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A few pics of my slash with stock body and with Proline's Flo-Tek body...
She's not quite so pretty these days...
This is my first attempt at painting. this is a proline baja bug on a 4x4 ultimate. It's a candy apple red and pearl white, but, the camera doesn't really pickup on the brightness of the colors.
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Simple and Black.
Now it looks like this. And this is the second repaint! Add me to the "wrong paint club". Oh well they sent me two bodies instead of one. Need to figure a more elaborate scheme for the next one.
Most beneficial mod I ever did. Although the scte 4x4 shocks are awesome.
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yup, time for a break down, clean, and rebuild, after a little after-hours bashing at work with some buddies
sent from my BAMFed Thunderbolt
fix, run, break, repeat
Couple nights ago:
The next night..
Did a little mod tonight and will post 2morrow maybe..
My first attempt at painting a RC body. TRD, Toyota and Wicked TRD on back are all painted. Didn't turn out as I had hoped but for a first attempt I am happy with it.
did a little playing around at the local track yesterday. they just rebuild 2/3's of it, so it's taking some getting use to again (not that I was very good on it before, lol)
but still rocking 2wd... stupid Techno axles... can't wait for tax return money to show up so I can order some MIPs... SOON!
fix, run, break, repeat
My first multi-color be easy. Raptor
My take on a Ford Emblem from 1912. Wish they'd go back to it. Really hard to mask wish I had a cutter.
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This is my new to me Slash, and the first time I painted the body.
Slash 4x4
Lifted it up. Black chrome 4x4 stampede wheels. Ford body will be gone tomorrow.
Here are some pictures of my Slash. Upgrades include RPM arms front and back, RPM bumpers front and back, Proline shocks and tires and a Proline Flo-tek body. This is only the second body I have ever painted.
Pics of my slash with a bit of transformation,
Here are a few pics of my 1st slash 4x4 build. Still have a few things to do. As you can see I haven't cut the vents in the Flo-tek body yet. I am new to the hobby and love working on these trucks. Let me know what you think.
I done this jconcepts body for my buddy's slash
The body has a line going all the way across the body. I don't know what it is. I washed it. It must be a factory defect?
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My first paint job. It is really messed up. However since it will be abused, I decided to just go with it! The red sticker on there is a yoyo store I frequent so I gave em some free advertising while I bash. i had no money for proper paint so I used what I had.
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It was not the dog, it was grand ma.
sorry the last post wouldnt work, so here is my slash. tell me what you think haha i have only had this -my first hobby grade r/c- for about a month and i love it
Ok it works now. First paint, with the wrong kind of paint. It may be ugly but it's mine!
It was not the dog, it was grand ma.
Here is my Slash Ultimate 4x4 VXL. Bone stock except for rpm front and rear bumper, rpm a-arms and speed control fan.
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My muti-color slash gotta figure out the last angle for the last color lol
Still need extended batt. holder:
Live action
Nice Slash... Awesome color choice.... LOL
Like the color, nice job
SL4SH Mamba Monster-Rustler Mamba Max 2400kv
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Body I got with my slash 2wd, It was airbrushed.
Here is mine with a new painted body, lot of reflection from shinny metalic blue:
the 1st pic is when it was stock, fresh out of the box, the rest are pics from today with new proline power strokes, rpm front and rear bumpers and blue aluminum integy roll bar as well as my proline streetfighters
Custom narrowed chassis SL4SH
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my slash
after minor upgrades
after custom lighting
My latest Slash 4x4 iteration is a Baja Trophy truck design. Stoked on the result.
As you can see, my Slash 4x4 has seen many variations.
5 lbs no battery or top
5.6 lbs battery no top
6.1 lbs battery and top
All electronics plasti-dip waterproofed
every inch acf-50'd
slash 4x4
mmp 3800
lunsford titanium turnbuckles
rpm ball ends
aluminum ball ends on servo and steering linkages
strc aluminum steering
aluminum motor mount with oversized bearing
rpm bumpers
rpm towers
rpm arms
tekno cvd's
center diff
aluminum c hubs
savox 1258tg servo
castle bec
jconcepts rims
flysky rx
sway bars
proline powerstroke shocks
jconcepts subcultures tires
proline flotek body
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More people may have participated in the 9/11 terrorist attacks than previously disclosed, according to a confidential US diplomatic cable obtained and published this week by antisecrecy group WikiLeaks.
The year-old cable described three Qatari men who were under investigation for activities in the months prior to the attacks. According to the cable, which is viewable at WikiLeaks.ch, the men entered the US on Aug. 15, 2001, and visited "the World Trade Center, the Statue of Liberty, the White House, and various areas in Virginia" before flying on to Los Angeles.
The cable was first published by British newspaper The Telegraph, which on Monday published a report under the headline: "The FBI has launched a manhunt for a previously unknown team of men suspected to be part of the 9/11 attacks, the Daily Telegraph can disclose."
But US officials were quick to throw cold water on that report. An unnamed US official told The Washington Post that investigators already concluded that the men could not be charged. "There is no manhunt," said the official. "There is no active case. They were looked at, but it washed out."
At the same time, the Post adds: "The existence of a surveillance team supporting the 19 hijackers led by Mohammed Atta appears to add a new element to the narrative of the plot's execution."
This appeared to be the first time that The Telegraph has been the first to claim an "exclusive" story from WikiLeaks, which has been gradually releasing a cache of some 250,000 secret US diplomatic cables since November. It was unclear why The Telegraph received this "exclusive."
WikiLeaks initially coordinated all its leaks with The New York Times, the Guardian, and others. But group founder Julian Assange appeared to have a falling out with those newspapers over their coverage of recent sexual allegations brought against the Australian. In the recent Times article "Dealing with Assange and the WikiLeaks Secrets," executive editor Bill Keller says "Assange was transformed by his outlaw celebrity."
Neither the Guardian nor the Times had articles today about the newly leaked cable.
Dated to Feb. 11, 2010, the cable identifies three men – Meshal Alhajri, Fahad Abdulla, and Ali Alfehaid – who were booked on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Washington scheduled to leave the day before the 9/11 attacks, but instead took a British Airways flight to London. The Washington flight employed the same Boeing 757 aircraft that crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.
According to the cable, "[h]otel cleaning staff grew suspicious of the men because they noticed pilot type uniforms, several laptops and several cardboard boxes addressed to Syria, Jerusalem, Afghanistan and Jordan in the room." The hotel room "also contained pin feed computer paper print outs with headers listing pilot names, airlines, flight numbers, and flight times."
A fourth man, Mohamed Al Mansoori, is mentioned in the cable as supporting the three Qataris. Mr. Mansoori previously lived in Long Beach, California, but his whereabouts, along with those of the other three men, are unknown.
The cable recommended that Mansoori be added to the TSA's "no-fly" list. The involvement of the four men in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people, had previously not been disclosed. To date, the sole person tried and convicted for the 9/11 attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui, was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
The 9/11 Commission, which was created to give an account of what happened leading up to the terrorist attacks, did not mention the men in their reports. The Commission also noted that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the terrorism attacks, claimed that he had no operatives in California. Yet, that does not mean the commission was unaware of the their possible involvement, a member of the commission told The Washington Post.
"Not everything is in the report, and my memory of the details has dulled with time so I can't say if we had some trace of this group," Philip Zelikow said. "They might have been seen by us as a group that was part of a second wave, and if that was the case, we wouldn't have named them for obvious reasons."
Qatar has seen little domestic terrorism, but has been described by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as "the worst in the region" when it comes to working with the United States on counterterrorism initiatives.
In a cable released by WikiLeaks in November (read full cable), Ms. Clinton writes, "Although Qatar's security services have the capability to deal with direct threats and occasionally have put that capability to use, they have been hesitant to act against known terrorists out of concern for appearing to be aligned with the US and provoking reprisals."

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For this year's Utility Guide, we've tested and reviewed 161 utilities in 21 categories, including several that will boost your computer's performance and keep it safe, as well as dozens of digital photo tools, customization utilities, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office add-ons, and more.
You won't find firewall, antispam, antispyware, or traditional antivirus tools in herethey're essential utilities, but we've covered them recently; see our current favorites in the Editors' Choices section. But with new viruses coming at us faster than AV companies can write signatures to stop them, we take a hard look at alternative detection methods that attempt to root out new threats based on their behavior, not just their signatures.
Some utilities are less fun than importantyes, you do have to back up your data regularly, and your Registry probably could use a good cleaning. The following pages present a mix of tools that taste good and are good for you.


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12 y.o 'slut' Facebook pages and the death of Amanda Todd: MTR Feminist Current interview
'There was no discussion of the pressure girls like Amanda experience to measure their worth through their sexual desirability'
By Meghan Murphy
The tragic story of Amanda Todd has been covered widely by the media and has impacted people across the continent. Todd was only fifteen years old when she killed herself last Wednesday after having been subjected to three years of sexual harassment and abuse both online and at school. After a man convinced her to show her breasts to him on a webcam, images of her were circulated online, which led to her being tormented, stalked, harassed, and beat up at school. Her story got both the public and the media talking about the issue of bullying, but does 'bullying' really describe what happened to Todd? In a culture that places an inordinate amount of value on women's bodies and appearances, wherein younger and younger girls are being taught that they should aspire to be 'sexy', when pornographic imagery is mainstreamed and easily accessible, there is more to this story than simple 'bullying' or 'cyberbullying'. It's been noted that the connected issues of sexualization, misogyny and violence against women have been left out of much of the media coverage.
In the first half of the show I speak with Melinda Tankard Reist about the sexualization of young girls, the 12 year old slut meme Facebook page, and the Amanda Todd tragedy. Melinda is a Canberra author, speaker, media commentator, and advocate for women and girls. She is known for her work on the objectification of women and sexualisation of girls and her work to address violence against women. Melinda has published several books, including: Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls.
In the second half of the show I speak with Fazeela Jiwa, a South Asian woman who grew up in Vancouver, B.C. She has an MA in literature and is trained as a teacher. Fazeela has done work with Vancouver Rape Relief and many alternative education organizations. You can read her article: "'Bullying' is too vague when we're dealing with sexism and misogyny" in The Georgia Straight.
Listen to the podcast below
See also: 'As long as there are sluts we will put them in their place: QUT students behind 12 y.o sluts FB pages'
'Unmasking Reddits Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web', Gawker, October 12, 2012
'Internet troll sacked from job after identity revealed', SMH ,October 16, 2012


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CSU needs to build on this … and the stadium project still lurks in the background
The most stunning thing about Colorado State's 31-6 loss to top-rated Alabama Saturday night wasn't the respectable score. No, this wasn't one of those 66-10 blowouts, but there was more to it that. Most surprising was that it didn't require any mercy gestures from Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide. To the contrary, it was a 17-6 game going into the fourth quarter and the CSU defense was staunch … against A.J. McCarron and an offense that had run up and down the field the week before against Texas A&M. In fact, if Alabama had chosen to take the completely high road late in the game, it would have ended 24-6.


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I photographed Ryan Henry Ward for the cover of the current Seattle Weekly. It looks really beautiful in print if you are in Seattle and are able to track down a copy. There is something about the rough matte newsprint, muted colors, and heavy contrast that really makes this image stand out. As the copy indicates, if you live in Seattle, or even visited recently, you have probably come across at least one of Henry's colorful murals which are spread across the city. He just finished his 120th mural in the last 3 years. He has also sold over 2,000 canvases, which is impressive, but even more so when you hear he has only been painting full time since 2008.
Henry signs all of his murals with a big "Henry" in black on a white circle. It's hard to miss, and most likely a big part of his success and brand recognition. Since his work is mostly cartoon-like animals, I thought it would be fun to photograph him in costume as if he were one of his creatures. My art director, Boo Davis, came up huge in finding this narwhal costume, and big thanks to Henry for being willing to go along with this idea. It took some warming up to the idea on his part, but I think it turned out fantastic. The horn was a little problematic, and made the shoot take about twice as long as it needed to, but he was really patient and made it work. You can read the article about Henry on the Seattle Weekly website.


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If your family is from a place on the planet that means it has a heraldic shield, chances are it's actually pretty simple. I know mine is. If only I lived in the Land of Ooo, where my allegiance would get me seeing something like these framed at my Nanna's house.
If I decided to get the Land of the Dead one tattooed somewhere, I really can't think of a point in my life where I'd regret the decision.
They're the work of artist Mr. Caputo, and if you feel like putting one up at your place, they're available as prints from his store.
The Adventure Time heraldic shields collection [Mr. Caputo, via Gamefreaks]


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(I think it's actually primitive-brain social intelligence, taking joy in being near the kitty, and overriding some of the usual self-censorship.)
Looking at the other xkcd's people posted, I especially laughed at "Someone is wrong on the internet." Thanks, Mage!
I would upload the images directly, but then you wouldn't get that neat-o scroll over text.
On the xkcd page, I used right-click > "View Selection Source" (or View > "View Source" or "Page Source" etc.), then copied the actual "img" tag, which contains that mouse-over title, for example:
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Here, I clicked the "HTML" toggle button before pasting it into my message, so it goes in as an actual working tag. (I put it inside a link to the page). Clicking "HTML" again returns you to the regular writing mode.
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Britney Spears regained the spotlight this week on "Glee," but she hasn't yet wrested back control over her finances and life decisions.
The pop star will remain under a court-imposed conservatorship for the time being, a judge said Thursday after conducting separate closed-door sessions with the singer and her father.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Reva A. Goetz described her in-chambers talk with Spears as a "very nice conversation," but did not elaborate on the contents or on whether the conservatorship might end soon.
Lawyers for the 28-year-old singer and her father, Jamie Spears, declined to comment after the hearing.
Spears arrived at the downtown courthouse about 9 a.m. through a side door and left the same way less than an hour later. However, Goetz continued talking in chambers with the lawyers after the singer departed.
Jamie Spears and attorney Andrew Wallet are co-conservators of the pop star's estate. The conservatorship was established after the singer exhibited bizarre behavior in early 2008 and was twice placed in involuntary psychiatric treatment.
But Spears' lawyers have said her mental health has improved dramatically since then.
The "Toxic" singer went on a concert tour last year.
Earlier this week, Spears made a cameo on "Glee," with a handful of her songs also feted on the Fox hit.
The judge's announcement means her father and Wallet will remain in control of Spears' finances.


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Don't cross the "Boss"!
On Wednesday night, Kelsey Grammer reportedly shut down an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan before it even began after the Boss star got wind that an image of ex-wife Camille Grammer had been flashed before the show.
At least that's what Morgan says. In a slew of tweets, the talk-show host wrote, "Kelsey Grammer was supposed to be on my show now but ran out of the building. Strange."
Mega feud alert! Piers Morgan rips Madonna and Kate Moss
After getting to the bottom of things, he added, "So, Kelsey Grammer saw a photo of his ex wife Camille in the open to our show and legged it. Extraordinary. Never had this happen before."
Of course, Grammer's reaction shouldn't have come as a shock, given his contentious divorce with Camille after 13 years of marriage. (He's since wed ladylove Kayte Walsh, and the two welcomed a daughter in July.)
Still, Grammer's abrupt exit seems to have left Morgan pretty stumped: "I had a very friendly chat with Kelsey backstage," he tweeted. "He said he was really looking forward to the interview. Weird...I like Kelsey Grammer personally, but this was a shockingly unprofessional thing to do. I wasn't even going to mention his ex-wife!"
Piers Morgan bans Madonna from show
Grammer, on the other hand, begs to differ. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor's rep took the talk-show host to task, saying, "Piers needs to take responsibility for what he did to Kelsey. It's called accountability."
The actor now joins Morgan's sizable enemy list, which already includes biggies like "mad drunken aunt" Madonna and "vile little creature" Kate Moss.
At least Morgan seems to have eked out a few laughs from the brouhaha. Shortly afterward, the host's famous frenemy Simon Cowell tweeted, "@piersmorgan I know how [Grammer] feels," to which the zippy host replied, "I suspect Kelsey was watching X Factor in the green room and suddenly felt nauseous."
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Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour sent the following letter to donors and football season-ticket holders explaining the decision to fire football coach Jeff Tedford Tuesday morning.
Dear Donors and Season Ticket Holders:
This morning I met with Coach Jeff Tedford as we continued conversations about the state of Cal football and how we can, collectively, as a football program, an athletics administration and a campus community, redirect both our competitive and academic performance. Throughout the course of the conversation, it became evident that there was not a clear, direct or expeditious path to reversing worrisome trends. Therefore, I informed Coach Tedford that I have decided the time has come to seek new leadership for the Cal football program. This decision was not made lightly, or easily, and comes only after careful consideration and complex evaluation of our football program. After weighing all of the variables and extensive consultation with Chancellor Birgeneau and Vice Chancellor Wilton it is evident that this level of change is what is needed and is in the best interest of Cal.
This should not be seen as a refutation of Coach Tedford's passion, commitment and skills. I believe he still has the same set of extraordinary personal and professional tools that allowed him to compile an unbelievable record of accomplishment during his 11 seasons at Cal – his near miraculous resurrection of a program in a state of collapse; two-time Pac-10 Coach of the Year; Pac-10 conference championship; eight bowl-game appearances; and more wins than any coach in Cal history. Additionally, I can't even begin to quantify what his patience and perseverance meant to our campus community as we endured repeated delays on the way to a new Memorial Stadium and modern training facilities. Jeff has earned a permanent place in the legacy of Cal football. However, as we have all seen sports, there comes a time when the needs of a team or a program no longer align with the tangible and intangible attributes of a particular head coach, no matter how talented and committed he may be.
Throughout this evaluation process, our focus has been on our student-athletes. We are all here to provide young people with what they need to fully realize their potential. Every professor, coach and staff member on this campus has a responsibility to provide them with what they require to excel, to learn and to grow. When Chancellor Birgeneau talks about comprehensive excellence as one of Berkeley's defining attributes, he means it….and we live by it. It is imperative that Cal football be recognized as a leader in academic accomplishment, competitive success and community engagement.
As hard as it has been to watch our student-athletes struggle on the field, the team's continuing decline in academic performance is of great concern. As recent NCAA data show, Cal football is now last in the Pac-12 in terms of the team's graduation rate: 48% compared to Stanford's conference-leading 90%. In fact, the other metric used by the NCAA to measure academic performance, the Academic Progress Rate (APR), is, in some ways even more sobering. The football team's APR performance has now declined to the point where we are dangerously close to being disqualified from postseason play in the future.
I understand that cynics may conclude that this decision was driven solely by financial issues, and while revenue implications are one consideration, I'm here to say nothing can be further from the truth. I take very seriously the responsibility of providing our student-athletes with nothing but the finest of resources, and my experience as a coach and leader in intercollegiate athletics teaches me that if you establish and sustain the conditions student-athletes need to succeed, it creates a foundation from which all success can follow….academic success, wins, postseason play and ticket sales.
I realize that this decision will be met with varying levels of support, but I know we can all agree that Cal is parting ways with a very good man who has done remarkable things for our campus, our intercollegiate program and our team. However, my responsibilities to our students and the university as a whole has forced me to evaluate whether or not the team's current leadership is in a position to make the changes necessary to turn things around. At the end of the day, I'm confident that this is the best decision for Cal and our student-athletes.
Jeff Tedford has served this university admirably and I will forever be indebted for his commitment, expertise and unflagging effort. I know the entire Cal community will join me in thanking Jeff for changing the face of Cal football.
My staff and I are now turning our attention to the future as we begin to explore and assess possible candidates for the position of head football coach. As that effort begins, we will seek ideas and input from many areas. As a first step, we are convening an advisory group of key stakeholders who we will turn to for guidance in terms of the professional profile, experience and personal attributes we should be looking for in potential candidates.
I know we are all proud of Cal's intercollegiate athletics program that together we have built and sustained. I will continue to honor that support with an undiminished commitment to, and passion for, the pursuit of even greater achievements in the future.
Go Bears!
Sandy Barbour
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Governor Jerry Brown's administration has ordered the Employment Development Department to start issuing the delayed checks immediately and verify the recipient's eligibility afterwards.
Brown says he's been told the checks will go out soon and he didn't come down too hard on the E.D.D.
"There is pressure because of the sequester," he said. "And that department of government is basically funded by the federal government. So, they have their issues. And we all know about computers, they do break down. But the department will get those checks out just as quickly as they can."
The E.D.D. says checks will start going out on Thursday. California's Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development says he is hopeful the backlog of check requests will be cleared by early next week.


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NEW YORK (Real Money) -- When I say, "It's a cult stock, don't bet against it," I mean that a cult stock is a wily, cunning animal that can't be captured by the normal short-selling hunters, and it can give long-owning thrill seekers the ride of their lives.
Tesla(TSLA) - Get Report is the definition of a cult stock. It is the kind of stock that, as a hedge fund manager, I most feared betting against -- and, yes, I notice that our esteemed colleague Doug Kassis doing just that -- because the manager of the stock, Elon Musk, is not only brilliant at building a great car but at building a great stock, too.
Consider every single box he checked in the quarterly statement:
- Higher sales than expected.
- Higher gross margins than expected.
- Raising the forecast of cars to be sold and revenues for 2014.
- Raising gross-margin guidance for 2014 because of economies of scale (think Henry Ford).
- Aggressive expansion in China and Europe -- after the downturn of the latter.
Now consider all the objections Musk answered, including those from the ridiculous ancient Sell recommendations, like Bank of America Merrill Lynch's $65 target:
- Musk guaranteed the price of the used cars. Now it looks like used cars are maintaining or increasing in value.
- There were worries about the cost of batteries, but we are told to stay tuned because of a major reduction in the cost of battery production.
- Can the batteries be mass-produced? That has been a concern. Now he's talking about a "giga factory" that can make batteries not just for Tesla but for the whole solar industry. Why doubt a guy who has the very successful SolarCity (SCTY) sister company?
- Is Tesla really catching on in China? Of course it is, Musk points out, because those stores are the busiest in the chain. Oh, and unlike Starbucks(SBUX) - Get Report, he's not charging more for cars in China than in the U.S.
- Can you really drive across the country, especially in the cold? Darn it all, you bet you can, and Musk has not one but two examples of people who have done it, including a citizen who is unaffiliated with the company!
- No, Tesla will not follow the other car companies into charging "excessive" prices to customers in certain markets because that would be "inconsistent with building long-term loyalty."
- No, Musk won't need more cash because the operating cash flow is positive, so there's no new equity offering for shorts to cover with in the immediate future.
And, of course, Musk uses every single question in the conference call to drive home these points again and again -- brilliant stage management of the call, just like the brilliant writing in the release. What can I say? This release is a virtual parody of what a long owner wants to hear-- and an actual nightmare for short sellers.
Does that mean the stock doesn't spike up and then come down so shorts can battle with it before going higher? Sure. On a day basis, but that's the case with any volatile stock.
I take a lot of heat because I call Tesla, SolarCity, Twitter(TWTR) - Get Report, Netflix (NFLX) - Get Report and Amazon(AMZN) - Get Report "cult stocks." That's because I'm not coming out and saying you should buy or sell them. That's a total misread. What I am saying is this: If you can handle the pain and heartache that could come from owning them, then by all means own them -- preferably through calls because if they screw up, cult stocks can plunge well beyond where you thought possible.
I arrived at this analysis because I traded through the 1999-2000 period and saw the damage cult stocks can do to short-sellers and the profits they could make for the longs. I don't condemn stocks, and I don't condemn managers who know how to "run" them. I condemn illegality, and there is none here. I criticize stupidity and arrogance, as has been the case with several other tech stocks over the years.
But Tesla? My hat is off to Elon Musk. He's made a study of cars. He's made a study of growth stocks. And he knows how to make both better than anyone I have ever seen in history.
Random Musings: What can I say about Facebook's(FB) - Get Report acquisition? My kids love WhatsApp and they are almost never wrong.
Action Alerts PLUS, which Cramer co-manages as a charitable trust, has no positions in the stocks mentioned.
Editor's Note: This article was originally published at 9:53 a.m. EST on Real Money on Feb. 20.


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Vince Neil's next gig will be two weeks behind bars, as the rocker pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving drunk on the Las Vegas Strip last summer.
A temporary judge accepted Neil's agreed-upon plea deal after the Mötley Crüe frontman arrived to court 90 minutes early and got a jump on reporters, according to The Associated Press.
A court spokeswoman told the wire service the "Girls, Girls, Girls" singer was allowed to move up his case to allow him time to make a family court appearance elsewhere in Sin City.
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Per the terms of Neil's plea agreement that were reported last week, the rocker begins serving 15 days in the Clark County jail on Feb. 15, followed by as many days on house arrest.
That leaves him free to celebrate his 50th birthday next week, the AP reported.
Last week, the rocker and "Skating with the Stars" alum said he accepted "full responsibility" for his arrest.
"I have recognized that you can't drink and drive at all,'' he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in a statement.
Neil was busted June 27 for speeding in his Lamborghini near the Las Vegas strip.
Cops said at the time Neil failed three tests to determine if he was drunk and a breath test showed his blood alcohol content at nearly three times the legal limit.
Back in the '80s, Neil pleaded guilty to drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter for being behind the wheel in a crash that resulted in the death of Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley and that seriously injured two others.
He went on to serve 15 days of a 30-day jail sentence, paid $2.5 million to his victims and performed 200 hours of community service, according to E!


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A Little Less Unknown: Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan does not want us to know who he is. He recently turned seventy, and if no one has figured him out by now, nobody probably ever will. The Andy Warhol Factory's Screen Test of Bob Dylan, filmed in 1965 attempts to get close to him, figure out what is underneath the voice and lyrics. He sits impatiently, looking down most of the time, unsmiling. He could be anyone, which is really the point of being Bob Dylan. As David Yaffe points out in Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown, the screen test demonstrates that "[b]eing Bob Dylan has apparently already gotten old."
Yaffe does not set out to find Bob Dylan's core, but instead gives us a series of portraits that peel back enough layers to understand what the various cores look like. One of these layers is Dylan through the medium of film, which includes numerous documentaries and an appearance singing in a Victoria's Secret commercial. (The oddness of the commercial diminishes—slightly—after reading this report which claims that in the same year he made Andy Warhol's film, Dylan said "ladies' undergarments" might be the only thing that would entice him to sell out.) Even in the cases where the singer was not directly involved in a movie, he still used the production to further complicate his image.
He wrote, directed, and starred in his own a movie, which still has no official video or DVD release because the four-hour-long Renaldo and Clara was, as Joan Baez called it, "a giant mess of a home movie. What makes it worthwhile to Yaffe is that Dylan appeared as another self-constructed version of himself, even if the rest was a surrealist disaster. Documentary makers have tried to show that in film, as in concert, the musician "had a black self, a symbolist poet self, an outlaws self, a misogynistic matinee idol self." More recently, he gave full reign to the director of I'm Not There, allowing a wide assortment of actors, including a woman and an African American, to add new representation to both his real-life and onscreen character. He is as much one person's reaction to him as he is all the faces he has willingly presented to his fans.


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A couple living near Nantes (France) won a big prize at the My Million draw. It took him several days to notice. They almost missed a million euros ... At the end of February, a couple who had bought a EuroMillions ticket at Thouaré-sur-Loire, near Nantes (Loire-Atlantique), noticed, late, he had pocketed a very nice sum, reports France Bleu Loire Océan.
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Vantage Point Feature International Trailer (2008)
Feature international trailer for Vantage Point.
A presidential assassination attempt is told from multiple points of view in Pete Travis's directorial debut, Vantage Point. U.S. president Ashton (William Hurt) is in Salamanca, Spain, to announce plans for a major global summit on terrorism. But as he stands behind the podium in front of an adoring crowd (with protesters blocked off from the stage), he is shot twice, followed shortly by a small explosion and then a massive blast. Secret Service Agents Barnes (Dennis Quaid), Taylor (Matthew Fox), and Holden (Richard T. Jones) immediately jump into action, trying to find the terrorists responsible amid all the chaos. The thriller first shows the events through the eyes of television news producer Rex Brooks (Sigourney Weaver), and then the film rewinds, replaying the action from a different point of view. Each perspective reveals a few more clues, then rewinds again, taking the audience through the assassination attempt and its aftermath again.
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kdesu is an imporant tool for all apps that need to execute adminstrative tasks, either primarily or for a limited purpose. kdesu works pretty well in the scenario it was created for: gaining super-user privileges using "su" on unix systems. However, this scenario is becoming too limited. Ubuntu now relies on "sudo" for such tasks, and I have no idea how things work on windows. Support for sudo has been added to kdesu, but there are important issues remaining.
The purpose of this page is to collect requirements, design considerations and thoughts on how to make kdesu work well. Then after a while, there would need to be a decision on whether this can be done in the current framework, or whether substantial portions need to be rewritten. Hopefully, later the efforts to do so can be coordinated, here, as well.
A good kdesu implementation should fulfill the following requirements:
Easy and transparent to use
Of course this concerns the user side as well, but equally important, apps / scripts using kdesu should not need to worry about too many details. That means:
- No need to worry about which backend / authentification mechanism is used
- No need to worry about whether passwords are needed, which ones, how to get those, whether they should be cached, etc.
- No need to worry about indicating permission problems to the user
- Easy access to full output of the called application, and exit codes
Support for X11 authentification
We're developing a GUI desktop, so it's important that kdesu can successfully invoke X11 applications on all systems.
Fallback mechanism and configurability
On systems using sudo, *some* commands may be allowed for a user, but not others. Still, it's conceivable that said user does indeed know the root password and can use su for disallowed in sudo. In this setup it would be preferable to use sudo when possible, but fall back to su in other cases.
Also power-users should have an easy way to specify which backend to use, and potentially, in which way.
Security considerations
- xauth cookies must not be passed on the command line
Technical considerations
This is the simple case. Since a (successful) call to su allows anything to be done, we can just do anything, including setting xauth cookies, etc.
The main challenge is to figure out, when authentification has succeeded or failed, so as to provide meaningful feedback to the user. The current solution is to use a wrapper application (kdesu_stub), which gets called by su. kdesu_stub will indicate when it has been called successfully (and hence authentification has succeeded), then accept options such as an xauth cookie to use, then run the command.
A good level of support for sudo is much harder to achieve. The current implementation relies on the same kdesu_stub helper command, effictively disabling the fine grained permission control of sudo.
The situation could be alieviated a lot by specifying the command to run as a command line option to kdesu_stub. Still, this would require system administrators to set up additional rules for the purpose of running commands using kdesu. Also some of the actions kdesu_stub allows may be considered highly problematic (for instance it allows the specification of a full environment via stdin).


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Post-summer city life torques up the dining scene to exciting levels again, and the place we are loving now is Gabe Stulman's Perla. Unsurprisingly as befits a restaurant group that includes Joseph Leonard, Fedora and Jeffrey's Grocery, Perla is wonderful in its warm atmosphere, gracious, uncloying service and exceptional food and drink.
Open since spring, Perla has been packing them in, and has become a go-to for all sorts of city denizens from media types and actors, to art world characters and fashion folk. Italian food has been done to death in New York and in L.A. (12 great Italian places in Brentwood alone), but everything at Perla pleases and and makes one want to return, and soon.
Stulman's places are truly congenial, with great cocktails, mouth-watering appetizers, primi and secondi (house-made potato chips, gnocchi, steak… all of it yummy), flattering lighting, and a great crowd.
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National Museum Week 2020Begin april
During this Museum week about 450 museums are to visit. There are extra activities such as workshops, guided tours, tastings, children's treasure hunts, musical performances and the possibility to dress up. This year's theme is: "Let yourself be mesmerized by a museum piece."
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THOMASVILLE, Ga. - The Georgia Southwestern women's soccer team suffered its third 1-0 defeat of the season on Wednesday afternoon against Thomas University at Remington Park in the Lady Hurricanes final non-conference match of 2011.
Jodi Wright made the most of TU's lone second half shot on goal when she punched in the game's deciding score in the 68th minute. Teammate Kelsea Whitaker dropped a pass from midfield that found Wright in the center of the pitch where she was able to convert an eight-yard kick near post.
In a match where both sides struggled to put together an offensive attack, Thomas (4-4-1) finished with a 4-0 advantage in shots on goal. GSW goalkeeper Amber Bahri stopped three in the first half.
Ally Canganelli took two shots to lead the Southwestern offense.
The Lady Hurricanes have lost their last four meetings with Thomas.
GSW (3-6) travels to UNC Pembroke on Saturday for a 1 p.m. contest.


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My first reaction:
WOW!!!!Here are the links to the ilvl 251 and ilvl 264 gear.
Before you get really excited, I want to make one disclaimer. Data mined info is Data mined. It is not currently in game. It has not been confirmed by Blizzard. It is quite possible that these were released in error and will be changed in future PTR releases.
That said, I'm still giddy. I don't know how it compares to the other classes because I don't understand them well enough, but here are a few quick things you will notice.
- Not a single drop of Spirit anywhere on the Tier set.
- Gem Sockets: 5 Red, 2 Yellow, 1 Meta
- Socket Bonuses: All Spell Power
My Second Reaction:
After taking a step back and thinking about it, this makes sense for a couple of reasons.
- At Blizzcon, it was announced that Spirit would become primarily a healer stat in 4.0, and would have little or no value to caster DPS. If history is any guide, the players that are able to pick up these sets will likely wear them will into Cataclysm. When I first started raiding Naxx last November, I still had most of my Tier 6 gear on, because the quest rewards were inferior, and the heroic loot were side grades for the most part. The lack of spirit here will make these items more useful in the expansion.
- Blizzard has been saying for a long time that they are saving the best gear for last. They didn't want the earlier sets to be perfectly itemized, otherwise the final sets would just be unexciting numerical upgrades. To some extent, this shows that Blizzard knows what we like and is capable of producing it if the situation calls for it.
So, Blizzard is killing two birds with one stone here. Not only do they create some kick ass tier sets, but they are preparing the players for the next expansion.
In the midst of all this praise I do want to express one concern. Every piece of the tier sets has Crit Rating on it, two pieces have Hit Rating, and the other three have Haste Rating. Don't get me wrong, I love Crit Rating, but with the current Moonkin design I would like a better balance of Haste and Crit. This itemization will probably push us more in the direction of Haste gear for our non tier pieces.
Other Gear:
At this point it is hard to evaluate all of the other gear available. This is obviously an incomplete list. Please don't start asking when my New gear lists will be available. Cowtarus has volunteered to compile all of the information for me again, but it will take time and won't be final until the patch is released.
I do have two small observations that I don't like though. The upgradeable rep ring that a lot of people are excited about is a Hit ring. That is not necessarily bad, but I would rather it didn't have hit to allow for a little more flexibility. The other issue I have is with the quest rewards from the Quel'delar questline. Those weapons are very nice, but from a Moonkin standpoint they are lacking. The great caster DPS weapon is a sword that is un usable by druids, priests or shaman. There is a spell mace, but it has Mp5 on it. I think making the sword a dagger would have made a lot more sense.
Toon Update:
LoE killed Algalon 25 last night for a server second. Again, it's not as big of a deal as the guild that were able to kill him before ToC was released, but I'm still very happy. We have officially killed every boss in Ulduar, and Yogg+0 is the only hard mode we have not completed. I don't know if we will work on that one or not. I would like to get it down at some point, but completing ToGC is a much bigger goal at this point. Plus, If we can master Anub relatively soon, we will have time to go back and clean up some of those achievements in Ulduar.


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Let Tuscaloosa resident Phil Owen describe the damage that the mile-wide twister captured in this video wrought upon Alabama today:
"I'm in my car at corner on McFarland. Milo's Hamburgers isn't there anymore. Hobby Lobby only thing still standing at Woods Square Shopping Center. Big Lots, Full Moon Barbecue. Piles of garbage where those places were. Shell gas station across the street, all that's standing is the frame of the store."
Damn. Much more than Full Moon Barbecue was lost including, at latest count, 31 lives. Prayers, good wishes and/or positivity sent.
That's the home of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, Bryant-Denny Stadium, in the video shot from Clay Hasenfuss's third-floor balcony. And no, you're not the only one in awe of how a building that seats 101,821 human beings can be made to look like a diorama prop.
Mile-wide tornado strikes Tuscaloosa [AL.com]
Tornado Slams Heart of City in Alabama, Leaving Ruins [New York Times]


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More than $1.2 million to support projects in NEH initiative on American history and culture
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that 21 state and territorial humanities councils will receive more than $1.2 million in grants and matching funds for local projects designed to improve the teaching, learning, and understanding of American history and culture as part of the Endowment's We the People initiative. (A complete list of these grants is available in the box.)
"These We the People projects will offer insights to people from all walks of life into subjects that include the Bill of Rights, the Harlem Renaissance, Alaska's quest for statehood, and the history of democracy from Greece to America," said NEH Chairman Bruce Cole. "Our state humanities councils have assembled talented humanities scholars and other experts to encourage program participants and others to deepen their knowledge and understanding of our nation's history and culture."
In September 2002, President George W. Bush announced a new NEH initiative called We the People, which included a call for grant applications to explore significant events and themes in our nation's history. These We the People awards supplement NEH funding distributed each year to support the work of 56 state and territorial humanities councils.
Projects conducted by the state humanities councils include teacher seminars and institutes, public lectures, Chautauqua programs, speakers' bureaus, student essay contests, reading and discussion groups, and media projects for radio and television. For example:
- In preparation for the 50th anniversary of Alaska's statehood in 2009, the Alaska Humanities Forum will examine "Alaska's March to Statehood" by conducting a teacher's institute to develop a curriculum unit on the history of the state's Constitution and by offering a public lecture series and thematic radio broadcasts on the topic;
- The Florida Humanities Council will offer teacher institutes, Chautauqua public programs, and an issue of Forum magazine on the Harlem Renaissance and its impact on Florida, American, and African-American culture;
- The Rhode Island Council for the Humanities will offer a series of activities that explore the principles of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," including a grant program, a radio and public television series, and a student poster/essay contest; and
- The Wyoming Council for the Humanities will hold a teacher institution on "Democracy in Greece and After: From Athens to America," and it will offer a statewide discussion project, "A Wyoming Conversation," in partnership with Wyoming Public Radio.
Earlier this year NEH awarded We the People grants for projects in 35 other state humanities councils (see the above box for the complete list). With the 21 grants announced today, all 56 state humanities councils (including those representing the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories) have received supplemental support for We the People projects. Additional information about the Endowment and its We the People initiative is available on the Internet at www.neh.gov.


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Oversized Coat- Forever 21
Hat- Urban Outfitters
Top- Urban Outfitters
Bag- Urban Outfitters (similar here)
I decided to go simple with this look. Its so easy to get up in the morning and throw on an oversized shirt and a pair of skinnies and still look like you put in some time and effort, especially when your pieces have some shape and texture to them. This shirt is one that I've been obsessing over at work as soon as we got it. It's an extra small and still fits oversized and has so much flow to it, its great for layering over tights and tucked into a pair of shorts for the summer. Its not exactly clear in the pictures but the top is made of two materials, half of it is a light cotton and the top section is a sheer fabric. It's contrasting fabric adds an edgy feel when paired with a bralette.
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Historically, the entertainment breaks during FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup matches have been the exclusive preserve of beautiful female cheerleaders, whose looks and well-rehearsed choreography regularly sent pulses racing. And here at Tahiti 2013, a new twist has been added, thanks to a clutch of talented – and muscular – local male dancers.
"We're a group of dancers who were taking part in a competition," said the team's leader and choreographer Heiva Ah-Min, when speaking to FIFA.com. "After that, the Local Organising Committee got in touch with us about performing here. We said yes straight away!"
Though there were a few initial nerves, Ah-Min is delighted about the reception his group have had during the tournament. "As it was the first time [there'd been male performers] in the history of this competition, we weren't sure how the fans were going to react," said the 23-year-old. "We were even a little taken aback by just how well we went down. My girlfriend was a bit jealous [of all the attention] at first, but she's over it now," he added with a grin.
We weren't sure how the fans were going to react. We were even a little taken aback by just how well we went down.
A few metres away is Arlene, leader of the group of five cheerleaders that have travelled from the Canary Islands to Papeete to perform at the competition, alongside ten Tahitian dancers specially selected for the showpiece occasion. Boasting five years' experience at beach soccer events, the 25-year-old is perfectly placed to give a verdict on Ah-Min and Co.
"To be honest, we love the fact there's a male presence at the event and that it's not just us out there, being the centre of attention," she said. "The guys have been getting plenty of cheers from the women in the crowd!"
The original plan was for the men and women to dance separately, though that proved another of the 'glass ceilings' shattered here in Tahiti. "Combining our routines isn't as easy as it looks, but it's turned out well," continued Arlene. "All the Tahitian guys and girls are really nice though, which is a big help."
Saving the million-dollar question until last, are the male performers here to stay? "I don't know, it's hard to say, but as it's worked well, I think it should be taken into consideration [for the next Beach Soccer World Cup]" said Ah-Min, before giving the final word to his Spanish colleague: "I think that since male dancers have been brought in at other [beach soccer] events already, it's something that should continue."


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Monday, February 4, 2008
New On My Bookshelf
I have three new books waiting to be read. Maybe you would be interested in them too.
Harold B. Morgan has compiled a pictorial book, Home Front Heroes: Evansville and the Tri-State in WWII, which I skimmed through briefly, but want to go through page by page soon. Photographs from the Evansville area as well as Henderson and Paducah, Kentucky show how the local residents adapted their lives around the war. All partipated in the war effort, from the youngest child to the oldest resident. Many of you probably know that Evansville had a shipyard, where 19,000 workers built LSTs during World War II. There is info on the shipyards, but that is not the focus of the book; there is much, much more. I was especially interested in the photos of the women and their involvement in the war effort. The book is available in my area at Barnes and Noble bookstore.
Another book I am looking forward to reading is Frances, Kentucky: Days Gone By, which was compiled by Matthew T. Patton. This book is actually a reference book on this small Crittenden County town. There is information on everything from schools and school census records to cemetery recordings, town history, newspaper items from the early 1900s to an autobiography of James Riley Glass (1913). To learn about availability of this book, contact the author through his blog at http://dycusburg.blogspot.com/
The third book I look forward to reading concerns one of my favorite subjects - the Melungeons. Sometimes called a tri-racial group, these folks have been the subject of many articles and books and few of the authors agree on the origin of the Melungeons. Lisa Alther has written Kinfolks Falling Off the Family Tree (My Search for My Melungeon Ancestors). The author states that her relatives had extra thumbs (Yes, that's right!), which were removed and that prompted the author to try to discover who the Melungeons really were. I ordered my copy of this book from amazon.com
So, if we get a blizzard - or even if we do not - I have plenty to read.
6 comments:
- Linda Lamb Monticelli said...
Brenda, Thanks for mentioning the new books that you recently purchased. Someone posted a message on one of the Rootsweb Lists about Melungeons in her family and then I saw your post about Lisa Alther's book, Kinfolks Falling Off the Family Tree (My Search for My Melungeon Ancestors). I bought a copy of Lisa's book and have just started reading it.
- March 7, 2008 at 3:11 PM
- Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG said...
Linda, that is a good book, but not nearly as informative as Brent Kennedy's book. If you haven't read his book, you might want to try it. It should be available at your local library.
- March 7, 2008 at 5:03 PM
- Linda Lamb Monticelli said...
Brenda, what is the title of the book by Brent Kennedy?
- March 7, 2008 at 5:59 PM
- Brenda Joyce Jerome, CG said...
Brent Kennedy's book is The Melungeons The Resurrection of a Proud People. Very interesting book, but not sure I agree with everything.
- March 7, 2008 at 6:26 PM
- History Chasers said...
Visit the Historical Melungeons Blog:
We would love to have you drop by.
- March 9, 2008 at 7:12 PM
- Linda Lamb Monticelli said...
I stumbled across this site today while searching through a South Carolina Genweb site and thought some of you might be interested, it is American Roma (Gypsy), Travellers, & "Others" at http://sciway3.net/clark/freemoors/index.html. They have the following groups listed at this website:
Roma (Gypsy), Traveller (Irish Travellers), Turks of Sumter Co., SC, SC Native Americans, Free Moors of SC, and Melungeons.
- March 10, 2008 at 7:10 PM


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The Slippery Slope Goes Vertical
In the Obama era, the slippery slope has gone vertical. Instead of "eventually," the feared extensions of government power come immediately.
When President Obama decided to convert George W. Bush's bailout of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler L.L.C. into effective government ownership, critics warned that this could lead to political intrusion into the management of automobile companies, with decisions being made for political instead of economic reasons. The companies would get less efficient. The government might try to preserve jobs or engage in political grandstanding rather than build sound companies that serve consumers - eventually.
But there was no "eventually" about it. Before he had even secured government control, Obama fired the chief executive officer of General Motors. He decided what the ownership structure of the companies should be. He insisted that the companies build "clean cars" rather than cars that consumers want to buy. And as soon as a deal was concluded, members of Congress started trying to block the closing of inefficient dealerships and to require the companies to buy their palladium in Montana, use unionized trucking companies, remove mercury from scrapped cars, and so on. Politics reared its ugly head in the first moments of government control.
Now we have the federal government's unprecedented intrusions into executive-pay decisions at seven bailed-out banks and automobile companies....
Read more at today's Philadelphia Inquirer.


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Is a new study of Medicaid a game changer?
On May 1, 2013, the New England Journal of Medicine published a landmark study with important implications for President Obama's health care law -- and, in a much less far-reaching way, some of our recent fact-checks.
The topic: Medicaid, the government-run health insurance program for the poor. Under Obama's law, states can get federal dollars to enroll their uninsured residents in Medicaid. Some politicians argue that taking the federal money now leaves the state on the hook for long-term fiscal commitments it can't afford.
On April 8, we fact-checked a claim by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, that went beyond the usual fiscal criticisms. "Expanding Medicaid," he said at a press conference, "will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable among us in Texas."
When we looked at the studies Cruz's office cited as support, we found a number of problems with his conclusion. On this evidence, we ruled it False.
The new study in the New England Journal of Medicine was published almost a month after our fact-check ran, and unlike the studies we evaluated initially, it was specifically designed to compare health outcomes for Medicaid patients against those who are uninsured.
Did the new study improve Cruz's case?
We should note that we evaluate claims based only on evidence known at the time. We don't go back and re-evaluate if new facts come to light later, because it doesn't make sense to give people credit for evidence they couldn't possibly have known about at the time.
In this case, though, we were curious about whether this study changed the debate on this important issue going forward. So we decided to take a fresh look.
The new paper represents the second phase of a study coauthored by Katherine Baicker of Harvard University and Amy N. Finkelstein of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 2008, Oregon expanded its Medicaid rolls, but only had enough funding to cover a portion of residents who wanted to sign up. To distribute spots in the program, officials set up a lottery.
The researchers compared 6,387 lottery winners to 5,842 who didn't get a slot, tracking factors such as blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, depression, and out-of-pocket medical spending.
The study produced mixed results. That has led both critics and advocates of expanding Medicaid to rush to portray the study's results as evidence for their side.
Supporters of expanding Medicaid are pointing to the findings that beneficiaries had less depression and more financial security. Catastrophic out-of-pocket medical expenditures, for example, were "nearly eliminated."
Opponents of expanding Medicaid focused on the paper's conclusion that the new coverage "generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes," including blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar.
We've seen a lot of thoughtful analysis of the findings from across the ideological spectrum, including pieces by Avik Roy, Tyler Cowen, Megan McArdle, Ray Fisman, Ashish Jha, and Austin Frakt. However, rather than analyze every aspect of the study, we will take a narrower approach: Would Cruz's original comment -- that "expanding Medicaid will worsen health care options for the most vulnerable" -- have been correct if this study had been published when he said it?
There's little question that the study was a disappointment to those who support the expansion of Medicaid. The Oregon study gives critics of the expansion much better evidence than they had previously to argue that expanding Medicaid will not necessarily produce actual health benefits.
It's true that depression decreased, a result that is good on its own, as well as a potentially positive factor on a patient's future physical health.
But the lack of clear and unmistakable improvements in three metrics that are signals of better health (blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar) was an unpleasant surprise to those who support expanding Medicaid.
Despite all this, the paper's findings don't support the claim Cruz made, that people actually fared worse under Medicaid. The study seemed to show that people didn't get much better -- not that they did any worse. (Cruz's office did not respond to an inquiry for this story.)
Even if you look at the statistically insignificant results, most of the measures moved in the right direction, which hardly provides clear evidence that things got "worse." All three blood pressure measures went in the right direction. Total cholesterol went up slightly, but this was balanced by an upward spike in "good cholesterol" and a decrease in the percentage of subjects with high cholesterol, both of which are the desired results. And blood sugar levels ticked up by a very small amount, but that was balanced by a drop in the percentage of participants who had high levels of blood sugar.
So, even the most negative reading of these results does not suggest that Medicaid patients became worse off in any consistent way. The results were, at worst, mixed -- better results for depression, no statistically significant improvement in several measurements of physical health."
"I think it would be fair to say that our study provides no evidence that Medicaid beneficiaries are worse off," Baicker, the study co-author, told PolitiFact. "It provides evidence that they are better off in some dimensions, but it fails to provide evidence that they are better off in other dimensions. However, in no dimension does it provide evidence that they are worse off." She added that the study found that beneficiaries did consume more health care, meaning that the program costs more money. "It's up to policy makers to weigh those costs against the benefits," she said.
Had the Oregon study been published before Cruz made his statement -- and had he voiced a less sweeping indictment of Medicaid -- he would have had a better shot at scoring well on the Truth-O-Meter. But he didn't. If he, or another politician, makes a different claim, we'd be open to checking it. But even if we were to rethink our ruling on Cruz's original comment, the new study gives us no reason to go higher than False.


text: Just a quick post today to announce that my Intro to Extreme Bead Embroidery tutorial is now available for sale on Amazon.com's Kindle Store and with a new low price. Click HERE to see.. This is the same PDF file that I sell at my Etsy shop, just converted to the Kindle format. I checked out the conversion on my Kindle Previewer, and it looks great on the Kindle Fire! This is my first experiment with selling on Amazon so any feedback you can provide would be most appreciated. I hope this will encourage even more people to try the art of bead embroidery:)


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I'm trying to figure out how to make sense of Google's Hot Searches in the United States. What's the big picture here? What does it all mean? What am I not learning? Why are we here? Here, as opposed to there. Google has its finger on the pulse of the universe, but I'm just not getting it. Tell me what YOU think. All this randomness is taxing my brain.
Lindsay Lohan, 100,000+ searches. Can't we all agree that we're glad she's not our daughter and move on? THIS GIRL NEEDS HELP. Haven't we watched too many young people die too soon? There is no good end to this one. In my opinion–not that you asked for it–we should put all the same energy we're obviously devoting to laughing (or crying) at LiLo into paying down our credit card debt with Rolling Jubilee. Seriously, let's help each other climb out of this financial quicksand.
Thursday Night Football, 100,000+ searches. Whatever.
Palestine, 50,000+ searches. OK, I guess there's half the interest in global affairs as there is in whether Lindsay Lohan and her bloated, distorted face goes to jail again.
Powerball Winner, 1,000,000+ searches. We all wanted to know who it was and direct hate his way because our dreams were smashed into one million little pieces.
Zig Ziglar, 100,000+ searches. He was a motivational speaker. I guess on the day he died, his "alarm clock" didn't ring. Google it, people.
I'm not interested in people who Google "lunar eclipse" so I'm gonna skip that one and move on to Jessica Simpson with 100,000+ searches. Is she pregnant again? Even I Googled that. I couldn't help myself. I wanted to see those pix of her at the airport with her fiancé (get married already, would ya? What are you waiting for?) Is that loose shirt hiding a baby bump? What has become of me that I've stooped so far below my intellectual potential that I searched the series of photos to see if I could detect a baby bump. I really did.
I don't know what it all means about the future of our country, but I'd hazard a guess that it means I have way too much free time on my hands. Raise your hand if you know who Honey Boo Boo is. If you do, you're worse off than I am.
P.S. And that's the way to incorporate all of the top SEO words in one blog. Thank you, thank you very much.
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Primedia President/CEO Craig Nickerson's Tradin' Paint In Fontana
Primedia's very own President and CEO Craig Nickerson braved the heat of the California Speedway as he participated in the California Classic Celebrity Media Challenge at the 2003 Inaugural California Classic Autofest in Fontana, California September 6th & 7th.
In support of the "Make A Wish Foundation," dozens of celebrities and several corporate CEOs strapped in to battle it out in 150-mph NASCAR race cars supplied by the Drivetech Racing School.
Craig definitely had his "game face" on as he headed out to the 2.5-mile banked oval. Going up against celebrities like Chris Titus, Ian Ziering, and Mickey Jones was only the beginning. The real challenge was going head to head for 10 laps against auto-industry heavies like Barry Meguiar, Chip Foose, and Boyd Coddington. Those guys really seemed to take this thing serious, which doesn't seem too far off due to their competitive business nature.
Although radio contact between the drivers and the driving school instructor kept the race clean (no one actually traded paint or threw their helmet into a competitor's race car), they were driving in excess of 150 mph in the straightaways. It's not an easy task with the triple-digit heat factor in the driver's cockpit.
After the race Craig Nickerson was asked how it felt. An exhausted Craig answered, "Unbelievable! Just unbelievable." I'm sure if I had let him catch his breath, I could have gotten a few more descriptive words about the adrenaline rush one gets behind the wheel of a 500hp race car. Not your average Sunday drive in a '32 highboy roadster.
During the post-race driver's meeting one of the Media Challenge racers was pointing out how "spent" he was after only 10 laps. "I can't believe the NASCAR guys do it for several hundred laps. Them boys are serious athletes." Although Craig didn't win the race, there was a large group of Primedia employees on hand to congratulate their "boss" on a job well-done.


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February 1, 2012
iFactor Consulting helps We Energies customers report streetlight outages
We Energies has introduced a new online tool for streetlight outage reporting and status updates. The tool, StreetLightOutages.com™ (SLO), was developed and implemented by iFactor Consulting. SLO provides a method for We Energies customers to easily locate streetlights by pole number, address, or general location. Streetlights owned by We Energies are displayed on a Microsoft Bing Maps platform, with each streetlight represented by a green icon. To submit a report, customers simply click on the icon and complete a short outage report. After the form is submitted, the streetlight icon on the map turns red, indicating that there is a known outage for the light and preventing submission of duplicate reports. After an outage report is submitted on the SLO portal, a ticket is automatically generated in We Energies internal work management system via a secure web service call. Once the light is repaired in We Energies system, another web service call automatically updates the light status on the SLO portal, providing a seamless automatic process from the customer all the way to the field crews and back. After the ticket is closed, the streetlight icon on the map becomes green again, indicating that the light is functioning properly. If the customer who reported the outage submitted an email address, they will receive a confirmation message indicating that the light has been repaired. "iFactor has offered our customers a convenient way to report streetlight outages," said Joan Shafer, senior vice president of customer service at We Energies. "We think our customers will really appreciate this online tool." About We Energies We Energies serves more than 1.1 million electric customers in Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula and more than 1 million natural gas customers in Wisconsin. We Energies is the trade name of Wisconsin Electric Power Company and Wisconsin Gas LLC, the principal utility subsidiaries of Wisconsin Energy Corporation (NYSE: WEC). Visit the We Energies website at we-energies.com. Learn more about Wisconsin Energy Corporation by visiting wisconsinenergy.com. About iFactor Consulting iFactor Consulting is the leading provider of intelligent web and mobile solutions designed exclusively for the utility industry. Their integrated suite includes industry leading interactive outage maps, smartphone applications offering complete customer service, proactive and interactive utility notifications via text, mobile apps, voice & e-mail and an interactive street light outage solution. They also offer consulting services on outage management and outage communications. iFactor solutions enhance the overall customer experience and fully integrate with utility systems to offer low cost self-service. For More Information iFactor Consulting Contact: Jamie Downing 800-631-9839 email@example.com


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An academic analysis concludes the "pivot" or "rebalance" in US relations with the Asia-Pacific region has generally overlooked Taiwan.
Beginning in 2008, Chinese and US leaders have agreed with President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) reversal of Taipei's past intense competition with China in favor of policy reassuring Beijing, it says.
The analysis, titled Balancing Acts: The US Rebalance and Asia-Pacific Stability, was published this week by the George Washington University's Sigur Center for Asian Studies.
In the view of Chinese and US leaders, the past five years of stability and growing exchanges across the Taiwan Strait stand "in favorable contrast" with repeated crises in the previous decade, the analysis says.
"Today, Taiwan remains an exception to the turmoil along China's eastern rim, in the Korean Peninsula, and the East China Sea and the South China Sea," it says.
It says that neither Beijing nor Washington nor Taipei sees their interests served by new tensions in cross-strait relations.
"Against this background, the US rebalance has generally avoided explicit reference to Taiwan," the analysis says.
It quotes Ma as telling US National Security Adviser James Jones in June last year that Taiwan not only welcomed the rebalancing, but also hoped to further strengthen its interaction with the US on the economic, trade, security and cultural fronts.
"But Taiwan has not strongly associated with the rebalance," the analysis says.
Because Taiwan has the same claims as China to disputed territories in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, it has adopted "sometimes confrontational" policies toward Japan and South China Sea disputants.
These policies "exacerbate tensions and work against US efforts to calm regional tensions," the analysis says.
The 50-page report was written by four George Washington University faculty members: Robert Sutter, Michael Brown, Mike Mochizuki and Deepa Ollapally, and a student, Timothy Adamson.
"Although commentators in China and some observers elsewhere have suggested that the rebalance was designed to contain China, this is a simplistic reading of the new policy," the analysis says.
"In geostrategic terms, the rebalance is the [US President Barack] Obama administration's grand strategy for US foreign policy," it says.
According to the analysis, the rebalance has more promise for advancing US interests, especially economic interests, than US policy efforts in most other parts of the world. Looking at the prospects for US-China relations, the analysis says that "a happy ending is possible," but not guaranteed.
The new US policy is based on the need for strategic reassurance in the face of a rising and increasingly assertive China, it says.
"The rebalance is also driven by a desire to reassure US allies, friends, and other countries in the region that the US has not been exhausted after a decade of war, that it has not been weakened by economic and political problems at home and that it is not going to disengage from Asia-Pacific affairs," it says.
According to the analysis, Obama is himself a "driving force" behind the rebalance. As a result, recent changes in the staff of the US National Security Council will not have "significant impact" on the new policy.
Looking ahead, the analysis says, it remains to be seen if China can sustain a more moderate stance toward US policy.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – An impressive 13-run inning in game two helped Georgia College baseball (27-18, 17-9 PBC) to a doubleheader split with Columbus State University (28-18, 14-13 PBC) Saturday at John Kurtz Field. The Bobcats rebounded from a 7-6 loss for an 18-2 victory taking the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) series 2-1.
Game one was a wild one, as CSU rallied with three runs in the top of the ninth to take a 7-6 win. GC was top-heavy in game one, as the top-four slots went a combined 8-for-15 with six runs and five RBI.
Shortstop Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) hit a home run and a double as part of a 2-for-4 game, scoring three runs and driving in one. Both Travis Echols (Suwanee, Ga.) and Cody Maas (Alpharetta, Ga.) were 2-for-4 with two RBI, Echols adding a run scored. GC tallied five extra-base hits among their 11 safeties.
Lefty John Clark (Duluth, Ga.) took his first loss of his GC career (1-1), working two innings and fanning five.
Game two was close until the third inning. Up 2-0, the Bobcats exploded for 13 runs, sending 19 batters to the plate and ripping 13 hits in the frame. Both first baseman Karsten Strieby (Blair, Was.) and third baseman Echols hit three-run home runs in the inning, finishing with four RBI each in that frame alone.
Lost in all of that impressive offense was an absolute gem by Matt Kaplan (Alpharetta, Ga.) striking out nine Cougars over six shutout frames, scattering four hits and three walks. CSU managed just two runners reaching third base on Kaplan (1-2) in his best outing as a Bobcat.
Strieby finished 3-for-5 with four RBI and three runs, while Echols was 2-for-2 with five RBI and three runs. Maas and second baseman Jeremy Donaldson (Winder, Ga.) each had two hits and two RBI. Centerfielder Patrick Daugherty (Kennesaw, Ga.) had a 4-for-6 game, plating one and scoring twice.
The win puts the Bobcats at 17-9 in league play, a .654 win percentage, good for third in the league overall. GC owns the top slot in the PBC West, and with today's victory has clinched one of the top two spots in the division for the final standings.
The Bobcats are back in action Friday, April 27 at 7 p.m., hosting No. 5 Armstrong, as the top team in the PBC West hosts the top team in the PBC East to finish off the regular season.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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River Planners and Advocates Come Together Around the Central Reach
More than 70 people participated in a two-day open workshop focused on improving the Willamette riverfront area in the Central City on Dec. 4 and 5. The results of the facilitated discussions and open houses will help staff develop a Central Reach Urban Design Concept, which will be incorporated into the Central City 2035 planning effort and the update to the Willamette Greenway Plan.
If you weren't able to attend the workshop and would like to learn more or provide comments, the presentation, maps and workshop questionnaires are available on the Workshop Summary Page. Community comments are welcome through December 20.
Based on feedback from each session, it's clear that Portlanders want to see more activities, uses and people engaged in the riverfront area. An overarching theme is to increase human access to the water for recreation, transportation and enjoyment. People view Tom McCall Waterfront Park as a major place for transformation. Think small commercial uses, cultural and historical attractions, and recreation, including an urban beach for swimming. On the east side, the OMSI area has great potential to be an emerging waterfront district with the new light rail station and pedestrian/bike bridge over the river. Expanding this area with new cafes, cultural and historical attractions like a maritime museum, a boat school and increased boat access could make this a popular destination for the region.
Participants also talked about making the Downtown riverfront area more recognizable as the city's primary gathering place. As such the area could bring people together through a variety of land- and water-based activities that reflect the history, culture and natural environment. Commercial boating would become more prolific with cruise, excursion and river transit opportunities converging downtown. Clusters of uses such as retail, recreation, entertainment and other businesses could form destination points that add vibrancy to the waterfront. Key focus areas include the Rose Quarter/Convention Center, OMSI and the light rail station under construction, and Waterfront Park.
Maintaining and improving habitat areas for fish, birds and other wildlife by enhancing river banks with native vegetation and maintaining in-water shallow habitat is a priority, especially in key areas in the Central Reach. The Hawthorne Bowl riverfront area could be reconfigured to support both swimming and fish migration habitat because these activities occur at different times of the year. Also, creating habitat wildlife corridors throughout the Central City will allow birds and other species to safely move through downtown and benefit humans. Finally, Waterfront Park could be a place where part of the seawall is replaced with a steps lined with native vegetation down to the river for easy access to swim, paddle or simply splash in the water.
The Willamette River's Central Reach is poised to become much more of a playground for all Portlanders and visitors to the Central City. Find out more by visiting the project website or contact Debbie Bischoff for more information.


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KiwiSaver's fifth birthday passed by relatively quietly on July 1: no fireworks; no party; no presents.
Behind the scenes, however, there is plenty of action in the sector as impending regulatory changes and corporate machinations come to bear.
Here's just a few items of note gleaned from official documents released in the last couple of months:
* Fisher Funds bumps up its monthly membership fee from $2 to $3 just as the roughly 90,000 former Huljich members officially transferred to the scheme;
* The Brook Asset Management KiwiSaver scheme launches a new Conservative fund option;
* KiwiBank's recently-acquired jewel, the Gareth Morgan KiwiSaver scheme, tacks on a Cash option just weeks after creating a Cash Plus fund;
* ASB Group Investments (which effectively runs the bank's KiwiSaver scheme) Blair Turnbull replaces Catherine McGrath on the board. The change follows the ASB's "disestablishment" of its Customer, Markets and Productions division, transforming it into something called Wealth, which Turnbull now heads;
* The exclusive Brethren KiwiSaver fund (known as the BCF scheme) admits its plan to invest in Brethren-owned assets may face a hurdle. Under the Financial Markets Conduct legislation, due to take effect next year, the BCF may, after a three-year transition period, "require a special-purpose exemption by the Financial Markets Authority to invest in businesses owned by, or mortgages issued to, Brethren Christian Fellowship members (to the extent that those investments together exceed 5 per cent of Scheme assets)".
* AMP, now the proud owner of two default schemes, completes the revamp of its Axa KiwiSaver products. Starting in May, AMP began moving the Axa funds from the existing arrangements "to an alternative range of wholesale unit trusts developed and managed by AMP Capital". As part of the changeover, the various Axa investment portfolios are now ruled under a single trust structure. According to the new prospectus, "in the unlikely event that the assets attributable to a particular Portfolio are insufficient to meet the liabilities attributable to that Portfolio, the assets of any other Portfolio may be called on to meet those liabilities in such equitable manner as the Manager, with approval of the Trustee, sees fit".
With a significant deadline looming on September 30, when all KiwiSaver schemes must comply with new rules requiring the appointment of an independent corporate trustee, further ructions are joyfully anticipated by journalists.


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McKinney, Texas-based MCD Innovations announced that it has added the first in a series of new decorator style Night Shade fabrics for its American Duo Day/Night Shade product line.
According to a press release, the first new fabric, the Deco line, comes in four colors – white, ivory, sand and beige – and is now available at no additional charge on the American Duo product line in an array of 100% light-blocking vinyl fabrics.
MCD said that the polyester Deco fabrics "provide an appearance of depth and softness to complement any RV décor," as the 100% light-blocking fabrics will look lighter or darker with subtle lighting changes within the RV. Customers will also appreciate the easy care of these new fabrics and the fact that they are fire-retardant.
In addition, the new Deco line of fabrics will substantially reduce heat build-up while blocking 100% of the UV rays, and are a perfect partner to the MCD proprietary Clearview II Day Screen material.
The American Duo Shade System is found as original equipment on most of the major brands of Class A, B, and C motorized RVs as well as many fifth-wheel brands.
For more information visit www.mcdinnovations.com or call (800) 804-1757.


text: has anyone ever been diagnosed with Coccydynia/coccygodenia? I've had very bad pain around my colon/rectum since the summer of 2004. Two general doctors, a neurologist and a gastroenterologist haven't been able to do anything about it. Colonoscopy revealed minor proctitis and grade 1 hemorrhoids, the treatments did nothing for the pain. Spinal cord MRI didn't show anything. I've tried neurontin (900 mg per day), lyrica (300 mg per day), neither made any difference. On Friday I went to a second gastroenterologist, he believes I damaged my coccyx somehow. He told me the name of the condition he believed was causing the pain, but I couldn't quite understand the name because of his heavy Russian accent. Ended up showing me the word coccyx in a medical book. He believed my only options were pain medications which would eventually wear off and leave me in more pain then I'm in now. Or, they could do a procedure to block the nerves, but that would only offer relief for about six months and it would mess up my bowel program. Did a search on Google for coccyx pain and Coccydynia seems to be what comes up most. I believe coccygodenia is what the gastroenterologist was trying to say. If anybody has been diagnosed with Coccydynia, coccygodenia or any kind of pain coming from a damaged tailbone, I'd appreciate any advice. C5, incomplete, 12 years post.