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The Rolling Stones have been named the wealthiest band in Britain and Ireland.
The rockers have a combined fortune of £630 million – ahead of U2 who are jointly worth £500m.
The Music Millionaires top 50 was released ahead of the 28th annual Sunday Times Rich List to be published this weekend.
The Stones – Mick Jagger, worth £235m; Keith Richards, £220m; Charlie Watts, £120m; and Ronnie Wood, £55m – combined wealth is up £40m on 2015.
However, U2 was the highest-grossing rock act last year selling 1.29m tickets worth £66m for 76 concerts.
Also on the list is Adele, Britain's richest ever female musician. She has benefited from the worldwide success of her long-awaited third album, 25, released last November. The London-born singer/songwriter is now hard on the heels of Ireland's wealthiest female performer, Enya, who is worth £91m, up just £1m on 2015.
The 2016 Sunday Times Music Rich List is headed by Sir Paul McCartney, who with his wife Nancy Shevell, shares a joint fortune of £760m, up £30m on last year. American-born Shevell has a £150m stake in her father's New England Motor Freight trucking operation.
Calvin Harris, the Dumfries-born international DJ, who writes, sings, records, remixes and produces his own music, has seen his personal wealth leap by £25m in a year to rank him at 27 in the 2016 Top 50, worth £95m.
David Bowie's widow and his filmmaker son by his first marriage to Angie, Iman Abdulmajid and Duncan Jones, join this year's list with a joint family fortune of £90m, based on the £70m from Bowie's will, their own wealth and royalties from the chart success of Bowie's music after his death.


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|Why are Archer's quarters on E deck? I would think he should be stationed as close as possible to the bridge so he could get there fast in an emergency. Even if we assume that the design of the ship makes it absolutely positively impossible to have quarters on B deck, surely he could be on D since most crew quarters are there?
Archer refers to Hoshi as his "protocol officer". Since when? She's always been described as his communications officer. I suspect he invented a new job and gave it to her so he could give her this task...
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|As if to belie all my comments about the sexuality of the ep, I'm going with the Orion women's dance near the start. Effective and alien-looking, almost snakelike in the movements, it was definite fun to watch. And I gather from the production report that the ladies worked very hard on it, so kudos to them.
Also, I have to mention the Phlox/T'Pol/Archer/Reed scene at the end. Nice and lighthearted, joking from T'Pol, a bit of gentle ribbing from Archer, it's a fun scene that's highly reminiscent of TOS.
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|A few punches thrown. I bet Harrad-Sar got a hell of a telling off during that long trip home. Otherwise, none.
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|Magnesite is mentioned in TNG "Firstborn"; the possibly related Trimagnesite is mentioned in TOS "Operation : Annhilate" as one of the substances which can produce extremely bright light when mixed with other substances.
Humans have already met the Deltans at this point in history.
Some reference to the Gorn, who have had contact with the Orions.
This episode confirms that dilithium is used to regulate the matter/antimatter reaction, something often mentioned in official sources but which has never made it to the screen before.
Trip has returned to the NX-01 for good.
Starfleet is preparing to build the first set of Starbases, with the first located in the Berengaria system.
Berengaria VII is reputed to have 200+ metre long flying reptiles that breathe fire. Despite the T'pol's reservations, in TOS "This Side of Paradise" Spock says he saw dragons on Berengaria VII, so they are indeed there! Two hundred metres long... now that would be a hell of a thing to see...
Contrary to long-held appearances, it is the Orion women who are in fact the rulers of their society and the men who are the slaves. The whole idea of selling women into slavery is apparently a gigantic ruse designed to let the women infiltrate other ships and societies and take them over.
Most of Enterprise's crew quarters are on D deck; Archers are on E deck. Enterprise has seven decks in all. This actually confirms the production drawings and CGI model of the ship, with the proviso that Reed was including only the decks in the saucer section and not the four decks in the nacelles.
This episode is set just two days after Christmas day, 2154. As before when this happened, there's no mention of any kind of festivities on board Enterprise.
It's long been unclear what relationship there is between the Orion government and the Orion Syndicate - DS9 referred to the Syndicate as a criminal organisation, and none of the members we saw were Orions. This episode confirms that the Orion Syndicate is effectively the Orion Government, at least at this period in history.
The presence of the extremely beautiful and extremely scantily dressed women causes considerable disruption to Enterprise's normal routine, with the men lusting over them and the women largely irritated at the effect on their shipmates. Tensions begin to come to a head as fighting breaks out amongst the crew, and Phlox realises that the Orions are emitting pheromones which are affecting the judgement of men and women alike. Only T'Pol and Trip seem unaffected, a result of the bond they share after mating.
As the crew battle the increasingly severe effects of the Orions Kelby incapacitates the ship. Harrad-Sar returns to attack Enterprise - the whole situation was a trap intended to capture Archer in revenge for his busting his crew out of Orion captivity in Borderland. Enterprise is quickly disabled and taken in tow, with Harrad-Sar confessing the amazing truth - in fact it is the Orion males who are the slaves, and the whole plan was concocted by the three Orion women.
As they arrive on the bridge to take control, Trip uses a phase pistol to incapacitate his fellow crewmembers and retake the ship. Harrad-Sar's vessel is quickly incapacitated and the women returned before Enterprise warps away.
The surprise twist is the one that had me thinking the most. My first reaction is that this is the kind of trampling over canon that B&B used to do, but when I thought about it for a while that's not actually true. (Keep faith in the Coto. The Coto is good, the Coto is wise...) Yes we have always seen Orion women treated as slaves, but that's exactly what they would do, whether it was real or a put on. The only real problem is that Starfleet now know of this, and are sure to spread the word around. How do the Orions keep running the same scam for the next hundred years at least, if people know about it?
I get emails at least a couple of times a week telling me that I'm such a trustworthy fellow that I have been chosen to move funds out of Iraq/Sudan/Indonesia/The People's Republic of Whereinthehell, and that I will make a lot of money out of this, blah blah blah. Can there be one single person in the world who doesn't know about this scam by now? Well, yes, because the scammers wouldn't keep doing it if they didn't get fish to bite.
The Trek galaxy is a big place. Even in the apparently small section of the Alpha/Beta Quadrant that most of Trek takes place in, there are a whole lot of species out there. Not all of them know about one another, not all of them talk to one another, not all of them are friendly with one another. It's doubtful that Starfleet could tell everybody out there, or that the warnings would be universally believed if they could. It's perfectly possible that by TOS the older, wiser heads give an amused smile and click delete when they get emails (of the FUTURE!) advertising Orion slave women. The Orions simply focus their efforts on those too stupid or ignorant to know or care about the warnings.
The potential fly in that ointment is Pike, who would likely know about Orion women as a Starfleet captain and yet seemed pretty tempted by Vina in "The Cage". But then, Vina wasn't real and Pike knew that. And in any case, Pike did turn her down. He just struggled with doing so, which is explained by the pheromone effect messing with his head. More seriously, toward the beginning of that episode Pike contemplates working for the Orions, dealing in slave women - how can he want to do this if he knows it would mean becoming one of their slaves? Then again, would they really enslave somebody who could be a valuable resource if he was willing to work alongside them freely? It's a debatable point, but not a show-killing issue in my mind.
So, I don't have an issue with the Orion women. Really, my biggest complaint about this ep was that it was, when you get down to it, pretty shallow stuff. I hate it when you can watch an episode and envision in your head almost the exact things that must have been said in the production meeting that planned it out.
"Hey, let's do 'Mudd's Women', nobody's really re-made that one yet."
"Oh come on, can we really sell women being so beautiful that guys will do anything for them because they show some skin? These people are meant to be professionals - Pamela Anderson may be the sexiest woman alive, but there's no way she could walk into a missile silo, wave her cleavage around and get them to turn the keys!"
"Hmm, you're right. You could get away with that stuff back in the sixties, but these days... well, let's invent some chemical thingie the women give off that affects the men then. Super-pheromones or something..."
That's the weakness of the episode; they took an unrealistic situation, and tried to make us swallow it with technobabble (chemobabble?) - which is not good writing. And once you don't swallow the babble, the whole premise starts looking silly. I'd rather have seen some commentary on slavery - just how far does accepting the customs of other species go, when they are practicing things that your society finds utterly repellent? What would Archer have done if freeing his slaves had been construed by them as the worst of all possible insults - "you mean I'm not worth owning!?" How do you give freedom to people who don't want it? And can you in all conscience just free a person who has been a slave all her life, and likely has absolutely no skills whatsoever besides those required to keep her owner happy? So many issues they could have explored instead of going down the route they did. Just contrast this episode with TNG "The Perfect Mate", which shared a similar premise but gave it very much more depth and emotional resonance.
So a reasonable episode, but with flaws that make it hard to swallow.
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It cost La Plazita almost nothing to engineer a computer lab in the South Valley. Donated machines, elbow grease from volunteers and open source software built the lab, which opened its doors earlier this month.
Founded in 2004 by activist Albino Garcia, La Plazita Institute works with previously incarcerated or gang-involved youth. The organization runs two talking circles, Sisters Making a Change (S-MAC) and Thugs Making a Change (T-MAC). Members, some of them from opposing gangs, meet to talk about their highs and lows of the week. La Plazita is neutral ground, says Garcia, whose longtime mission has been to serve young people directly involved in violence and conflict. He does it, he adds, because he's been there. "I tell people right from the get-go: I've got a story that's similar to the kids we're trying to serve."
The programs are multifaceted. The institute oversees La Plazita Gardens, a 12-acre community farm. Garcia also conducts sweat ceremonies for young people and war veterans in and outside of lockup. It's part of his method of "culture cures," healing processes based in tradition.
And even as the institute moves into high-tech arenas, basic principles remain intact, says Katrina Coker, the volunteer who oversaw the effort to set up the computer lab. Open source software is a big part of that ethic, she says. " Open source" is a term for code and programs generated collaboratively by software designers that are put online for everyone to use without a fee.
An open source lab is unique, says Coker, "and is in keeping with the feel of La Plazita, as far as independence from outside forces; independence from controls and reliance on self." Plus, she adds, you don't have to worry about licensing or getting a specialized person in for tech support.
About 30 computers along with keyboards, flatscreens, mouses and printers were donated by the Public Defender's Office. Another dozen or so computers were donated by T-Mobile. Coker began coming in on the weekends to sort through the machines. Some were in good shape, she says. Others were not functioning and not worth fighting with. Volunteers from Intel labored over the equipment and provided some monitors. They also taught La Plazita's youth how to network the computers one evening. "That was important," says Coker, "because kids need to have buy-in, they need to have ownership." The work was part of a celebration that included a ceremony, a meal and a blessing.
The Intel engineers also spent time talking to the teen groups, says S-MAC leader Susan Reyes. "The kids were just like sponges, absorbing all the information they were giving them. At the end, the engineers asked, How would you like to be an engineer? The kids said they'd never thought of that." It was also really powerful, adds Coker, for the young women to meet single mothers from the South Valley who are engineers. "It's easy to get bogged down when you're a teen and you're broke and you live in such a wealthy country," she says. "You see all these things on TV you can't possess. But when you see someone who worked hard and rose above all that, it gives hope."
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The Intel folks will be coming back to help La Plazita youth Frankenstein together parts of the remaining broken, donated computers and troubleshoot until they're up and running. After helping build computers from scraps, the kids will get to take them home.
Coker, a graduate student and instructor at UNM in Organizational Learning and Instructional Technologies, cites a report that came out in the '90s about what's called the "digital divide." Middle class, suburban kids often have computers in their rooms, she explains, while inner city or rural families can't afford such luxuries. "Studies have shown that even though there's been penetration of technology in these communities, it's still limited," she says.
At poorer, smaller schools where most of the kids eat free or reduced-price lunches, there are fewer computers, she adds. "Most of these kids, if they have a computer, they don't have high-speed access, and they don't have new computers." And they aren't being used or integrated into the curriculum. "That exacerbates the divide," she says. "Poor kids aren't using computers at school and not at home."
For now, La Plazita's lab has irregular hours and serves mostly as a spot to do homework or surf the net. And that's important, Coker insists, because the space should be a low-pressure environment for getting comfortable with everyday actions like e-mailing, gaming or social networking.
Santana Mora, 17, is using the lab to look for GED information. She's a three-year veteran of Sisters Making a Change. "I live down the road from La Plazita, so I can walk here and have access to the net any time of day," she says. "It's awesome."
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Garcia, Plazita's founder, makes a point of saying the lab is open to anyone in Albuquerque—not just young people—free of charge. Some, he says, have already discovered the economic benefit of using free Internet calling services like Skype to contact relatives in Mexico.
Next, La Plazita will conduct a survey to find out what kinds of courses should be offered at the lab, Coker says. "We're very much in the process of growing and building, and things happen pretty quickly. We really want to make it fit in with the philosophy of the center, which is a spiritual and cultural heart of the community."


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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)—House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi joined hundreds of volunteers Saturday morning at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park where she was honored for her work on the issue of HIV/AIDS.
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City Council's approval of a Coran Capshaw-run amphitheater last month sparked excitement over a venue that will draw national acts– and fears about whether the city's beloved Fridays After 5 would survive. (They will.)
Now some local architects are lambasting the arch-and-canopy design of the new amphitheater and the glass transit center planned at the east end of the Downtown Mall.
They charge that City Council's eagerness to team with a private developer has tied the hands of the Board of Architectural Review in its mission to protect the city's historic character.
"Emasculated" is the word Candace Smith uses after attending the June 15 BAR meeting that approved the amphitheater and transit center. Smith, who's worked in Charlottesville for 14 years and has her own architectural firm, decries the scale of the amphitheater and its 85-foot-tall arch.
"It will overwhelm City Hall," she predicts. "People are going to be amazed by the scale."
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"What bothers me," says Bob Vickery, professor emeritus at UVA's school of architecture, "is the design at the end of the mall is a pastiche of half-baked ideas. I think the design is awful."
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And he calls another aspect of the project, the proposed closing of Seventh Street by City Hall "a disaster" that will lead to worsening traffic and, eventually, a mall crossing at Fifth Street.
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Kenneth Schwartz is one, and he acknowledges that it's hard to tell what the impact of a project will be from a model– a "God-looking-from-above" perspective. "People really want to see the impact," says Schwartz. "No one's saying that's not a fair concern."
Former mayor, architect, and amphitheater proponent Maurice Cox urges his fellow architects to avoid a rush to judgment. "One of our strong suits as professionals is that we can envision the great potential of a thing," says Cox. "We're not ones to say the sky is falling."
However, investing in graphics that put viewers in the middle of the transit center and plaza "will go a long way toward calming people's concerns," he says.
The city's contract with Capshaw's Charlottesville Pavilion LLC calls for seating 4,000 people: 2,750 in fixed seats, 250 in boxes, and 1,000 on the lawn. Smith calls the amphitheater's orientation "a mathematical decision to get maximum seating."
And she worries about public access during the 40 events a season Capshaw is allowed to put on. "It will be blockaded," she says. "What is supposed to be a public area, half the time citizens won't be able to go there."
Cox responds that public access is something the city already deals with during Fridays After 5. "You're talking 40 days out of 365," says Cox. "I think that's a marginal issue."
As for the angle, Cox says that has less to do with seating than correcting an existing flaw. "The setting sun gets in the eyes of the performers," he explains. "They've complained about it for years." The off-axis location also makes the backstage area more serviceable from Market Street, he adds.
Cox defends the height of the amphitheater's arch, calling it a "civic icon" that will be an addition to the cityscape. "It has the scale of a civic monument," he says.
He agrees with Smith on one thing: The lack of graphics showing eye-level plans for the mall's east end has been a problem. "Without having access to a presentation, it's difficult for anyone to make an informed opinion," Cox says.
Certainly that was the problem at the BAR meeting June 15. "On the drawings we got, we didn't get the height of the arch," says BAR chair Joan Fenton. "We've asked for a rendering at eye level. All we've seen is the downward view."
Fenton thinks it's an overstatement to say the BAR has been "emasculated" by the City Council's blessing of the Capshaw amphitheater. "In my mind, Council gave guidelines that it could have a certain number of seats," she says. "You can't take that right away and say it's too big."
Green space and walkways were Fenton's concerns. She wanted to see more seating on the grass, à la Wolf Trap. And if the area is going to be closed for private concerts 40 days a year, "You really want to have walkways people are going to use, because otherwise they'll take shortcuts."
BAR member Cheri Lewis, who supports the amphitheater overhaul, says the BAR was pressured to approve plans. She has a bigger problem with the transit center, and says she voted to approve it under "economic duress."
The federally funded transit center is a major public building and a point of arrival for Charlottesville. "My concerns are applying our historic district guidelines to the transit center," Lewis says.
Lifelong Charlottesville resident Virginia Amiss says people don't come to Charlottesville to see modern glass architecture such as the proposed transit center. At its last meeting, she told the BAR, "If you build this building, then you have forfeited your right to ever put a financial burden on anyone else for the sake of historic preservation."
"Transit stations are always about projecting the community into the future," says Cox. "When we get a streetcar system, it's not going to be quaint. It's going to be 21st-century state of the art, and we need a transit center that reflects those same aspirations."
Local architect Candace Smith thinks people will be very surprised at how the new amphitheater, designed by FTL Design Engineering, is going change the face of the east end of the Downtown Mall.
Local architects complain that renderings of the new transit center and amphitheater such as this give the public no clue about the scale of the project and how it will change the east end of the Downtown Mall.


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Series 17493
Cedar County (Utah). Probate Court Minutes
Dates: i 1859-1862.
0.20 cubic foot and 2 microfilm reels
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Historical Note
An agency history is available.
Scope and Content
This minute book records the actions of the county probate court in civil, criminal, and probate matters. The volume includes procedures for the court, financial claims presented for court business, and juror lists. Proceedings covered include probate cases for estates and guardianship; civil cases such as debt collection and divorce; chancery cases such as foreclosures and attachments; and criminal cases such as horse theft. Grand jury indictments are discussed. The probate judge solemnizes some marriages which are recorded in the minutes. Occasional grants of herd grounds and timber rights, more commonly present in the COUNTY COURT MINUTES, are also recorded.
Cedar County was dissolved by the legislature in January 1862 with its territory divided between Tooele and Utah counties. The Probate Judge signed a statement swearing that the foregoing minutes were an accurate record of the county on 25 January 1862.
Chronological by date of meeting
Related Records
Minutes from Cedar County (Utah). County Court, Series 17489, contains more applications for herd grounds and timber rights.
Deeds from Cedar County (Utah). County Recorder, Series 17494, is the series to which the deeds that appear at the front of this minute volume pertain.
Custody History
When Cedar County was dissolved, the records were transferred to Utah County. They were transferred from Utah County to the State Archives in March 2003.
Access Restrictions
This series is classified as Public.
Preferred Citation
Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
Gaps in Series
Cedar County was created in 1856, but it is unknown if Probate Court Minutes existed prior to 1859.
Processing Note
This volume was microfilmed in 1958 by the Utah County Clerk's office. The series was processed by A.C. Cone in February 1996. The reel was cut to remove DEEDS belonging to series 14794 and to remove the transcripts for both series from the end to place in proper order. Hard copy was transferred to the State Archives by Utah County in March 2003 and this inventory updated.
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Gay marriage proponents marked another victory Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected appeals from Arizona and Nevada involving the rights of same-sex couples.
The justices let stand an appeals court ruling striking down an Arizona law that made state employees in same-sex relationships ineligible for domestic partner benefits. The Nevada case was a challenge to the state's ban on same-sex marriage. The court did not elaborate on the reason for not taking up the cases.
The court's decisions on the two cases are not as sweeping as rulings Wednesday that made it a landmark week for gay rights. The Supreme Court issued decisions that struck down a provision that denies federal benefits to married gay couples and also cleared the way for state laws that recognize marriage equality.
In Arizona, the decision means dozens of same-sex state workers will be allowed to keep employee benefits. For the Nevada case, the gay marriage ban will remain intact, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco will decide the next step.
Republican Gov. Jan Brewer denied Thursday that Arizona had targeted gay couples and slammed the court for not recognizing the state's right to balance its budget by limiting employee benefits.
"This case has never been about domestic partners, same-sex or otherwise," Brewer said in a statement. "It is always been about the authority of elected state officials to make decisions with which we have been entrusted by the voters."
Arizona's constitution bans gay marriage and a 2009 law signed by Brewer repealed domestic partner benefits for state workers. Brewer said the state was in a fiscal crisis and couldn't afford to extend health care benefits to employees' dependents if they weren't married. She said the policy was legal because it applied to all employees, regardless of sexual orientation.
Gay marriage proponents counter that the policy was discriminatory because heterosexual couples may marry to obtain benefits, while gay couples can't under state law.
"The state is excluding only one group of employees from family coverage and that is lesbian and gay employees," said Tara Borelli, a lawyer for Lambda Legal in Los Angeles.
The conservative Center for Arizona Policy, which opposes gay marriage, had supported the state's position in court, and has vowed to fight any efforts to overturn the state's ban on gay marriage.
"The Legislature and the governor should have the authority to determine benefits for state employees," President Cathi Herrod said after the ruling.
The legal battle could soon be resolved by voters. Gay marriage proponents began gathering signatures Thursday to change the Arizona constitution and legalize gay marriage. The Equal Marriage Arizona campaign hopes to collect roughly 400,000 signatures to get its constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2014.
The Nevada case was originally filed on behalf of eight same-sex couples, and it argued that a 2002 state constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution by denying same-sex couples the same rights as married couples.
A federal judge in Reno ruled last year that the gay marriage ban was not a constitutional violation and it was upheld. The plaintiffs then appealed that decision to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals while the anti-gay marriage group requested the Supreme Court hear the appeal instead of the San Francisco court.
Borelli said Nevada law is questionable because the state grants domestic partners the same legal privileges afforded to married couples, while denying gays the right to marry. She said the state must rationalize the exclusion.
The Nevada Legislature recently approved a measure that would legalize gay marriage but changing the state constitution is a lengthy process. Lawmakers must pass the same resolution in 2015 before it goes to voters for final approval on the 2016 ballot. If it clears both hurdles, it would become law. If it fails at any stage, the five-year process must start over.
"We should just have a state law and be done with it," said Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, D-North Las Vegas. "In the constitution we shouldn't be defining marriage, that's not what the constitution is for."
Not legalizing same-sex marriage will have consequences for Nevada over time, said Atkinson, who made national headlines earlier this year when he publicly announced that he was gay during the state Senate's debate on marriage equality.
"We are a tourism state and we do rely on folks visiting our state, so some may decide they're not going to come here because they don't have the same rights here," Atkinson said.


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Football coaches Henry Sanders and Vince Lombardi famously said, "Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing." While I'm about to faint, having made a sporty thingies reference, this credo applies in politics as well. That's why you see politicians pulling out all the stops and using their positions to recruit "star power" via celebrity endorsements.
President Obama takes the cake in this regard. Which isn't surprising, being that President Obama relies on a cult of personality since he cannot rely on his abysmal record. More interesting is why he is pulling his latest cash for access stunt: Dinner with him and George Clooney (no word yet if dog meat will be on the menu) for the low, low price of $3. The White House is shamelessly up for sale at the bargain basement price of $3.
George Clooney is prostituting himself for President Obama but, hey, at least he's a cheap date! The Secret Service could have learned something from him in Cartagena. But why so cheap?
It seems the President's own star power has fallen drastically. There weren't enough suckers who wanted to shell out their quickly diminishing dough for a chance at dinner with just Obama. Enter George Clooney! See, as The New York Times reports, big donors are fleeing President Obama. Cash strapped? Pimp out the White House and use the lure of Hollywood to sucker in smaller donors:
With big checks no longer flowing as quickly into his campaign, Mr. Obama is leaning harder on his grass-roots supporters, whose small contributions make up well over half of the money he raised through the end of March, according to reports filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission.
Feeling the pinch in this horrible economy? Suck it up and hand your money over. The most important thing to President Obama is President Obama. Laser-like focus on jobs? Yeah, on his job:
Mr. Obama has held more than a hundred joint fund-raisers since last spring, far more than President George W. Bush during his 2004 re-election, and has tucked fund-raising stops into many of his official presidential trips.
Now with more Clooney! Star-studded dinners are what's on the mind of most Americans, huh? Talk about out of touch.
This post is part of a weekly conversation with our 5 Moms Matter 2012 political bloggers. To see the original question and what the other writers have to say, read Should Presidential Candidates Use Star Power to Fuel Donations?
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SET 1: Llama, Reba, Foam, Runaway Jim, Guelah Papyrus > Sparkle, Chalk Dust Torture, Uncle Pen, Brother, Bouncing Around the Room, Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: The Curtain > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Horn, Poor Heart > Tweezer, Eliza, The Landlady, Fee > Hold Your Head Up > Love You > Hold Your Head Up, My Sweet One > Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Jesus Just Left Chicago[1] > Big Black Furry Creature from Mars[1]
March 27, 1993
25 years ago
Warfield Theatre
Set 1: Llama, Guelah Papyrus, Rift, Stash, Reba, My Friend, My Friend[1], Uncle Pen, Sample in a Jar, I Didn't Know[2], David Bowie[3]
Set 2: Buried Alive > Halley's Comet > It's Ice > Bouncing Around the Room, Chalk Dust Torture, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Hold Your Head Up > Cracklin' Rosie > Hold Your Head Up, Poor Heart > Golgi Apparatus
Encore: The Squirming Coil, Carolina
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[2] Fish on trombone.
[3] All Fall Down signal in intro.
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Partnerships in Texas are key to success; they ensure that the state is wide open for business. DCCCD proposes an economic development program designed to attract or expand new businesses in Texas. Recruit Texas provides turn-key workforce training and also will use the training strength of community and technical colleges to deliver workforce education needs. Recruit Texas seeks to redirect current funds within the Texas Workforce Commission and asks community colleges to invest in the partnership.
OUTCOME: H.B. 108 — "Recruit Texas" — was passed and signed by Governor Abbott. H.B. 108 allows Texas to remain competitive by granting permission to the Texas Workforce Commission to access skills development funds. The funds will allow community colleges and businesses wishing to relocate to Texas the opportunity to partner and recruit employees, provide safety training and leadership development.


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The Manatee County School District posted all documents related to the forensic audit of the school district's $3.4 budget deficit Feb. 1.
More than 16,000 pages of documents are accessible via the school district's homepage under the "Hot Topics" section at the top right of the homepage.
Click here to view the documents posted
The document files were released in the exact format received from Navigant, the audit firm that led the investigation, and Trenam Kemker, a law firm.
The district spent much of the Feb. 1 trying to find the best way to make the documents available, deciding to create two large files that can be downloaded off the district website.
The district said it will better organize and index the documents this week.
They were released almost three weeks after Navigant employees explained their 200-page-plus report to the public and school board.
That report blamed former Assistant Superintendent Jim Drake and flawed processes for many of the accounting errors that led to the budget shortfall.
Former superintendent Tim McGonegal, who resigned in September, was hands-off with budget, handing off most of the responsibility to Drake, the report said.
The school district also announced Feb. 1 that the district's bond ratings have been reduced because of the budget deficit.
As a result, the district will likely have to pay higher interest rates on its debt.
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President Bernstine and four community college presidents form the Portland Area Higher Education Consortium
A historic agreement between the presidents of Portland State University and of Chemeketa, Clackamas, Mt. Hood, and Portland Community Colleges will allow students to take advantage of each school to achieve their academic goals.
"This consortium is a model for Oregon and for the nation, in providing seamless education between universities and their community college partners," said Portland State President Daniel O. Bernstine.
The newly formed Portland Area Higher Education Consortium will integrate admissions and registration for students and coordinate financial aid and advising. The agreement also calls for joint academic planning, the sharing of classroom facilities, and the opportunity for students to earn a bachelor's degree from Portland State while remaining on the community college campus. Students within the consortium schools already benefit from joint enrollment agreements and single financial aid packages; by summer 2007, a single application and registration process will be in place.


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Conditions will be quiet and pleasant Saturday, with warmer temperatures settling in after a South Florida cold front.
Highs are expected to reach the mid-70s, with the possibility of some cloud coverage. Overnight lows will be in the upper 50s. Mostly clear to partly cloudy skies are expected overnight.
Temperatures will rebound Sunday, with highs in the upper 70s and mostly sunny skies.
Conditions will continue to warm up into the upper 70s Monday and Tuesday. There could even be highs in the low 80s.
Moisture levels will be on the increase ahead of a cold front that will leave mostly cloudy skies and showers on Wednesday. Temperatures will cool down again for the second half of the work week.
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It's long since been established that demography drives evolutionary processes (see Hawks, 2008 for a good overview). Similar attempts are also being made to describe cultural (Shennan, 2000; Henrich, 2004; Richerson & Boyd, 2009) and linguistic (Nettle, 1999a; Wichmann & Homan, 2009; Vogt, 2009) processes by considering the effects of population size and other demographic variables. Even though these ideas are hardly new, until recently, there was a ceiling as to the amount of resources one person could draw upon. In linguistics, this paucity of data is being remedied through the implementation of large-scale projects, such as WALS, Ethnologue and UPSID, that bring together a vast body of linguistic fieldwork from around the world. Providing a solid direction for how this might be utilised is a recent study by Lupyan & Dale (2010). Here, the authors compare the structural properties of more than 2000 languages with three demographic variables: a language's speaker population, its geographic spread and the number of linguistic neighbours. The salient point being that certain differences in structural features correspond to the underlying demographic conditions.
With that said, a few months ago I found myself wondering about a particular feature, the phoneme inventory size, and its potential relationship to underlying demographic conditions of a speech community. What piqued my interest was that two languages I retain a passing interest in, Kayardild and Pirahã, both contain small phonological inventories and have small speaker communities. The question being: is their a correlation between the population size of a language and its number of phonemes? Despite work suggesting at such a relationship (e.g. Trudgill, 2004), there is little in the way of empirical evidence to support such claims. Hay & Bauer (2007) perhaps represent the most comprehensive attempt at an investigation: reporting a statistical correlation between the number of speakers of a language and its phoneme inventory size.
In it, the authors provide some evidence for the claim that the more speakers a language has, the larger its phoneme inventory. Without going into the sub-divisions of vowels (e.g. separating monophthongs, extra monophtongs and diphthongs) and consonants (e.g. obstruents), as it would extend the post by about 1000 words, the vowel inventory and consonant inventory are both correlated with population size (also ruling out that language families are driving the results). As they note:
That vowel inventory and consonant inventory are both correlated with population size is quite remarkable. This is especially so because consonant inventory and vowel inventory do not correlate with one another at all in this data-set (rho=.01, p=.86). Maddieson (2005) also reports that there is no correlation between vowel and consonant inventory size in his sample of 559 languages. Despite the fact that there is no link between vowel inventory and consonant inventory size, both are significantly correlated with the size of the population of speakers.
Using their paper as a springboard, I decided to look at how other demographic factors might influence the size of the phoneme inventory, namely: population density and the degree of social interconnectedness.


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Staples beats Darien to maintain lead in FCIAC
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WESTPORT -- The Staples baseball team continues to get production from its entire lineup as the postseason draws nearer. Thanks to the way their offensive is producing runs, the Wreckers are at the conference summit looking down at the competition.
Staples extended its lead at the top of the FCIAC to one and a half games with a 9-5 win over second place Darien on Friday afternoon. The Wreckers (12-3) extended their winning streak to six games.
Ross Poulley broke a 4-4 tie in the bottom of the fourth inning with a solo home run that went high over the left field foul pole. The shot, which teammate Justin Gallanty described as "one of the farthest balls I've seen hit here," was quickly curling foul before clearing the field.
"There was a couple feet down the line when I was watching it, knowing it was either fair or foul," Poulley said. "And I'd ether be jogging back or I was going to be happy. Luckily the wind wasn't blowing any bad way today."
Ryder Chasin pitched 62/3 innings for the Wreckers, allowing five runs and six hits. Chasin struck out the side in the fifth inning and had six total strikeouts. Darien had some good swings against the senior, but many went right to Staples' fielders.
"That's baseball," Darien coach Mike Scott said. "Some days those are going to fall, and some days those are going to get caught. We had a couple of good at-bats that found the gloves of the outfielders and that's the game we play."
Staples tacked on four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to seal the win. Nate Panzer hit a sac fly, Noah Yokoi walked with the bases loaded and Adam Dulsky hit a two-run single to extend the lead to 9-4.
"It's been really nice to play baseball like this," Poulley said. "No matter where you are in the order, if we need runs, people will produce."
Darien had consecutive hits to open the seventh inning, but Chasin got a pair of outs and Gallanty recorded a strikeout to end the game.
The Wreckers jumped out to a 4-0 lead behind a four-run second inning. Nick Vega, Panzer and Sam Ellinwood each knocked in runs. Six Wreckers drove in runs Friday and the No. 7-9 hitters went a combined 6-for-8.
"You see a lot of time in high school baseball, a team has good No. 3-5 hitters and an ace and after that it's iffy," Gallanty said. "But right now we have everyone working. It's really tough to beat a team when the bottom of the order is producing like that."
The Blue Wave quickly responded, plating two runs in the third and fourth innings. Darien had the bases loaded with no outs in the fourth and got a sac fly from Brendan Donohue to tie the game at four.
"We battled back, that's our team all year," Scott said. "We've faced a couple deficits this year and we've always battled back with the bats; and we never stop believing that we can get back in the game."
Darien had a chance to pull even in the bottom of the sixth inning. After a pair of walks put runners on first and second with two outs, Michael Maccarone hit a shot that Ellinwood met with a diving catch.
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Staples 9, Darien 5
Records: Darien 11-3, 9-3 FCIAC; Staples 12-3, 11-2.
Batteries: D--Stephen Barston (L), Brendan Donohue and Anthony DiMeglio. S--Ryder Chasin (W), Justin Gallanty and Adam Dulsky. Highlights: D--Connor Davey went 1-for-4 with an RBI double. S--Ross Poulley went 2-for-4 with a home run. Noah Yokoi went 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.


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Houston Dynamo at Sporting Kansas City
Sunday, May 26, 2:30 p.m. CT
Sporting Park
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Just two weeks after ending the Houston Dynamo's long home undefeated run, Sporting Kansas City now play host when the Eastern Conference clubs face off Sunday afternoon at Sporting Park before an NBC Sports Network audience. Sporting return home off a two-game road trip that ended with a 1-1 draw at D.C. United last weekend. The Dynamo are coming off a second consecutive home loss, this time a 2-0 reverse by the New England Revolution.
Drew Fischer. AR1 (bench): Daniel Belleau; AR2 (opposite): Kevin Duliba; 4th: Daniel Radford MLS Career: 12 games; FC/gm: 26.2; Y/gm: 2.8; R: 1; pens: 4
HOUSTON DYNAMO -- OUT: Calen Carr – Left knee; Omar Cummings – Right knee; QUESTIONABLE: Jermaine Taylor – Left shoulder
SPORTING KC -- OUT: Teal Bunbury – Left knee
- ALL-TIME (16 meetings): Sporting 4 wins, 18 goals ... Dynamo 6 wins, 21 goals ... Ties 6
- AT KC (8 meetings): Sporting 2 wins, 10 goals ... Dynamo 3 wins, 9 goals ... Ties 3
- FUTURE MATCH: 10/9: Houston Dynamo vs. Sporting Kansas City, 8:30 p.m. CT
- The teams are meeting for the second time in three weeks. Aurélien Collin's header in the 73rd minute was the only goal of the game as Sporting put an end to the Dynamo's 30-game league home undefeated streak on May 12 at BBVA Compass Stadium.
- It was the first victory for the road team in the series since 2009, and Sporting's second win ever in Houston. A year ago, both league meetings at Sporting Park ended in draws.
- The teams met in the MLS Cup Playoffs for a second consecutive season last year, the Dynamo winning their semifinal series 2-1 on aggregate. In 2011, the Dynamo won 2-0 in the Eastern Conference Championship at Sporting Park.
- Coaches record: Peter Vermes vs. HOU: P9 W3 L2 D4 ... Dominic Kinnear vs. KC: P22 W8 L6 D8
The Houston Dynamo lost for the second time in as many matches at home, dropping a 2-0 decision to the New England Revolution on Saturday evening at BBVA Compass Stadium. The Dynamo are in a tie for third place in the Eastern Conference with 20 points from 12 matches.
- Both teams were a man down before the first half was over. On a Revolution free kick, Dynamo defender Bobby Boswell and Revolution forward Dimitry Imbongo tangled, and referee Edvin Jurisevic reached for the red card and sent off both players.
- The Revs took the lead six minutes into the second half. Diego Fagundez played a nifty give-and-go with Clyde Simms before making a weaving run into the penalty area and tucking his ensuing shot inside the near post for the opener.
- New England hit for a second six minutes from the field. With the Dynamo caught with numbers forward trying to find the equalizer, Chris Tierney found Juan Agudelo on the left side of the area. He tried to corral a deflected pass, deflecting it off the Dynamo's Ricardo Clark and over the goal line before it could be cleared.
- Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear made one change to the team that lost 1-0 to Sporting Kansas City at BBVA Compass Stadium. Giles Barnes came back into the side in place of Adam Moffat.
- HOUSTON DYNAMO (4-1-3-2): Tally Hall - Kofi Sarkodie, Jermaine Taylor (Eric Brunner 10), Bobby Boswell (sent off 40), Corey Ashe - Ricardo Clark, Boniek Garcia, Andrew Driver, Brad Davis (Brian Ching 75) - Giles Barnes (Adam Moffat 43), Will Bruin.
- After losing at home for the first time in two years, the Dynamo have now lost back-to-back home games for the first time since Sept. 5-Oct. 10, 2010, when they lost three in a row to San Jose, Toronto and New England.
- "When you lose two games at home, these are bad things, but we still are a very good team," said goalkeeper Tally Hall. "We still have some of the best talent in the league and as a team, when we play well together we are the best team in the league."
- The Dynamo have also been shut out in back-to-back games for the first time since last July 3-7, when they were in consecutive scoreless draws with Chicago and Sporting KC.
- "I'm very disappointed with the way we played tonight. It was 1-0 and I thought we had created a lot of chances, but we just could not put the ball in the back of the net," said Kinnear. "We had to risk going forward and they scored a goal. Other than that, I'm just disappointed."
- The Dynamo will meet SKC for a second time in three weeks with a rebuilt back four. Jermaine Taylor was forced off after just 10 minutes vs. New England with a shoulder injury.
- In addition, Bobby Boswell was sent off before the first half was over and will also be serving a ban that was extended to two matches following a decision by the MLS Disciplinary Committee.
- "We don't know yet," Kinnear said about the center back position. "We do have an idea but it's only Tuesday and the game's Sunday. Eric [Brunner] is a center back so he can play in there and the other guy we'll see. It could be Jermaine or it could be someone else."
- Giles Barnes returned to the lineup after missing the SKC match with an injury, but he was sacrificed in favor of midfielder Adam Moffat following the sending off of Boswell.
- "Just a disjointed effort," Hall said. "I think we were giving everything we had but we weren't working smart. You're not going to win a lot of games if you're not working smart. It feels terrible right now. I don't often remember feeling this bad after a game."


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who is chinadoll?
Some folks have wanted to know, "who is chinadoll?" These one or two folks are musescore members with an abundance of free time and curiosity about trivial issues that have nothing to do with music composition. That said (written), let us (me, this is confusing) be clear, they are very nice people and chinadoll is deeply touched (in the head, most likely) by their interest. So here goes.
Chinadoll has beautiful glossy golden brown hair, large soft eyes, a very quiet shy disposition along with an exceptionally sweet and gentle nature. Chinadoll loves loves fresh fruit (especially bananas) and vegetables. Yes, chinadoll is a Syrian Hamster with a bit of a talent for composing music. Late at night when everyone is asleep, chinadoll will tap out the notes on the home computer using her little paws. She loves attention and lots of gentle petting (especially if you give her a treat).


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Joseph A. Hina
Born in Germany
Feb. 16, 1831
Nov. 29, 1915
Margaret A.
His Wife
Mar. 3, 1832
Apr. 28, 1915
Buried Bells Mines Cemetery, Crittenden County, Kentucky. Tombstones photographed 23 March 2013.
According to death certificate #26637, Joseph A. Hina was born in Baden, Germany and was the son of Anslum Hina. Joseph's wife, Margaret was born in McMin [sic] County, Tennessee and was the daughter of Robert Murphy and -- Shields, according to her death certificate.
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60 seconds with Marcus Brookes on the potential for a December rate rise
Marcus Brookes discusses why he believes the US economy is in good health and a Christmas interest rate rise could be on the cards.
Is the Fed eyeing a December rate rise?
In September 2015 the Federal Reserve (Fed) took the important decision not to raise interest rates.
But investors had prepared themselves for the rate rise in almost a decade; they thought that if the economy was performing well then interest rates should rise to 0.5% from the 0.25% emergency rate.
What actually happened was the Fed chose not to raise interest rates because of external influences.
Slowing growth in China was one factor that the Fed pointed to in delaying a hike in rates. That introduced a new element of risk, which saw stockmarkets fall, initially at least.
Now, following a period of weakness, markets have started to recover as investors have become more sanguine about the outlook for China.
This is another step towards normalisation of monetary policy. We are fairly sure that the US economy is fine and that would suggest we could get a US interest rate rise in December.
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Students are working with artists-in-residence Monica Gomez-Rogerson and Sal Jansson, learning to dance, sing, play instruments, and make costumes and props.
Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children 2 to 12. Kids 2 and under are free. Thanks to the Utah Division of Arts and Museums/Utah Arts Council.
Monica has taught Mexican Folkloric Dance for over ten years, including three years at Bluff Elementary. She is proud of her rich heritage, and in a positive way, promotes understanding and appreciation of her culture.
A Tongan, Sal Wolfgramm Jansson teaches dance, music, arts and crafts, stories and legends of the Polynesian islands. She has 20 years of choreography and costume experience.


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Not quite jazz: MGS blend styles to fine effect
From your very first concert as a young pop/rock fan, you learn that the term "better on CD" is the credo of almost every act of this particular genre. Studio trickery, and the fact that everything from the mics to the sound reflecting/absorbing walls of the recording booth is set up to make a group sound great, can fool your ear into mistaking a group with a catchy tune for the next Beatles.
The jazz genre is a different story, as its followers love to point out-– live jazz performances are almost always better than recorded ones. A master's thesis could probably be written on why (and probably was in the '60s), but inter-performer interactions and jazz's emphasis on improvisation would factor heavily in the analysis– as well as the sterile nature of most recording studios, so different from the organic feel of live performances.
Jazz's recordings/live performances (even recorded live performances) relationship is alive and well in the Richmond based jazz/funk/rock group Modern Groove Syndicate. Their self-titled 2001 release is a well-recorded introduction to the group, showcasing their propensity for up-tempo jammy numbers, but it hardly holds a candle to their live CD.
Over the solid platform provided by Joel DeNunzio's funk-informed jazz drumming and Todd Herrington's funky slap-bass lines, the other three members of the group lay on a sound that pulses with youthful energy.
Guitarist Frank Jackson does not often break out of the prison many jazz guitarists find themselves in– where sax or piano can go off on tangents of their own, and thereby showcase their players' talents, jazz guitar is often considered a supporting member of the sound. The songs on which Jackson lets loose standard jazz-guitar sounding chords don't particularly scream "guitar virtuoso," but that's the nature of the beast. On the other hand, when Jackson gets out his wa-wa pedal and funkifies things, his "chicka-chickas" only add to the group's head-nodding potential.
Daniel Clarke's keyboards are right on, whether he's playing a simple piano line or spicing up a tune with jazz flourishes (you know what I'm talking about). His emotive and almost always technically perfect playing is definitely a highlight of the group's sound, and he is clearly extremely talented at his instrument of choice.
I've never been a saxophone kind of guy, but J.C. Kuhl's usually fairly simple instrumental lines raised my fervor once or twice during the group's live performance. Most of the time Kuhl concentrates on the song's main riff and doesn't drift much into the extended saxophone solos I run from like the plague.
All together, Modern Groove Syndicate provide a sound that's over-the-top in pleasantness, providing a show that a jazz loving parent could take his pop/rock fan progeny to, in hopes of eventually weaning them onto the hard stuff. Not quite jazz, not quite instrumental funk (and definitely not country), MGS take a little bit of each and call it their own.
Modern Groove Syndicate perform at Outback Lodge, December 20. $5, 10pm.


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Muni to pull streetcars, cable cars off line for 49ers game
Don't plan on riding San Francisco's cable cars downtown or the historic F-Market streetcars Sunday afternoon during the 49ers' playoff game or into the night. And don't expect the city's electric trolley buses to show up at all on game day.
That's because Muni wants to protect its historic cable cars and streetcars from overzealous fans, vandals and other troublemakers who might get a bit too rowdy after the Niners win - or lose - in Seattle. It also wants to protect revelers from hurting themselves.
The transit system will use buses on the cable car and some rail lines - plus part of the N-Judah streetcar line - for at least the latter part of the game and through the night, said Paul Rose, a Municipal Transportation Agency spokesman.
Muni will stop service on the California cable car line at 2 p.m. with the Powell-Hyde and Powell-Mason cable cars running only between Fisherman's Wharf and Chinatown beginning at 4 p.m.
Buses will substitute for cable cars between Washington and Powell streets, and on the entirety of the California line. The historic streetcars that usually run on Market Street and the Embarcadero on the F-Market line will be replaced by buses Sunday. Beginning at 5 p.m., they will be rerouted to Mission Street from Market Street, stopping at all marked stops before returning to the transit lanes on the Embarcadero.
Diesel or hybrid buses will replace Muni's trolley buses, which use overhead electrical power, on several lines. Starting at 5 p.m., buses will carry N-Judah passengers between 22nd Avenue at Judah Street and Church and Duboce streets. Regular rail service will continue on the rest of the line.
Muni service to be affected by 49ers game
All three cable car lines, the F-Market historic streetcars, the N-Judah and all electric trolley bus lines will experience service changes Sunday during and after the 49ers' game against the Seattle Seahawks.
These lines will face minor rerouting: 5-Fulton, 6-Parnassus, 9-San Bruno, 10-Townsend, 12-Folsom Pacific, 14-Mission, 14L-Mission Limited, 19-Polk, 21-Hayes, 27-Bryant, 30-Stockton, 31-Balboa, 38-Geary, 44-O'Shaughnessy, 45-Union/Stockton, 48-Quintara/24th Street, 49-Mission/Van Ness, 67-Bernal Heights and 71-Haight/Noriega.
Michael Cabanatuan is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @ctuan


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A tiger under a palm tree - one of several animal print-themed neckties from Holland & Holland.
Several readers asked if I might post a few of the patterns from some of my Holland & Holland ties - I get the impression that these are somewhat rare to see here in the United States since the 57th street shop closed. I regularly wear several of the ties in the fall and winter. Some are not in the rotation so I had to dig around to find those. Several have animal prints and animals sewn into the tie, others are patterned, while still others are solid with subtle patterns inherent in the heavier fabrics. All are a joy to wear (or will be) - whether on urban , desert, or jungle safari.
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Personally, I really love the cashmere ties made in England.
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Hey, maybe you're playing some more Skyrim lately. Maybe you've even downloaded the latest DLC, Hearthfire? Seems like a good enough excuse to share this amazing image by Dead End Thrills. It's part of his "Parting Shots" series, which he's put up to bid Skyrim farewell.
Jason's been playing Hearthfire, so check out his list of things you should know about it, how it's great but only for a certain type of gamer, and how to avoid a specific bug in the game.


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DSM-IV-TR in Action
Sophia F. Dziegielewski
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Thoroughly updated and revised?the bestselling resource for the practical application of the DSM-IV-TR for clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatmentNow with the most current treatments and evidence-based practices, DSM-IV-TR in Action brings the DSM-IV-TR to life with clear instruction on using it to formulate and complete an assessment, accurately diagnose clients, and prepare a comprehensive and effective treatment plan.Complete with new chapters on delirium, dementia, amnestic, and other cognitive disorders as well as on selected sexual disorders, the Second Edition also adds new coverage of disruptive behavior disorders, eating disorders in children, substance disorders, psychotic disorders, unipolar and bipolar mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders. New treatment plans have been added, and existing ones have been updated. This edition also discusses the expected changes to come in the highly anticipated DSM-5.Numerous case studies bring the material to life and demonstrate how the DSM-IV-TR is applied in practice. In addition, the information on maintaining clinical records and using time-limited therapy, as well as an appendix of sample treatment plans, make this a must-have guide for students and seasoned mental health professionals.


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By Bill Dries
The description of Memphis Area Legal Services Inc. as a law firm works in some ways.
But unlike conventional law firms, the attorneys work with clients across several institutional boundaries that might not ordinarily be part of the services offered by a conventional law firm.
And while those law firms compete with each other for business, the legal services agency relies on some of the city's largest law firms as a front line of financial support during its annual capital campaign.
"We are not here to do anything but help make Memphis a better place to live for everybody. Justice is everybody's business. We play our part," said MALS executive director and CEO Harrison McIver. "We need the assistance. We need the financial support as well as volunteers to help us achieve access to justice and equal justice under the law, which is etched on the U.S. Supreme Court building. We are essential to that but we are not exclusive."
The campaign with a goal of raising $350,000 has ramped up for a push to the Dec. 31 fundraising deadline. The campaign has raised $175,000 in pledges and receipts so far.
David Harris, left, is volunteer campaign chair, Lori Turner-Wilson is a board member and Harrison McIver III is executive director of Memphis Area Legal Services.
(Photo: Lance Murphey)
"We froze salaries. We froze other benefits like retirement," McIver said. "We've taken very austere measures in order to keep the doors open and keep the services going without further reductions in staff."
The organization has lost 10 full-time employees in the last two years.
"We don't have a full-time investigator. So our staff, our lawyers, have to do their own preparatory work and investigations," he added. "We don't have the benefit of paralegals who are actually there. We have them during the summer. But I'm talking about full time where you can dispatch them to bring back information then."
MALS has also supplemented its budget with grants from the state Attorney General's office and the U.S. Department of Justice.
The Justice Department funding is for the office to work with the Family Safety Center on domestic violence cases. It will allow MALS to hire, or probably shift, an attorney to the case work. The federal funding is also augmented by funding from the Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis.
"If they get behind in their rent or get behind in their utilities, we have some funds that are made available by the Women's Foundation," McIver said. "It is those things that will help a woman to become independent and remove herself from an environment where she was abused or subject to violence."
It is one of numerous examples of the holistic approach to the practice of law Memphis Area Legal Services takes.
"We do have to look at each client in holistic ways. If you are homeless and you are about to lose your home, if we can stave off the foreclosure, we need to have education around how to budget," McIver said. "It is how to make sure they pay the bills that are most significant, maybe give up the credit cards they have or not acquire credit cards. It's that literacy training."
The approach frequently involves a restoration or start of government benefits due a client.
"The work we do sometimes leverages dollars that have a positive impact on our community," he added. "We preserved over $1.3 million in terms of restoration of public benefits. Clients spend that money in this community. So, it has leverage."
And that is an economic impact that McIver said is a different perception than many have of the legal agency.
"I can tell you from our experience that most of the folks who come through these doors are desperate. They are at their 11th hour and they are really in need of someone to help them navigate their problems, navigate the legal system," he said. "They are not looking just for a handout. They are looking for a hand up in order to be contributing and viable members of our community."


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WASHINGTON–In the continuing controversy surrounding the president's U.S. citizenship, a new fringe group informally known as "Afterbirthers" demanded Monday the authentication of Barack Obama's placenta from his time inside his mother's womb. "All we are asking is that the president produce a sample of his fetal membranes and vessels—preferably along with a photo of the crowning and delivery—and this will all be over," said former presidential candidate and Afterbirthers spokesman Alan Keyes, later adding that his organization would be willing to settle for a half-liter of maternal cord plasma. "To this day, the American people have not seen a cervical mucus plug, let alone one that has been signed and notarized by a state-certified Hawaiian health official. If the president was indeed born in the manner in which he claims, then where is his gestation sac?" Keyes said that if Obama did not soon produce at least a bloody bedsheet from his conception, Afterbirthers would push forward with efforts to exhume the president's deceased mother and inspect the corpse's pelvic bone and birth canal.
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Peppermint Leaf Extract
Veterinarian Reviewed on June 14, 2012 by Paulina Nelega, RH
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Peppermint leaf extract (Mentha Piperita)
Peppermint is a popular flavoring for gum, tea and toothpastes. The main active agent in peppermint is menthol. Peppermint leaf extract produces a cooling effect and has also made its way into popular cuisines.
The Peppermint plant grows to be roughly 2 to 3 feet tall. The leaves come into bloom from July to August. The leaves are dark green and fragrant and grow opposite white flowers. This plant grows very well in moist locations and expands very quickly. The real natural peppermint rarely produces seeds. The wild form of the peppermint leaf is not suitable for consumption. Peppermint flowers produce large amounts of nectar and varietal honey can be produced from them.
History and Origin
The plants of the genus mentha are numerous and this makes it very difficult to identify and distinguish the origin within the species. However mint has been known and appreciated since antiquity. Its name is derived from the name of a nymph called Minthe. Pluto, the ruler of the underworld, seduced this nymph. He turned the nymph into a seedling (mint) blessing it such that people would appreciate her fragrance for years to come. Evidence has it that Egyptians cultivated mint. Romans revered it so much that they introduced it from southern Europe to other areas of Europe. However it was first put to human use in England.
Ancient Uses
There is archaeological evidence that peppermint leaf extract has been used as far back as ten thousand years. Traditional medical practitioners believed that it improved brain functioning. Peppermint tea leaf extract has been used in teas for many centuries. This peppermint tea helped cure indigestion. It also was used to treat cramping caused due to an irritable colon. This is a remedy that has its origin in ethnic medicinal practices. Peppermint leaf extract was also used to cure rheumatism and spasms by relaxing the muscles.
Modern Uses
Peppermint leaf extract is known to calm the stomach muscles and improve the flow of bile that is needed to digest fats. This enables food to pass through the stomach more quickly and aides in curing indigestion. The herbal properties in the peppermint leaf extract relax painful stomach muscles and enable painful digestive gas to pass off easily, thereby curing bloating and flatulence. The Peppermint leaf extract is high in menthol, and therefore has a soothing and cooling effect on a person's skin. This cooling effect helps to cure various skin irritations and itching that is more common during the summer months. Peppermint leaf extract is rich is menthol which is an excellent decongestant. Menthol acts as an expectorant too by thinning the mucus and helping to expel it out. It is extremely soothing for sore throats and for people suffering with Colds and the flu. Scientific studies have been conducted to prove that a small amount of Peppermint leaf extract applied locally to a person's temples and forehead can help reduce tension headaches.
Side Effects
Taking peppermint leaf extract in normal amounts is safe. However consumption in large amounts by pregnant and nursing women should be avoided at all costs. Herbs are said to interfere with the absorption of other medicines and should be taken well in advance. Peppermint relaxes the sphincter muscles thereby increasing the risk of heartburn or aggravating the problem of indigestion. Studies show that large doses of peppermint oil can be toxic. Menthol or peppermint oil when applied directly to the skin can cause rashes.
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Paulina Nelega, RH, has been in private practice as a Clinical Herbalist for over 15 years. She has developed and taught courses in herbal medicine, and her articles on health have appeared in numerous publications. She is very passionate about the healing power of nature. Ask Dr. Jan