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The end-of-March deadline for consumers was set by the federal health insurance overhaul law
As the deadline for residents to buy private health insurance or face a penalty approached Monday, Pender County Department of Social Services workers faced an increased workload.
The end-of-March deadline for consumers was set by the federal health insurance overhaul law. Enrollments in North Carolina ranked fifth in the nation by the end of February, and shopping picked up in the final week, according to Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, one of two companies selling policies on a statewide marketplace.
Applicants could apply directly at HealthCare.gov, and those who qualify for Medicaid must be processed through the local DSS offices.
Pender County workers had worked on 22 applications through 2 p.m. Monday. On a typical day, the workers would have processed about eight, said Pender County DSS Director Reta Shiver.
People could comply with the insurance mandate if they are covered by an employer or a government program, of if they buy a policy directly from an insurer. Working through the federal marketplace – North Carolina was one of 36 states that refused to set up its own exchange – was necessary to qualify for subsidies. More than nine out of 10 people who enrolled by March 1, the latest period for which details were available, qualified for subsidies.
But thousands of others missed the deadline. They either didn't know about the requirement to buy health insurance, couldn't afford it despite the subsidies, or rejected being told to buy coverage.
North Carolina's reported enrollment so far has outstripped federal projections in advance of October's start of the open enrollment period. Those projections were for 191,000 people to enroll by March 31. By March 1, just over 200,000 people North Carolina residents had selected a health insurance policy, more than half the nearly 391,000 eligible to enroll in a marketplace plan, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Final numbers may not be announced for weeks. Spokesmen for Blue Cross and a division of Aetna, the only other company selling policies on the exchange to North Carolina consumers, declined to describe the scope of their business.
New Hanover and Brunswick counties did not report an overload of Medicaid applications Monday, but like all DSS facilities across the state, they had a different problem.
Monday also was the next deadline for North Carolina to clear its backlog of food stamp applications and recertifications. The state met a Feb. 10 deadline imposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but the March 31 loomed. If the state failed to meet the requirements, it would receive a formal warning from the USDA and be given 30 days to rectify the issue.
For much of Monday, DSS employees were unable to access NC FAST, the system that has been blamed for causing the backlog. When it did come online around 2 p.m., workers still faced glitches. The system, when fully functional, will cut down on duplication of data entry and will determine eligibility for several government programs simultaneously.
The system was updated over the weekend with revised federal poverty guidelines, said Kevin Howell, N.C. Department of Health and Human Services spokesman. "Unfortunately, the NC FAST system is experiencing latency issues due to the updates," he said via email.
Avril Pinder, New Hanover County assistant manager, said DSS employees were prepared to work until 7 p.m. Monday to clear the outstanding food stamp cases. The cases could not have been cleared before Monday, Pinder said, because applicants had until March 31 to submit information. Pinder said as of 4:30 p.m. Monday, New Hanover County had about 135 food stamp cases remaining to be cleared.
"That's doable if the system stays up," she said.
And she convinced herself that it would. "I'm always the optimist. It will be fine," she said.
This story contains information from The Associated Press.
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 29 (UPI) -- U.S. film company Eastman Kodak Co. said it had reached a deal to swap its camera film business for a $2.8 billion debt owed to a pension fund.
If the bankruptcy court approves the deal, the U.K. Kodak Pension Plan, to which Kodak owes $2.8 billion, would do what it wants with its "personalized imaging ... (and) document imaging," businesses, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Kodak, which filed for bankruptcy in January 2012, would then be able to emerge from bankruptcy. The Journal said the debt to the pension fund in Britain was the final major hurdle Kodak needed to clear before it could emerge from bankruptcy, reinventing itself as a commercial printing and servicing company.
Kodak shut down its desktop printer business in September.
The company also has a deal, valued at $210 million, to sell its document imaging unit to Brother Industries Ltd. But the court has yet to approve of that agreement.
Earlier, Kodak sold 1,100 patents to a business group that includes Apple Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp.
Kodak sold the patent portfolio for $527 million. But the deal also included the companies agreeing to drop legal challenges against Kodak.
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Let me just be clear that all this quasi-racist name-calling and stereotyping over the last few pages is not useful or helpful. Nobody likes being pigeon-holed into a cultural stereotype or dismissed categorically. If it's too difficult to do analysis without resorting to this sort of biased judging, then perhaps it's better to stick to the news. This is an important global issue, and we don't need it to be bogged-down by unneeded racial/cultural prejudice.
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Anyway, it's really depressing to see the consistent stupidity from NK when they keep trying pushing their luck again. The old saying still holds: you play with fire, you'll end up getting burned.
They dig themselves in the hole, so no one should be surprised if the whole world gives them the middle finger even when the need for aid becomes a real emergency.
|2013-04-08, 02:24
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Hmmm... And I'm suppose to fly back to Manila by the 10th or so.
Oh well hopefully I'll survive.
Also word from people in Pyongyang said that life is normal there like those from the tourism industry...
|2013-04-08, 06:00
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NK pulling out workers from joint industrial zone and suspending operations there
2 days left till the 10th.
|2013-04-08, 06:41
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Even with all this buster, I don't think that NK is stupid enough to go to war. They shouldn't be quite that stupid...
Sucks to be the guys in SK's military conscription army when they do though. The thing about conscripted armies, you can never be quite sure on the quality outside of training. I mean, who wants to die when you are forced into the army.
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Kim is playing hard to set the 7th Fleet on them while he flees, or a conflict to teach his generals a lesson that they need him as much as he needs them. But the Americans aren't interested in facing China one more time because they last time they did, China singlehandedly beat back the entire NATO.
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Conscription can be a bit finicky sometimes, but there IS the extra motivation factor when you're homeland is under direct and imminent threat. If the Kim's go and start mass shelling Seoul where allot of these recruits undoubtedly come from, it'd be very unwise to hope that the South Korean conscripts get tired of fighting.
If anything, these hostilities are likely to hasten South Korea's adoption of more advanced weapon systems. Like the K21 AFV and the K2 Main Battle tank. Those vehicles have a number of characteristics that'd make them more advantageous to fighting in mountain combat than some of the older ROK kit (like the K21 having air burst 40mm rounds, and the K2 being extremely mobile over rough terrain, and having advanced missle defense systems).
Also, if this article is accurate, there's one group that's very happy about these current tensions.
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Seriously. 15,000 people. I doubt even one of them had a rifle, probably just cooks and cleaners.
Mind you, not to imply a full logistic crew like cooks nurses are unimportant, but to claim NATO fought North Korean+ Chinese is a joke.
Edit: To be specific, European NATO countries.
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I am glad I carry a machine gun to stand a better chance.
Although it might be interesting to note that the South Koreans may not have a similar mentality of defending their home in this case; my friend there, a border MP during his days, told me that there is some sort of a mass evacuation plan for women/children/old southwards should the North Koreans invade; there is enough gun stores in every state to do a mass mobilisation of up to 75% of the conscripted population within half-an-hour.
And if they don't, they would be dragged out of their homes. It is considered treason not to mobilise at the moment, and you know the standard punishment for such treason - getting shot dead in front of your family members.
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I'd imagine they would have a lot of reserve bases around the country to store all the arms the reserve soldiers would normally used when called up. Plus maybe a store of the older weapons used over the years to arm everyone else.
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If news about another NK nuclear text coming up is true, I am prepared to declare nothing will happen.
Put simply, if NK was prepared for real war, they wouldn't be wasting the limited materials to detonate another test nuke. They would have spared it for either offence or defence.
The fact that they are doing another test detonation is proof that they know they aren't going to do anything at all. That they are not really prepared for war in the immediate future.
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ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 19, 2012)—Little Emily, with David Flores aboard, altered tactics and went straight to the lead and never looked back at 5-1, taking Friday's featured $53,000 Modesto Purse at Santa Anita by a half-length, getting 1 1/8 miles on turf in 1:47.33.
Although Flores had taken her off the pace in the one mile turf Swingtime Stakes on Oct. 6, he decided a change was in order in the Modesto.
Little Emily, a 4-year-old Kentucky-bred filly by 2004 Santa Anita Derby winner Castledale, carved out fractions of 23.38, 47.58, 1:11.06 and 1:35.06. She paid $13.40, $5.20 and $2.40. With the winner's share of $31,800, she boosted her earnings to $113,120, from a record of 12-4-
Trained by Melody Conlon and owned by Penley Leonard, Little Emily was previously trained by Leonard's husband, Robert.
"We had been stabled next to each other at Hollywood Park," explained Conlon. "They go to New Mexico every winter, so Bob turned the filly over to me right before her race at Pomona (a head victory at Fairplex Park in the Las Madrinas Handicap on Sept. 22). "She showed a lot of speed that day and we knew she could go to the front. They left her alone out there and she ran great. We'll give her the winter off and bring her back in the spring."
I Dazzle and Mike Smith finished second, two lengths ahead of 1-2 favorite Camelia Rose and Mario Gutierrez, who never threatened from off the pace.
I Dazzle paid $4.20 and $2.40. Camelia Rose paid $2.10 to show.
Santa Anita will offer a nine-race program on Saturday, highlighted by the Grade III, $100,000 Senator Ken Maddy Stakes for fillies and mares at 6 ½ furlongs down the track's hillside turf course.
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With the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and theHTC One Max, the smartphone war appears to have moved on from processor cores and camera megapixels and into the realm of screen inches and pixel density.
It's not what your phone does, it's how at how large a scale it does it, and how sharply.
Ratings in depth
This trend towards the pocket-filling may run counter to the whole concept of a "mobile" phone, but that's to misunderstand what customers these days want from their phones (or at least think they want).
People have the taste for HD films, uncompromized web browsing and expansive gaming on the go. They don't want mobile phones, they want mobile tablets.
Android has several "phablet" champions, including the ones mentioned above. Now here's the Nokia Lumia 1520 to provide the first large-screen Windows Phone 8 flagship.
In fact, scratch that: the Nokia Lumia 1520 is the new Windows Phone 8 flagship, full stop.
It's evident in the spec sheet alone. This is the first Windows Phone 8 device with a Full HD 1080p display. It's also the first to run on a quad-core processor.
We're not just talking about any HD display either. We're talking about a 6-inch 1920 x 1080 IPS LCD screen (producing 367ppi) with Nokia's ClearBlack and super-sensitive technologies. The former means that you can see it better when outside, and the latter means you can use it with your gloves on - two immensely practical features that tend to get brushed over too quickly.
While we're at it, this isn't just any quad-core processor, either. This Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chip, clocked at 2.2GHz and backed by a healthy 2GB of RAM, is the most powerful quad-core chip currently on the market. It's the same processor as can be found in the Galaxy Note 3 and the Google Nexus 5.
With these two components alone, Nokia has lifted the Windows Phone platform to specification parity with its Android rivals after three solid years of trailing firmly in its wake. It's quite a big achievement.
There's that word again. Big. The Nokia Lumia 1520 is big in every way. Opening the box drew a genuine gasp from this typically stony-faced writer, who moments before had been typing out an email on his teeny-tiny iPhone 5S.
Initially, the Nokia Lumia 1520 looks ridiculous next to Apple's stubbornly compact phone. After a few hours' company with the 1520, you might well find that the iPhone 5S looks and feels like a toy.
That's not to say that we prefer the Lumia 1520 as a day-to-day tool. Let's be straight - it's too big for most general users.
At 6.41 x 3.36in, it will slip into the back pocket of your jeans, but only if it's that pair you bought in preparation for the forthcoming festive pig-out. And there won't be space in there for anything else.
In fact, now might be the time to acquaint yourself with a good tailor, because you'll either need to reinforce those pockets or repair them. At 206g, this is one hefty piece of kit.
To place the Lumia 1520's size and weight in context, it's a good 40g heavier than the Galaxy Note 3 with its similarly sized 5.7-inch display, and is a whole centimeter taller. It's also 6mm wider.
Having said all that, the Nokia Lumia 1520 feels surprisingly sleek in the hand, and that's partly down to its 8.7mm thickness. Compared to other Lumia phones like the Nokia Lumia 1020 or the Nokia Lumia 925, it's proportionally flatter.
Even the 20MP PureView camera barely breaks the rear contour with its subtle blister shape, unlike the angry carbuncle on Nokia's last phone, the Lumia 1020.
Then there's Nokia's customary high-class build quality. We've said it before, but Nokia is the only other smartphone manufacturer out there capable of rivaling Apple for strong, distinctive design.
The Lumia 1520 continues Nokia's predilection for unibody polycarbonate designs. This means that it's essentially carved out of a single solid chunk of posh plastic. If you've never held a Nokia Lumia device before, then think of last year's HTC One X and you'll have an idea of how it feels.
We didn't dare put it to the test, but the Lumia 1520 feels like it would survive its share of drops, and certainly a little rough and tumble - although its sharply pointed corners are asking to be dinged, and it doesn't use the very latest version of toughened Gorilla Glass.
There's a slight ridge where the display meets the chassis. When Nokia introduced this design with the Nokia Lumia 800, its display melted into its body, which added an extra feel of class. It's a shame that's not been included here.
Curiously, after the flamboyant flourishes witnessed elsewhere (especially in the shocking yellow of our test model), the Nokia Lumia 1520's physical buttons seem almost coy. They're practically flush with the chassis along the right hand side - even the two-stage physical camera shutter button barely raises its head.
This helps with the ergonomics of this unwieldy device, but doesn't help when you're fumbling for the volume controls in the dark.
On the opposite side of the device you have the microSD card slot and the SIM slot. The former is in addition to the 32GB of internal memory, raising the possibility of a whopping 96GB of storage.
The latter accepts a nanoSIM, which is even smaller than the micro SIMs found in previous Nokia phones. It's the same standard used by Apple, and it serves to free up a few valuable millimeters of space for other internal components. Although we doubt that the Lumia 1520's innards are exactly struggling for air.
In summary, the Nokia Lumia 1520 is certainly striking, but we wouldn't want to be struck with one. You're getting a lot of phone here for your $749 (around £460 / AUS$775). An awful lot.


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The Bristol County District Attorney's Office handed down the third of three guilty verdicts Wednesday to the last of three murder defendants involved in the 2010 stabbing death of Taunton teen Tigan Hollingsworth.
FALL RIVER — The Bristol County District Attorney's Office handed down the third of three guilty verdicts Wednesday to the last of three murder defendants involved in the 2010 stabbing death of Taunton teen Tigan Hollingsworth.
The jury in Fall River Superior Court took only three hours to convict Etnid Lopez, formerly of Paull Street, of stabbing Hollingsworth at least a dozen times on the night of June 25, 2010.
Lopez's then 20-year-old brother, Jean Carlos "J.C" Lopez, was convicted of first-degree murder in December 2013 and was sentenced to life without parole.
Their uncle, Erving "Burd" Cruz, who was 25 when Hollingsworth was murdered, was convicted in April 2013 of second-degree murder and sentenced to serve 15 years to life.
Hollingsworth was pummeled and stabbed to death behind a house at 148 Weir St., after the Lopez brothers and Cruz chased him from the nearby Grampy's convenience store.
Lopez, now 22, was convicted of first-degree murder based on extreme atrocity or cruelty. He will be sentenced by Judge Robert Kane Thursday afternoon in Fall River Superior Court.
A first-degree murder conviction in Massachusetts carries a life sentence.
Defense attorney J. Drew Segadelli said he was "dismayed" with the jury's verdict but also "confident" in his belief that he'd presented the best possible defense.
"They (the jury) did not take ample time to weigh and evaluate the photo surveillance evidence," said Segadelli, a partner with Fagan, Goldrick & Segadelli.
Assistant District Attorneys Karen O'Sullivan and Stephen Nadeau convinced jurors it was Lopez who wielded the knife, which police said was eventually recovered from a storm drain at School and Grant streets.
Segadelli had argued that the killer was former Taunton resident Jared Brown-Garnham, who, in December 2013, was shot to death by a Pennsylvania state trooper after abducting his girlfriend's 8-month-old daughter and ramming a security gate at Pittsburgh International Airport.
Brown-Garnham grabbed the baby after an argument with his girlfriend, who police said was driving him to a bus station to come to Fall River to testify at the trial of Jean Carlos Lopez.
Brown-Garnham testified at the Cruz trial that Etnid Lopez had bragged about stabbing Hollingsworth. But Brown-Garnham alternately said his brother, Jai Brown-Garnham, who testified this week, eventually claimed he had stabbed the victim to death.
Segadelli claimed surveillance video from three cameras at Grampy's did not prove that Lopez, who was seen chasing Hollingsworth around a gas pump island, was holding a knife.
Eyewitness accounts, however, refuted that assertion.
Nadeau called text messages sent by Lopez the day after the killing "damning." Among those was a message stating he didn't want anyone else to "get in trouble for my (expletive)."
Nadeau also told the jury it didn't make sense for Lopez to have claimed he began chasing after Hollingsworth but soon became "mad tired" and simply stopped shortly after leaving the viewing range of the store's exterior security cameras.
And he said if the late Brown-Garnham had been the killer, it would have been illogical for him to have led police to the murder weapon.
Police say the woman driving the car with Lopez left the murder scene and stopped on School Street, so that Lopez's girlfriend — who later was given immunity against charges of witness intimidation in exchange for testimony — could toss the weapon into a storm drain.
Segadelli said police were remiss for never seriously considering the late Brown-Garnham a suspect, despite him shearing off his hair, burning his clothes and leaving the state shortly after the Hollingsworth murder.
Still images showed the two Lopez men and Cruz coming out of separate cars and confronting Hollingsworth, who was standing near the front door of Grampy's.
The victim and Etnid Lopez, according to testimony, had a long history of bad blood going back at least a couple of years.
It also came out at the trial that Lopez and his family might have wanted revenge for a prior assault on Cruz by Hollingsworth and another six or seven young men.
One witness told jurors she heard a "horrific scream" accompanied by a slapping sound, which Nadeau said was the "sound of that knife being plunged in and out of Tigan Hollingsworth's body" by Lopez.
Witnesses, although they did have a view to the actual 11:40 p.m. beating and stabbing, also testified hearing voices asking "Did you get him?" and "Yeah, I got him."
The commonwealth claimed all three defendants participated in a joint venture to commit a felony.
"Either he did it or knew what was going on, but he was part of it," Nadeau said of Lopez.
During a police interview recorded by Taunton police and shown to jurors, Lopez, who was being shown live footage of himself from surveillance camera, appeared relaxed and at times almost bored.
When police asked if he could identify Hollingsworth, he said he knew him casually as Jeremy. Lopez also expressed surprise when he saw Brown-Garnham get out of same car he himself had exited a few minutes before.
"Oh, I didn't know Jon was in the car; he's like my best friend," said Lopez, who added that he didn't know his friend's last name.
Authorities say the Hollingsworth killing was a happenstance encounter turned bad.
The woman driving the car containing Lopez, his girlfriend, who is also mother to his child, and Brown-Garnham was, they said, searching for her son — who was on probation and was supposed to have left the Paull Street party in time to avoid violating curfew.
Police said the group didn't know Hollingsworth was hanging out at Grampy's. But after words were exchanged, including an insult tossed by the victim at Lopez's girlfriend, a call was made and another car with more men showed up, which in turn led to the chase and murder.
District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter, in a statement, praised the efforts of O'Sullivan, Nadeau, state police Detective Chad Laliberte and Taunton Detective Susan Dykas.


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New computer toy
Dennis and the kids got me a little Vupoint film and slide scanner for Christmas and I've been playing with it for a couple of days.
I have about 150-200 slides from our school teaching days in Bolivia and I'm looking forward to scanning them. I already have prints of most of the negatives I own, but I'm sure I'll play with negative scanning too.
I have mixed feelings about the scanner. It seems to do fairly well on a typical image with scenery, but it loses all the detail in any large light areas. The adjustments I can make don't have much effect.
How can I complain too much, when I've created a number of acceptable digital images of slides that I haven't viewed in years?! However, it is frustrating to look at a perfectly good image through the viewfinder and then be unable to transfer what I see.
The scanner came with a program called Photo Impressions 6, but I am experimenting with scanning the images into some other image processing programs.
Here's one of the slides I scanned tonight. Dennis took this photo of me in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in 1981. If I remember correctly, there was a monument on this hilltop to the brave women of Cochabamba who defended the city against attack when all their men were doing battle elsewhere.
I'm not sure if this was before or after someone tried to cut into my purse with a razor blade at La Cancha, the huge, crowded open market. Fortunately, the purse was made of heavy leather with lots of seams, and the thief couldn't make a big enough hole to get anything out. I didn't feel the attack, and I was shocked when I saw the slashes.


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Come to northeastern Massachusetts and southeastern New Hampshire for great winter birding and a chance to compete with other birders. The Superbowl of Birding is a unique twelve-hour marathon birding competition to find the greatest number of species and to earn the greatest number of points based on the rarity of the birds recorded. Strategy and planning are essential in order to win this competition! Sponsored by Joppa Flats Education Center, and Zeiss.
The competition is designed to encourage birders of all ages and abilities to participate. The Fledgling Award competition is for birders ages 12 and under. The NewBies Award is for birders ages 18 and under. Adults can compete for prizes in eight other categories, including our top prize, the Zeiss Joppa Cup. The Superbowl of Birding XIV is your chance to enjoy spectacular winter birding in one of the best locations in the eastern United States, meet other birders, and show just how good you and your team really are.
The event consists of activities targeted for all levels of birders. Among ten categories of prizes:
- The Zeiss Joppa Cup: Awarded to the team that collects the most points overall
- Director's Award: Greatest Number of Species
- Essex County Excels Award: Most points in Essex County
- Rockingham County Award: Most points in Rockingham County
- Parker River NWR Award: Most points on the refuge
- Sitting Duck Award: Award for the greatest number of species tallied from a fixed point
- Seekers Award: Award for the first team to complete the special Seekers checklist
- Fledgling Award: Award for the first team to complete the special Fledgling checklist
- NewBies Award: Award for the greatest number of points tallied by any team with 2 or more members 18 years of age or younger
- Lifer Award: Participant who sees the most new life birds during the competition
The registration fee includes the post-competition pizza party and prizes. For registration materials, rules, and information, please go to The Mass Audubon Superbowl Page or call 978-462-9998.
- Registration is required.
- A parent or guardian must accompany children.
- Suitable for Children 6-12.
- Minimum age: 6 years.
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Tina Turner wants to become a Swiss citizen, and love has everything to do with it.
If you've been wondering what the iconic diva has been up to lately, she's been living in Kuesnacht, a Zurich suburb, since 1995.
A Swiss paper wrote Friday that the 73-year-old had been granted citizenship, according to the Associated Press. The Nutbush, Tenn.-born singer has passed a local civics test and interview.
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"I'm very happy in Switzerland and I feel at home here.... I cannot imagine a better place to live," Turner said in Blick, a German newspaper.


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Maine GOP Apparently Believes That Playing World Of Warcraft Makes You Unfit For Office
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Lachowicz uses salty language in some of the comments, but someone needs to sit the Maine GOP down and explain the difference between fantasy and reality. Every day, millions of people engage in simulated video game violence without committing any real-world violence. By suggesting a World of Warcraft hobby should disqualify someone for office—and implying that voters are too dumb to tell the difference between virtual and real violence—the party is only embarrassing itself.Later, a spokesman tried to defend the flier, arguing that it raised questions about her work ethic. How? Well, state GOP spokesperson David Sorenson used "the number of hours most World of Warcraft gamers spend playing the game (22.7 per week, on average) and the number it must have taken her to reach such a high level" as some sort of proof that her work ethic is problematic. First of all, using the average amount of time someone plays WoW is meaningless in looking at how much any individual plays. Also, isn't achieving a high level a sign of a strong work ethic?
Once again, Lee's response is perfect:
It's worth noting that the average American watches more than 30 hours of television per week. Many other Americans spend their evenings and weekends at the golf course. Yet it's hard to imagine anyone suggesting that devoting 22 hours per week to those hobbies made a candidate too lazy to hold elected office.I realize it's election season, and with that comes really, really dumb campaign ideas from nearly every political party and/or candidate, but it's difficult to see how this particular strategy is good for anyone -- especially if you want younger people to vote for you. The younger generation tends to respect and look up to gamer politicians. Attacking them for doing something that millions of people enjoy just doesn't seem particularly smart.


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Apr 05, 2011
Skyline Releases Men's Tennis Report #5
- Joseph Falcetta named to Honor Roll -
Clifton Park, N.Y. - The Skyline Conference released the fifth Men's Tennis report for the 2011 season this afternoon, including Player of the Week, Rookie of the Week, Honor Roll and Conference statistics.
Freshman Joseph Falcetta (Deer Park, N.Y.) was named to the Skyline Conference Player of the Week Honor Roll. Falcetta earned straight set victories at #5 singles versus Brooklyn and Staten Island.
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Last summer's hot topic: South-Africa's progress by the World Cup. Debates are taking place, conclusions are often already set. Of the investments for South-Africa's World Cup is nothing left? Is this conclusion real? I hope to set out to meet with 26 young researchers who have taken the initiative and are going to take a look themselves in May of this year. From Johannesburg we will check what changed on the governmental, societal or development level. Are you curious what we will find? Follow me for update via: facebook page - #ScoreOrOffside, twitter -@ScoreOrOffside, or e-mail us on firstname.lastname@example.com See Blog for more.
The #ScoreOrOffside would however go ahead of just the world cup but to review other projects, ideas, solutions, policies, events, etc. so as to measure the impact and show ways of optimizing the punch-effect. This would be done via survey and interview of those (supposed to be) affected. Open forum would also breed discussion as well as suggestion as regards effective implementation. The media - TV | Radio | Online would be used to drive the #ScoreOrOffside project.
Some other project to be measured for impact includes: Challenge:Future Global Think Tank Organization, The AIESEC Nigeria Youth2Business Forum, The Future Project/Awards (Nigeria), The National Youth Service Scheme (Nigeria), The just concluded Elections (Nigeria), and Social Media trends in Nigeria.
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Join the UAB Department of Music Nov. 11-12, 2011, as UAB Opera present "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by Gian Carlo Menotti, directed by Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, D.M.A., assistant professor of music.
The opera is the story of Amahl, a crippled shepherd boy, who tries to tell his mother about what he has seen outside; an enormous star with a long tail. His mother, who believes he is lying, grows angry when Amahl tells her that a knock at the door is three kings come to visit them. The kings enter and tell them that they have come to find a child, and they show the rich gifts they have brought him. That night, Amahl's mother tries to steal some of the kings' gold to use to help her own child; she is caught, and when the kings offer to let her keep the gold, explaining that the king they seek will need nothing but love to rule his kingdom, she returns it. Amahl offers his crutch as an additional gift, and suddenly finds that he can walk. He leaves with the kings to pay homage to the child who has healed him.
The show will take place at 7:30 p.m. each night in the UAB Mary Culp Hulsey Recital Hall, 950 13th St. South. Tickets are $5. Call 205-934-7376. Click here to purchase tickets: https://secure.touchnet.com/C21564_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=97. Visit the department online at www.uab.edu/cas/music to purchase tickets. Tickets are available at the door for cash only, and will be available starting at 7 p.m. Nov. 11.


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Jacksonville, Fla., wasn't a great destination for the Bisons soccer team.
Saturday night they fell 4-0 at Jacksonville after losing 1-0 to North Florida on Thursday in Atlantic Sun competition.
Bisons freshman goalkeeper Danny Prichard allowed three first half goals, the most he has given up this season. Jake Goergen started the second half for the Bisons and allowed one goal. Prichard and Goergen each made three saves.
Jacksonville goalkeeper Chad Comroe made three saves on the way to the shutout.
The Bisons were credited with 12 shots, but only three were shots on goal. T.J. Williams, Alexi Achilleos and Josh Inglebright had one shot apiece.
Jacksonville recorded 19 shots, 10 were shots on goal.
Four different players scored for Jacksonville. Ramak Safi Niakan scored at 4:11 of the first half on a header off of a corner kick. Bojan Milicevic assisted. Milicevic scored the fourth and last goal for Jacksonville at 67:22 of the second half.
Anton Axelsson gave Jacksonville a 2-0 first half lead with an unassisted goal at 20:35. Philip Meyner connected on the third goal of the first half at the 44:02 mark with a shot from 30 feet out.
The Bisons are 5-7-2, 1-3-1 in the A-Sun. Jacksonville is 4-9-1, 2-3 in the conference.
The Bisons are back on their home field Thursday night at 7 for an A-Sun showdown with Gardner-Webb.


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The View from Above
I had a few questions after my September publication of a photo of the USS New Hampshire transiting the Thames River. I'm sorry it's taken me so long to respond. Hopefully not too late for those of you curious to find satisfaction.
Submarine transits are bread and butter around here. No matter how many of them we photograph the readers always seem to respond and enjoy them. It's not difficult to imagine why this would be. In the "Submarine Capital of the World" one would hope the residents would always be interested in seeing a sub go by.
I've photographed subs from the New London side, from the Groton side, from countless points along those shores. I've photographed them with other boat traffic, with lighthouses in the background. I've photographed them from the air and from other boats.
This "aerial" view came from the pedestrian walkway of the Gold Star Bridge. I'd actually been wanting to capture this view for some time, but it's not easy to do. The Navy does not issue a press release every time a sub departs (actually, they pretty much never tell us when a sub is departing) and we only hear in advance that a sub is returning when it is from a deployment. In those cases the photographer is going to be on the pier to capture the emotion of family reunions after the six-month separation.
Regardless, it is departing subs that are visible from the walkway that make this photo possible, with the orientation of the sub entering the photo, and that requires some degree of luck. Since the Navy does not announce departures, and usually by the time we see the sub on the river it has passed the bridges, the luck I needed came in the form of a radio call.
While the Coast Guard regularly announces for most of the day the existence of a "Naval Unit Protection Zone" on the river, they are never precise as to the time period of their escort operations. So it took both the announcement on the marine radio frequency (which we scan both in the newsroom and in our cars) and a call from the river pilot warning marine traffic that they sub was departing the pier to give me the opening I needed.
Knowing that the sub was just leaving the pier gave me to the chance to park at the base of the pedestrian walkway on the Groton side (it's a shorter walk from the Groton side to the mid-point of the bridge than from the New London side) and take the brisk walk up the bridge to the right spot.
I got there in time to watch the Coast Guard escort intercept some civilian boaters in the river and then capture the birds-eye view as the sub passed under the bridge.
It's not a view you'll get to see very often so I'm glad I was able to catch it and share with you.
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WAUSAU � Town officials approved Fred Fox Enterprises taking the first steps toward seeking a $600,000 Community Development Block Grant for Wausau during Thursday�s Town Council meeting.
WAUSAU � Town officials approved Fred Fox Enterprises taking the first steps toward seeking a $600,000 Community Development Block Grant for Wausau during Thursday�s Town Council meeting.
David Fox, project manager for Fred Fox Enterprises of St. Augustine was on hand for a public hearing which preceded the council meeting and during which Fox explained the process of applying for a 2013 CDBG grant.
�The first step is we need to appoint a Citizens Advisory Task Force,� Fox said. �Then we need to advertise the task force meetings and discuss possible projects.�
Fox also ran through a Fair Housing workshop for the audience, which discussed the history of the Fair Housing Act of 1968. The Fair Housing workshop was also one of the requirements en route to applying for a CDBG grant.
During the regular meeting, council members voted to allow Fred Fox Enterprises to begin the initial steps toward applying for the grant, and they approved a list of five potential members for the Citizens Advisory Task Force, three of whom were in the audience.
One project the town has been wanting to fund is a new fire station, and the town has initial plans already drawn up for the facility. Fox said the CDBG grant could be used for a fire station.
A new category that is being added to CDBG grants is the ability to use the funds to fight blight in communities � which means using grant money to destroy unsightly abandoned structures.
�They are still working out the details, but it is supposed to be added in next year,� Fox said. �You can already use grant funds to take down structures following disasters, but now they are changing the requirements so the funding can be used to help clean up communities.�
Fox said that an example of grant money being used to remove damaged homes was the work done in Caryville several years ago where grant money was used to take down flood-damaged structures.
�One thing about using grants for damaged buildings was the requirement that you could never build on that property again,� Fox said. The rules on the grant funding as applied to non-disaster related blight are still being written, but in the near future, communities may be able to use grant funds to take down abandoned and decrepit buildings.
This $600,000 grant does not impact the $400,000 in Florida Recreation Development Assistance Program grants the town of Wausau applied for earlier this year, Fox said.
�They are two different things,� Fox said. �The FRDAP grants come from the Department of Environmental Protection, while the CDBG grants are from the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.�
The two FRDAP grants the town has applied for will go toward renovating two city parks.
One $200,000 grant would be used to improve the Dalton Carter Recreation Center, also known as the Possum Palace, where the city would like to resurface the parking lot, renovate the tennis courts, picnic facilities, basketball courts and restrooms, add an exercise trail, upgrade the camping area, and add additional playground equipment among other improvements.
The other $200,000 would go toward improvements at George Rogers Park, where the city hopes to renovate the playground, enhance the handicapped parking area, and renovate the restrooms, picnic facilities and baseball field. The recreation committee would also like to add additional playground equipment, a basketball court, additional parking at the Skateboard Park, an exercise trail and a covered picnic facility, as well as expand the Skateboard Park.
The next step in seeking the CDBG grant will be to advertise then hold a public meeting with the Citizens Advisory Task Force and the town�s engineering firm, Preble-Rish, to identify projects to submit. The deadline for the application is February, Fox said.
�The public input is an important part of the process,� Fox said. �They want to hear from the people and see that the public has had some say in what projects are chosen.�


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Jason Varitek: Hi Tyler, how are you doing?
Tyler Parker: Good.
Varitek: Everything going all right?
Parker: Yeah, it's going good. First of all, thanks for doing this. It's an honor to have you answer some of the questions about this.
Varitek: No problem.
Parker: When you came out of college ... with classes and everything, do you think it benefits you more when all you do is catch and play baseball every day?
Varitek: There's so much you'll learn from college that you don't realize right now. One of them is a desire and a will to win, which always isn't there in the minor leagues. The people that you learn from and that you win with, a lot of them have an educated background and that's where it comes from. You'll look back and be like, 'yeah, it was tough.' School is tough, and school is definitely tough there, but you'll look back and be glad you went.
Parker: Do you think it was a harder transition as a catcher or as a hitter from college to the pros?
Varitek: I think it's a combination of both. Each level there is an adjustment stage. There's definitely an adjustment stage of the quality of pitching day in and day out. ... It's just playing and grinding it out. And getting used to what's in front of you and not looking behind you.
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Varitek: It would have to be the two no-hitters I caught. That would just be beyond doubt, actually both of them, where they heavily relied on me the entire game. And you had to do their thinking for them. That's the epitome of what we do, to have that under your belt. Especially to do it with a ground ball guy that we just had with Derek Lowe.
Parker: Did you change a lot, mechanics-wise, going from college to the pros? Did it change a lot for you throwing-wise or receiving-wise?
Varitek: Yeah, I've made a lot of changes, both offensively and defensively. Defensively I learned I really collapsed a lot, I had a lot of things that were giving me problems, catching-wise, therefore it affected my footwork. We spent a lot of time with a guy that was with us in Seattle. Once I got my footwork down and really understood it, then things kind of took off for me from there. But hitting-wise, dude, it's a constant battle. It's a constant grind.
Parker: Yeah. I'm sure.
Varitek: [Laughs]
Parker: Well, that's all I've got.
MLB Radio: Well a couple of things. Jason, did you go to the Rookie Career Development program?
Varitek: It was kind of in its initial stages with us, when I was coming up, but we had it twice for short periods of time in the Arizona Fall League...
MLB Radio: I was wondering because whoever drafts Tyler will likely send him there, since each organization will send 2-3 of its prospects there, and it will help him get oriented into professional life and Major League life.
Varitek: Yeah, there's not much they can teach you in college about what can prepare you for pro ball and some of the differences. That will help with some of it. And then depending on what media market you are in, it could be better or it could be worse.
MLB Radio: Jason, after you were drafted you had some strange negotiations. Looking back on it, did it come out the way you had hoped it would?
Varitek: Yeah, I am here and I am playing. I am healthy again. I am able to do what I want to do. But first and foremost I have an education under my belt because of it all somehow.
MLB Radio: Can you guys give us a sense of how difficult it is to go to school at Georgia Tech and all of the hours you have to take away from the classroom, because you know it's a tough school.
Parker: I think it's a tough school. We're there because ... well, some of us may not have gotten in just on straight academics. It's a tough school for smart people, then they throw us in the middle of it and take away half of the time we get to spend in the classroom and then it makes it that much harder.
Varitek: Yeah, I don't think basket weaving is part of their curriculum. You've got to earn your keep around there.
Parker: Yeah, I know.
Varitek: Just to survive you have to earn your keep. But that's a degree no one can ever take away from you.
MLB Radio: What was yours in, Jason?
Varitek: Mine was in management.
MLB Radio: Any advice to a guy like Tyler on catching the knuckleball?
Varitek: Just hope you don't have to. [Laughter] Hope you're stuck with more conventional pitchers, more than a knuckleballer. I've had all my first big-league experiences with Tim, my first big-league start, my first game in the playoffs. It's just been kind of backwards. You learn how to catch fastball, curveball, slider, change, split and all of a sudden they throw this thing at you when you get to the big leagues. It's pretty humbling.
MLB Radio: Thanks for your time, we appreciate it. We wish you well and hope to talk to you again.
Varitek: Thank you guys. Tyler, good luck. Grind it out, let things happen.
Parker: All right, I will.
Varitek: They'll happen good.
Parker: OK. Thanks.
Varitek: And get back to the [College World] Series!
Parker: All right.
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The Cadillac that ain't your father's may be just be two-wheeled. Word of a new Cadillac motorcycle sporting gee whiz ethanol hybrid technology has just surfaced in D Business. The Caddy that leans will be built by V20 Consulting in New York and shown off at the next LA Auto Show. The irony of an outside company building a technology demostrator isn't lost on us, but it isn't the first time the General has collaborated with someone on a motorcycle. Just a couple hundred feet from the Detroit offices lives the first Caddy chopper, built by and currently for sale at Great American Chopper in Clawson, MI.
Knowing it was there, we took a quick jaunt to their shop so you can see what may inform the next motorcycle. According to the folks who work there, reports of Caddy boss Jim Trailer actually buying this bike are greatly exaggerated, so if you want to take a look for yourself and live in the Detroit area, it'll be there for all to see. [MotorAuthority via Hell For Leather]


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This music features the electric piano, the electric drums with the percussion, the acoustic piano, and the cello. It makes great use for footages with peaceful and quiet feeling, but it is all up to you how you want to use it. Suits for calm and caring mood.
the piece can be used as loop by repeating 0:22 – 1:18
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"Welcome to the home page of the finstall project, accepted for Google's Summer of Code 2007. This project aims to create a user-friendly graphical installer for FreeBSD & FreeBSD-derived systems. The project should yield something usable for 7.0-RELEASE, but the intention is to keep it as a "second" installer system during 7.x, alongside sysinstall. In any case, sysinstall will be kept for architectures not supported by finstall (e.g. all except i386 and amd64)." A first version has been released.
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Having been confronted with enormous challenges in war and disaster settings, Andrew MacLeod has proved to be a highly accomplished leader who has catalysed and mobilised multi-faceted teams in difficult and diverse circumstances. Working with partners at both the elite and grass roots levels, MacLeod has led teams that applied innovative commercial, humanitarian and social approaches to highly complex problem solving and achieved clear, measurable results. MacLeod initially worked as a Marine Litigation Attorney in Melbourne, Sydney and London before being recruited by the International Committee of the Red Cross to deal with military factions in Yugoslavia and Rwanda. He moved to the United Nations and ran high level humanitarian teams under great pressure to deliver results in the most arduous of circumstances, crossing cultures, borders and front lines of battle. He ran the early warning for UNHCR and then moved on to several disaster settings, including Pakistan and Philippines.


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Seven Students Named to the All-North Dakota Academic Team
BISMARCK, N.D. - Seven North Dakota community college students have been named to the All-North Dakota Academic Team, which recognizes the academic achievement of two-year college students. They will be honored at a dinner and awards ceremony Saturday, April 26, 2008, 6 p.m., at the Bismarck State College Student Union, Missouri Room.
Members of the 2008 All-North Dakota Academic Team, the colleges they attend and their hometowns are:
Alexandra Hartwig:
Bismarck State College, Mandan, N.D.
Kimberly Zins:
Bismarck State College, Bismarck, N.D.
Steven Allard:
Lake Region State College, Devils Lake, N.D.
Derek Behrman:
Minot State University -Bottineau, Counsel, Manitoba
Logan Stundal:
Minot State University -Bottineau, Bottineau, N.D.
Nathan Dahle:
North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton, N.D.
Beth Althoff:
North Dakota State College of Science, Wahpeton, N.D.
"North Dakota's community colleges do an outstanding job of preparing students to enter the world of work or to go on for additional education," said Bill Goetz, NDUS chancellor. "The University System is very proud of these seven students and their academic achievements. They are excellent role models of individual accomplishment."
In North Dakota, the two-year college awards are co-sponsored by Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society and CTEC, the North Dakota University System College Technical Education Council. The all-state academic team recognition program is active in 35 states. Students named to the all-state team also are nominated for the All-USA Academic Team.
Nominations are based on outstanding academic performance and service to the college and community. Members of the North Dakota team will receive certificates, medallions and monetary awards. Each team member also is eligible for scholarships from Dickinson State University, the University of Mary, the University of North Dakota and Valley City State University.
As the highest-scoring member of the North Dakota team, Behrman also was named a New Century Scholar. He represented the state in the opening ceremonies of the American Association of Community Colleges annual convention April 5-8, 2008, in Philadelphia, Pa. Behrman received a $2,000 scholarship, and MiSU-B was recognized at the AACC convention.
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The Innsbruck hand transplant program: Update at 10 years after the first transplant
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Introduction: We describe here the outcome after two bilateral hand, one bilateral forearm and one unilateral hand transplantation at 10/7/4 and 1 years after transplantation.
Materials and methods: Four patients received a bilateral hand (n=2), a bilateral forearm (n=1) or a unilateral hand transplant between March 2000 and June 2009. Induction therapy with ATG (n=2) or alemtuzumab (n=2) was followed by tacrolimus, prednisolon ± MMF (n=3) or tacrolimus and MMF (n=1) maintenance IS. Later, Prednisone was withdrawn (n=2) and sirolimus/everolimus was added to the therapeutic regime under simultaneous withdrawal (n=1) or dose reduction (n=1) of tacrolimus (n=1). MMF was discontinued in two patients. Steroids were entirely avoided in one and withdrawn in two patients.
Results: Range of motion reached up to 70% of normal with a grip strength of 2–10 kg. Hand function correlated well with time after transplant and amputation level. Intrinsic hand muscle function recovery and discriminative sensation were observed in all patients. Complications included CMV infection, fungal infection, hypertension, hyperglycemia, transient creatinine increase and headache. Three, six, four, and one rejection episode were successfully treated with steroids, anti-CD25, anti-CD52 antibodies and/or intensified maintenance IS. Skin histology at current shows no or mild perivascular lymphocytic infiltrates without signs of progression. Vessels are patent without signs for luminal narrowing or intimal proliferation.
Conclusion: The overall functional outcome and patient satisfaction after bilateral hand, bilateral forearm and unilateral hand transplantation are highly encouraging. All patients are now free of rejection with moderate levels of IS.


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Watch the Pilot Episode, right here ;) its called "THE FIRST LESSON".
This may have not been aired on DD national channel in the 70s or 80s but I must tell ya, its pretty entertaining. I am sure you guys would love it the plot is based on the Foreign students who join the Adult School in UK England i believe, to learn "English as a Foreign Language" this is the course they are "Unrolled for" as one of the student puts it to the school's pompous and tight-fisted Principal, Ms Courtney, when the student is looking to find the Classroom (what he means is Enrolled for) Mr Brown who's the English teacher learns himself the trouble and humor in different cultures from the students as he is teaching them. I love this sitcom enjoyed watchin' very episode n its really hilarious to listen to the students when they innocently mis-interpret things or mis-pronounce words while they are learning. Watch n Enjoy:)">
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House GOP: Don't bother me with eligibility
But 'wait until November' strategy draws voter ire
Regardless of whether they have "doubts" about Obama's eligibility to be president or whether they consider the issue a "distraction," Republicans in Congress are repeating a common refrain: "Let's just forget about it and focus on the next election."
A pair of videos from earlier this week shows members of the House being confronted by voters on lingering questions about documents Obama presented as "proof" of his U.S. birth and citizenship. In both cases, the voters mentioned an investigation by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse that concluded Obama's purported long-form birth certificate and Selective Service registration card are actually forgeries.
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The responses the representatives gave were both very different and very similar.
Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., dismissed his constituents' concerns outright.
"I think he [Obama] is our president. I think he was duly elected, and I believe he is a citizen. And I do believe [the eligibility question] is a distraction," Flake told a meeting of the Red Mountain Tea Party in Arizona. "My job is to make sure we beat him in November."
Rep. Vicky Hartzler, R-Mo., on the other hand, said she shared her constituents' doubts [see the video above], but nonetheless ended with the same line about focusing on November.
When asked what she thought of the veracity of Obama's birth certificate, she replied, "You know, I have a lot of doubts about that. But I don't know; I haven't seen it. I'm just the same place you are on that – you read this, you read that – I don't understand why he didn't show that right away."
Yet when pressed, she continued, "I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue. The real issue is this November. There's something called an 'election.'"
When asked to clarify her doubts afterward, the Kansas City Star reports, Hartzler said, "I have doubts that it is really his real birth certificate, and I think a lot of Americans do, but they claim it is, so we are just going to go with that."
She further told reporters questions about Obama's citizenship were "irrelevant" and said people should "focus attention on his specific policies and not his birth certificate."
Yet Joseph Farah, CEO of WND, the news organization most dedicated to keeping tabs on the story, insists that the issue is anything but "irrelevant" and that Americans shouldn't be placated by their representatives' "pre-written scripts."
"This is the story that everyone is afraid of – the media establishment, the political establishment, the cultural establishment," Farah says. "Even politicians who know there is something very wrong with Obama's story won't talk about it publicly. They speak off pre-written scripts – both Democrats and Republicans.
"Meanwhile, half the American public, according to every poll, realize they've been lied to by all the major institutions," he continues. "Even when the first law-enforcement investigation confirms WND's reporting on the fraudulent birth certificate, no one is willing to look at the evidence or discuss it publicly. There is a growing credibility gap between the American people and the institutions they are dependent upon for governance, information and free-and-open debate."
Neither is Farah content to leave the matter alone until November.
"For those who say we can settle this matter on Election Day, we must ask this question: Do you mean we should ignore the Constitution as we did in 2008? How's that working out for everyone?" Farah asks. "And should we continue to ignore it after Election Day as well? Ignore the rule of law?"
At the meeting of the Red Mountain Tea Party, at least, many of the participants were inclined to agree with Farah. As the hidden camera footage below reveals, the forum was dissatisfied with Flake's response, not only arguing with his reasoning but also rising up in protest.
"How many here would like to see Congress investigate the president? Please stand up," said attendee Tom Ballantyne.
As the video below shows, many, if not the majority, of the participants stood up to signify their demand.
Read the preliminary findings of Sheriff Arpaio's Cold Case Posse investigation after six months investigating Obama's constitutional eligibility to serve as president in "A Question of Eligibility," co-authored by Jerome Corsi and Mike Zullo.
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Previous stories:
High court justice: Obama birth certificate fishy
Russian media expose Obama birth 'forgery'
Media blackout on Obama eligibility near-total
Mailman discouraged from telling Obama story
U.S. military purging 'birthers'?
Immigration records missing for week of Obama's birth
Sheriff Joe: 'Tons' more shocking info on Obama
O'Reilly: My probe better than Sheriff Joe's
Donald Trump: Say it is so, Sheriff Joe
Sheriff Joe to Eric Holder: 'Prove it!'
Arpaio: 'Probable cause' Obama certificate a fraud
What does law say about Obama's eligibility?
Alinsky-style leftist ramps up effort to oust Sheriff Joe
100,000 line up to back Sheriff Joe
Obama backer arrested for death threats against Sheriff Joe
Justice Department blinks in battle against Sheriff Joe
Anti-Arpaio protesters ousted from meeting
Another protest against Sheriff Joe fails
Obama's harassment of Sheriff Joe
'Resign now' protest against Sheriff Joe fizzles
Sheriff Joe targeted for ouster
Sheriff Joe 'suspicious' of motive behind Obama attacks
Sheriff Joe to Obama: I'll keep doing my job
Arpaio gets death threats over Obama investigation
Sheriff Joe on Obama eligibility probe: 'Where there's smoke … '


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Ex-Pentagon Official on Ultimatum for Egypt's Morsi
Egypt's armed forces have given President Mohammed Morsi 48 hours to fulfill the demands of the people. David Schenker, Director of the Program on Arab Politics for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and former Pentagon aide, discusses Egypt's next steps. Photo: AP.
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Heidi Klum & Martin Kirsten: Kids Soccer Game Duo Before LAX
Heidi Klum and her boyfriend Martin Kirsten pack up their car after cheering on her boys Henry, 8, and Johan, 6, at their soccer game on Sunday afternoon (October 6) in Los Angeles.
The 40-year-old Project Runway host and Martin were then joined by her other children Leni, 9, and Lou, 3, as they stopped by a pet store and Whole Foods in Santa Monica after the game.
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Later that evening, Heidi was spotted arriving at LAX Airprot with Leni and her adorable pet pooch.
FYI: Heidi is wearing a Gypsy05 tank and Level 99 jeans at the soccer game. She is also wearing Sarah Flint booties.
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Tax Hike Bill Failrs In Oregon Senate
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A deal that would have raised new revenue and cut public pension benefits fell apart in the Oregon Senate yesterday when the tax bill failed to get enough Republican votes. As a result, Democrats blocked a vote on a plan to cut pension benefits for retired government workers, sending that bill back to committee. Democratic Senate President Peter Courtney says the Senate will work through the weekend.


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Bim Bam Banana Ultimate TV Bed
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Home Entertainment,
Who needs to buy a car when that $30,000 can be spent on a bed? The Bim Bam Banana Ultimate TV bed is simply a bed with a 22" LCD screen embedded into it, no pun intended. They describe it as follows:
A super luxury bed that with a single press of the wireless remote, the end of the bed opens and a silent 22'' flatscreen glides out and you can enjoy your favourite all your favourite programmes. The bed is delivered with in-built, electronic levelling. You are never alone - sweet dreams!
Super luxury? How about I spend $3,000 on a bed with a nice frame, and maybe $3,000 on a super top of the line LCD screen, and save myself…oh…$26,000? Ah, why bother? With this thing what you are really paying for is the convenience.
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The Wave UFO
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Mariko Mori's Wave UFO combines real-time computer graphics and brainwave sensory technology to produce and audio/visual show like no other. Three viewers enter the contraption and are fitted with electrodes to monitor their brain waves. The data gathered is used to produce a one of a kind show:
This information is transformed into visual imagery and projected onto the screen: six undulating bio-amorphous cells represent the left and right lobes of each of the participants' brains, and a waving line moves in correspondence with blinks and other facial movements. The forms change shape and color in response to three types of brainwaves. Alpha (blue) waves indicate wakeful relaxation, Beta (pink) waves indicate alertness or agitation, and Theta (yellow) waves indicate a dreamlike state. Two cells coming together demonstrate "coherence" between the two lobes of the brain. Mental functions such as thinking in other languages or doing math problems immediately transform the characteristics of the graphics.
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Why You Should Use (Not Abuse) Forums to Increase Your Traffic
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Linksys WRTP54G VOIP Wireless Router
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Linksys (Cisco) and Vonage have announced a deal that allows those who currently own a router of any type to get a new WRTP54G combo 802.11g router/switch/hub/TA if they sign up for a new Vonage VOIP account. The router drops the black and blue Linksys look in exchange for the more modern silver style seen in the WRT54GX Pre-N MIMO router. While it looks good on paper, there are a couple of things you should know. First, this only works on Vonage for now - so if you get this router, you shouldn't expect the ability to switch VOIP providers and maintain its usability. The other thing is that it can take up to three mail in rebates before the router is actually considered free.
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iTunesPeriPod: iTunes Isn't Filling iPods
Posted by Andru Edwards - Categories: Portable Audio / Video,
While talking with Tiffiniy Cheng of Participatory Culture earlier today for our next Gear Live Podcast, she mentioned the website put out by them called iTunes Per iPod. Essentially, it aims to show that while many people walk around with iPods filled to the brim with their favorite tracks, barely any of them are from the iTunes Music Store. Granted, the data is a bit outdated as it is from April 2004, I think it is safe to say that the data probably hasn't changed all that much. Based on their calculations, in April 2004, if you divided the number of songs sold on iTunes by the number of iPods out there, you would find an average of 21 iTunes songs per iPod. Now I understand that many people rip CD's that they have purchased legally to their computers as well, and this accounts for a percentage of the music on iPods - but I will go out on a limb and say that is a small percentage as well. Gotta love Bittorrent.
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DVD Release List: 6/14/2005
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Take some dating lessons from Will Smith in this week's DVD and UMD release of Hitch. The story of an ordinary guy who sets out to learn the ins and outs of the dating game to help nice guys get the girl. This one is sure to entertain you and make you laugh – who knows maybe even pick up a few tips. Be sure to pick this one up with this weekend along with one of your favorite TV on DVD series.
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Why Internet Startups Are Smart
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Did you know that while most startups fail, a major corporation is more likely to hire someone who pioneered a failed startup over someone who has had a successful corporate entry-level career? Starting your own company is obviously a huge risk, but with that risk comes the possibility of great reward. A large company could purchase your venture, making you a nice profit. It could tank, but you are now smarter and more marketable to companies - or it is a success and you reap the reward. Check out this article which takes a look at an excellent point of view as to why Internet startups are a fantastic idea, and how regardless of the outcome, you will come out better for it.
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EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
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If you are a blogger, or plan on getting into blogging, check out this guide recently put out by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It details all of the legal aspects of blogging, and gives you an idea of how to go about posting certain information or stories.
The difference between you and the reporter at your local newspaper is that in many cases, you may not have the benefit of training or resources to help you determine whether what you're doing is legal. And on top of that, sometimes knowing the law doesn't help - in many cases it was written for traditional journalists, and the courts haven't yet decided how it applies to bloggers.
They have information on all sorts of different aspects of blogging as journalism - from securing press passes, to printing information deemed as confidential. It is definitely worth a look.
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Sony To Release Black PSP Earbuds, Remote, and Charger
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Aww yeah, Sony is finally getting down with the fact that they sell a portable video game device, and not an iPod. Proof? Well, they are about to drop black earbuds and a black remote control on the PSP accessory scene. If you remember, we complained about the white accessories when we told you about all the PSP's negatives. Also, they will soon be releasing an external battery charger. Obviously, it isn't practical to remove the PSP battery whenever you want to recharge it, but it looks like a nice place to keep a spare juiced. Look for both items soon.
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Bart And Milhouse LEGO Statues
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When you have a bunch of mustard yellow LEGO bricks and a bunch of time on your hands, what do you get? Apparently, life-size statues of two of America's pop culture favorites - Bart Simpson and Milhouse Van Houten. The artist says that the statues weigh about 30 pounds - that's a lot of LEGO. Milhouse even got a change of clothes since "Milhouse Blue" was unavailable. These things are so cool that they refuse to even look at the camera.
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Comprehensive geospatial infrastructure management solution to support engineering, construction and protection of critical pipeline assets
Comprehensive geospatial infrastructure management solution to support engineering, construction and protection of critical pipeline assetsABB has selected Intergraph, a provider of enterprise engineering and geospatial software, for the development of an oil and gas pipeline network and relevant facilities in North Africa. The pipeline network will be built in the El Merk field, a remote, harsh desert location in Algeria.Geospatial-based pipeline infrastructure management solutions from Intergraph enable companies to more effectively design, construct and maintain pipelines and assets and demonstrate a comprehensive pipeline integrity program while reducing the cost of maintaining records. By storing records in a central geographic information system (GIS), the solution makes information readily available for a variety of applications, improving record keeping productivity while assuring compliance with regulatory requirements.Geospatial technology from Intergraph will play a significant role in the design and installation of the pipeline, field gathering stations, gas distribution manifolds, flow and trunk lines and water and gas re-injection facilities in El Merk. The technology will support the Pipeline Open Data Standard (PODS) model, the most widely implemented pipeline data model in the industry, and all data will be stored in an Oracle Spatial database. The implementation will also include a portal component for the seamless distribution of data to all parties, including field and remote users."An accurate, up-to-date view of all critical assets at any given time is a crucial component of any pipeline implementation project," said Sergio Casati, ABB Project Manager. "Especially in such challenging terrain conditions, we need to keep our pulse on the status of all assets in near real-time. The strength of Intergraph technology and its more than 40 years of experience in the utilities sector, as well as market leadership in enterprise engineering software, were key factors in our decision to partner with the company on this project. Intergraph's open, flexible technology platform was also desirable for an initiative like the El Merk project, which involves a consortium of multiple vendors.""The collaboration of Intergraph with ABB Italy on this project marks a significant milestone in Intergraph's involvement in the oil and gas pipeline industry," said Maximilian Weber, Utilities & Communications manager for Intergraph in EMEA. "Intergraph has worked with leading pipeline providers around the world including Spectra Energy and Northwest Energy in the U.S., E.ON Ruhrgas in Germany and Chongqing Gas in China. Additionally, our Process, Power & Marine division is the world's leading provider of enterprise engineering software for the design, construction and operation of plants, pipelines, ships and offshore facilities. We are pleased that ABB has recognized our strength in this industry and has chosen us to ensure the accurate, efficient management of assets, as well as play a key role in protecting this infrastructure."


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In the run-up to and aftermath of the Iraq war we got to hear a lot about the dodgy dossier in which it was claimed that Iraq could deploy biological weapons within 45 minutes. A journalist said it was sexed up and got himself into deep trouble, a scientist doubted its veracity and ended up taking his own life while those who commissioned and tailored the report to suit their needs were whitewashed courtesy of Lord Hutton.
Well, the 45 minutes that forms the subject of this piece fortunately did not lead to war nor cost any lives though it is hardly less of a bombshell for that. In its report of the recent Hatzola fundraising evening, last week's Jewish Tribune causally dropped a supposed fact that 'the average waiting time for a London ambulance is 45 minutes.' No one in their right mind would accuse the Tribune of sexing anything whether up, down, diagonally or whichever position one can think of. Yet this 'statistic' appears in a box telling the story of a man whose life was apparently saved by the quick appearance of Hatzola on the scene. The implication is clearly that if not for Hatzola's swift action the man might well have been dead long before the average time of 45 minutes had elapsed.
I don't know much about ambulance response times but a simple search on Google led me to this page according to which last year's (April 2010 - March 2011) response times were for Category A (immediately life-threatening) calls, 75.14% within 8 minutes and 99 per cent within 19 minutes. For category B (serious) calls, response times were 87.2% within 19 minutes. The latest response times available also show that on average about 77% of category A calls are responded to within 8 minutes.
So will the Tribune now tell us where they got their 45 minutes from? They can't blame MI6 or the CIA like Blair did so who on earth gave them this bit of information? I would have thought that Hatzola's stellar work in life saving and its team of dedicated volunteers on constant duty at all times of day and night is praiseworthy enough without needing to denigrate other first aid services. But then I am not the Tribune for whom our good deeds are never quite enough of a kiddush hashem. Others must also be crap for otherwise how are they to prove the supremacy of a 'Torah-true lifestyle'?
Then again it could just be that newspapers that work by the maxim, Comment is sacred; facts are free, don't bother employing fact checkers. Perhaps too they're not wired up to the web and google is one of those words excised by kosher lexicographers.
But there is something else at play too. To people of the Tribune's mindset, the yellow jackets and klaxons of our own cops, medics, chaveirim and shomrim are far more than the sum total of their parts. They create a myth of our self sufficiency, dispel the notion that our insularity might in any way be an obstacle and enforce the belief that despite the superior training and abundant resources available to others we can measure up and beat the best. To those tempted to stray it acts further as a warning that the police won't be there to protect you once the ghetto walls are behind you and you may well drop dead by doing something as stupid as relying on 999.
And for that a 45 minute response time perfectly fits the bill.


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