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In his absence, novel and exotic rumors about Mr. Obama have flourished ...
Mr. Obama is Arab, Jack Sterns friends told him in Aventura. (Hes not.)
He is a part of Chicagos large Palestinian community, suspects Mindy Chotiner of Delray. (Wrong again.)
Mr. Wright is the godfather of Mr. Obamas children, asserted Violet Darling in Boca Raton. (No, hes not.)
Why are old people so susceptible to believing this email-forward crap? Is there some "skepticism center" of the brain that just totally decays in later life? Or they do they just grab on to these lies, in this case, to rationalize not voting for the black guy?
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This is Why They Hate Us
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And Yet Nothing Will Change
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"It was planned this way by the Creator" as was me being ganged banged by 20 guys on the set of a new hot porno!!!!
Newsflash: old people confused, scared.
What is surprising is how un-laughable (and sweet) the Christian Interpretation of Sexual Adjustment in Marriage is.
Also: way to lump all Jews in with the elderly ones in Florida. Because they really speak for us, you know.
Aw, I'm bummed about the Ballard Dennys. The Seattle Good Taste Police win yet again. If it doesn't look like it fits in the Pottery Barn catalog, it doesn't belong in Seattle.
We'll never be as cool as San Francisco, we'll never be as funky as Portland, we can't find our own identity, so we have to settle for yet more beige. It's the Jean Jongeward effect.
Oh well. There's no reason to go to Ballard anyway, unless you're in the mood for kitsch or tat.
I understand that Mr. Poe plays some mean piano - piano duets, just as the creators of them had intended.
@4 - I'm with you Abby on the sex excerpts. Both yesterday's and today's made me think... aww, how cute.
do they just grab on to these lies, in this case, to rationalize not voting for the black guy?
Uh, yeah. Isn't it obvious? Do you think the "he's a filthy A-rab" rumor would work if we were talking about a white guy? People simply see a black guy, wait for a suitable rumor (and the threshold for suitable is extraordinarily low), and repeat!
Also, today's Christian Love manual excerpt reminds me of the South Park episode when the kids find a porn. One of the parents tries to explain it by saying (paraphrasing), "when two people love each other, blah blah blah..."
The kid then asks, "SO, what does it mean when 5 guys urinate on the same woman?"
@ 7: Poe doesn't play the piano, he plays the organ! Oh, yeah, he can play the skin flute too!
I actually think the "Christian" comments about sex are kind of sweet, innocuous of themselves, and a big a fuck you to the people who keep saying the slog exists only to slander religious folks.
Fuck the Ballard Denny's. How about we start preserving buildings that are...you know...not fucking ugly.
My suggestion to appease both the NIMBY's and the condo developers. Tear down buildings built between 1960 and 1980 and leave everything older than that alone. The Bellevue strip that's being torn down is a good example of tearing down something ugly.
Does anybody else find it incredibly depressing that X-tians 40+ years ago were more enlightened about sex than most people are today?
Christians 40+ years ago were more enlightened about EVERYTHING than they are now.
Mr. Learnsalot, you are utterly full of shit.
Nickels has a lot of nerve. Is he going to give up his city limo? CAN he? Doesn't he weigh like 400 pounds now?
@14 Christians also were a little more LAID BACK about their Christianity 40+ years ago about their Christianity. (with their exception of hot topics like pre-marital sex-which was done but not talked about, homosexual sex, and abortion)
@ 12,
People are so freaked out about tearing down the Ballard Denny's because--while it's not exactly tasteful per se--it is distinctive.
Whatever replaces it is likely going to be another of the bland, boring, poorly designed and detailed and cheaply constructed Seattle box-style buildings that have sprung up like weeds all over the city. It's this dreadful development style that led California to pass so-called "anti-monotony" laws so that builders would be forced to stop constructing miles of identical tract homes and strip malls.
If they actually built something of architectural interest that compliments and improves the neigborhood, then people would be all for it.
Sir Learnsalot is a great example of the America mentality: Unable to form their own opinions on things, they instead look to popular culture, which relies heavily on nostalgia for a country that never existed. They want everything to look like Wisteria Lane. That is, until the next new look comes around, and they are told that the Wisteria Lane look is ugly. Then they'll want all of that torn down.
Those Bellevue apartments, deemed to be so ugly because they don't conform to the standards of a soap opera set, probably have units that are twice the size of what's going to replace it. To me, the irony is that the ugliest building in that picture is the newest one - and it's the only one that will stay.
@ Catalina Vel-Duray,
I recently droveyes drove, dont tase meout to this subdivision near Sammamish to visit a friend of a friend whod bought a house in suburbia and Oh. My. Gawd. their street looked almost exactly like Wisteria lane, but with houses in proper NW shades of brown and gray instead of Wisteria Lanes candy-colored surrealism.
I could totes imagine Gabrielle, Bree, Lynnette, Susan and Edie cooking up all kinds of unspeakable acts of bitchcraft behind those somber brick and wood façades. Could suburbia really be as debauched as it seems on TV? (Answer: Yes).
My grandmother and older relatives LOVE forwarding e-mails about anything they get. Here's how I'm convinced it works out "logically" in their heads: email= computer= science= true! But at the same time, with a fairly religous background, you're supposed to take things on faith, and having the all-powerful computer e-mail telling you something, who's to say it isn't true (like the Bibe!)?
people are confusing disapproving of something because they actually like it and disapproving of something because they dislike the alternative.
The latter latches on to the former but in their hearts they know they are only being reactionary.
The creator loves piano solos. And I'm a virtuoso!
I love teh piano.
Nickels is sooo obnoxious and condescending. With the price of gas and amount of traffic, were already not driving more than we have to.
For what it's worth, I like the building: The soaring roofline, the vast expanses of glass, the exposed timbers are all very cool. Sort of a Canlis for the working man.
But also, it evokes a very specific time in this city's history. A time when Seattle was yet again re-inventing itself - morphing from backwater port town to the exciting new Jet City. Part and parcel of the "New Frontier".
It was that Seattle - with its new and thriving middle-class - which the creators of its latest incarnation as a high tech hub were raised in. Why not selectively preserve a few examples of that era?
And yes - if property owners go the distance to engage in preservation, they should be given special consideration when it comes to zoning, taxes, etc.
Not that I fly American Airlines, but I'm pissed at their move anyway because other airlines may follow suit. They should've just tacked $15 on the price of the tickets and not said a word. Now people are going to try and carry on everything again, just when the hassles at security finally dissuaded most people from doing that. The lines at security will be longer, it'll take longer to load the planes, and people will be duking it out over the stupid overhead bins. As if flying doesn't suck enough already.
The luggage surcharge (tax) is really annoying because the amount of luggaged checked has increased due to security issues like restrictions on fluids in carry ons and reductions in allowable size for carry on bags.
I want Catalina Vel-Duray to assume sole responsibility for the Landmarks Board.
The luggage surtax doesn't bother me; carrying tons of crap with you is raising the cost for everyone else (weight = fuel).
Herbert Miles: "Let us begin the discussion of sexual adjustment in marriage with the illustration of a piano-violin duet."
Ron Mael: "It's a lot like playing the violin / You can not start out and be Yehudi Menuhin."
"It is normal in the love play and arousal period for a couple to touch and handle each others sexual organs."
That may be the unsexiest sentence I've ever read.
Denny's is ugly and good riddance.
We should preserve a typical asphalt parking lot because that went with a crucial period of our history postwar the emergence of the automobile blah blah blah??
No, we should preserve things that people like. Some like the Denny's mainly because it is UGLY. Most dislike it.
Maybe we should wait till we get some better architecture before we start preserving -- otherwise we are just preserving all the mistakes.
@27 People will still be carrying the crap, they'll just be carrying it ON the plane instead of checking it. Besides I don't think checking ONE FUCKING BAG is carrying tons of crap with me.
Oh fuck it, I could argue for hours about this but I won't. I guess Obama's statement should be amended to "We can't just drive our SUVs, eat whatever we want, and take clothing with us on trips..."
Poptart, you know that there are limits to carry on right?
@32 Well, yes, yes I do know that. I do actually fly quite a bit. I still believe this charge will lead to people trying to carry on more to avoid the fee which will hold up the loading of the planes adding to flight delays. Not to mention longer lines at security.
Of course I'm rich and entitled so this really won't inconvenience me one iota so I'll shut up now.
PC, thank you for being such a stimulating intellectual sparring partner. Your quick wit, keen insight into the minds of Seattleites, and provocative challenges to my feeble points keep me on my toes, and help me hone my arguments. Please don't ever change.
Oh, and fnarf - thank you for the vote of confidence, but between my civic obligations, care of the livestock, and looking after the mannequins, I really can't put anything else on my plate. I'm just a Beacon Hill housewife, and I wouldn't have it any other way. :-)
and what about that poor little chihuahua? All chihuahuas should be fed to pit bulls.
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Charlie Wilson's War
- Studio: Universal Pictures
- Release Date: Dec 21, 2007
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More of a hoot than any picture dealing with the bloody, protracted fight between the Soviet Army and the Afghan mujahedeen has any right to be.
The two actors (Hanks/Seymour Hoffman) have terrific chemistry and riff off one another like partners in a veteran comedy team.
A picture about war and politics that has manages to be both rational and inspirational. It is also the year's funniest smart movie.
With its rapid pace, smart screenplay, and top-notch acting, this is one of the 2007 Oscar season's most appealing and compelling adult motion pictures.
Hanks has a good time, romping around with the assurance of a holy fool. He and Roberts seem "actorish," putting on accents and mannerisms, but they're entertaining. Hoffman is something more, a scenery-devouring force of nature irresistible as a cyclone and irreverent as a stand-up comedian at a midnight show.
It's all about a likable scoundrel who discovers what it means to act out of conviction. The film's underlying twist, though, is tartly ironic.
A witty, literate, wryly sophisticated parable of American politics: just the kind of movie that Hollywood, in its search for the global audience, supposedly doesn't make anymore.
You don't often hear critics gripe that a movie isn't long or explicit enough, but Sorkin and Nichols could have gone the extra lap or so to show that Wilson's saga is more than just a story of a good ol' boy accidentally pulling off a remarkable coup; it's a sobering account of the geopolitical hijinks that gave shape to our current world.
Charlie Wilson's War is that rare Hollywood commodity these days: a smart, sophisticated entertainment for grownups.
Dark and funny and mean and sexy, damned near pitch-black-perfect considering that at the end of this boozy comedy you wind up with, oh, Osama bin Laden.
This movie probably gets the Washington process better than any since Otto Preminger's underrated "Advise & Consent" in 1962. It's not about men of virtue doing the impossible, but men of flaws doing the doable, but just barely.
Philip Seymour Hoffman utters one of the year's most refreshing lines in this terrific tale of political wheeling and dealing.
Extremely enjoyable. Although it's a little tonally unsure, whenever Hanks and Hoffman are on screen, any misgivings are forgiven.
Rude, crude and hilarious, whether he's hitting on Joanne or brokering the sale of Soviet weapons through Israel and Islamic Pakistan, Hoffman is the film's sparking live wire.
This is definitely the year of Philip Seymour Hoffman.In Charlie Wilson's War, he and Tom Hanks make a particularly sharp and engaging duo, bouncing clever lines off each other as if it were a verbal ping-pong match.
You might think Tom Hanks is miscast as the lovable sinner. Dennis Quaid, maybe, or Woody Harrelson. But Hanks brings something unique to the role.
Takes a kernel of truth and roasts it into a popcorn movie. There's terrific fun to be had, and much wry comedy too. What's missing, surprisingly given the subject matter, is any real sense of gravity.
It's nice to watch a political movie that, for a change, isn't trying to save our souls. It's possible to have a good time with this movie while, at the same time, regretting all that it isn't.
Of all the Middle East-theme movies this season, Mike Nichols' Charlie Wilson's War is the least political and most entertaining. That doesn't mean it's great, just that it's unimportant.
Has a crackling, almost farcical pace, even though its subject matter could not be more serious or complex.
Like Sorkin's D.C.-set TV series, "West Wing," his script for Charlie Wilson's War is full of rapid-fire badinage, with movers and shakers moving smart and shaking snappy as a squad of aides trot along behind, briefcases and coffee cups in tow. A decade - not to mention a war - never went by so quickly.
With 20/20 9/11 hindsight, it's clear that covertly arming the Mujahedeen wasn't such a good idea after all, but neither Nichols nor Sorkin wants to spoil the fun.
Julia Roberts has never played a dowager before, but heaven knows she makes a good, and funny, one.
In this film, directed by Mike Nichols in one of his most satirical moods and scripted by Hollywood's most politically astute writer Aaron Sorkin, a womanizing, alcoholic, easily tempted bachelor gets elected in a Texas district that doesn't care what he does as long as he brings home the bacon.
Of course, hanging over this ironic tale is the deeper historical irony--that many of the "good guy" rebels Charlie is funding (and we're cheering) will become our mortal enemies...It's as if "Titanic" ended with a celebratory shipboard banquet, followed by a postscript: by the way, it sank.
It packs political machination, helicopter gunships, single-malt whiskey, Las Vegas, Islamabad, naked butts, and eight years of war. The film, adapted from George Crile's book, doesn't always work, but it sure offers value for money.
Watching Charlie Wilson's War is like sitting through a very long episode of "The West Wing."
A funny, sprightly tribute to the American can-do spirit, with a bleak ending that suggests that our plucky protagonist may have just dug his own (or, in this case, his country's) grave.
Philip Seymour Hoffman carries the movie. As the CIA operative who hates Communists and his myopic superiors in equal measure, he has a wily, don't-give-a-shit drive that makes you wish he'd been in Baghdad in 2003.
Nichols succeeds in spinning an entertaining yarn, but the cautionary aspects feel fatally undernourished.
It is well made as far as it goes. I wish it went beyond its own carefully prescribed limits of the commercially acceptable.
Is, in its way, an apolitical comedy about politics. Or at least a naïve one, since those weapons likely eventually made their way into the hands of Al Qaeda.
It's a fascinating story, but Mr. Nichols and his actors never stop reminding us how fascinating it is. With the exception of Mr. Hoffman, a master of understatement, everyone acts up a storm, yet context is lacking.
Perhaps there was some confusion – should we play this as a lark or a lesson in geopolitical unrest? – or maybe there was some studio involvement to defang the politics; whatever the case, the noncommittal Charlie Wilson's War treads a good-natured but yawning in-between.
Overall, Charlie Wilson's War is glib rather than witty, one of those films that comes off as being more pleased with itself than it has a right to be. It also suffers from being not all of a piece, with mismatched elements struggling to cohere.
As creator and head writer of "The West Wing," Aaron Sorkin had a gift for making policy debate seem sexy, but what worked in the context of that liberal fantasy founders badly amid the realpolitik of this cold war drama.
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Positive: 42 out of 54
Mixed: 11 out of 54
Negative: 1 out of 54
May 16, 2014Besides oversimplifying serious and complex subject matters, Charlie Wilson's War brings a unique style of filmmaking that mixes comedy andBesides oversimplifying serious and complex subject matters, Charlie Wilson's War brings a unique style of filmmaking that mixes comedy and seriousness in a way that becomes fun.… Full Review »
May 29, 2012First and foremost, Charlie Wilson's War is extremely well-performed, with Tom Hanks giving his best performance in years as the TexasFirst and foremost, Charlie Wilson's War is extremely well-performed, with Tom Hanks giving his best performance in years as the Texas Congressman who transforms from an irresponsible playboy scumbag to a moralistic defender of Afghanistan. Julia Roberts also impresses as Joanne Herring, a manipulative and religious socialite, as does Philip Seymour Hoffman playing the maverick CIA operative Gust Avrakotos. Aaron Sorkin's script is an absolute joy, full of fun, energy and satire not only of the past, but the present as well. It's really a wonder why the events shown are not more widely known about, or heavily appropriated for film, as "the largest covert operation in history" makes for cinematic gold. Everyone thinks of this fascinating period of history as simply another war (albeit without actual military engagements) between the USA and the USSR, and it's easy to forget how many other countries were drawn into this conflict between two superpowers. The film does attempt to address this oversight in cinema, and its hugely gratifying to witness lesser-known history on the big screen. The finale is a little generic and disappointing in comparison to the rest of the film, and you could certainly ccuse director Mike Nichols and Sorkin for presenting a rather rose-tinted view of the controversial Wilson. Though the congressman's intentions may have been noble, you cannot ignore the fact that he lent substantial support to groups and individuals whose intentions were decidedly less so. Romanticised though it may be for the sake of empathy and dramatic resonance, the film is still an enjoyable insight into an extraordinary figure in the history of international politics, and a fitting and intelligent tribute to a man who many remember with much admiration.… Full Review »
Apr 26, 2016This movie is fantastic. I've watched it several times already. Quite a history lesson on the workings of our Government.
Watch it onlineThis movie is fantastic. I've watched it several times already. Quite a history lesson on the workings of our Government.
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I seem to be on a list for a weekly event that I'm never going to attend. I've asked the organizer to remove me and she didn't. Shouldn't there be some way I can remove myself from a recurring event? Please help!
I know this feeling. I still get alerts for a government dept ... and my contract with them ended more than 3 years ago!
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Comment The only way to be sure... (Score 1) 72
Nuke 'em from orbit.
Nuke 'em from orbit.
Actually, based on your comments and the findings of numerous other studies, it sounds like education has a lot to do with motivation, and relatively little to do with forms of education delivery. Look at the history of education, do you see enormous growth spurts tied to the printing press, movies, radio, home video, the internet? In as much as they make information more readily available they increase education. But it's not like there's some magic mode for learning. How many people would sit and watch a Disney film on Differential Equations, no matter what the production values were or how applied it was, etc.? So yes, whatever we can do to make information available is good, but we should stop thinking that we're going to come up with a magical sugar coating that will make everyone want to learn everything.
"Dear Sirs, I never believed the stories in you magazine until one day..."
It's a lot worse than you think! FTFA:
"Celebrities had found Marfa too. The town's beloved food truck, the Food Shark, has nearly 1,700 'Likes' on its Facebook page -- including ones from luminaries such as Bob Dylan, Tammy Wynette, and Willie Nelson."
According to Wikipedia Tammy Wynette died in 1998. Facebook was launched in February 2004.
Great link to the table, and it explains some of the findings. As you point out, you can sort by any of the column headings. If we sort by unemployment percentage, we see the Law of Large numbers at work. Of the 10 majors with the lowest unemployment (0 - 2%, by the way), you can see that they are very unpopular majors. That means that very few of the people surveyed reported having majored in these things in college = small samples. When you reverse the sort for 10 highest unemployment rates, we see the same trend. With the exception of Architecture, these majors are very unpopular. Again, very small samples. Samples vary, but small samples vary more than big ones - that's the Law of Large Numbers.
Some of the majors don't make sense, either. The highest unemployment rate is for "Clinical Psychology." I can only imagine these majors are self-report data from the U.S. Census, but there is no college in the U.S. where you can major in "Clinical Psychology." You can major in Psychology, and you might get a concentration in Clinical, but you don't get a clinical psychology degree at the undergraduate level. No state in the U.S. will allow you to work as a clinical psychologist without graduate level training and many hours of supervised experience.
By the way, if you just look at people who responded "Psychology" you see an unemployment rate of 6.1% and it was the 5th most popular major (i.e., big sample, probably more accurate numbers). At a time (2010) when unemployment is arguably 10%, that sounds pretty good to me.
However, as other posters note, the data don't tell you if their jobs are mud wrestling, dog walking, or pimping, so it's rather difficult to use these numbers to judge how "useful" a particular major might be.
I had mononucleosis once, does that mean I am now qualified to diagnose it in others? A hallmark of the autism spectrum is difficulty communicating - Steve Jobs, seriously?
"Or have you diluted yourself into thinking that the reason we have say public education is because of the Dept. of Ed?"
Are you trying to suggest that homeopathy is the answer to our problems?
Or are you trying to say the Dept. of Ed. might need to focus more effort on helping people understand the difference between dilution and delusion?
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Weststar manufactures and distributes a complete line of home appliances worldwide. Lynn Tweedie is the U.S. Space Saver Dishwasher product manager for Weststar Appliances. Her responsibilities include pricing, planning, and sales of Weststar's Space Saver dishwasher in the United States. It is the end of the third quarter and Tweedie is deciding how many Space Saver washers to produce in the fourth quarter. Given sales from the first three quarters and orders for the last quarter, she expects total sales for the year to be 73,000 washers at $200 per unit. There are 12,000 washers in inventory at a (LIFO) cost of $90 per washer. The factory produced 58,000 washers in the first three quarters of this year and Tweedie is considering ordering an additional 10,000, 15,000, or 20,000 washers in the fourth quarter. The plant's capacity can easily accommodate any of these volume levels without affecting fixed costs or variable cost per unit. The variable manufacturing cost of the washer is $75 and the plant has fixed annual costs of $1.3 million. Manufacturing overhead is allocated to dishwashers based on units. Tweedie's selling and administrative expenses consist of $15 of variable cost per washer and fixed cost of $2.92 million. The dishwasher division has a 17 percent weighted-average cost of capital and invested capital (not including inventories) of $18 million. Weststar uses full absorption costing.
a. Prepare a table showing annual accounting earnings prepared under absorption costing for the Space Saver dishwasher for annual production levels of 68,000, 73,000, and 78,000 washers.
b. If Lynn Tweedie's bonus depends on reported accounting earnings from Space Saver dishwashers, what production quantity is she likely to select for the fourth quarter?
c. Prepare a table computing the valuation of the ending inventory (under LIFO) for annual production levels of 68,000, 73,000, and 78,000 washers.
d. If Lynn Tweedie's bonus depends on residual income from Space Saver dishwashers, what production quantity is she likely to select for the fourth quarter?
e. How would your answer change in part (d) if Tweedie's bonus was based on return on assets?


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After upgrading to 2.7 my blog is placing all files uploaded via "Add Media" into the "uploads/2007/06" folder. I tried both the browser and flash uploads, with and without Flexible Upload activated. It was not doing this previous to the upgrade.
"Add an image" is placing the file in the correct folder (2009/01).


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I think this is possible in Common Lisp (through overloading
setf), but not sure about Emacs Lisp.
What I want to do would be something like:
(setf (local variable) value)
where the form
(local ...) would call some code I've written and return the symbol to use for setting its value slot.
EDIT: From looking at gv.el it seems like advising
gv-get would do the job, but maybe there's a better procedure for it?
EDIT2: Tried the suggestion from Stefan, close, but not good :(
(gv-define-setter local (value varname &optional buffer)
`(with-current-buffer (or ,buffer (current-buffer))
(setq ,varname ,value)))
which expands to:
(let* ((v bar))
(with-current-buffer (or nil (current-buffer))
(setq v 42)))
Obviously, not what I wanted. I was trying to do it with advising as mentioned above and with
gv-define-expander, but there's just too much quoting going on, and I can't find a way to loose the
let part of the expression with the redundant substitution.
OK, unless I messed something seriously in the scope or the evaluation sequence of the value the variable will be set to, this seems to work:
(gv-define-expander local
(lambda (do &rest args)
(let ((varname (first args))
(buffer (or (second args) '(current-buffer)))
(value (funcall do nil #'identity)))
`(with-current-buffer ,buffer
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With a stay at Hilltop Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Tokyo, steps from Meiji University Museum and Yu Aku Memorial Museum. This historic hotel is close to Tokyo Imperial Palace and Sensoji Temple.
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|Diced walnuts
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1.Sift flour, sugar, baking powder and salt into a mixing bowl. Add butter & egg. Knead until dough is firm and shapes easily into a ball.
Wrap in wax paper; refrigerate 1 hour.
2. Peel apples; cut into small pieces. Add sugar, nuts, lemon juice and cinnamon. Let mixture steep until dough is ready.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
4.Butter a 9" springform pan.Divide dough into thirds.Roll out 1/3 to line bottom of pan.Roll another 1/3 and line inside halfway to top of pan, pressing bottom rim to seal sides and bottom.
5. Drain fruit and pour into pastry-lined pan.Roll out last 1/3 of dough and make strips.Place strips crisscross on top of filling.Bake until golden b'rown, 45 to 55 minutes. Cool and serve.
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Calories 3345 Calories from Fat 1567
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 177 g272.5%
Saturated Fat 66.7 g333.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 455.5 mg151.8%
Sodium 1410.2 mg58.8%
Total Carbohydrates 416 g138.7%
Dietary Fiber 65.4 g261.8%
Sugars 179.4 g
Protein 65 g130.1%
Vitamin A 70.7% Vitamin C 132.1%
Calcium 143.1% Iron 100.7%
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Per standard operating procedure, there's no connection between the title and its TV inspiration. Instead of a junior crime drama, we have a bar with a backroom that is available for sexual couplings. With no plot or character development, all that's left is the couplings. What saves the feature from oblivion is a superior girl/girl scene between Sharon Mithcell and Aja. Sharon, who could arouse a mannequin, really enjoys herself (and Aja) and knows how to project lust. On the other hand, Scott Irish and Kathleen Jentry project somnambulism. This isn't the first video saved by Mitchell. It probably won't be the last.


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Spinach may not give you superhuman strength to fight off villains like Popeye's nemesis Bluto, but this leafy green and other foods containing iron can help you fight a different type of enemy -- iron-deficiency anemia.
Iron-deficiency anemia, the most common form of anemia, is a decrease in the number of red blood cells caused by too little iron. Without sufficient iron, your body can't produce enough hemoglobin, a substance in red blood cells that makes it possible for them to carry oxygen to the body's tissues. As a result, you may feel weak, tired, and irritable.
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This already sounds amazing. I wish I could get any digital copy of this, and someday I make sure this CD is blazing through my eardrums. It's great how I know about half of these DJs, yet I still find new DJs and sounds to experience. Great job from all of those in the CD, and may you never stop bringing the beat!
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Chris Young heats up the pages for this NASH cover story as he talks about some of his more romantic videos. His current clip, "Who I Am With You," plays into a more joyful mood. "This is just a straight-up love song," he tells NASH.
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The greenback climbed to 95.42 yen in Tokyo -- its strongest since August 2009 -- from 94.83 yen in New York late Thursday, while the euro dipped to $1.3095 in Tokyo morning trade against $1.3107.
The single currency was also buying 124.92 yen, compared with 124.28 yen.
A senior dealer at a major European bank said the focus was on US payroll and jobless figures due later.
"Strong readings will push (the dollar) higher," he said.
The US government said Thursday that new claims for US unemployment benefits fell last week to 340,000, boosting confidence that Friday's much-watched US jobless data would be strong, analysts say.
That came a day after data from payrolls firm ADP showed the private sector piled on 198,000 jobs last month, better than the average of the past six months.
The weakening of the yen was also due to investors moving out of the unit, considered a safe haven in times of uncertainty, as they grow more confident in the global economic outlook, a senior dealer said.
"There are many who want to sell the yen amid this risk-on environment," the dealer told Dow Jones Newswires.
Traders are also selling the unit in anticipation of more aggressive monetary easing from the Bank of Japan, which will likely be headed at its next rate-setting meeting in April by Haruhiko Kuroda, an advocate of such policies.
The central bank left its policy unchanged on Thursday, the last meeting for current governor Masaaki Shirakawa.
Kuroda, a finance veteran, has in the past criticised the BoJ for not doing enough to boost the world's number three economy and is a supporter of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan of ratcheting up spending to drive growth.
The euro extended its gains seen in New York on Thursday after the European Central Bank decided not to cut interest rates.
The ECB left interest rates unchanged at a record low 0.75 percent, although its head Mario Draghi said the board had considered a cut.
The dollar was mixed against other Asia-Pacific currencies.
It firmed to 1,092.00 South Korean won from 1,086.58 won a day earlier, to 9,695 Indonesian rupiah from 9,693 rupiah and to 29.78 Thai baht from 29.75.
It fell to 54.45 Indian rupees from 54.77 rupees, to Tw$29.64 from Tw$29.67, to 40.72 Philippine pesos from 40.75 pesos and to Sg$1.2467 from Sg$1.2481.
The Australian dollar slipped to $1.0243 from $1.0250 while the Chinese yuan strengthened to 15.28 yen from 15.06 yen.


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I created a simple GUI Application with Swing in Scala, and the "Run as Scala Application" in Eclipse works well. I used SBT as build tool, and i created some class files for the application logic + an singleton object in a file with the same name as the object, which has the main() method to start the application.
As I said, simply starting from within eclipse works. But generating a JAR File not (export -> ...). Is there a simple way to do this?
As I have the latest stable scala version, many tips from the internetz seems to be outdated. Even the last comment in this blog
doesn't work. I just want a standalone executable JAR File, which I can share with others without technical knowledge... Any Ideas?
EDIT: I solved the Problem finally. The Problem was that Eclipse shows the Scala Librarys on Build Path, but didn't really export them. May be a Bug, i don't know. Finally, I added scala-library.jar and scala-swing.jar directly to the build path as external jars, ignoring the fact that eclipse shows them as already included -> everything works.


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Skylanders Giants is a fantastic game!I would suggest a lower price though,because after the game what are you going to do with that $15.00-$17.00 figurine?Swarm figure is amazing looking and is a super cool in the game.That's what I say about that.Leave your own comments. from,
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My boys love Skylanders and are obsessed about getting Giants. The giants are slower moving than what I'm used to with the original characters, but I guess that's expected since they are giants...
Can't say much more. I know the game is old, but $2.86?!?! Love it!
it was a gift for my nephew he loves it
Skylanders Giants are Awesome. The kids just love them all.
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My kids really enjoy the figures and how they interact with the portal. They love collecting these figures and playing around with them.
Product arrived sooner than expected. Exactly what I expected.
My step-son loved it. Completed his collection and works great with his xbox 360
Great product, good price by itself but I did not like the fact that I had to buy both items to get the backpack I wanted
Was very happy
Both Grandsons love skylanders giants they need one more to complete set. That one I will be picking up on the 10th at Walmart. In November they will start with the new set coming out.
This was a hard to find Item just lucky Walmart.com had it. Got it for my 26 year old daughter and she loves it. It completed her set.
I bought the bundle pack with the backpack and the action figure. I know my son will love it. Great price for the 2 items.
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On Swine Flu and Having the Scars to Prove It
Is it true that most Mexicans are carriers of the swine flu because to the fact they eat a lot of chicharrones, or is it the fact that your women are so pig-like? I knew that Mexicans have muy shitty diets, but now we have to worry about them infecting us with a pig-borne disease? Maybe we should put Clorox in the Rio Grande to cleanse your people while they swim to our country illegally. Any ideas?
Amazingly, yours was the only cochino comment or query that the Mexican received in the two weeks since the emergence of the most destructive "Mexican" pathogen desde Carlos Mencia. Only time will tell whether the swine flu will fizzle out or turn us all into zombies (or, in the case of Mexicans, cucuys), so I'll just limit my comentario to a few salient puntos. Firstly, most of the American cases first affected non-Mexicans, and nearly all of the infected arrived legally from Mexico, so no need to blame the illegals this time, Know-Nothings. The best way to protect oneself from any disease is posole with serrano peppers, onions, and a tequila chaser. And finally, instead of labeling this disease as swine flu, let us all unite in calling it the Lou Dobbs flu, both to the CNN's porcine appearance and because his opinions are little better than pig caca, but hella more dangerous.
I'm a mother to a beautiful 5-year-old. Her father and I are of different ethnicities, with his bordering on Gringo (he's Greek). I'm a dark-skinned mexicana and proud of it! My daughter is the opposite of me: Mediterranean olive skin with crystal-blue eyes a head of gorgeous chestnut hair. Anyways, the other day, my nena was feeling sick and I took her into the pediatrician. While waiting there, a woman who clearly had no tact or manners asked me a question I thought was offensive. She asked how long I had been nannying and if I babysat on my free time. I looked at her and politely said that I wasn't this child's nanny but rather her mother. She looked unconvinced and then had the huevos to ask me if I adopted her and from where. The fiery Latina in me was heated to say the least, and thankfully, the nurse called us in before I had the chance to tell the puta to fuck off. Why is it impossible for gabachos to believe that darker-skinned Mexicans can make gringo-looking babies? For the record, my baby speaks English, Spanish, and Greek. How many gringos can say that about their children?
I've Got the Scar to Prove It
You need to be more sympathetic to the intellectual plight of gabachos. This column exists solely because most of them can't fathom simple issues pertaining to la raza like the origins of the upside-down exclamation point at the beginning of some sentences and why we like salsa so much; you honestly expect them to comprehend that Mexis come in all colores, especially given that our loudest yaktivists have anointed us with the shade of brown to join white, yellow, black and red on America's racial spectrum? Sí, gabachos: Mexicans span the color spectrum. My mother is as white as a porcelain doll; mi papi, as swarthy as a Sicilian. Now, excuse me while I scarf down another bowl of posole and fend off the Lou Dobbs gripa.
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According to Adobe's security bulletin, "these updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system."
Adobe's update patches a bug in the Flash sandbox (CVE-2013-0643), a bug in the ExternalInterface ActionScript feature (CVE-2013-0648), and a buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2013-0504). The latter two bugs can be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code on systems.
According to Adobe, the first two vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in an attack directed at Firefox users that's "designed to trick the user into clicking a link which directs to a website serving malicious Flash (SWF) content." That content then allows an attacker to take control of the system.
[ Questions about the latest Java bugs? Here are some answers. Java Security Warnings: Cut Through The Confusion. ]
The combined Windows and OS X vulnerabilities have been given a priority rating of "1" by Adobe, meaning they pose a high level of risk and should be patched within 72 hours. The Linux vulnerabilities, meanwhile, have only received a severity rating of "3," meaning that the bugs haven't historically been targeted by attackers, leading Adobe to recommend that "administrators install the update at their discretion."
The latest, fixed versions of the affected products are Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.171 for Windows and OS X, and Adobe Flash Player 18.104.22.1683 for Linux. Users of Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 should see the version of Flash Player running in those browsers automatically update to the latest version, although no other browsers on their system will receive the update.
As of Wednesday morning, however, Wolfgang Kandek, CTO of Qualys, said via email that while IE10 appeared to receive the Flash update Tuesday, no update has yet been pushed by Google for Chrome.
Unsure which version of Flash your PC is running? "To verify the version of Adobe Flash Player installed on your system, access the About Flash Player page, or right-click on content running in Flash Player and select 'About Adobe (or Macromedia) Flash Player' from the menu," says Adobe's security bulletin. "If you use multiple browsers, perform the check for each browser you have installed on your system."
As noted, users of Adobe Flash Player on Windows and OS X should update immediately, because beyond the in-the-wild attacks, attackers tend to quickly reverse-engineer and target any other bugs that have been fixed by a vendor. For example, crimeware toolkit vendors took just two weeks -- at most -- to add into their software an exploit for one of the recent, critical Java bugs, according to the French security researcher who goes by the name "Kafeine."
Security researcher Eric Romang, notably, discovered that the Cool Exploit Kit crimeware package has included an exploit for the Java bug since at least Feb. 15. Cool Exploit Kit, which rents for $10,000 per month, is maintained by the creator of the Blackhole crimeware toolkit, which is designed for stealing people's personal financial information.
According to security researcher Chris Wakelin, the newly exploited Java bug appears to be the same as the "issue 52" (CVE-2013-0431) vulnerability discovered by Poland-based research firm Security Explorations and reported to Oracle, which confirmed the bug and said it will be fixed in a future security update.
Meanwhile, an exploit for the same Java bug was added Monday to the Metasploit open source vulnerability testing toolkit.
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The cybersecurity profession struggles to retain women (figures range from 10 to 20 percent). It's particularly worrisome for an industry with a rapidly growing number of vacant positions.
So why does the shortage of women continue to be worse in security than in other IT sectors? How can men in infosec be better allies for women; and how can women be better allies for one another? What is the industry doing to fix the problem -- what's working, and what isn't?
Is this really a problem at all? Are the low numbers simply an indication that women do not want to be in cybersecurity, and is it possible that more women will never want to be in cybersecurity? How many women would we need to see in the industry to declare success?
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Lafayette, Louisiana 70501
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Lafayette, Louisiana 70503
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2390 W Congress St
Lafayette, Louisiana 70506
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Horizon Honors' Mikaela Martin named Fulton Homes Character Counts Monthly Winner
High school seniors aren't often known for understanding their place in the grand scheme of things, but don't tell that to Mikaela Martin of Horizon Honors High School.
A member of the cross country and track teams, Martin coordinated a shoe drive with both high school and middle school students — collecting and cleaning 190 pairs of shoes and distribution them with the Salvation Army on Thanksgiving.
Martin reached out to the middle school's Girls on the Run program, which strives to promote a healthy lifestyle among middle school aged-girls, to coordinate the drive and spread the word.
"I thought it would be a great way to get the little girls involved and the high school girls involved and serve other people," she said.
But that's not where Martin's good will ends.
She also went on a mission to Haiti, and wants to take a year off between graduating from college — where she expects to study kinesiology — and graduate school to take mission trips around the world.
"It's amazing to see the conditions that other people live in and how they can be content and happy in them," she said. "It really made me want to just be positive and happy in all situations, and also give everything I can to other people."
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I developed website on localhost and used Duplicator to transfer the website to live server.
Now when I add product to the cart the cart is not displaying and shows a blank page. Even if I manually access the cart page, its not showing.
The backup works fine, when I restore it on a different location on localhost.
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The place that I work at we have two buildings next to each other and one across and in-between the two that is made out of metal. We want to extend our WiFi coverage to the inside of the metal building so we purchased a Hawking multi-function access point (HOWABN1). We've got it mounted and facing in the direction of the metal building, but I can't seem to get the signal to stabalize inside of the building.
I'm attaching an image to better illustrate how we're setup:
As you can see the WiFi AP is attached to the corner of one of the buildings and aimed at the metal building. The X in the image is where the computers will be residing that need the WiFi.
Right now I have the AP configured as a Universal Repeater, and I've also had it as an Access Point, but neither seem to be providing good enough signal. As of right now if I sit in the room with the X with my laptop I'll get 1 bar of signal strength and PINGs are 50/50.
Is there something I should do to make the signal better? If I could, I'd run a cable to the metal building, but the connecting conduit has collapsed and we'll end up spending more money than it's worth to repair it.
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Funny, I only smell powder in Burberry London.
I finally got a chance to smell Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille at a fragrance kiosk in a mall by me and I must admit, I'm a fan. I've always been a fan of the smokey scent of tobacco, but when you add...
It's interesting because you'll find hundreds of threads on this site, talking about longivity. some like the diva claims that you need to wash more, some say it's about locking in moisture, but i've...
Last night I sprayed two shots of Acqua Di Parma on my hand at close range and it until this morning. After I showered, I sprayed two shots to the same hand, only further away. Does applying...
Acqua Di Parma.
As per some suggestions from people on Basenotes, I've recently been putting my frags in the fridge (that's until my wife finds them.) I had a bottle of John Varvatos that was in sunlight and got a...
Has anyone ever smelled this? What are you thoughts?
Without question, Czech and Speake #88
how was the longivity and sillage? What were the notes besides orange?
Has anyone tried this? I'm curious to know what people think of it.
The drydown is legendary!!!!
Thanks BuzzlePuff! I ordered a sample of Domenico Caraceni 1913 on Friday, got it yesterday and it is perfect! Kudos to you. It's light and not overpowering. How is the sillage and longivity on it...
My waredrobe bascially consist of suits for business and church, but I still rock hoodies and Tims every now and then (Still got Brooklyn in me). I'm looking for something to wear for business and...
Domenico Caraceni 1913 fits the bill. Has a fruity opening (plum?) that blends into rose and then gets manly with incense and tobacco in the drydown. Manly, with rose, tobacco and incense.
I would like to try a rose scent with maybe a hint of fruit and something else to make it a manly fragrance. does anyone have any suggestions?
It's a Caribbean cruise
I'm going on a cruise and some of the locations I'm going to are known for having an large variety of fragrances that we can't get in the U.S. Can anyone makes any suggestions on some colognes that...
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Jaipur Homme
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John Varvatos
Thierry Mugler
Black Xs Paco Rabonne
Chanel Egoiste
I've smelled both of them and I do agree; it's like comparing apples to oranges. Acqua Di Parma was a little too powdery for my taste. Egoiste is great, but it reminds me of DK Men (Fuel). Does...
FCUK and I'm not ashamed
Thanks everyone! i really wanted some opinions before I tried to two. I'm going today to smell each of them. Now I know what to look for, before I try them out.
Hello everyone, I'm fairly new to Basenotes and I'm loving it. I've learned so much about cologne from this site. Through looking at posts, I've picked up Ungaro III and I'm loving it! My colognes...
LOL....Lloyd did wear Issey Miyake!!!
it seems that all of his co-workers would wear Clive not because it smells good, but because it's expensive. When you rub elbows with millionaires, Clive Christian is like Old Spice.
I caught some of the ENTOURAGE marathon last night/early this morning and I started to wonder what fragrance would Ari Gold wear? What "enticing elixir" would he wear with his tailor made suits and...
+ 1 Ungaro III
C.o Bigelow Bay Rum Cologne
Thanks. Would you consider Egoiste to smell of rose initially, or in the drydown?
Jaipur Homme
Hello all, I'm new to this website and I'm happy that I found it. For years I used perfumeemporium.com for reviews on colognes. I've been reading the threads and I'm hearing alot of rose fragrances,...
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More taxpayer paid salaries and early political tactics
Silly me, I failed to grasp the real significance of the municipal salary information I shared with readers some months ago. I thought the real story was how much our mayor and aldermen were being paid and that the citizens had a right to know the correct amounts. Although that was the story, it really wasn't.
The issue of pay for elected and appointed municipal officials resurfaced when a newspaper in a neighboring county finally got the courage to publish the salaries some of their officials who hold offices in their city. It was then I realized I missed a few points when we reviewed our municipal salaries some months ago.
While I am still overwhelmed by the fact our Mayor's salary is only exceeded by the salaries of 13 other Mayor's salaries in the State of Mississippi (according to the 2008 Municipal Salary and Benefits Survey prepared for the Mississippi Municipal League) and the average population size of those 13 cities is 24,904, I am even more overwhelmed by what we pay our elected City Clerk.
Yes, I know that position will be an appointed position in the years to come, but right now it is still an elected position and subject to public scrutiny in terms of the salary paid. Even more incredible than the Mayor's salary in comparison to other cities in the state, at $52,768 per year (this is prior to her last cost-of-living increase), our City Clerk has only seven (7) City Clerks in Mississippi drawing more in salary than her. All of those cities are larger than New Albany by thousands in population.
For those who might think I am in some way picking on the City Clerk, let me assure you that it makes no difference to me who holds or will hold the position as long as he or she is qualified, but I am trying to show that the salary paid by this size city for that position is a perfect example of the manner in which our city officials and their appointees have abandoned the notion of protecting the financial interests of the citizens of this city.
I guess my main question is, will we continue to pay our City Clerk at this rate after the position becomes appointed? Do officials, if reelected, already have a replacement for the retiring City Clerk in mind or already hired? Or will we re-examine the job qualifications, duties and compensation, take it out of the political sphere and back into a position of public service and responsibility? It appears that candidates for mayor and alderman positions need to be thinking about this one too.
Thus far, it has been a strange pre-election period for the newspaper. We are having to call the city administration to find out if someone has qualified to run for office. In all elections past candidates would call us or come by the office to let us know. We asked a couple of recent qualifiers and discovered that they were given a form from another publication and told to call that publication to announce their candidacy and also complained of some misdirection from officials in terms of what forms to fill out, etc.
It goes without saying that to a man, including the mayor, our current board of aldermen and our city clerk, all of whom, except the city clerk, who are running for reelection, do not like the coverage they have received from this newspaper and certainly not the attention they have gotten in this column. Having said that, their hurt feelings are not an excuse for using their elected offices to attempt to make our job more difficult and information about the election harder for the voters to get.
The whole group of them need to remember that this newspaper pays city taxes. No other publication distributed in Union County does.
To add to our disappointment with the lack of professionalism from our city officials, we are concerned about conflicting and downright confusing instructions are being given to potential qualifiers. The rumor mill already carries stories of irregularities during the last municipal election reportedly by officials and appointees that, if true, would put them in violation of election laws. Even the slightest action to mislead or confuse someone who wants to run for office sort of adds some credence to the rumor mill stories, don't you think?
There has been at least one suggestion that the Secretary of States' office should be advised that we need an election monitor to avoid irregularities. While such an action would be a sad commentary for our community, the facts are that although on a larger scale and certainly more publicized, the improper political activities of the former governor of Illinois are really no worse than those of local officials, elected or appointed, who would try to discourage or mislead a candidate or potential candidates as they attempt to quality to run for office.
Let us all hope future candidates will not find intimidation or confusion to be a part of the qualification process and that we can manage our municipal election properly and within the law.
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Why do people bash the president's action on things that don't matter and inaction on the things that do, you ask? Ask the majority of America.
"According to a just released Gallup poll, only 39 percent of Americans rated the current climate of the country as positive. That's about the same as it was in 2010 -- and has been the lowest recorded by Gallup since President Jimmy Carter's term in 1979."
On Gallup's scale of 1 to 10, a full 61% of Americans gave the current status of the country a 5 or lower
The question most Americans would like to know the answer to is HTF did the Destroyer in Loving Sheep's Clothing get re-elected with such a dismal outlook by the people?


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Choose Davis for right reasons
Published: Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 8, 2006 at 12:00 a.m.
To The Editor: Recently, a writer asked who'd ever heard of Rick Davis and cited his own candidate's community service. In actual fact, there are hundreds of volunteers working without fame across the county and doing good things for many people. I applaud all of their efforts.
Without them, our tax bills would certainly be a lot higher. However, the office of sheriff isn't (or shouldn't be) a reward for community service.
Davis was one of thousands honorably serving our country in the Guard and Reserves. They do so with little fanfare in both national disasters like Katrina or in global conflicts like Bosnia and the Middle East. Unless you are family or friend, you don't hear about the missed birthdays, anniversaries or graduations while serving for months at a time.
About the only time you do hear about their service is when they return in a wheelchair, or worse. Likewise, the office of sheriff isn't a reward for honorable and dedicated national service.
Davis excels in all the qualities of leadership, experience and training needed to be our next sheriff. Look at his Web page www.rickdavisforsheriff. com and see if you don't agree. The choice is yours. Choose wisely.
H.C. Knief
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