traditions I can completely understand why the indigenous folks of the U.S. would be offended by non-Natives thinking all Natives wear feathers, loin clothes and moccasins. It's insulting and demeaning.
did she seriously compare native americans to nazis? haha stupid.
the spirit of the bear says you should shut up.
There are a lot of misconceptions around thanksgiving, as one comment pointed out the Pilgrims didn't wear those hats. As for Natives and Colonialist sitting down for a dinner, there is an oral tradition of this happening that has been passed down and recorded but there are no records from the time ever stating any occurrence of a thanksgiving dinner. According to Modern Historians it's a fabricated myth that masks a history of cruelty and deceit. That being said some of these bans are ridiculous, as a Native American scholar myself I find if frustrating when advocacy groups such as this one mask modern agendas behind the cause of correcting an inaccurate history. The fabrication of mythology isn't always a bad thing, it's well prevalent in modern day religion so why not allow these kinds of favorable misconceptions that may hide an ugly past but would hopefully lead to a more understanding amicable future of acceptance and comradery.
That's really stupid. Honestly, who cares? Everyone dresses up like that, it's fun for the kids. One mother ruins the fun for all the other kids because she feels that she is being attacked and offended by something that is harmless.
The word, "offened" should be removed from the english language.
She's just mad because her people lost.
They should take away halloween too. What if someone dresses up as a native american then? Someone could be "offended".
I am Native American, and although the stories are not relayed properly, which is true with most nationalities… There is no harm in acknowleging the heritage especially when its meant to be flattering… Mimicry is the greatest form of flattery. And if yur upset about the information being incorrectly relayed, then maybe your focus should be placed on informing people of the true history. Unless you would like to be forgot altogether..! Besides what is wrong with someone wanting to be an Indian..?
I am Native American, and although the stories are not relayed properly, which is true with most nationalities… There is no harm in acknowleging the heritage especially when its meant to be flattering… Mimicry is the greatest form of flattery. And if yur upset about the information being incorrectly relayed, then maybe your focus should be placed on informing people of the true history. Unless you would like to be forgot altogether..! Besides what is wrong with someone wanting to be an Indian..?
the indians should be proud of their generosity towards the pilgrims.
they should be honored when people dress up like them in this regard. not upset. copying is one of the highest forms of a complement. people need to just get over themselves sometimes.
I am all for investigating the truth behind history, and not continuing to do something just because "that's how it's always been done." If something is truly wrong, I'm all for making a change… but, I just don't see how things like this are racist or wrong. Yes, there were terrible atrocities committed against the Native Americans by the emigrating Europeans. However, this is one positive story (that, by all accounts, did seem to happen at least in form or another in 1621), where two peoples, who were polar opposites of each other, were able to come together in celebration. How is that a bad thing to teach children? And the costumes… the pilgrim costumes are just as inaccurate and stereotype-inducing as the "indian" ones… but, whatever :-p They're just costumes. There are times when everyone needs to lighten up… especially when it comes to children (and teaching them valuable life lessons, like acceptance of those who are different from yourself).
Jennifer Miller: Sure, if you think it's positive and joining when the indians save the starving Pilgrims (no, the pilgrims didn't share), and are slaughtered within 50 years by the very pilgrims they saved.
Thanksgiving is a holiday that was celebrated by the colonists in the United States first to thank for a massacre of 700 native americans. It's mocking a traditional native american festival - during which these natives were slaughtered and burned in their homes.
What would you say if, in Germany, there was a holiday mimicing a jewish holiday, celebrating the day the jews were gassed, giving germans houses and furniture that had until then be used by the jews?
The germans could call it thanksgiving too - giving thanks for the jews dying, making way for them.
Would you like such a holiday? Thanksgiving in the US is exactly that holiday. Thanksgiving is celebrating the mass murder of the natives, whose land, food, and other items were then stolen by the colonists.
That is why people are offended. You're celebrating mass murder and theft that later got dressed up as something else so you don't have to feel that bad about it.
If Germany were doing the same, you'd be frothing from your mouths in indignation. And rightfully so.
It's not suddenly okay just because the ones slaughtered are native americans instead of jews.
Yes, wrongs have been committed against Native Americans, no doubt about that. Don't whitewash it or lie about it. But PC can be taken too far. I live on Indian trust land in Oklahoma and it doesn't bother me if 5 year olds dress up for Thanksgiving. The lesson SHOULD be that while wrongs have been committed in the past, we MUST all move forward and LIVE IN PEACE together. Don't lose the message of Thanksgiving. After all, we are all children of the same Creator.
Too bad half of the people dress up like Plains Indians which isn't even slightly correct because Thanksgiving happened on the east coast.
Of course it's racist. I don't go out during Black History month in Black Face, so why should people be alound to poke fun at Native culture?
For crying out loud it is only racist if you feel you are superior to natives. If you respect the native and dress up like them, how can that be racist?


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text: Melissa Hernandez, from Oxnard Calif., crosses the finish line at 1:25:40 to win the 2014 Tinker Bell Half Marathon at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, Calif., on Jan. 19, 2014. The third annual 13.1-mile trek led runners through Disneyland and Disney California Adventure parks, as well as by several city of Anaheim landmarks. The weekend of events were all designed to celebrate and promote women's empowerment, health and an active lifestyle, and included the inaugural Tinker Bell 10K, The Never Land 5K, kids' races and a health and fitness expo. (Jimmy DeFlippo, photographer)


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THE space where iconic St Kilda cinema The George thrived in the 1990s, before struggling financially in the earlier part of this century and then closing, is for sale.Still known locally as The George Cinemas despite the site re-opening (for two weeks) as Cinema Aurora in 2010, the 1142 square metre space over two levels includes a multi-level car park, and liquor licence. It also includes a newly fitted candy bar and foyer. Being sold with vacant possession, the space has the potential to earn about $400,000 in annual rent, according to the selling agent Chris Muller, of Wilson Port Phillip who is expecting interest from owner occupiers and investors. The former cinema is expected to fetch about $2.75 million.
ANOTHER media company is shuffling its Melbourne offices.This time in the city fringe, Foxtel is leaving its 10-year home at 47 City Road, Southbank and relocating to part of the former Channel Seven headquarters at the north-west corner of Dodds and Dorcas streets in South Melbourne.Channel Seven, like rival Nine, have relocated many production functions to Docklands. Its former Dorcas Street headquarters is being part being developed as an apartment village.
DEVELOPER Three Pillars has bought another disused education facility in Melbourne's outer east.This time, in Mooroolbark, the builder has paid the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development $4.6 million for a 1.9 hectare former school, expected to be replaced with a new housing estate.The former Mooroolbark Primary School at 1-5 Central Avenue, about 31 kilometres from town, was listed for sale by Jones Lang LaSalle's Dominic Gibson and Matthieu Lucas. The state government, which listed the school for sale last November, accepted a long seven month settlement.
EASTERN suburb college The Knox School is the latest educator looking to play property profiteer.This time, in the quiet hamlet of Newhaven (pictured, right), about a two hour drive south of the CBD, Knox has won permission to build what will be privately owned apartments and townhouses in and around a historic chapel on an exclusive 1.4 waterfront block overlooking the mainland.Knox bought the Forrest Road property in 2004 promising to re-invent the site into a specialist campus for its Wantirna South students.
THE cash-strapped Baillieu government is some $5.5 million richer after selling a prominent Parkville property to developers.The former Parkville police station at 155 Royal Parade was listed for sale after the boys in blue relocated to a new four-storey facility in Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne.On an 1802 square metre block and with two street frontages (see aerial picture, right), the site is expected to be replaced with an apartment complex exploiting unobstructed park views. It is unknown whether an original station building, developed in 1878 will be retained as part of the redevelopment.
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Much as Theodore Carter's title sea blob proves a challenge to classify, the other matters of importance in this, the author's debut, story collection emerge as equally amorphous and downright slippery when it comes to categorization. Yet, fleshy narrative makes indexing possible by way of a catalogue of characters who aren't simply arranged, but rarities that act—largely at great personal risk. From the competitive eater working against an internal clock to a disengaged young man beguiled by an animate voodoo doll, from a junior-high water-walker to an eyebrow arsonist, the affable oddities of The Life Story of a Chilean Sea Blob and Other Matters of Importance confront doubt in its multifarious forms, establishing classification—organized into engaging, compelling, and affecting—as tantamount to the anomalous lives we lead.
"It is Carter's expansive imagination that provides the pulse to this collection."
A CAPELLA ZOO assistant editor Hayes Moore's review of The Life Story of a Chilean Sea Blob and Other Matters of Importance
"Carter's stories grab the reader by the collar from the very first line."
Reviewed for The Southeast Review by Micah Dean Hicks
The Potomac Review talks to "a writer who was not only willing to take risks but to do so with layers of honesty, sensitivity and humor."
"Theodore Carter is a silly leaping gnome who dates zombies, practices voodoo, and walks on water, at least when not giggling while making you left-handed, or burning your eyebrows off. Think Roald Dahl as rewired by T.C. Boyle. This first collection of stories is a genre-bending mutant's bible of gross-out jokes and yucks. You will love it."
—RICHARD PEABODY, editor, Gargoyle Magazine
"Expect the unexpected—and to laugh out loud—when reading Theodore Carter's delightful and original collection of stories, The Life Story of a Chilean Sea Blob and Other Matters of Importance. Not that it's all laughs; despite their quirkiness, his characters are entirely human, facing their fears around coming of age, settling down, spending life alone, being unloved, or just plain growing old—in short, matters of importance to us all."
—SUSI WYSS, author of The Civilized World
"Theodore Carter writes like a (seemingly impossible) mix of Christopher Moore and Raymond Carver. Like a crazy love affair that, in the end, becomes something real and lasting, these stories are both wildly original and gently human. With a keen eye and a razor-sharp sense of humor, Carter tells tall tales about sea blobs and boys who walk on water and 'other matters of importance' in a way that somehow shines a light on the small moments that make us human."
—DAVE HOUSLEY, author of Ryan Seacrest is Famous
"Carter's imagination gives us a holy mess of plots that defy the logic of disbelievers. Something grandiose happens in each story, grandiose and peculiar."
—ZACHARY BENAVIDEZ, editor, Potomac Review


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Brian Dietzen will be sticking around NCIS.
The 34-year-old actor, who portrays Jimmy Palmer on the CBS series, has been promoted to a series regular for the 10th season, Entertainment Weekly reports.
"I'm very excited," Dietzen told the magazine. "After eight years of being with the show, I got a contract with CBS, and I couldn't be happier about it."
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The promotion makes sense considering Dietzen was the right-hand man to David McCallum's Ducky, who suffered a heart attack in the season finale.
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Diewalkure said...
I remember using mind soothe in Naxx 40 back in the day. The instructor Razuvious adds had longer aggro ranges back then and had to be mind soothed first before they could be mind controled. This is the way we used to do it. Does anyone else remember this?
Hivetyrant said...
Yep I remember doing the exact same thing, in fact, that was one of the only times I remember using mind soothe each and every time, except some of the mobs in scholo so I could shackle the further away undead.
I still use mind sooth during a few of the dailies that require me to pick up ground spawns and not fight mobs, like the one where you pick up tallstrider haunches, why fight vrykul when its right there on the ground, I dont wanna be tossed all over. If would be even better though if in cataclysm they added an effect to it that reset the mobs aggro to zero, so you could shackle/mindsooth and forget....although that would turn priests into everquest enchanters.


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'Invisible' Owners Take Dogs For Walks To Raise Awareness For Pet Adoption
To promote its rescue program and to raise awareness for pet adoption, Mexican pet store +Kota ran a street campaign that involved 'invisible' owners taking dogs on a walk.
Faced with a limited budget, the store created floating leashes that made it seem like invisible people were walking the animals.
Attached to the leashes were also adoption messages that informed members of the public on how they can adopt the animals.
According to the video, its campaign was a success with 221 homeless dogs finding new homes and owners.
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A polluted creek covered with trash in Manila, Philippines on 01 March 2009. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources reported in 2008 that the Philippines hosts 50 major polluted rivers, with a majority of pollutants coming from domestic waste
Indian boys searches for coins in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi.The national capital is a major culprit in the pollution of the Yamuna, accounting for about 79 per cent of the total waste water that is poured into the river by the major towns along its banks. Despite the Indian government spending millions on trying to clean up the river, most of it going to waste-treatment stations, pollution levels continue to rise.


text: Table 3_1_1-2a 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities ReportsThe National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness. Table 3_1_1.2aDialysis patients under age 70 who were registered on a waiting list for transplantation,a by race, United States, 2004Population groupTotalWhiteBlackAsianNative AmericanPercentSEPercentSEPercentSEPercentSEPercentSETotal126.96.36.199.211.80.230.01.010.61.0Age0–1942.31.622.214.171.124.951.47.736.410.720–3926.80.532.00.820.10.751.02.814.62.940–59220.127.116.11.311.60.332.11.511.91.460–699.00.29.50.26.60.318.104.22.168.2GenderMale16.60.218.00.312.90.330.51.312.51.4Female22.214.171.124.310.50.3188.8.131.52.2a The measure includes all incident ESRD patients in the given year who were under age 70 and had a known State of residence in the 50 States or DC. Patients who received a transplant at any time from a live donor were excluded from the measure. The measure was calculated as the percentage (by Kaplan-Meier methodology) who were either wait-listed or received a deceased-donor kidney within 1 year of their ESRD initiation date.Key: SE: standard error.Source: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, U.S. Renal Data System. Current as of September 2009 Internet Citation: Table 3_1_1-2a: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/3_endstagerenaldisease/T3_1_1-2a.html


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Game Recap: Cubs 7, Sux 8 -- Lame.
We might go graphic-less tonight because Kurt is getting married. Happens, I guess.
None of today's pitchers were particularly effective. Sucks. Dempster threw 104 pitches, 55 for strikes. That means he threw a lot of balls--49, to be exact. (See what I did there? Subtraction is fun!)
I guess the hitting was pretty good, though. Remember that game where the Cubs had eleven hits, seven walks, and three runs? In today's game, the Cubs had fewer hits, less than half the walks--and more than twice the runs. Something about timely hitting, maybe, since the Cubs only had one extra-base hit (a double from Soriano).
At least Marmol didn't walk anybody? Eh. Whatever.
Congratulations, Kurt. Go Cubs!


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Kim Dotcom, 38, has been in prison since 20 January at the request of the US authorities.
He faces charges in the US for one of the biggest copyright infringement cases in the country's history.
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Speaking to reporters in Auckland, Mr Dotcom said he was "relieved to go home to see my family, my three little kids and my pregnant wife".
On 17 February Mr Dotcom was charged with three new criminal copyright counts and five new wire fraud counts.
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The La Sal Mountains are located in Grand and San Juan counties, near the eastern border of the state of Utah, and rising above the town of Moab. This range is part of the Manti-La Sal National Forest and the southern Rocky Mountains. The maximum elevation is at Mount Peale, reaching 12,721 feet (3,877 m) above sea level.
The range contains three clusters of peaks separated by passes. The peaks span a distance of about 18 miles (25 km). The name of the range dates to Spanish times, when the Sierra La Sal (meaning the "Salt Mountains") were a prominent landmark on the Old Spanish Trail between Santa Fe and Los Angeles. The range is also known as the La Sal Range.
The La Sal Mountains rises high over the surrounding Colorado Plateau. Two other ranges on the Plateau, the Abajo Mountains and the Henry Mountains, formed around igneous intrusions of about the same age.


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Espeon is a psychic type of Pokemon that was only introduced during the second generation. Espeon looks like a very sleek and exotic cat with lilac fur, large ears that are either blue or dark purple on the inside, four slim and tiny-pawed legs, and a slender tail that splits into two at the end. Its psychic powers is somewhat hinted at by the red gem on its forehead and its eyes, which are pupiless with purple sclera and white irises.
Espeon evolves from Eevee or normal-type Pokemon. There are quite a number of different Pokemon Eevee can evolve to, depending on how you nurture it. Espeon's strong psychic powers make it a very potent Pokemon to have in your arsenal, which is why you should learn how to get Espeon in Pokemon Fire Red.
Interestingly, Espeon cannot be obtained in Pokemon FireRed (nor in LeafGreen) because these versions do not have a time system. Instead, you have to get an Eevee, trade it, evolve it in another version, and then trade it back. Here is how you can get your own Espeon:
As explained above, an Espeon evolves from an Eevee. To get an Eevee, go to the north end of Celadon City and look for the path that leads to the back of the buildings. Follow this path until you can enter one of the buildings through the rear. Enter the building and go all the way up to the top floor; you will find your Eevee there.
Take your Eevee and lead him to the second floor of a Pokemon Center.
Here's where the trading part begins. Take your Game Boy Advance and connect it to another Game Boy Advance with Pokemon "Ruby", "Sapphire" or "Emerald". You can do this by plugging the game-link cable directly into the side port.
Run both game versions (FireRed and Ruby, Sapphire or Emerald) so that the two Game Boy Advance systems are right next to each other. In this set-up, talk to the Pokemon Center attendant and trade your Eevee.
Using the non-FireRed Pokemon game system, raise your Eevee's happiness as much as possible. You can raise its happiness level by walking around with it and never putting it in a PC box. Give it daily vitamins like Carbos, Calcium, Iron, Protein, Zinc, and HP Up. Using it in gym leader battles also help a lot. Also, according to veterans, using the Soothe Bell on an Eevee boosts its happiness levels even more.
An Eevee that evolves during the day turns into Espeon, while one that evolves at night turns into Umbreon. If something goes wrong, you can simply prevent your Eevee from evolving into an Umbreon by pressing "B" and then try again the next day.
Once the evolution is complete, connect the two Game Boy Advance systems again. This time, you will be trading the Espeon to the Pokemon FireRed version.
Because Espeon's evolution is time-based, you have to make sure that your in-game clock is properly set while you nurture Eevee's happiness levels and that it evolves during the day. The process is so simple that even newbies can easily learn how to get Espeon in Pokemon Fire Red.


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Nature Looks at the GMO Debate: What's True, What's False, What's Still Unknown
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You don't have to be a farmer or a food scientist to know that genetically-modified food is a heated, divisive issue. Everyone has an opinion on whether it's safe or dangerous, harmful or helpful. But as with most issues that elicit strong reactions on both sides, it can be difficult to cut through the drama and just look at the facts.
This week Nature, one of the premiere weekly journals of scientific research, devotes their entire issue to discussing GMOs to illuminate what's true, what's false, and what's still unknown about genetically-modified food. If you're new to the GMO debate, this is a great place to start:
It's fitting that Nature delves into this issue, as it was 30 years ago this month that the journal first published the news it was possible to place "functional foreign genes" into plant cells. At the time, this discovery "promised to make life easier and nature's bounty even more desirable," as the journal's editors wrote. But as everyone knows, that's not what happened. "Biological wizardry" was relabeled "Frankenfood," and misinformation abounded on both sides of the aisle.
So where does that leave us? To be fair, it leaves us needing to look at the evidence truthfully to gauge what's happened, what's working, and what still needs change.
Read the full issue → GM Crops: Promise and Reality | Nature
I found these articles particularly interesting:
- Plant Biotechnology: Tarnished Promise: "Genetically modified crops generate hype and hatred. A special section of Nature cuts through the drama."
- Fields of Gold: "Research on transgenic crops must be done outside industry if it is to fulfil its early promise."
- Case Studies: A Hard Look at GM Crops: "Superweeds? Suicides? Stealthy genes? The true, the false and the still unknown about transgenic crops."
- Transgenics: A New Breed: "The next wave of genetically modified crops is making its way to market — and might just ease concerns over 'Frankenfoods'."
- Nature Podcast: "GMO Crops: Helpful or Harmful?"
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I would have any problem with GMO if I could decide by myself if I will eat it or not.
But I can´t.
For examle, you can never be sure to buy honey without GMO. No bee can differentiate between rape and GMO-rape.
And whats about fields with normal rape and an GMO-rape over the street? Is the oil from the normal rape really free from GMO?
And whats about Monsanto and the stopp of farming MON 810 in Germany by law?
Whats about Monsanto and their V-GURT? and the suicides of Cotton-Farmers in India?
GMO is not only a story of genetic food but also a story of more and more poverty in the third world.
I´m living in Germany, every food made from GMO must be marked, nobody buys it, so GMO is no big Problem in Europe but in the rest of the world
I am shocked that this post has been up for 6 hours and it doesn't have a storm of comments yet.
My personal preference is to reject GMOs, although in the US the lack of labeling makes it nearly impossible, unless you buy all certified organic (which by definition cannot have GMOs) and whole, unprocessed foods, which the vast majority of people do not.
I'm all for hybridization (even though the sterile or non-proving offspring are not a great side effect), but modification on the genetic level is not cool in my book, especially since so little long-term testing has been done and almost NO testing or research has been done by impartial third party researchers (i.e. the bulk has been done by industry-paid researchers - not exactly unbiased). I also don't think you should be able to patent plants and animals (though that's a whole different kettle of fish).
And finally, most of the promises (drought-resistant, bug-free, higher yields, improved nutrition) have been proven all or mostly false. And many of the problems GMOs are touted to solve have much easier, cheaper, and low-impact alternatives (for instance, solving vitamin A deficiency is more easily accomplished by eating sweet potatoes instead of genetically modifying "golden rice.").
I buy non gmo when and wherever I can buy it. I have an app on my iPhone that scans bar codes and informs me if it may or may not contain GMO. But like the previous poster, I am also concerned about other items like honey. I never buy beet sugar, cane sugar is less likely. The bad news it cost more for the non gmo organic foods, therefore GMO's will not be going away soon.
What bothers me also, is the cross pollination of these gmo plants from contaminating neighboring farms. It might be impossible in the future to find foods that one has always enjoyed in the past.
It is very difficult to buy non gmo foods here in the USA and I prefer to be on the safe side and will not buy into GMO's if I can.
I try to avoid GMO products because I personally do not trust companys that promote them.
Hybridisation is one thing, as a former poster put up, but the one that scares me most is the transgenic foods.
I know from reading that peanut genes have been used with tomatos and some potato breeds.
If you have a peanut allergy, you could be at risk from these foods.
Even the cloneing of plants is a risk, NZ cloned its Pineus Radiata trees for uniformity but if a disease like Dutch Elm Virus, which killed off huge numbers of Elm trees around Europe, would strike the pines the industry would have no back up.
Just because they can doesn't mean they should.
Is that app available for Android? If so, what's the name please. = )
On a separate note, I don't understand how our country (US) is supposed to be all powerful and mighty and highly advanced and yet we are so far behind than many developed countries. I don't want to sound cynical and pessimistic and like one of those anti-gov persons, but I personally feel that our politicians are to blame. Shame
I eat as much GM food as I can find. It's environmental benefits are well documented and I want to reduce environmental damage due to agriculture. The safety of these products is well documented and they reduced carcinogenic mycotoxins in food. I avoid organic food for the same reasons; too much methane and CO2 released, and the well documented food safety issues and pathogenic bacteria associated with these methods.
BAM52, are you being sarcastic? GM corn and soybeans (most commonly marketed as "Roundup Ready" to farmers here in the Midwest) result in *increased* applications of herbicides. They're engineered to resist damage from glyphosate, so farmers can make many more passes over a GM field in order to kill any other plants that might compete or interfere with their yield.
The app for GMO's is called "NxNutrio".
I have have my reasons why the USA is so powerful, but that is politics and not cooking. Perhaps another forum. However, have you not read the constitution? "For the Corporation by the Corporation"?
While you are at it read the sci-fi book "Space Merchants by Fedrick Phol". In that fictional book you will find your answers you are looking for, especially the foods you eat. Or at least read the Wikipedia of what a "Space Merchant" is? Another one is "The Windup Girl by Bacigalupi" another fictional book where the worlds food supply is probably headed towards.
Mickey the Sci-Fi fan and Cynic :)


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First Listen: Mavis Staples, 'One True Vine'
by Stephen Thompson
Now in its seventh decade, Mavis Staples' career has taken her through chart-topping hits with the gospel-soul family band The Staple Singers, performances for Martin Luther King Jr., enshrinement in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a recent string of highly regarded solo albums. One of Staples' many high-profile fans, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, produced and plays on Staples' 2010 album You Are Not Alone, and he returns to steer its fine follow-up, One True Vine.
Out June 25, the new album finds Tweedy playing virtually every instrument — that's his 17-year-old son Spencer on drums — but, as Jeff Tweedy often does on records he produces, he tends to hang back, eschew showy flourishes and stay out of the way once the tape is rolling. This is Staples' showcase, and rightfully so, though Tweedy clearly had a hand in picking the songs, from "Holy Ghost" (by Low, whose new album he produced) to pieces by Funkadelic and Nick Lowe, to the three tracks he wrote himself. [Continue reading article and listen to selected tracks.]


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Like a donkey eating a waffle.
Get out the checkbook and pay grandma for the rubdown!
After the jump is a video that is so awesome in its Clive Clemmons inappropriateness. It's a guy in an Eagles Michael Vick jersey riding a motorized dog at some sort of amusement park. The best part is the description of the video on YouTube.
Me riding a Zippy animal ride in Myrtle Beach while wearing my new Michael Vick jersey. Maybe I should have chosen a different animal to ride.
Nahhhh…you think?
The only word for that video is awesome.
[H/T With Leather]
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Michael Joseph. ouo Miiaaa!! we were almost name twins!!
Philip or Michael; after her late brothers.
i probably would've been michael like my dad >:
michael alois i'm sorry but that'd've been a terrible name
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Mary Fischer and Patricia Sannit / Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA
March 17 - May 12, 2012
Obsidian Gallery presents a two person exhibition of non-figurative ceramic sculpture by Mary Fischer and Patricia Sannit. The show runs from March 17th through May 12, 2012, with the Artist's Reception on Saturday, March 24, 2012 from 6pm to 9pm.
The focus of Mary Fischer's work is architecture, both in the wild and in books. The images "get jumbled" in Mary's head and later sorted out by her hands.
The timelessness of indigenous architecture is an influence, as is the use of concrete by contemporary architects. Surface treatments and forms change over time as different structures capture her interest.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Patricia Sannit received her BA in Ceramics, Art History and Norwegian from the University of Minnesota and her MFA from the California College of Arts. She now lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Sannit's work is influenced by her experiences excavating in the Near East and Ethiopia. Sannit's most recent project is a large-scale ceramic installation, Citadel, based on an archeological site in Iraq.
Patricia Sannit's work draws from humanity's relationship with both its natural and man-made surroundings. She uses both found and repurposed clay to refer to historical art forms as well as the stratigraphy of the Earth. "I am interested in the story of the earth, our species, and pots. History is manifest in the scarred and worn surface of our planet and in a pot well made and well used."
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The real cost of fuel temperature
"Big oil owns and operates less than 10 percent of the retail [fuel] outlets in the United States," Columbus said on June 8. He cited estimates from NACS that more than half of convenience stores in the U.S. were single-store operations. John Siebert estimates a maximum cost of $2,000 to retrofit a digital pump with an ATC device, $4,000 to retrofit a mechanical pump.
P.U.M.P. urged restraint in lawmaking pending outcomes of a study urged by Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), chair of the House Science and Technology Committee, to the National Academy of Sciences, which would analyze the real costs of installation to consumers. P.U.M.P. and others have suggested that temperature compensation of fuel would ultimately impose costs that would further hike the per-gallon fuel price.
"Before we impose potentially crippling costs on retailers, consumers and state authorities, government has a duty to ensure there is compelling data to support such a radical change in how fuel is dispensed in this country," NATSO President and Chief Executive Officer Lisa Mullings said.
Diesel purchases in Maryland and Virginia, per Truckers News estimates, netted truckers an estimated average loss of 0.7 cents per gallon between May 2006 and April 2007.
Lawsuits Consolidated In Kansas
On June 18, the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation united numerous "hot fuel" lawsuits filed around the country under a single jurisdiction in Kansas. The suits included one filed in December in the Northern California District by attorneys seeking class status for owner-operator Mark Rushing, et al, in which the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association played a large part.
The decision on whether to grant the plaintiffs class status now will be made by Judge Kathryn H. Vratil, who at press time had not issued a time frame for any rulings.
On average, estimated yearly fuel temperature in Kansas has tracked just above the 60-degree standard, resulting in a net loss between May 2006 and April 2007 of less than a cent per gallon.
Big Oil or Little Oil?
Hearings in June and July before the House Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired by Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), examined the hot fuel issue. At each, held June 8 and July 25, the particular issue under examination was whether automatic temperature compensation devices ought to be mandated on retail fuel pumps. At bulk levels worldwide, and at the retail level in Canada on most pumps, ATC devices are typically used.
John Siebert, OOIDA's hot fuel project leader, urged fuel retailers to take up what he deemed the most fair solution: "Apply the same technology used throughout the petroleum production and distribution industry to the final fuel transaction, the retail sale," he said. "Automatic temperature compensation pumps are available for use throughout the world." When selling and buying in bulk quantities, oil companies and fuel retailers typically adjust volume according to temperature.
The initial hearing was announced under the title "Hot Fuel: Big Oil's Double Standard for Measuring Gasoline." The Partnership for Uniform Marketing Practices (P.U.M.P.), of which NATSO is a member, entered testimony for consideration by the subcommittee stressing that the issue was not one of "big oil versus the truck driver/consumer." Timothy Columbus, general counsel for the National Association of Convenience Stores and the Independent Gasoline Marketers of America, agreed with the coalition, stressing that "this is not about big oil. This is about little oil."
Hugh Cooley, Shell's vice president and general manager of national wholesale and joint ventures, reiterated the sentiment in his testimony before the subcommittee July 25, going on to argue that the proper place for the debate about temperature compensation was in the National Conference on Weights and Measures and that fuel prices are "intensely competitive and localized," he said. "This intense competition necessarily adjusts prices to take into account the effect of temperature variations on retail [fuel] sales. Shell similarly believes based on economic principles that, if [fuel was] temperature-adjusted at the retail level, the intense competition in the market would adjust prices to take that into account as well."
"Big oil owns and operates less than 10 percent of the retail [fuel] outlets in the United States," Columbus said on June 8. He cited estimates from NACS that more than half of convenience stores in the U.S. were single-store operations. John Siebert estimates a maximum cost of $2,000 to retrofit a digital pump with an ATC device, $4,000 to retrofit a mechanical pump.
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A criminal court judge in Manhattan has ruled that Twitter must relinquish to prosecutors messages that were sent out by a Brooklyn writer during the Occupy Wall Street protests last fall. In doing so, the judge, Matthew A. Sciarrino Jr., said, "What you give to the public belongs to the public. What you keep to yourself belongs only to you."
A short, dynamic video from TNG-CWA intern Cara Gordon gives you a sense of what it was like to be among the celebratory winners outside the Supreme Court for the historic health care reform ruling Thursday morning.
Shortly after this morning's Supreme Court ruling upholding the major provisions of President Obama's Affordable Care Act, CWA leaders called it a "big victory for the 99 percent," and said, "The Obama administration worked to bring together all the parties in our current system: consumers, insurers, providers, health care facilities, and employers. Congress held lengthy debates and difficult votes. The Affordable Care Act is an important first step toward true health care reform." Photo by Cara Gordon, TNG-CWA, outside Supreme Court Thursday morning.
Unions and allies, led by the AFL-CIO and the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW), are backing proposed legislation to strengthen the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. "What you expect when you're pregnant should not include expecting to lose your job," said Naomi Walker, AFL-CIO's director of state and local affairs.
In a statement Thursday morning, CWA President Larry Cohen says the union stands with President Obama and all "those who support equality and human rights. We oppose all discrimination and recognize the direct linkage between civil and workers' rights, and the attempts to divide Americans based on these issues."
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, a digital equivalent of allowing the government to fight perceived threats by monitoring which books citizens check out from the library, has passed the House and moved to the Senate. ThinkProgress highlights key elements of the bill and its potential for "disastrous" effects on online privacy.
"The America in which I grew up was distinguished by a massive and powerful middle class. That has changed," writes Post-Dispatch columnist and United Media Guild member Bill McClellan in a powerful column that cautions today's graduates about the new America they are inheriting.
Poynter wrap on coverage of FCC's decision to order the top four broadcasters in the top fifty markets to post political ad records online. The decision excludes 160 markets smaller than Louisville, Ky., and allows broadcasters to post the records in any format, making them unsearchable.
A Georgia bill that was originally drafted to restrict the rights of unions to protest outside businesses and private residences has attracted opposition from the Tea Party and other conservative groups that have come to realize it could curtail their rights, too.


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I'll stop there and let you watch the video demo below:
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I'll stop there and let you watch the video demo below:
WordStream offers a free trial. If you've tried the service, let us know what you think.
I know its a simplistic way of looking at it but marketing requires creativity which IMHO cant be automated. Even the most robust software cant have the same insight into human behaviour.
Would also be interested to see if anyone has had success with this.
Hi Andy,
Thanks for the mention!
I would actually say we're trying to automate pieces of your search campaign, rather than the whole thing; you still need a marketer to perform crucial tasks and to operate the software. We also try to build in account-wide settings that let you choose exactly how much you want to hand over to the software.
Anyway anyone who's interested can check it out for themselves, we have a free trial.
Thanks again for the mention!
I will have alook into this and when I have built up the blog enough to try and break the market I will definitely have a look at this.
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Yeah, gonna have to say that by the preview, I am not seeing how this is automated campaigning. It does nothing for SEO. It's an analytics program with an API to AdWords. Sorry, there might be something I'm missing, but I'm with Louis. SEM can't be automated, and shouldn't. Tom even said it, you need a person to make those decision and interpret the data. I just don't see how it's different from any other tool out there. Sorry guys, not worth it to me. I would love to hear a review from someone who tests it though. I am making assumptions from a video, and it could be different in actual usage.
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Yay I'm not the only one! I'm all for tools to enhance the decision making but the word automation makes me cringe. It assumes that the data should be presentaed in that way and IMHO the art of search marketing is seeing the whole picture as some pictures contradict the others…..
I agree with the statement that a good amount of effective search marketing requires the human touch, knowledge and experience to make the right strategic decisions.
It seems that many companies have tried to create various products to remove the human element, but often those products are short lived.
It should be interesting to see how this product will do in our marketplace.
I cant believe that they are going to automate marketing. I guess it wont be that effective but i am sure it will save them lots of time and money.
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What a load of rubbish. None of these services work, all they do is optimize your site, then tell YOU to build links.
I was lucky enough to play with the beta version of Wordstream last fall (I manage paid and natural search for my company) and have to say that the organizational capacities are very impressive (I mostly focused on organizing usable long tail keywords from a log file query mining operation).
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The 'Lord of the Rings' prequel brought in nearly $33 million over its third weekend in theaters.
LOS ANGELES — "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" continues to rule them all at the box office, staying on top for a third-straight week with nearly $33 million.
The Warner Bros. fantasy epic from director Peter Jackson, based on the J.R.R. Tolkien novel, has made $222.7 million domestically alone.
Two big holiday movies — and potential awards contenders — also had strong openings. Quentin Tarantino's spaghetti Western-blaxploitation mash-up "Django Unchained" came in second place for the weekend with $30.7 million. The Weinstein Co. revenge epic, starring Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz, has earned $64 million since its Christmas Day opening.
And in third place with $28 million was the sweeping, all-singing "Les Miserables." The Universal Pictures musical starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway has made $67.5 million since debuting on Christmas.
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Definición de parley en inglés:
parleySilabificación: par·ley
Pronunciación: /ˈpärlē /
sustantivo (plural parleys)
A conference between opposing sides in a dispute, especially a discussion of terms for an armistice.
Más ejemplos en oraciones
- Discussions, secret parleys and meetings, at various places, marked the last few days.
- According to one story, they took unfair advantage by attacking when a parley was in progress.
- In the halls of NBA front offices, in the power lunches, agent meetings and cell-phone parleys, it was a summer of impressive work by the league's best teams.
negotiation, talk(s), conference, summit, discussion, powwow
informal confab
formal colloquy, confabulation
verbo (parleys, parleying, parleyed)[no object] Volver al principio
Hold a conference with the opposing side to discuss terms: they disagreed over whether to parley with the enemy
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- For two and a half months, the military command had parleyed and negotiated with the racialist thug and his group, which included both active and retired senior military and intelligence officers.
- He refused to comment on rumors that the two companies are already parleying.
- It continues a tradition of apt venues for the awards which for years were held in the Merchant Adventurers Hall in York - that wondrous 14th century Foss-side building where business people have gathered and parleyed for centuries.
discuss terms, talk, hold talks, negotiate, deliberate
informal powwow
late Middle English (denoting speech or debate): perhaps from Old French parlee 'spoken', feminine past participle of the verb parler.
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Watching a child realize he is alone is a heartrending event. In a moment, he goes from content to worried to panicked. One of our most primitive fears is the fear of being separated from family, friends, or society. In dreams, being abandoned can have several connotations that derive from psychological or physical experience. The primary interpretive question is: "Who abandoned the dreamer, and why?"
Being individually abandoned by a significant other can represent a feeling of insecurity in a relationship. This may reflect concerns about the feelings of another towards you. Are you genuinely receptive to the idea of being loved and valued, or do you view another's affection as a "put-on"?
Perhaps you view yourself as lovable as you are known, but fear that more revelation about you will lead to isolation. This could be especially true if there is a taboo experience being kept secret from the person who has abandoned you (e.g., marital infidelity). Dreams of this nature may be recurring if as a child your parents extended only conditional affection towards you.
You may see yourself as completely abandoned. This can represent a major sense of being unable or unworthy to fit into society. In this type of dream, you may not be alone in a physical sense, but lack connection with the people around you. Self-esteem issues, taboo experiences, or your ability to receive love should be areas of investigation.
People who view themselves as completely abandoned within a dream often find themselves lacking connection in many day-to-day relationships or experiences.
Lastly, you may see yourself as ritually abandoned. This dream experience finds others leaving you for "your own good."
Where have you left "unfinished business" in relationships with others?
Conversely, have others left your expectations unmet or altogether unrecognized?


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Lots of veggies are beginning to ripen in our garden! :-)
Grape Tomatoes
Bell Peppers
We've also been able to harvest a couple of our herbs for several weeks. We've been picking cilantro and basil and drying them out and storing them in mason jars. Both of these plants are growing monstrously huge! The rosemary is not growing as well as those two, and the oregano is not receiving much sunlight because of where it was planted. It's being covered up by the squash & cucumber leaves. They are growing, nonetheless, and we'll harvest what we are able to. I might try to transplant the oregano to a different spot.
Beautiful Basil
Creeping Cilantro
The garden is starting to look like a jungle! Praise God for rain, sunshine, and fruitful plants!
Praying that I am connected to The Vine, the Lord Jesus, so that my life can be as spiritually fruitful as these plants! Love how the Scriptures give such beautiful pictures to understand important truths.
Are any of you picking veggies or herbs from the garden?
"I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." ~John 15:5


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PAD - K - Process For Pre-Thickened Aerobic Digestionby Ovivo (Formerly Eimco Water Technologies)
The PAD-K (Pre-thickened Aerobic Digestion) technology using the Kubota flat plate membranes process brings together Ovivo's aerobic digestion and flat plate membrane experience into one integrated system. This combination provides owners with a truly revolutionary solids handling technology. The system consists of two or more aerobic ...
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Aerobic Sludge Digestion (ASD) can be used to reduce waste sludge biosolids in both secondary and primary sludges.
AppliTek - On-line Monitoring of Anaerobic Digestionby AppliTek NV - Environmental Analysis Division
Many of the concentrated wastewaters typical of many industrial processes today can be tackled by means of anaerobic digestion (AD), and if necessary with a post-aerobic treatment. Effluents from pharmaceutical manufacturing operations typcially contain several organic solvents, acids, bases, colorants and other organic compounds which are treated ...
WPL - RADS - Robust Aerobic Digestion Systemby WPL Ltd
New guidelines on the disposal of sludge, such as the Landfill Directive and the ADAS safe sludge matrix, have created additional costs and challenges for commercial and industrial companies. There is now a need to significantly reduce the volume of sludge that requires transportation and final treatment – a problem that WPL's Robust ...
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Wastewater professionals once accepted the high costs of operating wastewater treatment facilities as a consequence of meeting their discharge permit requirements. As the cost of energy rises and emphasis on renewable energy increases, local authorities and municipalities are seeking solutions that save money and meet renewable requirements. GE ...
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Disposal and treatment of biological waste represent a major challenge for the waste industry. For a wide range of organic substances from agriculture, foodstuff of feed industries, anaerobic fermentation is a superior alternative to composting. Biogas – a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide – is created during anaerobic digestion ...
Omnivore - Solution For Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plantsby Anaergia Inc.
The Omnivore is a proprietary solution for municipal wastewater treatment plants used to increase the capacity and efficiency of existing conventional municipal sewage sludge digesters. Omnivore can be implemented to convert aerobic digesters into higher rate anaerobic digesters or be implemented into existing anaerobic digester to increase their ...
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NORAM's patented VERTAD system is a proprietary, auto-thermophilic aerobic sludge digestion process.
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Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the biological degradation process of organic compounds without using oxygen. The main product of the degredation of the organic compounds is biogas which is a valuable renewable energy source and is used for energy production. AD technology can be used to recycle and valorize organic waste and biomass including high ...


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Because of the timing of this trip, I'm a bit late in the season – but not enough that I won't be able to get a good reading on this surprisingly accurate indicator of China's economic health.
The delicious little morsels come into season each fall, and are regarded as a delicacy – not to mention as an important indicator of this Asian giant's wealth and prosperity. People flock to various restaurants to eat them. The tiny little guys are given as gifts to business partners, family members and others. Live hairy crabs are even being sold in vending machines in such big Chinese cities as Shanghai.
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If you've never eaten a hairy crab, they're certainly an acquired taste. Usually served steamed – with a splash of soy sauce – they can be oily, or even downright messy.
Hairy crabs are usually smaller than the Dungeness crabs many Americans are more familiar with. These freshwater crustaceans start to fatten as soon as the autumn chill cools the Yangtze River Delta. That adds to their taste and desirability.
These crustaceans get their name from the clumps of fiber-like yellow hair that grow on their undersides, their legs and around their pinchers. Hairy crabs have been harvested in the Jiangsu province for hundreds of years, and have been a stomach-pleasing favorite for just about as long. From Jiangsu, the crabs are shipped to Shanghai and even Hong Kong.
When China's feeling pinched, hairy crab sales drop and prices plummet. At the moment, they're up 30% from last year to a staggering 680-700 yuan per kilo (roughly $105) or more – which suggests just the opposite. Record prices, to be sure, which point to prosperity.
In other words, what this says to me is that China's domestic economy is on the move, that people are flush with cash to spend on such luxuries and that they're anxious to impress.
This stands in stark contrast to the 80% drop in prices I reported in early 2009 – right before Chinese equity markets crumbled to levels not seen since the Asian Financial Crisis a decade ago, or during the SARS epidemic in 2003.
Obviously, hairy crabs aren't a perfect indicator, given that there are a whole host of variables that can affect pricing. For example, a salesman in the the Nieji Yangchenghu Crab Store in Beijing's Changping District told the Global Times that this year's record prices probably reflect of combination of factors – including rising transportation costs and reduced crab output thanks to unusual weather and strong demand.
But I'll take 'em nonetheless, because the demand is what makes the difference. And demand is an indication of the "New Consumerism" that continues to take hold here in Mainland China.
I wish you were here to join me. I'm heading over to Fang Liang Xieyan, which is the Beijing offshoot of an old Shanghai favorite. I'm hoping to score a few ounces and a crab banquet for between 380RMB to 1,680RMB – or roughly $56 to $250, depending on my order.
Fang Liang Xieyan, 16 Dong Sanhuan Bei Lu, Chaoyang District (tel. 6508 9022). Open 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. daily. Set meal 380RMB to 1,680RMB.
I suggest you get started this way:
- Root out those companies on U.S. stock exchanges that have already made up their minds to participate. Three examples that immediately come to mind consist of fast-food icons McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD) and Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM), and semiconductor-equipment giant Applied Materials Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT). McDonald's just because it's the first western non-financial company to float yuan-denominated "panda bonds" to fund market expansion in China. Yum! operates the Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell chains – each of which are doing well with China's growing consumer class. Applied Materials relocated its solar research-and-development arm to Xian knowing that it will be able to develop a full line of global products there – and also sell directly into China.
- Invest in small-cap Chinese companies in the healthcare, infrastructure and urbanization businesses. Some – like China Integrated Energy Inc. (Nasdaq: CBEH), which is an integrated fuels play – are pretty straightforward, while others, like Chinacast Education Corp. (Nasdaq: CAST), which is involved in private secondary education, may take some digging to identify and understand.
- Pick up one or more of the small-cap, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) centered on China's markets. I particularly like Morgan Stanley China 'A' Share Fund Inc. (NYSE: CAF), for instance, because it's focused on China's tough-to-acquire "A" shares. Thanks to its unique structure, it's one of the very few ways investors can currently participate with direct ownership in China.
[Editor's Note: Money Morning Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald predicted a number of years ago that investors would see a big swing in IPO deals toward Asia, and specifically China. U.S. companies will list there. And they will even seek to raise more and more of their money there as the global capital markets become less Wall Street-centric.
That's the kind of foresight that's made Fitz-Gerald such a success as an investor - as is evidenced by the near-perfect record he's maintained in his Geiger Index advisory service. If you missed out on part or all of that stunningly profitable run, don't despair: He's looking for the same kinds of profit opportunities in his newest service, The MicroQuake Alert. To find out more about MicroQuake, please click here.]
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Video: Chinese Vending Machine Sells Live Hairy Crabs.
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Hairy crabs are a pricey, hard-earned delicacy.
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Devotionals Daily: A Year with Jesus - March 12
From Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Edition by Max Lucado
Listen for His Voice
Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you. - Hebrews 13:5 NIV
Let me state something important. There is never a time during which Jesus is not speaking. Never. There is never a place in which Jesus is not present. Never. There is never a room so dark . . . a lounge so sensual . . . an office so sophisticated . . . that the ever-present, ever-pursuing, relentlessly tender Friend is not there, tapping gently on the doors of our hearts—waiting to be invited in.
Few hear his voice. Fewer still open the door.
But never interpret our numbness as his absence. For amidst the fleeting promises of pleasure is the timeless promise of his presence.
"Surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age"(Matt. 28:20 NIV)
There is no chorus so loud that the voice of God cannot be heard . . . if we will but listen. – From IN THE EYE OF THE STORM
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