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PPI::Token::Quote::Interpolate - The interpolation quote-like operator
isa PPI::Token::Quote
isa PPI::Token
isa PPI::Element
PPI::Token::Quote::Interpolate object represents a single interpolation quote-like operator, such as
qq{$foo bar $baz}
There are no methods available for
PPI::Token::Quote::Interpolate beyond those provided by the parent PPI::Token::Quote, PPI::Token and PPI::Element classes.
See the support section in the main module.
Adam Kennedy <email@example.com>
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.


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Ben Salinas shows off the best color changing moves with cards ever! This 2 DVD Set is the ultimate collection, packed with over 50 HOTSHOT moves with cards. From beginner moves to SHOWOFF HOTSHOT moves, each effect is performed and explained in the clearest possible way!
Pick & learn your favorite moves from the ultimate collection and become a HOTSHOT in no time!
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Aerospace small project 2
Orçamento $30-250 AUD
1. Having a "related degree" and "similar/related experience" are necessary. Moreover, writing few sentences regarding to your approach based on the requested task is also important and vital to make you a right candidate. So, underbidding would matter only and only when you've got all aforementioned qualifications (related degree + having related/similar experiences of doing such a project before + a brief approach in few sentences as your proposal).
2. Please read the "Project's Technical [url removed, login to view]" completely and carefully, and keep it in mind that all required elements "must be addressed" and represented at your most proficient style.
3. For attempting the project, similar notation and methodology/approach of "Project's Supported Documents"(if there is any) must be followed carefully.
4. Reasonable offers with rational time will be highly considered and appreciated.
5 Deadline: in 1 day and it is not extendable.
6. Please don't place any bid if you are not sure you can complete the task as requested, by deadline.
7. Thank you for your time and consideration.
8. Deadline: in 1 day and it is not extendable. (Double Emphasis )
9-Reprt should completely type out in MS WORD.
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1 freelancer está oferecendo em média $100 para esse trabalho
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text: NMPF: Time Ripe For Immigration Reform January 16, 2013 03:12 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jim Dickrell Dairy Herd Management Dairy Editor Email In a conference call with dairy media this morning, National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) officials say the prospects for immigration reform are better this year than in the past decade. Last week, NMPF announced it was part of Agricultural Workforce Coalition (AWC) that encompasses 11 agricultural organizations pushing for reform. Jerry Kozak, NMPF President and CEO, cites three reasons why reform this year is likely: 1. The impact of the November election on Republicans in which many noted the huge majority of Hispanic voters who rejected Republican candidates. 2. President Obama's hope for a "legacy achievement" in immigration reform. 3. Widespread belief by the American business community that the "don't ask, don't tell" approach to undocumented workers is unsustainable. "We will try to fold the agricultural piece into the overall immigration reform package," Kozak says. But he says AWC is prepared to work toward a separate agricultural labor bill if a comprehensive package stalls in Congress. The first efforts will likely come in the U.S. Senate, with Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) leading a bi-partisan effort. The AWC proposal addresses both foreign-born workers already here and future workers as well. The general outline for a guest worker program is outlined below, pulled from the AWC website: Agricultural Worker Program The uncapped Agricultural Worker Visa Program ("AWP") will ensure agriculture's future legal workforce. The AWP allows both employer and employee choice and flexibility by including two options: "At-Will" employees have the freedom to move from employer to employer without any contractual commitment. They would have a visa term of up to 11 months with USDA registered employers and then return home for 30 days. There would be no limit on the number of times a person could obtain the 11-month visa. Contract employees commit to work for an employer for a fixed period of time and would have a visa term of up to 12 months (renewable indefinitely), and conditioned upon a commitment to return to their home country for at least 30 days over a 3-year period. Current Workforce In order to minimize the impact on current economic activity, the AWC supports an adjustment of status for experienced but unauthorized agricultural workers who currently reside in the U.S. This adjustment should include the following components: These workers have a future obligation to work for a number of days annually in agriculture for several years. Upon completion of this future work obligation, the workers will obtain permanent legal status and the right to work in whatever industries they choose. More on Agricultural Workforce Coalition can be found here. More on Sen. Rubio's push for reform can be read here. Back to news


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If 3D TVs are the wave of the future, then you can be sure there are dozens of manufacturers and developers with one goal on their mind: Getting rid of those goofy glasses. They can be an uncomfortable nuisance – something you have to accept, rather than something you look forward to dealing with. In fact many might suggest that they are the dam holding back the 3D floodwaters, and whoever can be the first to solve the glasses issue, will be the frontrunner in the 3D TV market. There are a few different methods available to meet this goal of a glassless 3D world (also known as autostereoscopy), but none are without issues.
DigiTimes is reporting that Japanese manufacturer Newsight is taking a chance with glasses-less 3D screens, using a method called parallax barrier technology. The 70-inch set claims to be the largest 3D TV set in the world. Although the set does project 3D without glasses, other details – including price and release date haven't been announced, so we don't yet know what price range parallax technology will run.
A parallax barrier is a device that goes in front of an LCD screen. The device has a series of precisely placed slits that allow each eye to see a different set of pixels. This creates a sense of depth and allows the user to view 3D images without the glasses. The drawback to this type of technology is that the viewer must be positioned in a relatively specific spot. Sharp recently announced a mobile 3D touchscreen that uses the same parallax barrier technology, but it had no immediate plans for a larger model.
Other manufacturers are working on the same idea through different technology. The company Sunny Ocean is working on a screen that would use the same lens technology as the glasses, but the screen would render the images in 3D for you. This technology is promising, but it will only work with images that are broadcast in 3D, and you would need to remove the screen for standard 2D broadcasts.
The most common of the current autostereoscopic sets seems to be lenticular lens technology, favored by Chinese maker TCL, Samsung, NEC and Philips, all of which had displays at this year's CES.
Lenticular lens technology uses multiple magnified lenses that create the illusion of depth. If you have ever seen a card that has a 3D image that morphs when you rotate it from side to side, you have seen lenticular lens printing. In television sets, projectors display images through eight or more lenses, although you only see a few at a time. The multiple lenses allow the viewer to see the image in 3D from multiple angles. Although still new, TCL has a working model on the market now, for a mere $20,000.
Until manufacturers can effectively produce high quality autostereoscopic televisions that are affordable (and give us 4K while you are at it), 3D TV with glasses may remain little more than a stopgap.


text: John Wiese is an artist and composer from Los Angeles, California. His ongoing projects include LHD and Sissy Spacek, with plenty of freelance work with many artists as diverse as Sunn O))), Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Evan Parker, Smegma, Kevin Drumm, Cattle Decapitation, and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). He has toured extensively throughout the world, covering Europe, Scandinavia and Australia as a member of Sunn O))), the UK as part of the Free Noise tour (a tentet including Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Yellow Swans, etc.), the United States alongside Wolf Eyes, and recently performed in the 52nd Venice Biennale with artist Nico Vascellari.


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My husband has a new "wife" now. She's blonde and pretty. A stylish dresser. And she's very smart.
Actually she's an attorney, with a rather sharpish tongue, so I'm a bit loath to mess with her. And if you think I'm exaggerating, I invite you to see for yourself. You can find her, and my husband, cavorting on stage in Arcadia next week.
I really hope you will go because I have been putting up with his second wife syndrome for a couple of months of rehearsals now and I could use some support.
Lest you think this is some vicious rumor, well you would be right. Just ask Neil Simon who wrote the show "Rumors," which you may remember was a 1998 Tony Award-winning play. As you might guess, it is a farce. Starting next weekend, The JFed (Jewish Federation) Players of the San Gabriel and Pomona Valley will put up their version of "Rumors." It features my husband, George Roegler, as Ken and an actress (rumored to also live in Altadena…how convenient is that?) as his wife, Chris.
The plot revolves around four couples who arrive at a 10th anniversary party for the deputy mayor of New York. They find that he has unsuccessfully shot himself, his wife is missing and the kitchen staff has vanished. Throw in a little mistaken identity, hearing loss (that would be my husband who purports not to hear me when I ask about his "other" wife), and you are in for many laughs. Except, if you're like me, you might be wondering if the joke is on you.
Fortunately, the real-life Chris and I are friends, so on the one hand, I'm really not worried. On the other hand, they say the wife is the last to know. There's only one thing left for me to do: go and find out for myself. I ask you to do the same. Not only will you enjoy the show, but, if you notice anything, umm, unusual going on, maybe you could let me know?
Sunday matinees start at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 6, 13 and 20; Evening performances are at 8 p.m. Oct. 12 and 19 at the Jewish Federation, 550 S. Second Ave. in Arcadia.


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Kenneth R. Miller will be speaking on "God, Darwin, and Design: Lessons from the Dover Monkey Trial" at 7:00 p.m. (Central Time) on April 4, 2008, at the University of Texas, Austin -- and his talk will be webcast live, [Link broken] so people around the world can watch, and even submit questions for the discussion period. (It is necessary to download a small plug-in to view the webcast.) A Supporter of NCSE, Miller was a scientific expert witness for the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller v.
The defendants in the ongoing case Association of Christian Schools International et al. v. Roman Stearns et al. won a legal victory when their motion for partial summary judgment was granted, and the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment was denied, in a March 28, 2008, ruling from Judge S. James Otero.
Senate Bill 561, styled the "Louisiana Academic Freedom Act," was prefiled in the Louisiana Senate by state senator Ben Nevers (D-District 12) on March 21, 2008, and provisionally assigned to the Senate Education Committee, of which Nevers is the chair.
NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott is to receive the UCSF Medal, the highest award of the University of California, San Francisco, on April 23, 2008. In a letter to Scott, the university's chancellor J. Michael Bishop wrote, "The award is offered in recognition of your distinguished advocacy on behalf of science in the public arena.
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Separation of Church and State ... but Were Afraid to Ask!" -- a national simulcast sponsored by First Freedom First, a joint project of Americans United for Separation of Church and State and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation -- is coming to theaters around the country on March 26, 2008.
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While people in this country are wailing and gnashing their teeth about the growing tech strength of India and China, folks back in the motherland are wailing and gnashing their teeth about the re-emergence of the "reservations" monster (India's answer to affirmative action). Proposals to raise the number of seats reserved for "backward castes" from its current 22.5% to 49.5% in institutions of higher learning (IITs, business schools, med schools) have caused an uproar among student bodies and faculties across the country. There's a LOT of politics swirling around this mess, and the issues are much thornier than a straight affirmative action debate, but there is genuine (if a bit unfounded) concern about the potential for "killing the golden goose" as it were.
Of course, everyone is missing a true sign of the apocalypse: a non-Indian winning the National Spelling Bee !! Five out of the last seven winners (and all four top competitors last year) were of Indian origin. But this year, the top placed finisher was 4th (and boy did he have a game face) !
I was amused (and somewhat confused) to see a Hindi word with absolutely no connection to English being used. The word was 'izzat', which means 'pride', or'honor'. Its pronounciation was of course mangled horribly: it's a wonder that the speller managed to get it right. And if one wanted to be pedantic, the word isn't even Hindi; it's Urdu.
p.s Having bought into the stereotype of spelling bee champs being these monomaniacal bottle-glass wearing loons, I was pleasantly surprised by the eventual champ, who displayed remarkable maturity and a sense of balance in her brief biopic.


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Sacramento Event: Arden Hills Bridal Open House
Approximately every third Sunday of the month, Arden Hills opens its doors to future brides and grooms to explore their popular wedding venue. Enjoy hors d'oeuvres and refreshments, and tour the resort. Admission is free. For more information, log on to ardenhills.net or call 916-382-8955. Stop by this great event for your FREE copy of Real Weddings Magazine and our planning resource, Real Weddings Magazine's The Planning Guide! Be sure to tell them you found out about the event from Real Weddings Magazine! And, to learn about more bridal events like this, visit realweddingsmag.com.
Date & Time
3rd Sunday
01/21/2018 through 03/18/2018
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Sat, 28 March 2009 at 11:42 pm
Miley Cyrus - 2009 Kids' Choice Awards
Miley Cyrus is a vision in white as she wears a Sheri Bodell dress on the orange carpet at the 2009 Kids' Choice Awards held at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon (March 28).
The 16-year-old starlet paired her red carpet look off with Joie heels and Coomi jewels.
Hosted by Dwayne Johnson, The Jonas Brothers and Pussycat Dolls both performed!
Check out Miley with Paula Abdul!
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Review Group #397 - Zero #1
Hey you! Reader! Want to be a part of the GREATEST COMIC BOOK AND GEEK COMMUNITY on the web?! Well, they're not accepting new members, but we'll take anyone here, so why not sign up for a free acount? It's fast and it's easy, like your mom! Sign up today! Membership spots are limited!*
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Hey you! Reader! Want to be a part of the GREATEST COMIC BOOK AND GEEK COMMUNITY on the web?! Well, they're not accepting new members, but we'll take anyone here, so why not sign up for a free acount? It's fast and it's easy, like your mom! Sign up today! Membership spots are limited!*
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by LOLtron » Wed Sep 18, 2013 2:50 pm
Guitarsmashley is back with a brand spanking new #1 from Image: Zero
This week's book looks good enough to get maybe 3 whole revies!
SAVING THE WORLD. ONE MURDER AT A TIME. Edward Zero is the perfect execution machine - a spy who breaks the rules to get things done. When a stolen device appears in the center of a long-running conflict, Zero comes to retrieve it. The problem is, the device is inside a living, breathing, bio-modified terrorist and there's an entire army after it.
Writer: Alex Kot • Artist: Michael Walsh, Jordie Bellaire
digial copy availible here
Ze rules:
Post your review in the forum thread or in the comments section here on the front page.
Review as often or as little as you like. Once you've posted 5 reviews, you will be awarded 1 pick. You can post 5 reviews, right? That's a totally achievable goal and with day and date digital releases becoming the standard, it shouldn't matter if your shop ordered enough copies of this weeks comic or not.
When multiple Review Groupers have posted 5 (or more) qualifying reviews, they will be awarded their pick in the order that they qualified. What constitutes a qualifying review? Any review posted (with a score on a scale from 0-10, that's right 0!) within 1 calendar month of the thread going live. Reviews are to be at least 5 sentences long. It shows that a) you have at least read this week's pick and b) you have some unique insight into the comic.
Reviews posted while waiting in line for your pick will be applied to your next pick.
I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection.
Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll.
If it's your week to pick, remember to keep it under $3.99.
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by GHERU » Wed Sep 18, 2013 2:52 pmthinking about cleaning out the "Current Members List"
any objections?
by guitarsmashley » Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:13 pm
Works for me. Fuck em and let Jude sort them out.
by TimDrake'sDumbWings » Thu Sep 19, 2013 2:11 pmGreat start to this series. Kot's style is very focused and spare, and leaves a lot of the heavy lifting to the visuals. Luckily Michael Walsh's art is up to the task; his style is also quite spare, but his grasp of visual storytelling is better than many pencilers working today.
This is the type of black ops story that Rucka loves to tell, but it swims a bit more in the blood, guts, and viscera of special forces work. I didn't read Kot's short-but-well-loved run on Suicide Squad, but here I definitely saw the talent people were lauding him for there.
I'm wondering if the first arc will be all about Zero telling the child assassin his story. From what I understand the book has a rotating art team, correct?
Overall, this is an excellent debut that matches and--in some ways--exceeds some of the best Image action/adventure books on the stands like Saga and Lazarus.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:06 amAmazingly solid debut, and if you didn't at least read Change before this let the stink of shame be on you until you buy the black-covered tpb. Kot can out-write media darlings twice his age, like Millar or even Morrison these days. His comics, his blogs, his photostreams, and everything else, Kot is bursting with ideas and acute observations about the world and the grim socio-economic future we seem locked into. Comics are lucky to have him (nice work, DC!).
One of the best parts about Zero is how that well-traveled worldview and futurist way of thinking is so deftly used to build Zero #1's characters and near-future world, and it's done without feeling exposition-heavy in the least bit. Structurally such a strong first issue of anything, with no narrative space or page space wasted--even the inside front and back covers are used as the first and last pages of the story!
by TimDrake'sDumbWings » Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:12 am
I reek of shame.
by Garofani Spruzzo » Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:16 am
http://www.amazon.com/dp/1607066823 !!
Change, like Mind MGMT, was very hard to find in shops unfortunately.
by TimDrake'sDumbWings » Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:22 am
I typically stick with digital. Does this lose something not reading it in hardcopy?
by Garofani Spruzzo » Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:30 am
Not if you already like reading comics digitally, no.
by guitarsmashley » Fri Sep 20, 2013 2:03 pm
Then I will be sure to read change this weekend.
by Stephen Day » Fri Sep 20, 2013 6:41 pm
No worries from me. It's probably something that's long overdue anyway.
by Amoebas » Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:05 pmPleasantly surprised.
From the on set - the child assassin and story-teller hooked me. The flashback fight scenes were extremely well choreographed (and brutal). The hunt for the tech and what our hero (?) does in pursuit of it is exciting despite not really knowing a whole lot of of the why's (I assume they'll come).
Zizek and Cooke, when we first meet them were boring ops overseers that initially felt out of place - but with their next scene (which I sure didn't see cuming) was a nice twist.
Overall this is a great book but I do have one fault with it... The story-teller sitting on the Dover Cliffs is basically telling the kid (and us) his tale, which oddly includes fight details he was never witness too. He tells of Zizek & Cook lying on the floor (again something he had no way of knowing). While the art of successful story-telling is embellishment, some of these details would just be utterly unnecessary. It's a minor quibble but I kept thinking it as I read the book (I also kept thinking about Scott McCloud's DESTROY! book from the mid '80's).
Writing - 8
Art - 9
Overall - 8.5
by Amoebas » Fri Sep 20, 2013 10:12 pm
If anything how about adding how many times we've looped the review board since the group was restarted?
by thefourthman » Sat Sep 21, 2013 7:12 amNot at shop bought on Comixology. will try to knock out all star western today.
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See, The Palm Pre Can Be Offered For Free
from the was-it-such-a-ridiculous-suggestion? dept
At least some people seem to agree.
The device is now being offered in the UK... exactly as I suggested: free with a two year contract. At the same time, through some tricky step following, you can actually get the device for free in the US as well. I don't see how that takes away from the prestige of the device at all. If anything, it's only going to help make it easier for some people to at least try it out as a phone.
Of course, my other big complaint with the Palm Pre -- its weak developer support still stands. Famed developer Jamie Zawinski just wrote about his absolutely ridiculous experience trying to get two simple apps available on Palm Pre phones. It's taken months, and they're still not available, even though he wants to make them available for free. Instead, as with the iPhone, the "approval" process of getting apps into the app store are positively ridiculous. I had been seriously considering getting a Palm Pre (in fact, a few months ago, I was positive I was going to get one), but without real developer support, it's just not worth it. I'll wait until a decent Android phone is available instead.


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LINKS À LA MODE: OCTOBER 27THEdited by: Fajr Muhammad of Stylish Thought:: I love how multi-faceted fashion blogging has become. In the beginning it was mostly celebrity style driven but has evolved to include everything from personal style, social commentary, fun fashion trends and high fashion! While blogging is becoming a staple of our everyday world, fashion blogging is continuing to push the envelope. Fashion is converging into lifestyle and we are defining the medium and what it means to be a fashion blogger. Check out the diverse links this week that our pushing our craft to new places.
Still Evolving
- Alex Drake Vintage: Vintage Photography Inspiration
- Being Zhenya: Friday DIY
- Beyond Fabric: Urban Menswear Myth #3
- Brunette Blogging: The Blogger and the Brand
- Cadence and Clementine: A Cut Above the Rest
- Consider Me Lovely: Defying Expectations
- Consumerism Killed My Soul: Arguing for Barbie
- Ethical Fashion Blog: Ethical Fashion Conundrums
- Fashion Dynamite: Soft Dressing
- Fashion Tales: Game Art
- Love at First Blush: In Her Closet- Print Designer
- Oranges and Apples: Workwear, Women & Aging
- Practically Spoiled: Closet Challenge- Lace and Lines
- Shrimp Salad Circus: How to Day- Piano Clutch
- Simply Frabulous: Spend or Save- Low Price High Style
- Snapshot Fashion: Fashion Icons We Grew Up with
- Style. Love. Repeat: The Printed Blouse
- Stylish Thought: 33 Tips on Finding your Passion Today
- The Chic Sheet: The New Geometrics
- What 2 Wear Where: Day of the Dead Hulaween
New Jackets at Shopbop: Opening Ceremony, Add Down, RED Valentino, RLX Ralph Lauren, Mackage, Jen Kao, Vena Cava, Doma, Winter Kate, Halston Heritage, Veda, Gryphon, & Ella Moss.
If you would like to submit your link for next week's Links à la Mode, please register first, then post your links HERE. The HTML code for this week will be found in the Links a la Mode group will be published later today. ~Jennine


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Kris Jenner isn't going to stop what she's doing and live in the joyous moment just because her "favorite" daughter, Kim Kardashian, is pregnant. No, no, no, friend. That's not how it works in Kasa Kardashian. After what I assume was a cursory champagne pop and double-cheek kiss session, Jenner got down to business, negotiating a magazine cover deal that will feature the debuting of the most popular Kardashian's baby bump.
Two noteworthy things about this: One, the supposed amount that was agreed upon is extremely surprising (lower than you'd think). And two, the magazine cover will likely be just Kim, because "Kanye always looks so miserable."
Sources told the New York Daily News that Kim will likely wind up getting $300,000 for the tabloid cover. Supposedly, Kris already started emailing weekly rag mags, trying to negotiate a deal, and that's the ballpark number that was reached. The source said: "(It) likely will sell at $300,000, and that's Kim solo because Kanye always looks so miserable." Truth.
More from The Stir: Kim Kardashian & Kayne West Might Be Totally Getting Married (VIDEO)
To any normal person, $300,000 is a ridiculously large sum of money. It would take most of us six to seven years to make that. But to a Kardashian, that's a handbag. Perhaps it shows how desensitized I've become to all things Kardashian (and celebrity), but I would have thought it would have gone for more. (I'm sure the photo of her debuting her actual baby will earn her way more than that.)
And in regards to the Kanye looking miserable thing. Well, I hate to say it, but it's true. Kanye does always look like he just learned of someone's passing. I mean, could you imagine a photo of the two of them beaming, his hands lovingly placed on her belly? It's a laughable thought. A thought that almost makes me uncomfy.
Needless to say, like most things in life, this pregnancy is going to be all about Kim. Kanye will have to lay low, take a back seat, and perhaps settle upon storming a stage or wearing a skirt if he's feeling neglected. And then hopefully, eventually, the two of them can both settle upon loving their baby and not worrying about being famous.
In other news, 2013 is officially the Year of the Dreamer.
Are you surprised about Kim's baby bump debut fee?
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Strasbourg, 23 November 2010
Agenda for new skills and jobs: EU sets out actions to boost employability and drive reform
23 million people are currently unemployed across the EU - 10% of the active population - with serious consequences for European growth and welfare systems. At the same time, some employers are reporting difficulties in recruiting, especially for high-skill jobs. In the future there could be shortages in areas like the ICT or health sectors with an estimated deficit of 700,000 ICT specialists by 2015 and one million researchers by 2025. To address these challenges and boost the EU employment rate to reach 75 % of men and women by 2020, the European Commission today launched its flagship initiative 'An Agenda for new skills and jobs'. It sets out 13 key actions aimed at reforming labour markets, upgrading skills and matching them with market demand to boost employability and make it easier to move jobs, to improve working conditions and job quality, and to create jobs.
László Andor, EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion said: Our priority is to get people working. We simply cannot afford an unemployment rate of close to 10%. The crisis has wiped out any past progress so we urgently need to reform labour markets, make sure skills are in line with demand and working conditions are right for job creation." He added: "I am confident that all EU citizens will benefit from the proposed actions, in particular vulnerable groups that were hit hardest by the crisis."
Commissioner Vassiliou said: Today it is more than ever crucial that all citizens receive high quality education and training to equip them with the skills they need to find work. Lifelong learning must become a reality in Europe. For that to happen, a joint effort of all partners – governments, employers, trade unions and citizens – is essential. "
As part of the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth 'An Agenda for New Skills and Jobs' is the Commission's contribution to reaching the EU employment rate target for women and men of 75 % for the 20-64 years age group by 2020. The strategy also highlights the EU's targets to reduce the early school leaving rate to under 10% and increase the number of young people in higher education or equivalent vocational education to at least 40%.
Getting more people into work is key to sustaining Europe's social model and welfare systems as the EU working age population will soon start to shrink.
To make Europe's labour markets function better the Commission proposes thirteen concrete actions that will help:
To step up labour market reform to improve flexibility and security of labour markets ('flexicurity'). For example, one concrete proposal is to extend the use of open-ended contractual arrangements with a sufficiently long probation period and a gradual increase of protection rights, access to training, life-long learning and career guidance for all employees. This would aim to reduce the existing divisions between those holding temporary and permanent contracts.
Since the crisis has begun to hit labour markets in 2008, Europe has lost 5.6 million jobs. Assuming the labour market stabilises in 2010-2011, achieving an employment rate of 75 % by 2020 will require an average employment growth slightly above 1 % per annum.
Many labour markets across the EU need reform to function better, and there has to be a much stronger focus on skills upgrading and matching. Even throughout the crisis some employers struggled to find the people with the right skills to fill their vacancies. Jobs require increasingly sophisticated skills levels: Jobs held by highly-qualified people are expected to rise by 16 million between now and 2020, while those held by low-skilled workers will decline by around 12 million.
Further information
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June 13, 2007
You hear about scams all the time " e-mails and voicemails claiming you have won valuable prizes. Dr. Phil is outraged by what some scammers are doing to him, his family and his viewers. One Web site offers a Dr. Phil quiz to win $5,000 every hour, another says it has the official Dr. Phil personality test, but even more shocking are 800 numbers that take callers' money for the promise of over-the-phone therapy with Dr. Phil and Robin. But these 800 numbers connect innocent victims with con artists posing as Dr. Phil staff members. The fake staffers ask anywhere from $375 to $1,000 for consultation time that obviously never takes place.
Falling for the Scam
Renee wrote to Dr. Phil to get advice on her marriage, but instead she found herself sucked into the middle of a major con. And, Debra was desperate for Dr. Phil's help, but all she got was a hefty deduction from her bank account.
"At that point in time, I was like, 'This is not right.'"
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Robin McGraw calls the 800 number to set up an appointment to talk to herself. Listen in on the conversation, and hear how the scammers prey on the weak and bilk them out of thousands of dollars.
"It's surreal … You're actually talking about an appointment to talk to you!"
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Former FBI agent and private investigator Harold Copus joins the case to try and find the scammers. He uses decoys to make phone calls and sets up a high-tech surveillance operation.
Will Harold and his team locate the scammers?
Don't miss part two of the sting, including Dr. Phil's face to face confrontation with one of the women he believes is a scammer.


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Gilligan awarded N.J. horse show trophy
Coreen Gilligan, daughter of Dan and Brynne Gilligan of Milford, N.J., was awarded the N.J. Horse Show Association's Perpetual Memorial Trophy in the Children's Hunter Horse Division for the third year in a row. Gilligan, who began riding at age 4, and her Warmblood gelding, WannaBe, are trained by Robert Beck of Long Valley, N.J., who was named NJHSA Trainer of the year.
Gilligan also was the co-recipient of the NJHSA "Junior" Award, which honors a junior member of the NJHSA who has exemplified and supported the association's commitments to good sportsmanship and horsemanship. In September, she will enter the nursing program at the College of New Jersey.
Gilligan is the niece of Scott and Carey Larned of Hendersonville and granddaughter of Lynn and Bob Fisher of Etowah.
Three members of the Asheville Composite Squadron recently received awards for their contribution to the Civil Air Patrol. The squadron commander, Capt. Clint Parker, was honored as the N.C. Wing's Public Affairs Officer of the Year for his work in making the Western North Carolina community aware of the Civil Air Patrol and its contributions to the region.
Lt. Col. Butch Phillips was honored as Communicator of the Year for his ongoing commitment to emergency services communications and radio support.
Lt. Col. Wallace Courtney was honored with the Wing's Frank G. Brewer Lifetime Achievement award for his continuing dedication to aerospace education, cadet development and emergency services that have spanned multiple decades.
The Asheville Composite Squadron is the largest and most active of the 30 squadrons that make up the North Carolina Wing. Members meet every Thursday at Asheville Regional Airport.
Marilyn Yoder, president of Henderson County's Alpha Lambda Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, presented Arts Council Board member Carol Walters with a check in support of the Arts Council's Mentors and Students series of exhibitions. Alpha Lambda's Candy Priest Grant Fund assists education in schools and community.
The first exhibition was The Art of Our Children: Elementary School Exhibit, and the third exhibition will be Artists of Tomorrow: Secondary Student Exhibition April 4-18. All exhibitions are presented at First Citizens Bank's Main Street gallery.
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International promotes professional and personal growth of women educators and excellence in education. The Mentors & Students series celebrates the importance of art in a child's life and is open to Henderson County public, private, parochial, and home school students and teachers.
Mentors and Students is sponsored by First Citizens Bank, the Minor F. Watts Fund at the Community Foundation of Henderson County, and by the Alpha Lambda Chapter of The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International.
For more information, contact the Arts Council at acofhc@bellsouth. net or 828-693-8504, or visit www.acofhc.org.
Advanced Forestry training at Job Corps prepares students for careers in forestry, fire and research. The Advanced Forestry Program began at Schenck Job Corps Center in 1992. With a 100 percent graduation rate these students are armed with skills for hiring opportunities in the Forest Service.
Forestry Instructor Mickey Beland has served in many positions during his 28-year career with NFS lands, which has prepared him to provide guidance to his students. "Students learn GIS use, wildlife habitat management, wildland firefighting, and soil and water protection, just to name a few," he said.
Forestry students have the opportunity upon qualification to attend Alabama A&M University's Forestry Program and acquire their undergraduate degree.
Forest Service Research plays an important role in the Advanced Forestry Program. Beland says, "The educational training in the Forestry/Natural Resources Program at Schenck CCC (Job Corps) has as a major objective to expose students to a broad range of subjects and experiences relative to managing forest environments. This includes the dynamics of forested landscape structure, plant and animal interactions, and understanding how man influences these.
"Students are exposed to the realization that forest research plays a significant role in the knowledge and understanding of how forest ecosystems function. They are instructed and encouraged to utilize research publications to better understand the what, where, when and why of concerns and issues of forest management."
Upon completion of the program, students usually start at a GS-3 or GS-4 pay grade.
Headquartered in Asheville, the Southern Research Station is comprised of more than 120 scientists who conduct natural resource research in 20 locations across 13 southern states (Virginia to Texas). The station's mission is "…to create the science and technology needed to sustain and enhance southern forest ecosystems and the benefits they provide." Learn more about the Southern Research Station at www.srs.fs.usda.gov.
Four Brevard College voice students were among the best student performers at the North Carolina Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing auditions held recently in Greensboro.
Soprano Rachel Anthony, mezzosoprano Alisha Carland, tenor Blake Ellege and soprano Katie Smathers were ranked in the top tier of the 400 singers who participated at the recent auditions. Ellege and Carland both placed third in their respective categories.
Those four students — along with soprano Natalie Comeaux, who took top honors at the Music Theater Auditions held by NC NATS last fall — will now advance to the NATS Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference and Auditions in April. For more information, visit www.ncnats.org.
The Blue Ridge Detachment recently held a raffle for an antique M1 rifle. The winner of the collector's item was Mike Geremia, who recently returned to his home in Western North Carolina.
Proceeds from the raffle enabled The Blue Ridge Detachment to have a record year of giving to the VA Hospital in Asheville, the Injured Marine Semper Fi Fund and other veteran oriented charities. The Blue Ridge Detachment of the Marine Corps League, a veterans organization composed of United States Marines and U.S. Navy Medical Corpsmen who served with Marines, serves the areas of Henderson and Buncombe counties. It is the third-largest of the 55 detachments in North Carolina.
Blue Ridge has been enjoying healthy growth and is always looking for a few more good Marines and Navy Corpsmen to help them in their work of looking after the interests of veterans. For more information, call Ken Bowden, senior vice commandant, at 828-693-9503.


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Gerard Butler, Vanessa Hudgens, & Selena Gomez Sing Farewell to Chelsea Handler on 'Chelsea Lately'
Check out Chelsea Handler getting a nice farewell on the series finale of her hit show Chelsea Lately!
The 39-year-old talk show host was joined on her last episode by well-known celebs, such as Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Theroux, Gwen Stefani, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Fergie, Miley Cyrus, Avril Lavigne, Kate Beckinsale, Melissa McCarthy, and Anna Faris, who all sang a spoof of Michael Jackson's "We Are the World."
"Goodbye to E! It's time to move on. She wants to sing. She wants to dance and get her groove on," the stars sang to Chelsea.
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It may be hard to believe, but biotechnology isn't always well understood. And that lack of understanding sometimes turns into active opposition that can block the sale of U.S. soy in some countries.
The farmer-leaders of the United Soybean Board (USB) identified biotechnology as a priority in 2009, as new biotech varieties inched closer to commercialization. That's how the checkoff's Biotechnology Initiative came about.
"It all comes down to education," says USB farmer-leader Richard Fordyce, a soybean farmer in Bethany, Mo. "Around 12 new biotech events are expected to be approved in the next five to seven years, bringing significant value to U.S. soybean farmers," he says. "It's important everyone understands biotech is safe."
Here are the primary educational programs of the initiative:
Touching the Future The farmer-leaders plant acceptance of biotechnology by helping science teachers bring the best information available to their students. This has included participating in the last two National Science Teachers Association annual conferences. In 2011 alone, this program reached some 700 science teachers, school administrators and college-level teaching instructors by passing out free, classroom-ready lesson plans and publicizing the initiative's comprehensive website, www.GetBiotechSmart.com.
Influencing the Influencers One group that holds significant sway over others is journalists. That's where Biotech U comes in. The day-and-a-half seminar, held for the last two years at the nationally ranked University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, involves hands-on instruction about DNA extraction, a tour of the university's Bradford Research and Extension Center and a panel journalists discussing the challenges of reporting on the technology fairly. The program is capped by a reporting competition, in which participating students submit reports on biotechnology, and the winner gets an all-expenses-paid trip to an international biotechnology conference. This year's winner, Lydia Mulvany, traveled to a biotech conference in Turkey, and sent back two reports to all USB farmer-leaders that were posted on the main USB website.
Educating Regulators Regulators are critical in helping to shape bio-safety regulation in countries around the world. That's where the initiative's Agricultural Biotechnology Regulation Immersion course comes in. Some 22 international regulators participated in the first session in 2009, where they were immersed in classroom work and in practical activities such as visiting labs and seeing crops under development. The next session, planned for August, has so far attracted 44 applicants from 20 countries.
Reaching the Public At Large Reaching out to the public at large also serves as a critical step in planting positive information about biotechnology. Since research shows that more and more people are getting their information online, the initiative has taken steps to spread the word on the Internet by participating in two websites: www.AcademicsReview.org and www.GMO-Compass.org. Academics Review publishes the detailed research of two eminent academic leaders who defend biotechnology. GMO Compass is a highly visible biotechnology-related website that posts credible science as well as popular articles about biotechnology from a variety of sources globally. The checkoff's support will mean the site can post even more.
Looking Ahead Typically, USB special initiatives, which address short-term opportunities or challenges, 'sunset' after three years. Fordyce says that when that happens in 2013, the work of the soybean checkoff supporting biotechnology will continue. "USB will not finish working for the acceptance of biotechnology until U.S. soybean farmers are able to access any market in the world," Fordyce says. "We've come a long way in reaching people, but there is always more to do."


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Wabash College will host John Sloop as he presents the 2010 Brigance Forum Lecture at 8 p.m. Monday, April 12, in Lovell Lecture Room in Baxter Hall. The title of his talk is "'It's Not Natural': Caster Semenya and the Race of Gender."
A renowned scholar of rhetorical studies, particularly concerning the media, gender, and queer theory, Dr. John Sloop has published three books: Disciplining Gender: Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture (2004), Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187 (2002, co-authored with Kent Ono), and The Cultural Prison: Discourse, Prisoners, and Punishment (1996) as well as numerous book chapters and articles in prestigious journals.
Sloop is the Associate Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University.
The Brigance Forum is an annual public lecture in memory of the late William Norwood Brigance, teacher, scholar and leader in the Speech Association of America. In his 38 years at Wabash College, "Briggie" taught generations of Wabash students how to be more effective when they spoke and, through his textbooks, taught thousands more in American high schools and colleges.
The Brigance family, friends, former students whom he taught, and those who continued the tradition of speech at Wabash after him, have, through their contributions, endowed the program as an ongoing memorial to William Norwood Brigance.
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"Stoltzman's America": Richard Stoltzman and the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio Philharmonic perform a program of music by Bernstein, Gershwin, Higdon and Hanson. 7:30 p.m. Majestic Theatre, 224 E. Houston St., 210-226-3333. $12-$20 at the Majestic; $19.50-$27.70 at Ticketmaster.
Igo Speaker Series: "Igo's Most Wanted," an evening with former FBI special agent Fritz Bohne. 6:30 p.m. Igo Branch Library, 13330 Kyle Seale Parkway, 210-207-9080.
"Distinguished Artist Veterans": Exhibit by Texas veterans with disabilities. Joint Base San Antonio - Lackland Arts and Crafts Center, 1441 Patrick St., Bldg. 7041, 512-454-9912. Through Nov. 17.
Puro Slam: Weekly open mike certified by the National Poetry Slam allows poets to deliver their work and get heckled. 9:30 p.m. doors, 10:30 p.m. slam. On The Half Shell Oyster Bar, 202 Navarro St., 210-843-3054. $5 for minors. Visit www.puroslam.com.
Story Swaps: San Antonio Storytellers Association presents monthly story swaps, beginners and nonmembers are welcome. 6:30-8 p.m. Brook Hollow Library, 530 Heimer Road, 210-496-6315.
Lecture: "Emails from the Dead and Burials in Space: The Quest for Immortality in the Modern Age," 6:30 p.m. Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway, 210-357-1900. $7-$10; members and ages 3 and younger, free.
Anthony Bourdain: Chef, author and TV host brings his Guts & Glory Tour to town to share stories about his work and travels, followed by an audience Q&A session. 7:30 p.m. Laurie Auditorium, Trinity University, 1 Trinity Place. $35-$55 at Ticketmaster.
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The new music video for The Appleseed Cast's song "Great Lake Derelict" is a silly and heartwarming short film now available for your viewing pleasure above. Director Chris Good and singer/guitarist Christopher Crisci caught up us to discuss how Good and the band brought a vision of a couple ragtag newspaper jockeys pursuing their dreams to life.
Nerdist: Was this your first music video? How did you prepare for it?
Chris Good: I'd directed one music video before ("Always Friends" by Secret Cities) and more recently photographed, edited, and in some cases co-directed some of the Ssion videos that've come out over the past year or so.
To prepare, I just listened to "Great Lake Derelict" over and over again until I thought of an idea I liked. Following that I asked Megan Mantia, who's co-producing my first feature with me, if she'd be down to help out with this video, and she agreed. We were still more or less in production mode on the feature (note: Chris is also working on a feature film, Mudjackin'), and so in some respects we didn't have to get everything up and running again, basically just meaning that all our gear was still crammed into the back of Megan's van. And I think every actor in the video is also in our feature.
N: How did you and the band connect?
G: Chris from Appleseed had, I think, seen a short film I did called "Holy Moly" and, based on that, kind of talked to me a bit about the possibility of doing a video for them. This was actually like two years ago, though, so at that time it would've been for a song from an EP they had released around that time. I think maybe just the timing didn't work out on that one for various reasons, but when it came time to put out the new album, Chris started talking to me about it again.
Chris Crisci: Chris and I both work at a venue in Kansas City. I've seen two of his short films and love his work.
N: How much input did the band have when creating the video? Was it mostly Good's vision, or did the band have an idea for the story or the style?
C: Chris just ran with it. Once that it was decided that he was going to work on it, he clued me in on the basic concept. Very vaguely… but like I said, I know his style and the little info he had given me sounded like it could be awesome, so I kind of enjoyed being hands off.
N: You've released two shorts and are now in the process of working on your first feature. What's that been like?
G: It's more or less in post-production now. I say more or less because we've maybe kind of gone about making this film in an unorthodox way, with pre-production, production and post-production all occurring simultaneously at times. I think it ought to be finished by the end of the summer actually, but it's been difficult to predict. Primarily because none of us have ever done this before.
N: Your soundtrack choices are great- I loved the Microphones track in "Return of the Gumshoe Kids." How do you go about selecting songs and bands for certain scenes?
G: I always loved that Microphones track too, "The Moon." That was kind of a case where for years I had been obsessed with a certain moment in that song — like a twenty-second section that I would rewind over and over. Like, I like the whole song but I always knew that part in particular (2:49 into the song) would be good in a film because it feels pretty emotionally complex. It just seems like a good way to avoid using music in a hamfisted or overly manipulative way in cinema is to start off with music that itself avoids those tendencies in the first place. Maybe that's an obvious thing to say.
I guess my approach to using music has kind of varied from project to project, although obviously I've hardly even done anything yet. But whereas with the Microphones track it was a moment in a song that I knew I wanted to use, a lot of times it's just playing different things against scenes and seeing what they do to each other. Most of the music in Mudjackin' is either Secret Cities songs or an original score by Matt Hill, who makes records as Umberto. The sequences with the Secret Cities songs seem to be working, I think, because the filmmaking within them is probably pretty frantic and brash, and Secret Cities makes really beautiful, lush, at times almost ethereal music, so it feels like the music is balancing out the filmmaking in a good way. Matt Hill primarily makes music inspired by Giallo and Moroder soundtracks but he also incorporates elements of Italo-disco and house, both styles that I really like. Mudjackin' isn't a genre film, but it does maybe play with certain elements of them at times, and so working with Matt's been great- he's really well-versed and interested in that world but versatile enough to adapt and bend those styles to whatever weird tonal shifts our feature throws at him.
N: Do you have plans to do more music videos in the future?
G: No plans at the moment. This summer I'm busy finishing up Mudjackin'. I'd be down to do more music videos, though. You get to have something come out that doesn't completely take forever like a feature.
N: What was the story of the video inspired by? The costumes and characters are so unique; was there anything in particular that influenced them?
G: I mean, I guess the story was just inspired by the music, just trying to put something together where the moments in and emotions portrayed by the story reflected what I felt during each part of the song. But then once I thought of the idea of the paperboys, I just got excited about it and about certain sequences that I thought could be a part of the video. I may have been on to something, though, because after the fact Chris told me that he'd been a paperboy as a kid and that he had a bike with double-barreled baskets on the front of it. So I added that line to the beginning of the video.
As far as the costumes and characters, once I had that overall concept for the video, I just tried to populate it with characters that would make sense to me for that situation and scenario. I had like some general ideas for the costumes and after doing my best to articulate those to Megan she found and in some cases made clothes and costumes, with, I think, one exception being Andrea Peterson's character — most of the clothes her character wears were hers.
N: What is the film scene like in Kansas City?
G: The best thing about filming in Kansas City is that there are lots of smart and talented people who are often really enthusiastic about helping out with projects like this. And if you're working on a small budget, that money'll go further here than in a lot of cities. Specific to this video, our actors were really patient through the whole process (we had a lot of weather-related delays) and we had a number of super-generous and patient people who let us use their bikes for the production.
N: What have you been digging lately? What inspires you as far as comics/games/music/books/movies (are concerned)?
G: I unfortunately don't really have time to see or watch too many movies, but I'm constantly listening to music. There's a song by Dolly Parton called "Don't Drop Out" that I'm pretty obsessed with. It's like one of the really early ones when she was still doing girl-groupish material, and it's a song where she's begging her boyfriend not to drop out of high school. It's great.
C: With music, I'm all over the place. Lately I've been trying to make a concerted effort to listen to new music, something that I haven't done in a while. I went through a phase where everything new was repellent to me. I'll admit that that is still the case with much of what I hear out there… but at least now I'm trying to find things I like. I really dig the new Deafheaven record, the new Black Moth Super Rainbow record, new Whir, My Bloody Valentine, Converge. Lots of good stuff has come out in the last year or so.
Movies… I'll watch anything for the fun of it, recognizing that at the same time that movies and music are alike in one respect. There's a lot of trash available with both. For some reason, I can stomach a bad movie with more ease than I can a bad song.
You can listen to "GLD" on The Appleseed Cast's new album, Illumination Ritual, out now. Follow the band at their official site and on Twitter, and you can follow the haps on director Chris Good's upcoming feature Mudjackin' here! Special thanks to Chris Good for providing those sick BTS shots you saw, which he and producer Megan Mantia took during filming.
What do you think of the new video, and of The Appleseed Cast's new album? Are there other bands you want to see interviewed? Let me know- leave a quemment below or tell me on twitter!


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EXETER — An 18-year-old from Exeter was seriously injured in a three-vehicle crash involving a school bus Tuesday morning.
Two people riding in a van and four children on the bus also received minor injuries in the collision, according to Exeter Police. The accident occurred shortly before 6:49 a.m. at Portsmouth Avenue, near Allen Street. It was reported to involve a First Student school bus and two other vehicles.
Police and firefighters responded to the scene. They found Jesse Goodin, 18, of Exeter, trapped inside his vehicle. Firefighters extricated him using rescue equipment, and Goodin was transported to Exeter Hospital for treatment.
Four middle school-age students riding on the bus were also transported to the hospital with minor injuries, according to Exeter police. The bus driver, 44-year-old Exeter resident Jennifer Call, was not hospitalized after the crash.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation by Exeter Police Officer Nate Goard, and nothing has been ruled out as a potential cause, according to a statement released by Exeter police Tuesday afternoon.
The operator of the van was Hasmukh Patel, 54, of Sanbornville. Both Patel and the passenger of the car received minor injuries. They were also treated at Exeter Hospital.
State Police troopers and members of the State Police technical accident investigation unit have been called in to probe the crash, since it involved a school bus.
Police are requesting information from anyone who might have been a witness to the accident. Those who might be able to assist the investigation are asked to call Exeter Police Officer Nate Goard at 603-772-1212.
EXETER, N.H. (AP) — Police say a teen driver has suffered life-threatening injuries following a collision with a school bus in Exeter, N.H.
Police said the accident happened about 6:50 a.m. Tuesday on Portsmouth Avenue. The bus driver and four middle school students on board were not hurt.
The Portsmouth Herald reports (http://bit.ly/U9OCA1) the car driver, 18-year-old Jesse Goodin of Exeter, was trapped inside his vehicle. Fire officials extricated him using the Jaws of Life.
Police said a van also was involved in the accident. The driver and a passenger were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
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Carol J. (MacAdams) Haughton fell asleep in Christ on August 4, 2012 at the age of 79. She was the beloved wife of Paul Haughton. They were married in the Lord on November 10, 1956.
She was born on June 4, 1933, the daughter of William Gordon and Janet (Rundle) MacAdams. She was baptized into the saving Name of Jesus Christ in Worcester, Mass. on November 28, 1955, where she because a member of the Christadelphian Ecclesia. She was employed as an IBM clerk until the time of the birth of her first daughter in 1958. The family relocated to Warwick, RI in 1959 where she became a member of the Christadelphian Ecclesia of Cranston, RI until the time of her death.
She was the dear mother of Sandra L. Sillars, Sonoma, California, Gayle E. Nevers, Warwick, RI, Stephen P. Haughton, West Greenwich, RI, and Rebecca M. Wilks, Warwick, RI. Carol loved and enjoyed nine grandchildren, Matthew Nevers, Kristin Sillars, Alissa Sillars, Morgan Nevers, Cody Haughton, Kaitlyn Nevers, Samantha Haughton, Amanda Wilks, Benjamin Haughton; and one great grandson, Harrison Nevers.
Calling hours and funeral service will be held in the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Home, 2435 Warwick Ave., Warwick, RI 02889, 401-738-1977. Calling hours will be Saturday, August 11 at 9:00 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. followed by the funeral service at 11:00 a.m. Interment will follow at the Pawtuxet Memorial Park, 100 Harrison Avenue, Warwick, RI.
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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury voters on April 10 will be asked to approve a 2013-2014 Mary Hogan Elementary School budget of $6,418,788, reflecting a 4.46-percent increase in spending that would preserve current programs and beef up science, technology, engineering and math instruction.
The proposed budget does not include a second-language (Spanish) program that the ID-4 school board has been discussing for the past few years. The board elected to take a pass on such a program, at an estimated cost of $144,671, in favor of a greater focus on math and sciences.


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Students lobbied in support of a broad range of testing programs
Students from last spring's "Advocacy for Policy Change" class were taken aback recently when the state lab they were lobbying for was thrust into a maelstrom of controversy after an employee allegedly falsified criminal drug tests.
Annie Dookhan, a chemist at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute, was arrested last month and accused of tampering with drug samples, test results and altering paperwork, potentially affecting criminal convictions of approximately 1,140 inmates during her nine years working at the lab.
Was this the disaster the students were predicting could result from insufficient funding, which they had been working to change, or the sole responsibility of a rogue lab technician?
The students don't really know the motive for the crimes she allegedly committed; their emphasis was on the great damage that could occur by continued across-the-board under-funding of the lab's numerous testing programs.
Advocacy for Policy Change, a four-credit experiential learning course, combines an investigation of the ethical dilemmas that arise in the process of lawmaking with hands-on advocacy work with entities seeking to reform laws or to propose new ones. Students choose existing laws they feel could be credibly challenged on ethical or moral grounds, or proposed laws being promoted to redress perceived wrongs. The course requires that students lobby for both a bill and a line item.
"To me, students thrive when they can apply what they learn in the classroom on real controversy and things they can feel passionate about outside of the classroom," says course founder Melissa Stimell, associate professor of the Practice in Legal Studies and internship director for the Legal Studies Program. "This was a natural extension of what I'd been doing at Brandeis."
Bills and line items are chosen after a set of issues is presented to the students who then decide what they want to focus on. They are then divided into small groups to work on that issue and different legislative actions throughout the semester.
"Generally this interest manifests when the students are connected with an organization that's working around a particular issue of interest," says Cynthia Tschampl, lecturer and internship instructor for Health: Science, Society and Policy Change.
Bayleigh Ruhm and her classmates worked to maintain funding for tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS prevention and care. If testing related to these ailments were cut, Ruhm says, the impact of Massachusetts's residents would be great.
The Hinton Lab investigates 80 diseases, such as Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), West Nile Virus, and fingerprinting for Listeria. The extent of testing is dependent on state funding.
"Most people don't know that in that building, there are 18 separate labs that work on the various issues," says Tschampl. "The illegal drug crime lab [in which the accused chemist was working] was just one of the 18."
Ruhm describes the lab as a kind of command center for detection, prevention and rapid response for infectious diseases, toxins, epidemics, biological terrorism, food poisoning, water contamination and chemical hazards.
"The Hinton lab is the go-to guy," says Ruhm. "A cut to their funding would mean that integral programs would suffer and would risk the health and safety of Massachusetts residents."
Ruhm says she feels that one chemist's falsification of test results could have been a personal response to budget issues or related to deep-rooted emotional struggles.
"It's a real tragedy that the other terrific work in the lab is not only not being acknowledged, but damaged because of this scandal," says Ruhm. "I would say this was my best class at Brandeis if it wouldn't risk insulting my other professors. It was very hands-on and helped me personally feel the impact of the work on the people that I was working for."
Ruhm says that there were many great projects and topics in the class, such as lobbying on foreclosure legislation, in-state tuition for illegal residents, domestic violence legislation and human trafficking all tied to bills that were hoping to be passed.
"When you get in there and begin lobbying, this class is very exciting and has almost a cinematic quality," says Ruhm. "You feel like you're fighting for the little guy."
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"Brief Reunion" adds a social-media angle to a time-tested thriller template, one that's been used to deliciously entertaining effect in such movies as "Strangers on a Train," "Purple Noon" and "With a Friend Like Harry": An old friend or new acquaintance insinuates himself into a seemingly tranquil life, with lethal consequences.
Writer-director John Daschbach's feature debut is efficiently told and features solid performances, but without the juicy character detail, vise-grip suspense or black comic intensity of its memorable forerunners, it unwinds as a boilerplate genre item.
The nightmare begins for New England entrepreneur Aaron (Joel de la Fuente) on his 40th birthday, when long-time-no-see college pal Teddy (Scott Shepherd) takes his online friend request to the next level.
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Armed with an inappropriately expensive gift, he crashes the celebratory dinner that Aaron's wife, Dartmouth instructor Lea (Alexie Gilmore), has planned. The shifty Teddy accelerates his stalking, posting increasingly incriminating photos on Facebook until Aaron takes the blackmail bait.


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Saturday, April 18, 2009
2008-09 Upper Deck Lineage
22 - Alonzo Mourning (Nice card using the design of the first set from 1991-92.)
13 - Dominique Wilkins (I love 'Nique. I wish they could have showed him dunking or something, though. The Hawks are pretty much my go-to Eastern Conference team now that Patrick Ewing is long gone.)
65 - Michael Redd (I guess all of these cards have the same design. That's kind of boring. Redd suffered a season-ending injury.)
116 - Andres Nocioni (Here's the back design. No text other than stats, really. The Bulls beat the Celtics in Boston this afternoon, which is great. Kevin Garnett is out for the playoffs, though, so they didn't have much of a chance anyway.)
190 - Al Horford (Another Hawk, Al Horford. I get Hawks like crazy, at least in the few packs that I've purchased this season. I always get Al Horford and Al Thornton mixed up.)
179 - Acie Law IV (I'm not sure how Acie Law made it into this set. Maybe it's a huge set. Maybe it's just very Atlantacentric.)
Now, back to your regularly scheduled baseball card postings, already in progress. (Go Blazers!)
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- dayf said...
Three Hawks?!?!! Great googely moogely.
Excuse me while I go desperately looking for Blazers.
- kevincrumbs said...
Odd... why don't they just market it as a 92-93 throwback seat? I thought it'd be like UD Timeline too.
- grant said...
GO BLAZERS! RIP CITY Bit***! Come on Ref what does Yoa have to do to foul out kill a blazers fan? I posted a Lakers Suck Rant I guess I should have waited until they pummel the Rockets in the next few games ( I Hope )And The Lakers Don't have the Defense that Houston does against Roy and Aldrige so I'm hoping they put up a fight and Portland gets a little deserved recognition! as well as the most underated palyer in the NBA the NATURAL MR. ROY! Grant old school pack buster Sorry I missed the entire lineage set though after seeing them I probably won't get that blaster that's been sitting at the store staring at me lately....
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OH nd I just Got my tickets for Game 4 !!! Nose bleed but just to be at Blazers playoff game in A LONG 6 year wait is worth it by far! Grant


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I am an experienced translator and have lived in London, Milan and New York. I am publishing my first novel thanks to a grant from the Arts Council of England on a POD basis.
I lived in Italy for 17 years and that experience left me with a story I have to tell, about a darker, corrupt side of Italy that is not the 'Under the Tuscan Sun' kind of view.
The story: In the Milan of the early 1990s awash with corruption scandals, a young architect's career is maneuvered into murky associations, and Marsya, an English actress working in Italy as a teacher is sucked into the entourage of a corrupt entrepreneur and his manipulative political movement. Through their personal battles and relationship, Marco, the architect, learns to heed his emotions, and Marsya learns to use her mind to make decisions for more life rather than destruction.
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This book will appeal to women as it is a love story, and it has the exotic appeal of the Italian setting. However, it is not simply a 'romance': it deals with wider issues of corruption and taking responsibility for the choices we make, and as such should appeal to a much wider audience.
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I'm told I need to talk more about gear around here. Told that I spend too much time posting pretty pics and not nearly enough time geeking out on the equipment that I use when out playing.
So, uh, ok.
Today I'm gonna write a bit about handlebars, specifically the Answer 20/20's that I've been riding for about 3 months on my Mammoth, and the last month on my Snoots.
Also worth mentioning? L has had them on her Mammoth for the last month+ also.
The above should tell you that we like them plenty.
I've tried many other 'alt' bars (Jones, Mary, Mungo, Black Sheep) in the past, even had several sets of custom ti Moots and Black Sheep bars made when none of the above scratched my itch.
I was *very* surprised when the Answer bars hit the market--this just seemed to be the domain of smaller boutique builders. I saw immediately that the overall dimensions were very, very, very close to a few pairs of custom ti bars I'd had made and been riding the past 2+ years. But the Answer bars were both lighter and less expensive, so I bought a pair to try out.
And shortly after I'd adapted to them, Herself got a pair too.
Overall, they are fantastic. The 'neutral' feel of that 20* sweep just ticks all my boxes--comfy for hands, wrists, elbows, and shoulders. The amount of abuse my body endured during my racing days is difficult to explain, but summed up succinctly by stating that I simply cannot ride "normal" flat or riser bars without significant discomfort--mostly hand soreness and numbness.
I expected that I might have trouble adapting to the 20/20's for full-on tech rides, and others have expressed a similar sentiment. Happy to report no such difficulty--I am every bit as competent with them as without.
L seems to feel the same way. Note that she rides with them in the 'drop' position.
I no longer notice a difference when switching back and forth between bikes with different bars. In other words I can re-adapt to normal riser bars if needed (like on my DH bike) but greatly prefer the position of the 20/20's for longer days, bikepacking, etc...
Nice that they are so stinkin' light, too.
If Answer were to make a slightly wider set that happened to be DH/FR rated, but otherwise identical in rise/sweep, I'd have them on all of my bikes. But that's a niche of a niche, and I'd be shocked to see it filled--ever.
Gripes? I'd love to see them a titch wider--10 or even 20mm would be nice.
A small detail, but worth mentioning, is that you may have to swap stems to keep your overall position the same. I was able to keep the same stem on one bike, but had to swap stems on another, to get the 20/20's where they needed to be. Overall not a big deal--the gain in all-day comfort was well worth it.
Try them if you can.
P.S. Several of my riding partners have expressed instant disdain upon seeing these 'Mary Poppins' bars on my bikes. Of these people, 3 out of 4 have gone out to buy themselves a set shortly after demoing mine. The 4th is a dirtbag whom only gets 'new' bike parts if they are hand-me-downs. Fat chance of that...


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The 1,582-page bill is officially free of the spending for pet projects that spurred public outrage and were banned in 2010 after Republicans won control of the House of Representatives.
But with November congressional elections looming, lawmakers from both parties are promoting their roles in shaping the legislation in ways that will improve life back home. The bill, which funds wide swaths of the U.S. government, is expected to pass the Senate by the end of the week.
Republican Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas said in a press release that he helped win $404 million for a home-state facility to study foreign animal disease outbreaks. He also noted that the bill would create jobs by funding an Air Force base expansion in the state.
Republican Rep. Mike Simpson highlighted spending increases he secured for a nuclear-research facility in his Idaho district.
Three Democratic House members from the San Diego region - Scott Peters, Susan Davis and Juan Vargas - said the bill pays for more traffic lanes at a busy Mexican border checkpoint.
Those projects bear little similarity to widely ridiculed historic earmarks like the Teapot museum in North Carolina or the "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska, which came to symbolize wasteful government spending.
Although current spending provisions are not labeled as earmarks, "they're earmark-ish, they're earmark-esque," said Steve Ellis, an analyst at the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Simpson, for example, influences nuclear program spending as head of the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee. The final bill increases spending for the Idaho National Laboratory, a nuclear-research facility in Simpson's district, by at least $24 million over the administration's request. It also adds another $22 million for clean-up of his state's contaminated nuclear-energy and weapons testing sites.
A Simpson spokeswoman called the spending appropriate for a vital federal facility.
"The Idaho National Laboratory is a federally owned, federally funded national laboratory dedicated to energy research and national security, so of course it received funding," Simpson spokeswoman Nikki Watts said.
Staffers for Moran and Peters said projects they championed could not be classified as earmarks because they originated with the Obama administration, not with Congress.
"These projects are about as far from earmarks as you can get," said Moran spokeswoman Garrette Silverman.
Not every benefit in the bill entails a spending hike.
Sen. Barbara Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat who as chairman of the Appropriations Committee led negotiations on the bill, said in a press release that it would help her state's struggling seafood industry by bringing in more foreign workers to pick crabs and shuck oysters during harvest time.
Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, who hopes to unseat Landrieu in November, both touted the bill's inclusion of a one-year delay to a planned flood-insurance premium for state homeowners.
Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano added a provision to delay plans by the cash-strapped Postal Service to sell historic post office buildings - a priority in his Bronx, New York, district, where residents face the potential loss of a landmark building filled with Depression-era murals.
Serrano said his rider is not an earmark because it does not involve spending and also would apply to historic Post Office buildings nationally.
He said earmarking once helped out local interests that otherwise could not navigate the federal bureaucracy.
"It gave a member of Congress who knows his or her community best an opportunity to bring dollars to local originations that ordinarily would not get a cent from the federal government because they don't have the contacts," he said in an interview.
Some analysts say the earmark ban has contributed to recent fiscal crises, giving lawmakers fewer incentives to pass spending bills.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with protecting local interests, said Sean Kelly, a political science professor at California State University Channel Islands who studies the federal budgeting process.
"This is members of Congress doing what they're supposed to do, which is advocating for their programs, for their districts. That's what the game is about," he said.
Some Republicans are beginning to question their party's rigid stance on earmarks. Texas Republican Reps. John Carter and John Culberson, who hold senior positions on the House Appropriations Committee, have said recently that the earmark ban shifted too much spending control to the Obama administration.
But House Speaker John Boehner said the ban has helped Republicans rein in spending.
"Republicans have listened to the American people and kept their promise to end business as usual in Washington," Boehner's office said.
Serrano said the significance of earmarks had been overblown.
"I remember once they attacked a cheese museum in Wisconsin. That's an easy one, because it sounds funny, but cheese is very important to Wisconsin, and it's been a part of their culture for a long time," he said. "What's important to one state or one member of Congress may not sound that important to a reporter from another place."
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KylePK wrote: you would know you were indeed outside your body in spiritual or pure-consciousness form and free to roam the astral realm.
I don't believe in a spiritual, astral realm. Sometimes it can truly feel that way. But I have never been to the same place twice and never met the same people again which leads me to believe that it was just a very powerful hallucination of my mind. However that state of consciousness is definitely real, but I don't believe I actually travel anywhere outside my own,... albeit..., incredible imagination.