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Me: I don't really want to be a family that eats at Taco Bell on Saturday nights and uses plastic utensils at our St. Patrick's Day feast.
Mike: Based on our past weekend, that's exactly what kind of family we are.
I've been on edge this past week, like a tuning fork that's been hit too hard and vibrates like mad and makes everything it touches start vibrating too.
I can say its because I've been waiting to hear back about some stories, because I'm waiting to hear back from some agents about my novel, because I DID hear back from one and he said, "I have reveiwed your manuscript and it is not ANYTHING I wish to work with at this time." I can say because I'm tired of waiting on spring, I can say….whatever.
There's a quote in Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird: "I could resent the ocean if I tried" and isn't that just the truth.
But, my edginess started affecting my behavior, and making me a person that I don't want to be. I've always prided myself on being a good critique partner. For years I've encouraged, looked for what works, tried to be constructive with what doesn't. And yesterday I actually wrote to someone that I 'expected more from them as a writer.' Who the hell am I to say that? How is that helpful?
And then, of course, when the writer explained a connection, I was like, "Oh, yeah, that's really good." I've apologized for my first comments. But, I can't stop thinking about it.
We are made from the choices we make. I hurt myself too, I broke the contract that I'd made that said I would be empathetic and respectful of other people's art. I wasn't careful.
I understand why some people do vodka shots to take the edge off of life. I can't keep vibrating like this, existing in a hyper-sensitive state, but dulling the edges with alcohol isn't really feasible for me.
I brainstormed a list of alternatives
I can exercise more — our hedgehog on his wheel as my inspiration. Boy can run!
I can be more mindful of my behavior, erring on the side of caring
I can forgive freely, because I know I'm going to need it.
I can write more frequently in my gratitude journal.
I can admit to being human, to feeling things very intensely, to being disappointed that my art hasn't found an audience.
I can acknowledge that its hard to feel like I have a purpose, that I'm making a difference in the world around me, when my words only sit inside my computer.
I can acknowledge that writing is a lonely pursuit. It's not like a painting that can be easily and quickly shared, a song that can be performed almost anywhere.
And, after acknowledging, I can try to let it all go. To bring my awareness back to my work, back to my family, back to a sense of love.
WHAT? I said TRY. And, Happy Spring.
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." John 14:27


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Collin S. Goto, M.D., is a specialist in Pediatric Emergency Medicine, serving as Attending Physician in the Pediatric Emergency Center at Children's Medical Center of Dallas, and Attending Toxicologist at the North Texas Poison Center, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas. He graduated from the University of Hawaii with a degree in Medicine in 1990. Dr. Goto completed his residency at the John A. Burns School of Medicine and Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii. He then went on to complete fellowships in both Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Toxicolgy in Dallas, Texas through the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
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- A pilot pharmacokinetic study of tricyclic antidepressant ovine Fab for TCA poisoning in children.
- Yalindag-Oztürk N, Goto CS, Shepherd G, Torres ON, Giroir B Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2010 Jun 48 5 418-23
- Crotalidae polyvalent immune Fab for the treatment of pediatric crotaline envenomation.
- Goto CS, Feng SY Pediatr Emerg Care 2009 Apr 25 4 273-9; quiz 280-2
- How to prevent harmful drug interactions
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- Hymenoptera Envenomation: Bees, Wasps, And Ants
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Feng SY, Goto CS (2015). McGraw-Hill Education
Corrosive and Chemical Burns. In Harwood-Nuss' Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, 5th edition, A. Wolfson, G. Hendey, L. Ling, C. Rosen, J. Schaider, G. Sharieff, eds.
Velez LI, Goto CS (2009). Philadelphia, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Hydrocarbons. In Poisoning & Drug Overdose, 5th edition, K. Olson, ed.
Goto CS (2007). McGraw-Hill
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and Apparent Life-Threatening Event. In Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Just the Facts, 2nd edition, G. Strange, W. Ahrens, R. Schafermeyer, R. Wiebe, H. Prendergast, V. Dobiesz, eds.
Feng SY, Goto CS (2011). McGraw-Hill
Toxic Ingestions and Exposures. In Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22nd edition, C. Rudolph, A. Rudolph, G. Lister, A. Gershon, eds.
Feng S, Goto CS, Baker MD (2011). McGraw-Hill
Heavy Metal Poisoning. In Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics, 17th edition, W. Nelson
Goto, CS (2003). Philadelphia, Saunders Elsevier
Honors & Awards
- Outstanding Instructor Award
Navy Emergency Medicine (2001)
- Outstanding Teacher Award
St. Paul Hospital Teaching Award (1996)
Professional Associations/Affiliations
- American College of Medical Toxicology (2007)
- Dallas City Commissioner's Task Force on Heroin Addiction (2007)
- Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, Children's Medical Center of Dallas (2007)
- Abstract Review Committee for North American Congress of Clinical Toxicology (2003-2004)
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It's been 20 years since audiences have seen Vietnam vet John Rambo kick some serious ass and now the classic warrior is back on the big screen to take on the Burmese military in the war-torn region of Thailand to help a group of Christian missionaries.
Sylvester Stallone may be in his early 60s now, but that hasn't stopped the action star from taking the necessary risks and treading through dangerous terrority to make Rambo, the latest installment in the popular series.
Stallone talked to ComingSoon.net about why he chose the Burmese-Karen civil war, which is still happening, as the political conflict for the storyline of the latest Rambo flick and what the challenges were of bringing back the iconic character.
ComingSoon.net: What happened to the shot where you punch the guy's head off?
Sylvester Stallone: I know, that's an optical confusion. What it was, was the knife and it was such a bad print, it looked like I punched his head off. No, that's the shot, absolutely. I kept reading blogs and said, "Guys, look closely. No one can punch someone's head off."
CS: Do you ever imagine a world where you shot the ending of the book "First Blood" and didn't have "Rambo" with you all these years?
Stallone: Yeah, I think about it all the time. I had that debate with Quentin Tarantino who thought I made a mistake. I said, "You know, on an artistic level, you're probably right." But at the time, I had spent a lot of time doing research with veterans and it seemed like this terrible, nihilistic ending that just reveled in complete despair. At that time, we had almost a quarter of a million Vietnam suicides. So I thought, do I want to just end it on that note? Or make him more of a victim who has been created to do a job, does the job, comes home, gets "You know what? You no longer fit in." It's like you train a pit bull. Take a dog, turn him into a killer, now what do you do? You've got to put him down. What happens if that pit bull gets loose? And you realize it's not as bad as you think. You can somehow redeem him. I thought that was more of an interesting story. Again, as Kirk Douglas says, "Not artistic, but commercial."
CS: Did you have to go back and watch the previous "Rambo" films to get back into character?
Stallone: Yeah, you know kind of just the ponderousness that comes with aging, the sense of weight, the sense of knowledge, knowing too much, the lack of naiveté which happened in my life, sort of set the stage for me. I wanted Rambo to be heavier, bulkier, that's why his first line in the movie is pretty negative. He's given up. He has nothing. The other Rambos I felt had a bit too much energy. They were a little too spry. I'm not trying to run myself down but there was much more vanity involved. Tank tops, it was all about body movement rather than just the ferocity and the commitment of what he was doing. This character to me is much more interesting. I like "First Blood" and I like this one, just like the first "Rocky" and the last "Rocky Balboa." Everything in between was kind of trying to figure out what I should do.
CS: Talk about the tone, can you enjoy the gratification with the realistic depiction of violence?
Stallone: If you notice over the opening credits, I had to live up to a certain kind of responsibility because people are dying as we're making the film. Therefore, to just have me running through the film doing these extraordinary heroics I thought would demean what they're going through. So they had to have their moment where you see a village that is decimated. That's what happened. As a matter of fact, it's even worse but I said, "I don't know if that other stuff would fly today. I think the audience really wants something that's hard hitting but has a semblance of reality." We went too far in the old days. We got away with murder. "Jump out of a plane? Well, I don't need a parachute. You use mine." And you made it. Somehow you made it. You landed on a convertible roof and you did it. I said no, this time I'm going to really show it and the violence has to be extraordinarily brutal because we see people beheaded on television. How much harder can you get? You cannot water it down, at least I didn't feel. That was a big bone of contention really. The other thing was do you do a film about a caper, like they wanted to have the corrupt CIA guy and he was trying to sell plutonium rods. I said no. The biggest and most interesting crises in the world is the human crises. It never gets boring. Just like Shakespeare. You don't need a gimmick. It's just man against man, just their intolerance of each other.
CS: How did all the production companies come in?
Stallone: I don't know any of them either. [Laughs] What happened was Weinstein came about 12 years ago. "Would you want to do a Rambo?" I said, "okay." He goes, "We've got this great idea where Camp David's attacked." I go, "I'm out." It just can't be. There's something about nature as part of the character. There's something about the primitive man. He's almost like an Indian. Set in the city, I just didn't think it would fly. So it died for 10 years, resurfaced. At one time, Mark Burnett was talking about doing it when I was doing "The Contender" and then that didn't work. Then I called Harvey Weinstein and talked about these missionary groups that were going to Afghanistan. I said, "This is interesting." No, never got called back on that. So Avi Lerner bought it, New Millennium. He was open to this whole idea. The thing was, I was going to do something about Mexico. Actually the whole Coyote Mexican, remember the people disappearing in Juarez and that whole world. So we went that way and I said, "No, not working. I need something more international." So I did research and found that Burma is one of the great hellholes on the planet. But no one knows about it. It's exotic and it's near Vietnam. The synergy was perfect so that's why.
CS: Discuss location scouting before the movie and the shooting conditions themselves?
Stallone: Funny you bring that up because the location scouting was truly hell. We had to go to places where we were not going to be so confrontational with Burmese agents that are all over Thailand and they're very, very sensitive to their image. Especially down in Mae Sai where people have disappeared. It's a serious situation. The Thais were very, very worried about their image so we decided to go up north to Chiang Mai, try to find something that would sort of be obscure to both of them. We wouldn't be in their faces but the locations themselves were so inland, sometimes we would have to use elephants to get inland. We spent days on the river. In the mountains would have been great to go up to these areas, but just something that felt as though this would be Rambo territory, would be as rugged as his life had been and bleak, but also serviceable for some of the actors who I didn't want to put them through the kind of hell that they had to be put through. But it was a lot of work. It took four different trips back and forth. 18 hours each way is a lot of scouting back and forth, a lot of jet lagging.
CS: How do you bring back someone else's franchise, "Death Wish?"
Stallone: I think "Death Wish," if it were done today, would be volcanic. The idea of Jeff Goldblum being a mugger who breaks into an apartment is very simplistic. It gives you an idea how bad the elevation of violence has become. I would focus on defense attorneys, I would focus on [the people] allowing this crap to happen not so much the guy on the street, it's like who permits it. What if it happened to you, that your daughter was grabbed and her eyes were put out; would you want to sit there and defend that guy? So there's moral questions here that are being presented that have not been answered in 30 years. So by no means is it the pacifist [origin of the original]. Also, I see I'll give you a little hint he was a very violent human being, completely violent, an ex convict who walked the walk, was accepted back into society and did everything he could to be a [good person]. Like these thieves and junkies who now work on the side of the law, they've gone that way, but when something happens he reverts back to that guy. So now you've unleashed a man who really understands the world of violence; he isn't burdened with this passive-aggressive, conscientious-objector kind of thing. That's been done. It's like what happens when the wolf has gone from wolf to wolf in sheep's clothing back to the wolf. Now the fellow on the street has a problem because he knows how to deal with that kind of mentality because he was a prisoner. So it would be a different take [Laughs].
CS: How do you make "Rocky" and "Rambo" relevant today?
Stallone: If I were trying to go after a youth audience and trying to find something hip, using certain music and whatever, I think that would be pretty obvious and be rejected. There's some things that never change and are universal truths. As you get older, they become more and more apparent about how difficult life is and like the speech in "Rocky" about taking punches and life gives you punches. The young people who would support "Rocky" more than even people my age I think really enjoy and embrace those kinds of lessons. I think the lesson that is somewhat presented here, that war is hell and there is no winner ever and unfortunately people just have to find it out the hard way, will translate. And eventually after a man takes that journey, a woman takes that journey, you always hope that you can go back home, that there's still some gateway back to peace, peace of mind where you can start to rebuild. That's the only thing I hope works. I think it does work because they're just universal truths that never, ever change. No matter what society is, just everybody wants freedom, everyone wants peace of mind but it comes at a horrible price.
CS: Was it hard to bring the movie in at an R rating? Did you want more?
Stallone: I couldn't believe it first of all. When babies are being bayoneted, I thought this will never go. We presented it but I did have a caveat with the MPAA. I said, "Guys, this is happening today. If we're ever going to do something responsible where art has the ability to influence people's awareness, impact the lives of these people, don't dilute it. Don't water it down. It's got to be uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable. It's miserable. It's distasteful. It's horrifying. But if you're not going to do it, don't do the movie. Don't do violence light. It's just wrong. Don't cut away too soon. Just let it sit in. I want people to feel it." To their credit, they allowed this film to be as truthful as it could.
CS: What was the most challenging in making this film?
Stallone: Well, we had a crew in "Rocky" of about 60 people. There was 570. That's how hard it was to move through the jungle and everything else. It was the hottest temperatures in 94 years. They called it the burning season. I even wrote lines in there about when they're going up the river and it's always hazy and foggy. That was the burning season. The entire country's burning to the ground. They can see it from satellites. They had to send in military. It was just out of control. It was just burning and burning and burning their land. Every time we cleared it, people were just getting sick. There are 165 different snakes in Thailand, 90 that were poisonous. So we lived with the constant problem of people being bit. Centipedes which are the size of your shoe being found in your shoes. It was a rough, rough… Julie Benz coming from "Dexter" went, "What?" Welcome to action films. But it was extremely difficult. You know what it reminded me of? I was watching the making of David Lean's film, "Bridge Over the River Kwai," how much you just had to truck and use brutal manpower and get inland. There's nothing glamorous about it. I'd watch these men shoulder these giant generators and cut trails with a cigarette in the mouth, no shoes. You could never have done it anywhere else on the planet. Believe me, when we were starting to get all the threats from the Burmese, I said, "Can't we shoot this in Puerto Vallarta?" I tried, you don't know. You don't know.
CS: Any more "Rocky" movies on the way?
Stallone: No. They talk about Son Of But no. I got so lucky with the final image of "Rocky," the rack focus and the fade. I can't go any further. It was a miracle that it even got done. I'm just glad. That was my finest moment. I was so happy with it. I just wanted to end it on a certain note and was lucky to get that shot.
CS: Are people surprised by your artistic motivations because the characters are so physical?
Stallone: I don't know if that's quite apparent but I know what you mean. If there isn't some kind of thought behind it, because muscles are easy. Anybody can do muscles. You just go violence, violence, violence, violence, action, action, action. But if you can find those little moments in between that connect to the people that aren't so physical, that's what takes the time and that to me is the challenge and that's what I love about it. Anyway, thank you.
CS: You should do another little character like Shade?
Stallone: I enjoyed this even though I never saw it in this form.
CS: When did you ask Jackie Chan to do a "Rambo" movie?
Stallone: This was during "Demolition Man," so 1993. Now you've got Jason Statham, you lucky people.
CS: This is more than just an action film, I felt.
Stallone: Do you think it's kind of like the reincarnation of "The Wild Bunch?" Remember how everybody was going along and then all of a sudden you'd have these bloodbaths. It was that part of the movie that actually he didn't sell out. Remember in "Bonnie and Clyde," the whole thing, what was the most important thing in the movie? So I don't know, maybe I'm just on some kind of historical treadmill here.
Rambo hits theatres on January 25th.


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On January 4, Supernatural comes to TNT.
On January 21, it comes back to The CW, airing new episodes after close to two months off.
What can fans expect when the series returns? E! News has provided the following spoilers and storyline updates...
- Sam and Dean will come across a town where everyone's late loved ones are alive... as friendly zombies.
- This includes Bobby's dead wife.
- Sam will use his powers again before season five concludes, much to Dean's chagrin.
- Viewers will meet Famine, a horseman of the Apocalypse.
- Prophet Chuck will make at least one more appearance.
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What do aliens look like? We cannot know. But! If we had to guess, a sophisticated answer would be: similar to earthlings. Like on earth, but adapted to other conditions (gravity, temperature).
Just imagine roullette with an unknown amount of numbers. You only know one result. Lets say its the number 3! Anyone with a sane mind would guess that the next number which will come up, is a 3. saying "not 3" isnt allowed in the question setting, but if it was than "not 7" would still be more likely.
Originally posted by Moresby
Aliens may be just as baffled when it comes to us. More advanced does not mean omniscient.


text: Aetna expected to shift branding acc't Published on December 21, 1998. Aetna, with ad spending of $65 million, is expecting to shift its corporate branding account from Ammirati Puris Lintas, New York, executives said. Ammirati would retain media and some strategie work. McKinney & Silver, Raleigh, N.C., which handles the insurer's US Healthcare unit, is expected to benefit from the shift.Copyright December 1998, Crain Communications Inc. Most Popular In this article: News


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Target Corporation has been in the news recently for their policy allowing individuals who identify as transgender to use the bathroom of their choice when in Target stores. This has been met with a storm of protests, not only from those concerned about the safety of their wives and children, but those committed to reality who understand that a person with XY chromosomes will always be a man, even if those chromosomes are wearing a dress and heels. At last count more than 800,000 people had signed a pledge to boycott the stores.
To make matters worse, Target has clarified their policy further and said anyone can use any restroom they choose, whether they identify as transgender or not. I spoke to someone in their guest services department who verified that a man, dressed as a man and presenting as a man, is free to use the women's restroom at Target, no questions asked. As mind blowing as this is, it should be no surprise. There is no objective way to determine who is transgender. If you draw blood from a transgender "woman" and send it to a lab to determine the gender of the donor, it will come back male – every time. Status as a transgender is based completely on feelings. Given that, there is no way to determine who should or should not be in the women's (or men's) restroom once having a penis or vagina is off the table as the determining factor. So it's anything goes.
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Which brings me to my point. I don't believe Target will back away from this policy no matter how many customers leave them in protest. Why? After all, we live in the era of the forced mea culpa. Just recently GAP apologized publicly for an advertisement showing a white child leaning on the head of a shorter black child. This was somehow considered "racist." But the left is in the business of demanding apologies, not issuing them. Ashes and sackcloth are reserved for those who hurt the feelings of a protected group – because feelings are the foundation of their reality. If their feelings are not protected and affirmed, their worldview cannot stand.
So Target will not back down. Because if feelings do not create reality for the transgendered, they also cannot do so for those who redefine marriage, gender and sexuality in other ways. As a result, LGBT activists will go to the mat over this one, and Target, as one of their supporters, will too. Because in the end, when the facts are not on your side, you must maintain the fiction on which your beliefs are built at all cost.


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Poll finds that blacks are still resentful
They are constantly told by the Left that their lesser success is due to "racism" so why wouldn't they be?
The results of the poll, conducted against the backdrop of a campaign in which race has been a constant if not always overt issue, suggested that Mr. Obama's candidacy, while generating high levels of enthusiasm among black voters, is not seen by them as evidence of significant improvement in race relations.
After years of growing political polarization, much of the divide in American politics is partisan. But Americans' perceptions of the fall presidential election between Mr. Obama, Democrat of Illinois, and Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, also underlined the racial discord that the poll found. More than 80 percent of black voters said they had a favorable opinion of Mr. Obama; about 30 percent of white voters said they had a favorable opinion of him.
Nearly 60 percent of black respondents said race relations were generally bad, compared with 34 percent of whites. Four in 10 blacks say that there has been no progress in recent years in eliminating racial discrimination; fewer than 2 in 10 whites say the same thing. And about one-quarter of white respondents said they thought that too much had been made of racial barriers facing black people, while one-half of black respondents said not enough had been made of racial impediments faced by blacks.
The survey suggests that even as the nation crosses a racial threshold when it comes to politics - Mr. Obama, a Democrat, is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas - many of the racial patterns in society remain unchanged in recent years. Indeed, the poll showed markedly little change in the racial components of people's daily lives since 2000, when The Times examined race relations in an extensive series of articles called "How Race Is Lived in America."
As it was eight years ago, few Americans have regular contact with people of other races, and few say their own workplaces or their own neighborhoods are integrated. In this latest poll, over 40 percent of blacks said they believed they had been stopped by the police because of their race, the same figure as eight years ago; 7 percent of whites said the same thing.
Nearly 70 percent of blacks said they had encountered a specific instance of discrimination based on their race, compared with 62 percent in 2000; 26 percent of whites said they had been the victim of racial discrimination. (Over 50 percent of Hispanics said they had been the victim of racial discrimination.) And when asked whether blacks or whites had a better chance of getting ahead in today's society, 64 percent of black respondents said that whites did. That figure was slightly higher even than the 57 percent of blacks who said so in a 2000 poll by The Times. And the number of blacks who described racial conditions as generally bad in this survey was almost identical to poll responses in 2000 and 1990...
White perceptions, by contrast, improved markedly from 1990 to 2000, but have remained steady since. This month's poll found that 55 percent of whites said race relations were good, almost double the figure for blacks.
Dick McDonald comments on the above:
The NYT poll shows that blacks believe they are still discriminated against - whites feel differently. A sharp divide in perceptions would lead one to believe that both sides will be barking up the wrong tree (can you visualize that - barking up the wrong tree?) in November.
Seriously this entire poll would show different results if Republicans would just get off their mindless mantra that "trickle down" has been enough - that blacks can go to school, work hard and experience the American Dream. What a joke. Republicans know that entitlements cream 15.3% off the top of the wages of the poor and middle-class and with inflation and the controlled rise in prices those folks will never see the American Dream. It is tragic there is no Republican "Obama".
Some day American blacks and under-class whites will wake up to the fact that socialism doesn't work. Entitlements just entitle them to perpetual poverty. However, they are never going to find out until the "Republican Obama" explains it to them. The Democrats can never elevate the underclass because they would lose their entire voting base. So it is up to Republicans to deliver the American Dream.
See here for an example of the antisemitism Obama's supporters are putting up on his website -- and which his site adminstrators allow up until they are called out.
Obama Wants To Be President For 10 Years : "Add this latest Obama gaffe to the growing list: "The objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years." Obama's already planning his inaugural address for 2013. Humility is not one of Obama's strengths."
California slowly being wrecked: "A symbol of California's car culture is now picking up and moving a big chunk of its operations out of state. Earlier this week, the California State Automobile Association, an affiliate of the national AAA, announced it is closing all three of its call centers in the state at a loss of 900 jobs. Spokeswoman Cynthia Harris was quite blunt about the reason: "It costs more to do business in California than other states." Her group will now will be answering calls from California motorists from new centers in lower-cost Arizona and Oklahoma. Few entities in California are better known than the California State Automobile Association, which for decades has provided the car-happy state with auto insurance, towing services and travel planning. Its departure is one more sign that California's current tax and regulatory climate is driving jobs away."
SD: Ruling gives doctors a script : ""In a victory for antiabortion forces, doctors in South Dakota are now required to tell a woman seeking an abortion that the procedure `will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being.' The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit last week lifted a preliminary injunction that prevented the language from taking effect. A spokesman for Planned Parenthood, which runs the state's only abortion clinic, said doctors will begin reciting the script to patients as early as this week."
OK, We Tried. The Iranians Aren't Interested In Negotiations: "Lots of hand-wringing on the right over the dispatch of a State department senior official, William Burns, to meet with senior Iranian officials in Geneva. Seems like a necessary "last chance" offer to me, and Iran has apparently rejected it"
There is a new lot of postings by Chris Brand just up -- on his usual vastly "incorrect" themes of race, genes, IQ etc.
For more postings from me, see OBAMA WATCH, TONGUE-TIED, EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL, GREENIE WATCH, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH, GUN WATCH, SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC, AUSTRALIAN POLITICS, IMMIGRATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL and EYE ON BRITAIN. See also AUSTRALIAN CARTOONS by "Zeg".
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The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word "Nazi" is a German abbreviation for "National Socialist" (Nationalsozialist) and the full name of Hitler's political party (translated) was "The National Socialist German Workers' Party" (In German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)
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UK Sports
Vols roll past Cats in baseball
Tennessee took advantage of four walks, a hit batter and an error in the first two innings to plate four runs, and got a 128-pitch gem from senior starter Nick Williams, posting an 8-2 win over visiting Kentucky to even the baseball series.
Kentucky (28-18, 10-13 Southeastern Conference) fell behind early after a four-run Tennessee rally in the bottom of the second inning. UK rallied with a homer from Matt Reida and a two-out RBI knock from Ka'ai Tom, but the Vols erased that production with a two-run fourth inning.
The Wildcats collected eight hits in the game but couldn't get the clutch one as UK left a runner on base in each inning and stranded 11 runners.
UK softball's Emily Gaines launched her sixth home run of the season in the seventh inning, but Georgia hit three homers to grab a 5-1 series-opening win. Kentucky's only run of the game came in the seventh inning when Gaines hammered a ball into the trees in right-center field. The senior's homer was her sixth of the season. Sophomore shortstop Christian Stokes went 2-for-3 in the game with two singles, while senior pitcher/infielder Lauren Cumbess was 1-for-3.
Kentucky women's tennis sophomore Nadia Ravita and seniors Cece Witten and Caitlin McGraw received at-large bids to the 2014 NCAA Championships. Ravita will compete in the singles competition while the senior duo will take on the field in doubles.
Cabrera, Flores share lead at Quail Hollow
Angel Cabrera never knows when he's going to play his best golf. This could be shaping up as one of those weeks at the Wells Fargo Championship.
On a Quail Hollow course that lets the Argentine hit driver on just about every hole, two exquisite short-game shots late in the second round carried Cabrera to a 3-under 69 on Friday and a share of the lead with Martin Flores going into the weekend.
It was the first time Cabrera had at least a share of the 36-hole lead on the PGA Tour since the 2007 U.S. Open at Oakmont. The last time he was part of the lead after any round was in the 2013 Masters.
With one of the most powerful and reliable swings in golf, the mystery about the 44-year-old Argentine is that his only two wins on the PGA Tour are majors — Oakmont for the U.S. Open, and Augusta when he won the Masters in a playoff in 2009.
Flores began his second round birdie-eagle when he holed out with a wedge from 105 yards in the 11th fairway. He added a pair of birdies late in his round for a 68. They were at 9-under 135, one shot ahead of Justin Rose, who had a 67.
Bernhard Langer birdied the final six holes for a share of the lead with Bart Bryant on Friday in the Champions Tour's Insperity Invitational. Langer matched Bryant at 6-under 66 at The Woodlands Country Club. Langer won the 2007 event at Augusta Pines and successfully defended his title in 2008 at The Woodlands. The 56-year-old German player won the season-opening event in Hawaii for his 19th Champions Tour title and has 20 straight under-par rounds. The birdie streak tied Dan Forsman's 2009 tournament record.
Meena Lee shot a season-best 64 that included a nine-hole stretch without a par and Caroline Masson had her second straight 67 on Friday to share the lead in the North Texas LPGA Shootout. At 8-under 134, South Korea's Lee and Germany's Masson were a stroke ahead of Texan Stacy Lewis and fellow American Natalie Gulbis. The 65 on Friday for Gulbis was her first sub-70 round this season, putting her in contention for her first victory in seven years. She is playing with an achy left wrist, and has an appointment with a specialist next week to finally figure out what is causing the pain.
Panuphol Pittayarat of Thailand birdied two of his last three holes to maintain a one-stroke lead after the second round of The Championship at Laguna National on Friday. Panuphol, the overnight leader, shot a 4-under 68 for a two-round total of 13-under 131, a stroke ahead of Scott Hend of Australia, David Lipsky of the United States, and Felipe Aguilar of Chile in a tie for second place.
Crosby still scoreless as Rangers win
Derick Brassard scored 3:06 into overtime to give the New York Rangers a 3-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals Friday night.
Play continued after Brassard's goal, with Benoit Pouliot pumping a shot past Marc-Andre Fleury seconds after Brassard's shot. A review showed Brassard's flip from in front beat Fleury cleanly.
Game 2 is Sunday.
Pouliot and Brad Richards gave the Rangers an early 2-0 lead. Henrik Lundqvist stopped 34 shots and stuffed a late Pittsburgh breakaway in the final seconds of regulation.
Lee Stempniak and James Neal scored for the Penguins. Fleury made 24 saves but was helpless on the winner.
Pittsburgh star Sidney Crosby was held without a goal for the 12th straight playoff game.
College basketball
Kansas lands touted point guard
Kansas signed touted point guard Devonte' Graham on Friday, one day after starter Naadir Tharpe announced he would be transferring closer to his home in Massachusetts.
The 6-foot-2 Graham originally signed with Appalachian State but did not enroll, instead playing at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire. His stock skyrocketed during his season at the prep school, and Graham wound up with offers from major schools.
Duke says big man Sean Obi is transferring in from Rice. The Blue Devils formally announced Obi's transfer on Friday. Obi is a 6-foot-9, 265-point post player who must sit out this season. He will have three years of eligibility beginning in 2015-16. He averaged 11.4 points and a Conference USA-leading 9.3 rebounds as a freshman at Rice, and reached double figures in 17 of 30 games.
Connecticut forward Leon Tolksdorf says he will be transferring to American University in Washington, D.C., to take on a "new challenge." The 6-foot-8 sophomore from Berlin, Germany, appeared in 24 games for the national champion Huskies, averaging 1.5 points and nearly one rebound in about five minutes per game.
Minor league baseballLegends shut down Suns
Michael Antonio had three hits and three runs batted in as the Lexington Legends took an 12-4 victory over the Hagerstown Suns in the opener of a four-game series Friday. The Legends tied their season high with 18 hits, and every Legends hitter had at least one.
The Legends held a 2-1 lead after one inning, and broke the game open with six runs in the second inning. Frank Schwindel led off with a home run, and then three consecutive walks loaded the bases. Ramon Torres, who had three hits in the game, singled to left field, scoring two runs. Torres went to second on an error by left fielder Isaac Ballou, and scored on a single by Antonio.
Fred Ford followed with a single, sending Antonio to second. After Wander Suero relieved starter Jake Johansen, a wild pitched moved the runners to second and third, from where they scored on a pop fly double by Humberto Arteaga, and the Legends held an 8-1 lead.
Jake Junis (2-2), who worked the first six innings, got the win.
The last word
It's been 14 years since Mario Andretti last drove a race car competitively. But not a day goes by that the legendary driver isn't participating in something closely related to the sport. Said the 74-year-old:
"As long as I have breath in my body, I'm going to be involved. No question."


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Thank you all for your encouraging feedback; we have reached the western edge of the Chaidamu Basin. We drove out to the western Kunlun Mountain, the continuation of the Xidatan area we were in over a week ago.
We ventured briefly into Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region before turning back. We were over 1,100 kilometers from the next town within Xinjiang, therefore did not have enough fuel to complete this trek. Our expedition did not plan to go there in the first place, but only to mark a new boundary to our explorations.
We surveyed the Youshashan, Shizigou, and Ganchaigou Formations. Even though mammal fossils are not known from this area in the five decade long presence of the Qinghai Petroleum Geologists, this area is nevertheless the type section of these formations. This means the strata here represent the standard with which to define other contemporaeous sedimentary deposits of the basin.
Tomorrow we will drive back east to Olongbuluk Mountain, to work a few more days in the Chuanshuiliang area, where we discovered a rich mammal fauna earlier in the season.
The weather has been overcast, with daytime high temperature around the upper 60s degrees F. The hill tops are chilly though, as the wind blows from the snow-capped peaks of the Kunlun Mountains.


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A long weekend family trip with friends, turned out to be a great location for filming, we rented a recently restored 1840s log farmhouse, that sat on 70 acres. It was about an hour and a half drive from Toronto, but turned out to be a very different place from the hectic metropolis, that we call home. All that rustic charm just yearned to be filmed, and you would be hard pushed to point any camera and take a bad image.
I wanted to use this opportunity, to spend more time with two new camera acquisitions, my A7rii and FS5. I've been getting to know these two for a couple of months now, and to have some creative freedom, with the absence of tight timelines, was an opportunity not to be passed up.
Sony A7Rii – Sony 85mm f/1.4 GM Lens
Sony FS5 – Voigtländer Ultron 21mm f/1.8 Lens & Sony E 35mm f/1.8 Lens
Aerial Camera – Inspire Pro – X5 MFT Camera with 12mm Olympus Lens & Mavic Pro


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LoanBoss Blog
Choosing the Right Bank for A Loan
Whether purchasing a vehicle, investing in a house or stuck in a financial crunch, borrowing money from a financial institution is the best means of getting the required funds. As easy it may sound, borrowing funds calls for plenty of efforts. A person has to chart out a plan for his borrowing needs and implement it wisely so as to escape any trouble later on.
Of all the stress one has to go through for getting a loan, finding a competent lender tops the list. Therefore, one should be very careful as choosing the right lender will not only eliminate the chances of any probable glitches, but will also help reduce the expenses of his undertaking.
First and foremost, the borrower should look around which means consulting everyone who has an experience of getting loans. This may include family members, friends, colleagues, kins and even neighbors. One can ask them about their lenders and how their experiences were working with those lenders. One can make a list of all the lenders suggested by people and note down their pros and cons as well.
Prodigious information about loans and lenders can be conveniently found over the Internet. So,one can spend a few good hours online searching for competent lenders. One can also search as per the list made after consulting people he knows. This will help him zero down his search and save plenty of time which can further be used to compare different lenders. While one is at it, he can search for competitive offers available online in order to nail a lot better deal.
Once he has narrowed the list down to minimum five lenders, he can call up the customer service of each one and inquire about interest rates, loan tenure, application fee and other costs. He must ensure that he is asking the same questions to each lender. It's important because he will have the same information to make comparison easier. In case he asks different questions to each lender, he will be, let's say, comparing the guavas, apples, grapes, pomegranates and pears. While with the exact details at hand, he will be comparing guavas to guavas.
One more thing to consider here is that the information gathering part should not take more than two to three days because if one takes longer, the market will probably fluctuate, resulting in different answers from each lender. During this digging into various lending institutions phase, one should also ask the institutions' representatives to explain the different types of loans. One should express his financial requirements and ask the representative to spell out the kind of loan that would best suit his situation.
Educational Loans – The Process of Repaying Them
Like everything else, cost of education is also on the rise. Getting higher education has become so difficult that students are left with no other choice than getting educational loans. Such loans are specially designed for students who want a part of their education (in India or abroad) to be funded by a financial institution on various terms. An educational loan typically covers expenses of tuition and examination fee as well as hostel and mess costs. Several banks also get on board to finance the cost of equipment, books and various instruments required for the completion of a particular course.
Eligibility criteria for getting a loan varies from one bank to another, but the uniform paradigm is the confirmation of student's admission in an institute. Other criterions that vary in each bank are student's age, qualification, good academic record and the fixed source of income of parents. Another important factor most lenders consider is that the institute must be recognized.
Likewise, maximum amount to lend also varies from one bank to another. Most banks consider the course program and the institution for which a loan is being sought; others come to decision after going through the monthly salary of the parents of the borrower. Some banks even have policies of offering 75 percent of the total cost of the course program. However, the loan amount solely depends on the relevant bank's discretion.
Under Section 80 E of the Income Tax Act, banks allow a deduction in repayment of the loan. The amount is deductible for only full time higher education courses, professional courses and applied sciences programs. The deduction is available for up to eight years from the beginning of repayments.
The interest must be paid from the following month of loan disbursal whereas the principal amount is payable only after a specified amount of interest and principal amount has been repaid. The candidate must keep paying the amount of interest on his loan while studying. The repayment schedule is charted out by the bank and is based on various factors. It includes interest rates, monthly payment, term of loan repayment, payment due dates and total repayment obligations.
While repaying the educational loan, one should always ensure that payments are made on time. When a borrower fails to make timely payments or meet the terms and conditions of the bank, he may face legal consequences. The lender will take legal action against the debtor and may withhold his income tax refunds.
If he fails to make payments, the debtor will be left with a bad credit which will make him ineligible for any kind of future financial aid from all lenders. Therefore, one must follow a few suggestions in order to avoid such situation:
Go through the terms of loan thoroughly so as to fully understand it
Keep the contact information updated so that bank can reach him any time
Automatic payments should be set up to avoid late repayments
If in need of help, contact the lender ASAP
Since the rules, regulations, repayment options, interest rates and others are, at times, revised by various lenders, it's advised to the borrower to be up-to-date with the changing policies of the bank, evolving market trends and various schemes on offer by the lender.
Essence of Having Co-applicants
The cost of living is very high and is on a consistent rise. People who are looking forward to buy property can't pay the asking price on their own, given the heavy price tags associated with realty business in the country. They are left with no other choice to get a loan. And when it comes to applying for a loan, one can get great benefits from adding a co-applicant to his loan application. A co-applicant is a person who can jointly apply for a loan with the primary applicant.
The main advantage of having a co-applicant by one's side is increasing the odds of getting a larger amount loan. When two people jointly apply for a loan, one is listed as the primary applicant and the other as co-applicant. During the process, the lender examines the application, both applicants' credit score and overall financial standing in order to decide the loan amount and tenure. After the loan is granted, both applicants become co-borrowers and account for debt repayments as per their shares.
So, who can be a co-applicant? Family members – spouse, parents, brothers and children are the only people who can jointly apply for a loan. It actually varies from one bank to another – some banks don't allow siblings to co-apply. And the person co-applying must not be a minor. A co-applicant can be a brother, but not a sister. Even in case of a brother, it's important that both the brothers stay together and also intend to do so in the newly purchased property.
Though designed for maximizing loan eligibility, co-applications' biggest advantage is tax savings. A borrower can claim tax deduction on the loan's interest portion under Section 24(b) of Income Tax Act. Both the borrowers are entitled to tax benefits in the proportion to their share of the loan amount. The principal repayment component as well as the interest usually exceeds the deduction limit only because the amount is extremely large when applied jointly.
Having a co-applicant has its downside as well. If a person is in course of preparation for investing in a second home, he will have to be confronted by some loss. As per the Income Tax Act if a person owns more than one house, only one will be considered as self-occupied and others as rented out. Henceforth, he will have to pay tax on the rent received because one of the house is considered rented out, even if that's not the case. This means the person will have to pay tax on an income he is not receiving.
Applying for a joint home loan comes with significant benefits in optimizing loan eligibility and getting tax benefits. And at the same time, has a drawback as well. Therefore, one must very carefully gather all information about co-applications in order to make an informed and right decision.
Business Loans – Planning Prospects of Growth
Whether a small business or a well-established one, the need for financial aid can spring up anytime for its growth and for that, most business owners choose to rope in investors. However, sometimes it becomes hard to attract investors and borrowing money from financial institutions in order to pay the expenses comes forth as a viable option. Prior to applying for a business loan, one must familiarize with the types and procedure associated with each kind so as to make an informed decision.
Fixed Loans
Fixed loan comes with an established interest rate that remain unchanged throughout the loan tenure. So, when the average interest rate of other business loans escalate, the interest rate of fixed loan doesn't change at all. One doesn't have to worry about fluctuating rates. He can be rest assured that he has to pay the same repayment amount every month irrespective of the ongoing rate.
Variable Loans
Variable loans, on the flip side, come with interest rates that are vulnerable to market changes. While one avails a variable business loan at a very low interest rate, he may end up paying a larger amount after a year or so. Changing rates completely depend on the market fluctuations and sometimes dramatic changes can increase the amount so much that it may become hard for the debtor to make payments.
Despite being risky, variable loans are often applied for by business owners as they have some benefit for the borrowers. Variable loans are a means of getting money quickly without being choked back to repay large amount each month. As compared to fixed loans, interest rates are very low in variable loans. Due to low interest rates, flexibility of borrowing larger amount and quick funding are the main reasons many business owners are willing to take the associated risk.
Credit Checks
The main concern of a lender is timely repayment of the loan and to ensure that he looks into the cash flow of the business. Therefore, one must convince the lender that the business is not facing any problems that may negatively effect its cash flow and he will make sure that loan payments are made on time. The most common documents a banker is more likely to look into are:
Business financial statements
Business plan with budget or projection
Business tax returns
Personal financial statements
Personal tax returns
Banker will go through the collateral in order to calculate the lending amount. The most common kinds of collateral are business inventory, equipment available, accounts as well as equity in one's home. Other than that, the lender will check the track record of the business, number of years in business, size of the company and amount required.
One must do adequate research about different kinds of loans available with various banks. Internet is the right start. One can also ask around to get a more personal advice from experienced people so that he lands in the right spot to get a business loan.
10 Ways to Avoid Foreclosure
With the skyrocketing prices of just about everything, our expenses are rising simultaneously. And because of these packed budgets, most of us struggle to pay mortgages. Maintaining a perfect balance between monthly expenses and debt repayments, becomes very hard sometimes which may result in home foreclosures. If one is lagging behind on his mortgage payments, he should try out some simple solutions that may help him save his home from being foreclosed.
1. One shouldn't ignore any letter and notice from the bank as these keep him posted about every detail relevant to the procedure so that he can get right assistance to get the matter resolved within time.
2. Due to any reason, if one is going to fall behind on repayment, he must call the bank ASAP and inform them about his plight.
3. Get a reinstatement figure from the bank. It gives the info on previous payments, precise amount due and exactly how much money is required to bring the loan back to current status.
4. If it has been three months aggregating past due, the debtor may get in trouble. The bank will officially place the property in foreclosure status and the amount to bring the loan back to current status will be more than before because of the addition of late fee and legal fee. Adding to the troubles, the bank can refuse to accept any payment unless the debtor pays entire past due amount.
5. Creating a budget comes very handy. One should enlist all his monthly expenses as well as sources of income each month. This out-and-out information will help the attorney in sorting things out, in case the borrower decides to seek legal assistance.
6. Loan modification is another aide-de-camp in eluding foreclosure. One can ask his lender to lower interest rates or monthly payments through loan modification.
7. It's of absolute importance that one follows up his loan modification plea. It's not unusual to find out that the lender is going through foreclosure process exactly when the borrower is applying for loan modification. Therefore, one should contact the lender very frequently and ensure that the foreclosure process is being put off for a while and the loan modification application is being reconsidered.
8. Don't fall into a trap. Many companies make false promises to help the borrower save his home from being foreclosed. As appealing and affirming it may sound, one must not fall for such bonds. One should realize that no third party can help him retain his property and he may end up losing the house as well as additional money paid under such scams.
9. Another thing that may help the borrower is taking responsibility. If the lender is convinced that the borrower is being financially responsible regarding his payments, he (lender) is more likely to cut the debtor some slack. So, what one needs to do is cut back on the expenses and find different sources to earn from in order to arrange for payments.
10. Consulting a local attorney helps a great deal. Lawyers with expertise in foreclosure issues can provide the borrower with some excellent advice. Bankruptcy lawyers can be really helpful here as they have immense experience in putting an end to foreclosure auctions.


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Navy divers have recovered the remains of a pilot whose helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia last week.
The Navy confirmed late Tuesday that the remains of 39-year-old Lt. Sean Christopher Snyder, of Santee, Calif., had been positively identified earlier in the day. The statement said that Snyder's body was found in the cockpit of the MH-53E "Sea Dragon" helicopter that crashed January 8. The helicopter's cockpit had been located Monday late Monday, but deteriorating conditions forced the search to be suspended until Tuesday.
The Snyder family released a statement through the Navy saying they were "truly thankful to the men and women of the United States Navy. Sean was a man of honor and a true hero, not only to his country, but also to his wife, children, family, and friends. Our strength and trust remain in Christ."
Five crew members were onboard the helicopter when it went approximately 18 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va. Two of the other four crew members died in the crash. They have been identified as Lt. Wesley Van Dorn, 29, of Greensboro, N.C., and Petty Officer 3rd Class Brian Collins, 25, of Truckee, Calif. The Navy has said that the men were conducting "routine mine countermeasure training."
The cause of the crash is still under investigation. A memorial service for the crew members who died in the crash is scheduled for Friday at Naval Station Norfolk.


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Narrow Stairs
In 2004 Death Cab was a favorite of the indie-rock scene with a long term relationship with the small but influential Barsuk label. That year the band made the leap to the major leagues by signing with Atlantic Records. The band's first release for the big guys was Plans an album that sold well, received critical acclaim and lots of airplay. It also built expectations for the band's commercial viability. But Gibbard expressed concern about how the album was pieced together "like a construction project" with band members recording their parts bit by bit.
Gibbard, who prefers to write on piano and computer, reported that Narrow Stairs is built upon songs composed on guitar. Unlike their last record these songs were created with all four band members present in the studio each offering input on the entire project and all of them playing like a band on the verge. This album is a guts and hearts effort that flows directly from the band to tape with no overdubbing or synthetic barriers to block the road. On the opening track, "Bixby Canyon," guitars take center stage but compete with distortion and dark, dire lyrics. The second track, "I Will Possess Your Heart," is a mesmerizing psychedelic 8 minute jam – and it is the first single from the record (Alka-Seltzer all around for the Atlantic Executives). It's a wonderfully literate yet creepy take on obsession that competes with Sting's "Every Breath You Take."
Things lighten up a bit for the 2 plus minutes of "No Sunshine" a pop-perfect nugget that begins a run of songs that sound more like the nice band from the last record with a few new twists like that really cool organ that pumps through "You Can Do Better Than Me." Poppy melodies, swirling guitars, snap drumming, thumping bass and Gibbard's sweet reedy vocals highlight this part of the disc. Death Cab saves some of their best stuff for the wrap up. "Pity and Fear" is propelled by densely structured guitars and tabla beats and an ending so abrupt you might think the band ran into a semi. "The Ice Is Getting Thinner" is reminiscent of Gibbard's earlier songs about dead relationships.
On a recent blog Gibbard wrote about discovering the music of Popul Vuh, a 1970's era German band who is considered forerunners of ambient rock and were regular contributors to the dark films of Werner Herzog. Perhaps it is their influence that inspires the dark beauty of Death Cab For Cuties' edgy Narrow Stairs. WYEP celebrates the very best of 2008 during December by revisiting albums from our top 10 of the year. Pick up your copy of Death Cab For Cutie's Narrow Stairs by going to wyep.org/store.


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For many home buyers, inspectors garner complete trust. Home inspectors are the primary line of defense against buying a lemon, and their inspection lists go on and on, covering thousands of potential risks and hazards before they sign off on the integrity of a home. But even the best inspectors have a handful of blind spots, and some areas of the house require a specialist for a more thorough examination.
4 Things Your Home Inspector Might Have Missed
- A good foundation. Inspectors will check the basic structure of the foundation, looking for cracks or signs of settling. For a more thorough examination, hire a professional engineer who can analyze the soil for potential problems, such as sinkholes or shifting foundations. For buyers on a budget, websites like PlotScan can help you analyze the risk by determining if the property (or properties nearby) have suffered problems in the past.
- The fireplace. For basic analysis, such as functional dampers and clear chimneys, a home inspector can help. For a thorough analysis of potential fire hazards from soot or creosote buildup, hire a fireplace inspector.
- Wells and septic systems. If you need to determine whether a home's well and septic system contain harmful bacteria or chemicals, pay close attention to your inspector's credentials. Only a few are qualified to perform additional septic tests (and most will charge an additional fee). If water system analysis isn't in your inspector's repertoire, you'll need to hire a well inspector, too.
- The roof. If your home inspection takes place during inclement weather, expect your inspector to keep his feet planted firmly on the ground. High or dangerous roofs are another factor in determining whether your inspector will take the risk to assess the roof's integrity. If your home inspector isn't comfortable assessing the roof, hire a roof specialist to find any worn areas, storm damage, or HVAC leaks.
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ACS Public Policy Fellowship Programs
The ACS offers two public policy fellowships. The ACS Congressional Fellowship is a one-year opportunity; two ACS members per year are placed on Capitol Hill as part of the larger, AAAS-administered program. The ACS Science Policy Fellowship is a one-year opportunity that is renewable for a second year. One Science Policy Fellow position is available at a time. The same application is used for both fellowships. Applicants are asked to identify if they are applying for one or both programs.
Fellowships start in September; however, the Congressional Fellowship start date may be delayed until January at the Fellow's request.
ACS Congressional Fellowship
The ACS Congressional Fellowship Program places two fellows each year as staff members in the office of a Senator, Representative, or Committee. As part of a broader effort administered by AAAS that places more than 30 scientists per year in Congress, the program has two main goals: to provide policy-makers with high quality information on science-related issues and to educate scientists on how government works and how science policy is made.
Fellows work on the Congressional staff of their choice; placement support is provided by ACS and AAAS. Fellows typically serve as legislative assistants, advising on a range of science policy issues and interacting with constituents.
For more information, visit the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowships website.
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Application deadline: January 15
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The ACS Science Policy Fellowship Program places one fellow with the ACS External Affairs and Communications team (EAC) for one to two years. The fellow works with experienced EAC staff to provide information to policy-makers on the role of science in public policy, advance specific recommendations on issues affecting the chemical enterprise, and inform and involve ACS members in the policy process. EAC staff cover a range of issues of interest to ACS members, including federal funding for scientific research; science, technology, engineering and math education; green chemistry; environmental policy; and regulatory policy.


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This classic DMC pattern book contains numerous magnificent Assisi embroidery designs from ancient Italy, and general directions on how to work this style of hand embroideries, featuring 23 full-page color plates.
The patterns were inspired by the marvelous wood carvings of the dome of San Rufino at Assisi and of the church of San Pietro at Perugia. They were composed with the utmost care and will enable you to execute pieces of work full of the artistic beauty of the originals. The first 5 plates contain detached motifs of various sizes and narrow borders, intended to supplement each other. The following 14 plates consist of strips of different widths, to which are added decorative and much varied borders, some of which show how to form the corner. The last 4 plates are large square patterns.
About Assisi embroidery -- Excerpt from the Wikipedia:
Assisi embroidery is a form of counted-thread embroidery based on an ancient Italian tradition where the background is filled with embroidery stitches and the main motifs are left void i.e. unstitched. The name is derived from the Italian town of Assisi where the modern form of the craft originated.
Assisi work uses a method known as voiding in which the background is filled in while the motif itself is left blank. Cross-stitch is used for the background and Blackwork Embroidery, i.e. Holbein stitch is then used to outline the motif and create the surrounding decorative scrollwork.
Historically, Italy has had a long tradition of bright and colourful embroidery. In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries monastic embroideries developed a simpler style where designs and motifs were voided on fine linen cloth with the outlines and background embroidered in coloured silk. Motifs were strongly influenced by traditional designs of bird or animal pairs surrounded by elaborate scrollwork. These early articles were most often used for religious purposes e.g. altar cloths and chasubles.
By the sixteenth century Assisi work had become more popular and employed a wider range of motifs, many based on Renaissance imagery of satyrs, demons and ancient mythical creatures.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, however, this form of embroidery fell into decline and many of the designs and motifs were lost. It was only at the turn of the 20th century that the practice was revived in the Italian town of Assisi from which this form of embroidery gets its name. In 1902 the 'Laboratorio Ricreativo Festivo Femminile San Francesco di Assisi' was established. The aim of this handicrafts workshop was to revive traditional local handicrafts and provide employment to poor women to supplement their income. This cottage industry flourished and these more modern designs, using the counted thread technique, quickly spread throughout Italy, Europe and further abroad.


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By on 11/11/12 | Indian Rocks Beach, FL
I have had my Grand am since 2005 its been a great car. in last 2 months I finally changed the brakes and water pump went this last week... Other than route oil changes and car washed and tires. I have never had a problem w my car.... I think today I have 140,000 miles It has been to Ohio and back FLL and back. gotta love your cars....
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87,000 miles.4Dr. 4cyl. The heater/ac blower motor has a squeak that drives me nuts, on low speed. Just had both front wheel bearings replaced - I got a Direct Tire that is really honest and charged me $503 for both installed. They were going to do all brakes, but told me they are fine for now. I read online that is COMMON for wheel bearings to go on Grand Ams made in the late 1990's thru 2005. Figures GM did not get it right for some 15 years. They stopped making this model in 2004, but did a limited run in 2005 for fleet owners like rentals, lease companies, and fleets for corporations. It is a very well liked car for that use. I like the car overall. Been good to it, it is good to me. The factory-sealed transmission scares me, sometimes I think it slips or mis-shifts. Can't check the tranny fluid, as it is sealed. It is supposed to outlast the car, or you need to replace it or find a rebuilt one - if you can. I consistently get 20 - 24 mph. mostly depending on the weather. worse mph in the winter.
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Delta cancels 275 Saturday flights; long lines reported at Atlanta airport
Delta Air Lines canceled approximately 275 more flights on Saturday, as the Atlanta-based airline continues to recover from a round of storms that has already resulted in 3,000 cancelations nationwide.
ATLANTA, Ga -- Delta Air Lines canceled approximately 275 more flights on Saturday, as the Atlanta-based airline continues to recover from a round of storms that has already resulted in 3,000 cancelations nationwide.
Extremely long lines were seen throughout Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Saturday morning, days after severe storms forced a ground stop at the hub.
For Delta, these have been some of the worst days since the airline was forced to shut down in August 2016 because of serious computer issues.
"Delta's operation continues to recover as airline teams work around the clock to return flights to normal following the disruption from severe storms in the Southeastern U.S. and East Coast this week," the airline said in a Saturday morning statement. "We have apologized for the disruption and continued difficulty reaccommodating those whose travel had been affected by the lingering impact of this week's storms, which hampered the airline's busiest hub in Atlanta."
Passengers were stranded at the airport, Thursday, after severe storms rolled through Georgia on Wednesday causing hundreds of flight cancelations.
On Wednesday, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) implemented a ground stop for all inbound and outbound flights. The ground stop was lifted around 1:40 p.m. but not before causing more delays and canceled flights.
The cancelations have forced hundreds of passengers to stand in line for hours to rebook flights while an equal number waited in hours-long lines to retrieve checked baggage. Others called the Delta customer service reservations lines and were on hold for hours before agents could answer.
According to FlightAware.com, there were 1,009 cancelations on Wednesday at Hartsfield-Jackson. On Thursday, there were reportedly 912 cancelation


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Trump defends campaign manager in heated interview
A clearly agitated Donald Trump continued to defend his campaign manager over accusations he grabbed a reporter, telling TODAY in a heated phone conversation "the incident was so minor" his chief staffer probably didn't remember it.
"When you look at what happened, it was so minor that he might not have even thought about it," Trump said Wednesday about the scuffle involving campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, whom he called "an honorable guy" and family man.
On Tuesday, Florida police charged Lewandowski with misdemeanor battery for assaulting a former Breitbart reporter who tried to talk to Trump at a campaign event. The reporter, Michelle Fields, said Lewandowski grabbed her arm hard enough to leave a bruise when she tried to ask the presidential candidate a question.
Trump has vacillated in his response to the incident, initially denying it happened and then accusing Fields of making it up. On TODAY, he continued to suggest the reporter provoked the incident by brushing up against him, prompting Lewandowski to reactively move to protect him.
The entire incident was caught on surveillance video, which clearly shows interaction between all three people but which Trump said proves nothing.
"She's got no evidence," he said about Field's accusation, saying the reporter has "changed her tune a lot" about details of the alleged incident. "She made up the story."
Bradford Cohen, an attorney for Lewandowski, said the same thing in a separate TODAY interview earlier. He described his client as "ex-New Hampshire trooper" trained to react to threats.
"If he sees a threat, or if he sees something that is unnormal or something that is irregular, he thinks that he can take action," he said. "It's not just the job of the Secret Service. Everyone is responsible for Mr. Trump's security."
Ben Shapiro, the Breitbart editor who quit over protest of the way the publication handled the incident, said it will be up to police and the court to decide whether the charge against Lewandowski are warranted.
He said he spoke recently with Fields, wh was "happy the video came to light." He also said she has been denying requests to go on camera because she didn't ask for the attention.
"She never wanted to be he center of the story. All she wanted was an apology from Lewandowski and the Trump campaign. Instead of that, they decided to lie, and they decided to smear her," he told TODAY.
Shapiro said the police and court will ultimately decide whether charges against Trump are warranted but he called the campaign "thugs" who "lie about lying and now they're lying about the lies they lied about. We're now all the way through the looking glass on this story."
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LX.TV, a Division of NBC Universal, Increased Its Raw Disk Space by More Than 1,700 Percent With VTrak, for a Total of 912TB in One Rack
LX.TV, a Division of NBC Universal, Increased Its Raw Disk Space by More Than 1,700 Percent With VTrak, for a Total of 912TB in One Rack
HSINCHU, TAIWAN and MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwired - Feb 11, 2014) - LX.TV, a division of NBC Universal which produces lifestyle and entertainment programming including the Emmy Award-winning home improvement show "George to the Rescue," needed to upgrade their storage solution to be ready and flexible for 4K post production. Requiring a solution that delivered massive capacity and high bandwidth, LX.TV turned to PROMISE Technology and the VTrak J930s.
PROMISE develops high-performance solutions, including VTrak Fibre Channel storage and Pegasus Thunderbolt drives, which are optimized for the video bandwidth requirements in big data, rich media and the media and entertainment market. LX.TV boosted its raw storage capacity to a total of 912TB with three ultra-dense VTrak J930s, two VTrak E830 RAID subsystems, multiple SANLink Thunderbolt to Fibre Channel bridges and multiple Pegasus enclosures, plus they added a Media Asset Management system from LevelsBeyond to interact with Final Cut Pro X. The solution increased LX.TV's storage capacity by 1,700 percent in one rack and was largely achieved through the ultra-dense VTrak J930s, which delivers up to 240TB of raw capacity from a single unit. Additionally, VTrak delivered a clear speed increase in drives and performance which is crucial as LX.TV transitions to a 4K workflow with new Blackmagic cameras.
"We want to be set up to be 4K ready and future proof our workflows, especially with the upcoming Blackmagic 4K cameras, and looked to the VTrak J930s high density solution for higher bandwidth in less than half the rack space, Final Cut Pro X for 4K video editing and leveraging LevelsBeyond for a digital asset management," said Mike Fernandes, post production manager for LX.TV.
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