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2009: ACC Academic Honor Roll selection... Named to the All-ACC Academic Volleyball Team for the second straight year...Led the team with 40 service aces, 441 digs and 4.05 digs per set...Collected 306 digs in ACC matches at an average of 4.37 per set...Ranked fourth in the ACC with .37 service aces per set...Ranked ninth in digs per set...Anchored a Duke defense that held opponents to an ACC-low .160 hitting percentage...Reached 20 digs in eight matches, including a 23-dig performance against Tennessee in the NCAA Tournament First Round...Ended the season with 10 or more digs in six straight matches...Had at least one service ace in 23 of 30 matches...Had multiple aces in 13 matches...Made just 35 serving errors in a team-high 506 attempts...Had a run of 76 consecutive service receptions without a receiving error from Oct. 17 to Oct. 31...Collected a season-high 25 digs in a 3-1 win at North Carolina...Had three consecutive matches with at least 20 digs, collecting 20 against Miami and Florida State before picking up 25 against North Carolina...Put down three service aces without an error in a 3-0 win at Boston College...Added three aces on 21 errorless attempts in a season-opening 3-2 win against Wisconsin...Played without making a serving or receiving error in a 3-0 loss against No. 1 Penn State.
2008: Named to the All-ACC Academic Volleyball Team for the second straight year...Played in all 131 sets and started every match as the libero as a sophomore...Led the team with 590 digs and an average of 4.50 per set...Ranked second in the ACC in digs and fifth in digs per set and 64th in the country in digs per set...Led the ACC in digs in ACC-only matches and ranked second with 5.08 digs per set against conference foes...Reached the 30-dig plateau twice with 30 against Georgia (9/6) and a career-high 35 against Virginia (10/17)...Took over the fifth spot on Duke's single-season digs list...Had at least 10 digs in her last 17 matches and at least 10 in all but five matches on the year...Picked up at least 20 digs in 13 matches, two of those being three-set matches...Helped Duke lead the ACC in digs and rank second in digs per set...Contributed 13 service aces and 40 assists...Had the second-highest serve reception percentage on the team at .954 and led Duke with 862 receptions...Picked up 17 digs in a 3-2 win over No. 25 San Francisco in the first round of the NCAA Tournament (12/5)...Followed with 18 digs in three sets against No. 9 UCLA in round two (12/6)...Averaged 5.46 digs per set during a run of 13 matches from Sept. 26 to Nov. 7, collecting at least 20 digs in 10 of those outings.
2007: An All-ACC Academic Volleyball selection...Played in 104 sets and 31 total matches as a freshman...Served primarily as a defensive specialist, picking up 183 digs for an average of 1.76 per game...Also displayed consistency serving the ball, committing just 21 errors in 501 attempts...Had 22 service aces, including a streak of six straight matches with one ace in each...Put together two outings with three aces and three with a pair of aces...Reached double figures with 10 or more digs in eight matches...Picked up a career high 14 digs and three aces in a 3-1 win over Winthrop at the Duke Invitational (8/25)...Followed with 12 more pickups in a 3-1 upset over No. 13 Purdue (8/25)...Had 10 digs in each of Duke's NCAA Tournament matches and did not commit an error attacking, serving or receiving in tournament play...Had three aces and seven digs against No. 4 USC (8/31)...Appeared in all five sets against Louisville, reaching double figures again with 11 digs (9/8)...Went 3-for-5 attacking against Georgia Tech with a block, five digs and no errors (10/12)...Attempted a career-high 20 attacks in the next meeting against Georgia Tech, connecting on a career-best four kills (11/8)...Had four more kills on 16 attacks against Clemson along with 11 digs (11/9)...Picked up 56 digs over her final five matches, putting up 10 or more in four matches during that span.
High School: Three-year letterwinner at Marist High School...Registered 151 kills, 224 digs, 27 blocks, 26 aces and 21 assists to earn all-conference honors as a senior...Tied the state record with 24 consecutive service points in a game...Recorded 95 digs, 67 kills, 18 blocks and 14 aces to earn all-area recognition during her junior campaign...Posted 174 kills, 150 digs, 29 blocks, 22 aces and 18 assists to pick up all-conference honors as a sophomore...Led the Celtic Force VBC to a national title as a sophomore and to a fifth-place finish as a junior.
Personal: Claire Catherine Smalzer was born on Feb. 4, 1989, in Palos Heights, Ill....She is the daughter of Joe and Julie Smalzer...Has a brother, Joe, who plays volleyball for Loyola (Chicago)...Majoring in Evolutionary Anthropology.


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Mammoth's MLLA 'burn rate' pegged at $1 million a month
For Mammoth to have continued its legal fight with lawyers representing both Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition and Terry Ballas, the town was subject to a "burn rate" of $1 million a month in legal costs, Town Manager Dave Wilbrecht said.
Speaking to a crowd at the Council Chambers on Thursday night, Sept. 27, Wilbrecht asserted that the legal costs in terms of attorneys fees and the costs of paperwork were so daunting that the town had little choice but to settle.
"We've talked about the cost for legal services," Wilbrecht said. "We talked about how expensive it is.
"There's a term I've learned since I've been part of this process—the 'burn rate.'
"I always thought it was a NASA term when they're going through fuel. But apparently it has to do with how much it costs per month to go through bankruptcy. We are spending at the rate of about $1 million a month to get to where we are.
"We couldn't afford to do that very long. To sustain that, we've gone through nearly every resource, every reserve that we possibly could have gone through.
"That also includes early on, during mediation in the springtime. Our employees went through a mediation process. There was a reduction of about 10 percent to their salaries based upon their participation in various benefit packages.
"It has meant laying off employees. We laid off two this spring as a result of just looking at the numbers and deciding that we can't sustain this burn rate, both in terms of costs of attorney fees but also the cost of business."
Even so, councilman Michael Raimondo held fast to the strategy of pushing the Mammoth Lakes into bankruptcy court, regardless of the current burn rate.
"I was a strong supporter to settle at a much lower number," he wrote in a letter that was read into the record at the meeting. "One that would be financially sound and in the community's best interest.
"If the court had rebuked that plan, we should have sought a plan that pays them very little each year and a term that is much longer with little or no interest.
"Two things are for certain now, one, we will never know what the outcome of bankruptcy proceedings would have resulted in and secondly, we are in for very rough times in the delivery of city services for the foreseeable future."

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A first-term North Carolina legislator who died last weekend will be formally remembered within state government and at the church he attended for decades.
Gov. Pat McCrory has ordered all state flags be lowered to half-staff Wednesday in honor of Rep. Jim Fulghum, who died at age 70 after a recent cancer diagnosis.
A memorial service for Fulghum at Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh was also scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
Fulghum was a retired brain surgeon from Raleigh who was elected to the House in 2012. He was the Republican nominee for a Wake County state Senate seat in November before his illness forced him to withdraw.
Fulghum focused on health issues during his short time in the House.
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State Rep. Jim Fulghum has died, weeks after announcing he was being treated for cancer.
Molly Fulghum Heintz says her father died at his Raleigh home on Saturday evening. He was 70 years old.
Heintz says her father was diagnosed in June with esophageal cancer. Earlier this month, he wrote the state and Wake County election boards to pull out of the election for the 15th Senate District seat, citing ongoing treatment.
Last week, Republican Party officials selected John M. Alexander Jr. to replace Fulghum in the race for the seat of Sen. Neal Hunt, who is retiring.
Heintz says funeral services will be held Wednesday at Edenton Street United Methodist in Raleigh. A visitation is planned for the evening before at the church, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.


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To tie or knot to tie? What binds us to civilization?
I come to bury the necktie, not to praise it.
The fashion gods, in their capriciousness, have laid the necktie to rest or ordained its demise. Nobody on television under middle age dares to wear a necktie; nobody in show business has supported one in decades, if you discount those black bow ties that show up for the Oscars. At the White House correspondents' annual dinner, Washington's ersatz Oscars, men wear evening suits and black ties - suits that fit better last year; on the distaff side, mutton is dressed as lamb.
Talking of suits, they too are on the sartorial chopping block.
The grunging of America, which started with the unwashed, has now reached the well-scrubbed. Male members of Congress are still wearing ties, but as often as not with blazers and sports jackets. The red power ties have given way to pastels, often baby blue, which seem to be apologizing for themselves.
There is no mystery here: With the exit of the necktie, could the suit have been far behind? A suit without a tie is meat without potatoes, a putting asunder of that which had been divinely united. No longer will suits identify the wearer by their cut - center vents, American; side vents, British; no vents, Italian.
The history of the necktie is nearly as old as male vanity. It is said - according to Wikipedia, which is not always right but good enough for argument - to have originated with Croatian troops who brought their neck wear to Paris. The French seized on it and launched the cravat, which through the centuries metamorphosed into the necktie.
Then, there are those who believe today's necktie owes more to Queen Victoria. That tale of provenance says that she did not want to see men's buttons and had them extend their neck wear to cover all the buttons. I like this story better, but believe it less.
Having grown up in England, my prized necktie is my old school one; not an old-school tie in the metaphorical sense or even one worn by alumni to identify each other, but the actual piece of cloth that adorned my neck all those years ago and is still in wearable condition. It is thin and purple with small crests of the Marlborough family embroidered about it. As Winston Churchill, a Marlborough, was alive at the time, we were told that he had given special dispensation for us to wear the crest on our ties and blazers.
We were impervious to the joys of affiliation with the Great Man. But ties were de rigueur and their absence from the untrammeled neck was a grave infraction, a threat to the survival of the British Empire - to say nothing of civilization, which clearly depended on the empire which, in some mysterious way, depended on a little strip of purple cloth.
The punishment for not wearing a tie when wearing any other item of school uniform at any hour was four cuts with the cane. So we wore our ties for our first kiss, our first reading of "Lady Chatterly's Lover" and our first sip of liquor.
Mark my words, men going around in public with their shirts open at the neck will bear the consequences. I hear the Chinese and Indians are wearing suits and neckties and gaining on us in math and science. What do we expect in jeans and polo shirts?
Llewellyn King is executive producer and host of "White House Chronicle" on PBS.
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From Riley to Arison to players, a behind-the-scenes look inside winning Heat locker-room
This is what jubilation, what blissful bedlam, looks like, Heat-style:
### Shane Battier running through an AmericanAirlines Arena corridor shouting: "Where am I? Where am I? That was an out-of-body experience for two hours."
### Pat Riley, hair marinating in champagne, offering up his best "Birdman! Birdman!" Shaquille O'Neal impression as Chris Andersen sprinted by.
### Dwyane Wade making a snow angel on the confetti-covered arena court, long after the game ended, and announcing to those who witnessed it: "Ten years, three championships! Ain't no snow in Miami. So this is the only time you get to do this."
Joy, euphoria and relief washed over every corner of the Heat locker-room early Friday morning. There was James holding the championship trophy tightly and shouting: "This is what it's all about. Larry O'Brien!"
There was Wade leading his teammates in one more chant: "To the last minute, to the last second, to the last man, we fight!"
And there were James, Udonis Haslem, Mario Chalmers and others dancing to the pulsating beats.
Amid the merriment, members of the Heat family stopped to reflect. Vignettes from the Happiest Place on Earth:
For Riley, there was as much relief as joy. Because, "I know what the story line would have been" if the Heat lost. "How many guys I would have had to trade. Riley's too old. He's senile and all that stuff."
Riley knows this is the only team whose season is viewed as a failure without a championship. And that's "absolutely" a burden.
"It's like a 60-pound boulder on your back," the Heat's president said. "We don't have to worry about that anymore. To win back to back titles is an incredible feat. When you have a dream in your head, you better have one in your heart. You better believe in miracles.
"Because there was a miracle [Tuesday] night. That's the bullet that we dodged to get to tonight. I was a little bit desperate, but I'm not any more."
As he leaned against the wall outside the locker-room, Riley gazed into the future.
"I just want this thing to keep going," he said. "I'm at an age right now (68) where I am ready to just fly off somewhere. But I'm not going to because the Good Lord has blessed me with a team that's allowed me to grab onto its coattails for as long as they want to be together.
"This is just an incredible experience. I thought I was going to be gone in 2003, first time I stepped down as a manic depressive." He said he's "so grateful" that James, Wade and Chris Bosh "all said yes" to the idea of playing together.
And Riley offered a message to those who keep mentioning the Big Three signing party, when LeBron said, "Not one, not two, not three" championships.
"We make so much of what was said," Riley said. "It's all bull [expletive] now, because all it's about now is what's in front of us, not what's behind us. I wish people would stop talking about that.
"He's been to the Finals three years in a row, won two championships, two MVPs, and he definitely controlled [Game 7]. He's gotten better over the last couple years. He's genuine about his approach to the game. Sometimes, I stay at real arm's distance from him because I'm too serious and too intense, and sometimes, he needs to be loose and ready to play.
"The biggest improvement in LeBron is he has taken a leadership role above and beyond anybody else. His performance and leadership and putting everything on his shoulders is second to none ever."
And what about Wade coming through in Game 7?
"He said the other day he had one game in him," Riley said. "We're going to heal him up, get his knees healed up. He's a great, great, great player, and judged rather harshly as a guy that's played with an injury for two months. He came up big, big [Thursday] when it counted, and we expect him to come up big for the next six or seven years."
Riley stayed centered throughout this playoff run by never deviating from his regimen. "Every game, I never changed my routine. From right after the shoot-around, I would just sit in my office and look out the window until the game starts. I might do a couple things, read all your guys' articles and stuff.
"But then I would take the same route with about two minutes to go [before] the game and I go down and sit in my seat and sit next to my wife. And I tell her: 'Don't talk to me. Make sure all of your friends know that I love them, but I will not talk to them, either, during the course of the game.' That's just my insanity."
As his daughter sprayed him with champagne, owner Micky Arison spoke of this "incredible ride, an incredible rollercoaster. You go through the lowest low Tuesday when those yellow ropes come out. That was just agony. And to be here now. It seemed like it was so much harder [than last year]. But you forget last year, we were down 3-2 to Boston, it was pretty hard, too."
Arison said he was "worried" since Sunday because the Heat won at Dallas in Game 6 to win the 2006 Finals and Dallas won at Miami in Game 6 to take the 2011 Finals.
"Having the road team win bothered me,… scared the living [expletive] out of me," he said. "It wasn't until a few seconds were left that I finally believed this was really going to happen."
This journey, he said, "was an incredible run. The Spurs never got to the Finals two years in a row, never mind winning two years in a row. I have great respect for that franchise. For us to do something they haven't been able to do says a lot about these guys.
"LeBron is just amazing. He made all those pull up shots [Thursday] that he wasn't making all series. To be able to watch him every night for the past three years is a joy."
And Wade? "A couple games Flash came back. That's all we needed."
Bosh had scored in 741 games in a row until Thursday. Ultimately, it didn't matter.
"I didn't think I wasn't going to score any points," Bosh said, leaning against a soda machine outside the Heat's locker-room. "I thought I was going to have a big offensive output.
"If you don't score any points, nobody is going to remember that. They're only going to remember [championship] No. 2. Very sweet, even better than last year.
"It's the longest year you could possibly have – we started before everybody [to go to China] and we went to Game 7. It was worth it. We have two of them. It's the best feeling in the world."
Afterward, Bosh told Tim Duncan that if he wouldn't have been there without him. Why?
Because "he was one of the guys I wanted to be growing up," Bosh said. "I learned a lot just by watching him. He's a champion. I can only hope to be a fraction of as good as he is."
Duncan replied with a "thank you and congratulations."
Wade, sitting in ABC's makeshift studio set, said the idea of wanting to play with other stars crystallized as he watched Kobe Bryant win a title in 2010. "That's what started it."
He called this the most challenging playoffs of his career. Standing outside the locker-room afterward, he relayed a conversation with his knees.
"I told my knees – Listen, I will treat you good this summer," Wade said. "Just give me one more."
They did.
"I have a chance to rest now. This is the sweetest [championship] by far because of everything we've been through, everything I've been through."
As Ray Allen's father massaged his back, Allen stood in the locker-room, relishing The Shot That Changed Everything – his game-tying three-pointer with 5.2 seconds left in the fourth quarter of Game 6.
"This celebration I wouldn't be part of if that shot hadn't gone in," he said. "I do have to label it as probably the biggest shot I've ever hit in my life. You talk about the magnitude of the situation. That's something I'll think about, other people will talk about, forever. That moment was a defining moment for us."
Allen's father cracked, "He should have come here two years ago."
Allen didn't hear that, but said: "This is what I came down here for. It was a great leap of faith when I left [Boston]. I knew I needed a change at the time. These guys welcomed me with open arms.
A starter for most of the season, Haslem didn't play in Game 6 and logged just 1:37 in Game 7. "It was my turn to sacrifice," he said, just before the Belgian female TV reporter asked if she could kiss him on the cheek. (Haslem said OK.)
"This is the ultimate definition of a team – different rounds, different guys have to sacrifice, have to make plays. Every round, we did whatever it took. [If we hadn't won], I would have been heartbroken…. I'm happy for Dwyane – that's my brother. I told him tonight, 'Put some hot sauce on [that knee]. We need you.'"
After draining six three-pointers, Battier stuck his head in the arena's flagship lounge afterward to grab a Bud Light and was greeted with resounding applause. He said a lot of people counted him out, but he knew he had a game like this in him.
"I believe in basketball gods. I felt they owed me big time."
Meanwhile, his buddy, Miller, stood at his locker, holding his sneakers above his head triumphantly as if they were mini trophies.
Transforming from spare part in the regular season to starter in the final four games of The Finals "was awesome," he said. "That's our team. That's what makes it fun."
And LeBron? "The guy's ridiculous. If you've got cable, you know. He works harder than anybody, which for a four-time MVP speaks volumes."
Elsewhere: Chalmers cavorted down an arena hall, his young son Zachiah close behind. "Miami, we just getting started!" he said. Chalmers will forever be associated with his late heroics in Kansas' national championship win against Memphis, but "this might have surpassed that. The dream, as a little kid, of being in this moment, and I've been here twice. Two out of three ain't bad."…
Andersen sprinted into the locker-room and served up one of the lines of the night: "I need security. Champ coming through!"…
Rashard Lewis played sparingly in postseason, but that didn't remotely dampen his mood. "I'm still on a team that won a championship. Finally got a chance to experience it after playing 14 years in the league. Winning one cures everything."


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February 2010—HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death worldwide among women of reproductive age. The proportion of HIV-positive women who received antiretroviral therapy (ART) or prophylaxis to prevent HIV transmission to their infants rose from 33 percent in 2007 to 45 percent in 2008.1
Despite this improvement, around 430,000 children were born with HIV in 2008, and the number of women living with HIV is steadily increasing. In Asia, women now represent 35 percent of all people living with HIV.1
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently released new recommendations on the use of antiretrovirals to prevent mother-to-child transmission.2 The primary goals of the revised approach are to improve maternal health and reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission to five percent or less. WHO now calls for all patients, including HIV-positive pregnant women, to begin ART when their CD4 counts fall below 350 cells/mm3, or at WHO clinical stages 3 or 4. Starting ART at higher CD4 counts can prevent severe damage to the immune system, reducing the risk of HIV-related health problems and death.
For women who do not need to start ART yet for their own health, WHO has recommended that antiretroviral prophylaxis be started as early as the fourteenth week of pregnancy and continued through the breastfeeding period. This is more aggressive than WHO's 2006 recommendation of treatment at a CD4 count below 200 cells/mm3 and prophylaxis after the twenty-eighth week of pregnancy. It is also the first time WHO has promoted ART for HIV-positive mothers while breastfeeding.
However, implementing these recommendations will present feasibility and cost challenges in order to identify patients at higher CD4 counts and provide them with access to a broader range of antiretroviral options. In addition, while the global average for coverage of maternal antiretrovirals for preventing mother-to-child transmission in low- and middle-income countries is now 45 percent, in Asia it is still only 25 percent.1 Despite other HIV treatment successes in the region, the low scale-up of these services continues to be a challenge.
For specific recommendations on antiretroviral regimens for women and infants, please see http://www.who.int/hiv/pub/mtct/advice/en/.
1 UNAIDS and WHO. AIDS Epidemic Update. November 2009; Geneva: UNAIDS.2 WHO. Rapid Advice: Use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants. November 2009; Geneva: WHO. The final revised guidelines are scheduled for release later in 2010.
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April 26, 2005 • Posted By Shaun Lyon
The latest issue of Enlightenment, the fanzine of the Doctor Who Information Network, North America's largest and longest running Doctor Who fan club, is in release. In the latest issue: Ready, Set...: Our contributors gets ready for the new series with a slew of fantastic articles including: Our "what kind of Doctor Who producer are you" Quiz, an interview with 1960s companion Peter Purves, reviews of all the latest books, audios and DVDs including: The Next Life The Juggernauts, The Indestructible Man, the latest Short Trips anthologies and more! More information about "Enlightenment" can be found at DWIN's website at www.dwin.org. (Thanks to Mike Doran)


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People on Happy Hollow Road haven't been happy about what's been coming out of their wells, and they're fixin' to do something about it.
Residents of the Sulphur Springs District road will become the first in Carroll County to help install public water under the self-help program, with construction tentatively scheduled to start Sept. 15.
Volunteers will operate the shovels at the jobsite and install the pipes, with the Carroll Public Service Authority supplying the equipment needed, an equipment operator and supervision.
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The invitation directed me to call an 800 number, to agree to Google's unprecedentedly restrictive terms of service, and to choose a color: Charcoal, Tangerine, Shale, Cotton or Sky. For the fashion-challenged, that translates to black, orange, gray, white or light blue.
I opted for black because it goes with everything and it's less likely to attract attention, which appears to be difficult to avoid if you wear Glass in public.
The invitation asked me to choose between picking up Glass at a Google office in Mountain View, New York or Los Angeles, or having Glass shipped. As a resident of San Francisco, I opted to for the in-person pickup experience at Google's sprawling headquarters in Mountain View.
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First Contact
Google's Glass distribution operation is housed in one of its office buildings on Charleston Road, just south of the company's main office complex. A larger-than-life model of the Android logo, perhaps 15 feet tall and formed from green plastic, stands to the left of the entrance.
Outside, several Google employees were milling around, some wearing Glass. Once checked in by the security guard, I was ushered inside to a workshop at the intersection of technology and fashion. Computer workstations lurked beneath desks topped by keyboards and monitors. It all had been shoved toward the back to make room for several tables where the invited Glass Explorers could sit with Google employees to try on their hardware and learn the ropes.
There were a lot of mirrors, something not typically abundant in tech company offices. But then Glass aspires to be fashionable. When computing becomes wearable, you need a fitting room.
Apple's stores are often cited as exemplary retail operations, but the Google Glass customer experience deserves recognition, too. Simply put, Google has learned how to make a transaction into an event, and that showmanship will serve the company well if and when it formally launches its own stores.
Granted, Glass is a low-volume, luxury product -- $1,500 plus sales tax -- but the level of personal attention Google employees provided and the quality of the hardware and the packaging will generate a lot of goodwill among early adopters in the development community.
Google refers to its developer relations personnel as developer advocates rather than evangelists, to emphasize conversational exchange over product promotion. With Glass, developer outreach might best be described as coddling. Clearly, Google wants to get off on the right foot.
Glass Unboxing
Glass comes in the same kind of sturdy white cardboard box used for Google's Chromebook Pixel. It's a step up from the thinner black cardboard used to package Google's Nexus 7 tablet. It includes an exterior label that reads, "This box is 100% paper. So use it to write a letter to your Grandma. Or at least, please, recycle it. All of it." You won't want to recycle it, because it's that nice.
At 10.5-inch x 7-inch, the box seems rather large for a product you might expect to be the size of a pair of eyeglasses. But Glass doesn't fold, so it needs a larger container. And it comes with accessories.
Beneath the Glass hardware you'll find a micro-USB charging cable, a black-and-white USB outlet adapter, a fabric Glass storage bag with a protective shell at the bottom and a small paper envelope with printed FAQs and two pairs of extra silicone nose pads.
I also received two additional boxes: snap-on tinted and clear lenses (which presumably will be available eventually with a corrective prescriptions). Either of these help make Glass less odd when in public: People notice when you're wearing eyeglass frames without any lenses.
The Glass hardware itself is elegant. The titanium frame is strong and flexible and electronics are unobtrusive, packed away in plastic on the right-hand side of the frame. You have to look carefully to identify the power button and the micro-USB port. Glass is heavier than normal eyewear however: 42 grams, compared to 26 grams for a regular pair of reading glasses. So wearing Glass for long periods of time -- several hours -- can be uncomfortable, an issue magnified by the uneven weight distribution.
Getting To Know Glass
Glass takes some getting used to. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Just remember, you're not on the desktop anymore.
To get the attention of Glass, you either tap the frame by your right temple or you tilt your head back 30 degrees (the angle is settable). Doing so turns on the display screen to show the time and the "ok glass" prompt, which you have to say before speaking a command. Available commands include: google, take a picture, record a video, get directions, send a message and make a call. Prompting Glass to listen for search query terms can also be accomplished by tapping the frame with two fingers.


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Bieber won't face charge in encounter
Prosecutors decided not to file any charges against Justin Bieber after investigators found no evidence that the pop star had kicked and punched a photographer after leaving a movie theater last month, a document obtained Wednesday states.
Prosecutors had been asked by police to consider filing a misdemeanor battery charge against Bieber, but Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators found no visible injuries, video or photographs to confirm the allegations by the photographer.
Bieber, 18, was leaving the theater in suburban Calabasas with girlfriend Selena Gomez on May 27 when he had the encounter in a parking lot.
'Theory' star Bialik divorcing husband
Mayim Bialik is splitting from her husband of nine years.
The 36-year-old actress says in a statement posted online Wednesday that she and husband Michael Stone have decided to divorce. The couple has two young sons.
Bialik recently released a book about attachment parenting, but says the philosophy that encourages forming close bonds with near-constant physical contact played no role in the couple's split.
The Emmy-nominated star of CBS' The Big Bang Theory says "relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose."
Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell offer custom recordings
Imagine having William Shatner supply your outgoing voicemail message. Or maybe you'd prefer Morgan Freeman coolly telling callers to wait for the beep.
Or perhaps having Betty White joke around is more your speed.
All it takes is $299 and some luck.
The advocacy group Autism Speaks is offering customrecorded messages from those celebrities as well as Will Ferrell, Carrie Fisher, Tom Hanks, Derek Jeter, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart and Ed Asner.
From Dec. 3 to Dec. 9, a limited number of 20-second long MP3 messages will be recorded by each celebrity on a firstcome, first-served basis for fans to do with as they wish. All requests must be of the PG variety.
Lohan: Return to red carpet 'great'
Lindsay Lohan arrived an hour late to the red carpet to celebrate the premiere of Liz & Dick but basked in the media frenzy - saying it felt good to have the focus on her work as an actress.
"It feels great to be on a red carpet for working hard. It feels good," Lohan said. Lohan went for an old- Hollywood glamour look in a slinky ivory slip dress, her long hair wavy and parted on the side with ruby red lips. Lohan plays screen icon Elizabeth Taylor in the made- for- TV film about her romance with Richard Burton.
"I wasn't going to let them make the movie without me, first of all," joked Lohan. "I harassed (executive producer) Larry Thompson. But just because it's such an iconic story of love and defeat and loving it and Elizabeth Taylor was such an icon of mine and so many other people's that it was an important film to depict correctly."
Promoter: Chris Brown cancels Guyana show
Organizers say American R&B star Chris Brown has canceled a stadium concert in Guyana after local protests over his 2009 beating of then-girlfriend Rihanna.
Brown was billed to headline a Dec. 26 show.
But he drew the ire of women's rights groups and opposition lawmakers who said Brown would not be welcome in Guyana three years after his assault of Barbadian superstar Rihanna.


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Where will the Red Sox turn for starting pitching?
This is perhaps the most critical area of the team and arguably the biggest need they have. It was subpar last season and perhaps Jon Lester, Clay Buchholz, Felix Doubront, and a returning John Lackey will collectively improve it. But the Sox need some outside help. Ideally they need a top of the rotation starter, but it appears that ship has sailed.
Remaining top free agents include Anibal Sanchez, Kyle Lohse, and Edwin Jackson. We hear the Red Sox are at least in on these guys. To what degree?
The Red Sox would seem to have to break their pattern of 3-year, $39 million deals to obtain one of them.
Otherwise they're looking at possible trades.
The Cubs would still move Matt Garza. While he's on schedule to start the season after an elbow injury, it may be that teams would have to watch him in spring training before executing a deal. What Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer would want in return is what could nix things. The Cubs are trying to build up their young talent depth and there are players – Xander Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley Jr. - the Red Sox just won't part with.
The Marlins would likely deal Ricky Nolasco for the right price. Again, a middle-to end-of-the rotation starter. There's always Gavin Floyd with the White Sox, though the Red Sox could shoot higher for John Danks. The Dodgers, who have hit the jackpot by signing Zack Greinke and Hyun-Jin Ryu, will make lefty Chris Capuano available. The Red Sox tried to deal for him during the September collapse of 2011.
Capuano, a West Springfield, Mass., native had a decent year for the Dodgers, going 12-12 with a 3.72 ERA and a very good 1.22 WHIP in 198 1/3 innings.
The Mets would deal the top two pitchers in their rotation – Cy Young winner R.A. Dickey and veteran lefty Johan Santana. The Red Sox have talked to the Mets about Dickey. The Mets would have to eat the majority of Santana's $25.5 million salary (and $5.5 million buyout) to deal him and they appear willing to do that.
The Indians could consider deals for Justin Masterson or Ubaldo Jimenez, but it would be costly.
Otherwise, the Sox will have to consider free agents like Shaun Marcum, Francisco Liriano, Carl Pavano, Chien Ming Wang, Carlos Zambrano, Carlos Villanueva, and Derek Lowe-types. It doesn't appear Ryan Dempster or Brett Myers want to (or in Myers' case can) pitch in Boston.
There are in-house choices like Franklin Morales, Alfredo Aceves, Junichi Tazawa, and Andrew Miller.
The Red Sox have trade bait in Jacoby Ellsbury and Jarrod Saltalamacchia, but so far the Saltalamacchia market hasn't been great and the Ellsbury market is difficult because of his sign-ability problem.


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One and only...Aventus!
Allure Homme Blanche
Terre D Hermes
Green Irish Tweed
Aventus Creed
Acqua Di Gio
Which of these fragrances do you guys think is better for the spring summer time of the year or should I say which one do you prefer and why?
Forgot about Issey Miyake L'Eau d'Issey Intense as well!
One and only...Aventus!
allure home edition blanche!
They're all good but I prefer TdH because of the earthy, smoky vibe which reminds me of bonfires and spring.
Yup. All good, but I'll go with Green Irish Tweed
I'll go with Green Irish Tweed
Selection Verte.
360 red also and aramis bermuda tonic
spring I find myself reaching for l'homme libre or live jazz
They're all very good choices. For the cold/crisp/moist Spring mornings that morph into warm afternoons, I'll DEFINITELY be feeling Allure Homme Edition Blanche!
Look into Allure Homme Sport as well
1) Chergui (Serge Lutens)
2) Dior Homme Intense
3) Aventus (Creed)
4) Allure Homme Sport (Chanel)
5) La Nuit De l'Homme (YSL)


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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
From our Orcs to yours.
Dorf. The other white meat.
Dinner. For the Horde!
The wife and I will be enjoying the holiday with a little turkey, (plainstrider is just too gamey), a walk around the neighborhood, a little Warlock quest, a little Furbolg rep grinding, and who knows what else. Life's good. Life's fun. We're thankful. We hope your day is a great one, and that you have a lot to be thankful for as well.
P.S. "Plainstrider is just too gamey." Gamey! AH HA HA! No pun intended when I typed it, but it was a pretty good one. 🙂


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You say in your first post that you only notice a loss of performance and pop ups when surfing the internet. This would indecate that your problem is not hardware related.
This would suggest that your install of McAfee has caused the problem. You say you have tried to reinstall windows but are getting errors, i take it you have tried to reinstall over the original installation and this is where you are getting problems.
Re-boot to your install disk and choose the option to delete your original partition. Then go through the proccess of recreating a new partition and installation.
You can check inside your box to make sure that everything is seeted properly befor you do this just to be sure.


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Journalist Spencer-Wendel discovered she was ill when her left hand suddenly became withered. As she struggles to come to terms with knowing something is wrong-not wanting to find out, then not fully believing the doctor's ALS diagnosis-she writes with courage and strength. When she gets the news, the 40-something author is in her prime, blessed with a great reporter job at the Palm Beach Post and loving family. Using benefits from an insurance policy, she quits her job and decides to take trips with her family and friends, so that she can have all of the amazing experiences she's put off and create lasting memories. She goes to the final space shuttle launch with her youngest son, having never been to Cape Canaveral, even though her home is only hours away. A few months later, joined by her best friend, she sees the aurora borealis in the Yukon. It's there that Spencer-Wendel's philosophy plays out, as it does many times more, as she briefly caught the lights before tripping and missing the rest. She is appreciative and grateful for those few seconds and banishes regrets. There are certainly moments of heartbreak that she doesn't shy away from, such as when she goes shopping for bridal dresses with her teenaged daughter, knowing she'll miss any future wedding. Spencer-Wendel's life will sadly be cut short, but in writing her story, she shows her family and friends how to go on, choosing happiness and love over fear. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.


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Weakdraft is a dead poster walking...his days are slowly coming to an end in this forum.
But back to the topic..............If Burress isn't going to hang around, I too would love a big red zone target for Ben. With Miller on the shelf, the need becomes even more apparent.
I'm watching to see what Dallas does with Miles Austin. Just curious.


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Warwick natives having early impact on the pitch
School is back in session, and a quartet of Warwick natives are proving to be a handful on the pitches of New England, playing key roles in early-season victories for their respective teams.
Looking to build on a 14-goal campaign in 2012, Pilgrim alumna Briana Tomaselli has been entrusted with the captaincy at Mount Ida, who are thin on experience but long on effort and determination.
The ex-Patriot opened her account for the season in a 2-0 win against Newbury on Sept. 4, scoring the insurance marker in the Mustangs' first victory on the season.
Warwick Vets graduate Lindsey Garvey opened the scoring for Emmanuel in the Saints' 3-2 triumph over Fitchburg State in early September, scoring off a corner in the contest's 18th minute.
Like Tomaselli, Garvey has been selected as a captain this autumn, but is sharing leadership duties with two other teammates.
UMass-Dartmouth's Talia D'Ambruoso has seen significant playing time for the Corsairs early in 2013, with the former Pilgrim standout starting three of the four matches to date.
D'Ambruoso notched her first goal at the collegiate level on Sept. 4, scoring the first UMass-Dartmouth goal in a 4-0 blanking of Salve Regina.
Last but not least, Kelsey Imondi, who is now plying her trade at Assumption, helped the Greyhounds to lift the season-opening Catholic Cup two weeks ago after a 2-1 overtime win over Stonehill in the final.
The Toll Gate alum made her mark in the semifinal contest versus Saint Michael's, assisting on the opening goal of the match in the 14th minute of Assumption's 2-0 triumph over the Purple Knights.
Imondi was also selected to the all-tournament team as one of four Greyhound players to be honored by the panel.


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After having gone the traditional publishing route with my seven other books, I'm excited to be launching my first e-book, a paranormal novel titled Dark Entry.
Combining history and fact with fiction, Dark Entry is based on the real-life—and haunted—location of Dudleytown, an 18th-century ghost town atop Coltsfoot Mountain in Cornwall, Connecticut. I've personally visited the site, as have many ghosthunters, including Ed and Lorraine Warren, the Godparents of ghosthunting in America. I can tell you that it's one creepy place!
If you're interested in colonial and Native American history, or you just like a good ghost story to shiver your bones, then I know you'll enjoy Dark Entry, available on Amazon.com. Let me hear from you; I'd love to know what you think of it. Feel free to recommend it to your friends.
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A Novel ABout Dudleytown
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Posted 25 August 2012 - 03:14 PM
This sounds like a good read to me. I don't have an e-reader yet, still sitting on the fence as to which to buy, but when I do get one, will check this out. We do have some discussions here at GhostVillage about Dudleytown that you might want to check out.
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Posted 25 August 2012 - 03:32 PM
Can you post a link to your book? I do have Kindle for PC...
Don't take life too seriously, no one ever gets out alive.
Posted 25 August 2012 - 04:15 PM
Here's the link, Chryscat: http://www.amazon.co...ry john kachuba
Posted 26 August 2012 - 05:42 PM
Thanks John. I'll put that on my "to read" list.
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A $2 million grant is coming to Shoreline Community College from the U.S. Department of Labor as part of a national effort to help meet our nation's critical shortage of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) workers.
The project, known as "Credentials to Careers," will involve colleges in five states. Shoreline will use the money to increase the number of manufacturing graduates in the region by better aligning the curriculum with jobs, adding career navigation services and expanding online resources.
The announcement is timely with the education-advocacy group A+ Washington recently reporting that by 2018, the number of STEM-related jobs will grow by 24 percent in the state. Currently, only 74 percent of Washington high students earn a diploma and 48 percent of beginning college students requires remedial classes.
The grant was announced by Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and is funded as part of the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative. It comes just a week after Shoreline was awarded a $30,000 grant from the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges to work with the Shoreline School District on aligning math and English curricula.
The Credentials to Careers grant builds upon a number of innovations at Shoreline, including stackable credentials and Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training (I-BEST). The college's Computer Numeric Controlled (CNC) Machining program was the first in the state to receive National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) certification.
A number of organizations will support the implementation of the three-year project, including the Aspen Institute, Achieving the Dream and the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County.
For more information, contact Brandon Rogers, Special Assistant for Grants and Contracts, (206) 546-4717, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
For more information about the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training initiative, visit www.doleta.gov/taaccct/


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NEWARK, N.J. — Husband-and-wife members of the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" cast have pleaded guilty to fraud.
Teresa and Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice (JOO'-dys) pleaded guilty to several counts including bankruptcy fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, and failing to pay taxes.
Under federal guidelines, Joe Giudice faces a potential sentence of 37 to 46 months and Teresa Giudice could get 21 to 27 months.
In a statement read by her lawyer, Teresa Guidice said she is taking responsibility for her mistakes and is "heartbroken" over the effect it has had on her four young daughters.
The couple was accused last year of exaggerating income while applying for loans before the show debuted in 2009, then hiding their fortunes in a bankruptcy filing after their first season aired.


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They've become resourceful while enduring the situation caused by frozen water pipes.
"Neighbors have been helpful," Carter said. "I have a little dolly so I run around with these 5-gallon bottles picking up water. When I go out with the truck I take water bottles with me."
Neighbors have helped by inviting the women for dinner and a shower.
"You take less showers and if it were summer, it would be like camping," Carter said. "You could shower outdoors."
She's thankful they have electricity, and heat from a gas furnace and wood stove.
The problem began with a frozen meter buried about 21 inches in the ground, Carter said. A crew from the city of Moab thawed the pipe from the street to her meter, but Carter said the city will not thaw pipes that are located on private property, such as the water line that runs from the meter to the house.
"It would work, but they don't want to be liable for something going wrong with the pipe," Carter said.
She and Williams hired a welder to do that job, but his equipment wasn't adequate, Carter said.
Now they're in a waiting game until temperatures warm up. And they are not alone.
Moab City Public Works Director Jeff Foster said about 125 residences, and a few businesses, have had similar problems in the last two weeks. The culprit is the longest stretch of severely cold weather in 25 years, he said.
"We've had such a hard freeze that it's frozen two or two and a half feet down into the ground," Foster said. "That takes more than a few days to thaw."
He said Monday that there were still about nine residences with pipes the city has not been able to thaw. Also, sewer lines were frozen in another four or five homes, Foster said. He said he has heard stories of sewage backing up in some houses during the cold spell.
People have had varied responses to the lack of water. Foster said some have told him they're going to be out of town so don't make their house a priority. Others have been downright cranky, he said.
The problem isn't just water lines from the street to individual meters, and from meters to houses.
"Some main water lines are breaking," Foster said. "The ruptures are mostly on 400 East. We had a main water line break by the Pack Creek bridge."
He said the water is so deep near the bridge that crews have not been able to find a way to attack the problem.
"We're investigating the best way to go," Foster said.
The ruptured line is vital because it is the backup water source for Grand County High School, WabiSabi and Dave's Corner Market, Foster said.
Mark Sovine, manager of the Grand Water and Sewer Service District, said its customers are experiencing the same problems. His office has received 75 calls recently reporting frozen meters, sewer lines or water lines.
Some are still frozen, he said. The district has been trying to provide water by creating temporary lines to homes from nearby fire hydrants or a neighboring house's meter, Sovine said.
Although temperatures have warmed in recent days, he said more trouble probably lies ahead. That's because as pipes thaw, some will show signs of having broken during the intense cold, according to Sovine.
"The next couple of weeks will be hectic," he said.
And the problems are not isolated to residential areas. The Markle Insurance office is among the hardest-hit businesses. Owner Dorothy Markle said a copper tubing pipe on a restroom wall froze and then burst, shooting water so forcefully that it made a 6-inch by 8-inch hole in the opposite wall.
That happened Jan. 17 and the office still had equipment covered by plastic as of Monday.
"The damage is very, very expensive," said Markle, who added that she could not yet estimate the cost.
There were 3 inches of standing water throughout the building, she said, and the company's computer towers were all located on the floor. It is still unknown whether copy and fax machines will work again, Markle said.
"The telephone company is coming in from Monticello to change all the connections in floor plugs," she said. "We'll know then if we've lost the new phone system."
Despite the problems, Markle said the staff has been able to keep the business open by operating from home with a limited presence in the main office. She said customers "have been great" about the inconvenience.
Markle herself is staying positive about the incident.
"I do have very good insurance with a low deductible," she said. "And we didn't lose any records."


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(CNN) -- President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a stunning decision that comes just eight months into his presidency.
Less than nine months into his presidency, Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.
1 of 2 The Norwegian Nobel Committee said it honored Obama for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
The president had not been mentioned as among front-runners for the prize, and the roomful of reporters gasped when Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel committee, uttered Obama's name.
The president, who was awakened to be told he had won, said he was humbled to be selected, according to an administration official.
The Nobel committee recognized Obama's efforts to solve complex global problems including working toward a world free of nuclear weapons.
"Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future," the committee said.
Jagland said the decision was "unanimous" and came with ease.
He rejected the notion that Obama had been recognized prematurely for his efforts and said the committee wanted to promote the president just it had Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 in his efforts to open up the Soviet Union.
"His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population," it said.
Obama's recognition comes less than a year after he became the first African-American to win the White House. He is the fourth U.S. president to win the prestigious prize and the third sitting president to do so.
The announcement Friday in Oslo, Norway, came as a surprise -- Obama had not been mentioned among front-runners -- and the roomful of reporters gasped when Thorbjorn Jagland, chairman of the Nobel committee, announced Obama's name. Jagland said the decision was unanimous and came with ease.
He rejected the notion that Obama had been recognized prematurely for his efforts and said the committee wanted to promote the president just it had Mikhail Gorbachev in 1990 in his efforts to open up the Soviet Union.
Jagland said he hoped the prize would help Obama resolve the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, last year's laureate, said it was clear the Nobel committee wanted to encourage Obama on the issues he has been discussing on the world stage.
"I see this as an important encouragement," Ahtisaari said.
The committee wanted to be "far more daring" than in recent times and make an impact on global politics, said Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of the International Peace Research Institute.
And Wangari Muta Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who won the 2004 Peace Prize, said the win for Obama, whose father was Kenyan, would help Africa move forward.
"I think it is extraordinary," she said. "It will be even greater inspiration for the world. He has shown how we can probably come together, work together in a cooperative way."
The award comes at a crucial time for Obama, who has initiated peace missions to key parts of the globe.
Obama's envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell, has returned to the region to advocate for peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. Mitchell met Thursday with Israeli President Shimon Peres. He plans to meet Friday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before talking with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton starts a six-day trip to Europe and Russia on Friday. On the trip, the secretary will discuss the next steps on Iran and North Korea, and international efforts to have the two countries end their nuclear programs.
The centerpiece of the trip will be her visit to Moscow, where she will work toward an agreement to take the place of the Start II arms control pact, which expires December 5. She also will address the new bilateral presidential commission that is working on a broad range of issues, from arms control to health.
Mohamed ElBaradei, who won the 2005 peace prize for his efforts to prevent nuclear energy being used for military means, said Obama deserved to win for his efforts to bring Iran to the table for direct nuclear talks with the United States.
"I could not think of anybody who is more deserving," said ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
As the news of Obama's win broke online, postings on social network sites Twitter and Facebook expressed surprise. Many started with the word: Wow.
The last sitting U.S. president to win the peace prize was Woodrow Wilson in 1919. The other was Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. Jimmy Carter had been out of office for more than two decades when he won in 2002.
This year's Peace Prize nominees included 172 people -- among them three Chinese dissidents, an Afghan activist and a controversial Colombian lawmaker -- and 33 organizations, the highest number of nominations ever.
The deadline for nominations must be postmarked by February 1 each year. Obama was inaugurated on January 20.
The Nobel recipient receives a prize of about $1.4 million.
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I personally have to say I feel its no a bad choice, he has done amazing in strenghtening the relations between the US and the rest of the world, the muslim world in particular. Impressive in only 8 month in office. I still feel its a little premature thou.
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Terrorists and America haters worldwide applaud.
I wonder what they saw during his 11 days in office that warranted this?
Oh, I know... he wants to weaken America, so hats off to Obama the Marxist.
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Not being american gives me quite the different perspective of what he is doing. A lot of hate and animosity towards the USA had vanished during his first 8-9 month in office. Not only among extremists but among regular europeans like myself.
Make no misstake, I love USA and will go there atleast once a year but I didn't like the Bush administration at all. Starting two wars, one for revenge and one for oil doesn't sit really well with the ret of the world. Its kinda like being the biggest kid in the playground, either you be th ebully that harrasses the weaker or you be the champion who protects those in need. President Obama has brought that hope to the world that the USA will once again be that champion, country out to create peace and prosperity, not war and hate. If that ain't strenghtening the country I don't know what would be.
And he's not going to Iran kissing ass. He's actually trying something called diplomacy. You could bomb Iran back to the stoneage, that still would not help. They would build their nuclear weapons or by them either way. And then they would really have a reason to be hateful towards the US. Iran in reality is not mad directly at the USA but at USA helping Israel, but thats a subject I won't go in to right now.
And I just want to add, while I don't like the wars I support the troops. Sweden has troops in afghainistan too and I'm not happy about that either, a bunch of my friends and teammates (both swedish and american) has gone and I support them all.
W.T. Sherman is my favorite General. After all he did order Atlanta to be burned to the ground.
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Originally Posted by CrusaderI guess he made the rest of the world feel warm and fuzzy while making Americans Hot and Dizzy. I say let him go to another country and be President. Unemployment still going up, we're still spending money like there's no tomorrow, Illegal Aliens gone wild, he's divided the country with his racist opinions, prerequisite for a CZAR position; don't pay your taxes and be a communist. Here's an article for ya:
Saturday, August 22, 2009
What has the new administration accomplished?
I started thinking the other day, what has the President done, or not done for that matter, since captivating America with his boyish smile and preacher's wit all on the way to winning the highest office in the land? These are only the issues I could think of off the top of my head and it's a fairly good size head but I still couldn't think of everything:
1. Closing Gitmo - Well it surely was easy signing that executive order to close Gitmo but finding some friends to take the prisoners didn't work and now the solution is to bring them to American soil. Are you nuts? Yes, you are! Even if you fulfill this campaign promise you won't really be solving the problem you'll only be relocating it.
2. Bring the troops home - Let's see, they'd already worked out the process for America's withdrawal from Iraq before you got involved and you haven't mentioned Afghanistan in a while and some military personnel are telling you we may have to increase troop numbers there. Oh wait you can't do that because you promised to bring them home. Damn rock and a hard place ain't it! There's nothing here to see, keep moving along please.
3. Raising taxes on the wealthy - This would be real easy to do. Guess that pen broke after signing the Gitmo Closure. See Issue #1.
4. Stimulus Package - You've spent 10% of the money that was shoved down America's throat and rushed through the legislature and for what? For the stimulus to work you would've had to spend some of that money, so once again your misdirection didn't work and instead you propped up the mismanaged banks and automobile makers with loans. I guess those that have money can keep getting as much as they want, but for Americans who pay your damn check you just keep wanting more. Still no substance to this presidency and as a matter of fact, I'm getting really wee wee'd off right now! I never thought I could use that in a sentence.
5. Cash for Clunkers - See Issue #4. The solution; give more money to the automakers who took our money in the first place, then 2 out of 3 of the biggies claimed bankruptcy (took more of our money along with everyone else's). I will give you the fact that it might put some autoworkers back to work for a few weeks, but we're not even really sure of that, now are we?
6. Health care - What you and some Democrats are proposing will destroy the very system you say you want to save (not really). You've already received concessions from the American Hospital Association who said it was negotiating on behalf of it's member hospitals, well not mine. You see I've worked in the industry for about 22 years and this is what will happen if your plan was passed: it wouldn't ensure every uninsured American, so at best the problem remains, uninsured patients still go to the Emergency Room, smaller and distressed hospitals close because they've been forced to accept reduced payments, unemployment rate increases because of those hospital closings, people have to drive further for health care, people don't get health care because they have to drive further for it, health care is rationed because there aren't enough providers, doctors still won't accept the new public option insurance, suppliers to health care organizations have to lay off employees because demand has shrunk and the entire supply chain is effected. I had to stop there because the only positive that will come out of a public option will be that the government controls it. You tried to use the Post Office as an example of why we should do this, well it's broke so that would mean that we could look forward to another government run plan going broke. Oh joy joy! Once again nothing here to see, keep moving!
7. Racism - I can't believe that you actually jumped to the conclusion that a man of color was being discriminated against by a white cop without any facts of what actually took place other than the obvious fact that one man was black and one man was white. This is the day that I actually saw your true colors and I will never believe a word you ever say. I might be a redneck but you're damn sure a racist. There is something to see here, just not what the President thought we'd see.
8. Change - Lucky I've still got some left. I'll give you this one. Things have changed for the worse since you took office. What about that unemployment rate not going above 8%, oh wait that's another issue.
And finally, you said you wanted to bring the country together and I must say you have but it's united in it's fight against you, so I don't think that was the unity you were looking for. You can try to manipulate the media and what's said to Americans to protect your image, but remember Americans are who give you your image and lately you are as transparent as your administration was supposed to be!
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All good comments ... my grandfather always told me (he was a retired colonel in USArmy and a WWII vet manning the Eastern Europe front) that Finland is the only country to ever repay the USA. All other countries still owe a huge debt to the USA for their not speaking German or Japanese today, including my country of origin, France. It is at all still possible to collect those seriously delinquent account receivables from all those countries whom we freed from those tyrannies? Could we erase our deficit if were able to collect? One thing is sure now, no one respects the USA anymore as the rest of the world feels they have carte blanche to continue to pilfer and pillage. Is that the kind of peace and change that was intended?
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1. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5RogierBos May 8, 2010 6:14 AM (in response to RogierBos)
What - no one? I should think it is a simple question... Can anyone advise me?
2. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5Jeremy AB May 8, 2010 8:57 AM (in response to RogierBos)
QUESTION 1: I am certain that the install for CS5 keeps the "important" files of it's own but if you made your own it's probably best to check that they are there in CS5 before you uninstall CS4, and if need be transfer them over.
QUESTION 2: Go into one of the application's folder and double-click the uninstaller. For instance, go into the Photoshop folder and near the bottom look for "Uninstall Adobe Photoshop CS4". This will run the setup app and you can choose to uninstall all of CS4 there.
Hope that helps!
3. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5Dan_Clements May 14, 2010 4:54 PM (in response to RogierBos)
Hi Roger:
Would be curious to hear what happened with your uninstall. I encountered a similar situation, checked with NAPP due to the many problems I have had with Adobe Support. The uninstall almost worked.
However, when I removed CS4 from my lap top, the CS5 executable programs disappeared from <Start> <All Programs> <Adobe>. I used Explorer to see what files were installed, and they were all there. So I either have to execute them from Explorer, or reinstall to make life a bit easier. So I am in the process of reinstalling. Think I will leave both sets on my Desktop.
Below is the information NAPP sent me. There are some good hints if you have customized Actions.
From NAPP:
You can uninstall through Start menu> Control Panel> Add and Remove Programs. But before you do, consider these steps:
--Open Photoshop CS4.
--In the Actions palette, select a set of custom Actions (a set, not an individual Action).
--From the Actions palette menu select Save Actions.
--Choose a location, assign a name (using the .atn file extension), click Save.
--Repeat for any additional sets of Actions.
--If you have any custom brushes, styles, etc., use Edit> Preset Manager to create and save sets.
--Quit Photoshop CS4.
--Open Photoshop CS5.
--From the Actions palette menu choose Load Actions.
--Navigate to and select your .atn files to load them into the palette.
--Use Edit> Preset Manager to load other custom items.
Also check the other programs of the Creative Suite for custom templates and such that you want to save.
4. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5Hisham Attia May 18, 2010 3:10 AM (in response to Dan_Clements)
I would uninstall everything now after I backed up my brushes and any other custom stuff. You need to check with developers of 3rd parties, if their plug-ins will work on CS5. Maybe they will provide an upgrade free of charge as time goes by. After the back-up I would uninstall everything as described above. You may even need to de-activate the SW at adobe.com before uninstall and after a re-install activate everything back again. I personally prefer clean installs as you never know what and where hereditary code lurks that may cause a problem.
Hope that helps.
5. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5GargantulaKon May 28, 2010 5:51 PM (in response to RogierBos)
Someone from Adobe should have responded, but I saw in their readme that uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5 removes CS5 files!!! They should have warned users more prominently when installing CS5. It would be wise to uninstall CS5 first and then CS4. Dumb, but necessary.
6. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5Hisham Attia May 28, 2010 9:35 PM (in response to GargantulaKon)
In general, when upgrading or installing a new version, it is always wise to backup your files and make clean installs. This is just my own experience and it did save me time with (re-) installing SW. Especially with SW-suite (not only Adobe) programs are using common and share resources. With new updates some of these resources are also updates for the new version. When uninstalling the new version, these common resources are deleted. And if you had have on older version that may have itself installed these common resources, that older version will not find them anymore, and probably will cause some issues.
7. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5chrisjblack Jun 21, 2010 10:27 AM (in response to RogierBos)
I just uninstalled CS4 Design Premium after installing CS5 Design Premium. Everything appears to be working just fine. I was actually using Photoshop CS5 during most of the uninstall process. As with any install or uninstall I would recommend backing anything up that is important to you. That said, you should be able to safely uninstall CS4 after installing CS5.
I would also recommend deactivating your CS4 prior to uninstall just to be safe. I'll post on this thread if I end up running into any problems down the line.
8. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5debwarr3 Aug 25, 2010 3:28 PM (in response to RogierBos)
I uninstalled CS4 after installing CS5, using the uninstall program for CS4. I'm now getting an error message: "One or more files in the Adobe Application Support folder, necessary for running Photoshop, are missing. Please run the Photoshop installer and re-install Photoshop". I called Adobe and they said to reinstall CS5, which I did, but I'm still getting the message. I can use CS5 after I close out the error message, and I haven't noticed any problems yet, but I'm worried that I'll have problems later (I just recently upgraded). Do I need to reinstall CS4 and then reinstall CS5 again?
9. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5GargantulaKon Aug 25, 2010 3:55 PM (in response to debwarr3)
I am not sure if that will fix the problem, but you should try it out.
10. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5debwarr3 Aug 25, 2010 5:55 PM (in response to GargantulaKon)
Do you have an idea as to what might fix it?
11. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5Hisham Attia Aug 25, 2010 10:37 PM (in response to debwarr3)
If you like to invest the time & effort, you can uninstall everything and re-install only CS5. Back-up your files first.
12. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5chrisjblack Aug 26, 2010 9:13 AM (in response to debwarr3)
Adobe has a registry cleaner for each version of Creative Suite. They can be used after an uninstall to ensure everything is removed prior to reinstallation. Here is a link to the CS5 version:
Make sure to deactivate your products prior to uninstall to ensure your cd key is released.
13. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5debwarr3 Aug 26, 2010 12:25 PM (in response to chrisjblack)
Chris, thanks for your response, particularly the reminder to deactivate the account. I wouldn't have thought about that.
Take care,
14. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5BriggsF Nov 25, 2011 12:03 PM (in response to Jeremy AB)
I have just been chatting with support and they are unclear what to do as well. After insatlling CS5 I tried to find "deactivate" in help and it is no longer an option. Does CS5 automatically take over? What other files does it use from 4? It does not update previous pulgins. So, I am still waiting to uninstall CS 4.
15. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5ellencarnahan Feb 16, 2012 8:23 AM (in response to RogierBos)
I had the same issue as some of you -I left CS4 on my system in case there was a problem with CS5, and then afterwards assumed that using the CS4 uninstaller would _only_ uninstall CS4 files. This help page seems to answer to that problem: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/407/kb407726.html -And indeed it worked for me. I had to grab the missing file "Adobe Unit Types.osax" from my backup -A file named "Adobe Unit Types" had been left in the current Library but "Adobe Unit Types.osax" was not there -that was presumably removed by the CS4 uninstaller. {The correct location is your machine's [root=hard drive]/Library, rather than [user]/Library or [root]/System/Library.} Authenticate to restore the file, and Photoshop should launch properly.
Re: the other thread, my activation/deactivation story was also unpredictable and not what the Adobe rep expected, but it managed to resolve automatically in my favor. Seems glitchy to me-Good luck!
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16. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5kongruke Jun 30, 2014 9:38 AM (in response to RogierBos)
I was told by Adobe phone support recently (May 2014) that after installing first, CS4 on a new computer, and second the CS5 upgrade on top of that, I could go ahead and uninstall CS4. I'm not sure I quite believe that (see various remarks above) and will hold on to my CS4 until I find an authoritative answer to the question. It must be a very standard question, and it's odd Adobe hasn't provided an answer (or, if they have, it's so difficult to find). No doubt they would prefer me to upgrade (if that's what it is) to CS6.
Nicholas Clifford
17. Re: Uninstalling CS4 after installing CS5MichaelKazlow Jul 1, 2014 8:34 PM (in response to kongruke)
Uninstalling CS4 will not effect CS5. At least it did not on my Mac or PC. However, you could have trouble re-installing CS4 without uninstalling CS5.


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After reading Mr. Howard's opinion piece "Fracking in the Eye of the Beholder," I had to respond to his statement, "You can feel differently about truck traffic, noise and even emissions if you are getting paid life changing royalties."
How life changing is it when your health has been irreparably damaged, your town has turned into the Wild West and the land and air are so contaminated that it is impossible to remediate? Rather, the question should be: "How much is your health and quality of life worth?"
Take Williston, N.D., in the Bakken oilfields, which is undergoing "boom or bust" economic growth. CNBC reports, "Boomtown is under immense pressure, crushed by truck traffic, plagued by lagging infrastructure and shocked by a surge in violent crime."
Is this the future that Williston had wished for? That people looking for housing can no longer find an affordable place to live because rents have gone sky high to accommodate the out-of-town workers who have come to work in the oilfields? That traffic accidents have tripled over the past year, as overworked and sleep-deprived semi truck drivers with loads of toxic chemicals play bumper cars with local traffic? That prostitution is alive and well to service the influx of oil and gas workers? That accidental and intentional toxic wastewater spills are contaminating the land and water supply? That the population is being subjected to heavy doses of toxic volatile organic compounds and non-VOC emissions -- causing acute and chronic health issues including cancer? Is this what life changing nirvana looks like?
This isn't the vision I have for Longmont nor do the other 25,346 voters who voted 'yes' on Question 300, the Longmont Public Health, Safety and Wellness Act.


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But I like my buns crispy on top.
uh, don't read too much into that.
I thought it was to make the dome put by the aliens easier to find.
Earth used to be a cute little sun.
The moon became tidally locked within a few million years after its formation (around 4.5 billion years ago), so it's been tidally locked for over 4 billion years.
But really, did the earth stay hot enough for "a few million years" - hot enough to affect the locked side of the moon more than the other?
The moon would have cooled somewhat faster, being smaller, but this theory requires the earth to stay hot enough to affect the "earth side" of the for a very long time after the moon has cooled enough to solidify.
How does lunar recession affect things here?
Space-ron-paul was right! Convert your lunar-coins to bitcoins before the collapse!
But really, did the earth stay hot enough for "a few million years" - hot enough to affect the locked side of the moon more than the other?
The moon has no atmosphere, thus radiation from the earth cannot affect the far side of the moon at all. So obviously, even to this day, the earth still affects "the locked side of the moon more than the other". The question is simply how much. The moon and earth were both molten after the collision, so it was not a matter of the earth being hot enough to melt the moon, but merely the earth imparting energy to prolong the cooling of the near side. No matter what, the near side must have cooled slower than the far side - it's a straightforward matter of thermodynamics. One side of the moon was receiving energy from the earth while the other side was not. The near side didn't need to stay so hot it was incandescent, but merely "softer" so that small impacts would heal more on the near side than the far side, and the duration only needed to be long enough to result in some degree of visible difference, which is what we still see today.
The whole thing sounds plausible to me.
No, the article itself mentions the impact difference between the two sides should be less than 1%.
The near side had much more surface in a liquid state during and after many of the impacts. The article claims heat from the Earth was the cause.
I'd be more inclined to trust the article if they hadn't claimed the moon is 40 earth diameters away from the earth...
The moon wasn't always that far away, it's orbit drifts out a few centimeters every year.
I'd be more inclined to trust the article if they hadn't claimed the moon is 40 earth diameters away from the earth...
Meh. A simple error in the writeup, which I'm sure is not present in the scientific papers.
Earth is 12,742 km in diameter. The moon is 363,104 km, 28.5 diameters, away at perigee, and 405,696 km, 31.8 diameters, at apogee.
In round numbers the moon is 30 Earth diameters away.
This remained a mystery for a very long time
Martians notwithstanding, nobody had any idea what the far side of the moon looked like before 1959 [wikipedia.org]. Sure, 55 years may be "a very long time" for some people, but we're not exactly talking about something that puzzled Hipparchus here.
Are you sure about that? Maybe not Hipparchus, but I'd wager someone wondered what the other side looked like.
So.... At the risk of stating the obvious: modern man has been on this planet for around 50,000 years; the mystery has been solved for 55 years, leaving it as a great unknown for the better part of 49,945 years.
I'd call that a long time. Unless you're a creationist. In which case the number is more like 6,000 years, which is still a pretty long time in my book.
Unless you're a creationist. In which case the number is more like 6,000 years, which is still a pretty long time in my book.
Even most creationists think the earth being 6k years old is nuts. Most think science is right for the most part and it just explains "how god did it" Keep in mind, the age of the earth is no-where in the bible. The 6k figure came from some idiots counting up begots and such... most of the christians I've talked to about the subject simply don't care and if God wanted them to make a big deal about the age of the earth they're pretty sure he'd have put a line there "and the Lord sayeth the world is 6000 years old and woe unto he who talkith about giant lizards"
Even most creationists think the earth being 6k years old is nuts. Most think science is right for the most part and it just explains "how god did it"
Don't be nit-picky. When people say "creationists", they are generally using it as shorthand for Young Earth Creationists [wikipedia.org]. Nobody says that out because it is too much of a mouthful, and if they said "YEC", few would know what they are talking about.
If someone wants to talk about people who think science is right for the most part and it just explains "how god did it", they can just say "most Christians".
I think "YEC" is quite fitting.
Or perhaps:
CRAC - Creationists Rationalizing Age Creatively
"Even most creationists think the earth being 6k years old is nuts."
In the US of A the term creationist means someone who believes that Got created everything in 144 hours sometime within the last 10,000 years.
In the reat of the world it just means you believe that God created the universe a long time ago, which scientists suggest is around 13.7 billion years.(the Big Bang)
"Creationist" is usually used to mean people who think the Earth was created several thousand years ago, all species were specifically created by God, and often some nonsense about prehistoric animals having died in the flood Noah rode out.
Personally, I think of them as people who can't credit God with more imagination than they have.
It isn't used to mean people who think God created the universe 13.8 billion years ago (or whatever) and gently directed evolution to create humans.
I think you're confus
I think the mystery being referenced here is "why are they different?" not "what does the other side look like?". In which case we only have known they are different for 55 years and therefore can't have been wondering about it for longer.
So.... At the risk of stating the obvious: modern man has been on this planet for around 50,000 years;
Australia has been colonised by "modern man" for longer than 50,000 years. Modern man left Africa more like 100,000 years ago, and if you lifted one of those babies out and plonked him in the "modern world" noone would notice the difference.
Anatomically modern humans are more like 200,000 years old, and I dare speculate that their predocessors gazed at the stars and moon.
Luna 3 was an amazing mission for the time. Give the Soviets credit where credit is due.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
The moon is hollow. It's where the director for the TV show "Earth" lives.
Yes, this theory makes sense if the moon is perfectly tidally locked. However, that isn't likely. The "far side" of the moon has been that only in human history: only a few thousand years. We're talking about billions of years. All that would be needed is a few centimeters creep per year and the far side would become the near side in the course of millions of years.
This theory doesn't explain how the marias happen to all be on the near side presently given this creep. It also does not account for the likelihood that the warming would have been across the entire moon with this creep. It also does not account for the obvious fact that there are two kinds of surfaces on the near side on the moon: if this warming had been the cause, the difference would be more semi-hemispherical in nature (warming entirely one-half of the surface of the moon) -- the marias cover a lot less than that.
My bogus detector is bleeping loudly
The earliest images of the Moon (that I'm aware of anyway) are those made in drawing by Galileo in the 1600's. I don't know what measurements you're referring to to show this "perfect" tidal locking. When made in perspective between the time period from Galileo (400 years) to the time period when the Earth was hot enough to affect the surface of the Moon (4,000,000,000 years), I hardly think anyone alive can show that the Moon has and will always keep the same face to the Earth.
Add to that the fact that t
You're providing absolutely no evidence that there is any "creep". Or that you'd expect uniform hemispheres.
And you're providing no evidence that there is not any creep, nor do you explain why there are non-uniformities in the near side of the Moon. The burden of proof is upon the one attempting to prove their theory. The fact that the Moon is tidally locked to the Earth now does not prove that it was at the time the Moon's surface that we see was formed. The fact that the surface of a lake is mirror-like calm today does not mean that there were no waves yesterday.
Someone has posited a theory. They have not pro
You said "this theory makes sense if the moon is perfectly tidally locked", and proceeded to hypothesize a small creep that would nullify the theory. In other words, I'm just going with what appears to be the accepted status, and you're claiming something else. This isn't a problem in itself, but you are providing no evidence. You can find evidence that it was tidally locked from other replies to your post. The burden of proof is indeed on those who claim it was tide-locked, and indeed they have provid
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Do you recall Dorothy Parker's short story "Arrangement in Black and White"? It illustrates our muddled thinking when we become fixated on those two terms.
On reading Walter Williams recent editorial "Would the founders of black education be proud?", the first name which came to mind was Booker T. Washington, the founder of the Tuskegee Institute. Other names which crossed my mind were Mary Mcleod Bethune, the founder of Bethune Cookman University; Lucius Henry Holsey, the founder of Paine College; Mordecai Johnson and Charles S. Johnson the first black presidents of Howard and Fisk universities, respectively; and W. E. B. DuBois who agitated for a liberal arts curriculum for black students as opposed to Washington's industrial model. What became clear is that Williams was referring to the civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesse Jackson who came into prominence beginning in the nineteen fifties. Why I mention this will become apparent.
As is his practice, Williams uses a mass of statistical data to support his arguments. The value of these statistics are greatly diminished, however, because they are unattributed or unattributable. Consequently, they are unverifiable or difficult to verify. When his data is verifiable, it turns out that much of it is either false or misleading. For example, he claims that "nationally, the black four-year high-school graduation rate is 52 percent . . . in some cities, such as Detroit 20 percent . . .." The Washington Post, however, reports a 2012 national graduation rate for black students of 65 percent, Crain's Detroit Business states that 76 percent of black students in Michigan graduated on time, and CBS Detroit notes that 65 percent of black students in Detroit graduated on scheduled in 2012.
To emphasize his assertion that "in instances of interracial crimes of violence, 83 percent of the time, a black person was the perpetrator and a white person was the victim" then notes that "Most interracial crimes assaults are committed by blacks." Although I was not able to verify the accuracy of either of these assertions, I would have to conclude that the correct datum is some number between 50 and 83 percent.
Because they are so counterintuitive and therefore controversial, Williams highlights several of the results of a recent Rasmussen Report, namely, that 31 percent of blacks think that most blacks are racists while 24 percent think more whites are racist and that among whites 38 percent consider most blacks racists, and 10 percent consider most whites racists." The term "racist" was neither defined for the by the pollster nor was it possible for a respondent to request a definition since the survey was conducted using an automated, prerecorded methodology. If Williams and I disagree on the meaning of the terms "pioneers" and "leaders", how likely is it that 1,000 respondents in the Rasmussen poll had the same referent for the word "racist"? They probably had 1,000 different referents for "racist" each based on their unique life experiences. In the absence of a definition for "racist", some of the respondents may have understood a racist to refer to someone who is sensitive to, conflicted by, or preoccupied by racial issues among other possibilities.
According to Williams, "blacks don't need to have a conversation with white people on matters of race." He has a simpler remedy for solving our country's inter and intra race problems. He would have "zero tolerance for criminal and disruptive school behavior . . . and for criminal behavior in neighborhoods. . . . that law-abiding black people should find a way" to protect themselves." Is he advocating vigilantism? And what does he mean by "zero tolerance"? If that is a first step, what further draconian steps might he adopt?
In regard to the Trayvon Martin revenge beatings, Williams is right. They are wrong, wrong, wrong, and utterly reprehensible!
George L. Gardiner is a resident of Bloomfield Township.


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Heaven opened its theater of performing arts and brought home one of its leading angels Saturday, December 29, 2012, when Mychael Latrell Thomas, 19, passed away and took his place among the stars. Mychael was born on August 28, 1993 and lived in Ridgecrest for the last five years, and off and on in Bakersfield for 14 years.
Mychael's family and friends fondly remember his affection for the performing arts, and the infectious delivery of his performances while a member of the Burroughs High School Drama Club, where he earned Thespian Honors during his graduation from Burroughs High School in June 2011. Mychael was so talented and had been accepted in the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles. One of his favorite plays to perform was the production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" Mychael's father reflected on his son's penchant for the flare of dramatics, and called him, "MC Showstopper."
The family once heard these words, "Some earn their seats in Heaven far before the rest of us," and Mychael is surely sitting with God and smiling down on his family and friends.
Mychael is survived by his parents Clay and Milo Hoggard, of Ridgecrest; and Carla and Bryant Williams, of Denver. He is also survived by Grandparents B.R. and Renee Thomas, of Bakersfield, and Gurney Hoggard of San Diego. He was preceded in death by his Grandmother Shirley Hoggard. Also surviving Mychael are, Brothers: Aaron Hoggard, of Denver, Morgan Hoggard, of Salinas, Clayton Hoggard Jr., of Ridgecrest; Step-Brothers: To'o Tolia, of Somoa, Isaiah Cooper, of Denver, Osmond and Docine Tolia, both of Ridgecrest, and Branden Williams, of Denver.
Mychael had a very special place in his heart for his Aunt Tasha Thomas, of Orange County. He is also survived by a very large loving family of aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives, whom he loved very much.
The family would like everyone to remember their beloved Mychael this way: "It is not how someone enters the world or exited the world. It is how someone impacted the world. When someone passes, it means, 'I remember your smile, your laugh and your heart.'" What we believe is that a person's legacy is greater than the sum of the individual events that occurred in that person's life.
Those wishing to pay their respects are invited to attend each of the following events. There will be a "Reflection and Sharing Celebration" Saturday at 11 am at Immanuel Baptist Church at 1201 N. China Lake Blvd. The funeral service will be held January 11 at Saint John's Missionary Baptist Church, located at 1401 East. Brundage Lane, in Bakersfield. The service will begin at 2 pm, and there will be no graveyard service.
The family is requesting donations in lieu of flowers be made to the Mychael Latrell Thomas Memorial Fund at Alta One Credit Union, Account #205938. Obituary written and provided by friends of the family.