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In the wake of Demi Moore's recent hospitalization, insiders are now starting to speak out about the troubled actress's past few months and her embarrassment over the public spectacle it's become.
Moore, 49, has never been bashful about showing off her age-defying bikini body, but sources say her obsession with youth had become unhealthy, leading her to party too much and eat too little.
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LONDON (AP) — The leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has called government cuts to welfare a "disgrace" and said they have left people facing hunger and destitution.
Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols, who is due to be installed as a cardinal by Pope Francis later this month, told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that the way social benefits are handed out "has become more and more punitive."
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According to researcher Yung-Song Lin, MD of Taipei Medical University in Taiwan and colleagues, individuals aged 35 or younger with HIV infection had twice the risk of sudden hearing loss compared to HIV-negative controls. The researchers noted that up to 44 percent of persons with HIV infection have a chronic hearing impairment. In this retrospective study, they reviewed records from Taiwan's national health insurance system on a cohort of 8,760 HIV-infected persons diagnosed between January 1, 2001 and December 31, 2006, and those of 43,800 persons not infected with HIV. The subjects were divided by age into groups 18 through 35 years and those older than 35.
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The full report, "Increased Risk of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Aged 18 to 35 Years: A Population-Based Cohort Study," was published online in JAMA Otolaryngology -- Head & Neck Surgery (2013;():1-5. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2013.1709).
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|2008-10-03, 06:46
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Just watched the first episode. I felt there was something missing but I just couldn't put my finger on it to what it was... (more impressions on blog about that). It definately was intriguing and it managed to keep my attention throughout, so that is something. However they just need to really up the tempo now.
Anyone who can tell me how long this series is predicted to be? Or has it not been announced yet.
|2008-10-03, 07:15
|Link #43
MMmmmm Bacon~~~
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: OPAI
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but like u said, it is sort of missing something, it managed to get me watch through the entire episode, but i am still not "into" the show. I guess wait till nxt weel and see
|2008-10-03, 10:05
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Um.. you should edit that post, like instantly, Mega-Japan. This is an MFI title. Read the forum rules and the policies on MFI titles.
|2008-10-03, 12:58
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
.... four girls with quirky personalities doing silly things.
Maybe take Hidamari Sketch, Lucky*Star, Minami*ke, and puree it ... then add some familiar bits from Manabi Straight personalities????
Whatever, it kept me entertained though the pacing seemed to hang on the "frozen moments" too long. Serious black haired girl with sexy boots (no, I don't have the names memorized yet) was a particular favorite but go fig - one of the types I like. Sticking with it for now.
|2008-10-03, 13:26
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|2008-10-03, 14:35
|Link #47
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I think this show is gonna be a Sketchbook-like kind of show, but a little funnier, I just hope I don't get tired of this (like Sketchbook). However, we have some good animation here, though sometimes it seems that they try to save money with some scenes i.e. when Ayu is walking around in circles, or with some face expressions; excellent backgrounds and artwork though!
To me opening and ending themes seem just rubbish, uhm...
|2008-10-03, 14:49
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Join Date: Jan 2007
I enjoyed the first episode immensely. Judging from it I'll put this above Azumanga, Hidamari Sketch, Sketchbook, maybe even Minami-ke. Above Lucky Star and Manabi Straight any day.
Of course the first episode is always a kind of extended trailer and things might go down from here. But in any case, Hyakko is a relative safe bet because series from this genre are hard to screw up in a way that makes them sink below the "drop line". So 90 percent probability that I'll finish this.
|2008-10-03, 17:54
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Well that was a fun first episode in-spite of the fact that the basic premise of the episode was pretty iffy in the believability department even for a comedy...
Looks like not only the main cast, but the supporting classmates are a colorful bunch aswell strictly based on character designs alone.
|2008-10-03, 19:33
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: France
Age: 30
I enjoyed too this first episode. I like the casting and faces of the characters (bodies are a little weird).
|2008-10-03, 20:35
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Washington State
It was okay, the art seemed to really be random in terms of quality, sometimes good, sometimes really sub-par, and I though the VO work was a bit underwhelming as well. The feel of the show seemed pretty decent though, if a bit predictable and formulaic. The character designs seemed pretty paint-by-numbers as well, but hopefully they will diverge a bit from that as the episodes progress. Will withhold judgement though until I see a few more episodes, but didn't knock me out with the first episode like shows like Ichigo Mashimaro and sketchbook and a few others did.
|2008-10-03, 21:09
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Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Interesting ... initial reviews in this thread are ALL over the place.
One thing to remember is the show is much more an exercise in "character studies" than in some plot-centric progress from ep to ep.
I'm with Slice of Life .... this series probably works for me from whats been seen so far.
|2008-10-03, 21:26
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Washington State
I totally dig slice of life, it's probably my favorite genre overall. But so far from what I've seen the 4 main leads seem pretty cookie-cutter, and the opening episode didn't really float my boat either, it wasn't really funny, it wasn't really heartwarming, it wasn't thoughtful or really anything that I usually expect from good slice of life shows. It was just kinda...there, is all. Plus I was getting a weird semi-yuri vibe from the show as well, but that's probably just because I've been reading lots of yuri manga lately.
I should note that the show didn't seem BAD, and I will keep watching, but it just didn't blow me away or seem anything special. I very much doubt it will rank up there with sketchbook or other recent top-tier slice of life shows, at least in my book.
|2008-10-03, 22:46
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京都 ikitai~
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Location: massugu
I liked the first episode OK overall, but for me at least it's hard to judge slice of life after one episode--it takes a while to get to know the characters and their interactions, and usually it takes a few episodes before they either grow on me and I'm completely hooked, or they just annoy me and I drop it. I could see Hyakko going either way, but so far the cast isn't pushing me away even if they aren't reeling me in fast either.
Maybe this will change down the road, but Hyakko looks very Azumanga/Lucky Star-like in that there seems to be zero romance potential (I guess unless you count implied yuri). It's a pity, since any high school you can think of in real life most people have more than a little interest in the opposite sex--it seems like slice of life lately in anime means "girls get 99% of the screentime, and guys might as well be all exiled on another planet."
|2008-10-03, 23:13
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singing heartbreak
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Federal officials have begun to review the impact the Massachusetts crime lab scandal may have on cases in federal court in Boston, and they already foresee a large task ahead of them.
US District Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf said a team of court officials has discovered that former state chemist Annie Dookhan handled drug samples involved in more than 100 — and possibly as many as 200 — cases.
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Measuring Introversion
There's an online test based on Carl Jung and Isabel Myers-Briggs typological approach to personality which you can try at;
My Scores
Just for the record, my scores on this test were; INFJ
- Introverted 33%
- Intuitive 25%
- Feeling 38%
- Judging 22%
- moderately expressed introvert
- moderately expressed intuitive personality
- moderately expressed feeling personality
- slightly expressed judging personality
I may lean towards introversion but I'm obviously not 100% introverted.
The test then pointed me to a page covering an; Idealist Portrait of the Counselor (INFJ)
The text of this page seemed fairly relevant to me - especially the opening paragraph;
Of course, some of my friends and relatives may beg to differ...
"Counselors have an exceptionally strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others, and find great personal fulfillment interacting with people, nurturing their personal development, guiding them to realize their human potential. Although they are happy working at jobs (such as writing) that require solitude and close attention, Counselors do quite well with individuals or groups of people, provided that the personal interactions are not superficial, and that they find some quiet, private time every now and then to recharge their batteries. Counselors are both kind and positive in their handling of others; they are great listeners and seem naturally interested in helping people with their personal problems. Not usually visible leaders, Counselors prefer to work intensely with those close to them, especially on a one-to-one basis, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes. "
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As soon as Thanksgiving weekend was over, U.S. Rep. Jim Himes (D-4th District) headed back to Washington along with his colleagues for nothing less than what he calls "one of the most consequential negotiations of this generation."
At issue are the looming expiration of what are known as the "Bush tax cuts" that would raise rates across the board as well as spending cuts that will automatically trigger after Congress failed to reach a deficit reduction deal last year.
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"I think it's done us a bit of a disservice, and some economists have said it's not really a fiscal cliff but more like a fiscal ramp, where if you don't deal with it you start to go downhill and you pick up speed over time from an economic standpoint," Mr. Himes said. "The reality is that raising people's taxes or these spending cuts don't hammer the economy on Jan. 2. They begin to take effect and they pick up steam as time goes by. Unfortunately, what has happened now is that perception has become reality and the conventional wisdom is if we don't have a deal by Dec. 31 this will be a terrible thing. If he had chosen a less colorful metaphor it might have given us a little more time."
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Mr. Himes joked that he has already been told by the Democrats' minority whip, U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer, that he and his colleagues "shouldn't make any plans through New Year's" once they get back to work next week. But this is a very serious matter, Mr. Himes stressed, and he said he is hopeful that the framework of a deal can be reached over the next six weeks before the Jan. 1 deadline and that, with that in hand, there can be a continuing resolution that would push the automatic tax hikes and spending cuts, which hit both the military and social programs, into next year for the deal to be finalized.
Mr. Himes, who was elected earlier this month to a third term in Congress, has long said he believes a deal can be reached, and that optimism hasn't changed.
"I continue to feel that way, and in fact I feel slightly more that way now than I did before the election," Mr. Himes said. "I think that the president's re-election and the fact that he is now not ever running again frees him up in some ways that were perhaps not true in his first term. I was a little worried, politically speaking, about what a newly elected President Romney would do if he was a bit more constrained by his right wing. But with President Obama re-elected I am a little bit more optimistic about the prospects for a big deal. I think we heard a very conciliatory tone from the Republican congressional leaders. I saw [Republican Speaker of the House] John Boehner's various speeches, and he very specifically put tax revenue increases on the table. This is new for him."
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"There is still ample opportunity for failure," Mr. Himes said. "I don't think that's likely, but the topics are both very complicated, and how you reform Medicare in an equitable, fair and smart way is a huge and difficult conversation."
Because of that and other areas in the deal, like tax code reform, Mr. Himes said, there's a lot of work ahead, and he admits things might not go the way he hopes. One challenge is if the harder right members of Mr. Boehner's Republican caucus rebel against a deal, which has sidetracked past efforts. And if either the majority of Senate Democrats or the majority of House Republicans vote it down, there will be no deal.
"I'm not saying it's a done deal," Mr. Himes said. "I'm saying it's probable that it will happen. You know one thing and that's that the right wing of the Republican party and the left wing of the Democratic party is not going to be at all happy with the final deal. The only question is if they're so unhappy they knock the whole card table over."
Mr. Himes added that there is "room for some gamesmanship" close to the Jan. 1 deadline, noting the history of Congress striking deals at the last minute. He gives the example of the top marginal income tax rate, 35%. If the Bush tax cuts expire, it would go back to 39.6%, and he suggested that, for example, a potential deal of 37% could end up being part of some political back-and-forth.
"On Dec. 31, if you would agree to that it would be a tax hike," Mr. Himes said. "On New Year's Day, 24 hours later, if you agree to it, it's a tax decrease," Mr. Himes said. "You've got some funky gamesmanship that could occur around the end of the year, so there is some chance for politics. But at the end of the day, I think getting past that, we will have the outlines of a deal and the process to get there, which I think is very important."
Any deal that includes reforms to programs like Social Security and Medicare is likely to raise alarm among Mr. Himes's fellow Democrats. While he is open to the idea of reform, he said there have to be basic protections in place for those who need the benefits the most.
"We can't harm the least advantaged Americans," Mr. Himes said. "I don't know how, after a period of 14 years on two wars, reducing our tax rates in a way that dramatically benefited the wealthier people in this country, I don't know how you then look at yourself in the mirror after you vote for a Social Security plan that's going to force a lot of senior citizens into poverty. My line in the sand is that we don't reform those programs in a way that hurts the most vulnerable."


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When: February 5th, 2009
Where: New York City, USA
Under the bright lights of the New York City skyline in front of a supportive crowd battling a frigid cold, U.S. rider Shayne Pospisil pushed through a hard-hitting field of world-class snowboarders to claim the inaugural Swatch TTR 5Star Red Bull Snowscrapers title. Pospisil's stellar riding on the specially constructed hip feature earned him $50 000 of the $ 100 000 USD prize purse alongside 850 TTR Ranking points that pushed him into the TTR Top 20.
In second place came Norwegian powerhouse Torstein Horgmo, whose podium finish and sixth TTR result this season earned him enough points to break the Swatch TTR Top 5. "New York! Pretty stoked I just got second in the event, Red Bull Snowscrapers. Currently sitting Top 5 on the TTR and it's been a hell of a night!" exclaimed Horgmo.
Torstein, however, came under heavy fire midway through the competition after surviving the 16-rider jam session and having to go head-to-head first with Shaun White in the quarter finals, then with Travis Rice in the semi-finals, both who were big favorites entering the competition.
The eight rider, two-run knock-out match ups began with a close race as both White and Horgmo went trick-for-trick with Torstein edging out Shaun with a super clean backside 9. Horgmo maintained his momentum against Travis Rice as Shayne Pospisil took down both Scotty Lago (USA) and best trick winner Terje Haakonsen (NOR) with consistency, facing Horgmo in an epic three-run finale.
Although both Horgmo and Pospisil had three runs to lay it down, their first hits ultimatey decided the victor. Horgmo mixed things up with a sick frontside 9 tail grab, but Pospisil refused to be outdone stomping a backside 9 with big style, and after a couple more runs, walked away with the 5Star Red Bull Snowscrapers title.
Further down in the Swatch TTR rankings, Shaun White's sixth place finish in New York earned him a spot in the TTR Top 10 with Mikkel Bang (NOR) reaching the TTR Top 20 and Jack Mitrani (USA) sitting not too far behind at World No. 23. Scotty Lago (USA), who placed third in the Red Bull Skyscrapers also moved into the TTR Top 40.
For slick video highlights and ranking updates from the Swatch TTR 5Star Red Bull Snowscrapers visit www.ttrworldtour.com, with the full webcast up on www.go211.com. Coming up next on the Swatch TTR World Tour, the 5Star Burton Canadian Open in Calgary, Canada and the 5Star Crans-Montana Champs Open in Switzerland, both events hosting a beefy list of amateur and pro riders eager to win more Swatch TTR Ranking points.


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New York, March 25, 2010—Tunisian authorities banned journalists from attending two press conferences for the launch of local and international human rights reports this week, and is stepping up harassment of journalists overall, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On Wednesday, police ordered journalists not to
attend a press conference at a law office in
Lotfi Hidouri of the London-based news agency
Al-Quds Press and the locally blocked online magazine Kalima, and freelance journalist and former political prisoner Slim
Boukdhir told CPJ that they were ordered by the police not to leave their homes
in the suburbs of
On Monday, journalists and human rights activists were physically blocked from attending another news conference for the launch by a local group called the International Association to Support Political Prisoners of a report titled "Citizens Under Siege: Administrative Control in Tunisia."
"We condemn the Tunisian authorities'
heavy-handed tactics designed to stop journalists from doing their jobs," said
Mohamed Abdel Dayem, CPJ's Middle East and
In a letter sent to local and international rights and press freedom groups, Khechana called for solidarity with Tunisian independent journalists: "I am calling on all the defenders of journalists and human rights to raise their voices to denounce this security wrecking and try to bring to an end to police harassment and all kinds of pressure exerted on free pens," he said.
Freelance journalist Sofiene Chourabi told CPJ
that on Wednesday
CPJ's repeated calls on Tunisian authorities to loosen their grip on the media, release journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, and overturn a four-year prison sentence against Fahem Boukadous have been met with silence.


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Wolves of Wall Street: Shaheen, Brown and NH's vote
January 09. 2014 7:23PM
Politics has become so absurd that it almost mocks itself these days. Almost. So it falls upon us to do the job.
This week a Democratic SuperPAC called the Senate Majority PAC began airing an anti-Scott Brown TV ad in the Manchester market. The ad continues the theme that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen's campaign has pounded since last spring when Brown refused to rule out moving to New Hampshire and running for U.S. Senate: Brown is a pal of "Wall Street."
Shaheen's fund-raising emails have repeatedly tried to portray Brown as someone too closely connected to Wall Street to be trusted. In a Sept. 27 email, for example, she wrote, "Brown would bring tens of millions in support from Wall Street and Tea Party billionaires." In a Dec. 20 email, she wrote, "a Wall Street Super PAC backing him launched a $70,000 statewide TV ad attacking me."
That SuperPAC, Ending Spending, made an ad to draft Scott Brown. It's chief financier is Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade, which allows individuals to make their own stock trades without paying professional brokers. In other words, Ricketts has helped democratize investing and make average Americans wealthier and more financially secure. Apparently Jeanne Shaheen disapproves.
The goal of Ricketts' PAC is to reduce the federal debt, a goal Shaheen claims to share. But she would never stoop to accepting aid from anyone connected to "Wall Street." Or would she?
According to Opensecrets.org, the No. 5 industry contributor to Jeanne Shaheen since 1989 is "securities and investments." That is: Wall Street. The donors who give Shaheen $25 or $50 after she stokes their fear of "Wall Street" influence probably don't know that she happily takes so much Wall Street cash.
The Senate Majority PAC that attacked Brown for being a Wall Street crony is funded by... guess who? Its No. 2 donor is Euclidian Capital, a Manhattan investment firm located on 5th Ave., just three miles from Wall Street. The PAC's donors include billionaire investor George Soros, numerous investment firms, and recently departed New York City Mayor (and billionaire) Michael Bloomberg. They'll really help Jeanne Shaheen show Wall Street who's boss.
What we saw this week were millionaire and billionaire investors using New Hampshire's U.S. Senate race to attack each other over New Hampshire's air waves, while one side claimed to be appalled by the political influence of millionaire and billionaire investors. Amazing.


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Although Chris Blair claimed for months that he was only vaguely aware of the affair, Kuhn's political rival, who took office as Marion County sheriff earlier this month, actually worked closely with Melissa Cook and her attorney to build the case against Kuhn.
The former school principal whose extramarital affair derailed Dan Kuhn's bid to be Marion County's next sheriff had more help in ending Kuhn's candidacy than previously had been known.
Although Chris Blair claimed for months that he was only vaguely aware of the affair, Kuhn's political rival, who took office as Marion County sheriff earlier this month, actually worked closely with Melissa Cook and her attorney to build the case against Kuhn.
Under oath, Blair, his top political advisers and Cook's attorney, Charles Holloman, acknowledged to investigators that they worked hand in hand to chronicle the affair in a book that was presented to Sheriff Ed Dean.
The book contained meticulous documentation of how the affair was conducted, at times on Sheriff's Office property and with the help of several sheriff's officials. It set in motion the events that ultimately drove Kuhn from office and out of the race to succeed Dean, and it opened the door for Blair to get back in the sheriff's race and win election, three months after Kuhn bounced him out of the race in the Republican primary.
Blair declined the Star-Banner's request to answer followup questions about his and his campaign team's involvement in making Kuhn's affair public.
Instead, he issued a brief written statement to the Star-Banner.
"As sheriff, myself and my command staff, stated many times that we as a law enforcement agency, must come together to heal and forgive. We must remain positive and do what we believe is right regardless of the few in this community that would drive negativity," the statement reads.
"We need to learn how to love and respect one another, and then, and only then, will we all prevail. It is in the best interests of all that we listen to our hearts and unite so that the Sheriff's Office can move forward in a positive direction."
Holloman, Cook and Ron Kolb, one of Blair's staunchest supporters, also all declined to be interviewed.
Kolb, who worked with Blair's campaign and later hired Cook when she was fired from her job over the affair, issued a statement on behalf of himself, Cook and Holloman.
"Mr. Holloman, Mrs. Cook and I also agree the story has been told. We believe the community is done and ready to move on. It is our hope that your focus will turn to stories that unite," Kolb wrote in an email to the Star-Banner.
"We will not participate in any more stories focused on dividing."
Blair has acknowledged in past interviews that Cook came to him after he lost the primary election to Kuhn and told him about her affair with Kuhn. Blair said he advised her to get an attorney and gave her several names, including that of his longtime friend Charles Holloman.
But his involvement with Cook did not end there.
According to multiple people interviewed by Internal Affairs investigator Leo Smith and FDLE Agent Mike Stephenson, Holloman turned back to Blair and his campaign advisers days later for help documenting the affair.
According to her interview with investigators, Cook said she went to Holloman seeking "legal protection" for her job as principal at Hale Academy, a local private school.
Cook said Doug Cone, who founded Hale and was Cook's boss at the time, had learned of the affair, and she was afraid Cone would fire her if the affair became public. Cone denied to investigators that he threatened her job.
Holloman said it was "about an hour" into his initial meeting with Cook that he realized it was a brewing political scandal and not just an employment protection case.
He told investigators that he took Cook's story back to Blair and his team after meeting with her.
"I needed to know if this thing had legs, because I was a newbie to this allegation ... How could I do it without talking to them?" he told investigators.
While Holloman insists his decision to involve Kuhn's former political opponent was motivated by his client's interests and not by politics, it was clear Holloman was interested in how the sheriff's race would be affected if Kuhn quit the campaign.
State Rep. Dennis Baxley has acknowledged that Holloman contacted him in the days before Holloman and Cook went public with the affair.
Baxley said Holloman detailed the affair to him and then Baxley explained the process whereby the Republican Party would pick a new candidate if Kuhn dropped out.
Baxley, another strong Blair supporter, has said he was consulted because he knew of other instances when elected officials were doomed by such scandals.
When Cook went public with the affair in October, she and Holloman said their motivation was to warn the public about Kuhn's dark secrets and deceptions so he wouldn't get elected. But that does not explain why Holloman took an interest in who might succeed Kuhn in the race when he spoke to Baxley.
In his interviews with investigators, Holloman himself seems conflicted about his allegiances.
On the one hand, he said Blair's camp encouraged him to take certain steps in pursuing Cook's accusations but he refused because that was for "political advantage" and inconsistent with his client's interest.
"There's two separate things working here," Holloman told investigators. "She's got her own motivations, that are particular to herself. And then you have people that are in position to profit and to gain from her motivations because of where it's taking the general geopolitical landscape."
"I made it clear ... I said, 'Look, I understand where it may take you guys. It may take you somewhere you want to go, but you've got to understand that where your interests diverge from my client's, my duty is totally to my client.' "
Yet Holloman also suggested Kuhn's opponents were justified in doing what they did.
"Why should the Blair camp sit back and do nothing and not take any advantage of this, is your question, and not participate in anything? ... Why should they have to do that just because they lost the campaign?" Holloman said to investigators.
"They shouldn't."
Investigators concluded that Blair's camp hadn't sat on the sidelines.
During the first of two interviews with Cook, Holloman rebuffed their repeated questions to her about who authored the documents in the book, asserting attorney-client privilege.
Under pressure to answer the questions, Holloman asked for a break to consult with Cook.
After they left the room, one of the investigators can be heard on the tape uttering, "It's (expletive) Blair."
On the morning of Oct. 1, Holloman met with Dean to present the case against Kuhn.
Kuhn's misconduct included having sex with Cook while he was supposedly on duty, and using government vehicles to meet her for their trysts.
The book contained sworn statements from Cook and her husband, a list of possible witnesses who could verify her accusations, phone records, emails, credit card receipts, a copy of her employment contract, a police officers' code of conduct and a timeline of Kuhn's sessions with Cook called the "agenda."
The book also included a glossy flier, which was formatted like a political ad and labeled as "confirmed" Kuhn's affairs with Cook and two other women, as well as outlining laws he might have violated as a result.
Smith's investigation determined that there was no evidence one of them, a female deputy, was ever involved with Kuhn. The third woman denied the affair, and investigators didn't pursue it deeply because it wasn't clear the supposed relationship even involved Sheriff's Office business.
Besides Blair, Holloman identified Tommy Bibb, Fred LaTorre, Don Maines and Ron Kolb — all of Blair's closest advisers — as his consultants on Cook's case.
Upon taking office last week, Blair named LaTorre and Bibb, two high-ranking retirees from the Sheriff's Office, as his chief deputy and the head of the Sheriff's Office's Special Investigations Unit, respectively.
Blair added Maines, a retired FDLE special agent, to serve as head of the newly created Professional Compliance Bureau.
When questioned by investigators, Holloman originally declined to tell investigators how he obtained the book. So Smith obtained a subpoena to compel Holloman to respond to the question.
Once under oath, Holloman told Smith it "fell into my possession," given to him by Kolb after it had been assembled at Kolb's house.
Kolb operates a local publishing company and subsequently hired Cook — who had been fired by Hale's board after she went public with the affair.
Kolb, who has known Cook since the late 1990s, when he had sold advertising in his publication to her for the school, told investigators in a separate interview that he was brought in to glean details from Cook because she needed someone she felt comfortable in telling her story.
Like Holloman, Kolb told investigators that Blair, Bibb, LaTorre and Maines participated in a "team effort" to create and compile the damning information against Kuhn.
"I couldn't put all this information together without the help of people who knew how to do this. So I was able to take that, get this with this team and they were able to help put this together so it could be communicated" to Dean, Kolb told investigators.
Blair was "not involved in orchestrating putting the book together," Kolb maintained. But Blair "was in and out sometimes.
"He did know those things were happening, and he wants to make sure that gets communicated as well," Kolb told the investigators.
Blair himself communicated as much to investigators, saying Cook supplied him with information about one of the other women who wound up in the book.
Blair identified the flier as "work product for Charles Holloman" and when asked about its claim regarding one of those women, said Cook had told him directly about her.
"She's the one who mentioned (her) to me. That's how that wound up there," Blair said.
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Assets in iShares Silver Trust, the biggest exchange-traded fund for the metal, climbed the most in five years as more investors are seeking an alternative to gold.
Holdings jumped 572 metric tons, or 5.9%, the biggest increase since December 2007, according to data on the iShares website today. BlackRock Inc., the manager of the fund, confirmed the figures. The metal worth $579 million boosted assets to 10,735 tons, the most since May last year.
Global investment through all silver-backed exchange-traded products is a record 19,114 tons, or about nine months of mine output, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and Barclays Plc. Steps by policy makers from the U.S. to China and Europe to boost economies attracted investors to precious metals on bets that stimulus will stoke inflation.
"Some investors see poor man's gold as a cheaper alternative to the yellow metal and are allocating to it," Mark O'Byrne, executive director of Dublin-based GoldCore Ltd., a brokerage that sells and stores bullion coins and bars, said by e-mail today. "Allocations to silver remain very small which suggests that the holdings could go higher resulting in higher silver prices again in 2013."
Silver will rise as much as 28% to $40.25 an ounce this year, based on the median of 49 analyst, trader and investor estimates compiled by Bloomberg in December. The metal for immediate delivery was at $31.3325 an ounce today in London.
Silver almost tripled since the end of 2008, and is up 2.9% this year compared with a 0.2% decline in gold and 9.4% jump in platinum.
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Lisa Moon, the Recovery Services Program Manager at the Guidance Center, has only been on the job for six months.
Lisa Moon, the Recovery Services Program Manager at the Guidance Center, has only been on the job for six months. She has had a good experience so far – she appreciates the team approach at the Center, thinks everyone is warm and welcoming, and most importantly, knows what she's there to do: "Give the clients the best opportunity for wellness."
Joe Thorne, the Emergency Services and Community Support Services Administrator, on the other hand, has worked at the Guidance Center for more than 20 years, and he first took a position as a stop gap job that he could do while continuing his education.
After a while, Thorne says, "My supervisor said you ought to get into social work and that is what I ended up doing."
But the work has changed.
In the early years, Thorne's work focused on the patients uprooted by de-institutionalization movements – putting patients who may have spent years in hospitals back into communities. Then and now, it is part of Thorne's work to make sure that transition is as easy and functional as possible.
"It felt natural working with folks," Thorne says, "with the challenges, and there was a sense of purpose there."
For both Thorne and Moon, much of their work is about helping people make connections – to jobs, to addiction support services, to therapists, to the help they need.
"As social workers, we look at the person and environment," says Moon. "We have a multitude of services here we refer to … maybe they need an apartment for stability, or they need to get out of an abusive situation, substance abuse, employment. Luckily we're kind of a one-stop shop."
And since the recession, they have seen the demand for all of their services, and especially the walk-in clinic (open Monday through Friday), dramatically increase.
"We're seeing more folks that 10 years ago we wouldn't have seen here," says Thorne. "'I've lost my job, and because I've lost my job, I've lost my wife," and then it just compounds."
"Especially that individual that we were screening for suicide. The pain is so great that they feel like the only thing that can escape it is death. They don't see any other options. And that's us interrupting/stopping that from happening and then working with whatever services we provide, many, many, times, over and over again, to say 'OK there are other ways, there are other ways.'"
To deal with the increased demand, Moon is launching a new program to help better serve individuals struggling with addiction and their families.
The new "Recovering Families Program" is open for sign-ups. It is a three-hour program (with a break) geared to "family members with a loved one struggling with an addiction."
One half of the program is dedicated to education – getting the facts out about co-dependency, the importance of setting boundaries, and how best to practice self-care when a family member requires so much.
The second half of the program focuses on processing individual experiences and questions, giving attendees a chance to get more specific about what they are going through.
Moon has designed the program to help an addict's loved ones figure out "how best to deal with (an addict/addiction)," says Moon. "If what they're doing is helping or not, or hindering the process. Identifying the co-dependence. Are you enabling them? Are you pushing them towards recovery or away from recovery?"
And, "how best to take care of yourself in the process."
The next session is currently scheduled for Dec. 2, and is open to anyone in the community.
Moon is already seeing success from the program, after just a few months.
"There's a guy that first came to this program – we kind of had like an intervention in group," says Moon. "And he has successfully gotten his daughter out of the house and is setting boundaries. And she has almost secured a job …[its] just having people recognize their part. You're enabling someone at this age. It's not letting them realize that they're capable of moving out, getting a job."
"We talk a lot in this program about raising the bottom," Moon continues.
"Meaning, if we keep it comfortable for them to live in our home, we cook their meals, we pay their cell phone bill, and you have a 28 year old living in your home, chances are they're not going to do much, because they're not going to be threatened by losing this place to live, or there's no consequences really. So, it's about setting boundaries and having consequences."
Soon, Moon is also hoping to start a new recovery group at Leavenworth High to support young people struggling with addictions in a familiar environment.
Thorne is also launching a new program he hopes will bring in members of the community: Youth Mental Health First Aid USA, a nationwide program. Previous incarnations have targeted adults, but the new program is geared to youth.
The idea is to get members of the community who work with youth – teachers, coaches, corrections offices, law enforcement, and church leaders, for example – to take the 8-hour training to learn how to spot a potential mental health problem and what to do about it.
Thorne notes this isn't necessarily about mental illness – because not every problem is an illness. But in young populations, a problem can quickly become a crisis if left to fester.
The idea, Thorne says, is to help people become equipped: "Just as if you were at a restaurant and someone's choking – 'OK I know how to do this,' it's the same principle."
"If you're out and see an individual who may be having a panic attack, 'I sort of know what to do here.' Or see an individual that is obviously very distraught, you might know what you're looking for or how to handle those situations."
"So often people don't know what to do. And kind of shy away from those types of emergencies – don't know how to handle them. So (the training) is really to help recognize what might be a symptom of a mental health problem."
"I think the thing that a lot of folks are interested in is suicide. How can we recognize warning signs of suicide."
The fee for the course, which can be done over one or two days, is $35 and includes a workbook. But Thorne emphasized that they will work with attendees' budgets – and will happily "go to them" to do the training.
Thorne is hearing success stories from the trainings he's done so far.
"I think we've trained around 16 of the sheriff's staff," Thorne says.
"One of the sheriff patrolmen called me probably three weeks after the course, and just said 'Hey, wanted to let you know I was out on a call, legal matters, but as I started talking to this individual, definitely saw some warning signs of depression, kind of worried about her safety.'"
"And he got her linked with us, and he was just 'Really glad I took the course.' He said 'it was just something I would have brushed off, and just really addressed why I'm here legally,' but he was able to see 'well there is something else going on here.' That was good to hear."
If you are interested in either program, contact the Guidance Center at 913-682-5118.
In addition to the new special programs, both Thorne and Moon will continue their daily work helping Leavenworth residents get through tough times or navigate chronic illnesses.
"Over and over again we are able to help individuals find hope," says Thorne.
"I've had people say, 'Two years ago I never thought I'd be living today, living this life that I'm living today. I didn't see any way out other than death. I now know there are other ways."


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CYNTHIANA — There is a lot of history in this little town, and more of it than you can imagine is stuffed inside a former movie theater and roller skating rink.
The Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum is like a well-organized community attic. A hodgepodge of treasures are displayed alongside relics from everyday life, things that otherwise might have been sold off, thrown away or lost to time and change.
This museum has been a 19-year labor of love for Harold Slade and a group of his neighbors, who have lived a good bit of Harrison County history themselves.
"There's not many things in the museum older than me," said Slade, 93, a retired factory worker who never liked history in school but has made it a second career.
The museum opened in 1994. By 2007, it had outgrown its first home and was moved to the long-vacant Rohs Theatre, which also once housed a skating rink. The museum's collection now fills almost every square foot of the place. Still, the all-volunteer staff always finds room for more.
Cynthiana has had a few brushes with history, including two Civil War battles, both involving Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan. Battle-related items include a state historical marker that stood along a roadside until a schoolboy noticed that one of the battles' date was wrong.
"They made a new one for the highway," Slade said. "We got this one."
The museum has artifacts from all aspects of Harrison County history and life. There is the oldest known copy of a Cynthiana newspaper, The Guardian of Liberty from July 14, 1817, and a wicker body basket once used by a local undertaker.
Harrison County schools are represented with dozens of school yearbooks, trophies and class photos. A mannequin wears a uniform from Harrison County High School's marching band.
On one wall is a framed letter written by statesman Henry Clay. On another, a giant Kentucky map made of buttons. There are lots of old tools, including the stone axes of prehistoric Harrison Countians.
WCYN Radio's old control board is preserved here, as are spare pipes removed from the Methodist Church organ when it was renovated in 1935.
The museum includes some of Slade's own history, from his World War II Army uniform to the attendance book he kept as a scoutmaster. Among the Boy Scouts' names is one Joe B. Hall, the future University of Kentucky basketball coach.
Hall isn't Cynthiana's only claim to fame. The museum has the black robe worn by Mac Swinford, an influential federal judge who died in 1975, and an exhibit of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls. The children's storybook characters were created by Johnny Gruelle, whose father was born in Cynthiana.
Local business memorabilia includes tobacco artifacts and items from the Webber sausage plant, which started here in 1930. The company was later bought by ConAgra and left town in 1994 after the factory was destroyed by a grease fire.
Harrison County once had more than 30 bourbon distilleries, making whisky under such names as Old Tub and Belle of Harrison. The prize of the museum's bottle collection used to be an unopened bottle of Old Van Hook from before Prohibition. Then, one day, it disappeared from its display case.
"A few weeks later somebody brought the empty bottle back to us," said Mary Grable, secretary of the non-profit trust that owns the museum. "We think we know who drunk the whisky."
Perhaps the museum's most interesting piece is a huge scale model of the town as it looked in the late 1800s. Dozens of buildings were accurately recreated from bits of colored picture frame mat board by Slade and Neville Haley, who died in 2009.
Each building is an amazing work of intricate detail. The layout includes a model of the long covered bridge that for more than a century crossed the Licking River that runs through Cynthiana.
Donald Hill made the bridge from wood salvaged from the real bridge, which was demolished in 1948 after it was replaced by a new concrete bridge named for Morgan, the Confederate cavalry raider.
"Didn't make a lot of sense," said Randall Boyers, 86, a museum volunteer. "The man burns the town and they name a bridge after him."
If you go
Cynthiana-Harrison County Museum
Where: 124 S. Walnut St., Cynthiana
Hours: 10 a.m. — 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, or by appointment
Admission: Free.
More information: (859) 234-7179


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NHGOP files complaint with AG vs. Hassan alleging late budget documentsBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
February 25. 2013 11:58AM
CONCORD -- The state Republican Party on Monday filed a complaint with the Attorney General's office alleging Gov. Maggie Hassan has failed to meet a statutory Feb. 15 deadline for filing and making public budget-related documents.
"We are working on the document," Hassan said on a conference call from Washington, D.C. "It's being drafted," and she said she is still "on the early side" in preparing the documents compared to most past years.
She said that historically, those documents have often been submitted after the deadline.
The issue has become a topic for State House political banter in recent days, and that was the case on Monday.
The state Democratic Party chairman called the GOP move "frivolous" and "a pathetic political ploy" by a party "bereft of ideas."
Although the governor has submitted her budget, her office has not yet submitted the other documents, which form the basis for a bill, known as House Bill 2, containing the necessary changes to law brought about by the budget.
It used to be known as the "trailer bill," or even "Christmas tree bill."
Many years ago, legislative changes brought about by budgets, and even unrelated to budgets, were tucked into myriads of footnotes to the budgets themselves. But that practice ended in 1984 with passage of a constitutional amendment and separate bills have been traditionally filed along with the budget bills.
Hassan spokesman Marc Goldberg said Monday, "We're working to finalize the technical language" of this year's HB2 with the Legislative Services office.
Hassan's office pointed out that an online history of past budget documents shows that only once in the past 20 years have those documents, in the form of HB 2, been submitted on Feb. 15.
That was in 2001 by then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat and current U.S. Senator.
Two years later, under Republican Gov. Craig Benson, House Bill 2 was submitted on Feb. 20. But in all other budget cycles, HB 2 was not introduced until March, sometimes late March. Those late filings were routinely accepted by the House.
But state Republican chair Jennifer Horn said in a letter to Attorney General Michael Delaney that Hassan's "actions are irresponsible and are prohibiting the Legislature from fully reviewing her reckless proposal."
She asks Delaney "to instruct the governor's office to immediately comply with the law."
Horn wrote that Hassan "is constructing a fiscally irresponsible house of cards that could collapse at any minute because it relies on $80 million in non-existent casino licensing revenues."
Noting that Delaney's term as Attorney General expires on March 31, Horn wrote, "I recognize that you are in a difficult position to take action against Governor Hassan's blatant attempt to subvert New Hampshire law given you are soon facing re-nomination to your position. I am also aware that you are one of the most prominent New Hampshire Democrats to speak out against the governor's budget and oppose her irresponsible revenue scheme. I congratulate you on your courageous and principled stand against bad policy that threatens our state's fiscal integrity.
"But any attempt by Governor Hassan to reject your re-nomination as a result of your opposition to her budget or your efforts to force her to comply with state law would be viewed as politically vindictive. I would hope that Governor Hassan would realize this and refrain from punishing you for simply doing your job and doing what is best for the State of New Hampshire," wrote Horn.
The Attorney General's Office did not respond to UnionLeader.com's request for comment.
State Democratic chairman Raymond Buckley responded in a statement, "The NHGOP is proving once again that they have no ideas to offer the people of New Hampshire to create jobs and move our economy forward.
"Instead of reevaluating their far right stances to actually appeal to voters, the state GOP has decided to focus on a pathetic political ploy that will cost Granite Staters by wasting the time of our Justice Department.
"Having suffered historic losses at all levels this past November, the New Hampshire Republican Party is reduced to political grandstanding while Democrats pursue policies that will help the lives of hundreds of thousands of Granite State citizens," Buckley said.
"This state's Republican party is so bereft of ideas to move New Hampshire forward that they are reduced to filing frivolous lawsuits in a Justice Department already overworked as a result of the draconian cuts imposed on it by Chairwoman Horn's mentor, (former House speaker) Bill O'Brien," said Buckley. "Frankly, I think if any deadlines should be on Chairwoman Horn's mind, it should be the deadline that her taxes are due on."
Buckley was referring to Horn's efforts to resolve $92,000 in outstanding personal income taxes due the IRS.


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The price of crude oil edged up a penny to $108.05 a barrel. The price of gold climbed $8.70 to $1,292.90 an ounce.
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— Whirlpool surged $9.54, or 8 percent, $128.91 after its second-quarter net income soared 75 percent as demand improved for its appliances. Whirlpool also benefited from some tax credits.


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