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Alrighty then... Today is my Birthday and I have been waiting a long time to ask you guys this :o
I am expecting a lot of downvotes :D ...since is a really stupid question, but I have been dying to ask it and today is finally the big day.
How old do you think I am?
let me just start with: you're first (most likely joking) guess is actually correct lol
also for the last year i have hinted at it on posts. but most people just took it as a joke and carried on (that was a big hint)
....hmmmm I want to give a prize to the first person to get the age I turned today (exactly) ...we'll see how that goes :D
sorry if I am bothering you with this question and it is spamming up your questions tag ('cause I know, I don't like those spamming questions either) if you wanna let it out on me feel free down there
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29. That is always the right answer, no matter what the actual answer is.
And happy birthday! I dedicate my deals to you today :)
@okham: Words of wisdom
@okham: thanks! c:
You joined Woot on 8/9/2010, so I'm going to guess older than 18 months.
the fact that you're asking this makes me think either 16, or a socially stunted 23. :D
Whoa. It's my birthday too.
Small world.
Oh, fyi, I wasn't guessing. he/she said "see you tomorrow" on the question about what you would say to your 15 year old self.
@okham: I thought it was 42...
I'm going with 34. Happy Birthday!!
24 or 25
@chellemonkey: haha smart.
old enough
Eleven, and happy birthday!
I don't know how old you are.
But you don't look a day over 29!
61... did they make Mannequins back in '51?
one day older than you were yesterday!
was the answer revealed yet? 33?
Since it's probably a special number ... 30.
52. Wild guess.
37. Seems like a good number to guess.
I'm home from school! lol
@chellemonkey: I knew someone had to pick up on that one. Biggest hint ever :D you got it! *woot!
@capguncowboy: :3 good ol' capuncaboy
@ganzhimself: Happy Birthday!
@goatcrapp: yeah true that, haha
...well, thanks for the guesses everyone. it was amusing! I have been trying to hold back on saying my age 'till today in saying it lol
Hey, I got a few happys on my day, so I'm glad to say "Happy trip around the sun" to you, too!
My guess - 69, dude!
Life begins at wooting, so I'm going with the 18 month crowd.
Odd. Now I feel like I'm contributing to the... Or something. :-\
@miquinn: Happy Birthday!
15? are we even supposed to be interacting with you on the internet or is msnbc's chris hansen going to come knockin' on our doors asking us to "have a seat right over there"?
@pinchecat: what sort of "interactions" have you been having with him?
Happy 15th!
@pinchecat: what's even weirder is that i was 14 :D
@miquinn: Happy B'day, So the question must be asked, what draws a 14 year old, I mean 15 year old to Dealswoot forum?
@dw1771: haha true that :D ...well, my brother (who is much older) bought some things from woot which is how i was introduced. I really am not sure how i got into posting things on the dw forums though... 'cause he has never done it. I just did one time though, lol. I just kinda tried to figure out the system, and what stuff ppl posted, and was really bad in the beginning :D I am quite competitive so that kinda compelled the start of it, but I wasn't serious about it. I then started really liking the community (of course, it's the best) ...and then! there was the first $5 jumbowoot coupon. Of course as a 14 yr old i was like :O But since then, like most others, the coupons are awesome but the community is what keeps me here. I have gotten * a lot* of coupons though, which is just amazing. I use them for buying gifts for my family all the time. (and the shirts of course, I am a shirt.woot addict) I am up to 22 woots and have hardly paid anything :] ....i can go on and on and on :3
happy belated birthday!


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ABLES is a state-based surveillance program of laboratory reported adult blood lead levels. The national ABLES program began in 1987 with four states and has grown to 41 states in 2010. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) ABLES program provides funding and technical assistance to participating states. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services began receiving funds to operate the ABLES program in 2001. The public health objective of the ABLES program is objective OSH-7 in Healthy People 2020, to reduce the proportion of persons who have elevated blood lead concentrations from work exposures. The program objective is to build state capacity to initiate, expand, or improve adult blood lead surveillance programs which can accurately measure trends in adult blood lead levels and which can effectively intervene to prevent lead over-exposures. In 2009, the ABLES program updated the surveillance case definition of an elevated blood lead level as a blood lead concentration greater than or equal to 10 micrograms per deciliter (µg/dL).
Lead is used in many industries, including construction, mining, and manufacturing. In each of these industries, workers are at risk of being exposed to lead, by breathing it in, ingesting it, or coming in contact with it.
Lead is a toxic metal that is also used in burning fossil fuels. It can be combined with other metals to produce alloys. Lead and lead alloys are often used to make batteries, ammunition, and other metal products. Years ago, lead was also used regularly in paint, ceramics, caulk, and pipe solder among other things. Because of its potential health problems, the amount of lead used in these products today has lessened or has been removed.
Over 90 percent of U.S. adults with elevated blood lead levels are exposed occupationally. Adults exposed to lead can experience anemia, nervous system dysfunction, kidney problems, hypertension, decreased fertility, and increased miscarriages. Workers can bring lead home from their workplace, and unknowingly expose their families. It is estimated nationally that two to three percent of children with blood lead levels of greater than or equal to 10 µg /dL were exposed by lead brought home from work. Children exposed to low levels of lead may exhibit symptoms of neurologic damage, including learning disabilities and short attention spans. Children who come in contact with lead-exposed workers should be targeted for blood lead screening.
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Here in Maine the weather has changed and its becoming colder. The days are getting shorter with everything turning color and starting to go dormant for winter. This restricts the pollinators to the fall flowers to get the nutrition they need to get them through the winter.
For many pollinators late summer and fall is not that different from spring and they need all the help they can get to find available stores.
By observing my honeybees, I have discovered that they really are getting lots of use out of the hawkweed on my lawn. At the hive lots of yellow pollen is going in on bees that have faces caked in yellow. It didn't take long to figure out that it was the hawkweed the bees were working on.
Hawkweed comes in several species but for us here in Maine it is the yellow blossom that looks a little like a dandelion with a long neck and few leaves. They come up in abundance on untreated lawns and are frequently mowed prior to the pollinators benefiting. Just because a flower is in bloom doesn't mean that it is providing for the bees. Sometimes it may take a week or more for a flower to develop pollen and nectar, so early cutting will often eliminate the food source for the bees.
The most interesting thing about this time of year is that everything is slowing down including the grasses. Many folks are mowing by habit or to maintain that horrible golf course look. By the way, I never see any of my neighbors putting on their "perfect" lawns. Skipping a week or two of mowing this time of year will allow the hawkweed to grow and be used by multiple pollinators. The lawn is not going to get away from you and you get a week or two off; Woo Hoo!
Then, children in tow, you could go out on the lawn and see how many pollinators you can spot on the blossoms that you allowed to grow. You can be proud of your achievement while teaching the children how important it is to respect nature and to work with it instead of against.
One might say that the pollinators can just use something else or that we don't need that awful weed pollinated anyway. A much larger point to consider is that the pollinators need this late source of pollen and in order to be around next year for what we want pollinated they have to eat.
We are so very busy that it is easy to forget our connection to the earth. We have a tendancy to overlook the abundance we enjoy as a direct result of a clean, healthy environment, teaming with all sorts of busy pollinators. We sometimes feel that there is not much we can do to help but if we mown a lawn nothing could be further from the truth. Yes, we are the gatekeepers of our lawns; we are in charge. The true beauty in the lawn comes from the sun, water, and soil; not chemicals and thrashers.
By letting diversity thrive on the lawn you are embracing a connection to the earth. You are supporting a system that has worked for millions of years. You are also doing your part to embrace the life beneth the soil and the support system Mother Nature intends right in your yard. Your lawn and Mother Nature need your help to ensure that the system is healthy and that it works. There is no time like the present to get started getting in touch with nature. You can embrace a lawn with hawkweed and all the other plants that live there instead of a lawn with billions of identical blades of grass filled with chemicals. You can make a difference; and both you and Mother Nature will feel better because of your efforts.
So take a break from mowing, enjoy your yard and all the creatures that live there. Let the hawkweed grow and you too can feed the bees this fall.


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Prior to the forecasted snow event slated for tonight and tomorrow in much of the state, KHP Troop A personnel would like to advise the public of the following information.
Beginning at 8:30 a.m. Monday, the Kansas Highway Patrol will be towing vehicles abandoned on: I-70 from 18th Street to the state line; on I-435; on I-635 from I-35 to the state line; and on I-35 from the Gardner Road to the state line.
This process will be in effect until all the roadways are clear from this event and traffic is flowing normally. The purpose for the towing of the abandoned vehicles is to facilitate snow removal and keep the roadway open for emergency vehicles. The normal, 48-hour grace period will not be in effect during this snow event.
The Kansas Highway Patrol strongly urges individuals to stay in their vehicles if they get stuck or become involved in a collision, and to call 911 or *47 on their cell phones. The safest place for vehicle occupants during a snow event is inside their vehicles with their seatbelts on.
In addition, the Kansas Highway Patrol VIN Inspection Stations in the Troop A area (Johnson, Miami, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte counties) will be closed tomorrow. At this time, it is anticipated that the scale houses in the area will be closed, as well.
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The Department of Housing and Residence Life is committed to creating and maintaining communities that are welcoming and accepting of people of all races, ethnicities, sex, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, age, and veteran status. Our goal is to instill respect and foster a sense of community by creating, promoting, and supporting residential environments where students, faculty, and staff are provided opportunities to understand, accept, and appreciate each other. Housing and Residence Life is committed to confronting situations of intolerance that result from lack of respect, knowledge, or awareness. Whether these acts of intolerance are public or private, they destroy the community we share and are irreconcilable with the mission of the University. Such acts are harmful to individuals as well as to the University community as a whole.
Oath of Inclusion
Student Government Association (SGA) took the initiative to develop the student creed. The oath sets up the expectation for all students, once admitted to Saint Louis University, to promote inclusion on our campus and use resources offered by Saint Louis University to aid them in that process. Though 100 percent inclusion at Saint Louis University may seem like a large feat to accomplish, the community support developed in the efforts to establish inclusion is certainly a step in the right direction and an inspiration of what we can accomplish together.
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We, as students, form a diverse and vibrant university community.
We do not enter into this community by proximity, but by virtue of a shared Jesuit vision - to pursue higher truths, obtain greater knowledge and strive for a better world. In this endeavor, we do not succeed by our individual ambitions, but by our discovery of each other.
We find higher truths when we seek to understand the complexity of our neighbors' identities, we obtain greater knowledge when we consider the perspectives of our fellow students and we begin to strive for a better world when we build a stronger community.
As a student and a member of the SLU community, I will live by this oath.
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The 19th Annual Southern Illinois Economic Development Conference will explore the ways our communities and region can prosper by focusing the needs of our youth and elderly and will feature two nationally recognized speakers.
"Paving the Way for Progress" is set for May 3 at John A. Logan College in Carterville. The event is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and will be held in Workforce Development Building H. Doors will open at 8:00 a.m. for registration.
The conference fee is $45 and includes lunch and refreshments. For more information or to register online, visit jalc.edu/cbl or call 800-851-4720, ext 8525.
Sponsored by Hoosier Energy, The Delta Regional Authority, John A Logan College, ConnectSI and the Illinois Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), the conference is open to the public. Economic and community development professionals, elected officials, business professionals and interested citizens are all encouraged to attend.
Dr. Mildred E. Warner, a Cornell University professor, and Dr. Mark Drabenstott are the featured speakers.
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8 Old School Toys That Got Badass Makeovers
#4. Pedal Cars
The Concept:
Just as a baby goose is born with the genetic desire to pack up and head south each winter, young children are born with the same intrinsic desire to be on the open road, in a car (also like baby geese, children are sticky and annoying; but that's an issue for a separate article).
Take one part bicycle, two pages out of the Flintstones automobile design book and one hard-spoiled child and you have a pedal car. It seems like a really fun idea in theory but, in actuality, the single-speed gearing of a bike mixed with the weight of the metal shell, seats and wheels meant operation of the thing bordered on child labor. Still, the pedal car remained very sought after for generations to come.
Somewhere along the line, the pedal car needed an update. Something that addressed modern childrens' growing resentment of physical activity. What it needed was a motor.
Toymaker Fischer Price was the knight in shining armor on this one with the creation of their Power Wheels line. At first, Power Wheels vehicles were very basic with small electric motors and rudimentary Jeep-like styling. Now, Fischer Price has unleashed a car that says "When I grow up, I want to be too rich to care about the environment." This giant bastard comes with tinted windows, a set of dubs and even a fully functional FM transmitter which, no doubt, blasts shitty radio static through its real-live rear subwoofers.
The icing on the cake? It has to be the "LVNLG" ("Living Large" for the non-license plate slang savvy) vanity plate. It's a subtle little message that tells your classmates precisely how you're living (large, with the implication that you are also in charge).
#3. G.I. Joe
The Concept:
The G.I. Joe line of toys has always been the definition of "action figures," featuring moving joints, changeable outfits and ripped man-bodies underneath. If this all sounds a bit gay on paper than it should be noted that G.I. Joe figures are all armed with a vast array of weaponry. Also, if you ever suggest that Snake Eyes might be gay, make no mistake, you will be dead before you even see the movement in the darkness.
Back in the 60s, Hasbro was commissioned to play down the negative stigma surrounding US soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War. The result was four, 12-inch tall dress-up dolls featuring realistic camouflage fatigues and weapons of the time. The figurines represented the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. There was no real storyline at the time which limited the allure of the toys.
Somewhere along the line, G.I. Joe picked up the familiar storyline that we all best associate with the toys: G.I. Joe Team vs. the Evil Cobra Organization. A classic tale of good vs. evil. Well guess what. Somewhere else along the line the franchise picked up a very different storyline and a new look to boot, highlighted by the newest figurine: The DARK NINJA MASTER.
The Hasbro website explains it best: "The rogue DARK NINJA MASTER was exiled to a cave beneath Arashikage Mountain for betraying the ninja clans. After finding the Moon's Blood, a mystical stone of great power, he was able to channel the energy of dead ninjas, making him almost unstoppable. Seeking revenge, he has emerged from his subterranean prison to destroy all ninjas. Only two people can stop him: STORM SHADOW and SNAKE EYES. The two adversaries must join forces, for only by working together will they be strong enough to defeat this evil super-ninja."
#2. Yo-yo
The Concept:
Long before the internet came along and ruined life as we knew it, Children amused themselves with the most primitive of toys. At the top of the food chain was the yo-yo. Believed to date back to around 500 B.C. in Greece, and even believed to have been used as a crude weapon in the Philippines, the yo-yo (pronounced yo-yo) made a roaring comeback in the 1920s as a toy, and to a lesser extent as a weapon.
The first commercialized yo-yos in America were sold in vast majority by entrepreneur Donald Duncan and children couldn't get enough of them. The design was elementary: two wooden or plastic discs, connected by an axle with a string tied to it. To keep the user from flinging the yo-yo comically through the nearest window pane, the string featured a tiny finger loop at the opposite end. A loop that, as we all remember, tightens relentlessly with each toss until the finger tip is a healthy shade of purple.
After each throw, physics would prevail and the yo-yo would wind itself back up, right into the user's hand. That is, unless, the string has been twisted in any way, in which case the yo-yo proceeds to just fucking hover above the ground, spinning around mockingly. What fun!
In the past 80 or so years, the yo-yo has seen some pretty mundane innovations, such as a ball bearing axle for better spin efficiency and the addition of flashing lights, to name a few. But finally, someone has rolled up their sleeves and is ready to fuck shit up all over the yo-yo world. Meet the ReGEN; half yo-yo, half MP3 player and just a pinch retarded.
The most groundbreaking aspect of the design is the fact that apparently just 10-12 throws an hour will provide more than enough juice. Which is good news if you have a long drive to work, or have to take the crowded subway in your daily grind. It also holds up to 200 songs to ensure that your wrist gives out way before your music does.
"But," we wondered, "How do you listen to music if you're constantly throwing this little robot?" The answer is wireless Bluetooth headphones. Here's a thought: When the music-listening technology that comes with today's yo-yos is cooler and more advanced than the music-listening technology that came with portable CD players in our day, the youth of today officially rescinds its right to ever complain about anything. Ever.
#1. Toy Airplanes
The Concept:
For whatever reason, young boys are all drawn to the same passions in youth: cars, guns and airplanes. Mark our words: The toy company that designs some kind of all-terrain falcon with a built-in flamethrower is the company that is going to crush the competition.
Ah yes, the balsa wood toy airplane. This timeless piece of aeronautical simplicity came in a thin little paper bag containing five or six pieces that were easily assembled into a painfully fragile, questionably airworthy, model plane.
A descent throw might yield 8 seconds of shit-your-pants excitement until the inevitable crash landing sheared a wing off. If you were the rich kid on the block, your plane might have come with a faux propeller that basically A) provided some serious, flight hindering drag and B) made all your poor friends hate you.
If there was one thing the toy planes of yonder were lacking, it was controllability. Guaranteed crash landings and the subsequent walks of shame to go pick up the pieces started to wear a little thin. The advent of radio-control provided an answer for that. But for model builders Aviation Design, that was child's play. Hense, the birth of the FALCON 7X business jet.
We still can't decide what the craziest aspect of this "toy" is. Perhaps it's the retractable landing gear. Perhaps it's the fully furnished interior complete with automatic stairway (for the new CEO Barbie?). Perhaps it's the actual, working jet engines, all three of them. Or maybe it's the ridiculous fucking size of the thing.
Yeah, that's definitely it. It's actually big enough to show up on radar. Too bad one crash would set you back a cool four grand.
Still, we want one. Please send this giant toy plane monster to the Cracked Headquarters for Christmas, please. Or, at the very least, send us one of these...
...to shoot other people's planes down with.
To see people who loved these toys a little too much, check out The 7 Most Impressive (And Depressing) Geek Collections. Or put your children to sleep tonight with a Cracked lullaby in 'Twas the Night Before Christmas 2: Christmasturbation.
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Pharmacist Ben Fuchs fills in for Dr. Wallach. Ben starts the show discussing mercury toxicity. Contending that although there are numerous environmental sources the biggest source of mercury is found in our diets. Fish is the largest contributor of mercury into our bodies and the bigger the fish most likely the more the mercury content.
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Doug Winfrey and Ben Fuchs discuss a recent study that found the incidence of MRSA (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus) has increased 700% in recent years. Usually only found in hospitals and nursing homes the infection is now being found in poor urban neighborhoods. Ben contends the rise is a direct result of the over use of antibiotics.
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I have a big problem using the Internet - I am using it for purposes unacceptable by my moral stands but fun.
Every time I login, after about 1 or 2 hours I lose the control to the unproductive task mentioned above. It has begun to be a big problem; I even find myself day dreaming and coming out with utterly foolish words and sentences.
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In Hayom Yom (22 Adar I) the Rebbe quotes the Rebbe Rasha"b (Meheirah Yishamah 5648) as saying, "The obligation to eat Shalosh Seudos is learned from the Passuk "Hayom Lo", therefore we don't need to eat bread, but one must taste something. As Rabbi Yossi said (Talmud, Shabbos 118b) "May my portion be among those who eat Shalosh Seudos".
So Minhag Chabad is to make sure to taste something for Shalosh Seudos, and the reason why they don't wash for bread is because of the Posuk "Hayom Lo".
What this means is as follows: The Gemarah in Shabbos learns out the obligation to eat 3 meals of Shabbos from the following Posuk: "And Moshe said, eat [the Monn] today (Hayom), because today (Hayom) is a Shabbos for Hashem, today you will not (Hayom Lo) find [the Monn] in the field". Since the Pasuk says the word "Hayom" 3 times (when speaking about the Monn which served them as bread), we learn that one must eat 3 meals on Shabbos.
Based on the words of Rabbeinu Bechayei the Tzemach Tzedek rules (Piskei Dinim Chiddushim on Rabbeinu Yerucham p. 357) that since this meal is learned from the words "Hayom Lo", unlike the first two meals which are learned from the word "Hayom", we don't need to eat bread for Shalosh Seudos, unlike the first two meals.
The reason is (perhaps) due to the fight between the two potential successors of the "previous Rebbe" of Chabad. Although there are older sources on the topic relating to the Rebbes, the widespread custom in Chabad was for the chasidim themselves to wash (according to the halacha), up until the mid-20th century.
"Finally since Gourary (the previous Rebbe's elder son-in-law) was delivering a chassidic discourse at the Shlosh Seudos meal in 770, the Rebbe abolished this ritual in Lubavitch. Of course Gourary continued to lead the 770 meal, but it was sparsely attended as all knew that this was without the Rebbe's blessings." - R. Zalman Alpert (YU Reference Librarian)


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STEUBENVILLE - The Jefferson County grand jury Wednesday indicted a city man who was caught with a large amount of crack and powder cocaine and faces about 70 years in prison if convicted.
Geary L. Harper Jr., 25, of 514 S. Labelle Court was indicted on three counts of having a weapon as a convicted felon, carrying a concealed weapon and five counts of possession of drugs. Two of the drug possession charges contain specifications of being a major drug offender, which could result in additional 10-year sentences. The drug possession charges also contain forfeiture specifications totaling $8,515.
Harper previously was indicted by the grand jury on an escape charge for failing to report to his parole officer. City Police saw Harper and arrested him on Sept. 10. Jefferson County Prosecutor Jane Hanlin said Harper had a backpack with 70 grams of cocaine, 8 grams of heroin and six and one-half oxycondone pills, cash and a firearm. Harper was taken to the county jail.
Harper called his girlfriend from the county jail and told her where a stash of drugs and guns were located at a house. Hanlin said the calls from the jail are recorded. She said prisoners are warned about the recordings.
The drug task force went to the house on Sept. 13 and found 120 grams of crack cocaine, 120 grams of powder cocaine, two firearms and cash hidden in the attic under insulation, Hanlin said.
The grand jury also returned a misdemeanor assault indictment against a former Tiltonsville police officer.
Benjie Coblentz, 27, of Senecaville was indicted on the assault charge. His case will be sent back to Dillonvale county court for further proceedings.
The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation was contacted to investigate the assault, which took place on April 16.
Tiltonsville Police Chief Jerry Davis said on-duty officers responded to an alarm call at Buckeye SouthWest Middle School on Walden Avenue, when they were approached by a man who said he was just assaulted. Davis said the man had head and upper body injuries.
The victim told the officers that five people were in a vehicle, with four wearing masks. One jumped out of the vehicle and started to beat him.
Davis said the man gave a description of the vehicle and then told the officers they were talking to people in the same vehicle just prior to the beating.
The police chief said the officers recognized the vehicle belonged to an off-duty officer.
Christopher Becker, an assistant prosecutor from Trumbull County and former Jefferson County assistant prosecutor, was appointed a special prosecutor in the Colbentz case.
The grand jury also returned indictments against two former Steubenville Dollar General clerks.
Mona I. Pehanich, 52, of 420 Dresden Ave. and Danielle M. Aycock, 20, of 226 Elaine St. were each indicted on a theft charge.
Hanlin said the two former clerks were bypassing checkout scanners for each other.
Selwyn Bougard, 38, of 525 N. Sixth St. was indicted on a charge of failure to pay child support. Hanlin said Bougard owes more than $100,000 in child support.
Darrius D. Watts, 20, and Stanley G. Haywood, 26, both of Chicago were indicted in connection with a firearm being found on Aug. 11 outside a bar.
Watts was indicted on single counts of tampering with evidence, having a weapon as a convicted felon and carrying a concealed weapon. Haywood was indicted on single counts of illegal possession of a firearm in a bar, tampering with evidence, carrying a concealed weapon and having a weapon as a convicted felon.
According to police reports, Watts was arrested outside Pee Dee's bar on South Fourth Street by police responding to a report of a man brandishing a weapon inside the bar and a possible altercation following outside.
Police said when they arrived, they found a crowd outside and Watts attempting to hide a firearm under a vehicle there. Hanlin said Haywood first had the gun and passed it to Watts.
The grand jury also returned the following indictments:
James R. Smallwood, 37, of 261 Clifton Ave., felony domestic violence and resisting arrest.
Ronnie L. Smallwood, 36, of Columbus, felony operating a vehicle under the influence.
Roy L. Bonecutter Jr., 31, of Jeromsville, felonious assault. Hanlin said Bonecutter punched a man in the face on May 10, which resulted in the loss of all the victim's teeth.
Rusty E. Workman, 52, of 55 Diamond St., Irondale, unlawful sexual conduct with a minor involving a teenage girl.


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I am wondering if people find that IE9 compatibility mode is sufficient enough to complete testing sites for multiple IE versions. In comparison to IE collections, virtual machines, etc.
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This Stack Overflow thread suggests that there are differences and the modes are not totally accurate. Depends on your definition of risk and how accurate the results have to be for you and your stakeholders
Sadly, years of playing with emulators of one form or another has taught me a very simple lesson:
There is no substitute for testing your software on it's target
No matter how good a simulator or emulator you are running, there will be enough situations that the sim/em-ulator doesn't cover 100% accurately that you are leaving potential problems
I've also had lots of problems with the Windows 7 XP compatibility mode, where the compatibility mode cannot handle a number of technical applications (it's OK for Office...)
So, whilst I don't do browser software, I would be very cautious about relying on IE9's compatibility mode.
Nope. Compatibility mode is not 100% Trustable.
I have also faced problems with IE simulators/virtual images. I have tried :
But all have some flaws. Recent issue i faced with Browser stack was that it was not showing table background color.
Thus, the best solution I find is to execute the flow at original browser only.
It's hard to switch Laptop's or PC's but this is the only way to get 100% assurance as compare to IE software/images.
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hey guys... i'm new with sencha... so i was watching the gettign started lesson...
i downloaded the sencha 2 sdk and the sdk tools for building my first app...
i intalled the sdk tools... and then i tried to use the command in my cmd:
sencha generate app GS ../GS...
[FONT=Menlo, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace]
but i always get an error like that...
C:\Users\Administrador\Desktop\Sencha\sencha-touch-2>sencha generate app GS ../GS
\SenchaSDKTools-2.0.0-Beta\bin\ foi inesperado neste momento.
(its in portuguese cause i'm from brazil... in english it mitght be 'was unexpected at this time').
does anybody have any idea of why is it happening??
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Elegant and comfortable apartment with a careful decoration.
The house can accommodate up to 4 people, it is spacious and bright, located on the first floor of the building.
It has a bedroom with double bed, a bathroom with bath, a large living room with sofa bed for two people and a fully equipped kitchen.
In less than five minutes, you get to all the major sights in the area:
La Giralda, the Cathedral, Archives of India, the Torre del Oro, Plaza de España, etc ...
No pets, no smoking.
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Comfortable, very new and great location floor. Next to the cathedral. Excellent stay. All terrific
Piso confortable, muy nuevo y excelente ubicación. Pegado a la catedral. Excelente estancia. Todo fenomenal
A very beautiful apartment, with a large bathroom and a very nice terrace. Check-in was very easy and check out as well. Perfect apartment for a trip to Seville.
Great Location, friendly staff! Very Clean and nicely equiped
Great location, with lots o restaurants, cafes and bars around, but not in the middle of the tourist "traps", there is a market right downstairs to buy something and eat it on the terrace or simply to have breakfast in there, 10 minute walk to main attractions
Host was very nice and explained us well all we needed to know about the city.
There is a really nice alley that goes to the river. It has aircon, cutlery, and everything you need.
Overall it was a great experience and it has a great value for money for groups of i would say up to 6 people.
The only downside = one shower only
The flat was in the heart of the city, clean, beautiful and quite.
I would recommend it to everyone!
warm regards
We had a lovely weekend in beautiful Sevilla. The apartment was complete and cosy and very centrally located, near Giralda in a quiet street. Perfect communication with Carmen, Rocio and Paco. We will be back!
Positive was the quiet location of the apartment and it was clean. Generally speaking utilities were ok. Further the neighbourhood with the fresh market around the corner and the beautiful square with a lots of restaurants and bars.
Minus points the apartment was quit dark with a bit poorly atmoshere.
Basic needs like soap and toiletpaper were missing.
The welcome was disappointing like they did not know that we came there for a week. And the wifi does not function well.
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I recently bought a Trek Navigator 1. I just installed a hitch and a Allen 2 bike rack. BUT the Trek has a verry angled top tube. so the front tire is only a couple of inches off the ground. Would a Yakima or other brand tube adapter work on the Trek? Which is stronger or rather snugger fitting? Thanks in advance
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Yakima and Thule and probably most other rack companies have top tube adapters. They all recognize the need to accommodate the sloping top tube/y frame/children's bike market. They will all function relatively the same. Unless you have an ultra lightweight delicate carbon frame/seatpost, which I don't believe your bicycle qualifies for that, you should be fine.
Most of them are adjustable so you can make them fit snugly and securely.


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Reviews Interactive recently spoke with JavaFX developer Stephen Chin, a prolific developer and blogger within the JavaFX community. Steve is one of the co-authors of the recently released Pro JavaFX Platform book, and was also named a JavaOne 2009 Rock Star for his WidgetFX session. Steve began working in JavaFX in May 2008, after being challenged by Sun's Josh Marinacci to write a program in JavaFX. The challenge turned into the development of WidgetFX, and has kept Steve "heavily involved with JavaFX," ever since.
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Anybody who makes a hole in one will receive a new John Deere EZ-trak mower.
There will also be a closest-to-the-pin contest on two holes and a long drive contest on all non-par 3 holes.
Entry fee is $150 per team and includes 9 holes of golf and all you can eat sausage wraps.
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Is there a way to automatically number headings in Google Docs?
It used to be possible with CSS but this feature isn't supported anymore in the new Google Docs version.
Is there a way to automatically number headings in Google Docs?
It used to be possible with CSS but this feature isn't supported anymore in the new Google Docs version.
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Well, it seems easier to do that by scripting the document like this:
Actually it is possible even without editing the HTML/CSS. I'll give you an example with a blank document but once you'll figure out how it works you will be able to do it on already existed document. Also if you are not already using the keyboard shortcuts I would suggest you to start using them (in this example I'm using Mac's shortcuts, but you can easily find the correct ones for your own OS).
At that Point you should have something that looks like this:
Now your document should look something like this:
As you might noticed the automatic numbering is still there and you can easily experiment by adding more Headers as you wish and even numbered sub-headers if needed. I'm not going into more details, but here you can check an example with nested numbered lists with correct formatting for Headers:
Now there is an add-on called Heading Numbers that you can use to add any custom numbering style. It allows you to choose/define, update and remove automatic heading numbers.
Predefined styles:
I released this add-on a couple of weeks ago. Check it out on my homepage or in the add-on store.
What I was looking for was getting the headings like so:
and I could not find any, so I did my own script, I posted it here http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/docs/w4MXeqJaefU
I know that this might not be relevant for the OP anymore, but there is now a posibility to use add-ons. There is a function in the Table of Contents add-on, where you can select the numbering scheme for the heading and it does the required:
I hope that it will be useful to something.
Link to the add-on
Disclaimer: This might be working only on Chrome, but hey, at least it works.
How to use: There is a widget on the right hand side and at the top of it you can select your numbering scheme and refresh the headings with the usual refresh button.
So just set the numbering scheme and update the heading after you are done with editing and you will have correct and updated
Hope this helps
I did a quick comparison between Table of Contents app and the Numbered Headings apps using Firefox. Admittedly, this info will become dated if things improve for both apps:
Thank you for your interest in this question.
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Rules as pertaining to the school.
Townsend Secondary school is situated in the middle of a small town. There are just two other schools in the neighbourhood; one a primary school for children aged 5-11 and the other a posh private school. Townsend school is a mixed school, for ages 11-16, with a sixth form college for 16 years and over. Sixth years don't have to wear uniform, and get to have certain privileges; for example, a common room and being able to leave school grounds at break; that the younger students don't have. The school has a music department; a science block; an IT room and a swimming pool. The pool has temperamental heating, as does the science block. The compulsory subjects are Maths, Science, English, French and PE, or games. After third year, you can drop any of the subjects that are compulsory before third year that you want and choose three optional subjects to take. The options (compulsory for first and second years) are Music, Dance, Art, Sociology, Religious Education, IT, Drama and Home Economics.
Only sixth years can leave school grounds on their own and during break times. Second years up to fifth years can leave only during lunchtime, and then only when accompanied by other students. First years are not allowed to leave the school grounds at all. Any student who abuses this privilege, for example by sneaking out when forbidden to leave or by returning late for homeroom, will be denied it for a week or two as punishment. Other punishments include detention; both after school and lunchtime, suspension, and in serious cases, being expelled. After school clubs exist, for example; drama club, choir, sports teams and orchestra. These are regulated by teachers. Misbehaving will ensure that your stay in the club is a short one.
There are no cheerleaders, and no prom. In fact, there aren't any dances at all organised; however, there is an annual school play put on by the drama club, as well as a concert by the choir and of course the inter-house sports day. The four houses are as follows; Ash, Beech, Oak, and Thorn. Ash and Beech regularly battle it out between them every sports day; Oak tends to come in third, as its members are very average, whereas Thorn houses the brainy students who don't see the point and the outcasts who don't try; therefore, they trail in last every year. Everyone is randomly selected for a house the moment they are put down to go to the school and stay in that house for the rest of their school life. The school has a uniform for the students which consists of black trousers for the boys/black pleated skirts for the girls; red jumper; red, white and black tie; white shirts/blouses. Girls can either wear black tights or white socks. Shoes must be black, and without heels. Jewelry is not allowed, nor is excessive makeup or piercings.
Picture the scene. You are a typical student at Townsend Secondary school, going about your normal business; either as a brain, a rocker, an emo, a prep, or just maybe, a normal who doesn't belong to the usual cliques. One Friday afternoon, you may be at your home eating your dinner or round a friend's house, when you hear over the radio a news bulletin. In a school two towns over, just eighteen miles away, there has been an incident. A student stole his father's shotgun and went mad, shooting indescriminately at students and teachers before turning the gun on himself. Two students and one teacher were killed, others injured. This shocks you in an incredible way. You may not know the people concerned, but you feel sorry for the people who died and maybe, you feel worried in case it happens at your school. True, school shootings are mostly an American thing; guns are hard to get hold of over here in England, but still you worry. After all, it happened to that particular school, so it could happen at yours. You're scared, too; do you really know your fellow students that well?
You happen to know for a fact that there are students who carry knives. Some are bullied, and see the knife as their only defence against those who torment them; others see carrying a knife as a way to be cool, and to feel as if they're part of a gang. The newspapers have recently been full of stories about knife crime, as well as deaths of teenagers at the hands of other teenagers armed with knives. Round your area too are people selling drugs and committing crimes to feed their habits. Perhaps you know one of these people, or you take recreational drugs and don't see the harm in it, or you're strongly anti-drugs. Maybe too you just don't know where to turn, and try to just carry on with life as normal.
Come Monday morning tho, and everything has changed at school. Gone are the free and easy rules that everyone had come to enjoy; in their place are far stricter rules. No-one is allowed to leave school grounds now, save the sixth formers; and even they can only leave at lunch time for just half an hour. Mobile phones are banned, as are ipods and random searches are to be carried out, regardless of whether or not anyone is suspected of carrying a weapon or breaking the rules. The teachers are stricter too, as the Headmistress panics about her school being involved in a tragedy like the one that hit the school two towns over. Many of the students think she's overreacting, and are angry about being treated like children. The whole situation is a ticking time bomb and a disaster waiting to happen...
Rules pertaining to the RP.
1. Only experienced people are allowed to join; ie Silent_Wolf, TheHayleyDoll, Sarah_K_O_M and spirit_queen. If your name does not appear on this list, don't either spam in the RP or PM me begging to join; you will be denied.
2. No Mary Sues or Gary Stus. Please abide by the rules laid out in the stickies. Also, no OMG!Speshul powers. Remember, in this RP, realism is key. This is based on current events and the last thing we need is someone posting a Sueish style "save the day" character. -.-
3. This is an RP for humans only. No other races. Also, please understand that this RP is set in an English school, so don't try to introduce American school elements, ie cheerleaders, nonuniform etc. If you have trouble understanding the system, then go here: Education in England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4. All characters must be in fifth year. This means that your character would be at the least aged 14 and at the most, 15. Any character aged 16 would be repeating a year, either thru failing exams or cuz of illness, for example. I don't want too many people in that category tho, as it wouldn't be realistic.
5. Please try to have variety when you sign up; for example, if someone has already signed up to play a goth, how about signing up to play a prep? Same goes for houses; try not to have everyone in the same house. Having everyone automatically in the same clique can be samey and boring. Try to post at least a paragraph.
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Name: Kasa Hinkley
Age: 15
House: Beech
Bio: Kasa's family are fairly well off, and she's an only child. They live in a big house in town. Kasa owns a horse, which is kept at livery in the stables in the next town. She likes to read novels as well as fashion magazines, and is actually a lot more intelligent than she looks. Kasa can be either sweet or spiteful, depending on how she rates a person. She's very manipulative, and often brags that she can make men do whatever she wants. Kasa is also a brat, and can be sulky if she doesn't get her own way.
Name: Justin "Infri" Blake
Age: 16
House: Thorn
Bio: Justin, or Infri as he generally goes by, lives in a council house with his father. His mother left when Infri was small, and his father doesn't really care too much about his son. Infri tends to only hang out with people he deems worth being with, and he carries a knife. He has a criminal record for stealing cars and also for starting fires; he lost too much school time cuz of this so was held back a year. Infri can be alarmingly immature and seem very dim at times, plus he tends to irritate people just for the hell of it.
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5 Romantic Ways To Get Revenge on That Special Someone
#2. Name Something After Them.
If you can create something beautiful and unique, something that will last throughout the ages, and name it after that special someone, they would have no choice but to feel pretty incredible. Imagine how Miss Chrysler Basilton felt when her fiance built that huge building in Manhattan as a wedding present for her?
So if you're in a position where you can name something--and we're talking about something important here, not a screenplay or a child--then why not name it after that special someone. Like if you're a poet and you're in love with a girl named Diane, you could call your newest poem "Diane." Or if you're a weapons scientist who once dated a girl named Claire who walked out on you and took a bunch of your DVDs, and have designed a new type of flechette that can rip flesh to shreds which will soon be outlawed by the U.N. Well then guess what? You just invented "Claires." Also, a doctor researching infectious diseases and bitterly missing his Bourne Trilogy boxed set would be ethically obligated to name something: "Claire Malikson's Loose Stool Syndrome."
#1. Become Closer With Their Family.
Less a romantic gesture, and more of a sign of commitment, becoming closer with your sweetheart's family and parents is a sure way to signal that you're ready to take this relationship to the next level. But what if the next level of your relationship is the basement, and it's been the basement for the past eight months, because apparently "you're just in different places right now"? What does that even mean? And should you be staying away from her family while you figure it out?
Absolutely not. In fact, the closer you can get, the better--you should be aiming to become as close as possible with her mother. The payoff for this will be unbelievably huge. Not only would you be just wrecking Thanksgiving, if this is executed to perfection, the potential of becoming a step-parent to your old ex opens up. This creates a variety of new avenues for ex-aggravation, including control over bedtimes, approval of whom they date and most importantly of all, estate planning.
Obviously this one is amazingly difficult to pull off, which is why we mentioned it last. To even have a hope you'd have to have studied the asshole arts for your entire life. Like if you grew up in a really treacherous monastery or something.
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If I give a prime number such as $1151024046313875220631$, is there any software/website which can give the position of the prime number?
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The Haggada speaks about 4 sons, the second of which is called "wicked". He distances himself from G-d's commandment, and in turn is told that if he had been in Egypt he would not have been redeemed. How can we say that? How do we know? How can we make such calculations (Cheshbonos)?
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Well, we do have the precedent that four-fifths (or even more) of the Jews in fact did not want to leave Egypt and serve Hashem, and died during the Plague of Darkness (Rashi to Exodus 13:18, quoting from Midrashim Mechilta and/or Tanchuma). So based on the attitude that this second son shows towards the mitzvos of Pesach, there is indeed a good likelihood that he would have been in that category, G-d forbid.
That said, the Lubavitcher Rebbe zt"l explains (here, here and in other places) that in this rebuke there is actually an implied positive statement. "Had you been there, in Egypt, where being part of the Jewish People was a matter of one's choice," we tell him, "then you might well have remained where you were. But you are living now, after the giving of the Torah, when Hashem chose us as His people, and this remains true no matter what choices you make. So it is inevitable that you will do teshuvah and be redeemed, along with all other Jews, from our current exile, with the coming of Moshiach - may it be soon."
The Rasha says mah haavodah hazot lachem, "what is this offering to you?" Thus, he has no portion in the korban, as the haggadah interprets it "to you and not to him". Meanwhile, in makkat bechorot, Hashem only skipped over the houses of those who had offered the paschal offering.
He would not have made it to the geulah.
Similar to @josh's answer, a thought of my own.
G-d's message to Pharoah was "Let my people go so they may serve me"
The 4/5th of the Jews who died in Egypt were Jews who did not want to leave Egypt.
So the Rasha, who excludes himself from the serving G-d, would not have wanted to leave Egypt, since he had no interest in serving G-d. If he had been there, he would not have been redeemed.


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The version of Qt Creator that ships in the repos. can compile Linux executables out of the box. However, it seems like some configuration is necessary to get it to compile Windows applications.
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I am trying to set up a Tekkit-like server (+ some different mods). Most mods are not 1.4.2-compatible, yet, so the server runs 1.3.2. I can use MCNostalgia to downgrade the client, but is there any way to downgrade the server or download an old version?
http://assets.minecraft.net/ has all the Minecraft versions since the Beta 1.8 prereleases and until 1.5.2 inclusive.
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You can also get the exe server and the client there. For example:
Since Minecraft 1.6 (and the release of a new launcher) the downloads have been moved to https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/. Examples:
I figured it out with Minecraft Version Changer (mcvc.in). It's a nice little Java app to download what ever version you please.
MCNostalgia (http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/800346-tool-mcnostalgia) is the generally accepted way to downgrade your Minecraft version. It works based on binary diffs, recalculated on each update for all ~80 something versions archived -- hence it requires an unmodified .jar of the current version.
Some of the available really old versions include:
After about halfway through Alpha, pretty much every version is available.
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- Massachusetts has been using funds from the state's uncompensated care pool to support massive overspending on Medicaid.
- Missouri is helping to lead the way in choosing to delay implementation of Obamacare while lawsuits against the program remain in play.
- More doctors are likely to go underpaid as private insurers emulate Medicare's low reimbursement rates, which have created huge health care access problems.
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src.sencah.io image size constraints imprecision
Usually, if I request an image sized to a maximum width of 80px, I get an image that is 80px wide.
However, sometimes, it seems to do odd things. For example, here's a 124x124 original sized down to 79x79 even though the request is for a maximum of 80:
Is this a feature or a bug?
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"The best family memories are often made outdoors," said Dan Forster, director of Wildlife Resources Division. "Summer is the perfect time for families to visit wildlife management areas and public fishing areas and enjoy all they have to offer. These natural areas are scattered throughout the state, making them convenient and affordable for day trips or overnight visits."
The new Georgia Outdoor Recreational Pass (GORP), which went into effect Jan. 1, 2012, is required for 32 select properties managed by Georgia Department of Natural Resources' Wildlife Resources Division.
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A GORP for an individual costs $3.50 (three days) and $19 (annual). An Individual GORP Plus is also $3.50 and includes fishing privileges for Georgia residents. For groups of eight or fewer people, the pass is $10 (three days) and $35 (annual).
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The 1996 welfare reform law barred most lawful permanent residents of the United States from receiving many of the public benefits their tax dollars help to fund. Benefit restrictions have increased food insecurity and reduced access to health insurance for both legal immigrants and their U.S.-citizen children, while failing to significantly reduce government healthcare expenditures due to the high costs of caring for the uninsured.
By Walter A. Ewing, Ph.D.
As Congress prepares to take up reauthorization of public-benefit programs, policymakers once again will consider the extent to which legal immigrants in the United States utilize these programs. Since passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), most taxpaying, lawful permanent residents are ineligible to receive many of the benefits their tax dollars help to fund. As a result, PRWORA has increased food insecurity and reduced access to health insurance among both legal immigrants and their U.S.-citizen children. At the same time, benefit restrictions do not significantly reduce federal, state and local healthcare expenditures in the long run given the high costs of caring for the uninsured. Despite claims by some anti-immigrant groups that use of public benefits by legal immigrants has increased since the passage of PRWORA, benefit use has in fact declined substantially.
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Title IV of PRWORA barred most lawful permanent residents of the United States from receiving public benefits such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Medicaid, food stamps and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). The law also barred states from offering benefits to legal immigrants who arrived in the United States after the law's enactment on August 22, 1996, although it did permit states to offer benefits to immigrants who were already present in the country on that date. In 1997, Congress restored SSI eligibility for most legal immigrants present in the country prior to the law's enactment. In 1998, Congress also restored food-stamp eligibility to immigrant children and those elderly or disabled immigrants present before the law's enactment, which included only about one quarter of the 935,000 immigrants who lost benefits under PRWORA.
Given these restrictions, it is not surprising that use of public benefits by immigrants has declined substantially. According to a January 2002 report by the Urban Institute, "There were substantial declines between 1994 and 1999 in legal immigrants' use of all major benefit programs: TANF (-60 percent), food stamps (-48 percent), SSI (-32 percent), and Medicaid (-15 percent)." The report found that, in comparison to their "citizen counterparts" in 1999, "low-income, working-age noncitizens had substantially larger declines in Medicaid use rates" and "low-income legal immigrant families with children had lower use rates for TANF and food stamps."
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As one would expect, the eligibility restrictions imposed on immigrants by PRWORA have resulted in considerable hardship for lawfully present, low-income immigrant families, particularly in terms of access to health insurance and food security. In a January 2002 report, the Urban Institute found that "reductions in Medicaid use are not being made up by other forms of health insurance, but rather are leading to the total loss of health insurance." Between 1994 and 1999, "declines in Medicaid participation were offset almost entirely by increases in the proportion of the population without health insurance," amounting to a 4.5 percent increase in the uninsured among lawful permanent residents compared to a 1.1 percent increase among U.S. citizens. "Among citizens, 31.6 percent of working-age adults were uninsured in 1999 compared with 56.3 percent of legal permanent residents."
Even analysts who favor restrictionist immigration policies have noted the inequitable impact of PRWORA. In a May 2001 study, George J. Borjas, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, found that "those immigrants most likely to be adversely affected by the welfare reform legislation experienced…a substantial relative increase in the probability of food insecurity." Borjas compared "more generous" states that offered substantial benefits to immigrants after 1996 to compensate for the loss of federal benefits under PRWORA with "less generous" states that offered only "minimal" benefits. He found that, between 1995 and 1999, the "fraction of native households that is food insecure declined by about 1 percentage point in both the less generous and more generous states. In contrast, the proportion of non-citizen households that is food insecure rose substantially in the less generous states (from 18.9 to 22.9 percent), but declined in the more generous states (from 22.7 to 20.6 percent). Similarly, the fraction of newly arrived immigrant households who are food insecure rose from 11.3 to 16.3 percent in the less generous states, but declined from 16.1 to 14.8 percent in the more generous states." Borjas concludes that "although tightened eligibility rules reduce the cost of welfare expenditures, they also aggravate the social ills that the programs were designed to address."
The Impact on U.S.-Citizen Children
Restrictions on immigrants' access to public benefits inevitably harm their U.S.-born children, who as citizens are legally entitled to these benefits. According to a July 2001 report by the Urban Institute, "85 percent of immigrant families with children are mixed legal status families – that is, families where at least one parent is a noncitizen and one child is a citizen." As a result, "the imposition of benefit restrictions for noncitizens tend to spill over to their citizen children," while "policies intended to extend benefits to noncitizen children are limited in their reach because most children in immigrant families are already citizens."
A 1999 report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture noted that "Restrictions on participation [in the food-stamp program] by legal immigrants appear to have deterred participation by their children, many of whom retained their eligibility for food stamps." The Urban Institute found that "Between 1994 and 1998, food stamp use fell by 53 percent among citizen children in immigrant families (i.e., families with a noncitizen parent)." In addition, "Among low-income immigrant families with children who are U.S. citizens, 7.8 percent received TANF in 1999 compared with 11.6 percent of low-income citizen families with children. Similarly, the mixed-status immigrant families are considerably less likely to receive food stamps than citizen families – 19.8 percent versus 27.9 percent." According to the Urban Institute, "the greater drops in usage among noncitizens are attributable, in part, to welfare reform discouraging some immigrants from using benefits regardless of eligibility. These 'chilling effects' likely reflect confusion among immigrants about who is eligible for benefits and fears about the legal consequences of seeking assistance."
The Costs of Benefit Restrictions
The Bush administration's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2004 does not include restoration of public benefits for legal immigrants, primarily on the grounds of cost. However, limiting access to benefits increases costs to the public-health system in the long run. Denying health-insurance coverage to low-income immigrant families, for instance, forces them to seek expensive emergency-room care when they become ill rather than making less costly routine visits to doctors' offices.
In response to a recent proposal by Senator Bob Graham (D-FL) to expand Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) coverage for legal immigrants, the White House noted that "the Congressional Budget Office recently estimated the cost of providing Medicaid and SCHIP services to legal immigrants at $2.24 billion over ten years. In times of state budget difficulties, optional expansions to the Medicaid and SCHIP programs must be carefully considered in the context of competing Federal spending priorities." But, as Senator Graham pointed out, "the reality is that states will pay these costs regardless – by funding optional Medicaid programs or by paying for emergency room visits. Why not spend the money on the front end?"
A report issued in February for the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured reached a similar conclusion. The report found that federal, state and local governments covered roughly 85 percent of the $35 billion spent caring for all uninsured individuals in the United States in 2001. Diane Rowland, Executive Director of the Commission, noted that the report "demonstrates that we are already paying a substantial amount to care for a large uninsured population without any guarantee of coverage. The implication is that we pay for care in the least efficient way possible - after people get sick and need emergency or hospital care." The Commission also reported that the "uninsured receive less preventive care, are diagnosed at more advanced disease stages, and once diagnosed, tend to receive less therapeutic care"; that "having health insurance would reduce mortality rates for the uninsured by 10-15 percent"; and that "better health would improve annual earnings by about 10-30 percent…and would increase educational attainment."
Despite the dramatic decline in benefit use by immigrants, some anti-immigrant groups are claiming that just the opposite has occurred. In an extraordinarily misleading report issued in March, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) contends that "After declining in the late 1990s, welfare use returned to 1996 levels by 2001" and that "the gap between immigrant and native households has not narrowed, and in fact has widened slightly." The report concludes that "immigrant households comprise a growing share of all households using the welfare system."
However, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) points out in an April report, the CIS conclusions are based on methodological sleight of hand. CIS defines "immigrant households" to include "all households headed by foreign-born persons, including households headed by naturalized citizens" and attributes "benefit use to an immigrant household in cases where the only members of the household receiving benefits are U.S. citizens." The CIS report "itself finds that receipt of TANF, SSI, and food stamps by these households declined substantially between 1996 and 2001," but, "because it finds that the share of such households with at least one member who receives Medicaid rose modestly," concludes "that the share of immigrant households using 'at least one major welfare program' has not declined since 1996." The CIS report "fails to mention that the modest increase in Medicaid participation by so-called 'immigrant' households is due entirely to an increase in Medicaid or State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) use by U.S. citizens who live in households headed by foreign-born individuals." This is hardly surprising since SCHIP was created a year after passage of PRWORA. As a result, "CIS inexcusably fails to disclose" that "among both noncitizen adults and noncitizen children, Medicaid participation declined between 1996 and 2001."
The CBPP report, "using the same database as CIS," finds that – in reality – "the percentage of legal noncitizens participating in each of the major means-tested federal programs – Medicaid, Food Stamps, TANF, and SSI – has declined significantly since 1996." The "percentage of low-income noncitizen children who participate in Medicaid or SCHIP fell from 28.6 percent in 1996 to 24.8 percent in 2001, despite the creation and expansion of SCHIP during this period." The CBPP report finds that "the percentage of U.S.-citizen children participating in these programs increased from 42.8 percent to 47.6 percent" between 1996 and 2001. In addition, U.S. Department of Agriculture "administrative data show that participation by noncitizens in the Food Stamp Program declined 64 percent between 1996 and 2000, from about 1.7 million to 600,000. During the same time period, food stamp participation by all individuals declined by 30 percent, from 23.8 million to 16.7 million."
Restoring access to public benefits for legal immigrants and their U.S.-citizen children is a matter of both fairness and cost efficiency. Lawful permanent residents are entitled to the benefits their taxes help to fund, while their U.S.-born children have a right as citizens to receive benefits. Moreover, any "savings" from reduced spending on benefit programs that might be derived by cutting off access for immigrants is ultimately lost as a result of increasing costs to the public-health system, such as visits to emergency rooms rather than doctors' offices. As the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform stated in its 1997 Report to Congress, "Legislation that leads immigrants to seek citizenship to protect eligibility for social benefits, rather than out of commitment to our polity, provides the wrong incentive. The effect is not to exalt citizenship, but to diminish it." It is unworthy of a nation of immigrants to deny lawfully present newcomers access to the most basic necessities when they fall on hard times.
* Walter Ewing is a Research Associate with the Immigration Policy Center.
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One of my players wants to play an unarmed fighter. What I need to know is; do spiked gauntlets count as weapons or as armor for the purposes of enchanting?
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They count as weapons, and can be enhanced as such.
The problem is that they count as separate weapons from Unarmed Strikes, which means anything he does to improve Unarmed Strikes is not going to improve his Spiked Gauntlets. If he's planning on Monk or anything similar, I strongly recommend that you ignore this fact entirely and houserule that they take on the damage of his Unarmed Strike if it is higher than the Spiked Gauntlets would be.