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|Jennifer Carrino, left, and cousin Nina Walsh show off their surgery scars, August 22, 2012, in Hawthorne, New Jersey. Nina donated a portion of her liver to her older cousin, likely saving her life. (Carmine Galasso/The Record/MCT)
In April, doctors told Jennifer that without a transplant she probably had a year to live. Jennifer, 37, was already on transplant waiting lists in two states, but it was going to take too long, they said. She needed to think about a living donor.
Jennifer turned to her younger cousin, Nina Walsh, a slip of a woman with an outsized sense of generosity.
She asked her to consider giving up part of her healthy liver. The procedure, pioneered 20 years ago, pushes the ethical boundaries of medicine because it goes against a basic tenet of medicine to "first do no harm." If she agreed, her cousin - a perfectly healthy 27-year-old - would undergo risky abdominal surgery. But she might save Jennifer.
Though each is an only child, the two women grew up in Hawthorne, N.J., like sisters under separate roofs. Each was christened at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, where their grandparents were married 65 years ago.
All of them live within a mile of one another: the grandparents in a double-decker with Jennifer's parents; Nina with her parents a few blocks away, and Jennifer and her husband one street over.
Sitting side by side on the sofa at Jennifer's house, the cousins told the story of the last few months - a tale of Jennifer's worsening medical condition and her decision to ask Nina to consider donation; of the scrupulous care taken to insulate Nina from feeling pressured by relatives as she was vetted and allowed to choose whether to donate; and, finally, the long day of surgery.
"I just can't believe it's been three weeks already," said Nina, still sore and exhausted.
Her scar is long, from chest to belly; all her energy goes to healing. Since the surgery, Jennifer has been using round-the-clock oxygen, wafting through plastic tubing from a machine that hums in the corner.
Their relationship is alternately feisty and tender. Of Jennifer, Nina said: "She was the big sister I didn't have." Jennifer quickly replied: "She was the little sister I never wanted."
In their Mets jerseys with Mets pillows to hold against their midsections when they laughed, they were like salt and pepper shakers: The older cousin is blond and soft, the younger darker and edgier. Jennifer cries easily. Nina said she lacks the "crying gene."
Jennifer said she and her husband, Vincent, a technology specialist at JPMorgan Chase, "were trying to get pregnant," when this all started last year. She knew she'd have a high-risk pregnancy because of the injuries she'd suffered in a car accident 20 years ago. She also had cirrhosis of the liver, and its heavy scarring had caused varicose veins to develop along her esophagus.
To prevent them from rupturing during pregnancy, doctors placed tiny rubber bands around the bulges. It would be the first of a succession of complicated and invasive procedures.
Nine days after the banding, Jennifer started to bleed internally, and was rushed to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
It was her mother's birthday in July 2011. Jennifer doesn't remember much of the next few weeks - a period when doctors performed numerous procedures as they tried to stop the bleeding.
A shunt was finally placed in Jennifer's liver to reroute the blood flow, but even that required a couple of adjustments.
Nina visited Jennifer in the hospital's intensive-care unit and was stunned.
"I couldn't imagine going on without her," she recalled. "I said, 'If there's anything I can do, let me know.'"
By October, Jennifer was out of the hospital and back at work as a recruiter for a Paramus, N.J., company that organizes clinical trials. But she found herself short of breath after each telephone call - and she was on the phone all day. As a result of her liver disease and its treatment, she had developed a complication known as hepato-pulmonary syndrome, which affected her lungs and reduced their ability to oxygenate her blood.
"The only treatment, aside from supplemental oxygen, is a liver transplant," said Dr. Michael Meininger, a gastroenterologist who treated Jennifer at Englewood. "The clock was ticking to get her a transplant."
Jennifer's name was added to transplant waiting lists in New York and New Jersey in December. The lung complications ensured a higher priority than she would have had otherwise, but it was still unlikely she'd get the organ in time.
Most people live about two years after a diagnosis of hepato-pulmonary syndrome, Meininger said. Jennifer's chance of surviving for five years without a transplant: 23 percent.
"Most cancers have a lot better survival rate than that," Meininger said.
But a transplant would improve her odds to 75 to 80 percent.
As Jennifer's breathing worsened last spring, her doctors encouraged her to think about a living donation. The lung problems would end up damaging her heart. Without a transplant, Jennifer said she was told she would probably be dead in a year from congestive heart failure.
Liver transplants from living donors are uncommon: Only 247 of the 6,342 liver transplants performed last year came from living donors. People only have one liver, unlike kidneys, where a pair ensures redundancy. In a living donation, one of the liver's two lobes is carefully cut away and removed for transplant. It's major abdominal surgery for the donor, with a big incision and a long recovery.
The risk of dying as a result of the donation, although small, is real, and much greater than the risk of donating a kidney. The operation is much more complex, as surgeons go behind the ribs and gall bladder to extract part of a still-vital organ. Possible complications for the donor include liver failure, bile duct problems, and surgical infection.
"If there were enough livers to go around, we would never dream of taking a perfectly healthy person and subjecting them to a possibly life-threatening operation," said Dr. Sandy Florman, director of Mount Sinai Medical Center's Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute in New York City.
But the liver is also unique among the body's organs in its ability to regenerate. The portion left in a donor and the portion transplanted into the recipient will both grow into fully functioning livers, if all goes well.
"It's like a lizard," Meininger said. "You cut off a lizard's tail, it will regrow."
Jennifer thought about what to do for two days. "Torture," she cried, when asked to describe her thoughts, adding emphatically: "I did not want to ask her (Nina) to do that."
Vincent, Jennifer's husband, encouraged her to approach Nina. "We have to at least see if she's a match," he said.
She called Nina at her job as a medical assistant on Good Friday and gave her the telephone number at Mount Sinai to set up the screening tests.
The death in 2002 at Mount Sinai of a man who was recovering from donating part of his liver to his brother led to a soul-searching review of the standards - or lack of them - to protect the interests of living donors. The Mount Sinai program was temporarily suspended. In February 2004, the New York State Department of Health enacted a 31-page set of regulations, covering everything from staffing and pain management for the donor at the hospital to the responsibility for life-long health monitoring.
The cousins' first brush with the regulations was this: only Nina - not her potential recipient, not a family member - could make the call to schedule the screening appointment.
A few days later, Nina picked up the phone and scheduled the screening for mid-May.
Nina met the initial criteria handily: she was between 18 and 55 years old, and had "a vital emotional relationship" with the recipient. New York State does not permit donations of livers by unrelated strangers, because of the risk of complications.
To be precise, the risk of death for liver donors is 0.2 percent, or 2 out of 1,000 donors, Florman said - "still really rare, but much greater than a kidney." Since the procedure was first performed in the early 1990s, 23 donors around the world have died, he said.
"The risk is real," Florman said. "We do this because the people are going to die without this. Their loved ones want to help them."
Nina's medical team - the "donor advocate team" - was kept separate from Jennifer's doctors. Nina had a thorough physical, blood tests and imaging studies to ascertain that she could survive the removal of more than half her liver, and also that the portion donated would be big enough to save Jennifer's life. She met with a psychiatrist. She talked with a woman who had donated part of her liver to her father.
She passed all the tests. Then came a mandated two-week cooling-off period - a time "of reflection and reaffirmation of the decision to donate," according to the regulation.
During that blackout, "I went back and forth, I can't deny that," Nina said. But "all it came down to was I love my cousin. If there's something I can do to help her, I'm going to."
Nina knew there was a chance of death, she said. But she believed she was "young and . healthy. I'm going to beat it. And Jen - she's just a fighter. She doesn't give up for anything."
On June 4, Nina said yes.
Jennifer said she felt happy and horrible at the same time.
"Now I knew it was guaranteed I was going to live," she said. "But again, I felt horrible because I . just didn't want her to have go through all this."
A photo taken on July 31 in the holding area before the two teams of surgeons began their work at Mount Sinai shows the two women holding hands, in hospital gowns and caps as their beds were wheeled side by side. Jennifer, on oxygen, looks drained. Nina, smiling, looks spunky.
As surgeons removed 60 percent of Nina's liver and transplanted it into Jennifer, the families waited. Nina's operation took six hours; Jennifer's 10.
Mary Anne Ottens, Nina's mother, said she never tried to influence her daughter's choice about the donation.
"Of course, I was more hoping that she would go through with it, because Jennifer is my niece and also my goddaughter," she said.
Ottens said she believes things happen for a reason. "This may be the very reason I had Nina," Ottens told her sister back in April, when Jennifer asked Nina to donate.
Michele D'Angelo, Jennifer's mother and Ottens' sister, sees the last year as a long journey whose darkest moments she'd rather not think about. "I just want her (Jennifer) to have the happy, healthy life she deserves," she said.
It was a couple of days after the surgery before the cousins saw each other again. Post-op, "I felt horrible overall, I really did," Nina said. When she could talk, she asked for Jennifer, her cellphone, and ice chips.
Jennifer doesn't remember Nina's visit to the ICU. She woke up five days later and said "Nina," said her mother.
Despite the pain, Nina said she had "no regrets - none whatsoever." She'll keep that scar on her belly covered for a year, but then it will be back to bikinis, she said.
Her liver started to regenerate as soon as surgeons cut into it, Florman said. Since the operation, it should have grown back almost completely. The donated portion inside Jennifer is also expected to grow into a full-sized, fully functioning organ over the next several months.
Jennifer will stop needing supplemental oxygen in two to three months, Florman said, and ultimately will make a complete recovery. And in a year's time, he added, she can go ahead and get pregnant, noting that organ recipients have had successful pregnancies.
At a checkup after the surgery, Jennifer learned that she could one day have a baby. She surprised her mother with the news a day later.
"I'm happy for you, because I know it's what you want," said her mother, choking up as the rest of the family gasped with surprise.
"But me, I have you."
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About eight months ago, Verna Raines was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Leavenworth Board of Education.
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The meeting was chaired by Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani and included the participation of Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah; King Abdullah II of Jordan; Lebanese President Michel Suleiman; Sudanese President Omer Al-Bashir; Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi; Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas; Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud; Libyan Interim Prime Minister Ali Zidan; Tunisian President Al-Munsef Al-Marzouki; Mauritanian President Mohammed Wild Abdulaziz; Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh; Algerian Prime Minister Abdulmalik Salal; Iraqi Vice President Khudair Al-Khuzai; and UAE Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum.
The Syrian seat was filled by representatives of the opposition, led by former President of the Syrian National Council Mouaz al-Khatib.
In his opening speech, the Qatari Emir proposed the organization of a mini-summit in Egypt with the goal of facilitating reconciliation between Palestinian factions. In addition, he called for the establishment of a $1 billion fund to support Al-Quds [Jerusalem], offering an inaugural contribution from Qatar of $250 million.
During his own remarks, Crown Prince Salman noted that, once again, the Palestinian issue is at the top of the Arab world's agenda. "The Arab-Israeli dispute, which has lasted for more than six decades, will continue to be flaming and tense unless the Arab Palestinian people in Palestine acquire their legitimate rights," he said. "This cannot be possible unless there is change in the Israeli government policies and its dealing with the solutions and initiatives on the table." Crown Prince Salman stressed the importance of a united Arab front on the issue, noting, "The United Nations General Assembly's decision to grant Palestine non-member observer status in the international organization has reflected the overwhelming Arab will before the world community, an achievement that we have to exploit and build on to construct the other fundamentals of the independent Palestinian state along the 1967 border with the holy city of Al-Quds as its capital with the aim to upgrade it to a full-member of the United Nations organization."
The Crown Prince also addressed the tragedy in Syria, warning, "The rhythm of killings and destruction practiced by the Syrian regime against the Syrian people is increasing with the use of various kinds of mass destruction weapons." He accused the Assad regime of attempting to quash any Arab or international efforts to solve the crisis with a political solution, despite its feigned acceptance of various initiatives. Unfortunately, Crown Prince Salman said, most countries are sitting on the sidelines and watching the carnage, while other nations are actively assisting the Assad government. He stated, "The continuous deterioration of the humanitarian situation due to the influx of the displaced and refugees will definitely have serious implications on the security and stability of the region unless the world community ends its division on this issue and provides the legitimate Syrian opposition with its political and material needs. Fortunately, all the opposition factions are now orchestrated under the banner of the Syrian National Coalition as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people, both in the Ministerial Council of the Arab League and within the Arab summits."
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Free agency is underway! See the transactions the Florida Panthers have made below...
SUNRISE, Fla. (July 5) - Florida Panthers Executive VP & General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has acquired a LW Philippe Lefebvre and a seventh round selection (originally Florida's) in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for RW George Parros. The selection was originally traded to Montreal on June 30 at the 2013 NHL Entry Draft in exchange for pick No. 206 (D MacKenzie Weegar).
Lefebvre, 22, has played in 92 AHL games, recording 18 points (9-9-18) and 20 PIM in two professional seasons with Montreal's AHL affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs. The Trois-Rivieres, Que native has also recorded 16 points (8-8-16) and 12 PIM in 28 games with Wheeling (ECHL) during the 2012-13 season.
The 5-foot-11, 175-lb winger signed as a free agent by Montreal on Sept. 15, 2009. He completed his junior career in 2010, playing three seasons with Drummondville (QMJHL), registering 174 points (76-98-174) and 130 PIM in 256 games.
SUNRISE, Fla. (July 5) – Florida Panthers Executive VP & General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has agreed to terms with C Jesse Winchester on a one-year, two way contract.
Winchester, 29, has appeared in 233 National Hockey League games, all with Ottawa, registering 52 points (11-41-52) and 121 PIM. The Long Sault, Ontario, native played in five games with Jokerit (Finland) last year registering three assists.
The 6-foot-1, 215-pound forward played four years of college hockey at Colgate University, earning ECAC All-Star team honors in 2008, while also serving as team captain.
SUNRISE, Fla. (July 4) – Florida Panthers Executive VP & General Manager Dale Tallon announced today that the club has agreed to terms with D Mike Mottau on a one-year, two way contract.
Mottau, 35, has played in 313 National Hockey League games with New York Rangers (2000-2002), Calgary Flames (2002-2003), New Jersey Devils (2007-2010), New York Islanders (2010-2012) and Boston Bruins (2011-2012) registering 58 points (7-51-58) and 160 PIM. The 6-foot, 195-pound defenseman has also played in 19 postseason games with New Jersey and Boston scoring two goals with two assists.
The Quincy, Massachusetts native, played four years at Boston College, earning the Hobey Baker Award, as college hockey's top player in 2000. He was drafted by the New York Rangers in the seventh round (182nd overall) in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft.


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'Park': Unblinking Eye on Failed Justice
Simply stated, "The Central Park Five," which goes into national release this week, is a documentary about five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were convicted of a horrific crime they didn't commit—the beating and rape, in 1989, of a white woman who had been jogging at night in Manhattan's Central Park. But nothing is simple in this painstaking, heartbreaking film, which was written and directed by Ken Burns with his daughter, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon. As filmmaking, it's a departure from Mr. Burns's characteristically measured tone; anger boils beneath the carefully composed surface. As history, it's a shattering portrait of New York at a time when the city, beset by violence and drowning in drugs, was frantic to assign blame for a terrible crime that appeared to be, not incidentally, an interracial crime. As a case study of law gone off the rails, it's about police and prosecutorial conduct, and the conjoined questions of whether the defendants' confessions were coerced, or whether five boys innocent of the crime simply chose to declare themselves guilty.
That they were innocent was officially acknowledged 13 years later, when a judge vacated their convictions. By then, though, the five had served their complete sentences, between 6 and 13 years. And their exoneration might never have come if not for a sequence of events that began when Matias Reyes, a serial rapist previously known to the police, confessed to the Central Park crime, and a DNA match confirmed his guilt. Subsequent investigations revealed that DNA tests of the five defendants had come back negative, and that their confessions were riddled with what Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau called "troubling discrepancies." But the impact of confessions, the documentary tells us, can be irreversible, trumping the results of DNA, and for whatever reasons, under whatever circumstances, the suspects had confessed.
(One year after their exoneration, each of the men filed a $50 million civil lawsuit against the city of New York, as well as police officers and prosecutors who had been involved in their conviction. Those lawsuits, mentioned only briefly in the film, remain unresolved, but the city, by way of defending itself, recently subpoenaed research and outtakes from the film.)
Watching "The Central Park Five" is a deeply affecting experience. When we see the film's subjects as suspects, pouring out their videotaped confessions (which they quickly disavowed after being released from police custody), they're not only frightened kids but, if we're to be honest with ourselves, frightening kids, the sort of urban apparitions—just listen to what they say they did—that would send anyone with an instinct for survival to the other side of a dark street. When we see them as adults, we have a strong sense of how they've suffered; who they might have been, if not for a random stroke of fate—"I was at that point of coming into who I was," one of them says , "but I never really got there"—and who they've become.
These were not, as we learn, apprentice angels. On the night of the Central Park rape, they were part of a group of kids roaming another part of the park where cyclists were being hassled, rocks were being tossed at cars and a homeless man was beaten. But neither were they rapists, and they have become, over time and against unimaginable odds, thoughtful, strikingly eloquent and, to a man, intensely likable. (The most eloquent of the five managed to get a college degree before, as one of them notes, "they took education out of prison.")
Watching "The Central Park Five" is also a deeply troubling experience, for the terrified young defendants were demonized to the point of being described as members of a teenage wolf pack that was wilding in the park. "Wilding" was a neologism, a term that gained instant currency in a city that convicted the five kids long before they went to trial. It's a different city today, in a country that sees its racial and social divides with more clarity than it did back then. But the most troubling question the film raises is how clearly we may see even now.
'Killing Them Softly'
Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly" is one of those gloomy mood pieces that makes you wonder if the sun will ever come out. In fact, sunshine can be detected every now and then, but the surprising thing about the prevailing grayness is how it gives way, ever so slowly, to much darker, genuinely doomy and quite beautiful tableaux that evoke Edward Hopper, William Eggleston, the aestheticized violence of "The Wild Bunch" or the elasticized bullet time of "The Matrix." I'd say the credits got it wrong and the movie's star is its cinematographer, Greig Fraser, even though Brad Pitt is very good in a pivotal role and was mainly responsible for getting the movie made. Another surprising thing is just how elastic time can be. Mr. Dominik's previous film, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," was deliberately paced yet infallibly interesting over the course of 160 minutes. His new one, arriving five years later, clocks in at 97 minutes, and crawls.
Mr. Pitt is an enforcer, Jackie Cogan, who's brought in by the mob to put things right after a couple of dim-bulb thugs throw the local crime economy out of whack by holding up a mob-protected card game. Jackie is forced to work on the cheap because the national economy is also out of whack, so he's stuck with a subprime hire, a hit man, Mickey ( James Gandolfini), who's boozing heavily, wallowing in despair and clearly not the efficient monster he once was.
Until Mickey makes his entrance, "Killing Them Softly," which the director adapted from a George V. Higgins novel, is a series of character studies about insufficiently intriguing characters. The two thugs, played by Scoot McNairy and Ben Mendelsohn, are supposed to be comically incompetent, but there's more incompetence than comedy, and lots of fancified dialogue, with echoes of David Mamet, that particularly afflicts several encounters in which Jackie discusses the sad state of illicit affairs with a midlevel mob manager played by Richard Jenkins. Mickey's character, on the other hand, warrants studying. Mr. Gandolfini finds so much to play in this scooped-out shell of a brutal nihilist, failed romantic and successful misogynist that you can almost forget how often he's played similar roles before. ( Ray Liotta, as the card game's dealer, has also played similar roles before—too many times.)
As a gangster thriller, "Killing Them Softly" is long on violence and short on thrills, but it does present a mystery—why Mr. Dominik, a gifted New Zealander with a passion for American culture, was able to hold our attention so steadfastly in his previous film, which went on at such great length, and so fitfully in this one. Both films were concerned with character, though Mr. Pitt had much more to do as Jesse James, and he did it with a marvelous subtlety that was matched by Casey Affleck's spectacular performance as the assassin Bob Ford.
Yet "Jesse James" was intrinsically dramatic, while "Killing Them Softly" has been organized around an abstract concept—that the mob's loss of control over its own economic realm mirrors a loss of fiscal and economic control by Washington and Wall Street. (The action is frequently intercut with audio or video clips of President Bush and then President Obama addressing the financial crisis.) Whatever you may think of that concept, it's only a notion, not a dramatic premise, which is why the film, for all its visual felicities, comes to life only sporadically. To find out how such a notion can be dramatized, consult "The Godfather."
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CRAWFORD (January 16, 2013)—Neighbors who noticed smoke coming from a nearby home were credited Wednesday morning with helping save an elderly couple from the blaze.
Crawford firefighters were sent just before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday to a structure fire on the far eastern side of the city.
Neighbors noticed smoke coming from the home and called for help, then went to the house to make sure the occupants got out.
James Ana and Earl Booker were at home when the fire broke out but were able to escape the blaze without injury.
Very shortly after the first units arrived at 185 S. Ave. N, Crawford units requested help from both McGregor and Valley Mills.
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The West Virginia Republican Party filed a complaint with the Secretary of State's Office Tuesday alleging state Democratic leaders violated election laws with a recent automated call effort.
Republicans across West Virginia received "robocalls" Sunday telling them GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney was attacking their local Republican delegate.
"Call Bill Maloney, and tell him he doesn't know what is good for West Virginia," the caller says. "Tell him not to throw your legislators under the bus for his own personal gain."
The West Virginia Democrat Party has acknowledged placing the calls, which contained no information to identify who was making the calls.
The complaint with the Secretary of State's Office was filed by Robert Cornelius, political coordinator for the West Virginia Republican Party. It lists as defendants the West Virginia Democratic Executive Committee; state Democrat Party Chairman Larry Puccio; and Derek Scarbro, executive director for the state Democrat Party.
The complaint alleges a violation of West Virginia code by the Democratic Party when it failed to disclose who was making the calls. It seeks a full investigation in the case, as well as prosecution of anyone found guilty and a phone apology to those called Sunday.
Scarbro said the Democrat party acted according to law.
"We got (legal) verification that a disclaimer was not required. We have been told it was not necessary," he said. "We were not expressly advocating anyone's election or defeat ..."
Scarbro pointed to recent advertising paid for by the Republican Governor's Association on behalf of Maloney. One ad criticizes Maloney's Democrat opponent, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, for pushing legislation this year - Senate Bill 469 - to pay down the other post-employment benefits, or OPEB, debt. A second ad criticizes Tomblin for "raising taxes on coal" to generate revenue to clean up abandoned mine sites in SB 579.
Both pieces of legislation were supported by the majority of Republicans in the West Virginia Legislature, and Scarbro said the party wanted Republicans to know that.
"We are definitely not hiding from this. We want people to know about it. We don't think a Republican organization can criticize a Democratic governor for legislation their own Republican legislators voted for. ...
"That's why we made these calls," he continued. "The Republican Party can't attack Gov. Tomblin for legislation their own legislators voted for. They're either being hypocritical or throwing their own legislators under the bus."
The Maloney campaign has sent a letter to Secretary of State Natalie Tennant asking her to investigate the matter.
Chris Stadelman, spokesman for Tomblin, said the Tomblin campaign was not involved with the automated calls.
"We didn't have anything to do with them," he said.


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Financial Issues to Discuss Before You Get Married
What Millennials need to get straight before tying the knot
When Matt and Loren Litzman got married in December, they knew they wouldn't be able to afford a down payment on their first house unless they made saving part of their income a priority.
So it's a good thing that in September 2011, long before they walked down the aisle, the Delray Beach, Fla., couple set up a joint bank account, into which they each sock away $100 every other week. Because of the money they've saved in the past two years—and Loren's much-improved credit score—they are now comfortable enough to buy a house, which they plan to close on in the next few weeks.
"It seems to be working well," says Mr. Litzman, who is 25 years old and works for a passport-expediting company. "We're able to put away a little each paycheck into our joint account and make it bigger."
Among the many big decisions to be made when you're planning to get married, it's important not to overlook financial matters. You can save yourselves a lot of money, time and grief just by following a few basic financial-planning tips. Five things to think about:
1 Student loans
According to Fidelity Investments, 2013 graduates who had borrowed had an average of $35,200 in college-related debt, so lots of millennials bring debt into their marriages. The average household headed by someone under 35 carried $89,500 in debt in 2010, including mortgage debt, the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances shows. (That's up from $53,700 in 1989, measured in 2010 dollars.)
The first thing to do is have an open conversation with your spouse in which you both disclose all the skeletons in your financial closets. You should also make a plan for tackling that debt that makes clear whether each person will help pay down the other's debt or if it's the responsibility of the borrower alone. Before even getting married, you should also share credit reports with your spouse so you can work to improve your scores in advance of a major purchase, says Theresa Fette, CEO of Provident Trust Group in Las Vegas.
2 Making a budget
Setting a budget is no fun, but it's critical for a young couple because money can be tight at the beginning of a career. Money conflicts are a top reason for divorce (which itself can wreak financial havoc), so making a financial plan with your partner and sticking with it can help avert lots of arguments about overspending or racking up credit-card debt, says Michael Mussio, a financial planner at FBB Capital Partners in Bethesda, Md. You can use an online program like Mint or LearnVest to map out a budget and see if you're spending too much in certain categories, says Joan Snyder Kuhl, head of consulting firm Why Millennials Matter.
3 Planning for children
The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that it will cost $241,080 in 2012 dollars to raise a child to age 18 (not including college tuition). So if you plan to have a child, it's worth putting a little each month into a 529 college-savings plan, which can provide tax benefits, says Jason Kolinsky, a financial planner with Kolinsky Wealth Management in Woodcliff Lake, N.J. If you don't have kids, you can usually make yourself the beneficiary and change the name later.
4 Combining finances
It's a good idea to have a joint bank account to pay shared bills, but having separate accounts for your individual expenses can spare you arguments about overspending, says Mr. Kolinsky. To make sure bills are paid on time, designate one spouse to open the bills and the other to pay them. Also, examine your health insurance to see if you'd both be better off on one spouse's plan, advises Kile Lewis, co-founder and co-CEO of oXYGen Financial in Alpharetta, Ga. Do the same thing with your cellphone plans.
5 Retirement
Two big reasons young couples should start saving for retirement early is that you can't count on getting much from Social Security, and life expectancy is rising, meaning more years of retirement to finance, says Greg Sarian, managing director and partner at HighTower Advisors in Berwyn, Pa. Putting enough into your company-sponsored retirement program to get the full employer match is a no-brainer.
Even if there is no match, the earlier you start investing, the better. The magic of compounding, which takes time, is ultimately what makes your savings grow. Moreover, says Mr. Sarian: "This generation of 20- and 30-somethings needs to be planning for retirement right out as soon as they're working, because they may be retired longer than they worked."
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Unbeaten Wolcott overwhelms Crosby
WATERBURY — The Wolcott High football team's offense is explosive. The Eagles also have shown versatility and depth.
"I think our offense can carry us (far)," noted Wolcott receiver Ryan Caggiano.
It did Saturday as the Eagles erased an early 6-0 deficit and scored 33 first-half points en route to a 47-26 victory over Crosby at Jimmy Lee Stadium.
Defensively, Wolcott forced six turnovers, and Eagles quarterback Mike Nicol led the way with three rushing touchdowns and TD passes of 32 yards to Caggiano and 27 yards to Matt Cyr in the second quarter.
The turning point of the game for the Eagles came when, after facing a 6-0 deficit thanks to a 64-yard touchdown run by Crosby's Roshawn Gainey, Wolcott had the daunting task of starting a drive on its own 1-yard line midway through the first quarter.
But Nicol wasn't fazed, engineering an 11-play, four-minute, 24-second drive culminating in 2-yard TD run with 2:09 left in the first quarter. Joe Keeley's PAT kick gave the Eagles the lead it wouldn't relinquish, 7-6.
The Eagles' offensive line, consisting of left tackle, Dylan Rossi, left guard Jim Nelson, center Zachary Burska, right offensive guard Tyler Staples and right tackle Thomas Longo, was up to the task. So was tailback Joe Lynch (141 rushing yards in the game). Lynch had a 48-yard gain in the drive.
"I was very proud because we came together as a team at that point," said Wolcott coach Jason Pace. "The kids responded in the right manner. They kept their composure and didn't panic. I told the kids to just focus on the next play and to play in the present. They did."
The Eagles' resiliency is one of the reasons they are 3-0, a week after rallying from a 20-point deficit to edge Torrington, 39-34.
"That obviously was a huge drive," added Nicol. "The line did a great job of blocking, Joe ran hard and the receivers did a good job of blocking downfield."
Nelson said the long drive came at the right time because "Crosby had the momentum. Everyone is jelling together and has the right idea of what we are doing. We have a lot of team chemistry and we're getting better each week."
So is the passing game.
Caggiano's touchdown reception gave Wolcott a 13-6 edge as the Eagles took control on the first play of the second quarter.
"We ran a crossing route and Mike made a good read and I was wide open," said Caggiano. "Mike got me the ball in a perfect spot."
Late in the third quarter, Wolcott backup quarterback Vincent Gambino threw a 19-yard TD pass to Brett Brennan for its final score.
Defensively, Nicol, Tyler Prescott and Cyr all had interceptions for Wolcott and Jayson Matos, Cyr and Blaise Williams added fumble recoveries.
Gainey scored his second TD run of the game with 1:45 left in the third quarter.
Crosby quarterback Mike Reyes added a 46-yard TD run and Tyshon Rogers added a 1-yard plunge, both in the fourth quarter.
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FOLLANSBEE - As a result of a show business quirk, a Follansbee man has returned from the taping of a game show $215,000 richer and will get to relive all of the excitement when four episodes of the show are aired over the next four weeks.
Jay Mitchell's first appearance on the Ohio Lottery's "Cash Explosion" game show will air at 7:30 p.m. Saturday on WTOV-TV, with the others to follow at that same time Feb. 23 and March 2 and 9.
Mitchell said the experience is one he will never forget and he's grateful for the great windfall he's received through it. But he also doesn't expect it to change his daily life dramatically.
"I'm in no way rich. I'm just a local guy who was lucky enough to be on the show," said Mitchell, a personnel administrator at Eagle Manufacturing in Wellsburg.
He said he'll use his winnings to visit Walt Disney World with his fiancee, Shawnda Ignat; and children, Jaycee and Tyler; and set up college savings funds for them as well as pay off various bills.
Mitchell said he was surprised when James Carothers, contestant coordinator for Cash Explosion, called to tell him he would be a contestant on the show. He explained Shawnda's father, Joe, frequently buys Ohio Lottery tickets and writes the names of family members on them to be entered into a drawing for the show's contestants.
After hearing the news, Mitchell said, "There were several nights I would wake at 4 a.m. unable to sleep because I was so anxious for this experience."
He recalled watching the Feb. 2 episode of "Cash Explosion" with his son and rooting for Betty Ledford, a retired librarian, to win. He didn't know then that Ledford would advance to the program in which he was set to compete.
Mitchell said when he and his family arrived in Columbus for the show's taping, "My son asked, do you think Betty will be here? I told him I wasn't sure but we shall see. Because of the recording delay, she would have had to win the show that was to air Feb. 9 in order to be on that show's taping."
Mitchell recalled that during a practice round before the taping, "I was so nervous my legs were shaking uncontrollably."
Asked if he had any "shout-outs," he stuttered as he thanked everyone in the Ohio Valley for rooting for him.
"I asked, 'Can I say that?' and "Do I sound OK?' The producer laughed and said yes," he said.
Mitchell said the producers encourage all contestants to show their excitement.
"They also tell you to forget about the money and just play the game. Well, that is impossible from my perspective," he said.
Mitchell said during a short break before taping, he met Ledford.
"I told her my son and I were cheering her on and congratulated her. She was an absolute sweetheart," he said.
During two semifinal rounds of the game, each of four contestants has an opportunity to press a button to stop randomly circulating lights on a 36-space game board to reveal monetary winnings ranging from $1,500 to $5,000.
Those who uncover a "Double card" randomly stops on one of the letters in the word "Explosion" above the game board. The top scorers of the two semifinal rounds go on to compete against the returning champion in the Cash Challenge round.
Mitchell said while playing, "They (the show's producers) hide your total so you don't think about it or concentrate on it. They said 'Going to the Cash Challenge is Jay Mitchell from Follansbee, West Virginia. I almost hit the floor. I couldn't believe it."
While awaiting the Cash Challenge backstage, he saw Ledford, there to defend her status as champion.
"I tapped her on the shoulder and said jokingly, 'Betty, I'm taking you out.' She turned and hugged me and laughed and wished me luck," he said.
When he won the Cash Challenge, with $50,000, Ledford again hugged him and congratulated him, saying she knew he would be the next champion.
"I could have cried. I asked her to say hello to my son, who was in the audience behind us. He thought she was a star," Mitchell said.
Mitchell said while the next show was to be taped the same day, it was to air on another week.
"They film two shows per day, four over two days, for a whole month," he explained.
Because of that, he thought he should wear another shirt, so he got the only other shirt he brought from the luggage in his van.
For the fourth taping, he enlisted his family to buy another shirt.
After winning $100,000 on the second show, he encountered Ledford again at the hotel.
"I thought, what are the chances of that? I figured all the contestants from the first show just went home. I yelled, 'Betty," and she turned to me and smiled and asked how I did. I said I won and hugged and congratulated me. I introduced her to my family," Mitchell said.
"I think Betty is kind of like a godsend to me," he said.
Mitchell went on to win $215,000 in the fourth show.
"At some point I thought, while backstage running through all of this yet again, my luck has got to run out. You can't just keep winning, and I was completely fine losing," he said, adding he considered himself fortunate.
Before the first day of taping, while sitting outside the studio, he had prayed to God, giving thanks for the blessings he'd received and the chance he was given to appear on the show, he recalled.
When he was defeated by another contestant in the fourth show, he hugged her and wished her good luck, he said.
Mitchell said he hopes, while watching the show with family and friends Saturday, he won't be too embarrassed.
"I just hope I look and sound OK. You don't want to look like a jerk on TV," he said with a laugh.
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I would like to write a game that could be played on smart phones and was wondering if HTML5 might be a way to write games to work on a wide selection of smart phones.
I just ran the HTML5 test:
So as you can see, the iPod/iPhone and Android are very much neck-and-neck and seem to support a decent range of HTML5 features. Canvas is great for 2D browser graphics and the audio element would probably be great for playing background sounds and music, and it's also really cool to see that both platforms support storage (though you could always just use cookies of course, depending on the size of a game save). So overall I'd say you should go for it. The numbers aren't everything; as wkerslake said "none of these numbers inspire confidence" but if you look through what is supported, it seems to be everything you need!
I say go for it! I wish you the best of luck.
By the way, you might want to watch for Vanthia. It's a browser game which utilizes canvas for efficient drawing. I got to play the closed beta and it was sure coming along! The developer has said very little for over half a year now, except that he is definitely developing it but just keeping things somewhat secret.
You could also get some ideas from Google's recent Pacman interactive logo. It wasn't very HTML5 but it sure was functional! It shows that you don't actually need HTML5 to make a browser game (and I think HTML5 is being thrown around as a buzzword far too much, just as AJAX was or still is). There is a github project with a deobfuscated, cleaned up version of the source that you can look through and play with.
HTML5 is a long way from being ubiquitously supported even in web browsers on PC much less phones.
These numbers are based on the html5test
None of those numbers inspire confidence
It might seem a little late but I'd like to provide an update on the situation for HTML5 and the mobile browsers now that some time has passed. Lately, quite a few game engines have been developed that will produce HTML5 compatible games (see: Construct 2 and Game Maker Studio). Both produce OK performance but there has been notable issues with physics extensions and fast moving objects on some platforms. iOS still takes the lead when it comes to performance but Android has come a long way with the latest Chrome builds. It should be noted that Dolphin Browser on Android totes even 100% increase in HTML5 performance, as well! You can see a quick comparison done for a test below:
If you're looking to do manual optimization, there's some great advice listed here. Also, with HTML5 games becoming increasingly popular and allowed on sites like Kongregate and previously other flash exclusive game portals - there's no reason to be afraid of writing HTML5 based games anymore for a mobile device.
A few libraries exist as well to keep things easy to use on mobile, I've listed a couple below:
as of July 2012, you can make smooth mobile HTML5 games. Check out this video
From the technical point of view it's certainly doable. There are some problems/pitfalls though:
Found a good post about iPad and HTML5: http://mir.aculo.us/2010/06/04/making-an-ipad-html5-app-making-it-really-fast/
Also I would avoid heavy canvas drawing on iPad, for some reason it seems to be pretty slow.
You can use PhoneGap Build:
Just upload a zip file with the HTML5 code and it will give you the application for: Android, iOS, winphone, Blackbarry, Symbian ..ecc..


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City council members voted Thursday to transfer the Lincoln Middle School building from Abilene ISD to the city of Abilene.
Previously, no one wanted to purchase the building from the Abilene Independent School District. The school district approved transferring the facility to the city of Abilene.
The city would like to apply for a grant to cleanup the site, which would knock down the cost by around $250,000, according to the city.
The city wants to preserve the historic landmark. They would like the community to give input on the building and what purpose it could serve.
"So, I think we've got to vision what the future holds," Abilene Mayor, Norm Archibald said. "I think we need to work to make it happen."
Council members encourage the community to voice their opinions, especially councilman Anthony Williams.
"The people of Abilene will have the determination of what will become of this building," Williams said. "I think that this provides a good opportunity for conversation throughout the community."
A public meeting on Lincoln Middle School, which Mayor Norm Archibald will lead, is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. tonight (Thursday) at City Hall. It will focus on the grant application process and allow residents to voice their concerns.


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WHEELING - Republican West Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bill Maloney presented his "Blueprint for a Brighter Future" to supporters in Wheeling Thursday night.
Maloney addressed a group gathered at Artworks Around Town as part of the "A Penny for Your Thoughts" candidate series hosted by the Ohio County Republican Party.
"To me, it's simple," he said. "In West Virginia, we need more jobs and to reform our courts."
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CANDIDATE FOR GOVENOR — Bill Maloney, Republican candidate for governor in West Virginia, speaks as part of the "A Penny For Your Thoughts" political series Thursday in Wheeling. -- Joselyn King
Maloney's blueprint for the state includes:
Create new jobs in West Virginia - Maloney suggests private investments would be encouraged by fixing the state's "unfair and regressive tax structure," and by stopping lawsuit abuse. He added further development of the state's energy resources also is necessary.
Control government spending - Maloney calls for full transparency and documentation of state spending and the elimination of duplicative state agencies working on similar issues. He also believes additional oversight is needed on all state agency spending and contracts.
Clean up our government - Maloney seeks to prohibit elected officials from being involved in any legislation where a conflict of interest exists and to ban public officials from serving as vendors to the state.
Strengthen our education system - Maloney believes West Virginia should adopt a comprehensive approach to education reform that eliminates bureaucracies and raises teacher salaries as reward for improved performance. More money also should be invested in education by the state, he suggests.
Make West Virginia a healthier place to live - Maloney says West Virginia should strengthen the emphasis on outdoor activity in the state and enhance its prevention and wellness programs. Substance abuse prevention efforts should be extended.
He also said West Virginia should work to increase and promote the use of public/private partnerships, as well as faith-based initiatives.
Maloney, a mining engineer, was asked if he knew just how much metallurgical coal lies in the state's reserves. He answered he has heard the state has as much as 200 years worth of supply.
"I don't know how many billions of tons we have left of good coal - the trouble is the cost to get to it," Maloney said.
He also was asked how he responds when someone tells him there is no such thing as "clean coal."
Maloney said he can point to a number of newer coal-burning plants - such as the Longview Power Plant in his hometown of Morgantown - as examples of plants utilizing the best in technology and having very low emissions.
He added that while the issue of clean-coal technology is starting to attract more attention nationally, more education about its value is needed.


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Great Job and congrats Matt! He is a talented dog! (trainer ain't so bad either)
Great Job and congrats Matt! He is a talented dog! (trainer ain't so bad either)
Terry "Bud" Cunningham
Kankakee River HRC
HOw'd you remember not to talk to your dog? I never could...
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HR UH Princess Lillian Vl MH
SHR Deke of Sunnyburke MH
HRCH UH Ray's Cotton Pickin' Jake MH, 500 Pt Club, 02-11
SHR Callie May JH, 98-09
SR Gus "The Wonder Dog" JH, 91-01
Congrats, Matt. Although, I didn't see anyone handing you poppers...
Nice weekend!
Chad Miller
Great Lakes HRC
HRCH UH Northern Flying Dutchman
High Times Dutchmans Copper Cooper
"Wake me up early, be good to my dogs, and teach my children to pray!"
- John Anderson, "Black Sheep"
Matt I knew that little pep talk before the land blind would work. Timber is a nice dog. Those tests were the real deal. Come on up to Michigan for the Wolverine trial.
Erick & Gunner
Respectably humble, a lot of people would be out right bragging AND rightfully so.
Good work, congrats and you have a good looking dog!
Workings Addicted to the Ride (Buss)
How The West was Won ( Colt)
Delilahs Addicted to Mischief ( Delilah) My Jammin little girl
Extreme Dixies Rebel Yell ( Dixie ) JH
Dawsons Little Sable (Sable) 12 /08 - 5/14 , We'll hunt again someday girl.
St. Thomas, the great doctor and theologian, warns about the proper use of animals, lest they appear at the final Judgment against us: and God himself will take vengeance on all who misuse his creatures.
well done matt. I know that you guys work very hard and deserve it. keep working hard and moving forward! I second entering the grand!
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That's fantastic!!! Congratulations!!!!
It always helps you have a good time when your dog does that well!
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"To err is human, to forgive, canine." - Anon
LIFE IS GOOD. "Do what you like, like what you do."
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I have heard of videos and courses that teach children about firearm safety and how to handle firearms, but have never watched or evaluated any. I've know that the US National Rifle Association (NRA) puts out some material. Has anyone used these with their children? What approaches are most effective in teaching safety and marksmanship to young firearms users?
Firearm safety must begin in the home. Your children will naturally emulate your behavior (especially what you do when you think they aren't looking).
For formal instruction, I do not believe that there is anything to be gained for the first time firearm user from videos and other recorded media. Base firearm skills aren't just techniques, they are habits. Developing the right habits (range behavior, safety precautions, posture, etc.) requires constant correction and refinement. Watching an instructional video may make your child less safe, providing an illusion to child and parent alike that skills have been gained when they haven't. Confidence in excess of actual competence is a dangerous thing.
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The Top 116 Images You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped
That is a matsuba koi. If that name sounds familiar, that is because they're those big gold fish found in Japanese ponds. Apparently, every so often, some types wind up with a human-looking face, and one that looks slightly pissed off.
Can you imagine being out fishing and catching that bastard? With that face looking up at you? And it calls you "daddy"?
#115. Dammit, Guys, I Just Painted That River
Either these guys are living in that Robin Williams movie where he died and had to spend the afterlife inside an oil painting, or else the bottom of their boat is about to melt from toxic waste sludge.
Actually, that's algae that has overtaken Chaohu Lake in China. It's pretty, but it's also bad news for anyone relying on the lake for drinking water (as 300,000 people do). The Chinese government is spending billions trying to clean the stuff out of their rivers and lakes. According to the below photo, they do that by sending a dude out to scoop it off with a saucepan.
#114. House Between Two Rocks
This real-life Flintstones house stands in Nas Montanhas de Fafe, Portugal. It was built in 1974 and is used as a family's rural retreat. Even though the house is next to several immense wind turbines, it has no running water or electricity. Instead, all of their appliances have been replaced by repurposed animals that spout smarmy one-liners like "It's a living" when in use.
Once the home started appearing on obnoxious "comedy" websites running lists of stupid crap like "weird houses," hundreds of tourists showed up at the remote location, some even trying to break in. Now all windows in the Boulder House have been converted to bulletproof glass, and the front door was replaced with a slab of solid steel. See? You really can have it both crazy ways: You can live like a character from The Lord of the Rings while still preparing for the zombie apocalypse.
Nothing says prehistoric like blast-proof shielding.
#113. The Spider Wearing an Emoticon
Bullshit. That cannot be real. Evolution did not spawn a creature with a fucking yellow smiley face on its back. Science is lying to us.
This is Theridion grallatora, aka the Happy Face Spider, aka a sick joke somebody is playing on the world's spider experts. Some think the terrifying cartoon face somehow evolved to ward off predators, presumably by convincing them that instead of seeing a spider, they're merely having a bad acid trip. Best to abandon dinner and go lie down for a bit.
#112. Giant Softshell Turtle
Let's play a game. We describe an animal and you picture it in your head, then we show you what it looks like and you shriek in horror, OK? OK, here we go. It's a reptilian predator, it only has to breathe twice every 24 hours, and it's 6 feet across, sucking in any animal that comes too close. What are you picturing? An alligator? Maybe some giant hideous snake?
Annette Olsson, IUCN
How about a cow patty squished and formed into a turtle? Cantor's giant softshell turtles live in Asia and Indonesia, where they spend 95 percent of their lives lying in the mud with just their faces sticking out, eating whatever unfortunate fish happens by. It's like a giant alligator/snapping turtle.
Annette Olsson, IUCN
Only really retarded looking.
#111. Atop Cheeto Mountain
Harry Lichtman/Solent News & Photo Agency
This picture looks like a composite of a mountain lake and a mountain on Mars. It was actually taken just as the evening sun peeked through a hole in the clouds in Glacier National Park, Montana. Unless photographer Harry Litchman is just screwing with us.
#110. On the Set of For Your Ass Only
At first glance, it would appear to be your 13-year-old brother's initial attempt at photo manipulation, but it is in fact an actual event from 2008 when Gary Kasparov (the chess dude) was attacked by a peniscopter during a press conference.
There is also video of the incident, which we understand is a traditional Russian debate technique.
#109. The Horror, Oh God the Horror
We guess spiders are chronic terror overachievers, because that image is not bullshit. It is exactly what it looks like: a spider eating a fucking bird.
That's Nephila edulis, the giant golden orb weaver spider, and according to the head spider keeper of the New South Wales Australian Reptile Park (who must have murdered a convent full of puppies to get karma shitty enough for that job), this type of spider sometimes grows "as big as a human hand, but the northern species in tropical areas were known to grow larger."
Holy Shit! Is It Dangerous?
Look at that! It's eating a freaking bird! Birds can fly! Can you fly?! The bird literally had access to an entire axis that you don't, and the spider still got it. What chance is there for you?!
Although the poison this particular species makes is pretty much the same thing produced by black widows, it is much less concentrated and merely causes localized pain, swelling, and blisters. However, it should be noted that birds aren't a normal part of this spider's diet: These photos are of freak incidents.
Some might call that a comforting thought, but not us. We just see it as a sign of ambition.
#108. College Dorm Collage
This looks like four different Target ads pasted together in a flier to let the neighborhood know how terrible your personal taste is.
However, look at the spoon coming out of the coffee mug, and trace the arm of that desk lamp -- this is actually just a single photograph. Move the camera slightly and ...
Bela Borsodi
Ow! Right in the spatial awareness.
The "edges" of the seemingly different pictures were all created using perspective tricks -- you can see the artist setting the whole thing up in this video, although they seem to have edited out the portion where Jimmy bumped into the table and they had to beat him to death.
#107. Pussycopter
Someone find a string.
For those of you who didn't see this when the video went viral, yes, that's a real cat. Yes, it has been converted into a remote control helicopter.
After his cat was killed by a car, artist Bart Jansen decided to turn its corpse into a flying machine, because there is no point in being insane if you can't use your insanity to give other people nightmares. This is one of those things that seems like it should be illegal somehow, but what law could it possibly be breaking? The animal was already dead, after all.
So, what would it cost to have this done to our bodies after we die? Screw it, it's going in the will either way.


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I am very new to URL re-writing and I am using Plesk which is window-based web server, hence I can't use Apache's mod_Rewrite. Can anyone tell me what is the proper procedure for this?
If you use Plesk there is usually a server section where you can configure which Apache modules should be activated. "rewrite" or "mod_rewrite" is the one to activate.
Then it depends on your software or scripts to make actually use of this module.
[Edit] Do you have the url rewrite extension available or can it be installed? See http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite
its isapirewrite.com we have to install this This s/w will work same as mod_rewrite in windows web servers
They will charge some $99 for s/w
You can import the .htaccess rules on Windows hosting without any problems. If you have access to to IIS manager, just enter it, go to your domain and open the section Url-rewrite rules.Then use the Import button and your rules will be automatically imported to your web.config file.
Just create a web.config file on Notepad or edit the one you have on the root folder of Magento, and copy and paste this:


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I have a dedicated server from a friendly host located a substantial distance away from me, so the only access to the machine is SSH. It's a month to month deal, so I don't own the hardware. I'm migrating everything to a new server, and I was thinking that it would be possible for the next tenant to get creative with data recovery utilities and recover my data that was previously stored on the same hard drive. What commands, if any, should I run on a dedicated server to "back out" of the server with a reasonable attempt at protecting any data that was on it? The server is your typical LAMP variety.
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Last week (Dec 5-9) was an exciting week for Pentaho in the press, with analyst and customers. Here's a short recap:
- Pentaho Expands Big Data Support with EMC Greenplum UAP
- Pentaho Expands World Class Support – Implements Cloud-based help desk to bring faster and better global support to customers
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Customers in the news
- Intelligent InSites Integrates Pentaho to Help Hospitals Improve Efficiencies with RFID and RTLS
- Fundacion Telefonica uses Pentaho to Manage its Program Against Child Labor (English and Spanish)
- Recap of customer meeting in Germany (see photo from meeting above)
- Blog by customer St. Antonius Hospital about meeting Quentin
Pentaho European Press and Analyst tour
Pentaho new CEO, Quentin Gallivan, visited five countries in five days and was able to meet with several influential press, analyst, customers and the EMEA Pentaho team. The great press from this tour is just starting to publish. Here are a few articles that have appeared:
- PublicTechnology.net – The ITCT Professional: Quentin Gallivan, Pentaho
- CBR, Steve Evans – BI visualisation is just "eye candy": Pentaho
- DataNews on Knack.be, Guy Kindermans – Open source met diftige das