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Former Colts linebacker Josh McNary was found not guilty on all charges in his Thursday sexual assault trial.
Former Colts linebacker Josh McNary was found not guilty on all charges in his sexual assault trial on Thursday.
McNary, 27, was charged with rape in January after an alleged Dec. 1 incident involving a woman he met at a downtown Indianapolis bar. He pleaded not guilty. Closing arguments ended Thursday and found him not guilty on all counts, including rape, criminal confinement, and battery.
McNary called the experience "traumatic" and "tragic" as he addressed reporters, saying he planned to continue his football career.
The woman alleged that she had tried to stop McNary's sexual advances after they had kissed and that a physical altercation occurred prior to the sexual assault. She left McNary's apartment with his cell phone, then contacting police.
The Colts subsequently placed McNary on the commissioner's exempt list the week leading up to the Colts' AFC championship game loss to the New England Patriots. He became a free agent in the offseason and was not re-signed by the Colts. He played in 15 games for Indianapolis last season and started four, registering 16 tackles and half a sack.
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Sausage Recall Includes Artisan, Natural Brands
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working with state public-health officials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of SalmonellaMontevideo.
As of 9 p.m. Monday, 189 individuals in 40 states have been infected with a matching strain, and 37 people have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported.
Epidemiologists analyzed the foods that patients ate, and preliminary findings point to Italian sausage and salami products from Rhode Island-based Daniele International Inc.
The company has recalled 1.2 million pounds of products, including artisan and natural brands like:
- Boar's Head All-Natural Salame Coated with Coarse Black Pepper (8-ounce packages)
- Daniele Naturale Salame Coated with Coarse Black Pepper (10-ounce packages)
- Dietz & Watson Artisan Collection Party Platter Pack
A full list of recalled products, which are sold through grocers and delis, is available here.
This is a Class I recall, which signifies "a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death."
The CDC and its public-health partners are now trying to determine which ingredients were contaminated, how the contamination occurred and whether any other foods may be involved. They suspect the pepper in the salami's coating may be tainted.
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I was a little alarmed when I heard loud buzzing noises in my office yesterday afternoon. With my new medication the voices in my head seem to have mostly disappeared but for a moment I thought that the buzzing noise might have replaced them.
It sounded like a host of angry bees.
Whilst I was struggling to remember what coloured pills I had swallowed when I awoke this morning one of the English with whom I work – a Northerner – wandered over to my desk and said:
"Ay Oop 'ep are you going to the Formula One?"
"Ay Oop Hammer" I replied.
"Ah - that is all that noise. I thought my madness might have returned"
'Ay Oop' is a traditional Northerner greeting and a Northerner is an English person who - unsurprisingly - comes from the northern part of England. The English consider them to be the scourge of Great Britain but I quite like them.
The Hammer was born and bred in Lancashire and he is a dour lad with a big heart.
I am 'ep.
The Formula One is of course car racing.
"I will not be going to the Formula One Hammer as neither fast cars nor fast women appeal to me"
"Ay oop" the Hammer replied.
The Northerners also use 'Ay oop' as a phrase of acknowledgement.
It has multiple uses.
I like it.
Soon a small gaggle of the English arrived at my desk – seemingly attracted by the Hammer.
He is an endearing and magnetic character.
There was much discussion about the Formula One Grand Prix racing and chatting about who was going and who was not - and then some mindless debate as to who would win the race.
My yawning did not seem to dissuade nor dispel the gathering.
Ernie - a small whining Scottish colleague of mine arrived to join in the conversation and I asked him whether he had yet come out of the closet.
The term 'coming out' or 'coming out of the closet' arose in the 1950's and related to a person publically declaring their homosexuality. It was intended to be a form of liberation from what was perceived to be a life of shame and secrecy and denial.
It is my opinion that a person's sexuality is no one's business but their own and it in no way determines who they are. I have many gay friends – male and female – and they are exceptionally good people.
They would not be my friends otherwise.
The reason I have a crack at the whining Scottish man that is Ernie is that I have heard him on many occasions say detrimental things about gay people. His homophobia and his Scottishness annoys me.
"Ay oop Ernie" said the Hammer.
"Ah didn't know that you were gay"
"Ahm noot fookin gay" Ernie responded.
"Of course you are Ernie" I interjected.
"There is no shame in your homosexuality"
"There is no shame at all Ernie," one of the other English who was hovering around my desk added.
There were a few other grunts of affirmation from the small crowd that had now assembled.
"Ahm noot fookin gay" Ernie repeated.
Then he turned bright red and walked away.
"He is" I informed the English who were surrounding my desk.
Their presence then distracted and annoyed me and I stood up from my desk and I went downstairs to have a cigarette.
I work at the Marina Bay Financial Centre in Singapore - which is very close to the Grand Prix circuit. Today is one of the practice sessions for the very fast cars and when I walked out of the building the buzzing noise of the vehicles was much louder than it was indoors.
There were a lot of tourists around and as I walked towards the designated smoking area - weaving my way around them and at the same time checking some messages that I had received on my I-Phone - I accidently stepped on something.
I felt something squelchy underfoot.
I stopped in my tracks to see what I had trodden on and when I lifted my foot to scrape it off my shoe - I was quite shocked to see that it was Bernie Ecclestone.
Bernie Ecclestone is the eighty four year old President and Chief Executive of the Formula One Management Group. He is British and he is the dude as far as Grand Prix Formula One racing is concerned.
The Forbes business magazine estimates Bernie's net wealth as being a tad under four billion American dollars.
That is a lot of moola.
Bernie is officially reported as being five feet and three inches tall – but it has been suggested that this was measured in platform shoes and his actual height is only five feet and one inch.
He is only a little fella – but size does not maketh a man – nor indeed does their sexual preference.
Heed that Ernie.
Heed it well.
Bernie recently married the 35 year old and six feet one inch tall Brazilian model Fabiana Flosi.
She is his third wife.
The more than twelve inches difference in height and the forty-six year age differential are of little consequence to the Brazilian and the Brit - nor it seems is the four billion dollars in net worth.
Love is often blind to such things.
I apologized to Bernie for stepping on him and he told me not to worry about it.
He told me that it happens to him all the time.
I asked him if he wanted to join me for a cigarette and he informed me that he had quit the habit as it was stunting his growth.
I muttered some form of affirmation to this and then I congratulated him and England for keeping Scotland.
Then I wished him luck with the Singapore Grand Prix.
I then walked off to have my cigarette.
As a rule I don't like to speak to the English for very long.
They displease me.
I am at home now and am a fair distance from the Formula One racetrack and I don't think that the cars are practicing anymore. Disturbingly I can still hear a buzzing noise in my head and there is a little voice beginning to whisper as well.
I am wondering now where I put my pills.


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Santa Monica
just 3 miles from the Famous Santa Monica Pier & Carousel
Santa Monica is the perfect beach town located just 3 miles from our Marina del Rey, CA hotel. Featuring a 3.5-mile beach, it offers plenty of sand for summer crowds, as well as lifeguard stations, restrooms, and nearby restaurants.
Santa Monica is
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take in the sights. Make sure to gaze out at the water, as it's not unusual to
see dolphins offshore!
Sunset Concerts at the Santa Monica Pier
This popular concert series starts in early July, where guests can enjoy a diverse line-up of music, including reggae, rock, pop, and R&B. These summer concerts are scheduled weekly on Thursday nights and begin at 7 pm. Tip: get there early for the best views – it gets crowded fast!
Santa Monica Promenade
The Third Street Promenade is ideally blocked off to traffic so pedestrians can easily walk the streets and enjoy the sunshine, movies, and various restaurants. There are endless upscale boutiques and chic sidewalk cafes, while various street performers entertain the crowds. In addition to shopping and dining, the Promenade hosts a number of lovely bookshops, antique stores, and distinctive memorabilia shops.


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And considering that we never really do anything overly ostentatious, we figured we'd splurge and get the VIP tickets. Not that our $150 a pop really got us much - just fast tracked queuing for tokens, a couple of VIP only panels and a DVD of the event sent out afterwards. For the really awesome perks, one had to part with several hundred dollars and we couldn't justify it that much.
We organised a dog sitter and got really lucky when we learned that Christian's aunty had a time share hotel unit just down the road from the Convention Centre and as she never used the free nights she's entitled to, she was happy for us to stay there.
We took the Friday off as an annual leave day so we could make the most of the weekend and set out to really enjoy ourselves. We checked in about 4pm Friday arvo and spent the evening wandering about the city. Just next to the hotel was this cool little shop that was absolutely jam packed with pianos. Seriously, if someone's Grandma was obsessed with pianos, this is what her attic would look like. There was hardly any room to move and it was fucking awesome!
We had to walk under the freeway overpass to get anywhere and this little guy was pinned to a 'Graffiti Hotline' sign. I'd forgotten to take my meds a couple of times in the last week and had been a right grumpy bitch and this made me cheer up considerably.
It was rather overcast on Friday and I thought the city skyline looked really cool.
So we got up early on Saturday and headed down to the Convention Centre, not really knowing what to expect. Obviously the lines were out the door, but it wasn't as busy as we had expected. Our queue time took longer than general admission as we had to be ID'd and get a few bits and bobs from the front desk.
While in line we saw Bane...
And Bender.
Inside we spent a couple of hours wandering about, finding out where everything was and taking in the sights and sounds. We got some tokens for some autographs and our VIP tickets paid off almost straight away as we were in line for tokens for all of about two minutes. Although we loved the idea of getting photos and autographs of almost everyone there it just wasn't really viable for us to do so - financially but also practically. I mean, we only have a little house and are almost out of wall space already. What would we do with them? No point forking out such a considerable amount of money (autos were $30 up to $50 depending on the star and photos started from about $50 I think to $90 with someone like Shatner or RDA) just to have them put in a folder somewhere never to see the light of day.
In the end we got two tokens - one to get an autograph from Colin Ferguson for Tash and one to get RDA to sign a Cyanide and Happiness comic for us.
The queue for Colin was rather short so we jumped in straight away. I told Christian that now we were mere moments away from talking to such an awesome actor as Mr Ferguson, I couldn't think of anything intelligent to say at all and would most likely make a blubbering idiot of myself. Which I probably did.
Colin - shakes hands we me and then with Christian. Hi, how are you? I'm Colin.
Me - Crap, really? We thought we were in William Shatner's line! Well damn!
Colin - Yeah, I get that all the time! (Laughs...thankfully) So, where are you guys from?
Me - From Perth, we're locals.
Colin - Wow, seems like most people are from around here. At most conventions heaps of people seem to have traveled a long way to get there.
Christian - Well, it's because we're so far away from everyone else in the country.
Me - Yeah, we're the most isolated capital city in the world. No one comes here if they can help it.
Colin - Yeah, it took me like five hours to fly here from Sydney.
Christian - And they charge you a heap to get here.
Colin - What, they don't give you a discount?
Christian - Nah, it's cheap to fly here from everywhere but not cheap to fly out from here.
Me - I get the feeling they want to keep us here...
We chatted for a minute more and Colin signed a photo for us and we walked off, me a little star struck. It was only then that I looked down and realised he'd signed the photo 'For Tasha, great to meet you - Colin Ferguson'. Oops...Tash is going to have to pretend she's met him...
After that we looked around a bit more and then started to line up for our autograph with RDA. We were then shooed off because you weren't allowed to line up prior to 15 mins before the session time started. So we went and sat down for a bit and then when the allowed time had come, we went to line up, only to find a hundred people already in line. Grrrrrr! So we queued anyway and got shuffled further and further down the line as Platinum passes and the RDA Experience passes got put in front of us. After we'd been queuing for almost an hour a woman came down the line announcing that everyone should chech their tokens as the RDA tokens had a time on them and if your time was for 3:30 to come back later.
Well guess what? Fucking 3:30!!!
So we went and found a quite place against stage 2 to sit and I went off to find some food. By this time the crowd had almost doubled and it took me twenty minutes to navigate my way across the convention floor to the cafe and even longer to get back. When I did get back I discovered the invasion had begun!!! But for some reason Mario had joined forces with the Daleks!
We ate lunch and people watched (though I must admit I was crap at taking pics of the awesome costumes. I just hated interrupting people to get a photo as they must have been getting sick of it happening every five minutes.)
We waited where we were as there was a VIP panel on with Jason Momoa, Teryl Rothery and David Nykl from Stargate. At this point Christian looked as tired as I felt.
The panel started and the three actors were very friendly, very funny and just a lovely bunch of people. Plus, Jason Momoa is hot. Nuff said.
After the panel we decided to head back to the hotel for an hour or two to rest until heading back to get RDA's autograph. Before we left we stopped by a few of the artists booths to pick up some prints we wanted. I bought a heap of these Doctor Who prints from an extremely talented man called Stewart McKenny. He was lovely and signed them all for me and we had an awesome discussion about Doctor Who, what my fave Angels episode was, how scary they were and if he drew The Empty Child. He said that this is something he wants to do in future. A truly remarkable artist and I encourage everyone to check out his site :)
After a short rest at the hotel (I didn't technically rest, I just messaged backwards and forwards with Flora but considering I was sitting on a comfy couch is was resting enough) we headed back to the convention.
And the line for RDA was so long, it snaked all the way through the convention, almost to the front door! Christian spoke to one of the helpers there and she said that RDA was there till 6pm but he would stay until everyone who had bought a token had gotten his signature (tokens are only valid on the day of purchase). So we went off wandering again and took a more detailed browse of the stalls. This was when we stumbled across this shirt. It's the characters from Firefly in Snoopy form.
Christian couldn't decide if it was awesome or not. I say yes.
We got back in line at about half five as we were tired of walking about and just watched people coming and going. If I was tried with sore feet, I couldn't imagine how Iron Man felt...
The line slowly snaked around until we could see the signing booths. Shatner had returned to sign extra autographs and Christian and I remarked again how fast he pumped them through. The couple behind us said that they had gotten his autograph and he didn't engage in small talk or pleasantries, just signed and you were ushered off. I guess when you're a veteran of these conventions, you do what you have to do to get through the day. To be honest, he's not looking all the best :( He walks with a cane and all his photos were taken with him sitting down.I can imagine just how tiring these days can be for him. When he left, someone in the line called out 'Goodnight Mr Shatner' and he turned and waved which was nice.
6pm came and went and Richard Dean 'I'm a fucking trooper' Anderson just went on and on. I have no idea how his hand had not fallen off as yet but he was determined that no one would go home without what they paid for. It was half past six by the time we reached him and he was still cheerful and chirpy and he happily signed our comic for us. He hadn't seen it before and he had a good laugh over it and I'm glad that we could make him laugh after such a long day.
That evening we stumbled back to the hotel and just ordered room service and mindlessly watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. We were just absolutely shattered after such a long day and we still had a day to go!
Sunday morning we checked out of the hotel and headed up to the CC and discovered that the few people in Perth who didn't know it was on, found out and were there! Saturday it had gotten progressively busier as the day went on but the opening crowd on Sunday was as big as the biggest crowd on Saturday. We met up with Steven and it helped to have two tall people who could see where they were going. It's difficult when one's head only reached armpit level on most other people.
We went to a Voice Acting Masterclass with Paul Eiding and Chris Sabat and then went to a screening of a few episodes of Adventure Time since we had no idea what all the hype was about. We said goodbye to Steven and headed for lunch and as we left the CC we found that they had shut the doors as they had reached capacity but there were still at least a thousand people still waiting to get it.
After lunch we had planned to sit in on the Colin Ferguson panel followed by the Jason Momoa one and culminating in the RDA panel. Unfortunately the lines were so very long that the chances of getting in were slim to none and we decided that we may as well call it quits and head home.
Turned out rather well actually as I've had time to do this post, and to scan our autograph and email it to Rob at Cyanide and Happiness.
Now I'm exhausted so I'll wrap this up :)


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text: Award winning artist Keith Ciaramello takes you through the process of tattooing a color portrait of "The Eighth Wonder of the World" Andre the Giant! Topics covered include; choosing reference, enhancing reference in Adobe Photoshop, making the stencil, stencil application, flesh-tones, color mixing, needles, inks, using the Neuma Hybrid and much more. Many of the topics that were covered in Keith's "Keep it Real" live seminar are demonstrated on this DVD. Keith has added a third BONUS DVD of his live seminar lecture. This is over 5 hours on 3 discs! The techniques discussed apply to coil and rotary machines as well.


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text: Function Spaces and Partial Differential Equations Author: Ali Taheri Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780198733133 Release Date: 2015 Genre: Differential equations, Partial Download This is a book written primarily for graduate students and early researchers in the fields of Analysis and Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Coverage of the material is essentially self-contained, extensive and novel with great attention to details and rigour. The strength of the book primarily lies in its clear and detailed explanations, scope and coverage, highlighting and presenting deep and profound inter-connections between different related and seemingly unrelated disciplines within classical and modern mathematics and above all the extensive collection of examples, worked-out and hinted exercises. There are well over 700 exercises of varying level leading the reader from the basics to the most advanced levels and frontiers of research. The book can be used either for independent study or for a year-long graduate level course. In fact it has its origin in a year-long graduate course taught by the author in Oxford in 2004-5 and various parts of it in other institutions later on. A good number of distinguished researchers and faculty in mathematics worldwide have started their research career from the course that formed the basis for this book.


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For me, the return of cooler temperatures means cozy flannel. I love to add touches of it to our fall home. Here are 5 Easy Crafts From 1 Plaid Shirt.
5 Easy Crafts From 1 Plaid Shirt
To create five easy projects you will need some old flannel shirts or blankets.
You may also require scissors, twine, mod podge, a paintbrush, and some great leaf printables.
First remove all of the collars, cuffs, and plackets off of each shirt. Set these aside.
There are so many wonderful things you can make with the large pieces of remaining fabric such as pillows and napkins. But for this post, we will begin by making a falling leaf garland. Simply place the leaf pattern on the fabric, pin in place and cut out a few dozen leaves.
Once you have all your leaves cut out you can apply the fabric to the twine with a bit of mod podge. (Hot glue will also work in a pinch.)
The garland can be strung up on mantles, over mirrors, banisters~ anywhere you would like a bit of fall.
The second project is even easier. Remember the collars that you removed off of the shirt? Simply slip them over your dogs head for a fashionable fall collar.
I used one toddler and one child sized shirt to create the collars for my little men.
The remaining items can swiftly be transformed into a charmingly cozy fall tablescape.
Wrap the plackets around vases or votives. Glue in place for a bit of happy color.
The cuffs can be transformed into quick and cute napkin rings.
Don't forget the pockets!
Fill them with cutlery, flowers or a wee treasure for your guests.
The beauty of this table setting is that the colors can change with whatever shirts you select.
I hope you have enjoyed these five easy crafts.
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FORTUNE — In a budget plan called The Path to Prosperity: Restoring America's Promise, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin earlier this week laid out proposals to slash government spending on everything from health care for the poor to retirement cushions for the elderly. It's easy to see why the Republican congressman is being praised — if not for being big on details, then at least for being bold. America's massive deficit has reached unnerving levels. And at a time when parts of Europe struggle to avoid bankruptcy, the tone on Capitol Hill has quickly switched from a call for stimulus to a battle cry for austerity.
But who will actually prosper under Ryan's plan?
One of his key proposals is to lower the income tax rate paid by corporations, from 35% to 25%, by eliminating several tax loopholes and deductions. Simplifying the tax code would certainly remove a lot of uncertainties from today's highly complex tax system. Executives have often complained that one of the reasons they've been holding off on new investments and more hiring is the unpredictable tax environment. But how will lowering the tax burden for companies that are already flushed with record levels of cash really going to make the average American better off?
Compared with other advanced economies, companies doing business in the U.S. already pay low taxes. It's true that at 35% the corporate tax rate is technically higher than most major economies. But because of loopholes and other deductions, most companies pay significantly less – so the effective rate (or the percentage of corporate profits that is paid in federal corporate taxes) is about 13% to 15%, which is relatively low even by international standards.
General Electric (GE) has been the latest poster child of this phenomenon. Although it says it will have a small tax liability for 2010, the tax burden is tiny considering it made a profit in the U.S. last year of $5.1 billion, thanks to deductions, adjustments, offshore profit centers, and a 1,000-person tax team. However legal this might be, there's something unsettling about it all, especially at a time when millions of Americans are out of work and our state and federal governments wrangle over budget cuts that include slicing funding for everything from education to public safety.
Where's the benefit?
Ryan's plan to eliminate loopholes (although the plan doesn't specify which) is needed, but what will lowering the corporate tax do?
For one, it likely won't create much more investment or create many more jobs, says Robert Lynch, economics professor at Washington College, who has done extensive research into taxation and economic development. In a 2004 study, Lynch found that firms don't necessarily relocate or expand to an area more just because it has lower taxes. What's more, while a lower tax rate reduces costs for companies and creates some positive effects on local economies, it doesn't necessarily create substantial jobs. Just take a look at South Dakota, which currently has no corporate income tax and ranks first in the Tax Foundation's Business Climate index. Even its governor acknowledges that the sparsely-populated state has had a tough time attracting household names.
Lynch says the same holds true at the federal level. What worries the economist is that any cuts to corporate taxes would take funding away from other public services such as education, new roads and infrastructure projects that companies and the overall economy might gain more from.
"Companies aren't suffering from a lack of investment funds," Lynch says, pointing to record cash levels held by America's biggest companies. "What they're suffering from is lack of profitable investment opportunities."
Even as many non-financial companies sit on an estimated $2 trillion at a time when interest rates have remained at nearly 0%, executives still aren't hiring much. Indeed, much of that capital is sitting overseas and there's a coordinated push among some of America's biggest companies to bring those funds home at lower costs. Cisco (CSCO), Apple (AAPL), Duke Energy (DUK) and Pfizer (PFE) are leading an effort for a one-year tax holiday on foreign earnings that would allow companies to repatriate money at a much lower tax rate of about 5%.
But while the idea of bringing more capital into the domestic economy sounds like a good thing, it won't likely mean much for the average American. In 2004, Congress approved a one-year tax holiday as part of a jobs package, resulting in companies bringing back $362 billion. But, as Fortune's Tory Newmyer pointed out in February, studies have shown that most of the funds went to shareholders. Even while Congress passed several rules to make sure the funds would get invested back into the companies, not very much went to research, investment or hiring.
If the cost savings from lower taxes don't go to new investments or more jobs, could they at least lead to higher wages for workers, as Ryan's plan suggests?
If history tells us anything, that's unlikely. The effective corporate tax rate has been steadily declining for decades. Corporations paid more than 49% of their profits in federal taxes in the 1950s, 38% in the 1960s, 33% in the 1970s and 25% in the 1980s. All the while, U.S. wages have been stagnant for years even as productivity has risen. Between 1989 and 2010, U.S. productivity grew by 62.5% — far outpacing wages, which grew by only 12% during the same period, according to a March 2011 study by the Economic Policy Institute.
So what will a lower corporate tax rate do?
Needless to say, there are more than a few bumps in Ryan's Path to Prosperity.
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The sense of persistence that a winner brings to the table is something that really should be studied and appreciated.
Many years ago, as a young entrepreneur I remember reading stories in the newspapers in England of other business people who had become an overnight success. The problem I discovered was many people believed the stories.
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A forwarded email that says that both Barack and Michelle Obama voluntarily surrendered their law licenses.
The Truth:
The law license of Barack Obama was voluntarily retired and Michelle Obama's license was voluntarily placed in inactive status according to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Supreme Court of Illinois (IARDC). Neither of them are practicing law at this time nor do their present jobs require a law license. Both records indicate no public record of discipline or pending proceedings and we have not found any evidence of malpractice.
A spokesperson the IlIARDC told TruthOrFiction.com that neither Barack nor Michelle Obama had any history of disciplinary actions.
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A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:
Former Constitutional Law Lecturer and US President Makes Up Constitutional Quotes During
State Of The Union (SOTU) Address.
Consider this:
1. President Barack Obama, former editor of the Harvard Law Review, is NO longer a "lawyer".
He surrendered his license back in 2008 in order to escape charges he lied on his bar application. A "Voluntary Surrender" is NOT something where you decide "Gee, a license is not really something I need anymore, is it?" and forget to renew your license. No, a "Voluntary Surrender" is something you do when you've been accused of something, and you 'voluntarily surrender" you license five seconds before the state suspends you.
2. Michelle Obama "voluntarily surrendered" her law license in 1993.
3. So, we have the first black President and First Lady – who do NOT actually have licenses to practice law. Facts.
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The phytochemicals in pumpkin seeds are very effective at moderating human hormones, with implications for cancer prevention and treatment. Pumpkin seed extract has been found to inhibit the growth of prostate, colorectal, and breast cancer cells.
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I love this. I'm a big fan of water scenes, and this is one cool looking wave. Love the shaded sections and the faded blue transitioning into the frame. Very coolReplyDelete
This is just beautiful, and one big curl...Like Fred I love water scenes. The blues are fabulous.ReplyDelete
Fabuluos, Rita! It's tough to know when to complete a painting, isn't it. Lov, love, loving this.ReplyDelete
Now why didn't I think of that....I've been at the Ocean for a week in Oregon... Love it.ReplyDelete
Beautiful Rita! I can almost feel that salty clear water.ReplyDelete
I think the water has great movement and I like how you were able to put the whites in to highlight in just the right places. Great use of the curl idea too!ReplyDelete
Thanks Everyone!ReplyDelete
I think you did a great job with it! One thing that really works for me is the touch of white at the leading edge of the wave. I like how you intersected it with the background instead of leaving it above the water line. It really makes the wave roll for me. Beautiful painting!ReplyDelete
I like your use of colors, the wave is perfectly captured.ReplyDelete
hope you have a great day.
Oh what a brilliant idea for curls, Rita. Well done! excellent. :)ReplyDelete
what a wonderful wave and it gives me lots of ideas since I'm supposed to paint water lately! I like the idea of watercolour and acrlic togetherReplyDelete


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Garth Brooks' Ireland Comeback Shows Officially Canceled
After a glimmer of hope and a hint of promise, it has been confirmed that all five of Garth Brooks' Ireland comeback shows are canceled.
Dublin's city council was not able to make any changes to the rules that forbid the series of shows at Croke Park to go on. Ticketmaster even pushed back refunds for the tickets, in hopes an agreement would allow the concerts to move forward. Now, Brooks has announced that the ticket company will officially begin refunding the money for the 400,000 tickets.
"I have always been advised to never send a message in 'the moment.' It is said it is best to take a walk, wait a while and think about it. With that said, I just received the news the Irish council cannot change their earlier ruling to not allow the licenses for all five shows," Brooks explains in a release.
"To say I am crushed is an understatement. All I see is my mother's face and I hear her voice. She always said things happen for a reason and for the right reason. As hard as I try, I cannot see the light on this one," the legend continues. "So it is with a broken heart, I announce the ticket refunds for the event will go as posted by Ticketmaster."
Brooks is thankful for everyone that tried to help him, but still has a heavy heart that he won't be visiting his Irish fans later this month.
"I want to thank the Irish authorities for going the distance for all of us who wanted to share songs and dance together," the singer writes. "I really want to thank all the people around the world that continued to think good thoughts that this would actually happen. Most of all, to Peter Aiken and those 400,000 people who believed enough to go through what they have been through to get to this point … I love you, always have, always will."
Brooks concludes, "I encourage any and all of them that can come see the show, at some point around the world, to bring your Irish flags and wave them proudly at the concerts. I will be looking for you ... Garth."
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Activity Introduction
Quick summary: During this lesson students learn about some traditional symbols that are used in Indigenous artworks. They use these symbols to write the story behind an imagined artwork. Students' short stories are recorded using an iPad or camera, and linked to QR codes. This lesson links to the Outdoor Learning – Dot Painting – Year 1 & 2 Lesson, which can be completed afterwards.
This lesson is designed to be taught outside. It contains all the tools required for students to reap the benefits of being outdoors while learning the outcomes of the Australian Curriculum. By spending time outdoors and connecting to nature, students are more likely to care for and conserve nature as adults.
Essential questions:
- How can artworks tell a story?
- What has traditionally been of importance to Indigenous communities?
- What are the mental, physical and academic benefits of completing classroom activities outside?
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Year 1 English
- Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661)
Year 2 English
- Understand that spoken, visual and written forms of language are different modes of communication with different features and their use varies according to the audience, purpose, context and cultural background (ACELA1460)
- Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671)
Syllabus outcomes: EN1-2A, EN1-6B.
General capabilities: Literacy, Intercultural Understanding.
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Relevant parts of Year 1 English achievement standards: Students create short texts for a small range of purposes. They use capital letters and full stops and form all upper and lower-case letters correctly.
Relevant parts of Year 2 English achievement standards: Students create texts, drawing on their own experiences, their imagination and information they have learnt.
Topic: Outdoor Learning, Biodiversity.
Unit of work: Outdoor Learning Unit.
Time required: 60 mins
Level of teacher scaffolding: High – the teacher reads a story, explains information, facilitates discussions and guides activities.
Resources required: Several copies of Indigenous Symbols – Without Labels and Aboriginal Dot Paintings – Examples for students to use in groups. One copy of Indigenous Symbols – With Labels for teachers to check answers. A copy of Why I Love Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft (available in hard copy or on iTunes). A device capable of creating audio visual recordings, such as an iPad or camera. Printed photos of Indigenous dot paintings that use traditional symbols. Access to cloud storage, such as Dropbox, to save recordings and link them to QR codes. Dreaming, Dreamtime and Aboriginal Art – Teacher Content Information.
Digital technology opportunities: QR codes, digital recording, digital sharing capabilities.
Keywords: Indigenous, Australia, literacy, art, dot, painting, narrative, QR code, recording, audiovisual, outdoor learning.
Cool Australia would like to thank The Albert George & Nancy Caroline Youngman Trust – managed by Equity Trustees.
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Hamming problem
Andrew Koening started the discussion in his blog , which led to some interesting results.
I long knew the solution to this famous (in functional programming circles) problem, in Haskell, to be
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hamming = 1 : map (*2) hamming # map (*3) hamming # map (*5) hamming
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| x>y = y : xxs # ys
The idea being, of course, that of using an infinite stream of answers as it is being generated. When thought about from a different perspective (from a more operationist POV), it has three producers which get merged as we go along. Each producer is comprised of a storage; a cached head value; a back-pointer; and a procedure to compute the next value.
The new idea presented in Cassio Neri's code at that blog posting, was to "untangle" these higher-level concepts into their simplest parts: a storage is shared, so can be used the same by all three; and each producer "object" is just a sum of its consituent parts so can be "flattened" - each part held in its corresponding simple variable: head of storage; its most recent value, cached; back-pointer; and the code to multiply by 2 (3 or 5) is just that - a simple multiplication.
When expressed in some imaginary pseudo-C with automatic unlimited storage allocation and BIGNUM arithmetics, it can be expressed as
hamming = h where
array h;
n=0; h[0]=1; i=0; j=0; k=0;
x2=2*h[ i ]; x3=3*h[j]; x5=5*h[k];
h[++n] = min(x2,x3,x5);
if (x2==h[n]) { x2=2*h[++i]; }
if (x3==h[n]) { x3=3*h[++j]; }
if (x5==h[n]) { x5=5*h[++k]; }
This translates into Common LISP as
(defun nth-ham1 (n)
(let ((h (list 1))) ; the storage buffer
(let ((p h) (q h) (r h) ; multiplier stream's back-pointers into it
(x2 2) (x3 3) (x5 5)) ; cached next values of each producer
(do ((k 1 (+ k 1)) ; LOOP with 1-based counter
(h h (cdr h))) ; advance along the buffer
((= k n) ; STOP on n-th iteration and return a list of
(list (car h) ; the value at the buffer's head, and lengths of
(length p) (length q) (length r) )) ; the three back-lists
(rplacd h (list (min x2 x3 x5))) ; extending the buffer with new value
(if (= (cadr h) x2) (setq p (cdr p) x2 (* 2 (car p) ))) ; and advancing
(if (= (cadr h) x3) (setq q (cdr q) x3 (* 3 (car q) ))) ; each producer
(if (= (cadr h) x5) (setq r (cdr r) x5 (* 5 (car r) ))))))) ; that was used
Here we rely of course on BIGNUM arithmetics built-in into Common Lisp. I used CLISP system for testing:
> (nth-ham 100000)
(290142196707511001929482240000000000000 2286 3607 5254)
> (nth-ham 200000)
(4479571262811807241115438439905203543080960000000 3634 5741 8372)
> (nth-ham 400000)
5777 9131 13328)
So we see here that only the last 13328 elements of the sequence are still needed when we've arrived at the 400,000th number - all the previous ones are discarded. That is a LOT of garbage-collecting! We can ease up on that by using a pre-allocated circular buffer, and let the pointers chase each other. Interestingly, its size can be estimated with sufficient certainty as a power function in 'n', O( n^0.67), as can be seen from the above observations:
(defun nth-ham (n)
((a (/ (log 1.593) (log 2)))
(c (/ 5254 (expt 100000 a))) ; 13328 400000 5254 100000
(len0 (ceiling (* c (expt n a)))) ; estimated length of (*5) back-list
(len (ceiling (* len0 1.001 )))
(h (mk-circ-list 1 (+ 2 len))) ; pre-allocated circular storage
(p h) (q h) (r h) ; r's the longest, n5 its length
(x2 2) (x3 3) (x5 5))
((k 1 (+ k 1)) ; 1-based
(h h (cdr h))
(n5 1 (1+ n5)))
((= k n) ; STOP when n-th number is reached
(rplacd h nil) ; break circularity up for easier (?) GC
(list (car h) n len0 n5 (- len0 n5))) ; could also return 'r' now safely
(if (= n5 len) ; buffer's full - add more space to it
(format t " ~A " (list n k len))
(rplacd h (mklist 1 (+ 2 (ceiling (* 0.1 len))))) ; 10% more space
(setq len (+ len (ceiling (* 0.1 len))))
(rplacd (last h) r))) ; close the circularity again
(rplaca (cdr h) (min x2 x3 x5)) ; store the new value in pre-allocated buffer
(if (= (cadr h) x2)
(setq p (cdr p) x2 (* 2 (car p)) ))
(if (= (cadr h) x3)
(setq q (cdr q) x3 (* 3 (car q)) ))
(if (= (cadr h) x5)
(setq r (cdr r) x5 (* 5 (car r)) n5 (1- n5) ))
(defun mklist (a n)
(let ((p (list a)))
(do ((ls p (cons a ls))
(n n (1- n)))
((< n 2) ls))))
(defun mk-circ-list (a n)
(let ((p (list a)))
(do ((ls p (cons a ls))
(n n (1- n)))
((< n 2) (rplacd p ls) ls))))
But that's the perfect example of "Premature optimization is the root of all evil". The storage was optimised here, but we still calculate all these numbers on our way up.
Of course that's what the original problem said, to find "sequence", meaning, all of it (up to a certain number presumably). But what if we're just curious to know the 10,000th number in it? 10,000,000th? Is there a way to find them out without going through the whole sequence, directly? Is there a shortcut? Of course that wouldn't have mattered if it were fast, but it wasn't, to put it mildly. To calculate a 127 millionth number it took 1244 seconds, and about 900 for the "improved" version.
Then I saw the idea of Louis Klauder: enumerate all triples of i,j,k , produce for each its corresponding Hamming number p(i,j,k) = 2^i * 3^j * 5^k , and count all that are less then some limit, while keeping in memory those near the said limit, as a "band" of values. Then sort it. Now we know the total count, so we know the real index of that big number in the Hamming sequence. Then we know the indices of all the numbers kept in a band that we've produced.
But how to be sure we've got our n-th number in there?
A little bit of Wikipedia reading was in order. It revealed that for n-th number, it's magnitude can be approximated as log M = (6 ln2 ln3 ln5 n) ^ (1/3) . Further testing shows it to be an overestimation by a fairly constant amount of 1.698 +- 0.005 for big indices, giving us the low and high bound, lo and hi, for the estimated value.
Another thing is, we don't need to operate the BIGNUMs, just the corresponding triples themselves instead. And we can know precisely the triple's logarithm: it's
lo < i*ln2 + j*ln3 + k*ln5 < hi
Now all that's left to do is just generate those triples: (A) having the two bounds for n-th number estimated value, lo and hi, (B) for each k from 0 to kmax = floor (hi / ln5) (to start with the 5 was another one of Louis'es ideas), (C) for each j fom 0 to jmax = floor( (hi - k*ln5) / ln3 ), (D) we know the range of i's right away as imax = floor( (hi - k*ln5 - j*ln3) / ln2 ) and imin = ceiling( (lo - k*ln5 - j*ln3) / ln2 ) for the triples (i,j,k) to hit the band. We also know that this combination of j and k adds imax+1 more triples to the total count.
When implemented, the new code produced that 127 millionth Hamming number in UNDER 2 SECONDS . Testing shows its time complexity to be O( n^0.658 ), so to calculate the number which is 10 times further along in the sequence takes just 4.5 times as much time approximately.
Going back full circle, here's this code in Haskell again for clarity (save some minor technicalities):
-- find n-th (base 1) Hamming number directly
-- by Will Ness, based on "band" idea by Louis Klauder
ln2 = log 2; ln3 = log 3; ln5 = log 5
trival (i,j,k) = 2^i * 3^j * 5^k -- use system's bignums
nthHam n
| m < 0 = error $ "Not enough triples generated: " ++ show (c,n)
| m >= hn = error $ "Generated band too narrow: " ++ show (m,hn)
| True = ( (trival (fst x), fst x), (m, hn) )
hi = (6 * ln2 * ln3 * ln5 * n)**(1/3) - 1.693 -- good for n>50,000
lo = hi - 0.01 -- or else -1.56 -0.2
ts = [ (imax + 1, [ triple | i <- [imin..imax],
let triple = ((i,j,k), q + i*ln2) ])
| k <- [ 0 .. floor ( hi /ln5) ], let p = k*ln5,
j <- [ 0 .. floor ((hi-p)/ln3) ], let q = p + j*ln3,
let imax = floor ((hi-q)/ln2)
imin = ceiling((lo-q)/ln2) ]
c = foldr ((+).fst) 0 ts -- total count
m = c – n -- target index in the band
hn = length h -- band's length
h = concatMap snd ts -- band of triples
hs = sortBy (flip compare `on` snd) h -- in *descending* order
x = hs !! m -- the n-th Hamming number


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3 cups all-purpose flour
Pre-heat oven to 450F. In a large bowl, mix flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and cream of tartar. Working quickly, throw butter into flour mix and work it in with your hands until little balls form.
Make a well in the center of the flour/butter mixture and add butter milk all at once. With a large spoon stir mixture quickly, just until it's blended and begins to mass and form a sticky dough. (If dough appears super dry, add 1 to 2 tablespoons additional buttermilk.)
Immediately turn dough onto a generously floured surface. Using floured hands, knead briskly 8 to 10 times until cohesive ball of dough forms. Gently flatten dough with hands to even thickness. Using a floured rolling pin, lightly roll dough to a 3/4-inch thickness.
Note: I'm pathetic and totally botched the measuring process. I measured wrong and they came out a bit thin. Make sure to grab a ruler and measure them out to 3/4 of an inch. You want 'em pretty and tall.
You can use a 2 1/2 or 3 inch biscuit cutter. I just used a pint glass from The Onion. Whatever works for you. Cut the biscuits out and arrange on heavy baking sheet. Try to get as many as you can out of the first roll. Gather the excess dough and roll out again and cut more biscuits. I'd discard the excess dough after the second roll out because they'll turn out tough and chewy.
Place on upper third of oven and bake for 8 to 12 minutes until crusty and golden brown. Remove and enjoy with your favorite jam.


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Scrapping Metal In Old Houses & Selling Scrap Metal
In this poor housing market, Quonset huts are common with new homeowners in addition to with retirees looking for an affordable strategy to move to a warmer climate. My sister has 3 (inside solely) cats and he or she plans to construct considered one of these cat structures for them. The giant driveway is shared between each, the coach house can park 2 automobiles and the primary home four vehicles. The bat house should be mounted at the least 10′ up from the ground, and higher if possible. Don't buy a house for those who plan on completely renovating it. If you should renovate your home, make small adjustments so you don't upset the ghosts too much. The added problem with the rampant house value inflation in these areas is that it's added in to the nationwide statistics, and creates a false overall image.
If you have got a moist drawback in your home and you are not certain what the supply of the damp is, a moisture meter or moisture detector can be very helpful. I wish it had been otherwise, because believe me, it looks like a shitstorm of drudgery on the house venture entrance around here. My guess is that press board it simply too porous, and after a month of spraying the world down day-after-day with lots of scrubbing there was a couple of seventy five%-80% enchancment EXCEPT FOR the press board. If you understand of a home that is going to be tore down, you should either contact the demolition crew or the proprietor for permission. Public transportation in the US is awful, and P/T jobs pay so little, some don't even cowl lease. This house rules the subconscious thoughts, so you might have desires that help uncover emotional blocks. Countryside the place I can plant some greens and flowers when the season permits.
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This is part of a series I am working on. I never seem to translate them onto the blog page exactly, but you get the idea.
I grew up combing beaches, exploring tide pools and rocks hiding washed up treasures. My sisters and I walked miles (we thought) on driftwood without touching the sand, squished our feet at the edge of the water to make quicksand, and flew kites for hours on end.
I'm not even sure where to buy paper and balsam to build a kite anymore!
wool in Wales
well-trained Border Collies + shepherds with time and imagination = sheep art
I love making these tiny boxes, this one is about two centimeters across. As usual, the tiny jewel rotates out to catch the light.
What an amazing number of people can pack into a house when there is a band, eh? Especially when there are violins, a mandolin, guitar, whistles and a bodhrán (that last is essential). One of the violinists was 12 years old, a 78-year-old sang two solos. Of course towards the end of the evening the songs of separation and rebel tunes came out. Athenry was summoned, and a song that started with an Irish boy losing his leg in the American civil war ended with Bush and his Iraq war. Predictable, but perfect.
prod your gondola on over
If you are in Southern California, please visit the fabulous Miss Ph tonight as she and these other talented artists show their work. Surrounded by art, a glass of wine in hand and interesting people to chat with, it will be a good evening.
I love this fragment, it went inside the lid of The Egypt Box (one of the story boxes I made a while back).
In all the excitement of the Eglu, I forgot my bag of electronics up north and cannot charge my camera or load any photos of my work. Very frustrating. Hopefully it will only be a few weeks till it gets here.


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Readers of the front page Washington Post article headlined, "the dollar, no longer almighty," no doubt walked away very confused. The article never distinguishes between the government deficit/debt and the trade deficit/foreign debt.
The dollar will likely fall because of the ongoing trade deficit. This is the adjustment mechanism for a trade deficit in the system of floating exchange rates like the one we have in the United States. This has no direct relationship to the budget deficit. If the United States were running its current deficit of around $600 billion a year (@ 4 percent of GDP), it would be expected that the dollar would fall regardless of whether or not the country is running a budget deficit.
The decline in the dollar will benefit workers who are subjected to international competition, most importantly manufacturing workers. The decline in the dollar will reduce U.S. imports by making them more expensive and increase exports by making them cheaper to foreigners. This will increase the demand for manufacturing workers, driving up their wages.
By contrast, workers who are largely protected by regulations against foreign competition, like doctors, lawyers, and other highly educated professionals, will likely lose when the dollar falls. They will have to pay more for manufactured goods and will probably not be able to raise their fees proportionately.
It would have also been useful to remind readers of the basic accounting identity that net foreign borrowing is equal to net national investment. An identity is something that is true by definition -- there is no possible way around it.
This identity means that if the United States has a large trade deficit, as it does now, then it must have either a large budget deficit or very low private savings, or some combination. (In principle, investment can rise, but as practical matter it is very hard to make non-residential investment rise by much as a share of GDP. Residential investment did rise substantially during the housing bubble, but it would be difficult to view this experience as health.)
This identity means that anyone who wants the budget deficit to fall without wanting the dollar to fall, want to see very low private sector savings. This would be a very perverse goal, although many policymakers seem to advocate this position without realizing it.


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I've made a shift from composing most of my work by hand with 50-cent notebooks and a collection of specially bought pens, to battering away at the keys of my laptop. It's more efficient, right? I can type faster and it saves me the trouble of having to transpose it later. Plus, it's much more pleasant now that the new laptop doesn't weigh sixteen pounds with a battery life of ten minutes.
Modern technology makes it more convenient to write (or sometimes put off writing) with special plotting programs and automatic correction. The whole world is speeding down the technology highway. Schools and the common core system are only requiring handwriting in the first few grades, after which the emphasis is placed on keyboarding. In our modern world we all must do our part to keep up with the emerging technology and its fast-paced drive into the unknown. It's a not a new scene, this tossing away the old for the new, humans have done it since the dawn of walking upright. Its how we graduated from grass sandals and adobe huts to skyscrapers and sneakers. Newer is better right?
Wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong. Most of the people who read this blog are, in some capacity, artists and creators. The rest probably got misdirected and are wondering how they made it this far into the article (its my gripping style). So we appreciate the connection of working with our hands as an extension of our minds. But now scientific evidence is proving this connection right. Studies show that handwriting is the key to creating more neural pathways in the brain and connecting millions of roads inside our minds which lead to enhanced creativity and better retention of information.
If I want to remember something, I write it down. Typing doesn't accomplish this same phenomenon. The direct line of creativity is often filtered and stunted by the gate of technology. When I sit down without my keyboard to write my hand always finds the story faster than the keys do.
So, after you've finished this article, (shared it and liked it of course), close your modern contraptions down and get your pens. Not only will your creativity flow easier but you'll separate yourself from the artificial pathways of this digital age that lead you off of your course and straight into the endless sea of cat videos.
Reconnect with your pen, the page, and hopefully, you're next great idea.
What's your favorite brand/type of pen to work with?


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A year-long journey examining, analyzing, and discussing Alan Moore's & Dave Gibbons's seminal graphic novel, Watchmen, in order to better appreciate this groundbreaking book.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Watchmen: Chapter I - complete annotations
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KT-28s, and 'Luudes are references to narcotics, not gangs. KT-28s are also called katies in the comic, and 'Luudes is short for quaaludes.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for doing this! I just read this book for a second time and noticed so many things that I hadn't during my first read. Curious about what else I may have overlooked, I stumbled upon this website. I eagerly await reading through this entire blog, and am so appreciative of the time you took to give in-depth analysis on this outstanding book.ReplyDelete
@rassmguy: Thanks for the heads up. I thought I'd replied here before but apparently did not. I don't know how I screwed up with the Kt-28s and 'luudes, but I did. It's now fixed in the notes, with a reference to your pointing it out.ReplyDelete
@Dude: I really appreciate your kind words. This whole site was something I wanted to do for the longest time. My buddy's journey with a daily blog chronicling crime fiction & non-fiction (search: "My Year in Crime Dan Fleming") is what inspired me to finally put finger to keyboard and publish my annotations.
I hope, someday, to return to the site with a collection of essays on a dozen topics from Watchmen, to mirror the dozen chapter annotations. We'll see if, and when, that happens.
Thanks again,
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In the aftermath of the unprecedented financial failure in the real estate markets, federal prosecutors, district attorneys, regulators and states attorneys general have investigated and indicted numerous mortgage fraud cases. From lenders to brokers to closing attorneys, cases have been brought against all sectors involved in the industry. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice have formed sophisticated task forces to scour the real estate lending and borrowing process in order to examine the housing loan process and aggressively make cases.
The type of felonies charged in support of mortgage related crimes include; wire fraud, mail fraud, conspiracy, and false statement charges. This laundry list of felonies are often brought in support of allegations that misrepresentations were made by borrowers, permitted by lenders, and sheparded through by attorneys. Massive mortgage related cases involving construction and rehabilitation loans have been brought. The F.B.I. specifically states that they are "helping to identify large-scale industry insiders and criminal enterprises conducting systemic mortgage fraud". Thus, large institutions involved in real estate loans from risky subprime instruments to traditional financing methods are continuously being investigated and face the spectre of prosecution. Individuals involved in the process may be subpoenaed, questioned, and ultimately charged.
Charles A. Ross & Associates in New York City have represented both individuals and institutions in mortgage fraud investigations throughout the country. These cases can turn on technical issues and involved processes and procedures unique to the mortgage industry. If you or a family member or friend face this sort of detailed and wide ranging inquiry it is extraordinarily important to retain counsel experienced in such matters. As a white collar law firm, we have the necessary experience always zealously represent the best interests of our clients. Chuck Ross is an accomplished mortgage fraud defense attorney. Please do not hestitate to call us for a free consultation if you face this sort of serious legal problem.


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"Pandora and the Flying Dutchman" unfolds like a moving painting. Despite the fact that the version of the film I saw was unrestored, it's visually lush --and the grainy picture made it seem more rare and distant. The rich, dark color and warm,muted tint of the film reminded me of "The Red Shoes" but since the picture I saw was pretty gritty it had more dark haze and less visual pop than the Red Shoes. I hear a new version was restored by Martin Scorscese's film archive project and rereleased recently.
"Pandora" tells a classic tale of the siren from a deep, mysterious lens. Director Albert Lewin braided the styles of surrealism, film noir, fairy tales/folk lore, with modern literature to unravel the dismise of the naive expats of sleepy Spanish seaport Esperanza that attempt to tango with American beauty-Spanish resident Pandora. Played by the living goddess Ava Gardner, Pandora bridges ancient myth of the siren with the modern femme fatale, giving men a lethal dose of Passion.


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Funnily enough the next day we got news that little Millie had arrived the day before surprising everyone being 3 weeks early. How funny is that ? Seems I wasn't early but bang on time - lol ! I popped round earlier today to give her mum the quilt and she was delighted with it. Sometimes you don't know if a quilt will be appreciated or not do you ? She really seemed to love it and although I'd told her I made quilts I don't think she'd seen any I've made. Anyway here it is
Later on that evening ( about 6 hours later ) I remembered I was supposed to be on a fabric diet - lol ! Knew it wouldn't last.


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From initial contact, we average six months to a year until a home is completed. Some projects go longer than that, as larger jobs always take a little more time. It's worth noting the actual build-process is typically less than six months, depending on weather and the complexity of the project.
Yes, it is! Kenny and Rhonda Reinbrecht own the business; and two of their three sons, Matt and Phil, are also involved. Our plan is to continue on as a family-owned business for generations to come.
We have our own masonry crew, painters, carpenters, as well as several laborers. So while we have the ability to independently build most homes ourselves, we sometimes use subcontractors for particular tasks to stay competitive and deliver the best product we can for our clients — at the best price.
It's worth noting that our company has established, long-term relationships with our subcontractors, and we're proud to say we've helped a few grow their own successful businesses over the years.
We do! It is located at 304 E. State Road 68, Haubstadt, IN 47639. Our showroom allows customers to make the majority of their home-selections, in person, right here. We also have our own flooring store located at the same address.
From Kenny: The short answer is no, we have no intention on moving from Haubstadt, IN. My wife and I raised our family in Haubstadt and the community has been good to us, so we intend on keeping our office here for now. That being said, we're only 20 minutes from most locations in Evansville.
Simply put, yes. We're more than happy to talk about your small project.
Most certainly! To-date, the smallest home we have built is around 1000 sq ft. If you have plans for a smaller home, we'd love to discuss it.
Yes, we have models to choose from as well as hundreds of plans for you to select from or customize.
Yes, you can always browse our list of Available Homes.
The best time to catch Kenny at the office is early in the morning. His office time is limited since he oversees several projects at a time, spread around the surrounding area.
We do accept credit card payments at the flooring store, as well as for some smaller jobs. Just ask!
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