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SNOW HILL – A Worcester County Circuit Court judge last week granted a motion for summary judgment in a civil suit filed by the family of an Easton man struck and killed while crossing Coastal Highway in June 2007, effectively dismissing the portion of the case seeking $1 million in punitive damages against the driver of the vehicle that struck the victim.
Shortly before 2 a.m. on June 17, 2007, Tyler Adams, 21, of Easton, and a friend, Dale Blankenship, 21, also of Easton, attempted to cross Coastal Highway between 32nd and 33rd streets when they were struck by a southbound vehicle, a Jeep Cherokee, driven by 19-year-old Brian Scott of Orwigsburg, Pa.
Blankenship was struck in the foot by the vehicle and received only minor injuries, but Adams was struck head-on and launched over the vehicle. He died two days later.
Absent any substantial criminal charges against Scott in the case, the victim's family filed a civil suit in August 2007 seeking a combined $1.75 million in compensatory and punitive damages against the driver. The suit sought $750,000 in compensatory damages and another $1 million in punitive damages.
Last December, Scott's attorney, Ernest Cornbrooks, filed a motion for summary judgment as to the plaintiff's claim of punitive damages in the amount of $1 million. According to the motion, punitive damages are not available under Maryland's wrongful death statute and are not recoverable under Maryland law for unintentional torts absent a showing of malice.
Cornbrooks argued Scott did not act maliciously when he ran a red light and struck and killed Adams, despite the agreed-upon facts in the case that state he was intoxicated and underage at the time.
The plaintiff's attorney, James Otway, said in his response to the motion Scott's behavior clearly meets the definition of malice.
"The defense is correct in that this case involves a non-intentional tort and that in Maryland, actual malice must be established to recover punitive damages," the response reads. "However, the defense fails to recognize the plaintiff has alleged facts that would constitute actual malice and would meet the standard for punitive damages. … In this case, the defendant's purposeful actions, conscious disregard for the safety of others and the consequences of his own dangerous behavior is conduct which fits within this definition."
In the end, Circuit Court Judge Theodore Eschenberg ruled Adams' behavior before, during and after the accident did not meet the standard for malicious behavior and granted the motion for summary judgment.


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Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum, England, 1859-1939
Asylums could be dreary places. In the early 1900s, the optimism of moral therapy began to fade as the great Victorian asylums gradually filled beyond their capacity with hundreds and thousands of patients considered beyond hope of recovery. Their majestic architecture and large, sunlit day-rooms, originally considered therapeutic, became increasingly desolate and isolating. In an attempt to brighten them up a little, caged parrots and birds were added. Photographs taken of asylums in this period show that many of them had bird cages. This is one of the few that have survived in museum collections. Why might birds have been kept at the Sussex Lunatic Asylum? This cage held three parakeets, which would have provided a little bit of colour and song in patients' otherwise dull days. It is likely that the birds' care and feeding would have been entrusted to one of the asylum's long-term patients, and such a responsibility may have helped a patient feel significant. Do you think the bird's keeper saw something of himself or herself in the predicament of the caged bird?
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I Don't know if this is a second post or not as I tried posting this before but it never showed up so here goes again. If this is the second post, please remove one of them. Thank you.
Here goes: So a lot have been made about starting three rookies at the same time, however Golden State is proving that it is not always a bad idea. They currently have the second best road record after the Spurs. And it was one of their rookies, that stunned the Head last night with .07 seconds left. http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=400278034. They are also the most improved team in the West for 2012-2013.
Is this because of Good coaching, a good GM, teamwork or all of the above? What are they doing that we are not other than winning games of course. There were much talk about following the mold of OKC, now are we to start following the role of GSW? I know it's still early in the season, but you cannot deny the fact that they are playing great basketball. Coin toss or not, we could have maybe selected Barnes, and he would be sitting on the bench because Casey & BC wouldn't play him along with JV.
And would he have thought Barnes would be enough to start and not picked up Fields?
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With the nation in the midst of the largest health reform since the advent of Medicare/Medicaid, we will undoubtedly see more public-private partnerships in the health care arena.
Let me tell you how a similar partnership is working for psychiatry in central Pennsylvania.
Two years ago, Penn State Hershey Medical Center (HMC) created a brand- new not-for-profit entity in partnership with Pinnacle Health, also a not-for-profit. Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute (PPI), serves provides in-patient and out-patient services for patients in the Harrisburg area and across a large swath of central PA.
Of course there were hurdles. It's never easy to get Medicare certification for a new organization, for example. But some hurdles were avoided by wise planning. For instance, PPI's board is made up equally of Hershey Medical Center, Pinnacle Health, and community leaders. That balance is reflected in the balanced strategic planning and tactical interventions required of the organization. (Full disclosure: I sit on the board). And another huge plus: both HMC and Pinnacle were willing to losing several million dollars during the initial phases of start-up, demonstrating a true commitment to the treatment of the mentally ill.
Is the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute out of the woods? Certainly not yet, and perhaps not as long as doctors and hospitals try to survive the age of slim reimbursement. But so far, so good. It's a very promising partnership, and one that may serve as a model for others. I, for one, am delighted to be part of the team, bringing teaching and research to a system that seeks to provide state-of-the-art care.


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But, I think I'll be able to survive the possible modest increase in my taxes, should they ever take place. So far, after four years of Obama, they haven't. Personally, I'd rather my taxes go up slightly than all Americans lose their mortgage deduction which is what Romney may or may not have done (we don't know - he wouldn't say). Somehow, I think my children (and yours), through the values we instill in them, will be able to succeed, despite the attempts of this "dependant class" to somehow bring them down.
And you want the GOP to be relevant again on a national level? It needs to do some soul searchin....or at least its rank and file does. Doggin' put it quite well - you want a fiscal conservative to have a viable shot at the Presidency? Stop kowtowing to the Moral Majority. The first election that a Republican candidate doesn't speak at Liberty University, we'll know we made progress. And perhaps I might even join you in voting for that guy. Or girl.


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Number 9, October 12, 1995
Facing Facts Alert 9
FACING FACTS The Truth about Entitlements and the Budget A Fax Alert from The Concord Coalition FAX ALERT ( Number 9, October 12, 1995) IS THE GOP'S TRUST-FUND GAMBIT GOING AWRY? With their new proposals to put Medicare savings in "lockboxes," Republicans - against the advice of their brightest staff - are pushing the budget debate into fantasy land. Their original wrong turn was the decision to justify Medicare cuts solely on the basis of trust-fund solvency. The further they go down this path, the harder it will be to bring the debate back to where it belongs: the issue of overall budget balance. A Clever Stratagem It all began with the irreconcilable goals announced in the GOP's Contract with America: balance the budget while at the same time enacting large tax cuts and pushing many large programs, most notably Social Security, off the table. Inevitably, a disproportionate share of the budget-cutting burden fell on Medicare. By the time the budget resolution rolled around, it dawned on the Republicans that they were going to catch hell for singling out such a popular program for so much savings. It was then that the GOP leadership executed its trust-fund gambit. The trick was to say that the purpose of cutting Medicare wasn't really to balance the budget at all. It was to "save" the Medicare trust fund, which, according to its Trustees, faces near-term bankruptcy and colossal long-term deficits. At first, this seemed like a clever idea. But then the stratagem began to unravel. For one thing, it smacked of expediency. Medicare's trust-fund troubles, after all, were hardly hot news. For another, as Democrats were eager to point out, the solvency issue only pertained to the Hospital Insurance (HI) trust fund. The gambit thus failed to justify the Republicans' proposed savings in Medicare's Supplementary Medical Insurance (SMI) program. At this point, the Republicans might have come clean with the public and steered the debate back to the real issue: balancing the budget. After all, SMI is growing even faster than HI - and the only reason its trust fund does not face imminent bankruptcy is because accounting conventions assume that general revenues will plug any funding gap, no matter how large. Instead, Republicans keep pushing their gambit toward a ludicrous conclusion. The Senate would reallocate much of the proposed SMI savings to the HI trust fund. The House would create yet another trust fund which would be credited with all of the SMI savings. ...But an Unwinnable End Game Both transactions are cynically devoid of economic meaning. By transferring Treasury IOUs to the HI trust fund, the Senate would indeed improve HI's actuarial balance. But it would do so through a paper transaction entirely internal to government. When HI's Trustees redeem the IOUs, Treasury will have to raise taxes or borrow from the public to honor them. The House proposal doesn't even do this much. It merely appropriates SMI savings into a special Treasury account where -- like savings credited to the President's much-ridiculed 1993 Deficit Reduction Fund -- the money will promptly vanish. In truth, Congress can strengthen the HI trust fund any time at the stroke of a pen. It did so in 1993 by crediting it with a new tier of Social Security benefit taxes (which it now proposes to repeal). If Congress also wants to credit the fund with unrelated SMI savings, fine. But don't stop there. Why not throw in the GOP savings in farm aid and AFDC? Or why not go even further and have Treasury write a check for several trillion dollars to the HI trust fund so we won't have to worry about it again for the next half century? This reduction ad absurdum unmasks the charade of trust-fund accounting. Because all federal revenues are fungible, the balance of any particular trust fund is economically irrelevant. What matters is the net difference between all federal taxing and all federal spending -- in other words, the consolidated budget deficit. Which brings us back again to where we all started: balancing the budget. Yes, large cuts in Medicare are needed to accomplish this goal. But the issue should be argued on its own merits and in the context of other spending and tax proposals. The Republicans' Medicare lockbox only makes them look ridiculous. It won't fool the public for long and it won't change the bottom line.
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Energy use on start up?
Energy use on start up?
I've noticed the same thing. Energy use often spikes during the first few minutes of driving then settles down after. My guess is it's pulling power for climate control and heating/cooling batteries.
In my experience, it is mostly due to HVAC, reaching the desired cabin temperature.
Is it possible to unplug the charger after heating the cabinet (and battery). Could give some extra miles during the cold winter.
I've noticed this too - my first energy reading after charging is usually between 400-900 W/mi. At first I thought it was just the larger amount of energy required to get from 0 to 20-ish MPH that would skew the reading in the first 1/10th of a mile.
But now that I've seen so much variability I'm assuming that the total energy displayed also accounts for any energy used to cool (or heat) the car and/or battery while it's parked. While the HVAC system may be efficient enough to have a very small effect on energy while driving, it would have a very large impact on energy per mile if you're not driving anywhere. So it would take several miles of driving before the HVAC energy is dwarfed by the energy required to move the car.
Don't know if this is true. Anyone have a better explanation or more definitive information?
Try turning off climate control to see if anything changes.
BTW, you probably mean Wh/m (watt-hours per mile), not kw/h.
There are many threads on this. Make sure you are actively charging (adding miles) the hour before you leave and bring the cabin up/down to temp 30min before you leave (both while plugged in if you want the range). Much of it is the heat/cooling of the battery pack to operating temp given the high thermal density of the pack vs air in the cabin. The effect will be amplified if temp outside is very high or very low and/or if the car is parked outside vs in moderate temperature garage.
There is an initial high spike when you start out probably due to mismatches in sampling the parameters. It goes up to 900 and yhe drops from there quickly, like in the first mile. A cold battery will give a spike up until the battery gets warm. This can last from a few ,iles to as much as 20 or 30. This puts the wh/m in the 400s. Then it settles down. It's pretty consistent so i think it is normal.


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What You Need To Know About Green Mortgage
Making environmentally friendly choices is more than recycling or turning the lights off. Every decision can actually have a positive impact on the world. What many people don't know is that applying for home loans can lower greenhouse emissions. Thus, improving the energy efficiency of a home and looking for loans to fund such projects can save people on energy costs and lower their carbon footprint.
Environmental Impact of Energy Efficiency at Home
Steve Baden, Executive Director for the Residential Energy Services Network, which regulates home energy ratings' standards, says that homes contribute up to 21% of the greenhouse emissions. Thus, the smallest home improvement projects can have a huge impact on a home's energy use.
Cut Utility Costs
Green home improvement projects help homeowners cut utility bills in half. This saves hundreds of dollars every year, if not more. An investment today will have a large payoff later on down the line. This is why green home loans are a valuable investment. These funds give people the chance to lower their expenses and do something positive for the environment.
Understanding the Triple Bottom Line
When people look for a home loan or improvement financing, loan officers talk to them about adding a green element to their request. Triple bottom line looks at a loan's benefits to a financial organization, the community and the environment. Addressing all sides to this help homeowners get approved for funding.
Increased Funding Options
Some banks will even offer larger sums of money to people who want to make energy improvements to their property. This happens because the property becomes more valuable. Homes with energy efficient features are more comfortable, easier to maintain and easier to sell in today's day and age.
Invest in an Energy Audit
Many lenders today offer green mortgages. The key difference between a traditional and conventional loan is that an energy audit is needed. Professionals can come in, survey the property and identify ways to make the home greener or more energy efficient. This shows a lender that improvements and updates truly will enhance the property. There audit's cost can be incorporated into a home loan, and there are many rebates that can also pay for this expense.
Decide on the Improvement Projects
The smallest improvements can have a huge impact on a home's energy efficiency. For example, adding extra caulking and sealing around doors, windows, and outlets or including foam insulation in attics and crawlspaces can keep energy from escaping. Additionally, people can be more ambitious and add solar panels to the home, replace lighting fixtures and more. Homeowners should look at the home and make a list of improvements. This will help a financial organization decide the amount of the green mortgage or home loan as well as interest rates and fees. Lower utility costs and higher re-sell value make the investment worthwhile for everyone involved.
Update a Property's Appliances
Another green investment people can make is to update the appliances in a home. Changing the refrigerator, heating and cooling system and water heater can significantly cut expenses. This gives people a lot of bang for their buck and can also qualify for people for higher loans.
Easier to Repay Green Mortgages
Green mortgages are easier to repay because monthly utility bills and related costs are far lower once the improvements and updates have been completed. Additionally, there are also tax benefits to people who make their homes energy efficient. And of course, people can be comforted with the fact that their home has increased in value thanks to the improvements and financing.
Banks today want to offer green mortgages because they help the financial organization, the community and the environment. This is a win-win situation for the bank and for the would-be homeowner. Changing the home's appliances and investing in home improvement projects greatly lowers carbon emissions. All people need to do is have an energy audit done on a home and to discuss options with different lenders.
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State Theatre, February 15
IT'S A pretty gutsy call to open a concert with about half a dozen songs from your most recent, more modestly selling albums, rather than one of the hits that kicked off your career.
That's particularly so if you assume that Norah Jones's audience is as timid as they've often been painted since her first caramel-coated songs made Jones the biggest-selling artist ever on the mostly jazz label Blue Note.
However, it's now clear that neither the musician nor the majority of her fans are as locked into stereotypes as their critics. Which is handy - the first of three nights at the State Theatre moved to an unexpected corner of the musical world: Los Angeles circa 1977.
In songs such as Say Goodbye, Good Morning and It's Gonna Be, there were easy-living backing vocals and a smooth groove, a rhythmic pulse which was never urgent but always moving. There was a lightly toasted organ solo in It's Gonna Be and a weighted atmosphere in Black, while Hey You, a bit of fuzzy, guitar-led honky tonk, was definitely more bar room than bedroom.
Jones is not a natural performer, but she's learnt to relax, so that the pauses between songs work as breathers and teasers while that seemingly effortless voice still disarms and delights.
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OCALA, Fla. - Republican Chris Blair was elected as the new Marion County sheriff on Tuesday night, but current Sheriff Ed Dean said on Wednesday Blair's transition into office must be put on hold.
According to Dean, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey requested a 30-day delay because of a pending FDLE investigation into a complaint of alleged election law violations involving Blair.
"I congratulate Chris Blair on his election," Dean said in a news release. "I understand the need for an orderly transition of the office and I was prepared to begin this process ... Commissioner Bailey has promised that FDLE will conduct an expedited investigation."
The FDLE would not say who filed the complaint, but Blair's opponent, Bernie DeCastro, told Local 6 News that he's not involved in the complaint.
Blair beat DeCastro 73 percent to 27 percent.
Former sheriff's candidate Dan Kuhn dropped out of the 2012 race and resigned from his post at MCSO in October after allegations of an extramarital affair and violations of internal department policies surfaced.
At least three MCSO employees have been suspended as a result of the previous FDLE investigation.
Kuhn had beat out Blair in the primary races.
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game over.
how many missed layups and FT's, what a joke
This is the ****tiest this team has looked all year
game over.
how many missed layups and FT's, what a joke
This is the ****tiest this team has looked all year
5/24 is bullsh!t Melo.
I love the knicks to death , but i cant see them winning the championship this year sadly...
this teams needs a legitimate second scorer. the knicks will never win when melo has an off night and the three's aren't going down. terrible loss tonight.
Even if they somehow made it to the eastern conference playoffs and beat most likely the heat , there is no way they would be able to beat San Antonio , The Thunder or the Clippers over 7 games in my opinion....
Unless something extraordinary occurred....
I had high hopes early in the year, but the way this team has played I would not at all be shocked by a first-round exit. There's a whole second half (when the NBA REALLY starts, amiright?) to play, so PLENTY of time to turn it around. That awesome start has given the Knicks a shred of cushion.
We need a PG.
I think the problem is on the defensive end actually. They are scored on too easily for my liking..
And also they have too many periods during most games where they have brain fades and big intensity lapses which cause them to be in the losing positions they get themselves into...
We need you, Camby.
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They just look bad in general. I wouldn't mind giving Brewer another shot. He was a part of the great start after all.
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ha ha ha a 2nd scorer, your kidding right??????
How about this team needs some "GELLIN-Chemistry" added into its ISO-Melo system (individual-system).
we only average 4 to 5 points per-game on fastbreak-baskets, u can count on one hand all the fastbreak layups/dunks we made in our 50 games (thats not good!). Plus our inside scoring is always lower than 20% of our total score.
O'yea .. our team-defense is so Effin sorry each game it gives our two worst defensive-players the oportunity to Ball-Hog as if the two-players are bailing us out on the offensive-end by shooting relentless 3-balls.
Toronto Raptors just played 4 games in 6 days .. in our last two games in MSG we performed like we want to be traded before the dead-line...


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What APs - motorcycle related have you downloaded. What's your assessment?
Can anyone recall reading an article in a recent ON magazine about an AP downloaded to an itouch.
The author was using it in his garage as a reference while working on his bike.
I've stupidly left my back issues at my parents house, 5,000 kilometers away, and since I've just purchased an itouch I'd like to load it with at least one practical AP.
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MEDIA RELEASE: NC farmworkers face wage and pesticide violations, new study shows
MEDIA RELEASE: NC farmworkers face wage and pesticide violations, new study shows
Many workers experience grave health challenges, compensated below minimum wage standards
RALEIGH (July 25, 2011) – A new study has found that a majority of farmworkers in North Carolina have experienced numerous pesticide safety violations, and are often not adequately compensated for their work in the fields.
Researchers with Wake Forest University and the North Carolina Farmworkers Project analyzed data from a survey of 300 eastern North Carolina farmworkers in 2009, and found that 18 percent of all farmworkers had experienced wage violations. Astonishingly, nearly half of workers without an H-2A visa earned less than the federal minimum wage.
A majority of farmworkers also experience numerous pesticide safety violations on top of a variety of everyday problems faced by migrant workers, including a lack of access to health care and social services, poor housing, and separation from their families.
"North Carolina farmworkers face serious health and safety risks because of these violations," said Carol Brooke, an attorney with the NC Justice Center. "This study just confirms that greater enforcement of existing standards is sorely needed."
The study found that two-thirds of farmworkers had not been provided with required pesticide safety training, and only half were informed when pesticides had been applied to the fields where they worked. Pesticide exposure can lead to immediate effects such as dizziness and vomiting, but can also lead to an increased risk for cancer, neurological disorders, and reproductive challenges.
There is a correlation between wage violations and pesticide safety problems, the study finds, noting that workers who were not paid the minimum wage were also unlikely to be told when pesticides had been applied, and when it was safe to return to the field. Farmworkers often fear retaliation for reporting these violations, and in turn remain silent even when they are being exposed to hazardous materials and paid well below the minimum wage.
The research shows the grave need for stronger enforcement efforts and greater cooperation between regulatory agencies, the study states, particularly given the often linked relationship between pesticide safety and wage violations. "This could greatly benefit the lives of all farmworkers as well as streamline the process of investigation for inspectors," the study reads. "These results argue for greater regulation and greater enforcement of regulation resulting in safer work and living conditions for all farmworkers."
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PC Makers: Tablets Are a Problem, But Not the Only Problem
It's a rough morning for the establishment players in the PC industry: HP stock is down 5%, Microsoft down 4.5%, Lenovo down 7.4%. The only big PC maker whose stock has stayed relatively flat is Dell, which isn't surprising given the bidding war taking place over the company.
The selling is based on a set of seriously grim numbers released on Wednesday evening showing PC sales declining faster than ever before.
But while the traditional end of the PC, rise of the tablet-smartphone axis story is well known, other forces are also at play that are bad news for the industry's big players. In a note today, Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities research points to a couple of other developments that are set to sting the PC makers. And both of them come from Amazon.
First, Amazon — which operates a massive computer network to power both its own services and its cloud computing business — is cutting out the middle men like HP and Dell when it wants to buy new servers. Instead, it's going straight to the source: the so-called original design manufacturers (ODMs) in Taiwan.
Second, Amazon has hired 50-60 new enterprise salespeople, Chowdhry estimates, with some of them coming from Oracle. Those people are now busy selling big corporate customers on the idea of ditching their own servers and running their computing work in the Amazon cloud. Particular uses, like crunching monthly and quarterly financial reports, require heavy computer work for a couple of days per month – "such workloads are ideally suited" for sending to the Amazon cloud, Chrowdhry writes.
The conclusion? These are another couple of data points among the many that show a steady migration of value in the IT industry, from hardware to what Chowdhry calls the "data-fabric" layer. Whatever you want to call it, it's not selling boxes with PCs in them, and it's not what Dell or HP are known for being particularly good at.
See also:
Computer Sales in Free Fall – WSJ
Microsoft Plans 7-Inch Tablet – WSJ
Samsung Introduces the Mega, an Even Bigger Phablet – AllThingsD


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Last month I took a visit to Atlanta and once again stopped by the birth home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I reached back into the life of Dr. King to understand what made him great, and what we must do to continue the extraordinary work that he and his colleagues began so many years ago. As I sat on his porch, I closed my eyes and imagined his mother carrying him to the front door. I wondered how many Sundays the family sat on that same porch after dinner, and how many days Dr. King spent wondering if it might be possible for him to fulfill his dreams and personal ambitions.
I also thought about integration. I carefully studied the old pictures of Auburn Street, where Dr. King was born. I saw images of proud black business owners, in their finest clothes, driving fancy cars. Of course not everyone was doing well, but we were certainly better at making our own money. I read about how Martin Luther King Sr., Dr. King's father, maintained a disciplined household, where education was the highest priority and protecting the family unit was paramount.
Most importantly, I walked away convinced that one of the most valuable things that Dr. King's father gave him was pride. Martin Luther King Sr. taught his son at an early age that inequality was entirely unacceptable, and that the terms of integration should be such that you are able to engage in fair trade without allowing yourself to be subjugated.
So, years later, we have achieved at least half of Dr. King's dream of integration: We can shop where we want, eat where we want and get almost any job at the big fancy corporation down the street. Many of us earn more money than we could have in a segregated society and are given opportunities that are more consistent with our chosen skill sets.
The problem for our community, I humbly submit, is that we did not properly negotiate the terms of our integration. The pride that Dr. King's father instilled in him is lost for millions of youth who are being educated by people who don't care about them. Integration, for the most part, was simply prolonged assimilation, like moving into someone else's home and giving up the keys to your own. You are happy to be moving into a bigger house, but soon realize that you can't go into someone else's house and move around the furniture. Also, while you're renting a room, they are paying the mortgage, which means that their kids (not yours) are going to own the house when all the hard work is done.
Many of us see the golden carrot of a higher salary without understanding the risk that is inherent in allowing your family to depend on the descendants of your historical oppressors. Even the most educated among us are raised to sell our services to bidders who extract our best and brightest like oil being lifted from the soil of Nigeria. People with six figure jobs are living paycheck-to-paycheck, further heightening the economic dependency that makes you impotent when it's time to stand up for your rights. Like an intelligent woman who marries a wealthy man, you must ensure that you still have something to hold onto in the event that your relationship turns into an abusive one. Sadly, however, many of us have thrown economic caution to the wind.
I argue that integration didn't work in our favor because there is a difference between giving up a portion of your economic sovereignty in exchange for a true partnership vs giving up nearly everything to allow yourself to become an occupied state. For example, if I were to give up my business and "integrate" myself into the management of a large company, I would probably be a very different (and more highly paid) man from the one you are hearing from right now. In fact, I'd probably be speaking a different political language altogether because few majority white institutions would allow me to speak the way I do in public (just ask Syracuse University, where I put my academic freedom to the test).
So, the conclusion is not that integration is always a bad thing. Integration can be a wonderful thing, since white Americans have hoarded most of the nation's resources (due to our oppression), and integrating gives us an opportunity to have a piece of the American pie. But integrating in such a way that makes you dependent on others can put your socio-economic security at risk.


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Despite what seemed to be a slip of the tongue a few weeks ago (implying a royal daughter was on the way), the Duchess of Cambridge said Sunday that she did not know the sex of her child and actually hopes it is a boy. She says her husband, Prince William, would prefer a girl. This revelation was made to a soldier during a St. Patick's Day ceremony honoring the Irish Guards.
Kate is 5 months pregnant but claims she does not know the baby's gender yet and it appears she will not find out until the birth of her child, just to keep everyone guessing! It was also revealed that the couple had not decided on names yet for their baby who will be third in line for the British throne.
Due to a change in policy for royal succession, Kate and William's firstborn will succeed to the throne ahead of any future siblings, regardless of gender. In the past, the first male child was given precedence over birth order. These reforms were announced in October 2011 and agreed upon by the commonwealth nations. Finally gender equality in the modern monarchy!


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Lancaster's Extraordinary Give comes back bigger
Lancaster's Extraordinary Give event is coming back for a second year, and it's coming back bigger.
Scheduled for Nov. 22, the region's largest day of online giving will benefit 260 regional nonprofit organizations — a 35 percent increase from last year, when 192 organizations participated.
Twenty-five related community events are scheduled to occur throughout the 24-hour giving period, including Penn Square activities beginning at 4:45 p.m. and featuring "the never-been-seen-in-Lancaster lighting of the Griest Building." Windows on 12 floors of Lancaster's tallest building will be lit by Lancaster-based creative firm Meteor Tower in partnership with Atomic Design and with the full support of building owner Rob Ecklin.
Dubbed Light Up Lancaster, the show will mark milestone moments in the Extraordinary Give and create "an exciting visual link to the power of giving back in our community." There will also be a flash mob of 100-plus performing the "Electric Slide" at the base of the building.
Extraordinary Give is, simply, a 24-hour chance for individuals to visit ExtraGive.org and donate to participating organization of their choice. Every dollar donated on that day will be stretched by $250,000 from the event host Lancaster County Community Foundation and presenting sponsor Rodgers & Associates. Each gift also offers a chance at an additional $50,000 in prizes for community organizations.
In 2012, the local event's first year generated nearly $1.7 million thanks to the generosity of more than 6,200 donors. It was rated the most generous per capita in the country and outperformed communities like Miami, Fla., at its first-time event.
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Donte Greene has not signed with the Nets yet.......he suffered some type of ankle fracture last Saturday.
Greene was working out in Charlotte and surgery is on the horizon.
Williams was just waived by the Houston Rockets.
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I like him. 6'10", very athletic, always a very good shot-blocker, decent enough rebounder and from watching him in quite a few D-League games, his Israel clips etc., he's come a long way offensively. He can score around the hoops well and he's even developed a little mid-ranger jumper with some decent touch...Had a little cup of coffee with the the Mavs last year that didn't amount to anything...The Celtics then had him I believe, Houston, and now he's on the verge of clearing waivers and becoming a FA. I think he could be a nice athletic big-man to backup Amar'e. Imagine the rim protection we'd have on this team next year with Tyson, Camby, Sean Williams and Amar'e (STAT's actually a very good shot-blocker if he dedicates himself to it). We get Williams, we would always have a shot-blocker on the court at all times, most of the times 2. Thoughts?
Josh Howard has been working out in Charlotte this week, according to sources.
Howard is from Winston-Salem.
Howard is also drawing interest from the Chicago Bulls and New York Knicks.
Howard played for the Utah Jazz last season.
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heard about the howard interest... How do we feel about howard? he'd fit in well with the old age home feeling of this roster but is he a scoring threat we need behind amar'e as the PF?
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A source familiar with the Knicks' free-agency plans told ESPNNewYork.com that the team is considering signing forward-center Sean Williams, who was waived by the Rockets this week.
There has been some speculation that the Knicks are interested in unrestricted free agent Josh Howard, but according to the source, they are not into him. Instead, the team wants to add a big man -- likely to serve as a backup to Amare Stoudemire on the depth chart. Currently, they don't have one.
There are more attractive bigs on the market, like Kenyon Martin, Andray Blatche, Louis Amundson, Chris Andersen and D.J. White. But those players have been looking for more than the veteran's minimum, which is all the Knicks can offer.
Williams, on the other hand, is in the Knicks' price range. The former New Jersey Net, whose career averages are 4.2 points and 3.4 rebounds per game in four NBA seasons, made less than $1 million in 2011-12 with the Mavericks and Celtics. While the former 2007 first-round draft pick out of Boston College hasn't made his mark yet in the league, Celtics coach Doc Rivers was impressed with his development last season. And that was on defense, which is Mike Woodson's mantra.
"He has a chance to be a shut-down defender, a shot-blocker, a guy that you can bring in and change the tempo of the game," Rivers said in July. "He rebounds the ball. He has that skill set in him. He has to marry himself to that."
While the Knicks technically have 15 players on their roster, Chris Smith, J.R. Smith's younger brother, is only under contract through the preseason. Williams, who's also reportedly on the Heat's radar, could be the team's final signing. Regardless, the Knicks can bring him to training camp (which starts Sept. 29) because the NBA has no limit on invites.
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Was the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake triggered by environmental war?
EcoNews Service (March 2001)
VANCOUVER, BC - Was the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake of 28
February 2001 triggered - accidentally or on purpose - by new, secret electromagnetic weapons?
The Vancouver-based author of EARTH CHANGES: A Spiritual Approach (Universebooks.com), environmentalist Alfred Webre,JD,MEd, believes the deep, magnitude 6.8 earthquake may have been triggered by
electromagnetic (EM) events. Other researchers, including members of the ELFRAD Group, which monitors electromagnetic (EM) events, note that HAARP, a U.S. electromagnetic (EM) weapons system in Alaska, - or some other EM source piggy-backing on HAARP's signal - may have inadvertently or intentionally affected the earthquake.
In the mid-1990s, despite the strong opposition of Congressman
Ronald V. Dellums (Dem.-Calif.) the U.S. Congress narrowly
approved HAARP, in the face of studies showing HAARP's negative
environmental impacts. The U.S. Navy assured Congress that HAARP would not trigger climate change or seismic events like the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake. Now, if it can be established that
HAARP - or some other EM installation - had a role in causing this
earthquake, the U.S. domestic and international repercussions of this finding could be profound.
In the aftermath of the Seattle-Vancouver quake, a Yakima valley,
Washington researcher, writing agreed with Webre's analysis that
earthquakes can be triggered by electromagnetic EM warfare. He stated, "Like the weather and the oceans, the mantle beneath the floating tectonic plates also involve convection cells, but in a plastic medium that sets up wave patterns that may be modified by superimposition of additional waves."
Electromagnetic (EM) weapons can possibly trigger cataclysmic earth events. EM fields can superheat the ionosphere, devastating magnetic bands around the earth, and in turn causing massive disruption of the earth's Tectonic plates. A January 17, 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan may have been triggered by clandestine deployment of EM weapons. EM strategic warfare includes weather, climate and earth event warfare. Researchers have reported the use of EM weapons in anti-population mind-control operations over major cities.
Scientific observers and short wave radio operators now state that unusual electromagnetic (EM) broadcasts preceded the Seattle-
Vancouver earthquake. One researcher who actually monitored the EM broadcasts prior to the earthquake states, "Could the abnormal activity on 3.39 MHz February 20 and prior be linked to the Seattle quake? If so, why would HAARP (supposedly funded by U.S. sources) be used to create quakes or other assorted EM mayhem on U.S. property? I picked up a signal so strong it went right off the S meter on my SW set at that frequency at 6:00 am on Feb 20th. Took an audio sampling of half an hour but can't make hide or hair of what HAARP is broadcasting, just that it's STRONG."
One example of how earthquakes (and climate shift including so-called global warming) can be triggered is HAARP, a U.S. military electromagnetic EM installation located in Alaska, and part of a global network of U.S. (and other nations') military electromagnetic weapons. HAARP and its EM network are designed to turn the entire ionosphere into a giant anti-submarine and anti-missile antenna.
Environmental impact studies show that HAARP - and EM
environmental weapons deployed secretly by many nations - could
superheat the ionosphere, and substantially damage or destroy it in a runaway ecological process.
Seattle-based researcher Kent Steadman notes EM activity just prior to and during the earthquake. "COINCIDENCE? Date: 2/27/01 9:54:34 PM Pacific Standard Time [hour prior to quake] . Washington, Yakima Valley: On the dial at WX Air VHF band around 153 we are getting the strangest signal. Anyone else hearing it or no what it is. HAARP maybe?"
Steadman continues, "Date: 2/28/01 7:21:39 PM Pacific Standard Time. Does anyone have recording of 153 MHZ signal? I helped install seismic monitoring stations in California in early 90's. They are designed as early warning system in detecting earth movements prior to big quake. Several of these were in the 153-154 band. They send data, but during a big shift they send a screeching sounding data burst. Let me know what you find out."
Ominously, two earthquakes along the North American-South American Pacific Rim occurred just following the electromagnetic EM environmental war signals - The Seattle-Vancouver earthquake, and an earthquake off Central America. Were these triggered by the same signals? The director of the ELFRAD group that monitors EM electromagnetic activity, including HAARP and other EM weapons writes, "Date: 2/28/01 1:55:52 PM Pacific Standard Time. Thought you might find this file interesting. It is a 21-hour recording starting this morning at 0001 hrs. We recorded intense activity from .02 to .036 hertz 473 minutes prior to the Washington quake. Actually this was a double boomer, because 4 minutes earlier there was also a quake registering 5.4 off the coast of Central America. Also am including a [picture] during the same time period for yesterday so that you can compare with no major
Faced with the information on EM Environmental war and
earthquakes, another researcher with the ELFRAD group wrote, "I take back my former statement that all earthquakes are natural. After reading the following article and tying this information in with Russian predictions of major earthquakes in Kamchatka this year, I'm ready to believe we're in for a lot of trouble..." The researcher then cites environmental war analysis also covered in EARTH CHANGES on possible tectonic warfare earthquakes: Web Link
Other researchers have found that the HAARP electromagnetic (EM) signal is carrying within it another hidden signal, whose frequency has been shown to affect the limbic system in the human brain, which manages emotions and mood and is a target of mind control intrusions. Some researchers have stated that mood management of human populations may be happening through these hidden EM frequencies. On February 17, just 11 days prior to the Seattle earthquake, according to ELFRAD".9 Hz signal, which as we've discussed, may be related to limbic (emotion) activation in the brain, occurred during the transmission, lasting a very unusual 42 minutes from 1200 hrs to 1400 hrs UTC
(Coordinated Universal Time) on Saturday, 17 Feb 2001."
HAARP's 1990 environmental impact statement.
During the 1990s, the US Congress held hearings on HAARP's environmental impact statement. Former Congressman Ronald V.
Dellums (D-Calif) strenuously objected to giving HAARP a
Congressional go-ahead. HAARP's environmental impact statement showed that possible environmental mishaps like the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake might result. Despite these obvious large-scale hazards, the U.S. Navy then insisted that HAARP's electromagnetic (EM) broadcasts were safe and would not produce runaway tectonic or atmospheric impacts.
If the Seattle-Vancouver earthquake is in any way shown to have been affected by HAARP broadcasts - accidentally or intentionally - the environmental, social, and political consequences to the U.S.
environmental EM war programs will be profound. These include
incalculable domestic consequences for the U.S. Navy and the Bush Administration's plans for an expansion of electromagnetic EM weapons systems. In addition, HAARP's negative environmental impacts are of such an unprecedented scale that they would constitute blatant violations of the 1977 United Nations Treaty against Environmental Modification. Blatant U.S. violations of this treaty could result in a major embarrassment and isolation of the United States in the world community.
EcoNews has published a series of award winning articles on the HAARP environmental impact statements by Earth Island, an environmental think tank.
Author Alfred Webre,JD,MEd, a Yale Law School graduate, is a former
member of the Governor's Emergency Task Force on Earthquake
Preparedness, State of California, and author of a classic work on
Earth Changes, THE AGE OF CATACLYSM (G.P. Putnam's Sons


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Phillies try to 'Penn' end of city's curse
Legend says no building can be taller than statue's highest point
By Kevin Horan / MLB.com
PHILADELPHIA -- With three more wins, the Phillies can put to rest any talk of this town being frowned upon by the sports gods. It all started in 1987, when the Liberty Place skyscraper rose higher than the statue of William Penn that sits atop City Hall. Prior to that, a gentleman's agreement had been in place mandating that no building could exceed the height of the city's founding father.
Superstitious sports fans here have cried foul since, pointing out this distinction: The city experienced a golden age of sports success before the skyscraper, with the Flyers winning the Stanley Cup twice in a row in 1974-75, the '80 Eagles reaching the Super Bowl and the Phillies of the same year winning their only World Series. The Sixers were champions of the NBA in '83.Since then, however, no major professional sports team in the City of Brotherly Love has won a title. "Philadelphia was the City of Champions," said Rob Marcolina, a fan who produced a film about the curse. "I'm thinking, 'Man, this is going to happen every year. What a great sports city.'" The curse of William Penn, as it is known, doesn't have quite the same longevity as Chicago's Billy Goat Curse or Boston's Curse of the Bambino. The Cubs, having lost in the first round of the playoffs this year, guaranteed that they and their fans will hear -- for at least one more season -- the tale of Billy Sianis, the disgruntled goat owner who decreed that no Fall Classic contest would again be played in Wrigley Field after he and his pet goat were removed from the 1945 World Series. Red Sox fans no longer have to hear about the Curse of the Bambino -- which supposedly started when Babe Ruth was traded following Boston's 1918 World Series win -- after capturing World Series titles in 2004 and '07. Efforts have been made to ensure that Phillies fans can also put to rest any discussion of the curse of William Penn. In 2007, the Comcast Center took its place as the city's new highest point. Liberty Property Trust, the center's builder, made an effort to mollify the sports gods by affixing a 25-inch statue of William Penn to the structure's highest point. So far, it looks like the move may be paying off. With the Phillies needing three wins against the Rays to earn the franchise's second World Series title, the Penn statue -- albeit a much smaller one than the official City Hall statue -- is once again enjoying the top perch in the city. It was all part of the plan, said Jeanne Leonard, a spokeswoman for Liberty Property Trust. "To reinforce that the building would lift whatever curse there is, we decided that he would take his rightful place at the top of the city again," Leonard said.
Kevin Horan is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The goal of this workshop is to provide training in the area of high performance scientific computing for graduate students and researchers interested in scientific computing. The School will address current hardware and software technologies and trends for parallel computing and their application to solve scientific problems. It will also include lab sessions where participants will get hands-on experience with parallel computing including the use of performance evaluation and debugging tools on state of the art simulation codes.
The workshop begins with a series of overview presentations on current state-of-the-art computing architectures and parallel programming as well as how they are used to address scientific and engineering challenges in various fields with physics spanning from atomistic to macroscopic phenomena. The remaining presentations are devoted to programming and debugging tools.
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Schumaker awaiting word on appeal
By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- Now that the Dodgers are in New York, Skip Schumaker's appeal of a two-game suspension should be resolved, right?
"Haven't heard a word," said Schumaker. "Not on [Monday's] off-day, either."
Schumaker was handed a two-game suspension by MLB for "aggressive actions" in the benches-clearing incident after Arizona's Ian Kennedy hit Zack Greinke with a pitch near his neck a week ago, but Schumaker said replays will show that he was playing peacemaker.
Schumaker's actions might have been misinterpreted because, as the on-deck hitter, he was already on the field and appeared on the scene faster than the other Dodgers.
Kemp reports improvement with hamstring
NEW YORK -- After aggressive running drills on the warning track on Tuesday afternoon before the series opener with the Yankees was postponed by rain, outfielder Matt Kemp reported that his strained right hamstring is improved and that he might try to run the bases on Wednesday.
Kemp, out since May 30, needs to be able to run the bases before the Dodgers send him on a Minor League rehab assignment, which would be the final step before his return to the club.
It was when he was running the bases more than a week ago that Kemp felt the hamstring tighten and had to back off.
"Matt said he was great today, and we'll push him more tomorrow," said manager Don Mattingly. "If that goes good, by the time we leave San Diego [on Sunday], I'm hoping Matt can play in a rehab setting at least three or four days."
That would put Kemp's return to the lineup no sooner than the Phillies series at the end of the month.
In addition, Carl Crawford continues to improve from his strained left hamstring, able to run straight but feeling discomfort on turns.
"I assume Carl is behind Matt," Mattingly said.
Ken Gurnick 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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2012 Mercedes-Benz ML350 - First Drive
When Mercedes entered the market for suburban SUVs in 1998 (in contrast to the authentic bushwhacking SUV market, served by its G-class "Gelandewagen" since 1979), the company anticipated that there would be a customer emphasis on "sport" and "utility" because, after all, the ML is a sport utility vehicle.
But consumers actually use mid-size SUVs as family wagons, jockeying with minivans for parking at little league practice, rather than as hose-'em-out off-roaders. And, when there is a three-pointed star on the grille, customers expect to be coddled in the lap of luxury while behind the wheel, all wheel drive notwithstanding.
The 2012 ML350 represents the third generation of this pioneering luxury wagon, and Mercedes is increasingly in tune with customers' desires to be able to reach their lake house or ski chalet in the comfort and style to which they are accustomed. Addressing that expectation, the company has designed a richly appointed interior that the company hopes will raise the bar for luxury SUVs.
"We have nicer ornamental parts; wood ornamental parts and also metal and leather," explained Hartmut Sinkwitz, director of interior design. "We think in high quality materials right from the start of the process. Our customers keep telling us this is what is appreciated."
This stands in contrast to the original M-Class, whose interior was all-around less opulent. The target at that time was the popular Jeep Grand Cherokee. But shoppers expect more from Mercedes than from Jeep, so now buyers can choose between four different kinds of wood trim, or opt for aluminum.
The company has high hopes for one unique interior option, featuring leather stitched in a quilted pattern. The complimenting matte-finished wood lends an especially contemporary appearance. "We are convinced this will set new quality benchmarks," enthused Sinkwitz. Coincidentally, Jeep will have something to say about that, as the new Grand Cherokee, which shares its fundamental underpinnings with the ML350, earned a spot on trade journal Ward's Automotive's list of the ten best interiors for 2011.
In addition to comfort, another traditional SUV shortcoming has been fuel economy, and Mercedes has attacked that issue just as vigorously as it did cabin appointments. The 2012 ML350 features an all-new 302-hp direct-injected 3.5-liter V6 as its main powerplant, with a 258-hp 3.0-liter turbodiesel V6 as an optional engine for diesel aficionados.
The gas engine promises to be 25 percent more fuel efficient than its predecessor, which is rated at 15 mpg on the EPA's city cycle and 20 mpg highway. The diesel is forecast to be 22 percent less thirsty than the outgoing model, which scored 18 mpg city and 25 mpg highway. The twin-turbo 4.7-liter V8 already seen in the S-Class will arrive eventually as a V8 option.
The all-new seven-speed automatic transmission contributes a 14 percent hike in fuel economy by itself, but the transmission is also ready for off-road use. The off-road program alters shift point and transmission slip thresholds, while also applying a more linear curve to the electronic throttle for less jumpy response while crawling over rocks and a different antilock braking program to deal with stopping on loose surfaces.
The high-end model equipped with air suspension has always been adept at meeting the competing demands of on- and off-road driving, but now even the basic model with conventional steel springs benefits from adaptive shock absorbers whose damping characteristics change to suit requirements.
This combination of opulence inside and intelligence under the skin means that the 2012 ML350 bridges the gap between off-road capability and country club exclusivity.


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The PFT article excludes a key component from Jenny Vrentas's original article.
The part of your quote I bolded doesn't matter because in the Vrentas article it states that Coples is still the starter in base four man fronts as well as rushing down four man fronts. The only thing Coples is not a starter in is the base three man front; that will remain the same as last year's unit. And Vrentas said that they ran only about four plays from that set in yesterday's practice.
Like I said, the PFT leaves out a bit of pertinent information. The bottom line is that he'll still be playing more than 50% of the snaps. IIRC, Wilkerson played something like 60% of the snaps last year.


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Poco Bueno fishing pot reaches $1.37 million
By BY J.R. ORTEGA
July 17, 2010 at 2:17 a.m.
PORT O'CONNOR - When it comes to Poco Bueno, Jimmy Cagle is simply known as "the ice chest guy."
As he dragged his blue and white ice chest into the middle of the crowd, something happened that many Poco Bueno regulars already expected - country music started blaring out of the medium-sized cooler, which he made into a boom box.
"You can't go anywhere without music," Cagle said, as his friends and the crowd around him waited for the possibility of seeing a blue marlin at the last weigh-in of the 2010 Poco Bueno Annual Invitational Fishing Tournament.
On Friday, five blue marlin already had been caught and weighed in.
Marlin Majic, brought in the first and largest blue marlin at 476.5 pounds.
The name of the captain or where the yacht's crew was from were not available.
As of 9 p.m. Saturday, no other blue marlin weighing more than Marlin Majic's blue marlin had been weighed in.
Cagle was just one of the many characters with a Poco Bueno history at the weigh-in.
Jim Reed, owner of 10th Street Lodge in Port O'Connor, remembers his father winning the pot in 1971.
Reed could not remember how much his father won, but several of his guests involved in the tournament said the pot this year for the largest blue marlin was $1,375,000.
"This is the biggest Poco Bueno I've ever seen," he said.
One of his guests, Kim Duplichan, of Houston, said she feels people have a misconception about how the oil spill is affecting the Gulf of Mexico.
"Off of the Texas coast, we are fishing like crazy," she said.
For Skylar Fisher, Poco Bueno is something he has gone to since he was a kid.
The 29-year-old can remember heading down to watch the weigh-in for at least the past 20 years.
"They close down the street," he said as he kept his place on the back of a trailer with his friends. "It's just a place to hang out."
The crowd looks bigger than it has in the past, Fisher said.
Gasoline prices at this time last year were higher, which may have deterred people from wanting to travel, he said.
Poco Bueno is just one of those events that makes Port O'Connor, well, Port O'Connor.
"We have Memorial Day, Labor Day, the fireworks and Poco Bueno," he said. "These four days are the only things that draw people to town."


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Although we are heartbroken and she will be missed more than words can express, her heartbeat will always carry on with us, until we all meet together again at the place where she has now found the ultimate happiness, peace and joy, just as the song so eloquently states, "if you could see me now." Her smile and warmth to all she greeted will never be replaced.
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Over the weekend, HBO aired this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which included the long-awaited induction of KISS. There was a lot of speculation as to how that would go down in the weeks leading up to the event given that there was lots of sniping in the press between founding members Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons (who are both still in the band) and Ace Frehley and Peter Criss (who are not).
It turned out that, although the band declined to perform, the induction was pretty civil and even a bit sweet. Gene Simmons shocked the audience by saying the words "We are humbled."
Paul Stanley, however, used the opportunity to speak out against the Rock Hall, saying, "I believe that the spirit of Rock and Roll means you follow your own path regardless of critics, and regardless of your peers. I think we've done that for forty years. Here we are tonight, basically inducted for the same things that we were kept out for. The people, I believe we're speaking to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and what they're saying is, 'We want more.' They deserve more. They want to be apart of the induction. They want to be apart of the nomination. They don't want to be spoon-fed by a handful of people. Choices. The people pay for tickets. The people buy albums. The people who nominate do not. Let's not forget that these are the people that make it all possible."
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame CEO and President Joel Peresman reacted to Stanley's speech in our interview with him.
If Paul comes off bitter lately, it's because most of the questions he's been asked these days are about the Rock Hall, his former bandmates, or even Gene Simmons. A more well-rounded picture of the guy comes from his recently published memoirs, Face The Music: A Life Exposed. Perhaps the biggest revelation is that Stanley, not an artist generally associated with angst, came from a pretty tough background and was born with a condition that came to define much of his life. So here's five moments from the book (which is well worth reading in full) that give a more complete picture of the man.
Playing The Phantom Changed His Life: When Stanley played the lead role in a Toronto run of Phantom of the Opera in 1999, he received a letter from a woman who observed, "You seemed to identify with the character in a way I haven't seen in other actors." She invited him to get involved in AboutFace, an organization devoted "to helping children with facial differences." Stanley himself was born with no right ear and is deaf on that side as well. He mentions this on the first page of the book, looking back on the kids who called him "the one-eared monster." In 2000, he became the organization's spokesman: "I found that helping others helped me heal myself. It created a calm in my life that I had never known before."


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I was reading a book on Buddhism in Korea today and the author got me to thinking about polity of the various Buddhist temples and monasteries. The Japanese system seems to be very ecclesiastical in structure, very top down. It was apparently introduced to the Korean peninsular where it has survived despite some Korean overhauls. In China, I honestly do not know how polity works--- are there independent monasteries or is it all tiered with greater and greater control in smaller and smaller circles? I guess the Tibetans have a hierarchy of sorts but again I am clueless.
On the Theravada side of things, what of the monasteries of Thailand? I have a limited knowledge of such matters even in my own culture. Local Protestant Churches are wholly autonomous, started by one or a maybe few true believers, more or less. The UU is a national association of churches which recognizes the polity of it's individual congregations, kind of an affiliated but not dominated approach. The Methodist Association enforces standards of representation for the organization and will shut down any congregation that can't sustain that representation (as happened locally when a small congregation could no longer afford to pay an organizationally trained minister his requisite fees). Finally, of course, there is the Catholic Church who recognizes the Pope as their God's infallible representative on earth.
Do Buddhist organizations also run the spectrum?
I just realized how little attention I've given this topic but anyone interested in how the Dharma may take shape in the West should think to ask. Top down systems that work well in other cultures may or may not be sustainable in, for example, the United States. I would bet the idea of the small temples ran as hereditary family affairs as found in Japan would so clash with our American ideals of independence which we culturally which project onto our children.
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|2007-08-03, 18:11
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Quick question, are North American memory cards good with japanese systems? Is there some kind of region lock with them? Can I use my old ps2 card to save Matsuri games or will I need a japanese one?
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|2007-08-10, 23:44
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Um... Do you think its worth the effort to process the text in the game through babelfish?? Can you make sense with it? The thing is even character names may get translated into really bizzare phrases...... In my area there isn't really any Japanese language schools around so I don't know how I can learn it or what tool to use.
I am not sure how some of you can understand it, unless of course you guys are Japanese perhaps?
|2007-08-11, 02:01
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For me, I know the story of the main plots backwards and forwards, so when I finally buy the game, I'll be able to follow along with those fairly well, since I have a very basic grasp of Japanese. The main problem I'll have is with the Kanji, and that's only for the non-spoken parts.
|2007-08-11, 04:38
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I tried playing the first arc of the Higurashi PC game in Japanese. Even though I know the story for that arc, it got really boring quick. It would be awesome if someone who gets this game takes the time to write out a translation script and post it up on gamefaqs or something.
|2007-08-11, 12:27
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7 chapters of Minagoroshi-hen and 3 chapters of Onikakushi-hen.
|2007-08-29, 20:14
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Say, would you guys recommend this even if I don't speak or read Japanese? Yes, I am kinda a Higurashi fan as I just can't seem to get enough of some characters.
Will the emotions, sounds and graphics at least be enough to tell me whats happening and "maybe"(keyword: maybe) tell me why certain things are happening? Or will I be so confused and bored to sleep? Some of you guys says this game is an alternate version of the original with alot of adjustments that you will feel like its an anime instead of a game. True?
|2007-08-29, 20:42
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Well, here's the thing, if you don't understand any Japanese at all I'd say no. The main reason I went and picked it up was that my spoken Japanese is light years ahead of my written. (Of course I had to find out after that the question arcs don't have Keiichi voiced and the TIPS had no voice overs what so ever.)
It's an incredibly text heavy game and there are times where what choices you make determine what chapter you get, if you have no idea what these choices are you could end up getting the same chapters over and over.
|2007-09-07, 23:14
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Matsuri seems like a good revision of the original. I like the darker tone. At least thats what I got from reading this thread. Does anyone know where are the more indepth synopsis for the PS2 arcs are? I do have a bad feeling that the PS2 arcs might not get animated. But I am anxious to know the when,what and whys of the PS2 arcs.
I also heard that in the second anime series some PS2 elements will be placed in but I am not sure why PS2 elements are placed into the anime.
Anyway plot summaries are welcome.
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Google has found more recently that its perks can't keep some of its most important people from leaving. Microsoft is another of the big firms that offers perks that many employees have now taken for granted. With the tough global economy, Microsoft has been shedding employees as it shores up its finances to weather the economic storm.
BusinessInsider reports that one of the benefits that Microsoft employees have enjoyed over the years is being dropped. Microsoft has implemented a new policy that will no longer pay for employees' mobile phones and data plans, even when used extensively for work, if the mobile phone runs on anything other than Windows Mobile.
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Screening for HIV
Our first screening example featured a fictitious terrorist-detecting device that was not very accurate. However, as this real example shows, even when the tests are incredibly accurate we still get some surprising results if the underlying condition is rare.
Common HIV blood tests are very accurate -- estimates vary, but it is estimated that using current techniques (ELISA and Western blot) around 99.8% of people with HIV test positive, and 99.99% of people without the virus test negative. In the UK, the prevalence of HIV in adults with no risk factors is around 1 in 10000. Thus, out of 10000 people, we expect 1 to have the virus (and they will almost certainly test positive), and one false positive. We can see this in the animation below. Thus, out of two people who test positive,we expect one to have HIV -- in other words, the probability of having HIV given a positive test result.
You can experiment with the interactive graphic to see how altering the properties of the test and the prevalence of the disease affects the test.
However, among intravenous drug users, HIV rates are much higher -- in the UK, around 1.5%. What does our test tell us here? Out of 10,000 drug users who are screened, we expect around 150 to have HIV, and we expect all of them to test positive (to the nearest whole person); we also expect around 1 false positive. Thus, given a positive test result for an IV drug-user, the probability that they have HIV is around 150/151. This example is also featured in the animation.
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