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Alright, so I wasn't going to say anything, but since you have mentioned it like 100 times I'm going to refute your 'public school vs. private school undergrad' statements. You basically claim that since you went to a top liberal arts school and worked hard there, you will academically smoke classmates who went to a large public school and slacked. Besides the elitist undertones, I disagree completely. First off, LSAT scores tend to be similar (well, for the most part) among students at a given law school. Since the LSAT is standardized, it doesn't discriminate based on where you went to college. Second, and what I disagree about more, is the idea that a hard working liberal arts/ivy undergrad kid will dominate the 'slacker public school kid'. Did it ever occur to you that maybe exactly the opposite is true? Let's say the public school kid never put in any effort in college and got drunk 5 times a week, including finals, but with raw intelligence got decent grades. Well, now he is at the same law school as the liberal arts kid. And unless daddy is gonna hook him up with a biglaw gig post-graduation, he likely will not slack to the extent he did in college. So now that the naturally intelligent slacker is not a slacker, how will he do? Who knows. But I assure you he is no more likely to get beat out by the Lib arts kid than the lib arts kid is by him. Furthermore, why do you assume public schools are so much easier than private ones? I'd say it depends more on your major than your school.
It's foolish not to consider different backgrounds. The upper-crust sensibilities of one set of professors or students will cringe at the help-the-common-man presumptions of another set. The blather-on-creatively mistakes stemming from one type of undergraduate background will help or hurt a law student differently than the mistakes stemming from memorize-and-regurgitate programs. You ignore these propensities at your own peril. I won't make that mistake. I'll go into this program with my eyes as open as possible to the fact that the profs have all of them had experiences I didn't have, and they'll assume background information I might not know. I likely could have things over on them, too, if I were in the position of marking their essays; but I'm not, so I have to learn to mediate the gap and they -- in their arrogance -- can simply assume that their position is superior ("elite") and that others all wish to be where they are.
Wait, you don't know what "works for you"? Wow, what did you do in undergrad?
I'm trawling around the LSD boards looking for similar threads, or just remembering past posts in other places, and I see a real "class structure" in the advice.People who attend schools ranked roughly 50 to 100 say things about making sure you're coming off as a "bright" person. They don't put it that way but they tend to assert what I would consider basic test-taking skills -- double-checking yourself, thinking ahead before writing, making sure you see all the issues, and so on. They generally say (as has recently happened on this thread) "it's not rocket science, you can figure it out."People who attend even lower-ranked schools tend to assert one of two things: either (A.) there's no bleeping way to figure it out (and they're angry at the randomness) or (B.) make sure you learn LEEWS or IRAC or some other overt essay-writing structure.I'm happy to also see a few pieces of advice from people attending top-50 schools, and I suspect that there may even be a class distinction among those as well, in which people at T14 have something different to say from people at schools between 15 and 50. How did our Vandy boy do in the Vandy-class-rankings?The thing is, what you say, and what school you're at, aren't necessarily indicative of good advice for doing well at that school. The advice is more likely, good advice for that particular student at that particular school. Say you have a natural bent for writing essay exams, but you have spent your life in a memorize-and-regurgitate average institution of higher learning (where you did well). So you're not familiar with abstract analysis or with coping with ambiguities of source or intent. Therefore you'll talk a lot here at LSD about how the test-taker needs to double-check that he's noticed all the issues; and a lot about how policy (also known in some systems as "analysis of rationale" behind the enactment of the law in question) can influence your thinking; but you probably won't say too much about how you need to know all the rules, every single one of them: you might assume any student would know he needs this information; or you might already know how to "hedge" your memorization, something I personally have no talent at (I try to memorize it all, always, and that could be beneficial or detrimental). To the contrary, a different student who has attended a flaky place (like I have) where you were encouraged to "be your own man" and think "freely," likely will remind people that they have to catch all the possible issues, not go off half-cocked with a disorganized essay, that sort of thing.So, I'm sticking with the kitchen-sink approach, and with the professor-specific approach. I'm going to take every single piece of advice I can find and try to mix it all together to see if something comes out. Then, I'm going to troll around Tulane for upperclassmen who have taken my profs, and I'm going to pump them for what the prof's preferences seem to be. In specific I'm going to take a prof's available practice exams and demand he or she consider the answers. I intend to be pushy about it if the prof resists. My best experience so far has been reading "Getting to Maybe." It's by two Harvard JDs who were teaching (when they wrote it) at the University of Miami. This means T14 meets T100. I find their commentary pretty wise; and yet the Marquette and St. John's kids (in the Miami rankings range) who're on this thread make comments quite distinct from the "Maybe" discussion. The thing is, it goes a long way to disabusing the "cut and dried" test writer of his misapprehensions. I suspect this is because the authors come into their interaction with their OWN students, from a different set of assumptions. Students who tend to attend Miami may have a rather larger percent of people familiar with the memorize-and-regurgitate universe, than students who tend to attend Harvard. The advice in "Maybe," maybe, is geared best toward people who have to bridge that divide -- they went to one and now in law school need to please professors who went to the other. What about people from other backgrounds? Both students AND PROFESSORS will come to law exams with a variety of assumptions. I've unfortunately put all schools in North America onto a singular pole, of regurgitation-versus-creativity. This of course is a preposterously simplistic analysis of the possibilities.
I'm loose. I just like thinking. What, is there something WRONG with that?I recall my young days in junior high of asking how to get a date. "You THINK too much" said the ugly girls who wanted me to ask them out. "You need a nicer shirt" said the helpful girls. "Kiss me again" said the hotties. Not many hotties on this thread so far ...
Understood, and thanks for the constructive criticism. (Really. No sarcasm there.)Any thoughts on how to stop ... erm ... thinking too much? Or, at least, on how to recognize the distinction between (A.) over-thinking, to the detriment of your success (generally success = grades); versus (B.) thinking a lot, to the benefit of your success?


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Universal Pictures is moving forward with musical "In the Heights" and has signed scribe Marc Klein to tackle the adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit.
U originally hired the show's book writer, Quiara Alegria Hudes, to pen the script. But Klein, who recently sold the Ryan Reynolds-Anna Faris vehicle "TMI" to the studio, has been brought in to give the priority project a fresh set of eyes. Klein is expected to bring his draft in quickly as U is eyeing an August start date in New York to stay consistent with the play, which is set in the summer.
Kenny Ortega will direct "In the Heights," which spans three days in Gotham's Washington Heights neighborhood, where a bodega owner who inherited his grandmother's lottery windfall plots his retirement to a Dominican Republic beach. As he bids farewell to his customers on the block, he becomes conflicted about leaving behind a group that has become family.
Klein is working closely with the musical's creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, who will reprise his starring role and produce. Meryl Poster is producing.
Miranda wrote the lyrics and music and starred as bodega owner Usnavi in the play both Off Broadway and in its Main Stem transfer. The film will likely contain most of the stage musical's numbers as well as one new song written specifically for the bigscreen.
Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman Willis, all producers of the stage musical, are exec producing.
After the success of "Mamma Mia!," U is aiming to bring a number of musicals to the bigscreen including a "Mamma Mia!," sequel, "Wicked" and a remake of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
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Ewan McGregor: LAX Landing With the Family!
Ewan McGregor arrives at LAX Airport with his family on Monday (January 2) in Los Angeles.
The 40-year-old Scottish actor made his way through the terminal with wife Eve Mavrakis and their four daughters, Clara, 15, Esther, 10, Jamiyan, also 10, and their 1-year-old baby girl.
Ewan's new film with Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, will be opening the Palm Springs International Film Festival this Thursday (January 5).
Two of Ewan's other projects – Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, co-starring Michael Fassbender and Channing Tatum, and the drama Perfect Sense – will also be shown at the festival.
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On Dec. 7, the Supreme Court announced it would take up several issues related to same-sex marriage, prompting Record Opinion Page Editor Eric Grunder to weigh in on the subject Dec. 9, "Just let same-sex couples live their lives as they will."
On Dec. 7, the Supreme Court announced it would take up several issues related to same-sex marriage, prompting Record Opinion Page Editor Eric Grunder to weigh in on the subject Dec. 9, "Just let same-sex couples live their lives as they will."
Grunder proposes a simple reason for the bitter dispute over this issue: Those in opposition are guilty of discrimination.
His main premise for this conclusion is that "all men are created equal," therefore, persons should be allowed to participate in any activity available to the rest of society.
The progressive attempt to redefine family will not affect my marriage or Grunder's, but it'll most certainly affect future society, because it sows seeds of confusion in young, developing minds.
The argument he presents is representative of the society we have made for ourselves: self-centered. Marriage is not a social club but the foundation of all society.
For as marriage goes, so does the culture, inasmuch as dysfunctional family relationships produce children who struggle to cope with their own relationships at work, school or family. Public school teachers know this better than anyone.
Do people honestly believe that by calling any relationship "marriage," it will improve our family condition?
It can't, because marriage isn't only about individual freedom. It's ultimately about societal stability; it has a public purpose.
Diluting marriage by elevating relationships that cannot achieve a mother's nurture and a father's love and discipline will simply hasten the family's decline.
John B. Hymes
Thanks to Opinion Page Editor Eric Grunder for his Dec. 9 column, "Just let same-sex couples live their lives as they will."
I concur. I feel that the biggest threats to marriage are spousal abuse, drugs, alcohol, poverty and infidelity, regardless of sexual orientation.
It's a challenge to maintain loving relationships over a long period of time and circumstances, and we ought to be focusing on those skills rather than the dictionary definitions.
Peggy Guttieri
I was delighted to read that the local transit authority is about to put two Proterra all-electric buses on the streets. This Canadian company makes its buses in the United States. They are powered by special batteries (lithium titanate) that are quick-charge, slow-discharge and made by Altair Nano, where our son is a senior thermal engineer.
Actions such as these, along with wind farms on the Altamont and rooftop solar panels, will go a long way in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.
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I am somewhat at a loss about 2 of the sentences of "practice and review" in chapter 17, and I hope someone will be able to shed the light
1. Potens quoque est vis artium, quae nos semper alunt
The able is force of arts, which not always provide support? Doesn't really make sense. What am I missing?
3. Nam illa aetate pars populi in Italia iura civium numquam tenuit.
For during that era (?) part of the people in Italia never posessed [any] civil rights. How do I conciliate the 'never' and the 'during that time'? Shouldn't it be something like 'before this time'?


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Family History News and Views from Lisa Louise Cooke, host of The Genealogy Gems Podcast at www.GenealogyGems.com
Friday, May 23, 2008
Enumerate Me!...and him...and her...and her...
Last year a popular video went viral on YouTube. You've probably heard of it by now. It's called Google Me. A guy named Jim Killeen goes on a quest to find other guys named Jim Killean using Google. A quest he says that "all started when I Googled my name…"
Well, heck, we genealogists have googled a lot of our names over the years. So I've decided to do a shameless genealogical spoof called Enumerate Me!" "It all started when I searched my name in the census, and then I searched other genealogists names in the 1900 census…"
OK, so I couldn't find an EXACT match for "Lisa Cooke," but I'm content with the only Lisa Cook found in the 1900 census. She was born Sept 1859 in Tennessee. A widow at the age of 40, she ran the family farm in Cedar, Carroll Co., AR which also housed her son Fred, and mother Molly Robinson.
There were 13 choices for Louise Cooke. I liked the one found in Schuykill Haven, Pennsylvania. She was born in England in 1846 and came to America in 1867. Married to a coal miner foreman named William (ah, there's another name match!), Louise had 5 children, though only 4 survived. A daughter named Louise still lived with the couple.
Oh, but I couldn't just stop with my name. No genealogist is safe! So on to my fellow genealogy podcaster, Bill Puller of The Genealogy Tech Podcast.
William Puller of Camden, NY was born in Scotland in Nov. 1878 was one of 23 William Pullers in the 1900 census. He was a weaver of rugs, and at the age of 17 he immigrated to America. In 1900 at the age of 21 he was boarding with 84 year old John Meyer of Germany and his family in Camden. It was a household full of industrious English speaking immigrants from Canada, Ireland, Scotland, and England, not surprising as John's much younger wife was from England.
Myrtle Dear (which appears as "Dear, Myrtle" on the census form, lol) lived in Steen Creek, Rankin Co., MS, and was the 13 year old sister of Annie Rogers. Myrtle was born in Jan of 1881 and lived with the Rogers along with her mother Jane. The Dear women were pulling together in this farming community as both Annie Rogers and Jane Dear were widows with children still at home. She was one of two Myrtle Dears to choose from.
Blogger Apple of Apple's Blog had quite a popular name in 1900 with 42 appearing in the census. My personal fave is Apple Appinlove of Upton, Wilkes Co., GA, a 16 year old black man born May of 1884 in Georgia. He was a day laborer living with his brother Zan Ware. A close second is Apple Pie Bell of Watters, Floyd Co., GA a 13 year old also born in GA. I knew Georgia was famous for peaches, but I guess apples too!
Just one Randolph Seaver appears in 1900. He's a 53 year old living in Corry, Erie County PA. Randolph Seaver (we'll call him "Randy Seaver" like our friend and blogger) a native of New York, was a Physician and husband of 19 years to Nellie.
And finally we have nine ladies by the name of Anna Schander (not quite Anna-Karin like the Swedish genealogy podcaster, but they'll do) including one living in Ottawa, LaSalle Co., Illinois. She was born in February of 1870 born in Illinois to a German mother, and was the wife of a bartender named Joseph.
I guess I'm the genealogist who found myself – and fellow genealogists - in the 1900 census that is!
5 comments:
- Apple said...
Apple Jack sounds interesting, there were two. I tried to find Apple Charlotte with no luck but there were four Charlotte Apple's.
- May 23, 2008 at 3:31 PM
- Tim said...
What a fun exercise! I plugged Tim Agazio into the 1900 census and came up with zero hits. I then searched them all and still zero hits. I can't believe that of all of the people enumerated from the first census to the 1930 edition that I'm the only one with my name...it's not fair. As a consolation I searched using my first and middle names (Timothy Craig) and there were many hits, but somehow it's just not the same.
- May 23, 2008 at 7:06 PM
- Genealogy Gems said...
I didn't forget you Tim, but I found what you found - no Tim Agazio. But just think: You are one in a million! :-) Lisa
- May 23, 2008 at 8:21 PM
- footnoteMaven said...
I found eight Mavens, although only one of them was female. She was Mary - even though she worked as a servant.
Thanks for the fun!
- May 23, 2008 at 11:17 PM
- footnoteMaven said...
Sorry Lisa, should have qualified my comment by saying in the 1900 Census.
There were many Mavens throughout but few women.
- May 23, 2008 at 11:25 PM


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The schedule for the second inauguration of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden (all times EST):
Monday, Jan. 21
8:45 a.m. — The Obamas and Bidens attend a church service at St. John's Episcopal Church.
11:20 a.m. — Ceremonial swearing-in at the Capitol.
11:50 a.m. — Obama gives the inaugural address.
The order of the program:
Musical selections: The U.S. Marine Band
Musical selections: P.S. 22, Staten Island in N.Y., and Lee University Festival Choir, Cleveland, Tenn.
Call to order and welcoming remarks: Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
Invocation: Myrlie Evers-Williams
Musical selection: Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Oath of office administered to Vice President Biden: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Musical selection: James Taylor
Oath of office administered to President Obama: Chief Justice John Roberts
Inaugural address: President Obama
Musical selection: Kelly Clarkson
Poem: Richard Blanco
Benediction: the Rev. Luis Leon of St. John's Church, Washington
The National Anthem: Beyoncé
1:05 p.m. — Obama, Biden and their wives attend the inaugural luncheon.
2:40 p.m. — Inaugural parade begins. The Obamas and Bidens participate in a parade featuring floats and vehicles representing about 60 groups. Viewing stands and bleachers are lined along Pennsylvania Avenue.
6 p.m. — The Commander in Chief's Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center. The gala honors service members and their families.
6:30 p.m. — The Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
10:30 a.m. — National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral. The Obamas and Biden attend.
Staff Inaugural Ball at the Washington Convention Center.
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Alan E. Dyer, 89
Alan E. Dyer, 89, of Middletown, died Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009 at Newport Hospital.
He was born on April 29, 1919, in New Britain, Conn., the son of the late Raymond F. and Elizabeth (Slaney) Dyer.
His former wife, Bernadette (Gerdis) Dyer predeceased him in 1994.
Alan lived most of his life in Berlin and Kensington, Conn., but resided more recently in Illinois and moved four years ago to Rhode Island.
A 1937 graduate of Berlin High School, he attended the University of Kentucky, where he studied mechanical engineering. Alan was a kind and gentle man with a wonderful sense of humor and he will be greatly missed by his family and friends.
Alan served in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the South Pacific theater as a catapult specialist about the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. He was very proud of his service to his country. Prior to his naval service, he worked for Stanley Works as an assistant foreman and Pratt & Whitney as an aviation mechanic. Upon his return from the Navy, Alan worked for many years at Berlin Auto Sales as the service manager and as an automobile salesman at various auto dealers until his retirement. He then pursued a new career teaching automotive mechanics at Plainville High School, Porter's Automotive School of Technology and Technical Careers Institute.
He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Peter and Linda Dyer of Glastonbury, Conn.; his daughter, Jacqueline Hodgson of Jamestown; a brother, Richard Dyer of Warwick; two sisters, Elizabeth Brewster of Naples, Fla., and Nancy Bacon and her husband Robert of Amherst, N.H.; five grandchildren, Christine Dyer of Brighton, Mass., Heather Dyer of Glastonbury, Conn., Robert Hodgson and his wife Maria of Avon, Conn., Ann Charpentier and her husband Mark of Hailey, Id, and Alison Hodgson of Aspen, Col.; and four great-grandchildren, Robert and Alex Hodgson, Jake and Madeline Charpentier; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were Friday, Feb. 13 and burial with military honors was in Maple Cemetery, Berlin, Conn.
A memorial service will be held in the spring in Newport. Notes of memory or sympathy may be left at www.carlsonfuneralhome.com.


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70 set off on Start. 81 tiles and 38 maps ahead. Luck of the dice--be gone! With 6 1v1 games per round, you now have the power to win games and thus control your very own race towards the finish line!
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In playing, each of the 70 players is represented by a figurine (like in a traditional board game), which is "placed" on the first, Start tile (located in the top right of the board) at the beginning of the tournament.
- Due to the number of players and size of the board, there will be only be one figure on the board, showing what tile the leader is on. Rather, all players' positions will be tracked in the third post.
Play is divided into rounds, hereon known as "rolls."
Players first play games, and then move.
Like in any standard board game, players move from tile to tile towards the last, Finish tile at the bottom of the board.
But rather than moving through luck of the dice, the number of wins a player earns during a "roll" will correspond to the number of tiles that player may move forward.
So, if Klaus wins 4 games in Roll 1, he would correspondingly move 4 tiles forward (having "rolled" a 4), thus landing on Monsters.
Players will play games on the map corresponding to where they are located on the board at the start of a roll.
So, if Gunther is located on the Monsters tile, he will play all his 1v1 games for the current Roll on the Monsters map.
If a player does not win any games in a Roll, then that player "rolls a 0" and is eliminated from the tournament!
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Q: This is our first year with a water garden. I would like really like to clean it out in the spring but I don't know what to do with all of my koi fish? – Alice of Pennsylvania
A: First, you need to find a water tight container large enough to comfortably hold your koi. Kiddie pools or plastic storage containers work well for this. They not only are water tight, but will float on the surface of the water. It is important to fill the container with water from the water garden and not tap water. Simply use a small mag-drive pump to pump water from the water garden to the container. Use a fish net to carefully transport the koi into their new temporary home.
It is also important to maintain good water quality in the container. Since your container has no filtration I suggest to add an small aeration system to keep the water circulated as well as to maintain oxygen levels. After moving your koi into the container, they will be under stress. Adding pond salt to the water will also help keep their stress at bay.
You will also want to place a net over the top of the container so the koi do no jump out. If you can, place the container in a shaded area. If no shaded area is present, use a cloth to minimize direct sunlight.
Once completed you may go ahead and complete a spring cleanout. Once completed and filled with new water, we suggest to add water conditioner to remove any chlorine, heavy metals and chloramines in your tap water before transporting your koi back into the water garden.
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Developer sues Manchester, neighbors to push ahead south Elm Street redevelopmentBy BILL SMITH
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 02. 2013 10:20PM
MANCHESTER — A developer proposing a major redevelopment of a portion of south Elm Street has gone to court after failing to get aldermen to legally abandon unused street rights-of-way.
Oak Leaf Homes, LLC has filed suit against eight property owners and the city in Hillsborough Superior Court as it seeks sole ownership of alleys and passageways through its property between Elm and Willow streets.
The action is a "petition to quiet title," a legal proceeding in which Oak Leaf asks the court to enforce its rights to the land over and despite any claims by abutting and nearby landowners. It also seeks ownership of a small sliver of land it claims was inadvertently left out of a previous deed.
Questions on a property's title can hold up financing, since banks generally won't lend money if they can't be sure that the land on which they grant a mortgage really belongs to the borrower.
Oak Leaf principal Ron Dupont has proposed a $10 million, mixed-use project on the 1.75 acre site, including a four-story building with businesses on the first floor and 100-120 apartments above.
The dispute centers on rights nearby property owners claim to have in alleys and passageways that Oak Leaf argues it bought outright from prior owners.
Longtime property owners in the area say they have used the alleys that run through the land for parking, loading and other purposes for many years and Oak Leaf has no right to keep them from continuing to use the land. They claim the use is either an easement — which is the legal right to use the land of another property owner — or a public right-of-way.
Dupont and Oak Leaf first tried to settle the issue by petitioning the city to formally abandon its rights-of-way. But aldermen voted to dismiss the petition after Alderman Joe Kelly Levasseur suggested that no matter how the board voted, the issue would end up in court.
Eight property owners are named as defendants in the case, along with the city of Manchester, which does not plan to assert any right to the land in court.
Assistant City Solicitor Thomas Arnold said Monday the city has filed a notice with the court stating it has no legal interest in the case, meaning it considers the dispute competing claims by private property owners.


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Bottles of that Rozay in the VIP (P)
With the Wolf Gang, yea you wanna be (WolfGang)
Just because you got that ass don't mean you gonna be
I know what you want, you want the dick inside....you
You want me to be yo man, and stand beside you
I'm a playa aka, a slaya
I Peeped out the scene, I told her to see ya later
Bitch talking shit, what you drinking tonight?
I'm sipping on that promethazine codeine sprite
Yea I'm moving slow, but the music is fast
Don't you even start thinking about my cash
Yea I know a nigga just payed for that cab
Cause driving drunk, will end up in a bloody crash
But fuck it, driving in the night, I'm very well
Think you can go and tell yo friends them fairy tales
[Verse: Hodgy Beats]
Keep on playing round
Watch you bump yo head
Hit your noggin hard
Should've listened to what I said
Wisdom from the wise
Eyes are bloody red
Intoxicated Dreams, woke up in hell instead
Of my cow key cotton (?), and the lady of breast
Neighboring my flavoring, tryin' to see which move is next
Bitch I'm a secret agent, fucked up as my gun
Maging up, extending thumbs, dragging tongue, nigga fire
You need to stop playing around, curiosity killed the cat
But you roam in the dark, during the nighttime like a bat
Niggas be on the corner, teaching themselves how to Ollie
And I ain't, catching up seperately, bust home til I Gotti
The life of a teenager, young black in the hood
With aspirations of making out of the bad side, so everything could be good (I got to get outta of here man)
MellowHype lifestyle, Odd Future Records
We the hot shit, got em' sneezing out this pepper
Off of Hodgy Beat's new mixtape Rock/Slab, this song features Left Brain, produced by Hodgy himself which is wierd because, Left Brain is being featured and Brain usually produces his song.


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Newark Mayor Cory Booker has taken an initial step toward running for U.S. Senate in 2014, adding intrigue to his political future and that of 88-year-old fellow Democrat Frank Lautenberg, who currently holds the seat.
Booker filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday that allows him to raise money for a Senate campaign. The prolific social media user has not tweeted about it or made any public announcements about the filing, and his staff did not return a call to The Associated Press on Friday, but it came as no surprise.
Booker, perhaps New Jersey's highest-profile Democratic politician, last month turned down the party leaders who wanted to see him challenge incumbent Chris Christie in the 2013 gubernatorial election. Instead, Booker said, he was looking at a run for the Senate next year.
His interest puts pressure on Lautenberg, the oldest member of the Senate.
When Booker said he might run for the seat, he praised Lautenberg for his service, but said he had not spoken with him about his plans. Lautenberg's spokesman, Caley Gray, said in a statement Friday that Lautenberg has not decided whether to seek re-election next year.
The Stanford-educated Booker has steadily built his national profile over the last six years as Newark's mayor. An adept social media user with 1.3 million Twitter followers, Booker is known for responding to constituent complaints electronically and last year took on a tweeted challenge to live on food stamps for a week.
Lautenberg, who was treated for cancer three years ago, missed the Jan. 1 vote on the "fiscal cliff" legislation because of the flu but has never given any indication that he would like to retire.
And Booker has not said whether he would be willing to take on Lautenberg in a primary run if the senator tries to keep his seat.
In 2008, New Jersey's Democratic establishment decided that Lautenberg was not too old to serve.
U.S. Rep. Rob Andrews challenged him a primary. Most of the state's Democratic leaders stood with Lautenberg, who won handily then retained his seat in the general election.
U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone, a Democrat from central New Jersey, has also expressed interest in Lautenberg's seat. But on Friday, his spokesman, Raymond Zaccaro, said Pallone's not thinking about whether he'll run in the election, which is 22 months away, but instead is focused solely on recovery from Superstorm Sandy, which hit his district hard.
Booker was elected mayor of Newark in 2006 with 72 percent of the vote, four years after narrowly losing a bruising battle against longtime Mayor Sharpe James. The race was chronicled in the 2005 documentary "Street Fight." He was re-elected in 2010 with about 60 percent of the vote.
During Superstorm Sandy, he invited residents to charge their cellphones at his house. In April, he let the world know through Twitter that he rushed into his neighbor's house and rescued her from a fire. During a snowstorm, he helped shovel people out.
Booker's critics say he spends too much time rubbing elbows with celebrities and not enough fixing his city.
But in one case, his high-profile connections paid off. In 2010, after sitting with Booker at a dinner, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg agreed to donate $100 million to try to improve education in the city. Booker also boasts of a more stable city budget and of downtown redevelopment on his watch.
A Rhodes Scholar who grew up in suburban Harrington Park, N.J., Booker is the son of civil rights activists who were among the first black executives at IBM. He got his law degree from Yale Law School, then moved to one of Newark's most notoriously violent housing projects.
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[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 115th Congress] [115th Congress] [House Document 114-192] [The United States Constitution] [Pages 84-89] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov] ARTICLE VI.
|Sec. 194. Validity of debts and engagements.
|\1\All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.
|Sec. 195. Constitution, laws, and treaties the supreme law of the land.
|\2\This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby,
|Sec. 196. Oaths of public officers; and prohibition of religious tests.
|\3\The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
|Sec. 197. Form of oath.
|The form of the oath is prescribed by statute (5 U.S.C. 3331; I, 128): ``I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.''
|Sec. 198. Administration of oath at organization.
|The Act of June 1, 1789 (2 U.S.C. 25), provides that on the organization of the House and previous to entering on any other business the oath shall be administered by any Member (generally the Member with longest continuous service) (I, 131; VI, 6) to the Speaker and by the Speaker to the other Members and Clerk (I, 130). The Act has at times been considered in the House as directory merely (I, 118, 242, 243, 245; VI, 6); but at other times has been observed carefully (I, 118, 140). The Act was cited by the Clerk in recognizing for nominations for Speaker as being of higher constitutional privilege than a resolution to postpone the election of a Speaker and instead provide for the election of a Speaker pro tempore pending the disposition of certain ethics charges against the nominee of the majority party (Jan. 7, 1997, p. 115).
|Sec. 199. Functions of the Speaker in administering the oath.
|The Speaker possesses no arbitrary power in the administration of the oath (I, 134), and when objection is made the question must be decided by the House and not by the Chair (I, 519, 520). An objection prevents the Speaker from administering the oath of his own authority, even though the credentials be regular in form (I, 135-138). The Speaker has frequently declined to administer the oath in cases wherein the House has, by its action, indicated that the Speaker should not do so (I, 139, 140). And in case of doubt the Speaker has waited the instruction of the House (I, 396; VI, 11). There has been discussion as to the competency of a Speaker pro tempore to administer the oath (I, 170), and in the absence of the Speaker a Member-elect waited until the Speaker could be present (I, 179), but in 1920 a Speaker pro tempore whose designation by the Speaker had been approved by the House, administered the oath (VI, 20). The House may authorize the Speaker to administer the oath away from the House (I, 169), or may, in such a case, authorize another than the Speaker to administer the oath (I, 170; VI, 14). For forms used in this procedure, see VI, 14. On one occasion, the Speaker requested that guests in the gallery rise with the Members during the administration of the oath of office to a Member-elect (Nov. 12, 1991, p. 31255).
|Sec. 200. Administration of the oath as related to the quorum.
|Members-elect have been sworn at the beginning of a second session before the ascertainment of a quorum (I, 176-178), but when the Clerk called the second session of the 87th Congress to order, Members-elect were not sworn before ascertainment of a quorum and election of Speaker McCormack to succeed Speaker Rayburn, who had died during the adjournment sine die (Jan. 10, 1962, p. 5). Members-elect have also been sworn where a roll call or other ascertainment has shown the absence of a quorum (I, 178, 181, 182; VI, 21) but in one instance, however, the Speaker declined to administer the oath under such circumstances (II, 875).
|Sec. 201. Privilege of administration of the oath.
|A proposition to administer the oath is a matter of high privilege (VI, 14). It has been administered during a call of the roll and during an electronic vote on a motion to agree to rules at the time of organization (I, 173; VI, 22; Jan. 4, 2005, p. 46) and during an electronic vote taken during House deliberations interlocutory to an ongoing joint session to count the electoral votes (Jan. 6, 2005, p. 242). It also has been administered before the reading of the Journal (I, 172), in the absence of a quorum (VI, 22), on Calendar Wednesday (VI, 22), before a pending motion to amend the Journal (I, 171), and after the previous question has been ordered on a bill reported back to the House from the Committee of the
|Sec. 202. Challenge of the right to take the oath.
|The right of a Member-elect to take the oath is sometimes challenged, usually at the time of organization of the House. The challenge may be made by a Member-elect who has not yet taken the oath (I, 141). The Member challenging does so on his responsibility as a Member or on the strength of documents (I, 448) or on both (I, 443, 474). And where an objection was sustained neither by affidavit nor on the responsibility of the Member objecting, the House declined to entertain it (I, 455).
|Sec. 203. Consideration of an objection to the taking of the oath.
|It has been held, although not uniformly, that in cases in which the right of a Member-elect to take the oath is challenged, the Speaker may direct the Member to abstain temporarily (I, 143-146, 474; VI, 9, 174; VIII, 3386). The Member so challenged is not thereby deprived of any right (I, 155). Similarly, the seating of a Member-elect does not prejudice a pending contest, brought under the Federal Contested Elections Act (2 U.S.C. 381-396), over final right to the seat (Jan. 7, 1997, p. 120; Jan. 4, 2007, p. 5). When several are challenged and abstain, the question is first taken on the Member-elect first required to abstain (I, 147, 148). In 1861 it was held that the House might direct contested names to be passed over until the other Members- elect had been sworn in (I, 154). Motions and debate are in order on the questions involved in a challenge, and in a few cases other business has intervened by unanimous consent (I, 149, 150). By unanimous consent the consideration of a challenge is sometimes deferred until after the completion of the organization (I, 474), and by unanimous consent also the House has sometimes proceeded to legislative business pending consideration of the right of a Member to be sworn (I, 151, 152).
|Sec. 204. Relation of credentials to the right to take the oath.
|Although the House has emphasized the impropriety of swearing a Member without credentials (I, 162-168), yet it has been done in cases in which the credentials are delayed or lost and there is no doubt of the election (I, 85, 176-178; VI, 12, 13), or in which the governor of a State has declined to give credentials to a person whose election was undoubted and uncontested (I, 553). A certificate of election in due form having been filed, the Clerk placed the name of the Member-elect on the roll, although he was subsequently advised that a State Supreme Court had issued a writ restraining the Secretary of State from issuing such certificate (Jan.
|Sec. 205. Sanity, loyalty, and incapacity as related to the oath.
|Questions of sanity (I, 441) and loyalty (I, 448) seem to pertain to competency to take the oath as a question of qualifications, although there has been not a little debate on this subject (I, 479). In one case a Member-elect who had not taken the oath was excluded from the House because of disloyalty, in which the resolution of exclusion and the committee report thereon concluded that he was ineligible to take a seat as a Representative under the express provisions of section 3 of the 14th amendment (VI, 56-59). This action by the House was cited in the Supreme Court decision of Powell v. McCormack, 395 U.S. 486, 545 fn. 83 (1969), which denied the power of the House to exclude Members-elect by a majority vote for other than failure to meet the express qualifications stated in the Constitution. In Bond v. Floyd, 385 U.S. 116 (1966), the Supreme Court held that the exclusion by a State legislature of a member-elect of that body was unconstitutional, where the legislature had asserted the power to judge the sincerity with which the Member-elect could take the oath to support the Constitution of the United States. In the 97th Congress, the House declared vacant by majority vote the seat of a Member-elect unable to take the oath because of illness, in which the medical prognosis showed no likelihood of improvement to permit the Member-elect to take the oath or assume the duties of a Representative (H. Res. 80, Feb. 24, 1981, pp. 2916-18).
|Sec. 206. Decisions of the Court.
|Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States: McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316 (1819); Ex parte Garland, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 333 (1867); Davis v. Beason, 133 U.S. 333 (1890); Mormon Church v. United States, 136 U.S. 1 (1890).


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: OK, that seems reasonable. Obviously it will take me some time (probably years!) to get anywhere near the 200 saint mark, but I thought I'd best find out what to do ahead of time. I'll be very happy if I do manage to get even half of the saints I know about into OrthodoxWiki.[[User:James|James]]
: OK, that seems reasonable. Obviously it will take me some time (probably years!) to get anywhere near the 200 saint mark, but I thought I'd best find out what to do ahead of time. I'll be very happy if I do manage to get even half of the saints I know about into OrthodoxWiki.[[User:James|James]]
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I'm a convert in the Church of Romania and am pretty fluent in Romanian, having worked there for some considerable time. I have never heard the Orthodox faith referred to as 'Dreapta credinta' and the only time I've ever seen 'Dreptcredincios' used is as a title for a saint - i.e. 'Dreptcredinciosul Voievod Stefan cel Mare si Sfant' (The Right-Beleiving Voievod - sort of like Prince, but no real translation - Stephen the Great and Holy). Usually, contrary to what is stated in this article, the faith is known as 'Ortodoxie' or 'Crestinism Ortodox' and the Orthodox faithful are known as Ortodox(a) pl. Ortodocsi. I'd cheerfully correct this (I've corrected the odd word of Romanian already where there were problems) but I don't want to step on anyone's toes. If whoever originally wrote the article thinks my comments are incorrect, I'd appreciate it if you'd give me some justification for what I see as problems - perhaps this is normal language in some regions of Romania, but it certainly isn't in Moldova and Bucovina, in my experience.
- Well, the Romanian Orthodox Church is a bit strange in that it uses several words for the same thing. So sometimes it keeps the greek/slavonic word, sometimes it translates it (see the use of both 'slava' and 'marire' for glory). Referring to Orthodoxy as "dreapta credinta" is not very common, unless it's in some context - thus, in a sermon the priest may urge the faithful to uphold "dreapta credinta." The only other context where I know of the translation is in the service itself: at the Great Entrance, when the priest says "May the Lord remember you, orthodox Christians..." he says "dreptmaritorilor crestini." It's similar at the end of Vespers. Otherwise, you're right - the faith itself is known as 'ortodoxie.' I hope this helps. Virgil
- This article as it now stands is largely taken from Wikipedia:Romanian Orthodox Church. I'm the one who imported it the way that it is, and I don't know either way regarding the issue you raise. You'd know better than I and are free to edit the article according to your knowledge. Please feel free to register for an account and help us out! --Rdr. Andrew 10:06, 10 Mar 2005 (CST)
- Thanks Virgil and Rdr Andrew. I've now signed up for an account. What I'd most like to contribute to the site are articles on Romanian saints, monasteries etc. Ethnically, I'm German/Czech by way of Britain but I feel more like an adopted Romanian nowadays, having married into a Romanian family and as I find that there appears to be very little on the web about Romanian saints, traditions etc. when compared to Greek or Russian, I think this would be a worthwhile thing to do. I agree with you, Virgil, regarding the use of dreapta credinta etc. - it simply didn't register with me that way because you could just as easily write 'True Faith' or 'True Christians' in English without it referring to Orthodoxy. Romanian is a second language for me after all. I think maybe the wording of the article should be changed to something along the lines of 'also sometimes called...' rather than 'usually called...'. What do you think? --James
- Your suggestions for contribution sound excellent—the Church of Romania is, after all, the 2nd largest Orthodox Church in the world, and I fear many English-speakers know very little about it. (I honestly wish that there were more of a Romanian ecclesiastical presence in the West.) --Rdr. Andrew 08:43, 11 Mar 2005 (CST)
- It seems to me that "May the Lord remember you, orthodox Christians..." is not referring to the Orthodox faith as such. I mean this: that at the time it was written, I don't imagine that Orthodox was the primary designation for the Church (that was more an adjective, no? and something like "The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church" would have been more of a formal descriptor?). Sure, it does refer to Orthodox Christians, and, sure, it is a statement against heresy, but it seems to me like the best way of translating this would simply be "right-believing Christians" rather than 'Orthodox' with a big 'O'. All of this is to say that I'm not sure it's a great guide to the self-designations of the Romanian Orthodox Church, or at least there are some issues to work out there. What do you think? Fr. John
I removed the link to the Tertullian treatise, mainly because it doesn't seem to have any reference to Dacia in it. Am I missing something? --Rdr. Andrew 12:45, 17 Mar 2005 (CST)
- I don't think you missed anything. I didn't read the article so I'd missed it but I turned up nothing at all searching for Dacia, Geat or Get or any other Romanian tribal name variant I can think of that was used in antiquity. Even the references to Scythians (Scythia Minor was modern Dobrugea and there were Scythian tribes in North Eastern Moldova) seem to be irrelevant - merely using them as examples of heathen barbarians. I think you were right to remove the link. James 02:58, 18 Mar 2005 (CST)
Romanian saints, monasteries etc.
This is really just a question on style, but these sections are growing larger and, if I can do so, I will expand the contents a lot in the future. Should the titles, then, be made into links to the appropriate categories, or should I leave them as they are? If they're left as they are, should I add a link to, for example, every saint I add (which, hopefully, will be an awful lot) or just leave a few as examples? I will follow any advice given. I know enough about at least 6 or 7 monasteries (and a few churches and cathedrals) to write at least a short article on them and have access to the lives of at least a couple of hundred Romanian saints, so if I carry on the way I have been the lists are likely to get umanageable. On the issue of saints, monasteries and the like, I'm in the process of trying to get permission to use images from web sites to illustrate them, particularly icons. Assuming I'm given permission, I will add them as soon as possible. James 07:17, 21 Mar 2005 (CST)
- I think if there are just a couple dozen or so links in a list, then keeping it in this article would probably work fine. If, however, you put in all 200 saints' lives(!) you have, it would probably be better to create a separate article with that list, and include only a "greatest hits" section in this article with a link to that big list (perhaps List of Romanian saints). --Rdr. Andrew 08:52, 21 Mar 2005 (CST)
- OK, that seems reasonable. Obviously it will take me some time (probably years!) to get anywhere near the 200 saint mark, but I thought I'd best find out what to do ahead of time. I'll be very happy if I do manage to get even half of the saints I know about into OrthodoxWiki.James
Re: The Church in Moldova
I'm not sure how to describe this confusing issue in the Wiki-article but currently it does not reflect the situation correctly (as I, Moldovan Orthodox, think).
Republic of Moldova is an independent state where majority of population speaks Romanian language but only 2.1% of them considered themselves to be Romanians and 76.1% identify themselves as Moldovans (out of total 3,388 thousands, census of 2004). The ecclesiastical situation is following.
Self-ruled Metropolis of Chisinau and Moldova. Self-rule granted in October of 1992. Metropolitan Vladimir, permanent member of Holy Synod of Russian Orthodox Church. Four eparchies: Chisinau, Tiraspol and Dubasari, Edinets and Briceani, and Cahul and Comrat. Church languages - Romanian and Slavonic. Church music - Byzanthine and Russian. 1080 parishes, 30 monasteries, 1 academy, 2 seminaries.
Autonomous Metropolitan See of Basarabia. 30 parishes in Moldova, Odesa region of Ukraine and Chuvash region of Russia (Ural mountains). Founded by bishop of Balti, Petru (Paduraru) in 1992. Supported by political parties opposing independence of Republic of Moldova. It considers itself to be the heir of Metropolitan of Basarabia that existed in 1918-1940 (to make long story short, independent Moldovan Republic existed only for several days after which it was occupied by Kingdom of Romania and annexed) despite protests of non-canonical activity by St. Patriarch Tikhon.
In 1812-1918 the territory of modern Republic of Moldova was Chisinau Eparchy of Russian Church (first Metropolitan - Gavriil (Banulescu-Bodoni), last - Anastasios, future first-hyerarch of Russian Church Abroad), 1401-1812 - part of different eparchies of Ecumenical Patriarchate, since 1791 Moldovlachian Exarchate, 1373-1401 - self-ruled church.
I'm not sure how this information can be used (may be as a separate article, as you wish).
Thank you!


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Chromosome 7p11.2(EFFR) and 7q36.1(XRCC2) variants influence glioma risk
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Objective: Gliomas are the commonest primary brain tumors and for many patients the disease is eventually lethal. Its cause is largely unknown. To identify genetic risk variants for glioma, we have analysed genome-wide association (GWA) study data on 4,147 glioma cases and 7,435 controls.
Methods: Patients and controls were genotyped for 424,460 common tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). We also correlated SNPs to tumor histology and prognosis.
Results: We observed a significant association between glioma and two SNPs, rs11979158 and rs2252586, at chromosome band 7p11.2 which encompasses the EGFR gene (P = 7.03x10-8 and 7.89x10-8; per allele odds ratio, 1.23 and 0.85 respectively) and rs2040639 at 7q36.1 (P=2.81x10-7; per allele odds ratio, 0.86) annotating the XRCC2 gene. The 7p11.2 and 7q36.1 associations were independent of tumor subtype, compatible with driver effects on tumorigenesis. There was no association between either SNP and prognosis.
Conclusions: Common genetic variation at chromosome band 7p11.2 and 7q36.1 are associated with susceptibility to glioma and implicate variation in EGFR and XRCC2 in disease etiology.


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Explore the bizarre world of video art without clicking through names of artists you probably haven't heard about anyway. This single feature website contains just one button that launches a random video. Organize your own Ubu Roulette party. Invite friends (or better even random people), connect a beamer and point your browser to ubu-roulette.com. Random art is a perfect way to trigger random conversations.
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Juggling Multiple Dropbox Accounts on a Mac
I need to work with two Dropbox accounts on my Mac, one for work and one private account. I came up with the following solution:
- create an additional user account on your mac
- install Dropbox and set it up for the secondary account
- choose a custom location for the Dropbox folder
- As location choose or create a folder inside the "Shared" folder (Users/Shared/)
- set the permissions so that the primary user has read & write access (select the folder and type command-i)
- in order for the syncing to work properly, the secondary user needs to stay logged in in the background
To be clear: I respect that DroBox has a freemium pricing model and I don't want to encourage you to double the size of your Dropbox folder using this workaround. However, sometimes it can be practical to be able to access two accounts.
Lean Patents
It's high time that the the process of filing patents gets simplified to reflect the triviality of what qualifies as patentable. By making filing of patents informal and easy, we create a more inclusive and democratic institution and may shift power from large corporations to individuals and small companies who may lack the means of production and even the skill to realize their ideas and establish a business model around them. Skill is a modernist concept that seems outdated in times of Real Post Modernism.
Fighting for Equal Rights is Not Extreme!
Towards the end of the Q&A session at "BERLIN'S MEDIA ART COMMUNITY: A FEMALE PERSPECTIVE" the inevitable question whether the panel members considered themselves feminists was asked. The panel's reaction was predictable: No one wants to be seen as the cliché feminist. The organizer points out that the they used "female" in the title of the event instead of "feminist", because they thought not every participant would see herself as a feminist. Everybody seems to agree that feminism has negative associations. It is obligatory to distance oneself from those uncool bitter and unsexy feminists form the seventies.


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Edgewood man arrested in fire at his own house
Dog dies in fire that causes $175,000 in damage
Edgewood man arrested in fire at his own house
Dog dies in fire that causes $175,000 in damage
EDGEWOOD, Md. —
State fire investigators arrested a man accused of setting his own deck on fire, killing his dog.
Deputy state fire marshals arrested William E. Lowry, 69, on Friday in connection with a fire on Oct. 11, which caused an estimated $175,000 in damages. Officials charged Lowry with first- and second-degree arson.
Fire investigators said about 30 firefighters from three departments were called at about 5:30 a.m. to the 200 block of Kennard Avenue, where a fire consumed the house.
Crews rescued Lowry and took him to Bayview Medical Center.
Lowry remained held Friday night at the Harford County Detention Center on an unrelated warrant. A bond review hearing is pending.
If convicted, Lowry could face up to 50 years in prison and/or $80,000 in fines.


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By now, you should be singing that ol' favorite genealogy hymn, "I'm My Own Grandpa."
Monday, April 22, 2013
A to Z April Challenge: S is for Sudie Belle
By now, you should be singing that ol' favorite genealogy hymn, "I'm My Own Grandpa."
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Fantastic. A friend of mine's sister has just become engaged to her husband's brother. So her sister will also be her sister-in-law and then her brother-in-law will become her brother-in-law again. Can you have a 'double brother-in-law?' It's complicated.ReplyDeleteReplies
A double brother-in-law? Sure, I'm sure it's allowed.Delete
You made me laugh.ReplyDelete
Happy A to Z!
Thanks for visiting!Delete
You made all that up!!! On second thought, after listening to "I'm My Own Grandpa", Sudie's line of kin is perfectly plausible. What a DNA nightmare! Great photo and video!ReplyDelete
My Letter 'S'...Our Middle Name Is Sue
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Yeah, and in a program like Family Tree, you aren't given all the possible relationship options!Delete
What a story!ReplyDelete
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Happy Monday to you too!Delete
We're so proud and I love I'm my own Grandpa! Clay and I used to sing it all the time!ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, so much of which to be proud.Delete


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Cavaliers closing in on Webb Shield final
THE Toowoomba Cavaliers are just one game away from the Webb Shield final after making short work of Tweed District at Rockville Park yesterday.
The Cavaliers cruised home by five wickets to pick up a double bonus point and move into second spot on the ladder with one round left to play.
Tweed District batted first but struggled to build any momentum against the Toowoomba attack.
Shaun McCarthy (2-16) and Aaron Watson (2-18) struck early and often as the Cavaliers took control of the contest.
The visitors were on the ropes at 4-16 before a true captain's knock from Tait Burns (47) stemmed the flow of wickets.
But it was the only highlight in an otherwise dismal innings for Tweed District as they were knocked over for just 97.
In reply, Toowoomba needed just 11.2 overs to chase down the target with debutant Liam Brown (34no) leading the way.
The Cavaliers shared the workload with Dean White (2-9), Tom Carty (2-21) and Matt Elford (2-30) also picking up wickets.
Cavaliers skipper Troy Gurski praised the efforts of the team's bowlers to knock over Tweed so quickly.
"The boys all bowled good areas," he said.
"To go out and knock them off before lunch with the double bonus point is great."
Gurski said he was confident the Cavaliers would secure a place in the Webb Shield final.
"We're quietly confident. We've still got to put it all together in our next game," he said.
"But going on today's performance, I can't see why we won't be there."


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The ice storm that's blanketed North Texas streets and highways has spawned a new name: cobblestone ice.
Cobblestone ice — sounds poetic, doesn't it?
Not if you've had to drive through it.
So what is it?
Ryan LaFontaine of the Texas Department of Transportation says cobblestone ice is a combination of ice accumulation and sand laid down by TxDOT and city trucks — which traffic compresses together to form a cobblestone-type surface, a thick layer of frozen ruts and potholes. In some places, it's several inches deep.
It's superbumpy ice that jolts you as you drive across it.
It doesn't help matters that the ice has been melting and refreezing.
It's stubborn
LaFontaine says it's not easy to get rid of it.
"It has to be kind of busted up and become a slushy substance in order for us to plow it to the side," he said.
TxDOT crews from the Dallas and Tarrant regions are out breaking up and removing as much of the cobblestone ice as they can during the day before it freezes up again at night.
Many normal snowplows have had problems removing the ice. So TxDOT has had to bring in motor graders from across the state to chew through the thick, stubborn stuff.
A tough time for truck drivers
Franchester Smith, a trucker, has been stuck in the ice at the Love's truck spot in Denton. She drove in from Atlanta. She's ready to move on.
Cobblestone ice, she says, is the worst.
"You got all these dents," Smith said. "It just makes it really bad. Where you think it's a pothole, but it's not. It's all the ice and snow that froze over it. You're rolling over it and rolling over it."
Eduardo Ruvalcaba, another trucker, has been stuck at a truck stop, the Travel Center of America, on Interstate 35 north of Denton since Thursday.
"It's not pretty," he said. "There was a coach bus that lost a tire because it was getting beat up so bad. All the truckers, that's what they've been complaining — our equipment is taking a beating over this."
Jon Gandelman, who's been driving trucks for 15 years, says he's used to winter storms. Usually, you try to plow through. But with these road conditions? It's another story. He arrived in Denton after being stuck in Oklahoma a couple of days. What's he been doing?
"A lot of sitting, a lot of ice. I'm from California and we chain up all the time to go across the mountain passes. That's just snow. When it's ice, you don't go anywhere."
'Moguls for cars'
"Moguls for cars," is how Larry Mowry described it. Mowry's the chief meteorologist at KTVT (Channel 11).
It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Audie Cornish.
And I'm Melissa Block.
Travel has been a nightmare along the East Coast today. Thick blankets of snow have snarled roads, closed schools and government offices and delayed thousands of flights. In north Texas, the ice storm from last weekend is still causing trouble. Most highways are clear but a stubborn storm remnant called cobblestone ice has cropped up. It's causing problems on interstate bridges, overpasses and off-ramps. Stella Chavez of member station KERA in Dallas reports.
STELLA CHAVEZ, BYLINE: This is what driving over cobblestone ice sounds like. This mix of chunky ice and sand that's frozen and unfrozen and frozen again makes it feel like you're driving over a cobblestone street. But these are deep, frozen ruts and it's super jarring. Many truckers, like Eduardo Ruvacalba, try to avoid it as much as possible.
EDUARDO RUVACALBA: It's not pretty. There was a coach bus that lost a tire because, I mean, it just was - it was getting beat up so bad. All the truckers have - that's what they've been complaining, you know, that our equipment is taking a beating over this.
CHAVEZ: The cobblestone ice is a combination of accumulating ice and sand that's been put down to break it up. Traffic compresses the mixture and it turns into these deep potholes. It's been difficult for transportation officials to break up the icy mess. Jon Gandelman's been driving trucks for 15 years and says he's used to winter storms. Usually, he tries to plow through but these road conditions are another story. He arrived in Texas after being stuck in Oklahoma for a couple of days.
JON GANDELMAN: A lot of sitting, a lot of ice. I'm from California and we chain up all the time to go across the mountain passes. That's just snow. When it's ice like this, you don't go anywhere.
CHAVEZ: And not going anywhere means goods weren't delivered on time. Many grocery stores ran out of milk, bread and produce ahead of the ice and have been slow to restock. At another truck stop in Denton, Franchester Smith had been trapped for a day and said she'd had enough. Before last weekend, she'd never heard of freezing fog but the worst, she says, is cobblestone ice.
FRANCHESTER SMITH: You got all these dents and it just makes it really bad. Where you would think it was a pothole but it's not. It's all the ice and snow that froze over and you're rolling over it, rolling over it.
CHAVEZ: There's been a bit of good news today. Some of the trapped truckers have been able to depart. But even though the weather has improved during the day, temperatures plummet at night, starting the freezing process all over again. For NPR News, I'm Stella Chavez in Dallas. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Dear Gossips,
I walked by Lindsay Lohan's amazingly entertaining lawyer, Mark Heller, in the lobby of the hotel on Saturday. He was on his phone, pacing, speaking loud enough so that you could hear the entire conversation if you cared enough to stop. Loud cell phone talkers are the worst, non? My ma is a loud cell phone talker, not unlike many people who come from Hong Kong. They only have one volume. Me, when I'm in public, like on a plane or something, I'm a low cell phone talker. If I'm low cell phone talking to my ma, she's all like, what, I can't hear you, are you sick, why you talk so low? And you can hear her more than you can hear me. She's embarrassing on a cell phone even when she's on the other end. Anyway, my point is, this is who's representing Lindsay Lohan today...AT HER TRIAL. Did you think maybe in real life he wouldn't be exactly like how he appears on TMZ? With his fancy briefcase and the rabbit's foot dangling off it?
As of this writing, oh for f-ck's sake, it's not known whether or not Lohan will make it to court. Something about cancelling a flight on Saturday to see a band (which probably means she wanted to mess around with the lead singer) and maintenance issues with the flight on Sunday.
But it's not her fault the plane was sketchy!
If that loser was actually taking her sh-t seriously, don't you think it would have been more prudent to get in earlier, to prepare, to rest, to NOT risk missing the first day of her goddamn trial?
Oh wait!
UPDATE -- at 3 o'clock in the morning, Lohan tweeted that some rich dude, the owner of Mr Pink Beverages, is letting her borrow the private jet. Did she froth him up before, after, or during the flight?
It's around 5 hours from New York to LA. Which means Lohan should touch down around 8am PT. And by the time she gets through traffic...
Maybe some other billionaire will come through with a helicopter and land it right on the courthouse steps. Is it Dina Lohan who has to keep track of all the favours Lindsay has to work off?
Yours in gossip,


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|GTA San Andreas.
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|Passenger jetliner
The AT-400 is a jet airliner in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Based on either the Boeing 737-300 or the Airbus A320 commercial jets, the AT-400's large size and sluggish response makes the plane harder to control, similar to the Andromada. Nevertheless, the plane can in fact be used to execute stunts, including barrel rolls and loop-the-loops.
A primary disadvantage to this plane is once you land and get out you can't get back in because the door is very high from the ground. The only way you can get back in it to find a Baggage with a ladder attached to the back, land the plane at Las Venturas Airport and go to the hangar again, or find a Yankee and jump over it, using its back side as a platform. Los Santos International has unmovable ramps that can also be used to disembark from the airplane.
Unlike most other planes, this plane is also the only one that can be flown over Area 69 with less chance of being shot down by homing missiles, providing you don't hang around. The AT-400 is also only one of two aircraft that can fly to the maximum height in the game, the other being the Hydra.
Like the other planes, it can also be seen flying in the distance, but it is hard to take down the flying AT-400, even with homing rockets or kamikaze style attack. The plane is also used for paid commercial flights between cities in San Andreas.
As a controllable vehicle, the plane is considerably rare, appearing in only one location, inside the large airport hangar in Las Venturas Airport in Las Venturas, when the player approaches from the south. Regardless, the plane does not always spawn in the hangar. As there is no reference made in the game to the plane being available, and unless the player thoroughly explores the airport property he may not trigger the hangar doors to open, the plane qualifies as an easter egg.
- Like most other aircraft in the game, the AT-400 plays K-DST by default.
- The AT-400 is the largest controllable vehicle in the game (the second is Tug, a boat from GTA IV), the Andromada being the third largest. Interestingly enough, when comparing their real life counterparts the cargo plane (Andromada) is actually bigger than the passenger jet (AT-400).
- The AT-400's initials are similar to that of the Air Train, a similarly sized airliner that repeatedly appears as a static prop earlier in GTA III and GTA Vice City. The suffix '-400' suggests that it is a more advanced version of the Air Train.
- In real life, the twin-engine 737 (the design of which inspired the AT-400) succeeded the trijet 727, on which the Air Train is based.
- Certain modifications, like the "Fly Mod" and the "Anti-Material Rifle", can knock an AT-400 out of the sky but it still takes a lot of practice to bring one down even with modifications.
- There is no way the AT-400 can be saved at a garage, since the entrance at the aircraft hangar at Verdant Meadows is too small for the plane to fit; obviously, normal garages at safehouses are way too small.
- Of all aircraft in GTA San Andreas, the AT-400 is the most durable of all. Even when shot from SAM sites it can withstand between 8 to 11 hits before blowing up and falling from the sky.
- As the AT-400 is based on the Boeing 737, its presence in the game as well as only being found at Las Venturas Airport, which is in itself based on Las Vegas Airport, could be a reference to Janet Airlines who operate Boeing 737s out of Las Vegas to shuttle workers to the Nevada Test Site including Area 51, which in turn is parodied by Area 69.


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General Comments: Futures were higher on follow-through buying. It was a low volume session with the holiday yesterday, and today could be a low volume session as well. Futures held the short term range. It is possible that futures can work lower again as demand has turned soft. Ideas of better production conditions in the U.S. caused some selling interest. Texas is reporting light precipitation, mostly in southern areas. Dry weather is being reported in the Delta and showers and storms are seen in the Southeast. The weather should help support crop development in the Delta and Southeast, and could help in Texas. Weather for Cotton appears good in India, Pakistan, and China.
Overnight News: The Delta should be dry and Southeast will see showers and rains. Temperatures will average near to above normal. Texas will be mostly dry. Temperatures will average above normal. The USDA spot price is now 82.78 ct/lb. ICE said that certified Cotton stocks are now 0.602 million bales, from 0.597 million yesterday. ICE said that 53 notices were posted today and that total deliveries are now 2,515 contracts.
Chart Trends: Trends in Cotton are mixed . Support is at 86.20, 85.20, and 84.00 October, with resistance of 88.00, 88.20, and 89.70 October.
General Comments: Futures closed higher for one more day. There has been little selling pressure on the market since the dramatic move lower, but some may develop son as futures are closer to resistance areas. Better weather in Florida seems to be the big problem for the bulls at this time. Showers are reported and conditions are said to have improved in almost the entire state. Ideas are that the better precipitation will help trees fight the greening disease. No tropical storms are in view to cause any potential damage. Greening disease and what it might mean to production prospects continues to be a primary support item and will be for several years. Temperatures are warm in the state, but there are showers reported. Brazil is seeing near to above normal temperatures and mostly dry weather, but showers are possible later this week.
Overnight News: Florida weather forecasts call for showers. Temperatures will average near to above normal. ICE said that 0 delivery notices were posted today and that total deliveries for the month are now 0 contracts.
Chart Trends: Trends in FCOJ are mixed. Support is at 130.00, 125.00, and 122.50 September, with resistance at 135.00, 138.00, and 139.00 September.
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Tom Orry, Editor - Sleeping Dogs, Xbox 360
I've just played through the most exciting moment of Sleeping Dogs so far, but because I don't want to spoil it for you I can't really say anything about it. I think overall the game doesn't quite link things together well enough to be a true great, but I'm engaged with the characters just enough to make what just happened a big moment. It was pretty obvious that a moment like this was going to happen to kick-start the second half of the story, but developer United Front handled it well.
In other news I spent most of the week playing FIFA 12 at lunch time in the office. There are definitely members of the team that take this more seriously than others, and it's always good fun to watch a certain ad sales man storm out of the room claiming he's never going to play again.
Neon Kelly, Video Production Editor - Counter-Strike: Global Offensive PC, PS3, Xbox 360
CS: GO is still dominating my out-of-work play, and until we hit the first big releases of the Chrimbo run-up (which admittedly will happen quite soon), I don't see that situation changing. Lake is easily my favourite of the new Demolition maps, but I've also got a lot of love for Safehouse too. Both seem to offer endless potential for cat-and-mouse antics, and though the 360 pad is hardly a match for a good old mouse-and-keyboard setup. I'm still managing to pick up the odd MVP award. And as I've said before, this never happens in other FPS titles.
Martin Gaston, Reviews Editor - Dota 2, PC
This week I have unsurprisingly been playing a lot of Valve's Do-- I can't do it, I'm sorry. Everything I have to say about games has already been said, and if I write about Dota 2 none of you are going to read it anyway. There's no point. I played a few games of Dota, and kicked ass. Then I played some Guild Wars 2, and kicked more ass. Then I played a couple of games of Counter-Strike and died on my arse, which was quite upsetting. The common link is that these are all PC games, whereas right now this industry is utterly abysmal for console owners. Unless you're playing Sleeping Dogs, I guess. But, anyway, sorry console owners, even your version of CS:GO is a bit rubbish! I turned on my Xbox the other day to boot up Mass Effect 3 and it was horrible. Everyone: stop reading this right now (Dave probably has nothing interesting to say, anyway) and go and buy a new PC.
Join me next week when I'll insult other things that you care deeply about, such as rainbows, hob nob biscuits and your mother.
David Scammell, Staff Writer - SkyDrift, Xbox 360
Someone in the office asked me the other day why I'd given up on the idea of pursuing my dream of becoming a pilot. I couldn't think of the reason why at the time, but after playing a little bit of SkyDrift, it all started coming back to me: for fear of crashing into a volcano or being shot out of the sky by a super shockwave.
I'd never heard of SkyDrift before spotting it in the Xbox LIVE sale last week, but given my odd obsession with anything that can fly, I felt compelled to give it a go. And I'm glad I did. It's essentially Hydro Thunder of the skies; a cheap aerial arcade racer that combines WipEout-style combat and power-ups with a few differently-themed hazard-filled courses. It's quite good fun, too, as most similar types of arcade racers tend to be. But my problem with it so far is that it doesn't push the ridiculous nature of bi-planes racing around volcanoes as far as it perhaps should. Despite the premise it feels relatively subdued, and I've often been left with the impression that I'm never having quite as much fun as the developer thinks I am.
Nevertheless, if you're into planes with guns strapped to their noses, SkyDrift seems a great way to fill the odd 20 minutes. And while I'm not sure I'd fully recommend it now it's shot back up to 1200 MSP, if you ever spot it in a sale again, be sure to take it for a test flight.


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