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Barthelemy A. 'Bart' Arotca, 90, died Sunday, Sept. 19.
Patrick 'Pat' Brennan, 80, of Alturas died Thursday, Sept. 16 at Modoc Medical Center.
He was born to Thomas and Edith Brennan in Stockton. He and his brothers, Jack and Tom, grew up in the cities of Eugene, Oakland, Stockton, and Sonora with their mother after their father's passing in 1933.
Ted J.R. Mullins, 80, died Wednesday, Sept. 15.
He was born in Henrietta, Okla. To Milton Mullins and Ollebelle Renison. He was a resident of Oakdale.
Maynard Lee Keierleber, 72, died Wednesday, Sept. 15 at his Oakdale home.
He was a native of Montana and lived in Oakdale for nine years.
Carol Sue Thorington, 62, died Tuesday, Sept. 14 at Palo Alto VA Hospital after a battle with cancer.
She was born in Escalon and lived in Riverbank.
Verna Jane Deabenderfer, 74, died Thursday, Sept. 9 at her Oakdale home with her family by her side.
She was a native of Dickenson, North Dakota. She lived in Oakdale for about 45 years.
Kirk L. Lynch, 53, of Escalon died Wednesday, Sept. 1 at Doctor's Medical Center, Modesto.
He was a native of Greeley, Colorado. He lived much of his life in Escalon.
Alice B. Richardson, 91, died Sunday, Sept. 5 at her Oakdale home.
She was a native of Hawaii and lived in Oakdale for six years.
Alfred David Schimmel, 81, died Thursday, Sept. 9 in Modesto.
He was born on July 22, 1929.
Allan Keith Scott, 60, died Monday, Aug. 23.
He was born in San Jose. He lived in the Knights Ferry and Oakdale areas for 25 years.
Betty L. Morgan, 71, died Sunday, Aug. 22 after a courageous battle with brain cancer.
She was born in San Angelo, Texas.
Virgie Evelyn Riley Jones, 91, of Coulterville died Thursday, Aug. 26 at Sonora Regional Convalescent.
She was a native of Newport, Arkansas. She lived in Coulterville for 25 years and previously lived in Oakdale for 25 years.
Stephen Paul 'Steve' Shuler, 62, died on Saturday, Aug. 28 at his home.
He was born in Toledo, Ohio. He graduated from Clay High School in Oregon, Ohio in 1966. He lettered in football and was named an All Great Lakes League player.
Jesse T. Ybarra, 83, died Tuesday, Aug. 31 at his Oakdale home.
He was a native of Glendale and lived in Oakdale for 20 years.
Leon Watson, 90, died Sunday, Aug. 22 at Kaiser Hospital, Modesto.He lived in Escalon for 38 years.He was active in community service, coordinating the Escalon community dances since 1989 until the last dance was held in 2009. The dances took place every first and third Sunday of the month. He was also involved with the Riverbank and Oakdale community dances.He is survived by his wife, Allene Watson; sons, Troy and Douglas Watson; daughter, Tomé Porter; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.A memorial service was held Aug. 27 at Lakewood Funeral Home - Heritage Chapel.The Oakdale (Calif.) Leader ...
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Diane M. Henley, 73, died Thursday, February 23 in Modesto after an illness.
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Christi Drewrey left this earth on February 9th, 2017. Christi enjoyed football - big 49ers fan, wrestling (especially John Cena), cooking and shopping. She is survived ...
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"He was a nice kid, but I guess he wasn't"
Jackson, Mississippi—We spent eight hours yesterday at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, known to locals as "Mississippi's Giant Houseparty" (that's a registered trademark), and to outsiders as the place where Ronald Reagan kicked off his presidential campaign in 1980 without once mentioning the three civil rights workers whose bodies were found outside of town in 1965.
If Reagan couldn't talk about Philadelphia, Philadelphia at least can't stop talking about Reagan. "You know, Ronald Reagan came here in '81 or '80, I can't remember," one woman tells me. I get this a lot. On stage during the day's political festivities, the succession of candidates hold onto their little slice of history with both hands. "I am proud and humbled to be standing on the podium where Ronald Reagan once stood," declares Wally Pang, a self-described Tea Partier who's running for Congress as an Independent. "Ronald Reagan began his campaign for the presidency right here in these fairgrounds!," notes Vernon Cotton, incumbent circuit court judge for Mississippi's eighth district. Reagan's name comes up, sooner or later, in pretty much every conversation I have at the fair.
I'll cover the rest of the fair in another post (or two, or three—it was pretty wild), but for now, here are two quick thoughts on the town's past from fairgoers old enough to remember.
Martha Cummings, 77, grew up in town and now lives in southwest Georgia, but she still makes the trek into Philadelphia every year to stay in her family's cabin. She's been going to the fair since she was a little girl; it's where she went on her first date (it didn't last). After college, Martha left town and moved to Woodlawn, on Chicago's South Side, while her husband was in law school at the University of Chicago. "I had a lot more of a drawl then than I do now," she says. She still has a drawl.
"I had come back to Philadelphia [in 1965]; my husband had just gotten out of the army. He had been a scout leader, and one of the guys who had been arrested had been in his scout troop," says Martha. "He was a nice kid, but I guess he wasn't."
"We were living in Jackson, and we used to have a black maid, and around when Medgar Evers was killed [the head of the Mississippi NAACP, who was assassintated in 1963] we drove her home one night, and she said 'You should probably let me out here and I'll walk,' because it wasn't safe for us to be seen together."
Then she volunteers another story, from her year on Chicago's South Side in 1955: "My husband needed some work on his car and went into a shop. That was after they'd found this young boy from Chicago who'd gone down to Mississippi and been killed [Emmett Till]. And it was one of those garages with those doors that open up and then come back down, and he drove in and it was all black guys. And they saw his Mississippi plates and asked, 'are you from Mississippi?' And in his New Jersey brogue he said, 'Yes I am.' And they treated him just fine." Fixed his car, too.
Rodney Fulton's story is somewhat similar. A retired schoolteacher (business and typing, mostly), he's sitting on his front porch, watching the horse races, when I bring up the murders.
"When those men was killed, they was looking for 'em. And I lived out on 21 [the main state highway through Philadelphia]. I was teaching at the time. Down the road about two-and-a-half miles, they found the station wagon, all burned-out," he says. "I guess I just remember them looking for them...they were just brought there, they weren't killed there."
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The cheeky Meerkat pups at Taronga Western Plains Zoo are growing up fast and have just received their last vaccinations.
The 12 week old trio, Johina, Mwali and Akiki all had vaccinations, similar to those domestic cats receive, ensuring the little ones are protected from nasty diseases.
Despite their tiny size and cute appearance, these Meerkats can be feisty little creatures. Keepers wore gloves to protect themselves from the pups' sharp teeth and claws as they retrieved them for a routine weight and health check by Zoo Vets.
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Subject | [jira] Updated: (AMQ-2009) Problem with message dispatch after a while |
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[ https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2009?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Rajani Chennamaneni updated AMQ-2009: ------------------------------------- Attachment: (was: DispatchMultipleConsumersTest.java) > Problem with message dispatch after a while > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: AMQ-2009 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/AMQ-2009 > Project: ActiveMQ > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Broker > Affects Versions: 5.1.0, 5.2.0 > Reporter: Rajani Chennamaneni > Priority: Blocker > > Messages are not getting dispatched after a while (although it accepts new incoming messages) until restart of the broker. This problem is described in several posts. > http://www.nabble.com/Pending-Messages-are-shown-in-ActiveMQ-td20241332.html > http://www.nabble.com/Consumer-Listener-stop-receving-message-until-ActiveMQ-restart-td20355247.html > http://www.nabble.com/Stuck-messages---Dispatch-issues-td20467949.html > There was also an issue opened in Spring project for this thinking it was Spring problem. > http://jira.springframework.org/browse/SPR-5110 > I am not able to reproduce with Junit test case having BrokerService started with in the test case. I guess I am not hitting the right stress conditions this way. But when I run the test case against an externally running ActiveMQ instance backed with oracle database persistence, it is reproducible most of the times. This is not a every time failure situation, it takes more time once than the other. > I was able to hit this situation of stuck messages on queue using following scenario most of the times: > 1) Start 2 concurrent consumers for the queue using Spring's DefaultMessageListenerContainer using cacheLevelName as CACHE_CONSUMER > 2) Send messages using JMETER 2.3.2 to the queue on ActiveMQ stand alone broker instance with 50 threads looping 20 times. > 3) After a while, you will notice that Spring logs that no messages are being received but the messages are shown jconsole of ActiveMQ and the database backing it for persistence. > But in 5.2 RC3, the problem is that it dispatches duplicate messages and does not remove them from broker's database after acknowledge properly. > Attached test case might help to reproduce when run against externally running stand alone ActiveMQ broker. Another way to see the problem is that try to load test using JMETER by sending messages to a queue with a camel route that moves messages from this queue to another and you will notice that it stops moving after while or copied duplicates in case of 5.2 RC3. > Sorry about such a huge description but it is a real problem! A different team at our company are having this issue in production with 5.1. They are using it as an embedded broker with derby for persistence. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. | |
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Could I Be Hurting Him? I've been having some problems with Smokey, one of my barrel horses, and I am wondering if there could be some kind of pain problem. Last Wednesday when I was riding around the arena (not doing barrel work, just exercising him) he was doing fine until I asked him to canter on the left lead. He did ok for a couple of strides but then he started kicking out, crow hopping, and throwing his head around. I asked him to do it again to see if it was a fluke but he did the same thing and bucked me off. So, I figured maybe it was because he hadn't been rode in a week, but when I rode him again today he did the same thing on the same lead at a canter. He does fine on the right lead and acts normal, but on the left lead he just will not budge. So, I am wondering is there a chance this could be caused by pain? I know it is not the saddle because I have had a fitter out within the past month to check out all of my saddles on the horses. I don't believe it is a discipline problem because he is perfectly fine besides this one thing. I know that often sacroiliac pain can be exposed by a horse being reluctant on leads. Do you think that could be the problem? I heard from someone that there is some way you can check a horse for back pain by running a finger down it's spine or something, but I'm not sure how to do it. If I need to call out a chiropractor or a vet I will. I'm just not sure what to do. Help, please? :) |
If it just started - yes it is probably physical. Rib or back out of alignment, sore hocks or hooks on his teeth. |
It shouldn't be his teeth because I had them floated last month and the vet did a thorough look through his mouth. Should I call a chiropractor out? |
I would call a vet first. Maybe he was rolling around and tweaked something in his back? If the vet doesn't find anything, he or she can recommend you call a chiropractor. |
I would call the chiropractor. It sounds like his back may be out. Maybe from playing in the pasture or something. Good luck with him! :] |
I called my vet. He's coming out tomorrow afternoon to check everything out. Thank you all! :D |
Vets always first! Plus, most chiros won't come out unless you have a vets referral. Hope all goes well and its nothing serious! |
I would call the chiro myself, if you have a good one. Ours is EXCELLENT, and in fact would use her to vet a horse in some instances over a vet! (unless blood tests or x-rays are needed) she is VERY astute!:D |
Oh, well I wouldn't call a chiro unless my vet okayed it. And most chiros I know won't work on your horse unless the vet okays it. Maybe legal reasons? I don't know. |
^ That's bizarre. I always go for the chiro/massage/acupuncture/laser therapy practitioner first if I think it's mild soreness. |
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We've looked at the Top 25 football schools as to whether or not they offer NCAA lacrosse. Most don't. We looked at the Top 25 Academic Schools and asked the same question. And around half of the schools DID offer lax. So now let's take a look at a more random smattering of schools and see if they are taking the Academics' approach, or the football approach. Interesting stuff!
Top 12 Regional Universities according to US News
The Top 12 Regional Universities are broken down into four categories: North, South, West, and Midwest. Each Region has a 1, 2, 3 ranking. So the schools will be listed in the order of all the 1s first, then the 2s, etc.
1 Villanova University– Offers NCAA D1 Lacrosse. And they're darn good too! Brian Karalunas is a recent 'Nova alum, and CJ Greene of the Salt Shakerz graduated from there in 2001. Great school with great sports.
1 Rollins College – Offers NCAA D2 lacrosse. The school is right on a lake in Orlando, FL. I know a kid who played soccer there. He said it was like going to college at a country club. Could be a Southern D2 program on the rise for that very reason!
1 Creighton University – CU has a middle of the road MCLA D2 team. With all the growth in the midwest lacrosse wise, it could happen. They could have an NCAA lacrosse team. But this one could be a little ways off.
1 Trinity University (TX) – Middle of the road MCLA D2 team. As Texas lacrosse keeps growing though, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see a school like Trinity add NCAA lacrosse. Gotta keep the good athletes near home for schools like this!
2 Fairfield University – Offers NCAA D1 Lacrosse. They're right in the heart of lax mad CT. The school is on the water. Done deal.
2 Elon University – Top 10 MCLA D2 Lacrosse team. This North Carolina school could definitely add NCAA lacrosse. The question is when?
2 Butler University – Used to offer NCAA D1 Lacrosse. Can't talk about this anymore. Makes me too sad.
2 Santa Clara University – Has a good MCLA D1 Lacrosse team. There has been some talent at SC, and if the lax boom ever truly makes it out West, I could see SC adding a team. It would fit in well with their student body overall.
3 Loyola University Maryland – Offers NCAA D1 Lacrosse. The greyhounds are good and have been for years.
3 Stetson University – There is something going at Stetson, but I'm not sure what it is. They might play MCLA, they might just play men's club. Anyone with more info?
3 Drake University – Pretty sure Drake's club team finished up their first year in 2011. If so, congrats! Not established, but growing is great!
3 Gonzaga University – middle of the road MCLA D2 team. Some college out in the Pacific Northwest needs to offer NCAA lacrosse soon. And if mighty Oregon won't do it, Gonzaga should. They can attract regional students with ease, and their sports programs are pretty darn good when they want them to be. Lax is a great fit for the Zags.
Top 7 Up and Coming Schools via US News
I guess these schools have potential! Again, it's just another way to look at a broader swatch of highly-rated US Colleges and Universities.
1 University of Maryland Baltimore County– Offers NCAA D1 Lacrosse. Drew Westervelt and Brendan Mundorf played at UMBC. And there have been a lot of other good players from UMBC both recently, and in the past.
2 George Mason University – NCLL team. Good school, seems ripe for lacrosse on the men's side but you never know. This is the kind of school where athletics budget monies are definitely a major issue to expansion.
3 Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis – That was a mouthful. I don't even know what this means.
4 Clemson University – Up and comer in the MCLA D1 world. With enough other big time athletics schools adding lax, Clemson could definitely follow suit. If the MCLA program operates to perfection, it could be sooner.
4 University of Central Florida – MCLA team. Good sports, and one of the football coaches has two sons who play at Maryland right now. I could see it happen!
6 Drexel University – Offers NCAA D1 lacrosse. Great school, with a unique approach to learning and working, and very good lax.
6 Tulane University – MCLA D2 team. Could they ever have an NCAA team? Maybe. Basically, their football team would just have to be awful for 10 more years, and suffer some major scandal. AND lax would have to continue to boom in the gulf coast. If those two things happen, it's possible. Otherwise? A little more doubtful. Although laxers do love to party, and Tulane is in New Orleans.
Top 6 A+ Options For B Students Schools via US News
This is an interesting list that US News put together, and I included it because it includes a number of really good schools that may get overlooked by these "Top 25" lists.
1 Fordham University – located right in New York City. Club lax team right now, but lacrosse seems like a sport they should offer considering all the good HSs in the surrounding areas (Westchester, NJ, LI, CT) have programs.
2 Pepperdine University – Go to cali, stand on a bluff over looking the Pacific Ocean and play some MCLA lacrosse. Ok.
3 University of Connecticut – Club team. Why there isn't a D1 team at CT (but the recently added football to the 1a level) is beyond me. Lacrosse is a sport they could have won a National Championship in. Football? Don't make me laugh. Oh, and when you add in the in-state players they could have brought in for lacrosse, the decision only gets even more confusing.
4 Purdue University – West Lafayette – how many Purdues are there? Jeez. Club ball for now.
5 Southern Methodist University – Club ball. Could take a while for SMU to pick up lax… but then again, they know they'll never be great at football again, so why not?
6 Syracuse University – NCAA D1 Lax legends. All of them. Cuse baby!
So even out of this list, SEVEN schools offer NCAA lacrosse. And SIX of those seven are D1, with Rollins being the lone D2 school in the bunch. That's way more than the ONE school Top 25 football schools can offer us (Michigan). Not quite as many as the Top 25 Academic Schools list, but a pretty good chunk! Keep playing and supporting the sport, and lax will keep growing.


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Electronic cigarettes, also called "e-cigarettes," are battery-operated devices that generally contain cartridges filled with nicotine, flavor and other chemicals. The electronic cigarette turns nicotine, which is highly addictive, and other chemicals into a vapor that is inhaled by the user. These products are marketed and sold to young people and are readily available online and in shopping malls. They are also available in different flavors, such as chocolate and mint, which may appeal to young people.
The FDA's Division of Pharmaceutical Analysis analyzed the ingredients in a small sample of cartridges from two leading brands of electronic cigarettes. In one sample, the FDA's analyses detected diethylene glycol, a chemical used in antifreeze that is toxic to humans, and in several other samples, the FDA analyses detected carcinogens, including nitrosamines.
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Making Movies Make Sense is the all-new interactive resource to help you run film viewing and filmmaking activities with children and young people.
Making Movies Make Sense has all the information you need as a teacher/facilitator to run filmmaking and viewing activities with your kids. It will help children between 7 and 16 to learn more about films and filmmaking. You can buy it on DVD-ROM for Mac or PC, and as an iPad app. You can sample Making Movies Make Sense by downloading the free lite version of the iPad app.
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How do you go about teaching film-making in your English class? Many teachers of English and Drama (and indeed, some more querulous teachers of Media Studies) want to improve their teaching of texts and concepts by doing some digital video work, but often never get round to it. Either the technical know-how, or the equipment, or a combination of logistical factors, put them off.
Making Movies Make Sense is an interactive resource designed to combat these kinds of fears. Targeted specifically at teachers working with KS2 and KS3 students, it is a really excellent resource that aims to guide both groups through the processes of film-making in a clear, user-friendly sort of way. Available in desktop (Mac and Windows), iPad and Android versions, the resource provides an easily navigable route through the process of making a short film with students, beginning with some basic principles of film and then moving on through pre-production, production and editing.
This route involves a number of 'stops' along the way, where students can look at clips and still images that are used as examples in order to illustrate concepts such as shot distances, transitions and pre-production tasks. These examples could be presented to class on an interactive whiteboard quite easily, without any need for teacher adaptation. The text that supports each clip is brief but clear, and the video clip examples are of high quality. They also use students in the same age group as the target audience for the resource – it's important in encouraging younger students in particular that this kind of film-making task is not beyond them.
For teachers, one of the most attractive things about the resource will be the wide range of printable resources that come with it. Blank and exemplar storyboards, call sheets and shot logs are all included in the resource as PDFs, and indeed the detail with which these resources are presented would not disgrace a level 2 BTEC production course. There is also helpful advice about equipment and its use, with a basic guide to using both iMovie (for Mac) and Moviemaker (for Windows). Indeed there are many other excellent features to the resource which can only be briefly mentioned here, such as the 'Suggested Viewin'g section, which links suggestions for films that can be used to teach a particular technique to a website where they can be purchased, or some of the innovative classroom games that are included, such as 'The Props Game' and
'Film Detectives'.
This is all useful material for teachers and students – doubtless accumulated over many years through the collective expertise of Tom Barrance from Media Education Wales and his collaborators at Cineclub. In purchasing this resource, the classroom teacher will be getting a rather well distilled version of that experience, and for those who want to take the plunge in using film with KS2 and KS3 students that is a very valuable thing.
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I've been thinking for a while now that I want to post at the weekends but just with something short & sweet - so Steal of the Week is just going to be a quick weekend post talking about any bargains I have found!
This week it's the lovely Makeup Mirror you see above which I bought from Primark for only £4!
It wasn't on offer or anything like that...it was just £4.
I really wasn't expecting much as I've been looking at ones priced at £20 for afew weeks now, but decided I didn't really need a rectangular shaped one with a flexible stand and that I was just being fussy.
So I went with this...it's double-sided with a normal side and a magnified side which makes your pores seem more like craters. But the magnified side is more than perfect for applying eye makeup and for inspecting pores and spots.
As for the quality - I am more than impressed with it. The base of the mirror is really weighted, so no chance of catching it and knocking it over!
Plus it's actually made from stainless steel so really mirror like and shiny.
Perfect, practical and £4 well spent!
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Fabulous buy!
I've also got a Revlon light up one which is great. But a word of caution to anyone who has a dressing table area near a window. I came home one summer's day to find a small burn and melted area on the lid of a jewellery box. The sun must've been hitting the magnifying side of the mirror then bouncing onto the box. It was nothing serious, but it easily could've been. I know sun seems like an alien concept at the moment :) but just take care where you sit your mirror.
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False Dawn
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She stepped from beneath the shadow of the trees at the edge of the compound without a sound, her footfalls barely seeming to make contact with the ground. Dressed in a dark grey flight suit, devoid of national emblems or insignia of rank, she wore no hat and sported soft-heeled, lace-up boots.
She was tall, around five feet nine, and slender. Her hair was cut short just below her ears and her eyes were hidden from view by a pair of tinted sunglasses, which would have seemed odd to any observer because it was the middle of the night.
She moved purposefully, yet without haste. Somewhere in the trees, an owl gave a curious hoot.
The heavy rain helped to deaden most sounds. It poured down all around her but she paid it no heed; she didn't have time to worry about the weather. In fact it was quite a relief from the stifling heat and humidity of the day.
She crossed the worn, weed-strewn tarmac and made for a small, one-storey hangar nestled between a stack of rusted oil drums. Nearby, the twisted and broken fuselage of an old Cessna jabbed her propeller-less nose mournfully up towards darkened heavens where she had once danced.
The hangar looked deserted. Filthy, partially broken window panes spilled no comforting light out into the darkness of the soaked night and the flaking, peeled paint on the frames told her the place had been abandoned decades earlier. It didn't look like there'd be anything to find but looks were meant to be deceptive in this game. As her ride had long since snaked its way back down the treacherous mountain track, she had little choice but to continue walking.
The doors to the hangar were closed but unlocked. The special heat-sensitive glasses she wore indicated no sign of life behind them – everything was cast in a cold shade of blue to match the chill rainwater sneaking its way down the collar of her jumpsuit.
She carried no weapon on this job. There wasn't much point; it was a simple pick-up that benefited the other side, as much as her own. Her glasses did, at least, help her see who was about when the cloak of darkness had fallen. There was nobody to see but her eyes still scanned back and forth with practiced concentration.
She tested one of the doors and was pleasantly surprised to feel it slide smoothly aside on newly greased runners. She pushed open both doors and peered inside the dark building.
Rain drummed noisily upon the curved, corrugated roof of the hangar and it was in better condition than it looked from outside, the space beyond the doors being quite dry. Inside, she made out a large shape covered by a swathe of heavy tarpaulin. Bingo.
A quick look around and the woman moved inside. She quickly walked around the shape, pleased to be out of the rain. Satisfied, she started to pull the tarpaulin free. The cargo was already stashed aboard, shielded behind lead plating within a concealed unit built into the nose. The woman didn't bother to check the compartment. The aircraft was here and financial necessity dictated that the cargo had to be.
Hauling herself nimbly up into the familiar cockpit; the clear canopy was already slid back invitingly, she needed no urging to get going. Sliding into the pilot's seat, she closed the canopy and dogged the latches. The other side was playing it straight with the aircraft. That should please the boss, she mused wryly.
Keeping all lights off, she ignited the Pegasus engine. It whined into life without argument. Disengaging the brake, she taxied the plane out into the rain, where even the sound of its engine was dulled by the deluge of water falling from the sky. When clear of the hangar by about ten feet, the woman checked she was buckled into the seat and slipped on a flying helmet she found on the floor.
Once the helmet was adjusted to fit comfortably, she vectored the engine thrust downwards through the four exhausts and opened the throttle. The whine grew to a banshee-like wail as the airframe slipped the bonds of gravity and rose into the darkness, still showing no lights, on a cushion of 18,000 pounds of thrust.
This particular Harrier was twenty years old, give or take a year, but had been well maintained and took to the air with the assured grace of a serving fighter. The airframe had been coated from nose to tail in specialist black paint. Operating at night, it made her practically invisible to radar and just as invisible to the naked eye, unless the moon was out and the skies were clear. You could hear her coming but she was hard to spot.
The woman lifted the aircraft in a vertical, hovering climb until she hit fifty feet. Adjusting the angle of thrust with the hands of an expert, she lifted the nose and powered away in a conventional forty-degree climb that pressed her into her seat with the reassuring hand of g-force. The stalwart old aircraft vanished into the filthy night, on a mission to deliver cargo over eight hundred miles away. What the pilot couldn't possibly have known was that this flight was to be her last.
As soon as the aircraft disappeared, a figure emerged from its hiding place within thick vegetation just behind the hangar. Clad in motorcycle leathers, face obscured by a crash helmet, it was pushing a powerful trials motorcycle. Throwing one leg over the seat, the engine kicked over and the machine surged past the hangar and began a sure-footed descent of the slippery mountain road. Securely nestled at the bottom of the rider's backpack sat a heavy, lead-lined metal cylinder.
A little over one hour later, both aircraft and pilot passed from the world in a brief flash of orange, noticed only by a pair of spider monkeys, startled from their slumber by the splintering of wood and the snapping of nearby boughs.
Then, as quickly as the disturbance came, it was gone. Unsettled by the intrusion, the monkeys moved off to find less exciting treetops and were soon snuggled up together in a high hollow, quickly falling asleep again.
Anxious eyes stared at watch faces as the hours crept by and no word came. Eventually, realizing that something had gone terribly wrong, somebody picked up the telephone and made the necessary call.
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Well, the title pretty much says it all. Do yout think is it worth it casting Smites and Holy fires on Morchok Hc or it would be better focusing on PoHs, GHs and Penances since the raid is splitted in 2 groups?
Well, the title pretty much says it all. Do yout think is it worth it casting Smites and Holy fires on Morchok Hc or it would be better focusing on PoHs, GHs and Penances since the raid is splitted in 2 groups?
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Don't think attonement is gonna viable for this fight, i'm guessing 2 healers, so you can't really rely on the other healer to carry you while you do low-hps smites. And Arch Angel is only so and so since there are no "burst" healing phases by the looks of it.
I think Attonement is gonna much more viable on the next 2 bosses, as they have burst phases and lull phases.
Well, I've seen a video where they kill this boss with 4 healers, not just 2 or even 3. Anyway, what you say about burst healing makes sense.
I foresee a lot of people doing 2 tanks 4 heals initially on this fight. As more gear comes, it will be 2 healed. I would stay away from Atonement here. I just don't see it doing well on a 10 man fight, especially when you're only healing half of the raid.
Remember, all HC videos are from the PTR, and they've buffed the fights on live in comparison. I can't speak for the state of the heroic modes since they're not live until this week, but normal this past week was definitely buffed from the PTR versions.
I can't agree with you. I think Atonement spec is very useful at some 10 man encounters such as MoDW, Ultraxion, SoDW and mb even some other bosses.
Without knowing wtf will go live (just like everyone else) I was brainstorming and came up with....
So, I'm thinking (10m) of running with four healers for H.Morchok. Two teams of two using Disc/Pally and Disc/Sham (actually these are my only choices in our guild). Both Discs are going AA/A (looking for more dps hence the AA/A) and will be soaking the Stomp with the tank (presumes two closest targets still take 1$#% ton of damage), pre-shields and ensuring 100% Inspiration uptime on tank and themselves, healing through Binding Heal after stomp then switching to Smite/HF (if possible). The other healer is really there to cover the rest of the damage from stomps and Orbs. We do have a rogue that can Feint each Stomp which might be a better choice for one side.
Notice I said Smite/HF if possible, as many people presume that AA/A means you only heal via Smite as opposed to using the mechanic to stack AA and otherwise healing as any Disc should.
Half of the encounters you mentioned have mechanic buffs to healing and/or damage....I'm not arguing that Atonement isn't good for certain fights, I just don't think it will be viable for Mor'chok 10 HM, which this post was questioning. Our guild will be trying to four heal first to "test the waters", so to speak. Our healing comp will be Disc/Holy Priest, Resto Shaman, Holy Pally, and Resto Druid, splitting the raid into two separate mini raid groups. We'll see how high the damage is, and if we can get by with only 2 healing.
This is the build I will be using, Inspiration will be big on this for stomps.
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I think it should be fine to two heal Morchok. Considering the Stomps are cast a few seconds apart from each other, each Healer will be able to help the other group out after each Stomp.
As for Atonement healing this encounter, not a chance. Also, like Sakamae said, the fights you mentioned were all fights that fall under the category Sakamae talked about, fights with insane damage/healing buffs. Atonement has very little place in a 10 man fight with standard damage/healing.


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Thursday September 1, 2011 3:04 pm
Samsung Series 7 Slate hands-on
Samsung isn't new to the tablet game, but the company's newest offering - the Samsung Series 7 Slate - may be exactly what buyers have been waiting for in Windows tablets. We went hands on with the new Series 7 Slate, and we were pleased with what we saw.
The Samsung Series 7 Slate has a spacious 11.6-inch display, with 1366-by-768 resolution and an eye-popping 16 million colors. It should even look good outdoors, with 400-nit brightness coming from Samsung's sharp-looking SuperBright LED backlit display. That extra inch of real estate for the screen also helps to alleviate one of the biggest problems we've seen with Windows tablets, namely the fact that Windows icons become miniscule on a smaller screen. The touch screen is capable of registering up to 10 fingers at a time, or it can be used with a digital stylus for more precise selection or handwriting recognition.
The Series 7 Slate is also light, weighing 1.96 pounds - lighter than many smaller 10-inch tablets we've seen, like the Acer Iconia W500-BZ467, which weighed in at 2.1 pounds. It's thin too, measuring less than a half inch thick. The back appears to be brushed aluminum, and the rich texture of the cool metal surface leaves you feeling that the slate, though thin and light, is still substantial.
On the hardware side, the Series 7 Slate is remarkably similar to the super-thin Samsung Series 9 laptop, with the same dual-core 1.6-GHz Intel Core i5-2467M low-voltage processor. It's an enormous step up from the Intel Atom processors that have been used in competitors thus far. With 4 GB of RAM and solid-state drives available in both 64 GB and 128 GB capacities, the Series 7 seems to be borrowing much of its spec list from the top-rated laptop. During our time with the slate, the Series 7 was also significantly faster and more responsive than any other Windows tablet we've reviewed.
The Series 7 boasts a number of ports and connectors, with a full-sized USB 2.0 port, a micro HDMI port for displaying video on an HDTV, and a microSD card slot. Wireless connectivity comes in the form of Bluetooth 2.1 and Wi-Fi 802.11n, and a SIM card slot opens up the option for a 3G mobile connection. A docking connection on the bottom includes support pins similar to those seen on the Acer Iconia Tab W500, but a proprietary Samsung connection is used instead of USB. Samsung estimates that the internal lithium-polymer battery will provide up to 7 hours of use on a single charge. We'll have to take that with a grain of salt until we have tested the unit in the labs.
You'll also find several features more at home on a tablet, like front and rear facing cameras, accelerometer and gyroscopic sensors, and GPS. Physical controls for power and volume can be found on either side of the device. While the tablet can be purchased on its own, you can also pick up the Series 7 Slate bundled with a dock, wireless keyboard, and digital stylus.
The biggest problem plaguing the Windows tablet concept has always been the lack of a physical keyboard and mouse - two elements that are too deeply integrated into Windows to discard without inconveniencing users. Samsung has sidestepped these problems with a digital pen, dock, and wireless keyboard. Combined with the impressive hardware inside, the Series 7 Slate stands to be used both as a consumption device and a genuine productivity tool.
The dock, in addition to the necessary docking connection, offers full-sized versions of the ports found on the tablet, with HDMI, USB 2.0 and Ethernet ports available. The dock is also remarkably sturdy, with metal construction, and table-gripping rubber feet that provide a surprisingly stable base for the slate. When using the touch screen in this set-up, I found myself wishing that touch-screened desktop computers were so stable. The accompanying wireless keyboard is just as slim and light as the Series 7 itself, with chiclet-style keys and a cool brushed aluminum surface.
The Series 7 Slate will be available on its own, with a 64GB SSD, for $1,099, while the Series 7 bundle with stylus, dock and keyboard will be available for $1,349 with a 128GB SSD. While some may balk at these prices, it's worth pointing out that other Windows tablets are priced similarly, and the oh-so-similar Samsung Series 9 laptop sells for even more.
According to Samsung, the Series 7 Slate will be made available for order online on October 2. While the new device will likely also be sold by brick and mortar stores, Samsung expects the majority of their sales to be online.
This article, written by Brian Westover, originally appeared on PCMag.com and is republished on Gear Live with the permission of Ziff Davis, Inc.
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Friday, November 11, 2011
IntPiPoMo #3 - Booze, Dragons, and Brawling
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He'll probably be over the moon to read that, he's rather proud of his warrior's tier 4 and 5 sets. I *think* the sword he's wearing in that image is actually the Twinblade of the Phoenix (Kael'Thas, TK), though his weapon collection seems to be growing steadily.
I must agree, many of those Ulduar swords were stunning. One of my warrior buddies (not the one shown above) actually has two Aesir's Edges, and he always looked like a pimp when he popped those back on while he sat around in Dalaran/Stormwind post Ulduar. I'd really love to get a set of them myself someday if I ever get my warrior up to par.@Navvimie - The Godmother is correct. John J. Keeshan can be found in the cellar of the Lakeshire in, over in Redridge Mountains. He has not one, but two separate quest lines (one in Redridge, one in Burning Steppes) and the one in Redridge is indeed very Rambo-ish. I highly recommend doing both quest lines involving this guy at least once. I had a ton of fun with Keeshan, and I'm not even one for questing!


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July 22, 2011
70 comments:
- Mark O said...
That Constitution is so damned radical. I can see it.
- pbAndj said...
I blame house Rs for refusing to compromise.
I'm guessing that many here are congratulating them for refusing to compromise. - 7/22/11, 5:25 PM
- Joe said...
"I blame house Rs for refusing to compromise."
Let's review the bidding. The Dems wanted to raise the debt limit and to raise taxes. The Republicans wanted to cut spending.
The Republicans agreed to raise the debt limit if the Dems would cut spending and leave things at that. The Dems refused.
And it's the Republicans who refused to compromise? I had forgotten that "compromise" is a code word for "Democrats get their way." - 7/22/11, 5:30 PM
- Michael said...
I blame the Democrats for refusing to compromise. Or to produce any specifics of their own. They have had two years to address this. They were flabergasted that raising the debt limit had to have any strings at all. The Democrats wont budge from their insistence on raising taxes, they will not consider it.
- Fred4Pres said...
The prediction is Boehner is going to fold next week. If he does, it will be a disaster for this country.
But if Boehner does the right thing? I will send him a box of oranges! Or golf balls. Or maybe have hope the GOP can be an effective force to the excesses of the Democratic Party. - 7/22/11, 5:32 PM
- Fred4Pres said...
Mark O, I can see the Constitution right now from my own backyard!
- Bart Hall (Kansas, USA) said...
The budget could be in balance next week. If Congress were to pass the 2005 budget in its entirety and without amendment, there would actually be a small surplus.
What is it about 2005 the Democrats think is so bad? Except of course for all the lost opportunities to shovel our money to their friends.
"Different vision for the country" ... fucking A it is! The Democrats' vision is that of the standard crony brokerage party, using public money for graft and special deals to their supporters.
Doubt me? Please name one Republican-supporting company to have received an Obama-Care waiver.
And why is the small and medium business sector under ceaseless regulatory and fiscal assault? Perhaps because unlike the big guys, well over 80% of entrepreneurs are Republicans.
A big part of the Chicago Way is to destroy your adversaries' revenue stream. - 7/22/11, 5:37 PM
- paminwi said...
pbandj: you're kidding, right? This president has not been serious about our financial issues since he came into office. His BUDGET went DOWN in the Senate (of course you know Democrat majority) 0-97. His own budget guy, when asked about Obama's plan and if he could "score it". Said, "we don't score SPEECHES". When the hell is this guy going to go the record and lay his plan down in writing? The Republicans have in numerous ways. They passed a budget, they passed a debt cap agreement. And just now, he actually has the balls to say "If you want to be a leader, you just have to lead." He, of course, is saying that about the republican leadership. Dude, do you think he could say that about himself? This is not an issue you can just vote "present" on.
God, what an f**king loser we have as a President. - 7/22/11, 5:39 PM
- Carol_Herman said...
While the democraps really have nothing to lose. The republicans? They've still got to convince enough Americans "they have a plan." And, are not just playing chicken at the pork barrel. - 7/22/11, 5:44 PM
- Lem said...
The Spartans needed 300.
But the House Republicans holding back the Obama marauders are only about 100.
Its freaking amazing. - 7/22/11, 5:54 PM
- pbAndj said...
You GOP supporters would be better off making the argument that you are happy the Rs aren't compromising. It's a hard sell to believe the Rs are willing to compromise.
Boehner won't even say the word.
McConnell has been prioritizing 2012 for a while.
They can't now say that the Rs care about compromising and dealing w/ the POTUS.
Boehner notified the media that he was walking away from the POTUS negotiations before he told the POTUS. Playing games with the credit of our country. - 7/22/11, 5:55 PM
- Martha said...
BOEHNER has balls.
Thank God. - 7/22/11, 5:55 PM
- Curious George said...
Owebama doesn't want a deal. That's clear.
- pbAndj said...
Better McConnell link.
- Revenant said...
And it's the Republicans who refused to compromise? I had forgotten that "compromise" is a code word for "Democrats get their way."
Man, how did you forget that? The news reminds you of it every day of the week. - 7/22/11, 5:57 PM
- Revenant said...
How exactly does one "compromise" between "tax increases" and "no tax increases"?
That's like saying your wife wanted a baby and you didn't, so you compromised on only sort of getting her pregnant. - 7/22/11, 5:59 PM
- garage mahal said...
The Tea Party saved SS and Medicare? Thanks!
- Lem said...
Playing games with the credit of our country.
BS.. the credit card is max out and Obama instead of cutting back wants to ask for more credit wants to borrow more and more putting the country further in the hole.
Obama is the one playing with the credit of the country. - 7/22/11, 6:00 PM
- MaggotAtBroad&Wall said...
I am so fucking sick of Obama saying a deal needs to be balanced. Democrats jacked up government spending to 25% of GDP. It's historically been ~20%, give or take a percent or two. The Democrats didn't pay for a penny of this expansion in government with higher taxes. So in a $15 trillion economy, jacking government spending 5% above the "historical average" is another $750 billion in government spending annually. All of it borrowed. Where's the fucking balance in that?
The country saw thd insanity of Democratic "leadership" and changed the composition of the House to stop it. As P.J. O'Rourke has said, the November elections were more like a restraining order than an election.
I've disagreed with presidents in the past, but I've never hated one. I'm really starting to hate this ideologically rigid asshole. - 7/22/11, 6:07 PM
- VanderDouchen said...
This is all a distraction. We are not keeping our eye on the ball.
WV: ramonick:
apache, ramonick, ramonick, ramonick. - 7/22/11, 6:08 PM
- edutcher said...
Little Zero wants to play the class warfare game with his tax increases. In so doing, the Demos and the Lefties have crossed over into the Never-Never Land that's a corollaty to Dr Goebbels' dictum, "If you tell a lie often enough, you can get anybody to believe anything"; that corollary being, "Eventually, you start believing the lies yourself". The class warfare schtick was originally for the rubes, now they believe it themselves.
As for Boehner, the Tea Partiers are what's holding this tiogether; without them, there would be no fight. He knows that and knows he will be primaried if he folds.
PS PB&J purveys his standard lies, half-truths, sophistry, and disinformation. - 7/22/11, 6:09 PM
- exhelodrvr1 said...
PB and J,
Just curious, has it been the Republicans' fault for all of the last two budget-free years, or just the last 7 months of that? - 7/22/11, 6:10 PM
- pauldar said...
Boehner is my rep here in Ohio. We are all so very damn proud of him doing what we sent him to Washington to do. Went to supper with a rather large group, all seniors (except wife and I) at Cracker Barrel this evening - not one single person was against what he was doing. Every last one of those folks was on Social Security
Not believing the polls for one second - 7/22/11, 6:11 PM
- Revenant said...
I'm really starting to hate this ideologically rigid asshole.
I don't know if "ideologically rigid" is the right term. He offered a plan, it was rejected 0-97, and since then all he's done is whine.
Ideologically rigidity suggests a person who HAS a plan and won't budge from it. Obama's only apparent plan is "complain until someone else solves the problem". - 7/22/11, 6:13 PM
- Mark O said...
Balance is a function of the weight given to the items weighed. Obama has a thumb on the scale.
Compromise is overrated. It is not something that must be part of every solution. Indeed, it could be exactly the wrong thing to do. - 7/22/11, 6:15 PM
- Irene said...
Mr. President, replacing "I" with "We" will not make us think that you are talking about yourself less often.
I am trying to figure out what he meant by "fair" at the end of the press conference. It reminded me of a college freshman who thinks an exam isn't "fair" because he did not do well. Maybe it's the new code for the code phrase "social justice." - 7/22/11, 6:15 PM
- Martha said...
Agree with Lem completely:
Obama is the one playing with the credit of the country.
And once again Obama put the blame on those greedy owners of those evil greedy jets.
Give up Air Force One and corporations will give up their jets, President Obama. - 7/22/11, 6:16 PM
- Browndog said...
I looked all over for Obama's plan-can't find it.
Can someone post a link?
I'll check back in....I'm going to go look up the Senate plan. - 7/22/11, 6:18 PM
- MayBee said...
I am trying to figure out what he meant by "fair" at the end of the press conference. It reminded me of a college freshman who thinks an exam isn't "fair" because he did not do well. Maybe it's the new code for the code phrase "social justice."
Irene- I think so.
He wants to raise some of the taxes on the rich people, even though the amount raised won't make a difference in the debt or deficit, just so it seems more "fair". - 7/22/11, 6:29 PM
- pauldar said...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW7BvabYnn8 Obama's plan for those who do not believe it exist
- Phil 3:14 said...
"Can they [Republicans] say yes to anything?" Obama said. "… I have been left at the altar a couple of times now."
I believe they said yes to many things but here's the thing saying yes is meaningless (or as meaningless as "2 million jobs created or saved")
Its the details that matter. And it sure sounds like the president was peddling the same old
"here are the clear tax increases...pardon me revenue enhancements that will start tomorrow and here's the task force we'll put together TODAY to plan our spending cuts for 2014"
I'm liking McConnell's plan more and more because it declares:
I President Obama want to increase the national debt - 7/22/11, 6:34 PM
- Phil 3:14 said...
The Tea Party saved SS and Medicare? Thanks!
Garage, I don't know if that's satire or sincerity but it is sad. There is no doubt that major changes will need to be made in Medicare and SS. The math is really very basic.
In the absence of any consistent political will I keep getting visions of Greece in my head.
Why don't the rich (or somebody) give us the money we need!? - 7/22/11, 6:40 PM
- garage mahal said...
Garage, I don't know if that's satire or sincerity but it is sad. There is no doubt that major changes will need to be made in Medicare and SS. The math is really very basic.
Medicare yes, SS no. Medicare is expensive because the cost of healthcare is expensive. Do something to bring the costs down. Let the government use its buying power to negotiate prescription drugs. But nooooooooo! Can't do that because big pharma won't allow it - so we pay more. I hope the deal is dead, it sounds like a shit deal to begin with. Just raise the damn debt ceiling yourself and tell Boehner to cram it. - 7/22/11, 6:47 PM
- Browndog said...
I think I found the Senate plan-
"I think this piece of legislation is about as weak and senseless as anything that has ever come on this Senate floor. And I'm not going to waste the Senate's time day after day on this piece of legislation, which I think is an anathema to what our country is all about," Reid said on the Senate floor.
"So everyone, understand. We're going to have a vote tomorrow (Friday)…I'm not going to wait until Saturday. We're going to have a vote tomorrow, and I feel confident this legislation will be disposed of one way or the other.
"The American people should understand that this is a bad piece of legislation – perhaps, some of the worst legislation in the history of this country."
I'm not sure if that's a very good plan....I don't see any numbers.
But, I guess you can't say he didn't have a plan. - 7/22/11, 6:51 PM
- ricpic said...
BOEHNER has balls.
So far. - 7/22/11, 6:51 PM
- Canuck said...
I'm going to be exceedingly annoyed if this nonsense hurts the markets or the economy.
- Revenant said...
Mr. President, replacing "I" with "We" will not make us think that you are talking about yourself less often.
I have a sneaking suspicion he's picturing himself in a crown and ermine robe when he talks like that. - 7/22/11, 6:55 PM
- Carol_Herman said...
Other than a hissy fit ... even if the "4" can move towards an "agreement." Anything said by Pelosi on TV is a LIE! (Even if she hasn't said it, yet!)
And, even if the president throws a fit ... screams and yells ... all he wants ... there's no deal until Congress makes one. And, then shoves it up to his desk.
Sure. He can VETO.
But he OWNS IT. And, that's why he's terrified. He doesn't want to "own" this one. - 7/22/11, 7:03 PM
- george said...
CCB has two thirds support across the political spectrum and even has a majority on the left. 4 Dem votes and a grown-up president is all it would take to pass it. The Republicans have offered a solution the people want and one that would make a structural fix so it would be very difficult to end up in a mess like this again.
What has the left offered pbAndj?
We have enough money to pay entitlements, the military and the debt. If the checks don't go out it will be because Obama chose not to send them out. It will be because other things are a higher priority to him. Frankly, if there is no one to arrest people trying to go to work on oil rigs in the Gulf I think I will still be able to sleep at night. If TSA employees have to go back to molesting people against their will for free I think we will survive it somehow.
Since Obama has never been responsible for a budget in his life I think it is time for him to learn. We have operated without one since he has been in office and he has never balanced one in his previous existence as a professional rabble rouser either. But for better or worse this is who the left chose to lead us so he needs to take off his diaper and sit on the big boy potty.
And frankly if he chooses not to send out some or all of the SS checks all I can say is, "tough shit." The generation drawing checks now had plenty of opportunities to reform or end Social Security and Medicare. Just because the jig is up and they have put themselves in a position to rely on a Ponzi scheme that allowed them to beggar their grandchildren for their own benefit doesn't mean we have to feel sympathy for them.
Everyone has to grow up and start acting responsibly at some point. I don't think it is commendable at all that they managed to postpone that day until their retirement. I don't think it worthy of sympathy that they allowed such a fraud to be perpetrated on a once great nation. They tried to pawn off their responsibility to save for their own retirement on the con men and thieves that make up the government and it is ending the only way such things can ever end.
Everyone talks about old people as if they had no hand in making their own plight when exactly the opposite is true. They have had more to do with where we are than any other age cohort. They have had the most time to fix things or screw them up. They were at work creating this situation before many of us were ever born.
It was never a secret that there is no SS trust fund. It was never a secret that the government was amassing more debt than it could ever possibly pay. They failed us and let it happen.
What we do now will determine whether the next generation can say the same about us.
On the bright side it would be interesting to see just how many SS checks we would need to send out if we did a little means testing for Social Security. I bet we would be just fine. - 7/22/11, 7:23 PM
- Phil 3:14 said...
Medicare is expensive because the cost of healthcare is expensive. Do something to bring the costs down. Let the government use its buying power to negotiate prescription drugs. But nooooooooo! Can't do that because big pharma won't allow it - so we pay more.
I know it would fit your world view to say that some big, evil corporation like BIG PHARMA is the reason for rising health care costs. Unfortunately pharmaceuticals account for less than 12 percent of overall expenditures.
While that's not chump change the big targets are hospitals and doctors, and to a large degree US
We like to buy healthcare, and we especially like it when we don't pay for it. So yes cost containment is key but please don't assume that PPACA or Medicare is or will do anything to control costs. They may try price controls but that won't control costs. - 7/22/11, 7:34 PM
- edutcher said...
pauldar said...
Boehner is my rep here in Ohio. We are all so very damn proud of him doing what we sent him to Washington to do.
Not believing the polls for one second
The last CBS poll only had 22% of its sample Republicans. Do the math. - 7/22/11, 7:35 PM
- Jim Bullock said...
Medicare is expensive because the cost of healthcare is expensive. Do something to bring the costs down. Let the government use its buying power to negotiate prescription drugs. But nooooooooo!
So "the government" employing some number of thousands (I estimate) of people to negotiate many, many prices, in money they don't personally pay, for services they don't personally need will be effective at driving down prices. Indeed, these commisars or at least their masters get reelected in part based on how much largess they shovel at people. Drugs look expensive it looks like a bigger benefit being provided. (Perverse incentive, much?)
Meanwhile, 300+ million people, each intent on relatively few prices, in money they personally pay, for services they personally need (perhaps desperately), do not put pressure on prices or delivery?
That's what you are saying?
Oh, it's about size.
Big companies have dedicated purchasing agents to negotiate bulk deals because nobody really cares about the prices because it isn't their money. (They have some leverage, sometimes, and often vendors will fire them as a customer for bing too much of a PITA. I leave generalizing that effect to government health care as an exercise.)
Small companies, especially family-owned, well, nobody negotiates harder. Can we turn a few tens of millions of family budget-managers loose on medical price tomfoolery and see what happens, please?
Peter, the third-generation owener running the diner round the corner from me knows to the penny the price of every component on every dish. He knows when to buy whole chickens in bulk to butcher them in-house for better price & quality plus making their own stock. Why? Because it's his money. It's his customers. It's his business.
Get him going about employee health care costs & he's livid ... that because it's bulk deals only, there's nowhere he can get what his employees want, leave what they don't and deliver it as effectively as possible.
How about, maybe get out of the way, of Peter & of families & individuals doing the same thing? Is this hard? - 7/22/11, 7:41 PM
- Revenant said...
Medicare is expensive because the cost of healthcare is expensive.
Well, no.
Medicare is expensive because healthcare is expensive AND we have promised to help seniors pay for it even if they've got plenty of money.
And most do. - 7/22/11, 7:45 PM
- AJ Lynch said...
Medicare and soc security only seem very expensive and that is because the govt spent the money people paid in for the last 30-40 years.
Maybe they should fix it by putting back the $3.7 Trillion they "borrowed" from the soc sec tax receipts and then we can see if it is sill broke?
Medicare is a bit different but it's primary fault, like soc sec, is they started a retirement benefit program but it too was a govt sponsored Ponzi scheme. - 7/22/11, 8:09 PM
- Hagar said...
This negotiating technique of adding just one more thing when you sense the opposition is about to go along with the deal as it stands, well, sometimes it works for the moment, but it always leaves a bad taste, and your opponent will never trust you again, but that is how Obama works.
This time he may already have done it once too many, and it is not going to help that he has "summoned" the Congressional leaders for another meeting tomorrow. In the past, even the Democratic leaders would not have put up with that kind of language without firing off a few rounds of their own. - 7/22/11, 8:11 PM
- Hoosier Daddy said...
Obama's only apparent plan is "complain until someone else solves the problem".
That sounds a lot like voting present. - 7/22/11, 8:31 PM
- Hoosier Daddy said...
Medicare is expensive because the cost of healthcare is expensive. Do something to bring the costs down.
Salary caps on medical care providers. It works everywhere else.
Just because someone spends 6-8 years in higher education and incurs a few hundred thousand in debt to get a medical degree is no reason to make 5-10 times the national average. - 7/22/11, 8:34 PM
- Carol_Herman said...
But you can write tomorrow's script, all ready. Unless events in Norway knock Obama off the front page!
Pelosi is going to come out to the camera. And, she will probably say there's a deal ... but she can't tell you what it is, yet.
(Merkel hasn't exposed her deal, either, to the german people.)
It's almost like waiting for a frigid woman to finally have her first orgasm.
We're not at August 2nd, yet.
This whole thing is just a stupid dance.
While Norway blew up on Obama's "dance."
McConnell? Reid "tops him" by 3 seats. It's not exactly what you'd call much of a contest. Because more democraps are worried that obama has no coattails. (As if they've just figured that one out.) Naked emperors usually have nothing you can hang onto. It's in the story's description.
But we're supposed to believe Obama is holding these cards ... And, being called into the white house ... is supposed to hurt. Huh? - 7/22/11, 8:35 PM
- Carol_Herman said...
There once was a time in medicine, all a doctor needed, besides office furniture. And, two telephones ... was a nurse. Who gave you the needles.
Today? You've got front office. And, back office. And, paperwork out the ying-yang.
Probably, today, you can make just as much money doing computer programming ... as you can make out of medical school. And, your debt is less.
If you want people to come to your aid, anytime, day or night, you'd be smart not to tamper with their remuneration.
Or? You can just drag kids off the streets ... to play hoops. They can even practice at midnight.
But that's not the way it works when money's involved.
What really sucks, however, is the ZOMBIE ECONOMY! What are you going to invest in for your retirement? Everything sucks.
It's the economy that's flat line. Patients, however, are doing better.
Plus, there are two qualifiers for medicine. One, is dedication. Because you're not going to be getting lots of sleep. And, the other is math skills. Which reduce the pool of qualified people.
No math skills? Well, you could become a lawyer. - 7/22/11, 8:42 PM
- Revenant said...
Salary caps on medical care providers. It works everywhere else.
I can't tell if you're kidding. - 7/22/11, 8:52 PM
- Synova said...
I'm just starting to look at this a little bit. I watched Boehner's press conference.
According to Boehner they had an agreement on specifics and were ready to finish up and Obama asked for some billions of dollars more that weren't included in the cuts agreed to so that taxes would have to be raised. $400 billion in revenue.
Is that as much as it sounds like? Is it as little as it sounds like now that we're thinking in terms of several trillions of dollars at a time?
What was the idea? That Obama put this in at the last minute expecting Boehner to agree, thus giving Obama a symbolic "last word" and dominance? So he says something like "won't they say yes to anything?" because it's just a little thing and they ought to have said yes?
If it really was that sort of gamesmanship I'm amazed that all Boehner allowed himself to say (while saying how he respected Obama, etc., and trusted him as a negotiator) was that Obama was the one who backed out and that Obama moved the goal posts.
As for the "compromise" thing... looks like Boehner agreed to up the debt limit. I think that *counts* as a compromise. - 7/22/11, 8:54 PM
- Canuck said...
Either this is
1) political theatre and this is the last gasp before passing something
2) We're all doomed. - 7/22/11, 8:57 PM
- Synova said...
I mean... imagine if instead of Boehner it was Allen West responding to a political opponent who was jerking around an important process in order to get symbolic dominance.
- damikesc said...
I blame house Rs for refusing to compromise.
You can't "compromise" when one side is not providing a plan in the first place.
The House R's have proposed and passed two plans. The Dems? Zilch. Not one. Obama's plan went down 97-0 in the Senate. - 7/22/11, 9:04 PM
- Canuck said...
I'm having a hard time caring about the partisan politics when we're so close to a monetary catastrophe.
The dollar is the world reserve currency. But we really could loose that status. If the US pushes the markets into a panic, there is no guarantee that banks/investors will come back to the dollar.
There's a reason that the letter was released after markets closed today. They better have something ready Monday morning sharp.
playtime is over. - 7/22/11, 9:15 PM
- edutcher said...
Synova said...
I'm just starting to look at this a little bit. I watched Boehner's press conference.
According to Boehner they had an agreement on specifics and were ready to finish up and Obama asked for some billions of dollars more that weren't included in the cuts agreed to so that taxes would have to be raised. $400 billion in revenue.
Is that as much as it sounds like? Is it as little as it sounds like now that we're thinking in terms of several trillions of dollars at a time?
What was the idea? That Obama put this in at the last minute expecting Boehner to agree, thus giving Obama a symbolic "last word" and dominance? So he says something like "won't they say yes to anything?" because it's just a little thing and they ought to have said yes?
A half trillion isn't exactly chump change.
It seems the issue is that Little Zero is playing games for the sake of political one-upmanship and Boehner's getting fed up.
Zero seems to feel it necessary for his class warfare chops to get some tax increase, but also to drag this out so it's a real 11th hour finish, so he can grab as much credit as possible. - 7/22/11, 9:43 PM
- Hagar said...
There has to be a little more to it than what they are telling us. If it was only Obama demanding an additional 400 billion dollar tax hike, all Boehner needed to do was say, "No, we are not going to do that."
So there has to be something more that caused him to say publicly that he was through talking to this guy, and he was going to talk to the Senators tomorrow, presumably to see if they can come up with something that the President will have to sign. - 7/22/11, 9:44 PM
- SunnyJ said...
What's such a big deal about the "Gang of 6"...the House sent you Cut, Cap and Balance by the gang of 234, with more bipartisan support than Olympia Snowe for Obamacare!
It is getting the choke hold on spending with the balance budget act in the constitution that really scares the Dems. They think this Tea Party is a speed bump on their way to a euro socialist America. The constitutional ammendment casts the Tea Party in stone, in their faces for a much longer time than the next election. We here in Wisconsin know the Dems will just keep holding elections until no one shows up and they take their ball and go home. - 7/22/11, 10:19 PM
- Hoosier Daddy said...
"...I can't tell if you're kidding...."
Heh. Yeah I should have added a /sarc tag. - 7/22/11, 10:37 PM
- Lance said...
I looked all over for Obama's plan-can't find it.
Can someone post a link?
The President has been very careful not to discuss any concrete proposals in public. The linked Politico article had the most detail on the President's position that I've seen. - 7/22/11, 11:46 PM
- Curious George said...
garage mahal: "Just raise the damn debt ceiling yourself and tell Boehner to cram it."
Weren't you the douchenozzle that said this less than 24 hours ago?
"So fuck the historical processes and the rule of law". - 7/23/11, 12:10 AM
- David said...
Thank God for the transparency that the Obama administration has brought to the political process. Because of the openness of these negotiations, and the clarity of President Obama's very specific public proposals, we can all judge for ourselves what really happened.
- David said...
It's almost like waiting for a frigid woman to finally have her first orgasm."
Carol, you are a wicked, wicked woman. - 7/23/11, 12:25 AM
- Seven Machos said...
I blame Obama for refusing to compromise.
- Don't Tread 2012 said...
In the end, progressives hate the constitution because IT IS the set of regulations for government.
As much as progressives love to micromanage everyone else's life, they HATE limits on their own mischief.
Zero's vision for this country amounts to the choking control of socialism and the cynical march of corruption which would ultimately render it unrecognizable, if left unchecked.
He is a dangerous ideolog that packaged his way into the white house, aided by so many dupes that are the Prius and pet-rock buyers out there.
Ignorance really is our most plentiful resource, today.
Wake up, people. Wake up.
The debt will crush us. The progressives must be put on an austerity diet. Obamacare must be vanquished, as must its supporters in the court of public opinion and at the polls.
- Don't Tread 2012 said...
@ pbandj
"I blame house Rs for refusing to compromise.
I'm guessing that many here are congratulating them for refusing to compromise."
You ARE an idiot.
The democrats have no plan. They served up 'Obamacare', which took them a year and a half, and they had the necessary votes to do it. Obamacare has absolutely nothing to do with actual CARE for real people, it only addresses how elites will CONTROL who gets what. Its called 'redistribution'. So, that IS the D plan. Its as plain as day, dolt.
So now, you and all the other progressive dolts expect the R's to negotiate with themselves while the D's sit back and cherry pick the details.
Elections have consequences, you are in the minority.
STFU and eat your peas. - 7/23/11, 7:18 AM
- galdosiana said...
I definitely think that some people here need to look up the word "compromise" in the dictionary, and then see if they can apply it to real life.
The Republicans in the House have already voted on and passed TWO plans in the last several MONTHS. The latest plan and talks between Boehner and Obama include a compromise: the Rs agree to raise the debt ceiling if the Ds agree to cut spending. And who is it that refuses to compromise on that deal? (A deal, by the way, that over 2/3 of the adult population agrees with.)
Meanwhile, it's been over EIGHT HUNDRED days since the democrats have passed a budget. Hmmmm... - 7/23/11, 8:36 AM
- Seeing Red said...
Fair, good deal, hmmm, let's see:
Average historical spending was around 18-18.5% & it turns out no matter what they do they can only historically wring 20% out of the despised ATMs.
But the lefties want a new average of about 22-25% spending.
Or was this good deal the pubbies said no to really $1 trillion in cuts w/$1.2 trillion in new spending
umm, doesn't that mean more spending, more deficit
with under $700 billion in tinkering?
And this will improve the economy cos the ONLY thing holding all that money back is the "uncertainty" of the deal?
Via Vodkapundit:
The new British fiscal plan was very similar to the "grand bargain" being advocated by the Obama administration. It supposedly consisted of 77% spending cuts and 23% revenue increases. However, some crucial tax rates were increased, including a hike in the top marginal capital gains tax rate from 18% to 28%.
The tax increases derailed England's economic recovery. GDP growth over the next three calendar quarters averaged only 0.77%. This was 70% lower than the growth rate during the 9 months prior to the tax hikes. The percentage of British adults with jobs, which had been rising, plummeted after the tax increases. It has since stabilized at a lower level
The bamster asked for a 24% increase in the EO's budget in his unanimously voted down budget, didn't he? - 7/23/11, 9:12 AM
- Seeing Red said...
Almost 800 days, where is Harry's budget?
- Seeing Red said...
The bamster wanted to wring another $400b out of the loathed ATM?
Can't wait to see what other taxes were raised in the deal Bonehead agreed to. - 7/23/11, 9:43 AM


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Speaking of keeping things in perspective, remember the original STAR TREK (I am assuming you are talking about the original here) ran 80 episodes! By todays standards that's 5 seasons. Considering most new prime time shows run short seasons their first year (16-18 episodes) and around 22 epoisodes per year after that. By todays standards a 5 year runs is a success!Remember, if STAR TREK had been a ratings success, it would have probably run as long as GUNSMOKE or HAWAII FIVE-0!
Also, let's not forget that the original series has spawned 4 successful additional series! All of which ran well past the 5 season mark, except for "Enterprise" which is still in production, and a host of movies with the original cast!
Also Hawaii Five-0 and Gunsmoke have never been as successful as STAR TREK in syndication.
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Obamacare has more chinks in its armor than a turtle without a shell. As a result, state governors and legislators can inflict great damage. The following amazing chink was discussed by a Goldwater Institute attorney during a Tennessee-based webinar on Monday . It's only 10 lines long in the 950-page version of the law:
"No individual, company, business, nonprofit entity, or health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage shall be required to participate in any Federal health insurance program created under this Act (or any amendments made by this Act), or in any Federal health insurance program expanded by this Act (or any such amendment), and there shall be no penalty or fine imposed upon any such issuer for choosing not to participate in such programs."
Let that sink in. No one is required to participate.
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Amen. We can STILL defeat this power grab, if not completely, then substantially. Don't give up the ship!
I knew that was coming.
So what?
It'll go to the Supreme Court where the justices will declare it means whatever the heck they want it to mean.
"No individual..." will end up meaning "every individual must..."
Wouldn't that be something if this law forced states to assert their rights in a more decisive fashion since before the civil war.
AKA "The Code"
Ya ... but none of the associated taxes will go away.
or, roberts will finally concede "this is such a piece of hosed up tax code that it substantially violates due process, so in the trash it goes."
The "no one" referred to is to health INSURERS not to the people who purchase health care insurance. Thus, no company (or individual) that offers health insurance is required to participate. I wonder if that applies to people who self-insure? I doubt it. That woud too easy a loophole.
This line seems to be referring to the actual insurers - not those providing isurance for their companies under Obamacare. In other words, State Farm Insurance Company is not required to participate in Obamacare, as it is providing insurance coverage for Obamacare.
It's an exemption for insurance companies - ironic, eh?
The Spanish American war ended a century before the telephone tax set up to pay for it was ended.
It's both/and, not either/or.
Once they get those 15,000 new IRS agents on the rolls, they definitely won't be going away. This was basically a "jobs" bill for attorneys.
Taxes on individuals would remain. But if insurers are free to offer policies prohibited by Obamacare (such as catastrophic only) then the savings an individual makes by choosing such coverage could be greater than the fines, at least in the early years of rollout.
FYI if anyone else is looking for it in the law, it's section 1555.
They were probably hoping it was going to be bipartisan, meaning that Republicans were going to help sift out and correct the most arrant problems. But the GOP said to the Democrats "No, you conduct your own funeral."
some of you geniuses can figure out if this is accurate.
so many people who are on our side have read through this...if this were true, I have to believe someone at Heritage or CATO or someplace like that would have seen it.
I'm sorry, Twila Brase, didn't you get the memo that this phrase was racist?
So "chink in armor" is a term now?
"The Spanish American war ended a century before the telephone tax set up to pay for it was ended."
And the Interstate Commerce Commission was established in 1887 and abolished in 1995. Are you inferring, dear lady, that no progress has been made?
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Giant pro-Obama murals are OK, but small anti-Obama paper flyers constitute "criminal vandalism"
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
A Houston man was handcuffed and assaulted by cops for posting anti-Obama flyers around his town, actions described as "criminal vandalism" by police and some local residents, despite the fact that giant pro-Obama murals are openly displayed in the same neighborhood for all to see.
21-year-old Mark Fuhre, an Alex Jones Show listener, decided to post the flyers even though the Infowars Obama Joker Poster Contest had ended, because he wanted to alert his neighbors to the cult of personality being manufactured around Obama and how the establishment is stifling any criticism of the President by constantly invoking racism.
Fuhre believed that he had a first amendment right to express his opinion, just as those that spray painted giant Obama "HOPE" murals in the same neighborhood had done without opposition. However, shortly after he began to post the flyers, a local resident voiced his anger that Fuhre had the temerity to exercise his freedom of speech and called the police.
"They slammed me against the hood of my car, cuffed me, threw me in the back of the car," Fuhre told local news station KPRC.
He and his friend were later ticketed for criminal mischief and vandalism. The news report also quotes Kim Hammond of the Kingwood Democrats who slams the posters as "graffiti," "vandalism" and an act of "criminal mischief".
Watch the video clip here.
What's deliciously ironic about the news report is that KPRC correspondent Carl Willis, while discussing Fuhre's dastardly crime of criminal vandalism for posting anti-Obama flyers, stands in front of a huge 12 foot mural wall painting of Obama. The authorities didn't deem this to be "criminal vandalism" or "dangerous" despite the fact that Obama himself encouraged people to display similar images on stop signs and other federal property.
As we have highlighted before in the case of a Florida teenager who received similar harassment from authorities for posting the Obama Joker flyers, there is a flagrant double standard in place which dictates that only pro-Obama images are allowed to be displayed – a chilling indication that citizens of the United States enjoy the same level of free speech rights as those in Maoist China or Kim Jong-Il's North Korea.
In the Florida case, authorities and the local media hysterically characterized the placement of Obama Joker posters as some kind of assault on the people of Clermont, creating "victims" and leading to demands for arrests and criminal charges against the teenager who posted them, a completely contrived outrage proven by polls that later showed the majority of residents supported the teenager.
"It's the constitution of the United States, which is being forgotten," Fuhre told KPRC. "Everyone should have their liberties."
It seems that everyone is entitled to their liberties, so long as they don't use them to dissent against the government, and in particular the contrived God-like untouchable facade being manufactured around negative depictions of Obama.
Fuhre's friend sends us an e mail to tell us that Fuhre is still being "harassed by the local community and media".
"I'm hoping you can reach out and let his story be known to the general public, because he's a good, strong patriot and a little outnumbered in this situation," he writes.
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