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PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Four llamas are being evaluated at a southwest Florida veterinary hospital after being involved in a crash on Interstate 75.
Charlotte County Fire-Rescue officials said a pickup truck carrying a trailer with four llamas crashed near Punta Gorda, shortly after 2:30 p.m. Monday. The truck crashed into a bridge over the Peace River and the trailer tipped onto its side.
One of the llamas was injured.
Photos taken by fire rescue officials show one of the llamas strapped on a stretcher, and another photo with two llamas in the trailer.
Officials say three of the llamas appeared to be uninjured. Charlotte County Animal Control took the four llamas to a veterinary hospital for a checkup.
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I recently conducted formal training session for some end users of a Drupal content management system (CMS) our team is building. These end users were not web developers, not professional content strategists, and had no prior experience with a CMS. But these "first-timers" represent one of the benefits of an enterprise Drupal CMS: that content owners in business units can gain direct access to update their web content, free from bottlenecks in the IT department.
In the course of this training, I was reminded that this first-timer type of end user does not share my team's experience, expectations, and assumptions about managing websites. Why would they? For them, this is entirely new.
Training should be designed to meet first-timers where they are. For many of us, that means forgetting what we know and spending extra time to explain something we take for granted. In this post I discuss five topics that merit extra attention when training first-timers.
1. WYSIWYG rarely meets first-timer expectations
From my perspective, what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) web text editors like CKEditor and TinyMCE have evolved over time, and can now offer an incredible user experience. But to first-timers, a WYSIWYG editor will always be compared to the full functionality of Microsoft Word. Even if the web text editor had perfect feature parity with Microsoft Word, these users have had years of training on Word and only a few minutes with this web text editor, causing inevitable frustration. First-timers will all agree that a WYSIWYG editor is better than hand coding HTML, but they never worked with HTML before (and never expected to), so the improvement is meaningless. In my experience, the key to this conversation is to not over-sell WYSIWYG and to be patient with first-timers as they cope with this change.
2. Caching requires a thorough explanation
For websites transitioning from static HTML pages to a CMS, caching may be a new concept. Especially to non-technical users. An important question from these users is: "when will my content change be visible to the public?" For many enterprise Drupal sites, the difficult answer is: "it depends." Drupal, Varnish, and Content Delivery Network (CDN) caching layers are amazingly beneficial for high traffic sites, but they complicate the answer to this question. When training first-timers, it is worth the extra time to explain how caching on their site works, why it is necessary, and when they can expect their content changes to be publicly visible.
3. Extraneous fields cause confusion
At the time first-timers are being trained, their Drupal site is probably quite new. The critical bugs have been squashed, but there hasn't been time to finish low priority clean-up tasks like hiding all irrelevant fields. However, these extraneous fields cause a surprising amount of confusion for first-timers. Understandably, the ability to selectively ignore fields is much more difficult for when everything about the system is unfamiliar. Even if there hasn't been time to do this type of clean-up, spending additional time to identify extraneous fields will help.
4. Content locking is a training necessity
First-timers will often follow training instructions quite literally. The result may be, as was in my recent experience, that the entire class attempts to edit the same node at the same time. First-timers may not be sympathetic about how the system reacts (or fails to react) in this moment. To avoid this moment, use something like the Content Lock module (recently patched). This feature is always useful, but especially helpful during formal training sessions.
5. Train with other people's content
It would seem beneficial to train first-timers how to use the CMS by experimenting with their own content. However, in my experience the focus of the session quickly shifts away from learning the CMS, and toward content cleanup or display issues. First-timers understandably have a hard time focusing on CMS functionality when their own content is at center stage. Instead, train first-timers using somebody else's content, so that they can easily stay focused on learning how to use the CMS.
These five topics are by no means comprehensive, but hopefully my recent experience will help others improve their end user training sessions. It takes effort to forget what you know, but your first-timers will thank you for it.

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STOCKTON - Lincoln Unified's board voted unanimously Tuesday night to bolster campus safety, adding six new positions that will enable the district to provide full-time security coverage at all of its elementary schools.
STOCKTON - Lincoln Unified's board voted unanimously Tuesday night to bolster campus safety, adding six new positions that will enable the district to provide full-time security coverage at all of its elementary schools.
The $226,000 cost of hiring six new safety officers will come from Lincoln Unified's general fund. Superintendent Tom Uslan said Wednesday he is hoping some of the new positions can be filled in the next two months, with full staffing in time for the 2013-14 school year.
The decision comes nearly seven weeks after the horrific Newtown, Conn., shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary that killed 20 children and six school staff members.
But according to Uslan, the decision also was related to a recent spike in troubling incidents near district campuses, most of which did not involve adults or students with ties to Lincoln Unified schools.
"At times they have the potential to encroach on our campuses," Uslan said. "That's a concern and we're trying to be proactive to make sure students, staff and campuses are as safe as they possibly can be."
To this point, Lincoln Unified has had two safety officers who have patrolled the district's eight elementary school campuses: Mable Barron, Brookside, Colonial Heights, Tully C. Knoles, Claudia Landeen, Lincoln Elementary, Don Riggio and John R. Williams. Once the hiring is done, each site will have a full-time safety officer, Uslan said.
Lincoln High and adjoining Sture Larsson High and Sierra Middle School share an armed Stockton police officer, two armed school-resource officers and two security officers, Uslan said. The Village Oaks/district office/McCandless High complex on Swain Road also has a security officer.
Uslan said the new security officers will not carry firearms.
"This is a topic we have addressed seemingly once a year," Uslan said. "At this point in time we don't feel this is the best course of action, in terms of being equipped with a firearm."
In a letter to staff this week, Uslan said he believes the new officers will do more than increase security.
"I believe an officer dedicated to each site will afford these officers the opportunity to build positive relationships with students, staff and parents, and notice individuals who don't belong," Uslan wrote. "I envision these officers would be able to assist in other key roles such as traffic control, campus supervision, drug/alcohol education and home visits."
Increased staffing is only part of Lincoln's effort to improve security. The district recently finished installing security fencing at Don Riggio, which had been Lincoln Unified's only unfenced elementary school. New security fencing around the Sierra/Lincoln High complex should be in place by the end of the school year, Uslan said.
Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/phillipsblog.


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By no means am I a confrontational person. I don't get in random arguments with people over a perceived slight or social faux pas. Like most, I'm a fan of Larry David's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" where Larry makes it his mission to alert people to their rude behavior and thoughtless abrogation of the human behavioral compact at every opportunity. Whether it's tsking someone for cutting in line or a poor parking job, Larry lets people have a piece of his mind. I would never normally do this—except the other day I had to.
It was because of a lady with a dog, and let me tell you right now: I am right about this.
I was running through Lincoln Park on what will be one of the last truly warm nights of the early fall, and I stopped, as I always do, a little over half-way through my route. There's a drinking fountain just north of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum where I always drink some water and kind of straggle around a bit before continuing on. I have a specific method: stop running, take long, satisfying drink from fountain, straggle around, look at the clouds/sunset/moon, take stock of life, recall numerous failures weighed against moderate successes, take short, abbreviated drink to hold me for second half of run, continue on.
It's an equation of drinking fountain drinking I particularly like in a routine I particularly enjoy. And it's not even that I mind sharing my moment of psychic solitude. I have no problem waiting for other runners to share in this wonderful, publicly-supplied water; it's their tax dollars too.
Yet this evening, I stopped at the drinking fountain to take my first long, satisfying drink, and during my straggle around/ stare at the moon time, a woman approached with her dog.
I already knew what was going to happen because I'd seen it before. The lady picked up her dog—don't ask for a description because they all look the same to me—and angled its head not into the large basin of water with leaves and twigs in it that should be the drinking territory for anything without an opposable thumb, but right over the faucet.
And of course because it's a dog, it doesn't know how to drink from a water fountain. It has no idea about drinking fountain etiquette that we all learned in pre-school, such as, don't try to fit your entire mouth over the drinking fountain spout. No, that dog just started licking at the water streaming from the spout, creaming its tongue all over the faucet, even getting as far as the little button.
Because I still had my second drink to come after my straggle time, this obviously annoyed me. No way could I put my face anywhere near that faucet now that I was witnessing this. I was about to keep running, as I had when I'd seen pet owners lift their beasts to this fountain before, but my eye-roll must have been epic. It must have been insane. I must have looked annoyed beyond comprehension because before I could take off, this lady says to me, "Is there a problem?
"Yeah," I said, stopping in mid-stride and turning back, all adrenaline and umbrage. "Yeah, there is. Can't you stick that dog's head in the basin where people don't have to drink? Why do you have to let it felate the entire water-spout-thingy?"
(In retrospect, the term "felate" was probably ill-advised for interaction with a stranger, but you didn't see what this dog was doing to this fountain.)
"Excuse me?" the lady said, offense brimming from eyebrows arched to the sky.
"Runners stop here all the time and you have to let your dog lick the entire apparatus that shoots off water. It's disgusting."
"Dog's mouths are cleaner than humans," she shot back at me.
"Oh, yeah! Sure they are," I cried, because people always bring up this stupid myth when their dogs are licking you and you're trying not to punch them (the dogs, not the people). "The animal that uses its mouth to do everything, including cleaning its own ass. Yes, I can see how that would work. Thank you for the science lesson."
"Wow, what an unpleasant person," said the lady. "He's thirsty."
"Oh, because I don't want to drink after your dog? Because there's one of us who would gladly drink from a puddle, and it's not me? But no, please, let's go to a restaurant and I'll buy your dog a steak while we're at it."
Then the lady gave me a flippant wave of her hand, turned, and walked away. It was the most infuriating interaction because I wasn't even close to being done berating her, but all I could do was turn and keep on running. Then all I thought about for the rest of the night was how I'd love to find this woman on Facebook and just send her articles about how disgusting dogs mouths are. It also made me realize my life is composed only of intervals between episodes where I am shocked and appalled by people's obsequious behavior toward the one species of animals they've decided to not slaughter in combines and eat.
What I'm saying is that my life is like "Curb Your Enthusiasm" with only dog-related plotlines.


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Take an active role in assessing and protecting the mangroves fringing Daintree's rainforests and Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
The exotic Daintree River, with its unique combination of World Heritage rainforests and Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef, is a haven for rich mangrove forests and crystal-clear waters. Exploring the river by boat and on foot, participants assess the condition of the fringing mangrove habitats by conducting surveys, filming the shoreline, measuring habitats, and conducting field biomass assessments.
You will meet with indigenous people, traditional inhabitants of this area, at Mossman Gorge and learn about indigenous cultural heritage, the dreamtime narrative of the rainforest, and their special relationship with the environment. They will describe traditional uses of rainforest plants, identify bush food sources, share their legends, and explain the history and significance of cave paintings.
On this research project, participants will help gather valuable information on the health of one of Australia's iconic estuarine systems, which was used to develop a national strategy for more effective management of valuable coastal tidal wetlands faced with climate change and local human pressures.
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A dedicated team of researchers assess the condition of the Daintree region, an Australian tropical wilderness.
Australia's Daintree region is a wet tropical wilderness teeming with natural wonders among extensive pristine rainforests and lush mangroves. To protect the Daintree and the nearby Great Barrier Reef, we pay special attention to the condition of coastal mangroves.
The mangrove forest is a distinctive community of trees and shrubs that grow in sediments along tropical and subtropical seacoasts. Mangroves play a crucial role in protecting coral reefs by buffering shorelines from storms and floods and filtering runoff from the land––earning them the title of "kidneys of the coast." Without mangroves, the reef would not exist as we know it. Mangroves also absorb a vast amount of greenhouse gases––up to five times the amount absorbed by land-based tropical forests. Severe storms, land clearing, use of pesticides, and global climate change reduce the capacity of mangrove systems to respond to change. To help preserve these systems, managers and scientists required knowledge of their condition and how they are changing in response to such stressors.
Gathering valuable information on the health of one of Australia's iconic estuarine systems.
On this expedition, volunteers join experienced scientists from James Cook University to assess the condition of mangrove forests in the Daintree River estuary and disseminate their findings around the world.
Just to the north of Cairns is the Daintree rainforest within the wet tropical World Heritage area. With an area of approximately 460 square miles (1,200 square kilometers), it is the largest single block of intact tropical rainforest in Australia. The area, protected under World Heritage listing, is one of the best examples of a tropical environment in the world. The rainforest has about 120 days of rain per year, falling mainly in the hot months from December to April.
The area has the greatest concentration of rare and threatened plant species in the world, including species from 12 of the 19 primitive plant families on Earth. These ancient families may hold answers to a number of questions regarding the origin of the flowering plants, on which the human race depends for food and medicine.
The Daintree rainforest has 33 species of mangrove, which provide habitat for rare animal species and abundant birdlife. The forest has 30% of Australia's frog, reptile, and marsupial species, 65% of its bat and butterfly species, and 18% of its bird species. There are also over 12,000 species of insects. All of this diversity is contained within an area that takes up 0.1% of the land mass of Australia.
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Earthwatch participants begin their expedition by being given an overview of the project and an introduction to the location, meeting some of the local people, and receiving a safety briefing. Then, they are introduced to mangroves, learning about their tidal wetland habitat, their benefits, their vulnerabilities, their current status, and the threats they face. Volunteers are trained in the use of video cameras linked with GPS and learned how to measure forest biomass, the amount of carbon in biomass, forest demography, and forest turnover processes.
Throughout the expedition, participants rotate through different activities, and many even become skilled and specialized in a particular subset of activities.
Fieldwork in mangrove forests.
Australia's lush mangroves provide habitat for rare species and abundant wildlife.
Dr. Norm Duke is an Earthwatch scientist whose research centers on the ecology of mangrove forests in Australia and Central America.
You'll stay at Crocodylus, an eco-friendly village situated amid the Daintree rainforest in Cow Bay. The accommodations consist of wooden and canvas bungalows fitted with fans and mosquito nets. The bungalows are open plan, each with six bunk beds and one double bed.
All meals will be catered by Crocodylus. Breakfasts will include either cooked meals (eggs, bacon, etc.) or fruit and muesli. Packed lunches consisting of sandwiches, fruit, and drinks will be taken into the field each day, and dinner will be served at the Kingfisher Café at Crocodylus.
You can spend your free time relaxing at the Gecko Bar or in the friendly social area, which has a snooker table, dart board, reading area, and swimming pool.
Crocodylus, an eco-friendly village situated amid the Daintree rainforest.
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Help conserve wildlife within the Amazon Basin, while seeking pink river dolphins, primates, macaw, caiman, giant river otters, piranha and exotic fish.
The charismatic koala is a species beloved by many. But how is human-induced climate change reshaping its world?
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shieldgenerator7 wrote:It's really hard to imagine veterans like saf edoc pcm strike com9 and spiesr as n00bs. From my position they look like they founded the mafia group on CC. Am I wrong when I say that? 0.0
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Moosbrugger joined the Clarkson faculty in 1989. He has taught courses in mechanism kinematics and dynamics, machine design, mechanics of materials, dynamical systems, vibrations, robotics, plasticity and continuum mechanics. He served as department chair from 2001-2005 and has served as associate director of the University Honors Program since 2007.
He received the Alcoa Young Faculty Award in 1990, the American Society for Engineering Education-Dow Outstanding Young Faculty Award in 1992, was inducted into the Georgia Tech Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni in 1996, received the Society of Automotive Engineers' Ralph R. Teeter Education Award in 1998, and was a co-recipient of the Boeing Outstanding Educator Award in 2001. In the summer of 1990 he worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratories with the support of an Oak Ridge Associated Universities fellowship.
Moosbrugger received his bachelor of science degree in materials science and engineering from Wright State University and his master of science and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
He has pursued research interests in the plasticity and viscoplasticity of metals and semiconductor materials, publishing over 40 articles in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings. His specific research interests include the plasticity and viscoplasticity of materials, including analytical/phenomenological modeling of nonproportional (biaxial), cyclic loading experiments, performing complex biaxial experiments, nonisothermal viscoplasticity model development for metals and thermomechanical behavior of semiconductor materials.
His work has been supported by the Engineering Foundation (U.S. Air Force AFOSR Research Initiation Grant), DuPont Corporation, Northrup-Grumman Corporation, SUNY Research Foundation, the Department of Energy, the Army Research Office and the National Science Foundation.
Moosbrugger served as associate technical editor for the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design from 2001-2004, guest editor for the International Journal of Plasticity, and as a reviewer for the ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, The International Journal of Plasticity, ASTM Special Technical Publications, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Journal of Crystal Growth, ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, and the Journal of Materials Science.
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Clarkson University, located in Potsdam, New York, is a private, nationally ranked university with a reputation for developing innovative leaders in engineering, business, the sciences, health sciences and the humanities. At Clarkson, 3,000 high-ability students excel in an environment where learning is not only positive, friendly and supportive but spans the boundaries of traditional disciplines and knowledge. Faculty members achieve international recognition for their research and scholarship and connect students to their leadership potential in the marketplace through dynamic, real-world problem solving.


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...about people you just plain don't want to be around?A little background. I had this friend, let's call him "Brian," who was the singer in my present band and with whom I was pretty close. I was even the best man at his wedding this past May. We had a falling out, partly due to differences of opinion regarding band business and partly because, well, I just realized I didn't know the guy and what I did know I didn't really like. He's one of those people who is always "on," playing a role all the time and wearing a different mask for each situation and he has more than once been deceitful about things directly impacting on my life. I find him to be obnoxious and pretentious.Basically, I find it very difficult to even think of him without getting upset at how he's treated me, my wife, and our mutual friends.I'm still quite angry about the falling out we had and the circumstances which led to it and am just not ready to forgive and move on. I know this is my problem and also know that I will, someday, hopefully soon, forgive him. But what about after? What does one do in a situation where you forgive someone who wronged you but know that you just don't want to be around this person afterwards?
What does one do in a situation where you forgive someone who wronged you but know that you just don't want to be around this person afterwards?
Thank you all for your thoughts and comments. Part of me is reticent to tell "Brian" that I forgive him but don't want to be around him anymore because I honestly don't think he'll understand that.
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It wasn�t a good night for alpha males and conservative tales.
Here in Massachusetts, a broad-shouldered, strapping ex-jock who drives a beat-up pickup truck lost his U.S. Senate seat to a bespectacled female college professor. Nationally, a tall, handsome business titan who sired five strong sons failed to defeat a big-eared, skinny black guy blessed with two lovely daughters.
Tuesday night, Mitt Romney walked away from the podium and departed the political stage after delivering a concession speech filled with resignation and regret, a speech he never expected to make because his party won�t accept that it�s out of touch and out of step with the mainstream.
Instead, the Republicans clung stubbornly to the past, while Mitt moved to the middle and shifted to the right. Like a Ken doll equipped with replaceable parts, he was at times Moderate Mitt, Manic Mitt, Mormon Mitt and Massachusetts Mitt. His shining moment came during the first debate, when he KO�d a sleeping president like a rock �em, sock �em robot and emerged as Mitt with Mettle. But he never evolved as a political force until it was too late, when a force of nature and a governor from New Jersey conspired to lop off his head, like a child grown sick of her Barbie.
Election night in America was a cluster of firsts. For the first time, same-sex marriage passed by popular vote at ballot boxes in Maine and Maryland. Wisconsin elected the first-ever openly gay or lesbian person to the U.S. Senate. The nation re-elected a president who favors marriage equality and the Bay State elected Elizabeth Warren, who withstood assaults on her claims of Indian heritage to become our state�s first female U.S. senator
In yet another example of a changing America, marijuana continues to emerge from a decades-long smokescreen of scare tactics and misinformation, when Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize the production, sale and possession of recreational marijuana. In other words, residents no longer must feign Parkinson�s to smoke pot. Here in Massachusetts, meanwhile, we decided that sick people can get high, but they cannot die, at least not with dignity and by their own hand.
Tuesday night was also slashed with surreal images and evidence that the Grand Old Party still doesn�t get it. On Fox News, after it became clear that Barack Obama would prevail, Karl Rove continued to sputter that Ohio was not yet lost, despite all signs to the contrary. Pundits and those within the party pointed accusatory fingers, claiming Romney lost because of the hurricane, because of Chris Christie�s bluster, because of negative campaigning, because Romney wasn�t conservative enough and America wasn�t white enough. And up to the end, a shameless Dick Morris predicted a landslide win by the man who lost.
Now, amid the internal squabbling, we�ll see a fight for the very soul of a once-proud party. Years ago, in the good old days still craved by conservatives, Republicans touted small government and self reliance. It�s since been co-opted by religious fundamentalists and the militant tea party movement. Among them are the radicals who claim that Romney lost because he lacked ideological purity; in other words, he didn�t cotton to the idea that pregnancy from rape is a gift from God, that homosexuals are sexual deviants who don�t deserve �special rights,� and that politics should take a back seat to religion. (At least, we think he didn�t cotton to those ideas, although it was sometimes hard to tell).
After any election, the losing party must reassess and regroup. In September, tea party darling Laura Ingraham declared, �If you can�t beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the party. Shut it down. Start new, with new people.� For once, she happens to be right. In this case, it means that the party must purge extremists such as Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and, yes, Paul Ryan. It has to stop talking about �legitimate� rape and banning abortion. It must cease obsessing over sex and our lady parts.
Perhaps most important, it should loosen its death grip on a vision of a �traditional America� that was never perfect, and reach out to minorities and the working class. Despite Limbaugh�s obnoxious glee over Romney�s �47 percent� rant, voters cringed.
On a positive note, the long, seemingly endless political campaigning of 2012 has come to an end. And for everything that divided us, one viral video united us all in heartfelt, sympathetic agreement: Poor little Abigael can finally stop crying about �Bronco Bama and Mitt Romney,� because the election is now but a memory.
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UPDATED: House committee votes to repeal the death penaltyUnion Leader State House Bureau
February 11. 2014 6:41PM
CONCORD No character style: — Three longtime proponents of the death penalty changed their minds and voted to repeal it on Tuesday.
The House Criminal Justice and Public Works Committee voted, 14-3, to pass House Bill 1170, which would repeal the state's capital murder statute.
The committee has never backed repealing the death penalty. The House is expected to approve the bill, which still has an uphill battle in the Senate.
The bill's prime sponsor, committee vice chairman Rep. Robert Renny Cushing, D-Hampton, said after the committee vote, "I'm totally amazed." Cushing, whose father was gunned down by an off-duty Hampton police officer in 1988, has long been an advocate for repealing the death penalty.
"It's been a long process," he said, "and we still have a long ways to go."
Committee chairman and longtime death penalty proponent Rep. Laura Pantelakos, D-Portsmouth, said she always believed the death penalty was an insurance blanket over police officers, but recently two people were convicted of capital murder — a white man who was sentenced to life in prison and a black man who sits on death row.
Pantelakos said she has a grandson who will soon graduate from the police academy and another who will graduate with an engineering degree.
"Why is a police officer's life more valuable than an engineer's?" she asked.
Cushing said the bill is backed by two former attorney generals who were proponents of the death penalty when they held those posts. Phil McLaughlin came before the committee in 1998 asking to expand the capital murder statute, he noted.
"I view them now as the voice of experience," Cushing said, "and how our thinking has changed in New Hampshire and the rest of the country."
If New Hampshire repeals the death penalty, he said, it will be the seventh state in seven years to do so.
The most serious recent attempt to repeal the death penalty came in 2009 when the House approved repeal but the Senate let the bill die after former Gov. John Lynch said he would veto it.
The House and Senate approved repealing the death penalty in 2000 when Jeanne Shaheen was governor, but she vetoed the bill and lawmakers failed to override.
Other attempts to repeal the state's capital murder statute have failed in either the House or the Senate.
However, death penalty opponents believe they have an opportunity this year because Gov. Maggie Hassan supports repealing the death penalty as long as it is not retroactive.
Repealing the death penalty will not affect Michael Addison, who sits on death row for the murder of Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs in 2006.
At the public hearing on HB 1170, much of the opposition to repeal came from the law enforcement community, often citing Briggs' murder.
Manchester Assistant Chief of Police Nick Willard spoke on behalf of the department and the Briggs family, saying the slain officer supported the death penalty.
During committee discussion, House Majority Leader Stephen Shurtleff, D-Concord, noted he spent 30 years in law enforcement and in the past always voted against repealing the death penalty.
"I would like to think with age comes wisdom," Shurtleff said. "So today I will be voting for repeal."
Another longtime death penalty supporter, Rep. Dennis Fields, R-Sanbornton, said he was moved by the testimony of families who did not want another life taken to avenge their loss.
He said murderers ought to sit in jail for a long time thinking about what they have done.
"I do not want to take another life; I'm not God," Fields said. "He is the only one who can judge people in the end."
The full House will vote on HB 1170 within the next month.


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at any time, and from time to time, to file and place into effect unilateral changes or modifications
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Pilates anywhere with a portable reformer
There are plenty of reasons that it might seem worth it to put the time and money into going to a studio to do pilates. Maybe you love the instructor, feel more motivated when you work out with a group, or just get more out of the workouts when you have access to all the equipment. But on the other hand, there are tons of pros to not having to make the trip to the studio every time you want to squeeze a sweat session in.
With the core plus reformer you can work out at 4am in your hotel room in London if you want to––how many studios are there where you can do that? The core plus reformer lets you target all the same muscle groups and get virtually the same workout you would get from a reformer machine––but instead of costing thousands of dollars and needing a moving truck to transport, it costs just $30 and it's small enough to put in your purse.
You can replace all your studio sessions with this at-home tool, or you can use it to supplement when you're short on time; it's up to you. But at less than the cost of a single class, why not try it? The promo code STYLELIST10 will get you 10% off your entire order if you're a first time Joyus customer, plus free shipping on orders over $50. (Returning customers will automatically get free shipping on orders over $50). Now you're officially out of excuses to skip your next workout.


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Doug Ford retreats in Bill Blair war of words
Doug Ford has throttled back his "payback" comments about Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair.
"It just gets heated some times and, to be frank, I wish it didn't even happen to be honest with you," Ford told the Sun in an exclusive interview on Saturday. "Everything gets heated down there and everyone gets a little rambunctious – I'm just as bad as anyone else.
"I just want to wish the chief all the best moving forward. He's leaving, I'm leaving, so I think we should leave on good terms."
On Friday, Mayor Rob Ford's brother and campaign manager came out swinging at Blair as news broke that the mayor was about to be served with a subpoena in Sandro Lisi's extortion trial. Doug Ford went on to suggest the leak of the subpoena information was "payback" for Blair's contract not being renewed earlier this week. Blair issued a blunt statement in response accusing the councillor of "lying" and stressing he's prepared to take legal action.
A day later, Ford said he hasn't been served with any legal notice yet.
"I'm not saying it because of that either," Ford said on Saturday night. "You get caught up in the fight down at City Hall and sometimes when you sit back at night and you sit back and you think things over, you think, you know, 'I wish we could all get along.' Sometimes it is not possible to get along but that's what I wish."
And Ford refused to say if he still believes the information coming out was "payback."
"I can't make a comment on that," he said. "Sometimes I get a little rambunctious, sometimes.
"Again, like I said sometimes you sit back and you think of things and I just wish the chief all the best. He has his job to do and I have my job to do."


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For Immediate Release
Carlos Garcia, Puente Arizona
Caroline Picker, Puente Arizona
Phoenix To March Against Family Separation and SB1070
We Unite to Demand the End of S-COMM in AZ, say Migrant Families and Allies
Who: Puente Human Rights Movement
What: March for Dignity
Where: Leaving Indian Steel Park, Indian School and 3rd St., Phoenix
When: Saturday, July 28th at 9 am
On Saturday July 28th, Puente Arizona and concerned community members will march to demand dignity and an end to family separation. In light of the recent Supreme Court decision that upheld the racial profiling provision of SB1070, migrant communities and their allies are demanding that President Obama stop the deportation of SB1070's victims by ending Arizona's access to federal deportation program Secure Communities.
Carlos Garcia of the Puente Human Rights Movement says, "Every day, our families are torn apart because ICE collaborates with SB1070 and Arpaio and we are not going to stand for it any longer. President Obama has the power to stop the human rights crisis in Arizona in its tracks. We march on July 28th to show him that our communities are stronger than hate."
Please contact us for comment or questions.
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Zoey Deutch and Liana Liberato dazzle the camera in this new shot from V magazine.
The two actresses pose alongside Claire Julien, Zoe Levin and Erin Moriarty.
"[Stuck In Love was] the first film I got to work with people my own age!" Liana, 18, told the glossy who's now filming Dear Eleanor. "There is nothing like waking up in the morning, going to your job, and laughing all day with your cast mates."
Zoey, 18, who is currently in London working on Vampire Academy: Blood Sisters, listed her dream co-stars as Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling and her parents, Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch. "But, y'know, I'll cross that bridge if I hopefully ever get there."
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Chinese New Year Banquet - 2/27/10
Members of the Organization of Chinese Americans gathered to say, "Gong Xi Fa Cai," ("wishing you a prosperous New Year") and celebrate the New Year 4708, Year of the Tiger, amid a Mandarin-themed feast, live performances, and a silent auction. The OCA's Chinese New Year Banquet was held at the Syria Shriners Center in Cheswick and featured Chinese-inspired food, fun, and entertainment for those celebrating the New Year. Performances for the evening included acts from Lion Dance, OCA Youth Performance Ensemble, Haihua Youth Orchestra, and After School Buddy, Inc., featuring the Rainbow Kids. The meal, a 12-course dinner, was provided by the Pittsburgh Chinese Restaurant Association and featured dishes such as dragon boat flounder, whole pumpkin steamed with pork ribs and seafood noodle Cantonese style. Proceeds from the silent auction and raffle benefited OCA-Pittsburgh's programs. Photography by Megan WylieRead More
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Crazy corn salad inspired by the Mexican corn salad called esquites. Esquites is a play on Mexican street corn called elote. Elote is made by boiling or grilling corn on the cob, sometimes with the Mexican herb epazote, slathering it with butter and mayonnaise then rolling it in cheese like Cotija or Parmesan and sprinkling it with chile powder and a squeeze of lime.
All my life I've only known one way to eat corn. . .smeared with butter, salt and pepper.
This is my version with fresh corn off the cob, mayonnaise, lime, chili powder and avocado, my personal stamp on things. I was tempted to add more ingredients but ended up keeping it simple. It's a salad you can build on but don't need to because it's pretty close to perfect as is.
There are so many different ways you can cook the corn. If you're using fresh corn on the cob grilling it will add another layer of flavor to the salad. You can also cut it off the cob or use frozen corn and a cast iron frying pan to get a little char on it. That's what I did although the charring was light. I was impatient. You can also roast the corn in your oven or even broil it to get some color on it. Or you can just skip charring it altogether. I cross my heart it will still be exceptionally good.
By exceptionally good I mean the most addictive and moreish corn you will ever eat!
All in one single bite you get the salty cheese, the smokiness of the chile powder with the richness of the mayo and the buttery avocado plus the bite of the lime juice all wrapped around succulent, sweet corn.
You can serve this chilled or at room temperature and even warm if you must. And you must.
You absolutely must eat it. Once you do you'll never look at corn the same way again.
Cross my heart and pinky swear.
- 4 - 5 cups of cooked, cooled corn (I recommend fresh corn cut from the cob but any will type will work)
- ½ cup fresh grated Parmesan or Romano cheese
- 1 ripe avocado, diced small, optional
- ¼ cup mayonnaise
- the juice of 1 lime, plus a second lime cut up for serving
- 1 teaspoon chili powder (like this )
- salt and pepper, to taste
- In a large mixing bowl toss the corn, cheese and avocado together.
- In a small bowl whisk the mayo, lime and chile powder together. Gently mix it into the corn until evenly combined.
- Season to taste with lots of salt and pepper. Serve at room temperature or chilled with lime wedges.
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Dr. Hernandez is a graduate of Javeriana University College of Dentistry in Bogota, Colombia. He received his first training in Prosthodontics from the Nueva Granada Military University (CIEO) in Bogota, Colombia and then worked for five years at the Columbus Institute of Cosmetic Dentistry and two years with Dr. James Metz in private practice in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Hernandez received his second training in Advanced Prosthodontics and his Master of Science at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio.
Dr. Hernandez is a member of several profesional organizations including the Academy of Osseointegration, the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, the American Dental Education Association, the American Association for Dental Research, and other organizations.
At the present time, Dr. Hernandez is an Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, Department of Comprehensive Care, and maintains an intramural practice limited to cosmetics, fixed, removable, and implant prosthodontics in Cleveland, Ohio.


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Just played a couple rounds of War Pigeons. I thought it was very fun even though I sucked. It's basically Obliteration mode from BF4 except you don't have to plant the pigeon, you have to hold it while a timer counts down while you "write a message." The more still you remain the quicker it counts down, but it always seems to take a long time.
I haven't played enough to know whether the timer resets when the other teams gets ahold of the bird, and how many birds you have to send off for the win.


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These bus buffers are designed specifically for low-voltage (3.3-V) VCC operation, but with the capability to provide a TTL interface to a 5-V system environment.
The LVTH125 devices feature independent line drivers with 3-state outputs. Each output is in the high-impedance state when the associated output-enable (OE)\ input is high.
Active bus-hold circuitry holds unused or undriven inputs at a valid logic state. Use of pullup or pulldown resistors with the bus-hold circuitry is not recommended.
When VCC is between 0 and 1.5 V, the devices are in the high-impedance state during power up or power down. However, to ensure the high-impedance state above 1.5 V, OE\ should be tied to VCC through a pullup resistor; the minimum value of the resistor is determined by the current-sinking capability of the driver.
These devices are fully specified for hot-insertion applications using Ioff and power-up 3-state. The Ioff circuitry disables the outputs, preventing damaging current backflow through the devices when they are powered down. The power-up 3-state circuitry places the outputs in the high-impedance state during power up and power down, which prevents driver conflict.


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We have known for many years now that patients having an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) do better if they are immediately treated with aspirin, and that they do even better if in addition to that single antiplatelet agent they are also treated with clopidogrel.
In 2009, the PLATO trial was published in the NEJM. It was a randomized trial in more than 18,000 people having an ACS, comparing the benefits of adding either clopidogrel or the newer agent ticagrelor to aspirin. Ticagrelor appeared to cause some increased serious bleeding, but overall it reduced a composite endpoint of vascular death, MI, and stroke (hazard ratio 0.84). AstraZeneca, the manufacturer of ticagrelor, has to have been pleased.
Many subgroups were examined in PLATO, and in a few of them there was a suggestion of differences in effects across the subgroups; that is the benefit seen with ticagrelor was not as great or non-existent in three subgroups: those who weighed less, those not taking statins at enrollment, and those living in North America.
It's common when a trial examines multiple subgroups to find spurious positive results due to chance alone, given the multiple statistical tests being performed. For this reason, there has to be a good reason to bother to pay attention to a subgroup, and overly trusting subgroup analyses is one of the most common errors in thinking about what a study has shown. Given this, and the positive result in PLATO, it would have been typical for the authors to make short shrift of the subgroup analysis and write the results off to chance.
However, one of those subgroups seemed to worry the investigators. They wrote in the discussion section:
The difference in results between patients enrolled in North America and those enrolled elsewhere raises the questions of whether geographic differences between populations of patients or practice patterns influenced the effects of the randomized treatments, although no apparent explanations have been found.
They were likely concerned because the point estimate of effect in North America was that clopidogrel was substantially superior to ticagrelor, the opposite result from that seen elsewhere. However, ticagrelor was apparently approved by the US FDA without concern that the benefits seen in the trial as a whole would not apply to patients in North America, and that might well have been where things were left.
Instead, apparently working closely with authors/investigators at Duke, AstraZeneca carried out an extensive investigation to figure out whether the subgroup effect was real and, if so, what might have caused it. The article detailing this investigation was published in Circulation in 2011.
If you consider the problem, it is unlikely that genetic differences between North American patients and European patients could explain the differences. That suggests that if the finding was not caused by chance it was either due to some way in which patients were managed differently in North America (most likely) or some way in which patients enrolled in North America were consistently different (less likely), such as being sicker or older. Once you start looking for such possibilities, though, you are faced with the high likelihood of even more spurious results caused by chance. All the exploratory analyses are now post-hoc subgroup analyses -- those that you had not thought of before the primary analysis -- and so highly susceptible to findings due to the play of chance.
As they began looking into the issues, the investigators first found that the real difference wasn't between North America and the rest of the world, but really between the US and the rest of the world, so they refocused on the results when patients in Canada were included with the rest of the world. Then they checked in with major study sites to see if the trial was conducted differently in different locations -- it wasn't. Additional checks found that US sites seemed to have gotten the correct study drugs.
They looked at the play of chance, and concluded that results like those seen in North America would have been expected 32% of the time, and results like those seen in the US would have been expected in at least one country 10% of the time, so chance was certainly a possible explanation. Still, because US practices can be so different from those in many other countries, the investigators must have remained concerned.
The investigators then looked into many baseline and management variables to see if they could explain results and started focusing on aspirin dose as their investigation unfolded. At the US sites, patients were typically treated with more than 300 mg of aspirin (likely 325 mg) daily, while in other locations patients typically received less than 100 mg daily. In statistical analyses, including aspirin dose appeared to explain 80-100% of the regional variation in outcomes.
Additional analyses that stratified by aspirin dose found a dose response effect that seemed similar across regions. Patients in the US who received low dose aspirin saw similar benefits with ticagrelor to patients in the rest of the world, while patients in the rest of the world who received higher dose aspirin saw similar benefits with clopidogrel to patients in the US; patients in the rest of the world who received 100 to 300 mg of aspirin had similar outcomes with either clopidogrel or ticagrelor:
Overall, though, patients receiving low dose aspirin plus ticagrelor had the best outcomes:
Still, this is a post-hoc subgroup analysis, and the results may have all been due to chance. The authors of the paper acknowledge this repeatedly while still suggesting that patients treated with ticagrelor only be given low dose aspirin. This seems like a completely appropriate conclusion. We can't know for sure whether aspirin or chance or some other difference in management in the US explains the results, and it is unlikely that another RCT will be conducted to answer the question, but the analysis from this paper really informs appropriate clinical decision making.
I am not routinely a fan of Pharma in general or of AstraZeneca in particular. One of my favorite posts from the old medical humor website Q Fever does a wonderful job poking fun at the way in which AstraZeneca promoted Nexium over omeprazole (Prilosec) once the latter drug went off patent. The trials used to claim superiority for Nexium are great examples of how Pharma can manipulate results by manipulating study design and interpretation.
But as far as I can tell, AstraZeneca deserves real credit for pursuing the subgroup analyses from the PLATO trial. I can't picture how they could have seen a marketing upside to this, since they had already found an overall benefit with ticagrelor. If the issue were never pursued, the regional variation in effect would likely have been ascribed to chance. Furthermore, it was possible that the in-depth investigation they participated in would have turned something up showing that ticagrelor was no better than clopidogrel or was even inferior.
Instead of resting on the positive result in PLATO, AstraZeneca seems to have moved forward on this and supported the authors/investigators from Duke who clearly also wanted to pursue the issue. In so doing, they found what is likely the right explanation for what really happened in the trial, which allows patients throughout the world who receive ticagrelor to be treated with the appropriate dose of aspirin to maximize the chances of a favorable outcome.
The study's authors and investigators deserve our thanks for pursuing this issue with hard work and logical thinking, but it seems likely that thanks are due to AstraZeneca and its employees as well.


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The lab was founded within the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences by Prof. Robert Wood. It houses all the necessary tools to design, create, and evaluate novel robots. The lab employs a highly experimental approach to developing robots and we use these robots as tools to explore fundamental questions in micromechanics, actuation, fluid mechanics, controls, and microelectronics. The Harvard Microrobotics Lab is closely involved with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and Prof. Wood is a founding core faculty member of the Institute and co-lead of the Bioinspired Robotics platform. We are grateful for sponsorship, past and present, from AFOSR, ARO, DARPA, Draper Labs, the NSF, and ONR.
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Time ran out on Eaton ethics probeBy JOHN DiSTASO
Senior Political Reporter
December 22. 2012 10:14PM
CONCORD - A 2010 Legislative Ethics Committee probe of prominent state Rep. Dan Eaton's actions in a State Liquor Commission scandal was left incomplete when Eaton left office. Eaton is now back, but a statute-of-limitations type committee rule may mean he will not face further inquiry.
Some Republicans are crying foul. They want the Democratic House leadership to ask for a new probe. Eaton was accused of bullying former state liquor chairman Mark Bodi, a fellow Democrat, into interfering in an investigation involving a tavern run by an Eaton constituent. Eaton has denied the charge.
"The voters have spoken very clearly that they want this partisan gamesmanship to stop and they want us concentrating on working on the problems of the state," Eaton told the Sunday News.
He said an Attorney General's inquiry "completely exonerated me" of Bodi's charge that Eaton bullied him into ordering the return of videotape equipment from the tavern, which had been accused of over-serving a patron.
Eaton at the time was a member of the House Democratic leadership and its powerful Finance Committee.
The allegations led to formal removal proceedings against Liquor Chairman Bodi, initiated by Attorney General Michael Delaney, and supported by Gov. John Lynch. Bodi was not removed but agreed to step down as chair. He later resigned and is now a private marketing consultant.
Delaney presented the Bodi case to a grand jury but no criminal charge resulted. Bodi testified that he was the target of a "jihad" by Eaton. He testified that Eaton pressured him into ordering liquor commission enforcement chief Eddie Edwards and his officers into returning video equipment from the tavern.
Eaton came to the tavern at the owner's request while enforcement officials were on the scene, but he has repeatedly denied pressuring Bodi to do anything. The Attorney General, noted Eaton, "said that while (Bodi) said extreme pressure was exerted upon him, anyone else would just have called it constituent service, and that's an exact quote."
The ethics probe, however, while inspired by the criminal investigation, was separate. It was filed on behalf of the state Republican Party in March of 2010.
Ethics Committee chairman Martin Gross, a Concord attorney, said the panel could not act on the complaint until it received the AG's reports, which were not available until the Bodi removal case ended.
By the time Ethics got the documents, Eaton had lost his reelection bid and had only a few weeks remaining in his term, which ended Dec. 1, 2010. After that, Ethics had no jurisdiction.
Gross did say in mid-November 2010, however, that the AG's reports "indicate that the allegations of the (Republican) complaint may have merit and warrant further investigation."
The most recent ethics committee went out of existence several weeks ago. A new panel for the new Legislature has not yet been named. It is possible that Gross, who is not a legislator, will be back as chairman.
Eaton, meanwhile, is back in the House.
Rep. Terie Norelli, who was House Speaker in 2010 and is now, did not return Eaton to her official leadership, but she did name him to key posts of chairman of the House Finance Committee Division II and as a member of House Rules.
Ryan Williams, who filed the original Republican complaint, and is no longer with the state GOP, said Norelli "should seek a change in the ethics committee rules to allow a full investigation to be sure the actions of a member of her leadership are properly addressed.'
"It's an outrage that Speaker Norelli would appoint someone with a history of ethically questionable behavior to a key position," Williams said.
Eaton said the ethics committee in 2010 "violated their own rules that someone making a complaint must have direct personal knowledge (of the alleged act). They acknowledged they were using a complaint from the Republican State Committee that was based on newspaper clippings."
Eaton said that with Norelli and Republican leader Gene Chandler in leadership positions, "We are really truly trying to start out with a honeymoon and are trying to work cooperatively, and all the members of (Chandler's) leadership team I have spoken to have said the same thing."
Chandler said Friday he would "take no position" on a new probe, but other Republicans called for a rule change to allow one.
Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, said, "Perhaps it is something that should be revisited to find out the rationale for that time limitation and whether it's valid and should continue or be changed."
Speaking as an individual legislator and not in his role as deputy Republican leader, Hess said, "The ethics committee closed the review two years ago while they still had jurisdiction" over Eaton, and, "If they are now saying too much time has passed because of their unilateral decision, that seems to be a rather circular consequence."
Norelli did not respond to a Sunday News inquiry; but House Majority Leader Steve Shurtleff, D-Penacook, said the Attorney General "looked at the issue and there is no criminality involved.''
"As far as the other aspects, I can't really answer because I'm not sure," Shurtleff said.
"It's an interesting point regarding whether what happened before it was nullified," he said. "There are a lot of questions but, unfortunately, I don't have any answers."
Bodi believes that Eaton's conduct should be reviewed by the ethics committee, saying, "The passage of time in no way erases the need to adhere to the highest standards of ethics."
Former Attorney General Phillip McLaughlin, Bodi's attorney during the removal proceedings, said, "I thought evidence regarding Mr. Eaton's conduct was quite clear."
McLaughlin said that while he is unfamiliar with ethics committee rules, "the way the Legislature chooses to conduct itself may be far more a function of its sense of institutional integrity than it is of any particular rule. It's choices will reflect its view of institutional integrity."


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May 12, 2010 — BarryKI have upgraded the Osmo personal information manager in Quirky. This introduces a new dependency, libgtkhtml (version 2.11.1).
libgtkhtml is a deprecated library, hasn't been updated since 2007 I think. There are some example applications around the place that use it, including a small one in the libgtkhtml source package. It could be useful in Puppy as a very basic HTML help viewer. I was going to compile libgtkhtml statically with Osmo, but decided to make it a shared library (470KB) so as to explore possibilities of a little help viewer.
Osmo home: http://clayo.org/osmo/
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The quintessential manifestation of the divine God in human form. It is known that people with such overwhelming amount of power of this kind have irregularly large hards. For example, Jimmy Neutron, but greater. Usually, with such a divine manifestation of power, one has a vice of sorts. For example, to deal with the overwhelming power, the man who exemplifies Straight-Up Dankness may find a way to channel that energy, be it proper or improper according to law. It matters not whether it is proper or improper, because this man is pivotal in all our lives, spreading greatness, love, compassion, smarts, legitimacy, and most of all, Straight-Up Dankness, to all of our lives.
John felt a strange feeling as he felt a bolt of lightning appear to strike his subconscious. His eyes fixed on the man smoking outside of Kmart who appeared to have an aura about him. John said to Edward, "Now THAT is the definition of Straight-Up Dankness."
Edward replied, "Indeed," as the essence of the divine shocked him in a profound, life-changing way.
Edward replied, "Indeed," as the essence of the divine shocked him in a profound, life-changing way.
by His Holiness of Polish Freedom May 19, 2011
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Vocaloid MIRIAM Now Shipping
Following on from the release of Vocaloid LEON and LOLA earlier this year, MIRIAM is the latest virtual female vocalist modelled on the stunning voice of successful and prolific recording artist, Miriam Stockley, renowned worldwide for the multi-million selling ADIEMUS project albums. All 3 Vocaloids now benefit from a major software update providing great improvements (registerd LEON and LOLA owners can download it here.)
MIRIAM is a virtual female vocalist modelled on the voice of Miriam Stockley, and when MIRIAM is installed into your PC you will literally be able to create singing of superb quality and realism. MIRIAM can sing ANY words you wish in English - literally anything - be they beautiful lyrics or comical trivialities, Monteverdi madrigals or manic chants. You can create vocal tracks in almost any style of singing, with any lyrics you want. You just enter the melodies, type in the lyrics, and synthesize.
Then add expression to taste. MIRIAM puts singing under your total control, and the really mind-blowing thing is - MIRIAM can truly sound like a professional singing voice. With very little practice the results you get from MIRIAM will completely fool your friends - they will believe they are listening to a real singer performing. The question you will hear will always be \"WHO is that?\", and not \"What is that?\".
About Miriam Stockley
British singer Miriam Stockley has an ideal voice upon which to model a Vocaloid virtual vocalist. Given the list of artists Miriam has worked with - a list that includes such names as Tina Turner, Elton John, George Michael, Freddie Mercury, Chaka Khan, David Bowie, Seal and Adiemus - you may be surprised that you haven\'t heard her name before. One of the most distinctive voices in the music industry, Miriam has probably sung on more hit records and with more success than most artists achieve in a lifetime. \"Sonically, she\'s got ears like a bat\" says vocal recording engineer Rod Houison. \"She rolls out six part harmonies effortlessly.
From a technical point of view she\'s in a class of her own.\" Being technically superb is only one side of Miriam. She also has a tremendously emotional delivery that can often send tingles down your spine, and is well known for her highly developed and unique vocal skills of multilayering vocal harmonies. In countless high profile concerts she has provided backing vocals (including for Elton John, Annie Lennox, David Bowie and Seal).
Miriam\'s extensive studio work brought her to the attention of Karl Jenkins who had heard about her unique vocal style, and this led to the highly successful ADIEMUS project, whereby Jenkins\' compositions featuring Miriam\'s vocals were recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and released as \"Songs Of Sanctuary\" by ADIEMUS. The album was a huge international success and, together with the follow-ups \"Cantata Mundi\" and \"Dances of Time\" has so far sold well in excess of two million copies worldwide. \"Only You,\" a hit Miriam performed with the group Praise, charted number two in the UK. After completing the third Adiemus album Miriam expanded her musical audience by releasing solo albums on Virgin, which have become recognised as vocal masterpieces.


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Thursday, February 10, 2011
I kid, but it is clear that I do need to feel the firm grip of vinous passion wrap itself around my, say, upper arms, straighten me in my chair, and put both of my hands on the keyboard, index fingers on F and J.
Tap, tap, tap—but where to start?
A wine post is a snapshot, a burst of light and words. Wine itself is a crystal ball.
The last glass of 08 L'Anglore Sels d'Argent is a snowglobe of... what?
If I can look through the specks into the depth of its gold, what do I see? Actually, it is a good marker, for me, of two things. I discovered this wine last summer and have since come back to it with enjoyment, enjoyment, enjoyment, and delight (and maybe a couple more enjoyments and a delight or two).
For me, it marks both the discovering of new wines and the low-level thrill of tasting the variations of a single pleasure. (On that note: there is nothing wrong with drinking Prévost's La Closerie early and often, or vice versa.)
Let's take it a shade darker.
Some of the most compelling wines I have had in the past months have been uncompromising, heavy wines. Wines that are hard to follow up with another, "meditation" wines. I should suspect myself for that. But how can you not go limp with a glass of 2001 Radikon Oslavje, all deep spice and wonder, in your hand? You can't not. You'd have to be an ascete.
1999 Ganevat Vignes de Mon Père spent 130 months in its topped-up barrel and left me, one night a couple of weeks ago, sitting on top of the butte Montmartre as though I were on the highest spot on earth. You could smell it from the decanter across the table.
But just as music that is all clash and bombast gets tiring, we need a little flutey lightness to get a kind of contrapuntal vibe going.
It was not felicitous to follow god's own Ganevat, that night, with a frilly little carbonic grolleau. But I will admit It was a nice evening out, a week later, the night I wended my way over to a wine bar in a sooty part of the 9th arrondissement with some contraband chicken liver pâté I had made at home to share a bottle of 09 Landron Muscadet Amphibolite with a friend.
My dabbles with the Melon grape have been middling to poor, but I won't give up. A current thrill is the 09 Domaine de Cadette Melon, from that variety's native land, Burgundy. I don't love it (only) for its woodcut or for the memories of Vézelay that spring in my head when a bottle gets near (or for that matter, for a happy memory of an insufficiently air conditioned hotel in Avignon where a cool bottle of Cadette Melon was a chill and a breeze and a delight)—I love it because it's deceptively simple. Something you can drink down, but then step back and nod with that pursed-lip look of being impressed. And the lime curd thing, too.
These three aspects of wines have me thinking and typing again.
7 comments:
- the vlm said...
I've been lurking here.
- February 10, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- Sharon said...
Thanks mucho, VLM. High-quality lurking going on...
- February 10, 2011 at 9:23 PM
- The Wine Mule said...
Everyone needs more lime curd in their lives. Please keep typing!
- February 14, 2011 at 6:27 PM
What the L? lurking, light, limpidity....lime?
Lovely, luscious and lithe.
- March 13, 2011 at 4:58 PM
- sewa mobil said...
Nice article, thanks for the information.
- April 3, 2011 at 5:41 PM
lovely---the quest for Muscadet and melon de bourgogne wines is the worthy quest, Sharon.
Unrelated but important (grin), I'm coming to Paris for a visit in mid-May---possible to get together/OL etc.? If so, PM me on the Wine-Pages board. Thanks and I will keep checking in here.
- April 6, 2011 at 5:06 PM
- Lolataylor88 said...
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Priests for Life Youth Outreach Director Bryan Kemper is a plaintiff in a new First Amendment lawsuit filed against Sinclair Community College in Ohio and its campus police.
On June 8, Kemper, the founder of Stand True Ministry, was a speaker at the Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally at the college. The rally was one of 100 such rallies taking place across the country that day to protest the Obama administration's mandate that all employers have to provide free contraception, abortifacient drugs and sterilization services for their workers.
Campus police would not allow demonstrators to hold their signs at the rally, continuing a tradition of First Amendment violations that, according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), has been going on at the school for 22 years. "Schools are meant for the free expression of ideas, but Sinclair has taken the stance that its students must check their free speech rights at the door," said Peter Breen executive director and legal counsel of the Thomas More Society, which filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio on behalf of two Sinclair students and Kemper.
"It is imperative that we fight for our rights to not be taken away or it will be almost impossible to fight to get them back," Kemper said. "I am fighting this injustice not just for me, but for my son Jaemison, who was there watching the rights of so many being trampled.
" Jaemison may only be 7 years old," Kemper continued, "but he and his siblings will someday face a situation when their rights and liberties may be challenged. I want him to have the courage and the means to stand true when that day comes and to know that his father refused to cower in the face of adversity."
Priests for Life organized the well-attended New York City Stand Up Rally, at which attendees, like those all over the country, were able to express themselves with signs and placards. Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, said of the Ohio situation:
"Thank you, Sinclair Community College and police department. There are few better ways to motivate pro-life people than to tell them to shut up. I'm not sure if it's our message or the First Amendment that you don't fully understand, but we're going to see to it that you learn more about both."
To view the lawsuit, go to http://scr.bi/MaypVf
Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.


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WILMINGTON, Mass. — After taking part in the Bruins' first postseason practice, defenseman Andrew Ference said it was up to the medical and coaching staff to determine if he'll be available for Thursday night's Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series with Buffalo. To that end, head coach Claude Julien classified Ference as a"possibility" to return from his groin/hernia injury to face the Sabres.
As far as how long Ference will last once he's back in the lineup, the defenseman wasn't exactly a model of optimism.
"If I get lucky," the realistic Ference said when asked if he could be at the point where the injury would hold up for a long period of time. "I need surgery to get to that point. It's out of my hands."
Ference will have that surgery once the season is concluded or it's determined he won't be able to help the Bruins. And that's really the point right now. As long as Ference at less than 100 percent can help the team's cause more than a higher percentage of another player, Ference will try to give it a go.
"It's not important that I'm in there, it's important that healthy people are in there that can benefit the team," he said. "So if my injury's good enough, then obviously you do anything you can to get in the lineup. I've said it before, you need to know where that line is of being selfish and helping the team. If it's not good enough, then it's not going to help the team to be in there."
•On the other injury fronts, Julien said it's unlikely we'd see Mark Stuart or Marc Savard in this series. Dennis Seidenberg was originally diagnosed as out eight weeks, so he is also not a possibility to play against Buffalo.


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To be sure, both AT&T and Verizon have a rich and extensive background, which has helped to shape them into the leading telecom heavyweights they are today. (For a more detailed commentary of their history, read our Profile Reports.) Although there are some inherent differences between the two competitors, there are several striking similarities that make them both somewhat equally appealing to investors. For starters, both have exceptional risk profiles, so they're among the safest and most stable of equities out there. As seen in the Ranks box in the upper left-hand corner of our page, each sports a top-notch Safety rank of 1 (the highest designation in a range of 1 to 5), implying they carry the lowest level of risk among all stocks under Value Line coverage. Within that same section, note that both have a Beta coefficient of well below 1.00 (used as a benchmark to represent the volatility of the general market). T and VZ have Betas of 0.70 and 0.65, respectively, meaning they are considerably less volatile than the general market.
The two telecom blue chips boast superior marks for other indicators, as well, which lend further support to their favorable risk profiles. Notably, if we scan down to the Ratings box (in the right-hand corner of the page), we see that each gets the highest grade of A++ for Financial Strength, thanks largely to the companies' strong finances. Indeed, both have solid balance sheets, with plenty of cash in the coffers and a manageable level of debt relative to total capital, (found in the Capital Structure and Current Position boxes, and Statistical Array).
And, to no surprise, both AT&T and Verizon score a perfect 100 for Price Stability (located just below Financial Strength). This measure goes hand in hand with the volatility and risk metrics of the stocks. While both get just a mediocre 55 for Price Growth Persistence, (a gauge of the historic tendency of a stock's persistent price appreciation compared to the average equity), the pair score high for Earnings Predictability—90 for AT&T and 100 for Verizon—suggesting minimal chance for earnings surprises or misses.
From a valuation standpoint, Verizon appears to be a tad pricier than its rival, as evidenced by the Price/Earnings and relative Price/Earnings ratios (Top Label), though the relative P/Es for both telecom issues compare favorably to the median estimated P/E of all stocks under Value Line review, given that the metric is less than 1.00 in either case.
As for year-ahead price performance, or Timeliness (appears in the Ranks box), T and VZ are on par, based on our current online data. Each is ranked 2 (Above Average) on a scale of 1 to 5, with 3 being Average. This indicates that both are likely to outperform the broader market in the next six to 12 months. (Note that T's rank was upgraded from 3, as displayed in our published report.)
Yet, the most intriguing feature of these issues may arguably be their eye-catching dividend yields (Top Label), which are handily above the Value Line median of all stocks under coverage. In fact, both surpass their blue-chip brethren, in terms of income generation (as of our latest published reports). (Check out The Dogs of the Dow Grab The Crown For 2013 for a more complete discussion of dividend-paying Dow stocks.) AT&T gets top honors as the highest-yielding member of the group, boasting a 5.3% return. Runner-up Verizon is right behind it, with a still-hearty yield of 4.3%. (Remember that yield refers to the expected return from cash distributions on an equity over the coming 12 months, based on recent price.) Notice, too, in the Statistical Array that both equities are expected to generate solid, though more moderate, returns over the 3- to 5-year period, according to the estimated annual yield calculated by the covering analysts Justin Hellman and Kenneth A. Nugent.
Moving over to the Projections box, we observe that while the pair offers similar capital appreciation potential for the coming 3- to 5-year time frame, AT&T has greater total return prospects for the long term, versus its competitor. (As a reminder, Annual Total Return factors in price appreciation potential and current and prospective dividend distributions.) Although both blue chips are excellent choices for the conservative, income-and-growth-minded investor looking for exposure in the telecom area, AT&T, as a package, may actually prove a more rewarding opportunity in the long run.
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More meddling: Shaheen example should be lessonEDITORIAL
September 21. 2013 10:58PM
New Hampshire politicians should neither grandstand nor, worse, attempt to force health insurance provider Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield into altering the new health plans it will offer under the Obamacare circus in January. If Obamacare's market-meddling gyrations aren't lesson enough, surely Granite State officials must remember the outcome when then-State Sen. Jeanne Shaheen stuck her nose into health care management.
That heavy-handed government interference led to the situation in which our state's businesses and individuals still find themselves today: with very few insurance companies willing to do business here and New Hampshire individuals and businesses paying the second-highest premiums in the nation.
Shaheen's crusade for community rating drove out many insurance companies. Anthem is one of the few that remain and the only one to put forth a plan for individual coverage that meets the standards mandated under Obamacare.
No wonder that the Anthem plan, in order to be feasible at all, limits the number of hospitals (to just 16 of 26) and related medical practices in its new network. That's the fault of Obamacare, not Anthem.
As the head of one of the excluded hospitals noted, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) promised competition in the marketplace and that everyone could keep their own doctor. Neither is true, said Frisbie Memorial Hospital President Alan Felgar.
We didn't like the sounds coming from some state politicians last week, indicating that they may try to force Anthem to change its plans. State Sen. Bette Lasky of Nashua and fellow Democrat Sylvia Larsen of Concord even tried to turn this into a pro-abortion rights issue, complaining that a Nashua hospital that performs abortions wasn't on Anthem's list.
Nationally, Obamacare is a disaster about to befall on all of us. Republicans here, at least some of them, are trying to minimize that by not expanding an expensive Medicaid program that we can't afford. We certainly can't afford politicians messing even more with Anthem or any other insurer.


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"My name is Luís Simões. I was born in July 20th, 1979 in Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2009 I draw like an urban sketcher. I use my free time to draw, listening music and to practice sports: swim, korfball, capoeira and surf.
By nature, I'm a compulsive observer and my visual memory is my guiding compass. I always leave my camera at home, searching for "good pictures" sketching instead. Architecture, sculpture, people, food, lights, objects, shapes, are all good subjects to sketch, especially when you travel there is no limitation.
Since nine months I've been working to a project called "World Sketching Tour - FIVE continents, FIVE years, ONE dream". Next five years I'll go around the world to sketch whatever my eyes capture and meeting urban sketchers all over the world.
I will post here my encounters, my sketches and a short travel diary. During my trip I will ask to local Urban Sketchers if they want to give me hospitality in their or theirs friends home and/or if they have time to meet me, to sketch together and share experiences."
* Luís blog
* Luís world sketching tour on video


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The Flyers have placed goaltender Niko Hovinen, who has spent the season with the Trenton Titans, on unconditional waivers with the intent of mutual termination of his contract.
Hovinen, a 6-foot-7 monster in net, did not impress in Phantoms training camp in September and was assigned to the ECHL. In Trenton, Hovinen sported an unsightly 3.14 goals against-average and .889 save percentage. There were whispers that the organization did not appreciate his lacking work ethic.
The deal works for both sides. Hovinen, it seems, would much rather go back and play in his native Finland, and the Flyers have a glut of goaltenders (3) in Adirondack: Scott Munroe, Cal Heeter and Brian Boucher.
Why does this matter for the Flyers?
If (or once, since it seems likely at this point with injuries) rookie Scott Laughton plays his 6th game with the Flyers, his contract will no longer "slide" on the NHL register and this shortened campaign will count as one-year on his entry-level contract.
Why does that matter for the Flyers?
Once Laughton's contract counts, they will be at the 50-contract limit, as imposed by the NHL.
Hence, the Flyers will have no maneuverability to sign a free agent or accept multiple players in a deal. With Scott Hartnell (left foot) potentially out for an extended period of time, and Danny Briere (wrist) and Zac Rinaldo (leg laceration) already on the shelf, the Flyers need bodies.
Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren has significantly more wiggle room with only 49 contracts on the books, aside from the fact that this move also clears a logjam of netminders.
Hovinen's contract can be terminated as soon as he clears waivers on Friday at noon. Stay tuned.
For the latest updates, follow Frank Seravalli on Twitter: @DNFlyers