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Quote from: daGCHILD on September 24, 2005, 03:27:02 PMI'm in the same boat. Speed is killing me. If I can just go a little dam faster and still maintain my accuracy wow I'll score sooo much higher. Good thing is that the problem isnt having difficulty understanding the material, it just a matter of practice and increasing speed. I'm just a bad test taker. I don't know if this makes you or I a BAD test-taker. I just think that it may have something to do with reading speed. I think that we just have to practice speed and hope that adrenaline kicks in on the real test. I think that for those who are scoring OK but with high accuracy are the ones who see their scores go up on test day. This is what I am hoping for anyway.I looked over this test and I should have scored so much higher. If on the real thing I can limit my mistakes and go just a little faster then I will see it reflected positively in my score. I bet the same goes for you. I am just going to force myself to go faster this week and hope this carries over on saturday.If I finish the sections then I won't cancel. If I can't, for some reason...
I'm in the same boat. Speed is killing me. If I can just go a little dam faster and still maintain my accuracy wow I'll score sooo much higher. Good thing is that the problem isnt having difficulty understanding the material, it just a matter of practice and increasing speed. I'm just a bad test taker.
Quote from: shaz on September 24, 2005, 06:21:30 PM59=====149shaz, can you tell me the score for 79?
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QuoteYa i was dissapointed in my score as well. LAck of sleep and the fact that i am not a morning person didnt help either. If i took this test in the afternoon, i would of done much better. Regardless, i must improve my speed. Im hoping with a lot of practice, i will eventally get better. I've noticed a slight increase, but then again i didnt put %100 into the TM course i was in. I decided weeks ago to re-take the course and take the lsat in DEC, i SHOULD Be ok by then, if not then well i'm just gonna go on a rage and do something irrational. QuoteI could not sleep either but I can't really use that as an excuse. I had an espresso and a cup of coffee. I was AWAKE! That just was not the problem. I scored an average of 18 on all three LR sections, even the one I knew was experimental. I thought the RC was pretty straight forward but it was just too long. I need to get better at this new method. It was taught to me on tuesday. It really made everything come together. I practiced with the homework and only got 5 total wrong from an entire homework book. It was really awesome! I just wish I had learned this earlier. I would be crushing this section by now. It is weird really. My usual instructor took the week off. I presume for classes. This new instructor from DC did books 14 and 15. He went over some RC passages with us and it was really great. But what really helped was that after class I asked him if I could see how he annotated his passages. WOW! I had never seen anything like it. There was practically nothing there but bubbles and a couple of lines. The passage was scarce. It was so clean and precise. I tried it and it really works. This guy had an actual method to attacking the RC! You don't need to underline everything, you just need to know what to underline. He instructed us that passages always pay off. If they are talking about a traditional viewpoint, then you can expect that the author will slam it and give you a new viewpoint. If he does not readily agree with this one then he will probably give you the viewpoint that he does agree with. It sounds elementary, but it really works. It allows me to keep track of everything because I have an idea of where he is going before he gets there. I just wish I could do it faster. i know that I can with practice, but that's the thing. I need to work on it and at the same time I need to be working on LR. I wish I had known this from lesson one!One thing I can say is that all instructors are not equal. My usual was good; he scored 174. This guy only got 4 wrong and scored a 176 and he was still pissed about it. You could feel it. He said to find out what motivates you and use it. For him it was pride. This guy was so different. I would pay to retake with this guy. The usual was kind of soothing and coddled people who didn't understand something. this guy was like a sledgehammer, pounding technique into your head. It was awesome. His approach was more socratic. What is the author trying to get at here? What is he saying? How is he saying it? What is the structure of his argument? boom,boom,boom it went for four hours. Awesome.
does anyone have the real scale for the diag. I got 12 wrong and I don't know what my score is. They still haven't posted my report( I am on the west coast though.)


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text: In two months, the all-new 2009 Dodge Ram will launch into the softest truck market in decades. In an effort to clear the store shelves and make way for the new truck, Chrysler is offering a whopping 6 years of 0% financing on the 2008 Dodge Ram to help motivate buyers into the showroom and help empty the lots. The deal, announced on a conference call today, seems to be part of an "oh crap, we've gotta move steel" trend at Chrysler these days. Who could forget the $2.99 gas incentive, or the "hey lets get cow crap all over downtown Detroit" stunt. Man, that one was the greatest. [Auto News via Pickuptrucks.com]


text: If there is an artist known for documenting other artists' work habits and studio spaces, it's Joe Fig. Definitely do yourself a favor and check out the sculptures on his website, they're amazing. In Joe Fig: New Paintings, up until April 9th at Cristin Tierney, Fig takes us on a detour to another time and has painted dudes you might recognize from Art History 101, and also some that are more obscure. By placing them in scenarios where they are either in front of a mirror and painting their self-portrait, or surrounded by art; Fig has made paintings of people who are looking. Putting us into a position where we are looking at them looking.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Due to the lighting upgrade project at the Lipscomb Soccer Complex, Friday afternoon's doubleheader that includes the men's season-opener will be moved to the Lipscomb training facility behind Cofer's Chapel Church at the corner of Caldwell Lane and Franklin Pike.
The afternoon begins at 3 p.m. with the men's season kicking off against Georgia State. Coach Charles Morrow's squad looks to improve on last season's 10-9 record and Atlantic Sun semifinals appearance.
The Bisons played UAB to a 2-2 draw Saturday night in an exhibition match in Birmingham.
Following that match, the women's third home match of 2011 will kick off against Nicholls State. Last weekend, the Lady Bisons played to a 1-1 tie against Arkansas State in the season-opener and dropped a 1-0 match to Central Arkansas; both matches were played at Cofer's Chapel.
Due to a lack of internet at the practice facility, there will be no live stats or streaming video for either match. Admission to both matches is free, and a limited amount of concessions will be available. Check back on Lipscombsports.com for more updates regarding both soccer teams and the lighting upgrade project.


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TORONTO — It has been lost, forgotten, stolen, held for ransom, caught in a compromising position with exotic dancers and even come under attack by the Taliban.
Such is the rich and colorful history of the Grey Cup.
The iconic trophy wasn't supposed to honor a football champion. It was going to be awarded annually to Canada's top senior hockey team, but Sir Montague Allan beat Earl Grey to the punch by issuing the Allan Cup.
Grey later donated the trophy to recognize the Canadian rugby winner. At the time, the Grey Cup was made at a reported cost of $48.
Today, the hallowed trophy's value awarded yearly to the CFL champion is estimated at $75,000.
To those who compete for it, the Grey Cup isn't about money. It's a 100-year-old trophy that's steeped in tradition and woven tightly in Canada's cultural fabric. The Calgary Stampeders and Toronto Argonauts will add to that history when they face off in the centennial version of the CFL's title game Sunday at Toronto's Rogers Centre.
Mark DeNobile, the executive director of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, says the Grey Cup has taken its lumps over the years based on the condition of the trophy when it returns home to Hamilton.
"Whatever the team does with it while they have it as Grey Cup champions, we really don't want to know," he said. "A few times, yes, it has come back in rough shape."
The Grey Cup has had adventures at home and abroad. On July 1, 2008, DeNobile, former CFL players Roger Aldag and Steve Mazurak, Ottawa comedian Mike MacDonald and the George Canyon band accompanied the trophy to the Canadian Forces base in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
While there, the base came under attack by the Taliban.
"The Taliban launched three missiles into us and we were on the stage when it happened," DeNobile said. "The air sirens went off just like you hear it, you have to grab the ground for 90 seconds, they blow a whistle and you run into a cement bunker. After all that, George Canyon went back on and played, but the Cup stayed on stage throughout the attack.
"Two years later, CFL Commissioner Mark Cohon and [league vice-president] Doug Allison took it back there and had their own incident where something was bombed, so the Grey Cup is 2-for-2 in Kandahar."
After helping the B.C. Lions win the Grey Cup last November, linebacker James Yurichuk took the trophy to new heights.
When it was the Brampton, Ontario, native's turn to have the Cup for a day, he took it via helicopter to the top of a mountain in British Columbia and had a friend film him raising the trophy above his head as the sun set behind him.
Other players have chosen to share the trophy with fans. Members of the victorious '92 Stampeders took it to a strip club.
And while the Grey Cup has survived the two foreign attacks, it didn't fare so well in 2006 after the Lions defeated the Montreal Alouettes. During the postgame jubilation, the trophy broke in two when offensive lineman Kelly Bates lifted it above his head.
That didn't deter Bates and his teammates, who continued celebrating with both pieces.
It wasn't the first time the Cup was broken.
In 1987, it snapped when a celebrating Edmonton Eskimos player sat on it. Four years later, tape held the neck of the trophy intact when it returned home with the Argonauts. And in 1993, it was again broken when Edmonton's Blake Dermott head-butted it.
Last December, Wally Buono stepped down as B.C.'s head coach just over a week after winning the Grey Cup for a record-tying fifth time. But in 1998, the CFL's all-time leader in wins as a coach nearly added another wacky chapter to the championship's history.
Hours after Buono's Stampeders earned a wild 26-24 victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the victorious team nearly left Winnipeg without the trophy.
The Stampeders returned to their hotel for a reception after the game. They then headed to the airport for their chartered flight home only to realize the trophy had been left at the hotel.
As panic set in, salvation arrived in the form of the trophy, which someone had placed on a bus headed to the airport.
"There were so many people getting their picture taken with it [at the reception] so I left early to get the buses organized assuming someone else would take care of it," Buono said at the time. "All of a sudden we don't know where it's at.
"Fortunately, when the third bus came, someone was smart enough to have put it on. It was a big relief."
The Cup is insured, but whoever signs for it is responsible for its safe keeping. If it's lost or irreparably damaged, the signee is on the hook for its replacement value.
The Stampeders' weren't the first team to lose track of the Cup.
In 1964, the B.C. Lions sent someone back to their hotel to retrieve it after arriving at the airport empty-handed. And in 1984, hours after a team celebration, former Bombers GM Paul Robson sheepishly returned to an empty Winnipeg Arena to find the trophy sitting on a table at center ice.
Former Toronto kicker Mike Vanderjagt lost the Cup in November 1997 when he took it to a bar in his native Oakville, Ontario, and it was stolen.
Early the next morning, a college student who reportedly joked she'd give $100 to have the Cup in her apartment found it in her kitchen. Police were called and the trophy was returned to a relieved Vanderjagt.
It also was stolen in 1969 from Ottawa's Lansdowne Park and held for ransom. When the CFL balked, Toronto police found the Grey Cup in a storage locker at the Royal York Hotel.
The University of Toronto won the first Grey Cup championship in 1909, but didn't receive the trophy until the following March as Grey's staff reportedly forgot to have it made. And once the school got the Cup it held on to it, figuring it didn't have to return the trophy until another team beat U of T in the title game.
That happened in 1914 when the Argonauts captured the title. Since then, the winning team has made the trophy available to next season's champion.
Unlike the Stanley Cup, which has routinely been won by American teams, the Grey Cup has been awarded to a U.S. squad just once. That was in 1995 when the Baltimore Stallions captured it before relocating to Montreal as the Alouettes to start the '96 season.


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Take cover under a heavy desk, table or bench, in a supported doorway, or along an inside wall.
During the winter of 1811–1812, a legendary series of three earthquakes, 18 tremors and hundreds of aftershocks struck southern Missouri near New Madrid. This series of disruptions is regarded as one of the largest seismic events in U.S. history. The greatest of the quakes measured 8.8 on the Richter scale and was detected in the cities of Chicago, Washington, D.C., New Orleans and parts of Canada. The energy released from the earthquake was equal to 12,000 atomic bombs the size of those dropped on Hiroshima, or 150 million tons of TNT.
Settlements in Missouri and Arkansas were devastated, the Mississippi River flowed backwards for several days. Boats capsized. An eyewitness to the New Madrid earthquake gave the following account: "The surface of the earth rose and fell like the long, low swell of the sea, tilting the trees until their branches interlocked, and opening the soil in deep cracks. Landslides swept down the steeper bluffs and hillsides. Considerable areas were uplifted, and still larger areas sunk and became covered with water emerging through fissures. High banks of the Mississippi caved in and were precipitated into the river. Sand bars and points of islands gave way, and whole islands disappeared."
Scientists estimate that an earthquake the magnitude of the 1811–1812 quakes will occur about every 670 years. Scientists agree that the New Madrid system has now stored up enough strain energy to produce an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, although the probability of its occurring in the near future is unknown.
The New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ) is the most active seismic area in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains. According to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources Division of Geology and Land Survey, the NMSZ averages more than 200 measured events per year (magnitude 1 or greater), about 20 per month. Tremors large enough to be felt (magnitude 2.5 to 3.0) are measured annually. Every 18 months, a 4.0 or greater shock, capable of minor local damage, occurs. Events of 5.0 or greater occur about once every decade and can do significant damage and be felt in several states.
Based upon historically and instrumentally recorded earthquakes, scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey and the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at the University of Memphis now estimate that the probability of a magnitude 6.0 or greater earthquake is 25 to 40 percent in the next 50 years and there is a 7 to 10 percent probability of a repeat of the 1811–1812 earthquakes (magnitude 7.5 to 8.0) within the next 50 years.
If an event equal in magnitude to the largest 1811–1812 quake occurred today, it is estimated that the loss of life would be great and property damage would be many billions of dollars. There would be major damage near the fault system in the Missouri Bootheel, northeast Arkansas and western Kentucky and Tennessee. Significant damage is expected to extend north of St. Louis up the Mississippi River valley, up the Ohio and Wabash River valleys to near Owensboro, Kentucky, and Indiana, and down the Mississippi River valley to near Greenville, Miss. Significant damage is also expected in about 15 additional counties each in southern Illinois, western Kentucky and Tennessee, northeastern Arkansas and northwestern Mississippi and in about five counties in southeast Missouri outside the Bootheel.
This guide is designed to help you and your family plan for and survive a major earthquake. With advance preparation, the impact of an earthquake can definitely be lessened. Set aside some emergency supplies and plan with your family what to do at home during and after a disaster. You could be without help for up to 72 hours, so learn to cope for at least that long and possibly one week. Movement of the ground is seldom the actual cause of death or injury. Most injuries and casualties result from partial building collapses, falling objects and debris, such as toppling chimneys and falling bricks, ceiling plaster and light fixtures. Many of these conditions are preventable.
Because earthquakes occur without warning, it is important to take precautionary steps so you and your family can respond during this emergency.
Before the earthquake happens, be prepared by having a home emergency supply kit available. The kit should include the following supplies:
NoteExtra flashlight and portable radio batteries should be stored in the refrigerator to extend their useful life.
NoteWater can be disinfected with 5.25 percent sodium hypochlorite solution (household chlorine bleach). Do not use a solution in which there are active ingredients other than hypochlorite. Use the following proportions:
Keep pipe, top, and adjustable wrenches, bottom, handy for emergencies. Know how to shut off gas valve.
Your main gas shut-off valve is located next to your meter on the inlet pipe. On an LP gas system, the shut-off is located at the tank.
Use a wrench to give the valve a quarter turn in either direction so that the valve runs crosswise on the pipe. The gas line is now closed.
CautionDo not shut off gas unless an emergency exists. If gas is ever turned off, remember that all pilot lights must be relit when the gas is turned back on.
Know how to shut off the water main valve.
Locate the water shut-off valve where it enters the house. Show all family members where the valve is. Also locate the main water shut-off at the water meter.
Locate your circuit breaker, left, or pull-out cartridge fuses in fuse box, right.
Look closely at your circuit breaker box or fuse box. Locate the main cartridge fuses or circuit breaker.
Be certain you can shut off electricity if there is damage to your home electrical wiring. To properly shut down the electrical circuits in your home, turn off each breaker one at a time and then shut off the main breaker. Reverse these steps to re-energize the home's electrical panel.
First and foremost — keep calm. During a major earthquake, you may experience a shaking that starts out to be gentle and within a second or two grows violent and knocks you off your feet. Or, you may be jarred by a violent jolt — as though your house is being hit by a truck. A second or two later you will experience the shaking, making it difficult (if not impossible) to move from one room to another.
If you are indoors, stay there. Take cover under a heavy desk, table or bench, in a supported doorway, or along an inside wall. Stay away from windows, bookcases, china cabinets, mirrors and fireplaces until the shaking stops.
If you are in the kitchen, turn off the stove at the first sign of shaking and quickly take cover under a counter or sturdy table, or in a doorway.
If you are in a high-rise building, get under a desk or similar heavy furniture, and stay away from windows and outside walls. Stay in the building on the same floor. Do not dash for exits because stairways may be broken or jammed with people. Don't be surprised if the electricity goes off, or if fire alarm systems or sprinklers go on. Do not use elevators.
If you are in your car, pull to the side of the road and stop the car. Do not park under overpasses or power lines. Stay in your car until the earthquake is over. When you drive on, watch for hazards created by the earthquake, such as fallen or falling objects, downed electric wires, damaged, broken or undermined bridges, roadways or overpasses.
If water is off, emergency water supplies may be all around you — in water heaters, toilet water tanks, melted ice cubes, canned fruits and vegetables, etc.
Do not eat or drink anything from open containers near shattered glass. Liquids may be strained through a clean handkerchief, cloth or cheesecloth if danger of glass contamination exists.
If power is off, check your freezer and plan meals to use up foods that will spoil quickly. Keep your freezer door closed and insulate the freezer with blankets or quilts to reduce cooling loss. Cook thawed frozen foods immediately if they are still cool. If in doubt about their safety, do not use them.
Use outdoor charcoal broilers for emergency cooking. Never use the cookers indoors because of fire and carbon monoxide hazards.
The potential for earthquakes in Missouri always exists. Family earthquake preparedness and what family members do during and immediately after the tremor can help minimize damage and may make a life-or-death difference.
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Sweetwater ISD conducts a program for students with above average potential in academic and creative-productive thinking skills in grades K-12. This gifted education program is designed to challenge students to accelerate above and beyond the regular school curriculum.
Nominations will be taken from November 1, 2012 to November 16, 2012.
Anyone wishing to nominate a student believed to be an intellectually or creatively gifted learner is encouraged to come by the appropriate campus office and complete the necessary forms. Those students nominated will go through a screening procedure that requires special testing. At the time of nomination, parents will be requested to grant permission for this testing.


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A few months ago, I walked the Capital Crescent trail. One of my coworkers, Ginger, expressed interest in walking it with me, but despite our attempts to find a workable date, we stalemated for months: hot weather, expected thunderstorms, and sudden, unexpected work projects or girlfriend issues or last minute happy hours thwarted all plans.
Until this week, when we decided to give Wednesday a try, and the weather more than cooperated, it was damn near almost spring like.
Our plan was to leave work at 3:00 and catch either the RideOn 47 or the WMATA J3 to Bethesda. As fate would have it, we wound up on the J3. Which is not at all a bad route or anything, it's just that it takes a longer time to get to Bethesda as it stops past Medical Center first. Honestly, we should've just waited for the 47. We bailed on the bus long before the Metro station as construction of some sort at Wisconsin and Old Georgetown was really snarling traffic.
The Capital Crescent trails runs from Silver Spring to Georgetown. Total length is marked at 11 or so miles, although the last half miles is under the Whitehurst Freeway. The Bethesda starting point is roughly 3.5 miles into the route. Ginger is a good six inches taller than me, and it's not at all unfair to say his legs go all the way up to his ass. Seriously, he's got long legs. I, on the other hand, have short stumpy legs. Fair to say I was a tad worried about the pace he was going to set, and he set what for me would be considered aggressive (and I'm sure for him it was "ambling").
We averaged about an 18 minute mile. Mile markers seemed to speed past us. We took no breaks, and arrived in Georgetown a few minutes before six. Two miles from the end, the blister I'd acquired on Saturday decided to burst, causing my right foot to alternate between "OH MY GOD MY FOOT IS ON FIRE" to "Okay, this is bearable" to "OH MY GOD I STEPPED ON A LEGO BRICK WITH MY BARE FOOT" and back again. I kept pace with Ginger right until we reached Jack's Boathouse, at which point I throttled back and he was suddenly like twenty feet ahead of me. Thing is: if not for the blister? I totally could have – and would have – kept going. Georgetown is only a couple of miles from my apartment. Mostly, though, I'm kind of sad that this blister pretty much means I'm going to have to scrap my Long Walk on Saturday. Boo.
We waited under the Whitehurst for about thirty minutes, and then Ginger's girlfriend, who works up McArthur, arrived in her nice air-conditioned SUV and gave us a ride to my nice frigid apartment. We went up to the roof of my building to enjoy the view and our brews — Abita Purple Haze, if you're curious — and met a new neighbor of mine, which there's really not much to say except she's cute, and enjoys lounging on the roof reading books, which is totally awesome.
By a little after 7:30 I was back in my apartment, soaking my foot in Epsom salt infused water watching Jeopardy. A guy I used to work with at my current day job — Ginger probably started just a week or two after he left — (who also happens to be named Jeff) was on the show last night. He was doing very poorly at the outset, but then came back strong and won the game with his answer: USS Constitution "Old Ironsides." (I think I'd been checking my email and actually missed what the final question was). He was the only contestant to get the answer right, and he won the game.


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Like a growing number of CFOs, Robert Trabucco of Sterling Jewelers Inc. is more than a number cruncher, as his additional title, executive vice president suggests. "Bob's role is more of a strategic partner and adviser to Sterling's CEO and COO," said the nomination. "For example, Bob, along with our senior management team, are the critical authors and contributors to our five-year strategic vision." Sterling Jewelers is the U.S. operating company of Bermuda-based Signet Jewelers Ltd. It manages more than 1,300 jewelry stores, many under the familiar Kay Jewelers, Jared the Galleria of Jewelry and JB Robinson Jewelers marquees. On the financial side, Mr. Trabucco's domain includes capital planning, finance and treasury, taxes, legal, compliance, loss prevention, risk management and credit operations. In addition, his team creates and updates sales plans and has kept a close eye on expenses. The company estimates financial restructuring is reducing expenses by over $100 million a year. The nomination also praised Mr. Trabucco for a key role in the company out-performing many companies in other retail sectors as well as out-performing its peers in the specialty jewelry business. It also attributes to him the success of the firm's in-house credit program, which handles 54.2% of store sales in the face of competition from ubiquitous international credit card brands. Mr. Trabucco also gets credit for agreements with the chain's name jewelry brands including Jane Seymour's Open Hearts line and Leo Schachter's Leo Diamonds. Before joining Sterling in 2003 Mr. Trabucco served as a retail consultant for several years after serving as CFO and then COO of NordicTrack, a Logan, Utah, fitness products retailer. He has a master's degree in economics from Boston College and undergraduate degrees from Babson College and the University of Massachusetts.
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… a wall of hand-knit shawls.
I did the math today and realized that I have moved six times in six years. That's a lot of packing and unpacking. This year, though, I'm staying put. And taking advantage of the chance to do some organizational fine-tuning around the apartment, the kind of stuff you just don't get to if you're always on the way to a new place.
Closets are organized, containers are planted, and now the shawls are out for all to see (well, me, anyway). In the exhaustion of moving in, and then the exhaustion of the semester (which started soon after), I never got around to taking the shawls out of the closet or off the back of the chair. Target to the rescue! (And my dad, who believes in independence through power tools.) A few minutes of work and voilà!: instant hand-knit heaven.
This display makes me quite happy. And quite wishful for more shawls.


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I'm hoping this won't devolve into a discussion of the Affordable Healthcare Act (so-called "Obamacare"). Let's do that under a more specific topic.
Rather let's discuss the current system in America, what's wrong with it and what's right, whether it needs fixing, and how to fix it. Non-Americans are encouraged to chime in.
Here's my take:
1) There is no healthcare system on a national level beyond Medicare and Medicaid. Any other systems are local to some degree or other.
2) Pretty much everyone who doesn't have their head up their hind end can see that the current way of handling healthcare is not sustainable. within a decade or two, assuming costs continue to rise, healthcare will become unaffordable for most Americans.
3) Healthcare isn't a normal market where competition functions to lower cost. Yes, insurance companies exclude certain high-risk, high-cost people in an effort to maximize their profits and keep their rates down. However, that doesn't work because for the excluded people the local ER becomes the primary care provider. Somebody has to pay for this care, so it's passed along to the people who are insured through their insurance company. This is one reason why hospital Tylenol can cost $25. The marketplace actually RAISES costs.
4) Do you think it's ethical to throw 30+ million under the healthcare bus in order to keep rates low for those with insurance, especially considering that it ends up (as explained in the 3rd point) making costs higher anyway.
5) 30+ million people need affordable healthcare, and indigents need free healthcare. Is it so bad to have socialized healthcare for them, especially if it will function to bring costs down for the rest?
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Not that I disagree with you, but good luck getting a cap put on litigation. If the outcry against "deathpanels" was bad enough, then attempting to put a cap on litigation will have detractors saying, "Now the deathpanels determine how much your life, your child's life, and your parents' lives are worth."
It doesn't matter if that's true or not or whether it's a huge distortion. If a panel of experts determines an award outside of a court especially considering our general distrust of government as a nation, people are going to be up in arms over the issue and nothing will change except that we will never be able to publicly suggest the idea for another generation.
It may have to wait till the time when a majority of the people who have insurance now are unable to have insurance. It may come to a moment of crisis like that for the public to see the wisdom of such an action.
Right now a doctor who has followed standard procedure to a "T" and yet has lost a patient in an operation that has a certain fatality rate anyway may be sued for millions of dollars and may lose due to the fact that it's far easier for the average jury member to sympathize with the survivors than the doctor.
A basic step that might pass public muster is to force medical liability cases into adjudication by a judge, no jury.
actually george w bush was in favor of putting a cap on it.
I've no doubt you're right, but you didn't see him offering to cap the tax cuts for the rich --
To those who blame people eating junk food and not getting enough exercise for being refused by the insurance companies, consider that if they had proper healthcare, a large percentage of them might be convinced by a primary care physician to improve their diet and get more exercise. I'm not sure what interest is served be leaving them outside of the healthcare system.
Healthier patients lower costs.
Preferences for Fords and Chevys lower costs as well --
have u been to a doctors office recently, they seem to have a lot of time to discuss commonsense issues with the patients (sarcasm). how long should the discussion last and how much are u willing to pay for it. usually PCPs do tell patients to loose weight and exercise but u cannot control individual behavior.
A person who doesn't end up with a bad heart or type II diabetes will save the system a lot of money.
There was a time when people entered the health care field because they wanted to be able to help people. Now they enter it because they'e discovered that a Mercedes is a really sweet ride.
Any self-sustaining healthcare program needs to find a way to leverage doctors against each other - and not just doctors, but hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and goods suppliers - to bring health care costs down.
"Oh, we can't do that, there'll be a drop in quality!" Or maybe there'll be a rise in doctors who practice medicine because they really care.
I think one of the reasons doctors (and dentists) become so wealth oriented is that their education puts them into tremendous debt which can take decades to pay back.
How about subsidizing their education tied to a pro bono obligation?


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Jabari Parker was named to the Naismith Trophy Midseason Top 30 List as announced by the Atlanta Tipoff Club Thursday. Parker is one of six freshmen and one of four players from the Atlantic Coast Conference on the list.DURHAM, N.C. – Duke freshman
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Penguins vs. Bruins series previewby Shawn P. Roarke and Dan Rosen
Pittsburgh PenguinsSeed: 1 • 36-12-0 • 72 Pts.
Boston BruinsSeed: 4 • 28-14-6 • 62 Pts.
The Pittsburgh Penguins certainly don't mind meeting the Boston Bruins in the Eastern Conference Final.
Not only does Pittsburgh have a perfect record against Boston this season -- 3-0-0, outscoring the Bruins 8-5 in three one-goal victories -- but the Penguins have won the past six regular-season meetings between the clubs and have won six straight games in Boston.
Just as attractively, the Penguins have beaten the Bruins the past two times these teams have met at this hurdle, advancing to win the Stanley Cup each time.
The Penguins beat the Bruins in the 1991 Wales Conference Final on the way to winning the Stanley Cup, then did it again the following year on the way to repeating as champions.
Certainly, Pittsburgh would like to make it a trifecta of Stanley Cup Playoffs semifinal wins and advance to the Final for the first time since winning the tournament in 2009. Boston, however, has other ideas and is looking to get back to the Final for the second time in three years. The Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup in 2011.
These teams advanced past the second round with relative ease after being pushed harder in the first round.
The Penguins, the top-seeded team in the East, knocked off the seventh-seeded Ottawa Senators in five games, outscoring their opponent 22-11 in a dominant showing. Ottawa's only win, in Game 3, came in double overtime.
Fourth-seeded Boston dispatched the sixth-seeded New York Rangers in five games. New York's only win came in a sweep-avoiding overtime victory in Game 4.
If current playoff form is an indicator, there should be a fair amount of offense in this series.
The top six scorers in the postseason are involved in the series, led by Boston center David Krejci, who has a League-best 17 points. Teammate Nathan Horton has 12 points and is in a fifth-place tie. The other four spots are occupied by Penguins: forward Evgeni Malkin and defenseman Kris Letang each has 16 points, Sidney Crosby has 15 and Jarome Iginla has 12.
The teams also feature stout defenses and hot goalies.
Pittsburgh is allowing 2.5 goals per game and has been even stingier since Tomas Vokoun seized the starting goaltender's job from struggling Marc-Andre Fleury in the first round. Boston has allowed 28 goals in 12 games, and goalie Tuukka Rask has a sterling .928 save percentage.
Pittsburgh has shown during the first two rounds that perhaps no team goes as deep as the Penguins when it comes to scoring ability up front.
Eleven forwards have at least one goal, and eight have more than one. Every one of the 15 forwards who has dressed in the first 11 games of the playoffs has at least one point.
But it is the brightest stars who are carrying the biggest loads for the top seed. Malkin is quietly having a Conn Smythe campaign with four goals and 12 assists. Crosby, who missed the first game of the playoffs with his still-healing fractured jaw, has 15 points. Iginla (12), Pascal Dupuis (10) and James Neal (10) also have double-digit point totals. Neal, quiet in the first round, scored five goals in the final two games against Ottawa.
Pittsburgh's depth is perfectly illustrated by the fact the forwards have six of the team's eight game-winning goals, and six forwards have scored those goals. The team can score in any situation: It dominated on the power play throughout, scored some huge shorthanded goals, and had two 4-on-4 goals in the clinching game of the second round.
But the Penguins also have important depth players up front. Craig Adams is an excellent penalty killer. Brenden Morrow is a veteran leader. Matt Cooke plays an intimidating north-south game. Tyler Kennedy is riding a hot streak since being reinserted into the lineup.
Bruins coach Claude Julien has stayed consistent with his group of forwards and his lines because, well, why change what is working.
Krejci, Horton and Milan Lucic have been a dominant top line.
Krejci leads the League with 17 points. Horton has five goals and seven assists. Lucic has put his subpar regular season behind him to produce three goals and seven assists in the playoffs, though six of his assists did come in the first three games against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The second line of Patrice Bergeron between Brad Marchand and Jaromir Jagr also has been dangerous.
Bergeron lifted the Bruins past the Maple Leafs late in Game 7, and he and Marchand hooked up for the overtime winner in Game 1 against the Rangers. Jagr hasn't produced as much as he'd like, but he has been dangerous because he has used his big body to make up for his lack of speed.
Boston wants more out of its third line of Chris Kelly between Tyler Seguin and Rich Peverley, but its lack of success isn't as much of a factor when you consider how well the fourth line is playing.
Gregory Campbell, Shawn Thornton and Daniel Paille were the difference in Boston's 2-1 win in Game 3 against the Rangers and their 3-1 win in Game 5. Against the Rangers, Boston's fourth line scored the same amount of goals (4) as it got from its group of top-six forwards.
As good as the Penguins are up front, they may be just as strong on the blue line.
Letang was Pittsburgh's best player in the second round, when he used his speed and ability to read the game on the transition to dissect the Ottawa Senators. He is putting up points at a pace rarely seen in the glorious postseason history of the Penguins.
Paul Martin has been a bit of an offensive revelation for the Penguins after struggling a bit last season. Martin has two goals, nine points and is a plus-7. Matt Niskanen also has some offensive ability and sees a fair bit of time on the second power-play unit.
Those three offensive dynamos are complemented by a trio of physically intimidating defenders. Brooks Orpik, who plays mostly with Martin as the shut-down pairing, is a devastating hitter who punished opposing forwards. Douglas Murray, who plays with Niskanen, is a crease-clearing bulldozer. Mark Eaton is more of an all-round defender who has shined in a role that supports Letang.
In the first two rounds, Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma hasn't been afraid to use his depth to insert other defenders for specific scenarios. Simon Despres saw some time when Bylsma felt the offense needed a jump start. Deryk Englland was inserted when things looked to be a bit more physical.
Boston beat New York in five despite having three rookies on the blue line for the first four games. Torey Krug, Matt Bartkowski and Dougie Hamilton did not look nor play the part of rookies in the conference semifinals, when they were forced into the lineup because of injuries to Dennis Seidenberg, Andrew Ference and Wade Redden.
Seidenberg returned for Game 5, taking Hamilton's spot alongside captain Zdeno Chara. However, Bartkowski and Krug remained in the lineup and they were excellent. Krug, in particular, was magical.
He scored four goals and walked the blue line like a confident veteran who has done it more than 1,000 times in the NHL even though he played in two NHL games before the conference semifinals.
The Bruins did not miss Andrew Ference, who remains out with a lower-body injury. With the way Krug and Bartkowski performed, Ference may have a tough time getting back in the lineup if he were to get healthy.
Vokoun is authoring one of the best stories in this postseason, but it has been lost in the avalanche of goals Pittsburgh's forwards are piling into the other net.
Vokoun, 36, was signed as an insurance policy for franchise-goalie Fleury and the team cashed in that policy for the make-or-break Game 5 against the New York Islanders in the first round after Fleury looked increasingly shaky in the previous three games.
Vokoun won that Game 5 and hasn't looked back. He has lost once in seven appearances this spring and that came in double overtime against Ottawa in Game 3. Though Vokoun has rarely looked stylish or dominant in going 6-1, he is putting up the type of numbers that suggest he can be the one to lead them to the Cup Final. He has a .941 save percentage and 1.85 goals-against average.
Bylsma has shown no inclination to return to Fleury, who has taken his demotion without rocking the Penguins' boat.
This is Rask's team. There is no questioning that anymore.
Rask entered the playoffs shouldering the burden of being the goalie who was in net when Boston blew a 3-0 series lead to the Philadelphia Flyers in 2010. Now he's the goalie who is playing as well as he did in the regular season and helping backstop the Bruins on what could be a second Cup run in three years.
At no point in the playoffs has Julien had to consider removing Rask from a game. He has a 2.22 goals-against average and .928 save percentage through 12 games. He had a 2.49 GAA and .923 save percentage in the seven-game series win over the Maple Leafs. Those numbers were better (1.86 GAA and .936 save percentage) in the five-game series win over the Rangers.
He's been steady, confident and at times spectacular.
Bylsma rarely gets the credit he deserves because of the star power he has at his disposal.
The belief is any NHL coach worth his salt could manage a roster that features three proving scoring lines and a top-four on the blue line that is the envy of most teams in the League.
But, Bylsma has had to make some tough decisions through the first two rounds and has knocked them out of the park. None was bigger than the decision to go with Vokoun in Game 5, a decision that could have cost him his job if it did not succeed. He has juggled his depth at forward admirably and used the threat of less ice time or removal from the lineup to coax his best from his depth players.
If Julien is nothing else at least he's consistent with his lineup and his lines and defense pairs. But he's much more than consistent, which is another reason the Bruins are eight wins from their second Stanley Cup with Julien behind the bench.
Julien has been a calming influence for his team, especially when it nearly blew a 3-1 lead to the Maple Leafs and after it lost Game 4 to the Rangers. He didn't show any panic and shot down any questions about the 2010 flameout against the Flyers, saying, "You learn from the past and live in the moment, but you don't live in the past."
Special Teams
There are many reasons the Penguins are four wins away from the Stanley Cup Final, but none may be as telling as their play on special teams.
Pittsburgh has been absolutely lethal on the power play, scoring 13 man-advantage goals in 11 games while leading the League in power-play efficiency.
Clearly, the Penguins have the talent to be dangerous with the man advantage, but they deploy that talent in unique ways that make traditional kills less effective. Seven Penguins have scored a power-play goal this postseason.
What is more dominating is the play of Pittsburgh's penalty kill, which is anchored by forwards Adams, Cooke and Brandon Sutter. Pittsburgh has allowed four power-play goals in 11 games and has scored two shorthanded goals, both by Dupuis.
The power play was a big strength for the Bruins in the five-game series win against the Rangers after being a weakness in the regular season and in the seven-game series win against the Maple Leafs.
Boston was 4-for-12 against the Rangers, including three goals from Krug, whose one-timer is now known around the League. The fact the Bruins are scoring on the power play now is huge considering the Penguins have been excellent with the man-advantage and lead the NHL at 28.3 percent.
Boston's penalty kill will also have to be great against Pittsburgh -- but this could be troubling. The Rangers, who finished the playoffs 4-for-44 on the power play, started to produce late in the series and that's not a good sign for the Bruins, who are 81.1 percent on the PK for the playoffs.
Series Changer
Sidney Crosby: Since returning from the broken jaw that kept him out of the closing weeks of the regular season, Crosby has been the all-world player he was before a string of injuries temporarily derailed his momentum. Now he will face the toughest defensive challenge of this spring.
Crosby will see a ton of two-way forward Patrice Bergeron and Boston's top defensive pairing of Chara and Seidenberg. He needs to find solutions to the challenges they will present to keep the Pittsburgh offense rolling.
Tyler Seguin: He's starting to find his game, which is great news for the Bruins. Seguin had a goal and two assists in the final two games against the Rangers after going the first 10 games of the playoffs with no goals and one assist. His minutes are down, but his confidence doesn't seem to be. If the Bruins are going to beat the Penguins, Seguin will have to play a big role.
If he continues to produce, it's possible, if not likely, Julien will move Seguin up, especially if Jagr struggles against Pittsburgh's speed and quick-strike talent.
Penguins will win if ... They stick to the game plan they followed so well against Ottawa. Boston is a similar team in the challenges it presents, but Pittsburgh has the skill and depth to solve the puzzle. The key is to continue to play the north-south game that was at the heart of the domination of Ottawa. Simply, they must get the puck behind the Boston defense, get in on the forecheck, go hard to the net and play physical. It is a style that pays dividends in the short term and across a long series.
Bruins will win if … They do not abandon their structure in the face of Pittsburgh's aggressive and potent offense. Structure is a big part of Boston's game. They have it in all three zones, and that structure allows them to play consistently strong. Pittsburgh will try to get Boston out of its structure and it will probably work at times, but if the Bruins are caught running around too much, they will get burned.


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The probation given to a former Slidell police officer who shook down Hispanic motorists outraged some members of the New Orleans area's Hispanic community, who decried the sentence as too light and pointed to it as a reflection of how many see Hispanics as second-class citizens.
State Judge Peter Garcia sentenced Jonathan Lutman, 26, of Slidell, to five years in prison and suspended that sentence, ordering Lutman to instead serve five years of probation, make restitution of $2,940 and complete 200 hours of community service.
The charge of malfeasance in office carries up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
John Redmann, a former first vice-president of the state's Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, said he was appalled that Lutman did not receive jail time.
"It is very disappointing to me that a man armed with a gun and carrying a badge could victimize 12 different people and admit to it, and only do probation," he said. "There is a dangerous precedent here, that if you're caught stealing from Hispanics, you are like a kid who got caught with his hand in the cookie jar - you're told to simply put the cookie back and never to do it again."
He said low-income Hispanic community members already fear police because "they are scared of being twice victimized," and that hearing of this case could further deter them from reporting crimes.
"If it had been soccer moms pulled over and victimized, if he had a gun and was violating them and taking their hard-earned cash, he wouldn't be getting a slap on the wrist," said Redmann, who also appears on a weekly Hispanic television show, De Todo Un Poco - or A little of Everything -on Cox 11, where he discusses legal rights.
Garcia defended his March 31 sentence, which was not publicized by the St. Tammany Parish district attorney's office until Wednesday.
"I imposed what I believe to be an appropriate sentence," he said on Thursday when told of the community's response, adding "every case is fact specific."
Slidell Police Chief Freddy Drennan, who also hadn't heard of the plea until Wednesday, said he has "all the confidence and faith in the world in our district attorney's office and our judges that they did everything they were supposed to."
"We did our part, we arrested him," Drennan said. "We want to work with the Hispanic community. Our doors are always open and our phones are always open, and we want to be a part of their community."
Lutman became the target of an investigation last summer after a pair of men came forward with allegations and he was arrested by members of his own department July 11 after an internal investigation determined he stole as much as $3,000 from motorists during traffic stops. He recently pleaded guilty to 12 counts of malfeasance in office.
He resigned that same day, after two years on the force, according to authorities.
Mary Bauer, director of the Immigrant Justice Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, had been sent Thursday's Times-Picayune story about the sentencing and said that the police officer's actions corresponded to what she's studied.
"It is widely perceived that Latino immigrants are easy prey and that they cannot fight back, and there are many examples of this, including unethical police officers," said Bauer, whose offices are based in Atlanta.
Marjorie R. Esman, executive director of the state ACLU, said that as a police officer, Lutman "should be held to a higher standard, not a lower one."
"If he were a young black man who had committed a similar offense . . . this would not have been the sentence that he would have received," she said. "Someone who was not white and not a police officer would have been charged with multiple counts of robbery."
Lily Stephens, an Argentine attorney in Kenner who handles mainly Brazilian clients, said the sentence was "terrible and a shame."
"Anyone who works with the Hispanic community, they know about these incidents with police officers and how they are treating the Hispanics as second or third (class) citizen," she said.
In Bauer's recent report "Under Siege: Life for Low-Income Latinos in the South," it states that "like African-Americans during the height of Jim Crow, many Latinos in the South live in constant fear of being unfairly targeted by the police as they go about their daily lives."
The report calls the South at times a "war zone" and a "culture of fear" for immigrants, adding that 47 percent of the survey respondents said they knew someone who had been treated unfairly by police and that traffic stops were the most common form of "unjust treatment."
"What's surprising here is that this cop got caught, because in most of the cases people do not file any complaints or take any action because of their vulnerability," Bauer said.
Benjamin Alexander-Bloch can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 985.898.4827.


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Beale Street's former Pat O'Brien's space is being replaced with a new concept from some of the street's prime stakeholders.
Bud Chittom and Preston Lamm, operating as Beale Holdings LLC, are renovating the 15,000-square-foot property at 310 Beale St. to prepare it for three banquet halls and a 1,200-square-foot corner bar called Dancing Jimmy's by May 1.
The namesake of the new bar, which will seat about 40, is a tribute to a late friend of Chittom's who danced in Overton Square in the 1970s and 1980s.
"Dancing Jimmy was a buddy of mine that would go around to the bars and he liked to dance by himself," Chittom said. "He was very intelligent, but he didn't stay on one subject long. He was just a cool guy that everybody kind of admired; he was kind of like the party-starter."
The banquet spaces will be called the Napoleon Room, Josephine's Garden – "home of the famous flaming fountain" – and the Balcony on Beale, Chittom said. All three will be under an umbrella name that's yet to be determined.
"There's such a demand for banquet space on Beale that's not in a hotel," Chittom said. "Sometimes you may see the veranda open, but I would speculate that most weekends, that stuff will be booked. Between Preston and myself, we have access to six kitchens on Beale. So catering is not a problem; we'll accommodate all of that stuff very well."
Chittom is an owner of Blue's City Café and the principal partner in Beale and Second Inc., the group behind the Beale Street Landing restaurant to open in July. Lamm is president of River City Management Group and an owner of Rum Boogie Café and King's Palace. Both Chittom and Lamm will manage 310 Beale. There are additional partners involved in the transformation, including John Riley and Jimmy Riley of Riley Paving, as well as Chuck Oswalt and others.
The Beale Street entertainment district is owned by the city of Memphis, but the building at 310 is not. It's the only structure built in the district since its reopening in 1983; Pat O'Brien's was built on land that at one time was the site of the old Palace Theater.
"It's on a land lease," Chittom said. "The city owns the property underneath it."
Past occupiers of the two-story building include New Orleans-based Pat O'Brien's, which closed in August 2008, and most recently Ground Zero Blues Club.
A successful Beale Street user must possess three attributes, said John Elkington, president of Performa Entertainment Real Estate – the private company that manages Beale for the city. Those are strong financials, a solid concept and a history of business in the area – all of which are true for Chittom and Lamm.
"The philosophy on Beale Street has always been you have to have businesses that are well-capitalized, they have to have good concepts, they basically need to kind of reflect this community and the culture and history and music of this community," Elkington said. "When you shy away from that, it becomes very difficult to succeed."
While it's challenging to take a building that was designed for a specific use and make it work for something else, Elkington said, Performa is encouraged by the fact that two veteran people that have had ownership on Beale Street for many years are involved.
"It's a challenging thing and we hope for the best, obviously," Elkington said. "You're talking about people who have been involved in Beale Street – Preston Lamm's been involved for 26 years and Bud Chittom's probably been involved for 15 years. So all of that we think is a very positive thing."
Elkington said the half of the street where 310 Beale is housed has "always had problems," but Performa is working with the Memphis Police Department to open a sub station on the corner of Fourth and Beale.
"That area, especially with Crave and all of the different places that have been across the street, have not helped that end of Beale Street very much," Elkington said. "We think with the Police Department being there, and having kind of a stable group of owners for the old Pat O'Brien's, will help tremendously."
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|From: wooks wooks (wookiz at hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jun 23 08:26:02 EDT 2006
Just wondering whether if I changed the contract of interperse (or wrote an auxiliary function) that took 2 lists rather than a symbol and a list this might work. I'll think about it while I walk the dogs. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Matthias Felleisen <matthias at ccs.neu.edu> To: "wooks wooks" <wookiz at hotmail.com> CC: dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu, plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] HTDP 12.4.2 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 07:21:03 -0400 Yes now you're on a roll and 90% there except that one example is wrong. On Jun 23, 2006, at 12:45 AM, wooks wooks wrote: > > >I should have said (????? sym (first alow)) where ????? is a function that >inserts sym into every position in a word and heretofore i will name >interperse (instead of infiltrate - more appropriate). > > >The full definition is > >(define (insertEverywhere sym alow) > (cond > [(empty? alow) empty] > [else (append (interperse sym (first alow)) > (insertEverywhere sym (rest alow)))] > ) > ) > >Now I can't see a way to write interperse with the design recipe used so >far. > >;CONTRACT >;interperse : symbol word - list-of-words >; produces a list of words by interpersing symbol into each position in >word (including before and after) >; >;EXAMPLES >;(interperse 'd (list 'e 'r) gives >;(list (list 'd 'e 'r) >; (list 'e 'd 'r) >; (list 'e 'r 'd)) > >;(interperse d empty) gives empty >;(intereperse d 'x) gives (list (list 'd 'x) >; (list 'x 'd)) >; >;TEMPLATE >;(define (interperse sym word) >; (cond >; [(empty? word) ....] >; [else ....sym ... (first word) >; (interperse sym (rest word))] >; ) >; ) > >It still looks to me that I will need some auxiliary function similar to >what I did with the original infiltrate though (split the word into 2 parts >and generate words by inserting symbol between each respective split >combination. > > > > >----Original Message Follows---- >From: Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> >To: wooks wooks <wookiz at hotmail.com> >CC: plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu >Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] HTDP 12.4.2 >Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:47:44 -0700 (PDT) > > > >On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, wooks wooks wrote: > >> >>So, if we are holding onto: >> >> (list (list 'd 'r 'e) >> (list 'r 'd 'e) >> (list 'r 'e 'd)) >> >>and we want to mess with it enough so we get: >> >> (list (list 'd 'e 'r) >> (list 'e 'd 'r) >> (list 'e 'r 'd) >> (list 'd 'r 'e) >> (list 'r 'd 'e) >> (list 'r 'e 'd)) >> >>do you see what the difference between what we're holding onto and what we >>want is? Can you give a concept or name to it? >> >> >>The difference is (first alow) - Right. > > >Hi Wooks Wooks, > >I'm not quite sure if we've done that mind meld thing yet, where we both >are sharing the same thoughts. *grin* Can you be more specific? > > >How can (first alow), which is going to be the list > > (list 'e 'r) > >then account for the difference between: > > (list (list 'd 'r 'e) > (list 'r 'd 'e) > (list 'r 'e 'd)) > > > >which is what we have on hand, and the result that we really want to get >back: > > (list (list 'd 'e 'r) > (list 'e 'd 'r) > (list 'e 'r 'd) > (list 'd 'r 'e) > (list 'r 'd 'e) > (list 'r 'e 'd)) > >I'm not saying that it isn't, but that if we're going to say that it is, we >have to fill in a few more ...'s till we can tell the non-thinking computer >how to do what we think we mean. > > > >That is, recalling that portion of the template we were looking at earlier, > >;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; > [else ... sym ... (first alow) ... > ... (insertEverywhere sym (rest alow)) ...] >;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; > >and knowing what the expected return value is now, can you think of how to >complete the definition now? > > > >If not, one way to make things easier is to fill the template will concrete >values, based on the test case you worked out, and see if that will help: > > (... sym ... (first alow) ... > ... (insertEverywhere sym (rest alow)) ...) > >==> > > (... 'd ... (list 'e 'r) ... > ... (list (list 'd 'r 'e) > (list 'r 'd 'e) > (list 'r 'e 'd)) ...) > >Does this help? > > >Note that the steps we've done haven't been particularly brilliant. One >could rephrase the steps we're doing here as: > > 1. Shaping the general program pattern. > 2. Cooking up simple test cases. > 3. Mixing in those test case situations into the pattern. > >We aren't aren't doing anything that couldn't be really codified in some >strategy, some... well, let's call this thing a "design recipe" for lack of >a better term. *wink* > > >_________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme
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The definition for natural beef from the USDA is:
Natural beef: Beef that has no artificial ingredients and is minimally processed.
Organic beef: Beef must come from a verifiable production system that collects information on the history of every animal in the program, including breed history, veterinary care and feed. The cattle must also be:
- Born and raised on certified organic pasture
- Never receive antibiotics
- Never receive growth-promoting hormones
- Are fed only certified organic grains and grasses
- Must have unrestricted outdoor access
- Must receive humane treatment
- Never fed any type of animal source protein
The Prather Ranch maintains a "certified organic" herd and a "natural" herd. The natural cattle are raised in almost identical conditions as the organic animals, other than we have the option to treat an animal for infection if needed (which is a humane approach), and the cattle from the natural herd may have eaten hay or grain that has been raised using conventional farming practices.
It has been the ranch's intent to have both organic and natural beef available for our customers. The ranch strives to have products available to people of all economic means and we encourage people that live in our local, rural communities to purchase our beef.


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Report by Kiki Georgiou on 16 September 2012.
There were boxy leather jackets to die for, pencil skirts, slashed to the front to reveal a shorter part, and iridescent silk shirts. It was mixed with overblown images of pink roses and it instantly felt sweeter and modern against white.
A beautiful show from Preen - snakeskin and roses and diaphanous white shirts. Great to have them back in town! KG #lfw
Loved Preen. Loved it. Perfect balance of masculine/feminine. Breton stripes & snakeskin - Want! #fashion
Such a fresh start from Preen at 9am in the morning: patchwork prints,textures and fabrics #lfw http://t.co/tGbzFowi
Preen show was absolutely amazing. Daisy told me at the end that she had goosebumps. So pro... (at @NHM_London) [pic] — http://t.co/u0jsQHyM
Navy trousers, prim white collars, rose prints and A LOT of snake at Preen #LFW http://t.co/wWv8FlVj
Love the shirtless suiting at Preen http://t.co/ZfIYtEa3
Just a few paparazzi @Leighton_Denny #preen SS13 http://t.co/8gQ5errC
Moody rose prints at #Preen, pretty but still cool. Now clean, crisp tailoring in white and black #LFW
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Amazing! #Preen http://t.co/UtwQVBEl
Loving the loose, languid shapes at #Preen and the more structured snake print pieces #LFW
We've all got our hearts in our mouths at Preen: there's a staircase. Poor models! #LFW http://t.co/3Pf5Veb6
Loving the #Preen silhouette! #sleek http://t.co/BAeqXgYk
Preen SS13 #fashion http://t.co/4ITh1MNj
NY vibe for first show of the day #preen #LFW beautiful mixed media tailoring
The birds are singing, spooky jungle noises in the air, Preen is about to start. KG #lfw
@MercedesLFW supporting our brilliant sara moonves at preen show http://t.co/OPOXuoLT
"The '90s look that was big in NY has come across the Atlantic," says Paul Hanlon at Preen for @lorealprofuk this morn http://t.co/Ov8xCbYE
Me and @Leighton_Denny seated ready for the show. #Preen #LFW http://t.co/R6RDIrMt
The ever so charming @talullahharlech #Preen show, first of a long @LondonFashionWk day... #goodluck http://t.co/dUw6EKmM
Early morning preening #backstage at #preen #lfw http://t.co/Y32EIKSO
Dramatic setting at the National History museum for Preen show #lfw http://t.co/oZZTd7Ll
#lfw feeling the love for #preen usually no-one is up this early for fashion, but they're piling in
Models at Preen rocking Vanessa Bruno and Philip Lim #bagwatch http://t.co/KmVGQGfS
Backstage reading #preen http://t.co/v4LBFpbo
Lessons in walking #preen http://t.co/pdngJLjn
Preen's model board is a who's who of the catwalk. All first name only girls.
Doing a quick interview on the catwalk at Preen S/S13 #LFW http://t.co/b6W4Nuuo
It's all go backstage at Preen S/S13 #LFW with team @LeightonDennyEN http://t.co/x2W4pTH3
#backstage @NHM_Museum for #Preen #SS13 show. #makeup sponsored by @sundayriley #LFW http://t.co/vXWdV5Bw
Preen: 6am calltime and in SW7! Painful but should be worth it.
here we go #fashion #LFW #preen #backstage http://t.co/WZBl3sTj
Ha ha ha ! 3 and a half hours sleep ? #Can be Done of course! #LFW. #BringItOn! First up #Preen at 6am ..,, #brilliant ! @SHOWstudio
My latest lookbook love goes to #Preen. Who cares if you're a little late to the party? http://t.co/eO2R9Pdp


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The Redskins are holding out hope they can eventually get something out of defensive end Adam Carriker, announcing he's going on reserve/PUP, which means he'll miss at least the first six weeks of the season.
He was going to miss some time anyway after having another round of leg surgeries, a result of the torn quadriceps that cost him 14 games last season.
Though he's had to have three procedures, they're still hoping the 29-year-old is able to come back at some point.
They also released veteran tackle Jeremy Trueblood, who was signed this offseason, waived/injured linebacker Roddrick Muckelroy and cornerback Ryan Mouton, and waived offensive lineman Jacolby Ashworth with an injury settlement.


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Wabash Club of Chicago Golf Outingby Tom Runge • August 3, 2005 Share:
August 1, 2005. Over 40 alumni, parents and friends participated in the annual Wabash Club of Chicago golf outing. This year, thanks to the help of John Collins '76, the club held the outing at the beautiful St. Charles Country Club in St. Charles, Illinois.
The winners of the outing were Wendy Jania (spouse of Greg '93), Jim Jania (Greg's father), John Knight, and Ed Szymanek.
The group was also treated to a long drive demonstration featuring drives of over 400 yards!!!
Many thanks go to our evening emcee Greg Jania '93 and to the outing organizer Eric Schoettle '93 who put together a great outing and some incredible raffle prizes. The raffle included 2 free tickets anywhere United Airlines flies (thanks to John Smith '84 of Tower Travel), a large Weber gas grill (thanks to Eric) and a great assortment of Vulcan golf clubs (thanks to John Collins '76).
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Director-writer Martin Davidson and his wife, residential and restaurant designer Sandy Davidson, have put their West Hollywood Hills home on the market at $1,995,000.
The 1940 house was designed for a sculptor, and the two-story living room served as a studio. The open-plan residence, with 1,864 square feet of living space, has a sky-lit dining room, a loft/bedroom, two offices with built-in furniture, a master bedroom suite and two bathrooms. A rounded deck with a mature tree in the middle leads to a lawn and swimming pool. There are panoramic views of the city and ocean.
This is the only house that the New York couple looked at when they arrived in L.A. They bought the property in 1975 for $120,000, according to public records.
Their attraction to Art Deco and Midcentury modern inspired a remodel and renovations, including the streamline/modern built-in furniture.
Director Paul Mazursky shot the romantic comedy "Blume in Love" (1973) at the house.
Davidson, 71, co-wrote and directed "Lords of Flatbush" (1974) and "Eddie and the Cruisers" (1983).
Shirley Sherman and Lloyd Sherman of Westside Estate Agency, Malibu, are the listing agents.


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Finishing the 1929 Ford Roadster Frame / Chassis using a C4 Corvette Suspension
I remember a conversation when first getting started with Hot Rods mentioning to a friend that I was intending to build my own chassis / frame for my Hot Rod many years ago. His response was, "You can't do that". I thought why not, how silly. Having built antique reproduction furniture, renovating several homes, designing and building just about anything and everything has been a big part of my life. At the time I thought, "It's only steel, what's the problem". That's true, with a great deal of care and thought, I did design and build this chassis / frame for my 1929 Ford Roadster hot rod. Not only that, I did it with an independent suspension using C4 Corvette suspension components. I have to admit, it was not easy. Most likely if I used traditional suspension parts for my hot rod, I would be driving the hot rod right now! I never do anything easy, and that's what makes life interesting. Not only that, learning and doing new things constantly, keeps us young at heart and very healthy. It has been said that if you don't use it, you loose it. Well, I must say, I am living a dream with every aspect of my life and thoroughly enjoying it. Enough of that, let's get on with the build process of the 1929 Ford Roadster hot rod chassis / frame.
It has been an interesting process designing and building the frame / chassis for the 1929 Ford Roadster hot rod. The chassis I designed and built will work on any 1928 – 31 Ford Model A body. It has a stock wheelbase, widened slightly in the front and narrowed in the rear to fit between the stock body rails of the Model A Ford. This chassis / frame is considerable stronger than the original 1928 – 31 Model A Ford frame. This chassis / frame is intended for a high boy style car which is fender less. I intend to start out fender less, and possibly use rear fenders and a bike style fender on the front of the hot rod in the future. That thought is still up in the air. I do have stock style fenders for the rear made of fibreglass. In order for them to work, I would need to widen them a few inches to match the track width of the C4 Corvette suspension using stock C5 Corvette rims. The bike style fenders in the front shouldn't be too hard to fabricate. In the mean time, I will let these ideas to work away in my mind and finished the 1929 Ford hot rod chassis / frame.
I tend to lay in heavy and deep welds with my Mig welder, and then grind everything reasonably clean and smooth. It takes a bit more time, but the finished product in the end, I feel looks a bit better and more refined. This next part, now only takes a considerable amount of time with a minor cost of fillers, primer, and sealer. The entire chassis / frame was cleaned and smoothed out with body filler. Using a variety of files, scrapers, sanders, and anything else I could find to make the job easier, hours, and hours of time went into making everything on the chassis / frame as smooth as possible. Some people would say why waste any time doing this? Just go out and get some rust paint, a brush, and an hour later call it done. Well, this is my hot rod and I want to build it my way. Many hot rodders get sucked into the thoughts of others and loose sight of what they want to build. Maybe this is why there are so many unfinished hot rods or custom cars. The builder has lost interest mainly because they were building something that somebody else wanted. Remember, it's your car, and build and finish it the way you want to as long as it will be safe to drive. I do know that if my standard was a bit different, I would be driving the 1929 Ford hot rod now. For me, it doesn't matter what I build, I like everything to look a certain way, and that takes time. Oh well!
After many hours of smoothing out the body filler, I sprayed my first coat of primer. Sanding now with finer grits of sand paper, a few more imperfections were noticed so out came the glazing putty. The glazing putty is basically a super thick primer and can only be applied in thin coats and then left to cure or dry. Now, there is a bit of a wait game. Often I would go into the shop, apply the glazing putty, and come back the next day to sand and spray another coat of primer. After each coat of primer, I would examine everything on the chassis / frame and make the required touch ups. I didn't want to rush this process and it took me about a week to get the desired finish before spraying the final coat of primer and sealer.
My plan is to get the entire 1929 Ford hot rod assembled and running on the road for a short period of time before the final painting. This will allow me to find and correct any design issues prior to the final finishing and painting of the hot rod. I suspect that when that time comes, I will still go over the chassis / frame one last time to make it look as perfect as possible before spraying the finish coats of paint.
Building a hot rod or custom car does take a considerable amount of time and determination. For me, part of the game was to build a very nice hot rod, but cheaply using my acquired skills. So far, this project has not cost me anything but my time. Buying cars, and selling cars / parts has paid for this entire project with money in the bank. Not too bad for such an expensive project sitting in the shop. This was all at the expense of build time on the hot rod. There still will be more information coming on this part of the project but for now the chassis / frame is ready for the C4 Corvette suspension components and get the body on the chassis. Below is a short video / slide show showing some the steps and parts of this very unique chassis / frame for my 1929 Ford Roadster hot rod. Just click on the image below to start the video.
Fast Tube by Casper
Tags: 1928 - 31 Ford Model A frame, 1929 Ford chassis, build a hot rod frame, C4 Corvette hot rod suspension, filling / priming a hot rod chassis / frame


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Gluten Free Vegan Flax Sorghum Sandwich Bread Recipe
Those of you who follow this blog know I love fancy shmancy herbed and spiced breads. Sign me up for some rosemary-sundried tomato bread or onion rolls any day. I also love sweet breads- gluten-free cinnamon swirl, norwegian julekake. They make my pulse beat faster. If I could eat gluten-breads, I would try every fun variety of bread out there. But, as it is, I can't eat gluten, so I have to make my own fun varieties. Delightful as fancy breads are, though, we still need a homespun everyday bread for lovelies like bread and butter (or soy free margarine), veggie sandwiches (hummus and avocado, how i love thee), and toast with meyer lemon marmalade. This bread is a vegan, rice free everyday sandwich bread inspired by an earlier roll recipe. I hope you enjoy! It makes one large loaf and will fill a 9*5 pan quite full or a slightly larger pan less full. Two half loaves are pictured- I made a sweet version as well as this one with one dough recipe.
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Sorghum Sandwich Bread Recipe
3 tbsp. ground flax combined with 3/4 cup water in food processor (or, if you eat eggs, 3 eggs whisked together)
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/4 cups hemp milk (or other GF dairy alternative)
1 tsp. salt
1 TBSP xanthan gum
1/3 cup potato starch (NOT flour) or arrowroot or tapioca starch
2 cups sorghum flour
1 cup arrowroot or tapioca starch
1/3 c. GF teff or buckwheat flour (any wholegrain flavorful flour)
1 TBSP active dry yeast
1 tsp. apple cider vinegar
Extra hemp milk for brushing
Grease bread pan and dust with flour. Preheat oven to 375 F.
Blend or process flax and water until you have a frothy, egg-like texture. Pour into bowl of heavy duty mixer and then add oil, vinegar, and sugar, combining. Add dry ingredients. Warm milk in the microwave (or on the stove) and add to the bowl, gently folding it into the flour. Turn on motor, let ingredients combine thoroughly then turn power to medium and leave for 4 minutes while it stirs.
Use spatula to spoon into bread pan. Brush top with non-dairy milk and sprinkle with (optional) kosher salt. Let rise until doubled in size. This usually takes 30-50 minutes. Don't let it over-proof. Put in oven and bake for 45 minutes to an hour. You know it is done when it is golden brown and sounds hollow when you tap it.
Remove from oven and place on cooling rack. Resist urge to tear into it like a starving wolf. Well, try. When it has cooled completely you can slice into it. You can cut it immediately before serving or if you want to freeze it, slice it all, wrap in saran wrap and freeze in a ziploc bag.
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Prickle Pine Safehouse
The Prickle Pine Safehouse is a safehouse located in Prickle Pine, Las Venturas in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Carl Johnson, the player character, can purchase the safehouse for $50,000. The safehouse has a garage that can store three cars and one motorcycle. The interior to the safehouse is unique, featuring two floors, serveral rooms, a bar, and a computer.
- If you climb on top of the garage, you can climb inside the house through the middle windows.


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Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked.
May 11 will be the last Sunday that Air America Radio's "Seder on Sundays" will air live, so it will be the last time we do the Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up on-air. But we will continue to offer the wrap-up right here on the blog every week. Tune in 4 PM ET this Sunday!
For McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina (ABC's This Week): Let's revisit one of last week's unanswered questions.
You have previously said that the off-shoring of American jobs should be called "right-shoring," and that "there is no job that is America's God-given right anymore."
As Sen. McCain is a staunch defender of our current trade and global economic strategy that has contributed to the loss of 3.4 million manufacturing jobs, and is putting 40 million service jobs at risk of offshoring, does he share your comfort level with the continued loss of American jobs?
For Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (ABC's This Week): The ACLU sent out an alert to its members this past week, saying "House leadership is on the precipice of caving in and handing over everything the President has demanded: expanded surveillance powers, and immunity for big phone companies that broke the law."
Soon after that, on Wednesday, Politico reported, "Although it remains to be seen if congressional Democrats will accept the telecom companies' proposal, the communication between the two sides signifies that progress is being made."
Do you know the contents of this proposed deal, and would you support it if it grants immunity to the telecom companies?
For former Senator John Edwards (CBS' Face The Nation): You have a new anti-poverty initiative that sets a goal of cutting poverty in half over the next 10 years. What's in it?
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GOP senators wait for W.H. outreach
President Barack Obama will need Republican senators to pass his ambitious agenda — and the White House has even identified the top prospects.
But after months of buildup and a week since his State of the Union address, key aides on the Hill and at the White House acknowledge that even GOP senators who fit Obama's vision of bipartisanship — Sens. Mark Kirk of Illinois, Rob Portman of Ohio, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma — are all waiting to hear anything from the president.
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Obama has to have legislative partners involved from the outset to give other Senate Republicans, and eventually their colleagues in the House, cover on passing immigration reform, gun control legislation and fiscal reforms to avoid the sequester. The same goes for getting the new universal preschool programs he promised last week, or even his longer-shot bid to get Congress to take action on climate change proposals.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama compares Chicago, Newtown)
But the GOP senators who seem most promising to fill this role have their own political prospects at home to worry about — and 2014 reelection bids that they're hoping won't go the way of Charlie Crist, whose own 2010 Senate bid was sunk in large part due to one hug he shared with the president.
Still, they'd like to have a conversation. Or at least get a phone call. And with the president's whole agenda on the line, they're surprised that hasn't happened yet.
"I view this as a time to turn the page and take a fresh approach from both the White House and the congressional perspective and try to work together on these difficult political issues that have to be addressed," said Portman, who's seen as a potential partner on fiscal issues and is still waiting to hear from Obama. "Doing it at the level of our leadership and the president hasn't worked."
Obama's shift to a permanent campaign, GOP senators and aides say, may help boost his case for the 2014 midterms, but it's not helpful to making deals now.
Kirk, who holds the same Illinois Senate seat that Obama once did, has the most to gain locally from working with the president. They never had much of a relationship — the two spoke just once when Kirk was recovering from a stroke last year. A source familiar with the conversations said that's continued to be the case despite Kirk becoming the leading Senate Republican on gun control, having introduced trafficking legislation with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and joining Coburn and Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia to work on a bipartisan framework for universal background checks for gun purchases that Obama has praised as evidence of burgeoning consensus.
Kirk and Obama have never spoken about any of it. The most significant interaction Kirk's had with the president since the gun control work began was a fist-bump before the State of the Union speech.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP group's goal: Get minorities to the Hill)
Alexander quit his leadership position last year ostensibly to build more consensus — though he is now working to avoid a 2014 primary challenge at home. He's seen by the White House as someone who can be helpful on a range of issues — though that's something he also wouldn't know by hearing from the White House directly.
Alexander, who said he's anxious to work on health care spending, hasn't forgotten the leaked revelation that he — along with Coburn — declined an invitation to screen the "Lincoln" movie at the White House in November.


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The Wall Street Journal's Corporate News Editor, Dennis Berman, spent ten days trying to prove that Twitter was over-hyped at a $10 billion valuation.
But "fact intervened," he says.
Berman now believes Twitter is going to be the next Google.
Twitter has only generated revenue for the past three years, mostly via sponsored tweets — paid promotional placements that get pushed to relevant users' Twitter streams.
But the efforts have been fruitful; eMarketer predicts Twitter will rake in $808 million during 2014. Investors think that number will be even higher. They think Twitter could be pulling in $1 billion by then.
And the social network already has 200 million active accounts. Twitter users increased 40 percent during the last three quarters of 2012. It's already making about $4 per active user.
If that growth continues and Twitter is able to make $7 from 500 million users, that's revenue of $3.5 billion, which is reminiscent of Google's 2004 revenue. Margins are reportedly high for Twitter than they were for Google, at 30-40 percent.
"For simplicity's sake, let's reduce Twitter's net margins to Google's, which are a gusher-like 21 percent," Berman writes. "Value all those earnings at Google's 17-times-trading multiple, and, voilà, Twitter has a value of $12.5 billion. And you needn't tweak conditions much to get a higher number."
So is Twitter a $10 billion company right now?
"Twitter isn't worth $10 billion if you benchmark it to its current financials," Berman writes. "But the prime question is just how big Twitter can get—and how profitable."
Get the latest Google stock price here.