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The City of Charlottesville's corporate trash hauler Waste Management was dealt another blow by the recycler Peter Van der Linde's MRF, which has allowed local haulers to offer single-stream recycling and trash pick-up.
As detailed in a recent Hook story, the management of the Jefferson Theater and the Charlottesville Pavilion recently dumped the City's trash service in favor of Dixon Disposal, a local hauler using Van der Linde's facility. Now Fluvanna County's Lake Monticello community, home to 4,200 residences, has decided to dump Waste Management after 10 years and go with SDI, a West Point, Virginia-based trash hauler that has moved to the area to take advantage of Van der Linde's MRF, according to communications manager Peggy Alexander.
Meanwhile, the DP reports that the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority's long-discussed plan to privatize its trash disposing and recycling operations has been scrapped, at least temporarily, because Van der Linde Recycling, whom the Authority spent the last two years trying to sue, and was the only business to respond to the Request for Proposals, recently withdrew itself from consideration.
We're recyclers," Van der Linde told the DP. "Transferring it means you're taking it to the dump"Š It's really not what we're about."
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Lake Monticello has 4,200 single-family residences, 15 condo units, and 12,000 residents.
The lake was fun at one time now run poorly by a group of sad broad members without any clue of what Lake residents need. Less golf & swim team more community fun activities on this lovely lake. Re-open the club house and monday night football bar in a up-to-date style not a senior home. You go into the club house now and wow it smells, look aged, and a old person place. The golf is fun but too many bossy folks running it too many old foks rule please. Law enforcement is great here b/c the majority of Charlottesville/Alnermarl cops live here. Hook do a story on this lake by young folks not the older ones & you will see a very diffenent story. PS interview the folks living out side the main gates the working single/family folks, Food lion is still a mess so empty builings, no new business b/c of high rent. A mess. Lake has over 6,000 people do a recount..
I don't care who picks up the trash just PLEASE get us a decent Chinese delivery place!!! Peter Chang where are you??????
How many nails in the coffin, before the City and County bail out of this money losing agency and jump on board with all the smart businesses and citizens using Van der Line Recycling ? Where are the tea party people who hate government waste of tax payer
dollars ? Isn't it their candidate for Congress Mr. Boyd, who is still considering spending public funds on this failing enterprise, that is already losing money. What is he thinking ?
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ââ?¬Å?It would take some capital investment," Boyd said. ââ?¬Å?That is what started this whole thing is we were looking at probably a $3 million capital investment on the waste authority to bring it up to a level where we thought we could break even on it."
Good JOB LMOA! Join us!
-LMOA resident for over 24 years
LOMA is a mess. Old person running a place in the 1970 style.. Get a clue LOMA... Your spend were there is no need and save were they is a need. Get with the times please..
Number of people living at the lake is 6,876 get the numbers right please.. Also if you live outside the main gate but still at the lake your treated as a joke this lake is a mess. The board is a mess an old people home idea of things. At least the trash well at leasat they got that...
BFI/Allied Waste and Waste Management please leave town! You are doing a disservice to Fluvanna County residents (trash along Route 250 and big haulers heard at 6:00 in the morning, etc....), Albemarle County, and City of Charlottesville residents!


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This blog gathers in one place all available stories of female Zen practitioners in Tang Dynasty China.
Sadly, only about fifty such stories have appeared in translation. If you discover additional stories, let me know and I'll add them to the collection. Thanks!
Of the women in these stories, only a few have names (and most of these are from the Sung Dynasty, not the "golden age" of the Tang). Most were simply called "a nun" or "an old woman."
Zen Women categorizes the stories in three natural groups:
Teaching All Beings
A few Tang women assumed either formal or informal teaching roles. While some of these women were named, most were not.
Equal to All Beings
Some Tang women, by virtue of their wisdom and strong centers, engaged freely in dharma discourse with male peers. While not necessarily teachers, these women were certainly equal to their male counterparts.
Learning from All Beings
Most Tang women, of course, were represented as students of the great teachers. This is how everyone begins.
While most of the cases in this blog date from the Tang Dynasty, a few come from earlier periods. I've also included several involving Zen Master Yüan-wu, the Sung Dynasty teacher who commented extensively on The Blue Cliff Record collection of kung-ans.
I offer this blog as a way to widen the gate of Dharma and weaken barriers to practice that arise from attachment to gender.
May these cases inspire and encourage modern women to cultivate practice in their own lives. Likewise, may this collection help men let go of ancient and subtle stereotypes. And may we together open our hearts to all beings.


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Outfielder returns from concussion when first eligible after rehab assignment
WASHINGTON -- As expected, the Nationals reinstated Denard Span from the 7-day concussion disabled list on Saturday, and had him batting leadoff and playing center field against the Cardinals. To make room on their roster, the Nats optioned outfielder Steven Souza Jr. to Triple-A Syracuse.
This was the first day Span was eligible to return after suffering the concussion on April 11, when he collided with Braves second baseman Dan Uggla while running the bases in Atlanta. Span spent the past two days on a rehab assignment for Class A Hagerstown, playing a total of eight innings in center field and going 2-for-4 with three walks.
"It feels good," Span said of being back in Washington. "A couple days in Hagerstown definitely got my appreciation for being here up a few notches, and I'm ready to go."
Span felt fine while taking batting practice with the team while it was in Miami earlier this week, and the rehab assignment only solidified his readiness to return.
The Nationals will hope that this concussion will continue to prove less troublesome for Span than one he suffered while playing for the Twins in 2011. Span ended up missing most of the second half of that season, sitting out about two months initially, then dealing with recurring symptoms once he came back.
"Any time you've got a history of it, and you get hit in the head, it's a concern," Nats manager Matt Williams said. "Hopefully he just doesn't get hit in the head in any regard. Whether it's what happened in Atlanta, or running into a wall or any of that stuff. But he's passed all his tests, he's done all his rehab and he's cleared to go. He's ready. You just don't want anybody to hit their head."
Span, hitting .222 in 10 games this season, said he'll try not to think about the past concussions when he's back on the field. But he does believe this is something that won't linger in the same way.
"I'm definitely more educated, more prepared for this incident as opposed to the incident I had three years ago," he said. "I've got good people around me, good people making sure I take care of myself. I think that's the biggest difference."
While up with the Nats for the first time, Souza went 1-for-4 with a walk in five games. The 24-year-old picked up his first Major League hit on Tuesday at Marlins Park, singling off Miami reliever Dan Jennings.


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Glossary of terms
- Blue Groove
The blue groove is the mental line that is made and changed every second. This groove is the one that a persons mind chooses as its best plan of action. For example, the blue grove for a normal turn would be a sweeping arch.
- Feather
To feather the throttle means to work the throttle back and forth between 40%-90% throttle to achieve an optimum level of spin on the car. (When the rear wheels of a car are broken free from the pavement the result is the rear wheels want to instantly slide to the outside of the turn. So by controlling the speed at which the rear wheels spin, it is possible to control how much the rear wheels slide.) When going through a turn, to kick the back end farther toward the outside of the turn, throttle on. If the player wants the rear wheels to come more in line with the front wheels, throttle off. This is used in many situations where the engine controls the spin of the car.
- Understeer
When the vehicle makes a wider turn than was intentionally planned. (The rear wheels did not kick out enough)
This is a picture showing the blue groove as a green dotted line and the Red line represents the line that the car actually takes.
- Oversteer
When the vehicle made a tighter turn than was intentionally planned. (The rear wheels kicked out too far.)
This is a picture showing the blue groove as a green dotted line and the Red line represents the line that the car actually takes.
Profile of a good driver:
Traits of an ideal driver
Rational behavior
A driver who is calm and collected in their thoughts. This driver recognizes an objective, and collects a rough plan of how to achieve it.
- For example: This driver does NOT use a Blista Compact to force a Trashmaster off the road...
Situational awareness
A good driver makes decisions based upon the situation; not by anger or fear. They may be aware of the weather.
- For example: If it is raining, the roads are wet, so the player has less traction, so maybe a Banshee with a blown out back tire may not be the best idea.
A good driver is also aware of the lay of the land.
- For example: If a cunning getaway plan involves fast turns and small alleyways, a driver will NOT be picking a Firetruck as the getaway vehicle.
This may be the most useful tool a player ever receives. Many players can't get to the end of the street without one. Much of the information the player needs to know is within the confines of a small circle. One of the better features is the built in GPS route tracker, this is very handy when the player needs to get somewhere but they have no idea how to get there.
- Keep in mind the route tracker will only actually tell the player the shortest LEGAL route to your destination, most of the time there is a shortcut. Knowing them is key to evading cops. But a person has to find these out by themselves.
Acceleration and deceleration
These two things may be the hardest to master. Accelerating smoothly is easy enough but learning how to decelerate is a different story. Deceleration is not confined to pressing the brakes and calling it good. There are several ways to decelerate,
- The Throttle
In addition to speeding the car up, the player may not know that lifting off the throttle actually slows a car down? By lifting off the gas, the player has allowed the cars back wheels to spin freely. Not under any power load. So the car will be less likely to break loose and understeer in corners. This is the alternative to smashing the gas and the brake at the same time. On consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, the controller has triggers which can be used for precise speed control, depending on the player's input. On PC and Mac, the player may need a separate controller to give precise speed control, which keyboards don't offer.
- The Brakes
These are very useful. They usually do a good job in slowing and stopping the vehicle. The problem lies in that most of the time, when a driver wants to slow down they smash the hand brake, causing the wheels to lock up. The player should not slam on the brakes. The resulting skid is less effective than pushing the brakes to the point where they almost lock-up but don't. This allows the brakes to do their work to slow the car in a controlled manner.
- Sudden Deceleration
Brakes don't work well when the player is going 250 MPH, but an analog physical object, like ::say… another vehicle, doesn't really give a crap how fast the driver going. So in extreme cases, this skill can be used.
A Driver should be able to take any turn with ease, they are able to gauge the size and power of their car, gauge the turn's intensity and size, and gauge the traffic and situational factors, to complete the turn in the fashion they choose as the best fit.


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· copied and passed off as your own; "used plagiarized data in his thesis"; "a work dotted with plagiarized phrases"
Synonym(s): plagiaristic, plagiarised
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Make Outlining Work Better in Visual Studio
Roland Weigelt wrote a cool macro that improves the usability of outlining. It is often useful to collapse the entire file to get a quick overview, or to navigate to a particular section of code. Visual Studio lets you collapse regions, summary headers, method bodies, classes, and namespaces....
It is very rare that I would want to collapse all of these things. Furthermore, there is not a good set of shortcuts to collapse and expand sections of code. In general, I prefer to only collapse between #region and #endregion markers. This macro gives you shortcuts to collapse all regions, uncollapse all regions, and toggle the current region.
The macros below contain Roland's original macros, updated to work on all current versions of Visual Studio. Download the appropriate macro file:
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To use this macro, go to Tools - Macros - Macros IDE. Then paste the contents of the file above into a new Module named RegionTools. Save it, then go into Tools - Options - Keyboard. Assign ctrl-alt-plus to RegionTools.ExpandAllRegions, ctrl-alt-minus to RegionTools.CollapseAllRegions, and ctrl-plus and/or ctrl-minus to RegionTools.ToggleParentRegion.


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These pictures offer a spectacular view of the rising Moon from the International Space Station. But look closely at the Moon in these photos and you can see how it appears to be strangely squished. What's causing this weird effect?
First of all, if you're not quite seeing the squished effect, check out these close-ups of the Moon in the various photos. The illusion is particularly strong just as the Moon is starting to rise in the first photo:
Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait explains what's going on here:
It's an atmospheric effect, due to the air surrounding the Earth acting like a lens, bending (or, if you want to impress your friends, refracting) light. You've probably seen how a spoon looks bent when it sits in a glass of water, right? Same thing. Light passing from the vacuum of space through our air gets bent a bit. The amount of bending depends on how much air the light is going through; the thicker the air the more it's bent.
When an astronaut on the ISS sees the Moon near the Earth's limb, as in these shots, light from the top part of the Moon is passing through less air than the bottom. So the light from the bottom gets bent more, in this case, up. This makes it look as if the bottom of the Moon is being squished up into the top, like a clay ball that's been dropped on the ground. As the ISS orbits the Earth, and the Moon gets higher off the limb, the effect diminishes so in the two subsequent shots the Moon gets re-inflated.
This weird optical effect is most apparent up in space, but it's actually visible down here on Earth as well. Anyone who can watch the Sun set over a clear horizon - the Sun setting over the Pacific Ocean is perfect for this - will see a similar weird squishing illusion. These images and other amazing images like it are the work of astronaut Paolo Nespoli - you can check out more of his literally out-of-this-world images here. But be warned - once you start looking through those photos, you might be there for a while.


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WASHINGTON, May 5, 2011 — As part of an effort to reduce hunger and food insecurity, Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan today announced U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) grants to improve sustainable regional and local food systems.
"More than 17 million American households lacked the resources to access sufficient food in 2009, and the people living in one-third of these households went hungry at least once during the year," Merrigan said. "The grants we are announcing today will help us win the future by understanding the needs of low-income communities in order to better meet their food and nutrition needs."
The grants were awarded by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI). Many regional and local sustainable food system programs across the country address food insecurity by developing small food economies in diverse ways. Projects funded through this program explore ways to improve food systems on a local level, by helping disadvantaged communities in urban and rural areas establish sustainable food systems (food sheds).
Fiscal year 2010 awards include:
- University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, $1,124,664: To increase food security and improve diet quality in Alaskan communities and to strengthen local and regional markets for sustainably harvested fish.
- University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, $48,845: To organize a conference to explore the constraints and opportunities for developing a sustainable red meat industry in Alaska.
- Michigan State University, Lansing, Mich., $50,000: To organize a national conference: Making Good Food Work: A Conference on Local and Regional Food Distribution.
- North Dakota State University, Fargo, N.D., $4,892,158: To establish a program to increase food security for Native people on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation.
- Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., $4,999,829: To evaluate regional food systems in the Northeast and enhance food security of underserved populations in the region.
- Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va., $2,041,100: To strengthen, sustain and expand the South-Atlantic Appalachian region foodshed of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina with the dual aim of improving food security and local-regional food economies.
- University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., $4,944,748: To examine existing food systems and identify barriers to increasing local access to nutritious food, making recommendations that are responsive to local needs.
- University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyo., $4,983,481: To identify, develop and evaluate community organizing strategies for sustainable food systems for food security.
These grants come on the heels of numerous efforts over the years by USDA and partners across America to end hunger. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act President Obama signed into law on December 13, 2010, is a significant investment in our children and efforts to end childhood hunger. The Act expanded the at-risk meals program (CACFP) which provides supper and after-school snacks to low-income children to all states. The Act also makes it easier for children to receive free meals in the National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs through more expansive direct certification and community eligibility using existing data sources. USDA also recently announced a series of grants to help state agencies and their partners focus on improving program access for individuals, children and families in need. Those include $5 million in participation grants for SNAP and $5 million to 14 Hunger-Free Communities grantees in multiple states across the nation.
USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) oversees the administration of 15 nutrition assistance programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the child nutrition programs that touch the lives of one in four Americans over the course of a year. These programs work in concert to form a national safety net against hunger.
AFRI is NIFA's flagship competitive grant program and was established under the 2008 Farm Bill. AFRI supports work in six priority areas: plant health and production and plant products; animal health and production and animal products; food safety, nutrition and health; renewable energy, natural resources and environment; agriculture systems and technology; and agriculture economics and rural communities.
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The Minuteman RPM is the ideal solution for network administrators who manage one or more remote locations. Once connected to the network, you can easily control it from virtually anywhere using a standard web browser and your password.
With a simple click, power up, down, or reboot any of up to 16 devices connected to the RPM. Automatic reboots of locked devices are also possible via ping actions.
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Minuteman RPMs offer a web connection which is accessible from any device with a standard internet browser, including desktop and laptop PCs, smartphones, and tablets. From these devices, users can control and configure all aspects of the device, including:
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- Control Individual Outlets: Power on/off, reboot, and monitor up to 16 individual devices from a single IP address
- Scheduled Management Actions: save power with automatic shutdown and startup of devices over weekends or holidays
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- Monitor Current Draw: View combined current draw on the RPM in real time, and configure warning and overload thresholds
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How to Make a Paper Chandeliercomments (25) November 24th, 2008
Extreme Paper: The Long, Dark Road to a Bright Idea
It is three days before Thanksgiving and the holidays are finally over.
Allow me to explain. For me, the holidays began in late July when I started getting calls from clients interested in having me create projects for their holiday window displays. If you think it's difficult to come up with a festive and creative crafting idea for Thanksgiving, Christmas, or Hanukkah, try doing it when the temperature is hovering in the 90s and you're sitting seaside in a beach chair staring at the blank pages of a sketchbook. However, publishers, manufacturers, and crafters all live in this season-out-of-synch world where we are busy making snowmen while the rest of the world is busy eating Sno-Cones.
One of my most challenging projects this year was for Tiffany & Company's flagship Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan. Their theme this year is "All That Glitters" (an apt concept for a jewelry store). My job was to create a chandelier out of paper; delicate, ornate, graceful, vaguely French Baroque in style and about three feet tall by two feet wide. At the time I agreed to do the project, I distinctly remember thinking, "How hard can it be?" Clearly, I was delusional from heatstroke and didn't know it.
This is how hard it can be:
1. Paper wilts. This can be easily illustrated by holding out a 12-inch strip of paper at arm's length and willing it to stand at attention without listing to one side or another. Mr. Crafter, meet Mr. Disappointment. Mr. Disappointment, meet Mr. Crafter.
2. Why not use heavier stock paper? It doesn't wilt. It also doesn't lend itself to delicately articulated curves or easy cutting with anything less than a laser beam. Oh, and it wilts, too; it just takes a day or two longer to do so.
3. Wouldn't foam board, museum board, matte board, cardboard, chip board, and gator board all be promising solutions? All were promising, yes, but all of them broke their promises. I tried using my craft knife, but by the time I'd finished making my first test piece, my index finger and thumb were cramped, a nasty blister was rising on my middle finger, I had broken the tips of more than 65 craft blades, and my resulting template was lopsided, jagged, and fuzzy at the edges. I tried a Dremel. I even tried a jigsaw. Oh, and while none of these materials could be said to "wilt" after a few days, all buckled or twisted or yawed in one direction or another like their thinner and more flexible paper cousins had done.
At this point, I was already a few weeks into the project and had little to show for my efforts other than a stack of coarsely cut, unusable templates and a studio adrift in little pieces of paper and a fine dusting of cardboard curlicues from my ever-eager-to-help-but-nonetheless-helpless Dremel tool. With little hope of success, I did what I usually do in such situations: I stopped working completely. I stopped and took a step back. I spent days, sitting in my studio, staring at the evidence of my failures and ruminating on where I'd gone wrong.
I'll spare you details of the long, meandering path my mind took and, instead, cut to my epiphany: grain. I had been working to overcome the liabilities of paper when I should have been trying to transform those liabilities into something I could use. When I took a moment to think about paper, I realized that I could put its grain to work in my favor.
Paper tends to bend with its grain and it tends to resist bending (ever so slightly, but still) against its grain. By bending my chandelier components against the grain of the paper, I created some resistance-a slight push-back. Push-back meant tension, and tension, as we all know, is that simple force of nature that holds up wide-span bridges and cross-girdered skyscrapers.
In the end, I went back to my original, medium-weight paper, creased and folded all of the pieces against the grain, and glued them together to make what is essentially a paper spring. The resulting piece was so strong that I delivered it to Tiffany & Co. folded in half lengthwise and tied with a piece of string. When I untied the string, the piece sprung into shape under its own tensile strength and required only a small application of adhesive on the final seam. I then affixed the candles and the piece was complete.
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Your Art is beautiful - so glad you stuck with it.
Keep up the great works.
Cannot wait to see more.
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This is the most marvelous thing i ever seen.
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I love this chandelier and would like to make one for my niece for her birthday. Can you let me know where I can find the template to trace over the paper I plan on using? I would greatly appreciate it and thank you so much for sharing this design.
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Thank you,
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also this might could be a design for Ikea or something like that....i want one!!!
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I've seen your work before, and been amazed, but THAT is absolutely amazing. Words fail me, I WANT to be this good!
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Sarah ManoogianAssistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Educational Background
- B.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2003
- B.S. in Mathematics, Vanderbilt University, 2003
- M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2005
- Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2008
Research Interests
- Dynamic tissue testing
- Tissue mechanics
- Pregnant occupant safety
- Crash dynamics and reconstruction
- Impact biomechanics
- Mechanics
- Computational Analysis
- Thermodynamics
- Accident Analysis
- Biomechanics
Selected Publications
Manoogian, S.J., Duma,S.M. "Material Properties of Pregnant Tissues" in Pregnant Occupant Biomechanics - Advances in Automobile Safety Research edited by Stefan M. Duma, (Warrendale, PA: SAE, 2011).
Manoogian, S.J., Bisplinghoff, J.A., Kemper, A.R., and Duma, S.M. Dynamic material properties of the pregnant human uterus. Journal of Biomechanics. 2012; 45(9):1724-1727.
Manoogian, S.J., Funk, J.R., Cormier, J.M., Bain, C.E., Guzman, H., Bonugli, E. Evaluation of thoracic and lumbar accelerations of volunteers in vertical and horizontal loading scenarios. SAE 2010 World Congress. Detroit, Michigan. 2010-01-0146.
Manoogian, S.J., Bisplinghoff, J.A., McNally, C., Kemper, A.R., Santago, A.C., and Duma, S.M. Effect of strain rate on the tensile material properties of human placenta. Journal of Biomechanics. 2009; 131(9): 091008.
Manoogian, S.J., Moorcroft, D.M., and Duma, S.M. Pregnant occupant injury risk in severe frontal crashes using computer simulations. Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation. 2008; 44: 249-255.


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PlayStation TV: full list of playable Vita games revealed
Sony has revealed the the full list of compatible PS Vita games that can be played on PS TV ahead of its launch next month in North America.
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PlayStation TV Remote Play functionality tested by Digital Foundry
Digital Foundry has called Sony's PlayStation TV "the coolest, most well-designed micro-console available." Nice.
PlayStation TV launch prepped for North America and Europe this fall
PlayStation TV is coming to North American and European markets this fall, Sony announced during its E3 2014 conference this evening.
The Vita TV can now remote play PS4 games
The PS Vita has long been a reliable companion to the PS4 by letting you play its games remotely. Now a Japanese firmware patch means that PS4 games can be streamed straight to Vita TV.
Vita TV commercial does a good job of selling the living room dream
This Japanese commercial for the Vita TV tracks the daily life of one family over the course of decades as their living room habits change and evolve; it puts a pretty strong emphasis on the TV as something whole families can share, which makes Sony's new device seem pretty attractive.
PS Vita TV will take "different road to market" in the west, says House
PS Vita TV is already out in Japan and is said to be enjoying modest sales. PlayStation's European boss Andrew House has stressed that the device is still coming to the west, but that it'll take a "different road to market."
God Eater 2 and Call of Duty: Ghosts top Media Create charts - PS Vita TV debuts
God Eater 2 debuted on top of the Media Create charts with 266,326 units sold, giving PS Vita a much needed hardware boost and making it the second best selling system for the week. Call of Duty: Ghosts debuted in second with 190,631 units sold on PS3 and the Xbox 360 version cam in at […]
Video demonstrates what a PS Vita TV does
Though this video is in Japanese without subtitles, it is still a video that shows the features of the PS Vita TV so you should be OK no matter what language you know best. That said, many of the terms they use are English words, so that also might help. But if you have lingering […]
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PS Vita TV interest in the west has surpassed Sony's initial expectations, Sony Japan executive Masayasu Ito has admitted.
PS Vita TV is for Japan just now: "stay tuned" says Yoshida
PS Vita TV is geared towards the Japanese market for the time being, but Sony's President of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has asked gamers to "stay tuned" on the matter.
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West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has revealed that he was threatened with violence by an unnamed agent during the January transfer window.
Agents' roles in modern football has been the subject of heavy debate in recent times, with QPR manager Harry Redknapp likening their behaviour to "gang warfare".
And Sullivan has revealed the lengths some agents are prepared to go to to secure a deal, comparing them to "scavengers".
"In this window, I have had an agent threaten me and threaten one of our West Ham players with physical violence, because he thought he was being cut out of a deal," Sullivan told The Daily Mail.
"I heard of three or four agents trying to jump in on other deals. Some of these people are like scavengers.
"It was all deeply unpleasant and I'm glad it's over. Now we can get on with the football."
Sullivan went on to agree with Redknapp's comments and called for the Football Association to cap the astronomic amounts that are now commonplace among agents during transfer negotiations.
He continued: "Harry Redknapp was right: it feels like gang warfare out there and I can see it spilling over into violence in the future, unless there is legislation from the FA to curb the practices.
"We are talking millions of pounds here around a transfer and not enough deals to go around. There are too many agents and not enough transfers to feed them.
"Agents who would once demand €57,500 for their part in a transfer, now want €575,000 to €1.1 million to either bring a player or keep a player. It is quite outrageous and the FA should cap the amount paid to agents for their work.
"I heard of one agent, who took over representation of a player for one day, and he wanted to be paid between €1.43m and £1.72m for his part in negotiating a new contract."


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To parents of infants and toddlers, their children's sexual development may seem a long way off. But actually, sexual development begins in a child's very first years. Infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and young school-aged kids develop an emotional and physical foundation for sexuality in many subtle ways as they grow.
Just as they reach important physical and emotional milestones, like learning to walk or recognize mom and dad, young kids hit important milestones in how they recognize, experience, and feel about their bodies, and how they form attachments to others. The attachments established in these early years help set the stage for bonding and intimacy down the line.
By understanding how your kids grow and learn, you can play an important role in fostering their emotional and physical health.
Infants and Toddlers
Babies' earliest emotional attachments are formed with their parents through physical contact that expresses their love. Being held and touched, kissed and hugged, snuggled and tickled allows babies to experience comforting, positive physical sensations associated with being loved.
The unique type of physical intimacy and emotional attachment between parent and infant can be the early foundation of more mature forms of physical intimacy and love that develop later as part of mature sexuality.
My body. Many parents have called their doctors expressing concern because their kids touch their genitals during diaper changes or their baby boys have frequent erections. They're reassured that these behaviors are perfectly normal and told that even the youngest children naturally explore their bodies. And many kids, especially toddlers, enjoy being naked.
How you react — your voice, the words you use, your facial expressions — is one of your child's first lessons in sexuality. By not responding with anger, surprise, or disapproving words, you teach your child that this curiosity about his or her body is a normal part of life.
Gender awareness. By age 2 or 3, a child starts to develop a sense of being a male or female. This awareness is called gender identity. Kids this age start to understand the difference between boys and girls, and can identify themselves as one or the other. Some people think gender identity is biologically determined and some say it's a product of a child's environment. Most likely, it's a combination of both.
And at this age kids begin to associate certain behaviors, called gender roles, with being male or female. Gender roles are culturally derived. What is masculine? What is feminine? How do boys and men behave? How do girls and women behave? As you decide what you want to teach your kids about gender roles, be aware of the messages they get both in and out of the home.
Preschool (Ages 3 to 5)
By preschool, most kids have developed a strong sense of being a boy or girl, and continue to explore their bodies even more purposefully. It's not a good idea to scold them when they touch themselves — this will only prompt a sense of guilt and shame.
Parents may, however, want to explain that even though it feels good, touching should be done in private — preschoolers are old enough to understand that some things are not meant to be public. They're also old enough to understand that no one — not even family members or other people they trust — should ever touch them in a way that feels uncomfortable.
Your preschooler will continue to learn important sexual attitudes from you — from how you react to people of the opposite sex to how you feel about nudity.
Endless questions. As kids become curious about everything, it's common for preschoolers to pose questions to their parents like "Where do babies come from?" or "Why doesn't my sister have a penis?"
When you get questions like these, try to answer as honestly and matter-of-factly as possible. Answers like "The stork brought you" not only dismiss a child's curiosity, but also make parents look less credible when kids find out the truth. Being truthful now also encourages your kids to come to you with their questions in the future.
Find out exactly what your child wants to know and then answer the specific question — there's no need to go into elaborate detail when it might not be necessary. For example, you might say that a man and woman can make a baby and that the baby grows inside the woman's belly. If this satisfies your child, you might not need to provide additional information about how the baby is actually made until later.
Playing doctor. At this stage, kids tend to be curious not only about their own bodies, but about others' too. If you find your preschooler playing doctor with another child around the same age, it's important not to overreact — to them it's just an innocent game. Of course, if an older child or adult is involved, your concern would be legitimate. Calmly ask your child to get dressed and distract him or her with a toy or game. You may want to take this as a clue that your child is curious about the body, and facilitate learning about it in some other way, like a children's book on the subject that's geared to preschoolers.
Preschool "boyfriends" and "girlfriends." Some parents of preschoolers are alarmed when they hear their kids talk about a boyfriend or girlfriend. If your youngster says this, remember that kids don't attach the same meanings to the word that adults do. Most experts agree that it's best to react to this kind of news in a neutral way — don't encourage the behavior, but don't express concern either.
Elementary School (Ages 6 to 10)
Kids this age are especially interested in pregnancy, birth, and gender roles — boys usually play with boys, and girls with girls. This is also the age where their peers and the media begin to have a bigger influence on sexual attitudes. If you aren't a reliable resource, your child may turn to a peer or perhaps an older child for information about sex, sexual organs, and reproduction — and chances are slim that the facts will be correct and that the words learned will meet your approval!
If your school-age child isn't asking you about sex, consider initiating some age-appropriate conversations. If you've previously said that a man and woman make a baby, now your child might want to know how. As always, be honest — kids of this age will jump to their own conclusions when they're missing information. Many kids in elementary school assume that babies are made when a man and woman lie next to each other, sleep in the same bed, hold hands, kiss, or swim together.
Issues that parents of elementary school-age kids might face include:
Bad language. Children will pick up bad language and inappropriate slang from lots of places — TV, movies, their friends, and especially you, if you use it. Many times, they use these words without even knowing what they mean. It's a good idea to calmly explain why the word is inappropriate and suggest better words to use next time.
Inappropriate jokes. You'll often find kids this age giggling over "dirty" jokes about sex, body parts, sexual orientation, etc., but do they really understand them? And do they realize that some of those jokes can hurt people? As with bad language, kids often tell these jokes without understanding them.
Calmly explain why the joke is inappropriate, then tell a more kid-friendly one as an example of an appropriate joke that will still get some laughs. And it's important to be a good role model for your child — don't tell inappropriate jokes, especially ones making fun of a particular group of people. Tolerance and respect are learned behaviors.
Birds do it, bees do it . . . but why? Kids sometimes see their pets or other animals engaged in sexual behaviors. Some react with surprise, disgust, or embarrassment, but most are curious even if a bit giggly. After a class trip to the zoo, the hot topic of conversation for a group of 9-year-olds is often the funny-looking mating behavior they witnessed between a pair of the zoo's creatures. When kids ask about what these animals are doing, this is another chance for you to send the message that sexuality is a natural part of life. Encourage natural curiosity, provide accurate information, and model an attitude of respect about reproduction.
As Kids Grow
As kids continue to understand and experience their bodies, and the physical changes of puberty emerge, your attitude and acceptance will continue to play an important role in their healthy development.
As kids mature sexually, they're often both excited and scared about growing up — especially when they notice hair growing in new places, get their periods, or start having wet dreams. They spend a lot of time wondering if they're "normal" and comparing themselves with their friends. Kids — especially early and late bloomers — need lots of reassurance as they head into this uncharted territory.
Puberty can be a very confusing time, with lots of physical and emotional changes, and kids need to know what to expect in the months and years ahead, even if they're too shy to ask.
By being open to your young child's questions about bodies, babies, love, and sex, you set the stage for continued conversations and openness when puberty begins. Welcoming the questions about your child's changing body and sexual issues — and not treating them as dirty or embarrassing subjects — will help foster a healthy sense of self-acceptance in your child. It also makes it more likely your child will use you as a resource for information and guidance.
Gathering written materials, like pamphlets or books, might help you find effective ways to provide the facts about sex, sexual health, and the physical changes your child may be going through.Back to Articles
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Right from a very young age, children in France are taught how to appreciate good food and are surely proud of the culinary reputation that the country holds throughout the world. French food has a culinary tradition that dates back to several centuries ago. The modern French food is an outcome of many centuries of evolution, perfection and a lot of research. It forms an integral part of their beautiful culture. The chefs from France are also known to be one of the most creative chefs in the world; they are known for their ability to satisfy some of the most discriminating types of tastes with some of the most authentic French dishes.
Inevitable Italian Influence
Most of the success and popularity of French food is owed to Catherine de Medicis. She was a Queen who came to power in the year 1533, when she travelled to France from Italy; she brought her own entourage of chefs from Florence. At that period of time, Italian chefs were known to be more experienced than French chefs. They brought in their own techniques and methods that were modified to go well with the food products of France. This kind of cooking was quickly picked up by the people of France and ever since, the country's influence on French food and practically never ceased.
The Vast region-based variety
The kind of food eaten varies in a big way based on the geographical regions. It can be as varied as very light on the tummy food from the Mediterranean regions of Provence to heavy game-based cuisine of Normandy. The French don't seem to be too fond of snacks between meals. They have 3 satisfying meals a day. The breakfasts are usually light with just coffee and bread and is followed by a huge lunch and an ever larger dinner (four course or more). Here's a gist of the different kinds of cuisines of France.
- Normandy: This region is popular for its great apples and dairy products. This is where the famous Camembert cheese originates. It was first made in the village of Camembert and is an exclusive product of this region. Apples here are not just used in dessert but also in alcohols and cocktails. Calvados is an extra strong brandy made from apples. The most popular beverage that this region is known for is Pommeau de Normandie.
- Provence: The sunny and warm weather of Provence helps with the production of good vegetables and best quality fruits that have a wonderful aroma. Typical ingredients of the cuisine from Provence will have herbes de province, garlic and olive oil. Tatatoulle is a popular vegetable stew which is made of olive oil, onions, zucchinis, tomatoes and pepper. Salade Nicoise is another popular dish which contains tomatoes, tuna, lettuce, black olives, anchovies, eggs and green beans.
- Southwest France: The cuisine from this part of the country is made of produits du terroir. Truffles are found all over this portion and the most popular of the varieties are the black truffles which are underground mushrooms. These are rare and are a delicacy. They are cooked with different spices and sauces that can be very aromatic and tasty.
- Lyon: This place is the uncrowned gastronomic capital of the country. The city has produces many renowned chefs like Léon de Lyon, Pierre Orsi, Paul Bocuse, etc. It is also home to some of the finest cooking institutes in the world.
There are many more minor varieties that are much adored by the French people. A visit to a good French restaurant like Le Bouchon restaurant, Sherbrooke is a must for a serious learner.


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Alabama Welcomes 100,000-sq.-ft. Coil-Processing Plant
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ThyssenKrupp Materials NA, Inc. has opened a new 100,000-sq.-ft. steel- and aluminum coil-processing and distribution service center in Woodstock, AL. The $15-million facility, also occupied by Ken-Mac Metals, houses two cut-to-length lines and a 72-in.-wide slitter.
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Thiruvananthapuram is the new name for Trivandrum. The capital city of Kerala, which is located on the west coast, offers a wonderful holiday experience for tourists with its beaches such as Kovalam Beach, lakes, green terrains, zoo (which inspired the book, Life of Pi) and Neyyar Wildlife Sanctuary. It is also a big educational hub and is home to the University of Kerala.
Budget Hotels in Trivandrum
There are good budget hotels in Trivandrum. Some of them are Hotel Oasis (Tariff – Rs. 1000), Hotel Horizon (Tariff – Rs. 1000), The Capital (Tariff – Rs. 1000) and Aristo Hotel (Tariff – Rs. 500).
The official language of Trivandrumis Malayalam. Other languages spoken are Hindi and English.
Events in Trivandrum
The important festivals of Trivandrum are Vishu (April), Onam (August), and Christmas.
Places to See in Trivandrum
There are several places of tourist attraction in Trivandrum. Some of them are Ponmudi (12 km), Varkala (17 km) and Thenmala (33 km).
How to Get There
Trivandrum International Airport (40 km) is the closest airport from the city.
The nearest railway station is Trivandrum Central Railway Station which is just a kilometre away.
Trivandrum and Ponmudi are just 32 km away from each other and are directly linked via road. The nearest bus stand is Trivandrum Bus Station (1 km). Travellers may opt for local or private buses. Numerous travel websites provide discount coupons for bus booking frequently to their customers.


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Recently, a friend came to me with a problem. She's working as a secretary, and when she told me that she had difficulties with a Microsoft Office file, I was pretty sure that I would not be able to help her.
A colleague had sent her the file, but apparently this colleague was using a different version of Microsoft Office. When she tried to open the file, an important table was missing in the document.
I told her that I hadn't used Microsoft software in more than a decade, but she insisted that I have a look at her file.
So I opened her file in Abiword, without a problem, and to her surprise the table appeared exactly in the right place of the document. Consequently, she urged me to give her a copy of Abiword, which I gladly did.
Oh well. The day that secretaries start to install Abiword on their computers in order to be able to open Microsoft Office files must be a really black day for the software vendor.


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The Law of Economics
My wife and I went to Kennesaw College together for two years. We mostly took the same classes. Because she was having a hard pregnancy she dropped out and I soon followed her, I didn't have anyone to take class notes for me.
I went a quarter more than she did. No, actually we are even, because she started a quarter before I did. Before Kennesaw College I went to technical school studying data processing and computer programming.
One of my classes after my wife dropped out was some kind of economics class. I think the name of it was something like World Economics or International Economics. The professor was a doctor, a PhD. He was a little black fellow with a heavy accent of some kind. He was very gentle and very polite. He spoke everything with a smile.
Somebody must have told him, "In the south, you better smile when you speak."
He told us in one hour the key to his entire course. He said his theory of economics was: price depends on supply and demand.
And that is it. Anything else added is totally elaboration.
Any ten year old kid street kid knows that. The more you want something the more you are willing to pay for it. The man has a PhD because of that very insight. I knew that at an early age – don't I deserve a PhD also?
I guess it is the way you present it. Maybe the doctor put it in more of a consumer - demand kind of thing in his dissertation than I would think of. Or maybe in commodity terms. Like people need gasoline so the price goes higher.
I could relate it on a more personal level. One time when I was a kid I wanted the complete collection of MAD comic books. I did not have issue number 4. The kid I knew that did have it realized how much I was willing to pay for it, and upped his price, MAD comic #4 or 1000 barrels of oil, it is the same thing, as far as supply and demand.
I got a good grade in that class, but another course, a college algebra, I failed, and slid right off the Dean's List – but that is another story.
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What is a general contractor?
When starting a home remodel or new construction project, you will probably hire a general contractor. A general contractor is a professional who is qualified to take a set of building plans and construct them as outlined. The general contractor may help perform the day-to-day building, or they may just hire workers and oversee all the work activities. In either case, the job of the general contractor is to see that your project gets built.
When you have a building project, ask for bids from various contractors. The bids tell you how much each will charge and what their scope of work will be. Once you have selected a bid, you sign a contract with that general contractor outlining the specifics of the project and the milestones during the project when they will receive payment installments. Once the contract is official, the general contractor will bring in their crew to begin construction. The contractor will manage the workers and subcontractors (anyone who doesn't work directly for their company but that they need to outsource, like a marble installation pro), order all the materials, obtain work permits, and confirm that all the workers and subcontractors are completing their projects as planned. They typically handle all the payments to the workers and subcontractors, and send you invoice. For all these reasons, it's also especially important to follow a few smart hiring practices when it comes to finding a general contractor. If you are organized and competent to oversee construction projects, and are able to make sure everything is being built properly and meeting code, it's possible you can be your own general contractor.
Who is a carpenter and what do they do?
Carpenters are skilled craftsmen who build things out of wood. Depending on what the carpenter builds, they may be referred to by various names. A framer is a carpenter who puts up the framing on a house. A trim or finish carpenter installs the finishing touches of prefabricated or custom trim and detail work once a house has been built and the walls are up. A furniture maker or woodworker builds furniture — such as tables, beds and dressers — out of wood. A cabinetmaker is a carpenter who builds custom and semi-custom wood cabinets. If you're having a home built or remodeled, your general contractor will either provide or subcontract the carpentry work for the framing, cabinets and trim. You can hire a carpenter directly to update the trim in your home, build you a piece of custom furniture, or repair or replace your wood cabinets.
How do you choose a commercial general contractor?
A commercial contractor provides similar services as a residential general contractor but specializes in working with large-scale projects for businesses, schools, nonprofits, governments and development firms. When researching commercial general contractors, review their portfolio of work and confirm they have ample experience working in the area you need. For example, if you are building a small strip mall, ask if the contractors have experience successfully incorporating all the needed elements such as a parking lot, meeting ADA requirements, accessing the proper permits, and completing work on time.
Once you've identified several qualified candidates, request bids for your project and then compare the scope of work with your needs and budget. Your commercial general contractor should oversee design, permitting, construction, materials purchase, and adherence to building code and zoning regulations, as well as sticking to an agreed-upon budget and schedule. It's important to establish clear communication with your future commercial general contractor, as this will mean a smoother process for everyone. For all these reasons, it's also especially important to follow a few smart hiring practices when it comes to finding a general contractor.
What do general contractors charge?
If you're doing a home remodel, building a new home or embarking on a commercial building project, you'll hire a general contractor. A general contractor is a professional who is qualified to oversee and execute construction projects. Each construction project is unique; even two duplicate homes built on lots next door to each other could have different construction costs due to factors like different excavation costs when building the foundation. Since each project is unique, many general contractors make bids on potential construction projects. These bids can then break down to a per square foot cost that encompasses the labor of all the workers needed for the job, materials, the scope of work, and any equipment needed. Materials and finishes make a major difference in your cost per square foot. For example, choosing standard kitchen tiles at $3 per square foot will result in a lower total project cost than imported marble tiles that cost $63 per square foot. Where you live will also affect how much general contractors charge, as labor and the cost to do business can cost less in many regions than in high-cost areas like New York or San Francisco. Here are some examples of average costs general contractors typically charge in various regions:
- Home addition in San Francisco: $250-$270 per square foot.
- New home construction in Knoxville, Tennessee: $100-$200 per square foot.
- Kitchen remodel in Tennessee: $40-$80 per square foot, depending on finishes.
- Bathroom remodel in Vancouver, Washington: $110-$170 per square foot.
Be sure to check out our smart hiring practices when it comes to finding a general contractor.
Do carpenters build houses?
Carpenters are trained to work with wood. That means that any part of your home that is built of wood is very likely to involve a carpenter. Framing carpenters will put up the wood that makes up the bones of your home. If you're having a wood floor installed, it may be done by a carpenter — although being a carpenter is not a requirement to install flooring. Trim, baseboards, wainscoting and any other detail work is typically installed by a finish carpenter. The wood boxes of custom cabinets will be built and installed by a carpenter.
Although all of these components in your new or remodeled home are built by carpenters who specialize in building things with wood, a general contractor typically oversees construction of the entire house. If the general contractor is also a carpenter skilled in all these areas, they may well construct your entire home. More often, the general contractor subcontracts out the various building stages to different individuals, including carpenters.


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Suspect waives hearing in Claremont robbery of elderly man
CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) � The main suspect in the armed robbery of an elderly man in Claremont, N.H., last month waived a probable cause hearing.
The Valley News reports (http://bit.ly/14ttYkU) Benjamin Ecklund remains held on $100,000 bail at the Sullivan County House of Corrections. His case will be bound over to superior court and likely presented to a grand jury for indictment.
The 31-year-old Ecklund of Claremont has been charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm and armed robbery of an 84-year-old man on March 6.
Three others also were arrested following the incident.
Ecklund is accused of breaking into the man's house, throwing him to the floor and threatening him with a gun.
Taken was $25 in lottery tickets and $77.50 in cash.
Information from: Lebanon Valley News, http://www.vnews.com


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WASHINGTON — With a pivotal legal challenge settled Thursday by the Supreme Court, the battle over President Obama's signature overhaul of the country's health care system is headed back into the cauldron of Congress, giving Democrats little time to savor victory.
Republicans vowed to dismantle the law, with House Speaker John Boehner saying he could bring up a vote as early as next month to begin undoing the historic health care law. The vote, however, would be merely symbolic because Democrats in the Senate would surely block any proposal that would repeal or weaken any provision of the 2010 law.
"The Supreme Court has spoken. The matter is settled," said Senate majority leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada.
But Republicans were not about to concede the battle.
Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, said the Supreme Court ruling would galvanize opponents to repeal the law.
"There's a lot of resolve amongst our colleagues, and amongst the American people, to stop a law that's hurting our economy, driving up the cost of health care, and making it more difficult for employers to hire new workers."
Recent polls show Americans now mostly oppose the president's health care law, which was largely affirmed by a 5-to-4 Supreme Court decision that upheld a key tenet requiring nearly all Americans to purchase health insurance.
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, echoed those sentiments while acknowledging that political change needs to come first. He said he hoped "that with new leadership in the White House and Senate, we can enact these step-by-step solutions and prevent further damage from this terrible law."
The debate is sure to spill over into races across the country, as Democrats and Republicans battle for control of the House and Senate in November. The health care law was already destined to be a crucial point of debate, particularly in battleground states. Democrats in 2010 lost control of the House and found their majority in the Senate narrowed in large part because of voter anger over the health care law. Thursday's ruling was a vindication of sorts.
The debate over health care was a key talking point Thursday in the Bay State's high-profile Senate race.
Democrat Elizabeth Warren's campaign expressed relief that the Supreme Court upheld the controversial law, while Senator Scott Brown reiterated his opposition.
"By upholding this legislation, the Supreme Court has ensured that every American can get access to high-quality, affordable health care and fair treatment from insurance companies," said Warren, a Harvard professor who describes herself as a consumer advocate.
"Now is not the time to refight the battles of two years ago. Our country needs to move forward to create jobs and opportunity for all Americans — not fight endless political battles. Massachusetts led the way in health reform, and we will continue to lead the way in our efforts to reduce the costs of health care and ensure a level playing field for middle class families."
But Brown continued to contend that the health care law is harmful.
"The federal health care law may be constitutional, but it is wrong for jobs and the economy," said Brown, the lone Republican in the Massachusetts congressional delegation.
"In Massachusetts, we had already dealt responsibly with the problem of our uninsured without raising taxes or cutting care to our seniors," Brown said. "All we got out of this massive new federal entitlement is higher taxes, cuts in Medicare, and additional debt at a time when we can least afford it."
In winning the seat long held by health care champion Edward M. Kennedy in 2010, Brown campaigned against the legislation and vowed to oppose its passage.
With House Democrats trying to win at least 25 seats to regain control of their chamber, Thursday's ruling could help provide cover in competitive races, where the health care law is expected to loom large.
"This decision is a victory for the American people. With this ruling, Americans will benefit from critical patient protections, lower costs for the middle class, more coverage for families, and greater accountability for the insurance industry," said House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, who in 2010 as House speaker won passage of the law.
Senator John F. Kerry applauded the ruling.
"This is an important day for the Supreme Court and an important day for Americans who need affordable health care coverage," he said.
"Those who have sought to demonize health reform need to put an end to their scare tactics. This needs to begin a new day, where the test is not what you can oppose but what you can propose."
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Kamau Bell steps up his game with expanded show on new FXX channel
The past couple of years have been one "be careful what you wish for" after another for comic W. Kamau Bell.
It wasn't too long ago that he was playing small Bay Area clubs and building a fan base through his brand of edgy, topical humor. Then Chris Rock discovered him, said, "I'm gonna make you a star," and helped Bell launch his own weekly late-night show on FX called "Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell."
This week, Bell not only returns for a second season on Wednesday, but expands the show to five nights a week and christens FX's new channel, FXX.
Bell admits there will be a lot more pressure to do five topical shows a week, especially since each show is taped earlier on broadcast day because so much of the material is meant to be immediate and topical.
"At the beginning (of the TV show), I felt like, one day a week? I didn't know what that was but I just sort of ran with it and got through to the other side," he said during an interview last month in Beverly Hills. "So now that it's five days a week - well, we have to start that again. I feel like if we'd started with five nights a week, I might not be on the planet anymore."
Bell readily admits there was a learning curve when he went from stand-up to TV.
"I did have to adapt and I probably overcorrected at first," he says.
The show packs several elements into 30 minutes, including Bell doing a stand-up riff on a topical subject - somehow, "monologue" seems inexact - as well as on-the-street chats with everyday people about current issues, and a sit-down chat with a guest.
"The interviews started out and I got lucky," he says. "You know, Chris Rock was my first guest and he sort of handled all the heavy lifting. And then Rachel Maddow was my second guest and I had that interview in my head a million times before I met her."
There was more of a challenge later in the season when Bell welcomed other guests, though, and for how to meet that challenge, he turned to other comics.
Studying playbooks
He's not ashamed to say he even studied the playbooks of one comic whose show competes directly with his own in many markets.
"I studied Jon Stewart's interviews as a way to learn how do you do it in like six minutes. How do you make it funny and interesting in six minutes. And Jon Stewart was the guy who really helped me figure out the best way to get to that place, whether he knows it or not," Bell says.
Of course, he's also a fan of his show's producer, Rock. In fact, the two share a deceptively genial way of delivering up-front and edgy comedy with the intent of making you laugh and think at the same time.
From the stage of the Beverly Hilton's International Ballroom, for example, Bell answered questions from members of the Television Critics Association before our interview last month.
"What do you think is missing from (the national) conversation or ... dialogue on race?" he was asked.
"I feel like what's missing from the dialogue on race in America is white people doing this," he said, making a sour face. "I feel like every white person needs to practice that. That's your listening-to-racism face."
After the laughter ebbed, he continued: "I feel like a lot of times you know, the worst thing a white person can say to a person of color is 'I don't think that's racist.' I don't know if that's your area. You know, you can have an opinion, but you can't have the final word ... And I put myself on the line, saying - if I say to a woman, 'I don't think that's sexist,' watch out.
"I've learned that from being steeped in the Bay Area culture and being raised by my mom," he added. "A black woman raised me, and then two white lesbians in Oakland finished raising me. So I sort of I think that's what's missing from the race discussions, that white people, you've got a lot of jobs. You can't always have the 'knowing what's racism' job. That's all I'm saying. Knowing what's imperialism? That's a good one."
College to comedy
Bell lived in many places in the country, including Chicago, where he graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools before attending the University of Pennsylvania. He left college to pursue his stand-up, which he fine-tuned in the Bay Area, winning fans like Robin Williams and awards from Punchline and local publications. He was a founding member of the comedy collective Laughter Against the Machine, and has recorded two comedy albums, "One NIGht Only" in 2007 and "Face Full of Flour" three years ago.
Although there will be some changes in "Totally Biased," such as having members of his now beefed up writing staff do some of the "man on the street" segments, Bell is hoping to put "more of my stand-up" sensibility in the show but to maintain the way he decides what issues to focus on from night to night.
"Once we got past the election (in the first season), we sort of cherry-picked what we wanted and picked things that really related to me," he says.
'That's my family"
As an example, he cites one of the last episodes from the first season on which he talked about the Internet fuss over the Cheerios commercial featuring a mixed-race family, not unlike Bell's own family, which includes his wife, Melissa, and their energetic young daughter.
The commercial was "not a thing that everybody felt they needed to cover, but I was like, no, I need to cover this, and I got to make it really personal to me, by saying on TV, 'That's my family up there.' "
"Totally Biased" may be a lot bigger this year, with many additional moving parts, but Bell is determined to preserve its winning formula.
"I think the great thing is that we get to look at even smaller stories and blow them up, as opposed to just covering what everyone else is talking about," he says.
Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell: 11 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, FXX cable channel. To find FXX on your cable system, go to www.getfxx.com. In San Francisco, FXX can be found on Comcast cable on Channel 401.
David Wiegand is The San Francisco Chronicle's executive features editor and TV critic. E-mail: email@example.com Twitter: @WaitWhat_TV


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Fresh Meat Grilling Guide
The summer season is really a whole bunch of seasons rolled into one… pool season, beach season, baseball season and of course, grilling season! Grilling is quick, communal and a fun way to bring friends and family together. The next time you pick up fresh steaks, burgers or chops, use this grilling guide for delicious results!
The Great Debate: Charcoal or Gas?
Everyone seems to have a preference, but it's always good to evaluate your options! Gas grills burn cleaner, environmentally speaking, releasing less carbon dioxide and soot into the environment. They can also be easier to control with regard to temperature, pre-heating, and evenness of heat. However, gas grills are less portable than charcoal grills, and some grillers miss the smoky flavor charcoal provides. That flavor may be a result of the aromatic compound guaiacol, which is formed as the charcoal breaks down and burns, imparting a spicy, "bacony" aroma to grilled foods. From a health standpoint, there is little difference between grilling on gas versus charcoal.
Always Take Your Temperatures!
This goes for the grill itself as well as the finished product. The pre-heating step is an important one, as it helps to reduce issues with food sticking to the grate and ensures a sear on contact. Depending on the recipe instructions, preheat your grill to high (400-450° F), medium-high (350-400° F), medium (300-350° F) or low (250-300° F), allowing 15-20 minutes for the desired temperature to be reached. Once you feel that your items are finished cooking, always use a meat thermometer to check the internal temperature according to the following USDA safety guidelines:
- Beef, Pork, Veal, Lamb and fresh (uncooked) Ham: 145° F with a 3-minute rest time
- Ground Meats: 160° F
- Poultry: 165° F
- Fish and Shellfish: 145° F
Know Your Flavor Options
For certain cuts of meat, the right sauce can be the difference between pretty tasty and downright delicious. Depending on your cooking method, your meat and the amount of time available for cooking, a marinade, rub, "mop" or simple sauce will give you a way to cook with even more flavor.
Marinade: Letting meat marinade in an oil or liquid mixture for up to 3 hours is best for leaner cuts of meat that may dry out or taste bland during cooking.
Dry Rub: Pat a spice or herb rub generously onto meat 15-20 minutes before cooking. Rubs are excellent for forming crusts on meat with higher fat content, like ribs and chops.
"Mop" Sauce: Tougher cuts that are cooked "low and slow" work well with a thin "mop" sauce like beer or vinegar. Brush at regular intervals during cooking.
Simple Sauce: Sweet sauces like barbecue sauce are best applied in the last few minutes of cooking. This lets the sauce caramelize without burning; watch the meat closely after you've brushed on the sauce.