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When the Texas Medical Association Looks for Quacks, It Should Search Its Own House
By George McAndrews, Esq.
With sincere misgivings about utilizing or repeating the latest outrageous attack on chiropractic recently unveiled by the Texas Medical Association's Political Action Committee, but as a prelude to my evaluation of its twisted concept of health care, I reproduce a recent document created by that "Quack PAC." [See images below.]The TMA's actions have just made my blood boil! Shades of 1963, when the AMA decided to form a Committee on Quackery.Back then, the arrogance and all-powerful position of the AMA emboldened the organization to act with impunity, regardless of the illegality of its activities. The AMA boldly stated in its "internal memoranda" that its goal was to first contain, and then eliminate, the profession of chiropractic.
Imagine the arrogance of the AMA's thoughts and actions: Just because it did not like chiropractors, it could eliminate the entire profession in all 50 states? The AMA was no more interested in "patient safety" by eliminating chiropractic than the tobacco companies were interested in people's health by selling cigarettes.
The AMA, we now know, is interested in one thing: a monopoly over all health care delivery. I could list the many social programs the AMA has been opposed to, but suffice it to say, its goals are not lofty, its intent is not honorable and its methodology is not laudable.
It is no surprise that in Texas, the Texas Board of Medical Examiners and the Texas Medical Association have taken up the subversive objectives of the AMA under the ruse of a state medical board trying to "protect the innocent public" from quackery. Let's see who's looking in a mirror.
The real quackery in this latest despicable Texas Medical Association PAC advertisement is the deceit of the hypocritical political medical action committee. Apparently all is fair game in politics, but I am certain many of the practicing clinical medical physicians in Texas are humiliated by the actions of their political organizations, just as members of the AMA were appalled to learn of the action of their national association.
The ad pictured is technically not deceptive; of course Dr. VanDeWalle is not licensed as a medical physician by the medical board. So what? The fact is Dr. VanDeWalle never claimed to be. Neither are the thousands of dentists, podiatrists, optometrists, psychologists and yes, even doctors of divinity, who are all "doctors," licensed by their respective boards to practice their non-allopathic method of healing, serving and caring.
After the AMA was found guilty of conspiring to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession, it changed its tactics under an ongoing court injunction. And therein lies the issue that has not gone away.
The issue simply is that the AMA has in the past, and will in the future, continue to be one of the major causes of, not solutions for, the health care crisis in America. By its power and influence, the AMA has managed to "contain and eliminate" lower-cost and more effective health care providers from offering services that would impact the AMA directly as competition in health care delivery.
The AMA fought (and continues to fight) nurse practitioners and physician assistants who would be able to deliver primary care; doctors of chiropractic who are viewed as a competitive model to medical care, particularly in the neuromusculoskeletal arena; naturopathic doctors, who would be competing with medical physicians; psychologists who would infringe on psychiatrists; midwives competing with obstetricians ... the list goes on.
While it is "legal" to petition the legislature to address a grievance, what is not legal is the subversive activities that are going on behind the scenes. What the medical associations are doing suggests in my opinion, racketeering.
You read that correctly: The RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act of 1970 should be considered being used against the individual and collective medical associations in some fashion. (See the AMA News, July 20, 1990.) Am I delusional? Let's look at the facts.
Doctors in the state of Washington can attest to the fact that the Washington state medical groups (with a supportive brief filed by the AMA) attempted to eliminate chiropractic providers from doing truck-driver physicals. The Texas Medical Board is trying to systematically reduce doctors of chiropractic to essentially a no-health-authority practitioners and is now trying this underhanded method to see that a doctor of chiropractic does not get elected to the Texas legislature [Dr. VanDeWalle lost the runoff election]– not based on a lack of qualifications, but a lack of an MD degree! Travel to Virginia, where the Virginia Medical Board (a composite board) is attempting to define what a doctor of chiropractic can do. (By the way, most board members are medical physicians, with only one DC member.) The AMA has sent its disciples to destroy any competition that would interfere with the medical monopoly.
In my opinion, this is toying with the RICO Act, and apparently the AMA did not learn its initial lesson with Wilk et al v AMA et al, where the AMA was found to have engaged in a "lengthy, systematic, successful and unlawful boycott" of members of the chiropractic profession. Maybe it is time for the profession to consider another attack against the AMA and its estimated 1,900 state, county and local affiliates – in court, where "rules of evidence" and "discovery" will be the determining procedure to be followed and not some propaganda piece in a newspaper.
There is still a conspiracy existing in the health care delivery system and if anyone does not believe it, the attack against the doctor of chiropractic running for the Texas State House of Representatives is a good place to start.
Musculoskeletal Care: No Contest
As you can undoubtedly see, I am extremely troubled at the AMA and its affiliates, who have for decades enjoyed a privileged class, akin to the fourth branch of government. What's more, they have contributed to the escalating cost of health care delivery by their monopoly on the marketplace, and have subverted every attempt to reform the system.
But most revolting and inexcusable, they are covering up the lack of training and skill of medical physicians in areas where their own studies show that chiropractic excels; and while doing so, contribute to the pain, suffering, unnecessary surgery and drug addiction / dependency of millions of patients.
Evidence from many trials and many research projects clearly demonstrates the superiority of chiropractic services in the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions:
Cost-effectiveness and patient satisfaction, evidence and outcomes are all clearly evident and not contested. The education and training of the DC is superior for NMS conditions, and for anyone to call the DC a quack when the very definition of Quack – a person who falsely pretends to have medical skills or knowledge – is unquestionably the medical physician, whose limited training and skills are obvious from their own tests and studies. This should cause concern about who is calling whom a quack.
I dedicate this to all those who have been and are still suffering from the misinformation disseminated by the medical profession and its organized Quack PACs. May they find relief and health from the knowledge and truth displayed above and in many, many other studies and admissions. (For example, see the Medical Times, New York, 1921, 'Sympathetic Segmental Disturbances-II' by Henry Winsor, MD, pages 267-271.)
Editor's note: Click here to review supporting documentation / references used in the writing of this article.
Dr. VanDeWalle lost the Jan. 28, 2014 run-off election for Texas House District 50 to Celia Israel, garnering 41 percent of the vote to Israel's 59 percent. To learn more about Dr. VanDeWalle, read the app version of this article. (Click here to register for the free app.)
George McAndrews served as lead trial counsel for the successful plaintiffs in the celebrated 14-year antitrust case, Wilk et al v. AMA et al.; and as lead plaintiff's counsel in the racketeering case Chinnici v Central DuPage Hospital et al. (1990). Learn more by clicking here.


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Tara Reid?
Agree with Jane Seymour.
Im sure someone must have posted about Susan Dey.
Im sure Phoebe Cates has been listed a few times but how about Betsy Russell from Private School?
I recall a superhot Kari Wuhrer from MTV Remote Control back in the day...
Remember this beauty from Wings and Men in Tights... Amy Yasbeck Ritter?
And even though she doesnt seem to age, the list wouldnt be complete without Diane Lane...
Most of those were presented, I believe. Although Diane and Jane are worth doubling up on.
Some of you will recall Anne Parillaud from Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita. She was amazing in the title role. But if I'm going to TMB anyone from that "franchise", it will be the "hotter-than-Hades", Peta Wilson.
Peta Wilson is the long legged, tough chick stunner from the TV version who, I am sure, would thrill in the sack. I would quaff goblets of her bathwater on my return trip back from the past.
Anyone mention Madelline Kahn?
Daisy Fuentes?
^ She might still be hot. Have to look it up.
**Edit. Still hot.
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Bernadette Peters was a cutey way back when.
How many teenage boys fapped their Sat. mornings away during the mid '70's to Joanna Cameron, who played "Isis."
hard to believe this is 38 years old

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Since when does El Reg believe "the models"?
that is all.
A solution has been found to those pesky climate change problems being caused by global warming: nuclear war. One minor niggle: "Widespread famine and disease would likely follow," even if the war were a small-scale one, writes Charles Choi for National Geographic News, describing the study conducted by scientists from NASA …
that is all.
You shouldn't mix atom bombs and Paris Hilton.
It's all boom and bust.
A good, honest war is what the human race needs. Of course, that does mean that most of us will die from fission sandwich poisoning (including, most likely, myself) - but ask yourself this: Do you really want to be one of the few who survive this war? It's not exactly going to be like Butlins...
On the other hand, you can rest, safe in the knowledge that the human race will nevertheless survive - and won't be able to pose a major threat to its own existence for at least a few thousand years: Albert Einstein, at least, realised this in 1947 when he wrote "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
So cheer up! There is indeed reason to stop worrying and love the bomb.
The Russian paper which did an analysis of how the Climategate crowd "interpreted" their data for the ex-Soviet union had very interesting info on the WW2. Same trend can be seen in quite a few other papers as well.
Despite all weapons except Hiroshima and Nagasaki being conventional the amount of burning stuff clearly shows up on the climate data with the effects lingering up to the early 50-es.
That has not prevented people who need to show massive warming from keeping these data points in the curve (it makes a much more convincing argument if you start from a couple of degrees lower than you should).
Cloud cover and CO2 keeps the heat in.Won't a layer of soot clouds do the same?
Ever noticed how it only gets really cold at night when it is a cloudles sky?
Seems like a broken model to me.
You tell 'em Chales, those people with their stupid maths and science. Go anecdotes!
No, just think about what you wrote. The soot clouds do stop radiation at night there is no sunshine so there is no incoming radiation to stop so only the small amount of outgoing radiation is stopped.
However, during the day when there is considerable incoming radiation the soot clouds work as designed and they stop most of it. Just like the difference between a cloudy day and a sunny day.
Over time the earth will cool, simple just like what happens in an english summer after three weeks of cloudy weather. Bloody cold!
El Reg meets Schlock Mercenary!!
Top Stuff!
"Widespread famine and disease would likely follow,"
Thereby also taking care of overpopulation and too many people after too few resources.
<- Imagine a cowboy general riding on an H-bomb out of a bomb bay icon here.
Are you volunteering?
I do wish people wouldn't follow this rather psychotic thought chain.
Problem - "More people need more resources"
Does that mean we need to apply our minds to find a way of providing more resources?
Solution - "Nah just kill loads of people init!"
You do realise that 'You' are the people that 'They' are talking about right?
because I'm certain of it.....
Slim's character was a Major, not a general, if you were referring to the "iconic" symbol of him riding the nuke out of the weapons bay of his B-52. Still one of my favorite movie scenes...
I was and thanks for the correction. I suppose that ride sort of removed any chance of him every being promoted to general, as well.
As for the AC responder: while not going to the point of suicide, I did decide to remain child-free, so no offspring of mine will continue to use resources.
The only constraint on human activity and growth is energy availability. We have the ingenuity - for good or ill - to make everything else. It may take us a while. The only thing that will stop humanity is a disease we can't control. And that could be a lot worse for the planet, overall.
While ever we continue use planetary stored energy - carbon based - we waste the primary source of this energy, the Sun. It is recognised that CO2 contributes to global warming and soot/atmospheric pollution more often than not to global cooling and has done since long before Adam was a lad...
A 'small war' would be unfortunate for many an unpleasant setback to human growth for the remnants.
Start with the middle-east..........
See I pretend to read the register for it's high brow, intellectual content, but really it's because you make words up like "Kaboomability",
I do like that word, but then they do say I'm easily amused.
Of course we could use nuclear power to end climate change, but no, that's far too damned *****ing obvious, and it gives us the willies. God forbid a technology gives us the willies.
Because I'm not quite sure exactly _how_ you are envisioning "nuclear power" being used, and your 'like' of 'Kaboomability' rather worries me...
I too frequently mix up carbon free sustainable energy and global annihilation. It's a common problem.
I'm playing devils advocate here, because I'm pro-nuclear, but I would suggest that the amount of fissionable material on Earth is limited just like any other earthbound energy resource.
This means that in the long term, you cannot use 'sustainable' in connection to nuclear.
The way I look at it is that the Earth has many energy resources, but because of entropy, they are all limited to one extent or another. Fossil fuels are stored energy from the Sun, nuclear fission is heavy elements (from the death of older stars) acquired during the formation of the Solar system), nuclear fusion is light elements probably from the formation of the Sun, wind and ocean currents are driven mainly by solar energy from the Sun, tide is gravitational (mainly from the Moon, and tidal drag is causing the Moon to slow down and approach the Earth so even this is finite), geothermal is (probably) natural nuclear fission (see above) combined with tidal effects from the moon, biofuels are capturing energy from the Sun and direct solar is (obviously) from the Sun.
So if you discount total matter conversion (and boy would that be useful), and fusion of hydrogen electrolysed from water (finite on Earth but lots of it), all energy except direct and indirect solar energy is limited. And the Sun won't last forever!
That's why the only long-term solution is to build some space craft, get the hell off this crowded mudball, and start colonising the rest of the universe (sorry, Native Sirians, but you're first in the path of the human bulldozers).
C'mon people, it's not rocket science.
everything is finite. But breeder reactors solve the problem of limited fissionable materials. They operation is pretty well documented I believe.
Nice to know we have a back up plan :)
I've said for some time that we will end up having wars not over resources, but to reduce over-consumption. E.g. drop atom bombs on the places with more gas-guzzling cars and air conditioning, like Midland, Texas or Florida. It is the only argument for an independent UK nuclear deterrent - the ability to bomb the USA.
Now there is an added benefit, a nuclear winter after killing the polluters.
Nice thought, for the reasons given, but pointless on account of the fact that we wouldn't survive the payback. The country you were looking for is France - right next door, own nuclear capability and don't give a shit about anyone. Gotta keep up with them. Just in case.
And there it is - the phrase "nuclear winter"! I'm amazed that it wasn't even mentioned in the article. I thought the term had been bandied around ever since the Trinity tests, everyone already knows this is the consequence of a nuclear (ignoring the primary symptoms of instant death and/or radiation poisoning).
What was the point of this study exactly?...
No problem, we'll just blame some brown people, the 'Merkins will easily buy that.
(We'll leave a Muslim guy's passport at Ground Zero as proof... hey, it worked last time !)
"What was the point of this study exactly?..."
To prove that the risk model for outsourcing your data centre to india can be a bit more radical than moving it to Liverpool
Even if the indian have a higher average standard of spoken english
Cure for the common cold, just add VX!
There was a good article about this a couple of years back (google "The environmental consequences of nuclear war" www.physicstoday.org) with some wonderfully apocalyptic graphs of Numbers of casualties (units of 100 million) and Soot (in Teragrams).
The "nuclear war solves climate change" angle here is a bit spurious, since those of us that don't go up in smoke would just get a mini ice age for 5-10 years, then it would be back to warming as usual.
It's scary to think that even if no-one lets rip with the plutonium a big volcanic eruption could have much the same effect. (Or is it scarier to think that some tin-pot dictator with a nuclear button could cause as much global devastation as a massive volcano?).
Have a nice day.
The fact that someone managed to build and detonate a 50MT nuclear weapon - that stuff at the bottom of the article along with wikipedia details on the Tsar Bomba? That's nightmare fuel, especially when you think that it only had half of its intended yield of 100MT.
The party of common-sense solutions to the problems facing humanity;
- Reduced population densities in the 1st world to sustainable levels
- Avoid pension crises through lowered life expectancies (to between 0 and 30)
- Helping the 3rd World by removing Global economic inequality
- A return to a back-to-basics 'stone-age' values system to remove dependance on fossil fuels
- An end to Capitalism via total elimination of currency-based economies
- More of those lovely white Christmases you remember as a child
"A sacrifice required for the future of the human race"
- our beloved Fuhr, er, Party Leader Dr. S.
But don't take his word for it! Here are just a few of the glowing testimonials our policies have recieved;
"I heard about the Strangelove Party in the 60's, advised a succesion of US Presidents and couldn't stop laughing when I was awarded a nobel peace prize for ending the Vietnam war even though it was my idea to bomb 1/2 a million of them to death!" - Dr H. Kissinger
"What modern Politics lacks is a party with vision. A party not afraid to make the 'hard choices'. A party that knows what must be done to make the world, truly, a better place. The Strangeloves ARE that Party" - Ernst S. Blofeld
"I wish we had one of them doomsday machines" - Gen. 'Buck' Turgidson
That most of Hitler's lot ended up working for the CIA or NASA.
Add a new meaning to the term "National Lottery".
There should be a special category of punishment for such eugenics crimes.
I remember a lot of nuclear tests when I was growing up but I don't remember any climate change analysis.
Who needs a model when you have historical records.
There was a dip in global temperatures in the '50s and '60s. Was this the result of atmospheric radioactivity produced in bomb tests, which led to increased cloud cover?
think outside the bomb!
I believe this one was "alternative 1".
They seem to have forgot that after a large nuclear exchange resulting in either nuclear autumn (what seems to be suggested here) or winter is that after the soot particles eventually fall back to earth or via wash out (thereby spreading large amounts of fall out all over the globe - groundburst explosions being the only type that could generate this much soot) is that the resulting ozone depletion would be a lethal after effect. We would be effected by much larger amounts of ultraviolet causing cancers, cataracts and leukaemia in humans and causing widespread crop failure in plants and destruction of phytoplankton in the sea. Naturally such effects at the base of the food chain will be pretty catastrophic leading to plant and species collapse or even extinction. The science behind the effects of multiple nuclear explosions is pretty robust - the literature is quite extensive on this subject.
Stay indoors.
Do not think about The Event.
(C)Michell and Webb
based on that thesis?
Oh, and that would be "scientific projections on the effects of multiple nuclear explosions is pretty robust." Until you perform the experiment, it isn't science. And since we don't seem to have a spare planet earth laying about on which we could run the experiment, this is one time I would prefer to keep it at projections instead of science.
the excuses for the exchange are being prepared already (the coming problems between Europe and Islam)
and the elite are already organising their bunker spaces...
The model shows serious global cooling occurring as a result of 100 Hiroshima bombs, states that 30 x this would be needed to equal the Tsar Bomba, and yet - the Tsar Bomba was atmosphere-detonated in 1961 and there was no climate change as a result. Now, if the Tsar Bomba's THIRTY TIMES the power of the explosions in the model failed to produce any noticeable effect, how are we supposed to believe the model's 100 baby nukes that amount to 1/30th of the Tsar Bomba will do anything?
If ever you needed clear and evident proof that climate-change models are complete and utter bullshit, you have it right there.
What he said!
(Plus: nice name. Fan of XKCD, perhaps? http://xkcd.com/327)
The Soviet "Tsar Bomba" is not a good example of nuclear effects. It was an airburst weapon dropped over Novaya Zemlya, a barren archipelago. It exploded at approx. 2.5 miles in altitude and set no major fires. Most of its effects were observed as blast rather than heat. Climate change effects come as the result of particulates becoming airborne which this weapon did not cause in significant numbers. Nuclear weapon effects of the most hazardous sort are by far the dirtiest, groundburst explosions of high density targets like cities pulverise and vaporise millions of tonnes of concrete, steel and earth whilst millions of tonnes of soot and ash through the burning of highly inflammable and and combustible materials are ejected into the atmosphere. "Tsar Bomba" can be almost completely ignored as an example of weapon effects on the climate. Volcanos are probably a better guide in some respects.
Seeing as you haven't got one.
"Such a regional dust-up, the scientists determined, would cause conflagrations sufficient to loft about five million metric tons of black carbon into the lower atmosphere..."
doesn't backup the assertions of the paper. Of course it's only one data point. But that's the problem with all this climate change malarkey: too few reliable data points to come to real conclusions.
Trouble is, climate change is an effect, not a cause, of Bad Things.
Halting it for a period without addressing the cause is as clear a case as you could ask for of two wrongs not making a right.
"As everyone except the most vehement climate-change deniers know, the earth is currently in a warming phase. The preponderance of evidence points to the rising rate of temperature increase as being anthropogenic"
Let me be the first to congratulate El Reg for allowing those words to appear under its banner..
The second sentence is simply not accurate, the first is pretty solid based on evidence over geological time. The hard science evidence "against" the CO2 anthropogenic argument, versus shonky models measured against each other to prove the same point is irrefutable. It's just a matter of time before the "CO2 and it's all our fault" idea becomes a curious footnote in history.
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Discussion in 'Miscellaneous' started by Holdfast, Jul 11, 2012.
^Ah. So today I learned what a soldier is (other than the military kind).
Never heard of such a crazy thing.
Glorious. The word you're looking for, is Glorious.
I grew up on runny eggs with toast soldiers and they made me what I am today. What higher recommendation could there be?
(if soft-boiled eggs aren't your thing, toast soldiers are also cool with soft baked eggs)
Ugh, Holdfast, I haven't seen such a nauseating display of drippy, runny slime since I helped my dad wash the windshield after we drove through a swarm of mating mayflies.
See, you should have made toast, and treated yourself to a free meal...
^Another great source of protein, that's for sure!
I have never boiled or baked an egg in my life (and honestly, I don't think I've ever even heard of anyone baking an egg), nor do I see any reason why I would.
That said, dipping toast into the yolk of an over-easy fried egg...that is something I can get behind.
When I was a kid, I preferred scrambled eggs. But then later in adulthood, I had a chance to try a yolk that was soft but not runny--kind of like butter just before it melts. WOW. The flavor! I find it amazing how much the taste of an egg changes from raw to fully cooked.
I'm not the biggest fan of dipping bread into a soft, runny yolk or white but I could see myself eating that and liking it. I've been an egg fan ever since I was a little kid, and those soldiers look pretty tempting.
Manny in Black Books arranges his soldiers on the plate by rank
This image inspired me to have soft boiled eggs with toast soldiers for breakfast this morning.
I love eggs in all its incarnations, and prefer them cooked gently rather than senseless.
Boiled and poached eggs are a healthier, more delicate (more "egg-flavoured", if that makes sense) version of fried eggs. Try them if you're bored one day.
Baked eggs are done in little butter-lined ramekins (you may know them by their French name: oeufs en cocotte, though I'm not certain if that refers to the whole genre or a specific sub-variant). It's not something I've bothered to cook in a while, but the nice thing about cooking them this way is that you can really vary what else you add to the ramekin to make miniature "one-pot" type dishes. For instance, a bit of prosciutto to line the ramekin and some parmesan & pepper on top. Or a bit of buttered spinach to line the bottom and the egg on top with a little cream & cheese and nutmeg to finish for a speedy/simple version of eggs florentine. Or... well, the list goes on.
It really does, doesn't it.
You're a good woman.
For me, it always takes me back to my childhood, especially if the toast is buttered lightly and just a trace of acacia honey drizzled on top before cutting them up into soldiers. If you want to add another layer of flavour, a really small amount of cheddar on top works wonders with both the honey and the egg. Not the simple classic, but an interesting variant I liked as a kid (and therefore still do!)
Pancakes with slightly runny eggs on top, you puncture the yolk and it runs all over the pancakes, mixing with the butter and syrup. Heavenly, I tell you.
Same here. It's also made me hypercritical of restaurant cleanliness and of chemical storage in general. I've turned around and walked out of more restaurants than I'd care to think about, and my friends learned quickly that if I walked out of a restaurant, they did NOT want to eat there.
As for eggs....
Omelets are my downfall. I find them positively heavenly.
Scrambled eggs and sliced sausage links between two pieces of multigrain toast. That's where the action is, baby. You can't go wrong with a toasted egg and sausage sandwich.
H.P. Lovecraft's work is as weird as I always suspected.
I learned that if you cook bones long enough, they turn into broth.
I also learned that bone marrow, while high in calories, is a pretty good source of vitamins and minerals.
TIL that Americans have devised a concept that may come close to soft-boiled eggs and toast soldiers. I mean, not quite, obviously, but it's close and you're still a young nation, so give it time!
TIL that it's possible to turn much younger people onto the fact that Columbo is the best TV detective show ever made.
TIL that my TV has the power to heal itself.
It's a pretty old CRT (10 years-ish) which had developed a persistent flicker that usually appears after it's on for a few minutes. Today, I turn it on and not a trace of flicker, despite it now being on for a couple of hours.
It's magic, I tells you!
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MasterChef: The Spill
It's horrible when your time is cut Shorten by a pair of crusty, dry balls.
But everyone knows that in life, politics and the MasterChef kitchen, if you and your meatballs are missing the "key binding ingredients" you're going to be eliminated.
First it was Julia Gillard and then, an hour later it was Faiza. On Wednesday night both ladies were booted from two of Australia's most revered institutions – Federal Parliament and the MasterChef kitchen, respectively.
After watching Latika Bourke and Co smash their Candy Crush PBs in the corridors of Canberra we finally arrived, albeit 30-minutes late, at the House of Home Cooks.
On the agenda was: 1. to knife someone and 2. to say "ciao" to Italian Week.
The green team who lost the pizzeria challenge faced elimination in a challenge "with a twist".
"You were the losing team, whether you felt you deserved it or not, you're losers," Gary the Kitchen Whip announced.
After awkwardly acknowledging the red satin covered elephant in the room – the Italian flag made out of food – the eight contestants discovered they had 60-minutes to create an Italian style dish from one of the three colours of the culinary flag.
Taking cues from the ALP, each member of cooking caucus was called forward and told to shut their eyes, stick their hands inside a bag, open their eyes and be happy with their choice. Their choice of either a red, white or green apron, ultimately determined the colour faction they belong to.
While "Regina" George Calombaris, who was as frosty as a Julie Bishop death stare, rolled his eyes for an hour, every other contestant approached the challenge with the political aplomb Australian voters have become accustom to.
Adopting the role of the ousted PM, Emma agreed to hold onto her immunity pin, presumably in case she's called upon to pitch in to knit 1, purl 1 on the cursed kangaroo.
She landed a red apron and made a bold choice to show she's not afraid of a challenge – leadership or otherwise – by creating a dish that featured a 30,567 kilogram slab of rib eye steak. She considered cutting off a bone which was not cooperating and lamented how she wished she kept a closer eye on her project, which was, when severed in two, a bloody mess.
Christina, a member of the green party, took her cues from the notorious WA politician Troy Buswell by spending her time running around slapping people on the derrière with celery and discussing the benefits of removing a prawn's "poo chute". Luckily her pistachio, pea and prawn dish oozed charm instead of digestive waste and won the judges over.
Rishi, like newly instated deputy PM "Albo", just wanted to please the judges and decided to serve up something that would have them eating out of the palm of his hands. Even though, at times, his potato-pasta parcels resembled the aftermath of a nuclear explosion – pan-fried gnocchi was his golden ticket.
Neha was in more pain than Wayne Swan.
The biscuity base for her mushroom, ricotta and bocconcini pizza failed to rise to the challenge.
"It just baffles me that you chose to make pizza again after losing last night's pizza challenge," Matt barked.
"I've done it before and it worked," she replied meekly.
"Rarely are there pizzas that you pick up, take a bite of and put back down and don't want to pick them back up ever again, but this is that pizza," Preston said taking the pizza metaphor to a whole new delicious level.
The faceless men of the night – Noelene, Pip and Jules – did well to avoid the spotlight with sufficiently mediocre efforts until the all powerful Preston channeled his inner KRudd 2.0 and told Noelene, she was a "contender".
Faiza. Dear Faiza. Her "unorthodox dish" of brittle meatballs and smashed potatoes failed to connect with the judges.
Before she had the chance to say goodbye to her constituents she was bundled into the back of a hire car on her way to the Governor-General's house to commiserate her time in the pressure cooker that is reality television.
Next week we're off to the "wild west".
Where, as Graham Richardson just informed me, the first challenge will see the remaining contestants descend on the Rooty Hill RSL to cook sausages on the super-charged engine of Karl Stefanovic's HSV.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says Florida will receive $7.8 million in federal funds to hire staff to walk people through the new health care system.
Eight organizations will receive the money to hire so-called "navigators," an army of counselors to explain different insurance plans offered through the exchange.
The additional funds are especially important in Florida where the Republican-controlled legislature has been resistant to the Affordable Care Act and opted to let federal officials run its state exchange. The state isn't spending any additional money on outreach efforts to get the message out to 3.5 million uninsured Floridians.
The organizations receiving the grants will have a quick-turnaround to start hiring the navigators and training them on the ins and outs of the complex law.


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Onsite Coverage: Credit Unions Need to Remain Alert in Payments Space
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Robert Hackney, CEO of Card Services for Credit Unions, urged credit union card executives attending the organization's 2013 annual meeting to pick up the pace on educating their members and themselves about changes in the payments space.
Rushing down the pike toward credit unions, Hackney said, are significant changes and developments in both credit and debit cards outfitted with EMV chips, as well as mobile payments.
Also from CSCU Confab:
- Senior Management Key to Card Success
- Motorcycle Marketer Says Humanize the Message
- CU Execs Gather for 25th CSCU Annual Meeting
Speaking about the shift to EMV cards over those that use only magnetic stripes, Hackney said that CUs have 30 months to get their EMV decisions made and cards issued before the deadlines Visa and MasterCard have set for the shift.
He urged attendees at Thursday's session in the Vinoy Renaissance to appoint someone to take on the project.
This may not be quite as big as a core processor conversion, Hackney told the meeting, but it is an extremely large and complex change and it needs to have someone in the organization own it.
He also urged credit unions to stay up to date on payments changes because many decisions, particularly in mobile, have yet to be made.
There are still too many different players that have staked out positions with significantly different technologies that still need to shake out, Hackney explained, pointing out the history of great battles such as between eight-track and cassette tape and VCRs and DVDs.
Until the next payments shakeout takes place credit unions need to keep up informed about the topic, Hackney said.


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Hello everybody,
Due the problems I had trying to burn Devil Linux™ in a CD and since finally I done it, I think it's a good idea to write a very little HOWTO-BURN WITH WINDOWS just to explain the method.
First of all, obtain the ISO image.
I think the most important is obtain the latest release, so please visit http://www.devil-linux.org and check it, but anyway, the first archive works perfect.
Second: extract the arvhives! For a Windows envoirement I only found one application that can do it, TAR_32. Winzip and others can't get right the .bz2 format. You can obtain TAR_32 here: http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/tsuneo/soft/tar32_2/
It's as easy as unzip it and run the command line ( into DOS window) minitar -x 'devil-linux-???.tar.bz2'. You will see then two files: bootcd.iso, etc.tar.bz2 and the directory docs/.
Third: burn the ISO file into a CD. As described in http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/CD_burning_howto.php3,
I used CDRWIN. Obtain it in Tucows, or in their website: http://www.goldenhawk.com.
As described on the e-smith web page, do the following:
Open the icon labeled "File Backup and Tools". In the listbox named "Backup/Tool Operation", select "Record an ISO 9660 Image File". In the box "ISO 9660 Image File", click on the button labeled (Browse) and select the ISO image file. At the bottom of the dialog box, select "CD-ROM" and "Mode 1". Then click the button labelled "START".
Few minutes later the CD will be done!
Thanks to people of ecol* news and E-smith. And specially thanks to Heiko Zuerker.
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ARLINGTON, TX -- May 14 -- The Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA), the bowling industry's premier trade organization, today announced that PepsiCo Chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi will be the keynote speaker at the 2013 International Bowl Expo (IBE). IBE is the premier bowling industry event, hosting thousands of bowling center owners/operators and industry leaders from around the world each year. PepsiCo has served as the official beverage provider to the bowling industry since 2002.
"Indra Nooyi is one of the most respected and effective leaders in business today and a big reason why PepsiCo consistently ranks among the world's most admired companies," said Steve Johnson, executive director of the BPAA. "She and PepsiCo have been loyal supporters of the growing bowling industry for many years, providing a diverse portfolio of great PepsiCo food and beverage products to our members across the country, and the insights and knowledge that she will share at Bowl Expo will be of enormous value to our attendees."
Nooyi, who was named PepsiCo's CEO in 2006, leads a $65 billion global food and beverage powerhouse with a portfolio that includes 22 brands that generate more than $1 billion each in annual retail sales. The company's main businesses -- Quaker, Tropicana, Gatorade, Frito-Lay and Pepsi-Cola -- make hundreds of snacks and beverages sold around the world. Nooyi has been frequently ranked by such media as Forbes, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, TIME and U.S. News and World Report as one the most influential and powerful people in business. She is recognized for consistently delivering strong business and financial results while also taking steps to set the company on a course toward sustainable, long-term growth.
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Hi all,
ZoneAlarm Extreme Security version: 10.1.079.000
Windows 7-64 bit
Perhaps someone can gleen some help from my experiences
with ZAXS constanting scanning for viruses at each startup...
I have always liked ZA because of its custom application/program
control features ("Computer" tab -> "Application Control" -> Settings).
In older versions of ZA(XS) I was able to select all the programs in
the list and delete them all, exit ZA, restart and start all over again.
Sometimes this was a tech support solution to other problems.
In addition, I usually checked off "Enable Advanced Application Control"
in the Advanced Settings. This way I could see everything coming in
and everything going out (from fresh).
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Volcom Fiji Pro: Day 3 Highlights And Recap
After a few days off, the 2013 Volcom Fiji Pro roared back into action at Cloudbreak. Six-to-eight-foot barrels were on tap, and the world's best showed why they earn the big bucks. And while there were tubes and big turns galore, even the best pay the price at big Cloudbreak. "That's the worst beating I've ever had," said South Africa's Travis Logie after getting rag-dolled across the razor sharp coral reef. Logie was cut up from head to toe in his round three matchup against CJ Hobgood and will be headed home tonight in what no doubt will be an uncomfortable 11-hour Fiji Airways flight...get well soon bru!
Volcom Fiji Pro Day 3 Heat By Heat Recap
Round 3 Heat 4 Jeremy Flores vs. Miguel Pupo
Early this morning Jeremy was worried that the waves weren't going to be big enough for a backside surfer to fit into the barrels, but a nice pulse came through after a slow start and the Frenchman was able to use his tube riding prowess to KO the smooth surfing Brazilian.
Round 3 heat 5 Sebastian Zietz vs. Kai Otton
Seabass channels his inner AI and takes out Kai Otton with a last minute buzzer beater, marking the second time he's done that in this event.
Round 3 Heat 6 Mitch Coleborn vs. Kelly Slater
The Volcom Fiji Pro wildcard puts up a good fight against the 11-Time World Champ and current event champion Kelly Slater but comes up short. "I was bobbing and weaving as best as I could," says Slater of his near perfect ride. He would later go on to congratulate his brother Steve on the birth of his son Van.
Round 3 Heat 7 Mick Fanning vs. Heitor Alves
As the tide fills in, the sets slow down a bit and Mick Fanning gets by the last remaining Brazilian surfer in the event. The Brazilian storm officially passes.
Round 3 Heat 8 Travis Logie vs. CJ Hobgood
CJ Hobgood broke the fin plugs out of his favorite board yesterday and is now on his backup stick but it doesn't seem to slow him down. Logie smacks his head on the reef; gets rag dolled across the reef, and is shredded from head to toe. He'll be lucky to be healed up by the time the next event in Bali kicks off. Either way he's off to LA tonight and what's sure to be a miserable flight. Get well soon bru!
Round 3 Heat 9 Josh Kerr vs. Brett Simpson
In a battle of Orange County versus San Diego the Aussie transplant brings the win home or team SD. "my heart is about to pop out of my chest" say Josh's wife Nicole as she watches the seconds tick away at the Tavarua bar.
Round 3 Heat 10 Julian Wilson vs. Kolohe Andino
There's a friendly rivalry that goes on between Namotu and Tavarua and it comes to a head when Julian and Kolohe aka "Brother" do battle at Cloudbreak. In a low scoring affair Brother continues to be the giant killer…not one to take a loss lightly, we wisely didn't hit up Jules for a post heat quote.
Round 3 Heat 11 Matt Wilkinson vs. Nat Young
Not too many barrels going down so it's turning into a turn contest and it's clearly evident that Nat has been doing some squats…his turns are crazy powerful and he takes out Wilko on a 6'0" CI round pin.
Round 3 Heat 12 Joel Parkinson vs. Yadin Nicol
After swearing off fishing on contest days, Parko lights up Cloudbreak for the highest heat score of the day so far. Dude is looking lethal at Cloudbreak and is an instant candidate for the New Era X Volcom Fiji Pro MVP of the day. Vote tomorrow morning (West Coast USA time) and you could win a trip to Fiji!
Round 4 Heat 1 John John Florence vs. Jordy Smith vs. Taj Burrow
With yours truly acting as his board caddy, John John drops the first perfect ten point ride of the day with an incredible barrel on the Shishkebabs section. "That was a super fast barrel in there," he said. "I couldn't have done it without my incredible board caddy!" Okay, I fabricated that last bit. Was John John your MVP of the day? If so vote for him on our Facebook pageTuesday morning West Coast USA time.
Round 4 Heat 2 Kelly Slater vs. Sebastian Zietz vs. Jeremy Flores
The swell starts filling in just in time for three of the hardest charging guys on tour and they don't disappoint. Kelly drops the second ten of the day, then cops two eight footers on the head. Warrior! To nobody's surprise Slater moves into the quarterfinals and has the rest of the day off. Was Slater your MVP? If so vote for him tomorrow morning on our Facebook page!
Round 4 Heat 3 CJ Hobgood vs. Mick Fanning vs. Josh Kerr
CJ Hobgood gets past Kerr and Fanning in what CJ calls "a scrappy heat." The former World Champ Moves into the quarterfinals and by the end of the day would be the last remaining goofyfoot.
Round 4 Heat 4 Joel Parkinson vs. Kolohe Andino vs. Nat Young
Kolohe has the best heat of his current Volcom Fiji Pro run, but has the misfortune of surfing against Parko--the man is dropping nines like it's going out of style and does a huge AI style cutback where he's fully extended. That's style kids...
Round 5 Heat 1 Jordy Smith vs. Jeremy Flores
Jordy and Jeremy go toe to toe in throttling Cloudbreak barrels. The two regularfoots put on a "How To Surf Cloudbreak Backside" clinic with Jordy squeaking out a win and a quarterfinal berth via a series of mammoth backside hacks.
Round 5 Heat 2 Sebastian Zietz vs. Taj Burrow
With his "win or lose we booze" motto Seabass is nonstop fun. Well this party ain't stopping as Seabass wins with yet another buzzer beater. He's becoming the master of last minute heroics. I have a cold one waiting for him at the Tavarua bar when he arrives. Was Seabass your New Era X Volcom Fiji Pro MVP of the day? If so vote for him tomorrow morning (West Coast USA time) on our Facebook page.
Round 5 Heat 3 Josh Kerr vs. Nat Young
Josh Kerr has surprisingly never got a perfect 10 on the World Tour and was lamenting the fact to me as we caddied during Jordy and John John's heat. That streak unfortunately continues with a 9.8 against Nat. Will it make you feel better knowing that the American judge gave you a 10 Kerrzy?
Round 5 Heat 4 Mick Fanning vs. Kolohe Andino
Mick shows what Two Time World Champs do--make it to the quarters or better in every event. "Every f--kin' time!" rants Mitch Coleborn as we slurp down rum and cokes at the Tavarua bar. With that, the contest os over for the day and happy hour commences. I trudge off to the media zone...--JC
Heat 4: Jeremy Flores (FRA) 14.00 def. Miguel Pupo (BRA) 10.50
Heat 5: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 11.60 def. Kai Otton (AUS) 10.73
Heat 6: Kelly Slater (USA) 13.87 def. Mitchel Coleborn (AUS) 11.03
Heat 7: Mick Fanning (AUS) 11.66 def. Heitor Alves (BRA) 5.67
Heat 8: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 9.67 def. Travis Logie (ZAF) 7.87
Heat 9: Josh Kerr (AUS) 10.76 def. Brett Simpson (USA) 6.13
Heat 10: Kolohe Andino (USA) 9.00 def. Julian Wilson (AUS) 6.00
Heat 11: Nat Young (USA) 15.67 def. Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 12.93
Heat 12: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 18.20 def. Yadin Nicol (AUS) 14.40
Heat 1: John John Florence (HAW) 17.43, Jordy Smith (ZAF) 15.43, Taj Burrow (AUS) 12.33
Heat 2: Kelly Slater (USA) 19.30, Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 15.16, Jeremy Flores (FRA) 13.30
Heat 3: C.J. Hobgood (USA) 12.07, Josh Kerr (AUS) 11.83, Mick Fanning (AUS) 9.77
Heat 4: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 18.14, Kolohe Andino (USA) 15.07, Nat Young (USA) 8.07
Heat 1: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 14.50 def. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 14.43
Heat 2: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 15.97 def. Taj Burrow (AUS) 15.23
Heat 3: Josh Kerr (AUS) 18.76 def. Nat Young (USA) 7.83
Heat 4: Mick Fanning (AUS) 19.53 def. Kolohe Andino (USA) 14.34
QF 1: John John Florence (HAW) vs. Jordy Smith (ZAF)
QF 2: Kelly Slater (USA) vs. Sebastian Zietz (HAW)
QF 3: C.J. Hobgood (USA) vs. Josh Kerr (AUS)
QF 4: Joel Parkinson (AUS) vs. Mick Fanning (AUS)


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Hello fellow Twilight fans!
I read the forum rules and the guidelines on here, I hope you won't see me annoy the Volturi And since I love forums sure I'll introduce myself like asked.
I'm Minke in my mid 20's and I live in The Netherlands, I'm a full time student and studying radiology, before this I was a nurse. I couldn't find a proper Dutch Twilight forum so here I am
In all honesty I just recently saw the movies, and before the movies I didn't even heard of the books, sorry! (from under which rock did I come from!) So about 2 months ago my sister said to me "Oh just go and watch the first movie" (gosh never should've done that!) From that moment on I became a fan! I have all of the movies seen them several times. I read all of the books for several times. (yes, in two months time, you could say I didn't have a normal live besides my own little twilight bubble)
As for my favorite movie, book and character? Uhm favorite movie, Breaking Dawn, book must be Eclipse and character well I have a soft spot for Alice she's just adorable! But Bella and Edward love them to, even Jake.
I'm looking forward in making new friends (I like meeting new people and socialize), I love forums so you'll see me around every now and then With some constructive posting of course
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Friday, May 20, 2011
* Children's Backyard Fairy Garden
My girls love fairies and we have our share
of Fairy Gardens and "lands" to play with.
I've gotten several emails lately
asking for more details about our Fairy Gardens
so I hope this post can answer some questions!
You'll need a container or a special secret corner
of your yard/garden for your Fairy Garden.
If you're planning to plant one indoors,
you can use a shallow dish/pan/flower pot.
We've planted fairy gardens in our yard and indoors.
Outdoor Fairy Gardens:
My dad built a fairy garden in 2009
in a large planter box on his deck for my girls.
It is still going strong and a favorite play spot
at Grammy and Grandpa's house.
I posted about it here if you want to go back and take a little tour!
Our local plant nursery has a wonderful
area devoted to fairy gardens, miniature plants,
and tiny "steppable plants"
Whenever we need to replace a tiny plant or tree,
we head over there for inspiration and supplies.
We try to pay attention and pick plants
that can handle the light and climate
for wherever we're planting them.
Tiny buildings, castles, and houses
can be found on line (search for Fairy Garden Supplies)
and in home decor discount stores like Home Goods or Marshalls.
I also have had success finding cute bridges and mini pagodas
in the fish aisle at our local pet store.
Rocks, pebbles, glass stones, and gravel
work well for pathways, dry river beds, and add
interest to your garden.
Mini benches can be found at Christmas time
near those tiny seasonal villages.
You can also make your own with twigs and glue.
For the Fairy Container Garden pictured (above)
and in my Backyard Makeover post,
We used an outdoor wooden planter box
(on locking wheels/casters)
My mom and dad planted it with the girls
while my sweet hubby and I were on a trip last fall.
They filled up the empty space in the bottom of the planter
with upside down (empty) plastic cat little buckets
(with holes drilled for drainage)
Then, a piece of particle board was cut to size
to make a "floor" for the fairy garden box.
They placed weed-block garden fabric
on top of the particle board base and filled it with potting soil mix.
Smooth it all out then start to plant!
Thanks Grandpa! That was really fun : )
They still play in it daily with their tiny plastic
Schleich Fairies and Animals.
We've also just painted little houses from the craft store
and set up mini-fairy lands in our backyard garden
with stone walkways and tiny washing lines.
Indoor Fairy Gardens
We've also made our share of indoor fairy gardens...
Fairy Garden Bowls
As end of the year teacher gifts.
Indoor Cat Fairy Garden
As mini-cat grass gardens (here's the post!)
Tiny Terrariums!
Homemade Fabric Tree Stump House
Happy Fairy Land Making!
pink and green mama, MaryLea
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My Rover 216 Coupe is about to die i think. The gear box is making a hell of a racket in 5th gear. It'll be a shame to see it go but i think it's time has come to go the the scrapyard in the sky. I've been looking at the following car:-
or similar. Price looks good as i don't really want to spend loads. My concern is the age and mileage. People tell me that you shouldn't really worry about the mileage on a diesel as 100k is just run in??? What do people think?


text: There's an old motor opposite me and It was left there about seven months ago. All the grit and debris has built up round the wheels, we never see anyone come to it and it's obviously not been driven at all in that time. The tax runs out in a few days. My question is....can I claim it in any way? Really I'm just thinking about making a few quid at the scrap yard because that's all it's any good for really. I know I'll have to inform the council or someone but can abandoned cars be claimed at all? The only stuff to do with this I can find looking online, is when it's on private property. Any help would be welcome.


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SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo.—The Aspen-area community is mourning the loss of a ski patroller who died after being swept off a cliff in an avalanche.
The 49-year-old woman was died Sunday while skiing alone in a closed area at Snowmass ski area known as the Ship's Prow Glades. It's the first avalanche death in Colorado this season.
The woman was off-duty at the time. The Aspen Skiing Company said she was found by fellow members of the ski patrol after she failed to show up at her station.
Company president Mike Kaplan extended his deepest sympathies and condolences to her family and friends.
An investigative team from the Colorado Avalanche Information Center plans to visit the area Monday.
The avalanche danger is considerable in much of western Colorado after several rounds of storms.


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Gosselin: With home nation's pride on the line, Rangers' Jurickson Profar needs to play in World Baseball Classic
SURPRISE, Ariz. — Jurickson Profar may not always belong to the Rangers in his baseball career.
But he will always belong to Curacao.
For that reason, Profar should represent his country in the World Baseball Classic. His country and, by extension, the Netherlands, needs him more in March than the Rangers do.
The Rangers have left the decision up to Profar, the rising star of the organization, and the teenager has waffled. He originally told the club in early February he would not compete in the WBC, instead focusing on his prospects of making the big league roster out of spring training. But he has since doubled back.
Curacao exists under Netherlands rule. Profar would be the brightest star on a Netherlands team built with big league prospects, and there is pressure from his countrymen to play. He remains undecided with the deadline approaching this week.
That's a heavy burden to place on someone who turns 20 on Wednesday.
"When he makes his decision, no matter what he chooses, he will be a man," said Rangers manager Ron Washington with equal parts admiration and conviction.
Make no mistake about it: The Rangers want Profar in camp. He is the No. 1 prospect in all of baseball, and the Rangers want him to earn his way onto the opening day roster.
By opting to play in the WBC, Profar would miss a minimum of almost two weeks and a maximum of almost four weeks. Good old American logic says pass on the patriotism and stay in spring training, focusing on his chance to become a big-league ball player on his way to fame and fortune.
But understand the pressure he's feeling from the home front. Curacao is a small island with a population of 140,000. There isn't a pool of 1,000 quality players to select a team as there is in other countries. Curacao can't leave behind a Mike Trout and Justin Verlander like the U.S. can.
Yet the WBC gives players from that island the chance to compete on the same stage with baseball's traditional powers the United States, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Japan and Puerto Rico.
Profar helped propel his island to the heights of baseball once before, and the 2013 WBC gives his nation hope he can do it again.
Back in 2004, Profar helped Curacao win its only Little League World Series, setting off a wild celebration of civic pride that included parades and proclamations. Those boys became national heroes, and they remain heroes today.
Profar won two games in Williamsport and saved another as a pitcher, striking out 19 batters in 121/3 innings. He also hit .313 with five RBIs. He pitched a one-hit shutout against Mexico in the international championship game, then homered and knocked in two runs in a 5-2 victory over U.S. champion Thousand Oaks, Calif., in the title game.
Jonathan Shoop also was on that Curacao team. He is in camp with the Baltimore Orioles this spring but would again team with Profar in the WBC. Aruba's Xander Bogaerts also would play for the Netherlands. He's in spring training with the Boston Red Sox and, like Profar, is considered one of baseball's top 10 prospects.
Baseball is important in the U.S. But we also have Super Bowls, Final Fours, NASCAR and Stanley Cups to entertain us. Our sporting interests are varied. Not so outside of our borders.
The WBC may be just another sporting event here, but it's a major event for countries that live and breathe baseball. There is a far greater patriotic pull elsewhere, which is why Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz are representing the Dominican Republic in the WBC and Elvis Andrus is playing for Venezuela.
The Rangers love what they've seen thus far from Profar and want to see more this spring.
A late-season call-up in 2012, Profar became the youngest player in the major leagues and homered in his first big league at-bat. He saw limited playing time the rest of the September as the Rangers chased a division title but laced a pinch single in the ninth inning of the wild-card playoff loss to Baltimore.
Curacao also was watching his progress, and the Netherlands envisioned that type of power and production from Profar in the WBC. Thus, the pressure to compete.
Profar is not contesting for a starting spot with the Rangers. He covets a utility infielder role. So the fresh legs of middle infielders Andrus and Ian Kinsler plus the built-in days off in the April schedule would limit his opportunities to play.
Profar may be better off opening the season in Round Rock where he could play daily at the Triple-A level. Playing the first 20 games at Salt Lake City in Triple-A didn't prevent Trout from capturing American League Rookie of the Year honors in 2012 with the Angels.
A few weeks at the WBC isn't going to derail Profar's professional ambitions. Nor will it diminish the high regard the Rangers have for him. He has a great future ahead of him with the Rangers regardless of his decision.
But the present should belong to his country. He means more to the Netherlands in March than he does to the Rangers.
Go play, Jurickson, go play.
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D-backs right-hander hopes to 'let it go' in his next outing
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As for his state of mind, well that's another story.
"It was average," said Webb, who threw his fifth bullpen of the spring Thursday morning. "I feel like I'm kind of stagnant right now. I want to feel some progression every time, and I feel like the last couple times I've been out, it's been the same."
When he next takes the mound, though, the circumstances will be different.
Webb is slated to face hitters in a batting practice-type environment Sunday or Monday, and that could cause his adrenaline to pump a little more and allow him to let loose.
"They're thinking that if I get some hitters in there, get a new look, get something other than just [bullpen coach Jeff Motuzas] catching me, the intensity will pop up," Webb said. "Still can't let it go, so that's what I'm looking to build on."
Thursday there was a bit of a difference when pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr. stepped in the box to simulate a hitter.
"The intensity did step up a little bit there," Webb said. "I could feel it -- it was two or three or four percent. It wasn't like it was a lot, but it was a little bit. That was something new."
Webb emphasized that it's not pain that's causing him to hold back a bit, but rather a mental hesitation to let it go completely.
"I just need a little more intensity," Webb said. "I need to jack myself up, I need something. I don't want to overdo it either. I don't want to set myself back. That's like the thing that's in the back of my mind always. I'm set up right now to be where I need to be, and one little setback would probably push me back to where I don't want to be. Still a little cautious.
"If I'm ready to go Sunday, we'll do it Sunday," Webb said. "If we need an extra day, we'll do it Monday."
For the first time since he started throwing back in January, Webb said he felt as good mechanically out of the windup as he did from the stretch. Previously, he was more comfortable from the stretch.
"I feel pretty comfortable on the mound mechanically," Webb said. "I don't have any patience right now. I'm ready to go, let loose. I want to throw in a game and obviously I'm not ready to do that right now, but the next step is facing live hitters and that will be coming up."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Every Saturday, Fort Valley (Ga.) Peach County receiver DeMarcus Robinson watches Clemson play and keeps a close eye on wide receiver Sammy Watkins.
Last season, Watkins set the standard for the type of impact a freshman wide receiver can have on a program, and Robinson is hoping to follow in in his footsteps.
On Thursday, in front of the entire student body at an assembly at his high school, Robinson took another step toward following Watkins when he accepted his Army All-American Bowl jersey.
"It's a great honor," Robinson said. "A lot of NFL players have played in in the game, and it motivates me to be a part of it. To be able to hold up the jersey in front of my friends and family is something special and not something a lot of guys get to do."
The reason Robinson earned his spot on the team is because he's not a lot of guys. The 6-foot-2, 200-pound receiver caught 52 balls for 1,024 yards and 10 touchdowns while also rushing 24 times for 144 yards and five scores during his junior season.
This year, Robinson's team is undefeated, and he's playing a larger role as Peach County tries to reach its second consecutive state championship game.
With a plan to graduate in December and join the Clemson program in January, Robinson has only a few months of high school yet. He said playing on Friday nights and special moments like Thursday's assembly will be the stuff he'll remember the most.
"I'm going to miss it a little bit when I leave early," Robinson said. "But I'm still excited and ready to get on to college."
Growing up, Robinson didn't watch many of the Army All-American games. It was only when he found out of his selection to play in the game that he started doing research and was blown away.
"I was surprised when they first told me I was going to get to play in the game," he said. "Then I looked it up and I was like, 'dang!' This is where I want to be and it just inspired me more to keep working hard to show that I deserve that spot."
Robinson is trying to take a humble approach when it comes to preparing for the game, because he knows that it's the best of the best.
"I don't want to let it get to my head that I just got invited," he said. "I just look forward to the chance to get down there and practice hard and have some fun and do my best against the best competition in the country."
Robinson said he's been impressed with Clemson's success on the field so far this season, despite their hiccup against Florida State last month.
"They playing great," he said. "They lost to Florida State but still played a good game and I think they have a chance to run the table the rest of the way. "
While Watkins is the player he looks up to the most, Robinson said he also holds fellow Clemson receiver DeAndre Hopkins in highregard. Once he arrives at Clemson, he hopes to learn as much as he can from both players.
"I look up to them both, they're a big inspiration to me," Robinson said. "I'm looking forward to getting up there and learning from both of them."
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There are a lot of reasons why I'm an atheist. The idea of worshipping a god who seems to have all the evils and psychological problems of a North Korean dictator, who would send me to an eternity of torture for thinking the wrong thing, who demands total, eternal devotion and praise from his supporters, and would then show those he had saved images of me being tortured for their delight (it's Catholic doctrine, fact fans!) … well, what a bastard. Fuck that God. Every Earthly equivalent of 'Heaven' only exists in dictatorships. God's Palace sounds just like Saddam's – all gleaming marble and gold taps. Day to day life in Heaven sounds like a perpetual Soviet Victory Parade. None of the things I value in life seem to exist in Heaven. I like to elect my leaders, I like freedom of speech and freedom of religion.
But that doesn't mean that god doesn't exist.
For me, as I judge the competing truth claims of religion and atheism, the most compelling reason for me to be an atheist is that religion is consciously untrue. That, in other words, priests and believers lie.
We see it reported all the time on this blog. The first time some creationist says something crazy about junk DNA or how evolution is just a theory … well, it's common or garden ignorance. Not their fault, we all have to learn things some time.
The second time they say it, it's a lie. The third time, it's a policy to lie.
The Catholic Church, to pick just one example, routinely lies. Did you know there are holes in condoms that let AIDS out? Did you know Hitler was an atheist and that the Catholic Church fought Hitler with all its might? Read the Cloyne Report and see that Bishop Magee prepared two reports about child abuse – one for the police, another for the Vatican. Oh, but the Vatican can't be expected to know what some local priest is up to … he was the man that found Pope John Paul I's body. He was private secretary to that Pope and to John Paul II.
Conscious, repeated lies. Not mistakes.
Another aspect of the same phenomenon is the double standard. Priests declare moral relavitism is a scourge of society, that there's good and there is evil and nothing inbetween, that they can show you the difference and that if you even *think* bad thoughts, you're guilty of them. Then they cover up another priest raping an eight year old, deliberately withholding evidence from the police. When they are caught, they play the 'well … everyone's human. It's all trumped up by the media. Did you know that this stuff happens all the time' card. Pick one. To me 'is raping a child bad?' is not a moral conundrum, it's not a time to pick at definitions. If my best friend raped a child, I would phone the police, I would tell them everything I knew, and I would have no moral qualms about it. I don't believe in moral absolutes. I do know that raping a child is wrong. If some smarmy theologian wants to pick as that as 'intellectually inconsistent', please, please let's discuss that in comments. I double dare you.
It goes further than the Catholic child abuse scandal. Beyond the almost identical Mormon abuse scandals, or the Scientology abuse scandals, or … well, the list goes on.
If an atheist accidently credits the wrong loony idea to the wrong branch of one Christian sect, they'll get a long, patronizing speech about how we're woefully ignorant of theology, that the Holy Church of the Ratfucker Jesus might believe that, but the person you're talking to is from the Sacred Chapel of Christ Ratfucker.
Then they'll take the credit for all religion ever. 'What has my religion done?' a Protestant will say, 'why … just look at the Sistine Chapel'. 'How dare you insult the 90% of people on this planet who believe in God?'. Let's accept that 90% of people in the world are religious for sake of argument. The majority of those people aren't even monotheists, let alone Christians, let alone Protestants, let alone Sacred Christ Ratfuckers.
Meanwhile … talk to someone who's been trained at a seminary. Training to be a priest is, from the accounts I've been told, very simply being taught how to lie. The comforting lie, the 'things to say to the people who've read the Bible and spotted that it doesn't say the things you say it does', the lies necessary to keep the institution from external scrutiny. Priests understand that what they teach isn't what they believe – they have 'a more nuanced' understanding. That there are a lot of things they have to keep vague, very simple questions they must not allow to be asked ('who does the Bible says is going to Heaven?', to pick one). Always, always, it's 'avoid a straight answer'.
Jesus said some wise things. One of them was "A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit". Truth does not come from lies. Creationists lie. The Vatican lies. Anglican theologians explain that the bits in the Bible that are true are true, the rest are metaphors. They don't even *understand* truth, in other words.
So, a simple question to believers: if they're telling the truth, why do your holy men lie to you so frequently and so consistently?
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The hearing will occur at the Hilton Garden Inn in Fargo, N.D. (pictured above), beginning at 8:00 a.m. Central Time.
STB said it "will direct Canadian Pacific Railway Company (CP) and BNSF Railway Company (BNSF) to appear at the hearing, and the agency also invites impacted shippers, other Class I railroads, and other affected carriers to appear. The hearing will be open for public observation."
Persons wishing to speak at the hearing in the case titled United States Rail Service Issues, Docket No. EP 724, should file with the Board a notice of intent to participate no later than Aug. 25, STB said. STB added, "Such notices are not required to be served on (officially distributed to) the parties of record (official participants) in this case, and will be posted to the STB's website when they are filed."
STB said the scheduled hearing is in effect a continuation of a process already under way, as it "has been closely monitoring the rail industry's performance since service problems began last year, and has taken a number of actions, both formal and informal, to address those problems. The Board held a hearing at its offices in Washington, D.C. on April 10, 2014.
"Following that hearing, the Board issued orders requiring CP and BNSF to provide their respective plans and supporting data regarding the movement of fertilizer and grain. In addition, the Board's Office of Public Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and Compliance (OPAGAC) has been working with rail carriers to address and correct service issues as they arise, STB said.
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Phil Harrison, former head of Sony's Worldwide Studios, has predicted the death of physical media and said if Apple continues as it is, it "will be the games industry".
Head in the Cloud: Gaming's hardware agnostic future
Expectation says we're three to four years from the next major console cycle. If cloud gaming has anything to do with it, it may well be the last.
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Streaming games service Gaikai's claim to fame is the ability to run on practically everything – including Internet-capable TVs, as early as next year.
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Eurogamer has announced a partnership with streaming games service Gaikai.
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Cloud-based streaming game services like OnLive and Gaikai may not be ready for prime time, according to one game industry executive.
Gaikai teams up with Bigfoot Networks for better PC game streaming
Cloud gaming firm Gaikai's announced an agreement with PC hardware company Bigfoot Networks that will allow Bigfoot's products, which include gaming-oriented PC networking cards and Wi-FI adapters for notebooks, to work with Gaikai's servers. When a Bigfoot Networks PC goes to a Gaikai-powered website, it "automatically recognizes the Gaikai service, delivering an unmatched cloud gaming […]
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Veteran designer Dave Perry has announced streaming games service Gaikai is live, with trials of Mass Effect 2, The Sims 3, Spore and more available to those with beta access and robust Internet connections.
Ex-Namco and EA execs move to Gaikai
Former EA Redwood Shores CTO Tim Wilson and ex-Namco Bandai Games America VP of online development Robert Stevenson have joined cloud-based gaming company Gaikai. Gaikai, headed up by CEO and industry veteran David Perry, said the new appointments will help extend the company's online expertise. Gaikai is currently in closed beta. There's more on Gama.
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While the massive year-end collaboration between DREAM, World Victory Road and K-1 is just a little more than a week away, that isn't stopping the promotions from adding a few more bouts.
The organizations announced two additional MMA-rules contests for the Dec. 31 event, as Shinya Aoki meets Mizuto Hirota and Tatsuya Kawajiri faces Kazunori Yokota.
The HDNet-televised event features both MMA and K-1 bouts and takes place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
The current DREAM lightweight champion, Aoki (22-4) enters the contest having won five of his past six bouts. "Tobikan Judan's" lone loss in the stretch came in a welterweight grand prix contest to Hayato "Mach" Sakurai. The 26-year-old is quickly becoming a New Year's Eve staple, as "Dynamite!! 2009" will mark Aoki's fourth-straight Dec. 31 appearance.
Meanwhile, Hirota (12-3-1) fights for the first time since claiming World Victory Road's Sengoku lightweight title with an August TKO win over former champion Satoru Kitaoka. Hirota enters the bout having gone 6-1-1 in his past eight outings.
While the future of World Victory Road has been left in doubt after lingering financial concerns, the matchup between the two title holders was not announced as a unification contest.
Continuing on the "DREAM vs. World Victory Road" theme, Kawajiri (25-5-2) looks to finish 2009 with his fourth-straight win during the calendar year. "Crusher" was long rumored for a potential matchup with Aoki but will take the fight with Yokoto, instead.
Yokota (11-2-3) also looks to finish his 2009 at a perfect 4-0. A longtime DEEP veteran, Yokota has amassed a 5-1 record while fighting under the Sengoku banner, and his lone loss in the promotion came to former champ Kitaoka.
With the official additions to the card, "Dynamite 2009!!" now includes:
- Masato vs. Andy Souwer (K-1)
- Satoshi Ishii vs. Hidehiko Yoshida (MMA)
- Shinya Aoki vs. Mizuto Hirota (MMA)
- Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Kazunori Yokota (MMA)
- Masanori Kanehara vs. Norofumi "Kid" Yamamoto (MMA)
- Akihiro Gono vs. Hayato "Mach" Sakurai (MMA)
- Hiroshi Izumi vs. Katsuyori Shibata (MMA)
- Marlon Sandro vs. Hideo Tokoro (MMA)
- Michihiro Omigawa vs. Hiroyuki Takaya (MMA)
- Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Alistair Overeem (MMA)
- Yosuke Nishijima vs. Ray Sefo (K-1)
- Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (MMA/"Super Hulk" finale)
- Hiroya vs. Japan Masaaki Noiri (K-1 KOSHIEN semifinal)
- Katsuki Ishida vs. Shota Shimada (K-1 KOSHIEN semifinal)
- Tsukasa Fuji vs. Ryuya Kusakabe (K-1 KOSHIEN semifinal reserve)
For more on DREAM/FEG's Dynamite!! 2009: DREAM vs. WVR, check out the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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To establish the existence of the limitation of action, I'll cite two cases from the Tipitaka, followed by argument from personal experience.
In the Samaññaphala Sutta (DN2), King Ajatasattu, who killed his father to gain power, learns from the Buddha and rejoices in what he learns. What the Buddha says afterwards is interesting.
This suggests that Ajatasattu's fate (being killed by his own son, not being enlightened in that lifetime, being reborn in hell, etc.) was unavoidable, although if I remember correctly, the commentary said he was enlightened in the lifetime after his rebirth in hell.So King Ajatasattu, delighting and rejoicing in the Blessed One's words, rose from his seat, bowed down to him, and — after circumambulating him — left. Not long after King Ajatasattu had left, the Blessed One addressed the monks: "The king is wounded, monks. The king is incapacitated. Had he not killed his father — that righteous man, that righteous king — the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye would have arisen to him as he sat in this very seat."
In another case, there is Angulimala, who was a bandit who murdered many people, yet later became a bhikkhu and an Arahant. See the Angulimala Sutta (MN 86).
I believe Bhikkhu Pesala has taken these passages (among many others) to delineate in this article rebirth in hell, for various acts. Because, for instance, Ajatasattu killed his own father, his fate is said to be inevitable ("definitely" reborn in hell). But with Angulimala, he did not murder his parents or Arahants, so the potential for enlightenment was still there.
This is fairly logical analysis of scripture, but more to the point: What is it about these actions that makes their future effects mutable or immutable?
In our personal experience, there seems to be some kind of limitation to action, but it's a bit ambiguous. When we look outside of ourselves, we see a deterministic world, the mere shuffling of matter, but through introspection, we see a wonderful potential for freedom. People who misguidedly believe in either the extreme of determinism or indeterminism narrowmindedy focus on one or the other aspect of experience -- the internal or the external.
There is the feeling that over time, through my life, I have become this, yet now I have the potential to become something else. In Buddhist terms, in the past, the chains of dependent origination have caused this being to arise, which is old karma, but here and now, there is the potential to create new karma.
But to what degree is there such potential? It is hard to know. A person can overestimate their potential -- as if King Ajatasattu were to expect to not face the results of his actions -- and a person can underestimate their potential -- like Angulimala not expecting himself to have the potential for sainthood. One should not have unreasonable expectations.
The Buddha described Right Effort as tuning a stringed instrument, but a musical string can only play so many notes. The path is also described as taming a wild animal, but there are limitations there as well (can't teach an old dog new tricks?). Even when a person has, for the moment, had their mind set on new karma and right action, old karma still lingers and remains, in the form of nagging habitual thought-patterns which so often quickly re-emerge, laying the foundation for failure and doubt about the sincerity of the previous right intent. To maybe give more clarity to this question: At what point do sankharas become "right" instead of wrong, "new" instead of old, in the chains of dependent-origination?


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he luk like he got sum gud dick hunni
awwww tengo una prima asi y me esta tirando los perros me la boy a echar
the music makes me feel like i'm on a game show from the 70's...
i can fuk better thoe
She is a beast!!!
not bad ! big girl got some go
man dats y my shorts was wet
man big girls got the juiciest pussy's no lie. love em...when nobody's around haha
1 of the best riders Ive seen, man she can fuck!
very beautifull girl i like hit
MAN!!! i cant stop jackin off of this
luv her we shuld kum swap
i fucked her last nite it was gud
I wanna fuck with girl like a her
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