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Guinta announces he's again a candidate for CongressBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
September 22. 2013 7:36PM
MANCHESTER — Calling for an end to partisan gridlock and for more "New Hampshire common sense" in Washington, former U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta made it official today that he is a candidate for the 1st District seat he lost last November.
The former Manchester mayor made the announcement, along with his wife, Morgan, in a two-minute web video available on his web site, TeamGuinta.com. He also announced his candidacy in the 2014 mid-term elections during an early-morning appearance at the Bedford Republican Committee's annual breakfast meeting at the Manchester Country Club.
In the video, Guinta, dressed casually, sits at a table, presumably in his home, and says that the "news out of Washington is pretty depressing these days" with "politicians of both parties" more interested in "fighting than making tough decisions and solving our problems."
He says that by working together "we can find common ground without sacrificing our principles."
Guinta says that as Manchester's mayor from 2006 through 2009, he "worked with Democrats and Republicans to improve the city" and, "together, we cut spending, lowered property taxes and improved services."
He calls for "reform" of Medicare and Social Security and for "economic policies that create opportunity and growth."
While Guinta talks about his service as mayor in the video, he does not mention that he is a former congressman.
"While some politicians always think bigger government is the answer, in New Hampshire, we know better," he said. "It's about putting people first."
Morgan Guinta calls her husband "a super dad" to their two children, "a great leader"and "great at listening and bringing people together to solve problems."
Guinta turns 43 on Thursday. He wants a "rubber match" next fall with Democrat U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, whom Guinta ousted from the House seat in 2010, only to have her return the favor in 2012.
Guinta is expected to first face a Republican primary. Political newcomer Dan Innis of Portsmouth last week said he will resign as dean of the Peter T. Paul School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire. He is expected to announce his candidacy within the next several weeks.
Guinta was a strong supporter of the House Republican agenda during his term in office. As a member of the House Budget Committee, he was a supporter of budget committee chairman and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who was last year's party nominee for vice president.
Ryan will return to the Granite State in October to campaign for Guinta.
Democrats wasted no time criticizing Guinta.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee said Guinta "had an opportunity to stand up for his constituents, but instead he voted in lockstep with Paul Ryan and the Tea Party to try to end Medicare as we know it and raise taxes on New Hampshire's middle class families. Voters already fired Congressman Guinta for his attempts to impose his out-of-touch agenda, which hurt New Hampshire's economy and stifled job creation."
A Guinta spokesman declined to comment on the Democratic criticism.


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|2010-07-03, 22:56
|Link #41
Seishu's Ace
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Kobe, Japan
I've said it before, but individual taste is a strange thing. I loved Seitokai no Ichizon, but this totally did not work for me. Almost none of the jokes were funny, and none of the characters especially likable. I don't hold it against this show that it's so reminiscent of SnI - I know the manga has been out there for years. I just didn't find it funny. Maybe I'll give it another episode to wear me down - not like the summer is off to an especially stellar beginning anyway.
|2010-07-03, 23:23
|Link #42
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Montreal
i was also expecting something like SnI but SYD seems more extreme. Aria seems to be a bit more extreme than Chizuru Akaba but so far its Shino Amakusa that gives out a bit too much information. the series does seem to have some interest for me but i dont think i'll rate this no where near as high as SnI. im not sure if its the groups scanlating it or the source material but too much information isnt helping me get more interested in this series.
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|2010-07-03, 23:31
|Link #43
Last Engage
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Florida
Both shows involve student councils, but I'm sure there's plenty more media in Japan that does. Best to start with a blank slate and take SYD on its own merits. Plus, light novel and 4koma each cultivate completely different types of writing.
|2010-07-04, 00:46
|Link #45
Join Date: Dec 2006
Yeah, this world is still full of mysteries...
I don't even know how anyone can even compare this to SnI. The only thing similar is... both are student councils.
And... that's it?!
|2010-07-04, 01:27
|Link #46
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Best first episode so far this season, also all substance there is just a number of dirty jokes. Still, quite enjoyable. The ED is great too.
And yes, watching this reminded of SnI a lot. Same kind of episodic humour, a little girl that dont want to be called a kid, a manipulative evil girl with dark humour e.t.c.
I wonder if the main character would eventually snap and try to take advantage of the situation, theres a limit how long one can be teased
|2010-07-04, 04:57
|Link #49
Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 32
|2010-07-04, 06:34
|Link #52
Home of Silent Prayer
Ehh, my opinion for this is similar to Guardian Enzo. I love Seitokai no Ichizon, but the humor of this one just isn't clicking for me. It feels like the humor of the joke is just from the dirty words used, not because it's funny in itself. I feel like seeing a stand-up comedian, realizing his skits aren't that funny uses offensive swear words to make the audience laugh. Maybe I'm just not used to the 4-koma style? I'm still going to give the next episode another try though, but so far it hasn't been so impressive to me yet.
|2010-07-04, 07:18
|Link #53
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Japan
This show reminds me of GA rather than Seitokai no Ichizon. Since both Seitokai Yakuindomo and GA are from 4-koma manga, their are some similarities; the quick paces of the stories, being filled with gags, boke and tsukkomi e.t.c.
|2010-07-04, 07:55
|Link #55
I actually like this more than Seitokai no Ichizon. The sexual humor is a bit over the top, but I like how the art is better shaded than SnI. Maybe that one has a lower budget. And I couldn't even get interested enough to finish SnI.
|2010-07-04, 09:07
|Link #57
Komrades of Kitamura Kou
Join Date: Jul 2004
Age: 33
Well golly gee cut off my balls and call me a Eunuch, I strangely enjoyed this pilot episode more than I did Mitsudomoe!
I think what immediately makes the show stand out from the crowd of other shows that rely on more crass and perverted humor is the execution of the subject matter. Most other shows tend to drag on the sex jokes and exaggerate on them, which in turn makes most lowbrow humor of this nature eventually tasteless. For this series they don't seem to actually do this. Most of the sexual references are more used in passing and in more subtle tones, generally speaking they don't extend the life of the sexual nature of the humor beyond what could be considered appropriate. Stuff like the pads vs. tampons, shortgirl's 2nd day menses and the life are used just long enough to be funny but short enough not to make your eyes roll back.
I also really like Shino's character. The nature of the humor coming from her really depends on 3 things, either:
1. She completely understands the inner workings of the male mind.
2. She doesn't understand a damn thing about the male mind.
3. Both!
Case in point: Gravure video.
|2010-07-04, 09:08
|Link #58
User of the "Fast Draw"
But wow the main character really got dragged into this. Well goes to show if you dress lazily you never know what might happen . He'll probably have a few problems taking things seriously when things can easily be turned into a joke. Anyways we have started to get a feel for the main characters which is fine for the first episode.
|2010-07-04, 11:14
|Link #60
Kana Hanazawa ♥
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: France
Age: 31
Enjoyed the first episode a lot. The jokes didn't feel forced and flowed naturally, no matter how perverted they were. It's actually not as crude as I thought it would be, at least for now. I guess the censoring helps.
Very strong cast as well. I personally found all the characters likeable, especially Suzu and Aria.
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How much time do you spend shaving every morning? No matter if you use an electric or straight-edge razor, or how close the cut, you have to shave again the next day and the next, and the next.
Wouldn't it be great if you could slow down hair growth so you would only have to shave every other day, or once a week, or even once a month? Imagine the amount of extra time you'd have to do other things.
Landscape maintenance is a lot like shaving. Your crew mows a property on Monday, but the grass doesn't stop growing. Depending on the time of year and weather conditions, your crew will return to that same site the following Monday, and the next and the next.
Even if the grass has not grown that much, it still needs to be gone over for that neat, trim look. Although the shrubs and other plant material may not grow as quickly, they too need trimming or pruning in order to keep that property looking its best.
Welcome to the world of plant growth regulators (PGRs). PGRs have been around for quite a few years and have become an important tool in the landscape service provider's toolbox for a myriad of reasons.
If you could slow down plant growth so that your crew only needed to visit a site every other week, or even once a month, imagine the savings . . . especially in the current environment. The squeeze has been on for landscape maintenance companies to lower their prices or cut back on services because their clients were tightening their belts as well. Over the past few months, we've seen the price of fuel skyrocket, and that puts additional pressure on service providers.
While science hasn't yet invented a quick and easy growth regulator for hair, the bioscience industry has developed a wide range of growth regulators for plants.
By using PGRs, you could cut back your weekly visits. This would give your crews extra time to service other properties and allow you to add new clients.
"One of the functions of a plant growth regulator is to inhibit the growth of stems and leaves," says Brian E. Corr, Ph.D., product development manager, Valent Bio- Sciences Corporation, Libertyville, Illinois. "PGRs work by interfering with meristems—the actively dividing group of cells in the crowns, rhizomes and stolons of grass plants that are responsible for most growth and development, while not interfering with the plant's respiration, photosynthesis, or other internal functions."
In addition to mowing and trimming lawns, plant growth regulators can also help minimize the cost and labor associated with pruning shrubs and bushes.
Or, in simpler terms, PGRs slow down the growth of a plant without killing it. The result is that the landscape stays alive and vibrant, and will still need to be mowed and trimmed, only not nearly as often.
It doesn't take a biochemist to figure out that if you can cut down on the number of visits your crews need to make to a site, it will free them to service other properties. This will enable you to add more clients without having to increase your number of workers. Slowing the growth of turf is only one benefit of using a PGR.
"We use PGRs for many different reasons besides reducing mowing," says Ken Wentland, client representative for KEI Enterprises, Oak
Creek, Wisconsin. "We find that PGRs are a huge advantage on smaller areas where the crews need to use a string trimmer. String trimming, hand trimming and edging are some of the most laborintensive tasks involved in landscape maintenance, especially during the times of the year when the turf growth rate is very high.
"Applying a PGR can eliminate up to two-thirds of the trimming required to keep edges neat around obstacles such as curbs, irrigation sprinkler heads, trees, fences, and walkways. By applying a PGR, our crews finish the job and don't have to return to trim again, sometimes for weeks."
There's also the labor savings involved with using a PGR. Some companies will have one crewman per site in charge of string trimming. While you're waiting for the grass to grow to a height where it needs to be trimmed, that crewman can be moved to another job. This type of rotation helps train crews in more than one task and helps reduce the need to hire additional staff.
In addition to mowing and trimming lawns, plant growth regulators can also help minimize the cost and labor associated with pruning shrubs and bushes.
"There are PGRs specifically for shrubs and ground covers," says Todd Bunnell, turf and ornamental research manager for SePRO in Carmel, Indiana. "When the right PGR is applied, it can last up to three months, reducing the amount of labor involved in trimming the shrubs. In addition, less trimming means fewer clippings, and fewer clippings mean lower costs associated with hauling debris away from the jobsite."
PGR use on shrubs and bushes will also inhibit the growth of leaves. Plants that have fewer—or smaller—leaves use less water, which is an added benefit in areas where water conservation is mandated and irrigation is heavily regulated. PGRs can also improve the overall health and vigor of the turf, resulting in better color, improved stress tolerance and better root development.
"Once you've started using PGRs, you may notice that the color of the turf has changed," says Corr. "Lawns will become darker and more vibrant because the leaf tissue becomes more compacted and fills with greater amounts of chlorophyll per unit leaf area, which causes the dark green color."
With all the advantages of using plant growth regulators, you would think that their use would be part of every landscape service program. However, while the application and use of growth regulators may appear simple on the surface, you can't just walk into your local distributor and grab a plant growth regulator the way you can a sack of fertilizer.
"All growth regulators are regulated as pesticides, which means that anyone who wants to use a PGR must have a pesticide license," says Bunnell. "Any manufacturer who claims that their product regulates turf has to go through the same regulatory requirements as a pesticide, including being registered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and any state regulatory agency. For landscape contractors who don't apply pesticides, they might not want to get a license just to be able to use a PGR."
Even though the EPA says that PGRs are pesticides, essentially, plant growth regulators are very safe. Unlike pesticides which kill insects, or herbicides that kill weeds, or fungicides that control disease, PGRs aren't designed to kill anything. However, as with any federally regulated product, it is essential that you read the label to make sure you're using PGRs correctly.
For example, SePRO manufactures a granular growth regulator for outdoor perennial landscape ornamental plants that contains the active ingredient flurprimidol, while Syngenta's PRIMO is specifically made to manage growth of warm- and cool-season turfgrasses and contains the active ingredient trinexapac-ethyl.
It seems there are just as many different plant growth regulators as there are different types of plants, so you can see how important it is that you take the necessary training and become familiar with what you need to use and where you need to use it, if you're going to add a PGR program. The next step is knowing when to apply PGRs. Just like pre- and postemergent weed controls, pesticides and fertilizers, PGRs will only be fully effective when they're applied at the correct time of the year.
"The best time to apply a PGR is mid-to-late spring," says Wentland. "You have to let the grass mature, so I'd suggest applying it after your second or third mowing. You can also do a second application in the late summer or early fall. It's important to remember that the grass can't be in any kind of drought stress; it needs to be actively growing for the PGR to work properly."
Pre-stress conditioning is another benefit to using a PGR. Dean Mosdell, Ph.D., technical manager for Syngenta, says that the purpose of pre-stress conditioning is to prepare turfgrass for extreme conditions before they hit. "Implementing a program which includes an application of a plant growth regulator prior to the onset of stresses like heat, drought, disease and traffic can strengthen the turf and, therefore, allow it to withstand ongoing stresses throughout the season," Mosdell said.
Plant growth regulators are typically packaged in either a liquid or granular form. Liquid PGRs are labeled for use with a hand-held or backpack sprayer, although boom sprayers may be permitted for larger areas.
Whether you use a liquid or granular PGR, you have to be extremely careful to spread the product uniformly over the area. "If you put more on one side than the other, you'll get a lot more growth suppression. Whoever makes the application needs to make sure they spread the material equally," said Wentland.
Most plant growth regulators are absorbed through the leaf surface, so only the grass or the shrubs that are sprayed will be affected.
If you're using a spray applicator, a good method is to walk in a straight line with the sprayer to the side. As you spray, try to catch the light glistening off the freshly sprayed grass. If you can see the glistening grass from only one direction, try walking backward on the return trip. You can also use a grass-marking dye. These dyes are mixed directly into your spray solution and will indicate where you have sprayed and if you missed any areas.
Most plant growth regulators are absorbed through the leaf surface, so only the grass that is sprayed will be affected. Any grass that is missed will remain unaffected and will likely produce uneven grass growth. Do not spray any material on a windy day.
Plants are living material and playing Mother Nature takes an enormous amount of scientific study and research to make certain that regulating growth is done safely and carefully. If you are looking into starting a PGR program, do the research. Make sure you choose the right products for the right job. If you don't, you could end up doing a lot more harm than good.
Remember, there is a cost to purchasing plant growth regulators.
To successfully integrate PGRs into your maintenance program, it's important to carefully balance the cost with the anticipated savings. As the cost of labor and fuel rise, PGRs are becoming a more economical choice.
While you can't always control the growth of the economy, a good PGR program may help you control the growth of your business.


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13 SRFI19 time utilities
Utility procedures for use with SRFI 19 times and dates.
item : any
Predicate that recognises SRFI-19 times of the time-utc type.
item : any
Predicate that recognises SRFI-19 times of the time-tai type.
(time-duration? item) → boolean?
item : any
Predicate that recognises SRFI-19 times of the time-duration type.
(leap-year? year) → boolean?
year : integer?
Returns #t if year is a leap year.
(days-in-month month [year]) → integer?
month : integer?
year : integer? = 2001
Returns the number of days in month in year. month is numbered from 1 to 12. year defaults to a non-leap year if omitted.
> (days-in-month 2)
> (days-in-month 2 2000)
(date-valid? date) → boolean?
date : srfi:date?
Returns #t if date is a valid date (its hour, day, month and so on are all in the correct ranges).
(time-weekday? time) → boolean?
Returns #t if time lies on a week day (that is, Monday to Friday).
(time->date time) → srfi:date?
Converts time to a date.
(time->ago-string then [now]) → string?
then : (U time-tai time-utc)
Given the time of an event the past (and, optionally, another argument representing the current time), returns a textual description of the time passed since the event. Raises exn:fail:unlib if now is before then. See seconds->ago-string for examples.
(seconds->ago-string secs [now]) → string?
secs : integer?
now : integer? = (current-seconds)
Like time->ago-string but then and now are integer values like those output by current-seconds.
> (seconds->ago-string (- (current-seconds) 45))
"45 seconds ago"
> (seconds->ago-string (- (current-seconds) (* 30 60)))
"30 minutes ago"
> (seconds->ago-string (- (current-seconds) (* 20 60 60)))
"20 hours ago"
> (seconds->ago-string (- (current-seconds) (* 25 60 60)))
> (seconds->ago-string (- (current-seconds) (* 50 60 60)))
"2 days ago"
(current-year) → integer?
Returns the current four digit year.
Returns the current local time-zone offset in seconds (taking into account DST when and where appropriate).


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A Perfect Day
with Carin Berger
Date and Time:
December 1, 2012 - 11:00AM
Event Location:
Kray Hall
$5; children under 4 free
What makes a perfect winter day? Using as a starting point her latest book A Perfect Day, which features collages that illuminate the perfect winter day, Carin Berger will help children embark on their own magical journeys through a winter's day. Afterward, everyone will create striking white silhouette collages on black paper. Carin Berger is also the author and illustrator of Ok Go and Forever Friends.
Event Sponsored By:
Poets House
Event Type:
Children's Events


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SAP NEWSBYTE — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced a new global program that aims to provide comprehensive support for students who want to start businesses that develop real-time solutions and Big Data applications.
Participants in the entrepreneurship program will receive support in developing new applications on the SAP HANA® platform. The students will be able to use SAP software free of charge to develop applications and will be assisted by SAP experts. A comprehensive training program will provide the necessary technical background on SAP HANA as well as SAP® Mobile Platform. Students will also be trained in design thinking methodology to help them along the process from an idea through to the finished product.
Once students have set up their business, they can participate in the SAP® Startup Focus program and receive free-of-charge technical support, consulting and marketing services from SAP. The company will also assist with the market launch, provide access to the SAP partner network and offer opportunities to participate or hold presentations at events organized by SAP or other manufacturers. To open up new sources of funding, young entrepreneurs will receive access to SAP Ventures, the independent venture capital firm affiliated with SAP, and other venture capital companies.
"For a market leader in software, a high priority is strong entrepreneurship to foster the development of the most dynamic, innovative, high-quality software in the world," said Bill McDermott, co-CEO and member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, and executive ambassador of the new program. "We want to create a community in which millennials are empowered to dream big and point the way to a future in which mobile-enabled organizations leverage social data in real time and create exceptional experiences for their customers. The student entrepreneurship program will nurture this."
SAP plans to roll out the program first in Europe and later in Asia and the U.S., and aims to win 100 universities as partners by the end of 2014. Leading universities worldwide have already expressed interest in supporting 10,000 potential student entrepreneurs as multipliers and by developing relevant curricula.
The new entrepreneurship program is part of the SAP® University Alliances program, a global initiative with nearly 1,500 member institutions in more than 80 countries. SAP University Alliances is aimed at universities and vocational schools that want to actively integrate SAP software into their teaching. SAP promotes real-life, future-oriented training through the program by making the latest SAP technology available to lecturers and students worldwide.
For more information, visit the SAP Newsroom. Follow SAP on Twitter at @sapnews.
Media Contact:
Marcus Winkler, SAP AG, +49 6227-76 74 97, firstname.lastname@example.com, CET
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DENVER (AP) — An appeals board is upholding the Bureau of Land Management's decision to grant the artist Christo a permit for his Over the River project, which involves temporarily suspending 5.9 miles worth of silvery fabric panels in sections over 42 miles of the Arkansas River.
The Interior Board of Land Appeals on Friday rejected arguments that the BLM didn't fully consider impacts of Over the River before granting the permit.
Meanwhile, two lawsuits challenging Over the River in state and federal courts are still pending.
"We can now move on from the agency hijinks and into federal court where we can get an unbiased review of this project," said Michael Harris, a lawyer representing the group Rags Over the Arkansas River, which is trying to block Christo's plan. "We fully expect the court to find that the OTR project approval is illegal."
New York-based Christo said in a written statement that he remains confident that state and federal permitting processes were thorough and complete. "This is one of three legal hurdles that needed to be overcome, and I am very happy with this decision," Christo said.
Even if Christo wins in the lawsuits, it would be at least 2016 before the project would be ready for public display.
He and his late wife, Jeanne-Claude, got their first inkling for Over the River in 1992.
Work to set up a system of anchors and cables to suspend the fabric panels over the river would unfold over roughly two years. The project would be displayed for two weeks in the month of August, when the river would be calm enough for rafters to peer up at the fabric as they float underneath and when drivers on U.S. 50 along the river could look down.
Denver-based environmental consultant Rocky Smith, who was among those filing the administrative appeal of the BLM's permitting decision, said he still thinks Over the River is "horribly inappropriate" for the canyon Christo plans to use.
Opponents contend the project threatens bighorn sheep, public safety, traffic on U.S. 50, and businesses that depend on the scenic river to draw anglers, rafters and tourists.
Christo's team has said it plans dozens of measures to mitigate impacts.
Talk to Catherine Tsai on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ctsai_denver


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Why Do We Listen to Dummies?
Ventriloquism isn't an auditory illusion. It's social.
Your brain's system for directing attention is what makes you think a puppet has a mind of its own, Michael Graziano told me. He is a neuroscientist at Princeton and author of Consciousness and the Social Brain. He is also a novelist and composer and writes children's books under the pen name B. B. Wurge.
How did you get into ventriloquism?
It wasn't to make some scientific point. I actually started because my son wanted his toy animals to talk. He demanded it frequently, so after a number of years of intense practice, I got better at it.
Tell us about your puppet.
He's called Kevin and he is a talkative, impish orangutan. Interestingly, the things he thinks of I can't think of unless my hand is in there. Obviously, in my brain, I have generated a model of a personality that gets projected onto Kevin.
He comes up with all kinds of outrageous comments. For instance, I once introduced him as a cute fuzzy orangutan, and then he blurted out that he's Darth Vader—in that voice.
What point do you want to make with Kevin?
When we attribute mental states to other people, it's not just about intellectually figuring out what someone else might be thinking. That's part of it, but there is a gut intuition part too. That's the point I'm trying to make. With a ventriloquist's puppet, you know intellectually that there is no awareness, but you can't help experiencing the illusion. The social attribution is automatic.
Do your audiences get the point?
They get it, because the ventriloquism illusion is so potent. Many people think it is a visual-auditory illusion—your voice sounds as if it's coming from the puppet's lips. But the real illusion is social.
What do you mean by a social illusion?
When I speak through a microphone on stage, the sound is coming from speakers elsewhere. It looks as if it's coming out of my mouth, because it's time-locked to my lips. It's a visual-auditory illusion but nobody gets excited about that. When the puppet starts talking, it's the same thing. So, it's not the visual-auditory illusion that makes ventriloquism exciting, but the social illusion, the feeling that there is another mind in that body.
The brain also builds models. To control the body, the brain has a body schema—a model of how the body is moving through space. So, similarly, to control its own attention properly, the brain ought to have a model to monitor and make predictions about the consequences of paying attention. This model is what I call awareness.
Once that is in place, the next evolutionary development is to use the same brain machinery to model other people's attention. That's where we get into attributing awareness to others.
And that's where Kevin comes in?
This article originally appeared in New Scientist.


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MarkStarscream3 wrote:This is AMAZING!
Do some extra parts make this up, or is it made only of the dinobots? For example is it like G1 devastator or ROTF devastator?
Octocon wrote:what to the extra pieces become? pictures please?
is wheelie just a head master now, he lost his ability to become vehicle i assume from the look?
Blurrz wrote:Octocon wrote:what to the extra pieces become? pictures please?
is wheelie just a head master now, he lost his ability to become vehicle i assume from the look?
Read the news post. All the links are there, except for Wheelie.
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The best custom ever.
Only two that tie it that I've seen is the MP Omega Supreme and Predaking X.
This is amazing.
MP style? You going to improve GrimLock though? His MP Dino mode always looked odd to me....but that's just me.
MP would actually be better scale...weren't the Dinobots pretty big anyways?enough encouragement from G1 collectors
ANYONE would buy it, I was born 10 years after G1(or so) and I watched the 86 movie JUST for Grimlock...
And I didn't really know who he was...
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Letters to the University Community It's a Great Time to be a Cougar
Oct. 23, 2009
It's a great time to be a Cougar!
Whether you are a student, a member of the faculty and staff, an alum or a much-loved friend of the University of Houston, I invite you to take part in the exciting series of ongoing events that are part of Homecoming 2009 "Eyes on the Pride" festivities.
Here are just a few of the highlights:
- The return of a live Cougar! Shasta will be in the homecoming parade, which begins at 3 p.m., Saturday on Cullen Boulevard. The big cat will be on display outside Robertson Stadium at Gate 11 until the 6:30 p.m. kick-off of the UH vs. SMU football game.
- Nine-time Olympic Gold Medalist Carl Lewis will serve as our Honorary Homecoming Chair and Honorary Team Captain for the game. The first 5,000 fans will receive a commemorative Pulse of the Pride Carl Lewis poster.
- The homecoming king and queen will be announced at half time.
- A homecoming tailgate spirit challenge takes place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday in the Tailgate area of the Robertson Stadium parking lot. This event features the UH Alumni Association's many different constituent groups in a battle of BBQ and Cougar pride.
I also invite you to share in the campus excitement by visiting the UH Multimedia site, where you can view video highlights of homecoming activities, new campus programs, our push toward Tier-One status and the positive buzz being generated by your university. www.uh.edu/multimedia.
Finally, I urge you to show your Cougar pride at the ballot box by voting in the Nov. 3 election that will decide the fate of Proposition 4, the constitutional amendment that will provide a pathway for emerging research universities to achieve Tier-One status.
Go Coogs!
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government offices from the Internal Revenue Service to the national parks may be headed for a midnight shutdown amid a congressional budget battle, but the District of Columbia will remain open.
The semi-autonomous capital city's mayor, Vincent Gray, has declared all 32,000 public workers essential, a break from prior practice that means they cannot be ordered home if the federal government shuts down.
Even though the District of Columbia gets some federal funding, most of its budget comes from its own taxes. But under the Constitution, Congress ultimately has control of the District, and it has been treated as a federal agency during a federal shutdown.
Gray, a Democrat, vowed on Sunday to keep police officers on the beat, garbage trucks rolling and driver registration offices open, as part of a long-running fight to get more autonomy for the city's 632,000 residents.
"We have balanced our budget for 18 consecutive years and have well over a billion dollars in the bank," Gray said in his weekly radio address. "Yet we cannot spend our own money to provide our residents with the services they've paid for unless we get permission from a Congress that can't even agree to pay its own bills."
A District of Columbia memo released on Monday said officials would tap contingency reserve funds to keep operations running.
"The city will be open as usual using contingency funds," a spokeswoman for Gray said.
A million federal workers face furloughs after midnight if Congress cannot break a partisan deadlock over the Affordable Care Act, the healthcare reform that is President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement.
Gray's declaration came as the District of Columbia has increasingly chafed at its lack of self-government. Congress has to approve the District's budget for local taxes, and its sole representative in Congress has no vote.
District voters in April approved a charter amendment giving the 68-square-mile (176-square-km) capital more autonomy over its own spending. Gray also has spearheaded an effort for statehood that included having Obama's inaugural limousines carry District license plates with their official slogan, "Taxation Without Representation."
The Office of Management and Budget, which is handling preparations for a shutdown, has not said how it will treat the District's declaration. The move could be interpreted as violating a federal law barring federal spending when there is no congressional appropriation.
OMB officials did not respond to requests for comment.
But Representative Darrell Issa, the head of House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which would likely head any investigation into possibly illegal activity by the District, has shrugged off the move.
"I rather doubt that Congress would take punitive actions against the District of Columbia for keeping their personnel on," he told Roll Call newspaper last week.
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I'm a huge sucker for blockbuster films. I also love construction toys. So you can image my excitement at the American International Toy Fair last month when I discovered that many of this year's big films will also make their way to the construction toy aisle.
Construction is one of the healthiest categories in the toy industry right now. According to the NPD Group's Retail Tracking Service, building sets saw a 23 percent increase in sales from 2011 to 2012. The next closest category of growth (and it's not even that close) was arts and crafts with 8 percent. A lot of this, of course, had to do with the success of Lego Friends last year. I think it's safe to say we can expect Lego's competitors—Mega Brands and Hasbro—to attempt to capitalize on this new boon.
Here are a few of the construction toys I'm excited about that are based on or capitalizing on upcoming films:
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
In theaters tomorrow, G.I. Joe: Retaliation finds the G.I. Joes framed as enemy traitors and fighting for their survival against a shadow U.S. President. Channing Tatum (Duke) and Byung-hun Lee (Storm Shadow) are reprising their roles from the first film, while new cast members such as Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson (Roadblock) and Bruce Willis (Gen. Colton) will add some extra star power. Hasbro's Kre-O brand last month launched a whole line of G.I. Joe construction sets and micro-figures based on Hasbro's own G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero property. While not based on the new film, it's particularly well-timed. The Kre-O G.I. Joe Cobra Armored Assault Construction Set features a buildable tank and a 4×4 vehicle along with three Cobra figures. I'm a big Storm Shadow fan, so I'm also stoked about the Kre-O G.I. Joe Ninja Temple Battle Construction Set.
The Smurfs 2
Set for release this summer, The Smurfs 2 will introduce several new characters including some not-so-nice Smurf-like creatures known as the Naughties. The little blue guys find Smurfette has been kidnapped in a plot to turn the evil Naughties into real Smurfs. Christina Ricci lends her voice as Vexy, one of the Naughties. And Katy Perry (yes, that Katy Perry) reprises her role as Smurfette. Mega Brands will release building sets and adorable figures based on the classic The Smurfs property this spring. While not based on the film, these toys seem well-timed. Smurfette's House is a fully buildable mushroom house playset. The pink and violet two-story mushroom house includes a buildable bed, a makeup table with mirror, and a living room set. I'm stoked on the Racin' Smurfs set, which includes two buildable racing cars, two Smurfs, obstacles, and a winner's podium.
The Lone Ranger
While Lego has some great DC Universe building sets just in time for the upcoming Man of Steel film, I'm more excited about Lego's The Lone Ranger sets tied to the new Disney film, The Lone Ranger. Johnny Depp will play the Native American warrior Tonto, and Lego nails it with its Tonto micro-figure—it has Johnny Depp smeared all over it. The Lego Lone Ranger Stagecoach Escape features a buildable Western stagecoach with horses and micro-figures (yes, Tonto is included). Word among the Lego folks at Toy Fair was that Disney loved the Lego stagecoach designs so much that they wrote a stagecoach chase into the film just so the item could be part of the line. It's that awesome.
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|[Bangla Daily Star] Hours after Jamaat top leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death, Jamaat and Shibir activists set fire to a temple and houses of Hindu community at different parts of Noakhali on Thursday.
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The Shelton State Community College softball team is off to an 8-5 start to the 2013 season and is looking to gain momentum.
TUSCALOOSA | The Shelton State Community College softball team is off to an 8-5 start to the 2013 season and is looking to gain momentum.
The Lady Buccaneers lost three key contributors from their 2012 pitching rotation: Mollie Hanson to Samford, Courtney Wilson to Arkansas-Monticello, and Kristina Kelly to Stillman. Head coach Buddy Boyle said the pitching staff is a work in progress.
"We are retooling our pitching staff this year, so there are going to be a few struggles," Boyle said. "We lost three players to Division I schools and that's going to be tough to replace, but we have some young girls who will get the job done as the season goes on."
The Bucs have lost close games and battled injuries all season.
All-American outfielder Reba Hawkins, who led the nation in triples in 2012, has been hobbled for much of the season, but is batting .317 and has a slugging percentage of .415. Infielder Maggie Meacham recently returned to the lineup after injuries held her out of the first part of the season. In three games, she is batting .300.
First baseman Lea Crutchfield is leading the team with a .389 batting average and .583 slugging percentage.
Another factor limiting the Lady Bucs has been the weather. With the rain in recent weeks, the Lady Bucs have not been able to get outside as much as Boyle would like.
"We haven't been able to get on the dirt too much," Boyle said. "Being outside helps us work on our defense and it allows us to see pitches. Not being outdoors makes an impact."
While most teams set preseason goals to achieve, the Lady Bucs are keeping it simple. Boyle just wants the team to focus only on what they can control.
"Our only goal is to get better at each moment," Boyle said. "The rest will take care of itself. As long as we can stay healthy, work hard and improve on the things we need to work on, I think we will be fine in the long run."
The Lady Bucs went 3-0 at the Aiken Tech Tournament in Aiken, S.C., last weekend, and Boyle said he hopes that momentum can carry the team through the next stretch of the long season.
The Lady Bucs return to action Saturday with a home doubleheader against Cleveland State Community College starting at 1 p.m.


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Why do so many Republicans believe man-made climate change is a hoax? The two most common explanations are that the deniers are uninformed or that they have been bought off by corporate money. Bestselling author Chris Mooney isn't buying either of those arguments. In fact, as he points out, the better educated a conservative is, the more likely he is to dismiss climate change concerns. How can that be?
Part of the answer lies with motivated reasoning—the psychological phenomenon of preferring only evidence that backs up your belief—but in The Republican Brain, Mooney explains that is just the tip of the cognitive iceberg. There is a growing body of evidence that conservatives and liberals don't just have differing ideologies; they have different psychologies. How could the rejection of mainstream science be growing among Republicans, along with the denial of expert consensus on the economy, American history, foreign policy, and much more? Why won't Republicans accept things that most experts agree on? Why are they constantly fighting against the facts? Increasingly, the answer appears to be: it's just part of who they are.
Mooney explores brain scans, polls, and psychology experiments to explain why conservatives today believe more wrong things; appear more likely than Democrats to oppose new ideas; are less likely to change their beliefs in the face of new facts; and sometimes respond to compelling evidence by doubling down on their current beliefs.
The answer begins with some measurable personality traits that strongly correspond with political preferences. For instance, people more wedded to certainty tend to become conservatives; people craving novelty, liberals. Surprisingly, openness to new experiences and fastidiousness are better predictors of political preference than income or education. If you like to keep your house neat and see the world in a relatively black and white way, you're probably going to vote Republican. If you've recently moved to a big city to see what else life has to offer, you're probably going to vote Democrat. These basic differences in openness and curiosity, Mooney argues, fuel an "expertise gap" between left and right that explains much of the battle today over what is true.
Being a good liberal, Mooney also has to explore the implications of these findings for Democrats as well. Are they really wishy-washy flip-floppers? Well, sometimes. Can't they be just as dogmatic about issues close to their hearts, like autism and vaccines, or nuclear power? His research leads to some surprising conclusions.
While the evolutionary advantages of both liberal and conservative psychologies seem obvious, clashes between them in modern life have led to a crisis in our politics. A significant chunk of the electorate, it seems, will never accept the facts as they are, no matter how strong the evidence. Understanding the psychology of the left and the right, Mooney argues, should therefore fundamentally alter the way we approach the he-said-he-said of public debates.
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Glee Might Hang It Up After Season Six
2015 is the eyed conclusion.
"If we discover a new crop of kids and there's some breakout, who knows. But right now, we're thinking about two seasons," says Fox president Kevin Reilly. Those two seasons have already been ordered, and the tentative end date is May 2015. Series creator Ryan Murphy recently said the death of Cory Monteith would be addressed on the show early in season five, "in a way where the cast members will not have to re-create feelings of grief that they've had" but rather "in an upbeat way."


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Ligeti: A Sound Odyssey
Remembering the genius whom Stanley Kubrick stole music from.
First, a confession. In the 1970s, I got familiar with a recording of avant-garde composer György Ligeti's Adventures and New Adventures for a small group of instruments and "singers" but had to wait 10 years and hear those pieces live before I realized that they're falling-down funny: absurdist chamber "operas" expressed by shouts, wheezes, squeaks, sighs, whoops, blitherings, bellows, and so on— everything but actual words. Before then, it hadn't occurred to me that the avant-garde and the comic could cohabitate. They didn't teach you that in music school. They taught you retrograde inversions, pitch classes, parameters, Klangfarbenmelodie, i.e., the gamut of formal/intellectual shibboleths that were supposed to explain contemporary music.
Ligeti had his own singular and unpredictable parameters. Sometimes he's almost alarmingly funny, other times mesmerizing, uncanny, hyperbolic, touching, ironic—all the good stuff music used to do. It's characteristic of his individualism and rapport with the past that as a nominal "experimental" composer, he could bring it all off. Listening to the two Adventures with enlightened ears, I kept thinking, with a certain manic glee, of Mozart. As with the old guys, here was music that was exquisitely what it was, with a splendid harmony of expression and form and content. It was Ligeti's genius to take the ideas and techniques of the late-century German experimental school and make them musical, which is to say: humanize the avant-garde. Which in turn is to say: To make new sounds and forms expressive is to discover new territories of the human.
Ligeti died at 83 in June 2006, working on a third book of his already legendary etudes for piano. Even though most great artists start off as ordinary blokes in ordinary circumstances, he still managed an unusually long and painful journey. He came from a cultured Hungarian Jewish family that ended up in concentration camps in World War II. His father and teenage brother died there. György managed to escape from a slave-labor camp and walked home to find there was no more home. After the war, he studied music intensely and settled into a teaching and composing career in Budapest. Having survived the Nazis, Ligeti now had to contend with the Soviets. In communist Hungary, writing strange chords could have nasty consequences. Following the Russian clampdown of 1956, he fled Hungary and found himself broke and unknown in Cologne, where Karlheinz Stockhausen was the presiding genius. It was hearing Stockhausen's electronic masterpiece Gesang der Jünglinge on an accidentally unblocked radio broadcast, accompanied by gunfire in the streets outside, that had inspired Ligeti to flee Hungary in search of broader creative horizons.
Ligeti was given a place to work in the studios of Cologne Radio, where pioneering electronic music was being put together with remarkably primitive means. In those days they edited tape pieces with scissors and generated sounds with old engineering equipment. Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez became Ligeti's mentors and friends; the three of them eventually came to be seen as peers. But Ligeti's path diverged from his mentor's in important ways. In the '60s and '70s, Stockhausen was the most visible of the European avant-gardists; he was on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's as one of their inspirations for doing innovative things with electronics and recording. Stockhausen had decreed that every piece must constitute a revolution, starting with the very tone color of the music.
Ligeti needed models but didn't care for gurus and absolutes. Finding his voice in the heart of the European experimental scene, where ultra-rationality was the answer to the war's irrationality and everything had to be justified by theory, he never fit the mold. Ligeti, responding to the horrors of midcentury he had experienced first-hand, went in a direction more about feeling than intellect. Like his colleagues, Ligeti was all for invention, but new forms and sounds were for him means and not ends. Meanwhile, he had an anti-dogmatic passion for everything musical, including Caribbean, central African, and East Asian traditions, and American Minimalism of the Steve Reich and Terry Riley persuasion.
True, his kind of eclecticism was not necessarily comfortable. "I am in a prison," Ligeti once said. "One wall is the avant-garde; the other is the past. I want to escape." He declared his later music to be neither tonal nor atonal. To hell, in other words, with both camps.
One form of escape was an all-consuming outlandishness. He was, after all, a serious student of Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers. In his comic mode, Ligeti was arguably the funniest composer who ever lived, though his humor has an unsettling edge. His full opera, Le Grand Macabre, is an exercise in apocalyptic madness, on the subject of the end of the world as a supernatural scam. Ligeti described it as "some kind of flea market: half real, half unreal ... a world where everything is falling in." Growing up where and when he did, Ligeti knew that things "falling in" can be funny, but ultimately it's no joke. Here's a characteristic Harpo-on-drugs episode in the opera.
The religious works have an unearthly aura that made them a natural for Stanley Kubrick in 2001. Ligeti's music remains the most sublime element of that transcendent film. Still, if the Requiem and Lux Aeterna used in the movie resemble anything else, it's not apemen and monoliths on the moon; it's the ululations of mythical beasts, the sighing of lonely stars in forgotten nebulae, the ritual songs of wraiths. Try this moment from the Lux Aeterna.
Another overwhelming work, alternately hectic and spiritual, is the Violin Concerto. Its hymnlike second movement has a climax on a chorus of ocarinas (that flute thing shaped like a potato) that manage to sound at once goofy and creepy, like a choir of nightmare cherubs. Here Ligeti opened a vein of intoxicating weirdness that, maybe, music had never reached before. But, as always, he wasn't screwing around with sound for the sake of it; he was expressing something beyond analysis, in the realm of the heart.
His hypervirtuosic Etudes for piano are spoken of with awe and fear in keyboard circles. Listen to Ligeti's favorite pianist, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, playing, with his usual aplomb, the jazzy and ridiculously difficult Fanfares.
I saw Stockhausen give talks in Boston in the '60s and '70s, and in the '90s saw Ligeti as a guest composer at New England Conservatory. Stockhausen was the image of the German modernist, proclaiming tidily arranged dicta about the imperatives of history. Though in private Ligeti could be quite impossible, at the Conservatory he just charmed everybody. He had no theories whatever to offer. He was unpretentious, witty in his scrambled English, and in contrast to Stockhausen's sharp features and burning eyes, there was Ligeti's wonderful face of an old spaniel. For a taste of his ruminations, here's a late BBC interview.
Ligeti told us that when his music was first being performed in European new-music festivals, he had to hitchhike to the concerts. "I didn't have the money to buy a girl a cup of coffee." Then one day somebody told him, "Did you know there's a movie with your music in it?" Ligeti didn't know. Kubrick had simply ripped off his things for 2001. Ligeti duly sued Kubrick and in the end, he told us, received the grand sum of $3,000. "But do you like the movie?" somebody asked. "Yah, I really like it," Ligeti said. And of course, 2001 did for him what Sgt. Pepper's did for Stockhausen—helped make him famous beyond the esoteric circles of the European new-music scene. By the '90s, the two were the dominant figures of their generation, but by then Stockhausen was mostly out of sight, sunk in his mystical cycle of operas called Licht, or "light."
So via mass media and pop culture some wildly innovative music emerged from underground and made its mark. The difference between that generation and now was that while Stockhausen and Ligeti were not aloof to pop culture, they expected it to come to them. Many of the current generation of classical composers swear allegiance to hip-hop, salsa, and so on. In the arts formerly known as "high," you can't go wrong sucking up to pop culture. I think the older attitude got better results.
In later years, Ligeti and Stockhausen kept their distance. They united in the public mind one last notorious time when, after 9/11, Stockhausen declared of the disaster: "This is the biggest artwork that exists at all in the whole universe. ... I couldn't match it." His statement was condemned worldwide. Actually, what Stockhausen was trying to say, from his distant planet, was that 9/11 was a titanic piece of theater, mass murder created for television. Not so generously, Ligeti declared that Stockhausen had joined the terrorists and ought to be locked up. Even in that, Ligeti was showing his allegiance to the here-and-now in contrast to the remoteness of his old mentor. Stockhausen had not considered what people were going to make of what he did and said. He didn't quite live in this world. Ligeti did.
For me, Ligeti is the most interesting, most expressive, most important tonal artist to appear since Stravinsky died. Stockhausen was a great inventor in sound, but Ligeti was a great composer in a long tradition. I don't see any replacements on the horizon. I doubt anybody alive, for example, could set Lewis Carroll's "A Long, Sad Tale" with anything like his bizarre brilliance.


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MERS deadly but most cases in hospital preventable, WHO says
About 40% of the people who became infected with MERS coronavirus have died
Infection rates for the Middle East respiratory syndrome are slowing and scientists are working to stop the dangerous coronavirus from spreading further internationally, a top U.N. health official says.
Most of the 824 confirmed cases of MERS since 2013, including at least 286 deaths, could have been prevented, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, told The Associated Press.
About 40 per cent of the people who became infected have died, he said, calling that "a much higher-than-normal fatality rate" for a virus.
"I hope that within the next year or so we really have another significant level of understanding about the virus and how to stop it," said Fukuda, a U.S.-trained physician and former U.N. special adviser on pandemic influenza.
"If we take a look at all of the people that we know got infected [in hospitals], probably the vast majority of those people's infections could have been prevented," he added.
On the other hand, Fukuda says WHO still doesn't understand well enough how people are getting infected in their communities.
Most of the cases have occurred in Saudi Arabia and the virus is thought to be primarily acquired through contact with camels, although he said scientists should do more to find out whether other animals might serve as a reservoir for the virus.
Saudi Arabia has greatly improved its surveillance efforts since a surge of MERS cases in April, Fukuda said, but added more efforts were need ahead of the Muslim pilgrimage season when millions travel to Saudi Arabia.
Pilgrims, particularly those with underlying medical problems, should be made aware of the MERS threat because the hajj "always has the potential for either bringing in infections or carrying out infections," Fukuda said.
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I experienced one of these disruptions a few years ago at the Mt. Madonna Center in Watsonville, California. It is a retreat facility founded by Baba Hari Dass, an Indian yogi who has not spoken a word since 1952. I was facilitating a planning session for a management team of a computer chip manufacturing company. I had arranged a private meeting with our group and Baba Hari Dass, who communicates succinctly and humorously by writing on a chalkboard. We visited with him for about thirty minutes, asking a variety of questions, including several about spirituality in business. When our time was over, I went to thank him. Something came from his eyes that I had experienced coming from the eyes of my teacher, Swami Muktananda, many years earlier. It was a kind of light that could penetrate very deeply into one's being. One is touched at the core: it is the touch of reality, or grace, and one awakens to another world of significance.
As I walked outside with our group I suddenly felt very strange, light-headed, and off balance. I told my associate to continue on without me, that I would catch up in a minute. I wandered into a grove of trees, found a boulder, and sat down. Something pierced my heart. I bent over and started crying. It's very hard to say what occurred to me then. It is probably difficult for all of us to speak of these moments-so full of silence and beauty and awakening.
When I stopped crying, I sat still for a long time. Everything about me seemed newly alive, radiant, as though I was seeing these common things for the first time: flowers, trees, rocks, dirt. It seemed that everything was breathing! I felt light and spacious, extending beyond the familiar boundary of my body. I became aware of an orderly connection between things, much as when you finally piece a puzzle together you see how each piece fits into the other to form the whole. I was relieved of a burden I didn't know I was carrying. I was embraced by a profound peace.
When these disruptions to our conventional way of living occur, it's as though we see another dimension of life about which we were ignorant. The mask of appearances falls away, and we see something profound about life. We experience something of the timeless, the real, that which gives radiance to us in the womb. It's beyond words, and the mind hardly grasps it. In these moments, the fortifications against the soul dissolve, and a new perspective appears.
When we are quiet and open, we can hear the conversations of animals and birds, even plants, stones, and soil. Everything is alive, everything endures hardships and joys, and everything feels pain to some degree or another. When we are touched by grace, we know that kindness is natural. We do not have the right to needlessly inflict pain on others. Whenever any suffering is an outcome of our actions, we must find another way.
We know it is not right to profit from someone's suffering or misfortune, and we won't be pushed from the beam of this knowledge just because there is a lot of money to be made.
May everyone be at peace, in love, and know their most perfect Self.
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K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 8-1567(h) and K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-3608a are construed and ruled to be compatible; choosing which statute to charge is a matter of prosecutorial discretion.
Appeal from Shawnee District Court; FRANKLIN R. THEIS, judge. Opinion filed June 27, 2008. Reversed and remanded with instructions.
Jamie L. Karasek, assistant district attorney, Robert D. Hecht, district attorney, and Paul J. Morrison, attorney general, for appellant.
Kevin P. Shepherd, of Topeka, for appellee.
Before HILL, P.J., ELLIOTT and PIERRON, JJ.
ELLIOTT, J.: The State appeals the trial court's dismissal of a charge of aggravated endangering of a child, claiming the court erred in finding K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 8-1506(h) preempted the endangerment statute because it was more specific. Appellee Nicole Cott claims the State's appeal is frivolous. We reverse and remand.
Cott was stopped on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI); her 4-year-old son was in the car with her. Cott failed field sobriety tests, was arrested, and failed a breathalyzer test.
Cott was charged with DUI, no liability insurance, failure to maintain a single lane, and no seat belt; she pled no contest to those charges but was later allowed to withdraw that plea.
But in response, the State dismissed the case and refiled it, adding a count of aggravated endangerment of a child and a count of following too closely.
At the preliminary hearing, the trial court dismissed the aggravated endangerment charge, ruling "the more specific 8-1567(h) would trump K.S.A. 21-3608a."
We issued a show cause order requesting Cott to explain why the appeal should not be dismissed under State v. Rios, 19 Kan. App. 2d 350, 869 P.2d 755 (1994). Based on the appellate briefs filed, the State and Cott agree that Rios "is inapplicable in appeals taken under K.S.A. 22-3602(b)."
We have jurisdiction to reach the merits of the appeal.
The question before us is whether the trial court erred in dismissing the aggravated endangering charge because the DUI statute is more specific.
We need not belabor the hornbook teaching that when there is a conflict between a statute dealing generally with a subject, the specific statute controls unless it appears the legislature intended to make the general act controlling. State v. Williams, 250 Kan. 730, 736, 829 P.2d 892 (1992).
Whether a statute is more specific than another presents a question of law; our scope of review is unlimited, and we are not bound by the trial court's interpretation. See State v. Bryan, 281 Kan. 157, 159, 130 P.3d 85 (2006).
The two statutes at issue here do not appear to be similar at first blush. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 8-1567 prohibits driving under the influence. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-3608a(1) prohibits recklessly causing or permitting a child under 18 years old to be placed in a situation where the child's life or health is endangered.
It is the sentencing enhancement amendment to K.S.A. 8-1567 which has created the issue in the present case. K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 8-1567(h) provides:
"Any person convicted of violating this section or an ordinance which prohibits the acts that this section prohibits who had a child under the age of 14 years in the vehicle at the time of the offense shall have such person's punishment enhanced by one month of imprisonment."
Neither the State nor Cott provides legislative history or evidence of what the legislature intended when it added the sentencing enhancement provision to the statute. And we have found no legislative history to support the position of either party.
This is a close case. There is no conflict between K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 8-1567 and K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-3608a(1). One statute makes driving under the influence a punishable offense, and the other makes recklessly placing a child in harm's way a punishable offense. Neither prevents the application of the other.
The rub comes, however, because it is clear the legislature intended to create a specific punishment for a person violating K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 8-1567 while a child is in the car: the sentence is enhanced by a month.
Since this issue is apparently one of first impression everywhere except Virginia, we shall spend some time studying the Virginia case.
The facts of Wolfe v. Commonwealth, 42 Va. App. 776, 595 S.E.2d 27 (2004), are essentially the same as those with which we deal in the present case.
In Wolfe, a driver was charged with both driving under the influence and child abuse and neglect because his 4-year-old child was in the car at the time. He pled guilty to the DUI and received an enhanced penalty because the child was in the car at the time. He was later found guilty of the child abuse charge based on the same facts presented in support of the sentencing enhancement for the DUI charge. On appeal, Wolfe argued "the Commonwealth was prohibited from prosecuting him for felony child abuse and neglect . . . based upon his act of transporting his son while driving under the influence because [the DUI statute] provides a specific penalty for a person driving under the influence who has a passenger 17 years or younger." 42 Va. App. at 779.
The Virginia Court of Appeals disagreed, holding: "Nothing in the statute indicates that the General Assembly intended to augment the DUI offense by including the felony child abuse and neglect elements within its ambit. Furthermore, nothing supports the converse." 42 Va. App. at 782. The Virginia court found the issue of choosing which statute to charge to be a matter of prosecutorial discretion.
Virginia, like Kansas, recognizes that "'when one statute speaks to a subject generally and another deals with an element of that subject specifically, the statutes will be harmonized, if possible, and if they conflict, the more specific statute prevails.'" Powell v. Commonwealth, 261 Va. 512, 544, 552 S.E.2d 344 (2001) (quoting Commonwealth v. Brown, 259 Va. 697, 706, 529 S.E.2d 96 [2001]).
We read Wolfe to clearly hold the two statutes to be compatible.
We adopt the holding and rationale of Wolfe.
In the present case, Cott offers no case law to explain why we should hold that the use of the DUI sentencing enhancement should preclude the State from charging child endangerment.
At the preliminary hearing in the present case, the State argued subsection (h) of K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 8-1567 cannot be charged in a complaint. That is not a totally accurate statement. We are aware of at least one Kansas case where the prosecutor charged a defendant with driving under the influence with a child under the age of 14 in the car. See State v. Rodriguez, No. 93,562, unpublished opinion filed March 17, 2006.
We hold K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 8-1567(h) and K.S.A. 2005 Supp. 21-3608a to be compatible; choosing which statute to charge is a matter of prosecutorial discretion.
Cott argues the State's appeal is frivolous and a waste of time. We find it to be neither. Our Supreme Court has found no prosecutorial vindictiveness where a prosecutor dismisses lesser charges after a plea withdrawal only to then file more serious charges. See State v. Smallwood, 264 Kan. 69, 77-78, 955 P.2d 1209 (1998).
Cott also asks us to assess all speedy trial time against the State pursuant to K.S.A. 22-3402(2). On remand, the trial court can properly determine if a speedy trial issue exists should the State decide to refile all charges.
We reverse and remand. Should the State choose to refile charges, a new preliminary hearing shall be held.


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First off, the entire Donto path is a no go for me. I want a good GKT, but I don't consider myself a career SAM to the extent that I'd be willing to put all that time into a Masamune or a similar tier weapon. I've already made up my mind on Keitonotachi as a reasonable goal that I can aim for that won't consume all of my time.
I'm pretty confident, although correct me if I'm wrong, that the Store TP +12 version is the least good of the three. Most people I speak with seem to echo that.
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We, as citizens, demand a full investigation by our City Council into the matter and issues surrounding the privatization of the Sanitation department and the specific information regarding the sanitation contract
i.e. the leasing of our equipment, the Insurance issues, the location of our equipment (23 – 24 minutes out Dixie Highway, in Louisville, from New Albany), and more importantly – the $$ we have saved (or made), on this "privatized" deal!
Wrecks have occurred, our trucks have been cannibalized, and our New Albany public seal is missing from one truck. Is this particular truck being used in Bullitt County? Some say so, and that would answer the Seal question.
Taxpayers would like some answers, please. Not from the Mayor, not from other ill-informed sources, but the Council. Please, we need to take back what is ours, before it is too late.
That means a Resolution will have to be drafted and approved in order to get those answers; we'll see who steps up to do the right thing. This is going to require a full OUTSIDE investigation.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (Oct. 9, 2009) - Led by sophomore Paula Jaime (Madrid, Spain) the ETSU women's tennis team picked up two singles wins during first day action of the Kentucky Fall Invitational Friday, at the Henry J. Boone Tennis Complex in Lexington, Ky.
Jaime - a 2008 Atlantic Sun Conference Second-Team member - earned the Lady Bucs first victory of the day over Virginia's Neela Vaez 6-1, 6-2.
Fellow Lady Buc, freshman Diana Navrotska (Kviv, Ukraine), joined the winning ways as the ETSU newcomer made quick work of Penn State's Sarah Henderson in straight sets 6-3, 6-1.
"Today we had a lot of close matches, but overall I was glad to see Diana and Paula pick up some key singles wins," said head coach Steve Brooks.
Also in action for ETSU was freshman Miranda Cameron (Lenoir City, Tenn.), sophomore Karina Kedzo (Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela) and junior Andra Voinea (Brasov, Romania). Unfortunately, no other Lady Buc player could manage any singles victories.
In doubles action the ETSU duo of Kedzo and Jaime fell to the Ohio State team of Manashirova and Steele, 8-4, while the Lady Buo squad of Cameron and Voinea could not overcome the big serve of Maryland's duo Fournier and Wig, falling 8-2.
"Despite the lack of wins, today was a important for our girls with the experience they gained playing indoors," said Brooks. "Since we had rain early this morning all the events were moved inside, which gave us the opportunity to play a style of tennis that we don't get to see a lot at home. This should help prepare our players for the upcoming regionals, which tend to play at a quicker pace."
Attached above is a link to day one results. To access the tournament central webpage, courtesy of the Kentucky athletic department, please click on the link above or visit www.ukathletics.com.
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Did Danica Get Duggar'd? Robocall Campaign Launched Against Transgender Candidate
Nobody could ever accuse supporters of anti-LGBTQ GOP politician Bob Marshall of ever being original.
In 2014, former reality TV star Michelle Duggar of "19 Kids and Counting" famously lent her voice to a robocall campaign aimed to stir up fear in voters in advance of an anti-discrimination ordinance that was going before the Fayetteville, Arkansas City Council. In the call, Duggar vilified transgender citizens who would be protected by the law as "males with past child predator convictions that claim they are female to have a legal right to enter private areas that are reserved for women and girls."
In a replay of that scene, the Washington Post is reporting this week that conservative groups in Northern Virginia are taking a page out of the Duggar playbook by launching a fear-mongering robocall campaign as an attempt to take down Danica Roem, the state's first openly transgender candidate for elected office.
"Danica Roem supports policy that requires schools to allow boys to play on girls' sports teams and compete in girls' leagues," said a recorded voice in a telephone poll according to the WaPo. "Does this make you more or less likely to support Danica?"
Roem, who is the 13th District's Democratic candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates, is running against 11-term incumbent candidate Bob Marshall, a far right wing anti-LGBTQ Republican who has used his tenure in office to introduce a number of failed bills aimed to curtail the rights of LGBTQ Virginians. Marshall has repeatedly misgendered Roem throughout the campaign and has refused to debate her.
Roem responded to the robocalls on her Facebook page on October 9, writing:
"It's amazing how Del. Bob Marshall (R-13) lacked the courage to debate me but has just enough faux bravery as a 13-term incumbent to attack transgender children in a robocall going through the 13th District right now.
All this does is strengthen my resolve to soundly defeat him Nov. 7, and I hope it does for you too," Roem wrote.
"I will never back down from supporting *all* of our children, no matter what they look like, where they come from, how they worship or who they love, because everyone should feel welcome in our Virginia for who they are, not who politicians like Del. Marshall tell them they're supposed to be," she concluded.


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Furlan Shines at Mt. SAC Relays
The Mt. SAC Relays continued on Thursday in Walnut, Calif., as Jessica Furlan took to the track in dominant fashion.
Furlan was the top collegiate finisher and recorded a third-place finish in the women's 3,000 meter steeplechase invite elite division with a personal-best time of 9:58.52. Her time ranks third in the nation and first in the Big Ten entering this weekend. She already held the No. 2 spot on the all-time record list at Nebraska, but with her time on Thursday she moves closer to the Nebraska record of 9:39.35.
In the multi-event action, Anne Martin finished second in the heptathlon for the Huskers as she recorded a personal-best 5,321 points over two days of competition. She posted a jump of 18-5 (5.61) in the long jump to start the day and followed that performance with an event-best throw of 128-4 (39.11) in the javelin. Martin finished with a time of 2:23.26 in the 800 meters.
Jordan Stiens completed heptathlon action with a 13th-place finish and 4,849 points. She began her day with a leap of 17-7 (5.36) in the long jump, while recording a throw of 104-00 (31.70) in the javelin. Stiens posted a time of 2:27.93 in the 800 meters to close the final event of the two days of competition.
Teran Walford completed two-day decathlon action with a second-place finish and a personal-best total of 7,330 points. He started the day with a personal-best time of 14.67 in the 110 meter hurdles, before a discus throw of 130-7 (39.81). Walford then posted a personal-best pole vault of 15-1 (4.60), followed by a javelin throw of 153-4 (46.74). He completed the day with a time of 4:35.21 in the 1,500 meters.
In other events on the track, Jarren Heng finished with a time of 9:17.09 in the men's 3,000 meter steeplechase Olympic development section.


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Pepperdine University Libraries is pleased to announce the launch of its new channel with Historypin.com, a website and mobile application that allows the pinning of historical photographs, audio recordings, and moving image files to Google Maps. Would you like to see the Malibu hills in 1969 before the arrival of Pepperdine University, overlaid seamlessly with the current Google street view? Or perhaps you'd like to take a drive across the newly opened San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in 1940? You can do all of these things—and more—in our new, interactive Historypin.com channel.
Historypin.com, developed by the nonprofit We Are What We Do in partnership with Google Maps, facilitates social mapping, in which individuals or institutions create a visual history of a particular spot on Earth through pinning digitized photographs (or other media) along with the stories that contextualize and enrich the history behind the images. Historypin calls this "fourth dimensional mapping," a phenomenon that enables new ways for users to interact with historical photographs. For example, when you visit the Historypin website or mobile application, you can view the image, compare it with the current Google street view (when available), add your own stories to the image feed, use your smart phone to take a "Historypin Repeat" of the same scene, or link to the original image in our digital collections. In addition to searching or browsing images via the map, you can interact with materials in thematic collections or go on virtual walking tours.
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ABC.com is bringing more all-stars into the celebration for this season's "Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars." Supermodel and season nine alum Joanna Krupa and actor and recording artist Kyle Massey, who was a season 11 runner-up, are on board to join ABC.com's new web series, "After Party: Dancing with the Stars," presented by AT&T.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama will propose a 1 percent pay raise next year for federal workers.
The increase would mark the second year in a row that civilian federal workers would get a 1 percent hike after three straight years of pay freezes. Pay went up in January.
The Pentagon said military pay would go up by 1 percent as well. Service members did not experience the pay freezes that civilian workers did.
Obama actually sets the pay increase by presidential order but his budget, which comes out on March 4, sets aside the money for it.


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