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Center for Reducing Health Disparities
United States is the most technologically advanced country in the world, spending more resources on health care than any other nation, yet not all citizens have equal access to quality health care.
The nation's overall health has improved significantly in the past 20 years, but many ethnic minority groups, including African Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, American Indians and Alaska Natives, and Latinos face rates of disease, premature death and disability that are far higher than their fellow, white, non-Latino Americans.
On average, racial and ethnic minorities are in poorer health, suffer worse health outcomes, and have higher morbidity and mortality rates than their white cohorts. Such health disparities often mean the loss of productivity, a decreased quality of life and a shorter life expectancy.
It is in response to these inequities that the UC Davis Health System established the Center for Reducing Health Disparities.
Improving health-care access and quality for all
- The UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities takes a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach to the inequities in health access and quality of care. This includes a comprehensive program for research, education and teaching, and community outreach and information dissemination.
- The center builds on UC Davis' long history of reaching out to the most vulnerable, underserved populations in the region. A comprehensive medical interpretive services program helps overcome limitations in access for those who don't speak English. Its regional telehealth network provides a high tech link between UC Davis physicians and smaller clinics around the state that cannot afford to maintain medical specialists on staff.
- The center represents a major commitment to addressing community needs that goes well beyond the traditional service role of an academic medical center. It is a program designed not only to raise awareness and conduct critical research, but also intended to actually assist those communities whose needs have never been addressed and met by the traditional health-care system.
- The center's wide-ranging focus on health disparities includes an emphasis on improving access, detection and treatment of mental health problems within the primary care setting. It will also focus efforts on achieving better understanding into the co-morbidity of chronic illnesses such as diabetes, cancer or HIV/AIDS with depression.


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For both the good of the state and in fairness to Lt. Gov. Ken Ard, the state grand jury needs to complete its investigation of Ard and announce a decision on whether he will be prosecuted.
Ard's case has been in limbo for seven months since South Carolina Attorney Gen. Alan Wilson asked a grand jury to investigate allegations of illegal use of campaign money by Ard in his 2010 successful bid for the lieutenant governor's post. Ard is the first sitting state constitutional officer to be investigated by the state grand jury.
The actions of the grand jury are kept secret, so few know what, if any, progress jurors have made on this case. But most of the specifics of the case all have been closely examined and open to the public during a 2010 investigation by the State Ethics Commission.
That investigation found that Ard spent thousands of dollars of campaign money on improper items, including women's clothes for his wife, a flat-screen TV, two iPads and family vacations to Washington and Atlanta. In all, Ard racked up more than $20,000 in personal expenses on his campaign account.
Even more damning, the probe determined that Ard had misled investigators on the nature of some of the expenses. For example, he concocted a story about using campaign funds to go to Washington to meet with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to discuss the role of the lieutenant governor in economic development in the state.
In fact, he had merely contacted Graham's office to arrange a tour of the Capitol and the Library of Congress for him and his family.
The commission fined Ard $48,000 and assessed him $12,500 for the cost of the investigation. That was the second-largest fine ever assessed by the Ethics Commission, after the $74,000 fine levied against former Gov. Mark Sanford for his misuse of state aircraft and campaign money.
Ard paid the fine and costs, but the Ethics Commission elected not to refer the case to the attorney general to determine if any criminal violations had occurred. Soon thereafter, however, Wilson decided on his own to take a look at the case to see if a criminal prosecution was warranted. ...
... Seven months is ample time to conduct a thorough investigation of this case.
It needs to be resolved.
In their much-acclaimed book, "Academically Adrift," which was released last year, authors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa use significant research to reach the devastating conclusion that college students study little and so, no surprise, don't learn enough.
Now a report from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni and the South Carolina Policy Council concludes that even those who study can graduate from our state schools "with vast gaps in their skills and knowledge."
The problem this report points to is the core courses being offered — and more significantly those not being offered.
Researchers analyzed courses at eight state colleges: Clemson, Coastal Carolina, the College of Charleston, South Carolina State, University of South Carolina-Aiken, USC-Beaufort, USC-Columbia and USC-Upstate.
They found that only the College of Charleston requires foreign language study beyond the beginning level; and only S.C. State students are required to study economics. Only three require a broad literature survey course, and few require a survey course in U.S. government or history.
The authors say graduates should have an intermediate competency in a foreign language, should understand basic economics and should have taken broad courses in literature and U.S. government or history.
While researchers label as "excellent" the state schools' requirements in composition, math and science, they conclude that some omissions by South Carolina public colleges could result in graduates lacking a "core of fundamental knowledge and college-level skills in areas critical to good citizenship, workforce participation and lifelong learning."
There is room for debate among academicians about which should be required core courses, and certainly students should be able to benefit from a wide range of study.
This report underscores the larger concern about students graduating from college with high school-level abilities and skills. It's time for the state to evaluate the substance and quality of the education provided at public colleges.
There should also be serious discussion about taking steps to stop the downward slide in students' study practices.
The work world is getting more complicated and demands a workforce that can draw on comprehensive knowledge in order to analyze opportunities and meet challenges. College graduates need to be well educated.

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|Director of Academic Affairs and Internal Operations
David Campbell is in his 11th season as part of the UC Santa
Barbara staff. His duties include overseeing all of the program's
academic and internal operations.
Campbell will be in charge of monitoring the academic progress of all Gaucho players, he will act as the liaison between the basketball program and admissions, and he will organize all road trips.
Campbell and Williams spent two seasons together as assistant coaches at Pepperdine, and in 2001, they were reunited on the Gaucho coaching staff.
Campbell arrived at UCSB after spending one season as the top assistant coach at Loyola Marymount. He joined the Loyola Marymount staff after taking a year off from coaching. Prior to his year away from coaching, he spent five seasons (1994-99) as the Associate Head Coach to Tom Asbury at Kansas State. During his tenure at Kansas State, he helped steer the Wildcats to three postseason appearances. As Asbury's top assistant, Campbell signed some of the best recruiting classes in Kansas State history.
Before moving to the midwest, Campbell had a successful six-year stint as an assistant coach at Pepperdine (1988-94), and that is where he first teamed-up with Williams. In his six campaigns in Malibu, Campbell helped guide the Waves to five postseason appearances and he helped mentor three future NBA players.
Prior to his tenure at Pepperdine, Campbell coached one year (1987-88) at Weber State, and before that, he spent six years (1981-87) as an assistant coach at St. Mary's College.
Campbell also spent four seasons as a player at St. Mary's. In 1980, his senior campaign, he was named Honorable Mention All-West Coast Conference, as he helped lead the Gaels to the league championship.
Campbell, perhaps the most rabid Oakland Athletics and Washington Redskins fan in the Santa Barbara area, graduated from St. Mary's in 1980 with his bachelor's degree in business administration. He and his wife Brenda reside in Santa Barbara.


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This table summarizes the status of legislation in relation to HIV in Eastern and Southern Africa. The approached subjects are anti-discrimination and equality, HIV specific legislation, gender violence/sexual offences, right to health care/reproductive health, child protection/vulnerable groups, property rights and inheritance, customary practices. This table was taken from "Supporting the response to the HIV epidemic in Eastern and Southern Africa through the international human rights framework", by UNDP.


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I don't see how a South African XI can not select Bruce Mitchell nor Aubrey Faulkner. Far and away the two best players they had prior to the Richards/Procter era.
Bruce Mitchell
Barry Richards
Jacques Kallis
Graeme Pollock
Herbie Taylor
Dudley Nourse
Aubrey Faulkner
Mike Procter *
John Waite +
Shaun Pollock
Allan Donald
(12th: AB de Villiers or Colin Bland)
Could argue for an extra bowler, but I reckon Donald/Procter/Pollock/Faulkner/Kallis/Mitchell can more than handle duties. ABdV and Bland sharing specialist fieldsman duties. Jock Cameron harsh to miss out for Waite.


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Saturday, August 25, 2012
FamilySearch.org Programming Errors
OK, programming errors are common and part of life in the computer world. What is also a common part of life in the computer world is either denying the existence of the problem or ignoring it. Now, I am certain, from what has happened in the past that FamilySearch will fix the problem shortly, but it would be a nice idea and helpful to the community, if this type of bug were publicized so that we don't all think it is our own computers that are going wacky. I realize publicizing bugs runs counter to the secretive nature of the computer programmer and will likely never happen.
I realize that FamilySearch has a Feedback function where such things can be reported, but I am also aware that this particular bug has already been reported a number of times.
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James, from my experience with the site behavior you describe, I suspect it is a mechanical failure rather than software. It is intermittent and suggestive of disconnects that reset the user's connection. At times this means the FS-Family Tree access-routing forgets that one has signed in, the sign-in form often does not respond to input but redirects back to itself, and image downloads sometimes halt midstream. There have been many such intermittent server failures in the FS-FT for weeks: saving fails, error messages appear announcing inability to display family members, display formatting sometimes is awry, and other items.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 29, 2012 at 8:02 PM
I opened a ticket with FamilySearch for this same issue. This is the response I got:ReplyDelete
Thank you for contacting FamilySearch. We were experiencing problems with how our pages were syncing with the authentication server. The engineers as of 27 August 2012 have corrected the issue. If you continue seeing this issue please let us know.
Yes, I think there is a large element of wishful thinking.ReplyDelete
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The Federal Trade Commission has struck a blow against those who use the Windows Messenger Service to send spam. San Diego-based D Squared had been targeted by the FTC for possible abuses of consumer protection laws, and the company chose to settle with the FTC rather than fight a lawsuit. The company will cease spamming users through the Windows Messenger service, and the FTC will monitor the company's practices for the next five years.
The FTC said D Squared's pop-up ads appeared as frequently as every 10 minutes in the forefront of screens, causing consumers to lose data and work productivity, applications to freeze, and some computers to crash. The FTC charged that the practices were unfair and violated U.S. consumer protection law. In November, a federal judge temporarily halted D Squared's pop-up advertising at the request of the agency, but did not extend the injunction.
The company is also barred from advertising over Instant Messenger. While a victory for internet users, it remains to be seen if such action will actually slow down this kind of spam. Something tells me the FTC's How-To on blocking this kind of spam will continue to be popular for some time.


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First Minister Alex Salmond has today referred himself to the independent advisers to the ministerial code after claims made in various newspapers by Paul Martin MSP regarding SNP donors and official engagements at Bute House.
Mr Salmond has written to Mr Martin outlining that he will make the referral after the Labour MSP blundered the process by which a complaint should be made.
In his letter to Mr Martin, the First Minister writes:
Dear Mr Martin
I write following press reports that you have written to Dame Elish Angiolini making complaints under the Ministerial Code.
I am sure that you are aware that as First Minister I established for the first time an independent panel to investigate alleged breaches of the Ministerial Code to provide a robust and transparent process. The procedure for making such a complaint is made clear in paragraph 1.6 of the Ministerial Code. Any complaint should be directed in the first instance to me as First Minister so that I may consider whether the matter should be referred to the independent advisers. Hopefully you will manage to get this simple procedure right on any future occasion.
Despite not having received such a letter of complaint from you, I have decided to refer the issues reported in the media about visitors to Bute House in the Daily Telegraph on 28 March, the Daily Mail on 31 March and again in the Daily Telegraph today. I would not wish your misunderstanding of procedure to prevent an independent evaluation of the merits of the points you have been so keen to publish.
I have therefore written to Dame Elish Angiolini, as one of the independent advisers, and asked her formally to investigate whether a breach of the Ministerial Code has occurred. Dame Angiolini has been provided with copies of the three press reports and, of course, will have received your letter. f you have anything further to provide a basis for your complaints then let me know so that this material can also be provided.
The rest of the procedure is now in the hands of Dame Angiolini. The findings of the independent adviser will be published. I will accept them and I hope that you will now indicate that you will so the same.
It is unfortunate that you have chosen not to follow the procedures set down to investigate allegations such as these. I am confident that, as on each of the three previous occasions your party has made complaints of this nature, the independent advisers will find your allegations to be entirely without any foundation.
Alex Salmond
A spokesperson for the First Minister added:
"The First Minister has taken the decision to refer this issue because we have total confidence in our position, in light of this entirely spurious and absurd complaint from Labour.
"All complaints previously considered by the independent advisers since 2007 were dismissed and we will similarly accept the results of Elish Angiloini's findings in this case - we ask that Paul Martin does the same.
"No private dining for donors takes place at Bute House, never has under this administration, and never will. Labour, the party of cash for honours and the Ecclestone affair, are guilty of the most appalling hypocrisy.
"Government functions are all in the public domain because, unlike the last Labour-led administration, we publish details of everyone receiving Bute House hospitality at a reception, lunch or dinner. No-one has ever suggested prior to this that individuals should be excluded from Government events simply because they are donors. This is a totally ridiculous proposition.
"By long-standing practice for many years, First Ministers and before that Scottish Secretaries have nominated personal guests for the Royal Garden Party in Edinburgh, and since 1999 for the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, and offered such hospitality. It is insulting to suggest any upstanding person should be excluded. If SNP supporters were to be excluded, by definition that would cover half the population.
In addition, it should be noted that hospitality costs at Bute House are significantly less for this administration than under the previous Labour/Lib Dem Executive."
The list below shows the First Minister has been wholly exonerated in terms of all previous complaints made of him.
Complaint 6 March 2009 by Tavish Scott
Ex-PO's - Funding of Scottish Inter-Faith Council, 8th January 2009
ES – 'The Panel finds that the First Minister acted in good faith and presented an accurate account of the Scottish Government's position on the issue raised with him in debate'
Complaint 5 August 2009 by Iain Gray
Ex-PO's - Notification to Parliament of absconds from the Open Estate
28th May 2009
ES – 'The Panel finds that the First Minister adhered to established protocol in terms of which any public announcement' in respect of any prisoner who has absconded from the Open Estate is an operational matter for the police.'
Complaint 20 January 2010 by Hugh Henry and Tavish Scott
Ex-PO's - Class size reduction target in relation to commitment in 2007
3rd December 2009
Panel concluded that 'this referral is not appropriate for the panel to consider'
3rd February 2010 Sir Thomas Legg, HoC Auditor - Additional Costs Allowance Claims
The report said: "Mr Salmond has no issues."
Complaint 3rd February 2010 by Dr Gordon Macdonald
Sir John Lyons, Westminster Standards Commissioner – on food claims
The letter to the complainant said: "I do not, therefore, uphold your complaint and I now regard the matter as closed."
24th February 2010 Stuart Allan, Scottish Parliamentary Standards Commissioner – auctioning of lunches
"Having fully considered the terms of the complaints and the terms of your own response (jointly with Ms Sturgeon) and other evidence, I have concluded that . . . the complaints, as submitted and insofar as within my jurisdiction, are not relevant and that there is no evidence of sufficient substance warranting further investigation. I have, therefore, dismissed the complaints for the reasons set out in the attached Note of Decision."
Complaint 27th November 2011 by Lord Fraser of Carmyllie
Jim Sheridan MP alleged that FM had intervened to secure a knighthood for Brian Souter
First Minister 'wholly exonerated' in breach of Ministerial Code'.
Mr Sheridan's allegations were wrong and 'ill founded'.


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Virginia's football program Wednesday unveiled a 17-player recruiting class that includes two prospects coveted by ACC rivals and national powers. Yet under the league's scheduling format, Andrew Brown, Quin Blanding and company will never play a regular-season game against conference staple Clemson. Not even if redshirting and/or injury extends careers to five, or six, years.
Meanwhile, Virginia Tech welcomed a 28-player group, three of whom hail from Florida. But unless they remain five seasons, they are not scheduled to face ACC kingpin Florida State, and no matter how long they stay, they will not, barring change, play league newcomer Louisville during the regular season.
Such is the price of conference expansion. Such is the folly of an eight-game league schedule that officials are re-evaluating.
Fans hopeful that such deliberations would also involve changing or scrapping the ACC's divisions and annual crossover opponents — they are legion on Twitter — will be disappointed. Several sources familiar with recent discussions at the conference's winter meetings said the Atlantic and Coastal divisions, plus the crossover rivalries, are set for the foreseeable future.
Not so the eight-game schedule. At the risk of resembling NASCAR with their incessant tinkering, ACC officials debated the collective benefits of nine at the winter meetings. No vote was taken, but the concept remains in play as commissioner John Swofford, his staff and school athletic directors calculate how a change would impact access to college football's impending playoff and inventory for a possible cable channel devoted to ACC coverage.
Feel free to make Groundhog Day comment, because we have been here. Twice, in fact.
Shortly after Syracuse and Pittsburgh accepted invitations to the league in 2011, bringing football membership to 14, athletic directors voted to expand the conference schedule from eight to nine games.
'Twas the right decision. Other than their permanent crossover partner, teams would have played rivals in the other division twice every six seasons rather than twice every 12.
But a year after adding Syracuse and Pitt, the ACC accepted Notre Dame as a partial member. In exchange for full conference privileges in men's and women's basketball and Olympic sports, the Fighting Irish and their independent football program agreed to play five games each season against a rotation of ACC opponents.
Mandated contests against Notre Dame created too little non-conference scheduling flexibility for most tastes, especially those programs — Florida State, Clemson and Georgia Tech — with an annual non-league game against a traditional Southeastern Conference power. And so, without ever having put the nine-game format into use, the ACC reverted to eight and created a rotation for interdivision matchups through 2024.
So we know the next Virginia-Clemson and Virginia Tech-Louisville games are not scheduled until 2020, the next Virginia Tech-Florida State and Virginia-North Carolina State clashes until 2018 — unless ACC channel and playoff access issues dictate a move to nine games.
A ninth conference game for each team would translate to 63 league contests each season rather than the current 56, an expansion that likely would appeal to ESPN as it mulls whether to launch an ACC channel similar to those created by the Big Ten and SEC.
More nuanced is the question of whether nine conference games would enhance access to the four-team playoff that starts in 2014.
Similar to the NCAA basketball tournament's selection committee, the panel choosing the playoff semifinalists will weigh heavily candidates' strength of schedule. Would an extra conference game improve a team's strength of schedule?
Depends on the league's overall quality and whom the team played outside the conference. If the added ACC game replaced a Championship Subdivision or lowered-tier Bowl Subdivision opponent, the schedule certainly would improve.
But coaches counter that an additional conference game will saddle teams with more losses and diminish their chances of winning the six games required for bowl eligibility. Fair enough, but another assertion Duke coach David Cutcliffe made to ESPN.com's Heather Dinich does not compute.
"I don't see the value in (nine), and it's not going to get you in the playoff system, if that's what everybody is saying," he told Dinich. "What's going to get you in the playoff opportunity is to have no losses or one loss. I don't care who you're playing."
Cutcliffe coordinated a conference call with fellow ACC coaches Friday to discuss the schedule matter, but their views may not resonate. Athletic directors approved nine games the first time despite the coaches' overwhelming opposition.
AD consensus regarding divisions and crossovers became clear at the winter meetings. Clemson's Dan Radakovich, Syracuse's Daryl Gross and Swofford had spoken of realigning, or even eliminating, divisions to offer more scheduling variety, but a majority believe that competitive balance makes the status quo preferable.
Indeed, in nine seasons of divisional play, the Atlantic is 82-76 versus the Coastal during the regular season, 5-4 in ACC title games. Plus, four of the six annual crossovers — Virginia Tech-Boston College, Maryland-Virginia, N.C. State-North Carolina and Georgia Tech-Clemson — are 5-4. Florida State-Miami and Wake Forest-Duke are 7-2.
(Louisville will replace Big Ten-bound Maryland as Virginia's annual Atlantic opponent.)
Divisions that paired Virginia Tech with Clemson and Florida State more frequently would be great by me but threaten the parity. At the very least, I'd like to see Virginia Tech and Virginia swap crossovers, matching the Hokies versus Louisville, and the Cavaliers against Boston College. But Virginia Tech prefers the exposure, media and recruiting, in the Boston market.
Eliminating the permanent crossover partners would make an eight-game schedule far more palatable, but good luck selling those who value the annual Florida State-Miami, N.C. State-North Carolina and Georgia Tech-Clemson games.
With the SEC also with 14 football teams, retired Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver had proposed an annual non-conference game against the SEC for every ACC team. But as ESPN reported Friday, that suggestion has yet to gain any serious traction.
What has gained momentum is a nine-game conference schedule that would put the ACC in lockstep with the Big 12 and Pacific 12, both already at nine, and the Big Ten, which is headed to nine in 2016.
Conformity isn't always preferred, but in this case, bring it on.
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Here's a graphic of the ACC's football schedule rotation through 2024. Other matchups that won't be played until 2020 are Boston College-North Carolina, Florida State-Pitt, N.C. State-Duke, Syracuse-Georgia Tech and Wake Forest-Miami.
Here's a link to my Daily Press print columns.


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The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that would have kept slaughterhouses from killing "sick or wobbly pigs." Before you get too grossed out, their rationale was that the federal government already has rules for dealing with sick pigs: said Justice Elena Kagan, "The federal law establishes rules for handling and slaughtering non-ambulatory pigs brought to a slaughterhouse, rather than ordering them returned to sender." These federal restrictions are apparently less stringent, though, because the straightforwardly-named National Meat Association is psyched about the Supreme Court decision.
California Can Totally Keep Killing Wobbly Pigs


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Strathpine Family History Group
- Strathpine Library, corner Gympie and South Pine Roads, STRATHPINE, QLD 4500
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Membership Cost
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Are you interested in researching your family history or genealogy? Would you like to swap research tips with other enthusiasts? Could you use some advice or assistance? Everyone welcome to our regular meetings.
The group meets at the Strathpine Library, on the fourth Tuesday of each month, 9.00am - 12.00 noon.
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Pontiac Grand Prix GTP Neutral Safety Switch Replacement Cost
Know what price you should pay to get your vehicle fixed.
What is a neutral safety switch?
When starting a vehicle, if the automatic transmission is not in neutral or park, the neutral safety switch will prevent the engine from starting.
How does the neutral safety switch work?
To protect the vehicle, there is a switch installed on most automatic and dual clutch transmissions which disallows the engine from starting when the transmission is not placed in neutral or park. Some models use input from the transmission control unit to determine the vehicle's transmission position, but others use a physical switch. Both systems function to interrupt the starting circuit when the transmission is not in park or neutral.
What are the symptoms related to a bad neutral safety switch?
When the neutral safety switch fails, the vehicle will either start in any gear, or will not start in any gear. In many cases, the vehicle will start in neutral, but not in park. Some vehicles may store on-board diagnostic (OBD) trouble codes which reference the transmission, but, most commonly, there will be no diagnostic trouble codes stored in the vehicle's memory for this issue, as the computer cannot recognize this failure in most cases.
Can I drive with a neutral safety switch problem?
Driving with a faulty neutral safety switch is generally impossible, but if the vehicle will start and change gears like normal, driving should not pose any issues. If the vehicle will not start, it will require a tow to a repair facility.
How often do neutral safety switches need to be replaced?
MAF sensors do tend to fail sometime in many vehicles. Failure rates are highest between 100,000 and 150,000 miles, but this is only an average. The sensor can also be damaged by road debris in many vehicles, or anytime the transmission is serviced or repaired. Lastly, a collision may cause a physical or electrical fault in the neutral safety switch. Vehicles with internal neutral safety switches will benefit from proper maintenance, and may fail prematurely when the transmission is neglected.
How are neutral safety switch issues diagnosed?
The neutral safety switch is quickly diagnosed by testing the switch, and related components attached to the gear selector inside the vehicle. A faulty neutral safety switch will most likely be removed and bench tested for confirmation of failure.
How is a neutral safety switch replaced?
Replacement of a steering knuckle on most vehicles is an advanced DIY repair that requires tools, equipment, and experience necessary to remove pressed hubs and bearings (including snap rings that retain the bearings), and to press the components into the new steering knuckle. The ball joints and tie rod end also need to be separated. The vehicle needs to be safely lifted in the air with a jack and jack stands to perform this repair. If you are not comfortable with these repair procedures, it would be wise to find a professional technician for the job.
RepairPal Recommendations for neutral safety switch issues
We always recommend contacting the dealership parts department for revised part numbers. There may be a new part number for the neutral safety switch, and possibly the transmission fluid. When new part numbers are issued, this may be due to a redesigned part that fixes known flaws, or an update. Aftermarket sensors may not have these benefits.
What to look out for when dealing with neutral safety switch issues
There are many types of transmission fluids, and they are not typically interchangeable. Consulting the owner's manual for your vehicle is the best way to ensure you have the correct fluid for your transmission. If improper transmission fluid is added, the resulting damage could be severe.
Can I replace the neutral safety switch myself?
Replacing the neutral safety switch at home could be done for more experienced DIYers. The person completing the repair must have an understanding of how the switch functions, how the switch is sealed against transmission fluid leaks, and how to diagnose the switch. If any of these areas are unclear, or if the switch is internal to the transmission, a trusted professional should complete this repair.
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"To measure the progress and development of Anglo-American studies on Italian cinema, one needs only to consider Peter Bondanella's pioneering and seminal Italian Cinema: from Neorealism to the Present...Bondanella's work carries the crucial merit of having opened up a panoramic view of Italian national cinema to Anglo-American film scholars who in general were mostly familiar with only a few masterpieces. Over the years, Bondanella's systematic approach has enabled and inspired countless studies."óGian Piero Brunetta, Professor of History and Film Criticism, University of Padua, Italy
This new edition of the bestselling Italian Cinema examines films made from 1989 to the present as well as analyzing the earliest days of Italian filmaking. New coverage includes the Italian horror-film genre, Roberto Benigni (Life Is Beautiful), Bernardo Bertolucci (Stealing Beauty), Franco Zeffirelli (Tea with Mussolini), Michael Radford (The Postman [Il Postino]), Gabriele Salvatores (Mediterraneo), Maurizio Nichetti (The Bicycle Thief), Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso, The Starmaker), and much more. This fully revised and updated new edition includes:
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DURHAM -- In celebration of the everlasting legacy of vinyl, WUNH has one week each semester dedicated to entirely vinyl programming. This semester's vinyl week will occur from November 4th-10th.
Three turntables will be set up at the on-air station, CD players will be turned off, and all DJ's are required to do their shows using vinyl media exclusively.
"It's an awesome experience for the DJ and listener alike. Some of our new DJ's who are less familiar with vinyl get the chance to explore our huge record collection, and more experienced DJ's give their listeners a bit of a historical show," says WUNH Program Director Charlie MacCall.
Fall semester vinyl week is a prelude to WUNH's annual Marathon Fundraiser. This year's Marathon will take place from November 11th through the 17th. Each year the non-profit independent station raises money to fund community events, maintain their studios, and expand their music library. This year's Marathon Fundraiser is more important than ever. The station is preparing for major renovations, proposed to take place during the Summer of 2013. Donations are made by phone at (603) 862-2222 or by mail.
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- What struck me about the audio tour for the Guggenheim Bilbao was the explicitness of the seduction....The audio guide promises transcendence of the social through a transgression: the always forbidden touching of art—or here, architecture-as-art….
- The tour distances the museum from the difficulties of "modern art," claiming that the building's sensual appeal "has nothing to do with age or class or education." Freed of social/symbolic restrictions, we can make ourselves at home in the sensual, caring arms of the (mother) museum.
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This beautiful board is designed to ensure a perfectly stable work surface – no matter how vigorously you're chopping. A wooden lip on either side of the board, attached with handsome dowels, anchors the piece securely on your countertop. One side of the board has a well to collect tasty meat juices.
- Crafted in the USA from sustainably harvested North American walnut.
- Edge-grain construction is gentle on knives – and stands up to years of slicing and chopping.
- Use the grooved side of the board for carving and the flat side for chopping.
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Rated 1 out of 5 by Charles from Great design and nice wood but cracks I bought this in February 2017 and it started to form small cracks several months in. Now, the crack has further developed half into the board and made it unusable. I'm not expecting this from Boos's or William SonomaDate published: 2018-02-18Rated 1 out of 5 by DaveYHZ from Buyer beware We had this cutting board for a little over a year before small cracks started forming between the seams of the "checkerboard". I oiled this board with 3-4 coats of mineral oil every quarter for the first two years. We also never cut directly on the board, but use plasticized cutting sheets on top. This board is primarily an accent piece. We are now 4 years in and the cracks have become so pronounced that we will have to get rid of the board completely. It was beautiful. Now, it is not.Date published: 2017-11-12Rated 3 out of 5 by reallypink from So beautiful BUT I received this and immediately oiled it as recommended. I had it for a little over a week and it CRACKED. You do not expect this from a BOO for so much money. I called Williams Sonoma and they immediately replaced it. I received it yesterday and I really hope I have good luck this time! I oiled it and-------------- Williams is so great to deal with. Love that store!Date published: 2016-10-28Rated 1 out of 5 by KMDDenver from Too expensive to CRACK after a few months This would be a 5 star review (the design is clever, the board is beautiful) but the board got a deep crack within months of having it. Now when using the carving board side, rather than the juices being caught by board, they seep and go all over the counter. Wrong for such an expensive board!Date published: 2016-05-29Rated 1 out of 5 by Hibsey from Beautiful but disappointing Was happy to receive beautiful board, but after a month, a deep crack 3" long developed on the edge of the board. Customer service sent a replacement. Careful to keep away from water and heat with the second board and a crack developed 2" inside from edge on replacement board. It's beautifully designed and seems solid, but there is something wrong with the design/product. Frustrating.Date published: 2015-01-26Rated 3 out of 5 by Debra2 from Have reservations about recommending This board is lovely, but I'm having some seam warping and splitting, which really makes it unsanitary when food gets in the cracks. I oiled it and thought I took good care of it. I still use, but put a plastic cutting board over it, if there is the least chance of moisture. I also have a problem with food sticking to it like glue. I have to scrape it off with a knife after I've used it….very strange.Date published: 2014-01-02Rated 5 out of 5 by Chad2014 from Awesome Board This cutting board is very user friendly: it hooks over your counter top and is very stable. I have two other Boos boards and while I love them for their versatility, this one is the best by far. I thought that I would prefer the flat side for most chopping and cutting tasks, but the grooved side totally rules as it catches everything from liquids to solids and I use it more than any flat surface cutting board I own.Date published: 2014-01-01Rated 5 out of 5 by OneShot from Outdoors Cooking This Boos Carving Board is the bomb. I've used and owned several cutting boards over the past 30+ years and never found the same quality. This is a kitchen tool that if you keep it well oiled, could potentially out last the owner and could be handed down to the next generation family chief.Date published: 2012-02-02


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The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till Sweetback was such a financial success. At that juncture, what came from that was not only what they call blaxploitation, but also the independent film. That's all very important. Just as you said, you think of me mostly from that early era. And that's what I really find so touching, because nothing happens outside of a historical context. No film is made without the people behind the lens. Of course, most people, even I, tend to look at films in the most simplistic way, and say, "Wow, so-and-so is in this film.� We talk about who's in it, as opposed to who got it made.
Born in Chicago on August 21, 1932, Melvin Van Peebles is best known as the incendiary iconoclast who financed, wrote, produced, scored, edited, distributed and starred in Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song (1971) the politically-progressive picture which single-handedly inspired the rise of the blaxploitation genre. What few folks realize, however, is that moviemaking was only a fraction of this Renaissance man's many talents. How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (And Enjoy It), a retrospective on the versatile maverick's entire career, reveals a man who also spent time as a novelist (in French), playwright, composer, painter, astronomer, enlisted man in the Air Force, and as a stock trader with a seat on the American Exchange on Wall Street. Here, Melvin shares his thoughts with The Black Star on just about everything.
BSN: Hey, Melvin, thanks for the time.
MVP: No problemo.
BSN: Congrats on your new movie, and recent lifetime achievement awards, even if, in my opinion, the recognition is a bit overdue.
MVP: Thanks, I'm really a happy camper, as they say.
BSN: Do you still have your seat on the American Stock Exchange?
MVP: No longer. Unless you're going to be there continually, you don't want to keep your seat because, first of all, it costs, but also, doing stocks is not something you can phone in. You got to do it right, otherwise…
BSN: Were you one of those guys you see on the floor gesturing frantically?
MVP: No, I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
BSN: So, how did you spend your time on Wall Street?
MVP: I had to do the mathematical calculations to arrive at whether I was going to buy or sell.
BSN: And you were successful enough at it to write about the market.
MVP: I wrote a technical book about how to trade options.
BSN: Of which of your achievements are you most proud?
MVP: I like 'em all. What the heck!
BSN: How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company shows you to be so much more than simply the actor who played Sweetback. To me, you're contributions as a trailblazing director and producer is of equal importance.
MVP: Normally, if I'm being acknowledged it is for something in front of the camera. This puts the spotlight on the fact that there are opportunities other than just being an actor. That's what I think our kids sorely need to know.
BSN: In my opinion, Sweet Sweetback was a groundbreaking film, not only because it was filled with Black characters, but because of the picture's progressive political point-of-view.
MVP: But not just the film itself was groundbreaking, also the fact that it was made by an African-American without the help of Hollywood. This was before the rise of the independent era. The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till Sweetback was such a financial success. At that juncture, what came from that was not only what they call blaxploitation, but also the independent film. That's all very important. Just as you said, you think of me mostly from that early era. And that's what I really find so touching, because nothing happens outside of a historical context. No film is made without the people behind the lens. Of course, most people, even I, tend to look at films in the most simplistic way, and say, "Wow, so-and-so is in this film.� We talk about who's in it, as opposed to who got it made. But there are financial and technical aspects which go along with it, that should be addressed and acknowledged, including those minorities who are doing excellent work as well.
BSN: When I was majoring in Black Studies at Cornell, I remember a professor praising Sweet Sweetback's positive political perspective, which was so different from all the blaxploitation flicks which followed which were just new version of Stepin' Fetchit coon shows.
MVP: That was why the Black Panthers made it mandatory viewing for all of their members, for its political content. While that's an immense aspect, you have to remember that if I didn't have control of what was going on BEHIND the lens, I could never have gotten what you saw IN FRONT OF the lens.
BSN: I remember seeing your play, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death and being so moved by Minnie Gentry's [Terrence Howard's grandmother] closing soliloquy, where she said, "May all your children end up junkies, too!�
MVP: That was called, "Put a Curse on You!� That curse has actually come to pass. At one time, the general consensus was that only the African community was considered to be plagued by drug problems. People thought, "Well, it's just a problem among those porch monkeys. It couldn't happen in our community.� Yeah, right. It has since spread out and become huge all over the country.
BSN: Movies, Broadway plays, you did it all and on your own terms.
MVP: Yes, but once again, remember that the hard part was the business and technical side. People really, really, really need to understand that, and that it can be done. You can take your own destiny. I want people to say, "Hmmm, I never thought of that. Gee, I guess so.�
BSN: What inspired you to try to make your first movie?
MVP: One day, I was sitting in a movie theater, and I said, "What the hell, I can do better than that.�
BSN: Are you still running? I met you back in 1979 when I came over and introduced myself at the starting line of the Boston Marathon. How'd you do that day?
MVP: I broke three hours. That day I was 2:57.
BSN: That's incredible. I finished in 4 hours and 18 minutes that day. Are you still running?
MVP: I did seven miles this morning. I ran all the way across Manhattan and the 59th Street Bridge. It was pretty steep going and the wind was blowing hard in my face. I thought at least I'll have the wind when I need it on my way back. Don't you know that after I ran around Queens, and got back to the bridge, the wind had shifted and was blowing in my face again. I said, "Man, this racist wind out here.�
BSN: Have you run the New York Marathon, too? My wife ran it a couple of years ago.
MVP: Oh, yeah, but I don't like New York anymore because I hate all that waiting at the Verrazano Bridge. I just get too cold.
BSN: You should be in that contingent of world-class and celebrity runners, like Diddy, that they give special treatment to and place at the front.
MVP: No, you don't want special treatment when you're very serious about it, though I guess for my age-bracket, I'm pretty good. Still, Boston is the one, brother. That's the great one. I also enjoy the Buffalo to Niagara Falls Marathon. And Philly's nice. But if you asked me my favorite, I suppose I'd have to say Boston.
BSN: You must eat very healthily to keep up this demanding regimen at your age. Do you have a special health food diet?
MVP: That depends on whether you consider neck bones health food. Me, I'm into Uncle Ben's and fat.
BSN: How did you like "How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass,� the biopic your son, Mario, made about you?
MVP: I was bowled over by it. I thought it was just terrific. And the interesting thing was, it was all true. It brought back some very tense memories there, boy.
BSN: You had already made Watermelon Man with Columbia Pictures when you made Sweet Sweetback. So, wasn't making a militant film a risky move for you?
MVP: Very. I had a three picture deal with Columbia that I lost. And nobody's offered me a job since.
BSN: So, it really set back your career
MVP: Oh well, what the heck. It doesn't particularly bother me.
BSN: But didn't it have an effect on your life?
MVP: Oh, it had a major effect. For a long time, there were assassination attempts and all that good stuff. Okay, if you can't stand the heat in the oven, what are you supposed to do? I mean, I was born and bred in the briar patch. I'm from the Southside of Chicago. So, it was no big deal. [Laughs]
BSN: Isn't it ironic though, as someone who was so targeted by the mainstream and the government as a threat to be embraced by the Establishment?
MVP: Hey, look at how we have Martin Luther King Day now, and how did he go?
BSN: Even as feared a figure as Malcolm X eventually got his own stamp.
MVP: It's all very classic. I'm not so surprised. They say possession is 9/10ths of the law. I say survival is 10/10ths of the law. And I always felt that one day my contributions would come to the forefront.
BSN: Yeah, sooner or later, and you're getting the last laugh now.
MVP: It may seem soon to you, but when you're waiting, brother, it doesn't seem all that rapid, if you know what I mean. [Laughs heartily, sighs]
BSN: What question would you love for someone to ask you that nobody ever asks? Is there any question I haven't asked that you would like for me to ask?
MVP: No, I really like to talk to people and to get their take on things. This has been very instructive. While we've been talking, you've shared your impressions and I find that fascinating, because you mustn't forget that essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me, and I appreciate your questions.
BSN: Well, I appreciate your sharing your time, your wisdom, your reminiscences, and your sage insights about the industry. And in case I haven't already, I want to express my gratitude for all your seminal contributions which changed the course of cinema history for Black folks, opening doors and creating opportunities for many who have come behind you. And though I feel that many owe you a debt of gratitude, I don't mean to suggest that Sweet Sweetback is in the same genre as the blaxploitation era it inspired.
MVP: It's not. It's a revolutionary film. What happened when Sweetback made all that money, the studios were in a very difficult position. They wanted the money, but they didn't the message. This marked the advent of the caricatures which became known as blaxploitation. Hollywood realized that they were totally unfamiliar with Black vernacular, so they had to hire some Black people which meant the beginning of some job opportunities to do the costumes, the sets, etcetera. And now we're slowly beginning to see some of the fruits of that.
BSN: Thanks again, bro, I guess we've got everything covered.
MVP: Yeah, see you in Boston!
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Chapter 4: Part 3
Welcome to IGN's Walkthrough and Guide for Resident Evil 4. This page details information on how to complete and survive Chapter 4: Part 3, the Castle.
Though there's a merchant in the area, there are still enemies to watch for (further east). When you're done dealing with the merchant, equip your pistol and slowly head through the rubble to the east.
Almost immediately, you'll spot two not-zombies with torches. If you lure them towards you, the enemies will try to blow the fire of the torch at you. As soon as they try, pop them with just a single pistol shot and they'll light themselves on fire, instantly dying.
Further up ahead is a bonfire with a group of not-zombies huddled around. Many of them have torches, letting you copy the technique above, but you can also take all of them out with a grenade lobbed right into the center of the group.
With the area clear of enemies, explore around to find a number of items hidden in the mess of the rubble around you. You'll also notice a locked door to the east, with a puzzling inscription. For now, head into the small wooden shed to the south and turn the crank, revealing a ladder that leads to an underground passage.
The long tunnel ahead is void of enemies, but soon opens up to a large underground area that's littered with not-zombies. From the comfort of the tunnel entrance, drop a shot into a nearby enemy to get his attention and lure the not-zombie into the narrow tunnel to finish him.
You'll likely get the attention of two or three enemies at a time, letting you easily handle the situation. If you look through the window in the stone structure to the north, you'll see a chainsaw enemy marching about. Leave him alone for now, and he'll leave you alone.
When you head down into the maze blow, watch out for bear traps that are lightly buried in the sand. There are probably a couple more not-zombies in the area that you couldn't see from the western tunnel, so keep an eye out and clear the area.
When you're ready to climb the ladder to the north, stop and take a rifle shot to knock down the chainsaw enemy inside before quickly running up the ladder.
As you enter the room, a number of not-zombies will start pouring into the room by way of the ladder you just climbed. Immediately head for the western corner of the room and sit back with your shotgun while you mow down the enemies. After a while, a second chainsaw wielding enemy will run up from the stairs to the north, so be quick to take out the first one to avoid having to fight both at the same time.
When all enemies are dead, grab the Key to the Mine from the pedestal in the center of the room. Once it's picked up, more not-zombies will start trying to climb up into the room via the ladder. When they're all dead, exit the structure and use the Key to the Mine to open up the door to the east.
Another narrow tunnel leads the way to a new hazard. As the tunnel opens up to a room with spikes on the ceiling, the ceiling begins to fall while a parasite pops out to attack you. You can use a flash grenade to instantly neutralize the parasite before taking aim at the four red glass pieces in the ceiling. When you've shot all four pieces (pistol shots work), the ceiling will stop falling and the door ahead opens up. Keep making your way eastward, collecting items along the way, until you exit out to a new area.
Grab the nearby items and hop into the mine carts just ahead. Along the eastern wall is small area with a large lever. You can't reach the lever, but your bullets sure can.
Aim and fire a pistol shot into the mechanism to throw the lever, and then quickly turn around to jump in the rear mine cart (furthest north) as soon as the carts start rolling.
As you roll down the tracks, not-zombies will pile into the mine carts ahead of you. Use your pistol and shotgun to take 'em out, and try to keep them from climbing into the cart you're in. Occasionally while riding, you'll reach areas of the tunnel that are blocked off by wooden beams.
If there are any not-zombies remaining, they'll destroy the beams for you, but if you're all alone you'll need to be ready to quickly press the shoulder buttons to dodge the beam.
Eventually, a brief scene will cut away to show you an enemy flipping another lever. As the mine cart comes to a stop, target the lever on the far end of the room.
You might not be able to see it with so many enemies around, but if you start knocking them to their knees you should be able to spot the lever to your left. With the lever thrown, the mine cart starts moving again, though you'll still have to deal with the chainsaw not-zombie that hopped in your train.
The ride continues as before, and eventually you'll start heading downhill so fast that you won't be able to aim.
Don't concern yourself with any enemies left in the carts, but focus on readying your fingers. As the ride levels back out, you'll have to quickly press the action buttons jump out of the cart as it crashes below.
Once back on solid ground, continue forward and grab the Stone of Sacrifice.
Another door will open up, letting you climb a ladder back to the surface. Once you reach the surface, use the Stone of Sacrifice to open up the door to the east and take the elevator up, ending the level.
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DETROIT, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Shayne Graham kicked a 32-yard field goal with 2:21 remaining in overtime Thursday to complete a Houston rally and give the Texans a 34-31 win over Detroit.
The Texans improved to a league-best 10-1 and won on the road for a franchise-record fifth straight time. Houston is only one victory away from clinching a playoff spot.
Detroit (4-7), which has been hosting a game on Thanksgiving since 1945, lost on the holiday for the ninth straight year.
Houston's Arian Foster scored his second touchdown of the game on a 1-yard run with 1:55 to play in regulation, ending a 15-play, 97-yard drive that forged a 31-31 tie.
Both Graham and Detroit's Jason Hanson missed field goal attempts in the overtime before Graham made his game-winning kick. Houston won in overtime for the second time in four days, having defeated Jacksonville last Sunday in the extra period on a 48-yard pass from Matt Schaub to Andre Johnson.
Schaub, who threw for 527 yards and five touchdowns against Jacksonville, went 29-of-48 for 315 yards and one score against the Lions.
Detroit quarterback Matt Stafford completed 31-of-61 passes for 441 yards and two touchdowns. Johnson made eight catches for 140 yards and a score.
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WASHINGTON — I have covered politics for a long time. I can tell when someone is running for president. Sarah Palin is running for president.
On a sunny (slow news) day in Wasilla, Alaska, the governor and former GOP vice presidential candidate appeared before the cameras and announced that she was stepping down as the state's chief executive 18 months before her term expires.
Just like that — like the distant sound of a chain saw in a stand of northern pines — the 2012 Republican race lurched into gear.
Palin is not the front-runner — there IS no front-runner — but she potentially is a major player in the Republican contest, her disastrous turn as John McCain's running mate notwithstanding.
Why now? Why this minute? Well, perhaps there is scandal lurking in the Great North that we in the Lower 48 don't know about. Maybe there is video of the Palin family setting a polar bear adrift on ice floes. But there is no reason to suspect so and, in the meantime, it's worth noting that both the timing and the manner of Palin's announcement were pretty shrewd.
She picked a long holiday weekend at the onset of summer (when, by the way, "Meet the Press" is pre-empted by Wimbledon tennis) to issue her stunner. She took no questions after her announcement and then disappeared into her house. As a result, she controlled the message, which was:
I'm the scrappy "point guard" (her basketball position on a state-champion team long ago) and I'm gonna take it to the hoop of freedom for ya!
Now she will be free to travel the country, rake in a lot of dough as a speaker, work the GOP and conservative dinner circuit, hawk her book once it comes out — and see how the game develops.
Now: a trawler-full of caveats.
Scrappy though she is, Palin is no rocket scientist. Her knowledge of the issues and of the wider world remains shallow and incomplete. In some respects, her family life is a monument to confusion, if not hypocrisy, about Traditional Family Values. The cutesy-pie thing is fading fast, and isn't the route (as Tina Fey proved) to Margaret Thatcher-hood. Her performance on the national campaign trail (after the first scripted moments in St. Paul) was, for the most part, not only laughable, but also cringe-worthy. She was in over her head.
But you never say "never" in politics, and there are reasons why it's worth paying attention to what she is up to these days.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
She is popular with core Republicans and conservatives for her emotional approach to abortion, for her Alaskan devotion to guns and hunting, and for her libertarianish theory of government whose last true devotee was Barry Goldwater.
Palin comes from the core of the core GOP demographic: rural, Protestant, married and churchgoing. She is in THAT mainstream.
Some of her potential rivals are just as busy making fools of themselves as she ever was during the 2008 campaign. At least she hasn't been caught doing the tango in Buenos Aires (Mark Sanford), or having sex with a staffer (John Ensign) or calling Supreme Court noiminee Sonia Sotomayor a "racist" (Newt Gingrich) or disappearing to an ambassadorship in China (Jon Huntsman).
No expectations
Early polls show that none of the other men left standing — Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, to name two — is exactly a colossus. To be blunt, the GOP is in such a shambles that in that land of the blind, even this one-eyed woman could become queen.
And as simplistic as she is, her reductionist view of the role of the federal government could be appealing to a GOP grassroots that is already apoplectic about the aggrandizements of the Obama administration in health care, environmental control, education and other aspects of our lives.
Expectations are on her side. Essentially, there are none; at least among the media elites she already has, in Nixonian fashion, made her foil. She may not have a Phi Beta Kappa key, but she knows how to play a victim of the people who do — and that is popular among the conservatives she now courts.
Finally, there is that scrappy thing. She genuinely was a good — and tough — point guard. And in an Alaska bar fight, I would bet on her any day against the boys who leaked bad stuff about her anonymously to Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair.
They didn't have the class or the guts to attack her on the record as they frantically tried to blame her for their own horrendous judgment in picking her as McCain's running mate.
She wasn't ready then. She may never be. But at least she's still in the game. Those guys are finished, we all can hope.
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"Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be." – Princess Diana
It's 1997 and Lady Di and Dodi Fayed are a hot item. He's a wealthy heir to a multi-billion dollar fortune and she's a former princess. They are stars of the press.
Dodi and Di are on vacation in Paris and Dodi tells friends he is going to ask Di to marry him. He makes a reservation for them at the trendy restaurant Benoit. When they arrive for their reservation, they find the entrance is blocked by a mass of paparazzi. Dodi and Di wave, giggle and smile to the cameras as they leave with the press at their heels.
They return to their hotel along with the paparazzi they collected at Benoit. Dodi and Di push and shove their way through the crowd of photographers and enter the hotel's restaurant, Espadon at The Ritz. Their chauffeur parks the car and proceeds to enter the bar across the street.
Di and Dodi enter Espadon and all conversation in the room stops. All eyes are on Di and Dodi. As Di eats her asparagus and mushroom omelet appetizer followed by Dover sole with vegetables tempura, she continually nods and smiles to her fellow diners.
In the awkward silence of the meal, Dodi pulls a large diamond ring from his pocket. The silent room erupts in whispers and people stand at their tables for a better look. Di takes the ring and continues to nod and smile as Dodi waves away dessert and calls the chauffeur to bring around the car.
The paparazzi jump in their cars and follow Di and Dodi's Mercedes as it leaves the Ritz. The traffic light ahead turns red and everyone comes to a stop. Dodi's chauffeur rolls down his window and shouts over to the paparazzi, "you won't catch us!" Di and Dodi laugh and wave as their car pulls forward. The chauffeur accelerates, running the red light and heading toward the tunnel ahead at 120 mph.
Stunned, the paparazzi sit at the red light and watch as Di and Dodi's car swerves out of control and smashes head-on into a concrete support post.
Fifteen minutes later, a French physician stumbles upon the scene of the accident and is shocked to find that no one is helping the victims in the car, "I found Diana unconscious but moaning and gesturing in every direction. There was the whirr and click of paparazzi camera, like little guillotines, everywhere."
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Thousands of visitors may have just left Cleveland County following the completion of the American Legion World Series, but more are coming.
This time, music � and lots of it � will be the driving force behind the influx of guests in the area.
The Clear Mountain Music Festival returns for its second straight year to Elliott Family Farms in Lawndale with at least 12 more bands, one additional day and one added stage compared to the 2012 edition. Organizer David Elliott expects approximately 5,000 visitors to the farm between Thursday and Sunday with tickets sold from �Wisconsin to Florida and all points in between. Even some to Germany and Australia,� he said.
Especially to fans of bluegrass and roots Americana music, the handbill reads like a whos -who in those genres. JB and the Moonshine Band, Steep Canyon Rangers, Acoustic Syndicate, Connor Christian and Southern Gothic, Larry Keel, Sara Watkins and the Steel Wheels are among the top acts.
On top of that, regional and local favorites like Big Daddy Love, Darin and Brook Aldridge, L Shape Lot, Roger Padgett, Dirty Grass Soul and The Corbitt Brothers will all have at least one set and some acts will play on multiple days. Overall, at least 31 bands will take one of the two stages.
Elliott, who has lived on the 50-acre farm for 15 years with his family, first got the idea for hosting a music festival when he saw the impact of MerleFest in nearby Wilkesboro.
�I counted 58 cars (at Merlefest ) that weren�t from North Carolina,� he said. �That showed me how people would travel for grassroots and bluegrass music. These aren�t necessarily CMT or famous artists, but great musicians. There are so many musicians out there that don�t get the fame, but it is definitely something that people follow.�
Back home: Cleveland County native Alex Lanier of Wilmington-based L Shape Lot is looking forward to making the trip to his old stomping grounds to play in the festival for a second time.
�It�s pretty cool. I haven�t really had a chance to play a whole lot back home. Our hope is to keep getting into these festivals as much as possible and have our name stuck right in the middle. We want our name to keep popping up,� Lanier said.
Not just music: The scenic venue, which overlooks the South Mountains, is a site that celebrates agriculture and farming heritage. The art of making sorghum molasses has been in the Elliott family for over 40 years. The farm hosts their annual Heritage Days every October and the equipment and structures on the property take visitors back in time to life in the 1800�s. This year�s sorghum cane maze honors Cleveland County bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs. For the adventurous, there will be helicopter tours at the festival. Various food vendors will be available on site.
Special guests: On Saturday, Mark and Jeff of the Carolina Moonshiners, popularized by the Discovery Channel show, �Moonshiners� will be on hand to meet fans and sign autographs.
Head up Highway 226 North and turn left on London Road. Begin looking for signs for festival parking. Multiple ticket options, including weekend and daily passes, will remain available through the weekend. Visit clearmountainviewmusicfestival.com or find the festival on Facebook for complete information and costs. Camping is encouraged and available on site.


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WORCESTER — Thousands showed up Sunday for the 10th Asian Festival at the Gene J. DeFeudis Italian-American Cultural Center.
A large crowd is becoming the norm.
Oanh Nguyen, president of the Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Massachusetts on Main Street, which presented the seven-hour event, said it's drawn more than 3,000 people each of the past few years.
With 13 Asian countries represented at the festival, Worcester has been the only city in the state able to represent several Asian countries in one room for performances, she said. Traveling boats, water festivals and other performance events are usually for one particular ethnicity, she said.
People typically stay for parts of the program, then yield to others.
"It's a constant rotation," Ms. Nguyen said.
The event in its first year was small and held at Worcester State University. Dr. Sahdev R. Passey, a local pediatrician, helped start it, Mayor Joseph M. Petty recalled.
Yung Phan, Ms. Nguyen, Tuyet Tran and Minh Mailloux were also cited as key visionaries.
The Asian community in the city and throughout Worcester County has blossomed, Mr. Petty said.
The mayor told the Asian-Americans attending the festival that Worcester is stronger because of its cultural diversity.
Joined by City Councilors Kathleen M. Toomey, Philip P. Palmieri and Sarai Rivera, Mr. Petty said many Asians may have come here because of a "harder life" in their native lands.
"But in Worcester, you're very much welcome," he said.
Anh V. Sawyer, the coalition's new executive director, gave Mr. Petty a plaque that thanked the city for its support, its love and its warm welcome of Asians.
Many people venture to Worcester from all over the world for the opportunity to raise their children and work, but most importantly, to find freedom and live in peace, Ms. Sawyer said.
Thuha Le, the coalition's first executive director, from 2004 to 2012, was given a plaque because she helped the organization grow and become more special and strengthened its citywide presence, Ms. Sawyer said.
Ms. Le, who left to pursue a master's degree on a scholarship at Clark University, but is still involved with the coalition, said the organization began in 2001 with no funding. It functioned entirely with volunteers and did not have an executive director until she was installed three years later.
The city provided the coalition an office in the Main South Community Development Corporation, Ms. Le said.
It moved to Chandler Street through a Fuller Foundation grant, grew out of that space and moved into donated space in the United Way building.
Asians compose about 6 percent of Worcester's population. Because so many countries are represented, the city would not be able to serve them without the coalition, Ms. Le said.
In addition, the coalition gave a plaque to photographer Wayne Brink.
"He never fails to come and takes amazing photographs for us," Ms. Sawyer said.
The festival awarded student scholarships of $500 each to Joshan Niroula, Kristen Nguyen, Mimi Nguyen and Steve Chungyuk Takahasha. Program supporter Simon Gregory gave out of his own pocket a fifth scholarship to Ada Yang, who was deserving, the coalition president said.
Bryan Morales and Van Tha Ceu both received $250 scholarships for their work in the coalition's youth program.
Ms. Niroula, who moved to the U.S. from Nepal five years ago, said she enjoys living in the city because of its overall diversity.
Ms. Niroula said her mother, who was attending a graduate program at Clark University, sent for her and her sister for a better education.
The valedictorian at University Park Campus School, Ms. Niroula said she will use the money to pay for books during her first year at Clark University.
She said the festival was enlightening, and she enjoyed seeing the various costumes during the fashion show.
"It's like visiting the world, except you only have to come here," she said.
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