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Obama heads to Clooney gala fundraiser with gay marriage stance figuring to invigorate backers
There are 1047 comments on the The Washington Post story from May 10, 2012, titled Obama heads to Clooney gala fundraiser with gay marriage stance figuring to invigorate backers. In it, The Washington Post reports that:
WASHINGTON - Fresh from declaring his support of same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama is diving into the embrace of Hollywood's wealthy elite at the gala event of the political season - a sold-out, record-setting fundraiser at the Los Angeles home of movie star George Clooney.
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#1 May 10, 2012
So I guess Obama is ok with two men adopting a little boy.
"Make America Great Again"
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#2 May 10, 2012
It is great for our side the patriotic side to have Heavy-Hitting Hollywood-Bigwigs like George Clooney out front rising what will be a record amount for the Obama campaign.
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#3 May 10, 2012
Once again, your stupidity is, as always, predictable yet uniquely individual.
Richmond, Canada
#4 May 10, 2012
The world you live in is this world that is right, from the Layman definition Framer concept of tradition, but not from revolution.
Mormons are great and fine, as well-suited under the Constitution, since Mormon faith fits in the Constitution while it puts on not any label to specify in the conduct and lifestyle of the privacy of the president.
Therefore, Mormons are preferred than Muslim faith of Obama and some other faith, in reference to the Constitution or not.
You have a crazy, sick and insane pair Obama and Biden doing the crazy thing by doing queer support of gay marriage, as these two might as well marry each other, for they simply say anything that overthrows anything to become queer, as was impossible, is made possible in their hands to enhance a troublesome society in chaos.
This Obama extremist is always thinking of every day as a revolution as his chairman Mao says, by defying human rights principle as he realizes those like blind man dissident being abused in China can be ignored, and at the same time takes gay marriage instead, by thinking the whole world is for revolution for illegals , Muslims and Islams to come to USA to become the zoo of queer aninmals to have the animal way and gay encounters , in order to see what this new way of animal-style will be like, in order to make the new revolution style of having no borders and talking about terorism to beat to then.
The world's founded foundation goes on doing fine by adopting Momrmon's definition of family structures and tradition for universal people, as like-minded world Internationals are feeling alike.
Within this universe, there will be the tradition that must go on , so that this universal decoration of tradition as lives of human structure and families shall be doing fine, as all people must finalize the fine tune that gay marriage is never and will never be the founded foundation of worldwide International people.
United States
#5 May 10, 2012
This is not about Gay Marriage. Everyone is missing the point!
Gays can get married ANYWHERE if someone will marry them.
What this is about is the marriage being accepted by government and others.
Even more so, this is about gay rights being shoved down our throats from grade school to our churches.
I see no difference between gay behavior and a pedophile except gays are two consenting people. In that respect, no one cares what they do except they are demanding they get their behavior accepted as normal and even taught in grade schools, churches, and they expect special recognition and rights from our government.
I could marry a pig but I would not expect a different tax rate from the government because of it.
Just one more travesty for our country!
What would you expect from obama; a man of no morals! As he said, "Why should my daughter be punished by a baby?" meaning live in promiscuity and if you end up with the "inconvenient truth" of being pregnant....just kill the baby!
Another reason our nation no longer is the great nation it once was!
#6 May 10, 2012
obama has just lost 7 swing states that have already voted AGAINST gay marriage.
With that he has lost the Hispanic vote the REAL Christian and the Muslim vote
There is hope after all that obama will be a 1 term president.
The democratic primary in WV obama lost to a write in vote.obama lot to a convicted felon who is serving time in TX.
This man won by 69% over obama. both the governor and the Jr. senator of WV who are democrats stated on national TV that they will NOT be voting for obama.
The first step to communism is socialism and the breakdown of the unit and values
A vote for obama is a vote for communism who is a card carrying member for decades
#7 May 10, 2012
don't forget while your blowing obama to mumble that he personally killed Osama
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#8 May 10, 2012
If Clooney wanted to stop by and visit; he would not be allowed into our house!
#9 May 10, 2012
Obama and team have made one gigantic mistake. He placed the importance of Hollywood cash above that of the beliefs of the American people. He is calculating that Hollywood money will override the disgust that the overwhelming majority of Americans feel about a decadent lifestyle that has killed millions of people around the world. AIDS is a homosexual disease and there simply is no denial of that fact.
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#10 May 10, 2012
The anti-Christ Obama is ready to sell the destiny of America and the future of our children in America for few millions of dirty dollars from the anti-American liberal Elites of Holywood as donations for his failed re-election campaign. History of civilized world denounced the doggie anal culture that Obama seek to push to our kindergartens and for the education of our children in the public schools of America. Obama is desperate after his defeat in West Virginia and he is trying any trick in the book to save his 'skin' from major defeat in November. Clearly, Obama proved time and again to be the anti-Christ who will do anything to destroy Americas spirit and morality by Divide and Rule. Obama is pushing America to its bitter end of the 'Roman Empire scenario' through drunken and druggies celebrations of Sodom and Gomorrah and pushing the disgusting doggie culture to destroy the spirit of our kids in the public schools. Obama proved that he would sell America to Mozlem Brotherhood, socialism and Homosexuality if it will bring him re-election. Obviously, the history of mankind of more than 5000 years did not allowed the doggie anal culture of homosexuals to become normal. However, this changed when the America-hater Obama who is seeking new world order of the Mozlem Brothers and the communists over the ruins of America found easy way to destroy the American military and American society from within by creating anarchy and chaos with homosexuals that undermine the American family and US military structure. Now the Obamas Maoist czars are aiming to dissolve the American society and the US Military by pushing the immoral doggie anal culture to our classrooms and Marines units. The education czar under Obama supports Obama who proved to be the immoral idiotic Messiah of the homosexuals and will educate our kids that girl is equal to a boy only to destroy the American society from within. More than 90% of Americans do not agree to convert America to the corrupt doggie anal cultural Sodom and Gomorrah that the Lord destroyed in the biblical stories because he was disgusted. Marriage is defined as unification of man and woman for procreation and keeping the new generation as part of an American family, which is the pillar of the American society. Homosexual relations bring to the self-destruction and to the death of the American society because no new generation is created.
#11 May 10, 2012
Has BO invited you to the GAY GALA at LOONEYS house?
#12 May 10, 2012
George Clooney and Obama sittin' in a tree K. I. S. S. I. N. G.
Homosexuals Reproduce Themselves by Pedophile Behavior
Homosexuality is a sex-addicts lifestyle that destroys the family, manhood, womanhood, and childhood in order to mock at God's divine order and destroy the future generations of humanity. Many times youth are bent toward to same sex because they were exposed to sexual images of the same sex during puberty while lacking a father figure at home. This emotional disorder is spread primarily by PORNOGRAPHY and child molestation from the same sex. Then feelings of rejection from the opposite-sex have perpetuated this unhealthy dysfunction into adulthood.
The shameful history of the homosexual has left nations less populated, sicker, and emotionally and financially drained. Even the vast majority of their leaders per capita have fought hard the preserve the STD curse on the earth, while taking pleasure in destroying the minds of children with despicable acts of lewdness and molestation.
The Liberal Democrats are party that is actively involved in destroying the healthy Family Unit in America. The homosexual thought police that need to silenced. Too many of these perverts are will go on Youtube and create videos catered toward youth and teens only to make them sexually suggestive then promote site s to pornography of every kind especially of same sex porn. It is disgusting and deserves criminal investigation.
When the vile death-style of Homosexuality wipes out generations of viable future families with marriages of once viable young men and young women, we will not only experience a national decline in morals and the destruction of the family unit in America, we will experience a cultural decline because these people are warping the young minds of the children just as prisoners have done to new inmates.
Homosexuality is just another form of social and cultural terrorism. Even the Homosexual jihadists and gay sharia law advocates will shut down both private and public free speech just to push the perversion platform down the throats of American society and future generations until every child's mind has been raped by their filth. The reason Hollywood, the music industry, and public governmental officials are trying to promote the homosexual "bowel" movement as because even they have been peer-pressured into it or have been influenced by being sexually abused by one of them. So they will abuse and warp the minds of future generations. These people are disgusting and HOMOSEXUALITY WILL NEVER BE NORMAL, regardless of all the reality shows, talk shows, and Hollywood sitcoms designed to brainwash the public into a mindless stupor.
Today it's the pedophiles within the Democrat Party that is Promoting Gay Marriage.
The Gay Gene Hoax: History & Lies of the Homosexual Movement
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#13 May 10, 2012
Don't forget he 'won' the Nobel Peace Prize too.
#14 May 10, 2012
Will Larry Sinclair be waiting in the motel room with a bag of blow?
#15 May 10, 2012
This news story sounds gayer than an Elton John Pink Pajama Party.
Obama's Communist Homosexual Abortion Agenda
But honestly, these men are both promoting a Communist agenda in America. Even Putin sees the damage Rampant Homosexuality is doing to the Russian Population. He is paying people to have children now. Because the Muslim population is growing so fast!
Look what's already happening in Europe! "Scientific evidence of the results of homosexual population decline."
The World is Changing
Demographic Winter
Stop the Islamization of Europe
Those who support Gay Marriage also support Social Suicide for the sake of their sex Addiction. Those who really care about America need rise up vote these politicians right out of office who approve of this. Their addiction will lead to the reduction of the US Population just as it did Europe and allow radical Islam to take over in America. In that day, you will not worry about your gay precious gay marriage, you will be worried about trying to keep your own head on your body as the US population reduces to dangerous levels while the radical Muslim population rises in to such high levels that Islamic Sharia Law takes over the US Constitution. In that that you will realize that a Judeo-Christian Influenced society provided you with more freedom and a more secure future than the secular or Islamic based one. But I perceive that you are so sex addicted and so programmed that you will not be able to logically nor intellectually respond to my posts. Take what I am saying to heart and stop allowing the liberal media to create a social-engineered peer pressure against what is good for America.
The Very Homosexuality that Communists have supported to take down the Christian Cultural Influence in Free Capitalist Democratic Republics is now Destroying Russia's Future and survival!
#16 May 10, 2012
I see the fundietards are out in force this morning! Take your bronze age superstitions and shove them where the sun don't shine!
#17 May 10, 2012
Is the democrat party paying for the flight?
And ain't George Clooney happy about Gay Marriage annoucement? Does he have a beard? Is he a 'confirmed' bachelor much like Leonardo?
If you're proud, come out, come out!
Or will their livlihoods be diminished?
Since: Oct 08
#18 May 10, 2012
For years we thought my little brother was g ay, turns out it's worse...he's a liberal Democrat...the family is so ashamed.
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#20 May 10, 2012
But I thought obama was against the 1 percenters ... oh that's right, only against 1 percenters that don't give him money. Flaming hypocrite
#21 May 10, 2012
A perverse elitist cadre(Hollywood)supporting an equally perverse administration(Obama). Is anyone really surprised?
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Eighteen months from now Thierry Breton, CEO of Atos—one of the largest information technology companies in the world, plans to have eliminated email as a communication and collaboration medium within his company. "If people want to talk to me, call or send me a text message," said Breton. "Emails cannot replace the spoken word."
According to an article written by Peter Allen in the Daily Mail, Atos' nearly 80,000 employees in 42 countries will have stopped using email eighteen months from now and will have replaced it with social media tools, the telephone and face-to-face conversations. Should you read this and assume that Breton is a 30-something young maverick trying to make a statement, you'd be wrong. The 56-year old chief executive is the former French finance minister who believes that only 20 out of every 200 emails received by his staff every day turn out to be important.
"[E]mail is no longer the appropriate tool," said Breton. "It is time to think differently."
Breton cites a number of examples of how email wastes time including:
What's more "Mr. Breton pointed to a recent study by the business watchdog ORSE, which reads: Reading useless messages is terrible for concentration, as it takes 64 seconds to get back on the ball after doing so," writes Allen. "Poorly controlled, the e-mail can become a devastating tool."
Email is such an integrated and ubiquitous part of how most organizations get work done that I'm not sure completely eliminating it from our cadre of communication tools is practical, but I am very interested in Breton's implication that social media-like instant messaging has the same value as "the spoken word."
I'm a big fan of anything that will help teams collaborate more naturally—and social media tools have demonstrated they can do that. What's more, I don't think it's only younger members of the workforce who are seeing the benefit of a social media approach (as the 56-year old Breton demonstrates).
Writing for The Telegraph, Henry Samuel writes, "The younger generation have already all but scrapped the email, with only 11 percent of 11 to 19 year-olds using it, according to silicon.fr, and online social networking is now more popular than email and search."
Although I don't want to be a focus group of one, I find myself using (and often preferring) a text message or other social-media interaction to email for some communication. I have a number of friends and colleagues around the world with whom a text or Facebook message is our preferred way to interact.
"Companies must prepare for the new wave of usage and behavior," said Breton. I agree.
Thirty years ago, I would never have imagined how personal computers, smart phones and the Internet would have impacted my life. I must admit, I didn't take email seriously when I first started using it . Now, I probably spend more time using my smart phone for email or to text than as a telephone—I don't think I'm alone.
I agree with Mr. Breton, email is not the most efficient way for teams to collaborate. Everyone has experienced the email thread that gets lost or buried, the person that needed to be included on the thread that wasn't or the critical email that was accidentally deleted. The social media metaphor demonstrates a lot of promise as a vehicle for collaboration (provided we can keep the conversation focused on work—projects, issues and tasks). However, saying that, the lines between an individual's work life and personal life are becoming blurred.

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The Deal Professor's 2009 in Review, Part II: The Deals
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| Kara chapter 1 . 12/11/2004
I'm so happy for you. Congratulations on publishing your book, I know I'll be looking for it. I'm a writer myself, hoping to get one of my books published. I just can't figure out exactly where to start, lol. Hopefully everything will work out. I hope that your book is a success, I've read some of your work on here, and it's very good. I love all your titles. I'm a person that gives great thought when titling something I write, and I guess I just notice other people's as well. Good luck. Hope everything your wanting comes to be. :)
| R.M.Whitaker chapter 1 . 9/18/2004
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Seeing as you're getting a book published and kind of "know what it takes', so to speak, would it be too much trouble if I asked you to read my book, The Apprentice? My best friend (the only person not on this site that I've actually alloud to read it) wants me to get it published when it's finished, but I'm affraid it's not nearly good enough.
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First Month Analysis
Now that the first month of the "new" NHL is under our belt, it's a perfect time for some evaluation. Here's what I'm thinking about the new rules:
Goalie Trap Zone: Most insanely stupid concept in all of professional sports. I've vented my frustration towards this rule before, but it continues to blow my mind every time I watch a game. Only allowing goalies to handle the puck in a trapezoid is like telling NFL quarterbacks they can only scramble as long as they stay between the hash-marks. Since about 50% of what makes Martin Brodeur the best goalie in the game is his stick-handling ability, the NHL should refund the Devils half of his pay and only count the other half towards the team's salary cap.
Obstruction: Scoring is inflated beyond Gary Bettman's wildest dreams. If the NHL wanted to increase scoring, then mission accomplished. But if they were trying to make the game more exciting, they failed. No one wants to see players skate around untouched… a part of what makes hockey so appealing is the physical aspect of the game. Hockey fans like seeing their players fight though checks and work hard to score. That's what makes hockey such a blue-collar game. Unfortunately, right now we have basketball on ice. Not only do we have thrilling dump-and-chase hockey on our hands (hint sarcasm), but fighting has been reduced almost to nonexistence. Again, if the league wants to increase excitement, fights are the LAST thing they should be trying to deter. Ask anyone who has ever attended a game what happens when two players drop the gloves.
Elimination of the Two Line Pass: Now here's something that has actually helped the game. Being able to pass from goal line to blue line has made the game much more wide open and has created creativity from offensive players. If only us Devils fans had the luxury of watching Brodeur spring one of those passes from his corner…
Offsides Tag-Up: Finally, it's back and it's helping the flow of the game. It won't increase goals, but it creates less faceoffs and more excitement.
Icing: Penalizing the team guilty of icing by not allowing them to change lines is brilliant. Now if the league will get rid of the icing touch up, the rule will be perfect.
Rules aren't the only thing different in the NHL this year. The Devils are drastically different from the team we've grown used to over the past decade. So far, the season has been a tale of two teams… one that plays hard and one that barely shows up. With that in mind, here are some first-month awards:
Team MVP: Brian Gionta. He leads the team in goals and is the only guy who seems like he's going all-out from start to finish of every game. Our record would be comparable to Pittsburgh's if it wasn't for Gio.
Team Underachiever: tie between Dan McGillis and Vladimir Malakhov. McGillis has finally started to throw his weight around the way he was expected to from the start, but no one takes more stupid penalties at inopportune times than McGillis. Malakhov, on the other hand, might be completely worthless. He turns the puck over in his own end, has absolutely no physical presence at all, and has been so disappointing lately that he's spent some time on the team's third defensive pairing (paired with none other than Mr. McGillis).
Most Pleasant Surprise: Sean Brown. When Colin White went down with a groin injury for several weeks, Brown not only filled his skates, but worked his way to the team's top defensive pairing. He absolutely kills skaters entering the zone, plays responsibly down low, and every now and then blasts his way into the offensive zone with a scoring chance. His point shot is like a cannon and that has earned him some power play time. When Colin White came back for the last game against the Rangers, Brown stayed in the lineup and McGillis was a healthy scratch.
Waiting to Break Out: Scott Gomez. He skates like the wind through the neutral zone, makes opposing defensemen miss him along the boards, and makes nice plays out of nothing. But without Patrik Elias, Gomez has seemed like a puppy with no one to play with. As soon as someone steps up as a so-to scorer (and at times Gionta has), expect Gomez's numbers to blow up.
Changing His Game: Alexander Mogilny. This isn't the Almo we came to know in 2000-01. He's no longer the fast-as-the-wind sniper with a laser beam shot, waiting to tear goalies a new one. More than anything, he's playing almost Mario-like hockey. He uses his presence to shift defenses and sends accurate passes to his linemates. He does still have a great shot (which he doesn't use enough) but his playmaking ability has definitely improved. With his increasing age and bad hip, maybe he had to make a change. So far it's working because he leads the team in points.
Best Worst Player: Viktor Kozlov. Most nights this guy is brilliant. No one else in a Devils sweater can fight off defenders along the boards better than Kozzy. His passes are perfect and his shot is heavy. Unfortunately, this Kozlov doesn't show up every night. On those nights, he's lethargic and seems like he'd rather be somewhere else. If he can get his head and heart into every game, he'll be unstoppable.
Next Team Captain: Your guess is as good as mine. Rafalski seems like he's doing the job now. He plays hard every night and definitely leads by example. He's even the one who does the most jawing with the refs. But there's something in Madden's game that makes me think it could be him. He's not in the box nearly as much as he was at the start of the season, which is a definite plus given his incomparable skill as a penalty killer. Both Madden and Rafalski were undrafted, but New Jersey's scouting staff found them and gave them jobs, so they both have loyalty to this team beyond comprehension. But, then again, maybe the team is just waiting for Elias to come back. Time will tell.


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In the dream, I have maybe nine tables, and none of them even have water yet. I realize on my way to the kitchen to check on the status of table seven's food that somehow I never even put in the order. People are starting to wave their hands at me irately, and whenever I try and go over to see them, the restaurant gets longer and somehow I can't run. I'm pretty sure the owner is part of the large party at table five, but I can't even find their ticket, I'm gonna get hell for that. I spill a tray of drinks at the bar and the bartender starts yelling. I'm sweating buckets. I'm constantly in motion, but nothing is getting done, and each moment I realize I've forgotten something else.
Okay, so I haven't been a waitress for more than 10 years, but every so often I still have a nightmare about restaurant work. I can honestly say it's the only job that shows up in my anxiety dreams. It has become part of my vocabulary of stress, like high school. And incidentally, I have dreams about those golden years too, very standard ones where I can't find my locker or my classes and sometimes I'm not wearing any pants.
I'm sure all of you have anxiety dreams, unless you are the kind of self-empowered person who somehow takes charge even in your sleep and find a spare pair of jeans in your locker because you still remember the combination, and you just say heartily, "Phew! That was a close call. Thank god I'm so capable." If so, you should just go far, far away. The rest of us are still cowed by the thought of trying to run or punch but finding that somehow your legs and arms don't work any more. (I also love how all this seems totally normal in dreams, so even while I'm panicking I might also be carrying a rooster and turn into my dad at odd intervals, none of which fazes me at all.)
I'm a pretty thick person when it comes to my inner life, so I am usually blessed with pretty literal anxiety dreams. It's like my psyche knows not to throw in too many archetypes and too much symbolism, because once we get to the bearded guy and the forest and the dancing rabbit I'll just get annoyed and probably wake up before the crucial message is delivered. So I have dreams like: I'm looking everywhere for my child and can't find her. That's basically just me freaking out about losing someone so precious to me (the worst thing that could happen) and probably also worrying that I'm a crappy mother, the kind who doesn't make very good dinners and would blog about her first sex talk with her kid. Or the most common theme: Someone I love is acting like an a-hole to me and I don't know what to do. I think this has the very deep meaning that I lack trust in other people and have an overall fear that people I love might turn out to be a-holes. Someone once told me that every person in your dreams is actually just an aspect of yourself. I doubt this, because I already know I'm an a-hole, I don't need a dream to deliver that bit of information.
I still remember the fear dreams I had as a kid, like the recurring one where I was being chased through the house by the people with the glowing red eyes, and when I finally got to my parents room to wake them up, they opened their eyes and of course they had glowing red eyes too. Oooooh, heebie jeebies. And there was the one where I was falling off a cliff and I yelled to my mom and dad to save me but they just kept walking on by. In short, I worried my parents were a-holes first, and then just continued the theme into adulthood with new characters. God, I'm so unoriginal. This is why I can only blog and I'll never write a book — not that I want to, but it is the only thing that will convince certain members of my extended family that I am an actual writer. Maybe I'll have an anxiety dream soon where I try and write a book but my computer keeps crashing and even the people who used to like my blog posts are bored silly by me. Oh god, now I'll never sleep again.
So what anxiety dreams haunt your sleeping hours?
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Phoenix Gym in Berkeley. She saves her favorite swear words for her own
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Matthew Smith – Saturday October 25, 2014
The Wilmington Classical Guitar Society is proud to present Matthew Smith, with special guest Austin Flinn!
CONCERT: Matthew Smith, classical guitar with special guest Austin Flinn.
We're excited to kick off our fifth anniversary season with Delaware guitarist and 2014 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship winner Matthew Smith. Join us on October 25th for an exciting program of classical guitar music including duos with soprano and violin. Works by Bach, Torroba, Albéniz, Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla and more.
Fugue from BWV 1001 by Johann Sebastian Bach
Mallorca by Isaac Albéniz
Sonatina by Federico Moreno Torroba
I. Allegretto
II. Andante
Jubilation by Andrew York
Guitar and Voice (with Catherine Short, soprano):
Aria from Bachianas Brasilieras No.5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Azulão by Jayme Ovalle
Para Ninar by Paurillo Barroso
Boi-bumbá by Waldemar Henrique
Guitar and Violin (with Genia Maslov, violin):
L'Histoire de Tango by Astor Piazzolla
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Matthew Smith has been an active performer, teacher, and clinician for many years now. His primary studies were with Ernesto Bitetti at the Indiana University Jacob's School of Music where he obtained his Master's and Bachelor's Degrees in guitar performance. He has participated in masterclasses with Pablo Ziegler, the Castellani Andriaccio guitar duo, and Sharon Isbin where he was a full scholarship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival. Currently he is on the faculty at The Music School of Delaware where he also serves as the Student and Alumni Relations Officer.
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The position of a firefighter requires above average aerobic/anaerobic capacity, endurance, strength, and flexibility. The CPAT consists of eight separate job related physical tasks performed in a continuous sequence. Each task is a pass/fail objective. The tasks are listed below:
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O'Rourke: Pausing to reflect on milestone birthday
Updated 3:47 pm, Wednesday, February 8, 2012
You're not a year older; you're a day older.
Many birthdays seem ominous, but the decade markers seem to be the larger milestones on the human odometer. The birthday-card aisle in the grocery store has specific cards for the 30th, 40th, 50th and 60th birth anniversaries. There are even special occasion, all-black birthday candles shaped like a tombstone with the specific decade delineation emblazoned across the wax for those ominous dates.
The only thing more mind-blowing than crossing over and changing the tens spot in your own age is when your children do it. As hard as it is to believe, my oldest daughter turned 20 this week. Cue up Harry Chapin's Cat's in the Cradle.
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To paraphrase the great Chapin, it does indeed feel like a child arrived just the other day. My mind spins at the thought of that day being two decades ago. 1992. Wow. Time does have a way of having its way with us.
For the past several weeks, my wife and I have been having pangs of nostalgia for the early '90s. Not for the music, the clothes or where we lived at the time. We have just been reliving the visits to the obstetrician, the marking of the calendar and that terrifying-yet-glorious drive to Methodist Hospital.
I remember standing at the glass on the maternity floor and peering at all the babies on the other side. I pointed to my wristband, and the nurse wheeled mine to the front. Mine. I was responsible for another human being. I was a ball of nerves, glee, enthusiasm, a little abject terror and eternal hopefulness. A healthy mix of emotions all first-time parents feel.
In the hospital room I held my few-hour-old daughter in my arms and marveled. "This is the girl that will someday wreck my car and be too scared to tell me," I joked to my wife.
I whispered all sorts of things to baby Katherine Suzann. I told her how she was named after my grandmother and my mother. I told her how much I loved her mother. I made her many promises, all of which I have done my darnedest to keep. The most important promise being that this was going to be an awesome adventure. For all of us.
It is easy to fall prey to a sense of loss as your children hit milestones. Where has my baby gone? Why did time go by so fast? I had so much more planned for your youth. As I remind myself constantly, this was always the goal. The fact that I have raised a smart, beautiful, wise and wonderful young woman is one of my greatest accomplishments.
As with every milestone, nothing is really over; everything is just beginning. We do the same things we have always done. We just do them as two grown-ups now.
I was right about almost everything I whispered to her 20 years ago. It has been a great adventure, and it continues to be. The only thing I got wrong is, she never wrecked my car. But there is still time for that.
Happy Birthday, Katherine.
Michael O'Rourke just keeps on getting older on Thursdays and Saturdays in S.A. Life. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Attorney General Abbott resolves health claims, marketing issues with tanning salon operators
Published 4:23 pm, Monday, March 11, 2013
The State of Texas today resolved its enforcement action against a tanning operation that unlawfully claimed that indoor tanning beds can increase levels of Vitamin D in the body and have health benefits. According to an investigation and referral by the Texas Department of State Health Services, Houston-based Darque Tan deployed an advertising campaign that improperly claimed that customers at its 60 indoor tanning facilities would benefit from increased Vitamin D levels - which the company said would reduce cancer risks.
Under state law, tanning bed salons can only advertise that the use of indoor tanning beds darkens the skin but cannot claim that tanning improves the health of customers. Further, a device such as a tanning bed cannot be marketed on the basis of its health benefits unless its use for that purpose has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Despite those legal requirements, Darque Tan - which is only authorized to provide tanning services for cosmetic purposes - improperly claimed that its tanning beds offered unique health benefits. Specifically, Darque Tan's online videos and advertising material boasted of its tanning beds' capacity to "deliver" elevated Vitamin D levels to the body. Darque Tan also included videos on its website that linked ultraviolet light with a decreased risk of breast cancer.
The settlement agreement reached today prohibits Darque Tan from continuing to market its services unlawfully and bars the defendant from asserting that its tanning beds are safe or otherwise free from health risks.
Darque Tan LLC, Segler Enterprises Ltd. and company president Robbie Segler were named defendants in the State's enforcement action. In addition to the injunctive provisions governing the defendants' future advertising campaigns, today's agreement also requires Darque Tan to pay the State $88,000 in civil penalties and $45,000 in attorneys' fees. The Texas Department of State Health Services will also receive $8,520 for its investigative costs.
A San Antonio-based Darque Tan franchise, Tan Biz LLC, and its owners, Monica and Jason Jones, were also named defendants in the case. Under a separate agreement with similar injunctive provisions, the San Antonio-based defendants must pay $20,000 in civil penalties to the State of Texas.


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BEDFORD _ Known to generations of students, alumnus, trustees, employees and friends, as "Mr. Saint Anselm," Robert J. Collins, 95, retired executive vice president of Saint Anselm College, died Sunday at a local nursing facility with his four children by his side.
Born in Dover, N.H., February 1, 1916, to James E. and Elizabeth (O'Rourke) Collins, Mr. Collins was educated at St. Mary's Academy and graduated from Dover High School, before graduating with honors from St. Anselm College in 1937.
His connection to the college was a lifelong one that spanned nearly 80 years and included being the school's first director of public relations, an English instructor and director of alumni activities, before being appointed vice president for development in 1960, the first layman ever to hold that position at a Benedictine College.
Mr. Collins would then go on to serve as both the college's first layman vice president for development and first layman executive vice president at the college, until his 1985 retirement. Following his retirement, he continued to serve as a trustee and trustee-emeritus of the Saint Anselm College Board, with which he was involved since its 1957 founding.
"To know Bob Collins (was) to know the history of Saint Anselm College," according to a feature article, 'Bob Collins, Anselmian,' in the college magazine's fall/winter edition of 2007. "It is a history that he has lived. And in ways that few people understand or appreciate, it (was) a history that _ with wisdom, vision, devotion, a rich array of talents, and an infectious wink and a smile _ Bob Collins shaped."
A recipient of an honorary doctor of law degree in 1980 from Saint Anselm, Mr. Collins and his wife, Dorothy Margaret (Falvey) Collins, to whom he was married 60 years until her death in 2005, were recognized for their devotion to the college community with the dedication in 1988 of two student campus residences, the Falvey House and the Collins House.
Throughout his life, even when he volunteered for enlistment in 1941 in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and when he joined WMUR Radio's original announcer's staff after his discharge, Mr. Collins maintained a connection with the college, as an alum and volunteer in public relations.
Yet Mr. Collins' community involvement ranged far beyond the school and his family. He and his wife, whom he married in 1944, were honored by Pope Paul II in 1984 with membership in the Papal Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, in which he held the rank of Knight of the Grand Cross.
A member of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, he also was honored to serve as Grand Marshal of Manchester's 2001 St. Patrick's Day Parade.
In addition, Mr. Collins was a life member of the Saint Anselm Council, Knights of Columbus; a life member of the Sweeney Post, American Legion, and was awarded the Saint Anselm College Alumni Association's Award of Merit.
He worked with the Manchester Police Department, county, state and New England agencies to provide higher education opportunities for police and law enforcement officers, developing the state of New Hampshire's first college degree program in criminal justice.
During his career, Mr. Collins served as a former division chairman for the Greater Manchester United Way, incorporator of Catholic Medical Center, incorporator of the former Merchants Savings Bank, member and past president of the Manchester Lions Club, director of the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and secretary of the State Historical Commission.
Appointed by then Gov. John W. King to the original executive committee of the Governor's Commission on Crime and Delinquency, he served under three governors, including a term as commission chairman.
Mr. Collins also was a director of the N.H. Chapter of the National Conference on Christians and Jews, as well as a member of the Task Force of the Diocesan Synod to study parochial schools in New Hampshire.
He was a communicant of St. Raphael Church.
Mr. Collins leaves behind four children, Dr. Robert J. Collins Jr., and wife, Joan, of Fort Myers, Florida; Mrs. Kevin J. (Christine) Powers and husband, Kevin, of Manchester; David G. Collins, and wife, Lucie, of Bedford and Dr. Brian C. Collins, and wife, Rachel, of York, Maine; 13 grandchildren, Sara, Patrick, Timothy, Matthew, Kathleen, Thomas, Elizabeth, Catherine, Gregory, Kelly, Sean, Erin and Liam and four great-grandchildren, Rebecca, Zachary, Paige and Emily. He was predeceased by his siblings, Frank, Elizabeth, Lucy, Christina, Leona, Florence and James.
A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Thursday, September 22, 2011 in Abbey Church of Saint Anselm College. Burial followed in St. Joseph Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Collins-Falvey Scholarship Fund, c/o Development Office, Saint Anselm College, 100 Saint Anselm Drive, Manchester, 03102.


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New Jersey Devils: What Is David Clarkson's Value After a Fast Start?February 7, 2013
The Devils only have one loss this entire season, and much of that can be attributed to David Clarkson's solid two-way game.
He has seven goals, five assists and a plus-2 rating in his first nine games. At the rate he is playing at, his stat line could very well consist of 35 goals (even though he is on pace for 37) and 64 points.
In his contract year, Clarkson will have a lot of teams calling his agent's phone on July 1st (the first day of free agency), and unless the Devils can give him a formidable contract, he is as good as gone.
In this article, I will try to assess Clarkson's true value as a player looking for a new contract.
Fact from Fiction: The Contract Year
It may be easy to dismiss Clarkson's success as a result of a contract year, but I personally disagree. Clarkson has improved each season and is now a top power forward in the Atlantic Division.
*GP is games played. All stats from Hockey-Reference.com
Aside from one surge of points (2008-09), Clarkson has consistently improved each season. One might wonder why his most successful season was just two years before he entered free agency.
Simply, Pete DeBoer already had a lot of experience coaching David Clarkson from their time together on the OHL's Kitchener Rangers.
What Does he Offer?
Most Devils fans know that Clarkson is a gritty power forward, patrolling the opposing net while searching for loose pucks on the rebound. For this reason, he is a sought-after forward in a strong year of free agency.
Clarkson has developed into a solid two-way player who can take the body yet can also put his scoring touch on a puck.
Many teams could look in his direction by a sheer need of a power forward, but his scoring ability is undeniable, and his defensive presence is definitely there, making him much more than a typical power forward.
Is There Mutual Interest?
There is speculation going around that many teams will swoop in on July 1st and lure Clarkson away from New Jersey by overpaying him. The Devils, however, should not let him reach Free Agency.
The only way the Devils can sign him before July 1st is if there is mutual interest. At this point in time, it seems pretty apparent that the Devils want to hold onto David Clarkson. The true question is if David Clarkson wants to remain a Devil.
It seems as if Clarkson has found great chemistry with Patrik Elias and benefits greatest when the two are on a line together. In fact, of Clarkson's two goals vs. the Rangers, both were assisted by Elias.
Although there are scarce opportunities for endorsement deals in New Jersey, this should not deter Clarkson from staying. No matter what team he went to, he would not be considered a "star player," which leads me to my next point.
Can Clarkson Replicate His Success?
In my first point, I mentioned that Clarkson has had extensive work with Pete DeBoer. In my previous point, I referred to Clarkson's success playing alongside Patrik Elias. This begs the question, just how successful can Clarkson be without the two?
In my opinion, Clarkson will not be able to keep up this output on many other squads, and I would behoove him to stay a Devil.
On many other teams, Clarkson could maybe be a 20-goal scorer or maybe a top two-way player, but only in New Jersey can he be successful enough to be considered one of the faces of the franchise.
How Much Is He Worth?
With all of that said, it is time to look at the true numbers. If I were to compare him to a certain player (in terms of point potential and two-way game), Scott Hartnell comes most to mind.
In fact, he signed an extension with Philadelphia after a 39-point season in which he played only 53 games. He was 25 and signed a deal that came with a $4.25 million cap hit.
Clarkson is on pace to have 64 points in 48 games, which is a very rapid pace. Surely that means he deserves more than Scott Hartnell, right? Not so fast. Clarkson will be 29 years old once his contract expires; Hartnell was 25 at the time. Hartnell was picked sixth overall in the draft, and Nasvhille knew that he was destined for greatness.
On the other hand, Clarkson went undrafted and struggled breaking .7 points per game in the minors (AHL). The two players are very different, with Scott Hartnell playing to his astronomic expectations and with Clarkson greatly overachieving.
Five million dollars a year seems a little too high for a 29-year old who just last year finally broke .5 points per game. In contrast, $3 million a season is only slightly more than he is currently being paid, and he is shattering all of Lou Lamoriello's expectations.
The Contract
David Clarkson re-signs with the New Jersey Devils for 5 years and $24 million.
What do you think of the deal? Will he be more expensive? Am I overpaying him? Leave me a comment so I can figure out what you all think. Thanks for reading!


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Recent Seagate Experiences
Okay, so last year I bought a Seagate hard drive, it died within a year. So I sent it in to claim the warranty. I received a refurbished Seagate hard drive back. It died within 2 months. Someone I know bought a HP computer which had a Seagate hard drive in it, it died within 6 months. So many Seagate hard drives are failing that after it died I saw an advisory about it on HP's website.
If you ask me, Seagate is going to lose its #1 crown because it forgot how to make a hard drive.


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Thanks for the reply. I did use 188.8.131.52 version. I also did have to increase the shared pool considerably as well just to get some of our applications to work after I upgraded. I am not using the 64 bit version though. I guess I just want to be sure everything is ok on the 'setup' side before I start looking elsewhere. I have what I think is a very good tuning book, but it only goes to 8i, so it may not be everything I need.
I have noticed that there are some indexes that I think should be created based on the code extracted from v$sqlarea. As I said, since this is a new install I want to start at the bottom and cover all bases as I progress.
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Powell, Mark D Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:07 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Slow Database Aft Upgrade from 8i to 9.2
In my experience not only does 9i normally require a larger shared pool to run the same applications as 8i, if you move from 32 bit to 64 bit this will likely require additional memory be allocated to the shared pool also.
If you do both at once then doubling is not out of the question. It depends on your application, concurrent user load, and how much slack you had in your 8i system, but normally more memory is required by 9i over 8i.
After a major upgrade changes in optimizer behavior could require tuning or retuning SQL. There are over a dozen optimizer related underbar (hidden) parameters that defaulted off in 8i and which default to on in 9i. Some sites were bitten by bugs related to some of these. However if you went from 8i to 9.2 you should have gone all the way to 126.96.36.199 (or at least .5) and most of these bugs are fixed by then.
HTH -- Mark D Powell --
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Burton, Laura Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 2:54 PM
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Subject: Slow Database Aft Upgrade from 8i to 9.2
Can someone direct me to a place to troubleshoot your database? Is there a way to check for 'Memory Leaks'? I have a tuning book and have been running scripts to find how much is being used, what statements are the worst, etc., but is there a 'common' size for the Shared Pool, Large Pool, Sort, etc? I know it depends on the size of the database. I guess I am just looking for a starting point, i.e. if small blah, blah; if large blah blah, or large pool is ??% the size of the Shared Pool and total db memory should not be more than ??% of physical memory.
Thanks, Laura
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As this year's graduating seniors scramble to polish up old resumes, make contacts and travel across the country for interviews, the Office of Career Services is making the transition from college into the working world a little easier. The Fall Career Fair, one of several career fairs scheduled throughout the year, is Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Convocation Center.
More than 60 company representatives are expected to attend the event, offering internships, potential job leads, co-ops, and career options for students of all majors and years. Most of these employers are traveling through larger cities like Columbus and Cincinnati to Athens.
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Creative Zoo Photography at the Franklin Park Zoo
This past weekend I had the chance to head off to Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, Massachusetts. This excursion was just wanted I needed to jump start my creative thinking and spend some quality time with my daughter.
I've had the thought of working on animal prints using a process that includes multiple layers and textures in Photoshop. This process is not unique to me and I actually have fallen in love with the captured images of the Bronx Zoo and the textured flower prints by Alan Shapiro.
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Although the Franklin Park Zoo is packed with animals of all shapes and sizes, the two of us as usual were in awe of the western lowland gorilla exhibit. I knew right away this would be the place magic would happen, the exhibit has five glass viewing stations allowing visitors to a unique and inspiring experience into the lives of the western lowland gorillas in captivity.
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Bar At The Pier Jul 26, 2012
Nice friendly bar at the end of the pier, that does nice meals at reasonable prices.
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America's quest for energy independence is coming as a catalyst to buy the oilfield services and equipment sector stocks. Sterne Agee is saying that these companies should have steady earnings growth, and the firm's Stephen Gengaro has named his top picks in the sector.
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Our favorites include Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL), Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) and Oceaneering International Inc. (NYSE: OII). Gengaro even named TETRA Technologies Inc. (NYSE: TTI) as its top pick among the small cap world in this trend.
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Following an 8.2% drop in the U.S. rig count in 2013 to an average of 1,761, Gengaro is anticipating a roughly 3.6% rise in 2014 when you include both oil and gas rigs. He also believes this rig growth will accelerate in 2015, adding better trends for the services and equipment companies. The firm sees solid deepwater drilling visibility over the next several years.
Halliburton Co. (NYSE: HAL) is rated as Buy, with a $63 price target. The stock trades around $49.50 now, but the consensus price target on the stock is up at $65.30. This one has bought back major amounts of stock as well, and the 52-week range is $35.71 to $56.52. In another analyst call this week, Howard Weil also raised the rating to Outperform, with a $65 price target.
Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB) is also rated as Buy and with a $110 price target. Schlumberger trades around $86.30 now, and the consensus price target is also right around $110.00. Be advised that the 52-week range is $69.08 to $94.91, and Schlumberger peaked around $110 back in the last energy boom in the 2007 to 2008 period.
Oceaneering International Inc. (NYSE: OII) is also rated as Buy, and Sterne Agee's target price is $97. This represents huge potential upside from the $76.50 current price, and the consensus price target is close to Sterne Agee's at $96.50. The 52-week trading range is $55.79 to $87.64. In a competing analyst call elsewhere this week, RBC Capital Markets raised its rating to Outperform from Sector Perform, with an $89 price target.
TETRA Technologies Inc. (NYSE: TTI) is the top sector pick in small caps, with a value of less than $900 million. At $11.22, Sterne Agee rates it at Buy, and the price target is $15. TETRA's consensus price target is up at $14.62, and its 52-week range is $7.90 to $13.41. We would point out that Howard Weil just downgraded this one this week.


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Lewis insists innocence over cocaine charges
The former England allrounder, Chris Lewis, has insisted in court that he is innocent of knowingly smuggling cocaine into the country after being given cans of fruit juice to carry onto a flight from St Lucia.
Lewis, 41, was arrested at Gatwick in December last year, after customs officials found cans of fruit juice in which cocaine had been dissolved. He was stopped along with a friend, Chad Kirnon, a former basketball player for London Towers, arriving back from holiday in St Lucia. Lewis said that Kirnon had later offered to take the blame in return from £100,000 from Lewis.
The total value of the haul is estimated at £140,000, yet while Lewis told the jury he smoked cannabis while in St Lucia, he said he was "completely innocent" of knowingly smuggling in drugs to the country.
He told the jury that Kirnon had asked him to carry the tins of fruit as he was concerned his luggage might be overweight. "I don't necessarily believe that Mr Kirnon wanted me to get caught, but if you infer by Mr Kirnon giving me the cans that he set me up then yes," Lewis said. "Generally throughout my life, my cricket career, when things have gone wrong its gone wrong in a very public way."
Lewis is currently in High Down prison where he revealed he is now the anti-bullying representative, as well as working as his block's race-equality rep. "It's a simple one: either you did it and you knew or you didn't," he said. Lewis added that Kirnon, who is also at High Down, had approached him in prison and asked him for £100,000 in exchange for taking the blame.
"Until that point it was a simple case," he said. "You had given me the juice, just say so, story's over. Now he's trying to get a bit of cash out of me."
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Bervie Braes: Road 'could reopen to light traffic'
The Bervie Braes road in Stonehaven - which has been closed for several years - could be reopened to light traffic, Aberdeenshire Council has said.
Officers looked at eight options amid concerns from residents, in the wake of landslips.
The Kincardine and Mearns area committee will next week be told that making the the road one-way, with a weight restriction of three tonnes and a 20mph speed limit, is workable.
It would cost about £300,000.
The road would only open for a few months, and a system to trigger its closure in particularly wet conditions would also need to be installed.
There is no funding in place for the scheme.
If it is pursued, a request for finances would be made to the policy and resources committee.
The reopening of the Bervie Braes could be worth up to £9m a year to the area, a report claimed last month.