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Overview & Purpose
Escherichia coli, commonly referred to as E. coli, has many different strains. The most commonly known serotypes of these bacteria can cause serious food poisoning or even fatality in humans. However, most strains are completely harmless. These strains are usually found in the gut of the host and help by producing K2 and helping with digestion. The presence of these bacteria is very beneficial for it helps to prevent pathogenic bacteria from being present in the intestine.[1]
"Only LacZ and LacY appear to be necessary for lactose catabolism" [3].
Design: Our genetic circuit
Our gene switch
To create our gene switch, we chose to replace β-galactosidase with a gene coding for a variant of GFP (green fluorescent protein). The switch is active or "on" in the presence of IPTG (Isopropylthiogalactoside) and causes the production of a cyan fluorescent color. Additionally, we did not want our switch to be influenced by the presence of glucose so we chose a promoter that is not sensitive to the CAP-cAMP complex and as a result IPTG is the sole input that causes an effect to the switch.
Device Structure and Parts
The BioBricks for our design came from the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Our system utilized two main BioBricks along with an appropriate vector backbone (see figure below).
IPTG-Inducible Lac Promoter
Building: Assembly scheme
The assembly strategy employed in the design of this device is a Type IIS assembly strategy. The steps and procedures involved in this single-pot assembly are described below.
One of the parts chosen by our group contains a BsmBI cut site, which would disrupt the digestion and ligation process further along the assembly strategy. In order to counteract this, the part is subjected to mutagenesis to alter a selected base pair within the DNA to eliminate the BsmBI cut site while keeping the integrity of the coding sequence intact.
This site-directed base substitution is performed using two primers with centrally located substitution sites to alter the selected base pair on a methylated plasmid.
After the part has completed the mutagenesis, the DNA sequence (which is linear at this point in time) undergoes in vitro recombination reaction. The host cell then "circularizes" the mutated part DNA and digests the original methylated plasmid. If the methylation of the original plasmid is skipped, an additional purification step would be necessary to extract the mutated plasmid.[5]
PCR, or polymerase chain reaction, is then used to amplify the DNA sequences and create modular fragments for ease of assembly.
A DNA fragment is combined with its forward and reverse primers, nucleotides, and DNA polymerase. This mixture is then inserted into a thermal cycler, which cycles the internal temperature with predetermined values. These changes in temperature cause the DNA to separate, the primers to pair with their respective DNA strands, the DNA polymerase to activate, and a new DNA strand to be formed.
The thermal cycling procedure, listed below, is continued until the specified fragment is amplified sufficiently for use.
Thermal Cycling
Digestion and ligation reaction
The Type IIS assembly strategy employs a single-pot assembly, wherein digestion and ligation occur in tandem. To prevent the futile digestion/ligation loop that could result from this assembly strategy, the BsmBI restriction enzyme is used. BsmBI is useful in this scenario because its binding site is remote from its cutting site.
In the digestion and ligation reaction, BsmBI binds to its binding site, CGTCTC, and cuts at a location further along the DNA strand. This creates a 4 base pair "sticky overhang." Complementary "sticky overhangs" then pair up and are connected by the ligase.
The thermal cycling procedure used in the digestion and ligation reaction is shown below.
Thermal Cycling
Parts and primers
The following table lists the BioBricks used in the construction of the Sweet Cyan device. The individual parts can be found with a simple search of the part IDs at the Parts Registry.
Testing: Modeling and GFP imaging
A lac switch model
We used a previously published synthetic switch, developed by Ceroni et al.[6], to understand how our system could potentially be modeled and simulated. The graphic to the left depicts the relationships between the parameters of the lac operon switch described by Ceroni using a network diagram illustration. The parameters shown in the illustration relate to cell processes and could be used in forming a cohesive mathematical model of the cell's operation.
In order to approximate the behavior of this set-up, a mathematical model can be developed based upon the relationships between the processes found in the cell. These relationships can be expressed in mathematical terms using numbers that relate to the system, including creation or decay rates, concentrations, or various constants. The actual values for these parameters can be sourced from experimentation, literature, or a predefined steady-state.
If a model is well-defined and the necessary parameters known, a person may use the model to ascertain the state of a cell at a given point in time. For example, if an experimenter wanted to know the decay of the GFP protein molecules at a given point in time in a single cell, the following equation could be written using the notation found in the table below.
Decay = G × λG/L
The formula takes the concentration of the GFP protein in molecules per cell ("G") and multiplies it by the protein degradation rate in minutes-1 ("λG/L"). This results in a decay value for GPF in molecules per minute per cell.
The Ceroni et al. model and the network diagram illustration use the table of variables and parameters seen below in their representation of the lac switch. The variables related to a particular cell process are located near to that process in the network diagram illustration.
An interactive model
We used a model of the natural Lac operon to understand how changing the parameter values changes the behavior of the system. By changing the initial concentration of input (IPTG in this case), we were able to estimate the threshold that produces an "on" state in the system.
Initially, the code had the concentration at 0.32 which is seen in the β-galactoside (Bgal concentration) vs. time plot (Figure 1). This value was changed again to 0.045 in determining the threshold that produces this "on" state (Figure 2). After proceeding to go up and down with these a values, a threshold was indeed found where the output concentration of IPTG was sustained and is about 0.064 (Figure 3).
Collecting imperical values to improve the model
Images shown were taken at 7, 10, 16, and 20 hours respectively.
To find the maximum rate of GFP production, the derivative of the
DJMyeast010.jpg Ideally, the GFP production rate measured by this method could be entered as a value for [which parameter] in the Ceroni et al. model.
Stakeholder Assessment
Public and laymen knowledge of E. coli may consist of only what they hear in the news, which often relates to food contamination scares; for this reason, stakeholders of the device itself may not support its production if they believe that widespread stigma may prevent successful marketing and sales campaigns.
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Surface Scientifics is a company concerned about making high-touch surfaces safer and killing any bacteria transferred to doorknobs, light-switch plates and drawer handles.
Bluffton Town Councilman Mike Raymond and J. Austin Scheibel began Surface Scientifics and have partnered to market the antimicrobial coating called Bacterm.
Bacterm is a copper-infused epoxy coating that becomes self-sanitizing when applied to surfaces such as wood, metal, plastic or ceramic. Raymond and Scheibel became interested in creating this product after they saw a clinical study where the Medical University of South Carolina and other hospitals were provided with a solid copper alloy room. The room was tested and found that 95 to 97 percent microbes were being destroyed on high-touch surfaces and there was a 40 percent reduction in acquiring an infection within the hospital.
While Bacterm is not yet being sold in the United States, the product is being used to test the kill-rate.
"We have small sales overseas," Raymond said. "We are waiting regulatory approval from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to start sales here, but have pre-installation sales. We hope to be approved and ready to sell by the end of the year."
The product shows a 99 percent kill rate within 30 minutes for dangerous bacteria including MRSA and E. coli. While the product does fight bacteria, it is harmless to humans. Raymond said he plans to introduce the product to many high-touch surface places such as hospitals and schools.
"Unlike other cleansers, Bacterm is permanent and continues to work after it is coated on doorknobs, baseboards and light-switch plates," Raymond said.
Surface Scientifics became involved with the Don Ryan Center for Innovation with the help of Clemson University's Business Development Director Karl Kelly. The center has helped give Surface Scientifics a 60-page market analysis and target the large markets the company could pursue.
"When Karl Kelly learned that I was working on antimicrobial coatings and requested I send him some information on the project, he said it was the kind of tech business suitable for the incubator and suggested I send in an application, which I did," Raymond said.
The Don Ryan Center is an incubator program to help small businesses, inventors and entrepreneurs develop and network.
"I believe that Surface Scientifics' coating product has the potential to reduce transmitted infection in any facility where there is a concentration of people or the potential for transmission of infection through multiple touching of common use things such as doorknobs, drawer pulls, and hand railings," Executive Director of the Don Ryan Center Jordan Berliner said.
"The Don Ryan Center is helping Surface Scientifics by consulting with them on business issues and helping find resources the company needs in order to meet their business objectives such as for intellectual property and regulatory support."
In order to branch out to large industries, Surface Scientifics will need to partner with large coating factories to provide Bacterm for large surfaces. Another project, Raymond and Scheibel are working on is water purification and water filtration which they will pursue on a personal level instead of involving a coating factory.
Surface Scientifics have one lab scientist and a salesman who work together with Raymond and Scheibel to market the Bacterm product.
"We are still working on the water purification process," Raymond said. "But we will be on the road looking for opportunities to get in front of the large coating industries and provide Bacterm for hospitals and other high-touch surface areas."
Employees: Two
Owners: Mike Raymond and J. Austin Scheibel
Product: Bacterm, a copper-infused epoxy coating

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|Phrack Inc. Index
|Taran King
|Phrack Pro-Phile V on Tuc
|Taran King
|City-Wide Centrex
|The Executioner
|The Integrated Services Digital Network
|Dr. Doom
|The Art of Junction Box Modeming
|Mad Hacker 616
|Compuserve Info
|Lotus & Morgoth
|Fun with Automatic Tellers
|The Mentor
|Phrack World News VII Part I
|Knight Lightning
|Phrack World News VII Part II
|Knight Lightning
==Phrack Inc.== Volume One, Issue Eight, Phile #4 of 9 The Integrated Services Digital Network ---==> By Dr. Doom <==--- ISDN or Integrated Services Digital Network has been talked about off and on by AT&T and until now has just been a demented AT&T fantasy, but it is to soon become a reality. This phile is the second I have written on the subject and is a cumulation of information from three basic sources : <1> The ISDN AT&T Technical Journal <2> An interview with an AT&T Long Distance Operations Center Supervisor who will be referred to as Mr. R. <3> and some general ISDN articles from Southwestern Bell Newsletters. ISDN Definition =============== CCITT Definition : An end to end digital network that supports a wide range of services accessed by a set of standard multipurpose user-network interfaces. ISDN will allow for incredible new services that will drastically change the telecommunications industry and everyone's lives. For example, one new service ISDN will bring about is calling party identification. This will allow businesses and individuals who subscribe to that service to know exactly what number you are calling from before they even decide whether or not to answer the phone. In the case of dialups like MCI, the originating # will be stored in a computer along with whatever code and number that person dialed which would greatly hinder abuse of codes from a home phone. This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as ISDN is concerned. This phile will analyze and describe how The Integrated Services Digital Network will operate when it is implemented. Out of Band Signalling ====================== Essential to a network capable of providing such enhanced services as calling party identification is out-of-band signalling. Until the late 70's, when AT&T introduced the 4ESS toll switch and CCIS into the national network, switches had communicated with each other over the same channels in which our voice or data was transmitted (in-band). During this time, all signalling between switches had to be limited to a type that could be accommodated in the 'voice' channel thus making it impossible to offer any advanced services. The development of the separate Common Channel Interoffice Signaling (CCIS) network allowed for more freedom and flexibility and thus came about the AT&T Calling Card service. ISDN brings an interface from the network to the subscriber's equipment. This is a completely digital interface subdivided into two types of channels : The 'D' Channels are those used for sending signalling and control information across the interface. The 'B' Channels are those used only for customer information which can be in the form of voice, data, or video. The 'D' Channel hence manages the information or 'B' Channels making the signalling 'out-of-band' and not 'in-band' as it is now. This approach allows for two distinct benefits : <1> All the capacity in the information bearing channels is available for customer use. <2> The 'D' Signaling channel allows for distributed processing across the ISDN Network. ISDN Interfaces --------------- The CCITT has defined two major interfaces that will be used in conjunction with the 'D' and 'B' channels : The Basic Rate Interface (BRI) consists of one D Channel and two B Channels. This interface is used for locations where information transport is relatively small like a residence. The Primary Rate Interface (PRI) consists of one 'D' Channel and 23 'B' Channels. It is used for large capacity vehicles such as PBX's. Notice that there are 2 DIFFERENT 'B' Channels in the Basic Rate Interface. This allows TWO different types of data to be sent over the same connection at the same time. For example, you could be ULing files to a board on Channel 1 while talking to the SYSOP on Channel 2. So, if both you and a board both have a BRI ISDN Interface, next time the SYSOP says 'Go Voice', you simply pick up the handset, switch it to channel 2, and start talking... These multiple channels are also the foundation for the widespread use of Video Phones. Just like you were sending data over channel 1, and talking voice on channel 2, you can be sending video over channel 1 (allowing the party's to see each other) and talking on channel 2. ISDN Devices ============ AT&T Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices, and Intel are all in the process of designing equipment that will be compatible with ISDN. So far, the two main designs talked about through SWB and AT&T are : <1> The Voice/Data Terminal This will look like any regular computer terminal with the exception that it has a handset on the side of the terminal and a couple of switches that will allow you to decide which channel is for DATA and which channel is for VOICE. This will also (of course), allow two customers with a V/D Terminal to be exchanging DATA over one channel while talking voice over the other one. <2> The Video Phone This is where (yes) Big Brother is arriving... The Video Phone will work pretty much just like it does in Science Fiction movies like 'Aliens' or whatever. If two ISDN customers have video phones, they can talk and see each other or whatever they want to show each other (HAHA) at the same time. Video Phones obviously open up new frontiers for those with entrepreneurial instincts. You can bet there will be some interesting Video Phone Sex lines around... Then, you can have things like 'Dial a Movie...Please enter (1) to view Rambo'..etc... The list goes on. This also leads to a whole new world of problems for the telephone company like 'Obscene Video Calls'. This is again where Calling ID becomes important. Each of these units, and others that will work with ISDN will have some sort of a special viewing screen that will contain the necessary information about incoming calls which includes the originating number and can include such things as : <1> The name of the owner of that # <2> The city and state <3> The whole address for that # AT&T ISDN Building Blocks ========================= AT&T has designated certain 'building blocks' that will eventually be laid in place across the entire country to form ISDN. <1> AT&T Communications Service Node ------------------------------------ The service node is the customer's gateway to the AT&T Communications nodal family of services, including MEGACOM, MEGACOM 800, and Acunet. The first service node went into service in 1985 in Philadelphia, PA. <2> Integrated Access --------------------- This allows customers to integrate switched and private line services over a single DS-1 link to the Service Node. <3> Out-of-Band Signaling ------------------------- Discussed earlier. <4> CCS7 -------- The CCS7 Common Channel Signaling Network will soon replace CCIS as an out-of-band signalling between AT&T Network Communications Facilities. Because of its longer message format and layered structure, the CCS7 will support the new features. <5> Digital Backbone Network ---------------------------- This nationwide AT&T Network includes extensive lightwave and digital radio routes. By the end of 1988, these Digital Lightwave routes will extend to Europe with the TAT-8 lightwave system, and across the Pacific with HAW-4/TPC-3. <6> Intelligent Software Controlled AT&T Communications Network ----------------------------------- This brings about more advanced software related services listed in #1. AT&T ISDN Operations ==================== Access Transport ---------------- Your DS-1 signal is transported from your ISDN equipment to an AT&T Communications Service Node somewhere. Your line gets to AT&T by tariff from the local exchange carrier (i.e... Southwestern Bell, GTE, or whomever happens to own your local switch...) or AT&T. The direct link to the AT&T Service Node bypasses your local switching. AT&T Service Node ----------------- Your local AT&T Service Node is a service office that acts as a gateway to all the new AT&T Nodal ISDN services. This service node is typically composed of : <1> A Refinished 4ESS Switch <2> CNI Ring (Common Net.-Interface) <3> Digital Access and Cross Connect System (DACS) Here is a diagram of how a customer location either goes to a local switch or AT&T's node : Key --- CL = Customer Location = = DS-1 Line ! = DS-1 Line > = Exiting out to AT&T Network -------- - - **** - Bell - *CL*=======- 5ESS - **** - - -------- ! ! ! ! **** ! *CL* --------!-------- ****===========4ESS=====> - 4ESS= **** - ! ! ! *CL*======DACS=! ! CNI==> **** -DACS ! CNI -DACS= ! - ! 1PSS====> - !=1PSS - ----------------- AT&T Service Node The above diagram shows first how an AT&T Customer with ISDN can either continue service with his local telephone co. or go with a direct link to the AT&T Service Mode. All lines going to an AT&T Service Node whether through Bell or a direct link terminate on either the 4ESS or the DACS. When a line terminates on a DACS it serves as an Integrated Access Distributor and sends the call to the 1PSS (Packet Switch) for Acunet Packet Service or to the 4ESS and then eventually out to the AT&T Network. The AT&T Internodal Network --------------------------- In the internodal network facility, AT&T is in the process of deploying both digital lightwave and digital radio systems. Lightguide Systems : In areas where growth is low, the FT3C and FTX180 Single mode terrestrial lightguide systems will be used between nodes. On high growth routes AT&T will install fiber pairs at line rates of 1.7Gb/s with 20 mile repeater spacings. Digital Radio : In the digital radio area, 4Gb/s systems such as the TD-90 and the TD-180 provide a vehicle for rapid expansion of digital connectivity. ISDN and Digital Switches ========================= AT&T has redesigned the 5E Switching Modules in such a way that they are fully compatible with ISDN, but many of the existing 5E's and other switches were manufactured without ISDN capability. To meet this need, AT&T has produced ISDN interfaces that modularly connect to the system. Here is a diagram of a 5ESS Switching Module with interfaces : Key --- $ = ISDN V/D Terminal or Video Phone % = Standard Telephone = = Digital Line < = In-Band Line ISLU = Integrated Services Line Unit PSIU = Packet Switch Interface Unit -------------------------- - 5ESS - - Switching - - Module - - - ------------=----=-------- - = = - $====-----======== = - - - = - $====- - --------=--- - -ISLU- - - - %<<<<- ===== PSIU - - - - - - - $====-------------------------- The two new hardware additions are : <1> Integrated Services Line Unit and <2> The Packet Switch Interface Unit These units allow a LOCAL 5ESS (or other digital) Switch to serve both ISDN and non-ISDN customers. These interfaces are integrated into a switching module in a way that will allow ISDN customers to maintain all their previous Bell services like Local Calling. Notice also that all lines, whether ISDN or not, terminate on the ISLU. Calling Party Identification ============================ Discussed briefly in the preface of this phile, the ISDN enhanced Calling Party Identification service offered by AT&T ISDN will be into service along with the ISDN. This quote out of the AT&T ISDN Technical reference should give you a good idea of the impact ISDN will have on hacking and phreaking : 'One example of an enhanced service which has already been included in the ISDN signaling protocol and will have a fundamental impact on day to day telecommunications is the provisions of calling party identification. Calling party ID will help us decide whether or not to answer incoming calls and will minimize instances of nuisance calls and COMPUTER FRAUD via telephone.' Mr. R, our AT&T Supervisor has been attending ISDN Conferences that include representatives from all the major LD Companies (AT&T, MCI, GTE, LDS, etc..), the Regional Bells, and other concerned parties. He said quote 'One of the controlling factors behind The Integrated Services Digital Network is the simple fact that AT&T, MCI, and other long distance companies are losing MILLIONS to Phone Phraud.' Once ISDN is realized, so will network wide Calling Party Identification. Again, our friend Mr. R will enlighten us on the subject of ISDN Calling Party ID and a simple explanation of how it will work : 'Right now, when you pick up the phone in your home, Port Isabel South Western Bell knows that you did. Then, when you dial a number, they know what number you dialed. So they send that information along to us (the AT&T Toll Switch). We then send that along through the network to the person you are calling.' Of course, there is one transaction between AT&T and a Bell Office at the end that he left off, but if the person or computer you are calling has ISDN Calling Party ID service, your originating # will be sent along the DS-1 Line Interface from Bell to his equipment and show up on his screen after traveling through the network like Mr. R described. This is rather simple when you think about it and is one example of how a once shattered network is working together. Some Sample CP ID Uses ---------------------- This can be used by large telephone ordering companies to instantly display a record of that persons credit, previous orders, etc... before the call is even answered on the attendant's terminal. When someone logs onto a computer, the originating # is listed on the user log along with the account name, etc... so that if there is an unauthorized login, they can contact the authorities to do whatever or monitor that number until they get enough evidence to prosecute. The same thing holds true with LD Dialups. They will record the originating number along with the code and bill making MCI use rather dangerous. SWB ISDN News ============= The following article was extracted from The Southwestern Bell Texas Publication of Telephone Times and is entitled 'User Forum simplifies ISDN' : " Houston---Houston Marketing employees played show and tell with two customers and all three groups are better off for it. Marketing Representatives, with support from Bell Comm. Research, Illinois Bell, AT&T, and McDonald's Corp. met with Shell and Tenneco to discuss ISDN. 'ISDN is an evolving technology' said Bob Campbell, division manager marketing business sales. 'It's still in the developmental stage. These User Forums will give customers input on how it's deployed and what it will look like.' ISDN is an all digital network that transmits voice and data messages simultaneously over a single telephone line. 'The User Forums allow customers to share information on specific problems concerning implementation, training, customer premise equipment and applications,' Campbell said. Linda Hobson, manager marketing administrative and coordinator of the event, said not only will User Forums be standard practice in Houston, but probably will become the national standard. 'We're doing it quarterly here, but as more people become interested, we may meet more often,' Hobson said. Shell and Tenneco, who have signed letters of intent to purchase ISDN, were specifically interested in such topics as trial status (SWBT's ISDN trials will begin soon in St. Louis and Texas), available features, power requirements, and future enhancements. 'In the past, we bought the available enhancements, then sold them to the customer,' said Hobson. 'That's changing. We have to find out what the customer wants, then deliver the service that meets the specific needs'" That concludes the nice little article which by the way, contained some interesting little tidbits of information. Conclusion ========== ISDN is a VERY complicated plan that will drastically change the telecommunications scene in this country and abroad. Although AT&T has boasted in it's Technical Journals of being able to have its ISDN Capable Network completed by Early 1987, this date seems to keep getting postponed back according to our friend Mr. R (The AT&T Supervisor) and he is shooting for large scale ISDN no earlier that late 1988 or 1989. Whenever ISDN does become reality, people will probably just put out files with lists of computers that subscribe to ISDN Calling Party Identification, and tell people not to call them from their home. I hope you have enjoyed reading this phile on ISDN, I will be on the outlook for more information on it. If you don't already have the # and New User Passwords to Metromedia BBS, send me (Dr. Doom) mail on any of the boards I am on.


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It's the second day of August, and my fellow Android and Me staffers and I were starting to get excited. August was the month NVIDIA suggested the first wave of devices featuring their quad-core Kal-El processors would be available to the public.
This morning, our hearts started sinking when a post over at Fudzilla suggested Kal-El devices won't come out in August as originally anticipated. No offense to Fudzilla, but we're not prime to taking not-well-known blogs at their word, so we reached out to NVIDIA and received the following comment:
Project Kal-El-powered tablets are coming this Fall, and phones around the CES 2012 timeframe.NVIDIAOfficial Statement
This pushes the launch of Kal-El back a full two months to an October release for tablets and to January 2012 for phones. We received an anonymous tip that the ASUS EeePad Transformer 2 will in fact be the first tablet released powered by NVIDIA's Kal-El processor, but NVIDIA declined comment. This seems very plausible, as Forbes and Slashgear have both recently suggested the Transformer 2 would feature Kal-El. Add the rumors that the Transformer 2 is slated for launch in October, and the puzzle pieces are starting to come together.
Another interesting tidbit from the official NVIDIA statement is that Kal-El won't be available in phones until early Q1 2012. This lends weight to the speculation that the hotly-rumored Nexus 3 will not, in fact, be powered by NVIDIA when it launches later this year.
Though it looks like we'll have to wait a few more months to get our hands on Kal-El, what we've seen so far suggests it will be very worth the wait. (Assuming the battery life is improved dramatically). For a refresher on what Kal-El can do, check out the following video we featured a few months back.


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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Homemade Christmas: Glue Snowman Ornament
Let me start out by explaining
that Mini-Saurus'
favorite color is Pink.
She also
LOVES glue.
This craft project resulted from
some un-supervised craft time
(I was unloading the dishwasher)
while the Mini-Saurus was "working"
in the art studio in our kid's art corner.
She got a piece of pink paper,
and was supposed to be gluing
some scraps of paper, tissue, etc. as a collage.
I guess she unscrewed the glue bottle lid
and poured two-thirds
of the contents
onto her paper.
Then, she carefully replaced the cap
and proudly came to get me
and showed me her giant glue puddle.
She called it a snowman.
She was right, it did look like a snowman.
I didn't want to burst her bubble
so I said, "let's add some buttons
and we can hang it on the
Christmas tree when it's all dry!"
So, she added buttons
and I cut out a mini orange foam nose.
After many days of drying....
we ended up with this
adorable little guy.
I just cut him out and the pink paper
adds a nice splash of color!
I think a bunch of these guys
in Rainbow colors
would be adorable
(especially on a preschool tree!)
This is a classic craft
that is usually done on waxed paper
I smile every time I see our
little pink snowman
on the tree.
Posted by pink and green mama MaryLea
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Linda L. Cooley
Jan. 3, 1948- March 23, 2008
Linda L. Cooley of Waukesha died Sunday, March 23, 2008, at Waukesha Memorial Hospital at age 60. She was born Jan. 3, 1948, the daughter of Richard and Dolores (nee Reinhard) Flood.
Linda was a 1966 graduate of Waukesha South High School. On May 7, 1966, she married Dan R. Cooley in the town of Pewaukee.
She will be sadly missed by her husband of 42 years, Dan of Waukesha; daughter, Debra (Tony) Drew of Hartland; grandsons, Anthony and Alexander Drew, both of Hartland; parents, Richard and Dolores Flood of Las Vegas; brothers, Ricky, Robin and Randy (Deanna) Flood; and sisters, Denise (Robert) Hartman, Dawn Miller, Darlene Flood, Diane Flood and Danelle (Richard) Fohr. She is further survived by her mother-in-law, Theresa Cooley; sister-in-law, Jill Lawien; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Visitation will be held from 4 p.m. until the 7 p.m. funeral service Thursday, March 27, at Randle-Dable Funeral Home, 1110 S. Grand Ave., Waukesha. Private interment will take place at Prairie Home Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, N19-W24350 Riverwood Drive, Waukesha, WI 53188.
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Cross Keys ended a run of 4 successive defeats and sent Llandovery home from Pandy Park with their first defeat of the season.
The familiar sight of Steffan Jones, who returned to Keys colours for the first time this season kicked Keys into a 9-8 half time lead with 3 penalties. Llandovery replying with a Sam Soul try, thanks largely to missed tackles in the Keys midfield and a penalty by James Garland.
Several chances went begging, although Keys looked like a different side to the one that has taken to the field in those 4 defeats. Keys choosing the to play rugby straight through the middle of the Drovers defence.
Llandovery seemed to improve in the second half, although another Steffan Jones penalty put Keys further ahead. Tom Lampard, who enjoyed a fine game then scored a wonderful try thanks to good build up play by full back Gareth David and replacement wing Luke Williams. Williams read the situation brilliantly as a lose kick from the Drovers was collected and he fed inside to David who chipped through on the half way line only for Lampard to sprint through and gather the bounce perfectly just inside the 10 yard line and chase away from the Drovers defence to score a cracker. Jones added the extras and another penalty later in the half.
Llandovery then capitalised on a rare mistake by Gareth David who had
his kick charged down deep in his own 22 and Sam Soul crossed easily
for his second try of the afternoon, replacement Cerith Rees kicking the
Overall it's great to get back to winning ways and let's just hope it continues. Tom Lampard, Rhys Peebles, Danny Hodge and Leon Andrews were the stand out players for Keys. It wasn't all good news though as Peebles and wing Nathan Trowbridge both went off the field injured their injuries will be assessed shortly.
Try: Tom Lampard
Conversion: Steffan Jones
Penalties: Steffan Jones (x5)
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Tries: Sam Soul (x2)
Conversion: Cerith Rees
Penalty: James Garland
Keys rugby committee man of the match: Rhys Peebles


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Southeast Minnesota Still Dealing With Sunday's blizzard
Southern Minnesota is still feeling the effects of the mini blizzard that hit the state yesterday.
Snowfall totals from early yesterday weren't all that high but strong northwest winds created blowing and drifting and affected motorists into the evening. At last check, I-90 between Albert Lea and the South Dakota border was still closed. All counties in southeast Minnesota are reporting poor or hazardous driving conditions. It will remain windy and bitterly cold through tomorrow. That's the main reason a number of school districts and other organizations have decided not to open today.


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First, anything is "possible", so, rather than saying that, "it will not be possible" to admit me, to be perfectly candid, they should rather say something like, "we decline to admit you". If they want to, they could technically admit me, so it is "possible". After, all, the choice is entirely theirs...Secondly, they couldn't have spent THAT much "considerable time" reviewing my application since their application deadline is April 1st and they've only had my application for a month! It just goes to show that they have a definite, hard cut-off, and I just didn't cut the mustard...Lastly, the statement that "many worthy candidates must be denied" is politically-correct nonsense! If you are not accepted, you are, in actuality, not worthy! You did not meet their standards for admission and therefore were not considered worthy of acceptance! At least tell it like it is, people! If you are worthy, you get accepted; if you are unworthy, you get rejected...
this is a thoughtful argument. i didn't take the time to analyze my reject letter yet. maybe i should. and i do wonder, for example, would Harvard send the same reject letter to a 168/3.5 as a 145/2.0?
Verbal, it's been bugging me for a while..."POTSIE", not "POTISE".
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The Granite Stripe is ready for the Chase! The podcast goes in-depth on the controversy surrounding Richmond and previews every Chase driver, and the blog takes a look at NASCAR President Mike Helton's statements about the penalties toward Michael Waltrip Racing.
LISTEN to the Granite Stripe Podcast (2013, Ep. 29): Richmond Controversy, Chase Preview
Before the news that Jeff Gordon would be a 13th Chase driver, Jonathan and Gavin shared their opinion on the controversy surrounding Richmond and made their Chase predictions.
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In hours leading up to the announcement and the time since, fans have made a lot of statements. No one is happy.
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Monday, April 20
6 p.m., Town Hall, Board of Water and Sewer meets.
7 p.m., Town Hall, Town Council meets.
Tuesday, April 21
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- London
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Diana's dresses are auctioned
A collection of dresses which were worn by Princess Diana have been auctioned off.
Live updates
Two of Diana's dresses to go on public display
Two dresses that were worn by Diana, Princess of Wales will be put on display to the public after they were bought by a charity at an auction yesterday. Ten of her dresses were on sale in the auction.
Historic Royal Palaces, which runs Diana's former residence Kensington Palace, bought the dresses for nearly £130,000. It is hoping to display at least one of the new dresses in an exhibition this summer alongside other items from the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection.
Diana's Travolta dress is sold for £240,000
The dress that Princess Diana was wearing when she danced with John Travolta at a White House dinner was sold at auction for £240,000 today - the anonymous buyer said he wanted to surprise his wife.
It was one of ten of her dresses that were put up for auction this afternoon. In total, they raised £862,800. Two of the dresses were bought by a British museum and will go on display to the public.
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The New Games Journalism
This may turn a little manifesto, but forgive me. It's a juvenile form, but such posturing can occasionally serve a purpose. And sometimes, as Kate Bush's Cloudbusting is currently informing me, just saying it could even make it happen.
I return from Delfter Krug and an evening with comrades. After the traditional lusting after barmaids and discussing the various challenges facing the geek nation, we turn to one of the conversations that I, as a devotee of the gaming press, prayed that was happening somewhere in the universe at any particularly moment.
It was, simply, Games Journalism: Where now?
The money men are worried – and have been worried forever – about the encroaching nature of the internet on mags. They've got a point. Games magazines are, primarily, buying guides, offering either information about forthcoming games or definitive reviews of said shiny consumer items. What to get excited about and what to put money down on, basically. Web coverage does both, and usually quicker.
Secondly, they operate as a shit filter. You buy a mag so you don't have to spend all your life doing the necessary research to find everything out youself: A digest of what's knowing in gaming. While keeping track of what's actually worthwhile with forthcoming stuff is a little trickier , sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic handily gather every web review in existence together and average the score. Assuming equality of judgements — which is a big assumption, but outside of the current piece's mandate — this is perhaps the finest shit filter ever invented. Anything genuinely good will be picked up. Abstractly, anyway.
So why buy mags?
Mag's offline abilities and toilet-based browsability are one thing, clearly. The second traditional reason is that they're mostly — and there's exceptions, clearly — hugely better written. If you want a little entertainment with your information, mags are where to turn.
Ironically enough, you'd be hard pressed to find a money man who actually believes this point. While none have quite dared say it to my face yet, an increasing number are opining in smoky boardrooms that the quality of writers simply doesn't affect a games magazine sales so they might as well turn to recruiting armies of kids who don't know better straight from college, burning them out in a year, and then getting another set. There's been companies who have worked on this assumption ever since the dawn of videogame journalism, and it's an attitude that appears to be spreading.
The reason why the money-men's line has been gaining credence is that things are pretty tight in publishing. Sales of this generation of magazines have been nowhere near what they'd expecting. The biggest selling British games mag circa this period in the games console cycle was 450,000 or so. The current best-selling title has managed 200,000. This doesn't look good on spreadsheets, so they're tightening their belts and looking for places lose a few pounds. Creating a culture where Editorial is basically disposable is one, certainly.
However, it's in these periods of a magazine's industry's life that comes the chance for radical change. When things are bad, it's a war between money-men who want to keep profits by reducing costs and the editorial who want to keep profits by being better. The idea of "being better" is somewhat alien to the money-people, who've pretty much forgotten any idea of what creative impulses actually are — or, more relevantly, the ability to have faith in anyone else's.
So, to choose a parallel, at the turn of the millennium the money men came to prominence in the music mags, and pretty much destroyed them all. In a similar situation in the seventies, the music's press slump was reversed by discovering a new underground to write about and new writers to express their love of in increasingly imaginative ways. Ideally, since I selfishly enjoy writing about games while still wanting to be able to meet my gaze in the bathroom mirror, I'd prefer the latter.
In other words, it's war for the future of games journalism. The default win position is for money-men — they hold all the power, after all. It's up to editorial to just prove them wrong through an act of magic, since that's what all creation actually is. The good news is that there's a fair few editors who realise this, and are conjuring up their master-plans to create a space to express this sort of thinking. I won't name them, because it'll just embarrass the fellows. Hopefully, there's more I don't know about.
There's also all sorts of games writers who don't give a toss about the craft of what they're doing, either having completely forgotten why they were doing it in the first place after being stomped by their superiors or never really had a clue in the first place. In many ways, it's these people rather than the money-men who are the enemies. The money-men — as their name suggests — are only interested in money. That's fine. It's like objecting that a Tyrannosaurus Rex doesn't chomp down on tofu. The mediocre hacks filling positions that could be taken by people wanting to write brilliantly are what will kill the British games magazine. Not that they're bad people, you understand — many are utterly lovely. It's just that they're wasting the potential of the form with their total lack of commitment and/or talent.
If Games Journalism is just a job to you, you really shouldn't be doing it. The word should be "vocation".
Right — everyone up to speed and are now either thinking I'm an arrogant wanker for calling other people hacks after some of the rubbish I've written or — in the case of my peers — wondering if I'm talking about them. Oh, shush. Stop worrying. As if it matters what I think about you. The question is, am I right and what are you going to do to prove me wrong.
What do I suggest doing about it?
Well, I'm not suggesting we do a Pol-Pot and year-zero everything we've ever done. The main body of games journalism will remain the same. Reviews that don't serve their basic consumer-informing purpose are worse than useless. Previews — one of the most despicable words in the lexicon, randomly — are still going to appear. What I'm suggesting is in addition to rather than replacing the old order – though I'd suggest a greater stringency when producing work that's in these more established traditions. Just be good, y'know.
In the early seventies Tom Wolfe edited a collection of writings from the previous few years entitled "The New Journalism", which provided exactly that. This journalism was intensely personal, throwing away the rules of standard journalistic discourse like the pretence of objectivity and an embracing of the "I". We're talking about people like Capote, Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson. While Games journalism — having nabbed a lot of its tricks from the people who nabbed a lot of tricks from the New Journalism people — uses a sizeable chunk of those already, it hasn't really thought about how the core of that philosophy really applies to videogames.
In the last year or so we've started. In a nod to Wolfe, I'm going to call it the New Games Journalism, just because it needs a name if this essay's going to be decipherable to the human mind.
Embarrassingly for myself and my professional peers, the first real signs of this form didn't appear in the pages of game magazines, but on the net. Early-period State was painfully close to a new paradigm for games writing, but was hamstrung and eventually foiled by its elitism, its faux-intellectualism and insecurity. They're all forgivable faults, since the writers were the gaming equivalent of zine-kids, trying to find a voice which didn't sound too shrill. But still: depressing.
However, once I thought the initial burst of energy was well spent and a fair chunk of the better writers absorbed into the gaming press in one form or another, State produced something that managed to embody everything I'd want the New Games Journalism to be. It's by a gentleman who works under the name of Always Black, and is entitled "Bow, Nigger".
It's a memorable piece of writing in at least a dozen ways, but is firstly notable for reading like games journalism without being anything like a piece of any games writing you've ever read. It's going to lead to a lot of copyist features, the huge majority will vary between average and utterly rubbish. Which is fine. Innovation tends to do that. How many uninspired Hunter S. Thompson riffs have we had to sit and shudder through? What, hopefully, we'll also get are the pieces that Hunter's verve and vision inspired without being simple plagiarism.
"Bow, Nigger" lies outside the main thrust of "serious" games journalism: that is, the analytic tradition. A bad games journalist would write in imprecise generalities, talking about something's "gameplay" and urging you to "try before you buy" or similar page-filling rubbish. A good one would look at the game, take it apart, try and understand how it works and inform the reader of their findings. Some people did it in a reductionist manner, taking a game to its smallest dynamics and components. Others — like Owain Bennallack's memorable description of the Sims as an "Apologia for Consumerism" — managed to take a more holistic approach. The apex of the tradition, if only because it's the only example where someone got the entire length of a book to talk about the mechanics of the form in a sustained and intelligent fashion, was Steven Poole's "Trigger Happy".
No matter what the precise form this tradition takes, it works of a single assumption; that the worth of a videogame lies in the videogame, and by examining it like a twitching insect fixed on a slide, we can understand it.
New Games Journalism rejects this, and argues that the worth of a videogame lies not in the game, but in the gamer. What a gamer feels and thinks as this alien construct takes over all their sensory inputs is what's interesting here, not just the mechanics of how it got there. Games have always been digital hallucinogens — but games journalism has been like chemistry, discussing the binding reactions to brain sites. What I'm suggesting says what it feels like as the chemical kicks in and reality is remixed around you.
While drug-poetry is certainly one approach to the subject matter –and one the earlier State experiments turned to — it's not the strongest. "Bow, Nigger", while being clearly totally subjective, austerely embraces Hemmingway's cleanness. The tone has to be confessional — what happened to you and how it made you feel — or people simply won't believe it, or be interested. Pub anecdotes with delusions of grandeur, essentially.
(One thing Sony got entirely right was their "I have conquered worlds" adverts. That's exactly it — in fact, says more about the games playing experience than a year's subscription to most games magazines)
While sections of this approach can be useful in traditional reviews — in fact, in my most celebrated review of the first Deus Ex I used a repeated motif of scenarios to show the game's freeform action nature — the required objectivity of also providing worthwhile purchasing advice limits its freedom of expression. Ideally, such segments will either be the entire piece or used in a punctuated manner to illustrate points by metaphor.
As an aside, in my first deliberate attempt in writing New Games Journalism, it's this latter approach I took. I hope it worked. In fact, "Hoping it worked" should be a real centre point here. I haven't "Hoped it worked" in a piece of games journalism for around four years now, because I knew exactly what I was doing. This is about doing something where you /don't/ know exactly what you're doing.
While rewarding in itself, this form is interesting in that it fills a space in a traditional games magazine set-up. A game will be covered hugely in advance of its release, with an array of previews, first-plays, interviews before the orgasm of the review. where after the game may never, ever be mentioned again. No other pop-form disregards its subject with such alacrity. Films are re-reviewed and covered forever. Whole music magazines such as Mojo will pore over albums that have been around for decades. Even the more recent music press will review live gigs of bands between releases.
It's somewhat ironic — or rather, impressively dumb – that in my particular corner of publishing that the second the readers have a chance to play a game is the exact point where a games magazine has stopped talking about them in anything but the most cursory manner. New Games Journalism in the above form is one way of doing exactly that, in an interesting way. From how it feels to be at ground-zero in a Planetside bomber attack to your own personal relationship with SHODAN from System Shock 2, a piece properly constructed and written with proper attention to the human condition will be entertaining. That is, it's not enough just to say what happened — you have to make people understand what it felt like to be there when it happened.
The phrasing in the last line brings me to the second half of New Games Journalism's dogma. "What it felt like to be there when it happened". In videogames there is no "there". You're either sitting in front of your PC or slumped in your front-room, controller in your hand. It's all happening inside your head, induced by how the sound and light you're bombarded with alters depending upon your whim and inclination. You're experiencing something that simply doesn't exist. This is the games-form's own peculiar magic, and what we have to explain.
This makes us Travel Journalists to Imaginary places. Our job is to describe what it's like to visit a place that doesn't exist outside of the gamer's head — the gamer, not the game, remember. Go to a place, report on its cultures, foibles, distractions and bring it back to entertain your readers.
The thing with travel journalism or reportage is that it's interesting even if you have absolutely no inclination of going there. "Bow, Nigger" — and, hopefully, similar future pieces dealing with other game-created social structures — excels in this area, describing in detail the social mores a warring culture created, all on their lonesome. Since every online begets their unique world, this should be particularly fruitful: an anthropologist would think he'd died and gone to undiscovered native heaven to have so many unreported cultures to investigate.
Now, I guarantee I will never play Jedi Knight II multiplayer in my life, but to hear about this strange world these people have created. well, it's as fascinating as the courtship rituals of whatever Amazonian tribe is being exploited in this weekend's broadsheets. In fact, it's this quality that makes "Bow, Nigger" stand out from most games writing — that it felt like a newspaper article rather than anything in the specialist press. That is, you'll be interested in it even if you didn't give a fuck about videogames. While it's using videogames as its subject, what it's really talking about is the human condition.
And that, I think, is the key to the whole thing. New Games Journalism exists to try and explain and transfer the sensations allowed by videogaming to anyone who's willing to sit and take time to read it. It paradoxically manages find a way to be more accessible to the average human being by actually concentrating on the real reasons why people devote huge chunks of their waking hours to games rather than obsessing in tedious detail over the ephemera that surrounds it (How many levels? how many guns? Can I be Goro?). It asks the question "Why game anyway" and then gives as many answers as they are people, as interesting as people, as precious.
So that's what our old-new way of thinking about games boils down to. A new dogma to drive around the intellectual motorway.
1) The worth of gaming lies in the gamer not the game.
2) Write travel journalism to Imaginary Places.
Let's see how fast it can go.
Kieron Gillen, Bath, England.
23rd March 2004, 2:04 am
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Ngwe Saung
Earth : Asia : Southeast Asia : Myanmar : Irrawaddy : Ngwe Saung
Ngwe Saung is the location of several beach resorts and a small village in the Irrawaddy region of Myanmar.
Get in
You can take a bus from Pathein or Yangon. The roads are not that good, so for the about 260 km from Yangon it will take about 6 hours, depending what bus you take. You can also go by boat from Yangon to Pathein.
Get around
You may rent a bicycle or take the bicycle taxis.
The endless and quiet white sand beach, the lover's island, there is an 'elephant camp' in between Ngwe Saung and Pathein.
Go to the beach, see the local village. There is not much to do in Ngwe Saung, that's the idea. Just relax and enjoy the quiet time.
Painted umbrellas made in town or in Pathein.
There is no disco, however the very modern and stylish Bay of Bengal hotel has sometimes disco like events.
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Though the tote bag is often simple and understated, its versatility and practicality rank it as an everyday essential. Its many iterations for women offer shapes and textures suitable for any style: The trapeze silhouette crafted in structured leather is a polished and structured favorite, while slouchy mesh carryalls coordinate with casual sportswear designs. The durable cotton tote, symbol of the DIY aesthetic, acts as canvas for colorful graphics and photographic prints.


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There's an old joke that gets to the point of this column. It goes like this:
A husband and wife are lying in bed reading. Suddenly, she sighs heavily and says, "Darling, if I died, would you get married again?"
"Maybe I would," he says. "Our marriage has been a happy one, and I might consider trying again."
A few moments later, his wife turns to him and says, "Darling? What about my jewelry? Would you give her my jewelry?"
The BMGA game of the day for Monday two best balls of the foursome. Winners at -22 were Harvey Hundley, Al Ostrager, Jim Pope and Lester Craft. In second at -14 were Bernie Gruwzleski, Gary McDaniel, Tom Kronyak and Paul Salerno. The team of Bob Nobes, Bob Janovic, Dave Harper and Morris Hall were third at -4.
Saturday in Shallotte was a rainy, 30-to 34-degree day, with some occasional sleet. Because I was unable to play golf, I accompanied my wife to Myrtle Beach, S.C., to do some shopping. The weather was atrocious. A penetrating, cold rain fell, and I felt miserable standing in it even for the short time I had to pump gas. In nearby areas, many inches of snow and ice were accumulating.
There are certain similarities between successful club pros. My husband, Gene, and I have a son-in-law who is a PGA pro; we have friends who are club pros, and they all have traits in common.
Sure, they're good golfers. Yes, most of them learned the game as a kid and dreamed of someday becoming a real live PGA golf professional. A few dreamed of playing on the tour, but many thought the ultimate job would be as a head pro at a golf course.
The team of Liz Boyer, Sue Janovic, Ralph Trimmer and Bob Nobes came in first at 1-over par in the Brierwood nine-hole mixed scramble Jan. 20. Fran Thomas, Rita Dugan, Carola Hornfeck and Larry Boyer were second. Glen Green, Marianne Nobes, Bob Janovic and Chuck Hornfeck were third.
There are dozens of golf activities for people of all ages in Brunswick County.
Clubs with memberships run tournaments, guest days, member-member events, club championships and mixed events. The Elks, the VFW and various special interest and/or friendship groups sponsor leagues. The Carolinas Golf Association has an active tournament schedule. Most churches and charitable organizations have fundraising events each year.
One of the best opportunities to play golf in Brunswick County is sponsored by the Brunswick County Parks and Recreation Department.
Dr. Katie McGee, the outgoing superintendent of Brunswick Schools, has been a strong supporter of The First Tee since the beginning, according to Rusty Petrea, the founder (with wife Carol) of The First Tee of Brunswick County.
On Jan. 14, the Brierwood Men's Golf Association had its first Thursday tournament of 2010 because of the cold weather. The game of the day was two best balls of the foursome, with the team of George Edwards, Dave Harper and a draw finishing at 15 under par. The team of Paul Salerno, Bernie Gruzlewski, Chuck Hornfeck and Rich Hornfeck finished at 14 under.
In a CFAG match Friday at Meadowlands, Ron Doeblin and Joe Gallo placed first with a 75. The two-man teams scored one net per hole. Placing second were John Ducey and Steve Maiorca.
Several years ago, I watched a petite young lady pound balls on a practice tee. Her swing was classic, the balls flew long and straight.
The kid was cute, long brown hair pulled back in a ponytail, a wide infectious smile. I had a feeling I'd see her again.
Last week, I did.
Lauren Hunt is still petite with that same winning smile, but she's all grown up now. Done with high school and junior golf, she has graduated from the University of North Carolina, where she played on the women's golf team.
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The Supreme Court has ruled constitutional Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA), so we must live (or die) with it for the present. A number of important points about ACA have not yet been made public, let alone well explained. The length of the law - 2,700 pages of legalese - seems suspicious.
Greta Van Susteren, FoxNews hostess and trained lawyer, confessed last week that she had attempted to read it, but couldn't make sense of it, and gave up. Certainly no member of Congress has read it, yet Democrats alone passed it so their president could claim his only legislative victory. It was not a process of which any person ought be proud.
Never mentioned is the timing of information about ACA. We immediately got ballyhoo about the two hugely popular aspects that became effective right away: Coverage of pre-existing conditions and adult children beingcovered by parents' medical insurance until age 26. It will be in 2014 when we begin to learn about the many parts of ACA that will be very unpopular - long after the fall elections.
Most of these unpopular parts have nothing to do with health care; they are numerous federal government power grabs designed to further its control over us and lessen personal freedoms. The feds will have access to all our health care, employment, and financial records. Naturally the media are ignoring to inform us of these facts, because doing so would lessen Obama's re-election chances.
The entire process was a version of the old "bait and switch" technique. We've already been "baited;" the "switch" will come in 2014. "Obamacare" will prove to be like receiving a prettily wrapped gift: Opening it we find on top a bar of delicious milk chocolate; under it as we dig deeper is a large amount of another brown substance far less pleasing to the palate.
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Titans fall to SK, still working hard
It's all about improvement at this stage for the Toll Gate girls' volleyball team, which isn't the easiest thing to come by with a tough Division I schedule.
And on the scoreboard it hasn't always looked great, as they've struggled to hang in most matches against some of the state's best teams and players.
On Thursday, they lost 3-0 to South Kingstown to fall to 0-15, while the Rebels improved to 3-12. But even with the scores and the losses, head coach Kelly Harrington sees improvement every day.
"We're putting our effort into these tough Division I match-ups," Harrington said. "The scores don't reflect our hard work. There are some D-I teams where their girls play year round."
Against South Kingstown, Toll Gate lost 25-8, 25-12 and 25-8, but they were in all three games until the Rebels were able to go on long, sustained runs.
In game one, they turned a 7-4 game into an easy win by scoring 18 of the final 22 points. In game two, South Kingstown led 9-5 before winning 13 of the next 15 points to go ahead 22-7.
The third game followed a similar script, as the Titans where within a point at 9-8 – thanks in part to a block by Danielle Anderson and a kill by Jessica Brosnahan – but lost the final 16 points of the game.
"It is what it is," Harrington said. "It's unfortunate that we didn't move and that we're in this tough division. Hopefully everyone can just support our players."
Still, there were some positives. Jamie Hopgood, Brosnahan and Laura Kazanjian all played solidly at the net, and Brosnahan had five kills over the final two games.
Returning serve proved to be the biggest issue, as South Kingstown separated itself with dominant serving.
In game two, the Rebels had nine aces, and Alexis Cobb served for 11 consecutive points. In game three, the Rebels got four aces from Emily Taylor, who served the final 15 points of the game.
"Our issue is really just trying to pass the tough serves," Harrington said. "When we do that, there are times when we work well together and have good communication. We make great plays and play good defense, we just need to make that more consistent."
One player who did stand out for Harrington was Kazanjian, who has been one of the team's most consistent performers this season.
"Laura Kazanjian works really hard and gives her full effort all the time in the middle," Harrington said.
Yet, it's still tough to try to get wins against the traditional Division I powers. While Toll Gate was in the playoffs two years ago, it's been out of place for the past two seasons.
Missing two starters hasn't made this season any easier, so all the Titans can do is try to make the best of it.
"We are working hard at every practice and we're putting in our best effort," Harrington said.
Toll Gate's final match of the season was scheduled for Monday against North Kingstown, but it was postponed because of inclement weather.
No make-up date has been scheduled at this point.


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Donald "Thump" Wayne Posey, age 45, of Powell, died Wednesday, June 26, 2013, in Knoxville.
He was born March 19, 1968, in Oak Ridge.
Donald's whole life revolved around music. He was producer of the record label, N.O.C, as well as Dinero Boyz and Manhattan Project. He was a well-known rapper in the area, going by the name of "Donald Thump," also known as "The Mayor."
Donald was preceded in death by his adopted mother, Mary Lou Posey, who raised him. He was also preceded in death by brothers, Eric Wright and Carl Brabson.
He is survived by his wife of three years, Kimberly Michelle Kimsey Posey; his mother, Barbara Lucas; children, Chris, Derek, Courtney, India, Daniel "Brelum," Donald Jr., Alexus, Noah and Deja and his stepchildren, Alexis and Keeondre; brothers, Alex Wright, Quincy Wright, Shawn Wright, Hubert Wright and Walt Wright; sister, Cornelia Wright; God-brother, Mike Brabson; grandchildren, Preston, Jordan and Jayden; special friend, Roy Jones; and a host of nieces, nephews and extended family.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, July 1, 2013, at Weatherford Mortuary. In keeping with his wishes, cremation will follow.
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A Jimenez win at Open could set game back 20 years
GULLANE, Scotland (AP) — A win here by Miguel Angel Jimenez could set golf back by 20 years.
Not because the Spaniard would be the oldest player ever to win a major championship. But because his fitness regimen is so old school it involves little more than wine, cigars and a stretching routine that looks like a cross between pole dancing and baton twirling.
The 49-year-old walked off Muirfield late Friday afternoon at 3-under 139, leading the British Open by one stroke. Asked whether he was feeling any additional pressure in pursuit of the one accomplishment that has eluded Jimenez throughout a distinguished 31-year pro career, he smiled.
"You have to do the same things that you do every day. You don't need to change anything. Just don't think about it," he said. "As soon as I finish here and I leave the golf course, I'm just going to stay with my girlfriend, with my sons, and we're going to have a dinner, like I do every day.
"Don't need to do anything special. I'm leading, now I have to go to bed at 10 o'clock?"
The follow-up question naturally involved what time he planned to go to sleep.
"When I feel like it," Jimenez replied. "And especially after I smoke my cigar."
More than a few rivals in his position would have left the interview room and headed straight for the driving range to put in plenty of additional work. Jimenez planned nothing tougher than hitting a few balls with his coach looking on. He'll do the same thing upon returning to the course Saturday morning, followed by a pre-round stretch that has to be seen to be appreciated.
"I'll actually arrive early to the course to watch it," Phil Mickelson said.
"He's one of those guys I like to ... watch and just kind of watch him move, you know, to see how he rolls."
Jimenez usually begins with a cigar between his lips and a bushy mane pulled back into a ponytail tucked beneath his cap. First, he leans on a club and hunkers down for a few seconds. Next, he puts his knees together and rotates his hips for a few seconds more, clockwise and then counter-clockwise, as his ample gut sways side to side in rhythm. Next, he grabs two clubs and twirls them together, first with his right hand and then his left.
Lastly, Jimenez sticks the head of an iron beneath the sole of each shoe, one at a time, and extends his leg like a man about to stick his toe into a pool.
Skeptical that so little conditioning could unleash such scintillating golf — Jimenez followed up a nervy 68 on Thursday with an even-par 71 in faster, firmer conditions — a reporter asked whether he visited a trainer.
"Yeah, I had to go every morning. You know, I have my tennis elbow," Jimenez said. "I have to do that. And I have to stretch and I have to move early my body."
He was asked how long that usually takes.
"Half an hour," Jimenez replied. "Don't need more to warm up. As you see, I don't want to start lifting weights now."
That kind of irreverence might seem like an act, but it's proven very effective at Muirfield, where bad lies and quirky bounces test a golfer's demeanor.
Jimenez hasn't hit many fairways and greens in regulation — he was tied for 32nd and 80th in those categories, respectively, through two rounds. But he also was tied for the lead in scrambling to rescue pars (11 times), sand saves (he has gotten up and down the five times he has found bunkers) and alone in first in one-putts (17).
"Sometimes it's not about to make too many birdies," Jimenez said. "It's about not to make bogeys."
It's also about coping with nerves, something Jimenez mastered a long time ago. At his age, the definition of pressure — "anything that is important to you" — dovetails nicely with his definition of fun.
"Sometimes you can see me serious because of a situation, but having fun don't mean that you are falling on the ground and start laughing.
"Having fun is doing what you like to do in your life," Jimenez said finally. "And I do it."
Now he only has to do it for two more days.


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Total Number of Speakers: 9
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In what may go down as one of the saddest and nerdiest events in recent history, UK's The Sun recently reported that a British man, one Tony Alleyne, is being asked to dismantle his geeked-out apartment in which he boldly went where no man has gone before in order to transform it into the bridge of the Starship Voyager. Alleyne told The Sun he began working on his Trekked out apartment back in 1999 after he and his ex-wife split up.
It remains unclear as to why it has taken Tony's ex-wife Georgina, who apparently owns the apartment, over a decade to decide to sell the property while Tony remained living in it. But one thing is clear, the 'Wrath of Georgina' has emerged and it's evident she is looking to sell the apartment despite the obvious time and money spent by her former husband fixing up his fan-service to the nerd gods.
According to the Sun, Alleyne estimates that were he to recreate the effort he has undertaken in a new apartment, it could cost upwards of $150,000.
When questioned on how he felt about Georgina asking him to tear down all the Trekked out furnishings, Alleyne told the The Sun, "To say I'm gutted is an understatement. It is my life's work – and it looks like it's going into a skip."
Of course there is also the lingering question of why Alleyne can't just buy the apartment outright from his former spouse, but that may be a mystery of the universe destined to go unsolved.
Still, we're holding out hope that Alleyne will be able to set his phaser to "compromise" and come to some sort of arrangement with his ex, otherwise he may want to gather some funds at light speed in order prevent his stunning Star Trek apartment from warping into that black hole we earthlings refer to as, the dumpster.
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Police are investigating the death of a 1-year-old girl who suffered blunt trauma to the head in her home in the Roseland neighborhood on the South Side.
Paramedics were called to the 10900 block of South Eberhart Avenue around 8:50 p.m. Saturday and found Iyonna Davis unresponsive, police said.
She was taken to Roseland Hospital and pronounced dead at 9:28 p.m. Saturday, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office. An autopsy Sunday found she died from blunt head trauma suffered from child abuse, and her death was classified as a homicide.
The girl's stepmother told police she called 911 after the girl started having trouble breathing, authorities said. The woman told officers she had fed the toddler chicken quesadillas, then left her playing on the floor while she put away dishes.
When the woman checked on the girl, she was on her back. There was a small amount of vomit on her mouth and she was having trouble breathing, the woman told police. The stepmother said she called 911 and started cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the girl, police said.
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What Would Santa Drive? The Top 5 Cars for Mr. Claus
What if Santa couldn't find his sleigh? And OK, what if he also developed a sudden fear of flying? Staying home isn't really an option, at least not this time of year. So how would our favorite red-pajama-clad geriatric deliver the goods?
Naturally, he'd have to drive, which would briefly make him the world's most important car shopper -- because it's not like he already has one in the garage. But what car? If Mr. Claus could only pick one new ride, what would it be? Just in case he happens to be on the horns of this dilemma (and frantically searching the Internet for a solution), we put our heads together and came up with five sensible sets of wheels for his consideration.
Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
Pros: Go-anywhere capability; removable roof and long wheelbase afford sleigh-like cargo capacity
Cons: Unpleasant on long trips (and this will be a long one indeed)
Think first about how Santa's going to get out of the North Pole. No magic, remember, and no airplanes or helicopters, either. An excellent snow vehicle would make this leg a lot easier, and we can't think of a better choice than the off-road-ready Wrangler Unlimited. It comes straight from the factory with the hardware to dominate any terrain, and with the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 aboard, it can actually make some time on smoother surfaces, too -- albeit with more than its fair share of wind and road noise. Why the long-wheelbase Unlimited? Hey, have you seen how big that sack of presents is?
Toyota Sienna
Pros: Room for tons of presents and a bunch of elves; dual-view entertainment system keeps the little helpers happy
Cons: Requires paved roads; driving an uncool minivan could tarnish Santa's image
The Sienna is obviously an on-road vehicle only, but assuming Mr. Claus could make it out of the Arctic Circle in a minivan (maybe the reindeer could tow him), there's plenty of pavement in the rest of the world. To the Toyota's credit, it offers all-wheel drive, so slippery winter streets wouldn't be a problem. And for gift-sack capacity in passenger vehicles, you just can't beat a minivan. Throw in the Sienna's 16.4-inch rear entertainment screen with dual-view capability -- bored elves are mischief-prone, as you may expect -- and you have some strong sleigh-replacement credentials.
Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe
Pros: Speedy gift delivery; fun; the kids would definitely approve
Cons: Support vehicle for gift sack required
With all the automotive toys Mr. Claus has delivered over the years, as well as the actual vehicles for those of driving age, he has to be something of a car guy by now. And the car to have this holiday season is definitely the brand-new C7 Corvette. It's not just about the 455-horsepower V8, either; the Corvette is also known as the big man's sports car due to its generous seat travel and passenger space, so his famous gut should fit without issue. One major downside is that there's only room for a few presents at a time, but maybe the Clauses could get a Suburban support vehicle thrown in for cheap. A team of elves could probably figure out how to drive an enormous SUV, right?
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Volkswagen Touareg TDI
Pros: At home on any surface; handy cargo hold with the rear seats folded; great range and fuel economy
Cons: Firm ride could pose a threat to fragile presents
For one vehicle that does it all, it's hard to beat the diesel-powered Touareg TDI. It shares its platform with the Porsche Cayenne, so you know the dynamics and general robustness are beyond reproach. It has ample ride height and suspension travel for off-roading, yet it's a high-speed champ on the freeway. Its massive 406 lb-ft of torque piles on around 2,000 rpm, making it a great choice for hauling, say, a really heavy red bag. And on those long rural stretches without many filling stations, the Touareg's 29-miles-per-gallon highway rating and 750-mile driving range would keep Santa's anxiety at bay. Shame the optional air suspension is no longer available, though; the Touareg's stiff-legged suspension might break a Christmas vase or two.
RAM 1500 EcoDiesel V6
Pros: Open-air cargo area; coil springs yield soft ride; diesel maximizes mpg
Cons: Oversized dimensions are cumbersome on tight city streets
At the end of the day, maybe Santa should just get a truck. There's a reason big trucks are so popular among Americans: You just can't beat the combined utility of a cargo bed and industrial-grade hauling capacity. And the new-for-2014 RAM 1500 EcoDiesel is the only half-ton truck with diesel power, so he would enjoy a peerless combination of torque (420 lb-ft) and mileage per gallon (projected to be in the high 20s). Also, the RAM's uniquely smooth coil-spring suspension would do the Touareg one better, giving breakable items a fighting chance of getting under the tree intact. The big fella would have his work cut out in older cities and towns, however, as the beefy RAM doesn't play nice with narrow, winding roads.
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Whichever one you choose, Santa, don't forget to live-tweet this year's trip. It'll be great publicity for the automaker. If you play your cards right, you may even get the vehicle for free.