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Pamphlet: Every Man His Own Doctor: or, The Poor Planter's Physician
DESCRIPTION: This facsimile is reprinted from a copy of the pamphlet which was printed by William Parks in 1734 and 1736 in Williamsburg, Virginia and Benjamin Franklin in 1734, 1736, and 1737 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The pamphlet contains "Plain and Easy Means for Persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the Distempers, incident to this Climate, and with very little Charge, the Medicines being chiefly of the Growth and production of this Country."
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"I believe the future of peanut production lies in biotechnology," says Marshall Lamb, director of the USDA/Agricultural Research Service Peanut Research Laboratory at Dawson, Ga.
"The industry is moving toward looking at molecular markers in peanuts and genes from other crops," he said at the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation's summer peanut commodity meeting.
"Corn, soybeans, and cotton already have genetically modified varieties. We need to identify alternative genes and molecular markers for peanuts, so one day we may give you a variety that you don't have to spray for leaf spot or other diseases, or that will have other characteristics that allow you to produce higher-yielding, better quality peanuts."
Other research projects, Lamb said, include a collaborative advanced breeding program, headed by Auburn University's Charles Chen, with locations at Dawson, Ga., Headland and Fairhope, Ala., Poplarville, Miss., and in west Texas.
"Hopefully, this work will develop some lines that will be specific to Mississippi conditions and will benefit producers here," he says.
Feature: On Taylor farm in Arkansas, peanuts add diversity and rotation benefits
"With support from the Federal-State Inspection Services, we're also looking at X-ray technology for grading peanuts. Grading has been done the same way since the 1960s, and is a great asset for the industry in determining peanut quality but it's very labor intensive. X-ray technology is very fast, and as accurate as the current method.
"This season, we'll have X-ray machines on the road to obtain one more year of data, after which we hope to open it up to the industry to make a decision on adopting it. We know it can provide comparable accuracy, with greater speed, but it will be up to the industry whether to go forward with its adoption.
"Because of cost, Lamb says, "Every buying point won't be able to afford X-ray systems. Some middle to upper size buying points have enough throughput that it will be cost effective, but that wouldn't be the case for smaller buying points.
"Another study is evaluating a compound to terminate peanut flowering at about 100-110 days after planting as a means of reducing numbers of physiologically immature kernels that detract from grade and have off-flavor.
"The idea is that the peanuts already on the plant at that point are the ones we want to mature and harvest, and by eliminating immatures the plants can use that additional energy on peanuts that will be harvested.
"Researchers are also looking at use of a digital force gauge to evaluate peg strength to help determine maturity. The information has also been correlated to digging losses and soil types.
"It's a very interesting project, and has promise in conjunction with other tools available," Lamb said."We're also conducting drought tolerance and water use studies, and a scientist we've just hired has identified an enzyme that could fight aflatoxin development in peanuts. This is really advanced chemistry, which we feel has promise.
"We're also looking at RNA interference as a means of breaking aflatoxin's genetic chain — very powerful technology, and very exciting."


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With a cloud-filled sky giving way to rain, veterans, boy and girl scouts, and members of several fire departments and ambulance companies marched on East Hampton Main Street Monday to mark Memorial Day, 2011.
Despite the downpour, which began in earnest just as the first flag-carrying marchers reached the business district, a sizable turnout of people, young and old, remained to watch the parade go by. Those without umbrellas crowded under store awnings and the eaves of buildings and cheered as the veterans went by. One woman backed her infant in a stroller into a clothing shop's open front door to get out of the rain and secure a view over parked cars.
East Hampton Town Clerk Fred Overton, his notes almost unreadable because of the rain, presided over a ceremony that followed at the Memorial Green near Hook Mill. Among those in attendance were East Hampton Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson and East Hampton Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr.
After the parade, about 200 people gathered in a semi-circle and listened to remarks from Mr. Overton, who is also the commander of East Hampton's American Legion Post No. 419, in Amagansett, and Tom Byrne, the commander of the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars Post in Wainscott.
Mr. Byrne cited the fighting spirit of the United States military. "The heart of America is freedom," he said.
"We remember our fallen," he said. "Once a year is not enough. Widows, orphans, mothers and fathers, they remember every day."
Bill Fleming, a Wainscott resident who was drafted into the Army in 1970, was the keynote speaker. He said that occasion was a "day of humility and a day of renewal for all of us."
"Small towns like this town supply those who fight and suffer the losses," he said.
"We fight for the ideals that started this nation. . . . Today we renew our commitment to those who served," he concluded.
The names of East Hampton students who won awards from the American Legion and V.F.W. were read at the end of the ceremony.


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MSG?21 messages in this subject.
|Every time I eat out at a Chinese restaurant I get terrible ulcers, no matter what restaurant it is
|Nathaniel 11 January 19
|Could Maruchan Top Ramen with the flavor packets give you tongue sores?
|Josh 28 July 18
|I get canker sores as soon as I ate kurkure (A corn based snack from India). I believe it is the MSG which causes it..
|Abhishek VP 20 January 18
|I only ate Ruffles, plain, salted, potato chips and inside my mouth are sore spots. I don't think they're canker sores, those sound worse to me, but sore spots that are sensitive. Over the holiday weekend they were everywhere and I ate too many I know that, and it's happened before but not to this extent and I have always thought it was too much salt. But now maybe it's msg. Hadn't thought of that.
|Rose 29 December 17
|Stopped eating crisps due to the horrendous ulcer like spots on my tongue i got for days after. It was like bad scolding or a spot under great pressure. The only relief was to eye wateringly pick, poke and pull them off with needle and tweezers!! Just been reminded with a tongue full of pain and discomfort after risking a pack of quavers the other day, GSM on the packet, found this thread when I researched!!
|Eddie Carlile 22 June 17
|Just got a gob full of painful ulcers again. This time I thought there is definitely a link to take outs. Chinese and Indian to be direct. Google it and found I'm clearly not alone in this problem. From now on gonna check for msg in everything.
|Kev 10 January 16
|Funny I found this... I was just eating some crisps the other day. Next day canker sores 2 small ones popped up. I looked at the chips and sure enough MSG on the ingredients. I have suffered from canker sores my whole life, as a kid it was horrid. This is the first link I have had with MSG though... was always under the assumption it was due to the mouth being very acidic along with certain stress factors. I have been under a lot of stress but now seeming how MSG is acid, the link between the sores showing up and the crisps/chips I just ate the day before I am sure they are linked. Flavor was sour cream and onion wavy style by Kroger.
|Adam 18 September 15
|I am 100% sure msg is the only causes of ulcers for myself.
|hydher 25 July 15
|I am convinced that MSG causes me to have mouth ulcers. I can go for months without any ulcers, eating a wide range of foods that I prepare at home myself and that I know have no MSG in them (or only minimal amounts, such as in certain stock cubes)... then, I can go out for a meal at a restaurant and THE NEXT DAY my mouth starts erupting. There is DEFINITELY a link for some people.
|Emma 26 July 14
|Yes. MSG causes thirst and ulcers for me.
|Hydher 12 February 14
|MSG and mouth ulcers are definitely connected. I'm NOW sure this ingredient triggers the mouth ulcers .
|Ammara 6 December 13
|Dom, MSG may be in "everything" but maybe it's concentration that is the key?
Or maybe it's another ingredient in flavoured crisps - they are full of wierd ingredients.
|Clint 16 August 13
|I've just realised that crisps give me canker sores. It doesn't eem to happen with eg. plain salted, but mostly with heavily flavoured ones.
But this is pretty much the only site I can find linking canker and MSG.
|Clint 16 August 13
|I too suffer with mouth ulcers forming within hours of eating anything with MSG. Crisps is the worse one of all. Indian food also.
Tried bonjela and all sorts to contain the ulcer but the pain is awful. Broke out with 12 ulcers on the weekend. On my tounge and gums.
|Richard Smith 12 November 12
|I have been taking lysine (an amno acid) 1000 mg/day, for 20 years and rarely have those sores any more. I recently found that the reason I get heartburn at some chain restaurants and never at others. Internet research revealed that those where I have had heartburn are heavy users of MSG, and the one where I have never had it doesn't use it at all, so that means I have to avoid about 90% of restaurants.
|John Tiedeman 11 September 12
|Dom - I too try and avoid this as I have often thought that this could be a trigger - Monosodium Glutamate is often found in many flavoured crisps - and this is a BIG no no for me - eat flavoured crisps and the next day (or within hours actually) the ulcers start to appear - Ive never really mentioned this or discussed this with anyone - it was just a gut feeling about it... Be interesting to see if anyone else feels the same....
|Paul 29 May 04
|that is extremely bad for your health,some say that may be a cause for cancer,Chinese food,may have that ingredient..it is supposed to as flavor to the food
|Gail 29 May 04
|Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the sodium salt of glutamic acid, an amino acid which is present in all protein.
|Dom Walton 29 May 04
|What is MSG?
|Bini 29 May 04
|I try to avoid to avoid MSG
|Dom Walton 17 May 04
|I constantly get these haneous hell pockets in my mouth. I wish that there was a cure. So my question is - is there a connection between MSG and canker sores. I am ultra sensitive to MSG - and I have noticed that when I have a reaction to MSG, an eruption is sure to follow. Not to mention I also suffer from Sinus headaches (which I am POSITIVE are actually canker sores in the sinus cavity), I am a mess when I get hit with this stuff.
|Suzanne 17 May 04
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Baltimore Refresh jQuery PresentationThursday, April 17th, 2008
On April 9th I had given a jQuery Presentation on the basics of using jQuery and how to punch up your site with some minor animations. All in all the presentation went over well and I got a lot of good questions. Since my days at UPS I've never been real good at creating Power Points to give my presentations. I've always been better at just showing, planning what I want to talk about and then just letting the presentation flow. Which can be good and bad depending on if the crowd asks questions. With that said, I did not create any Power Points slided, but since a got a good amount of emails asking me to post them, I decided to just create a screencast that covers everything we went over, answering the questions that were asked during the presentation.


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Bronze Statue
Date of Joke: Sunday, 3rd April, 2008
A tourist wanders into a back-alley antique shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. Picking through the objects on display he discovers a detailed, life-sized bronze sculpture of a rat. The sculpture is so interesting and unique that he picks it up and asks the shop owner what it costs.


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'That Metal Show' Books Lemmy Kilmister, Dave Mustaine, Rob Zombie + More for Season 12
After making its debut in late 2008, 'That Metal Show' quickly became one of VH1 Classic's most popular shows. Nearly every big name in hard rock and classic metal has made an appearance on the program, which will begin taping their 12th season later this month in Los Angeles. Hosts Eddie Trunk, Don Jamieson and Jim Florentine all return for the new season that premieres June 1.
Eddie Trunk commented on the upcoming season. " As usual we have a mix of hard rock and metal artists, first time and returning guests. Thank you all so much for your support both here in the US and around the world for TMS! Feels great to finally have new shows coming your way soon."
Here's a list of shows and their guests, with specific dates for each program to be announced later:
Jake E Lee / Rick Allen (Def Leppard)
Rex Brown (Pantera) / Sebastian Bach
Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy) & Ricky Warwick (Black Star Riders) / Neil Fallon (Clutch)
Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser (Blue Oyster Cult) / Steve Whiteman & Brian Forsythe (Kix)
Jason Newsted / Lemmy (Motorhead)
Scott Rockenfield & Todd LaTorre (Queensryche) / Dave Mustaine (Megadeth)
Tom Keifer (Cinderella) / Rob Zombie & John 5
Joe Satriani / Corey Taylor & Jim Root ( Stone Sour / Slipknot)
As usual, 'That Metal Show' will have a guest musician for each episode. Season 12's include Carmine Appice, Vinnie Appice, Jake E Lee and Richie Kotzen.


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Out-of-towners chip in $250K to rebuild N.J. boardwalk
Donors from across the country participated in borough's "Buy a Board" campaign.
BELMAR, N.J. -- In just over a month, the Belmar borough has raised $250,000 from its "Buy a Board" campaign to help offset the costs of rebuilding the boardwalk obliterated by superstorm Sandy -- and most of the people who have bought boards have come from out of town.
"A relative suggested it to me over (Thanksgiving dinner)," said Belmar Mayor Matt Doherty of the Buy a Board campaign's origin. "I thought it was a great idea."
Fans of the borough's iconic boardwalk apparently agree.
Doherty said people from across the country -- from California to the Carolinas -- have bought a piece of Belmar's boardwalk. The money will be used to help cover the cost of reconstructing 1.3 miles of boardwalk that was lost by the storm surge created by superstorm Sandy.
On Wednesday, state and local officials gathered to kick off the $6.6 million rebirth of the boardwalk.
Together, Doherty and Gov. Chris Christie turned on the machine that pounded the first of hundreds of 25-foot-long pilings into the sand.
"Today is one of the great, great first moments of the rebuilding of our state," Christie told the hundreds who gathered to watch the boardwalk begin to take shape again, only weeks after superstorm Sandy destroyed it. "This is the heartbeat of our state."
STORY: 5 Jersey towns spending $50M on boardwalks
While other communities continue to debate the best way to redesign their decimated boardwalks, Belmar decided that its businesses could not afford to spend the summer of 2013 without the Jersey Shore icon, Doherty said. Belmar's boardwalk helps draw tourists from the region and from throughout the country to the area, he said.
Piscataway-N.J.-based Epic Construction plans to use at least two pile drivers and approximately 30 carpenters to construct the 1.2-mile boardwalk. The borough hopes to see the boardwalk complete by Memorial Day weekend, traditionally the unofficial start of the Jersey Shore's beach season.
The influx of out-of-state donations doesn't mean Belmar residents aren't chipping in or don't have a big place in their heart for their boardwalk. Far from it. Doherty said one local resident whose name he would not reveal has given $15,000.
That makes that individual the biggest of the Big Kahunas -- the name reserved for those who donate $5,000. That person along with everyone who bought a board will have their name and board level displayed on a beach entrance of their choice come the completion of the boardwalk.
The board levels start with the Big Kahuna and work their way down to the Beach Bum, which can be had for a donation of $25. There have been 15 Big Kahunas to this point.
"There are 20 entrances to the Belmar beach," said Doherty. "At every avenue there will be a list of the names of the contributors."
No deadline yet
The fundraising campaign began on Nov. 28, and the borough hasn't given a deadline yet for when they will end it. Officials expect at least 75 percent of the rebuilding costs will be recouped through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, leaving them pick up the costs for the remainder.
But Doherty said the Buy a Board campaign is one of the main reasons the borough will not raise beach badge fees in 2013, a strategy that was discussed by officials to help offset the costs.


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Friday, 3 February 2012
UniLad to the bone
5 comments:
In case you happen to be not aware of it, I've always been impressed with the level at Sickipedia:
Yes, most of the humour is exceedingly tasteless, but it operates as an equal-opportunity-offender, and the community mods pick out the wheat from the chaff rather than simple laddish victimisation.
- 3 February 2012 at 06:07
- John said...
Good article, nice idea to attack them on their comedy since going after their moral issues just gets ignored/shouted down, as you say, as being from feminists. I'd like to see one of their supporters answer this.
One issue though:
I find your line "Anyone who has a working sense of humour and appreciation of good comedy would find the Unilad website as painful as Unilad's theoretical targets would find the consequences of their advice." to be in incredibly bad taste, especially considering the point of your article. This kind of unthinking trivialisation of rape seems, to me, as bad as the original Unilad jokes; while they're going out to deliberately offend people you basically said that, as a comedian, reading bad jokes is as bad as being raped and it looks to me like you did it without even realising.
- 3 February 2012 at 06:19
- Dean Burnett said...
A bit of an odd one sickipedia. I do sort of approve of the self-policing, equal opportunities 'offence' vibe, but sickipedia can be a bot of a pain in the arse comedically. A lot of the wannabe offensive comics I've seen just lift jokes straight from there. Gag theft is major no-no in the comedy world. And contributors to sickipedia have been known to just take jokes form working comics who are good at the whole offensive thing and rely on those jokes to make a living and send them to sickipedia where anyone can see them uncredited. When they complained, they got attacked.
This was a while ago though, but I've heard it can still happen
- 3 February 2012 at 07:38
- Dean Burnett said...
My first draft of this article had a discussion on my thing about there being no subject that is off-limits to comedy, a position I still stand by.
I wanted to show how easy it is to say something that could be viewed as deeply offensive to someone purely because it's used in a joke.
E.g I say how real men have a backbone. You could interpret this as saying that people in wheelchairs aren't real men, equating not sticking up for your actions to crippling disability.
I compare feminists to Jedis. Am I equating feminism to a sci-fi concept made up to entertain lonely men? A deeply offensive notion to many
I joke about my brain trying to escape from my eye sockets. Ergo, reading an offensive article is as bad as violent cranial trauma?
The point of real men having 'balls' implies that the Unilad guys don't have any. Male castration = being told off for making offensive jokes?
I've heard genuine arguments that are very similar to the ones I've listed. The point being that the way language (English, at least) is used means you'll invariably end up using terms/phrases that are innocently meant but are nevertheless very offensive to some. We use metaphor/exaggeration all the time. Esp. us comedians.
I wrote a long passage explaining all this, then deleted at as it wasn't strictly on-topic and the piece was long enough already.
The sentence in question you take issue with was a holdover from this, both as an example and also me backing up my point that I do think subjects like rape shouldn't be off limits, but have to be handled properly.
But I forgot to remove/alter it along with the associated passage, hence why it seems to be a random bit of unnecessary trivialisation of a serious subject. This was an oversight on my part.
So, to clarify this rambling point;
I can see why that one seems bizarrely harsh, hopefully that's explained above. I feel it's obviously hyperbole on my part, and I still interpret the sentence as me saying Unilad's 'advice' is very dangerous and that rape is very bad. I think that's the opposite of the trivialising they got up to.
If you or anyone else still feel it is offensive to an unwarranted level, then I will be happy to change it, I'm not especially attached to or proud of the bit as it is.
However, I would argue that the level of scrutiny and interpretation you've applied to this one pseudojoke is excessive. From the article as a whole, it is blatantly obvious that I don't condone rape or the casual mocking of serious issues people may suffer from. You could apply the same level of scrutiny to every line in this article and derive similarly poor-taste interpretations. I know because I did it myself for the examples above.
I understand your problem and can see why it is quite a stand-out example, and like I said I'm happy to alter it if you feel it necessary. But if people are going to be offended by derived trivialisations that contradict the tone of the whole article, I'd hope they'd be offended by all of them.
I may be sounding a bit prickly (pricky?) about this, but it's something that irritates a lot of comedians; selective offence.
It's like the people who actively go to see Frankie Boyle, then complain about him making bad-taste jokes about a subject that's personal to them. It's essentially saying 'I love it when you say terrible, offensive jokes about subjects, unless it's a subject that's relevant to ME'. It's infuriating, either find it all offensive or put up with it when it happens to be a bit more relevant to your life.
I'm not saying that's what's happening here, by the way. Pretty sure it's not, but it could be interpreted that way. And that sort of thing is what started me writing this bit in the first place.
Apologies for yet another long-winded rant.
- 3 February 2012 at 07:50
Every joke pretty much on the unilad website was stolen from sickipedia anyway, so not only are they cocks, they are thieving cocks....
Irony would be one of the unilad posters getting bottom attacked on the way home from getting kicked out of uni, I wouldn't laugh, I promise.
- 3 February 2012 at 12:17


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Basel is Switzerland's third most populous city (behind Zürich and Geneva) with about 195,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany. In 2011, the Basel agglomeration was the third largest in Switzerland with a population of 500,600 in 74 municipalities in Switzerland and an additional 53 in neighboring countries (municipal count as of 2000). The tri-national Basel metropolitan area has around 830,000 inhabitants in 226 municipalities.
Located in northwest Switzerland on the river Rhine, Basel functions as a major industrial centre for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. The Basel region, culturally extending into German Baden-Württemberg and French Alsace, reflects the heritage of its three states in the modern Latin name: "Regio TriRhena". It has the oldest university of the Swiss Confederation (1460). Basel is German-speaking. The local variant of the Swiss German dialects is called Basel German.
Basel is among the most important cultural centres of Switzerland. The city comprises a large number of theatres and many museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the world's oldest art collection accessible to the public. In addition the Theater Basel was chosen in 1999 as the best stage for German-language performances and in 2009 & 2010 as "Opera of the Year" by German Opera Magazine "Opernwelt".


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Thought I'd share some choice video from TechShow 2009 featuring all 4 of the Best of Show winners that I wrote up in TechnoLawyer, plus interviews with some of my heroes such as Bob Ambrogi, Jay Funeberg, and Kevin O'Keefe, as well as sightings of legal blogging all-stars like Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighelle. I'm still excited.
See related videos here and find me on YouTube as practicehacker.


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Opera 11 has been making a lot of buzz across the Internet today now that an alpha version has been released.
New in Opera 11 is support for the very much requested extensions! While there is currently a very limited selection of extensions available, I suspect this will quickly change. 😉
If you're using Opera 11 already and you're also using Ubuntu 10.10 with the Ambiance or Radiance themes, do forget to update you skin with my Ambiance and Radiance skins for Opera.
For those who are curious, you can find brief changelogs in the comments with the latest one being here.
If you're not using Opera 11 yet and would like to, go get it!


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text: Make a crown, princess friends, flowers and little creatures. It's easy with Cupcake Craft! Use cupcake liners, over 100 stickers, paper shapes, a chunky glue stick and easy step-by-step instructions. Create 8 cute cupcake crafts! Each project comes conveniently individually packaged, so you're ready to begin when you open the kit!


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It's Spring Cleaning time at Casa de Dayf, and I'm flushing out a whole bunch of pack rips so I can start fresh. I know it's late summer and not spring, I'm just slow, ok? These were options that were never voted on in my Lucky 13 post, so now you get the rip, a card and nothing else. Sorry guys, you should have voted...
1998 Bowman
$125 Certificate card
216 A.J. Hinch RC
92 Richie Sexson
116 Adam Eaton
176 Robbie Bell
137 Mike Kincade foil
195 Marcus MacBeth RC
189 Todd Dunwoody
132 Eli Marrero
25 Edgar Renteria
175 Jon Garland
1988 Pacific Eight Men Out
27 Sport Sullivan
48 Chick Leaves Buck Stranded at Third
32 Shoeless Joe
106 Chick Gandil
93 Hod Eller
82 Slim Sallee
8 Eddie Collins
55 Felsch Scores Jackson
70 The Swede's a Hard Guy
73 Kid Gleason Takes the Stand
2006 Bowman
179 Chad Tracy
138 Carlos Lee
147 Carlos Beltran
13 Carlos Guillen
152 Carl Crawford
188 gold Lance Berkman
BC81 Adam Bourassa Chrome
BC42 Michael Ekstrom Chrome
B106 Carlos Guevara
B59 Vince Cordova
Checklist 2
2007 Fleer
317 Orlando Hudson
170 Derek Lowe
219 Joel Zumaya
50 Jason Marquis
77 Adrian Gonzalez
325 Brian Burres RC
364 Brian Stokes RC
RS-JP Jonathan Papelbon
RS-CJ Conor Jackson
CA-TH Trevor Hoffman Crowning Achievement
2005 Ultra
162 Johnny Damon
86 Brian Roberts
56 Javier Vazquez
28 Greg Maddux
122 Miguel Cabrera
196 Lance Berkman
213 Ryan Howard All-Rookie
43 Matt Lawton
BONUS: The relic card in the package with the '07 Fleer pack
Monday, August 04, 2008
Clearing out the Draft Folder
4 comments:
- Captain Canuck said...
Does Skip have a card on any regional set? Never heard of any here in Calgary... but how about your neck of the woods?
- dayf said...
Skip Caray? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's been in an oddball Bryan Hot Dogs set or something like that. I don't have it though, and I'm not sure where to even look for it.
- madding said...
(Insert obligatory "is there any cork in that relic card?" comment here.)
Apparently there are some NBA Hoops announcer cards from the early 90s of Skip Caray, according to Beckett's almost completely unusable website.
- --David said...
Upon magnification, one can see the light grains of 'wood' in the relic are actually made up of corkboard... Wait, I feel a "Cinnamon Toast Crunch" commercial coming on here...
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The 5-Seenweg (Five Lakes Walk) is in a class of its own among hikes in the Zermatt mountains. The views of the mountain lakes are superb (with the Matterhorn reflected in three of them), and the trail is full of variety.
- Type Theme trail
- Difficulty medium
- Duration 2,30 h
- Distance 9,3 km
- Ascent 286 m
- Descent 575 m
- Lowest point 2124 m
- Highest point 2578 m
Blauherd - Stellisee - Grindjisee - Grünsee - Moosjiesee - Leisee - Sunnegga
(Hiking time in reverse direction: approx. 2h 50)
We recommend:
- Good footwear
- Hiking poles (optional)
- Clothing suitable for the weather (always carry a waterproof)
- Optionally swimming things (swimming facilities in the Leisee and Grünsee)
- Optionally picnic
Hold a family consultation: plan a stop at a mountain restaurant, or would the majority rather have a picnic?
In addition, three of the lakes offer an amazing mirror view of the Matterhorn in good weather.
Additional information and recommendations are available from the guest information centre on Bahnhofplatz (by the railway station).
- Plan every mountain tour carefully and adapt to participants' fitness level as well as the weather and season.
- Weather conditions can change quickly in the mountains. Appropriate clothing is therefore essential, along with adequate supplies of food and water. In uncertain weather, turn back in good time.
- Inform others of planned route, and whenever possible avoid going alone.
- Do not leave the marked routes; do not venture onto glaciers without a mountain guide.
- Please be considerate to other walkers and to plants and animals.
- Take note of the warning signs drawing attention to the constant danger in river beds and along watercourses below dams and reservoirs.


text: Hi, As a last resort I am turning to you gurus. I am trying to find any know how to do bandwidth shaping based on usage, rather any class or subnet. I need to shape my bandwidth something like a netequalizer box so as heavy browsing users like youtube or http downloads get lower priority than lightweight browsing users. I have a centos - iptables -nat gateway which serves internet to ~ 100 people in office. I am really apologetic if this question has been asked many times here, but from the past three days I am unable to find an answer. Every kind of traffic shaping or queing leads to either class based or port based or subnet based. I have only browsing traffic and would like to give fair share to decent browsing people rather that heavy hoggers. Please point me towards any know how on how this can be done. I am fairly new in linux, but dont mind studying a little if its not overcomplicated. But I just can't seem to find any case wherein only http que is discussed. Any help is appreciated. Something very similar to shaperd but not divide it. Rather than something based on upload and download penalty.


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NM Tech Assoc. VP Dan Walsh named ILEA Director
by Jack Swickard
SOCORRO, N.M., June 13, 2007 -- Dr. Dan Walsh has been named program manager of the International Law Enforcement Academy in Roswell.
The announcement was made Monday, June 11, in Roswell by Dr. Van Romero, vice president for research and economic development at New Mexico Tech.
Walsh, who has many years of experience working with law-enforcement training programs at Louisiana State University and New Mexico Tech, is associate vice president for research and economic development at New Mexico Tech.
ILEA-Roswell is a U.S. Department of State program operated under a cooperative agreement by New Mexico Tech.
Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, Sam Houston State University and Science Applications International Corp. are partners in the consortium headed by New Mexico Tech to operate ILEA-Roswell.
Walsh succeeds Dr. Michael Hensley as ILEA-Roswell program manager. Hensley has been reassigned by the university to be director of academic and corporate relations at the U.S. Department of Energy National Training Center
(Updated June 11, 2007)
- The first class started in September 2001, one week before the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
- This class is the 58th to attend ILEA-Roswell.
- This class includes the 2,292nd delegate to attend the program. To date, 71 countries have sent delegates to ILEA-Roswell.
- The class is composed of 35 delegates from Cambodia, Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China.
- New Mexico Tech operates ILEA-Roswell under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State.
- New Mexico Tech's partners in the consortium that operates ILEA-Roswell are Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, Sam Houston State University, and Science Applications International Corporation.
- Dr. Van Romero, vice president for research and economic development at New Mexico Tech, oversees the ILEA-Roswell program as project director.
- Dr. Dan Walsh is the New Mexico Tech program manager for ILEA-Roswell.
- Frank Taylor, retired New Mexico State Police chief, is general manager of ILEA-Roswell.
- Some of the countries that have sent students to ILEA-Roswell are: Singapore, Panama, Latvia, Malaysia, The People's Republic of China, Angola, Mozambique, Albania, Brunei, Moldova, Russi, The Czech Republic, Swaziland, The Republic of South Africa, Croatia, Lesotho, Namibia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstam. Brazil, Costa Rica, Tajikistan, Tanzania, and Ecuador.
- ILEA-Roswell classes have been taught in 26 languages.
- The U.S. Department of State's Office of Language Services provides simultaneous interpreters for ILEA-Roswell.
- Simultaneous interpreters can interpret a lecture 2-2.5 seconds behind the instructor.
- Ground was broken for the ILEA-Roswell Building in January 2005 with an explosion.
- The ILEA-Roswell Building was dedicated on Feb. 22, 2006.
- ILEA-Roswell students have a wide array of backgrounds and have included the chief of environmental law enforcement for Brazil, an art theft investigator from Poland, the head of the Colombia national police human rights office, and a member of the Seychelles Supreme Court.
- Senior management classes at ILEA-Roswell are divided into four modules:
- Criminal Justice in a Global Environment
- Modern Policing Strategies
- Key Issues in Policing
- Global Trends and Emerging Issues in Transnational Crime
- Classes range from discussions on leadership and human resources to ethics in policing and the effects of corruption. Human rights receive strong emphasis in the program.
- The International Law Enforcement Academy in Roswell was established through the efforts of Senator Pete Domenici and the late Congressman Joe Skeen.
- The ILEA-Roswell Building was built at a cost of $5.4 million and occupies 24,500 feet.
- In May 2004, with the help of Senator Domenici, New Mexico Tech received $2.2 million in funding to begin the process of constructing the building.
o At the beginning of August 2004, New Mexico Tech received $2.1 million from the U.S. Department of State for building construction.
o In early September 2004, the Roswell City Council approved leasing property to New Mexico Tech for the building.
o Later in September, New Mexico Tech received the final $1.1 million needed for construction from the Department of State.
- In May 2004, with the help of Senator Domenici, New Mexico Tech received $2.2 million in funding to begin the process of constructing the building.
- The ILEA-Roswell Building is state-of-the-art, with high-speed, wireless Internet and six interpretation booths.
- In April 2005, a young Roswell woman became lost while vacationing in southern Africa. She had left her passport at the youth hostel where she was staying and had passed her bus stop 2 hours earlier. The bus driver dropped her off at a police station. When she visited with some of the officers, she learned several had attended ILEA-Roswell. One of the policemen, accompanied by a woman employee, drove the Roswell woman to the hostel.


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Vanguard University senior Paige Halberg earned second-team NAIA All-American recognition in women's basketball after leading the Lions to a 23-7 record and their 11th straight appearance in the NAIA national tournament.
Halberg, a 5-foot-10 guard, averaged 11.6 points, 4.7 rebounds and 5.8 assists, playing mostly point guard due to injuries to others. Her 45 steals and 30 blocked shots also led the team and her basketball IQ and versatility allowed her to fill several roles for Coach Russ Davis' Lions, who were ranked No. 12 in the final national poll.
Halberg shot 40.3% from three-point range, making 31 of 77 attempts. In addition, her 88 free throws were 25 more than the second-most on the team.
Halberg, who sat out the 2010-11 season due to injury, was a freshman starter on the 2008 team that won the NAIA championship.
She was a first-team All-Golden State Athletic Conference selection as a senior.
Vanguard junior center Esther Timmermans, another All-GSAC performer, received honorable mention in the All-American voting. Timmermans averaged a team-best 12.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, while shooting a team-best 55.8% from the field.
— From staff reports
Cheung in Davis Cup
UC Irvine sophomore men's tennis player Ryan Cheung will represent Hong Kong, China in the upcoming Davis Cup Tie in Hong Kong.
A Davis Cup Tie is also known as a knockout-round match. Hong Kong lost its first-round match to Indonesia, placing them in a match against Sri Lanka. The loser will be relegated to the lower group for next year. Both countries are currently in Group II in the Asia/Oceania region.
Each tie features a best-of-five format that includes four singles matches and one doubles match. Each match is played is best-of-three sets. The draws will be set the day before the competition which is April 6-8.
Cheung was the Big West Conference Co-Freshman of the Year in 2010-11 and also earned second-team all-conference honors in doubles
— From staff reports
Yowell honored again
UC Irvine senior Jacob Yowell was named Big West Conference Men's Track Athlete of the Week for the third time in March on Tuesday after setting two meet records at the Anteaters' Spring Break Invitational.
Yowell won the 110-meter high hurdles in 13.91 seconds and doubled up in the 400 hurdles in 51.81 seconds on Saturday.
He also ran the first leg of UCI's second-place 4x400 relay that clocked a season-best of 3 minutes, 12.50 seconds, and he ran the anchor leg of the 4x100 relay that finished fourth.
— From staff reports
UCI hudler shines
UC Irvine senior Amber Middleton was named Big West Conference Women's Track Athlete of the Week for the second time this month.
Middleton was second in the 100-meter hurdles (13.80 seconds) and the 400 hurdles (59.50) on Saturday at the Spring Break Invitational hosted by UCI.
She also contributed to the runner-up in the 4x400 relay that finished second in a season-best time of 3 minutes, 45.40 seconds.
— From staff reports


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You know how there are some restaurants that have a note on their menus letting patrons know they can meet special dietary needs? UNH's dining halls can do that. No—not just can, do. On a daily basis. For more than six years now, UNH Dining—which serves more than 100,000 meals a week-- has been providing gluten-free food in all three of the dining halls. Each has separate refrigerator areas for gluten-free items as well as separate gluten-free cooking stations, cutting boards, and utensils.
That's an important distinction for someone with celiac disease. The separate-everything avoids the risk of the cross-contact contamination of gluten, which causes inflammation and other complications in people suffering from the disease.
"There are many foods that are naturally gluten-free but you still have to have separate areas to avoid cross-contact. For instance, peanut butter is gluten-free but it can't be spread using the same knife that was used on regular wheat bread," says Dining Services' registered dietitian Rochelle L'Italien. As an added service, diners can phone in or email their gluten-free requests ahead of time and have their meals ready to eat when they arrive.
Gluten allergies aren't the only issues patrons face. "There also are a growing number of customers who have sensitivities to a multitude of foods. Our services are appreciated by them as well" L'Italien says. Vegans appreciate the steps Dining Services has taken to offer food choices that are animal-product free (no meat, fish, eggs or dairy products), identified on menus by a green leaf logo.
"We've always had a vegan station at all three dining halls and beyond that, many vegan options including salad bar items, fresh fruit, beans, hummus, veggie burgers and even almond, soy and rice milks and soy yogurt," says L'Italien.
She notes that certain vegan fare appeals to non-vegans as well, and it's easy to see why with dishes like Italian tofu saute, which garnered Dining Services a second place award in the 2012 Best Vegan Recipe contest sponsored by the National Association of College and University Food Services.
"We at UNH Dining are part of the educational mission of the university, not only nutritionally but also by providing a wide variety of foods, some of which students may have never tried before," says L'Italien. "It's important to us to help students eat well, and a part of that is offering an abundance of menu choices and nutritional education daily."
Nutritional information is at the ready with the Guiding Stars system adopted by Dining Services in 2009. The plan rates food using zero to three stars based on nutritional value according to the recommendations of the FDA and the USDA.
Foods high in fiber, vitamins, minerals and whole grains receive one to three stars for good, better, best nutritional content, with three stars denoting the best. Trans fat, saturated fats, cholesterol, added sugar and sodium impact the ratings.
"There are so many options," L'Italien says. "We have low-fat muffins, dressings, milk. There are also the normally low-fat foods that we've always had. People just need to consider the mix of things they choose such as fruits, vegetables, grains, for a meal that's healthy and delicious."
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Good Eats & Drinks
Nosh on a special three-course menu from the Italian countryside every Sunday and Monday evenings this summer through Aug. 31 at San Francisco's Incanto.
Executive Chef Chris Cosentino changes the prix fixe "Cocina Povera" weekly, highlighting a specific region each time. Price is $30, or $39 with two wine pairings included.
Four of Northern California's best chefs will be serving up specialties at the 27th annual Vintage Affaire June 27 at a spectacular Atherton private estate.
Enjoy the creations of Alessandro Cartumini of Quattro Restaurant and Bar at the Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley in East Palo Alto; Daniel Patino of Michael Mina's Arcadia in San Jose; Xavier Salomon of the Ritz-Carlton, Half Moon Bay; and Cal Stamenov of Bernardus Lodge in Carmel Valley. More than 25 of California's best wineries also will be pouring special vintages.
Live and silent auctions will give guests a chance to bid on rare wines, wine dinners, and special vacation packages.
Tickets are $300 per person. The event benefits Palo Alto's Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. During the past 26 years, this gala has raised nearly $6 million for the center clinic, counseling, and computer training services.
In this stagnant economy, restaurants and hotels are realizing that more than anything, diners want options and values.
That's why all Ritz-Carlton Hotels around the world are introducing a new bar menu that invites guests to linger, share, and relax. It's also an attempt to show that even in these tough times, you don't have to sell the family jewels to afford a bite to eat and a drink to sip at this chain of luxury hotels.
Look for smoked salmon and arugula egg rolls, calamari in remoulade sauce, comforting crab cakes, barbecue pork sliders, and an array of cool cocktails. Items range from $10 to $20.
For another deal, head to Urban Tavern in San Francisco, June 8-12, when the downtown gastropub will allow diners to "pay what they think it's worth."
Yes, you got that right. Diners can enjoy up to a three-course meal at lunch. At the end, they'll be asked to pay what they think the meal was worth. The server will then ring up that amount, plus tax. Lunch can include food, soft drinks, coffee, and tea, but not alcohol.
The offer is limited to 100 diners per day. Reservations are required.
For more bar goodies, sidle up to the one at Zinnia in San Francisco every Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night for its new "Burger & Brew" special.
Chef Sean O'Brien offers his grilled chuck and chorizo burger on a Dutch Crunch roll with Kennebec fries with a bottle of local beer — all for $15.
Tiny bubbles will be featured June 12 at Paolo's in San Jose.
Sparkling wine experts, Tabitha Stroup and Amanda Rehn, will lead a session all about sparkling wines. Price is $35. Reserve a spot by calling (408) 294-2558.
Two weekends in June, taste the best wines of the Santa Cruz Mountains at the Vintners Festival, organized by the Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Association.
June 6-7, wind your way to 30 locations on the western side of the mountains in Santa Cruz County to partake of wines, complimentary appetizers, and live music. June 13-14, tour 20 venues in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties for more of the same.
Tickets are $30 in advance; $35 at the door. For more information, call (831) 685-8463.


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Guitarist Robert Paul Sullivan taught College, Preparatory, and Continuing Education students at New England Conservatory from 1973 through his retirement in 2013.
Sullivan is an accomplished musician who has performed as a soloist and in chamber and orchestral capacities in the New England region, as well as other parts of the country and in Europe. His performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra have included the opening Gala concert of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with conductor James Levine in Boston and New York. Other organizations with which Sullivan has performed include Boston Celebrity Series, Alea III, New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra, Rhode Island Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Boston Ballet, Boston Opera Company, and Boston Musica Viva.
Sullivan has performed with Broadway productions of Chicago, Ragtime, Fiddler on the Roof, and Man of La Mancha, as well as performing Irish folk music with the band Jug O' Punch, and dueting, since the late 1950s, with Thomas Greene. He has also participated several times, as both a member and as president, on the jury at the Emilio Pujol Classical Guitar Competition in Sardinia, Italy. During the summer season, Sullivan is a conductor for the American Mandolin and Guitar Summer School.
Studies at NEC; Harvard University Summer School; Universidad de Cervera, Spain. Studies with Hibbard Perry, William Sykes, Alexander Bellow, Rey de la Torre, Oscar Ghigha, Emilio Pujol, Barry Galbraith. Former faculty of University of Rhode Island, Syracuse University, Clark University, and Anna Maria College. Also faculty of College of the Holy Cross.


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Fox Sees "Reparations" In UN Climate Deal
Research ››› ››› JILL FITZSIMMONS
After a deal was reached at the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa this weekend, Fox News immediately began distorting the agreement. Fox inexplicably reported on preliminary proposals instead of the final agreement and falsely portrayed adaptation assistance for poor countries as "reparations" that will cost Americans as much as "we spend on our own defense."
Fox Wrongly Announces "International Climate Court Of Justice"
Fox's Peter Johnson Jr. Falsely Claimed UN Agreement Creates "International Climate Court." From the December 12 edition of Fox & Friends:
PETER JOHNSON, JR, FOX NEWS LEGAL ANALYST: What the UN came up with this week - and it was a very well thought out proposal, 138 pages -- to come up with an international climate court of justice, whereby the United States and Europe and a few other countries would pay billions of dollars over time to underdeveloped countries because of the crime of climate change.
Later in the segment, Johnson repeated this claim, saying that the UN summit resulted in a "138-page document that calls about an international court of climate justice." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/12/11]
Final Agreement Contains No Mention Of A Climate Court. The proposal in question is from an earlier document produced by the UN Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action as "an amalgamation of the draft texts emerging from the work of the informal groups." The provision was not included in the UN's final agreement. [UNFCCC, 12/7/11 & 12/10/11]
Johnson's Source Is Apparently Lord Monckton. The source of Johnson's "climate court" hysteria appears to be a report from vocal climate contrarian Lord Christopher Monckton. Monckton's report was promoted by ClimateDepot.com, which is a project of CFACT, where Monckton is an adviser. [Climate Depot, 12/9/11]
- Monckton Previously Called Climate Activists "Nazis." Monckton, who has falsely claimed to be a member of the House of Lords and a Nobel Laureate, is not a scientist and does not hold a degree in science. In December 2009, after 50 student activists interrupted Monckton's webcast from Copenhagen, Monckton called them "crazed Hitler youth" and "Nazis." Monckton's most recent stunt was jumping out of a plane to protest the climate talks in Durban. [DeSmogBlog, accessed 12/12/11] [Carbon Brief, 12/7/11]
FoxNews.com Admitted Climate Court Claim "May Be Far-Fetched." Following Monckton's report, FoxNews.com published an article titled "U.N. Floats Global 'Climate Court' to Enforce Emissions Rules." Towards the end, the article concedes that "the idea of a climate court anytime soon ... may be far-fetched":
[T]he idea of a climate court anytime soon -- particularly one that the United States and other big carbon emitters would agree to -- may be far-fetched. One environmental law expert, professor Jonathan Verschuuren at The Netherlands' Tilburg University, wrote in an online column that the court "will certainly not materialize." [FoxNews.com, 12/10/11]
Fox Misrepresents Green Climate Fund
Doocy: "The United Nations Is Proposing That Americans Pay Off ... Climate Debt." Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy introduced a segment on the UN climate negotiations by saying:
STEVE DOOCY: Just when you thought people were paying enough taxes, the United Nations is proposing that Americans pay off what they call the climate debt of the world's undeveloped countries. That deal would distribute billions of dollars a year to poor countries based on the view that developed countries, like the United States, owe underdeveloped countries for our climate change. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/12/11]
Johnson: UN Deal Mandates "Reparations" Amounting To "The Costs That We Spend On Our Own Defense." On Fox & Friends, Johnson claimed that under the UN agreement the U.S. would pay "reparations":
JOHNSON: [T]he United States and Europe and a few other countries would pay billions of dollars over time to underdeveloped countries because of the crime of climate change -- that we would pay reparations, we would pay economic damages to those countries in the amount of the costs that we spend on our own defense. So for violation of mother earth, there would be reparations paid by the big, rich U.S. of A. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/12/11]
Green Climate Fund Aims To Help Poor Countries Adapt To Climate Change. The Durban agreement laid the groundwork for a future Green Climate Fund, which is designed to assist those countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The New York Times reported:
The delegates also agreed on the creation of a fund to help poor countries adapt to climate change -- though the precise sources of the money have yet to be determined -- and to measures involving the preservation of tropical forests and the development of clean-energy technology. The reserve, called the Green Climate Fund, would help mobilize a promised $100 billion a year in public and private financing by 2020 to assist developing countries in adapting to climate change and converting to clean energy sources. [New York Times, 12/11/11]
U.S. Defense Spending Dwarfs Potential Green Climate Fund Contributions. The $100 billion Green Climate Fund would be financed by the U.S., the European Union, and other developed nations, in addition to private funds. While America's financial obligations to that fund have yet to be determined, they certainly could not exceed our defense budget. According to The Economist, the U.S. spent nearly $700 billion on defense last year, which is more "than that of the next 17 countries combined" and seven times larger than the proposed climate fund. [The Economist, 6/8/11]
Fox Falsely Claims U.S. Is Going It Alone In Climate Obligations
Johnson: China And India "Are Not Going Along" With Climate Deal. From the December 12 edition of Fox & Friends:
JOHNSON: They finally came to a deal in Durban, South Africa, with some modest changes. But there's a lot of countries that are not going along - China, India.
DOOCY: Big polluters!
JOHNSON: So we say - and other folks say - well what is China going to be doing? What is India going to be doing? Because when you look at the amount of coal process that goes in China, if climate change really is the result of that, then what is China doing? Are they doing the same things that we're doing to reduce those emissions? [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/12/11]
In Fact, China And India Made The Same Commitment That U.S. Made In Durban. Bloomberg reported:
The decision yesterday by China and India to move toward an agreement with the "legal force" to limit their fossil fuel emissions marked the first step toward treating developing nations the same as industrial ones when it comes to reducing pollution.
"The U.S. saw an opportunity to push China into accepting the same rules as everyone else and took it," said Andrew Light, coordinator of climate policy at the Center for American Progress, a research group in Washington with White House ties. [Bloomberg, 12/12/11]
New York Times: Durban Sets The Stage For An Agreement That "Treats All Countries ... Equally." The New York Times reported:
The deal on a future treaty renews the Kyoto Protocol, the fraying 1997 emissions agreement that sets different terms for advanced and developing countries, for several more years. But it also begins a process for replacing the Kyoto agreement with something that treats all countries -- including the economic powerhouses China, India and Brazil -- equally.
The United States never signed the Kyoto treaty because it did not accept its division between developed and developing countries. Todd D. Stern, the chief American climate negotiator, said he was hopeful that talks in coming years would produce a more equitable arrangement. [New York Times, 12/11/11]
Fox Blasts A Nonexistent Shipping Tax
Johnson: UN Is Trying To Impose A "Worldwide Tax On Shipping And Aviation Fuel." Johnson went on to say that one of the things "the UN is really trying to do" is establish "a worldwide tax on shipping and aviation fuel." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/12/11]
Reuters: Shipping Tax Proposal "Faced Such Opposition It Did Not Survive." Reuters reported over the weekend that a "proposal last week to generate cash from charging international shipping for the carbon emissions it generates faced such opposition it did not survive in the final text." [Reuters, 12/11/11]
Fox Once Again Obscures Evidence Of Manmade Climate Change
Johnson: Climate Change Science Is "Deep, Deep In Dispute." From the December 12 edition of Fox & Friends:
STEVE DOOCY: But we are talking about climate change, and climate change, is it settled science? I know there are a lot of people who say "absolutely," other people -
JOHNSON: Of course it's not settled science. It's deep, deep in dispute and that sends some people off the edge --
DOOCY: So shouldn't we wait?
JOHNSON: -- when folks actually say that here on the Fox News Channel. I mean, they have a mental breakdown when you say it. I mean, there - it is highly in dispute.
DOOCY: Right. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 12/12/11]
National Research Council: Human-Induced Climate Change Is Based On "Strong, Credible Body Of Evidence." In a 2010 report comissioned by Congress, a scientific panel of the National Research Council reviewed the state of climate science and concluded:
Science has made enormous inroads in understanding climate change and its causes, and is beginning to help develop a strong understanding of current and potential impacts that will affect people today and in coming decades. This understanding is crucial because it allows decision makers to place climate change in the context of other large challenges facing the nation and the world. There are still some uncertainties, and there always will be in understanding a complex system like Earth's climate. Nevertheless, there is a strong, credible body of evidence, based on multiple lines of research, documenting that climate is changing and that these changes are in large part caused by human activities. While much remains to be learned, the core phenomenon, scientific questions, and hypotheses have been examined thoroughly and have stood firm in the face of serious scientific debate and careful evaluation of alternative explanations.
Scientific evidence that the Earth is warming is now overwhelming. There is also a multitude of evidence that this warming results primarily from human activities, especially burning fossil fuels and other activities that release heat-trapping greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere. Projections of future climate change indicate that Earth will continue to warm unless significant and sustained actions are taken to limit emissions of GHGs. Increasing temperatures and GHG concentrations are driving a multitude of related and interacting changes in the Earth system, including decreases in the amounts of ice stored in mountain glaciers and polar regions, increases in sea level, changes in ocean chemistry, and changes in the frequency and intensity of heat waves, precipitation events, and droughts. These changes in turn pose significant risks to both human and ecological systems. Although the details of how the future impacts of climate change will unfold are not as well understood as the basic causes and mechanisms of climate change, we can reasonably expect that the consequences of climate change will be more severe if actions are not taken to limit its magnitude and adapt to its impacts. [National Research Council, 2010]
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This is the response that I and other United States Justice Foundation attorneys prepared and submitted in opposition to some very dangerous proposed amendments to ATF regulations. These could cause millions of Americans to be denied their Second Amendment rights.
Subject: Comments on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking of Changes to
ATF Definition of Adjudicated as a Mental Defective and Committed to a Mental Institution. (Docket No. ATF 51P)
These comments are submitted in response to the above-referenced Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives ("ATF") Notice of Proposed Rulemaking of changes to the ATF definitions of Adjudicated as a Mental Defective and Committed to a Mental Institution. These proposed changes will affect the inclusion of individuals in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System ("NICS") as persons ineligible to purchase or possess a firearm.
Changes to the Definition of "Mental Defective"
The Gun Control Act of 1968 ("GCA") is enforced by the ATF and, under the provisions of 18 U.S.C. Section 922(g), certain persons are expressly prohibited from shipping or transporting any firearm or ammunition in interstate or foreign commerce, possessing a firearm or ammunition in or affecting commerce, or receiving a firearm or ammunition that has traveled in interstate or foreign commerce. Among those so prohibited is a person who "has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution".
ATF has proposed a rule change that appears to significantly broaden the scope of those considered mentally defective, and by what authority such a declaration can be made. Specifically, the summary of the proposed changes is stated in the Federal Register to be: "The proposed rule would clarify that the statutory term 'adjudicated as a mental defective' includes persons who are found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, lack of mental responsibility, or insanity, and that the term includes persons found guilty but mentally ill. The Department recognizes that the term 'mental defective' is outdated, but it is included in the statute and cannot be amended by regulation. The proposed amendments would further clarify that federal, state, local and military courts are recognized lawful authorities that can find persons incompetent to stand trial or find them not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, lack of mental responsibility or insanity."
What is left unstated is what constitutes a "mental defective." Under the explanation for the proposed rule provided in the Federal Register, it is claimed that the intent of Congress in passing the GCA was so that "the prohibition against the receipt and possession of firearms would apply broadly to 'mentally unstable' or 'irresponsible' persons." Even assuming that this interpretation of Congressional intent were correct, there is no definition of the term "irresponsible," leaving it up to a variety of individuals and institutions to add anyone to NICS.
A clear example of this is the plight of many of America's military veterans who are being determined by the Veterans Administration ("VA") to be incompetent to handle their own financial affairs. According to letters and other documents from the VA, a finding of financial incompetence can be based on even minor Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ("PTSD"), temporary depression or even allowing one's spouse to handle the family finances. In most cases, the declaration of incompetence is being made not because the veteran has been examined by a psychiatrist or a psychologist and found to be mentally ill, but simply because of some comment in his or her VA records.
Veterans bear the burden of proof to demonstrate they are competent, and that is a clear violation of their right to due process under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In the correspondence from the VA, veterans are also being told that once they are declared incompetent to handle their own financial affairs, they are automatically added to NICS list. Yet there is no direct correlation between ability to handle finances and firearm ownership or possession.
That being stated, the changes in the definition of "mental defectiveness" proposed by the ATF will only further confuse the situation and lead to more people being denied their Second Amendment right to have a firearm, for reasons that are suspect at best.
Changes to the Definition of "Commitment to a Mental Institution"
The summary of the proposed changes printed in the Federal Register also includes this statement: "This proposed rulemaking would also amend ATF regulations to clarify that the statutory term 'committed to a mental institution' applies to involuntary inpatient or outpatient treatment." If that is the case, it opens the door to all types of abuses.
A good example would be in family court situations where judges routinely issue an order for psychiatrists or psychologists to evaluate both parents and children and, in some cases, have them continue for a course of treatment and/or counseling. This is done in an outpatient situation and since it is the result of a court order, would be considered involuntary. This puts both parents and children in danger of, ultimately, losing their Second Amendment rights under the new commitment definition.
The same problem can occur in both criminal and juvenile court where judges can order psychological evaluations and treatment. Even if the defendant is found mentally competent, and ultimately exonerated of the criminal charges, he could still fall under the definition of having been involuntarily committed to outpatient treatment. Juveniles under the age of 18 will be particularly vulnerable since, even though their court records may be sealed, their medical records may not be.
It is also necessary to consider children who are simply unruly and a problem to their parents and/or teachers. At a time when schools encourage having students diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder ("ADD") or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ("ADHD") and medicated, the minors are in danger of having had treatment that would brand them for life, even if the diagnosis is incorrect or the problem disappears as they get older. Where do these individuals stand under the new regulations? The answer is not clear at all.
Finally, the situation with veterans must also be considered. Many veterans are reporting that they are being encouraged and in some cases coerced to accept a diagnosis of PTSD in order to get benefits. The diagnosis will require them to take medications even if they feel they don't need it. In fact PTSD is not classified as a mental illness, but the VA is still using it to place veterans on NICS. The proposed new rules will not alleviate this problem, but probably make it worse.
Constitutional Issues
There are serious Constitutional questions raised by these new proposed amendments. First, there is the question of whether the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") and ATF even have the authority to make these changes since they will clearly have an impact on the GCA itself. Clearly, any such statutory changes must be enacted by Congress.
Secondly, there are serious due process issues raised by these proposals. Based on what is happening with the VA and our military veterans, the changes will lead to more veterans and non-veterans being put on NICS without any real adjudication and no opportunity to dispute the decision by a government agency, except through an expensive and time-consuming appeal and/or litigation.
Last, the Second Amendment implications cannot be ignored. The U.S. Supreme Court has twice ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right and that any limitations on that right must be carefully monitored to see that they do not violate the Constitution. The GCA was designed to prohibit certain persons from being able to legally purchase firearms. It was primarily directed at convicted felons and persons adjudicated to be mentally ill to the point of being a danger to themselves or others. The ATF's proposed changes go far beyond the intent of the law.
For the foregoing reasons, the United States Justice Foundation requests the ATF to withdraw its proposed regulations.


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Richard Thomas – Recent Drawings
The Transcendence of Character
The Gallery at
Manatee Community College
Bradenton, Florida, 2003
Untitled (detail), 2003
Mixed media on paper
16.75 x 14.5 in. SELECTED ESSAYS
Defining the figure – the drawings of Richard Thomas
The figures in the drawings of Richard Thomas are comfortable with their bodies. Their poses are natural and unselfconscious. His sitters appear self-composed without being remote. This view of them allows Thomas to be objective without being detached. He often captures a variety of qualities of a personality in one sitting. He may record a model in a mood of languor one moment and in the next minute the pose of an insouciant siren.
His knowledge and appreciation of the female body is intimate while his familiarity with the male form is observant and respectful of the changes his own body will experience over time. During his few minutes of observation of the sitter Thomas makes dozens of decisions that effect the formal issues of the composition, its balance and integrity. His interest is to simplify his record of his subjects. His facile control of line defines the essential presence of his sitters. The subtleties of the marks he makes reveal their personalities.
With graphite he works very quickly on cream or white paper he has toned with an acrylic wash of raw sienna. Later in the studio he adds color that can be pure and saturated. Sometimes he puddles it. Sometimes edges are defined with color. He allows paint to assert its material nature.
Having studied and absorbed the lessons of many artists including: Winslow Homer, Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, Auguste Rodin, Egon Schiele, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Eduoard Vuillard, Richard Thomas has distinguished himself with a style and contribution that is his own. His drawings are compelling because they encourage our engagement not only with the appearance of his subjects but also with the nuances of being human he has observed and recorded.
– Mark Ormond, August 2003


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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) today outlined new procedures it will use to gather information from industry and public sources for its advice to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) in connection with the apparel-related "short supply" provisions in the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and the U.S.-Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act (CBTPA).
The ITC, an independent, nonpartisan, factfinding federal agency, is launching an "umbrella" investigation, as requested by the USTR. Under the "umbrella" investigation, the ITC will conduct individual product-specific reviews on the probable economic effect of granting duty-free and quota-free treatment to certain apparel imports from AGOA and CBTPA countries.
The AGOA and the CBTPA, both part of the Trade and Development Act of 2000, extend duty- free and quota-free treatment to imports of apparel assembled in AGOA and CBTPA beneficiary countries from fabrics made in the United States from U.S. yarns. They also authorize the President, on request of an interested party, to grant preferential treatment to apparel made in AGOA and CBTPA beneficiary countries from fabrics or yarns which "cannot be supplied by the domestic industry in commercial quantities in a timely manner," regardless of the source of the fabrics or yarns. Before proclaiming such preferential treatment, the President is required to submit a report to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Ways and Means and the U.S. Senate's Committee on Finance that sets forth the proposed action, the reasons for it, advice from the ITC on the probable economic effect of the action, and advice from the appropriate industry advisory committee.
The ITC's advice will be provided on an ongoing basis during 2001 under Investigation No. 332- 428, Apparel Inputs in "Short Supply": Effect of Providing Preferential Treatment to Apparel from Sub-Saharan African and Caribbean Basin Countries. The ITC will submit its advice to USTR in a series of classified reports, with each report provided on or about 47 days after receipt of a short-supply request. A public version of each report will be available after the President submits his report to Congress.
The ITC will not issue a Federal Register notice in connection with any request for which it initiates analysis. Instead, the ITC will issue a news release for each request that it reviews. The news release will identify the articles under consideration, request public comment on the proposed preferential treatment to be proclaimed, and refer the public to a special area on the ITC's Internet site (www.usitc.gov/shortsup/shortsupintro.htm) for information on the request. Each news release will also provide the name, telephone number, and Internet e-mail address of ITC staff who will be able to provide additional information.
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Members of Congress investigating shortages of crucial drugs are targeting fake pharmacies allegedly set up solely to buy and resell the drugs at huge markups.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Members of Congress investigating shortages of crucial drugs are targeting fake pharmacies allegedly set up solely to buy and resell the drugs at huge markups.
Two senators and one U.S. representive on Wednesday sent letters to about two dozen operators of pharmacies, requesting detailed information about their business, particularly their purchases and resale of cancer and other life-saving drugs.
Three of the targets are individuals believed to have obtained licenses to operate both a pharmacy and a prescription drug wholesale business — solely to make money by taking advantage of the growing drug shortage crisis that's disrupting hospital and other patient care.
Twenty other letters were sent to pharmacies that may be doing the same thing, but investigation of those companies is in an earlier stage.
The letters were sent by Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, along with Sen. John D. Rockefeller, chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, and Sen. Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
The three have been investigating the role of the wholesalers, known as "gray marketers," together with government agencies and hospital and pharmacy groups. Their letters state that they've found evidence of pharmacies buying prescription drugs from legitimate wholesalers, transferring those medicines to their own wholesale company and then selling them to other wholesalers for a substantial profit.
"If it's not illegal, we're going to have to find a way to make it illegal, because this threatens virtually every person in the country," Cummings told The Associated Press in an interview.
Drug shortages have been wreaking havoc in hospital pharmacies, forcing doctors to postpone chemotherapy and surgeries and give patients second- or third-best treatments that may have more serious side effects or cost substantially more.
Patients have had to endure unnecessary discomfort, preventable complications and longer hospital stays, which is costing hospitals millions of extra dollars. Most of the drugs that are unavailable or hard to find are generic injectable drugs that normally would be cheap, including sedatives for surgery and powerful antibiotics and painkillers.
An Associated Press investigation last fall found at least 15 deaths since 2010 have been caused by the shortages, which have set a record high in each of the past five years. And future treatments also are being endangered, as patient testing of new experimental medicines has been delayed or halted due to the lack of the standard medicines against which they must be compared.
The lawmakers' investigation found evidence of one transaction where a licensed pharmacy called Priority Healthcare bought a chemotherapy drug called fluorouracil for $6.77 per vial. It then "sold" it to a distributor it owned called Tri-Med America for $50 per vial, although that company does not appear to have taken possession of the drug. Tri-Med America then allegedly sold the cancer medicine to another company for more than 10 times the initial price — $69 per vial.
The other two pairs of companies under investigation are Columbia Med Services and Columbia Medical Distributors, and LTC Pharmacy and International Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The presidents of Priority Healthcare/Tri-Med America and Columbia Med Services/Columbia Medical Distributors did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
Jessica Hoppe, who is listed as the president and owner of both LTC Pharmacy and International Pharmaceuticals, declined to comment.
LTC Pharmacy, which has been under investigation by the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy, surrendered its operating permit last September. The two businesses shared offices in a building in Durham, N.C., but had no actual pharmacy, according to the board.
Cummings said of Hoppe that "it appears she essentially established a fake pharmacy in order to gain greater access to drugs that are in critically short supply and are desperately needed to treat patients with cancer and other diseases. What remains unclear is how much she may have profited from this illegal activity."
Manufacturing lapses and production shutdowns for contamination and other serious problems are behind many of the shortages, and there is no quick or easy fix for those problems. Other reasons include increased demand for some drugs, companies ending production of some drugs with tiny profit margins, consolidation in the generic drug industry and limited supplies of some ingredients.
Yet some gray marketers — who may not be licensed, authorized distributors — have used the crisis as a way to make lots of money by cornering the market on drugs in short supply and then offering them to desperate hospital pharmacists and cancer clinics at outrageous markups.
Currently, there are 268 prescription drugs in short supply in the U.S. That includes 34 new shortages reported this year, 204 that began in 2010 or 2011 and remain unresolved, and others that have persisted even longer, according to Erin R. Fox, manager of the University of Utah Drug Information Service, which tracks national drug shortages.
A report based on a survey last summer said that hospitals forced to buy crucial drugs from wholesalers outside their normal distribution chain were being charged markups averaging 650 percent. In one case, a drug for dangerously high blood pressure, normally priced at $25.90 per dose, was being offered to hospitals for $1,200.