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When I read Michael Fitzgerald's Dec. 28 column, "Deck the Hall," in regards to the possible abandonment of the City Hall, nostalgia came with a rush.
When I read Michael Fitzgerald's Dec. 28 column, "Deck the Hall," in regards to the possible abandonment of the City Hall, nostalgia came with a rush.
Shortly after my return to Stockton from the campaigns in New Guinea, Leyte and Luzon with the famed First Cavalry Division from 1945 to 1947, I was lucky enough to be selected by the Stockton City Council as the first full-time city attorney. My office was on the second floor in the southeast corner of the City Hall.
Walking to work in the morning, it was a pleasure to glimpse McLeod Lake and its ducks, geese and floating bottles. McLeod Lake was named after the Scottish-Irish fur trapper of the Hudson Bay Company.
Alexander McLeod visited Stockton at least three times between 1820-1824. The Hudson Bay men (fur trappers) claimed there were more beavers and otters in our Delta than anywhere in North America. (McLeod Lake was located where the park between City Hall and the public library now exists.)
City Hall was a beautiful sight remotely resembling a beige Parthenon (compare the contemporary courthouse, which resembles a Moscow office building). I worked alone with one secretary for a year, then was joined by attorney Taubner Hamma. At that time, many employees in City Hall, including us, worked from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays.
City Hall was a happy place as many of the officials were friends from Stockton's Ione High School. We handled all the legal problems of the city of Stockton, including opposing requests by utility companies to raise the rates. If we had requested to hire a lawyer for any of the "complex" cases, we would have been laughed out of town.
Now the City Attorney's Office requests the City Council to hire an outside attorney in any "complex" case.
My salary was approximately $700 per month. I don't know what Taubner's salary was.
Those bucolic days lasted until about 1950 or 1951. When employment turmoil threatened to sink the boat. A Stockton lawyer defied the Napoleonic chief of police, Rex Parker, by preparing to open a new gambling joint. The chief responded by closing all houses of pleasure in Stockton, gambling or "Fandango Girls" that had existed in the community since 1851 or 1852. This split the community and the City Council.
The City Council fired "The Old Grey Eagle," City Manager Walter Hogan, because he refused to fire Chief Parker. A recall petition was filed by the "good Burgher" citizens, led by John Zuckerman against the City Council. It was heavily backed by the Stockton Record.
The opposition began printing their own small newspaper appealing to traditions of the city and urging the voters not to submit to the "juggernaut," the Stockton Record. Much to the surprise of the pundits, the recall failed (however, the wiser voters in calmer times declined to re-elect the "good ol' boys" faction of the City Council at the very next election).
The city attorneys tried to remain above the fray in these turbulent times, but our luck deserted us. The police filed a complaint against the kindly old gentleman who owned a house of pleasure and was reputed to be the boss of what passed for a small-town Mafia. The police had a solid case of "maintaining a house of prostitution."
The police officers were on the roof of the immediately adjacent building and were able to see through an unshaded window.
They saw a soldier from the Pittsburg Army base pass a marked $20 bill to a red-haired young lady who commenced to perform her part of the contract. At the trial in the misdemeanor court of the City Hall, I prosecuted the cinch case. Much to my surprise and consternation an alternative judge appeared on the bench.
During the trial he told the jury to find that the soldier was an unreliable witness because he was a "stranger from out of town." He also ruled that the police could not identify the young lady because "they didn't see her face."
Even worse, I found after the trial that the bailiff had served summons to prospective jurors only on owners and managers of the stores and enterprises on Skid Row. The jury brought back a verdict of innocent in about 15 minutes.
This was a painful lesson to me that verdicts are not always decided by the evidence. Even worse, I always observed that certain officers on the police force were not as friendly to me as they had been for years.
Some of the leading citizens began to run for the City Council. Many were elected. In the cleaned-up city, there were a number of outstanding mayors and councilmen. Minority citizens sometimes became city officials. The city prospered as the port's income increased and the importance of agriculture grew in California.
A few decades later, a "pest" entered paradise. The retail business and offices began to move north. The development of fancy malls increased the pace. The downtown residents and business owners in the south of the city became alarmed and complained to their councilmen.
Beguiled by a series of city managers, especially one from Alaska, the council in recent years plunged into an orgy of building downtown. (The hotel, the ballpark, the arena, three parking garages in the center of town, hundreds of thousands of dollars for improvement of the marina, the purchase of the Fox Theatre, and the eventual loss of up to a $1 million in the downtown restaurant subsidy in the old Hotel Stockton.)
However, the northward trend has proved to be inevitable and the city is stuck with hundreds of millions of crushing debt.
All of this exciting and sometimes tragic history was centered in and around City Hall.
Beautiful old City Hall is practically the only traditional building in town. (There is plenty of parking nearby.)
For heaven's sake, let's not abandon it while we're fighting back to solvency.
Stocktonian Bill Dozier is a retired superior court judge.


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Pixel Envy: Best Computer Monitors Around
While Apple releasing their new 27-inch LED Cinema Display, there are now a few contenders for best monitors for the buck. You can easily spend a few thousand dollars on a few computer monitors, but ultimately, most people just need one or two to get the job done. Here are a few of our faves.
1. 27-inch LED Apple Cinema Display
Apple just released this monitor and if you have the cash, you can get it in 5-7 business days with free shipping. It's one of the biggest LED LCD monitors that's currently available. There are plans by other manufacturers to make something to compete, but for now, Apple remains king of the hill. It comes with a universal MagSafe connector that charges your notebook while it's connected, three USB ports, a built-in iSight camera, microphone, and 49-watt speaker system. All this for $999.
2. Dell Ultrasharp U3011 30-Inch and 27-Inch Monitors
Almost the same week that Apple released their new monitor, Dell released their new Ultrasharp monitors. The big thing about them is that they have a 30-inch monitor available. What Apple lacks, Dell makes up for with the following ports: 2 HDMI, 2 DVI, 1 DP, 4 USB, as well as a 7-in-1 media card reader. We'd expect nothing less for $1,499/$1,099.
3. 24-inch LED Apple Cinema Display Even though a new version has just been released, this means that the 24-inch monitor is still a good deal to buy. Originally, it was priced at $799.
4. Viewsonic VX2739 27-Inch Monitor
Although this isn't an LED monitor, it's still the biggest that you can get from Viewsonic. Contrary to the Dell,Viewsonic's monitor boasts a 1ms super fast response time. It's got less ports as well, but it's still good for a computer monitor. You'll get an HDMI, DVI, VGA inputs and 4-port USB hub. It's comparable to the monitors available from HP and Acer. You can find this 27-inch monitor for $349.
5. Viewsonic VX2450wm-LED 24-Inch Monitor
This new Viewsonic monitor is an LED display, but it's got less ports available. However, it's ideally suited for a multi-monitor setup. It's definitely the cheapest of the bunch, at $229, but this means that you can get LED goodness for cheap. Naturally, this implies that if you want to build yourself a multi-monitor setup, you won't break the bank. You can get 4 of these monitors for the price of one 27-inch LED Apple Cinema Display.
[Apple 24-inch LED Cinema Display photos by Gregory Han]

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The ECB collects the annual government finance statistics (GFS) on individual countries directly from the National Central Banks (NCBs). This collection takes place in spring and autumn each year. The main data sources for the NCBs are the ESA Transmission Programme tables, which are compiled in most countries by the National Statistical Institution (NSI) supplemented by NCB or finance ministry data on debt at nominal value. The ECB receives the quarterly non-financial accounts data from the individual countries via Eurostat. Quarterly financial accounts for general government and quarterly Maastricht debt are received directly from the national compilers (NSIs or NCBs).


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I have a 2008 BMW 328xi. The description for the mats I ordered claimed they fit all models for that year and series. Other manufacturers had different mats for the all wheel drive models. The Catch Alls fit relatively ok. There is an overlap on the drivers side where the foot rest is, it goes up about half way. The passenger side fits slightly better but still has a slight buckle in it. Overall though I'm pleased with the look and fit. One positive is that they do not slide or move at all.


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Since 2006, the Greens in State Parliament have been a force for good in creating a more caring and responsible South Australia. We've held the Government to account and introduced our own fresh ideas for a better State. In Parliament and in the community, Mark and his team have worked on a range of campaigns to improve South Australia.
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NEWARK, NJ – Jon C. Dubin, Professor of Law, Alfred C. Clapp Public Service Scholar, and Director of Clinical Programs at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has been selected to receive the 2010 Oliver Randolph Award from the Garden State Bar Association. The award celebrates the legacy of civil rights advocate Oliver Randolph, the first African-American admitted to the practice of law in New Jersey. Randolph was the first African-American assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey and the only African-American to attend the state's 1947 Constitutional Convention, where he successfully fought for an amendment to abolish segregation in public schools and the militia.
"Jon Dubin's commitment to the fundamental goal of equal justice is remarkable and unwavering," said Rutgers Clinical Professor and Deputy Director of Clinical Programs Robert C. Holmes, the 2007 recipient of the Oliver Randolph Award. "He has dedicated himself, in both his career and his work as a volunteer, to achieving that goal and, in so doing, is a constant source of inspiration to students and colleagues alike."
Professor Dubin oversees the law school's eight clinics and teaches both clinical and traditional classroom courses. "Jon has provided extraordinary leadership for the clinical programs," said Edna Baugh, Assistant Director of Clinical Administration, "and is a zealous advocate for clinical legal education within and outside of the law school." Within the Urban Legal Clinic, Professor Dubin oversees a mixed docket of individual Social Security/disability matters and impact litigation, primarily in the area of fair housing. Most recently, he and his students have been involved in efforts to ensure that low-income, Social Security claimants have access to quality representation, especially in federal court appeals and in administrative hearings requiring the cross-examination of expert witnesses. He also teaches classes in administrative law, civil rights, and poverty law.
Prior to joining Rutgers in 1999, Professor Dubin spent nine years at St. Mary's University School of Law, where he created the first clinic, taught classroom courses, and engaged in award-winning scholarship, including a Columbia Law Review article cited and relied on by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Professor Dubin received his A.B. from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from New York University School of Law, after which he clerked for U.S. District Judge John L. Kane, Jr. He was an American Civil Liberties Union Karpatkin Fellow before working as staff attorney and then director of litigation for the New York City Legal Aid Society's Civil Division, Harlem Neighborhood Office, where his litigation included the Social Security/disability matters that have become the hallmark of his clinical and non-clinical teaching. At the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, he litigated class actions in the area of land use and housing law, including Newark Coalition for Low-Income Housing v. NHA & HUD, a still-active case to which he now assigns his Urban Legal Clinic students.
Professor Dubin's passions for clinical legal education and social justice are reflected in his many professional and community volunteer activities. Among other affiliations, he has been a board member of the Clinical Legal Education Association, the Clinical Law Review, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, the Law School Consortium Project, the NYU Public Interest Law Foundation, and the Revson Fellowship Board. He currently serves on the Clinical Legal Education Association's task force on minorities in clinical legal education.
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Insomnia or trouble sleeping is very common – about 30% to 40% of adults will experience insomnia in any given year. Insomnia is a symptom and is not a medical condition in itself. Rather, it's your body's way of telling you that something is not working right.
There are different types of insomnia. Some people have trouble falling asleep, while others have trouble staying asleep or waking up too early. Also, sleep problems can be short-term, lasting a few days or weeks, or chronic, lasting for several months or more.
Insomnia is only considered a problem if it interferes with your life - if you wake feeling unrefreshed or find yourself dozing during the day. It is normal to sleep less as you age. If you're sleeping less than you did when you were younger but don't feel tired during the day, you should not worry.
Typical daily sleep requirements at different ages:
|Hours of sleep needed
|13 to 17
|2 years
|9 to 13
|10 years
|10 to 11
|16 to 65 years
|6 to 9
|over 65 years
|6 to 8
The sleep of older people, as well as being shorter, is less deep. Only about 25% of the sleep of someone over 65 years is rapid eye movement (REM) sleep or stage IV (very deep) sleep, compared to over 50% in a young child. This probably means that older people dream less, since dreaming usually occurs during REM sleep.
As people get older, some get by with amazingly little sleep. Margaret Thatcher claimed to average 4 or fewer hours a night throughout her tenure as Prime Minister of Britain. Nevertheless, many people complain that a lack of sleep affects their daytime performance. At any given time, about 10% of the population consider themselves to have chronic insomnia. About half of us will suffer from insomnia at some point in our lives.


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Cyber security for the electric sector
This article addresses the compliance cost of NERC attack prevention standards in the electric power distribution industry and just how little work gets done in a typical plant when the network is down.
By Dale Peterson, SecureSystems Insider Contributor.
and Doug Howard, Counterpane Internet Security
MOST COMPUTER networks facilitate the flow of information. But in the electric industry, special computer networks control the process of generating, transmitting and distributing power. Distributed Control Systems (DCS) allow a small number of operators to control a power plant. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems control and monitor the transmission and distribution of power across a wide area from a control center. These systems control a process that has serious human safety implications and are essential to the critical infrastructure.
Control systems have many unique aspects that aren't found in a corporate network, from protocols and equipment used to control the physical process, commonly via measurement and actuation, to special performance and availability requirements to prevent downtime or delay. But these same control systems also have much in common with corporate computer systems that are constantly under attack. Control systems are increasingly connected to the enterprise network, which is connected to the Internet. Key components of control systems run on Windows and Unix operating systems.
Forward-thinking industry experts were worried about a cyber attack on control systems prior to the year 2000, but this was not widely embraced as a real concern.
All this changed after Sept. 11, 2001.
The industry was faced with the reality that a sophisticated and dedicated adversary wanted to damage the US and other countries. The ease at which a cyber terrorist could knock out large portions of the electric grid became a real concern.
The Northeast blackout in August 2003 was a second wakeup call because computers and applications failed to work properly. The investigation found no evidence of a cyber attack causing the blackout, but the incident highlighted the potential for a future attack.
These serious threats, along with the ubiquitous worms, viruses and general hacking faced by any computer user, underlined the need to insure appropriate cyber security measures are in place to protect the DCS and SCADA systems essential to the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity.
NERC Steps In
The North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), with its stated mission of ensuring the reliability and security of the bulk electric system, was the logical choice for regulating cyber security for the electric sector.
The need was so critical that NERC did not follow its typical process for developing a standard. Instead, Urgent Action Standard 1200 – Cyber Security was issued in August 2003 and renewed in August 2004.
During this two-year period, NERC worked on a longerterm solution, now split into eight critical infrastructure protection (CIP) standards:
- CIP-002 Critical Cyber Assets
- CIP-003 Security Management Controls
- CIP-004 Personnel and Training
- CIP-005 Electronic Security
- CIP-006 Physical Security
- CIP-007 Systems Security Management
- CIP-008 Incident Reporting and Response Planning
- CIP-009 Recovery Plans
While implementation is likely to vary a great deal by sector, the underlying requirements could be used in any industry with little modification. The NERC CIP requirements are similar to banking, e-commerce, health care or government best practices. They require:
- A cyber security policy;
- Employee security training and awareness;
- Disabling unused network ports/services to limit what can be attacked;
- Strong passwords (a mix of character types of sufficient length that would be hard for a person or program to guess) for user authentication; and
- Monitoring the security perimeter and critical assets for attacks.
Measurement and accountability are key features of the CIP standards. Each standard includes the audit requirements to achieve compliance and requires a "senior management officer's approval," which will certainly help achieve management buy-in to cyber security.
NERC chose to be very general in the requirements, rather than state how to meet each requirement. It's certainly easier to achieve consensus on general requirements and meeting them is bound to improve cyber security to some degree. But a lack of specifics also means a company could be compliant from an audit standpoint without necessarily achieving the intended goal: security.
The standards and related audit requirements apply only to "bulk electric systems," and most organizations already know if they are subject to NERC standards. But electric systems that don't fall under NERC's "bulk electric system" definition would have a cyber security program if they voluntarily comply with these standards.
To take this a step further, other critical infrastructure fields, such as chemicals, oil and gas and water, could use these standards until a more applicable one is developed for their industry.
Complying with NERC CIP
All organizations fall into one of five stages in the evolution toward compliance with the NERC CIP or other compliance mandates such as Sarbanes-Oxley, ACC's Responsible Care or HIPAA.
Stage I: No clear understanding of the organization's risks and liabilities in relation to cyber security.
Stage II: General understanding of risks and liabilities, but cyber security as a program is ad hoc and purely reactive.
Stage III: Cyber security is defined as a program with a clear understanding of risks and liabilities somewhere within the organization, but is highly dependent on individuals.
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text: The newly design deck is another point that will catch yacht lover's eyes. The sleek and elegant shape of deck creates very modern look for D52. On D52, you can enjoy sun tanning not only on foredeck but also on flybridge twin sun pad beside the helm console. Plenty storage under flybridge settee, cockpit settee, and helm seat as well as the fiberglass cabinet on flybridge deck and side cabinet on cockpit can solve your worry of storage if you bring many stuff on board.


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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The Eugene Philyaw house is a combination of two styles, Colonial Revival and Queen Anne.
Built in 1910, it sits at 1802 Market Street. The simple yet commanding house on the Azalea Festival Home Tour was in disrepair a few years ago.[mappress mapid="1352″]
The former owners, however, revamped it adding some flair with fancy chandeliers, and convenience with a new kitchen.
When the current owners, the Yinglings saw it, they say they it was just "wow."
"And we both, as soon as we walked through the backdoor to see the kitchen, we both just looked at each other and went, 'Oh, my gosh,' and from that point on, it just got better, and better and better,"
The renovation received a Historic Wilmington Foundation Rehabilitation award in 2015.
The Azalea Festival Home Tour runs Saturday and Sunday.


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ECS A770M-A Review
Crysis is a new addition to the gaming benchmark suite used at OverclockersClub.com. This game is one of the most anticipated and system intensive games to be released to the market right now. The Crysis single player demo includes a GPU benchmark to test the performance of the video card installed in the system.
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new Johnny Foreigner EP
3 Hearts is such a massive tune
This is ace, they're a real EP band now I think
I still can't get into the last album.
You Thought You Saw a Shooting Star but Yr Eyes Were Blurred With Tears and That Lighthouse Can Be Pretty Deceiving With the Sky So Clear and Sea So Calm - AMAZING
There When You Need It - AMAZING
Certain Songs are Cursed - AMAZING
Johnny Foreigner vs. Everything - meh...
One day they'll release one of those EP compilation records and it'll be the best thing ever.
Listen to vs Everything as 3 eps
maybe that'll help you get into it (and it pretty much is 3 eps stuck together anyway). It is really fantastic and the best thing they've done.
Love the new ep but does anyone know how to get the US only extra track on it's own? The link here doesn't work http://johnnyforeigner.bandcamp.com/album/names
To be fair I spent literally years bemoaning the rubbishness of Grace and The Bigger Picture
And now I love it, easily my favourite of the three. I'll give vs. Everything another chance soon.
Ah see Grace is my least favourite although I'm warming to it
it's still the record (inc eps) I play least.
Vs Everything is pretty wonderful
I barely bothered with it before I saw them here a few weeks ago but I've been playing it quite a lot since then. think it caught me off guard with how miserable it basically is but HEY i've been pretty miserable lately so w/e
I'M NOT DONE WITH THIS I'M NOT GIVING IN I'M NOT GIVING UP ON YOU WE JUST GOT OLLLLDDDERRRRRRJustJay this'd this
i know it sounds like a massive emo cliche
but listening to JoFo vs Everything always give me such a buzz because they just fucking *get it* like almost no other band does.
3 Hearts is bloody great, keen to hear the rest of the EP.niallKP, krankenhaus, Teeej, and NickDS this'd this
That's what I love about it
That it's so miserable, I mean. Took a while to get into, probably because of length, but it's so bloody strong the whole way through! Easily one of my faves of last year.
How is Arcs Across The City not on that EP list - 10/10 on DiS back when it was thing...
... and yeh, pretty much the greatest band evar! <3
I was specifically listing their amazing run of 2010-2011 EPs in the build-up to vs. Everything.
Remember when they sold a really limited edition (like 25 I think) bundle on the shop website
Including the song of your choice handwritten by Lexei with an anecdote about the song on the back?
I was lucky enough to get in on that. I chose 'Yr Loved'. It was a bit tatty when it arrived and it's tattier now, but by god I love that scrap of paper...
kind of baffles me that grace still has this reputation as the weakest album
and vs as maybe their best
just really think vs was a huge misfire, same for a few of the EP songs prior to it
this EP is back to what i like about them
Really love the last track on this.
<3 JoFo.
Oooh, I'll get right on this
vs. Everything was right up there with my favourite albums of last year
I loved the new songs played live last month
Cant wait to hear this. Great band that I wish were bigger
I know it's terribly indie and selfish but I'm kind of glad they're not
I like them being a (relatively) well-kept secret. Could see them having a proper breakthrough, though I still think it's unlikely.
just played the last track to a collegue
I don't like it. It sounds like an abattoir.


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Isra Hashmi is one of the lucky ones.
And even so, she's watched her mother sink under a $700,000 mortgage for a home in California that she never could afford to begin with on a physician's income. Hashmi's mother eventually had to walk away from the house. She's seen her brother have to abandon his home, too, after his clothing business failed and he was foreclosed on. She stood by a friend who lost tens of thousands of dollars in a short sale when it was the last option to get out of a mortgage that was burying her in debt.
But Hashmi herself has never had to face what her friends, family and millions more Americans have as the crippling housing crisis unfolded. She might be the only one she knows who hasn't.
That's because, even at the age of 39, Hashmi has never owned a home — and she may never after seeing what's happened to everyone around her, she said.
A lifelong renter, Hashmi (pictured at left with her husband and three children) is in the minority of Americans who have never taken the plunge into homeownership. (Despite slumping to a 50-year low, the rate of U.S. homeownership was estimated to be 62.1 percent in the second quarter of 2012.) But she's likely among a majority of lifelong renters who today count themselves blessed or lucky that they've never owned a home. These are the few who have made it through the housing crash and resulting foreclosure crisis virtually unscathed.
"I'm still the only one I know who has never owned," Hashmi told AOL Real Estate.
It's not that she hasn't come close. Eight years ago, when Hashmi and her husband lived in Tucson, AZ, they were on the verge of buying a home there.
"It was the middle of the housing boom, and homes were popping up everywhere," she said.
But when it came time to make an offer, Hashmi's husband raised a red flag. He realized that the mortgage their bank was offering them was way out of their budget.
"He said, 'This is freaking me out. I don't make enough money to afford this,' " Hashmi recalled. "He had the sense to realize that we couldn't afford it. And then we couldn't understand why we would even be offered this loan."
Relief when the housing bubble burst
The couple decided against buying. A few years later, the housing crash would hit, as millions defaulted on loans that they couldn't afford and shouldn't have been able to qualify for in the first place. Four million people would lose their homes to foreclosure, and more than double that would face the same possibility.
"We looked at each other in relief and said, 'Do you realize what we just escaped?' " Hashmi recalled.
Today, the couple rents an apartment in Boston with their three children, and Hashmi said that they don't have any plans to buy in the future, even amid record-low mortgage rates and far lower home prices.
Even though renting might have saved people like Hashmi from deep pain as the housing bust took hold, is shying away from buying a home a winning strategy for the future? Not necessarily.
Analysts say buying better financial option
According to Zillow's breakeven horizon analysis, buying has become a better financial option than renting in 75 percent of U.S. metros, where it takes an average of three years or less of owning a home to break even with what you'd pay in rent over the same time period. (Home prices are down about 30 percent from their peak in 2006.) In Boston, where Hashmi lives, it would take awhile longer to break even: 4.3 years.
Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries said that lifelong renters "have played the smart money for the last five years" by staying out of the buyer's market, but the fortune in that decision is turning a corner.
He pointed out that historically, over the last century, home prices have risen at an average rate of 0.5 percent to 2 percent per year.
"Despite what's happened in recent years, housing is generally a non-depreciating asset," Humphries said. "We think we've hit bottom on home values … The steep drops are behind us."
The renters who avoided catastrophe during the housing slump have a golden opportunity to gain wealth by buying now as home pricesare climbing back, Humphries added.
Golden opportunity?
That's an argument that could potentially persuade Gerald Poindexter. The 43-year-old San Diego resident (pictured at right) has been a renter all his life, and he said he felt like he "dodged a bullet" during the housing crisis.
"But never say never," he said about the possibility of buying a home in the future.
Poindexter said he mostly has stayed away from buying because of the overwhelming responsibility of owning a home.
"Your home starts to dominate every aspect of your life," he said. "You stay in a job you hate just to keep up with the house." And when the housing bubble burst, it only affirmed his decision to remain a renter.
But "I love a good deal," Poindexter said, referring to the deals available because of battered home prices. "If the right opportunity came along, I wouldn't say no."
Then again, have longtime renters really survived the housing bust without a scratch? After all, rental prices have soared across the country as ex-homeowners who lost their homes have flooded the rental market.
Rents soar in some key markets
Gary Malin, president of New York City-based realty firm Citi Habitats, has seen some of the worst of it. Rental prices in the market that's already America's most expensive have beaten record highs multiple times over the last couple of years.
Still, Malin said, judging whether a renter has gotten off scot-free during the housing crisis depends entirely on individual circumstances.
"If you were in a position to buy at the height of the market but didn't, then you're still way ahead of the game," he said. But if you were only financially capable of paying average rents at the height of the market — when they were much lower than they are now — then today's surging rental costs are likely hurting your bottom line a lot more, he added.
Hashmi admitted that rising rents have been a struggle for her family. Their rent has gone up every year for the past three years that they've been in their Boston apartment. She said they are considering moving outside the city to find cheaper rental rates. But for her, that still doesn't outweigh the comfort of being free of mortgage debt.
"It's the most amazing feeling to go to bed at night and be debt-free," Hashmi said. "There's nothing else like it."
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Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli told the assembled media in Minneapolis today that he's already held an initial meeting with agent Rick Curran to discuss his client Tomas Kaberle.
So far it's been difficult to gauge Chiarelli's enthusiasm level for bringing back the defenseman who cost the Bruins a top prospect and two high draft picks last February and then struggled to get comfortable in a Boston uniform.
In past years, Chiarelli hasn't been shy about getting deals done with his restricted and unrestricted free agents well in advance of the market opening. But this is a different situation, obviously, with the Bruins having played up to June 15 in order to win the Stanley Cup. And Kaberle is probably the weirdest case yet for Chiarelli because you can make the case that he's the first in-season acquisition that stayed healthy but didn't live up to expectations.
Now that's a Cup-champion general manager, Chiarelli certainly doesn't need any advice from this blog. But if I was in Chiarelli's seat, I'd get a deal done with Kaberle and keep my championship D corps together for a full season.
Many of you just rolled your eyes or whacked yourself in the head – maybe you even closed your browser or sent a virus to this site – after reading that declaration. Kaberle certainly had his faults during his four months in black and gold and earned his share of Bruins-backing detractors. That doesn't mean that he's a terrible player or he's destined to play in the future the way he sometimes stumbled in his first Bruins stint.
It's widely believed that Kaberle will have to take a pay cut into the $3 to $3.5 million range. This might not be completely true considering his track record and the ever-thinning pool of comparable puck-moving defensemen headed toward the open market. The pool was already thin before Andrei Markov and Kevin Bieksa were reportedly closing in on new deals without testing the waters. Combined with the increase in the salary cap, the thin pool might make Kaberle a more coveted asset than those who watched the Bruins' run to the Cup would believe.
Nonetheless, I wouldn't pay Kaberle more than $3.5 million. Chiarelli can fit him in at that amount without hurting his ability to upgrade the team or keep around a rookie or two next season without the performance-bonus cushion. Maybe Kaberle would be willing to take a "hometown discount" considering that other than Toronto, Boston was the only other place he wanted to play the last couple seasons when he was deciding whether to waive his no-trade clause. Publicly he said he still wants to stay here, so if he's to be taken at his word, maybe he'd trade location and term for the riches he might get elsewhere.
Now you're reading this and still screaming at the screen that at any price more than minimum wage you don't want to see Kaberle back. He didn't save the power play, was lackadaisical in his own end at times and lacked any sign of physicality.
Well, those things are mostly true. But I still think the reasons to keep Kaberle outweigh the reasons to let him walk, if the price is right. You start with that thin pool of replacements. After watching seven games against Vancouver, do you want the Bruins to sign Sami Salo or Christian Ehrhoff or even Bieksa? James Wisniewski has suddenly become popular among Bruins fans. He has some offensive upside but his decision-making and defensive lapses would surely make head coach Claude Julien tear his hair out if the Cup championship made him grow any.
The only legitimate game-changer headed to the free-agent market is Joni Pitkanen. He personifies all the tools you want in a "PMD" and he's in the prime of his career. He's also going to be looking for more than the $4 million he was making with Carolina. If you want to commit somewhere in the neighborhood of $5 million per season – for who knows how many seasons in this era of the lifetime contract – to a player who's known for his lapses and lulls over the course of 82 games, you obviously do not subscribe to the same team-building philosophies as Chiarelli.
So now back to Kaberle. While the power play didn't become a world-beater, it certainly improved over the course of the Cup Final and even in the Tampa Bay series. Front and center was Kaberle, with his fearless passes along the blue line and uncanny ability to keep pucks in regardless of how high off the ice they are or which side of him they were headed toward.
Blaming Kaberle for the power-play woes is like blaming a pitcher with an ERA under 2.00 for going 1-10 with no run support. The Bruins' would-be finishers – Milan Lucic, Nathan Horton, et al. – are just as to blame. And what about would-be playmaker David Krejci? Working the half wall most of the season, the center was just as unproductive on the power play as Kaberle.
At even strength, even when he was struggling, Kaberle was able to keep defenses on their heels with his ability to move the puck far and move it quick. Subtly he provided the Bruins with what they got him for, even if you couldn't quantify it on the score sheet. He sacrificed his body to block shots when the stakes were raised, even if he hit as rarely as Tyler Seguin.
Imagine Kaberle with a full training camp and exhibition season to get used to Julien's system and play with a consistent partner (maybe even Zdeno Chara). Imagine him settling into the city instead of learning a new town after his first NHL trade in the midst of a season. Accept the fact that even if he made some gaffes out on the ice, he didn't commit more than any other blue liner (except maybe Dennis Seidenberg) in a Bruins sweater, and he just took more flak for his errors because of the hype surrounding him when he got here and his salary.
By all accounts, Kaberle was a positive influence in the locker room, and it couldn't hurt to have him around to help raise future "PMDs" Steven Kampfer and Matt Bartkowski.
Bet you didn't believe there could be so many reasons to keep Tomas Kaberle. Well, there you have them all. And if Chiarelli is really interested in making Kaberle a long-term Bruin – a fact I'm not completely sold on based on Chiarelli's vague comments on the matter – he should get the deal done without fear Kaberle would be anything but a solid contributor to future Bruins clubs.


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Hai cricket webbers,
Some of you probably know me as kirki - the girlfriend of Top_Cat who is no doubt gushed about on a daily basis here (translation: the butt of TC's sarcastic remarks)
I haven't been around much and obviously don't post as much as I did when I was working at SACA but I'm here to ask you for help
I recently(ish) started working at the RSPCA and since day one I have been amazed at what my co-workers do daily.
I've seen a rescue officer climb six feet off a slippery, wet ground to rescue a trapped cat from a storm water drain. The cat had been missing for three months and the owners thought they'd never see her again.
I've see an animal cruelty inspector seize three dogs, all flea bitten, malnourished, and neglected. He meticulously gathered evidence for our legal counsel who made the case in court to prosecute the dogs' owners, who were eventually sentenced to two weeks jail on several counts of animal cruelty and neglect. All three dogs were treated, cared for, and rehomed by the RSPCA. One of which, waited almost a year in the shelter before he found a new home.
I won't go into too many details but sharing an office printer with the animal cruelty inspectors has inadvertently exposed me to some heartbreaking images.
They take it in their stride and do everything they can for the sick, injured, and mistreated animals that need their help.
When I saw an opportunity to help out I took it. So here I am, taking part in the RSPCA Borneo Orangutan trek which will see me taking off in a few months to trek, camp, and visit orang-utan orphanages. The trek is part of an Inspired Adventures tour which means before I go, I have to raise $3,300 for a charity - the RSPCA.
I have already raised half by running a 12km "fun" run, selling chocolates, and running raffles.
So what do I need help with?
If you would like to help me fundraise you can donate at my online fundraising page:
If you can't donate (or just don't want to) please send the link to your coworkers or friends.
Anything you can do to help will be utterly fantastic.
Donating makes you feel warm and fuzzy knowing you're really making a difference to animals that need it and it's all tax deductible - the website will even send you a reminder receipt around tax time
Disclaimer: Because I'm super polite I checked with James to see if he was cool with me posting a "asking for help" thread and he was totally cool with it. *Thanks James!*


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|2009-08-25, 16:06
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Some even mistook him for a woman, initially. Including me.
|2009-08-25, 16:57
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I really enjoyed this chapter. From the color pages to the fight between Sakaki and Cyril. I like how Sakaki was looking for an attempt to rescue Rachel and did it in a bad ass fashion. I really enjoyed the quips said by both Sakaki and Jenazad duing the fight, and I really enjoyed how Jenazad was presented in the color page. Speaking of which, I really love the continuity of Shigure only wearing her cloth instead of wearing a regular swimsuit like the rest of the three girls.
|2009-08-25, 18:31
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Badass chapter, especially when Sakaki said he doesn't need to know the name of villains so they should shut their traps.
They said Elder had trouble with Demon Fist? I think the key here is "had", there's no one who can fight the superman on equal footing now... probably.
And Rachel is friggin hot!!! How come all the side characters are upstaging Miu?
|2009-08-25, 18:34
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Sakaki, the lucky one........
Cause Slicardo is def. stronger (and older) than Sakaki, i claim. He calls him brat.
He witnessed Sakaki's abilities and sees him as a good toy to play with.
Ethan's master isn't that strong, though it could be the small battlefield that restricted his movements.
Sakaki harem? Don't think so. Only the girls would have some romantical interests.
He sees them more as children that he needs to take care with.
Actually, i am quite dissappointed.
Kensei and Akisame had the best master fights so far.
But the moment will come for Sakaki when he faces God Hand. Karate vs. Karate.
|2009-08-25, 18:40
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Aww...it ended within one chapter? depressing
I was definitely hoping that this master fight would have lasted longer but ah :/
Although Sakaki definitely rocked ass and I was only surprised that he didn't completely tear off that guy's facial hair XD
And LOL at the attempt to curse Sakaki...yea, Shigure is more scary with her sleep talking curses
|2009-08-25, 22:09
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I don't know if they are top 3, but Diego is probably one of the weaker ones. God Hand is definitely one of the strongest, he screams badass. And then there's Kensei, and the leader of Yami who defeated James the boxer. We haven't seen nothing yet.
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|2009-08-26, 03:49
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And so the arc ended...well if they went any further it would be a different arc all on its own
I don't mind the interruption of the fight, even in HSDK too much fighting could be a negative point. Nice chapter, gives a feeling of completion after reading it.
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Simply, i interpreted it this way cause it was indicated.
The invincible Superman had problems fighting against Silcardo.
And Kushinada is even older than the Elder and fought along him, not to forget she showed a glimpse of her skill against Ma.
I can't see anyone in Yomi being stronger besides Shadow One.
Hm, i dunno.
Either the author will skip several years in the story or it will take decades (if even possible) for Kenichi to reach the level atleast of the Elder....
|2009-08-26, 05:15
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|2009-08-26, 05:59
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Then Kenichi must be a born genius in fighting and he doesn't know it.....
Still, i can't imagine him fighting someone who is most probably even stronger than the Elder any time soon. This will take years.
He is nowhere near being a master or even a super master now.
So the author has to skip several years to show Kenichi grew into a master.
Well, he is the hero of a shonen-manga, so it is quite realistic that by the end he will be the strongest.
btw: Elder's techniques don't seem to be that special. There quite a lot of people who can use seikukken ory even ryu-seikukken .
|2009-08-26, 08:37
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We have never actually seen anyone use Ryuusui Seikuken like the Elder and Kenichi do; Takeda's version was shallow compared to Kenichi's. The only person who MAY have it is Mikumo, due to what Sho said about training with her, but even that is not for certain.
Seikuken on the other hand IS more common for high level Sei-type fighters.
|2009-08-26, 15:10
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That´s not the gist of the story.
Having talent is not what Kenichi has. What you need is conviction and the right heart for it (Kenichi has!) and then an enormous amount of training to reach your goals.
@ ch250
I especiallly liked the colorful page with the girls in swimsuits (who wonders? )
And second the way Silcardo Jenazad was described. Even Kensei and Akisame were thrilled hearing of him. Seems like he is an enemy none of them would want to face .. calls for the elder (and I bet, he can pawn him - last time he just wanted to reach his ship..)
But still a bit unhappy... Ryozanpaku always wins (which is good) but the excitement fades a bit..
And Ichiei (the one shadow) defenitely is stronger than the OSNF
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I disagree with you all.
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|2009-08-26, 16:38
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"conviction and the right heart for it and then an enormous amount of training to reach your goals." won't get you to the level to beat One Shadow , and especially not in that short amount of time.
Come on, Kenichi is still an angsty youngster.
It would be ridiculous by the author if he will show any Kenichi vs. (Super)Master fights.
Actually i do wonder what the author will do after Kenichi beat all Yami-members.
HSDK began good, but i am not pleased with the amount of fanservice in the previous chapters.
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Doctor Who and the Daleks (UK - BD RB)
Marcus hangs out with the Non-Doctor in this Non-Doctor Who Doctor Who film
Doctor Who (Peter Cushing) and his granddaughters, Susan (Roberta Tovey) and Barbara (Jennie Linden), end up going on a grand adventure in the Doctor's new invention, the T.A.R.D.I.S. when Barbara's boyfriend Ian (Roy Castle) accidentally activates the machine.
Transported to a world devastated by an ancient nuclear war, it's soon revealed that a race of Daleks are behind the destruction and keep the local people, the Thals living in the woods. The Daleks, mutated by the planet's radiation seek to obtain the Thals anti-radiation drug and through the arrival of Doctor Who and his group they set in motion a plan to get what they require to take over the entire planet and restore themselves to their former unmutated selves.
This 1965 feature film isn't exactly the Doctor Who fans had grown to love on the BBC. Based loosely on the popular TV show, Peter Cushing's Doctor Who isn't some time travelling alien but just a sciency guy that's made a machine to travel through space and time. Told in a fairly typical 60s British fashion, the film is a solid representative of the sci-fi movies of era but comes with its own fair share of the British slapstick sense of humour.
With a story aimed squarely at the family adventure crowd, Roy Castle is there to offer up the comic relief and even through his clumsiness gets the plot going when he accidently falls on a big red button, ill placed on the floor of the T.A.R.D.I.S. He can get a little grating with some his clumsiness and prolonged moments of humour but much like my feelings on Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace it's never enough to bring down the whole film, which on the whole is a solid Doctor Who adventure, despite the disconnect from the TV home we're used to with the franchise.
With very little in the way of genuine threat, Doctor Who and the Daleks keeps it simple and rather polite for a film depicting a family imprisoned by dominate alien war machines. I mean for starters the hero here is essentially someone's inventor Grandfather with a weak heart and the Daleks, not only talk irritatingly slowly but they have a city full of lava lamps (groovy man) and run on static electricity. Even more twee is the fact it's soon discovered that Daleks move like dodgems at a funfair and being the clever science family the Who's are, they work out that the Daleks can't drive over fabric, like clothes or carpet and it renders them powerless. How far sci-fi has come (well maybe not, just last year the Avengers 'turned off' an entire army of alien creates just by shutting a wormhole and we all swallowed that one).
The video presentation here is bright and colourful with its many weird and wonderful Doctor Who locations but it still holds a fairly gritty looking appearance. Edges range between sharp and obviously HD powered to soft and only slightly above DVD quality. The brightly lit sets, like the inside of the T.A.R.D.I.S. really show off the textures in the characters' clothes, especially Doctor Who's old man suede coat and the metallic appearance of the Dalek city is pretty shiny in all the right places.
The Lower lit sets suffer a little bit from being underwhelming to look at with nothing really popping off the screen beside the garish comic book greens, reds and blues and in some of the more bizarre locations there's just no escaping the low rent approach to sets and set dressing, even when taking the age of the film into consideration.
All in all this is a pretty grainy, yet well-presented restoration of the nearly 50 year old British film. It feels its age but at the same time feels like it's making use of the power of HD, even if it never really knocks you over with the results.
The Austin Powers-esq 60s opening score does very little to generate the world of Doctor Who as we know it today (or indeed ever) and the rest of the pretty standard adventure feeling score feels a little out place at times, despite sounding very good within the mix.
Dialogue is very centre based but it's crystal clear. Even to the point where it can sometimes feel disconnected from the film itself and you'll soon realise that's because all that the track really offers is dialogue for the most part. There's very few atmospherics sounds outside of the T.A.R.D.I.S. and really its only swooshing doors, Dalek fire extinguishers and the Dalek voices that feature in the sound effects departments. It's all very timid for an adventure film really and it's really only that score that dictates the mood of the film.
The commentary with Jennie Linden and Roberta Tovey is a fairly good glimpse behind the scenes of the film but it's a little quaint in the details department and doesn't really service newer Doctor Who fans who may question exactly how this film came about. Given that I'm a casual Who fan at best, I personally would have liked to have heard if it influenced future Doctor Who episodes and how it stood or indeed stands in the Doctor Who community. That sort of comes next...
'Dalekmania' (57:30 HD) is a rather timid behind the scenes making of with tons of clips from the film. The film's history is discussed and how the rights for Doctor Who and the Daleks were obtained. There's also a very nerdy Doctor Who Magazine editor explaining the differences between the mythology in the film and the mythology in the TV show. This making of, which feels as if it was produced in the 90s includes many of the original cast and it turns out to be a fine extra to sit alongside the film and seems pretty familiar, so I guess they showed it on TV at some stage as its never anything I've owned.
'Restoring Doctor Who and The Daleks' (08:26 HD) has Marcus Hearn (A TV Historian) amongst other experts explaining the history of the project. Its original Techniscope film limitations and the technolgy used to repair and clean the film for home digital release is covered in a ton of detail and of course it includes before and afters looks at the restoration of the film.
The 'Interview With Gareth Owen' (07:41 HD) , a Sheperton Studios Expert as well as a Doctor Who one too it seems talks Doctor Who history, the marketability of The Daleks and how the prospect of a colour, live action film in the 60s was hot stuff to Doctor Who fans.
Lastly there's a stills gallery and the trailer.
I have a vague memory of seeing Doctor Who and the Daleks in the past but I probably didn't appreciate its 60s quaintness quite as much in my youth as I do now. I love this era of sci-fi a fair bit, a more innocent time if you will and Doctor Who and the Daleks does enough good to outshine its obvious limitations. Yeah, they stop Daleks with chocolate mousse and a coat but there's something cool about that and even though this is off of Doctor Who mythology as we know it today, Cushing as a clever old guy still holding his own against the aliens, while his companions help him out at every turn still says Doctor Who to me.
The disc has a solid restoration effort behind it and provides some great results but given the grain, the soft edges and limited audio track, it's not exactly going to rival any modern HD Doctor Who presentations. That said, the extras go a fair way to make it a solid all round purchase and I feel as if I've learnt a lot about the Non-Doctor Who, Doctor Who movie from the sixties because of them. Next up, its sequel time with Daleks: Invasion Earth… see you there.
Review by Marcus Doidge
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I think these restorations looks fab. I hope these come to the US soon (or that Studio Canal would start doing Region Free BDs!)
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Disc Details
Release Date: 27th May 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: LPCM 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Commentary, Dalekmania, Featurettes, Interview, Photo Gallery, Trailer
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Gordon Flemyng
Cast: Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey, Barrie Ingham
Genre: Adventure and Sci-Fi
Length: 82 minutes
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Grunt per unit square area has never been a part of the Element mission statement. Element is a bridled 'C' with relatively low projected area for a user-friendly, low bar pressure, easy re-launch all-rounder. Simple enough to choose a size from 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 for most conditions/uses. People looking for raw power will enjoy the new Nitro V2.
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Packshotnik creates 360-degree stop motion spinshots
Packshotnik creates stop-motion animated 360-degree spin shots of various objects. It consists of a rotary platform and a controller and requires a camera that can be controlled via IR or by wire.
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MINGORA, Pakistan (AP) ? Pakistani Taliban attacked two leaders of an anti-militant political party on Sunday in northwest Pakistan, killing one and wounding another in the latest attack targeting members of secular-leaning parties during their campaigns for next month's parliamentary election.
In the first incident, Mukarram Shah was killed in an explosion as he entered his car in the village of Banjot, said Abdullah Khan, police chief of the nearby city of Mingora. The explosives appeared to have been set off by remote control, he added.
In the other attack, a blast hit the convoy of provincial assembly candidate Masoom Shah as he was returning from a campaign meeting, police officer Zahir Khan said. He said Shah and three of his aides suffered wounds from the roadside bomb.
Both Shahs are from the secular Awami National Party, which supported military operations against militants in the region.
The ANP is among three secular-leaning political parties that the Pakistani Taliban have threatened to attack during campaigns for the May 11 parliamentary elections. The other two parties are the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
The Taliban have warned people in a video message to stay away from rallies held by the three political parties they consider their enemies.
The three dominated Pakistan's last government, which was dissolved in preparation for the elections. The ANP also headed the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the main province of the northwest, a stronghold of the Taliban.
The latest two assaults follow three similar attacks since the Taliban issued their threat several weeks ago. Two ANP candidates have survived bomb attacks in the northwest, and a Taliban shooter killed an MQM candidate in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan claimed responsibility for both the bomb attacks. "The three parties are on our hit list," he told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Right-leaning and religious parties not being targeted by the Taliban have been holding their election campaign rallies without fear.
Also on Sunday, gunmen attacked a NATO supply convoy in the Khyber tribal region, killing a truck driver and wounding another, said a local government administrator Iqbal Khan. The Khyber Pass is one of the two main routes in Pakistan for NATO supplies headed to neighboring Afghanistan.
AP writers Rasool Dawar and Riaz Khan in Peshawar, Pakistan contributed.Associated Press
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CagePotato Roundtable #34: What is the Single Worst Tattoo in MMA?
(And this debate is ALLLLLLLL OVVVERRRRR!!!)
Don't let the "A" in MMA fool you, mixed martial arts fighters are *not* artists…at least, not in the traditional sense of the term. Look no further than the hilariously atrocious inkwork that so often adorns their bodies for proof of this. Between the non-tribal tribal arm bands, the last name tramp stamps, and the ill-advised branding attempts, MMA fighters (and their fans — see above) sport some of the worst tattoos you'll ever see outside of a prison cell. But who has the worst tattoo of them all? The CagePotato Roundtable investigates…
Matt Horwich's musical pencil is like something out of a nightmare. It's a bunch of unrelated visual signifiers held together by an inscrutable logic, and the only thing being conveyed is dread. You wake up sweating after seeing this thing, and you tell your wife, "Shit, I had that dream about my stepfather again, but this time he was a pencil," and she looks at you, trying to feign sympathy, but the apparition simply can't be verbalized. Words will never do it justice, because it's so much more than just "pencil, musical notes, angry face," it's what the pencil represents. That goddamned abusive drunk piece of shit, who hated himself because he couldn't write songs like Neil Diamond, so he took it out on you and your mom. That face. You could put it on a cantaloupe, a hammer, the front of a steamboat, and it would still be him.
Look, I get it, Matt Horwich is eccentric. His concept of reality is not the same as yours. I'm trying to avoid judgment here, but I just can't relate to the sort of mind that would put this on his body. It's awful. A worn-down pencil with a ragged eraser. A face devoid of most human characteristics. And three notes — whole note, half note, quarter note! — flying upwards. It's not a singing pencil. It's a scowling pencil with musical notation ejecting from the end that is responsible for deletion, not creation. It's a contradiction, and it's unsettling. The pencil seems to be straining to get these notes out, and for what? To express that the artistic process is torture? Does the pencil wish it was a violin instead? Does Matt Horwich even remember getting this tattoo, or did it just kind of appear one day? You're seeing it too, right? The pencil with the face? I'm not crazy, am I?Read More DIGG THIS


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James Franco Allegedly Asks 17-Year-Old Girl to Meet at Hotel - Find Out James' Response to the Controversy
A conversation between actor James Franco and a 17-year-old Scottish teen Lucy Clode has been leaked on the Internet, and from the text, it appears as if he propositioned her to meet up at a hotel.
If the texts are to be believed, James and Lucy first encountered each other outside the stage door of his play Of Mice & Men. They later spoke via Instagram, where he asked her relationship status and if she wants to get a hotel room.
Lucy posted video and photos on her Instagram, and James does audibly ask to be tagged in the selfie with her.
"I'M NOT! I HOPE PARENTS KEEP THEIR TEENS AWAY FROM ME. Thank you" James said in response on his Twitter.
It should be noted that James has a movie coming out called Palo Alto which has been based on his own stories about a high school teacher who has a relationship with a student. We can only wonder if this is an elaborate promo for the film.
Click inside to read the alleged texts of James and Lucy's exchange…
Franco: Hi
Clode: hi
Franco: Where do you live?
Franco: NYC?
Clode: Scotland
Clode: In a small town called Dollar
Franco: How long will you be in New York?
Clode: Oops sorry, um a few days it's my 18th birthday present
Franco: You're 18?
Franco: Who are you with?
Franco: Do you have a bf?
Clode: Nearly 18, my mum and not if you're around
Franco: When is your bday?
Franco: Where are you staying?
Franco: What's your #?
Clode: In May but I have exams then, just off of Times Square in Hilton, what do you mean #?
Then later, had another conversation:
Franco: Can I see you?
Clode: As long as you are james Franco
Franco: I am
Franco: You're single?
Franco: What's the hotel?
Franco: Should I rent a room?
Clode: April fools was an hour ago though…
The Your Highness star then shared what appears to be a selfie.
Franco: It's me
Franco: Yes or no?
Franco: Tomorrow or thurs?
Franco: Ok
Franco: Be well
Franco: X
Clode: I'll come back when I'm 18
Franco: X
Clode: Well this is a story my Scottish friends will never believe
Franco: Don't tell
Clode: I just want proper evidence that it's you and I won't
Franco: I gave it to you
Franco: If you don't want to meet, then text me when you do.
Franco: Bye
Clode: You sound so dodgy though
Franco: Bye
Clode: One second, I will meet you if you write my name on a piece of paper then send it to me with your face also in the picture, please


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Houses: Appellate Division, Second Department
The Appellate Division, Second Department, is located at 45 Monroe Place in the Brooklyn Heights historic district. This has been home to the Appellate Division since 1938, when the Court moved from Brookly Borough Hall. The courthouse is of neo-classic design with Egyptian motifs and features many "art deco" characteristics. The facades are white marble; the window and door sashes are bronze. Many of the main rooms have highly decorative finishes.
Source: "Survey of Court Facilities in New York State", NYS Office of Court Administration...1981 pg 6; "Celebrating the First 100 Years": Second Department Anniversary pamphlet.


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A ground-breaking hospital scheme in Toronto is now open for business, combining a shimmering new healthcare building and the adaptive reuse of the neighbouring pre-Confederation Don Jail into administration facilities. Designed to a masterplan by Urban Strategies in 2006, Bridgepoint Active Healthcare was created by two teams: Stantec Architecture and KPMB Architects were responsible for the project specific outline specifications and the Design Exemplar while HDR Architecture and Diamond Schmitt Architects were the architects to the Design, Build, Finance and Maintain consortium responsible for the design as constructed and Architects of Record.
The complex will be critically reviewed over the coming years in 'the most rigorous hospital facility Post Occupancy Evaluation in the history of Canada' to ensure the effectiveness of the design and the consequences of the architectural design on patients' health and mental wellbeing. It is hoped that the results of the ongoing evaluation will help set new standards for healthcare architecture and design in Ontario.
In total the hospital offers 464 beds and focuses on the rehabilitation of patients living with complex health conditions. With this in mind, a number of design elements have been included which have been scientifically proven to have a dramatic effect on wellbeing along the road to recovery. These include the incorporation of a green roof, large windows for those in bed to enjoy far-reaching views across Toronto, and a 'porch' on the ground floor to gently integrate the building into the local community. The next phase of this project will focus on landscaping and gardens to create an 'interconnected, pedestrian-friendly campus'.
Celeste Alvard, Ph.D Research Scientist explains: "In the next three years, Ontario will invest $3.5bn in hospital infrastructure. Our research is the first of its kind to focus on the development of methods and measures to evaluate the impact of building design on wellbeing and improved health outcomes for people living with complex conditions. The research findings will be used to shape the process and methods for evaluating healthcare facilities across Ontario, with potential uptake across Canada and internationally, to inform strategic investments in healthcare facility design."
Further details about this exceptional scheme can be found here.
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Nonprofits Unaware of Hidden Costs from Growth
Aggarwal's research finds adding board members can make nonprofits less effective and drift from mission.
Adding board members can help resource-starved nonprofits raise funds, but the practice likely makes the organization less effective and causes it to drift away from its mission. Those were the findings of Associate Professor of Finance Rajesh Aggarwal who studied the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) filings of more than 35,000 501(c)3 nonprofit firms.
"There's a benefit to having more board members, but there's also a real cost," says Aggarwal, the Carlson School's US Bancorp Professor in Financial Markets and Institutions. "You're going to wind up increasing the number of tasks and programs that you work on and then you're going to be less effective on each individual task or program."
Studying IRS Form 990s between 1998 and 2003, Aggarwal and his colleagues were able to closely examine the revenue, expenses, board composition, and areas of activities of each nonprofit . Hypothesizing that each new board member has individual objectives and interests, they expected (and found) each additional board member is associated with the nonprofit taking on a new task or program.
"When you add board members the scope of what the nonprofit does is going to expand because it's going to start internalizing and taking on those tasks and objectives that matter to the board members," adds Aggarwal.
According to Aggarwal, it isn't apparent to nonprofits that just because they have more board members they will end up with more tasks. Instead they imagine they can strictly add board members who care about what the organizations cares about and nothing else.
To illustrate his point he offers an example of a hospital system that specializes in cardiac care. It begins with board members who are only interested in making certain the hospital has an outstanding cardiac facility. Over time, finding similar individuals who only care about cardiac issues becomes more difficult.
"As you add board members you may also wind up in situations in which you get board members who also say, 'Well it's also possible we could do a little research on cancer. It's possible that we could do a little research on joint replacement.'
All sorts of things like that where you find yourself, ever so slowly but through time, shifting your focus to incorporate more things, and that has a cost, and that's the part where I felt people hadn't focused before."
The research also found that taking on different tasks diluted the nonprofit manager's efforts and resulted in the manager having few incentives on each individual task.
Aggarwal plans to continue researching governance in nonprofits to determine whether there is an optimal board size that provides the right tradeoff between more assets and the diseconomies of too many members.
"Nonprofit Boards: Size, Performance and Managerial Incentives" was co-authored with Mark Evans (Indiana University) and Dhananjay Nanda (University of Miami). The paper was published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics.


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The Northwest Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference (April 21-23 at Washington State University) will be here soon. The conference will feature artist-teachers from around the country in recitals, lectures, and master classes. We are also fortunate to have several vendors! In addition to a variety of events, conference attendees may participate in the final concert by participating in the Northwest Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble. NWRTEC 2017 promises to be a rewarding experience for all!
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Artists and Presenters:
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Daemen clinic heals wounds that won't close
For Richard Maslona, it was like slogging around with 5-pound weights wrapped around his legs.
Fluid brought on by a stroke in 2011 collected in Maslona's right calf, which swelled. The fluid seeped through his pants, often staining them. Embarrassed, the retired 68-year-old Amherst town employee and former volunteer fireman resorted to purchasing packages of wound dressings at a local medical supply store to try and contain the leaking.
He'd cut up two wrappings – which Maslona jokingly likened to adult diapers – and bind them with tape around his leg. He'd stash spare dressings in his car. Repeated three times a day at $6.95 for a pack of 12, the homemade fix cost upward of $40 weekly.
"It was like you had a faucet on," he said of the fluid that leaked from his calf.
At a friend's suggestion, Maslona ventured to the Daemen College Physical Therapy Wound Care Clinic, a modest, two-room operation on Union Road in Cheektowaga that uses physical therapy techniques to heal wounds that won't close, such as open sores, ulcers and diabetic wounds. After 11 sessions over six weeks, Maslona's sores closed, ending the year-long inconvenience that disrupted his professional and personal life.
"My legs are small," Maslona said, describing the treatment's relatively rapid success as he tugged at the bottom of his jeans by way of explanation.
The clinic, a 600-square-foot space outfitted with six treatment rooms, will debut to the public at an official grand opening Wednesday.
Spearheaded by Daemen College, an institution with more than 25 years conducting wound-care research, the clinic has served 114 patients from Western New York since quietly opening in September. Approximately one-third of patients, including Maslona, have been discharged with their wounds completely healed.
A quarter of the physical therapy curriculum is devoted to the skin, making physical therapists an often-overlooked asset to wound treatment, said clinic director Fred Pordum. Using small, portable equipment, patients are hooked up to devices that generate cell growth for brief sessions conducted once or twice a week.
"We let them cook for 45 minutes," Pordum joked as he tended to 53-year-old Allen Maxwell on a recent morning. Maxwell lay on one of the clinic's maroon beds as a machine on a utility cart whirred nearby, working on his leg sore.
"It's warmth, you feel the warmth of the current," Maxwell said, a newspaper folded across his stomach.
It isn't the flashiest medical technique, Pordum admits, but it's effective – and inexpensive. On average, treating a venous ulcer, which occurs due to poor blood circulation in the legs, is a $9,000 undertaking, compared to an average $1,000 cost at the clinic, he said.
Finding the most effective treatment for a wound can be a long, drawn-out process, sometimes forcing patients to endure symptoms as the wound worsens. The clinic follows a collaborative model, eliminating the medical back and forth by keeping everyone involved in the conversation, from primary care physician to physical therapist. It's not a rivalry of treatments, Pordum emphasized, but a sum of all parts working together that involves a patient's doctor, physical therapist and, for some, a dietitian.
Old fashioned, face-to-face communication is a cornerstone.
"Getting people physically talking about the same thing, somehow, as great as technology is, it improves the outcome," Pordum said.
Days shy of its public opening, Pordum anticipates a need for the clinic to eventually expand as prospective patients learn of its work. Stacks of brown boxes packed with different brands of gauze lean against Pordum's office walls – the only room aside from the space where patients are treated. The clinic operates from two back rooms leased out of the Center for Skin Integrity.
Eventually, the clinic hopes to broaden its reach to underserved communities, Pordum said. But the work isn't constrained to a clinical practice. That's just one element of a three-pronged effort that's also part research and part academic.
Michael Brogan, Daemen College's vice president for academic affairs, anticipates the clinic's work will eventually incorporate the herbs and topical applications of Eastern medicine.
"I see us growing in treatment opportunities and inclusion, but also in research areas that bridge Western and Eastern philosophies," Brogan said by phone from China, where he was meeting with officials from Beijing's University of Chinese Medicine.
He added that he hopes to work with local HMOs to help financially sustain the clinic.
For now, the clinic is kept afloat by grants, including more than $530,000 from Western New York's John R. Oishei Foundation.
And patients, like Maslona, the Williamsville resident who shelled out $40 weekly to contain his wound from home before visiting the clinic, are thankful for it.
"I offered them doughnuts, they wouldn't take doughnuts," he recalled, his right leg propped up on his living room coffee table. "Offered them coffee, they wouldn't take coffee."
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There are many different types of dermatitis that people can get. This skin condition will most likely make you feel uncomfortable because you will itch and have red, swollen skin. This can make a person feel self conscious as well. The individuals that suffer with dermatitis often spend time searching for a way to fix the problem so that they are not constantly concerned with their skin and the way that the condition makes them look.
It is good to know that dermatitis is not something that will cause you life threatening harm. This is not contagious either so you do not have to worry about passing it on to friends and family members. For young children this may be difficult to explain. Children may make fun of others that have it and this can result in a lot of other complications as well. Therefore, finding treatment for this eczema often very important and becomes a top priority. Be sure that you are not scratching your skin, even though it is itching. You do not want to cause any open sores that could become infected. It is best to cut your nails back and avoid scratching yourself if that is possible.
The first thing that you will want to do if you believe that you are suffering from dermatitis is contact your doctor. You will want to notify him or her of any symptoms that you may be having and discuss what options you have to help you deal with this condition. Your doctor will most likely want to see you to determine that you really have dermatitis. You should have a list of any questions that you would like to ask and any concerns that you have as well. When you are more informed you will be better able to deal with this condition and find appropriate ways to deal with it.


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New Book On The History Of Music, Copyright And Piracy Shows How Copyright Tends To Hold Back Music
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The fact that music is widely seen as "intellectual property" is itself a product of that struggle. For a long time, the U.S. worked to separate intellect and property. In the early 1900s when copyright issues around sound recording were first being negotiated, the law "protected the tangible expression of an idea and not the idea itself," Cummings writes. Lawmakers struggled to figure out where sound recordings fit into that framework. Was the recording a tangible expression of a new idea? Or was it simply a copy of an idea? Congress initially leaned towards the second interpretation—and, as a result, sound recordings could not be copyrighted. For decades, pirates had to be prosecuted under common law or statutory bans on unfair competition. It was only in the 1970s that copyright was extended to sound recordings.As the book notes, lawmakers were quite worried that extending copyright to sound recordings would stifle creativity -- and, as the book shows, their fears were not out of line:
Unrestricted property rights in music, they feared, could create monopolies, harm consumers, and throttle innovation and competition This was the rationale, in part, for giving songwriters only limited rights over the use of their songs. Under the law, licensing was compulsory: Songwriters received a fee from recordings, but could not refuse the use of their work. You can thank this system for America's long history of cover versions. Indeed, in the years before it was common to play records on the radio, these remakes were central to the record labels' business model: Re-recordings of hit songs by different artists were a major source of income. A whole subset of artistic production and commerce, in other words, was enabled not by the expansion but by the limitation of intellectual property rights.You can read the full review over at Reason, but the full book sounds like a must read in the collection of books that highlight how damaging copyright has been to creativity over the years.
This apparent contradiction surfaces again and again throughout Cummings' book. Property rights in music are supposed to promote creativity, but often they seem to either be irrelevant, or else actively retard it.