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As you all know it has been exactly three years since Brian Burke was named President and GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He is truly both the "Head of State" and "Head of Government" of the most storied franchise in the NHL. When he arrived he promised us a team "with proper levels of pugnacity, testosterone, belligerence, and truculence."
While I could write out 1000 words on how Burke has reshaped both the Leafs NHL roster as well as re-stocked the Marlies and the team's prospect system the best illustration is to compare the roster he inherited on November 29, 2008 to the one that beat Anaheim on November 27, 2011.
Those of you with weak stomachs or a heart condition might want to avert your eyes.
What remains:
Kulemin, Grabovski Schenn.
It's been a long three years, but this is finally a team we can be proud to support.
Perhaps when the Leafs score against the Bruins the ACC should be filled with cheers of THANK YOU BURKIE!
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During his career, Hopkinson has performed at the main stage at Carnegie Hall and jammed with members of Guns N' Roses. Most recently he has been busy promoting his latest album, "The Levee."
Q: What originally drew you to music?
A: There was music all the time in my house when I was growing up. My parents were swing babies and enjoyed country music, too. My six older brothers and sisters grew up in the '60s and '70s, so I heard all sorts of stuff, rock, jazz, pop, R&B, country.
Q: What is your songwriting process like?
A: I figured out my songwriting process a number of years ago. It all happens for me on a night off, in the same time frame of a normal gig, somewhere between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. I usually start messing around on a guitar, and within the first half hour the ideas appear, before I've begun to fall into well-worn patterns, songs or practice habits. It's almost unconscious, stream of consciousness. I've learned to video or audio record that time, to better focus on it later.
I don't force songs, either. I relate it to cooking. Some songs are quick "meals," you can finish them in less than an hour; some are like stews, or crock pot dishes, they take hours, and in some cases years. I've heard many great songwriters say that all you're doing is basically putting up the antennae, so to speak, and tapping into the source. It's all about having the energy to receive the signal.
Q: You have a very eclectic sound. What draws you to so many different styles of music?
A: As I stated earlier, I heard a lot growing up, and have always subscribed to Duke Ellington's philosophy about music, "There are two kinds, good and bad," regardless of style. I like something from every genre. I listen to all sorts of sounds, and like the earlier cooking analogy, the more diverse ingredients you make a dish with, the more unique it is.
Q: How did you develop your style as a musician, both from a guitar playing and singing perspective?
A: Practice, practice, practice. Though I never practice anymore, a 2-year-old son in daddy day care will do that. Guitar playing, I got a great teacher in high school, Ed Monteleone. He was a real great player and person. He influenced my whole right hand/finger-picking style. He opened that door, and even though I didn't get it then, it was immensely important. The other thing was going to the Musicians Institute. At the time, it was basically a trade school for guitar. You had a class, with a live band for the lesson, in every style. In a day, you could play with really heavy players in any style.
Not to mention over 4,000 live gigs doing covers. That's where I learned how to sing. I only started to sing because I held auditions for singers. Thanks to "American Idol," the world now knows what musicians have known forever, that auditioning singers can be a freak show! I had taken lessons singing for years, and figured I could stay in pitch, for the most part. After a while, I got better, started to enjoy it, and didn't have to pay an extra person.
Erik Ofgang is a freelance writer in Connecticut;
The Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 E. Ridge, Ridgefield. Thursday, Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m. $28. 203-438-5795, www.ridgefieldplayhouse.org.


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This phrase was first started sometime in the 1940's. It's origins are from the National Football League. It's exact origins are unknown but the term was used by players and coaches to describe what goes on during a pile up of players attempting to recover a fumble or a loose ball on the field. Players at the bottom of the pile would often resort to dirty, classless tactics in an attempt to recover the ball from another player while the referees were attempting to clear the pile to discover who had recovered the ball. Often times, players would resort to punching, kicking, scratching, grabbing an opposing players ball sac and squeezing, etc.... in the hopes that the player with the ball would give up the ball to try and stop the other player from "giving him the business". The phrase became known to the general public in 1986, during an NFL game between the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets when referee Ben Dreith called a personal foul penalty on the Jets' Marty Lyons after he tackled Bills quarterback Jim Kelly to the ground and started to repeatedly punch him in the head. Dreith announced to the crowd: "We have a personal foul on number 99 of the defense — after he tackled the quarterback, he's giving him the business down there, that's a 15-yard penalty."
Player 1: "Who recovered the fumble? Did they make a call yet?"
Player 2: "Dunno. There still in the pile giving the business."
Player 2: "Dunno. There still in the pile giving the business."
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A general reference to a future salacious sexual act. Statements regarding 'the business' are frequently accompanied by a raised eyebrow.
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When a person disregards any courtesy toward a party and threatens use of authority, usually to combat an injustice done them.
"I found a hair in my taco at Taco bell and the lady at the register refused to give me a new one
"Damn dude, so what'd you do?"
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"Damn dude, so what'd you do?"
"I asked to see the manager and started giving the business to him. Dude hooked me up with a $20 gift card and a free taco"
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What Silva and Belfort said to each other in The Staredown
It helps to read a little Portuguese lip
According to a Brazilian journalist I met in the press room, here is what transpired during the heated exchange following their epic staredown.
These are my journalist friend's translations:
Silva: "You're fucked. I'm going to fill you with strikes."
Belfort: "Come get some." (literal trans: "come in.")


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RELATED: Q & A with author Thomas Juby
It's refreshing to read an investigative book written by an expert rather than a journalist.
Halifax media struggles with trades content. A local reporter once called an angle grinder a torch. Another time, the Nova Scotia CBC labeled an oil supply line as a wire.
Imagine them trying to make heads or tails of the Swissair Flight 111 wreckage which included four million pieces of debris along with much of the plane's 250 miles of wiring.
Thomas Juby, author of Twice as Far, was an RCMP investigator assigned to the four-year crash investigation of Swissair Flight 111. The massive MD-11 aircraft crashed off Peggy's Cove while en route from New York to Geneva, killing all 229 passengers and crew.
Early in his book, Juby offers these little-known details about the Sept. 2, 1998 flight: the first class passengers had been moved to the rear of the aircraft, and all aboard were dead before the plane crashed.
Recalling how the victims' remains arrived at the morgue, Juby wrote, "Suddenly there was this overwhelming realization that every body was in dozens if not hundreds of pieces."
Confusion presided when X-rays revealed thousands of metal beads embedded in the human flesh. By checking the flight's cargo docket, these were traced to a shipment of tungsten balls used for ballpoint pens.
Inexplicably, on the third day of the investigation, the Transportation Safety Board announced there would be no criminal investigation of the crash.
As a result, the ongoing profiling of passengers and airline employees was abandoned even though disturbing leads were developing. Juby reports, "Of the employees who serviced the aircraft just prior to its last departure, one was never found again. He worked the one shift to service this aircraft and left. He had provided fake identification to his employer when hired."
As the investigation continued, much of the wreckage was retrieved and partially re-assembled on a frame inside a Shearwater hangar. It became obvious a fire had ignited and burned above the ceiling of the plane's forward cabin.
Convincing evidence of an improvised explosive device was found. This was confirmed by Dr. Jim Brown, a government scientist with Natural Resources Canada who examined telltale magnesium deposits on burnt wiring.
No evidence of an explosion was discovered, but as Juby explains, "Many such devices had been found to ignite and burn rather than ignite and explode, thus actually becoming an incendiary device."
The RCMP team identified potential suspects including bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Juby reminds readers, "It must be noted this was taking place in 1999, more than two years before bin Laden and his group became common household knowledge because of his cold-blooded and cowardly attacks of 9-11."
In spite of evidence pointing to a homemade bomb, top brass with the RCMP and Transportation Safety Board would not shift gears and pursue a criminal investigation. Instead, they went into cover-up mode.
First, skilled FBI investigators — fresh from investigating the TWA 800 flight that exploded and crashed off Long Island in 1996 — were blocked from viewing the Swissair wreckage.
Then Dr. Brown's magnesium report was altered.
An RCMP chief superintendent wrote, ". . . even if an incendiary device is found, we will not be able to identify it to an individual at this late date, so there is no use conducting such an investigation."
Finally, RCMP supervisors forced Juby to change his notes, an apparent Criminal Code offense for obstructing a police officer.
Many more stories about unskilled investigators, manipulative bureaucrats, duped journalists, and promotion-seeking managers tumble from the pages of Twice as Far.
Be warned that Juby's blunt tone might upset sensitive readers, like this description of several five pound bags of teeth. "They had come from the final recovery that had vacuumed the sea floor. A few had gold fillings, others were bright white, while others were stained and tainted with bridges and other fixtures. These remains were unidentified, so this material went to the mass grave for the victims."
Clearly, Juby is still haunted by what he believes was a cover-up. In the closing pages of Twice as Far, he wrote:
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explain why I get the publication MICROBE.
But I've been back logged on my science reading the last few
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Things Considered" in which the newly coined holobiont was
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Demos Shakarian (1913-1993), Pentecostal founder of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI). Demos Shakarian was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Presbyterian Armenian immigrants who left Turkey just a few years before his birth. The Shakarian family came under the influence of the Pentecostal movement and relocated to Downey, California and began a dairy business. By his late teens Demos Shakarian was a co-partner with his older brother as owners of the largest herd of dairy cattle in California. Active in Southern California Pentecostal circles from the mid-1930s onward, Demos Shakarian frequently volunteered time and money to the campaigns of various Pentecostal evangelists.
In the early 1950s Demos Shakarian formulated a plan that would bring together businessmen for meals designed for evangelism, discipleship, and exploring the miraculous gifts of the Spirit. Demos Shakarian presented the idea to Oral Roberts at his 1951 Los Angeles Crusade and Roberts spoke at Demos Shakarian's first meeting. The new FGBMFI struggled for over a year and was nearly shut down until a breakout meeting occurred, Demos Shakarian claimed, after he received a vision about the fledgling organization's future worldwide impact. Over the next several years the organization would grow as part and parcel of the 1950s Pentecostal healing revival.
By 1961 FGBMFI had over 300 chapters and almost 100,000 members. The decade of the 1960s were, if anything, an even more remarkable period for the organization. Buoyed by the spread of the charismatic movement FGBMFI attracted tens of thousands of supporters from mainline Protestant and Roman Catholic backgrounds. By the late 1970s Demos Shakarian presided over 1,700 FGBMFI chapters in sixty six countries, a periodical (Voice) that printed 500,000 copies per month, and a television program which Demos Shakarian hosted ("Good News") that was broadcast on more than 300 stations in the U.S.
In 1984 Demos Shakarian suffered a stroke that incapacitated him for several years. During that time FGBMFI languished amid leadership controversies and rudderless, its membership dropped in half from its peak of 700,000. Demos Shakarian eventually recovered sufficiently to reassert control of the organization and installed his son, Richard, as his successor. FGBMFI remains a strong cog in the networks which support Pentecostal and charismatic ministries and programs.
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"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative."
The issue of Free will and Determinism has been argued over for centuries. Hume, Descartes, Nietzsche; all have produced deep philosophcal musings on the subject of predestination and what it means for our lives.
It is impossible to imagine an event with no cause at all. Every event has a reason
we are influenced by external factors
our own accord is already determined by prior events.
I think that we have the illusion of free will, because we can never predict what happens next, so things always seem to be free. In reality, all of our choices are determined by the past, and there is no room for 'free will' from God.
I am proposing here, that God cannot have given us free will, as to have free will would be to influence the causal chain uncausally, which is something that cannot be done on a super-atomic scale.
Wow, well written and a very difficult opening post for me to respond to, I must say. You clearly are well versed on the various philosophies which exist on this subject. I'm more of a layman.
I believe that God is all knowing, that we have free will within certain parameters, and that our actions are not strictly pre-determined but are instead influenced by the world around us and by past events.
Quote from: ElliotViola on March 05, 2012, 03:58:30 PMIt is impossible to imagine an event with no cause at all. Every event has a reason >snip< "The cause of the collision was speed" and "speed was the reason for the accident".
and this is where our views start to head in different directions because I cannot make the leap from 'influenced' to 'determined' when it comes to our actions, or use the words interchangeably as I can for 'cause' and 'reason'. Constant real world experience hammers home to me that I have the final say in what I do, regardless of how few possibilities I have and regardless of the process whereby those possibilities arose.
Wouldn't you agree that we're both participating in this debate voluntarily?
I know I am. We were influenced by several factors, no doubt, and largely these are completely out of our control. We can't control the fact that we both enjoy debating, for instance. But we can control whether or not we indulge that desire. We determine what we do.
Quote from: ElliotViola on March 05, 2012, 03:58:30 PMI think that we have the illusion of free will, because we can never predict what happens next, so things always seem to be free. In reality, all of our choices are determined by the past, and there is no room for 'free will' from God. I assume by this you don't mean that we can't predict what will be the consequence of certain actions...(cause and effect), but rather that we can't predict things like exactly when Joe Crazy might open fire in a shopping centre. You'll correct me if I'm wrong no doubt.
Quote from: ElliotViola on March 05, 2012, 03:58:30 PMI am proposing here, that God cannot have given us free will, as to have free will would be to influence the causal chain uncausally, which is something that cannot be done on a super-atomic scale. Well, as much as I like that idea on some levels I tend to be stymied by the fact that every day I choose to do things. Even if I am reduced in my capacity by natural laws ( I cannot fly if I want to ), and circumstances played out in history ( I was a Preachers Kid whether I wanted to be or not - I didn't ), I still have one hell of a wide variety of choices that I can make each and every day. I expect that to some degree this debate might rest on what precisely we consider free will to mean. I tend to see it as the distinction between doing things voluntarily or involuntarily.
Some more on God being all knowing, then. I have only quite recently come to believe that the bible does not necessarily support the widely held view that God knows every detail of our lives in advance. ( in fact, so recently that what follows may even contradict opinions I have given on this forum). I'd also like to qualify this by stating that I'm probably not yet still 100% convinced of this. But the more I think about it, the more its getting that way.
I think God has full control and full knowledge in the sense that he chose, through His wisdom, to create a world and inhabit it with humans who had free will. However, he does not know for sure in advance what we will do with that. He's still all knowing, because he knows what there definitely is to know. What someone does in the future isn't yet there to know. I think God probably has a very good idea of what we'll do, given that He can see our hearts.
I could link in to an essay which says this better than me, but I want to use my own words and ideas as much as possible.
Thats all I have for now.
Well, as I said in my PM, I am studying Philosophy for A-Level, and we spent 3 months covering the argument. This is good revision for my exam
Indeed. You have this pegged. There is a large difference between reason and cause.
You need to clarify the definition of influence and causation in your mind. Influence is when an event causes you to process something. Personal causation, i.e. action by a person, is when external influences combine and cause something to be done by us. In terms of determination, our influences cause us to act. Influences are all events, and the events all are sensed by our eyes, nose, mouth, touch and ears, then sent to the brain, which then processes them and we make a conscious decision based on those external influence. The influences are still events that cause other events. What we need to talk about is how that pertains to the idea of free will.
For example, I am a composer of music. I could not compose music if I had not learnt music by experience before, and it is clear to see that my composition contain influences from other musicians, who in turn developed their styles from musicians before them. This chain goes on pretty much unbreakingly in a 'causal chain'. Yes, I am influenced by things, but if I wasn't influenced by anything then I would never do anything.
Also, I don't have a say in whether I write the music in one way or another, I was always going to write it in one way. This is because I had the previous influences/events which caused me to write. I feel like I do have free will. However, feeling like having free will is not free will, it is ignorance of the full determined events, because as I said, nobody can know the 'full picture' as it were.
Quote from: magicmiles on March 06, 2012, 05:58:58 AMWouldn't you agree that we're both participating in this debate voluntarily? Yes. I am participating voluntarily. I feel as if I am doing it of my own accord, but in reality, a series of events in my life caused me to enjoy debating, and to end up on here and talking to you at the same time.
Quote from: magicmiles on March 06, 2012, 05:58:58 AMI know I am. We were influenced by several factors, no doubt, and largely these are completely out of our control. We can't control the fact that we both enjoy debating, for instance. But we can control whether or not we indulge that desire. We determine what we do.Hang on Miles, there's another level of causation here. On controlling desires, we need to look at the FOD's and SOD's. This was an argument proposed by Harry Frankfurt. He said that Humans have free will because we possess the ability to reflect on our actions.
Imagine you are hungry, and crave chocolate cake.
Simple situation. You can reflect on your urge and decide to eat or not. This is what you are saying about indulging desire.
However, PSYCHOLOGICAL DETERMINISM rears its head here. Say you decide not to eat the chocolate cake because you are worried about getting fat. If we look at the reason behind that, it is that in the past for example you've seen fat people, or read the calorie count or you have been influenced in the past to not want to eat the cake because it is fattening. Here we can see how even what we think is free is actually just more previous external influences or events leading up to a decision. Again, free will is an illusion. But that is satisfactory because we can never comprehend in an instant about why we are making that decision, as it involves too many factors for the most advanced supercomputer (even an atom 15bn light years away could have influenced what you are doing now...). Mind blowing stuff
We can predict simple things by the external factors we can measure. Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect? Imagine going back in time and killing a butterfly 5,000,000 years ago. This would so severely disrupt the causal chain from then that it would be impossible to figure out what might have been if you had not killed the butterfly. That may have spawned offspring that fed things and something may have starved preventing the birth of something important... Just try and imagine the complexity of 5,000,000 years worth of causality.Now picture that on a universal scale. It is literally impossible to know the location of every single particle in the universe. Therefore, it is impossible to predict the future state of the universe unless you know every single variable, i.e. every single atom. This is why we can only make limited predictions about things like the weather, and why even with our advanced technology we can still get it wrong.
The variables leading up to a massacre in a shopping centre would include the determination of every single person in that shopping centre being influenced by other events to be there at the time, and a psychological map of the killer for his entire existence. As you can see, it is literally impossible...
Thing is, there is no such thing as voluntary and involuntary if you look at the universe logically. We have the illusion of free will (and that is great!) but in reality, because of the past points I've made, it is all predetermined. However, the free element of that is that we don't know and cannot know how it is all determined. That is the only bit of freedom we have. It's essentially turning a blind eye to the fact it's all determined.
God is not all knowing, all of the divine attributes are human made lies. We have assigned what we think God to be as a perfect being the attributes we think are perfect. This is not perfection at all, because we are imperfect. As the traditional Christian argument goes, we are imperfect and cannot know perfection or the mind of God. We attributed him the powers he supposedly has, omnibenevolence, omnipotence, omniscience... These are things we think are perfect, yet they may not actually be perfect, for we cannot know perfection. To do with God predestining our lives, he cannot. It is an inconsistency with omniscience and the problem of evil.If God knows bad things are going to happen to us, then he cannot interfere through free will. Therefore he is redundant and not worthy of worship. If God caused the first cause, then he cannot have done anything else, and there is no point in asking him to do things as he cannot interfere.Basically, God cannot interfere in our lives, because it messes with his own existence. Therefore, free will can only exist independently from God. And because of the argument from determinism, free will is an illusion. A good illusion, but still an illusion.
God cannot interfere with our free will, and as a result he really cannot interfere in our lives due to causality. Linking to the butterfly effect again, if he interferes, he starts a new causal chain that would have massive effects on everyone's lives.
it is clear to see that my composition contain influences from other musicians
I see your point here, but it again comes down to how much we are willing to ascribe influences to our actions. You could have, if you wished, quashed your natural desire to compose music and never produce a note. Other circumstances might have had an influence on that - for example, if you were extremely poor and simply had no means to give expression to your musical compulsion, and instead you chose to provide for your family by working as a labourer 12 hours a day. Even then - you didn't have to do that. You could have simply run off and abandoned your family. My point is that even when we have strong influences and limited options, we are still able to make certain free decisions.
Certainly, and this is where the parameters I discussed come in. You might not have had the ability to write the music in a different style - but you did have the ability to simply not write music, as per my previous point. I can see how one might claim that essentially gives us no free will, but that will always be a mater of subjective opinion I think.
Hmm, I'd argue that the ability to reflect on our actions is simply a benefit in allowing us to make a wise free will decision next time.
I remain unconvinced of this, and the key is to remember that we don't live in a theoretical, philosophical world - we live in a real world where we see every day the results of certain decisions, and where pretty much every society recognises through some type of legal system that we do have control of what we do. Mitigating circumstances are considered in the more enlightened societies, but I don't know of any real world society that operates on the basis that we don't have a certain measure of control in what we do.
There is a good reason why the determinism viewpoint is often jaded, and that is because when you have an infinite regress of events, we cannot get past the first cause of the universe.
Quote from: ElliotViola on March 20, 2012, 05:37:07 PM There is a good reason why the determinism viewpoint is often jaded, and that is because when you have an infinite regress of events, we cannot get past the first cause of the universe. I don't think we need to isolate any first cause. It's pretty clear that we simply have an irreconcilable difference in what we are willing to call 'free will'. So, the rest of your post, whilst thoughtful and well presented, probably won't get us past that difference in our acceptable definitions.Do you feel the same way?I am of course still interested in your further comments on free will as far as it relates to God.
EV, I have to raise the white flag on this sorry. I'm finding that my motivation to give the topic thought has pretty much evaporated.Well argued to you, sir.


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"I feel so, like, fancy up here," Joanna Newsom demurred from behind her signature pedal harp in a billowing evening gown, midway through her performance at L.A.'s Orpheum Theater on Saturday night. The remark was one of her many attempts to diffuse the high-culture trappings of the evening, but she needn't have bothered. Blessed with a deep warmth that belies her music's sprawling complexity, Newsom's superlative 95-minute recital welcomed the audience into her eccentric world like a gracious dinner host, while at the same time challenging them to keep pace with her.
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The buyer's guide becomes part of the contract at the time of the sale, and any guarantees listed on it override any restrictions in the contract. If the sale is in Spanish, the buyer's guide and all required contract terms must be in Spanish. If you don't see the buyer's guide in the car window, ask to see it before you agree to buy a car.
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Would Bill Bradley be the next Jimmy Carter?
Several of Bradley's former colleagues in Congress, along with journalists and Bradley's former chief of staff, debated that question at a forum in Washington on Tuesday.
Panelists at the forum described Bradley as a bright, detail-oriented, highly effective policy strategist. But they also drew comparisons between the former New Jersey senator and Carter, who is widely viewed as a micromanager who was too independent to work effectively with Congress to achieve his goals.
"I hope [Bradley] is not as detailed as Jimmy Carter was [if] he gets to be President," said Dan Rostenkowski, former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
The forum, sponsored by the Transition to Governing Project, a joint project of the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution and the Hoover Institution, was the first in a series looking at the governing styles and approaches of the leading presidential candidates.
Bradley is "certainly not a micromanager," argued Marcia Aronoff, who served as his chief of staff in the Senate from 1978 to 1991. "But he will get heavily involved in things he's interested in."
On his staff, said Aronoff, Bradley sought people "with a breadth of experience, not just people who felt that the first and only answer to any problem was a government program."
Several panelists praised Bradley for working with members of both parties in the Senate and the House of Representatives to win passage of key pieces of legislation to overhaul the tax code and reform the California water system in the 1980s.
"I thought, if you had to get into a foxhole, this is somebody you wanted to be with because he's not going to leave," said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., who worked with Bradley on the water reform effort. Miller is supporting Bradley's presidential bid.
Bradley is "effective at teambuilding," Aronoff said. "His entire career has been built around working with people. He is willing to play a nonvisible role to get things done."
Other panelists, however, noted that outside of the tax and water bills, Bradley tended to walk his own path in Congress. "I think Bradley as President would have a tough time bending to negotiate deals," said Rostenkowski. "At the same time, I think he is probably one of the brightest candidates."
Bradley may also be hindered by his lack of experience in running an organization as large and diverse as the federal bureaucracy. In a new roundup on the major presidential candidates, Washington Monthly magazine gives Bradley a grade of "D" on his potential ability to run the government, noting that he has never worked in the civilian executive branch and that his only military service was in the reserves.


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My Mac at work has become very unstable in it's Wi Fi connection.
It's an older Mac Pro running 10.6.8. Interestingly my father is having similar problems with his Macbook pro with same operating system at his house.
Many other machines and my iPhone connect to this network at work successfully. I've tried creating another network with my own Airport Express with similar results.
It is constantly forgetting the network and asking for the password, The connection strength is often quite variable but generally poor.
I have unsuccessfully tried;
Turning Airport off and on.
Creating a new location.
Renewing the DCHP lease.
Repairing permissions.
Erasing and creating new keychains.
Deleting preference list com.apple.alf.plist
Resetting SMC.
Often doing some or all of the above helps for 20mins or less before it goes haywire again.
Anybody got any thoughts or similar experience?
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Ken Gracey, on 11 April 2012 - 08:44 PM, said:
In system preferences, Network, Advanced where you can prioritise networks, I have deleted the network (with the ' - ' button) and then re-set it after a re-start.
Any and all of these things may or may not temporarily improve the situation but never for long and not always.
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Using a static IP address has helped so far.
In System Pref>Network>Airport>Advanced>TCP/IP, I selected DHCP with manual address and specified the number it was already on and seems to be happy.
So what in effect did I do and could I have selected a higher (last) number?
Posted 15 May 2012 - 12:23 PM
Last week I created a separate wireless network at work using an older Airport Extreme I took out of retirement and so far it's been terrific.
Full strength and no drop outs.
Posted 15 May 2012 - 06:02 PM
Posted 12 June 2012 - 03:31 PM
Whilst using (old) Airport Extreme helped significantly, recently some similar issues started arising again. They were easier to rectify by turning off and then on airport on my mac but I was having to do it a few times per day.
Anyway I've now bought a pair of NetComm Powerline Adapters that transfer data through the power system.
They are brilliant! Connect one to your modem via ethernet cable supplied and plug in to the power. Connect another to your computer by the supplied ethernet cable and plug this one in. Wait 2 mins.
By some techno miracle, internet data passes through the power cables at speeds up to 200 Mbps.
That simple!
Posted 12 June 2012 - 05:28 PM
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I got mine from Officeworks. Shelf price was $149- but I had seen them cheaper on the net and so he brought them down to $94-.
The pack comes with two pre pared devices that work with all operating systems out of the box. If you want to modify the settings or possibly add more to your system you need a computer made by that other mob.
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Does anybody know where I can get a replacement cable mounting Nikonos N5 sysnc lead connector please?
My existing sync lead has had an internal failure close to one of the connectors and after 10 years service it could not be unscrewed without damge.
An internet search has only yeilded replacement leads at £100 !!
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Author Notes: While crab cakes may be the calling card of Maryland, shrimp salad is a close second. I can't name a single bridal shower I have attended in Maryland that did not serve shrimp salad. When served as a sandwich it is usually served on white bread with lettuce and tomato. Usually the shrimp are whole, I slice mine in half lengthwise as, I find, it makes a more manageable sandwich. —Summer of Eggplant
Food52 Review: The key tweak in Summer of Eggplant's terrific salad is in the methodology: steaming the shrimps -instead of boiling them - keeps them tender and flavorful, and the seemingly minute additions of minced green onion tops, celery seed and dried parsley to the dressing do make a difference. We bypassed the white bread/croissant directive and served it instead in top-split hot dog rolls with lettuce and tomato, lobster roll-style, along with some French-inspired Sangria and considered ourselves very well-fed, indeed! —wssmom
Serves: 2
Prep time: 24 hrs 5 min
Cook time: 4 min
pound shrimp (30-40 count)
cup mayonnaise
teaspoon lemon juice
teaspoons diced celery
tablespoon green onion, green parts only, diced
teaspoon Old Bay, or preferred Chesapeake Bay seasoning
pinch celery seed (tiny pinch)
teaspoon dried parsley
salt + pepper
- Heat 1-2 cups of water to a boil over a steamer basket. Add the shrimp and steam until just cooked -- 4 minutes should do it. Cool the shrimp on ice.
- Peel and de-vein the shrimp and slice lengthwise (or leave them whole if you prefer).
- Combine the shrimp and the remaining ingredients in a bowl. Chill for an hour or up to 24 hours. Serve in a bowl, on white bread with lettuce and tomato, or bridal shower-style with mini croissants.
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At Nemours, we promise to do whatever it takes to treat children as we would our own. When your child comes to Nemours, we know you're placing your trust in us. This trust and our dedication to improving the health of your child is what inspires us to provide exceptional care and the most satisfying experience possible.
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Zero Central Line Infections in Our Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units in 2009
For children with illnesses that require longer hospital stays or long-term treatments it's common to get a central line (a long, thin, flexible tube that's surgically placed into the larger veins of the neck or groin and travels to a large blood vessel near the heart). Having a central line enables doctors and nurses to draw blood and provide medications to kids for as long as medically necessary, sparing them the fear and stress of repeated needle sticks.
Unfortunately, central line infections can happen if bacteria enter the catheter and get into the child's bloodstream. Every year catheter-associated bloodstream infections cause added medical costs, illness, and (on rare occasions) death in hospitalized adults and children worldwide.
However, if your child needs a central line the last thing you're probably thinking about is an infection. At Nemours, we make sure that's one less worry on your mind. We take every precaution to ensure that our patients don't get a central line infection. And our efforts are making a real difference in the health and safety of the newborns and children we treat.
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When it comes to preventing central line infections in our intensive care units (where children come when they need critical care), at Nemours we're incredibly proud to say that we're doing far better than many hospitals nationwide. Here's a quick look at our incredible achievements in avoiding central line infections:
- The March 2010 Consumer Reports magazine recognized our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children for having 65% fewer infections than the national average. (Consumer Reports based their information on hospitals' most recent data, primarily from 2008.)
- Our rate for 2009 was the best in the Philadelphia region and the entire state of Delaware for pediatrics.
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- Both our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) had no central line infections in all of 2009. That impressive feat comes on the heels of two previous years with infection rates that fell well below the national average, based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The national average (shown in the dotted blue line) is the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC's) rate of 2.94 central-line-related bloodstream infections for every 1,000 days that all patients in an intensive care unit had a central line. The solid orange line represents duPont Hospital for Children's central line infection rate for the previous 4 years. And it shows how much we've improved over time. We learned what worked best, put it into daily practice, and now we can say that our central line infection rate is substantially better than the national average.
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So how have we kept our central line infection rates so low, even non-existent? It all starts with our participation in a collaborative effort supported by the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI, for short), which focuses on implementing "best practices" used in the preparation, insertion, and ongoing care of central lines.
"Best practices" in medicine refers to the treatments and processes health care providers use that are proven to really work and to be the most successful for patients, based on evidence from research as well as patient care. In addition, best practices used by health care providers are reliable when used again and again.
When it comes to central lines, best practices dictate that every nurse, physician, and other caregiver who comes into contact with patients' central lines gets continuing education, coaching, and intervention (as needed) on how to reduce and eliminate blood infections associated with the use of a central line.
We adhere to a detailed checklist that follows crucial steps like keeping hands, instruments, and the skin around the line area sanitized, as well as removing any unnecessary catheters.
At Nemours, we were early adopters of the safe practices for central lines because we saw that it was best for our patients, from the children of all ages in our PICU to our tiniest and most vulnerable patients in our NICU.
Through teamwork and ongoing coordination of our efforts and standards, we do whatever it takes to ensure that kids who need central lines stay free of preventable infections. And that equates to healthier patients and more satisfied parents. Our goal, in our intensive care units and everywhere else we see patients, is to always treat every child as we would our own.


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BP has agreed to provide $1 billion toward early restoration projects in the Gulf of Mexico
Washington, DC – Under an unprecedented agreement announced today by the Natural Resource Trustees for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Trustees), BP has agreed to provide $1 billion toward early restoration projects in the Gulf of Mexico to address injuries to natural resources caused by the spill. The Trustees involved are: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, the Department of the Interior (DOI), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Department of Justice provided assistance in reaching the agreement.
This early restoration agreement, the largest of its kind ever reached, represents a first step toward fulfilling BP's obligation to fund the complete restoration of injured public resources, including the loss of use of those resources by the people living, working and visiting the area. The Trustees will use the money to fund projects such as the rebuilding of coastal marshes, replenishment of damaged beaches, conservation of sensitive areas for ocean habitat for injured wildlife, and restoration of barrier islands and wetlands that provide natural protection from storms.
The agreement in no way affects the ultimate liability of BP or any other entity for natural resource damages or other liabilities, but provides an opportunity to help restoration get started sooner. The selection of early restoration projects will follow a public process, and will be overseen by the Trustees.
The full natural resource damage assessment process will continue until the Trustees have determined the full extent of damages caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. At the end of the damage assessment process, the Trustees will take into account any benefits that were realized from these early restoration projects. In addition to funding early restoration projects, BP will continue to fund the damage assessment and, together with the other responsible parties, will ultimately be obligated to compensate the public for the entire injury. BP is providing the early restoration funds voluntarily, and is not required to do so at this stage of the damage assessment process. The agreement will speed needed resources to the Gulf in advance of the completion of the assessment process.
"This milestone agreement will allow us to jump-start restoration projects that will bring Gulf Coast marshes, wetlands, and wildlife habitat back to health after the damage they suffered as a result of the Deepwater Horizon spill," said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. "This agreement accelerates our work on Gulf Coast restoration and in no way limits the ability of all the Natural Resource Trustees from seeking full damages from those who are responsible as the NRDA process moves forward."
"One year after the largest oil spill in our history, we take a major step forward in the recovery of the Gulf of Mexico, for the environment and the people who depend on it for their livelihood and enjoyment. Today's agreement is a down payment on our promise to protect and restore the Gulf," said Jane Lubchenco, Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator.
"This agreement is a great first step toward restoring our natural resources destroyed by the BP oil spill," said Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. "We are eager to continue working with public, state and federal co-trustees and BP to quickly convert this downpayment into projects to restore our damaged coast and replace our lost wildlife. We encourage BP to continue to address the damages from this spill through early restoration efforts."
"Alabama's natural resources are environmentally diverse and an economic engine for our state and nation. Ecosystem restoration is vital to the economic vitality of the Alabama Gulf Coast," said Governor Bentley. "Obtaining funding for these restoration projects is a major step forward in addressing the oil spill's damage to our precious natural resources. I have the utmost confidence that the Alabama trustees will consider and identify projects and use these funds toward restoring our natural resources."
"Since the day of the oil spill, our goals have been to make Mississippi whole and to assure that our coastal areas completely recover. Today's unprecedented agreement is an important first step but it is only the first step. Mississippi will continue this work and will count on our many interested citizens to contribute their ideas and input as we all work to define the scope of these early projects and develop other restoration projects. Our goals have not changed. We will remain actively engaged in these and other projects until the Gulf is restored and our state is made whole," said Trudy D. Fisher, Mississippi Trustee, Executive Director, Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.
"I'm pleased that after a year of uncertainty and concerns about environmental damages which occurred as a result of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, Florida will be able to use this early restoration money to initiate greatly needed environmental restoration projects," said Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Herschel Vinyard. "Because we have worked diligently to assess the environmental damage resulting from the spill, we are well positioned to be able to quickly begin performing important restoration projects and use Florida's share of the early restoration funds to assist our coastal communities with their continued recovery from the spill."
"While the Texas coast was not as visibly impacted by this spill, our wetlands, bays, beaches and coastal waters were affected, and it makes sense to invest in places that can help jumpstart and maximize recovery of the entire Gulf," said Carter Smith, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department executive director. "There will be a public process in Texas and throughout the Gulf to consider and identify projects that make the best use of these funds for our coastal habitats and the fish, wildlife and people who depend upon them."
The $1 billion in early restoration projects will be selected and implemented as follows:
Each state – Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas - will select and implement $100 million in projects;
The Federal Resource Trustees, NOAA and DOI, will each select and implement $100 million in projects;
The remaining $300 million will be used for projects selected by NOAA and DOI from proposals submitted by the State Trustees. All projects must meet the other requirements of the Framework Agreement and be approved by the Trustee Council comprised of all the natural resource trustees.
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This is an ultra chic dress with a crossover style in the front and back. Adding interesting fullness to the bodice, one shoulder is gathered and the other is pleated. This dress cinches nicely at the waist with an elasticated casing, making it comfy to wear to any occasion. You could add sleeves, or drop the hemline to floor to make a maxi dress.


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Find slope in four ways
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Objective: SWBAT determine the slope of linear functions in 4 ways.
Big Idea: The slope only has 4 hiding places... figure out which strategy to use when. Bring it all together... consolidate finding slope from a graph, from a table, from points, and from an equation.
Each day, students complete a warm-up that usually consists of spiraling the previous day's material, in addition to older material. Warm-up problems also sometimes extend lessons that students have encountered before to more unfamiliar contexts.
For a video narrative about how I structure each lesson, and how the warm-up fits in, click Warm UP.
Today's warm-up is a bit different, in that it reviews, verbatim, the big ideas from the previous day. I review these by putting a linear function on the board, say, y = 3x - 1.
Here is a series of questions I might ask about this:
- Where does this line cross the y-axis?
- Is it sloping upward or downward? How do you know?
- If I changed the slope to 2, would the line become more or less steep? How do you know?
- If I changed the slope to -3, what would happen?
- How could I get this line to pass through the origin?
- How could I move this line "up" without changing its slope?
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These push their understanding of the structure of the equation, and how it would change.
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The homework file is a resource that generally includes 5-7 problems, some of which are related to the day's lesson, as well as spiraled review of previous lessons. I also give the kids the answers to all the problems.
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New Zealand Post Group improves half year result but big challenges remain
The New Zealand Post Group has posted an overall improved result for the half year ended 31 December 2012 but with mixed results across its financial services, and its logistics and mail businesses.
The Group recorded a net profit after tax of $59.6 million, compared with $35.4 million in the corresponding period in 2011.
The Directors have declared an interim dividend of $2.5 million for the period, the same as for the first half of the previous financial year.
New Zealand Post Group Chief Executive Brian Roche said the result was boosted by the performance of Kiwibank and the Group's financial services businesses.
Mr Roche said Kiwibank's first half performance builds on its market position. The bank performed well in a highly competitive market, particularly in the face of aggressive competition in the home loan environment.
There were mixed results across the logistics and mail businesses. The result reflects the benefits of the full consolidation of the courier business – Express Couriers Limited (ECL) – following the acquisition of the remaining 50 percent of the business in June 2012. However that was balanced against a continued decline in letter volumes and revenue.
Mr Roche said ECL's performance was very encouraging in the extremely competitive courier market.
"ECL has performed well to increase profitability compared with the previous year. The result supports our decision to purchase the remaining shares in this company so as to have 100 percent ownership of a business providing express delivery services.
However challenges remain for the mail business with total mail volumes falling by 35 million compared with the corresponding period the previous year – a drop of 8.1 percent. Tight cost management helped offset the declines in revenue.
"Thirty five million fewer pieces of mail in the network is a stark reminder of the need for change. New Zealand Post Group is confident it can maintain a viable and sustainable physical network if it is given the flexibility to make necessary changes in the future.
"Making those changes can still be achieved in a measured and planned manner working in the best interests of the community and business. But the latest mail volume statistics are further evidence that the ability to make the right decisions needs to be given now rather than put off," Mr Roche said.
The New Zealand Post Group full year financial outlook is to meet expectations. Despite an increasingly competitive residential banking sector, Kiwibank has maintained strong levels of profitability, although further pressure is expected towards year end. The mail business continues to manage the decline in letter volumes with operational changes to ensure the business remains viable while longer term initiatives are implemented. ECL continues to trade strongly.
Other key decisions made in the first half of this financial year include the divestment of the shareholding in Datacom, which will result in a one-off gain on sale, and the sale of two office buildings in Auckland and Wellington, all of which will free up capital for both the bank and continuing change in the logistics and mail businesses.
"The Group remains committed to and confident of achieving the strategic goals of growing the bank and delivering a sustainable network for the future", said Mr Roche.
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Prevailing Wage Law Wastes Taxpayers' Money
Prevailing Wage Law Wastes Taxpayers' Money
Citizens would march on Lansing in anger if the legislature passed a law forcing consumers to pay more than what businesses normally charged for everything from groceries to automobiles. But why would the legislature ever pass such a silly law?
Taxpayers should be asking that very question about Michigan's so-called prevailing wage law, which unnecessarily drives up the cost of government building projects by forcing all contractors to pay their employees at artificially high union wage rates.
This means that even when non-union contractors can do the same work for less than unionized contractors, the state insists on paying more by mandating inflated wages for all construction workers, whether union or non-union.
Because of the prevailing wage law, Michigan taxpayers annually pay hundreds of millions of dollars more than necessary on projects such as road repair, public housing, and school construction.
A new Mackinac Center study estimates that in one year, 1995, repealing the law could have saved taxpayers over $275 millionthe equivalent of a five percent rebate on every taxpayer's income tax for that year.
Michigan lawmakers should be good stewards of the public purse and repeal the wasteful prevailing wage law.
For the Mackinac Center, this is Joseph Lehman.