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Yeah, I really don't know what I'm doing when I've been up since 3 in the morning. It's not 9:30. Plus I was just testing around with some things. I promise I'll stop. This should work.http://atheistthinktank.org/forum/index.phpAgain, I'm just offering up space in case this place craps out. Get together. Collaborate on ideas on what to do next. Etc.
You are venturing into territory that even I would not dare ... and believe me I am a pretty darn good tinkerer. I think I have gotten too old to sit and tinker constantly.
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Expiry now showing as 2015.Praise God. Or Marshall. One or t'other.
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I wanted to be be Marshall, but in the pre-life, we flipped a coin and he won. But I won ParkingPlaces, which is a close second. Right?
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Jaguar shows off new additions to the 2018 lineup
NOVI, Michigan —
Editor's Note: This first-hand account of the New Generation of Jaguar press conference are from an invitation-only event that allowed special access to the vehicle and executives. Jaguar covered our transportation costs.
Jaguar has been having a bang-up year. In fact, as of the end of August, Jaguar sales are up 52 percent globally and 13 percent in the United States.
A lot of that growth is due to the 2016 addition of the F-Pace, Jaguar's first SUV.
Thus it should come as no surprise that Jaguar's utility vehicle lineup is growing.
This week at the New Generation of Jaguar press conference, the automaker did the North American reveal of the compact Jaguar E-Pace SUV as well as the XF Sportbrake wagon and the XJR575 sedan.
2018 Jaguar E-Pace
According to Jaguar Design Director Ian Callum, this new SUV is more than just a little F-Pace. Sure you'll see some of the bigger SUV's bones in the design architecture, but you'll also see a lot of the sporty two-seat F-Type – especially if you look at the headlamps.
The E-Pace will come standard with all-wheel drive and will have two available powertrains: a P250 that will deliver 246 horsepower and a P300 that will deliver 296 horsepower. Both engines are a 2.0-liter, inline 4-cylinder and will be mated to a 9-speed automatic transmission.
The P250 will be priced from $38,600, and the P3500 will start at $47,250.
2018 Jaguar XF Sportbrake
Yes, Sportbrake is just a fancy word for "wagon." This addition to the XF lineup marks the first station wagon Jaguar has brought to the U.S.
When Joe Eberhardt, president and CEO of Jaguar Land Rover, introduced the Sportbrake to the media, he said it had "sedanlike luxury and performance with a little something extra in the cargo department."
Callum went so far as to say it's more elegant than a sedan.
But all this might be a hard sell for the U.S. market, which is more into trucks and SUVs these days. But the Sportbrake specs might make it a contender.
It'll be equipped with a supercharged V-6 engine that delivers 380 horsepower plus it will have up to 69.7 cubic feet of cargo volume.
It's slated to be in dealers late this year with a price tag of $70,450.
2018 Jaguar XJR575
Jaguar's flagship sedan was last redesigned in 2009, which is a really long lifecycle for a vehicle. But as Callum pointed out during the press conference, when they set about designing the XJ, he wanted the team to design something that would pass the test of time.
So, rather than a redesign or facelift for this model year, Jaguar introduced a new trim at the top of the tier. This model is more powerful than any previous XJ, and – as the name suggests – it delivers 575 horsepower via a 5.0-liter supercharged V-8. You'll also have a 0-to-60-mph time of 4.2 seconds.
While the XJ starts at around $70K, the XJR575 will be priced at $122,400 when it goes on sale this fall.
What's next?
In a word: Electrification. Jaguar Land Rover is yet another brand that has jumped on the electrified bandwagon, and Eberhardt clearly stated that by 2020 all new vehicles will be offered with an electric or electrified power option. Think mild hybrid, plug-in hybrid or all-electric.
We got our first taste of this last year at the LA Auto Show when Jaguar introduced the I-Pace Concept, a fully electric SUV with fast charge times.
While we haven't seen the production version yet, Callum said it will be "close" to the concept. The I-Pace is slated to come out in 2018 as a 2019 model, and it will mark the third SUV in the Jaguar lineup and the first fully electric vehicle from the brand.
The E-Pace, Sportbrake and XJR575 will be on display this weekend at the Jaguar Art of Performance Tour in the Detroit metro area, where attendees can also drive current vehicles in Jaguar's lineup. The tour is at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan, and runs through Sept. 24.
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More than four months after a Hardeeville double homicide, Police Chief Richard Nagy said the case is close to being wrapped up.
Nagy said once the last pieces of evidence are processed, the police will get an arrest warrant. No arrests had been made as of Monday in the May 11 deaths of Desmond Brown, 25, of Hardeeville, and Octavia Scott, 26, of Bluffton.
The police chief also said he expected the information about the evidence from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division within a week.
"There have been dozens of interviews and a lot of evidence to process," Nagy said. "We hope to hear back from the lab within a week then make the final process, which is getting a warrant for the arrest."
Nagy said all the interviews and evidence pointed to the same suspect they were led to since the beginning of the investigation.
The Hardeeville Police Department has worked with SLED and the 14th Circuit Court Solicitor's Office on the case. Together, they have made progress in getting closer to the end of the case.
"The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has been an extreme valuable component in this case," Nagy said. "I am pleased with how they have helped our department and continue to be a vital role to ending this."
On May 11, the bodies of Brown and Scott were found in a ditch on the dirt portion of Purrysburg Road beside a borrowed car that had struck a large pine tree. The car was described by police as a 2007 Infiniti four-door sedan. Emergency personnel were initially called to the scene for a car wreck with bodies on the ground.
Jasper County Coroner Martin Sauls said in May that the cause of both deaths was gunshot wounds to the head and that their deaths were instantaneous. He also ruled out murder-suicide after autopsy results were in.
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Stock Market Pleased By New Phase Of Bailout
Today the Federal Reserve announced the creation of a new special purpose entity that will buy consumer and business debt. Under the new plan, the Treasury will provide $20 billion dollars in of credit protection (from the Troubled Asset Relief Program) — and will absorb most of the losses, should they occur.
The Federal Reserve will provide the money used to purchase the assets. The Fed says (PDF) that the loans in the asset backed securities must be "auto loans, student loans, credit card loans, or small business loans guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration," though the program may be expanded to include "commercial mortgage-backed securities, non-Agency residential mortgage backed securities, or other asset classes."
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The new fund would, in effect, close the circle in the chaotic evolution of the Treasury rescue effort, officially known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Under the new version, the government would once again plan to buy assets, including some troubled ones. The Fed would provide most of the money and buy comparatively healthy debt, like bundles of car loans, that private investors have stopped buying in recent weeks.
The Fed further announced that it would purchase up to $100 billion dollars of mortgage-backed securities backed by GSEs (Fannie and Freddie, etc.) The Wall Street Journal says that the stock market is pleased as can be about this new development. Stocks are up again this morning after soaring 12% in two days — the largest jump in stock prices since the crash of 1987.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently up 62 points, or 0.7%, trading at 8505.11. The blue-chip measure is off to a promising start as it attempts to extend a two-day winning streak in which it has soared 12%, the biggest gain since the two days following the 1987 market crash.
U.S. Unveils $800 Billion Credit Program [NYT]
Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) Terms and Conditions1 (PDF) [Federal Reserve]
Stocks Continue Rise as Fed Unveils New Program [WSJ]
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Chelsea boss Rafa Benitez has urged his players to take the Europa League seriously - and says he will be treating their last-32 match against Sparta Prague tonight like a Champions League fixture.
Chelsea became the first Champions League holders to exit the competition at the group stages earlier this season, which led to former boss Roberto di Matteo's dismissal.
The Blues will get their first taste of Europa League action against Prague at the Generali Arena tonight, and Benitez says there is no chance his side will underestimate their opponents or the competition.
'For them to play against the champions of Europe is massive, so we know that they will be ready,'' said Benítez, who took over from Di Matteo in November.
''And the main thing for us is to be sure that we are ready, that we analyse their team properly, so we have all the reports, and we give them the same information that we would give them in a Champions League game.
''At the beginning when you saw the draw, maybe some people would have said it is not a difficult draw. Not the case. ''They have been training for a month for this game. Just thinking about this game. ''It is a team that is well organised and has balance. It will not be easy.
'We have to focus on Prague. Sparta are a good team, a difficult team. We have the advantage of a second leg at home – but this is an important competition.''
Chelsea go into the game off the back of a heartening 4-1 victory over Wigan which bought to an end a run of four games without a win.
That run had prompted suggestions Benitez, bought in on an interim basis following Di Matteo's departure, could be axed before the end of the season.
But the Spaniard remains optimistic that he can start to winning games more regularly.
'I was confident that with all the players around now I could make decisions more easily,'' Benítez, who won the Europa League with Valencia in 2003, said.
''I can change games now. If you have defenders on the bench, or strikers, you can change things. But if you have only defenders in the bench when you are 2-0 up it is a problem. But if you have options which we have now, it is much better and easier for me now.''
Victor Moses and John Obi-Mikel will miss the 1st leg tie in Prague because of their participation in the Africa Cup of Nations, David Luiz is suspended and Demb Ba is ineligible, while John Terry could return to action following a knee problem.


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Here's the photo which accompanied the auction page:
Based on that picture, I had some serious doubts about its authenticity. Even though this was years before Mitchell & Ness started making their version of this beauty (and the glut of counterfeits which emerged as a result), there were three dozen known and extremely authentic-looking forgeries out there in the hobby. Top-notch forgeries which had been introduced to the market by... the Green Bay Packers.
In 1998, Grey Flannel Auctions contracted with the Packers for the club to provide custom jerseys for an auction. The Packers took thirty-six unused jerseys supplied to the team by Ripon Athletic, but not actually issued by the team to any player, and "repurposed" them with Favre numbers and nameplates.
Here's another example (click to enlarge):
Because they started out as unworn gamers, each of the dummy Favre jerseys has the sheen of authenticity. Naturally, they feature authentic team tagging. The name and number font, which so often trips up counterfeiters, are 100% authentic and sewn on by the same people who prepared all the actual game-worn jerseys. Many, if not all, of the usual markers that authenticators look for on a gamer are present on these.
In addition, each of the Grey Flannel jerseys came complete with a letter from Packers equipment manager Red Batty explaining its unusual history.
As Batty mentions in his letter, they also manufactured some copies of the road version (it is unclear how many of the thirty-six produced were home or were roads). This one comes up for sale on eBay from time to time, along with its own copy of the letter:
The easiest way to identify the repurposed jerseys is by the size - Favre customarily wore (or "wears," if he comes out of retirement) a 52. The Grey Flannel jerseys, having been issued to multiple other players, may be found in a whole series of sizes. Both of the home blues pictured here are size 46, while the road is a 48.
Frankly, I'm not sure how good an idea this was on the Packers' part. It's not like there wasn't a market in game-used jerseys ten years ago, that they would be unaware of might happen with some of these jerseys. It seems almost inevitable that somebody would try to sell them as authentic Favre gamers, which is exactly what happened with the Vintage Authentics auction.
Then again, if I ever saw a Favre '94 throwback gamer, I'd automatically presume that it came from the 1998 Grey Flannel auction. The numbers just lean that way - presuming Favre's standard two jerseys per game, times four throwback games (three at Lambeau Field, one in Chicago), plus maybe a couple extras for team-issued backups not worn, still equals less than a dozen. Grey Flannel had the Packers prepare three times that many ersatz jerseys.
In any case, it was that "46" tag that really made me question the jersey in the first place, knowing that Favre's usual size is a 52. I can see occassionally wearing a larger size over layers for cold-weather games. But a smaller size? Seemed unlikely to me. When I saw it, I called American Memorabilia to confirm that it was actually game-used and not one of the 36 dummies. The rep with whom I spoke was unaware of the Grey Flannel jerseys, and said they would investigate.
I called again to inquire, and was told that from Grey Flannel they had learned each of the thirty-six was discretely marked in such a way as to alert an authenticator, hopefully preventing an auction house from making an honest mistake and incorrectly attributing it. The jersey in question was quietly removed from the auction.
A shame, because I was more than happy to buy it as a repurposed jersey. Vintage Authentics, no doubt feeling burned by the attempted fraud, wanted no part of it and the jersey disappeared.
The following year, American Memorabilia also fell victim to a scam, when this jersey was offered in their catalogue:
1994 Brett Favre Game-Worn Packers Throwback Jersey
This 'throwback' jersey, was worn by the league's most prolific 'throwback,' Brett Favre. There is not a man who's tougher or more determined to win than the league's only three-time Most Valuable Player. In 1994, the NFL's 75th Anniversary, all teams wore the same style uniforms that were worn in the days when facemasks were faces. This Packers white road 'throwback' jersey was one of the few ever put to use by Favre. Light wear, with underarm pilling, is exhibited on this shirt, with a "75th Anniversary" patch affixed at the left breast and a "Starter" tag in the tail. A unique "44" swatch tag is also showcased on this brilliant shirt, with customized, ribbed sleeves and all sewn-on identifiers.No mention of Grey Flannel, no accompanying letter, but take a look at the size - 44. The first big clue that Favre never actually "put it to use," light wear and underarm pilling notwithstanding. By this time, however, collectors were getting wise - the jersey opened at $900 but failed to draw even a single bid.
I'd still like to have one in my collection someday. The blue and gold throwbacks are perhaps my favorite Packers uniform to date, and given their relative scarcity I'd settle for one of the repurposed 36 until a real gamer came along. I think there's value in these jerseys based on their lineage, even if they aren't true gamers. But you have to know what you're buying.


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Specifically, Andrews University is offering a year of free tuition to any Adventist student who was enrolled in a university or college whose operation was interrupted by Hurricane Katrina. This plan will cover tuition, fees and books through a combination of government and Andrews University support. Each student who chooses to attend Andrews would then be responsible for room and food expenses of approximately $5,000 per school year, or 25% of the typical overall costs.
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Still, to claim that it adds value to the figure makes no sense whatsoever.
Star Wars figures do not need pack ins, plain and simple.I can tell you one thing, zinc (die cast) is not cheap anymore - those coins that Hasbro is releasing next year with every figure aren't cheap. You may even notice a price increase next year (see EE.com).
Now that I've seen the first two waves packaged with this new packaging, it's not that bad. It's really growing on me.
now that we got information about some more cards, i begin to like these cars more and more
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Atlus has completed phase one in the deployment of their internet community and online gaming portal Atlus Online, with mascot Jack Frost running rampant all over the page.
Announced to the world back in February, Atlus Online is an online community for fans of Atlus games, role-playing, and anime, three passions that generally coincide quite closely to one another. The company has now completed phase one, which evidently involved plastering their mascot all over the front of the webpage and implementing a few new features, such as the Oekaki Wall, a forum featuring a java applet that allows users to create and share artwork on the fly. They've even got themselves a Twitter account, which means they've officially joined the internet now.
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A day in the life of a real estate specialist
Typically a real estate professional would start bright and early every day, to get through the routine of their many daily administrative tasks. We took an in-depth look at the Engel & Völkers group and their agent's activities.
"At Engel & Völkers, our sales advisors start their day by reading their emails for any website enquiries, and then decide whether these clients can simply be replied to with visual presentations, or if a phone call to arrange a viewing is more appropriate" says Craig Hutchison, CEO of Engel & Völkers Southern Africa. These decisions are based on whether the client is simply making a general enquiry or whether they have more urgency and interested in visiting the property.
The sales advisor then needs to arrange a convenient viewing time for the seller and lastly liaises with the buyer again to confirm these appointments.
Acquiring Properties
As the selling of properties is clearly their main objective, Engel & Völkers' sales advisors therefore need to always have a selection of saleable properties available to show to current and prospective buyers, therefore canvassing is their most important and regular function.
Canvassing entails a daily combination of activities such as:
- Cold-calling home owners in their sub-market by way of actual house visits
- Telephonic canvassing to enquire whether the owner wants to sell
- Dropping off marketing material such as postcards, calendars, leaflets highlighting their successes in the area, invites to other show houses etc
- Follow-up calls after the marketing material has been dropped to determine any interest
- Emailing existing clients
- Newsletter emails to the whole suburb to create top of mind awareness
If the home owner requests their property be placed on the market, the sales advisor needs to visit the home the same day, to prevent opposition agents from jumping the gun and listing first. At the same time a deed search is done on the property to establish who the registered owners are, so that the sales advisor knows they are dealing with the persons legally entitled to sell the property.
A property is listed by carefully inspecting the home, making notes of the features on a detailed listing form, asking relevant questions, taking a variety of photographs, establishing what exactly is included or excluded should the property be sold, and much more. The sales advisor then completes a comprehensive market value presentation to ensure that the seller has the correct expectations of the value of their property and what it should be marketed at, this is presented and agreed with the sellers. Sales advisors are informed of the general sales activities in the relevant suburb, they will be able to give an accurate, market-related, selling price for the property.
Once the selling price is agreed upon, Engel & Völkers' sales advisors lists the property on their unique and sophisticated listing programme and enters all the details viewed at the property into this database. The best photos of the property are selected, edited and linked to the property address on the database, so that the home gets the best possible exposure.
Often it might feel that a sales advisor visits an owner once and immediately sells the property upon taking their first buyer to view the property. Although this does not happen very often, sellers are urged to remember that a lot of additional work took place before the property was sold. The buyer had to be found and a relationship built, which will also continue to be done long after the sale. General marketing of the brand is also conducted to ensure that the agent received the listing, as well as ongoing training and research to ensure that the agent is up to standard so that you will receive the best possible service. Always ask yourself the question, 'Would you rather have a specialist working on your home and selling it in the fastest possible time, for the best possible price, or would you prefer to see an agent every day, bringing unqualified clients and over exposing your home, and taking months to sell your property, just to ensure that he / she 'earned' their commission?'
Should the above situation not be the case, which is often not, once the listing is complete it is uploaded to the Engel & Völkers international listing website www.engelvoelkers.com. This process generates a unique web ID number which the sales advisor will send to the seller so that they can view their property online and approve all the detail, especially the correct price. After this process, the property will be loaded onto more than fifty other website portals. These tasks are often completed by the local administrative staff whose sole responsibility is to support the sales advisor.
The property may also be advertised by the sales advisor in our monthly National Guide magazine which is distributed nationally, and available in an online version at: www.nationalguidetorealestate.co.za. The sales advisor is able to produce an exclusive property brochure property, and will then email this presentation to all relevant buyers listed by that office in the specific price range. This is a very successful marketing tool and well received by potential purchasers.
Urgency is a competency well understood by top sales advisors, and they will ensure their new listing is captured and listed with appropriate marketing and advertising activities expediently.
Regular show houses need to be arranged by the agent as these are always well attended by potential buyers. A show house takes hours of preparation to ensure it is successfully marketed and exposed. Various other marketing activities are also conducted such as local newspaper advertising, exhibitions and property showcases, exposure in our unique property shops and much more.
From all of these marketing activities, calls are received from prospective buyers by the sales advisor and they need to advise, assist and pre-qualify the buyer in order to ensure they are exposed to appropriately priced properties. After the pre-qualification process, buyers are taken to the targeted property as well as similar ones that the sales advisor feels would suit the price range, lifestyle and expectation of the buyer.
The sales advisor will always try to negotiate the best deal for both buyers and sellers and once a contract is signed and accepted, they will send the completed contract to their attorney to start the registration process. A checklist is managed by the sales advisor to follow up regularly to ensure each necessary step is followed through and the property timeously registered. During this time the buyer and seller will receive regular feedback from the sales advisor to keep them abreast of the progress.
One of Engel & Völkers' focal points is that the sales advisor is expected to provide buyers and sellers with after sales service. There may be special requirements from one of these parties which need to be accommodated. A property sales advisor does not keep office hours, they need to be available to clients at all times as clients are the most important part of the business. "In order to maintain service levels, potential sales candidates are screened through tools that we specifically developed to test potential sales advisor's regarding personality traits, competencies as well as well as how they will fit into the current team at each office" says Craig Hutchison. This together with the training they receive at our in-house training academy, upon joining the company, plays an important role in service levels delivered to the client. Many of our most successful sales advisors joined us with absolutely no property experience whatsoever, but their passion for the property industry together with proper training on international standards, and the unique support system that we have in place, ensures that clients receive the best service.
As confirmed by Riaan van Deventer, Head of Real Estate at Engel & Völkers Southern Africa "The secret to an Engel & Völkers sales advisor's success is a structured and disciplined plan for each day. There is no other way."


text: Pro Farmer's 2012 Ag Person of the Year: Cattle Producers December 26, 2012 02:50 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Chip Flory Farm Journal Host of AgriTalk & AgriTalk After the Bell and Farm Journal Economist Email Twitter Picking an individual for our person of the year was difficult this year. There just wasn't enough "good stuff" that happened to find a standout among all the people that influence the ag industry. The list of contenders was long, but our in-house debate over candidates revealed many ag leaders suffer from "overreaching." These leaders are in their positions to represent the interest of the groups they lead, but that representation shouldn't include consequences for others in the ag industry. Unfortunately, that happens too often. As a result, we selected a survivor for our 2012 Ag Person of the Year: U.S. cattle producers. It was a tough year! Drought raised costs for cow-calf producers; high-priced calves and feed stressed cattle finishers; lean finely textured beef (LFTB or "pink slime") confusion hit a peak in March; and the fourth U.S. confirmation of BSE ("mad cow") hit in April. That's a bucket-full of issues. Poultry, dairy and pork producers dealt with similar issues, but LFTB and BSE put cattle producers over the top this year. And while many cattle producers rallied against ethanol in 2012, it was their demand for DDGs that helped bring some ethanol facilities back on line when 2012-corn supplies were available. Read more from Pro Farmer's Chip Flory. Back to news


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Charlotte Esch, 85
Charlotte lone Esch, age 85 of Broken Bow, died Wednesday, July 27, 2011, at Jennie M. Melham Memorial Medical Center. Graveside services were Monday, August 1, at the Broken Bow Cemetary with Pastor Michael Lange officiating. Govier Brothers Mortuary was in charge of the arrangements. Memorials have been established to Custer Care Center and Heritage Hall. Charlotte lone was born Jan. 2, 1926, in a sod house southwest of Broken Bow near Ash Creek, the youngest child of Bert and Rosa (Deal) Oxford. She spent her childhood on the family farm in the East Custer community playing with and entertaining her many nieces and nephews. She often recalled the day her mother asked a traveling salesman to stay for dinner. She was disappointed to hear him decline the invitation as she knew that her pet goat had already climbed into the salesman's car and had eaten the sack lunch sitting on his backseat. January 2, 1947, Charlotte and Pete Esch were married at the Catholic Rectory in Broken Bow. They traveled through the blizzard that afternoon in order to spend their honeymoon in Grand Island. Charlotte and Pete rented farms in the Broken Bow area before purchasing their own farm north of Broken Bow. They moved from town to their farm after the completion of their new home in 1964. Charlotte helped Pete with the crops and cattle on the farm, but also over the years worked as a cook at Broken Bow Schools, at True Value, and Doty's Department Store. She took pride in maintaining her beautiful yard and garden. Her children and grandchildren visiting her home would always find a full coffee pot, oatmeal creme pies, or a wonderful homemade meal ready for them. She enjoyed quilting and made quilts for all her children, grandchildren, and many great-grandchildren. In later years she looked forward to her afternoon trip into town to have coffee with her friends. After Pete's passing in 2004, Charlotte continued to reside on her own at the farm until 2008, when she moved to Custer Care Center South and then more recently to Heritage Hall. Charlotte is survived by son, Ted Esch (Cris) of Broken Bow; daughters, Patty Reed (Larry) of Ansley and Sonia Richeson (Jay) of Gothenburg; grandchildren, Gail Reed (Tara) ofAnsley, Sara Varney (Jeff) of Ansley, Amber Evans (Mike) of Broken Bow, Trent Esch of Broken Bow, Joe Richeson (Angie) of Gothenburg, Tana Wagener (Jeremy) of Lincoln, Amelia Larrabee (Jason) of Omaha, Belinda Chaplin (Jason) of Broken Bow, Isabelle Boyll (Travis) of Kearney, Natasha Dalby (Josh) of Broken Bow; 17 great-grandchildren; brother, Orville Oxford of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and many nieces and nephews. Preceeding Charlotte in death was her husband; parents; granddaughter, LaCosta Esch; sisters, Marie Eggleston, Ruby Glendy, Melva Dunkel; and brothers, Clarence Oxford and Lawrence Oxford.Published in Custer County Chief, Aug. 4, 2011


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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
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On December 5th, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a group backed by out-of-state elites, announced it will pursue its most extreme anti-gun legislative agenda to date during the upcoming 2019 Washington Legislative Session.
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The 2012 election is one of the strangest ones in my lifetime. Generally, incumbent presidents can be expected to win without much of a contest. Only three past presidents were in trouble on the eve of an election, and most people don't remember much or anything about the contests involving Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush.
One would expect Barack Obama to be a slam dunk, as the sports enthusiasts would say. But he's in trouble for a variety of reasons that have to do with the economy, his first debate and the unreasonable expectations of voters who chose him four years ago because they saw him as an agent of change. So for me, this election has boiled down to making an intelligent choice that reflects who I am and not just what I want the other guy to be.
I am very much a Democrat when it comes to national elections, although I voted for Ronald Reagan and quite a few other respected Republican office holders in my lifetime. At the outset of this much-too-long campaign, I thought I'd give Mitt Romney a chance. I wanted to see how an experienced businessman would translate his success into running the country. I watched him in his primary debates and read everything I could about him and his career.
I've tried and tried to determine what his goals were and who the real Mitt Romney is. My friends who are Romney supporters keep telling me that I shouldn't listen to what he's said in the past, and that I should trust him to do the right thing. Even with his daily shifting of positions, I'm assured that once he gets into the White House, Washington will once again be Ronald Reagan's "shining city on the hill".
There's another way to look at presidential candidates beyond their speeches. As the father of four daughters, I have to evaluate how each candidate might impact their future. On that score, Mitt Romney is a big disappointment. In order to placate the right wing of the Republican Party, he has espoused an anti-woman philosophy. What's wrong with equal pay for the same work done by a man?


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Pink isn't my favorite color, but photos of past National Cherry Blossom Festivals in Washington, D.C., are enough to make me start shopping for Japanese cherry trees.
The annual festival in Washington — this year's peak viewing dates are projected to be March 29 to April 3 — is the granddaddy of American cherry blossom festivals.
It celebrates the 1912 gift [PDF] of 3,020 Japanese cherry trees from the city of Tokyo to the city of Washington. There have been many trees added since then, including 500 saplings in 1999 that were propagated from cuttings taken from the original 1912 trees. (About 100 of the original Yoshino trees, which have a life expectancy of 47 years, still survive.)
Supporting Japan
Even though the festival doesn't officially open until Saturday, today there will be a Stand With Japan walk around the Tidal Basin to benefit the Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami fund.
If you can't make it to Washington, it's possible to attend a cherry blossom festival closer to home. There are events in:
California (inlcudes a Red Cross fundraiser for Japan aid)
Ohio [PDF], and elsewhere.
Some are larger than others, but these aren't small-potatoes affairs: Macon, Ga., for example, spotlights more than 300,000 Yoshino cherry trees.
There also are festivals in Canada, England, China, Australia — and, of course, in Japan, where cherry-blossom viewing, called doing hanami, is practically a national sport. In addition to admiring the blossoms, hanami involves includes strolling and picnicking under the trees. There are dozens of festivals throughout the country, many with their trees illuminated at night.
In light of the awful events that have taken place recently in Japan, this isn't the year to travel there. But Japan will recover, and its cherry trees will survive, more beautiful than ever.
Cherry trees for cold climates
Even the most hardy of those spectacular ornamental cherries are iffy in my windy, cold location, but if I want to window shop online I can look at the wonderful cherries growing at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. (The BBG holds its own hanami celebration each year.)
For gardeners with suitable conditions — USDA Zones 5 to 8 — an ornamental cherry is boon to any landscape. And you can plant a Yoshino tree while supporting the National Cherry Blossom Festival at the same time if you can purchase it from the Arbor Day Foundation, which gives a portion of the proceeds to the festival.
As for cold-climate gardeners like me, we're left to grow some of the edible Prunus cultivars — less spectacular blooms, more spectacular fruit — and chokecherries [PDF], pin cherries, sand cherries, and Amur cherries, which have less spectacular blooms and less spectacular fruit.
They're fine landscaping plants, appreciated by wildlife, but have no eye-popping pink blossoms in spring.
Editor's Note: For more on cherry blossoms, see:
The Monitor's Cherry Blossoms photo gallery
Peter Grier's blog post, Cherry Blossom Festival 2011: a time to reflect on Japan
Karan Davis Cutler blogs regularly at Diggin' It. To read more, click here. She's a former magazine editor and newspaper columnist and the author of scores of garden articles and more than a dozen books, including "Burpee - The Complete Flower Gardener" and "Herb Gardening for Dummies." Karan now struggles to garden in the unyieldingly dense clay of Addison County, Vt., on the shore of Lake Champlain, where she is working on a book about gardening to attract birds and other wildlife.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Mar 2013 23:43 UTC
Countries are starting to get into the patent business; countries like France and South Korea are setting up patent entities to protect domestic companies. "Intellectual Discovery presents itself as a defensive alliance: if a South Korean company finds itself targeted in a lawsuit, for instance, it can access the patents being compiled by Intellectual Discovery to hit back." I support this. If, say, a small Dutch company were to come under unfair patent aggression by bullies like Apple and Microsoft (quite likely these days), I damn well expect my government to protect them from it. If you can't fix the system, work with it. As simple as that.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Tickets for UC Santa Barbara's NCAA Quarterfinal men's soccer match against Northwestern, scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 25 at Harder Stadium, will be available on Friday, Nov. 24 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. at the Thunderdome Ticket Office and on Saturday, Nov. 25 at the Harder Stadium Ticket Office beginning at 4:00 p.m., it was announced Wednesday.
Tickets, which are $10.00 for adults and $5.00 for students and children 12 and under, are all general admission and available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The slated time for Friday sales is prior to UC Santa Barbara's women's basketball game against 24th-ranked Louisville at the Thunderdome scheduled for 7:00 p.m. that night. The Saturday time is two hours earlier than a normal match.
Fans who do wish to attend Saturday night's match, are asked to park in UCSB's Mesa Parking Structure. Parking and Transportation Services will have attendants on duty to sell parking passes for the event.
The winner of the Gaucho-Wildcat match will advance to the NCAA College Cup, the equivalent of the Final Four for collegiate soccer. In 2004, UCSB hosted Virginia Commonwealth in a quarterfinal match and more the 11,000 attended.


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Where We Saw It Electrolux, KitchenAid/Whirlpool, Franke, Smeg
These stovetops were front and center all week at EuroCucina: All the easy cleanup of a glass surface, but the power of a gas stove. These sleek, beautiful, gas on glass cooktops we saw this week combine beauty and functionality in a serious way. I'm curious to know how the glass holds up to dropped pans and knives; does it chip or scratch over time?
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DOVER — The value of Dover's Christmas Parade can be summed up by the wide-eyed stares and smiles of the children when Santa appeared on Central Avenue Sunday afternoon: priceless.
Ian Campbell, 3, of Rochester, wiggled in his father's arms when the jolly, bearded man in red began waving in his seat on Dover's Fire and Rescue truck just around the corner from the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce. Campbell's brown eyes grew larger, a smirk came across his face and he started pointing toward Santa, someone most kids look forward to seeing all year round.
"Look! Look!" children started to scream, "Hi, Santa!"
'Tis the season now, whether people are ready for the cold snow and the holiday gift shopping or not. Parades help mark the start of it all.
Dover's Christmas parade, themed "One Thousand Gifts," was chosen to have the community reflect on the gifts within the city and its organizations.
St. Mary Academy and Saint Thomas Aquinas chose this year's theme and most floats followed it, with children on the back of tractor trailers and trucks surrounded by wrapped presents, Christmas trees, fake snow and holiday music.
St. Mary Academy themselves had a nun on the back of their truck, pretending to teach three students sitting at desks. Behind the trailer was a group of students dressed as gifts with signs that said, "One hundred years of the 'presence' of St. Mary's," wishing the academy a happy 100th birthday.
Dover Main Street handed out Federal Savings Bank reusable tote bags filled with merchant discounts, maps and lists of holiday happenings, to help promote Discover Dover Shift Your Shopping and bring people to shop locally in Dover for the holidays. They also had children laying in rolling beds — who most likely were the only ones warm at this year's parade, as temperatures were as low as 36 degrees Sunday afternoon with wind gusts blowing just enough to make noses run and cheeks turn red.
Despite the cold, holiday music blasted from passing vehicles, like "All I Want For Christmas," "Jingle Bells," and "Frosty the Snowman," while companies and organizations such as Liberty Mutual, Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Girl Scout and Brownies Troops, John Laskey Towing, Federal Savings Bank, Relyco, Harvey's Bakery, Dover Lodge of Elks #184, WERZ, 100.3 WHEB, 98.7 The Bay, Bill Dube, Inc., and the Dover Teen Center strolled along Central Avenue, waving to onlookers and tossing candy to the kids on the sidewalks.
The City Lights Committee dressed as trees in the parade to help advertise for this Friday's Festival of Trees at City Hall, where people can participate in a silent auction and stroll the aisles of trees decorated by local businesses.
Following the committee were dozens of Mr. B's Tae Kwon Do participants, dressed in their uniforms topped with Santa Claus hats, who stopped along the route to do a demonstration, breaking pieces of wood in half with just a kick of their feet.
Notable and local Dover celebrities, Joey and Linda Hagan, owners of Jewelry Creations, were this year's grand marshals, coming through the parade this year in a golf cart, followed by Dover Mounted Patrol and the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year, Pam Simpson, of Harvey's Bakery, cruising through in a black convertible from Bill Dube, Inc. Ms. New Hampshire America, Miss Strafford County's Outstanding Teen Caroline Carter and Miss Apple Harvest's Outstanding Teen Allie Nault also came through Dover on Sunday in the parade.
Dover High School and Marshwood High School marching bands waltzed along Central Avenue, and Dover football and cheerleading squads tossed candy while strolling along, making it clear that a parade was in town with their hype and energy and live instrumental songs.
Fire trucks from Dover, Newmarket, Rollinsford, Barrington and Lebanon, Maine and Berwick, Maine brought up the rear, making Dover's "One Thousand Gifts" Christmas Parade complete.
"It is one day for a few hours that we all get to be kids again," parade committee member Stephanie Bolduc said. "You can show your children you don't have to spend money to have a good time, that at the end of the day, it's the simple things that bring the greatest joy."
Christmas parade kicks off holiday season in Dover
DOVER — The value of Dover's Christmas Parade can be summed up by the wide-eyed stares and smiles of the children when Santa appeared on Central Avenue Sunday afternoon: priceless.


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Peru is without doubt one of the most fascinating of south america, and has some of the most important cultural attractions in the world. Therefore its concidered a diverse country, rich in culture and traditions.
Country´s name República del Perú
Area 1,285,216 kilometers
Capital Lima
Inhabitants 27 millions
Boarders Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia
Laguages Español, Quechua, Aymara
Currency Sol (US $1 = 3.5 soles)
Political System Democratic Republic
President Alan García
Religion Catholics 90%, Protestant, Judes and Native Religions
Country code (ph) +51


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text: WR Thaddeus Snodgrass of Springfield, OH has offers from USC, Ohio State, Penn State, Kentucky, Michigan State, Nebraska, West Virginia and Notre Dame among others. Snodgrass says he is not too familiar with the Gamecocks but is showing interest. "They're just telling me they want me to come down for a visit," he said. "I'm supposed to call coach (Steve) Spurrier tonight." Snodgrass expects to make the trip to Columbia though he is unsure of when. His only visit thus far has been to Kentucky. "I loved it there," said Snodgrass. "I love the academics, the coaches and the players." USC, Kentucky and West Virginia are showing the most interest, according to Snodgrass. Though he did not name any favorites, he did says that he will not attend Ohio State and that distance to home does not matter. As a junior, Snodgrass had 33 receptions for over 400 yards and five touchdowns.


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Soak Up Japan's Oases of Calm (Bonus: Snow Monkeys)
A soul-warming, haiku-evoking, clothing-light tour through a nation's beloved natural thermal baths
I WAS SITTING in a tidal pool on the cold, windy beach of an ancient volcanic island 60 miles off Japan's southwest coast. The ocean pounded the beach's rocks a few feet away. The lean Japanese man sitting next to me had left his bike shorts in a pile on the ground behind a seaweed-strewn rock, just opposite my discarded clothes. My fellow bather and I shifted our gazes between the oncoming waves and one another. It was all a bit awkward, but neither of us budged.
We were in one of Japan's celebrated onsen, the natural thermal baths found all over the volcanic island nation. I had come to spend a week exploring the country's variety. My itinerary included hot black-sand onsen, those with postcard-shaming views of Mount Fuji and even remote mountain hot springs frequented by red-faced snow monkeys.
Onsen traditionally refers to geothermal-water springs. The word can also apply to bathing facilities built around the springs. They are usually gender-segregated and feature both indoor and outdoor pools.
The baths are a cornerstone of Japanese culture; the nation's love affair with onsen dates back to the eighth century. Bathing in one is believed to improve circulation and relieve any number of aliments, including arthritis and stress. Another noted benefit is the waters' ability to break down barriers via "hadaka no tsukiai" (naked companionship) in a homey atmosphere.
Hirauchi Kaichu onsen, the tidal pool in which the man and I were poaching, is on Yakushima, an island whose cedar forest earned a spot on Unesco's World Heritage List (and was the inspiration for Hayao Miyazaki's anime classic "Princess Mononoke"). There were none of the appurtenances that usually accompany these baths—no changing room, no yukuta (bathrobe), no vanity mirror and stool. This was onsen in primal form.
I had showed up with throbbing feet after a day of hiking. Slipping into the hot bath was instant relief, both for my muscles and my mind (naked stranger notwithstanding). The experience beat any massage.
I departed Yakushima determined to find other onsen that would offer satisfaction of equal caliber. A hydrofoil ride over the tumultuous East China Sea led me to the city of Ibusuki, which dangles off Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands. Ibusuki is legendary for its sunamushi onsen, dry sand baths heated by subterranean lava. I had booked a stay at Ibusuki Hakusuikan hotel, which claims the town's best sunamushi and 25 baths of varying salinity and temperature.
" A benefit of note is their ability to break down barriers via 'hadaka no tsukiai' (naked communion) in a homey atmosphere. "
After checking in, I headed to the sunamushi, a long strip of black sand behind the 25 baths. An attendant dug a sand pit for me. He then instructed me to lie down in the hole before shoveling scorched sand over my body. It felt like the beginning of a "Twilight Zone" episode—one where the curious travel writer is buried alive. I winced while shovelfuls of black sand flew my way.
The sunamushi is purported to remove toxins and smooth the skin. Though 10 minutes in the sulfurous sand is recommended, I was profusely sweating within two. Just when I thought I wasn't going to make the 10-minute mark, two demure women appeared in the sand next to me. They giggled as the attendant began to bury them. I stayed the course and sweated out a week's worth of beer.
Not all onsen outings are tests of endurance. Hakone is a popular mountain resort town in the Kanagawa Prefecture, southwest of Tokyo. Views of Mount Fuji don't come better than those from Hotel Green Plaza Hakone's onsen, which is fed by Sengokuhara, one of the area's major hot springs. As is the case at most onsen, clothing is forbidden; show up wearing a bathing suit, as I did, and you will be scolded.
Soon after my arrival, I beelined to the hotel's outdoor bath and slipped beneath its steam-topped waters. I sat still, watching the moon float through an inky sky. After my soak, I shuffled to dinner in nothing but my robe and wooden geta sandals, standard issue at most onsen and generally the expected postbath dinner wardrobe.
Morning onsen rituals can differ from their evening counterparts, so I revisited the site of my moon bath at daybreak. Instead of the beguiling night sky, I saw Mount Fuji in all its symmetrical, snow-capped splendor. Before long, a fog moved in and Fuji-San vanished. I was reminded of 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho's words, "How pleasant, just once, not to see Fuji through mist."
My short time in Hakone ignited a craving for more transcendent soaks. I hopped on the Shinkansen bullet train to Nagano Prefecture, whose Southern Japanese Alps are home to several onsen. One such bath, in Jigokudani Yaen-koen National Park, is reserved for wild Japanese macaques (also known as snow monkeys). I made a reservation at Hoshinoya Karuizawa, a posh hotel modeled after a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn). The hotel boasts an ultramodern onsen and offers a snow-monkey package for those who wish to see these gray-furred, wily creatures.
The Nagano town of Karuizawa is the Hamptons of Japan, with a full-time population of about 18,000 and a surge of summer residents that includes members of the Japanese royal family. The town's public onsen was relaxing enough, but the resort's private baths were what I was after. They're open from 4 p.m. to 11 a.m., and divided into three chambers, each with less light than the last. The third chamber's only illumination comes from a narrow window that lets in a shaft of light.
The Lowdown: Dipping Into Japan's Onsen
Getting There: A 14-hour flight from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport takes you to Narita, where you can board a JR train. A seven- day unlimited JR train pass ($306, must be purchased outside Japan, japanrailpass.net), is the wisest choice for visiting onsen, many of which are in rural areas serviced by rail. When commuting between Kagoshima and Yakushima, you can take the two-hour Toppy ferry ($145 round-trip, 81-09-9255-7888). Alternately, Japan Airlines offers a 35-minute flight between Kagoshima and Yakushima Airport.
Bathing and Staying There: Yakushima's Hirauchi Kaichu ($1, yakushima-yh.net) is a bare- bones oceanfront onsen, accessible for two hours before and after low tide. Ibusuki's Hakusuikan Hotel (rates from $156, hakusuikan.co.jp) has 25 natural baths and a restorative volcanic-sand bath; Hakone's Hotel Green Plaza (rates from $130, www.hgp.co.jp) is beloved for its views of Mount Fuji; Hoshinoya Karuizawa (rates from $355, global.hoshinoresort.com) is a luxury hotel with an ultra-mod onsen. Jigokudani Yaen-koen National Park is home to bathing wild snow monkeys ($5 admission; open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; jigokudani-yaenkoen.co.jp).
What to Bring: Most onsen provide robes, slippers and towels. Hiking shoes and waterproof outdoor wear for hiking dewy Yakushima and snowy Jigokudani Yaen-koen are a must.
I visited twice over the course of my stay; the first time during an afternoon with other guests, the second visit at night on my own. It was pitch black, and dead quiet. No crashing waves, no giggling, no Fuji-San haiku floating through my head—just me in a dark, warm, sensory-deprivation bath for 15 minutes. This alone was worth the flight.
The next day, I set out with a hotel guide to see the snow monkeys. This required a 90-minute drive followed by a 45-minute hike—short enough to allow for a quick visit, but long enough to deter bus tours. Fat flakes of snow began to fall as my guide and I started up the path that leads to the famous baths of Jigokudani Yaen-koen.
The higher we climbed, the denser the snow became. Because we had started early, I had assumed we would be the first people to reach the onsen. Yet a bevy of Japanese grandmothers in sensible shoes streamed down the mountain, each greeting me with a hearty "Ohayou!"
Twenty minutes later, we arrived at the steamy pool. It was choked with monkeys, their fur wet, their faces bright and red as October apples. They sat still, presumably enjoying the toasty temperature, just as the naked stranger on Yakushima and the two women in Ibusuki had.
The baby monkeys were especially endearing—not so the adults, who had formed a daisy chain and were busy picking parasites off each other. This wasn't an onsen you'd want to dip into, though now that I was a true convert to these waters, I could almost understand why many people have tried.


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Columbus Zoo
Hosted by: Westland Area Library
The event will start on: Jul 07, 2014 1:30 PM
And will end on: Jul 07, 2014 2:30 PM
Location: Westland Area Library
Address: 4740 W. Broad Street Columbus, OH 43228
The Columbus Zoo will bring an assortment of animals for us to learn about and view. (No touching of animals.) All Ages.
Grove City Library 10:30 a.m.
Westland Area Library 1:30 p.m.


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Back in December, The Herald editorialized that "New Hampshire's lawmakers and governor are going to find the glitter of gambling gold very difficult to resist when building the budget for the next two years."
Back in December, The Herald editorialized that "New Hampshire's lawmakers and governor are going to find the glitter of gambling gold very difficult to resist when building the budget for the next two years."
Sadly, that prediction has come true with Gov. Maggie Hassan including $80 million in her budget proposal from licensing one large casino, presumably at Rockingham Park in Salem.
In her budget address last week, Hassan stated: "The revenue from one casino would mean tens of millions of dollars a year that can be used to strengthen our economy and address our priorities, such as freezing in-state tuition and addressing our mental health crisis, as well as funds to address social costs like substance abuse and gambling addiction.
"A high-end casino would also bring a significant economic boost, creating more than an estimated 2,000 jobs during construction and 1,000 long-term jobs, while attracting new businesses and economic development."
The Siren Song of the gambling lobby can be difficult to resist.
While the Herald has long opposed expanded gambling in the state, we certainly understand the governor's desire to fund so many crucial services that are now underfunded, including our state's university and community college systems, mental health services, the CHINS program for troubled children, care for the sick and our disabled veterans, combating drug crime, and repairing our roads and bridges.
And it is possible that the benefits of a thoughtful single-casino gambling plan, with a muscular regulatory system established and ready to keep the gambling operators in check, could outweigh the many negative aspects of expanded gambling.
But New Hampshire doesn't have a plan or a regulatory structure in place.
The lead bill, SB152, suggests that the lottery commission, which has no experience overseeing gambling operations, will "regulate, license and enforce the provisions for video lottery and table games operated at a gaming location."
The bill suggests the state police, already understaffed and without experience overseeing a Las Vegas-style casino, will create a "gaming enforcement division."
The plan to hold harmless local charities now receiving vital funds from charitable gaming is murky at best.
If the long-term plan is to have a single casino in the state, voters should question why the bill "creates a commission to study the operation of the licensed gaming location and its effects on the community, and to make recommendations that may include whether to issue additional licenses."
During his last days in office, Gov. John Lynch sounded the alarm against this sort of naive thinking.
"People say it will only be in Salem. But at some point, revenue will decline again and people will say, 'Well why not put one on the Seacoast or near the (New Hampshire Motor) Speedway?" Lynch said. "If all we were concerned about was the next two years, that would be one thing. But I'm looking at the next 30 years."
All around the nation we find examples of casino operators over-promising and under-delivering on tax revenues. And we see states, addicted to gambling money, unable to resist operators' demands for expansion when they say they need it to keep the money flowing.
We urge the legislature to build a budget that does not rely on gambling money and instead judge expanded gaming on its own merits and not as a quick fix to the state's short-term fiscal challenges.


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Clippers chief clarifies college hoops experience
HONOLULU (AP) — The interim chief executive of the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday responded to a report questioning his playing experience by saying he played one season of freshman basketball at the University of Hawaii and wasn't very good.
In response to a Deadspin report questioning Parsons' playing experience, a spokesman for interim Clippers CEO Dick Parsons said the former chairman of Citigroup and Time Warner never claimed to play varsity.
"Dick played on the freshman team at the University of Hawaii in 1964-65," Parsons spokesman Ed Adler said. "He never said that he played varsity, that he lettered, or that he was a good player."
Hawaii athletics officials said record-keeping during the era was poor and the school has no record of anyone who played on the 1964-65 freshman team.
"We can't verify anybody played on that team," Hawaii athletics spokesman Derek Inouchi said. "For '64-65 we have nothing at all for the (junior varsity) freshman team."
Other university records neither confirmed nor contradicted Parsons' position. A student newspaper report from Oct. 27, 1964, says it was the first year Hawaii had a freshman basketball team. But the newspaper did minimal reporting on the squad throughout the season and didn't mention Parsons. Library records showed Hawaii didn't publish a yearbook for the 1964-65 school year.
University officials could not immediately check student records to verify Parsons' attendance because of a power outage at the student services building.
In announcing Parsons' hiring May 9, a statement issued by the team begins its bio of him by saying: "After attending the University of Hawaii, where he played basketball ...."
Other media reports over the years include references to Parsons playing varsity basketball at Hawaii.
The NBA hired Parsons to run the team as the league tries to force current owner Donald Sterling to sell. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver handed down a lifetime ban to Sterling for making racist remarks, barring the owner from anything to do with the team or league. NBA owners are scheduled to meet June 3 on whether to force Sterling to sell.
Oskar Garcia can be reached on Twitter at http://twitter.com/oskargarcia


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Mexico appoints new chief of federal police
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government has chosen the man who runs its national security council to be the new chief of federal police two days after the previous official resigned.
Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said Tuesday that Monte Alejandro Rubido is replacing Manuel Mondragon as the head of the National Security Commission. Senators must still approve the appointment.
Rubido oversees crime statistics as the National Public Safety System executive secretary. Most recently, Rubido has become the security spokesman for the government, delivering statements on actions in the western state of Michoacan where vigilante groups are fighting a dangerous drug cartel.
Rubido will supervise the launch of a new gendarmerie, a 5,000-police force that will fight common crime. The former head of police Mondragon will continue to work as an adviser.


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Some patients painstakingly vet their surgeons to find a highly skilled professional to perform their operation, only to discover later that they didn't get the person they wanted or expected.
Some patients painstakingly vet their surgeons to find a highly skilled professional to perform their operation, only to discover later that they didn't get the person they wanted or expected.
A different physician can step in for legitimate reasons, such as a medical emergency involving the surgeon. And at academic medical centers, residents and other junior health professionals often perform procedures under supervision. Medical experts and patient advocates agree that is acceptable as long as patients are informed and give consent.
But in some cases, patient advocates say, there can be an actual bait-and-switch, when a prominent surgeon promises to carry out the procedure but does not.
It's not clear how often such "ghost surgeries" occur, because they are not tracked or studied. But lawsuits provide a glimpse into the allegations of unhappy patients who had bad outcomes, started to look into what went wrong, and learned they were mistaken about which doctor performed the procedure.
Denyse Richter of New Hampshire filed a medical malpractice case after her heart was severely damaged in a cardiac operation. She had sought out a renowned, triple board-certified cardiologist, but instead the procedure was performed by a less experienced provider. Now Richter requires a pacemaker.
"I sought the rock star, and I got the opening act," said Richter, whose case went to a jury in 2008 before being settled for an undisclosed amount.
In Chicago, an orthopedic surgeon filed a suit in 2004 that accuses Rush University Medical Center and a group of fellow surgeons of billing Medicare for operations conducted by unsupervised medical residents. And last month, a patient sued a urologist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, alleging he did not perform her kidney operation as promised.
Patient advocates say it's not uncommon to hear from people with similar stories, though such cases can be difficult to win in court.
"We can go into the operating room, be sedated and have a different person we know nothing about cut into our bodies," said Dr. Julia Hallisy, a dentist who is president of The Empowered Patient Coalition, based in San Francisco. "It's alarming and disconcerting on so many levels, not just from a medical or legal standpoint, but from a trust and ethical standpoint."
Hallisy got interested in ghost surgery in 1998, when a review of her late daughter's medical records revealed that the name of the surgeon she had expected to perform a biopsy wasn't in the operative notes. Listed instead were two medical residents, Hallisy said.
Yet the surgeon had appeared after the procedure — dressed in scrubs and holding a vial containing a piece of her daughter's bone — to say it went well, Hallisy said.
It "seemed intentionally misleading," she said, and although her young daughter wasn't harmed, the family felt manipulated and filed a complaint with the California medical board. Hallisy said the experience helped motivate her to start an advocacy group; patients, she said, want informed, transparent and shared decision-making.
The American College of Surgeons tells its members that it's unethical to mislead a patient about the identity of the person performing an operation.
"This principle applies to the surgeon who performs the operation when the patient believes that another physician is operating ('ghost surgery') and to the surgeon who delegates a procedure to another surgeon without the knowledge and consent of the patient," the organization's guidelines state.
The guidelines also make clear that the surgeon is responsible for the patient's welfare throughout the operation, including remaining in the operating room or the immediate vicinity.
"The surgeon may delegate part of the operation to associates or residents under his or her personal direction, because modern surgery is often a team effort," the guidelines state. "If a resident is to perform the operation "� under the general supervision of the attending surgeon, the patient should have prior knowledge."
Dr. Joanne Conroy, chief health care officer for the Association of American Medical Colleges, the organization representing the nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals, said informed consent has greatly improved in an effort to be more transparent about who is doing what.
"Over the last 30 years, we have become much more explicit about the fact that students will be involved in your care," she said. "We have been much more granular about talking about their involvement and talking to patients about their presence."
But even patients who shop around for a surgeon may not take the time to understand what exactly will happen in the operating room. At least one study reported that most people don't read their consent form, which spells out who will be involved in critical parts of the procedure.
As stark as some situations may seem, experts say a gray area exists where misunderstandings between patients and providers can occur. Advocates advise patients to review their surgical consent form early enough to ask questions about who will be involved with the procedure and to discuss any concerns with their surgeons.
"A true informed consent process begins with a transparent sharing of information," said Patty Skolnik, executive director of Citizens for Patient Safety, a national organization based in Colorado, "and that has to be an effective and open communication between the patient and the health professional."
In the case involving Northwestern urologist Dr. Robert Nadler, Mary Ann Bart, of Springfield, Ill., said she made sure her consent form reflected her wishes by writing that "consent is for Dr. Nadler to perform procedure himself."
But according to Bart's lawsuit, the doctor never scrubbed in for the procedure to remove her recurrent kidney stones, despite a verbal promise and Nadler's signature on the form. Instead, she alleges, one of his urology fellows did the operation.
Complications from the surgery required Bart to be resuscitated twice, and she has suffered medical and emotional problems that would not have happened had Nadler overseen her care during and after the operation, her lawsuit charges.
"There's no part of my mind or body that was not affected by this," Bart said.
Neither Nadler nor the urology fellow named in the suit, Dr. David Rebuck, responded to requests for an interview, and Northwestern declined to comment on the lawsuit, citing pending litigation.
"We are an academic medical center where it's part of our mission to teach, develop and employ the very best physicians, nurses and health specialists," a statement from the hospital said. "It's this aspect of our health system — the fact that we're a teaching hospital — that speaks to how and why we are among the nation's most advanced and among patients' most preferred hospitals."
Regarding consent, the statement said that "generally speaking, surgical consent forms allow for supervision and assistance from multiple staff members. This differs significantly from 'informed consent,' which can't be generalized, as it signifies a patient-physician conversation, and every physician has a different approach."
In Richter's case, she had opted to have an elective heart procedure so she could stop taking the medication that had kept her lifelong arrhythmia under control. Richter, 39 at the time, wanted to have a baby.
She said Dr. Laurence Epstein, chief of the cardiac arrhythmia service at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, had agreed to handle her operation himself. But he booked a conflicting appointment days earlier and, instead of notifying her or rescheduling, asked an associate to step in without telling her, her lawsuit said.
The physicians' attorney, Philip E. Murray Jr., said the associate was well-qualified, and the doctors did not try to carry out a bait-and-switch. When Epstein realized he was running late because of another medical appointment, he called the hospital to instruct the associate, Dr. Kyoko Soejima, to offer Richter a choice between waiting for Richter or allowing Soejima to do the procedure, Murray said.
Richter then gave the OK to proceed without Epstein, Murray said. Richter said she does not recall discussing the matter with Soejima and said she would not have agreed to go ahead without Epstein.
"I was devastated," Richter said. "The outcome didn't need to happen, because if I had had the surgery I needed done, by the surgeon I contracted with, it probably wouldn't have happened. I was dumbfounded that they could do something like this without your knowledge."


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By Tom J Doyle
It feels strangely apt that on the day designated as the most romantic of the year, the cracks in Fernando Torres' relationship with Chelsea seemingly fractured beyond repair to leave precious little hope of reconciliation.
In a game utterly bereft of invention and class, Oscar's delightful finish past Thomas Vaclik eight minutes from time to win the Europa League tie 1-0 stood out like a shining beacon for a Chelsea side worryingly devoid of ideas up front.
The fact the young Brazilian had been on the pitch for less than 60 seconds before latching on to Eden Hazard's impudent back-heel and coolly slotting home a vital away goal is as much a testament to his prodigious talent as it is an indictment of Torres' fall from grace, as he struggled badly throughout.
Torres' form at Chelsea makes for sobering reading; with 14 goals in 72 Premier League appearances for the Blues, his strike rate is a paltry 0.19 per game. When compared with a commendable 75 in 174 (0.43) in La Liga for Atletico Madrid and a prolific 65 in 101 (0.64) for Liverpool, the stats do not lie in this case.
In fairness, it's a legitimate argument that a 1-0 victory under any circumstances in European competition is a result to be pleased of, regardless of the performance. But given that this side was on its way to Champions League glory this time last season, Roman Abramovich must have been squirming as his side plodded through a Europa League tie in this manner.
Torres in particular must be of particular concern to the owner, and to Rafa Benitez. While the Spanish coach boasts a great European pedigree, it is widely regarded that one of the main motives for bringing him in to replace Roberto Di Matteo was to reignite the career of the £50 million striker after the pair's relationship reaped dividends at Liverpool.
However, Benitez has been unable to coax the form of yesteryear from Torres, with his performance against Sparta being a painful watch for all concerned. He squandered presentable chances on three opportunities, even falling over at one point when trying to finish in the first half.
The moment when he ran into Marko Marin when the German was bearing down on goal summed up the fact that he and Chelsea are simply not made for each other - it is a expensive, lamentable - even tragic - failure.
|Fernando Torres is 3/1 to score anytime against Brentford with bet365
The forward's exit from the Bridge looks all but assured - which surely by association leaves the interim manager's future in question.
With Manchester United the Premier League champions elect and, following the Blues' shock Capital One Cup semi-final exit to Swansea, Benitez must win at least one trophy from the Europa League and FA Cup to ensure a contract extension - but even silverware may not cement his stay in west London beyond the summer.
If the Spaniard is to survive into next season, he may have to bite the bullet, admit defeat in his attempts to rehabilitate the fallen star and opt for January signing Demba Ba in his quest for trophies - but whether Abramovich will let him ditch his prized signing is another matter altogether.
With Romelu Lukaku free-scoring and waiting in the wings at West Brom and the club casting flirtatious eyes towards Edinson Cavani and Radamel Falcao, the sands of time are ticking down on this poisoned affair as the likes of Oscar and Juan Mata prove that they are the future of Stamford Bridge.
But of more immediacy for the club and the player is that during a desperately disappointing season such as this in which every game is becoming a battle, Chelsea can ill-afford such blatant passengers as Torres has sadly become; after the pain of a disastrous Valentine's Day, it is surely time to say goodbye.


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So do your zazen at home!
So do your zazen at home!
Posted by Brad Warner at 9:27 PM
hope your nephew is doing ok
Do zazen at home!?
Oh no! I hate homework!
Brad, I've been doing my zazen at home ever since I haven't been sitting with youse guys at the Center. Fibromyalgia/psoriatic arthritis sucks, dude. Me and Matt miss y'all.
Because he didn't read this blog, Mikey B drove up from San Diego to the Santa Monica Center. He didn't want to make the long drive home right away, so he sat down on the front steps and waited to see if someone would show up with a key. A second Zen student, who was new to the center, showed up and sat down silently on the steps beside him.
After fifteen minutes he asked Mikey, "Teacher, why are we meditating outside today instead of inside?'
"We weren't meditating," Mikey B said. "And I'm not a Zen teacher."
The new student, impressed by the profundity of this remark, stood up and bowed deeply to Mikey B.
the specter of mikey b raised by the venerable jinzang. it could only mean two of one thing.
I like "Mesmerized". The lady with yeti feet really has the bass-player thing going on.
When doing zazen at home, at 00:43 I see at
least two dozen flashes for about 10 seconds.
Don't you just love fireworks?
Be careful with that paper and furniture
the next time you're at the office.
And BTW, don't bother telling Obama;
he's an Uncle Tom.
So, why go just halfway? Why not vote
black AND female?
Mark these words, after four years of Obama,
there will still be US troops in Afghanistan
and/or Iraq and/or Iran (thanks to Big Oil
and AIPAC).
Do not forget "A Heart to Heart Chat with Gudo Nishijima", a GREAT book


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How To Roast Raw Peanuts
We love roasted peanuts in everything from granola to slaws and salads. But we have found that it is much cheaper to buy raw peanuts in bulk and to roast them at home. This is quick and easy, and it lets us control the roasted flavor more precisely.
What You Need
Raw shelled peanuts
Salt (optional)
Large rimmed baking sheet
1. Start with raw, shelled peanuts. We usually buy blanched peanuts, with the skin removed. But this will work fine on unblanched peanuts; there will just still be a red, papery skin on the nuts.
2. Heat the oven to 350°F. Spread the peanuts in one layer on a large rimmed baking sheet. I usually roast about two cups at a time.
3. Roast for 20 to 25 minutes.
4. Stir at least twice during the roasting time. When they smell peanutty and roasted, remove them from the oven and let cool before transferring to a sealed container, or using them in a recipe.
That's it! We told you it was easy. Personally, I really love the taste of freshly roasted peanuts. They have this depth of flavor and yummy nuttiness that just isn't found in commercially roasted peanuts. They taste fresher and more peanutty. Plus, roasting them makes your house smell great.
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