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I spoke with a condemned man on San Quentin Prison's death row who had done the math: The money spent on his trial and appeals could have paid for a year of public education for all of the children in his home town.
The high cost is causing many prosecutors around the United States to think twice before seeking the ultimate penalty. In the Midwestern state of Indiana, for example, capital prosecutions are down in the wake of a state study showing the cost is 10 times more than if the government seeks a sentence of life without parole.
But one crusading prosecutor in Indiana has a more novel solution: Prevent the accused from mounting a defense.
"I feel very strongly about defense death penalty costs," said prosecutor Stan Levco of Vanderburgh County in objecting to a defense request to hire a psychologist.
Astoundingly, the trial judge agreed, and declined the defense request for a psychologist to assist in the defense of Jeffrey Weisheit. The defendant faces trial for murder and arson in the death of his girlfriend's two young daughters. Judge Daniel Moore approved the limited use of a psychologist, just through November, in order to help decide whether Weisheit should plead insane, according to the Evansville (Indiana) Courier and Press.
This puts the defense attorneys in a bind. The standard of practice in capital cases is to hire a team of experts to explore the defendant's life for evidence of mitigating circumstances that can then be presented to the jury. In fact, not to do so may violate a defendant's Constitutional right to effective representation, according to the 2003 case of Wiggins v. Smith.
Expert assistance is even more critical in cases like this one, in which the defendant's mental state may be at issue.
But the financial burden of the trial has been on the public's mind in these cash-strapped times. When a defendant is indigent, as most are, the state public defender pays half of the trial costs, and the other half comes directly from county coffers. According to the state analysis, the average death case in Indiana costs about $450,000; defense attorneys in this case estimate costs may run almost twice that average.
In June, the local paper even ran an opinion poll:
As a taxpayer, are you OK with seeking the death penalty for Jeffrey Weisheit if the estimated cost of approximately $800,000 is used in his defense?Of the 461 people who voted, 78 percent said "YES." Two-thirds of these thought "there should be a cap on what public defenders can spend on defense."
Public opinion is hard to ignore.
The prosecutor, meanwhile, says he is so concerned about defense expenses in death penalty cases that he has formed a special prosecutorial committee to study the issue. With such deep concern, it is interesting that he decided to seek the death penalty in the first place. After all, most such efforts are a waste of money. They add years to the process and do not ultimately result in an execution. Between 1990 and 2000, according to the Indiana study, only about one out of six capital prosecutions resulted in a death sentence, and only four of those has led to an actual execution. Indiana currently has 15 prisoners on death row, and six other capital cases pending.
Levco may care about the cost, but I'll bet he cares even more about winning. And he has found an innovative way to improve his odds.
It will be like shooting ducks in a barrel.


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This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective dynamic management objects. You can find a list of all of the deprecated views in the introduction post.
The compatibility view sysperfinfo returns rows for all of the internal SQL Server performance counters. Theses are the same counters that are available through Windows System Monitor.
The catalog view sysperfinfo is replaced by the dynamic management view sys.dm_os_performance_counters. The output for sys.dm_os_performance_counters is the same as that of sysperfinfo.
Query Via sysperfinfo
At it's basic level, sysperfinfo is fairly simple compatibility view. There is a column for the name of the counters and the object it is associated with. It also includes the counter value and a type for the counter. A query to retrieve this information would be similar to the one in Listing 1.
--Listing 1 – Query for sys.sysperfinfo SELECT object_name , counter_name , instance_name , cntr_value , cntr_type FROM sysperfinfo
Query via sys.dm_os_performance_counters
When it comes to things changing and staying the same, the differences between sysperfinfo and sys.dm_os_performance_counters are pretty much the poster child. Transitioning between the compatibility view and the dynamic management view is just the names of the objects. Everything else is the same, resulting in a query for the dynamic management view that is similar to the one in Listing 2
--Listing 2 – Query for sys.dm_os_performance_counters SELECT object_name , counter_name , instance_name , cntr_value , cntr_type FROM sys.dm_os_performance_counters
In this post, we compared the compatibility view sysperfinfo with the dynamic management view sys.dm_os_performance_counters. The difference in this case is only the name of the base object, a change to the name of the view transitions any application from deprecated to supported code.. After reading all of this, do you see any reason to continue using sysperfinfo? Is there anything missing from this post that people continuing to use the compatibility view should know?
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Cyclepassion are known for their saucy calendars featuring female cycling stars in seductive poses. To promote the 2011 edition, they've produced a 75-minute documentary featuring a mix of racing, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage.
The featured riders are cross-country racers Willow Koerber, Heather Irmiger, Mona Eiberweiser, Fabienne Heinzmann and Julie Krasniak, cyclo-cross star Hanka Kupfernagel and road racers Liz Hatch and Veronica Andréasson.
You can check out three teasers for the film, called Eyes Wide Open, below. There are also eight 'sneak peak' clips on Cyclefilm's website. The calendar costs €36, or €49 with the film, from www.cyclepassion.com.
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Common substitution matrices for alignments.
When in doubt, use BLOSUM62. Consult http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/blast_whatsnew.shtml#20051206 for some hints on good parameters for nucleotide alignments.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_matrix for a summary about the difference between the different matrices.
BLOSUM matrices
For BLOSUM matrices, the associated number determines the similarity of the sequences the matrices are derived from.
Henikoff, S. and Henikoff, J. Amino acid substitution matrices from protein blocks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 89(biochemistry): 10915 - 10919 (1992).
PAM matrices
For PAM matrics, the number indicates the number of mutations that have occurred between the sequences that are compared.
Dayhoff, M.O., Schwartz, R.M., Orcutt, B.C. A model of evolutionary change in proteins. In "Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure" 5(3) M.O. Dayhoff (ed.), 345 - 352 (1978).
BLASTn defaults, for nucleotide sequences
blastn_default :: Num a => (Chr, Chr) -> aSource
Blast defaults, use with gap_open = -5 gap_extend = -3 This should really check for valid nucleotides, and perhaps be more lenient in the case of Ns. Oh well.


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Weakfish (Gray Trout)
Stock Status – Depleted – The most recent stock assessment for weakfish was completed in 2009 and indicates that weakfish are in an extremely depleted state. The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Weakfish Management Board has accepted five conclusions with regard to the weakfish stock report for management purposes: 1) the stock is declining; 2) total mortality is increasing; 3) there is little evidence of overfishing; 4) something other than fishing mortality is causing the decline in the stock; and 5) there is a strong chance that regulating will not, in itself, reverse the decline. Commercial and recreational landings along the Atlantic coast have plummeted in recent years and are currently at the lowest level on record.


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Team Obama has turned the candidate of hope and change into a ferociously political animal. They've discarded their most valuable asset, his stature. The outsider who flew above the hated, polarized politics of red and blue now does nothing but campaign and polarize. The Obama who was "one of us," apart from Washington, is increasingly and, to his detriment, "one of them."
One of us, one of them
Most Americans believe that Obama's declaration of support for same-sex marriage rights was politically motivated:
Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed by The New York Times and CBS News since the announcement said they thought Mr. Obama made it "mostly for political reasons," while 24 percent said it was "mostly because he thinks it is right." Independents were more likely to attribute it to politics, and nearly half of Democrats agreed.
From Hope and Change to Just Another Politician in four years flat.
Mark Cuban on student loan debt
The point of the numbers is that getting a student loan is easy. Too easy.
You know who knows that the money is easy better than anyone? The schools that are taking that student loan money in tuition. Which is exactly why they have no problems raising costs for tuition each and every year.
Why wouldn't they act in the same manner as real estate agents acted during the housing bubble? Raise prices and easy money will be there to pay your price. Good business, right? Until it's not.
There's more student loan debt in this country than credit card debt or auto loan debt. Obscene. Throwing money at a problem does not a solution make.
Obama endorses same-sex marriage
President Obama on Wednesday ended nearly two years of "evolving" on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly endorsing it in a television interview, taking a definitive stand on one of the most contentious and politically charged social issues of the day.
Meanwhile, Mitt Romney is firmly (and unfortunately) opposed.
The $100 Startup
The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau comes out today. Chris is one of the most inspiring people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting – not to mention also one of the most (unconventionally) successful.
In The $100 Startup, Chris brings together advice, stories, and case studies from dozens of successful entrepreneurs who have managed to leverage their interests and passions into viable, profitable businesses. This is not one of those books that deals in vague generalities, but in useful concepts backed up by detailed, real-life examples.
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Allergy to Animals
Allergic reactions to animals can be a significant cause of severe allergic symptoms. The allergy causing substances from animals are contained in the sebaceous glands of the cat's skin or in the dander (the surface layer of skin cells), saliva or urine of dogs and rodents. The allergen particles are so small they cannot be seen in the household environment, but eventually they penetrate the rugs and bedding. Animal fur itself is not considered to be a major cause of allergy.
The symptoms resulting from allergy to animals can involve the nose, eyes and lungs. The nasal symptoms present like hay fever and the lung symptoms present like asthma.
- Nasal symptoms include mild nasal symptoms such as sneezing or congestion.
- Lung symptoms can range from low grade coughing or wheezing to severe asthma. This asthma may persist for hours or even days after being away from the animal.
As with other types of allergies, a diagnosis can be confirmed by correlation of the history with the results of skin tests.
What You Can Do
In cases were the animal causes significant disease, elimination of the pet from the home may be the only sound treatment. An animal that is kept totally outside of the house should not be a problem. If the pet cannot be removed from the house, several secondary measures are recommended:
- Keeping the pet out of the allergic individual's bedroom.
- Running a HEPA filter in the bedroom continuously to filter the allergen from the air.
- Washing the pet one or two times a week.
These interventions have been shown to reduce the amount of pet allergen in the bedroom.
A variety of medications may be used in the management of allergy to animals, but they may not provide adequate relief in all cases. Allergy injections to protect against cats may be effective but are not considered the treatment of choice. Animal allergy, particularly due to cats, may be far more important than a patient can recognize. This is because the animal protein has become part of the home environment and can produce continuous symptoms.
Individuals may become extremely fond of their pets. Realizing this, advice to pet from the home is given only after due consideration of the psychological impact on the patient and his/her family. However, sometimes it is necessary to advise removal of a household pet in order to assure the best possible care for patients and to prevent the development of irreversible asthma.
Allergic individuals or their families who have histories of multiple allergies to pollens, molds or dust are at an increased risk for developing allergies to animals once introduced into the house, and therefore they should consider this carefully before obtaining an animal for their home. It may be more difficult to remove a pet from the home after an emotional attachment has developed than to avoid getting one in the first place.
It is important to mention that cat allergen can be passively transferred on clothing and shoes so homes without cats can still have detectable levels of allergen. Encasements over the pillow and mattress are also helpful in reducing allergen exposure. In families where it is not possible to get rid of the pet from the home, creating a clean room in the bedroom and main activity room is advised. Keep pets out of these rooms, vacuum regularly and put HEPA filters in each room. Allergy injections may help to reduce symptoms associated with pet exposure as well.
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Author Notes: This is a play on a classic: peas, prosciutto, cream and pasta. I make a pasta with jalapenos, cream and prosciutto, and so I built this sauce the same way but used peas instead of jalapenos. Fresh mint added at the end, along with the peas, gives the dish a light, springy flavor that pairs well with the cream, prosciutto and cheese. - lechef —lechef
Food52 Review: Although it may sound very rich, there are several details that keep this pasta sprightly and fresh, rather than heavy. First, lechef is not shy with the big flavors: 4 cloves of garlic, 4 shallots and a heap of diced prosciutto make the cream sauce sing, and the pop of crisp sugar snaps punctuates every bite. A fistful of parmesan gives the sauce body as well as a nutty tang. Make sure not to cook the peas for too long -- the key here is retaining just the right amount of crunch to offset the cream and starch. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: 4
cloves garlic, minced
tablespoons olive oil
pound prosciutto shank, finely diced
shallots, minced
pint cream
cup freshly grated parmesan
pound fresh snap peas, whole, chopped
cup fresh mint, chopped
salt and fresh ground pepper
pound (3/4 box) pasta, farfalle or orechiette
- In a heavy saucepan, heat the olive oil over medium heat and cook the garlic for 2-3 minutes until just beginning to color.
- Add the prosciutto and cook for an additional 3-4 minutes. I use whole prosciutto shanks because my butcher has them, but you can also ask for a 1/4 inch thick slice of prosciutto and chop that up instead. I think this works much better in pasta than thin slices.
- Add the shallots and cook for 3-4 minutes to soften, and season with a pinch or two of salt and a turn or two of fresh black pepper.
- Meanwhile, bring your pasta water to a boil, salt it, and add your pasta. You will want to time the pasta to be finished just as the sauce is finishing so that the cream doesn't sit long.
- With about 3 minutes left on your pasta, add the peas and cook for 2 minutes. We want them to retain their crunch. With one minute remaining, add the cream and quickly bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Add the cheese, stir, and reduce the heat to low.
- Drain the pasta, and toss with the sauce to coat. Sprinkle liberally with fresh mint, and serve with black pepper and extra Parmesan cheese. Enjoy!
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WASHINGTON >> Tens of thousands of children streaming from chaotic Central American nations to the U.S. border have overwhelmed the government's ability to respond, senior administration officials said Wednesday as President Barack Obama urged Congress to move swiftly to approve emergency spending requests for the crisis.
Emerging from a highly anticipated meeting with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Obama said he was open to suggestions from Perry and others that he dispatch National Guard troops to the border, but warned such a solution would only work temporarily. He said Republicans appealing for him to embrace their ideas for addressing the crisis should grant his request so the government will have the resources to put those ideas into action.
"The problem here is not major disagreement," Obama said in Dallas. "If they're interested in solving the problem, then this can be solved. If the preference is for politics, then it won't be solved."
But on Capitol Hill, Republican opposition hardened to his $3.7 billion request, leaving any solution unclear. At the same time, the political pressures on the president appeared to grow from all sides, as Republicans denounced him on the Senate floor, and even some Democrats began to join GOP demands for him to visit the U.S.-Mexican border — calls the White House continued to reject.
Obama met late Wednesday at a Dallas airport with Perry and other local leaders to discuss the immigration crisis. An Obama critic, Perry has blamed Obama's immigration policies for spurring the influx of unaccompanied youth, and his calls for Obama to visit the border during his Texas trip have gone unanswered.
But Obama called the meeting "productive" and said he didn't disagree philosophically with any of Perry's suggestions. In addition to National Guard troops, Obama said Perry had requested a repositioning of border patrol agents and policy changes to make it easier to deport children from Central American countries found to have no legal basis for entering the country.
He said he was "happy to consider" the National Guard request, arguing that many of the other ideas he's hearing from Republicans are actually included in the emergency request he so direly wants Congress to approve. He called on Perry to help persuade fellow Republicans to go along.
"The only question at this point is why wouldn't the Texas delegation, or any of the other Republicans who are concerned about this, not want to put this on the fast track?" Obama said.
Yet Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who has supported Obama's stalled quest to remake the nation's immigration laws, said earlier he could not support the president's spending request.
"I cannot vote for a provision which will then just perpetuate an unacceptable humanitarian crisis that's taking place on our southern border," McCain said on the Senate floor, where he was joined by fellow Arizonan Jeff Flake and Texas Republicans John Cornyn and Ted Cruz. They took take turns blaming Obama's policies for causing the border situation, contending that his efforts to relax some deportations have contributed to rumors circulating in Central America that once here, migrant kids will be allowed to stay.
"Amnesty is unfolding before our very eyes," Cruz said.
In the House, Speaker John Boehner was noncommittal about bringing the spending measure to a vote.
"If we don't secure the border, nothing's going to change. And if you look at the president's request, it's all about continuing to deal with the problem," Boehner told reporters.
Meanwhile immigration advocacy groups attacked the spending request from the left, saying it was overly focused on enforcement. A group of civil liberties organizations filed a lawsuit in Seattle against the Obama administration, arguing that the federal government is failing to provide the minors with legal representation.
The head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Gil Kerlikowske, told senators in Washington on Wednesday that the number of unaccompanied minors picked up since October now stands at 57,000, up from 52,000 in mid-June, and more than double what it was at the same time last year. They're coming mostly from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, often fleeing gang violence.
The situation, Kerlikowske said, "is difficult and distressing on a lot of levels."
"We have not been what I would say successful yet" in ensuring that the unaccompanied kids are processed by the Border Patrol as quickly as required, said Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate as he testified alongside Kerlikowske before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
"The children continue to come across the border. It's a very fluid situation," Fugate said. "Although we have made progress, that progress is oftentimes disrupted when we see sudden influxes of kids coming in faster than we can discharge them, and we back up."
Juan Osuna, director of the executive office of immigration review at the Department of Justice, said that "we are facing the largest caseload that the agency has ever seen."
Osuna said that deportation cases involving families and unaccompanied children would be moved to the top of court dockets. That means lower priority cases will take even longer to wend through a system where there's a backlog of more than 360,000 pending deportation cases.
Obama's emergency spending request would add more judges, increase detention facilities, help care for the kids and pay for programs in Central America to try to keep them from coming.
McCain and other Republicans dismissed those measures as inadequate, saying the only way to stem the tide would be to deport the kids more rapidly.
"They will do nothing … nothing that planeloads upon planeloads of children would do," said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis.
The Obama administration says it wants more flexibility to turn the children around more quickly, since current law requires minors from countries other than Mexico or Canada to go through the court system in what is often a lengthy process. But immigrant advocates and some Democrats are balking at that idea, arguing that it would jeopardize the children's legal protections and put them at risk.
Associated Press writers Alicia A. Caldwell, Jim Kuhnhenn, Josh Lederman and Eric Tucker in Washington, and AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace in Dallas, contributed to this report.


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ANCYL at a fork in the road to Mangaung
In response to Malema's scathing attack on Lamola in the Star on Wednesday – in which he labelled Lamola a "sellout" and a "traitor", the league issued a stern rebuke of the controversial youth leader.
"Malema's unfortunate action of resorting to public squabbling and accusations is not befitting the stature with which young people regard our organisation and hence we will rise to defend anything we view as an unwarranted attack against it [and] its views and positions," read the statement issued on Wednesday.
Malema's tirade against Lamola came after the latter issued an order to all rank and file league members not to gather in support of the controversial youth leader at his upcoming court appearance on charges of corruption.
Lamola declared that any ANC Youth League member coming out to support Malema would be doing so in their personal capacity as the league "does not have a case to answer for, hence it cannot be party to the court-case process".
Malema faces charges of fraud, money-laundering and corruption related to the issuing and servicing of government tenders in Limpopo, and is due to appear for a second time in the Polokwane regional court on Friday.
He was expelled from the ANC in late February after being found guilty of sowing division in the ruling party in November.
Malema then had his expulsion upheld in late April after appealing the ruling.
The league and Malema have since claimed they would be fighting for his re-admittance to the ANC by challenging the ruling at the ANC elective conference in Mangaung in December – with Lamola being constitutionally mandated to lead the organisation until further notice.
But it appears the league is growing weary of this unconditional support.
"It's very unfortunate that he as our leader [Malema] made those remarks," league spokesperson Khusela Sangoni-Khawe told the Mail & Guardian.
"While there was a national executive committee [NEC] resolution to fight for his re-admission [after] the expulsion, it is not up to the league to fight for Malema personally."
But in spite of this stance by the league, there are still senior NEC members within the youth organisation who feel Malema should be supported unconditionally.
"We are still supporting him and there's been no resolution by the NEC otherwise," the source – who requested anonymity – told the M&G. The source said the league should support Malema at his court appearances as the case was "nothing but a campaign to silence him".
'Lead by terror and fear'
But it is unclear what level of support for Malema there is within the NEC, as other sources claim the controversial figure will soon be dropped by the league as he is no longer serving the organisation's interests but his own.
"There are some within the league who still want to lead by terror and fear. People need to realise those days are over," the source said to the M&G. "If we are to keep quiet now, what will happen in the future? A standard must be set to show we will not tolerate a cult of personality and allow someone to lead like a dictator."
In response to the standoff, Malema's ally and former league spin doctor Floyd Shivambu – who was also expelled from the ANC – called for cool heads.
"The ANC Youth League and the struggle for economic freedom in our lifetime is bigger than all of us and should never be compromised nor drowned in sounds of tactical differences," Shivambu said.
Shivambu warned that the infighting between youth league leaders ahead of the ANC's crucial elective conference was likely to weaken those who were calling for leadership and policy change..


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(AP) – A suspect identified by police as a registered sex offender is in custody after three bodies were found wrapped in plastic bags in an East Cleveland neighborhood, and a police chief says he expects formal charges to be filed on Monday.
This is a look at some of the most recent high-profile cases involving the disappearances of women from the Cleveland area:
_ Anthony Sowell was arrested Oct. 31, 2009, after police investigating a woman's report that she had been raped at his house began finding bodies. Eventually, the remains of 11 troubled women were discovered. Prosecutors say that the victims began disappearing in 2007 and that Sowell lured them to his home with the promise of alcohol or drugs. The victims were disposed of in garbage bags and plastic sheets, then dumped in various parts of the house and yard. Sowell was convicted in 2011 and sentenced to death in the women's murders. He now sits on death row.
_ In May of this year, a woman missing for a decade escaped from a run-down Cleveland home, saying she and two other women had been held captive there for years. Former school bus driver Ariel Castro was later charged with nearly 1,000 counts of kidnapping, rape and other crimes. The three women disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. Each said she had accepted a ride from Castro, who fathered a daughter, now 6, with one of the women. He has pleaded not guilty and is jailed on $8 million bond.
_ And on Friday, a report of a foul odor at an East Cleveland home led police to the discovery of one body and the arrest of a suspect, identified by Police Chief Ralph Spotts as Michael Madison, who engaged authorities in a standoff. Two other bodies were found in the same neighborhood Saturday _ one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house. The three bodies, all female, were wrapped in trash bags. Spotts says the 35-year-old Madison is a registered sex offender. He was in custody Sunday, and Spotts said he expects charges to be formally filed Monday. Mayor Gary Norton said the suspect made comments that he might have been influenced by Sowell. Searchers did not uncover any more bodies Sunday. Police did not plan to continue the search on Monday.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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|Hey KideoPlayer, can we have videos in "fullscreen mode"?
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|Hey KideoPlayer (Johnny, Suzie, Amy, Billy and Enzo are always wanting to replay the video they're watching. How about a rewind?
|Rewinds are nice! But let's remember, the idea here is to keep things super simple. (For those of us who are doing this as a hobby and for you and your tots! ). In keeping with that you can now rewind by - waaait foooor iiit - hitting the R key! Have fun showing your wee ones - that's what it's all about!
|Is there a way I can see the most popular clips (the ones that don't get skipped as often)?
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The @uconn women's game is coming to the @tucenter this Friday and we've got an easy way to get you there!🏀🥳
Join the fun of March madness without the hassle of driving- grab the trolley instead!🚎
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Perhaps because it's the Capital District Transportation Authority? Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, Catskills, Hudson, and Lake George are not in the Capital District.
What about Catskill and Hudson
Sunday service on bus 531 would be nice too
Talk is cheap , when?
I live north of amsterdam and everytime i go to a business place with my uniform on , people stop me and ask why doesnt CDTA help us in amsterdam we really need it ?
why not Glens Falls. :/
Why not the whole state
How can we get this moving!! Desperately needed.
That would be nice to do
what about Newburgh, phokeepsy, clifton park
On the labor side of the equation for years! There are many other service holes, & I'm sure they're on the radar, but this is great news!!!
How about y'all fix the services here first.
Clifton park would be nice
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Share your story at the exhibit or online at empirestateplaza.ny.gov/people-new-york and become part of the #PeopleofNewYork!This portrait of Ariaantje Coeymans Verplanck, an early Dutch settler here in the Capital Region, is believed to be the first life-size, full-length likeness of a woman in colonial America. Find out more about her story at the NEW #PeopleofNewYork exhibit at the #NYSCapitol. #WomensHistoryMonth
Preview the exhibit online at empirestateplaza.ny.gov/people-new-york.
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Really cool 😎
Ive always loved this portrait.
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"I've found that if you give people what they want, they'll buy...they'll use.I really don't care if you're a transit system, a corner drug store or a restaurant.If you're not in tune with what your customer is desiring or wanting, you're not likely to be all that successful." -Carm Basile, CEO Capital District Transportation Authority ... See MoreSee Less
High Expectations for Capital Region Transportation Authority. | Upstate Issues | News Radio 810 & 103.1 WGYServing the transportation needs of the Capital Region is a big task, and that's just the beginning of the many important functions CDTA fills in our region.
Cdta you are not even close to giving people what they want. You changed everything to make it easier for CDTA not your riders!
BlusPlus needs to be expanded, Montgomery County maybe brought into the fold and if ridership warrants, replace the current 905 route with an LRT in the future.
And an intermodal hub in Colonie serving Amtrak, CDTA, intercity buses with a people mover between the Harriman campus, UAlbany and the intermodal center.
Mayor Sheehan said in her State of the City address to the Hudson-Park neighborhood association last night that 787 has perhaps 30 more years of useful life. Downtown Albany is full of parking garages. This region is very car-dependent. It's time we built a metro. For decades regional population stagnated a little over 800,000, and now it is grown over 1 million. Last year we put in a bid for Amazon headquarters 2. Growth is great, but that proposal was impractical because putting something that large in downtown Albany would work much better if we had a metro. We have RPI and Poly right here, so our metro system could be a laboratory for developing new transit technology. Let's do it. Cost is only an excuse.
Area of concern: sadly many times The WI-FI is not on on the #905 buses, Specially "Rush Hour" times and it should have it on buslines like THE 522, 531
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You guys need to book The Eldorados from albany or Rocky Velvet


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Headlines for the Holidays: Christmas story varies by Gospel
The buying and selling of Christmas can get old — have you stumbled on Zombie Santa? — but when I see a family driving home with a tree tied to the top of the car, my heart melts every time.
Blessed Days, friends, and they've been that way for a long time. As farmer-poet Wendell Berry writes, "The whole shooting match is holy. Things aren't sacred or not sacred, they are sacred or desecrated. Wherever we abuse the land or allow oppression of people is desecration of a sacred place."
I find really hearing the Christmas story helps me keep it holy.
For instance, do you know there's no mention of three kings in the Gospels? Three gifts, yes, but not how many strangely dressed dudes bear them. Much of what we think is the Christmas story, what pageants impress on us, is a melange or composite from our childhood.


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De Jong heading for City exit
Nigel de Jong looks set to be the biggest name using the revolving door at Manchester City on Friday.
De Jong has been a big presence in recent seasons, even if he has struggled to find top form over the past couple of years, which have been blighted by problems sorting out a new contract.
Now the combative midfielder is on the brink of joining AC Milan, with the official Milan TV channel saying on Thursday night: "De Jong is on his way to Milan. The medical will be performed tomorrow."
It seems bizarre that the richest club in the world should be among those doing the most business amid the mad scramble of transfer deadline day.
City manager Roberto Mancini certainly did not want it this way, however, that is how it has transpired.
And as Great Britain Olympic star Scott Sinclair and Serbia defender Matija Nastasic are set to join from Swansea and Fiorentina respectively, others are on their way out.
Stefan Savic will not be missed too much as he heads to Fiorentina as part of the Nastasic deal.
City, who entertain Swansea on Saturday evening, have also been linked with big-money deals for Theo Walcott and Maicon.
However, it seems unlikely either man will have joined the Blues prior to Friday night's deadline as City remain determined to get somewhere close to meeting UEFA's strict Financial Fair Play rules.


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From the beginning of 2011 to May 2013, Alvin, the U.S. science community's only human-occupied submersible dedicated to deep-sea research, underwent a thorough overhaul and upgrade to greatly enhance its capabilities. In the end, the iconic sub was redesigned and rebuilt, piece by piece, by a one-of-a-kind team of engineers, technicians, and pilots at WHOI.
Christine Fournier and Fran Elder describe some designing, modeling, and drafting work they did for Alvin, including its rescue buoy.
Fran: We're sitting on the foam block that is the major piece of Alvin's rescue buoy. If you're entangled on the bottom, and you drop the emergency releases, and still can't get Alvin to float up, you release the rescue buoy, so the ship can find Alvin if it ever got stuck.
Christine: There is acoustic equipment on the buoy that the ship can listen for.
Fran: The buoy is attached to a line and floats up far enough so that the ship can tow a detection instrument by and locate the buoy. Then they would send another vehicle down for the line and pull Alvin up.
Christine: At the back end of the buoy, there's a bolt. To release it, pilots send an electrical signal to the bolt, and it breaks, which lets one end of the buoy go. At the other end is a bracket, like a little hook, and the buoy's buoyancy pulls it off that hook.
Fran: I did some of the design work on the brackets. It's definitely a team effort. A lot of people have worked on this.
Christine: I did drawings for this. We do computer modeling to design components and systems, then put all that information on drawings. Fran worked on them, then I worked on them, and other people. And then Fran refined how everything fit, because we have to make components fit as we go along.
Fran: Like in a car, you have a certain amount of space, and everything has to fit and line up, and you build in tolerances. We were re-using part of the old Alvin frame that was …
Christine: … built by hand!
Fran: It's definitely a one-off thing, so some trimming is needed. For example, they had to drill a really, really long hole through the buoy—for a tie rod that goes all the way through. And you can model it, and say, 'This hole's gonna come out the other end in the perfect spot.' But when you drill a hole that long, with a really long drill bit, there's just no way it's going to be perfect.
So it came out a little to one side, and we had to slot the hole a tiny bit in order to center the brackets, so everything else would work. You know, in the model you can do something that, in the real world, you may or may not be able to.
Christine: I've been here four years. I have my associates' degree in engineering, and a bachelor's in art history—completely unrelated! I had done administrative and library work, so I'm doing document management, making sure drawings have the right information. But I've also been drafting and modeling. Whoever needs me to do stuff, I've just been there, doing it.
Fran: I've been working with Alvin since January 2012. I got my four-year engineering degree just after I got hired and was promoted to engineer. I was hired for drafting but ended up doing design work. That's what I like—do something creative, solve some problems. Christine's got the discipline and organization! I think between the two of us we've worked on just about every system on Alvin.
Alvin is owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by WHOI. The current upgrade has been funded largely by the National Science Foundation, with support from private donations to WHOI.


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3 Strategies to Get Customers Hooked about Your Jewelry
A lot of jewelry stores may offer the same kind of jewelry but only few of them will become successful in getting their customers hooked on their brand. Only those who have succeeded will enjoy the confidence of their customers and will soon become exceedingly popular with the help of free advertising caused by the ladies raving about their jewelry. If they have the right strategy to keep people coming back for more, they will soon knock down competitors mercilessly. Be one of the best wholesale jewelry stores or retailer in your area by getting customers talk about your brand. But first, you must learn how to make your customers happy and win their hearts.
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. Pay Attention to hair accessory wholesaler who is looking for high quality
It's easy for store retailers to be overwhelmed with a lot of business transactions – getting wholesale jewelry suppliers, paying the bills, training the staff, and getting things in order – but there are some essential things that should not be left at the bottom of your list. Pay attention, be alert and learn how to spot on a problem before it blows out of proportion. Handle simple costumer complaints right away or fix store fixtures that can pose danger to your customers. Those simple things, sometimes, are the ones that matter the most.
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ou may have a handful or hundreds or thousands of customers every month but the truth is, every one of them, especially your regular patrons, wish to be recognized. Although businesses resort to reward points to make their customers feel special, a simple personalized greeting card during the Holidays or special occasions along with helpful advice and tips can simply do the job. Go the extra mile and engage with your costumers to get a hint of what they want so you can provide the items they need at a time they need it the most. These are just some but proven strategies to get your customers hooked about your wholesale jewelry business. Get to know your customers and do your own research on how you can keep them happy and raving about your brand. Then, take a step back to see how it can easily make your business a total hit.


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The Marriage Plot: Inside This Year's Epic Campaign for Gay Equality
This article by Molly Ball was originally published on December 11, 2012 in The Atlantic. Read the full article here.
On May 9, President Obama sat for an interview in the White House with the ABC News anchor Robin Roberts. Both of them knew what she'd been summoned there to discuss, and Roberts didn't waste any time. "So, Mr. President," she said, "are you still opposed to same-sex marriage?"
Obama was ready for the question. A few days before, Vice President Biden had said on Meet the Press that he was "comfortable" with men marrying men and women marrying women. The surprise statement went against the president's own ambiguous stance, which was that he was against gay marriage but in the process of "evolving." At the same time, evidence of the political risk inherent in the issue was abundant. The day before, May 8, voters in North Carolina -- a key swing state Obama narrowly won in 2008 -- had overwhelmingly voted to ban gay unions, making it the 31st state to take such a step.
Obama sat back in his leather chair, his legs crossed, his hands in his lap, composed and a bit detached. "Well, you know, I have to tell you, as I've said, I've been going through an evolution on this issue," he began, in his usual roundabout way. "I've always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally." He pointed to his administration's repeal of the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy and its refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. He'd hesitated to embrace gay marriage, he said, out of respect for tradition and a belief that civil unions offered enough protection to same-sex partnerships.
But now the president had changed his mind. "I've just concluded that, for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married," he said.
The reasons for Obama's about-face, as he explained them, seemed perfectly normal. His thoughts, he said, had gone to his own staffers "who are in incredibly committed, monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together." He'd thought about the troops, fighting on his behalf, yet still facing the constraint of not being "able to commit themselves in a marriage." He talked about the values he wanted to pass on to his own children and the emphasis his own faith placed on the Golden Rule.
As natural as Obama's statement may have sounded, his words were as carefully chosen as the interview. The testimonial to the gay men and women in his life; the discussion of values and the Golden Rule; the remarkable fact that America's first black president, discussing an issue many see as a modern civil-rights struggle (with a black interviewer, no less), made no reference to civil rights -- these were all talking points straight out of the new playbook of the gay-rights movement.
The architect of this strategy was Evan Wolfson, a New York lawyer and gay-rights activist who heads a group called Freedom to Marry. Over the preceding months, Wolfson had briefed White House officials, including Valerie Jarrett -- the close Obama adviser often seen, for better and worse, as the president's liberal conscience -- on the findings of the group's years of research, findings that showed the most persuasive way of talking about gay marriage.
And while Obama's reversal was instantly hailed as a watershed moment, behind the scenes, Wolfson and his allies were already well on their way to fulfilling an even grander ambition. Gratified to have finally lured the president to their side, the activists were quietly working to bring voters on board, too. Though gay marriage was already legal in six states and Washington, D.C., it had been granted each time by judicial fiat or legislative action -- voters had never yet endorsed same-sex marriage at the polls.
That all changed on Election Day.
On November 6, four states -- Maine, Washington, Maryland, and Minnesota -- took the side of gay marriage in ballot referenda. The improbable sweep for an issue that spent decades as an across-the-board political loser has already changed the landscape for gay rights in America -- and could provide a new framework for other causes: The leaders of other social movements, such as the campaign for gun control, are already studying the methods behind the gay-marriage campaigners' victory.
This is the exclusive story of that victory, based on reporting that began more than a month before Election Day; dozens of interviews; and access to scores of internal communications.
Engineering a Revolution
Today, America stands on the brink of a gay-marriage tipping point. The Supreme Court's announcement Friday that it would hear two cases related to gay marriage, including an appeal on California's Proposition 8, raised the possibility that by next summer legal gay marriage could be the law of the land.
But prior to November, gay marriage had been placed on 31 state ballots -- and voted down 31 times. Even in blue states like California (2008) and Maine (2009), defeat was universal. To opponents of gay marriage, that perfect record had become a powerful talking point -- proof that American voters stood firmly against any redefinition of the fundamental societal institution. "The people of this country have not changed their view that marriage is the union of a man and a woman," Brian Brown, president of the National Organization for Marriage, told me in August. "The only poll that counts is the vote, and we've never lost the vote."
Now that that's changed, it's easy, especially for satisfied liberals, to see the results as simply the inexorable forward march of progress -- the long arc of the moral universe bending toward justice as public opinion becomes ever more enlightened. But like Obama's announcement, there was more to these victories than met the eye.
"Somebody said to me, 'Oh, you had Maine and Washington, those are easy states,'" said Amy Simon, a Democratic pollster who conducted research for this year's campaigns. "Let me tell you, there was some bristling on the other end of the phone." Until this year, she noted, Maine had two Republican senators, and in 2010 had elected a Tea Party-inspired governor and awarded Republicans control of the statehouse. It has America's oldest electorate, a large rural population, and a high proportion of Catholics -- all challenging demographics for gay-marriage campaigners. "That was the easy case? Are you kidding me?" Simon said. "This inevitability storyline is a rewrite of history to me."
The breakthrough victories for gay marriage in 2012 were narrow and hard-won. They were the result of meticulous work by a disciplined group of operatives who had vowed, after the defeats of 2008 and 2009, to find a way to win at the ballot box. Some gay-rights activists and donors were so dispirited after the California loss that they didn't think it could be done, at least not yet -- the public just wasn't ready. Many argued it was too big a risk. But Wolfson and his allies believed they could, in Simon's words, "create a tipping point" by combining smart political campaigning with a persuasion effort unprecedented in its depth and duration.
Obsessed With Marriage
When Obama came out for gay marriage, Wolfson could take credit for more than just the words the president used. He also helped put the issue on Obama's agenda in the first place.
Biden's accidental statement may have spurred the president to action, but a pressure campaign on Obama had been quietly gaining steam for months. Earlier in the year, Wolfson's group had led the charge to get gay marriage included in the platform to be presented at the Democratic Party's convention, a move that was controversial on the left but quickly gained momentum.
The positive response to the platform drive startled even the activists behind it. They'd anticipated a slow build and lots of lobbying; instead, Democratic House Leader Nancy Pelosi jumped on board the very next day, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the chairman of the Democratic convention, announced his support soon after. Within days, more than 20 senators had gotten behind the effort and David Plouffe, Obama's senior adviser and 2008 campaign manager, was getting asked about the possibility of a gay-marriage platform fight on the Sunday political talk shows. "Some of our senior staff went, 'Holy shit, this is out of control,'" Marc Solomon, Freedom to Marry's national campaign director, told me.
A short, round, bald, slightly nebbishy presence, Wolfson, ironically enough, resembles more than anything a New York divorce attorney. Ironically, because marriage has been the consuming obsession of Wolfson's life and career. Nearly three decades ago, for his final paper at Harvard Law School in 1983, Wolfson wrote about same-sex marriage, a topic his professors regarded as exotic to the point of eccentricity. (The idea of marriage for gays and lesbians wasn't totally new -- three gay-marriage lawsuits had been filed in American courts by 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots -- but they'd been essentially laughed out of court, and few in legal circles saw reason to revisit the issue.)
After law school, Wolfson worked first as a prosecutor in the Brooklyn district attorney's office, then for the independent counsel investigating the Iran-Contra affair. Meanwhile, on legal pads late into the night, he wrote pro bono briefs for the Lambda Legal Fund, which litigates on behalf of gay rights. He worked on discrimination cases involving AIDS patients and helped sue the Boy Scouts on behalf of gay youths. Eventually, he went to work for Lambda full time. All the while, he kept thinking about, and arguing for, marriage. Wolfson was co-counsel on the Hawaii Supreme Court case that, in 1993, became the first-ever victory for same-sex marriage in an American court. But the ruling merely spurred voters and the state legislature to quickly find new ways to outlaw gay marriage in Hawaii -- the first of the voter-approved anti-gay-marriage state constitutional amendments.
That marriage should be a central fight of the gay-rights movement was sometimes a tough sell. Other battles, particularly at the height of the AIDS crisis, seemed more vital; many activists questioned whether gays should even want to participate in the ultimate heteronormative social institution. And in a society where sodomy laws would not be struck down by the Supreme Court until 2003, marriage seemed impossibly far-fetched. Wolfson saw it partly from a legalistic point of view -- without the ability to get married, gays were denied many legal protections afforded to other Americans. He was adamant that civil unions, which offer some of the rights of marriage under a distinct legal category, represented an unacceptable "separate but equal" status. ("I had a long argument over civil unions with Evan in 2004," a former Log Cabin Republicans board member told me ruefully. "He won.")
To Wolfson, the fight for marriage was about making gays full participants in American life and fully human in the eyes of their fellow citizens. "This was something that would transform non-gay people's understanding of who gay people are," he told me. "It would help people understand gay people as fully rounded human beings, with the hopes and dreams and human aspirations we all have." Other gay-rights struggles were mainly about convincing people to overlook sexual orientation, in employment or medical care or military service. Marriage is about what makes gay people who they are: their relationships with others of the same sex. In ratifying marriage for gays and lesbians, society would be ratifying the core of their identity -- their love for one another.
When Wolfson founded Freedom to Marry in 2003, gay marriage was not yet legal in any U.S. jurisdiction. For years, it was a small-budget nonprofit that chiefly served as a platform for his own speeches and advocacy. But after the electoral defeats in California in 2008 and Maine in 2009, he realized the group needed to be something more. Part of the reason gay marriage kept losing, he saw, was that it was constantly on the defensive. Gay-marriage opponents, often backed by the Republican Party and Catholic and evangelical churches, would methodically mobilize activists, collect signatures, and put gay-marriage bans on the ballot; state-level activists who supported gay marriage would then have a few months to assemble an ad-hoc defense, scrambling to raise money and come up with a message in an effort that was inevitably too little, too late. The gay-rights movement had a variety of national groups devoted to causes like workplace rights and gays in the military, but there wasn't a single, national organization campaigning only for same-sex marriage.
In 2009, Wolfson began expanding Freedom to Marry. It grew from four staffers and a $1.4 million budget just three years ago to 17 staffers and $9 million today. He brought on high-powered fundraisers, pollsters, and political consultants. He called for a full-scale reassessment of past tactics and a blueprint for future action.
When it came to the ballot box, just as gay-marriage opponents were convinced they couldn't lose, some proponents had become convinced they were jinxed. Wolfson refused to believe that. Against all evidence to the contrary, he thought his side could win.
Read the full article at The Atlantic.


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Sawtooth Stars & Squares
Inspired by "History Repeated" by designer Jill Reid
Quiltmaker: Laura Boehnke
1/2 yard black dot print (star units)
1/2 yard mottled pink (star units)
3/8 yard mottled lime green (star units)
1/4 yard black circle print (star units)
1/8 yard lime green circle print (star units)
1/4 yard each of black floral and lime green floral (block centers)
5/8 yard each of multicolor check and multicolor stripe (blocks)
1-1/8 yards solid black (sashing, binding)
1/8 yard multicolor squares print (sashing squares)
3-1/8 yards backing fabric
55" square batting
Finished quilt: 48-1/2" square
Finished block: 14" square
Quantities are for 44/45"-wide, 100% cotton fabrics.
Measurements include 1/4" seam allowances. Sew with right sides together unless otherwise stated. {C}Download this Project [1]
Cut Fabrics
Cut pieces in the following order.
From black dot print, cut:
288—1-3/8" squares
From mottled pink, cut:
80—1-3/8x2-1/4" rectangles
80—1-3/8" squares
From mottled lime green, cut:
64—1-3/8x2-1/4" rectangles
64—1-3/8" squares
From black circle print, cut:
20—2-1/4" squares
From lime green circle print, cut:
16—2-1/4" squares
From black floral, cut:
5—7-1/2" squares
From lime green floral, cut:
4—7-1/2" squares
From multicolor check, cut:
20—4x7-1/2" rectangles
From multicolor stripe, cut:
16—4x7-1/2" rectangles
From solid black, cut:
5—2-1/2x42" binding strips
24—2x14-1/2" sashing strips
From multicolor squares print, cut:
16—2" sashing squares {C}Download this Project [1]
Assemble Star Units
1. Use a pencil to mark a diagonal line on wrong side of each black dot print 1-3/8" square.
2. Align a marked black dot print square with one end of a mottled pink 1-3/8x2-1/4" rectangle (Diagram 1; note direction of drawn line). Sew on marked line, then trim seam allowance to 1/4". Press open attached triangle.
3. Align a second marked black dot print square with opposite end of rectangle. Stitch, trim, and press as before to make a pink Flying Geese unit. The unit should be 1-3/8x2-1/4" including seam allowances.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to make 80 pink Flying Geese units total. Using mottled lime green rectangles instead of mottled pink, repeat steps 2 and 3 to make 64 green Flying Geese units total.
5. Referring to Diagram 2, sew together four mottled pink 1-3/8" squares, four pink Flying Geese units, and one black circle print 2-1/4" square in three rows. Press seams toward squares. Join rows to make a pink Sawtooth Star unit. Press seams toward middle row. The unit should be 4" square including seam allowances. Repeat to make 20 pink Sawtooth Star units total. Using mottled lime green 1-3/8" squares, yellow Flying Geese units, and lime green circle print 2-1/4" squares, repeat to make 16 green Sawtooth Star units total.
Assemble Blocks
1. Referring to Diagram 3, lay out a set of four pink Sawtooth Star units, four multicolor check 4x7-1/2" rectangles, and one black floral 7-1/2" square in rows.
2. Sew together pieces in each row. Press seams toward rectangles. Join rows to make a pink block. Press seams toward center row. The block should be 14-1/2" square including seam allowances.
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 to make 5 pink blocks total. Using green Sawtooth Star units, multicolor stripe 4x7-1/2", and lime green floral 7-1/2" squares, and rectangles, repeat steps 1 and 2 to make four green blocks total.
Assemble Quilt Top
1. Referring to photo, lay out blocks, sashing strips, and sashing squares in seven rows. Sew together pieces in each row. Press all seams toward sashing strips.
2. Join rows to make quilt top. Press all seams toward sashing rows.
Finish Quilt
1. Layer quilt top, batting, and backing; baste. Quilt as desired.
2. Bind with solid black binding strips.


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TSA Agent Hassles Actress For Carrying 'Knuckle Duster' Purse, Accuses Her Of Buying A Knockoff
from the awfully-insecure-for-someone-in-the-security-business dept
TSA agents hate to be made to look like fools. Many agents and officers in the security/law enforcement fields view any sort of insubordination as a threat. The only proper response to these "threats" is to escalate the situation. Swift obedience and complete deference are the only responses these sort of people "respect." Anything else is just "asking for trouble."
Australian actress Rebel Wilson found this out firsthand during a run-in with Los Angeles TSA agents. (h/t to Techdirt reader rorybaust)
Australian actress Rebel Wilson has narrowly escaped arrest in Los Angeles after becoming involved in a verbal altercation with airport security staff.At what point does a TSA agent switch from airport security to counterfeit patrol? Well, it occurs at the point his or her judgment is questioned. The only way to save face is to have the last word, no matter how ridiculous that "last word" is.
The Bridesmaids star claims she was almost put behind bars on Saturday after a security official accused her of carrying a fake Alexander McQueen bag.
Wilson was stopped by LAX TSA agents because they didn't like the looks of her purse. She was carrying one of these, described in her tweet as an "Alexander McQueen knuckle duster purse."
As you can see, it sort of looks like a weapon. Sure, it doesn't look like a weapon to a normal person. A normal person would realize this gaudy approximation of brass knuckles (that doubles as a purse clasp) is more likely to be a danger to the person carrying the purse than to anyone else around them. However, to a TSA agent, anything that resembles a weapon is a weapon, even if it's an ostentatious parody of brass knuckles (or a three-inch gun carried by a monkey puppet).
When the TSA agent failed to impress upon the actress the danger she presented by carrying an obviously fake non-weapon, he/she was forced to deploy The Last Word -- in this case, a cheap shot at the person who wouldn't give him/her the deference and respect that's somehow deserved, but never earned. The agent insinuated that Wilson couldn't afford the genuine item -- a small, shitty thing to do. But that's the sort of thing we've come to expect from people in positions of power when they are challenged.
When Wilson pointed out she could easily afford the genuine item, she was further berated for arguing with TSA agents. Once again, authority must not be questioned, no matter how stupid and easily-offended it is.
Wilson was finally allowed to board with her purse intact. The TSA agents are presumably busying themselves at LAX security checkpoints, engaging in tiny hostilities with passengers who fail to recognize their proper role in the Security Theater.
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Bush To Veto Ban On Mercury In Vaccines
Clear links to neurological disorders ignored, removed from animal vaccines but fine for babies
President Bush is to veto a bill that would ban mercury in flu vaccines for children despite its known links to autism and other neurological disorders and despite the fact that he pledged in 2004 to support such a move when campaigning for re-election.
The White House stated on Tuesday that President
Bush would veto the FY 2008 HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill because of the cost and "objectionable provisions" such as a measure to ban the use of childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, a press release from Autism advocacy group Safe Minds on the PRNewswire-USNewswire states.
Bush is calling for an amendment that would remove the children's safety provision from the bill.
Safe Minds warns:
The flu vaccine, which continues to be manufactured with mercury, is recommended for all pregnant women, infants and children despite the fact that the Institute of Medicine in 2001 recommended against the policy of
exposing these same sensitive groups to thimerosal containing vaccines.
Mercury is the second most toxic metal known to man behind Uranium. Thimerosal is used in vaccines not because it is good for you, but purely because it prevents vaccine contamination. Yet some have questioned why thimerosal is even considered for vaccines because there are obviously safer alternatives to preventing contamination. Questions also remain about how pharmaceutical companies conduct vaccine research and how the government regulates those companies.
Despite these facts, sickening reports such as the one below continue to make out that injecting the second most poisonous substance in the world into babies is actually GOOD for their health:
During Bush's reelection campaign in 2004 he stated:
"I support the removal of Thimerosal from vaccines on the childhood national vaccine schedule. During a second term as President, I will continue to support increased funding to support a wide variety of research initiatives aimed at seeking definitive causes and/or triggers of autism. It is important to note that while there are many possible theories about causes or triggers of autism, no one material has been definitely included or excluded."
"I support the removal of Thimerosal from vaccines on the childhood national vaccine schedule. During a second term as President, I will continue to support increased funding to support a wide variety of research initiatives aimed at seeking definitive causes and/or triggers of autism. It is important to note that while there are many possible theories about causes or triggers of autism, no one material has been definitely included or excluded."
Despite this he now plans to veto a bill that would remove Thimerosal because of "costs". What costs would these be? Do the costs of big pharmaceutical companies and fat government kickbacks outweigh the costs of the healthy brains of every child in America? Seemingly so.
Furthermore, though Bush stated that the evidence for links between mercury laden vaccines and autism are not concrete, there are scores of studies and testimony from credible figures asserting the exact opposite.
Starting in the early nineties, government regulators dramatically increased the amount of Thimerosal exposure to babies by adding two new vaccines to the roster of mandatory immunizations children must have before enrolling in school. The combination of the Hepatitis B vaccine and the HiB vaccine more than doubled the amount of mercury children.
Mercury expert Dr. Boyd Haley of the University of Kentucky has testified before Congress and the Pentagon as well as the FDA as one of the nation's leading experts on Thimerosal and mercury poisoning, revealing that his research leads him to believe that some children are genetically predisposed to storing mercury in their brains, leading to neurological disorders, including autism.
Haley has also proposed that Thimerosal in infant vaccines was also the most likely toxic agent involved in Gulf War syndrome and autistic spectrum disorders. Think about this, they are injecting into babies something that is breaking down the bodies of full grown combat veterans.
While the FDA questioned thimerosal's safety in the 80s, noting that it was "not safe for 'over-the-counter' topical use because of its potential for cell damage", and while it was removed from animal vaccines for the same reason, the government regulatory committees did nothing to question its use in childhood vaccines.
It's too dangerous for cats and dogs but the government is happy for our babies to be pumped full of the stuff on a regular basis.
Dr Haley has also pointed out that it is also well known by any good biochemist that thimerosal and aluminum react dangerously when combined together. Given that Aluminum is a compound added to many vaccines as a catalyst you would think the government would have heeded this warning, yet it has still done nothing.
Despite the continued reports doubting the link between Thimerosal and autism, more studies have continued to verify the link. As reported in the Capitol Times recently:
In other words thimerosal, inorganic mercury, leads to neuroinflammatory disease which is proven to be the underlying medical condition of autism.
Furthermore In a study done at the University of Arkansas last year, autistic children were found to have significantly lower levels of the antioxidant glutathione. Glutathione is the major antioxidant needed for the elimination of mercury at the cellular level.
Moreover, Professor Philippe Grandjean, from Harvard University and the University of Southern Denmark, considered the foremost scientific authority on the development of children's brains, has recently claimed that the average human IQ is plummeting primarily due to IQ points in the population being chemically destroyed via low level mercury exposure in children.
The links between the ingestion of mercury and neurological breakdown are clear and proven. Professors all over the world are telling us outright that it is literally destroying people's brains. Even if you choose to believe, in the face of all the evidence, that the links are still somewhat questionable, the solution is still obvious. GET IT OUT OF THE VACCINES NOW.
Safe Minds also point out that according to the EPA, one in every six women of childbearing age already has blood levels of mercury high enough to cause neurological damage to their unborn children due to environmental exposures alone.
Yes it defies logic to someone who believes in the unabated progression of the entirety of the human race, however, to an elite devoid of all morality and interested only in the endgame pursuit of their own biological, spiritual and financial monopoly over the whole planet, it makes perfect sense.
Related Audio: Alex Jones on the Mercury in Vaccines
Prison Planet Data Page: Vaccines The Deadly Cure
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Ubisoft to donate to Broncos' Von Miller's charity (Von's Vision) each time he performs sack dance
Ubisoft, in coordination with the upcoming release of its new video game, The Hip Hop Dance experience, has announced it will make a charitable donation to Von's Vision each time Miller performs his sack dance on the field during games.
Von's Vision is a foundation dedicated to providing eye care, glasses, and contact lenses to underprivileged youth.
The video above offers an behind-the-scenes view of the dance.
"I've already made some big sacks this season and I'm just getting warmed up," Von Miller said. "Ubisoft gave me a sneak peek at The Hip Hop Dance Experience and I picked up some fresh new moves that I can't wait to bust out the next time I introduce an opposing team's quarterback to the turf. The league beware: I'm gunning for you on Sunday!"


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Dear God, sometimes I get so frustrated with your church.
I know that I am not alone. So many people who love your church feel frustrated with the body of Christ on earth. Priests and deacons, and brothers and sisters, can feel frustrated, too. And I'll bet that even bishops and popes feel frustrated. We grow worried and concerned and bothered and angry and sometimes scandalized because your divine institution, our home, is filled with human beings who are sinful. Just like me.
But I get frustrated most of all when I feel that there are things that need to be changed and I don't have the power to change them.
So I need your help, God.
Help me to remember that Jesus promised he would be with us until the end of time and that your church is always guided by the Holy Spirit, even if it's hard for me to see. Sometimes change happens suddenly, and the Spirit astonishes us, but often in the church it happens slowly. In your time, not mine. Help me know that the seeds that I plant with love in the ground of your church will one day bloom. So give me patience.
Help me to understand that there was never a time when there were not arguments or disputes within your church. Arguments go all the way back to Peter and Paul debating one another. And there was never a time when there wasn't sin among the members of your church. That kind of sin goes back to Peter denying Jesus during his passion. Why would today's church be any different than it was for people who knew Jesus on earth? Give me wisdom.
Help me to trust in the Resurrection. The risen Christ reminds us that there is always the hope of something new. Death is never the last word for us. Neither is despair. And help me remember that when the risen Christ appeared to his disciples, he bore the wounds of his crucifixion. Like Christ, the church is always wounded, but always a carrier of grace. Give me hope.
Help me to believe that your Spirit can do anything: raise up saints when we need them most, soften hearts when they seem hardened, open minds when they seem closed, inspire confidence when all seems lost, help us do what had seemed impossible until it was done. This is the same Spirit that converted Paul, inspired Augustine, called Francis of Assisi, emboldened Catherine of Siena, consoled Ignatius of Loyola, comforted Thérèse of Lisieux, enlivened John XXIII, accompanied Teresa of Calcutta, strengthened Dorothy Day and encouraged John Paul II. It is the same Spirit that is with us today, and your Spirit has lost none of its power. Give me faith.
Help me to remember all of your saints. Most of them had it a lot worse than I do. They were frustrated with your church at times, struggled with it and were occasionally persecuted by it. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake by church authorities. Ignatius Loyola was thrown into jail by the Inquisition. Mary MacKillop was excommunicated. If they can trust in your church in the midst of those difficulties, so can I. Give me courage.
Help me to be peaceful when people tell me that I don't belong in the church, that I'm a heretic for trying to make things better or that I'm not a good Catholic. I know that I was baptized. You called me by name to be in your church, God. As long as I draw breath, help me remember how the holy waters of baptism welcomed me into your holy family of sinners and saints. Let the voice that called me into your church be what I hear when other voices tell me that I'm not welcome in the church. Give me peace.
Most of all, help me to place all of my hope in your Son. My faith is in Jesus Christ. Give me only his love and his grace. That's enough for me.
Help me God, and help your church.
Though the Holy Spirit guides the church, it would be hard to convince most people that she must therefore be held responsible for, say, the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, or for the election of such popes as Alexander VI or Julius II, among others.
Obtaining an adult religious education helps me to understand the NT so much better. Then employing that orientation in one's prayer life does away with the fear and obligatoriness of being a "good" Catholic. Instead, read the gospels, epistles, psalms and practice more silence in your prayer-life than continual thoughts and chatter. Try to be more contemplative in your daily living and the frustrations James Martin is harrassed by will no longer drive you to distraction.
Sorry if this seems like preaching but it's meant to be helpful.
#4 – Hi Charlie, Simply and plainly to answer your question about "What's a good Catholic?" to me a good Catholic is one who practices his Faith in good times and bad times because he/she believes that Jesus established the Church long called "Catholic" as a seedling, like an acorn establishes the Oak over time. There are lots of reasons why good Catholics leave the Church and they may remain "good" in other ways but can not be called a good Catholic.
In short aware that there are cliffs and chasms along the way, nonetheless I think, the historical evidence verifying that the Catholic Church is the original Church of Christ, should be sufficient reason to keep frustrated Catholics from walking away, realizing that there is no such thing as "a perfect Church" or a "perfect anything" on this earth. On the other side of the coin there is sufficient evidence of administrative malfeasance and misfeasance in the true Church of Christ, that makes it reservationally understandable why some would look elsewhere for moral stability. For me, however, its "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life … and I've come to believe that YOU are the Christ!" And the Catholic Church images you best!
Best wishes.
Ivo Sefton de Azevedo, retired Professor of Public International Law at the Jesuit Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS)
Father Martin, Your prayer shows that you live in the trenches with other Catholics and are not protected from abuse from within the church. Thank you for your honesty, especially from one able to see the humor in life. Peace of Christ be with you.


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I got this cream-colored suitcase before French lessons over a month ago and absolutely love it! I couldn't wait to rush into the coffee shop to show my friend. It's perfect.
I had been searching for a piece to make over into a sewing box for months. You see, my husband is super organized and clean. It makes him so happy when I try to keep things more organized, so I do my best. My sewing items tend to be randomly scattered out the house and something had to be created to hold them all together!
This project is part of a larger mission to organize our "les amusantes" room... which is what we consider to be our room centered around the arts and inspiration. It's where my "library" is as well as crafting supplies, John's instruments and my beloved chaise. I have one new development in that room that I *can't wait* to share with you! It is awesome.
This little organizational box was really easy as well as extremely adorable. Why organize if you can't make it cute?
That's my theory anyway.
This piece of luggage is relatively small. It would have been a carry on. There are two gorgeous pieces of material that fold over the top of each section and lock in place. It only cost me $14 at a second hand shop and pieces like this are a dime/dozen. There were a few different suitcases at the shop & they get more all the time. Mine was in really good shape, the interior is gorgeous and it even still had the original keys to lock it with. Not that I need to lock it. Yet. Some day when we have little people I'll have to lock them out or they'll get my favorite sewing scissors!
All you'll need is...
a) an old suitcase/luggage/box
b) organizing trays
c) velcro
d) paint (optional)
(1) Arrange it. I wanted a little organizing tray and a thread holder for my sewing box. I got the thread holder for $4 at walmart and already had the organizing tray. The tray was zebra striped, which I love, but didn't match the feel of the case. I just coated it with spray paint and a regular acrylic. No big deal. Figure out how you want your trays to set in the box.
(2) Velcro it. Next, just take industrial velcro with adhesive backing. I put two strips on each tray, attaching them first to the trays, then taking the plastic backing off of the velcro and sticking the trays to the bottom of the case. I use velcro so that if I ever want to have this transform back into a suitcase, it's easy. Plus, then I can switch around the trays at will!That's it! SO easy, right? I like using the middle section for storing scissors and fabric/pattern pens. I use the back zippered section to hold the extra pieces for my sewing machine. The top section I use to hold my current sewing project. It easily stashes all of the little pattern pieces and then closes off from the rest of the case. Voila!
You could technically use this to store anything- not just crafts or sewing materials. I have a few vintage suitcases and love all of them. One is kind of a set, which is extremely exciting. And extremely red.
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That's it for me today. I hope you have a fabulous day and as always, thanks for reading.